Whether a unit can fight or not depends not on its training, nor on its performance in positional warfare. It's about how it performs when it counts. For example, during the inner city raids, many soldiers did not have much rest for a day. Even people like Zhang Shaozeng and others haven't slept since last night, and there are still many soldiers like Zhang Shaozeng who haven't rested.

Of course, Hu Xiaoyan still hasn't closed his eyes. After eating, he continued to stay at the headquarters, observing the map in his mind and receiving telegrams from various troops in Beijing to analyze the situation.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, Wang Tingjiao sent a telegram. He already has roughly control of the Forbidden City. As for how many injuries are still hiding in which corner, he doesn't know.

There is no way, there are too few people in Wang Tingjiao's department, but the Forbidden City is very large, and he can't find it house by house. It's not a realistic night.

Although Hu Xiaoyan could know from the map which rooms still had some remnants of sin, he would not tell Wang Tingjiao. One is that he can't explain the source of information, and the second is that a soldier who doesn't experience iron and blood is not a good soldier. Again, a general who has not fought in a complex situation is not a qualified general. If anything, Hu Xiaoyan has to help Wang Tingjiao think about it. Then why does he want Wang Tingjiao to do? Wouldn't it be better to go on the offensive with your own troops?

On the map, Wang Tingjiao quickly gathered his troops and began to copy the back of the coalition army. And the coalition forces are now in a pre-war meeting. Ma Yukun's forces have been strengthened, and they are rebuilding the second and third lines of defense.

Because of the darkness of the night, the five airships were not ignited by the Japanese troops, so it was impossible to determine the target of the attack. This is the sadness of 1900. In this era, there is no GPS at all, and there is no aircraft fire control system. There is no radar even more. The airship attacking at night is actually a matter of probability. Unless the airship can be guided by firelight to scrub the floor within range.

That's what the airship did last night. So there are a lot of accidental injuries. It's just that martial law is now in place in Beijing during the daytime, and it has not caused public anger or other problems for the time being.

The special forces were even worse than Hu Xiaoyan, they had not had a good rest for more than three hours. But there is no way, they are special forces. So after basically clearing the Forbidden City, they took the lead and went to the coalition position again to find out the situation.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, in the faint light of the fire, the coalition meeting seemed to be agreed. Then they got into action. Hu Xiaoyan didn't see it in time, and when he opened the map and found that the coalition forces were preparing to start attacking, he didn't inform Ma Yukun. He informed the artillery units and the airship units.

The floor scrubbing tactic is back in the game.

The reason why only the artillery unit and the airship unit were notified was because Ma Yukun would definitely not agree to his plan to wash the floor. If you are not careful, a single cannonball may fly into the Forbidden City.

Chen Chunyuan, the commander of the artillery unit, is a descendant of Hu Xiaoyan, and Cheng Biguang, the hungry commander of the airship unit, is now related to Hu Xiaoyan. They would not refuse Hu Xiaoyan's order.

The first wave of shelling was not artillery, but flashing grenades from airships. The flashbang used on the cannon, Hu Xiaoyan couldn't handle it. But the flashbang used on the airship is very easy. Not with metal magnesium, but with white phosphorus! A large number of grenades loaded with white phosphorus were dropped. This is a sign before the attack. It was a reminder to the special forces around the Japanese army to retreat, and the shelling began ten minutes later.

Soon, Hu Xiaoyan, who had been paying attention to the map, noticed that fireworks had begun to be set off on the Japanese position. In some places, people even set a fire. He also saw the figures of the special forces who were retreating in the dark night. Shots rang out, and one fell, and another.

Counting and counting, Hu Xiaoyan erupted angrily. A total of five special forces died. He only has less than two hundred special forces in total, and many of them are martial arts masters and green forest figures invited by Zhang Yuan, Li Chen and others.

These people have been training for so long, it is still easy to forget the concept of special operations!

What is Special Operations? To put it simply, special operations are methods of combat that exclude all frontal warfare. Special forces have never been used on frontal battlefields, and the main purpose is to sneak around like thieves to complete tasks, and none of them can be missing their slogan.

Ten minutes later, the artillery began to attack after changing the shelling coordinates, and the airship troops, guided by ground fire, also intervened to drop the bombs.

Deshengmen fell into chaos, and Deshengmen collapsed in a roar.

The Andingmen defenders in charge of Li Zejun also quietly touched up and joined Wang Tingjiao. They will attack when the shelling stops.

After looking at the map for about five minutes, Hu Xiaoyan stopped observing. Quite simply, the coalition forces, which had managed to reach an agreement, fell into chaos after being attacked.

In order to prevent shelling and airship attacks, they initially hid in a pile in the east and a pile in the west. And for the sake of the current breakthrough, they began to concentrate. After the concentration, they were baptized by artillery fire. There is no chaos before there is a ghost.

After ten rounds of shelling, the airship began to descend, strafing with machine guns. At this time, the coalition began to fight for luck, because the people on the airship had no idea where the coalition forces would scatter under the night. They were just causing chaos and disrupting the coalition's chain of command for Ma Yukun and Wang Tingjiao's sneaky advances.

