Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Sons and Daughters of China Are Heroes
At noon on July 9, Russian Lieutenant General Alekseev, commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance, received a distress letter from the Zizhulin Concession, immediately summoned the commanders of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and after telling everyone the belief in the plea, he said: "Now the Chinese are attacking the Zizhulin, and the allied forces have lost more than 2,000 people. ”
Commander Fukushima Yasumasa said directly: "It's time for the Chinese to see how powerful my Imperial soldiers are, and I am willing to personally lead the troops to the Zizhu Forest to rescue the allied soldiers." ”
"No way!" German Commander Wadsey shook his head and said, "Zizhulin is attacked from three sides at the same time, and it is in danger, and your three thousand people alone will not make any difference at all." ”
"Nari? Do you dare to underestimate the Imperial Army? Fukushima Yasumasa glared at Wadsey.
"It's not that I underestimate it, but you really can't do it." Wadsey said disdainfully, in his opinion, compared to the German army, the army of Ben was indeed not very good.
Fukushima Yasumasa was so angry that his face was red, and he immediately got up from his seat, clenched his fists, and was about to reason with Wadsey, but the commander-in-chief Alekcheev hurriedly stopped: "Don't be impatient, don't hurt your peace for such a trivial matter." ”
"Humph!" Fukushima Yasumasa snorted coldly, glared at Wadsey fiercely, and said, "For the sake of the commander-in-chief's face, I won't care about you." ”
As he spoke, he looked at Alekcheev again and pleaded: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I am willing to accept military punishment if I fail to save the concession from danger." ”
"General Fukushima, please stay calm." Alekcheev motioned for him to sit down first.
Although Fukushima Yasumasa was also very dissatisfied with Alekcheev as the commander-in-chief, he had to be obedient, suppressed the anger in his heart, and sat down, who made him not the commander-in-chief now?
At this time, the American commander Sha Fei said: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I propose that we attack Balitai first, let the relatively well-equipped Qing soldiers besieging the Zizhulin Concession retreat, and then attack the Boxers besieging Zizhulin. ”
Wadsey agreed: "I also agree with General Sha Fei's proposal, but I have to add a few points, since China dares to attack Zizhulin so fiercely, and it has caused more than 2,000 allied warriors to be killed and wounded, I think we should teach them a lesson." ”
Otto, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, proposed: "I propose to take Tianjin down to let the Chinese know that our allied forces are not easy to bully, and at the same time let the Chinese Empress Dowager of Yanjing see the consequences of offending us." ”
The Italian commander, Shylock, also chimed in: "I agree with General Otto's proposal. ”
Sha Fei nodded and said, "I agree!" ”
Alekseev looked at the commanders of the various countries present who had agreed, so he said: "Okay, we will capture Tianjin first, but the top priority is to relieve the siege of Zizhulin, I decided to use General Sha Fei's proposal, first attack Balitai, then save Zizhulin, and then lay down the Qing army strongholds around Tianjin City, completely surround Tianjin City, and finally capture Tianjin City." ”
Subsequently, Alekseev issued combat orders to the commanders of various countries, and Fukushima Yasushi got the task of attacking the Boxers in Zizhulin as he wished, and of course there were other coalition forces to cooperate, otherwise the current 3,000 troops would not be able to relieve the siege of Zizhulin.
In the afternoon of the same day, 3,000 coalition soldiers stationed in the south of Tianjin launched an attack, stormed Balitai, received the news of the rescue of Balitai, Nie Shicheng hurriedly led the Qing troops who attacked Zizhulin to help, and the fierce battle of Balitai was completely launched.
On July 10, 3,000 allied soldiers rushed to the Longtou Railway Station, but because the Boxers led by Cao Futian were still attacking Zizhulin, the old Longtou Railway Station was empty, and it was occupied by the Allied forces in less than two hours.
On July 11, 6,000 well-equipped coalition soldiers drove outside the Zizhu Forest and began to attack the more than 20,000 Boxers in the Zizhu Forest.
Under the enemy's back, although the Boxer soldiers had amazing combat effectiveness, the inferiority in weapons was also completely revealed, and more than 2,000 people died in the land of Zizhu Forest for two hours of fierce fighting.
Zhang Decheng knew that resisting any longer would only make the Boxers suffer more losses, so he hurriedly summoned Pang Wei, Wang Chengde, Han Yili, Lin Heier and others.
"Now that we are under the enemy's back, if we persist any longer, not only will we not be able to capture the Zizhu Forest, but we will also increase casualties, I have received an order from Lord Yulu, the governor of Zhili, to let us retreat into Tianjin City, I originally planned to retreat to Tianjin, are you willing to go with me?" Zhang Decheng said.
"I'm willing to go with my brother." Wang Chengde said to Zhang Decheng when he heard this.
"I'm also willing to go with my brother." Han Yili thought about it and said.
"What about you?" Zhang Decheng looked at Pang Wai and said. In his heart, he hoped that everyone would retreat to Tianjin City with him, after all, everyone had been fighting the enemy together for a period of time, and they could be regarded as friends and brothers who had been defeated on the battlefield.
