Chapter 172: An Unexpected Warrior

Just when the news reached Rehe, the city of Beijing finally fell inevitably!

Even if Monk Greenqin has the full help of the soldiers of Baoding Town, it is difficult to resist the attack of the British and French forces without Guo Ye's Dinghai Divine Needle, the soldiers of Baoding Town have no leader, and the combat effectiveness of the green battalion is low, as for the Mongolian cavalry at this time, it has already been killed and wounded, it is completely a group of rabble, if Guo Ye is still there, he can still rely on his imaginative tactics to compete with the British and French forces, and now, without Guo Ye, Monk Greenqin has no intention of fighting, let alone others?

From Yang Gate only held on for less than two hours, the three heights were successively captured by the British and French forces, the artillery fire of the British and French forces was extremely fierce, coupled with two days of sunny days, so that the musket performance was restored, with sharp firearms, the British and French troops did not count towards the Qing army to charge, even the horse team of Seng Lingqin was a touch of a collapse, under the multiple blows of rifles, artillery, rockets, the Qing army was defeated, 20,000 Qing troops paid the price of 10,000 casualties, had to retreat in the direction of the capital!

After arriving at Guangqumen, relying on the strong city wall, he thought that he could hold on for more time and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from all over the country, after all, the city wall of Beijing was strong and there was artillery to help.

As a result, what is unexpected is that Jinchi Tangcheng is still vulnerable!

The Qing army was condescending in Guangqu Gate, only held on for less than half a day, and was bombarded by the heavy artillery of the British and French forces, dozens of heavy artillery of the British and French forces, bombardment in turns, a shell fell, it will blow up a huge gap in the city wall, before dusk, the city wall of Guangqu Gate about a dozen zhang distance collapsed, the Qing army above suffered casualties, howling miserably, lost the city wall, the biggest barrier, the Qing army is not the opponent of others.

The Anglo-French cavalry could even jump directly onto the walls and attack!

Monk Greenqin's face was pale, and he finally understood why Guo Ye did everything possible to get rid of the artillery of the British and French forces, the combat power of this artillery was too strong, and until today, the artillery power of the British and French forces has all burst out!

If you want to collapse the city wall just by relying on the Qing army's own copper cannons, even if you give yourself two or three days, it is impossible! Even the highest part of this city wall is about a zhang wide, if you want to blow it up, where is it so easy?

However, under the bombardment of foreigners' heavy artillery, it is like tofu scum!

Failed, failed again!

Monk Greenqin led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Dongzhimen, and then the British and French forces attacked Dongzhimen, Dongzhimen was immediately lost, Monk Greenqin and Ruilin led the remnants of the defeated generals all the way to Deshengmen, outside Deshengmen, and once again launched a fierce battle with the British and French forces!

To no avail, not at all!

Some of the remaining horse corps and green battalion soldiers under Seng Gelinqin were completely vulnerable, and the Anglo-French army once again drew out a cavalry regiment to gallop from Tianjin to help, and Seng Gelinqin's horse team was unable to organize an effective counterattack under the impact of the modern cavalry of the Anglo-French army!

In this way, the Anglo-French army defeated the main force of Seng Lingqin and rushed straight to the Old Summer Palace on the west side of Beijing!

Because, only a small part of the Anglo-French joint mission ordered by Duanhua was released, and the rest were all imprisoned in the Old Summer Palace!

It has been a long time since Duanhua arrested these people, and it is not clear whether these people are dead or alive, if they really all die here, the leaders of the British and French coalition will definitely not have a good life, and the pressure of public opinion in the country can crush them!

The British and French troops rushed all the way to the Old Summer Palace, and soon arrived at the gate of the Old Summer Palace, where there was no longer any army guarding, and the vanguard of the British and French forces went straight inside!

What I didn't expect was that there was no Qing army here, but there were still some guarding forces, that is, the skilled eunuchs of the Old Summer Palace, dozens of skilled eunuchs rushed out of the Old Summer Palace, bare hands, and launched an attack on the British and French forces!

The British and French forces were stunned, what kind of people are this? Yin and yang weird, unarmed, and dare to attack the coalition forces? I really don't know how to die!

Dozens of British troops rushed up from behind, and they were in a scuffle with the skilled eunuchs.

As soon as I stretched out my hand, I found that everyone in these eunuchs had good skills, much better than those useless Qing soldiers, and these unattractive eunuchs even dared to grab a gun empty-handed!

Ren Liang, the leader of the eunuchs, was even more courageous, taking advantage of the defenselessness of the British army, he came up and put the two British soldiers on the ground! In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen British soldiers were put down, lying on the ground and sighing.

At this time, the British military put away their contempt, and these monsters in front of them are really special! Could it be some elite troops hidden by the Qing State?

However, when the Anglo-French troops rushed up with bayonets, the skilled eunuchs could no longer resist, although they were quite brave, but they had never experienced the battle formation, without any cooperation, even if they were powerful, they would never be able to take advantage of the army's charge!

The rows of bayonets of the British soldiers kept stabbing at the eunuchs, killing dozens of eunuchs in embarrassment and covered in wounds, but even so, these skilled eunuchs still fought to the death!

However, there were more and more British troops, under the stabbing of rows of bayonets of the British army, it didn't take long for the skilled eunuchs to suffer casualties, and finally, the eunuch leader Ren Liang was pierced through the stomach by four or five bayonets, and fell to the ground unwillingly, and the battle came to an abrupt end, and all the skilled eunuchs died!

Grant, the new commander-in-chief of the British army, walked up and kicked the eunuch on the ground fiercely, these guys didn't expect to be so brave, compared to Guo Ye's Baoding Town soldiers, today it was a capsized boat in the gutter, and it was actually put on a table by a group of eunuchs!

This is not the Chinese army! This is not even a real person of the Chinese! They are all physically incomplete, but the fighting heart in their hearts is more than a hundred times stronger than those green battalion soldiers and Eight Banner soldiers!

The bottom group of people used their lives to compose a passionate song!

Grant shouted, "Leave the others alone, rescue the members of the legation first!" ”

The British and French troops rushed in and rushed into the Old Summer Palace!

In the Old Summer Palace, it has already become a mess, and countless palace maids and eunuchs are scurrying around one by one, avoiding the pursuit of the British and French forces, which is miserable!

By the time they arrived in the dungeon where the members of the legation were being held, even the soldiers were stunned!

No, not stunned, but stunned, is this still a place for people? Is this still human?