Chapter 16: The Clouds in All Directions (3)

For some well-known reasons, Chen Cheng has a love-hate relationship with the Japanese. Although most of the devils are not good people, there are also some girls who are willing to dedicate themselves to their acting careers are very cute. I think he also enjoyed those art films with a critical spirit. Sugiyama Bin is also very polite, enduring the gunshot wound on his arm and the severe pain from other wounds, bowing to the boy who is a round younger than him to express his gratitude. Chen Cheng patted the clerk, who was about the same height as himself and had a serious face, and said in a big way: "Yo Xi!" ”

In the original history, Sugiyama Bin was brutally killed by Gan soldiers outside the Yongding Gate when he went to meet the coalition army led by Seymour.

This time, because the militia under the command of the Black Dragon Society took over the area, Sugiyama Bin was rescued. However, in the midst of the previous indiscriminate shooting, a stray bullet grazed the inside of his thigh, breaking the two balls and the link forehead

Ma Qian of Taishi Company once said: Taishang is not humiliated first, followed by not humiliating the body, then not insulting the rational color, followed by not insulting the rhetoric, followed by the humiliation of the body, followed by the humiliation of the easy to obey, followed by the humiliation of Guan Musuo and being humiliated by the Qianchu, followed by the humiliation of hair, baby gold and iron, followed by the destruction of the skin, the humiliation of the limbs, and the most rotten punishment! Now Sugiyama Bin can be regarded as the bottom.

Chen Cheng glanced at the old devil's lower body, and said hypocritically: "This, Sugiyama-kun, doesn't matter what your injuries are?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay," Sugiyama Bin endured the severe pain, and said with a distorted expression: "This, the contemptible person is the clerk of the Imperial Japanese Embassy in China, and now he is going to meet General Seymour, can you send two people to send me over?" Please! ”

The commander of the coalition forces, Seymour, Chen Cheng had already given this person a death verdict in his heart, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll find a few people and get a sedan chair to send you over." ”

A strip of water, a long history? Looks like this is a sensible young man. Sugiyama Bin bowed again, "Then please!" ”

Looking at the devil who bent his waist at ninety degrees in front of him, Chen Cheng really didn't have any hatred. Anyway, no matter what calculations are behind it, the Japanese have always done a lot of work on the surface, which is probably their national nature. And these guys do admire from the bottom of their hearts when they face the strong, but when they feel that each other's strength is about the same, they are a different face.

Seeing the hapless clerk go away, Chen Cheng pouted. Although the armies of the great powers now have an overwhelming quality advantage over the armies of the Qing Dynasty, they are too few in number to occupy and suppress such a vast area even if they win a hundred battles, and you must know that Hebei alone is larger than many countries in Europe.

What's more, the Qing army was not so useless. If you want to come to Beijing, you have to fight all the way. Relying only on the little force led by Seymour, if he really dared to come over, Chen Cheng would dare to leave them all. Speaking of which, the boy really hoped that this guy would rush straight over desperately.

Seymour was originally the highest official position in history to become a British naval marshal, and he was born in King Walton, Warwickshire. His grandfather was a rear admiral and his father was a local recess, he joined the British Navy in 1852 at the age of 13, was soon admitted to the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth, and was immediately sent to serve on a warship in the Mediterranean, where he participated in the Crimean War against Russia in 1854-1856, and in 1857 as a lieutenant and midshipman in the Second Opium War of the Anglo-French invasion of China, serving on the flagship of his uncle, Sir Michael Seymour, commander of the British Eastern Fleet. He took part in the attack on the coast of Guangdong and the occupation of Guangzhou, and the following year, he went north with the fleet to the mouth of the Baihe River to participate in the First Battle of Dagu, and was sent back to England after the war due to heat stroke. In 1860, when Britain and France resumed the war, Seymour returned to China and was promoted to captain, participating in the Third Battle of Dagukou. After the signing of the Treaty of Beijing, he cruised the Yangtze River with his fleet and visited Nanjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In 1862, he fought against the Taiping army in Zhejiang and participated in the capture of Ningbo and Jiading.

He returned to England in 1863 and served as a staff officer under his uncle, who was the commander of the Portsmouth Navy. In 1866 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1869, the commander of one of the gunboats, he went on a mission off the coast of West Africa, and the following year while fighting in the Congo, he was wounded in the leg and returned to England. In 1873 he was promoted to colonel. In 1879 he entered the Torpedo Academy. Commanded a cruiser in the Mediterranean in 1880. In 1882, when the anti-British uprising broke out in Egypt, he led a ship to guard the Suez Canal. In 1889 he was promoted to major general. In 1892, he was appointed deputy commander of the Straits Detachment and commander of the reserve fleet. In 1895 he was promoted to lieutenant general, and at the end of 1897 he was appointed commander of the British fleet in China, the flagship Centurion. In the face of the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, and in May and June, the Boxer Rebellion rapidly developed to Zhili, and in the face of this anti-foreigner trend, on June 6, the British Admiralty issued an order to Seymour to take "appropriate and feasible measures" in conjunction with the commanders of other fleets in the event of danger from the British Embassy in Beijing and the British.

On the afternoon and evening of June 9, 1900, Seymour in Dagu received two telegrams from the British Minister Dou Nale from Beijing: "The situation is very serious, and if you are not ready to march into Beijing immediately, it will be too late." At the same time, the British Consul General in Tianjin, Justley, invited the consuls of various countries to a meeting, decided to form a coalition to defend the embassy, and called the Qing government to demand the repair of the railway and the provision of troop trains.

At 9 o'clock on June 10, 1900, the first batch of 500 troops of the Allied Forces boarded the train at the Tianjin Railway Station and set off for Beijing. The second batch of 600 reinforcements set off in the afternoon of the same day, and by the 12th, the coalition forces had more than 2,000 people from Britain, Russia, Germany, France, the United States, Japan, Italy, and Austria, and 1,700 Russian troops landed from Dagukou on the 13th, trying to catch up with the coalition forces and were blocked by the Boxers, so they had to retreat to Tianjin Railway Station.

Seymour was optimistic about the operation, and he thought that it would only take a few hours, or at most a day, to reach Beijing, but because of the road construction, the train arrived at Luofa station that night; Arriving in Langfang on the afternoon of the 11th, the train had to stop moving due to the destruction of the railway ahead. Just as the coalition forces sent people to get off the train to repair the railway, hundreds of Nominal and regimental guns and broadswords and spears rushed to the train on which the coalition troops were riding, and Seymour's coalition forces fell into the siege of the Boxers, and in the following days, the Boxers who continued to reinforce suffered heavy casualties, but the coalition forces were never able to break through their encirclement.