Several place names in Beijing are related to garrison military affairs, so there are many places named after flags and battalions. When the Qing army first entered the customs, the Eight Banners were stationed at eight important city gates in Beijing. Believing that the Han people were weak and could be bullied, the Manchus believed that the north needed to be defended in the north when arranging the defense of Beijing. Therefore, the emperor personally led the yellow flag and the inlaid yellow flag to guard the Desheng Gate and Anding Gate. In addition, the white flag is in the Dongzhi Gate, the white flag is in the Chaoyang Gate, the blue flag is in the Chongwen Gate, the blue flag is in the Xuanwu Gate, the red flag is in the Xizhi Gate, and the red flag is in the Fucheng Gate. It is worth mentioning that in the history of the Qing Dynasty, the two yellow flags were not the two yellow flags at the beginning. It is known that Nurhachi's chosen heir was Dolgon, who died at the age of nine. Nurhachi was notoriously doting on the three Dolgon brothers, not only giving them the two strongest yellow flags, but also giving them the white flags when he died. The three brothers had three of the eight flags in their hands. It's unrealistic to expect a few children to fight with his other brothers who have been adults for a long time, after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he not only forcibly seized Dorgon's inlaid white flag to his son Hauge, but also shamelessly changed his two white flags to two yellow flags, and the original two yellow flags became two white flags.

Due to all kinds of chaotic power struggles, almost half of the Jinjiang women like to set the scene in the barbaric Qing Dynasty, because of the lack of etiquette and edification of the Tartars, it seems to prefer palace fighting.

Of course, Beijing's Xisanqi and Xierqi are not related to the Qing Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, the flag was an army establishment unit. And Nurhachi, who didn't have much creativity, directly plagiarized it. In fact, there are a lot of things plagiarized by Nurhachi, which appear in a large number of film and television dramas, and the cotton armor full of nails is actually a product of the Ming Dynasty, mainly to prevent the striage of the firecracker.

As the capital of the country, the city wall of Beijing is also very tight. Its walls are 12 meters high, 15 to 18 meters wide at the bottom, and 12 to 14 meters wide at the top. The base of the wall is rammed with a mixture of lime, soil and glutinous rice, and the upper part is rammed with loess layers. Each layer is 8 to 12 centimeters thick. The outer wall of the city wall is covered with multi-layered bricks, which enhances the protection against shelling. The top of the city wall is paved with three layers of green bricks, and every 40-60 meters, there is a group of brick drainage outlets. There are 5,894 battlements along the pheasant moat outside the city wall for sheer and lookout; In order to prevent the inner edge from falling, there is no buttress on the female wall. There are also 98 enemy platforms built on the outer wall of the wall, extending out of the wall by 12 meters, 20 meters wide, and the height of the city, each with a distance of 120 meters, just within the range of bows and arrows and firearms. The enemy tower was built on the enemy platform, mainly for garrisoning soldiers and storing materials. There is a corner tower in each of the four corners of the city, except for the southwest corner that follows the Yuan Dynasty building as a circle, the other three are square. There are ten paths to the city on the inner side of the wall, one at each of the four gates. There is a moat on the outside of the city wall, which is 20 meters wide and 10 meters deep, and it is waterlogged all year round, and together with the city wall, it forms a complete defense system. Basically, it can be said that Beijing's city defense can be regarded as the pinnacle of China's urban defense system in the feudal era.

Of course, due to a lack of consideration for the defensive and tactical aspects of artillery, as well as the traditional idea of square circles, China did not develop something like the Star Fortress that was more painful for the besiegers. However, the city defense of Beijing City must not be underestimated.

According to the "experience" of the Second Opium War and the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, Lin Hong gave his commander Qin Han advice to his Beijing task force, not to use artillery to collapse a section of the city wall or something, to decisively suppress the defenders at the head of the city with artillery fire, and to knock on the city gate that is more fragile than the brick and stone city wall more than ten meters thick.

