"For the emperor, for Huaxia!"

Just outside the city of Beijing, under the yellow sand, a group of young cavalrymen shouted such slogans, although many of them may not know what they represented, but they clearly knew their mission, and they also knew that this was the most glorious moment of their lives.

The city of Beijing, the city they had heard of countless times in the legends, slipped between their fingers, and although they had not yet seen the walls of Beijing, they could already smell the smell of the capital.

That's right, it's a fighting atmosphere, and when approaching the city of Beijing, the enemy army in front of them becomes resolute, and there are even a few occasions when the Eight Banners soldiers meet their white soldiers.

There is a military system of the Qing Dynasty, is the forbidden brigade eight banners as the core, hundreds of thousands of forbidden brigades and eight banners are the core of the entire Qing Dynasty military force, once something happens, the forbidden brigade eight banners as a mobile force, the implementation of absolute operations throughout the country, although with the passage of time, this forbidden brigade eight banners have lost the glory of the year, and even become a symbol of the decay of the children of the eight banners, but this is after all the Qing Dynasty is the most trustworthy force.

Especially when the cavalry of the Hong Army went deep into the city of Beijing, these children of the Eight Banners also had to go out of the city to fight for their hardcore crops, if they were to fight far away from the city of Beijing, their morale was not worth talking about, but here, it was their hometown, where they grew up, so they even lined up to fight hand-to-hand with the Hong Army.

Yesterday's battle was so brutal, although the cavalry of the Rainbow Army first charged immediately, and then the infantry came down to assault. The platoon of guns roared and bayonets went into battle, and finally left more than 200 corpses of the Eight Banners on the battlefield. However, the two cavalry companies of the Rainbow Army also paid for the death of 16 horses, 34 wounded, and 18 soldiers. Forty wounded were costly, and there were many such battles in the vicinity of Beijing.

It's just that this kind of atmosphere also makes the soldiers of this cavalry brigade become brave, they feel that this is the best opportunity, if they miss this opportunity, maybe they will regret it for the rest of their lives, all the cavalry shouted: "Go to Beijing, fight to Beijing!" ”

Ren Zhu looked at his team of cavalry. The mood was both solemn and relaxed, and he said loudly: "Just one more assault, there is the Lugou Bridge in front, yes, it is the Lugou Xiaoyue mentioned in the storytelling, let's rush again, it is the Beijing Cavalry Brigade!" ”

In the history of the Rainbow Army. It is very useful to use the tradition of commanding combat units in famous cities, especially in the recent battles between Henan and Shandong, and the appearance of honorary titles such as "Kaifeng Regiment", "Luoyang Battalion", and "Jinan First Regiment", which can be a great stimulus for this newly built cavalry brigade.

One officer replied to his statement: "It's not just Beijing. And Jinzhou, as well as Shengjing, are all our trophies! ”

This is not a brother of the Twist Army that Ren Zhu is familiar with, but a standard cavalry cadre of the Rainbow Army, according to his own boasting, he even participated in Zhou Xiuying's Battle of Jinyun, and they also represent a new force in the Fourth Cavalry Brigade.

That's right, the 10th Regiment is not the most experienced in combat, and there is no natural cavalry, but this regiment has a group of cavalry cadres led by Zhou Xiuying, and their fanaticism is beyond everyone's imagination, and even to the extent that they repeatedly charged seven times before the battle, and finally dragged the Qing infantry more than ten times the strength alive, so Ren Zhu smiled: "It's good to have a few more honorary units in the brigade, but Lao Liu, you have to save a little strength, break into Beijing's military and political victory, and you have to rely on Lao Liu, you have to integrate the regiment!" Missions report real figures. ”

That's right, although the three cavalry regiments attacking Beijing had great and small feats, many cavalry units had fought dozens of battles with the enemy army since they began to leap forward in southern Hebei, and their horses and officers and men were seriously reduced; when they advanced from the south of the wing, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade had a total of 2,400 personnel and 2,500 horses. …,

And now the cavalry in Ren Zhu's hands is only the number reported by the officer.

"The 10th Cavalry Regiment is in formation, with 224 officers and soldiers, and 180 war horses!"

"The 11th Cavalry Regiment, 567 officers and soldiers, and 210 war horses!"

"Twelve regiments of cavalry, three hundred and eighty-four officers and soldiers, and three hundred and seventy war horses!"

"The brigade directly under the team, one hundred and forty officers and soldiers, one hundred and ten war horses, four artillery pieces......"

The main force of the 10th Elephant Cavalry Regiment was entangled by a large Qing army, and it was not easy to overcome this Qing army, which had a total of more than 5,000 troops, but half of the regiment's strength was about a day's journey from the brigade headquarters, and now only a small part of the 10th Cavalry Regiment arrived.

