On the pavilion of Kunming Lake, Cixi sat there motionless, no one knew what she was thinking now, even Guangxu, who had been raised since childhood, stared at Cixi sitting on the pavilion with wide eyes.

"Where is King Qin's army?" It took a while for Cixi to open her eyes and regain her composure.

"The five battalions of Song Pan, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, have arrived in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and the ten battalions in Shanxi have arrived in Xingtai. The five cavalry battalions of the Inner Mongolian Liumeng have passed through Zhangjiakou. "Zhang Zhidong is in charge of dispatching the army, so he is very clear about this, and he said it without even thinking about it.

"Twenty battalions, plus the second town, Baoding, and the third town. Chengde's Eight Banners and 5,000 people are enough. Hearing Zhang Zhidong's reply, Cixi looked at the sun that was about to enter the mountain and muttered to herself.

This one? Zhang Zhidong frowned, he didn't understand Cixi's words, or rather, he hoped that he didn't understand.

Chengde, the second imperial palace of the Great Qing Kingdom, half reached the summer. The emperor will go to Chengde to escape the summer, but since the death of Emperor Xianfeng in Chengde, from Tongzhi's accession to the throne to the present, there is no emperor who has come here to escape the summer. However, this still can't stop Chengde's royal style.

Rumble...... Boom...... Outside the city of Chengde. The loud roar made the residents of the city look nervous. Chill.

On the streets of Chengde, from time to time, groups of Qing cavalry and infantry would rush out of the city under the leadership of officers.

Zhao Lao has been running a pharmacy in Chengde for three generations, and in the past few days, what he has seen the most is that the officials and men of the county government have loaded large bags of things into carriages, and then hurried out of the city. Then run south.

"Chengde is going to change his surname." Look at the chaotic streets. Zhao Laosan shook his head helplessly.

"Master, did you say that the Liaodong Army could come in?" A guy who looked like he was only a teenager asked, confused.

If you can't get in, the Eight Banners official has already run away, and now the ones who are resisting the Liaodong Army outside the city are only part of the third town of the imperial court, and he doesn't believe that these ordinary military masters can resist it.

"Do more and talk less." Zhao Laosan, frowned slightly, and after glaring at the guy for a moment, he picked up the door panel, and it was better to close the door in a hurry.

In the City God Temple outside Chengde City, the City God Temple here has become the temporary division headquarters of the 15th Division of the Eighth Army. It is surrounded by trees, and there is an avenue leading to Chengde, a few kilometers away, and now here, from time to time, soldiers wearing Lushun uniforms and steel helmets on their heads run out, ride horses tied to the stumps next to them, and run to the place where the cannon is firing in front.

In the City God Temple, a huge statue of the City God is sitting majestically on it, and several little ghosts next to it are picking up the weapons in their hands, staring at them with wide eyes, looking at a person below who is constantly beating the table and scolding his mother.

"Cheng Qimeng is what's going on, he hasn't broken through the second-line position in Chengde for three hours, and if he can't beat it, Lao Tzu will remove him." With a roar, the man slammed the pen man in his hand into a box of ammunition.

"Old Wu, don't be angry, Cheng Qimeng's brigade is the main force of our division, and we are giving him a little time." A man with the rank of major general next to him estimated his partner's temper, and immediately stepped forward and picked up the pen from the ammunition box.

"The main force of bullshit." The man whose anger was not eliminated suddenly sat on the ammunition box,

Wu Junsheng, commander of the 15th Division of the Eighth Army, graduated from the fifth phase of Lushun Military Academy. was originally the commander of the 14th Regiment of the Army, and later entered Lushun College on the recommendation of Duan Qirui. After graduation, he first served as the commander of the 29th Brigade of the 15th Division of the Eighth Army, which is now the commander of the Cheng Qimeng Brigade, and then transferred to the commander of the 15th Division.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, it has been almost two days, and the Liaodong Army finally reached a place two miles away from Chengde and began to fight with the main force of the third town.

"The third town is so hard to bite." In desperation. Wu Junsheng suddenly took off the steel helmet on his head. Toss aside. The flask next to him picked up and took a few sips.

