The Tanggu Fort, across the river from the Dagu Fort, has been turned into a ruin, the defender Long Ruyuan was blown up by the British and French cannonballs, most of the more than 1,000 defenders died in their duties, the rest were either captured or surrendered, and only a few people escaped back to the Dagu Fort. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Dagu Fort could not be supported for long, although the fort itself had been reinforced many times, almost like a permanent fortification, but in the fierce battle for many days, under the bombardment of the powerful naval guns of the British and French combined fleet, the Dagukou Fort was also bombarded with holes and scars, and most of the large and small artillery on the fort were also lost, and it was no longer able to effectively suppress the fleet and stormtroop formation of the British and French forces.

Even so, the British and French forces still showed no sign of stopping the offensive, and the British and French combined fleet composed of one hundred and five steam paddle steamer warships once again arrived at the sea of Dagukou, and 18,000 British and French infantry, including more than 2,000 Chinese mercenaries, also killed from the direction of Gegu, where the main force of the Qing army was once stationed, and there were only more than 2,000 defenders in the Dagukou Fort between the front and rear of the land and water, and the bagpipes of Scotland and the drums of France complemented each other, heralding that a cruel war would begin again.

In the military songs of Britain and France, a Qing soldier who had surrendered before came to the Dagukou Fort with a white flag, handed over a letter of persuasion to Shi Rongchun, the guard of Dagukou, and openly shouted: "Shi Junmen, the imperial court has abandoned us, and the monk and the prince have already run away with the Eight Banners army, what do you insist on?" Surrender, for the sake of the brethren of the battery, surrender! ”

"Bang!"

The answer to persuade the traitor was a bullet fired by Shi Rongchun himself, the original arquebus was extremely inaccurate, and it only hit the ground under the traitor's feet, and the traitor turned around and ran away in amazement. Shi Rongchun, who was wrapped in a bandage on his forehead, put down his musket expressionlessly, and yelled at the left and right: "Brothers! The battery is here, we're here! The fort is dead, we are dead! The court will never ignore us, and the emperor will never ignore us! ”

Most of the soldiers of the fort whose clothes were blackened by artillery fire nodded one after another, even though most of them were actually panicked and timid, some of the Qing soldiers still looked resolute and determined, and there was a general whose ears were cut off by shrapnel in half and shouted: "Fight with foreign devils!" Let the foreign devils know that we are not so easy to bully in the Qing Dynasty! ”

"Fight with foreign devils! Fight! ”

It is a pity that the times are different, and no matter how high the fighting spirit and high morale are, they are no longer the key factors that determine victory or defeat on the battlefield of this era. When more than 100 British and French warships opened fire and launched a bombardment, the Dagukou Fort was soon shrouded in a huge cloud of artillery fire, and the blood-red Qing soldiers desperately fired back in the gunsmoke, but because of the backwardness of technology and equipment, it was still difficult to accurately hit the enemy's warships, and the number of ships was more than five times that of the last Dagukou battle, and the British and French fleets rumbled with cannons, constantly hitting one after another solid cannonballs and flowering cannonballs on the Dagukou Fort, and the Qing soldiers also continued to roar and fall down in the artillery fire. Bloodstained Forts.

In this era, the world's top two British troops and French troops were also brave, and before the bombardment of the naval guns was over, the British and French soldiers were already lining up in dense horizontal formations and beating and blowing flutes to kill the battery, and the Qing soldiers desperately opened fire, but they were never able to make the armies of these two world powers stop even half a step. It was not until the British and French troops approached the foot of the fort that the Qing soldiers relied on their condescending advantage to barely block the advance of the British and French forces, forcing the British and French soldiers to fight with their own troops with muskets.

Although the M1842 rifle of the British army was inferior to the pinch gun equipped by the Prussian army in terms of rate of fire, it easily threw off the arquebus eight streets equipped by the Qing soldiers; Although the French army was armed with Minnie guns with a slower rate of fire than the M1842, they were more than ten times more accurate than arquebuses. In the dense gunshots, one after another, it was still the Qing soldiers on the Dagukou Fort, and the general who shouted that he had fought with foreign devils before was also shot in the head and fell to the ground and died.

For the officers and men of the Qing army, there was even more miserable, the arquebus in their hands was not only backward in technology, but also backward in terms of technology and quality, after a long period of continuous firing, not only did the bore explode phenomenon one after another, but the barrel was also hot and hot to the point that it was impossible to load ammunition, forcing the Qing soldiers to take off their pants and pee to cool down the barrel like the movie "Opium War......