Now that the Fourth Cavalry Brigade has participated in the battle, it has lost nearly one-third of its personnel and horses, and in the next battle, it may lose even more personnel, but Ren Zhu was pleasantly surprised to see that unlike his operations during the Twist Army, the morale of the entire unit is strong, and the troops can participate in the battle at any time.

This has never been the experience, especially in the case of such a heavy attrition of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, and even the formation is a little chaotic, not only maintains such a strong fighting spirit, but also the various units merge on their own and spontaneously form a new integrated team, which is an experience he has never encountered, he said to Liu Cangbin, who asked for battle: "The mission of the sword of the army has to rely on the integration of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, and the complete victory of the military and government depends on you." ”

He knew that Beijing City was several times or even dozens of times the size of Kaifeng City and Baoding City, and it was a big city and famous city that they had never seen before, so even if his more than 1,000 cavalry could break into Beijing, the next task of maintaining order in Beijing was also extremely important.

Among the three cavalry regiments, the 10th Cavalry Regiment, the cavalry regiment brought out by Zhou Xiuying, was the most fanatical and the most disciplined, and many times the discipline was so good that the 12th Cavalry Regiment brought out from Huaibei blushed.

Therefore, the 12th Cavalry Regiment was used as the vanguard, and after a long battle, this cavalry regiment had preserved a lot of war horses, and almost everyone still had horses.

It was followed by the 11th Cavalry Regiment, which had the most preserved troops, but also suffered the greatest loss of horses, so it was now temporarily organized into an infantry integrated team and the cavalry integrated to march towards the Lugou Bridge, but when they were about half a mile ahead, there was a dense sound of gunfire in front.

On the opposite side are the Eight Banners wearing yellow uniforms, they are very numerous, and there are their infantry and cavalry everywhere near the Lugou Bridge, row after row of black pressed ground, team after team, or holding Changyu broadsword, or lined up to form a gun formation, and there are many Eight Banner cavalry.

On both sides is a large group of Han infantry, they are also commanded by the generals of the Eight Banners, the number of tens of thousands, but their morale is relatively low, as soon as they see the Hong Army cavalry appear, there are many infantry spread their legs and run back, even if there are Han army flag horses step by step, still step by step retreat.

The 11th Regiment of the Cavalry really launched a cavalry attack, not to mention that they were less than 400 horsemen, but the momentum of the impact was that even the defenders on the Lugou Bridge had a sense of vibration, they waved their sabers, roared loudly, and killed in the roar of the war horses.

For these forbidden brigades and eight banners, their only war experience was the battle with the Taiping Northern Expeditionary Army a few years ago, and they also had such an advantage at that time, but they did not achieve any worth mentioning in the battle against the Taiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Army, and even tens of thousands of people besieged the stronghold of one or two hundred Taiping Army, and they did not scoop down the example for several months. …,

And now it seems that it is a repeat of that battle, the Qing army still occupies the absolute advantage in strength, but they have encountered trouble from the beginning of the formation, the rainbow army in the cavalry charge at the same time, several mountain howitzers and a large number of mini rifles have not stopped firing, these firearms with amazing range caused a series of casualties of the Eight Banners.

It was an intolerable situation, where the comrades around them fell with a thud at the sound of gunfire, and every now and then they fell, if a single shell hit the formation, or many casualties, and the remnants of the 11th and 12th Cavalry Regiments had already charged.

These two regiments are troops adapted from the cavalry of the Twist Army, so the combat style also has the traditional Twist Army color, they are not like the 10th Cavalry Regiment fanatically pursue the cavalry charge, but repeatedly scattered the charge in squad platoons, wave after wave, one after another, so that the Qing troops could not be guarded.

This is the traditional cavalry tactics of the Twist Army, after a number of harassments, they began to start a frenzied offensive, each time one or two cavalry companies were dispatched, seeing the weakness of the Qing army's defensive formation, and did not hesitate to launch a surprise attack, before the Qing army counterattacked, the entire formation had already crossed down.

Thus, after the battle lasted for more than an hour, the Qing army's defensive line at the Lugou Bridge was leaning further and further back, but they showed no signs of collapse.

In any case, this is the last remnant of the Qing Dynasty, both officers and soldiers, there is an inexplicable self-confidence in their hearts, and they even used infantry and cavalry to launch a surprise attack.

"Prince Gong, the situation is really not good, let's withdraw!"

In the command formation on the opposite side, a group of people full of nobles were pale, they could see that although the battle situation was still deadlocked, the battle situation was getting more and more unfavorable, and Prince Gong, who was riding on the horse, raised his horsewhip angrily and said: "This group of red thieves is no more than three thousand!" ”

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