There are now three main military forces in the city of Beijing: one is the infantry army commanding the green camp system of the capital under the jurisdiction of the yamen, patrolling and arresting five battalions; the second is the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, that is, the infantry military camp of the Eight Banners, which is nominally also under the management of the Yamen, the commander of the infantry army; The third is the so-called Eight Banners New Army that Su Shun pulled up by himself and basically never fought much.

To say that at the time of the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, there were 30,000 horses in the city of Beijing, basically the first two systems, and then the third system was replaced by the Boxers, but the Boxers were not counted among the 30,000 people. In addition, there is also the Wuwei Army trained according to the Western-style CAO, and the leader is the famous speculator Yuan Shikai, but in this war, he did not contribute much. According to the Eight-Nation Alliance's own statement, they came to China without all weapons, and relied on grabbing a vote in the Tianjin arsenal, only to be shocked to find that the rifles in the arsenal were more advanced than the carbines of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's own soldiers; Thirty-six Krupp cannons, even better than the Germans themselves. However, the Qing army lost it to the Eight-Nation Alliance without even looking at it. It is no different from the First Sino-Japanese War five years ago, when the Qing army fled, it was suspected that it would be in the way with things!

However, the situation at this time is completely different from that in the official history. The defensive strength of Beijing City can reach about 40,000 people, of which more than 10,000 are Yishan's new army. However, compared to Gengzi Shiqing's wealth, which casually took out a huge amount of ordnance to fund the enemy, the army of the entire Beijing City except for the new army in Yishan was able to gather guns, and the other armies were still old-fashioned firearms and guns. Fortunately, it is the capital capital, and the Qing soldiers have not fallen to the embarrassing point of being dominated by cold weapons.

The station of the camp in the patrol camp of the Old Summer Palace, dressed in cotton armor, added to the funny Saishan'a stopped Su Shun, who had beaten here.

"I said my Uncle Yishan, your old new army accounts for half of the capital's military strength, what are you still turning around in the city at this time? Hurry up and go to the city wall! ”

Yishan looked like he didn't advance, and said in a deep voice: "My new army is a formation that practices Western tactics, and it can't be used on the city wall. ”

Saishana almost fell, this Yishan is notoriously bold, and it is a little unsophisticated, how can there be an absurd reason to let the enemy into the city. If one is not good, and the enemy is killed instead of killing, and even the first line of defense is lost, it is a big joke in the world.

"Lord Baylor, now that there are many thieves and soldiers, we should be serious and not take risks."

Yishan went up the ladder and said, "Then don't ask my new army to go up the city wall." ”

Saishan'a scolded in his heart: "You slave is not stupid, the southern thief is not only sharp, but also has thousands of cannons, swinging outside the city, thousands of cannons are fired at once, even if the city wall can be defended, there is no room left on the city wall." ”

Yishan said: "The only plan for today is to use the soldiers' lives and perform their duties." The Eight Banners are brave, when the town is divided into eight gates, guarding the inner city, and the Sai people should quickly dispatch the patrol camp to the outer city wall, especially the Yongding Gate, and focus on defense. I will dispatch two battalions of new troops to garrison the Xiannongtan and the Temple of Heaven, so that if the war is unfavorable, I can strike at the arrogance of the thieves and retreat outside the enemy's city. ”

It was at such a critical juncture that the Qing troops could not even achieve the unity of defense and order because of all kinds of confusion. Yishan relied on his own ruffianism, without the slightest hint of Saishan, and said that he was doing his own defense, and his posture of looking down on other brother troops was very obvious.

Sai Shang'a scolded Yishan in his heart, but he couldn't think of it, he was not brave enough, let alone taking the lead in defending the city wall, and he sat in the camp of the Old Summer Palace and sent out orders one by one.

Saishana is also anxious, when the Southern Dynasty attacked Wuchang, there were thousands of large and small artillery, and some people regarded it as a joke at first, but later it was verified that there was really such a thing. The artillery of the entire Beijing city adds up to only a few dozen, and the city walls of each city gate are two to six guns.

The Qing court could buy guns through various means, but artillery was strictly forbidden by the Southern Dynasties, and even foreigners selling artillery were canceled as soon as they were discovered, which made discerning foreigners never take a huge risk to wade into this pool.