The Forces nouvelles are now organized into four regiments, each numbering about 4,000 men. Zhang Shaozeng, Li Jin, Li Shirui, and Jiang Yanxing each led a regiment, and Wang Tingjiao served as the division commander to take charge of the overall situation and lead a guard company and a reserve company. There are about 18,000 people in total, of which Zhang Shaozeng led the largest number of former Boxers, about 6,000 people.

The first regiment was Li Shirui's department, the second regiment Jiang Yanxing, the third regiment Li Jin, and the fourth regiment Zhang Shaozeng (Boxer).

Li Shirui and Li Jin's department cooperated as a wave. All used German-made 98K Mauser rifles, as well as 150 Maxine heavy machine guns and 10 rapid-fire guns. Maxine and rapid-fire guns were all pulled by wagons. They will force their way and cause confusion after breaking through the city gates. The main role of these two regiments was not to fight, but to break through immediately after the airship attack, and cooperate with the special forces who had already entered the city, making the army of the Eight-Nation Alliance even more chaotic. Then cooperate with the troops outside the city to control the seven gates outside Beijing, namely Dongbianmen, Guangqumen, Zuo'anmen, Yongdingmen, Xibianmen, Guang'anmen, and You'anmen.

Zhang Shaozeng and Jiang Yanxing's troops were the real attacking troops, they were divided into two directions, and they were ordered to kill all the soldiers of other countries they saw along the way, including the military attachés of the embassy wearing military uniforms, in short, as long as they wore military uniforms of other countries, or foreigners with guns, they were all killed.

The troops who fled early to the outside of the city were not among them. Hu Xiaoyan's troops were limited in number, and it was impossible to kill all the foreign troops. His aim was only to control the city of Beijing and the Manchu officials and embassies in the city. And the troops that were originally left outside the city (no, more than 70,000 Eight-Nation Coalition troops poured into the city after the German killing. Of course, they don't go to the city for tourism. Or the troops who fled outside the city did not need to be sent out of the army, and the airship troops preferred the ground troops concentrated in unobstructed open fields.

As soon as Yamaguchi Suseni spoke of the Imperial Army, he heard a roar from inside the city.

"Baga! Which country's idiot is this! Actually firing at the city in the middle of the night? Yamaguchi was furious.

I just finished scolding, but I saw Komura Shoutaro's face pale!

"Your Excellency!"

"Here he comes. I should have thought of it a long time ago! Komura Shoutaro muttered to himself.

"Your Excellency, do you mean Hu Xiaoyan?" With a rumble, the mustache also realized. Such a fierce artillery fire is definitely not the coalition forces firing. The artillery units of the coalition did not enter the city at all!

"Yes, Hashimoto-kun, please get out of the city as soon as possible, if I were Hu Xiaoyan, I would definitely block the whole city after dawn and cut off internal and external contact. Until the situation in the whole city is controlled. ”

Hashimoto, the mustache, didn't say a word, and after hey, he left quickly.

"Yamaguchi-kun, please return to the army as soon as possible and do a good job of defense. The troops are in the city, it is still night, Hu Xiaoyan's airship troops do not dare to bomb casually, this is our last chance, we must delay until dawn. Komura Shoutaro stood up and bowed, "Please." ”

Yamaguchi Suchen bowed with a serious face: "Ha, please rest assured!" ”

After saying that, Yamaguchi Suchen frowned and went out.

Komura Shoutaro listened to the rumbling sound outside, and saw Yamaguchi Suchen go out, but he was not happy at all. If I were Hu Xiaoyan, I would never give these tens of thousands of coalition troops in the city a chance! So what do I do?

One kilometer outside Guang'an Gate, one of Beijing's seven city gates, there are people who look like lonely ghosts and ghosts in the dark night.

"The attack has begun, haven't the positions been built yet?" Li Zejun, who had originally stayed in Ma'anshan, came to the position, but he was very angry when he saw that the soldiers were still digging hard.

Instructor Chen Xian smiled, "It's been good for a long time." I just saw that these kids were too boring, so I let them move again. ”

"Zhang Hongkui's kid is in charge of three doors, and only we are in charge of four doors. So you must not lose to him. Li Zejun was indignant, he was not very good at speaking, but Zhang Hongkui was much more slippery, so that when he was in Ma'anshan, Zhang Hongkui was responsible for recruiting and training. Li Zejun could only train security guards, which made him very unconvinced.

"Don't worry, the foreigners who go out of the city must be panicking, although we only have more than 300 people, but the ammunition is enough. You can definitely catch all of these people. Chen Xian was proud, there were more than fifty water-cooled maxines among the more than 300 people. There were more than 300 spare barrels, enough to kill more than 10,000 people.

Li Zejun was finally relieved, although he knew the situation, but this was also the first battle in his life, and if the enemy didn't come for a moment, he would have to be nervous for a quarter of an hour.

Li Zejun was very nervous, and Zhang Hongkui was even more nervous.

"What the hell, what's going on? Why don't foreigners go out of the city? Zhang Hongkui walked back and forth several times with his rifle on his shoulder.

"I said, can you stop spinning around? I was pretty sure, but now I'm nervous from you. Instructor Wang Xu complained.

"Aren't I nervous!" Zhang Hongkui's eyes widened.

"Why don't you send me to fight the artillery units of the foreigners? I heard that there are only one or two thousand people there, and the credit for sending them to the door! ”

"Hmph, one or two thousand? Division Commander Wang Tingjiao personally went out, assisted by dozens of special forces. Isn't that easy to do! Wait for the division commander to take down the artillery units of the foreigners, even if there is a problem with the airship. Foreigners only have the share of being shot. Wang Xu played with the revolver in his hand.

