Yang Huai was stunned for a long time, and the two figures near the target of the next wave of attacks revealed two pairs of bright eyes from the darkness.

"What is Yang Huai doing? Let's wipe his ass again? The kid muttered.

"Don't say it. In the evening, there are rebels again, and they may be in trouble. Hurry up and light the fireworks. I'm going to look for them. lest they be taken away by wild dogs. Although he was reprimanding the other, he himself was a little gloating.

Another wave of fireworks burst into the sky.

"Guided by your goals." The adjutant looked at the map.

"It's the seventh and eleventh districts." Cheng Biguang was able to find the target even with his eyes closed, and the map of Beijing had been in his chest for countless days. The battle plan, he can recite it without looking at it.

"Put away the machine guns and let the first team go to Sector 7. Let's go to the 11th arrondissement. ”

"Yes." The adjutant was ordered to retreat.

The Japanese troops below wanted to cry without tears, and Yamaguchi Sotomi, who had just arrived at the national treasury, angrily drew his knife and slashed vigorously at the stones of the ruins.

Although the treasury of the Qing State is not much, there are also 20 million or 30 million taels of silver, as well as various palace items. Now it's all in the soup. Although the airship used only two rounds of armor-piercing shells, and three waves of ordinary bombs. But the ensuing machine-gun attack caused him to lose at least seven thousand troops of more than 10,000 troops defending the treasury!

And all the gold and silver that were brought from the money house were buried in the ruins of the treasury! Fortunately, there was still a batch of gold and silver that had not been put into the treasury. Otherwise, it's all over.

Yamaguchi Suchen looked gloomily at the sky and gritted his teeth!

"If Hu Xiaoyan is not removed, it will become a big disaster in the future!"

Compared to the losses of the Japanese army, the Russian army was much better. The inner city is mainly full of people, and wealth is relatively concentrated there. The Japanese, British, German, and American armies were mostly in the inner city, while the Russian army was relatively concentrated in the outer city. The outer city of Beijing has a larger population, but almost all of them are Han Chinese, and they are also the best to deal with, and the Han people have always been cowardly and predictable.

Some of the Manchurians in the inner city still picked up their ancestral swords to kill the enemy, but the Han people in the outer city were only slaughtered. The results of the Manchu enslavement education at this moment ruined the lives of the Manchus, if the Han people in the outer city had a trace of blood, the inner city would definitely not be so easy to be captured by the coalition forces, the inner city gate was not lost, and the Manchu people in the inner city would be very safe.

The agency is too clever to calculate Qingqing's life! From this night onwards, the wealth and lives of the Manchurians were no longer for them to decide.

Because there were too many people in the outer city, the airship did not dare to drop bombs at will. The special forces can only choose the gathering area where the Russian army is relatively concentrated, leaving fireworks marks. The number of Russian soldiers killed by the bombing is less than 30 percent of the total strength of the Russian army.

Alekseev quickly found his troops after running out of the embassy district, but unfortunately the troops all went out to "have fun". Finally, a few thousand people gathered, and they heard countless beautiful fireworks rising into the sky all around.

Alekseev does not understand military affairs, which does not mean that he is stupid. In the middle of the night, or under the occupation of the coalition forces, there were people in Beijing who set off fireworks to celebrate? Do you despise my intelligence?

"Let's go! Go to the barracks! Alekseev shouted. The barracks garrisoned by the former Boxers and the Armed Guards in the city have some fortifications of tofu slag engineering. Although the tofu is a little dregs, it is better than being fried in a house. Alekseev also did not know that airships had specialized armor-piercing shells.

Alekseev's quick reaction allowed him to escape again. No matter how fast the airship flies, no one can run fast. After all, there are too many streets and alleys in Beijing, and airships dare not bomb on a large scale. The commander on the airship noticed the scattered Russian soldiers, and he had no choice but to lower the airship and attack with a machine gun.

After 45 minutes of airship bombardment, the first wave of the army had already taken a detour to occupy the four outer city gates. Under the internal and external attacks, half an hour later, all the seven city gates outside Beijing had been captured.

And the second wave of the army has begun to occupy the dangerous streets in divisions.

After Hu Xiaoyan squinted outside the city for a while, the telegram came.

"Beijing's strategic plan A has been fully realized."

The Beijing strategy was the plan formulated by Wang Tingjiao and his German staff officers to conquer Beijing. Plan A is to take advantage of the night to occupy the gates and strategic locations in the city.

The two regiments of the first wave, with the cooperation of the special forces, quickly advanced in groups and then occupied the seven gates outside Beijing under the internal and external attack of the outside troops. And the second wave began to occupy various dangerous positions. Nail is laid for the next day's daytime targeted removal.

Hu Xiaoyan got up, looked at the fiery red sun in the sky outside, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The plan was actually quite risky this time. If you're unlucky enough to get the first wave of attacks thwarted by strong forces like the Japanese and British, then you can only hope that the special forces and airship forces will be able to blow up each other's defenses a little harder. But at night I always like to have something inexplicably happening.

For example, five or six people from the special forces disappeared inexplicably, and two airships actually bombed the wrong target, and the bombs they dropped actually blew up the treasury into ruins (the original target was the Japanese position next to the treasury), and two airships actually drifted to where they didn't know where they went. There was even an airship that flew overhead, and they dropped at least a wave of bombs into the heads of the civilians in the outer city. As for the two airships that had to hover in the air all the time and have nothing to do due to engine failures, it is needless to mention.

I don't know how many innocent civilians lost their lives because of Hu Xiaoyan's plan that night.

Suddenly, Hu Xiaoyan heard a commotion outside the tent. He casually pulled open the tent and walked over.

"Why is this cannon so long? And the muzzle of the cannon is so thick! "There are soldiers commenting.

