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After the Boxers were stationed in Tianjin, they killed a number of foreigners and students of the foreign school in Tianjin, and then liquidated the shops and compradors of foreigners. This makes foreigners unbearable.

Westerners came to China to make money, and it was clearly not in their interest to go to war with a large country like China, which has 40,000 people. It's not a few decades ago when a thousand arquebuses could wipe out the Indian Empire.

So at the beginning, when the Boxers carried out activities to exterminate foreigners in Shandong, the foreigners only protested. But when Cixi was at both ends, the foreigners had already realized that if they didn't make a move, their losses would be even greater. Therefore, after the Boxers were stationed in Tianjin, they protested and began to dispatch troops. At the call of the United States, in addition to Germany (historically Germany did not send troops. They began to march in large quantities only after the German ambassador was killed. This was the Klinder incident, and Klinder was the German minister at the time. The largest contributors were Russia and Japan. In addition, the other seven countries have sent troops to the embassies. The current embassy already has about two thousand soldiers. In addition, the Beijing camp also sent some soldiers to protect the security of the embassy. The Boxers had no chance to attack the embassy at all.

After talking to Enming in detail, Hu Xiaoyan finally knew why the Boxers couldn't break the embassy. Your sister, everyone has sent troops, and you still send troops to protect the embassy? The two ends of the first rat not only made the domestic generals at a loss, but also made Zhao Sanduo, the head of the Boxers, have nothing to do. Cixi may also have realized the seriousness of the problem, and she had already sent a secret edict to the bannermen and other towns, asking them to wait for the opportunity to enter the king of Jingqin. As one of the few people in power, Anhui Governor Enming received such a secret edict. But Enming himself was well aware of the combat effectiveness of the green battalion under his command, so he invited Hu Xiaoyan to lead troops into Beijing.

At the beginning of June, the Westerners did not get Cixi's promise, so they decided to send troops to attack.

Hu Xiaoyan also began to prepare for war after meeting Xu Jianyin, who was kidnapped. Xu Jianyin was stationed in the research institute in Ma'anshan and began to study smokeless gunpowder, while Tesla was forced into the research institute by Hu Xiaoyan and began to study the industrial production of radio and radar technology for Hu Xiaoyan. Radio technology is mature, and samples have been produced by Tesla, but samples are currently in the United States. Radar technology has not yet been studied, but after Hu Xiaoyan described the function of radar, I believe that with Tesla's genius and unparalleled brain, it will be able to be done soon. For this, Hu Xiaoyan paid another 100,000 taels of silver.

Fifteen thousand people naturally could not have been sent out. His base still needs to be guarded, there is Zhang Hongkui on the Ma'anshan side, and Hu Xiaoyan on the Lieshan side is handed over to Lu Jin. Lu Jin led 3,000 men to garrison Lieshan and Suxian. The main target is industrial areas.

This time, Wang Tingjiao was the division commander, Zhang Shaozeng, Li Shirui and Jiang Yan were the regiment commanders, and Li Zejun and Jia Binqing were left to be in charge of the military academy and recruitment. A total of 12,000 troops were sent to the army, and 1,000 people were sent to the 10 large airships of the air force. Artillery a thousand people and forty 75-mm rapid-fire guns. 10 million rounds of ammunition, 5,000 shells, 3,000 rounds of armor-piercing shells for airships, and 10,000 rounds of steel ball bombs for airships.

Later, the bullets and shells purchased by Germany will land in Qingdao, and if the war situation is urgent, Hu Xiaoyan can directly obtain ammunition supplies in Qingdao. In terms of grain and grass, because Hu Xiaoyan has always insisted on buying all the output of several large farms, there is almost no problem with the problem of grain and grass.

The transportation problem may be difficult for other troops, but for Hu Xiaoyan, who has an airship, these are not problems at all.

Each airship was loaded with eight water-cooled Maxine machine guns, and most of the supplies were handed over to the airship for transportation. Because it was the first time that the airship unit had traveled long distances, Hu Xiaoyan sent people to the base Hu Xiaoyan had purchased outside Beijing by train as early as possible. The take-off and landing base for the airship was built there long ago. And the first flight of the airship was not fully loaded, at most it was only half loaded.

Hu Xiaoyan quickly arrived in Beijing by train and horse-drawn carriage. And by this time, the Eight-Nation Coalition had already decided to attack.

On June 15, Hu Xiaoyan met with German Ambassador Klinder as soon as he arrived in Beijing, and immediately evacuated all the personnel of the German Embassy from Beijing. At present, Hu Xiaoyan has a good relationship with Germany, although the United States' open-door policy is very attractive to Wilhelm II, but Wilhelm II knows better that even if the Manchu government is defeated, Germany will not get too many benefits, because Britain and France will never allow German power to expand in China. Therefore, the German General Staff assured Hu Xiaoyan that Germany would maintain limited neutrality in the Gengzi Incident. Limited neutrality meant that Germany would not send troops to the Manchus, but at the same time Germany would follow the international community.

Hu Xiaoyan expressed his gratitude. After all, the Boxers' "helping the Qing and destroying the foreigners" is really too hateful. Your sister has offended all the foreigners! If Germany can promise not to send troops and guarantee that it will not delay Hu Xiaoyan's arms order, it will already give Hu Xiaoyan a lot of face.

Later, Enming, who passed through, came back from the palace, but the news he brought was not good. Cixi still hasn't figured out the situation! Therefore, although Enming was given a lot of rewards, he also gave Hu Xiaoyan a bullshit title of 'light cavalry captain'. And the key question of whether to fight or not was not given a word.

