At 7 o'clock in the morning, 3 miles north of Majuqiao Town, on the south bank of the Liangshui River.

The commander of the 3rd Cavalry Group of the Japanese Army, Miura Kazui Shaosa, stood on horseback on the river embankment, looking at a jujube forest half a mile south of the river embankment.

In the early sun of dawn and the faint mist, a small village is hidden in the morning light and jujube forest.

The smoke curls from the road, the cows moo, the dogs bark, the donkeys bark, and the faint sound of children calling for women, which can be heard faintly.

"What a paradise!"

Miura Kazuihe, who is familiar with ancient Chinese texts, showed a fierce color on his face: "Kill all, burn it all, and rob all the silver and gold!" ”

"Hey!"

The two hundred Japanese cavalrymen who stood on horseback on the river embankment all shouted in unison with obscene and brutal hideousness.

"Bang dang!"

Miura Kazuri drew his sword and pointed to the south: "Attack!" ”

"Thorn-"

"Thorn-"

A saber with a handle was drawn and held high above his head, shimmering in the early morning sun.

"Tap, tap—"

As the cavalry and horses accelerated, the entire earth shook slightly.

"The earth dragon has turned over!"

In the village to the south, there was a shout of terror, and the people rushed out of the house with frightened faces and looked around.

He was horrified to see the herd of horses coming from the north, and the swords of the forest.

"The Japanese soldiers are coming!"

"Run!"

Although these people were seeing the appearance of the Japanese army for the first time, thinking of the legends that have spread in recent days, some alert people immediately accurately guessed the origin of these evil soldiers.

They shouted with miserable faces and pulled the old people, children, and women in the family to flee towards the outside of the village.

It's just a simple foot force, how can it be compared to the short-range assault of war horses, these fleeing civilians were quickly caught up by the Japanese cavalry and slashed with swords.

"Ahh

"Help!"

"You brutes, ah—"

Immediately, the whole village was filled with flames, and the Japanese army was full of torture, humiliation, and looting.

Heart-rending screams of despair rolled through the village.

The war on the outskirts of Yanjing City first burned in this nameless small village!

Soon, in less than an hour, Maju Town, Daxing Town, Fangshan Town, Xisanqi, Yongding Town, Nanting Town——

The north, west and south sides of the entire Yanjing suburbs are full of flames, black smoke billowing and soaring into the sky.

In Yanjing City, more than a million soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, princes and ministers, and even Emperor Guangxu were all looking at the smoke in all directions in horror and uproar.

Didn't you say that peace talks were ready?

Didn't it mean that the ministers of the six countries were escorted by foreign soldiers and entered the camp of the Japanese soldiers to supervise the retreat of the Japanese soldiers?

Could it be that the Japanese have repented, these wolf beasts who are ambitious and untrustworthy!

Now, how can that be?

Guangxu's face was pale and panicked, and he hurriedly convened the ministers to discuss the matter, but at this time in the court, there was a solemn voice of the ministers, and there was an abnormal silence.

Yesterday, everyone could still argue about where the emperor went to hunt, and now that Yanjing is besieged, who dares to propose that the emperor's golden body take a risk to leave Beijing?

Now the eyebrows are burning, no matter how much you talk about it, it can't quench your thirst.

In that case, what else can there be to talk about?

Seeing a group of dead old men kneeling below, pretending to be dead dogs one by one, it made the hot-blooded emperor angry.

"Smack!"

With a crisp sound, Emperor Guangxu began to drop things again.

Just when the ministers were helpless and the hall was silent, the battle of Tongzhou broke out violently.

Tongzhou City.

Dawn, early morning.

The generals of the Qing Dynasty, who had been freezing in Tongzhou City for half the night, all got off the city wall last night with their noses sloppy and scolding.

In particular, Cheng Wenbing, who was stationed in Zhangjiawan, had to rush back to the Zhangjiawan camp 30 miles away overnight according to military law.

At this time, the early sun is gradually rising, but a group of veterans are all lying in the warm quilt, ready to sleep in the morning and take care of their spirits.

