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Chapter 12: The Aftermath

Zhang Decheng's department was destroyed overnight, and the prestige of the Boxers, who had been soaring and soaring, suddenly fell to the bottom. Those leaders of various departments and senior brothers from all walks of life are all local tyrants who dominate one side, and everyone already has a lot of grudges against each other, and it is good to be unconvinced by each other, and it is not uncommon to fight if they disagree.

When Lao Zhang was still there, he could still rely on his peerless martial arts to suppress these big and small thorns, so that even if they had complaints, they only dared to take them to heart. When they met, even if they wanted to take out a knife and stab each other in the heart, they could only endure the internal injuries.

However, now that Comrade Zhang is gone, of course he can do whatever he wants!

The composition of the Boxer Rebellion was extremely complex, including the local heroes of Hebei, the heroes from the neighboring provinces, various branches of Taoism and religious schools, and even many Mongols and Manchus mixed in. Naturally, these people cannot be of the same mind, among them there are those who are bent on fighting foreign devils, there are also those who want to sweep away and destroy foreigners, and there are all kinds of political demands. While the original chief was dead and a new leader had not yet been created, the huge Boxer Rebellion immediately split into dozens of military and paramilitary groups, large and small.

Some of the Boxers close to Zhang Decheng made a big uproar after hearing that the Qing army and the foreigners had attacked the big leader, and then they abandoned their own defense lines and positions and frantically attacked the Qing troops on the side.

Many more Boxers didn't know what they were supposed to do, and they went home after two days in the same place. In this way, the once vigorous Boxer Rebellion began to come to an end. Even though he still had hundreds of thousands of military personnel, without a clear political program, they were no longer the military force that terrified the Qing rulers.

In the same way, it is difficult for the Boxer soldiers to sacrifice their lives to besiege the foreign army. At best, there was some spontaneous resistance. However, how could they, who have been completely destroyed by the other side in terms of organization, morale, weapons and equipment, and training, be the opponents of tens of thousands of foreign soldiers?

Their spontaneous resistance led to even more brutal acts by the foreigners, even though the foreigners were not a good thing in the first place. Massacres, robberies, rapes and other horrific things became commonplace, and the entire land of Hebei fell into a bloody and dark situation.

The Allied forces were extremely cruel to Chinese officials, and Ting Yong, the governor of Zhili, was killed by the Allied forces. And the common people were even more miserable, at that time it was recorded that "on the day the city was broken, the foreign soldiers killed people without counting,...... But when I heard the sound of gunfire and bombardment, the sound of women and children cried for help. The corpses on the street were pillowed, and the foreign soldiers drove the Chinese to bury them, and when the radium was finished, they killed all the people who had killed the corpses, and buried them in the pit. …… About within the forbidden city, among the hundred families, there are no more than ten rooms. Today, in the Gaomen mansion, there are still people who are empty and the corpses have not been collected, and maggots are out of the outdoors. Although the green crumbs and Yangzhou ten diaries, how can it be passed! ”

British journalist Simpson also recorded what he witnessed: "The French infantry encountered a group of Chinese on the road before, and the boxers and soldiers in it killed the captured Boxers and civilians, and fled in a hurry. The French men pressed their machine guns into an impassable alley, and the machine guns bombarded the trap for about ten or fifteen minutes, until there was no one left."

"The coalition army tried to drive all the women they had acquired, young and old, into the alleys and alleys, and made them live in rows and houses as official prostitutes. At the west end of its alley, the path is blocked to prevent escape, but the east end is left as the way in and out, so that people can supervise it, and let the allied soldiers enter and play, and they will sleep at will."

After slightly clearing the relatively weak Boxers in various places, the allied forces of the great powers concentrated a superior number of soldiers and technical weapons to launch a fierce attack on the right army of Wuwei led by Nie Shicheng. The right army of Wuwei was inferior to the other party in terms of transfer and training, and now without the cooperation of the Boxers, even the number is not as good as that of the coalition forces of the great powers, and in the end, the whole army was wiped out. At this point, the coalition forces finally cleared the last obstacle to the city of Beijing.

Just when the Wuwei Right Army led by Nie Shicheng was still fighting fiercely with the foreigners, most of the Boxers, as well as the Black Dragon Society entrenched near Handan, were all watching coldly and did not make even the slightest rescue operation. Everyone has different camps, not to mention, the Wuwei Right Army and the Boxers have already fought before, and it is not bad if they don't fall into the ground.

However, the Beiyang Army, which was supposed to be the right army of Wuwei, also stood still, which made people very disdainful. Cixi, who heard this, was furious and smashed the teacup in her hand, but she had to pinch her nose and admit it in the end. Because the behavior of the Beiyang Army is not a single phenomenon, outside of Shandong, which is occupied by the Beiyang Army, the governors of the south have opened their minds to raise a "southeast mutual protection", which makes people have to admire.

In June, British and American imperialism reached an agreement with the governors of the southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty on "mutual protection in the southeast". After the rise of the Boxer Rebellion, Britain was deeply afraid of affecting the Yangtze River valley under its sphere of influence, so it instigated Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, and Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, to cooperate with the foreign powers. After the Qing Dynasty declared war on the Eleven Kingdoms, Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, Li Hongzhang, the governor of Liangguang, Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Kuijun, the governor of Sichuan, Sheng Xuanhuai, the minister of railways, and Yuan Shikai, the governor of Shandong, reached an agreement with the participating countries, calling the southeast mutual insurance. They called the imperial edict a "pretentious and chaotic order" under the coercion of the Boxers, and disobeyed orders in the southeastern provinces to support the Boxers.

In Shandong, there was a very famous thing at that time. In June of the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the two kings of Duan and Zhuang sent a senior brother of the Boxers to find Yuan Shikai with the order of the Qing government, saying that King Duan ordered Yuan Shikai to pacify the Boxers and allow the altar to continue the exercises. Yuan was very surprised, and immediately called a meeting of his subordinates to discuss. The bureaucrats believed that if they agreed to set up an altar, the Boxers would prosper and rebel against the government; If you don't agree, you will inevitably be severely condemned by the two kings of Duan and Zhuang. Looking at each other, they can't think of a solution. At this time, Wang Shizhen stood up and said, "Please leave it to me for interrogation!" "Immediately behead the leader of the Boxer Rebellion for the crime of stealing the arrows of Duan and the second king of Zhuang. At this time, the meeting convened by Yuan had not yet dispersed, and Yuan Shikai asked Wang Shizhen: "How is the interrogation?" The king replied: "It has been executed, and the arrow can be sealed and returned to the two kings of Duan and Zhuang." Yuan Shikai suddenly woke up and admired Wang Shizhen's decision-making.

For those in the south, their decision not to participate in the war in the north was certainly to avoid the spread of war, but their actions had already effectively sounded the bell for the fall of the Qing Dynasty. The funny thing is that after these people did such a thing, they still deceived themselves and admitted that the Qing Dynasty was central, which is really incomprehensible.

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