"Report, the division commander has an order: the direction of the coalition breakout is in Deshengmen, please prepare for defense!" The herald rode at a gallop.

"Hahaha, the credit for sending it to the door. It's finally my turn to be Zhang. Zhang Hongkui was overjoyed.

"Someone has prepared all the shells and bullets for me. In this battle, Lao Tzu is going to destroy this group of Westerners. ”

"My lord, this battle is commanded by the division commander, and Lord Hu is in charge. Without them, you wouldn't have gotten credit for it, would you? Instructor Wang Xu habitually poured cold water.

"Can't you kid say something nice?" Zhang Hongkui was furious.

"It's bad for my morale! Come on, drag it out and cut it down. ”

Wang Xu rolled his face, he picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the Forbidden City.

"Why did they go to Deshengmen?"

"Why do we want to go to Desheng Gate?" None of the British magistrates understood the reason why the Japanese commander Yamaguchi Sotomi chose Tokushomon.

"Ladies and gentlemen, have you checked the number of bullets in your soldiers? I checked. Each of the imperial soldiers had less than 10 rounds of ammunition in their hands, and the weapons of various countries were of different calibers from the rifles of the Qing army, so we could not use the captured bullets of the Qing army. Not to mention artillery, we don't have a single large-caliber gun available now! Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to wake up. What do we use to compete with the elite troops of the Qing people outside? Yamaguchi looked at the emperor's throne on the steps and frowned deeply.

The reason why the coalition forces retreated to the Forbidden City and chose the Qianqing Palace for the meeting was because the Qianqing Palace was of great significance to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. No general dared to order the bombardment of the Qianqing Palace.

As an ambitious lieutenant general, Yamaguchi knew a lot about Chinese culture. That's why I'm worried. The Qing people did not dare to bombard the Qianqing Palace, but if they besieged the Forbidden City, they would not fight it. The coalition forces will be starved to death. Don't look at this as a royal palace, in fact, there is not much food in the palace. In this era, there were no refrigerators, only cellars, and cellars could only store some fruits and vegetables that were convenient for storage. For example, potatoes, corn, turnips. Like other seasonal vegetables, there is not much storage, so you can't let His Majesty the Emperor eat those melted vegetables, right? The same goes for grain, there is a backup in the palace, but there are not many of them. The entire Forbidden City was the residence of the royal family, and the population of the Forbidden City never exceeded 3,000. This is different from the Ming Dynasty, which had more than 10,000 internal supervisors alone.

The food purchase is generally on a ten-day basis, which means that in addition to the seasonal vegetables that the emperor must offer every day, other vegetables and grains that are easy to preserve are only purchased once in ten days. The number is also based on the scale of more than 3,000 people.

There are now more than 20,000 troops stationed in the Forbidden City, and these people are not eunuchs and palace maids. Each of them is a pot-bellied man, and if the food in the Forbidden City is open to eat, it will only be gone in three or five days.

Can you open the nearby Zhengyang Gate in three or five days? No way! What about the side door? The side door is too close to the Zhengyang gate. It is expected that the telescope is there, and the Qing army can support the side door at any time. When the time comes, the blocked coalition forces will not be able to run if they want to.

And Desheng Gate and Zhengyang Gate are in two directions. As long as it's fast. After defeating the Desheng Gate guards, they had enough time to escape. Now there are still more than 10,000 troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance, as long as they rush out and are not entangled by the new army, Yamaguchi Suchen has the confidence to lead them to escape from the city of Beijing.

Why choose Deshengmen? Yamaguchi Suchen embraced Confucian culture, and at such a critical moment, he hoped that a good fortune would comfort his wounded heart. "Desheng Gate" - Victory Gate!

"Everyone heard the shelling in the morning, and I believe that the coalition forces outside could not count on it. How the airship attacked, everyone should be well aware! ”

The airship is now known to the coalition forces, and is considered by the coalition soldiers to be the work of the devil, and there is no doubt that it is unstoppable. But they simply do not understand the limitations of airships.

The airship is indeed powerful. At the site of the first experiment, Hu Xiaoyan even saw the airship rise to an altitude of 3,000 meters. But is it possible for an airship to fight at an altitude of 3,000 meters? No!

There is no infrared guidance in this era, and there are no tube-sized missiles, not even computers! Looking at a city at an altitude of 3,000 meters, the city can only be regarded as a small village. With such a field of vision, not to mention bombing, it is difficult to even see the target!

In general, the altitude of the airship during normal combat is 800 meters. And the flight altitude is generally 1,200 meters. In order to maintain accuracy, sometimes the airship even drops to 600 meters. It was precisely because of the difficulty of altitude control that 20 airships set off, and as a result, 10 airships had various problems.