"yes, yes, I've never seen such a big cannon."

Hu Xiaoyan could only smile bitterly. This is the shortcoming of the new army that recruits too quickly and does not train enough. He squeezed in, but fortunately five guards followed.

Hu Xiaoyan smoothly squeezed to the front.

In front of it is indeed a strange cannon. The caliber of the cannon is more than double that of an ordinary army caliber, and the barrel length does not seem to be right.

"10-inch naval guns!" Hu Xiaoyan recognized it after careful observation!

Because the Eight-Nation Coalition sent troops in a hurry, most of the rifles were in place, except for Russia, of course, many people in the Russian army were on the battlefield with sabers. There are many cannons in the coalition army, but they are varied, there is no unified style, and there are not many high-powered cannons. So they reluctantly dismantled the naval guns.

Hu Xiaoyan counted. 10-inch naval guns, he found three! It is no wonder that when they were in Tianjin, the 75mm rapid-fire guns were quickly taken care of by the coalition forces. Your sister's 10-inch naval gun has much more range and power than a 75mm rapid-fire gun!!

After a night of panic, the coalition forces basically stabilized the situation, and of course they were divided into countless pieces. The largest number of Russian troops and some British troops retreated to the barracks, while the American troops chose the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane, and the French and Japanese and some British troops gathered together to guard the inner city.

Because Hu Xiaoyan's first target was the seven gates of the outer city, and his troops were insufficient, he did not send infantry to attack the coalition forces in the inner city. As a result, the inner city fell into the hands of the coalition forces. But the coalition forces are not comfortable either. Because Hu Xiaoyan didn't care about the lives of the people in the inner city at all, including the major royal palaces, they were bombed by airship forces in a large area and on a large scale.

The coalition forces in the outer city were much better, and they wanted to return to their positions as soon as they were attacked. Subsequently, it was dispersed by the Anhui New Army, which was divided into two formations. Most of the out-of-town coalition forces eventually broke through the New Army's defenses and ran to the embassy and Xiyuan barracks.

The main military camps in Beijing are the Miyun Camp and the Fengtai Camp. However, the troops of these two battalions had already been transferred to the city to defend when the coalition forces attacked Beijing. Leave an empty camp, which will be used by Hu Xiaoyan for military training later.

Hu Xiaoyan entered the city after the sun came out, and the city of Beijing was full of devastation and a strange smell.

"I will definitely be a sinner of history!" Hu Xiaoyan suddenly sighed. He thought of the story of General Fu Zuoyi in later generations. In order to protect the city of Beijing, the two armies did not move troops. But at this moment, Hu Xiaoyan not only sent troops, but also used the armor-piercing bullets on the airship!!

"Your Excellency!" Wang Tingjiao wants to say goodbye.

"How many airships are still fighting?" Listening to the rumbling sound, Hu Xiaoyan regained his composure.

"There are also ten ships attacking the coalition forces in the outer city. The outer city is currently being taken over by Li Shirui and Jiang Yanxing. The inner city is Zhang Shaozeng. Li Jin was responsible for the garrison of the outer seven gates. Wang Tingjiao replied.

"Is there enough troops to disperse like this?"

"How can I be?" Wang Tingjiao smiled bitterly.

"After a night of bombardment, the combined forces in the inner and outer cities were divided into several sections, the largest being nearly 20,000 men in the inner city and about 30,000 in the outer city. The rest hid in private houses, some did not show their heads, and some fought street battles with our army. There is a serious shortage of troops! If it weren't for the loss of almost all the heavy weapons of the coalition forces, we would have been driven out of Beijing long ago. ”

Heavy weapons included artillery and machine guns, because Hu Xiaoyan launched at the time when the coalition forces were at their most proud, and 80 percent of the coalition troops did not even have enough ammunition supplies. If one more day had been waited, the coalition forces would have carried out planned looting in different regions, and then Hu Xiaoyan's plan for a Beijing raid would have failed 99 percent. After all, Hu Xiaoyan has only more than 15,000 people left, plus almost 5,000 troops brought by Li Zejun and Zhang Hongkui. Two or three thousand people died overnight.

Although there were many coalition troops in the inner city, the morale of the Boxers under Zhang Shaozeng's command was high, and there were artillery and machine guns to suppress the formation, and the coalition forces were beaten back by machine guns several times.

There are only 5,000 people in the outer seven gates, and there are less than 10,000 people in charge of exterminating the coalition forces in the outer city. There are also at least 3,000 people in the outer city who play hide-and-seek with the Coalition soldiers who are hiding and maintain law and order. That is, the troops attacking the barracks in the outer city were only 7,000 men (the coalition army had 30,000).

"It's dawn. The outer city cannot be delayed. When they do, we're done. Dispatch the last ten airships and tell them! You don't have to come back until you shoot all the shells and bullets! Hu Xiaoyan knows that the grim situation has just begun.

"Yes!" Wang Tingjiao agreed. Early in the morning, he went to see the positions of the coalition forces. If there was no airship to make a move, he would not have the slightest certainty of holding Beijing City.

"Do you want to put away the knife?" Wang Tingjiao asked. Last night, because the enemy and the enemy were unknown, when Hu Xiaoyan gave the order to slaughter foreigners, he did not object. But now that it is daylight, as long as the foreigners do not resist, there is no need to kill again.

Hu Xiaoyan glanced at Wang Tingjiao inexplicably.

"Nope! Any foreigner other than the embassy is an enemy! ”

Hu Xiaoyan didn't want to kill more people. But the right time, the right place and the people were not on his side, he just took advantage of the night to sneak attack the coalition forces and caught them off guard.

The night has passed, and it is time for the top brass of the coalition forces to wake up.

"There are too few of us, so we must use iron and blood to cool down the Eight-Nation Alliance!"