"Hold on! Resist! Beat! Beat! Hit me hard! Let the foreign devils see how good we are! ”

Shi Rongchun, the commander of Zhili, always insisted on being on the front line of the land war, constantly shouting and shouting to encourage the soldiers, and he was shot twice without taking a step back. However, this still could not change the huge gap in technology and equipment between the Qing army and the British and French forces, and it could not change the cruel fact that most of the Qing soldiers had low combat effectiveness.

Only a small number of soldiers under the leadership of Shi Rongchun came up, and the British soldiers with red eyes started hand-to-hand white-knuckle combat, and most of the Qing soldiers still only dared to hide in the distance and shoot, and at the same time, even more unfortunately, even if some of the Qing soldiers launched a counter-charge as if they were dead, they still couldn't fight in the bayonet fight and the British soldiers who had received strict training were still at an absolute disadvantage in the hand-to-hand combat.

"Shi Junmen, let's go! Come on! ”

The remnants of the soldiers around him were fighting with the British soldiers, and their red eyes urged Shi Rongchun to run quickly, but Shi Rongchun turned a deaf ear, carrying a machete full of gaps and just slashing with the British soldiers, and refused to flee after being pierced by the bayonet twice in a row, and kept yelling, "Brothers, come up!" Come on! Come up and fight with foreign devils! ”

Only a few Qing soldiers rushed up to help the battle, but the British soldiers quickly drowned Shi Rongchun and more than thirty others like a tide, and the French soldiers outflanked from both wings, screaming to kill the Qing soldiers in the distance, and in the fierce battle, the British soldiers also shouted out strange-looking Chinese, "Surrender!" Surrender or kill! Surrender or kill! ”

Another bayonet pierced Shi Rongchun's chest directly from behind, Shi Rongchun barely opened another bayonet stabbed in front of him, but more bayonets pierced his body one after another, blood gushed out of his chest with bubbles, and General Shi Rongchun's eyes, which were stained with blood all over his body, gradually lost their luster, and his tall body slowly fell, muttering in his mouth......

"Folks in Zhili, I tried my best, but the main force ran first, and the court didn't give me help, so I couldn't hold Dagukou...... Cannon...... Platform....... ”

Salute to General Shi Rongchun and General Long Ruyuan, pay tribute to the Qing army soldiers in Dagukou, in the second Opium War in history, the second battle of Dagukou was the only victory they exchanged their precious lives for the Chinese army, it was General Shi Rongchun and General Long Ruyuan who commanded the battle in the first line, and died in the battle. At that time, the so-called commander of the Qing army, Monk Greenqin, had been hiding in the rear, hiding under the protection of the Manchurian cavalry.

After the news of the fall of Dagukou Fort reached the capital, the wise and martial Emperor Xianfeng certainly didn't have time to care about how the Dagukou Fort was lost, and some of the Qing soldiers led by Shi Rongchun and Long Ruyuan put in how much effort and sacrifice they made in it, and what Emperor Xianfeng scolded was that Shi Rongchun and other Dagukou soldiers were incompetent, and failed to hold the Dagukou Fort to buy time for him to appease foreigners! After scolding enough, Emperor Xianfeng could only write to the front again, asking the monk to continue to avoid leading the main force of the Qing army to fight with the British and French alliances, and also asked Ruilin and Hengfu to strive to negotiate with the British and French forces again.

Unable to endure the stupidity and perfunctory behavior of the Manchu court, and hoping to get more bamboo poles from the Manchu court, the Anglo-French forces categorically rejected the Manchu court's request for a ceasefire, and immediately launched an attack on Tianjin after taking the Dagukou Fort. Although the monk prince wanted to fight with the Anglo-French coalition army, but he was forced by the master's strict order, the monk and the prince who was loyal to the Xianfeng Emperor could only stride forward in the cheers of the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and directly transferred from Tianjin to Tongzhou at the foot of the capital, and the Qing soldiers in Tianjin also fled, and the Anglo-French alliance easily took Tianjin, plundered a large amount of grain and grass and military supplies, and completely solved the worries of lack of food.

As a result, it was also at this time that the British and French forces reluctantly sat down and started another negotiation with Ruilin and Hengfu, but the British and French forces not only were not sure to make any concessions, but also increased the line of fire and demanded more indemnities, opened a large number of ports, and asked the British and French troops to protect the envoys of the two countries to Beijing City to sign a treaty with the Manchu court.

Emperor Xianfeng was stupid to let the British and French troops enter Beijing, and after categorically refusing the latest requirements of the British and French forces, the incompetent Ruilin and Hengfu generals were dismissed on the spot. The Anglo-French forces showed no mercy, and immediately continued to move north, directly towards Beijing.

