Yulin Fort, an ancient post station built in the Yuan Dynasty, was named after the old elm forest.

Yulinbao is located in Kangzhuang Town, Yanqing Prefecture (Yanqing County), bordering Badaling in the east and Kangxi Grassland in the west.

In the Ming Dynasty, Yulin Fort, Tumu Fort, and Jimingyi were the three major forts in northern Beijing.

In a large-scale courtyard, a group of ordinary people live today.

Some officials of all sizes, who are rarely seen on weekdays, are waiting outside the courtyard, and the majestic Eight Banners soldiers are even more inside and out of this simple and luxurious courtyard surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.

Although the courtyard is mainly earth, the doors and windows are very beautifully carved, showing the meaning of luxury.

Old furniture that looks quite antique. This is one of the best courtyards in Yulinburg.

After the coalition army entered the city on the 15th, the Empress Dowager Cixi fled westward with the Guangxu Emperor and a number of ministers, passed through Yanqing Prefecture, and arrived at Yulinbao this afternoon.

Yesterday's heavy rain caused the unsuspecting team to suffer a lot of difficulties, and after the rain stopped, many people were faintly feverish.

It was originally a one-day journey, but this group of 1,000 people walked for two whole days.

Before the Empress Dowager Cixi approached Yulinbao, the local government sent people to drive out all the residents here, but no one knows why.

In the main room, a gray-haired old lady with a tired face was half-lying on the earthen kang.

And underneath her, a brand new quilt.

Although it is not as luxurious as the palace, at this moment, this old lady who looks like a Han ordinary person can't care about any dignity or undignity.

This escape made the entire royal family very embarrassed, even penniless, and even Cixi herself could only drink a bowl of gruel with a bad taste on the way to satisfy her hunger.

As for those who accompanied them, they could only go hungry.

Outside the courtyard, there were weepings everywhere, this disaster came too suddenly for them, and no one thought that they would be defeated so quickly.

Hundreds of thousands of troops, tens of thousands of new troops, in the blink of an eye, were completely defeated.

"Really?" A man in his forties, with a fat figure, asked in surprise, and the tiredness on his face instantly dissipated.

"Lord Wang, the villain can make sure that this matter is true, this morning, the villain saw the foreign soldiers collecting the corpses, and hundreds of carts were loaded, and this afternoon, the foreigners were already out of the city. The villain had a look at a place about four miles away from the camp of the foreign soldiers, where it was densely packed with at least tens of thousands of bullet casings. For the first time, a man who looked like a small soldier raised his head to look at the prince standing in front of him, his face full of excitement.

"But are these people the identities?" Zai Yi continued to ask.

You can't just know what happened, but not know who did it, which is not conducive to the next thing to be arranged.

If they can get in touch with this force, then maybe they don't even have to continue to flee west, and they can even return to the capital soon.

The little soldier shook his head: "The villain doesn't know, but now there is a rumor about this army outside." ”

"Oh? What do you say? Zai Yi asked.

"It is rumored that they fought all the way from the east, and first attacked the baggage team of the foreign soldiers, destroying dozens of truckloads of munitions and supplies, and then annihilating a battalion of foreign soldiers. The next day, they used the same method to annihilate the troops of another battalion of foreign soldiers, and not far behind this battalion, more than 2,000 foreign soldiers followed closely, but in the end they succeeded.

Moreover, later this unit also entered the capital, and the day before yesterday they attacked a battalion of foreign soldiers, snatched a heavy machine gun, and the foreign soldiers of this battalion were completely wiped out. After that, they didn't know how to get out of the city, and yesterday afternoon they deliberately lured foreign soldiers to attack, killing and wounding thousands of foreign soldiers on the spot and capturing hundreds of wounded foreign soldiers.

And some people saw it, and they used these wounded to ask the foreign soldiers for weapons and equipment, and the foreign soldiers actually gave them them. Later, someone saw that the foreign soldiers had transferred a few artillery pieces from the capital, and they were supposed to continue the attack after dawn this morning.

However, I don't know how they knew the news, so they attacked the camp of the foreign soldiers yesterday night, killing and wounding more than 3,000 people in one night with more than 4,000 foreign soldiers, and many of the foreign soldiers who were still alive even became crazy. After that, the little ones don't know. ”

"This ......" Zai Yi was also taken aback by the achievements of these mysterious people.

If this is true, doesn't it mean that these people have wiped out at least 5,000 foreign soldiers? And it's done in the short term.

Although I can't believe it, these words sound clear-eyed, and people have to believe it.

It's just that when did the Qing Dynasty have such a powerful force again?

You must know that the new army that the imperial court has spent a lot of effort to form over the years, although it performed well in this battle, it was still easily defeated by the foreigners.

Among the several new armies, except for those stationed in Shandong, Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army is still there, the rest have basically been wiped out.

The sudden appearance of such an invincible army is a great thing, but it is also a bad thing.

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Inside the main room!

Prince Duan Zaiyi, ****** Yixuan, Prince Su Shanqi, Nawang Nayantu, Prince Zhuang Zaixun, Auxiliary Gong Zailan and Zai Ze, Minister of Military Aircraft Gangyi, Zhao Shuqiao, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the great eunuch Li Lianying and others stood in the room with their heads bowed.

Zai Yi retold the previous report of the little soldier one by one.

And the Empress Dowager Cixi, who has always been a little embarrassed, after hearing the news, her face looked a little better, and her mood was not as low as before.

But as soon as she thought of the entry of foreign soldiers into Beijing, Cixi felt a little congested.

Although her life is very beautiful, when she was young and old, she experienced two foreign soldiers entering Beijing.

The first time foreign soldiers entered Beijing, they had to run to Chengde, where they stayed for more than a year, and at that time, her husband, Emperor Xianfeng, died in Changde.

This time, Cixi didn't know what would happen? But after hearing the news, Cixi seemed to see hope.

"Who's in charge of that unit?" Although Cixi's heart was already in chaos, she still showed her royal demeanor in terms of momentum.

And in a simple sentence, if it were someone else, I am afraid that they would ask whose troops it was? Cixi asked who was in charge of the troops.

The difference in just a few words is implying that everyone is that it is the troops of the Qing Dynasty, the troops of the Aixin Jueluo family, and those generals who command the army are just in charge.

"Back to the Queen Mother, I don't know who is in charge of this army for the time being, and the current whereabouts of this army are unknown." Zai Yi said.

"Empress Dowager Qi, the minister thinks that we should contact this force as soon as possible and order it to come to escort it as soon as possible, and on the other hand, send people to negotiate peace with foreign soldiers to end this disaster as soon as possible." Yi Liang proposed.

If this powerful force came to escort them, then they would not have to continue to flee westward, and they could just wait here to return to Beijing.

Although the conditions are a little worse, at least they don't have to travel long distances, and for them, the old, weak, sick and disabled, the conditions can still be endured.