Wu Junsheng likes it for a long time, and he likes to drink once he arrives on the battlefield, but he also knows that drinking will make mistakes, so this wine jug is filled with water, not wine.

After waiting anxiously for nearly an hour, listening to the sound of artillery gradually disappearing in the distance, Wu Junsheng suddenly stood up, he knew that Cheng Qimeng must have taken the second line of defense of the Qing army.

If the second line of defense is taken, then the periphery of Chengde has been taken by himself, and the rest is the ancient city of Chengde, he doesn't believe that he can't take this small Chengde city with one division and a brigade of the sixteenth division.

"Master's seat. The Qing Army's Sixth Association has been routed and is now retreating into the city. A messenger covered in mud quickly ran in and excitedly reported.

"Okay, mother, tell Cheng Qimeng, don't give a clear respite, and continue to attack. I'll turn up the whole division's artillery. ”。 Wu Junsheng threw away the flask at once, grabbed the steel helmet from the ammunition box, and he was going to go to the front line in person to command Zhang to fight.

Chengde East Gate. From time to time, a cannonball would fall into the city, blowing up the houses, and even some of the shells would explode straight on the city walls, lifting the Qing troops on the city walls and then falling heavily into the city and falling into the mud.

"Open the cannon, open the cannon quickly, on the Chengde city wall, the Chengde defender, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners, Guarhazige, the sixth assistant commander of the third town was standing on the Chengde city wall at this time, and looked through the wall battlements to look at the Liaodong Army that was carrying the ladder to Chengde in the distance After attacking, he immediately pulled out the saber on his waist and began to command the artillery on the city wall to suppress.

Boom Boom Boom ...... Several cannons on the city wall began to roar, and the shells fell into the crowd of the Liaodong army, although many people were killed, but he found that the Liaodong army did not stop attacking.

Why haven't the cavalry and defenders arrived yet, looking at the Liaodong Army that was still attacking, Guarhazig looked at the street under the city wall behind him with confusion.

Guaharzig didn't expect the Liaodong Army to come to Chengde so soon, nor did he expect the Liaodong Army to be so fierce.

He was defeated by the Liaodong Army in the outer position just now and retreated to the city, originally wanting to hold on to the city wall of Chengde, but now, he has no confidence.

In less than an hour, the Liaodong Army launched at least three attacks, and each one was more fierce than the other, and the artillery bombardment was more severe than the other, just ten minutes ago, the West Gate came to report, the city wall of the West Gate was blown up by the artillery of the Liaodong Army, revealing a gap of nearly ten meters, if he hadn't ordered the machine gun squad to go up to block it, I am afraid that the Chengde City would have let the Liaodong Army come in by now.

Now, looking at the Liaodong Army attacking below, he calculated that it was estimated that it was the strength of a brigade, and one of his own associations had already fought with the Liaodong Army outside the city, and the main force of the third town was also transferred back to Beijing, and now here, there are only 2,000 cavalry of his Sixth Concord and Eight Banners and 3,000 people of the defense army.

He had already seen that the Liaodong Army's key attack was at the East Gate, so ten minutes ago, he had already ordered the cavalry and defense troops at the South Gate to come to support.

"Co-ordinator, it's not good, the cavalry opened the south gate and ran away." A Qing soldier raised his rifle and bent over to Gualhazig, who was ordering his troops to open fire, and shouted loudly.

Guarhazig turned his head and saw that this Qing army was a communication corps that he had just ordered a Eight Banners soldier stationed at the south gate to attack the Liaodong Army.

"What?" Gualhazig's eyes widened suddenly. He didn't believe anything, and the cavalry actually ran away. And he ran so dashingly that he didn't even care about the city gates.

"Yes, the co-commander, not only the cavalry, but also the defense army has run away." Qing Bing was obviously frightened and hurriedly said something else.

Run, at the critical moment, these people actually ran.

It's over, Chengde is over, closing his eyes in pain, Guarhazig looked at the Liaodong Army under the city and lowered his head.

With a sigh, Gualhazig threw down the saber in his hand and turned around and went down the city wall