Seymour and Yamaguchi did not know that their artillery was wiped out, and they were not in the mood to know because they were also going through a fierce battle, still a cavalry-infantry-infantry duel.

In an unprepared situation, 10,000 infantry against 20,000 cavalry did not have the slightest advantage, especially when the coalition army marched for dozens of miles, and the two cavalry divisions of the Dragon and Tiger Army were waiting for work.

The battle did not seem to be much suspenseful, and in less than an hour, the coalition forces left behind more than 4,000 corpses and fled backwards without their lives.

The situation on the battlefield presented a chaotic scene, which just created the best conditions for the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Divisions to pursue and kill.

The cavalry pursued the infantry, and it was in the wilderness, and the outcome can be imagined.

In less than ten miles, the coalition army added more than 3,000 corpses, which can be described as floating corpses for ten miles, bleeding and drifting.

However, the nightmare of the coalition forces was not over yet, as they caught up with the Tiger Mighty Division led by Qin Xiao.

The Great War is imminent!

On the one hand, it is menacing, and on the other hand, it is impossible to form an army, and the outcome seems to have been determined.

Under the front and rear attacks of the First Cavalry Division, the Second Cavalry Division, and the Huwei Division, the remaining 8,000 or so allied troops were only more than 3,000 men after only 20 minutes of fighting.

Under such circumstances, Seymour and Turgrev led more than 1,700 British and Russian soldiers to surrender, and Yamaguchi Suchen was unwilling to be defeated, and led the remaining 1,300 or so troops to flee southward, and after crossing the North Canal, they blew up the canal bridge, relying on the advantages of the canal and the terrain to the south of the canal, and resisted stubbornly.

After Qin Xiao, Yue Fengxian, and Murong Ke discussed, they decided to wait until the artillery arrived, and under the cover of artillery fire, they launched a final river-crossing assault on the Yue army at night.

After finalizing the battle plan, the 1st Division of the 2nd Cavalry Division immediately used battalions and companies as units to recover the scattered coalition troops on the battlefield, so as not to leave them in calamity to the people, and the rest of the 1st Division assisted the Huwei Division led by Qin Xiao personally to attack the army on the south bank of the North Canal.

The 1st Cavalry Division, most of the Huwei Division, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, a total of 35,000 troops, led by Yue Fengxian, rushed to Tianjin City with captured coalition artillery.

The battle to eliminate the allied forces of the Beicang Defense Line was initially successful, in this battle more than 14,000 enemies were killed, more than 2,000 enemies were captured, and another 4,000 troops fled, including more than 1,000 troops led by Yamaguchi Sutomi.

The First Cavalry Division suffered more than 1,300 casualties, the Second Cavalry Division suffered more than 1,400 casualties, the Tiger Division suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry suffered more than 300 casualties, totaling more than 4,000 casualties.

Moreover, this victory is still based on the Dragon and Tiger Army's leisurely preparation, surprise attack and encirclement, if it is a positional battle, I am afraid that the Dragon and Tiger Army will not pay 10,000 or 20,000 casualties, and will not want to defeat the well-armed coalition army.

As night fell, before the battle by the North Canal began, Wang Jundao received the news that Yue Fengxian had rushed to the west of Tianjin City.

At this time, there was the third division of the Longwu Army of Nie's expedition to the north of Tianjin, the first division of the Longwu Army of Zhang Decheng in the south, and the two divisions of the Huben Guard Army in the east, in addition to the artillery battalion, machine gun battalion, assault battalion, pistol battalion and other troops.

The time soon came to eight o'clock in the evening, that is, Wang Jundao ordered the total Tianjin time.

In fact, the north and south sides were all feints, and the west was also a feint attack, and only the east was the real main attack.

The allied forces deployed in Tianjin City were only 10,000 troops, and it was overstretched to defend Tianjin City on all sides, east, west, north and south at the same time, and on such a night, Tianjin City was full of gunfire, artillery sounds, and shouts of killing on all sides, especially in the east and west, and the artillery fire was even more fierce.

The commanders of various countries could not judge which side of the Dragon and Tiger Army's main attack direction was at all, so they could only rely on the sound of guns and shouts of killing, and reinforced 1,000 men each to the east and west of Tianjin, so that there were 2,000 troops stationed in each of the two places, and only 1,000 troops in the north and south.

However, 2,000 people in front of tens of thousands of people is a drop in the bucket, even with the geographical advantage of Tianjin City Wall, it still can't change the fate of failure.

