In the North Gate area, when the Qing army led by Yu Busheng fought fiercely with Tsarist Russia, the battles in the east, south, and west directions finally began one after another.

Of course, the battles in these three directions, because of the direct participation of the Black Dragon Army, so although the battle was fierce, it was not tragic, at least at the beginning of the firefight, the Black Dragon Army did not even invest too much in the attack, but only let the mortars provide fire support, while the others began to use everything available behind their defense line to build a second line of defense.

However, with the passage of time, the Russian troops who stayed behind at the city gate in these three directions finally found that the artillery attack from outside the city was just a feint, so Lao Maozi in the three directions almost all chose to send most of the main forces, and even the muzzle of the artillery battalion was turned from outside the city to the enemy inside the city.

Thundered!

Da-da-da-da!

Bang bang bang!

Tsarist Russia has more than 6,000 troops, and the Black Dragon Army has more than 6,000 troops, and the total strength of both sides is 12,300.

However, not all of them are timid, there are also many timid and fat people, because they have been bullied too hard by Lao Maozi recently, and they have robbed food and property, even women don't know how much they have been ruined, so many people know that there are people outside, and when they are fighting with Lao Maozi, they directly the guys at home, and they rush out of the door.

This is most obvious in the North Gate area, when Yu Busheng and Li Mengsheng and other Qing army generals struggled to support the hope that reinforcements would come early, but they didn't expect it to be the ordinary people who came spontaneously, you must know that many of these people are holding hoes and firewood knives in their hands.

"Brothers, look, even the common people have come to support us, we must hold on, we must drive these old Maozi out of the rich county, otherwise, the people of this city will suffer."

"Kill."

Bang bang bang!

Bang bang!

Not to mention, the arrival of the common people did bring some morale to the Qing army, after all, the Qing army is also a human being, and it has never been affirmed by the people before, and now it is natural to be grateful to see the people sacrifice their lives to help.

"Lord Biaotong, what about the reinforcements of the Black Dragon Army, what about the reinforcements that were good, if we continue to fight like this, our old foundation will be exhausted."

Sheng Tianbao, who has never spoken much, began to complain at this moment, although the people came to help, which could improve a certain morale, but they could not provide too much substantive assistance, speaking of which, it was not easy for the Qing army to hold on to this battle until now, and even Nie Baishun, who was in charge of supervising the war, looked at this Qing army differently.

After all, the number of the two armies is similar, but the equipment of the two sides is too far apart, Tsarist Russia not only has the support of field artillery, even if it is the weapons in the hands of the infantry, they are all water beads, and the Qing army, the equipment is not very neat, the 1871 Mauser rifle, the Manlixia gun, the old sleeve is relatively good, and this, or because they are the descendants of General Shoushan, they can have it, this is the status quo of the Qing army in this era.

"No matter how big the sacrifice is, no matter when the reinforcements come, the battle has reached this level, and we have no way to retreat, only grit our teeth and hold on." Biao Tong Yu Busheng said in a deep voice: "You see that Li Mengsheng and their battalion are not there, and the casualties are heavier than yours, but none of them have retreated from their positions, which is very worthy of our learning." ”

"Hey, I can only fight, I heard that the Black Dragon Army gives a lot of compensation to the soldiers, I hope that after this battle, they can give us the same treatment as our dead and wounded brothers." Sheng Tianbao said helplessly.

"You can rest assured that Vice Captain Zhou has personally promised that he will never treat our brother badly." Yu Busheng assured.

"Then let's fight, today can be regarded as a dream for General Yuan, and our Qing army can also resist Lao Maozi."

"Brothers, let's fight, fight, kill, General Yuan is watching us from the sky."

Just when the Qing army gritted its teeth again and fought to the death with the garrison at the north gate of Tsarist Russia, the battle in the direction of the county government finally ended, I have to say that Tsarist Russia also has hard bones, at least this Tsarist Russian troops, from the commander Dakovsky to the ordinary civilians, all fought at the last moment, although they finally succeeded in capturing the commander Daikovsky and the chief of staff Potolovsky who attempted suicide, but they dragged the cavalry battalion of Zhou Dabiao and Tian Dachun for more than half an hour.

"Battalion Commander Tian, the sound of guns here can't be heard, you leave a platoon of fighters, let them release empty guns from time to time, as well as mortars and grenadiers, you must disguise this place as a scene where the battle is not over, and our intelligence officers are working to decipher the other side's telegram, once the decipherment is successful, they will continue to send a report to the other side's reinforcements to confuse them." Zhou Dabiao commanded.

"Yes, I'll arrange it." Tian Dachun nodded.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, after the Qing army had been fighting hard with Tsarist Russia for an hour, the long-awaited reinforcements finally arrived.

"Brothers, hard work."

"From now on, we are brothers in the trenches, and you are welcome to join the family of the Black Dragon Army."