"Damn, why should you give the good credit to that kid Wang Tingjiao. Lao Tzu is not weaker than him! Zhang Hongkui was not polite, but his ass sat on the ground.

Wang Xu rolled his eyes: "I heard that all aspects of the training plan and the army system were formulated by Division Commander Wang and Major Andrew and others. This work is entrusted to you to do day and night, can you do it well? ”

"Haha, isn't it you!" Zhang Hongkui blushed and patted Wang Xu's shoulder.

"I won't." Wang Xu quietly moved his buttocks.

Wang Tingjiao saw the flickering fire in the camp of the foreigner's artillery unit from a distance, he picked up the telescope to determine the code, quietly waved his hand, and took the lead and bent over.

The special forces are very powerful, and have just solved the whistle in the camp.

The two companies led by Wang Tingjiao are all elite units that follow the special forces to do confrontation training, and they are very familiar with the tactics of the special forces, and it can be said that these people are all reserves of the special forces. So they quietly rushed into the tent without saying a word.

The artillery camps of the Eight-Nation Coalition were very poorly defended, perhaps they thought that there was no one in Beijing City to threaten them, or perhaps they were complaining in their dreams that they could not enter Beijing City to burn and loot. They don't have any chances.

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out.

Wang Tingjiao frowned. Which stinky boy accidentally alarmed the enemy?

"Change the Ming Attack!"

At the sound of an order, the tents that had not been completed were ignited by the torches that had been thrown, and the troops moved into combat positions.

The foreign troops, awakened by the fire, fled from the tent with a shout, but that was the end of it. Although not all of Wang Tingjiao's elites can become sharpshooters, it is normal for six or seven out of ten shots. The foreigner fled before he understood what was going on, and was killed by a few accurate bullets.

More and more foreigners woke up, but then Maxine's roar also came.

Wang Tingjiao looked at his watch. It's already 8:20. The agreed airship force would begin its offensive at half past eight.

"There's no time, let's attack."

All the Maxine machine guns rang out at the same time, and in less than three minutes, the tents in front of me were all torn apart and shattered by a storm of bullets.

"Clean up the battlefield! Just in case all the enemies stab them again! After Wang Tingjiao gave the order, he came to the vicinity of the artillery. There are grenades and armor-piercing shells.

"It's a pity that we can't produce it."

"It's okay, it's ready for production next year. When the time comes, you can fight (artillery) with foreigners! Instructor Yang Shi pursed his lips.

"Send a report to headquarters that target A has been occupied." Wang Tingjiao looked at the soldiers who were carrying the corpses.

"It's up to them now."

Wang Tingjiao said with some envy.

Although he was appointed as the division commander, in fact, no one was convinced, whether it was Zhang Shaozeng or Li Jin and others. It's a pity that Hu Xiaoyan just didn't want to let him go deep into the battlefield. According to Hu Xiaoyan's words: there is no need for the supreme military commander to compete with his subordinates. But the current situation is that I, the division commander, can't control the field without military merits, wow!

At half past eight, the airship unit reached the designated position.

Cheng Biguang took the telegram from the adjutant's hand, and then nodded: "When the time comes, start dropping bombs." ”

The adjutant saluted and retreated: "Bomb attack!" ”

Fifteen airships attacked, the first wave of armor-piercing shells dropped.

Cheng Biguang was originally the pipe band of the Beiyang Naval Division, but unfortunately he has no rights to this pipe band since the defeat of the Beiyang Naval Division. The navy has always spent money like water, and without Li Hongzhang, the big financier (Li Hongzhang stepped down very early, and was only transferred to the governor of Liangjiang at the beginning of the year. Since Li Hongzhang stepped down, the navy has been under the Military Aircraft Department, but the Military Aircraft Department has no money. The days of the Navy are worse than one day at a time. Until one day, Hu Xiaoyan's subordinates came to recruit people with Li Hongzhang's handwritten letter.

Cheng Biguang had no choice but to send a group of gunners and sailors to Huaibei in person. He went to Huaibei in person not to be an official, but to ask for money, and every sailor Hu Xiaoyan had to pay fifty taels of silver. Cheng Biguang brought a total of 100 sailors, including more than 30 gunners. A hundred sailors had a total of 5,000 taels of silver, plus Hu Xiaoyan had to pay a monthly rent of 10 taels of silver for these sailors. That's a lot of silver. Of course, Cheng Biguang has to come to receive it in person. It's just a pity that he came easily, but it will be difficult to go back.

Without saying a word, Hu Xiaoyan stuffed him into the training queue for airship attack. The trainers were all technicians from the German Zeppelin company.

Cheng Biguang didn't expect that he would become a talent sent to the door, he seemed to resist, but soon Hu Xiaoyan sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang was already disappointed in the Beiyang Navy Division at that time, and he was powerless to change, so he simply agreed to Hu Xiaoyan's request.

Cheng Biguang has since become the captain of an airship under Hu Xiaoyan. According to Hu Xiaoyan's words: A warship is a ship, and an airship is also a ship. It's just that one is in the sea and the other is in the sky. Cheng Biguang could only ask the sky speechlessly.

However, when Cheng Biguang learned the attack mode of the airship, he liked this kind of life, it was very simple, the airship could hit the warship, but the warship could not hit the airship!