Under the cover of heavy artillery fire and heavy machine guns, the eastern gate of Tianjin City was breached after only holding on for more than half an hour, and the assault troops composed of Thorn Light Machine Guns, Thorn Sky Submachine Guns, Thorn Sky Pistols, Thorn Sky Assault Rifles, and improved Mauser pistols rushed into Tianjin City at the first time, followed by the large army of the Tiger Roar Division.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the west gate was also broken by Yue Fengxian's troops, and at this time, the eastern part of Tianjin City had been captured and controlled by the Dragon and Tiger Army.

Because Wang Jundao had issued a detailed battle order before the battle began, the troops led by the Tiger Roar Division and Yue Fengxian broke through the city gate and rushed to the north and south sections of Tianjin.

At ten o'clock in the evening, under the internal and external attacks, the north and south of Tianjin were captured by the Dragon and Tiger Army, and the outer city arsenal and grain and grass depot of the coalition army were also occupied by the Dragon and Tiger Army.

The soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army pointed directly at the inner city of Tianjin.

And on the side of the North Canal, the battle of the remnants of the attacking army commanded by Qin Xiao also started under the roar of artillery fire.

Under the cover of artillery fire and heavy machine guns, the vanguard of the 1,000 Dragon and Tiger Army embarked on wooden boats and improvised rafts requisitioned for money from the banks of the canal.

In the darkness of the night, a thousand vanguard troops soon landed on the land south of the canal, detoured back to the east and west sides of the defensive position of the Yue army, and launched a fierce attack to attract the main force of the Yue army.

At 10:30, the second group of 1,000 troops crossed the river again, appeared directly to the north of the Yue army, grabbed the beach, landed, and launched an attack from the north of the front defense of the Yue army.

At eleven o'clock, the position of the army was breached, and at this time, the third thousand-man team of the Dragon and Tiger Army successfully crossed the river again, and Yamaguchi Suchen knew that it was hopeless to hold on, so he led the remnants of more than 500 troops to run south, and the Dragon and Tiger Army was in hot pursuit!

At twelve o'clock in the evening, the Dragon and Tiger Army cleared all the remnants of the coalition army in the outer city of Tianjin and surrounded the inner city of Tianjin, at this time there were only more than 3,000 coalition soldiers in the inner city of Tianjin.

At the temporary headquarters of the Dragon and Tiger Army, Yue Fengxian suggested to Wang Jundao: "Commander, give the order for a general attack." ”

Guo Meng, the commander of the Tiger Roaring Division, also nodded, and said to Wang Jundao: "Yes, commander, give the order for a general attack, the soldiers of the coalition army in the inner city must be less than 5,000, and it is a good time to recover Tianjin City in one fell swoop." ”

Long Zhan, the commander of the Haw Par Division, and Liu Wei, the commander of the Tiger Roar Division, also agreed: "Commander, give the order." ”

Of course, Wang Jundao did not give an order, but looked at Nie Yuanzheng, who was silent, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Nie Yuanzheng groaned slightly, and said: "Although we have surrounded the inner city, but the inner city is so strong, once the city is attacked, it is impossible to use a large number of heavy artillery, even if the coalition army is only four or five thousand people, we will not be able to break through the inner city without losing the same number of soldiers, since the battle has reached this point, I don't think there is any need to make unnecessary sacrifices, so I suggest persuading to surrender." ”

After a pause, Nie Yuanzheng said: "And there are tens of thousands of weapons and grain supplies of the coalition army in the inner city, once we attack the city, these weapons will become the sharp weapons of the coalition army, and once we succeed in persuading us to surrender, then these weapons will become our weapons, with these weapons, plus these weapons and ammunition captured from the battlefield, we can at least use the weapons of the coalition army to arm seventy or eighty thousand troops in a short period of time." ”

After Nie Yuanzheng finished speaking, he looked at Wang Jundao, but found that Wang Jundao was nodding to him, he glanced around at everyone, and then said: "Also, if we attack the city, even if we can break through the inner city in the shortest possible time, so that the coalition forces cannot use those weapons, but they will inevitably not blow up the arsenal and burn the grain and grass warehouse before they fail." ”

After listening to Nie Yuanzheng's words, everyone thought it was true, yes, it was a pity that so many good things were ruined, how good it would be if they could get it.

But if you don't attack the city, the question arises again, will the coalition forces surrender?