On the night of July 7, the Eight-Nation Coalition fled back to the Zizhulin Concession under the leadership of Seymour, because on the night of July 6, he was ambushed by 9,000 Boxer soldiers of Zhang Decheng's department in Majiakou, because it was a night battle, the coalition army could not give full play to the advantage of weapons, and lost more than 900 people, and even his neck was cut by the blade of the Boxer soldiers, if he hadn't flashed fast enough, I was afraid that he would have become a dead corpse now.

This was Seymour's second defeat after the defeat of Langfang, and the fierce combat effectiveness of the Boxers made him extremely afraid.

After escaping back to the concession, Seymour gathered all the mines in the coalition army overnight and set up a dense mine array on the road to enter the Zizhulin Concession.

At noon on July 8, the Boxers who did not know the situation launched an attack on the Zizhulin Concession, but they were blocked by the mine arrays of the allied forces, and lost more than 100 people.

Zhang Decheng knew that he would not be able to attack the Zizhulin Concession in a short period of time, so he ordered the troops to retreat.

After retiring from the army, Zhang Decheng immediately summoned Wang Chengde, Han Yili, Pang Wei, Lin Heier and other leaders of the Boxer Rebellion, and said directly: "Now that the foreign soldiers have set up a mine array, resulting in heavy casualties among the people of our regiment, it is difficult to move forward, what good way do you have?" ”

"I have already investigated when I retreated, and the minefields of the foreign soldiers are full of fortresses heading to the Zizhu Forest, and if we want to attack the Zizhu Forest Concession, we must destroy these mines." Han Yili said. The 3,000 Boxers led by him belonged to the Wen Regiment, which specialized in managing affairs such as finance, drawing talismans, and reception, as well as managing intelligence and reconnaissance, and assisting the military regiment to go to the battlefield.

"It's not that hard to dismantle these mines." Pang Wai said calmly. His ancestor is the famous general Pang Juan in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, under the influence of his ancestors, he has been familiar with the art of war since he was a child, and has his own set of effective methods for training and leading soldiers.

"Oh? What method? Lin Heier asked urgently. She is the only female organization of the Boxer Rebellion "Red Lantern Zhao" senior sister, known as the "Red Lotus Virgin", she led the 3,000 Boxers, all women, is a well-deserved heroine, mainly involved in medical care, intelligence collection, as well as propaganda and psychological support for the members of the League, of course, also participated in the actual combat of the Boxers.

The rest of the people also looked at Pang Wai in unison when they heard this, and couldn't wait to ask, "Yes, what method?" ”

Pang Wei glanced around at everyone and said, "During the Warring States Period, Tian Dan, the general of the Qi State, used the Fire Ox Formation to break the Yan State army, why don't we follow suit and use the Fire Ox Formation to break the mine array of foreign soldiers?" ”

"Good way!" Zhang Decheng couldn't help but praise, and the rest of the people also praised it, everyone felt that this method was feasible, and after half a sound, Zhang Decheng asked again: "How do you do it?" ”

"Senior Brother Han's Wentuan went to the surrounding countryside to buy a large number of cattle, and at the same time needed a large number of firecrackers, when the time came, we hung firecrackers on the tail of the ox, after ignition, driven by the firecrackers, the cattle will definitely rush forward desperately, when the time comes, not only the mine array will be broken, but the surviving cattle may also rush into the Zizhulin concession and become the vanguard, and the soldiers of the martial arts group will follow the ox to rush in, and the foreign soldiers will be defeated at that time!" Pang Wai said.

"Okay, let's do it." Zhang Decheng, Lin Heier, Wang Chengde, and Han Yili all agree with this method, and they all have no objections, after all, there is no better way than this now.

Later, Zhang Decheng gave the order of how the Boxers should attack the Zizhu Forest after the Fire Bull broke the mine array.

In the afternoon, under the leadership of Han Yili, the people of the Boxer Rebellion bought a large number of ploughing cattle from the surrounding villages, and also bought a large number of firecrackers from Tianjin, and everything was ready.

On July 9th, under Zhang Decheng's order, the battle of the fire ox array to break the mine array began, and countless ploughing cattle rushed forward like crazy under the explosion of the firecrackers hanging from their tails, stepping on one mine after another, and the explosion resounded throughout the entire purple bamboo forest for a while.

