The cannon roared, and continuous fire erupted from the armored vehicles and tanks of the Tang Army, and the Janissaries and Boxer troops, who were originally on the attacking side, were immediately stunned by this terrible firepower. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info originally the Praetorian Guard and the Boxers believed that under the sudden attack, the Tang Army would inevitably be in chaos, at a loss, and could not form an effective combat force at all. Unexpectedly, the Tang army quickly formed a counterattack under the shelling.

And this is only a unit of the Tang Army, which has not been built for a long time.

The officers of the Praetorian Guard are not completely incompetent, they have been established for more than ten years, and they have been in contact with the new military theory of the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and at this time they knew that they had to deal with the armored troops of the Tang Dynasty that rushed up like wolves, and they could only use artillery to suppress them. However, the Janissaries lacked anti-aircraft artillery, and their howitzers were set up on high ground, making it difficult to adjust the firing angle to cover them at this time. The Qing army also purchased British-developed anti-aircraft guns from the British, but the price was high and the number was relatively small, in fact, they were all in Beijing to guard the palace for the emperor.

Originally, the weapon that could only show its combat power in the field was placed in the place where it could not exert its strength because of the emperor's consideration for safety. The Qing court only considered that the battle defense artillery was used to deal with the chariots, and the Qing court was most afraid of the Tang army's chariots, so it was placed in the place where it needed to be defended the most. Unfortunately, this is not the case in actual warfare, and it is difficult for the anti-aircraft artillery to fully exert its power in the cramped and cramped imperial palace and capital. Moreover, the number of professional anti-aircraft guns purchased by the Qing army is actually not large.

It was like a piece of tofu thrown onto a rock, and the armament of the Praetorian Guard and the Boxers was directly pierced. The soldiers of the Tang Army, who were holding their breath, used powerful firepower to teach this group of guys how to behave. The entire exchange of fire lasted less than fifteen minutes before the Janissaries and the Boxers collapsed. The Praetorian Guards actually began to run backwards as soon as they saw a large number of chariots protruding, and those Boxer armed forces who didn't know anything tried to attack the Tang Army, but at a distance of a few hundred meters, a large number of boxers were shot and killed, the real war was so cruel that it was not at all what the boxers imagined.

Many of these boxers were ordinary villagers before, and they had no professional training. Maybe I practiced a little martial arts, but I really hurt the battlefield and couldn't save my life at all. The dense bullets with a deathly whistling sound wiped out all the lives that approached the Tang Army. After seeing the death of a large number of people they knew, the Boxers finally collapsed and scattered in all directions, fleeing for their lives without the same rules as the Praetorian Guards.

And in this case, even a more orderly retreat will not help. The Tang army was a mechanized army, and it was always faster than the Praetorian Guards who ran on two legs, and the Tang army easily chased after it and went on a killing spree.

The Janissary artillery left on the high ground did not have the slightest chance, and when the Don army charged, they began to withdraw from their positions, and their artillery did not have time to take away, or even destroy. The 5-inch howitzer was a big killer in the hands of the Janissaries, but in today's situation, they simply couldn't keep it.

This is the end of this raid battle. Although the Tang army suffered certain losses, the Praetorian Guard and the Boxers raided with nearly ten times the force, but did not achieve any considerable results, and in the end they were annihilated by more than 1,000 people and captured more than 2,000 people. If it weren't for the relatively small number of Tang troops, these Qing troops and boxers would have been annihilated and captured.

After the Tang army troops in Nanyuan eliminated the invading enemy, they also received the news that the Jingshi Dongjiaomin Lane was besieged by the Boxer bandits, and the superiors instructed them to immediately attack to rescue their own expatriates and support their land teammates.

Not only this unit, but the rest of the Tang ground forces in the Gyeonggi region received similar instructions. Commander Yu Xiangbei also knew that if there was a loss in Dongjiaomin Lane, then he would be mainly responsible, and even the military and government would be very passive at home. Therefore, Dongjiaomin Lane must not be lost.

When the Tang army was gathering to Beijing, the Boxers were doing similar things. On the way to the capital, the Tang army began to clash more frequently with the boxers of the Boxers. These Tang troops often continued to march towards the capital with the main force, while a group of men and horses flowed out to attack the Boxer organization. Such tactics can be said to be more appropriate, and the strength of each Boxer organization ranges from dozens to hundreds, and there are almost no thousands. Not to mention weapons and equipment, and even many of them did not bring enough dry food, many Boxer organizations forcibly collected food and other goods from local villagers in the name of so-called support for righteousness or rebellion when they passed through villages and towns. In this process, some violent looting was inevitable, and the people in many places were unbearable.

Even, some local Boxers and other Boxers surrounded the villagers in their hometowns to protect their own villagers, and there were fires, although the scale was a larger group, but it still caused a bigger gap within the Boxers. At this time, Ma Hongjun didn't seem to care about these things, and his energy was basically focused on the actions in the capital and the fight against the Tang army.

After all, it was not a professional army, and the Boxers lacked sources and aggregation of intelligence. Only news came to Ma Hongjun one after another, and these people in the Boxers were not a professional staff team, so they would depict the whole situation in detail. So at this time, Ma Hongjun didn't know how the Boxers were fighting in various places, and he was still full of confidence in this great cause.

These Boxer leaders are not completely incapable. Ma Hongjun was deeply aware of the dependence of the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Army on the railway, so in order to prevent the Tang Army from Tanggu to Beijing, Ma Hongjun specially transferred a team of people to sabotage the railway.

In order to fight the war well, the Tang army naturally paid close attention to the railway line. Not only were the railway stations heavily guarded by the Tang Army, but even the road guards were constantly patrolling along the railway line. The Tang army repeatedly eliminated the Boxers' attempts to sabotage the railway, but the Boxers acted sporadically, taking advantage of the night to pick up the railroad tracks, and sometimes the Tang army road guards had nothing to do. Fortunately, the military sub-district has always been vigilant about this situation, so the railway repair unit is also on standby around the clock, and once the track of a certain section of the road is damaged, it will be immediately dispatched to repair it. Ensure the complete smooth flow of the railway line.

In fact, compared with the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance in the other side, Datang's dependence on railways at this time was not so great. The Tang people in the area of Beijing and Tianjin spent more than ten years to build a road network extending in all directions, and the Tang army had garrisons and strongholds in many places, so the situation was still very favorable to the Tang army. (To be continued.) )