"Assault!" There was no need for Hu Xiaoyan to order, after seeing the shelling and the bombardment of the airship, Ma Yukun gave the order as soon as possible.

Ma Yukun squinted, he was very dissatisfied with Hu Xiaoyan. You launched an attack in advance, why didn't you even warn you? Do you know how many of these rounds of shells will hit the Forbidden City? What should I do if the Forbidden City is broken? Who can take on this responsibility?

Hu Xiaoyan didn't know that Ma Yukun was scolding him angrily in his heart, and he didn't know that Dou Nale and Kang Ge from the embassy were sitting together drinking with sad faces.

Dounarle and Conger had been sitting for almost five hours, and the glass of red wine had not yet been drunk.

Knock knock, French Minister Bissen and General Wilson walked in.

"Mr. Bissing, General Wilson. What do Mr. Pukodi and Mr. Komura Shoutaro say? Dou Nale and Conger hurriedly got up.

Bi Sheng didn't say a word with a dark face, sat down and drank the wine glass. Wilson's face wasn't so good.

Mr. Gers said that the Russian army had already prepared reinforcement plans and that they would do whatever it took to make the Qing people pay the price. The same is true of Mr. Komura Shotaro, who said that if it is a breakthrough, he welcomes it, but he will never agree to peace talks. According to him, the Japanese army in Korea is ready for a full-scale attack on China! General Wilson said slowly.

"What the hell do they want?" Dou Nale is crazy, and he is still thinking about war at this time? I'm afraid that before the armies of the two countries arrive in Beijing, Japan and Russia themselves will fight first!

"Hu Xiaoyan will never give us a chance." Dou Nale's anger comes and goes quickly. Komura Shoutaro knows Hu Xiaoyan, Dou Nale knows even better, and he even knows that Chamberlain and Hu Xiaoyan have a secret agreement. If there is no peace negotiation, even a three-year-old child knows that Hu Xiaoyan will never fulfill the agreement again. The doomed war Dou Nale could not accept it, and the domestic capitalists could not accept it. As far as Dou Nale knows, the agreement between Chamberlain and Hu Xiaoyan has brought at least two million taels of silver to the country, and it has only been five or six months, and with the expansion of the Anqing Light Industrial Zone and the expansion of Hu Xiaoyan's strength, this profit will only increase. And Hu Xiaoyan's turf problem? The three-year-old also knew that with the ability to defeat the 100,000 Eight-Nation Alliance, he had become the most powerful person in the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty. His strength even surpassed that of Li Hongzhang in the past. As long as he doesn't make a fool, Hu Xiaoyan's territory will only be more than Zhang Zhidong, and it will definitely not be less!

As long as Hu Xiaoyan is willing, he can even be called emperor if he masters Beijing City! As long as the British Empire is willing, Hu Xiaoyan can become the emperor of the Qing Kingdom tomorrow! As for those who are naysayers? With the support of the great powers, Hu Xiaoyan can sweep them into the garbage heap of history at any time with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves!

Hu Xiaoyan is a civilized person from England! It was very much in the interests of the British Empire for such a person to rule the Qing Kingdom! However, it is precisely because of this that Russia and Japan are dissatisfied.

France can ignore it, and civilized people all over the world know that whether France can keep Vietnam or not, and how many years it can keep it is a question. And Germany? Germany and Hu Xiaoyan are almost wearing a pair of pants. But points are not a problem for the UK. Germany and Russia used to wear a pair of trousers, but under the manipulation of Britain, Russia and Germany are now like mortal enemies.

Well, the United States? Americans have long coveted those factories in Anhui! Because of his defeat at Chengcheng University in Shanghai, Hu Xiaoyan refused to allow the Americans to participate in the industrial zone in Anhui. President McKinley is not having an easy time in the United States!

Austria-Hungary? Italy? Negligible.

Dou Nale sighed after calculating in his heart. Hu Xiaoyan's rise has become unstoppable. But the obstruction of Japan and Russia was equally unstoppable. The war between Japan, Russia, and the Qing Kingdom was coming.

"Okay. Gentlemen, it's time for us to think about the aftermath of the war. Dou Nale looked at General Wilson.

"General Wilson, please help bring Minister Clint over."

General Wilson said yes and went out. After a while, Clint walked in with a smile on his face.

He was the proudest of all the ministers. Other embassies are under siege, and not even a glass of water or a grain of rice can be sent in. However, the German embassy can still sing and dance, of course, conditionally, and the German embassy is responsible for taking care of the Christians and ordinary people who have fled to the German embassy.

This is certainly not a problem.

Mr. Clinder was even able to come and go freely in and out of the embassy and was always available to meet with Mr. Hu. That's what he's most proud of.

"Mr. Clinde, I know you went to see Mr. Hu again today. I wonder if there is a possibility of peace talks? Douglas resisted the urge to punch Clinder in the head.

"Peace talks?" Clinder's smile disappeared immediately.