Outside the city of Beijing, a large number of Tang troops have already joined the division. The relevant units of the Second Division of the Datang Army stationed in North China www.biquge.info all field troops were dispatched except for the troops guarding important strongholds such as Shanhaiguan. The Tang army had already launched a bombardment of the Beijing division for many days, and many people in the capital had to flee the Beijing division in order to avoid the flying disaster. Now those who remain in the Beijing division are not even the regular Qing army, mainly the Boxers. Even after Jiaqing fled, both the Admiral of Jiumen and the Jingshi Mansion Yin left their posts and fled to other places, leaving behind a city that no one could govern. It can be said that an ancient capital of the Six Dynasties is now controlled by the Boxers, which somewhat has a sense of déjà vu from the era of the army more than a hundred years ago.

After the initial panic, the Boxers are now somewhat calmer. Ma Hongjun and others came up with a new set of rhetoric.

"Fight bravely to kill the enemy, all brothers can stand on the ground and ascend to immortals, and then go to heaven to be immortal officials and immortal generals, and enjoy endless blessings!" This is undoubtedly a kind of reproduction of many religions, the three religions of the West preach that the believer goes to heaven after death, Buddhism talks about the afterlife of the West Heaven Bliss and the cultivation of the afterlife, and the local religions are also similar. After there was no longer any good reason for the Boxers to believe that they could successfully resist the Tang, the Boxers moved out of this way.

Obviously, the hatred of the Boxers for Datang is deformed but deep-seated, and there is no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides. Even a leader-level figure like Ma Hongjun essentially has a very strong habit of the rivers and lakes and a reckless idea. In their opinion, since you can't defeat the Tang people, the uncle will work hard with you, and if you can pull two backs, you will make money.

Chang Bin, as the commander-in-chief of the theater of operations, personally came to the front line, looked at the city tower from afar, and sighed a little: "When I came here twenty years ago, it was almost no different from now." ”

The staff officer patted his ass and said: "You are different now than you were twenty years ago, our Datang and the Datang army are also completely different." ”

Chang Bin smiled and said: "Yes, at that time, he was still the commander of the Marine Corps, and there were not a few regiments in Datang. Now there are more than a dozen divisions with tens of thousands of people.

Chang Bin looked at the city walls and gates guarded by the Boxer bandits, and continued with a smile: "Back then, we used a quick surprise attack by armored troops and unexpectedly attacked the capital, and the artillery also made a lot of efforts. ”

Shortly after his words fell, several warplanes flew through the sky, this is a strong attack aviation regiment belonging to the Far Eastern theater of operations, which also played an important role in the previous bombing. At this time, the Beijing division had almost no decent anti-aircraft firepower, and although the Tang Army had lost one plane before, it had cleaned up all kinds of anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground afterwards, so that the Tang Air Force could once again launch all kinds of torture and killing from the sky.

At this time, the fighters used the aviation cannons on board to shoot at the city wall, and in the three-dimensional war, the enemy on the high wall was no longer an unattainable target, but strafed all the way along the city wall, and the enemy was shot in large areas. Some of the fighters even dived and dropped bombs, specifically to bomb the dense crowds and the structural weaknesses of the walls.

The eye-catching performance of the attack planes naturally aroused the competitiveness of Datang's most dazzling Datang artillery. The Don Army placed a number of formed artillery units outside the city walls, including 105-mm self-propelled guns, as well as 155-mm army heavy artillery. At the same time, the artillerymen also launched a salvo attack on the city wall, and a large number of shells smashed into the city wall, and these shells were still relatively strong in damaging the city wall. Although the walls of the capital are very thick and their ability to resist damage is not weak, they are also crumbling in the face of such a dense cannonball.

Of course, the most devastating ones were the Boxer Boxers who did not know what military deployment was at all, and fought in the traditional military way, and the men they placed on the city wall had already suffered a catastrophe at this moment.

Under the cover of the attack planes, a large number of helicopters who had previously participated in hostage rescue operations intensively broke into the sky over the capital at this time, and their target was the garrison battalion of the Tang Marine Corps at Dongjiaomin Lane.

When entering Dongjiaomin Lane, a large number of helicopters landed about 200 marines without being stopped by the enemy, and they immediately joined up with the garrison battalion, forming a force of the Tang army in the capital, and began to attack the defenders of the Boxers in the city.

After all, the Boxer bandits were not professional soldiers, and the guards in the capital were actually coordinated by the Qing army before that, but as soon as Jiaqing left, most of the defenders of the capital were scattered, and the people in charge became the Boxer bandits, and they lacked a clear combat strategy, and they dangerously ignored the Tang Army Marine Corps garrison battalion that was still sticking to the city at this time.

The Boxers launched a fierce offensive against the Marines in an attempt to stop them from reaching the city gates, but the Marines were also extremely resolute and the two sides fought fiercely. However, after all, the Marine Corps has an advantage in equipment and is extremely disciplined in tactics. In order to cope with the possible street fighting in the capital, many of the training of soldiers in the Marine Corps garrison battalion was carried out with this as the core. They nimbly made their way back to the enemy's flanks and rear, occupied the rooftops and high places of buildings, and made the bandits powerless to stop their advance by means of crossfire and ambushes.

In addition, the Marine Corps also has air support, a few attack planes rush down, and the machine guns sweep back and forth a few times, they can break up the boxers, and the Marines can rush up to harvest again, and the battle can be ended.

However, I have to say that the will to fight in this confrontation is still very tenacious. Even if many of them did not even have guns and used large blades and spears, they would still rush at the Don soldiers in the flesh. In the cramped street fighting scene, many Boxer boxers even engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Marine Corps soldiers, as fierce as wild beasts. However, the Marine Corps garrison battalion was also angry, the soldiers were originally superior to the boxers in terms of physique and fighting skills, and their will to fight was not lost at all, so even if the boxers could be described as heroic, they could not shake the Marines in the slightest.

Soon, the marines defeated the boxers and successfully opened the Dongzhi Gate, and a large force of Tang troops outside the city unceremoniously drove into the city. In terms of numbers, the Tang army has the upper hand, they also have all kinds of armored vehicles, and the Boxers are still resisting, but they can't change any outcome after all. (To be continued.) )