Chapter 376 The Prince. Finished

The British army and Yinghan are waiting for the New People's Army to attack in Cangzhou, so as to wait for the New People's Army to consume the New People's Army, this time with the British Army as the backing, and dozens of cannons, I want to compete with the New People's Army here.

However, there is only one engineer regiment of the 13th Brigade dangling under the city of Cangzhou, and it is not attacking at all, but it is ready to run at any time, which seems to say, or we change the way we play, you go out of the city to chase me, and if you catch up, you will be snapped!

Liu Mingchuan was also frightened and had just fled back to Baoding, so he had to honestly obey the arrangements of the French army, send people to strengthen the fortifications of Baoding, and organize people to pull artillery from Tianjin.

This time, with the Western cannon, he can be regarded as regaining a lot of confidence, but he just shook his head a little at the equipment of the breech gun of the French army.

The cavalry of the New People's Army are all breech-loading horse rifles, with short bodies, convenient and fast, and long ranges.

This situation was worrying, which made him a little uneasy, and sure enough, within a few days, bad news came that Beijing had been captured by the New People's Army.

"Where did this rumor come from, could it be that Li Yuntai and Niu Hongsheng's cavalry went directly to Beijing City from the river, and their little strength can defeat the huge Beijing."

At first, Liu Mingchuan didn't believe it, although the defenders of the city were all green battalions and flag battalions, and the combat effectiveness was five scum, so it would not be that no one was given the capital to occupy the capital.

Wei Rugui said: "Junmen, the news is true, it is the news from Lord Huang, who is a good servant with you, I heard that the New People's Army is killing from the direction of Changping Prefecture to the capital. The cavalry of the New People's Army between the rivers was still in the river, and the infantry army did not cross the Tang River by half a step. ”

"Changping? How could it come from Changping, hasn't the New People's Army always been directly ahead of us? How can you run north of Beijing. Could it be that they went around from Shanxi to Xuanhua Mansion and entered the pass from the mouth of the Great Wall, this is too ridiculous, aren't the white bandits wreaking havoc on Mongolia and Datong? ”

The news reached Tianjin, and the coalition forces were also blinded.

How did the New People's Army appear from the north and capture the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty, this time it was not as simple as occupying the Forbidden City, but the entire Beijing City.

This is incredible, and now the new ambassadors of the two countries to the Qing Dynasty have been captured by the new People's Army, and the old revenge has not been avenged.

But this time, it gave them an excuse, didn't King Qingjun not let them go to Beijing? So a coalition of 10,000 troops passed through Langfang and headed for Beijing, and they were confident that they would take the imperial capital from the hands of 2,000 new people's troops.

The troops had just passed through Langfang and arrived in Tongzhou, when the headquarters of the coalition forces in Tianjin received another message.

"A main regiment of the New People's Army swept Shunyi County from Changping, and is advancing from Jizhou to capture Shunde Mansion, intending to control Shanhaiguan, our emperor has moved Shengjing from Shanhaiguan, and the warships of the two countries can go to Yingkou, where the new dock that has just been repaired can dock warships."

At this time, the coalition forces were really sure that Xiao Liuzi went to Shanhaiguan, and at the same time discussed how many people to send to Shanhaiguan, they knew that this checkpoint was very important. Once this pass is lost, the Manchu officials in Beijing and Tianjin and other places will surrender, and the current Qing army will turn against and surrender. Subjectivity

And they will have to retreat all to this place in Tianjin, or directly from China, and the expedition will become a meaningless expedition, which will make people laugh at it, and the cabinet will fall.

So after some consideration, 5,000 combined troops were sent to Shanhaiguan, leaving 10,000 people in Tianjin, and two warships were also moving to Qinhuangdao under Yongping Mansion to provide heavy fire support. and also issued an order to the Tongzhou part, dividing troops to cut off the back road of the Jizhou New People's Army, eating this group of bold New People's Army, and making a good start.

"It turned out that more than 15,000 people from Britain and France were transferred so smoothly." Watching the Anglo-French army follow the rhythm like a good rabbit, Yang Dongfang was overjoyed, there were only 10,000 British and French troops in Tianjin at the moment, and he would not break his teeth if he ate it.

Of course, before eating this piece of meat, it is still necessary to consolidate the outside of Beijing, where there are still 10,000 British and French troops, and Cai Zhi needs to send more reinforcements.

In this way, Yang Dongfang first transferred two security brigades from Sichuan, and one brigade entered Beijing to reinforce Cai Zhi.

Then let the 52nd Regiment, which had attacked Jizhou, stop its eastward advance, and transfer another security brigade in Sichuan to take over the task of feint the attack on Shunde Province.

