The 50,000-strong vanguard of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army was two regiments, mainly Russian and Japanese. About 8,000 men were approaching Tianjin, and along the way the coalition forces were blocked by the Boxers. But this time the coalition forces were very well armed, and there were artillery. The Boxers were not able to stop success.

It's not that they don't want to enter the city, but Hu Xiaoyan has already sent people to pick up all the railroad tracks near Tianjin. The situation was urgent, and Hu Xiaoyan could only meet with the Boxers, ordered the Boxers to organize, and distributed Xiali rifles, and his new army sent 20 instructors for temporary special training. Other New Army fighters temporarily took over Tianjin.

After learning of the arrival of the coalition forces, Nie Shicheng began to lead his army to attack the concession.

Hu Xiaoyan sent German staff officers to the Tianjin Concession to persuade him to surrender, but he was rejected.

Thankfully, Hu Xiaoyan arrived in Tianjin early and blocked the city's train station and stripped all the railroad tracks except for Beijing. Therefore, the armed forces of the Tianjin Concession were not as strong as they were in history. At most, there are only more than 10,000 people. But there were more than 8,000 people outside the city who could attack Tianjin at any time.

After the severance of the concession inside and outside the concession, as well as food and drinking water, the actual combat effectiveness of the concession was not very high. The coalition forces in the concession had very few heavy weapons, and after the telegraph line was cut off, they did not know the outside intelligence at all, and they did not dare to use force easily.

June 30. Because Cixi did not declare war on the Eight Kingdoms. Nie Shicheng actually agreed to the request of the Tianjin Concession and sent someone to send some food and drink into it. After Hu Xiaoyan knew the situation, he jumped to his feet angrily.

When he rushed to the outside of the concession, the people who delivered the food and drink had already come out.

"Damn! Who is the commander! Hu Xiaoyan was really angry. What's going on now! I even sent food and drink in. Your sister, the life of a foreigner is worth money, but the life of a Chinese is not worth anything!

"It's me!" Stand up as an unruly soldier. Big braids, shabby costumes. At first glance, it is the Boxer Rebellion.

"Didn't you hear the military order?" Hu Xiaoyan held back his anger. When he besieged the concession, he ordered all internal and external communication to be severed.

"My lord, it's Nie Dashuai's orders. I waited and had to start with! The person who came replied without being arrogant or humble.

"Who are you?" Hu Xiaoyan's eyes could spew fire.

"Cao Futian!" Cao Futian was also angry, but he had no choice, he was a militia group, not a regular army.

"......" Hu Xiaoyan was eager to shoot Cao Futian to death. Although he understands Cao Futian's approach, this is not a reason! Nie Shicheng's order is an order, isn't his Hu Xiaoyan's military order a military order?

Hu Xiaoyan didn't say a word, and returned to the headquarters to recruit Li Shirui: "Immediately disarm Cao Futian and Zhang Decheng of the Boxers!" Escort them to the garrison of the Wu Yi Army. Tell Nie Shicheng! In Tianjin, I have the final say. Let their people withdraw for me immediately, otherwise don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite! ”

Li Shirui didn't blink his eyes, and clenched his fists to lead his life. Li Shirui has long been dissatisfied with the Boxers and the Wu Yi Army. Although the military discipline of the Boxers is not good, Cao Futian still has a bit of prestige and can still control it for the time being, but because the Wu Yi Army is an old-style army, Cixi's food and salary for the Wu Yi Army has never been sufficient, so the military discipline of some troops of the Wu Yi Army is not even as good as the Boxers.

In Li Shirui's view, such an army should have been eliminated a long time ago.

After Cao Futian replied to Hu Xiaoyan's words, he didn't wait for a response, and saw Hu Xiaoyan leave without saying a word. At this time, he was a little panicked.

Cao Futian can become the leader of the Boxer Rebellion in Tianjin, and he is naturally not incompetent. He had long learned about this new army from Anhui from his old buddy Zhang Decheng. Hu Xiaoyan can be said to be decisive in killing. No matter how you look at it, it will not be someone who is afraid of Nie Shicheng, not to mention that what Nie Shicheng did is obviously wrong?

After he invited Zhang Decheng to discuss, he decided not to agree to Nie Shicheng's order to deliver food and drink. Nie Shicheng is not easy to mess with, but Hu Xiaoyan seems to be even more difficult to mess with. You must know that the ruthless man who directly ordered the Westerner commander to be shot and killed all the foreigner captives!

This man was able to kill the prisoners without saying a word, and without negotiation, he surrendered the weapons of the Boxers during the last war, and he was able to surrender their weapons this time. Cao Futian is a person with ideals and ambitions, what else can he do without soldiers?

It's a pity that before Cao Futian could make any moves, the Boxer troops who surrounded the concession were surrounded by the new army.

"Captain Li?" Cao Futian knew Li Shirui. Because the number of troops in the new army was small, there was only one regiment, and the other newly formed Boxer troops had not yet returned to their hearts and their combat effectiveness was not strong, so they were arranged outside the city.

Therefore, the task of encircling the concession was entrusted to the Boxers, who were also not strong in combat. At this moment, seeing that the regiment of the New Army is holding a gun and looking murderous, no matter how you look at it, you don't come to chat.

"Cao Futian!" Li Shirui raised his wrist, and there was a watch. Therefore, there is one for all non-commissioned officers and students, which is a benefit issued by Hu Xiaoyan to all non-commissioned officers.

"Disarm and surrender now! I'll send you to the camp of the Wuyi Army. You only have three minutes to think about it! Li Shirui didn't give Cao Futian a chance to make friends at all.

