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At this time in Tianjin, the city was occupied by a large number of Boxer soldiers and Qing troops, close to the east of Tianjin, the east bank of the Haihe River in Chenjiagou and Xiaolin area was stationed in the Qing army Wuwei Left Army, the main force of the coalition army attacked several times and did not defeat down, which is why Seymour led the troops to rescue the Beijing Consulate, but was slightly blocked by the Boxers in Langfang, and the main force was not damaged, and the reason for the hasty withdrawal.

However, the concession area outside Tianjin has always been under the control of the coalition forces, and more than 2,000 foreign soldiers are stationed here.

After the British, Russian, German, French, American, Japanese, Italian, and Austrian troops led by Seymour, commander of the British East Asian Fleet, were sniped by the Boxers in Langfang more than 10 days ago, they all retreated to the port area of Tianjin, and the small concession area was extremely lively.

However, although it is called a coalition army, and Seymour is the commander-in-chief, in fact, the armies of various countries are still fighting their own battles, otherwise it is impossible to be repelled by the Boxers, and there are many contradictions in the coalition army, the British and the Russians are at odds with each other, Italy and Austria-Hungary are playing soy sauce, and the Japanese army has the largest number, but no one can afford the Japanese.

Therefore, all armies are stationed alone, there are concessions stationed in their respective concessions, and those who do not have concessions can only be stationed in the concessions of other countries, and the German military camps are located in the lease on the west bank of the Haihe River, and the German army is stationed in the German concession with the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies, but the armies of these two countries can be ignored, the Austro-Hungarian army is only about 70 people, and the Italians only have about a dozen flag bearers.

The Germans in Qingdao were stationed in the German Concession, but Hua Yonglian did not follow, they were left in the port of Dagu, led by Captain Werner, and assigned to escort a batch of munitions to the Tianjin Concession.

At noon on the 24th, Hua Yong Company and two companies of the British Army, Weihaiwei and Hong Kong, escorted the 12-inch caliber cannons and ammunition provided by the Navy to reinforce the coalition forces.

Departing at noon, the railway had been destroyed by the Boxers, and it was only by land that it did not reach the concession until the next morning. Braving a hail of bullets, they sent shells to the French Concession, where the fighting was fierce, and the French, who had been resupplied, immediately shouted hooray.

Yang Chao followed all the way, saw the traces of bullets hitting nearby walls many times, and even heard the sound of bullets cutting through the air, but unfortunately the bullet rain was sparse, obviously the Boxers did not have many weapons in their hands, there were few rifles, and there were no cannons, but Yang Chao could confirm at this time that the Boxer soldiers were still quite heroic, and they were indeed stronger than the group of soldiers of the Qing army.

After completing the task of escorting the ammunition, Yang Chao and the soldiers of Huayong Company entered the barracks of the German Concession, where they were allowed to rest for three days.

On June 27, a huge mushroom cloud suddenly exploded in Tianjin, several hundred meters high, and Yang Chao almost screamed for an atomic bomb, but soon learned that the Russian artillery attacking the arsenal of the Qing army's East Bureau detonated the ammunition of the Qing army. The Huayong Battalion of the British Army cooperated with the Russian army in this battle.

The huge explosion shook Yang Chao's eardrums, because the place where the explosion occurred was really not far from the German concession.

"Captain Werner, order your department to put out the fire!"

Soon an order came from the German command, ordering Werner to lead people to extinguish the fire, and it turned out that the fragments of the explosion of the arsenal set fire to some houses in the German concession.

The order given to Werner was actually the order of Hua Yong Company, which meant that Hua Yong Company was responsible for extinguishing the fire.

Fortunately, he didn't have to be directly responsible for the attack, which made Yang Chao feel a lot better.

The battle suddenly fell silent, and the coalition forces found that they could not take Tianjin at once, and drove out the Qing army and Boxer soldiers in Tianjin, and the Boxers were temporarily unable to attack after heavy losses.

After abandoning the plan to capture Tianjin in a short period of time, the coalition forces began to recuperate, and everyone wanted to wait for the arrival of the main force before acting, especially after the Japanese actively announced the increase of 20,000 troops, everyone wanted to wait for the arrival of the nearest Japanese army.

It was not until 5 July that the fighting broke out because of another Boxer attack.

At this time, the city of Tianjin had been taken over by the Boxers led by Cao Futian, and with the support of Zhang Decheng, the leader of the Boxers in Duliu Town, Jinghai County, Cao Futian decided to attack the concession again.

The battle began again, and this time the coalition forces achieved results.

The Russian army took the lead in capturing the old dragon head railway station defended by the Qing army, this railway station is located in the northwest of the concession, the terrain is important, the Qing army general Ma Yukun is afraid of the enemy, almost handed over this strategic place to the Russian army, the Russian army 1,700 people immediately stationed here, as a fulcrum to defend the concession.

However, Cao Futian immediately organized a commando team to storm this place, taking the form of a field sneak attack, but the Russians could not resist it, and finally abandoned the railway station and retreated to the concession again.

The battle was extremely fierce, and the Qing army and the Boxers, who had received fresh troops, launched an almost all-out attack.

Zhang Decheng led the attack on the hinterland of the concession from Majiakou, and the coalition forces attacked Majiakou, but were ambushed by Zhang Decheng and suffered heavy losses. Cao Futian personally led the Boxers from the old Longtou Railway Station to launch a fierce attack on the new pontoon bridge. Nie Shicheng's troops crossed the southern suburbs of Balitai, detoured back to the vicinity of Xiaoyingmen, and fired a heavy artillery bombardment at the back of the concession.

The Boxers drove a herd of cattle to attack, and the mine explosion killed a group of British soldiers, because the British troops were mainly Indians, and they did not dare to shoot at the angry herd.

"Damn, it's a group of women!"

Yang Chao took the binoculars and saw that there were groups of brightly dressed women who were active behind the Boxer soldiers, and he immediately understood in his heart that this was the famous Red Lantern Organization, which was composed of women in the Qinglou and the Gooling.

This group of special work practitioners have all mobilized to fight against foreigners, and to what extent do Chinese hate foreigners? However, these women are just delivering food and water, treating the wounded, and it is indeed too difficult for these women with many small feet to charge.

After five days of hard fighting, finally on July 9, the Eight-Nation Coalition finally achieved an unexpected victory, Nie Shicheng commanded the soldiers to resist bravely in Balitai, Nie Shicheng was still very heroic, the bad thing was that he was too heroic, the single knife charged with the Qing army, but he was first blown off his legs by a shell, he was still shouting to attack, and a few shells hit, shrapnel blew out his intestines, and the result was righteous.

When Nie Shicheng was born, there was no one to command the Qing army in the south of the city, and the joint offensive of the Boxers and the Qing army was defused.

"Hey, it's like this!"

Yang Chao also had to sigh, to be honest, he thought that the Boxer Rebellion, the resistance to the Eight-Nation Coalition was far stronger than that of the Yapian War, if this kind of fighting will was shown that year, the British and French coalition forces would not have been able to enter Beijing, now, the gap in weapons is too big, there is no hope of winning at all.

Yang Chao felt that the Boxers continued to fight like this, except for sending them to death in vain, there was no meaning, and he really didn't want to stay here to fight the Boxers, how to say that they were all Chinese, although it was a group of completely uneducated people at the bottom of the organization of blind resistance, but he could not bear to kill this group of people.

Yang Chao pondered in his heart, how could he find an opportunity to take the soldiers of Huayong Company out.