The 52nd Regiment of Jizhou began to follow the southern foot of the Yanshan Mountains to Di County, directly into Wuqing, and south to Tianjin.

He also transferred 5,000 men from a regular brigade headquarters and 4,000 people from a security brigade from the Guangzhou Military Region, and also transferred 6,000 people from Feng Zicai's department from Nanjing.

Feng Zicai's department and Guangzhou's security brigade went south from Daxing County, southwest of Beijing, and directly penetrated into Langfang, leaving 4,000 security brigades behind, and Feng Zicai's department continued south to Wuqing to join the 52nd regiment and go south to Tianjin.

Yang Dongfang returned to the city of Beijing and took a brigade of Guangzhou troops to take the initiative to attack the coalition forces in Tongzhou, deliberately showing his face and showing his military might.

Now the British and French troops are even more dumbfounded, didn't they say that there are only 2,000 troops in Beijing?

Why did they suddenly reinforce another 5,000 people, and they took the initiative to attack themselves, of course they would not let go of this good thing of waiting for work and defending and counterattacking, so they waited for Yang Dongfang to attack, so as to consume the strength of the New People's Army.

However, Yang Dongfang was paralyzed by them, from time to time let people set off a cannon, fire a few shots, thunder and rain a few times, and then retreat, so delayed for a day, for Feng Zicai's department and the 52nd regiment to buy a lot of time, only to the second division in Wuqing to return to the division, south into Tianjin Mansion Beicang, Yang Dongfang only then waved his hand with this brigade of 5,000 people appeared in Tianjin City.

The New People's Army suddenly appeared in Beicang, which was only more than twenty miles away from Jinmen, which frightened the Qing army.

"King Qingjun's big thing is not good, the New People's Army is coming to our Tianjin Mansion."

Yinghan was not in Tianjin, and all the power naturally belonged to Qingjun Wang Aixin Jueluo Yixuan, and the soldiers who reported the news ran over as soon as possible.

Yixuan hadn't closed his eyes for several days, and after hearing that Beijing had fallen, he was glad that he was grinding with Lord Yang in Tianjin, otherwise he would have been unlucky.

How could I have thought that the New People's Army would move so quickly, and all of a sudden it was going to attack Shanhaiguan, and now it was actually outside Tianjin, how could I not be in a hurry, I stretched out my hand to grab the man and said viciously: "What nonsense, how can the New People's Army appear outside Tianjin. ”

The Anglo-French coalition army was sent several ways, all of which intercepted the New People's Army, how could the New People's Army suddenly come to Tianjin again.

Yi Liang didn't believe it.

But then his guards ran in: "Lord Wang. Rajah.. It's over, it's over, the New People's Army has entered the city, and they're coming to the Governor's Palace, so we have to leave quickly. ”

threw the soldier who reported the news, Yixuan raised his foot and kicked the butler: "Finish you!" ”

"Here, this is it, that Yixuan is in the Governor's Palace." According to the division of labor, a company of the New People's Army attacked the Governor's Palace, so frightened that the guards retreated into the gate, and the New People's Army skillfully threw a grenade, killing and wounding those Qing troops who wanted to close the door, and rushed in.

From time to time, he raised his gun to kill the Qing army guards dressed in yellow who wanted to rush in, these were the royal guards left by Yixun to protect Yixuan.

5,000 New People's Army appeared on the streets of Tianjin, and the whole city was boiling for a while, but fortunately, Yang Dongfang had already planned, and the troops performed their own duties under the leadership of intelligence officers to attack their targets.

took control of the entire city in half an hour, and then Zhou Tai and his people from all over the world gathered warriors to patrol the city with weapons in hand to prevent outlaws from committing crimes.

You must know that while Jinmen is prosperous here, there are also many scoundrels, and there are countless good deeds.

Leaving 3,000 men to guard the city, Yang Dongfang took 2,000 men out of the city, captured the Dagu Fort, and controlled the Haihe River and the wharf.

Outside the city, at the headquarters of the coalition forces in the Purple Bamboo Forest Concession, the British Major General Gruyuri was drinking with the French Major General Mai Meng to relieve his boredom, complaining to each other and receiving the task of defending Tianjin.

Someone suddenly broke in: "Two generals, something big has happened in Tianjin, it is suspected that the New People's Army has attacked Tianjin, and the Qing army in the city has been defeated." ”

"What!"

When the two of them heard this, they suddenly woke up, and at the same time, their cloudy eyes lit up, and they said in unison: "Great, buddy, we have a job to do." ”

"Yes buddy, are we going to gather troops?"

"Of course!"

The two of you don't say a word, I don't say a word, and then order the troops to assemble, put guns on their shoulders and prepare to attack the New People's Army.