"Captain Li, isn't this okay? Our mission was given by Nie Dashuai, and you have no right to disarm! Cao Futian was anxious.

"Two minutes and thirty seconds left. If you don't wait for the expiration date, you won't be killed! Li Shirui withdrew from the front line, his left hand raised high, but his eyes were looking at his watch.

"You!" Cao Futian was really anxious. He turned around to look at Zhang Decheng and saw that Zhang Decheng's face was pale. Zhang Decheng had seen the combat effectiveness of the new army and the ruthlessness when killing prisoners. He didn't think his Boxers would be able to withstand the New Army.

Cao Futian looked behind him again, but saw a human head coming out of the wall of the concession, and the man was holding a telescope and looking over this side.

"Ready! Thirty seconds to go! Li Shirui said coldly.

One by one, the sound of preparation was passed down by the heralds. All the soldiers formed battle formations and raised their guns. The sound of pulling the bolt of the gun completely shocked Zhang Decheng.

"Wait! We surrender! Zhang Decheng knelt down in front of Cao Futian despite the noise of other boxers.

"Surrender! We surrender! Zhang Decheng's voice was a little hoarse!

"Ten seconds!" Li Shirui's voice remains unchanged.

The word "open ......" has not yet come out.

"We surrender!" Cao Futian really believes that Li Shirui will open fire. He looked at the big knife in his hand and the weapons under his hand, some with sticks, some with kitchen knives. I couldn't help but tear down.

Cao Futian threw the big knife on the ground! "We just want to fight foreigners!"

As Cao Futian dropped the broadsword, Zhang Decheng immediately ordered the weapon to be dropped. The sound of weapons falling from pieces of weapons. There were occasional cries between them.

Li Shirui was unmoved! The education he received at the military academy told him that the sacrifice of these boxers was worthless, and they might have sacrificed thousands of people to kill dozens or hundreds of foreigners. But what's the point? The population of the whole of Europe and the United States combined is much larger than the population of the Qing Dynasty, and it will not hurt them to die a hundred, but how many thousand people die in China?

These people are laborers, whether it is to build roads or enter mines, they can bring urgently needed population resources to Anhui.

"The whole team! Let's go. Li Shirui ordered.

The instructors who had previously trained the Boxers stood up at this time, told the Boxers to form a team, and then led them out of the city. On the way, they saw the new regiment of the original Boxer regiment that was preparing to enter the city. This new regiment was to take over the defense of the concession.

Li Shirui sent 500 men to escort the Boxers, but still left more than 2,000 people to surround the concession. Don't look at the small number of people, but the combat effectiveness is much higher than that of the uprising and the regiment.

"Let you be arrogant!" Li Shirui sneered and looked at the heads of the people on the wall of the concession swaying.

In the afternoon of the same day, Hu Xiaoyan came to the outside of the concession. Now there are 6,000 people outside the concession. Half of them are recruits, half are veterans.

"The recruits are in the front, and the veterans are in the back. Draw their own lines of defense, and those who leave the lines without permission, no matter who they are! Lawfully kill on sight. The specific attack went according to plan. Hu Xiaoyan commanded.

Li Shirui took the order. The whole plan was made by Li Shirui. Because most of the recruits were members of the original Boxer Rebellion, there was no need to talk about their combat effectiveness, not to mention the power of their weapon, the M1895 Steyr-Manlisa smokeless powder rifle. His purpose was to train the recruits with iron and blood.

The quality of this group of recruits is good, otherwise they would not have fought with foreigners with cold weapons alone, but their biggest weakness is that they do not understand firearms warfare, and they will lose their rifles and charge up when their heads are hot.

Therefore, a truly modern war is necessary, and only in this way can these recruits grow up as soon as possible.

Li Shirui stepped forward to command, and Hu Xiaoyan stayed on the roof of the house behind, holding a telescope and looking into the concession. The German instructor's envoy entered, but it looked like it was still noisy. If it weren't for Hu Xiaoyan's move to pick up the railroad tracks some time ago, I am afraid that tens of thousands of foreigners would have entered Tianjin now. Although there are many foreigners, there are more places they have to protect! The number of people was separated like this, not to mention that Nie Shicheng was eyeing the old Longtou Railway Station.

However, Nie Shicheng's life was not easy. On the one hand, he had to fight the old dragon head railway station, and on the other hand, he had to guard against the coalition forces at Dagukou. Although the foreign army at Dagukou advanced on foot, Nie Shicheng's sniper results were very bad. The 8,000 men of the vanguard army quickly defeated Nie Shicheng's defensive infantry.

Nie Shicheng had no choice, his heavy firepower couldn't keep up, but the heavy firepower of the Eight-Nation Alliance came with the train. And in terms of artillery caliber, Nie Shicheng is not as good as others. The Eight-Nation Coalition even had a hundred and fifty mm heavy artillery. And what about Nie Shicheng? The old Krupp guns of the 98-year-old are still in use, although they are heavy, but the power is not proportional at all. Therefore, the pressure on Nie Shicheng's department is the heaviest.

There are actually not many troops in the Zizhulin Concession that can really fight, as long as Nie Shicheng is strong and withstands a wave of attacks from the old dragon head railway station, the concession will inevitably be taken. He, Hu Xiaoyan, is not an old-style army.

As expected, the concession refused to surrender.

Less than 10,000 people dare to be arrogant! Is Lao Tzu really Nie Shicheng! Hu Xiaoyan sneered and waved his left hand downward. The heralds under the house trotted to the front: "Attack!" ”

"Attack!"

"Attack!" Countless sounds of attack converged in a sea of silence.