There was really no choice, and Emperor Xianfeng could only instruct the monk and prince to prepare for the battle, and at the same time once again sent Zaiyuan and Mu Yin to serve as the chief and deputy ministers, and also let them serve as plenipotentiaries according to the requirements of the foreigners, and made one last effort to ask for negotiations with the British and French forces.

Fortunately for Emperor Xianfeng, after learning that Zaiyuan and Mu Yin were granted full powers, the British and French forces still gave him one last chance and agreed to negotiate again, and each sent the British consul in Guangzhou, Pashali, and the French minister to China, Bourblon, as representatives, to rush to Tongzhou first, and Zhangjiawan in the south of Tongzhou to start formal negotiations with Zaiyuan and Mu Yin.

It is a pity that the negotiations were still unsuccessful, although Zaiyuan and Mu Yin had made huge concessions in terms of indemnity and opening ports, but because of the prior request of Emperor Xianfeng, Zaiyuan and Mu Yin still did not dare to agree to let the foreign minister stay in the capital, and to open Tianjin and allow the foreign army to protect the minister to enter Beijing to sign a contract. The only concession made by Pashali and Bourblon was that the Anglo-French forces did not enter Beijing, and they only brought a few escorts into Beijing to meet with Emperor Xianfeng to sign a contract.

After arguing and hesitating for a long time, Zaiyuan finally gritted his teeth and agreed to let Pasha Li and Burbulon enter Beijing to sign the contract, but put forward a new condition, saying: "You can enter Beijing to face the saint, but when you see my emperor, you must kneel and salute, and you must also bow three times and bow nine times." ”

"No way!" Pasha Li and Burbulon refused together, and both said: "We are not the officials and people of the Qing Kingdom, so we cannot practice such a courtesy, at most we can only kiss the hand." ”

"But you are in the land of the Qing Dynasty, so you must follow the rules of the Qing Dynasty." Zaiyuan stubbornly insisted: "If you don't kneel to our emperor, then I can't agree to let you enter Beijing." ”

Pashali and Burblon still refused, and were very angry and offered to lead a thousand troops into Beijing again to protect their personal safety. Zaiyuan had no choice but to send a fast horse back to Beijing again, report the matter to Emperor Xianfeng, and ask Emperor Xianfeng to decide.

Unfortunately, when Zaiyuan's recital report arrived in front of Emperor Xianfeng, it was just in time for Emperor Xianfeng to commit a big cigarette addiction and was in pain, and he heard that the foreigners not only refused to kneel to themselves but also insisted on leading troops into Beijing, and the opening of Tianjin and the envoy stationed in Beijing were absolutely unacceptable......

"Catch! Tell Monk Grinqin to arrest all those foreign devils! Escorted to the capital to ask for guilt! Don't talk about it, fight with foreign devils! I don't believe it, my Manmeng iron cavalry can't beat so many foreign devils?! ”

If this decree is given to others, then others may weigh it - after all, in ancient China, there was also a habit of two countries fighting each other without cutting each other. But Emperor Xianfeng really found the right person this time, the monk and the prince, who had long been full of anger towards foreigners, was not used to the arrogance of foreigners, and never took the foreigner army in his eyes, and after receiving the holy decree, he did not weigh the severity, and immediately sent the army to arrest a group of 45 people, including Burbulon and Pashali, and put them into a prisoner's car and escorted them to the capital to ask for guilt!

"You are violating public international law! Violation of public international law! Sangha, you are violating public international law by doing this, and you will pay the price! There will be a heavy price to pay! ”

Of course, the monk could understand the angry roar made by Burbulon, who had been put in the prison car, in Chinese, but the monk did not understand the meaning at all, and just hummed: "What is public international law? You foreigners' stuff this king doesn't understand! Is there any foreigner way to find Wu Chaoyue and say to that little barbarian, this king doesn't care. ”

Thinking of Wu Chaoyue, who had humiliated himself many times and played himself, the monk couldn't help but be angry, and whipped a whip in the face of Burbulon, who was still shouting wildly, and scolded: "Foreign devils, tell you to collude with that little barbarian desperately, and when this king kills your army ashore and drives you out of Dagukou, you must ask the emperor to cut that little barbarian to the people, lest he give you an internal response!" ”

As if to verify the monk's concern about the collusion between Wu Chaoyue and the foreigners, it happened that on this day, Wu Chaoyue's envoys from Hubei, Huang Sheng and Guo Songtao, rushed to the capital, and also saw the wonderful picture of Burbulon and Pa Xiali and others being escorted into the capital in a prisoner car by the city gate. Then Huang Sheng, who knew Burbulon, was dumbfounded on the spot and exclaimed, "Oh my God! Even the minister treats him like this? Is there no one in Beijing who knows what public international law is? (To be continued.) )