Chapter 634: The Fall of Dagukou
Russia and Japan, which are nervous behind the scenes, have now entered a moment of change in Tianjin. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. Access:.
At the joint request of the embassies of various countries in Beijing, the consulates of various countries in Tianjin and the ** ships staying in Tianjin were hastily discussing the next action.
Now the consulates of various countries have tensed their nerves, a few days ago Klinder's arrogant behavior, so that the current Boxer and some of the Qing ** team will be in the east 'Jiao' Min Lane for the water leakage, now the East 'Jiao' Min Lane's food, but also tightly able to maintain four or five days of use, this is still because there are dozens of horses in the embassy area, the embassy area even the envoys in the refuge of the people have exceeded 3,000 people, more than a dozen horses, is just a day's food for these people.
Can't wait any longer, can't wait any longer!
The consuls of various countries finally ran out of patience and passed a resolution to jointly elect Seymour as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and led 2,000 coalition soldiers to rush to Beijing by train immediately, and must severely crack down on the arrogance of the Boxers.
Twenty-four warships from one country launched a fierce attack in the Yellow Sea towards the mouth of Dagu.
Dagukou, where can you still see the warships of the Qing Dynasty in Dagukou today? The main force of the Beiyang Naval Division was destroyed by the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the other part was thrown into the Republic of China, which had long since fallen apart.
At this time, the defender of the Dagukou Fort was Luo Rongguang, the old department of the Huai Army, as a fierce general of the Huai Department, who once followed Li Hongzhang to fight in the south and the north, and was said to have experienced a hundred battles.
He has already discovered the attempt of the navy of the great powers, but now he has no way to be in a hurry, the current Beiyang has gradually fallen apart with Li Hongzhang's retreat, although most of them are surrounded by Yuan Shikai, but Yuan Shikai only stayed in Tianjin for more than a year, and then went south to Liangguang, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, where can he take care of Tianjin?
Besides, the imperial court in the city of Beijing, now there is not even a single person in charge of affairs in the imperial court, and his urgent telegram sent one after another, all of which were lost in the sea, and there was no news.
At this time, Luo Rongguang could only grit his teeth and stand hard.
Luo Rongguang ordered that all the armaments of the Dagukou Fort be used and prepared to fight to the death with the foreign powers.
As soon as the defense of Dagukou was arranged, the coalition forces of various countries launched a frantic offensive towards Dagukou.
More than 20 warships completely blocked the sea area near Dagukou, and the huge guns on the warships began a frenzied artillery bombardment, and in just one morning, they fired hundreds of shells, blowing up the Dagukou fort into thick smoke.
Luo Rongguang personally stood on the fort to command the battle, and the hundreds of Qing soldiers under his command, seeing that the main generals were desperate and put life and death aside, the people below were also 'excited' and began to fight back, and the shells continued to pour out, and the muzzles of the Krupp heavy artillery continued to spit out tongues of fire and pounced on the local warships.
The two sides fought fiercely until the evening, although many of the heavy artillery on the fort were destroyed, the Qing army still fought to the death, after all, Luo Rongguang, the general, was still supervising the battle on the fort.
The adjutant general on the side persuaded: "My lord, you have been standing on the fort all day, it is better to go down and rest for a while, here is marked for you to watch!" ”
Luo Rongguang's eyes were full of bloodshots, his eye sockets were deep, and he was tired, he still felt excited, and when he saw the adjutant general's persuasion, he said angrily: "Confused, now that the attack of the coalition forces of the great powers is fierce, as the main general, how can I retreat lightly, I will stand here and command, knowing that the warships of the great powers will withdraw!" ”
At this time, a cannonball flew from a warship opposite, which happened to land on the side of the two people, and the deputy general saw that the situation was not good, and a tiger pounced on Luo Rongguang to the ground, and shouted: "My lord, dodge!" ”
However, at this time, the shells had exploded, and the four 'shots' of shrapnel were almost sieve, and the armies of the great powers were all well-trained soldiers, and the two generals stood on the platform and shouted like this, and they had already been targeted by the captain of the other party, and ordered the gunners to aim at the target and 'shoot' wildly, how could such a conspicuous target be able to dodge the shells of others?
The adjutant general was blown up to the point of flesh and blood, and one returned to the West.
Luo Rongguang was pressed under the adjutant general, and he was also motionless, his forehead was pierced by shrunges from artillery shells, and he couldn't survive.
The surrounding Qing army saw that the main general and the deputy general were injured by the shell, and ran up desperately, leaving the two people out of the fort, and when they came to the bottom of the fort, Luo Rongguang was no longer breathing.
Luo Rongguang is undoubtedly a very great general in the eyes of these officers and soldiers, knows the soldiers, loves the soldiers, never deducts their military salaries, and acts fairly, in their minds, Luo Rongguang can be said to be the best official they have ever seen, no matter how good Li Hongzhang is, no matter how good Yuan Shikai is, what does it have to do with him, he has not been taken care of by them at all, but General Luo is different, the person here has not received Luo Rongguang's favor?
Avenge!
Now the remaining more than 200 Qing soldiers in the Dagukou Fort are already red-eyed, generals, comrades-in-arms, one by one, they are all dead, what is there to be afraid of death now, even if they are crushed to pieces, they will collapse, the coalition fleet, two teeth!
The soldiers desperately 'shot' the shells on the fort, venting their anger and dissatisfaction in their hearts.
It's just that he lost the command of Luo Rongguang, although the Qing army under his command wanted to avenge the adult, but there was no one to command, like a fly without a head, 'chaotic' everywhere, and there was no discipline, and he could no longer resist the attack of the coalition fleet.
At night, the Qing troops could no longer hold on, and withdrew from the fort one after another, abandoning the huge Dagu Pass, and the coalition fleet then boarded the Dagu Pass.
Dagukou, in just one day, changed hands for it, Dagukou, fell!
The coalition forces that took the mouth of Dagu launched a landing overnight, and thousands of coalition troops rushed into Tianjin and marched towards the urban area of Tianjin!
It is the famous Dong Fuxiang who defended Tianjin, now Dong Fuxiang, his main force Gan army in last year's war, has been annihilated by most of them, now he is leading only the newly recruited new army, in Tianjin, Dong Fuxiang and other generals, in the city to carry out stubborn resistance, but the coalition army of various countries is thousands, advanced weapons, excellent equipment, where is now Dong Fuxiang led by the new army can resist to live, do not stop the defeat, just two days, Tianjin fell into the hands of the powers. Dong Fuxiang was full of grief and indignation, but there was still no way, at this time, he was powerless to return to the sky. Tianjin, Dagukou, finally broke away from the control of the Qing army and fell!