……

Obviously, the performance of the Qing army has won the recognition of the Black Dragon Army, and this is the result of nearly half of the battle losses and more than an hour of hard fighting, it should be said that it is worth it.

Thundered!

Da-da-da-da!

"Kill."

"**** old Maozi, grandpa is here."

With the addition of the cavalry battalion, at least in terms of weapons and equipment, it will definitely not be worse than Lao Maozi in general, especially the existence of dozens of Makqin, coupled with the fact that it is on its own side, so after a short time, the momentum between the two sides began to reverse.

In the battles in the east, south, and west, although the Tsarist Russia continued to draw reinforcements from the direction of the city gate, and even the field artillery came from time to time, the Tsarist Russia had launched several charges, but each time it was only able to leave a corpse on the ground, and finally returned to the starting point.

In this way, the fierce battle between you and me lasted for more than an hour, although both sides had each other's casualties, but there is no doubt that as the defender, this kind of casualties are much smaller, even the Qing army at the north gate, with the strong firepower support of the cavalry battalion, can fight evenly with Tsarist Russia, which makes Yu Busheng and other Qing generals also very excited.

In the battle in the south gate area, the first battalion of Mengtuoula and the Boxer elder brother Fan Yi'an's more than 1,200 people fought relatively easily with Tsarist Russia, after all, Fan Yi'an's troops were all reequipped, and the power of the Makqin heavy machine gun at the defensive end was even more invincible.

As for the opponent's field artillery battalion, after all, the distance is close, and to be honest, the power of the opponent's field artillery battalion is not as great as the mortar battery and grenadier canisters caused by the 1st battalion of Mengtuo Ulla.

When the battle reached zero o'clock, nearly half of the three battalions of Tsarist Russia were killed and wounded, and the battle losses of Fan Yi'an's department reached almost 30%, relatively speaking, the battle losses of the first battalion were much smaller, mainly due to the fact that at the beginning of the war, the soldiers of the first battalion tried their best to build positions, thus greatly reducing the lethality of artillery fire.

The battle in the east gate area was more than 900 people from Vlar's second battalion plus Li Zongzan's division of the Boxers, which also blocked two infantry battalions and an artillery battalion of Tsarist Russia, but the battalion commander of Vlar showed very good personal ability, and in the initial stage of the battle, he sent elite scouts to lurk in the opponent's artillery position, and successfully destroyed the opponent's artillery position, so that the battle in the four directions was the easiest for them. Otherwise, Vlaar would have taken the initiative a long time ago.

Although two battalions of soldiers and horses were used to resist the soldiers and horses of the third battalion of Tsarist Russia, under the leadership of the commander of the third battalion Qiao Wu and the commander of the independent battalion Zou Yin, they also fought quite easily, because the position they chose was only thirty or forty meters away from the Tsarist position, which made the Tsarist artillery almost lose its power.

The well-equipped 1,000 Black Dragon Army, against 1,500 Tsarist Russia without heavy firepower support, and it is still a defensive attack, this kind of battle will naturally not be too difficult, when the battle reaches zero o'clock, the battle loss of the three battalions in the West Gate area of Tsarist Russia has been more than half, but the battle damage of the Black Dragon Army's defense is less than 10%.

If the battle is fought like this, then there is no doubt that as long as it is dawn, the Black Dragon Army will be able to exhaust the main forces of Tsarist Russia, but it is clear that Lao Maozi is not all fools, although the special combat team deciphered the other party's telegrams, and constantly issued rescue orders to the Tsarist Russian troops in four directions in Dakovsky's tone.

But as the sacrifice of his subordinates is getting bigger and bigger, their doubts about the order are getting bigger and bigger, the key is that the rich county town is not very big, even if the Black Dragon Army blocks the main passage, but sending individual scouts to the direction of the county government to investigate, it is not necessarily impossible.

The first problem was discovered by the Tsarist garrison in the direction of the North Gate, because in addition to the three battalions stationed here, there was still a regimental headquarters stationed here, and there were two regiments of the Tsarist Russian Infantry Brigade, one regimental headquarters in the direction of the North Gate, and one regimental headquarters in the East Gate.

Because the colonel Powell found that the cavalry battalion of the Black Dragon Army came to help, it was actually from the county town, just such a small detail made Powell suspicious, and constantly sent scouts to investigate the situation, but because of the strong blockade of the Black Dragon Army and the vigilance of the soldiers who stayed in the direction of the county government was very high, Powell sent seven or eight groups of people, until about one o'clock in the morning, only to find out that the so-called rescue was a scam, and their headquarters had already been captured by the other party.

As a result, Powell immediately sent a telegram to the Russian garrisons in several other directions and discussed what to do next.

For a while, the noisy and noisy wealthy county town was strangely quiet.

…… (To be continued.) )