This is the last pass of Beijing's defense against the attack of 'Mongolia' and Tsarist Russia, and the stretching Great Wall, through Zhangjiakou, lies between Beijing and the 'Mongolian' ancient grassland, forming a huge barrier. -

Tsarist Russia came out of Hohhot, not only the cavalry Qing Dynasty came out, but also transported all the infantry guns in Hohhot, although not much, but there are dozens of 'gates' of the size of the number, straight to Zhangjiakou, Hohhot to Zhangjiakou is only more than 600 miles, marching at full speed, less than three days, the Russian army arrived at the city of Zhangjiakou.

Now Fu Ting, the commander of Chahar in Zhangjiakou, has already received a telegram from the imperial court, and the 50,000 or 60,000 Tsarist Russian troops are already on the way to attack Zhangjiakou, and Fu Ting is asked to quickly reorganize the army for war, defend Zhangjiakou to the death, and block the Russian army in Chahar.

Fu Ting almost didn't scare to death when he got it, now Fu Ting is more than seventy years old, where can he still fight, in Zhangjiakou is purely a 'mixed' life, drunk and dreaming to death, the news of the arrival of the Russian army has already scared him out of pulse, and he doesn't know how to organize defense at all.

Just when Fu Ting was in a panic, the Tsarist army arrived, and Linevich led 30,000 Cossack cavalry, plus artillery, all the way to the city of Zhangjiakou.

When he arrived in Zhangjiakou, Linevich didn't say a word, and immediately ordered the artillery to attack the city, dozens of 'doors' of infantry guns, full firepower, and bombarded Zhangjiakou, Zhangjiakou's city defense is not as strong as Hohhot, Fu Ting is even more timid as a mouse, standing on the top of the city, he has not had time to deploy, looking at the shells flying in the sky, he collapsed directly to the ground in fright, foaming at the mouth, unconscious.

All the generals of the Chahar Dutong Mansion were stunned, this living treasure Dutong was too talented, and hurriedly carried Fu Ting down in a hurry, and rescued him, the dragons were leaderless, and the city defense of Zhangjiakou became even weaker.

The Qing army in the city was in a hurry, under the 'obscene' power of the Russian artillery, the artillery on the city of Zhangjiakou did not have a decent counterattack at all, and in just one hour, the Qing army on the city wall died and fled, and there were less than 100 people left.

Standing on the positions of the Russian army, Lynevich laughed arrogantly: "These yellow-skinned monkeys, what a fucking waste!" There is no real war yet, there is no one left in the city, charge me and attack the city! Artillerymen, give me concentrated firepower and blow the city gates open! ”

Thousands of Cossack cavalry launched a strong impact on the Qing army like a storm, where did the Qing army in Zhangjiakou see thousands of iron cavalry charging together, and there was no official here, so frightened that they scattered, no one was left, the Russian soldiers took Zhangjiakou without blood, together with Fu Ting and his generals, all were surrounded in the capital, and finally became a prisoner of the Russian army.

Linnevich sat in the capital and was full of pride, and he didn't expect that the two cities, so effortlessly, would be pocketed by him, and then, from Zhangjiakou to Beijing, there was only a small Changping left in the middle. I heard that there were more than 10,000 Wuwei troops stationed there, and that Admiral Dong Fuxiang was his old opponent in the Ili War, and his ability was very strong, and attacking Changping County was the most critical battle for himself to attack Beijing City.

Now the news that he led the Cossack cavalry to attack, I am afraid that it has spread to the city of Beijing, Dong Fuxiang must have also gotten the news, his sudden 'sexual' advantage is gone, attacking Changping County, may face a bloody battle, it is really a bit of a headache, he only led the cavalry in the early 40,000s, of which thousands of people are still in the Inner 'Mongolian' Gu, the army is not abundant, you need to be good, think about the countermeasures of the army.

When Linevich was pondering, Dong Fuxiang's army also arrived, the time when the two armies arrived in Zhangjiakou, only half a day apart, after Dong Fuxiang received the holy decree, he needed to urgently assemble his army, but also to allocate ammunition 'medicine', baggage, etc., delayed for some time, and was not able to catch up with the battle in Zhangjiakou.

When Dong Fuxiang's army was still fifty or sixty miles away from Zhangjiakou, Dong Xiangfu began to encounter one after another Qing army routs, all of which were defeated and retreated from Zhangjiakou all the way.

Dong Fuxiang asked, only to know that Zhangjiakou had been lost, Dong Fuxiang was shocked and lost his 'color', he led 10,000 Gan troops, and rushed over in the starry night, but the result was still not to catch up, it was a step too late, and now the offensive and defensive situation is changing, and it is absolutely impossible for him to take Zhangjiakou, where tens of thousands of Russian troops are stationed, with 10,000 Gan troops.

But if you don't fight a battle and retreat like this, then Lafayette is not good at 'handing' generations, Dong Fuxiang has no choice but to continue to urge the army to advance and 'force' Zhangjiakou.

The news of Gan's arrival at the city of Zhangjiakou quickly reached Linevich's ears, and he really wanted to sleep, so a pillow was handed over. I didn't know how to attack Changping City, Dong Fuxiang's Gan army sent the 'door' to the door, and it was still the main force.

Linevich shouted: "Order, the whole army is immediately ready to start a war with the Qing army!" ”

More than 30,000 Russian troops were running rapidly, and all of the 'gate', 'door' cannons, and shells were all carried to the head of Zhangjiakou City, and thousands of Russian troops made Zhangjiakou's defense impermeable.

Today's Dong Xiangfu has also opened a position under the city, and arranged the artillery position to the forefront, these are all new weapons newly transferred from the Beijing arsenal, and the equipment is 'sophisticated', Li Hongzhang spoke, what equipment the Gan army wants, the imperial court will prepare what equipment, and I must defend Beijing City in the war!

Dong Fuxiang directly ordered: "Someone, send me an order to artillery, and launch an attack with all your might, even if you blow up Zhangjiakou for me, you will also take Zhangjiakou!" ”

Dozens of 'doors' of new Krupp heavy artillery on the Gan army's position immediately launched a threat, and hundreds of 'door' shells were all fired out within 10 minutes, and the inner and outer cities of Zhangjiakou were bombed in a mess, and gunpowder smoke was everywhere.

The Russian army did not show weakness, although the artillery on the city of Zhangjiakou was inferior to the Gan army, but the Russian army won in excellent personal quality, and the quality of the artillery far exceeded that of the Gan army, and the two sides launched the most powerful artillery battle since the artillery battle of Harbin under the city of Zhangjiakou. The Russian army relied on the fortifications of the city wall, greatly taking advantage of the Gan army, only three hours later, the artillery fire of the Gan army gradually could not support, Dong Fuxiang was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and there was no four good ways, the Russian army was condescending, occupied the geographical advantage, and the troops were strong, and it was all comparable to the Gan army from time to time. Dong Fuxiang began to hesitate whether to withdraw his troops at the moment, but at this time, Lineevich saw that the Gan army lacked stamina and was a little unsustainable!