Enming is also furious! He went to visit the four Belle Lords again that night, but none of the four princes could call the shots. Because Cixi, who can be the master, is still in her own fantasy. On the one hand, they hoped that the invulnerable Boxers would be able to defeat the Westerners, and on the other hand, they hoped that the governors would be able to quickly define the peace group so as not to anger the Westerners.

Hu Xiaoyan smiled bitterly and returned to the barracks outside the city early the next morning. After summoning his subordinates, Hu Xiaoyan took Huo Yuanjia and German Captain Johann to lead a 500-man guard that was shoehorned in by Wang Tingjiao and forcibly drove a train to Tianjin, along with the German Minister Klint and his party. After arriving in Tianjin, he began to attack the Tianjin Wubei Academy without saying a word, and after serving the instructors and non-commissioned officers of the school, he went to the Wuyi Army again without stopping.

After Wu Yijun met Nie Shicheng, Hu Xiaoyan sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang, the governor of Liangguang who had gone out to work in the province, asking for command of Wu Yijun. But Li Hongzhang did not reply, and Nie Shicheng did not agree to hand over the command of Wu Yijun.

On 17 June, Hu Xiaoyan received news that the Dagu Fort had been lost. The news came from the spy officers sent by Zheng Jun near Dagukou. This telegram made Hu Xiaoyan's face pale, and at the same time, he was completely disappointed in Li Hongzhang.

After occupying the Tianjin Wubei Academy, Hu Xiaoyan began to recruit people to evacuate all the machinery in the academy to the rear. Among them were weapons repair shops, as well as a production line for black gunpowder bullets.

At the same time, Hu Xiaoyan began to send out rangers and began to search for the movements of the Seymour coalition forces. Seymour was a British lieutenant general. At present, it is being besieged by the Boxers and Wu Yi troops in various places.

Seymour had a much more miserable life than in history, although they got the news that Wu Yijun was equipped with more advanced Mosinagan rifles, but he didn't know that Hu Xiaoyan had bought a large number of bullets from the Russian foreign company and gave them to Nie Shicheng after he returned. Nie Shicheng, who was not short of bullets, conducted a large-scale training operation in the whole army. The Wu Yi Army is more powerful than the historical army.

They didn't know much about Wu Yijun, and they were killed more than 100 people in one face, and then they were bitten by Wu Yijun on the way to retreat. Unlike history, Wu Yijun's morale was greatly boosted because of this big victory, and if it was changed to a game, it would inevitably be the effect of morale plus fifty. After reporting to Nie Shicheng, the confident Wu Yijun closely followed the Seymour coalition army. And Nie Shicheng, after getting a big victory in the front, once again sent an army of 3,000 people to attack from behind.

In the end, when Seymour arrived in Tianjin, there were already more than 1,000 people left. They stayed in a village not far from Tianjin to defend and wait for reinforcements.

The Seymour coalition had not collapsed even though they had lost half of their lives, because they believed that their country would send reinforcements to their aid. But what Seymour didn't know was that Hu Xiaoyan's 10,000 reinforcements were also about to arrive.

June 20th. Hu Xiaoyan led a guard of 500 people and 5,000 reinforcements from Nie Shicheng's personal commander to the village where the Seymour coalition army was located. At this time, there were more than 200 hostages in the village. Outside the village, there were 6,000 Wu Yi troops and about 3,000 Boxers.

Because Seymour threatened to take hostages, Nie Shicheng did not attack for the time being. Seymour's men weren't exactly soldiers, there were also journalists. If Nie Shicheng attacked without regard for the safety of the hostages, once these reporters escaped, it would have a great impact on the prestige of Wu Yijun, although Wu Yijun's own military discipline was actually not very good because it was an old-style army.

Seymour asked Nie Shicheng to let him go, but it was clear that Nie Shicheng would not be able to agree to this. Only a partial diet is provided.

At this time, Hu Xiaoyan got the news that in order to rescue Seymour, the Eight-Nation Alliance was formally established, except for Germany, which only sent observers and some sailors, a total of less than 20 people, and the total army exceeded 50,000 people, including 20,000 Japanese troops, 15,000 Russian troops, 10,000 British and federal troops, 3,000 American troops, 2,000 French troops, 100 Italian troops, and 50 Austria-Hungary troops.

At the same time, the Russian Far East Army was also massing, and Britain, Australia, India, the United States, the Philippines, France, Vietnam and other places were also gathering troops to prepare for the third wave of attacks.

received a call from Zhang Binglin in Shanghai, and Hu Xiaoyan's anger was detonated. The second wave of attacks of 50,000 people could not be stopped by the Wu Yi army of 10,000 people under Nie Shicheng.

"Let's fight! It can't be delayed any longer. Hu Xiaoyan's eyes were red. On the map in Hu Xiaoyan's mind, the warships near the Tanggu Fort were accumulating more and more. Red dots dotted the sea all over that area. Military camps were already under construction near Tanggu, and within a few days these troops would be heading north to attack Tianjin. And the only military strength in Tianjin is the Wu Yi Army, but the Wu Yi Army is only 10,000 people! There are still a few cannons, and there are not many shells. This battle has no need to be fought at all!

"But hostages!" Nie Shicheng was also a little unpredictable, not that he didn't want to fight, but that he couldn't afford this notoriety.

"I'll take the lead!" Hu Xiaoyan didn't blink his eyes.