In the afternoon, the Eight-Nation Coalition forces continued to reach the outskirts of Beijing and surrounded the city on all sides. That night, the Japanese army and the Russian ** team took the lead in attacking, but were quickly repelled by Dong Fuxiang's Wuyou Army.

On July 29, while waiting for the cannons, the British, French, American and German ** teams joined the siege, and at the same time, about 2,000 troops from the embassy began to cause chaos in the city. But soon the embassy's defense forces were repelled by the defeated forces of Nie Shicheng and Ma Yukun. The embassy's foreign troops lacked heavy weapons and the necessary ammunition after more than a month of defense. Although Nie Shicheng's Ma Yukun division has been defeated many times and has low morale, it still has many artillery pieces from the Jingshi Arsenal.

After repelling the embassy's defenses, Nie Shicheng and others wanted to attack the embassy, but were stopped by Sheng Xuanhuai and other ministers. Nie Shicheng, Ma Yukun, Zhao Sanduo and others retreated gloomily.

After Zaixun deployed troops and horses to block the four cities, after consulting with Nie Shicheng, Ma Yukun, Dong Fuxiang and others, the four of them guarded the four gates. The city of Beijing in this time and space has been defeated many times because of Nie Shicheng and Ma Yukun, but he can erect a banner to convene defeated soldiers and fight repeatedly. The defense of Beijing City is much more abundant than in another time and space. Although the city defense of Beijing City has not been strengthened for more than 100 years, the city wall is also ten meters high, unless the cannon is used to bombard the city continuously, there are tens of thousands of armed guards to defend, as well as tens of thousands of Boxers. For a while, the coalition forces really couldn't attack. If Nie Shi had died in battle as in history, and Ma Yukun had been defeated as in history, perhaps the coalition forces would have taken Beijing City with just one charge. It's a pity that history has no ifs. The so-called generals are brave soldiers, after Nie Ma and the others retreated to Beijing, at least the grassroots officers were still under control. The combat effectiveness is also still intact.

Add to this the psychological factor at work, you must know that the city of Beijing was the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. On the defending side here, the soldiers from Zaixun to the Boxers knew that they had no way out.

August 1. All the armies of the coalition army arrived, and 60,000 people launched a fierce attack together, and under the continuous artillery fire, Ma Yukun was seriously injured, and Nie Shicheng was seriously injured before he recovered and added new injuries. Dong Fuxiang's troops were defeated and retreated into the inner city. The defeated soldiers in the outer city began to fight street battles. Jae-hoon even retreated into the inner city, wearing court clothes, sitting in the palace hall and waiting for death.

On the night of 1 August, coalition forces stormed the inner city. The inner city is far more prosperous than the outer city, and the night is approaching. Coalition military discipline is absent. The German army in Qingdao was the first to violate military discipline and began to burn and loot, and then the Russian army, the French army, the Japanese army, and the American army also joined the carnival.

However, the U.S. military mainly targeted the wealthy merchant areas, while the Japanese army targeted the arsenal and treasury and the major royal palaces. Other countries are like lost wolves, with no scruples at all. They take pleasure in killing and looting, and are completely reduced to wild beasts.

The inner city guards were also crushed by artillery fire in the night, Dong Fuxiang was killed in battle, Zhao Sanduo was killed in battle, and Vermilion Lantern was missing. Nie Shicheng and Ma Yukun are missing. In the past, all the high-ranking princes were reduced to prisoners, and all the money and maids in the palace became the spoils of the coalition army.

On the night of August 1, there was no night in Beijing, let alone dawn. Because the heart of man is dark.

A rebellious army then broke into the Old Summer Palace, the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens......

Dou Nale smiled contemptuously as he looked through the window at the chaos of the street in the distance with his glass in hand. The Great Qing Kingdom was defeated by me alone at this moment, and the Qing Kingdom belonged to the British.

In the chaos, no one cared about the Wuwei soldiers who still insisted on fighting in the streets, nor did they care about the bannermen who took out the bows that their ancestors hung on the wall more than a hundred years ago, and no one cared about the martial arts masters who haunted the streets and alleys.

That night, the Wuwei Army was almost wiped out, and Cheng Tinghua, the Grandmaster of the Bagua Sect (not a generation of grandmasters), was killed in battle. Half of the city of Beijing fell into flames, and after the Old Summer Palace, the garden of ten thousand gardens, was looted, foreigners set fire to hide evidence.

Outside the city, Hu Xiaoyan stood in the airship in the sky, holding a telescope and looking down. Next to him is Wang Tingjiao.

"Your Excellency. Why haven't we moved yet? ”

"It's not enough." Hu Xiaoyan tugged at the corners of his mouth.

"Your Excellency!" Wang Tingjiao looked at the flames in the city below, as if there was also a fire burning in his heart.

"You know what? Why is history always strikingly similar? Hu Xiaoyan put down the binoculars.

"The lower officials don't understand." Wang Tingjiao lowered his head, so as not to get carried away by anger.

"The change of historical dynasties and the ups and downs of people's hearts are actually a wave of ups and downs. Yes waves, of course, have the highest peak and the lowest peak. Hu Xiaoyan drew a wave in the void.