Pang Wai glanced at Zhang Decheng, thought for a while, and said: "Now that we have been bitten by foreign soldiers, it is difficult to retreat to Tianjin, and I am willing to lead the two thousand six hundred brothers of the headquarters to break off." ”
"I'd like to stay!" Lin Hei'er said categorically: "Where there are Boxer brothers, there are my sisters who shine with a red light, and if the brothers of Pangwei want to break off, there will definitely be big casualties, and I am willing to take my sisters to break off with them." ”
Zhang Decheng knew the surnames of Pang Wai and Lin Hei'er, and knew that once they made up their minds, they would never change, and the current situation really needed to break the team, so he said directly: "Okay, I will give you all the more than 3,000 foreign guns that have been captured by these Yuezi, and I will wait for your arrival in Tianjin City." ”
Subsequently, several people acted one after another, Zhang Decheng left all the captured foreign guns to Pang Wai's Wu Tuan and Lin Heier's red light, and then opened the way with 1,000 knights, accompanied by 15,000 Boxer soldiers, rushed out of the purple bamboo forest to the northwest of Tianjin, more than 1,000 coalition troops blocking the Boxer Rebellion were rushed to pieces by the fierce Boxer knights, and finally did not stop Zhang Decheng's first regiment in the world from entering the city.
As soon as Zhang Decheng left, the remaining more than 5,000 soldiers of the martial arts regiment and the woman with the red light were surrounded on three sides, completely blocking the outer area of the purple bamboo forest.
After more than an hour of fierce fighting, there were less than two thousand soldiers in the martial arts regiment, and there were only more than two thousand and one hundred women left in the red light.
"Are you alright? Are there any injuries? Lin Heier asked.
Biyuxue shook her head and before she could speak, a burst of gunfire had already struck, two bullets flew by the edge of Biyuxue's hair, almost knocking off her gauze, she re-tied the gauze with a movement of her hand, but in an instant, her beautiful and charming face also revealed a small half, like Luoshui Shenshu.
In the distance, the dense foreign soldiers were charging forward with guns, and Biyuxue was about to wield her double swords to kill her, but Lin Heier grabbed her and quickly pressed Biyuxue down in a trench.
"You're crazy, you'll be shot into a sieve by foreign soldiers if you go up like this." Lin Hei'er pressed Jasper Xue's shoulders stiffly.
"Even if you die, you have to kill a few more foreign devils." Bi Yuxue said fiercely: "They oppressed the people, slaughtered the people, and robbed property, annihilating * silver women, and deserved death." ”
"Then you can't joke with your own life, you are going out now to die for nothing." Lin Hei'er grabbed Biyuxue fiercely, but her martial arts were much worse than Biyuxue, and she was broken away by Jasper Xue in a moment.
Before Lin Hei'er could react, Biyuxue had already rushed out, and Biyuxue's three hundred female death squad saw Biyuxue rushing out, and they also rushed out without fear with the sword in their hands.
And the more than 500 Boxer soldiers who defended with the women's death squad were not to be outdone, carrying swords and rushing out with foreign guns that had already been assigned, their speed was very fast, and they came from behind, and after a while, they rushed to the front of the women's death squad, shooting and killing the foreign soldiers who were getting closer and closer, both sides were shooting at each other, and people kept falling, but neither side retreated.
After nearly 100 Boxers and foreign soldiers fell, the two teams finally met in close combat, and the Boxer soldiers who were originally holding guns invariably threw away the guns in their hands, drew out their swords and slashed the coalition soldiers.
In close combat, guns are never as good as knives, especially since today's guns are only manual rifles.
The soldiers of this coalition army are said to be themselves, and at this time they have only seen what real hand-to-hand combat is, and the warriors of the Great Empire that they boast about are nothing in front of the Boxer soldiers, and often two or three soldiers are fighting against a Boxer soldier, and they are all cut down to the point of crying wolf.
Even the three hundred female death squad led by Biyuxue could still easily kill one by one.
Obviously, the quality of individual soldiers in this era is far inferior to that of World War II!
The self-confident and conceited soldiers finally paid a heavy price for their arrogance, but these soldiers were also very fierce, even with heavy casualties, no one retreated, and they were desperately defending their bushido spirit.
After all, there were more than 2,000 soldiers, four times the number of Boxer soldiers, so after the soldiers were cut down seven or eight hundred, there were only more than 200 Boxer soldiers left, and the women's death squad was less than 200 people.
However, no one chose to retreat, and they were still fighting with the soldiers.
I have the spirit of bushido, why don't the Chinese have their own spirit of bushido?
Jasper Xue's body is light and agile, flying on the battlefield like a green cloud, the double swords in her hands are like death, quickly taking away the lives of the soldiers, and she relies on her strange body shape and mysterious footwork, there is not a trace of blood on her body, and she is still as cold and glamorous as Naluo Water Shenshu, but at this time she is more like a female Shura from hell, watching her sisters fall in front of her eyes, her heart is dripping blood, the sword is becoming more and more ruthless, and where she passes, only a stump and a broken arm will be left.
In the fierce battle, she felt that her strength was getting smaller and weaker, and her physical strength was getting weaker and weaker, at this moment, she heard the rumbling of horses' hooves, she knew that it was from the cavalry behind the Yue Ben soldiers, she couldn't see the appearance of those cavalry through the dense Yue Ben soldiers, but she saw the golden dragon banner raised high by the cavalry team.
She knows that only Chinese will use the dragon as a symbol!