The airship was strong in combat, but the losses were also serious. Each 100-metre-long airship cost more than £100,000. Each increase in the length of the airship brings about a doubling of the cost price. And the Hindenburg, which is more than 200 meters long in history, can only be produced in Germany. Hu Xiaoyan can't figure it out even if he has design drawings. The light engine alone can make Hu Xiaoyan crazy. Today's airships have a speed of only 50 kilometers per hour. Less than half the size of the Hindenburg. The gas turbine that Hu Xiaoyan is looking forward to has no shadow yet, and the steam turbine is still in the design stage. As for the conventional diesel engine and gasoline engine, it is because of the lack of power. It was simply impossible to keep the Hindenburg at a speed of even fifty kilometers per hour. The larger the airship, the heavier it weighs. The greater the resistance of the wind, the more.

The technology of 1900 simply couldn't do it! This is also the reason why most of the 100-meter-long airships assembled by Hu Xiaoyan according to the requirements of the Zeppelin technicians have problems. Yes, almost all of the airships that went wrong were big airships that were 100 meters long. On the contrary, five 45-meter-long airships and five 75-meter-long airships are not much of a problem. The technological generation gap is sometimes not something that can be offset by a flash of inspiration from one person or two. Hu Xiaoyan paid millions of pounds in tuition fees for this painful lesson.

And armor-piercing shells! Armor-piercing shells cannot be produced at all in Hu Xiaoyan's arsenal at present! The 200mm armor-piercing bullet can be copied, but as for the 400mm armor-piercing projectile, Chinese skilled workers have never even seen it. This is also the reason why Hu Xiaoyan is short of money. Since returning to Lieshan, he has been placing orders with the Krupp factory, and at the beginning of the war there were more than five thousand armor-piercing shells in stock, and more than twenty thousand bomblets in the form of grenades!

If it weren't for Germany's financial and technical support for the Zeppelin Company, Hu Xiaoyan would not have been able to afford so many shells. It's a pity that Yamaguchi Sochen didn't realize this at all.

Up to now, Hu Xiaoyan's airship unit has dropped thousands of armor-piercing shells and more than 5,000 small artillery shells! As long as the war lasts for another month, Hu Xiaoyan will face a situation where there will be no bombs or bullets available.

Yamaguchi Suchen didn't know Hu Xiaoyan's predicament, nor did he know that Hu Xiaoyan's airship had lost more than half of its number. I didn't know that Hu Xiaoyan's soldiers were insufficient, and all the people who stayed here to fight with their two armies were recruits and defeated soldiers, and the morale of these people was infinitely close to zero. If Yamaguchi Suchen really forced a breakthrough desperately, although the coalition forces would suffer heavy losses, Hu Xiaoyan's deployment would also be a complete failure, and it would not be strange that the city of Beijing would fall again.

The soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance are the real elite troops! They just need to have enough bullets and enough non-commissioned officers. The combat effectiveness exerted is far from being comparable to that of Hu Xiaoyan's new army. The reason why Hu Xiaoyan was able to achieve so many results. It's just because he has far-sighted knowledge and skillfully uses Maxine and airships, as long as Yamaguchi Suchen and others react. Hu Xiaoyan will never have a chance again.

The confrontation between the two armies has always focused on the quality of command and soldiers. A perfect command system and high-quality soldiers who have experienced iron and blood are the guarantee that an army will always be in an advantageous position!

The Japanese invasion of China and Germany's two world wars completely defeated the whole of Europe, relying on this. The defeat of France is evident in the textbooks of German elementary schools. This statement is not a lie.

Luck can succeed once, but no one can succeed forever by luck.

"The Qing people will not attack for the time being! Because they don't have enough troops. They are going to attack the Russian army, and it will take time. They are going to gather troops to besiege us. It will take time too! After training before dark, we had a chance to stand out. Just find enough armaments. I'm sure we'll still be able to win! Ladies and gentlemen! Do you have any comments? Yamaguchi asked loudly as he touched the command knife in his right hand. If anyone dares to object, he doesn't mind killing! This is an extraordinary time, and extraordinary things must be done! Yamaguchi Suchen already had this realization when he said goodbye to Komura Shoutaro.

Of course, the British and French commanders and some low-level officers of the Russian army did not dare to object, didn't they see that Yamaguchi Suchen had already shown a fierce light? At least Yamaguchi Suchen still thinks about everyone before breaking through!

"Good. Then go and train the army and convey military orders to all the non-commissioned officers and students! Break out tonight! Yamaguchi Sutomi finally ordered.

Yamaguchi Suchen took one last look at the emperor's throne and sighed secretly. Maybe I'll never be able to return to the empire again! Suddenly, he saw a flash of black light. He reacted quickly and immediately drew his knife and slashed down. The black light clanged to the ground. But it turned out to be a jet-black sleeve arrow!

How can there be enemies here? Before he could figure it out, a figure fell overhead. Yamaguchi Suchen smiled coldly and slashed over. The figure was cut in two by the command knife, but it turned out to be a piece of clothing.

Suffered! Yamaguchi reacted quickly, but he only felt that his calf seemed to be hooked. Throw yourself forward. A white light streaked down his throat. At the same time, a dirty gloved hand covered his mouth. He kept his body from falling to the ground, and at the same time the man grabbed the command knife that was about to land with one hand.

I'll never see cherry blossoms again! Yamaguchi Suchen suddenly remembered his beautiful wife.