"For example, if the current Manchu Qing still has people's hearts, then it can only reach half of the lowest peak at most! People still have fantasies about it. But we can't let this band reach the lowest peak, otherwise the cathode will be yang. People will continue to deny the Manchus, everything in the past. For everything that was past will be the source of suffering today. In this way, the Chinese people will lose the noble self-esteem and self-confidence that have been hidden in the blood since ancient times. ”

Wang Tingjiao raised his head and looked at Hu Xiaoyan's gloomy and uncertain face hidden under David's lamp.

Hu Xiaoyan remembered all kinds of admiration and flattery in the original time and space.

"In fact, all this is controllable, as long as we never let ourselves be at the lowest peak of the band, and we don't let ourselves be at the highest peak of history like the Tang Dynasty. Then the fate of our entire nation will hover between prosperity and decadence. Although sometimes lag behind, they will never be left behind. ”

"Just like the combat effectiveness of the army, the combat effectiveness of our army should never be the strongest, but it should never be the weakest. Because the army with the strongest combat effectiveness brings honor and burden! Generals may be able to survive one or two generations, but it is impossible for all generations to inherit this spirit. No one can do it, and no army can do it. Do you understand? Hu Xiaoyan asked lightly.

"Got it." Wang Tingjiao's forehead was sweating.

"History is the same, we used to have the same prosperity as the Tang Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty, so a few years later we had to accept the punishment of history and be bullied by Mongolia and Manchuria. Did you see that? During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although China was strong, it had not yet coerced the sea, so Liu Bang was able to quickly unify the Central Plains in the early Han Dynasty. It is because at that time the Chinese nation was still between the highest peak and the lowest peak of the band. However, in the middle of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wei Jiahai, they faced the fate of Wuhu Chaohua. This is the price China has paid when it falls from the highest peak in history to its lowest peak. Later, in the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, China once again became the center of the world and reached the highest peak of the band, so he once again had to fall into the mortal dust and be conquered by the Mongols. Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty defeated the Mongols, allowing the Chinese nation to stand at the highest peak for the last time, but it also meant that he fell to the bottom at a faster rate. Did you find out? ”

Hu Xiaoyan once again drew a band in the void.

"Did you see that? The time interval between the highest and lowest peaks is getting shorter and shorter, from five hundred years to one or two hundred years now. Therefore, Mr. Yan is right to say that China is facing great changes unseen in 5,000 years. ”

"Because China will degenerate at a faster pace, to the lowest peak of the valley! But we can't let him fall. Because once it reaches its lowest peak, China will rise in a hundred or two hundred years. ”

"Isn't that a good thing?" Wang Tingjiao asked puzzled.

"Nope! The momentum of the rise is unstoppable! But the momentum of the fall will also be unstoppable! In the past, the way of the world changed once every 500 years, and now there is a great change in every 100 or 200 years. Do you think it's really good for China? Even if it's really good, at what cost? ”

Hu Xiaoyan pointed to the Beijing city below: "It's natural selection for the survival of the fittest!" China's rise will come at the cost of traditional national pride and pride. For example, once Pandora's box is opened, who can close it? This is a good thing for China, but not necessarily for the nation. ”

"My lord, the lower officials still don't quite understand." Wang Tingjiao shook his head.

"You just need to know that we have to control the situation, and we can't let the Manchus suffer more damage, and we can't leave the country without any losses."

"So we're just here watching?" Wang Tingjiao still has difficulty understanding Hu Xiaoyan's thoughts.

"Yes, just look at it." Hu Xiaoyan picked up the binoculars.

"If God wants it to perish, he must first make it mad. If he's not crazy, how can we do it. ”

Wang Tingjiao seemed to recognize Hu Xiaoyan for the first time, and after he looked at Hu Xiaoyan for a while, he also picked up the binoculars and looked at the city.

Suddenly, fireworks rose high in the city. Then the sound reached the ears.

"Do you see clearly?" Hu Xiaoyan asked solemnly.

Wang Tingjiao was silent, and only when the fireworks went out did he pick up the map and draw a circle on the topographical map of the city of Beijing.

"The goal has been set."

"Then tonight is yours." Hu Xiaoyan put down the binoculars.

"Remember that before sunrise, no captives will be left!"

"Xia Guan understands!" Wang Tingjiao gave a military salute and walked out. Then slide down the rope to the ground.

Although these days there has been climbing up and down in training. But at this moment, he was really a little scared. If I fell to my death now, what would history say about me?

I don't know! Butcher? Warlord lackeys? Maybe follow me for the rest of your life. Wang Tingjiao landed safely. Not far away, the black-pressed Forces nouvelles sat cross-legged on the ground in silence, their guns pressed against their thighs.

Wang Tingjiao walked over, from one end to the other.

Zhang Shaozeng, Li Shirui, Li Jin, and Jiang Yanxing are all there.

"Are you ready?"

"Waiting for military orders."

Wang Tingjiao took out the map and lit it up, pointing to the target area.

"It went as planned. These places are forbidden areas, remember clearly. You don't have to go in. The airship will help us out. Before sunrise, leave no captives! ”

"Yes. Before sunrise, no captives are left. "The four of them took the order.

"Let's go." Wang Tingjiao ordered.

"Before sunrise, leave no prisoners!"

"Before sunrise, leave no prisoners!"

"Before sunrise, leave no prisoners!"

"Before sunrise, leave no prisoners!"

Countless voices eventually converged. Wang Tingjiao was a little gloomy, there was once a chance that I could keep Beijing City, and there was a chance that I could be a good person.

"Let's go!" He roared.