God knows what those widows and tiresant foreign devils, what kind of moths will they do today, they stayed up most of the night last night and now they don't have enough spirits, how will they deal with these guys when the time comes?

Anyway, looking at the situation, this battle can be regarded as a stop, and the following is the mouthful of the civil officials.

The generals above thought so, and the soldiers below were naturally slack, and even the soldiers on guard on the city wall were covered with quilts and leaned against the wall buttresses in a daze.

And no one bothered to glance at the Japanese camp in the east.

Compared with last night, the Japanese camp has already undergone great changes, the most obvious is that the two 75 artillery battalions have been pulled from the rear of the Japanese army Huotun Village Headquarters to the east bank of the Wenyu River, which is less than three miles away from Tongzhou.

"Boom!"

At 7:30 in the morning, a loud bang suddenly thunderclaped between heaven and earth, waking up all the sleepers in Tongzhou City.

"Boom-"

This grenade exploded accurately over Tongzhou City, causing the Qing troops in the city to roar and rush out of the barracks.

"Boom, boom!"

Large-scale Japanese artillery bombardment began.

"Shelling, shelling!"

"Ahh

There was an exclamation in Tongzhou City, and a large number of panicked Qing troops were shot down by a pile of grenade shotguns.

There was chaos everywhere in the city.

Because of the Meiji Emperor's telegraphic order, there was no need to keep the Tongzhou radio station unblocked, so that the Qing Emperor had effective control over the Qing State, and at the same time, it was convenient to force the Qing to surrender remotely.

Therefore, in this shelling, the Japanese army abandoned the high-explosive shells that destroyed the fortifications more powerfully, and chose grenade bombs that focused on lethality.

This time, the Tongzhou War of the Japanese 1st Army was fought simply, directly and crudely.

First the shelling.

Then the sappers blew up the gates.

In the end, tens of thousands of Japanese troops rushed into Tongzhou City.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese artillery stopped bombarding, and the entire Tongzhou city was under this abrupt attack, and the city walls, streets and alleys were full of corpses; Everywhere there were collapsed houses and burning flames.

The rest of the soldiers almost all hid in the houses of the common people to avoid bullets, and there was no soldier guarding the entire Tongzhou city wall.

"All out, all out!"

Nie Shicheng, Wan Benhua, Ding Huai, a group of Qing generals rode war horses, stepped on the corpses of countless soldiers in the streets and alleys where rivers of blood flowed, running back and forth in the streets and alleys, shouting with blood-red eyes:

"The Japanese want to attack the city, the Japanese want to attack the city! All on the wall, on the wall! ”

"Boom!"

With a violent explosion, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the east gate of Tongzhou was blasted by the Japanese sappers Lisuo.

"Attack!"

Immediately, under the shouting of the Japanese commander, a large number of Japanese troops swarmed in.

"The city is broken, the city is broken!"

With desperate shouts, thousands of Qing soldiers who had just run out of the people's houses all shouted in horror.

"Shoot!"

"Bang, bang—"

A large number of Qing soldiers blocking the streets and alleys were knocked down by the Japanese salvo.

"Run!"

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, a large number of Qing troops turned around and fled towards the north gate and west gate of Tongzhou City.

Immediately, the city of Tongzhou fell.

On the east bank of the Wenyu River, Western ministers watched the battle on the hillside.

A group of Western ministers standing on the east bank of the Wenyu River to watch the battle, as well as two hundred Western soldiers, were all shocked and looked at the broken city of Tongzhou in amazement.

Then I saw the Japanese flag, raised on the wall of Tongzhou City.

"This Qing army ,——"

Ogergan looked at it and grinned, and only said in a half-loud voice: "It's still the same as thirty years ago, so weak and vulnerable!" Are all the guns in their hands furnished? I don't know how it was ten years ago—"

"Ahem—"

Bao Shide next to him seemed to be intolerant of the cool breeze, and coughed lightly.

Although Ogge woke up from the shock in time and immediately closed his mouth, the face of the French Minister Shi Alan, who was standing on the side, had turned red.