The coalition soldiers in the purple bamboo forest were frightened by this scene, due to the number of fire bulls, in the end, after all the mines were destroyed, there were still some mad cows rushing into the purple bamboo forest concession, the machine guns at the concession mouth could not effectively curb the charge of the crazy cows, and it didn't take long for the coalition forces in the concession to be rushed to pieces by the fire ox.

Zhang Decheng's 'First Regiment in the World' only one thousand elite horsemen were following the fire ox running wildly at this time, rushing into the purple bamboo forest, and turning the world upside down in the depths of the heavily fortified and layer-by-layer lair of the coalition army's purple bamboo forest.

Behind the 1,000 cavalry, there were the other 8,000 Boxer soldiers of the 'First Regiment in the World', the 3,000 Wu Regiment of Pang Wai, and the 3,000 Regiments of Wang Chengde. Finally, there are the heroines of the 'Red Lantern' led by Lin Heier, who slashed and killed the lone or undead foreign soldiers with knives in their hands, and carried stretchers to treat the wounded Boxer soldiers.

Among the heroines of the red light, there is a woman who is particularly conspicuous, she is dressed in green, tall, with a gauze cover, holding a double sword, light and agile, she can reach three or four meters high between jumps, and can even be four or five meters away when she jumps, she takes three hundred women's death squads with swords, wandering around the battlefield, killing foreign soldiers who try to shoot 'red lights'.

This woman is the red light of the "Snow Lotus Mother" Jade Snow, only nineteen years old, she followed her father at the age of thirteen to go to the rivers and lakes, performing martial arts, traveling all over the north and south, accustomed to seeing the world, but also saw all kinds of big scenes, and finally developed a high-minded and arrogant surname, the man she saw never had her liking, so she was determined not to marry for life.

Three years ago, she went to Shanghai with her father to perform martial arts, but she didn't want her father to be framed and arrested and imprisoned, she went to explain, but unfortunately she was also imprisoned in a foreigner's cell, she was strong in martial arts, and proficient in light skills, she escaped from prison overnight, but her father was killed by foreigners. From then on, she hated foreigners.

A year ago, she traveled to Tianjin, and happened to encounter the rise of the Boxer Rebellion, so she joined the red lantern, and gathered a group of women with strong martial arts under her command, and rushed to the forefront of every battle.

Because of her strong martial arts skills and good light skills, she is like a leaping green cloud on the battlefield, so Zhang Decheng gave her an appropriate nickname: Cuiyun Niang.

Of course, she didn't want to accept it, but after that, everyone in the Boxers respectfully called her Cuiyun Niang, and she was the second heroine in the Boxers after the senior sister 'Our Lady of the Red Lotus' Lin Hei'er.

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When Zhang Decheng and other troops attacked the Zizhulin Concession from the front, Cao Futian, who received the news, also personally led more than 5,000 Boxers from the Laolongtou Railway Station to launch a fierce attack on the new pontoon bridge to press the right defensive line of the coalition army in Zizhulin.

Nie Shicheng led the Wuwei Front Army to attack from the south of the concession, and successively occupied the area of the racecourse, until it reached the vicinity of Xiaoyingmen on the edge of the concession, and at the same time launched an artillery bombardment into the concession, posing a great threat to the coalition forces in the concession.

Under the joint attack of the Boxer soldiers and the Qing soldiers, even though there were more than 10,000 well-equipped and advanced allied troops in the Zizhulin Concession, they were still overwhelmed.

For most of the day, the coalition forces suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and most of the outer areas of the Zizhulin Concession were occupied by the Boxers, and the rest of the small areas were gradually cleared.

In the end, the remaining more than 9,000 allied troops all retreated to the inner area of the Zizhulin Concession, relying on the advantages of the building's defense location and advanced weapons, stubbornly resisted, and at the same time sent a distress letter to the general headquarters of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Due to the backward weapons, the Boxer soldiers spent most of the day and lost hundreds of people, but they still failed to attack the inner area of the Zizhu Forest.

Due to the successive defeats in the past few days, the morale of the coalition forces has suffered a serious setback, and the supply of ammunition is also insufficient, so they do not dare to rashly attack outward, so they can only suppress the Boxers with advanced weapons while waiting for reinforcements to arrive.