At the end of July, the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army, under the leadership of Lieutenant General Yamaguchi Sotomi, the commander of the division, rushed from Hiroshima to Tianjin, and the strength of the Chinese army reached 15,000, surpassing the Russian army in China and leaping to the top of the coalition forces.

Under such circumstances, in order to increase their strength, each country also expands its military strength as much as possible.

Britain urgently transferred troops from India, Australia, Southeast Asia and other colonies, with a total strength of more than 3,000 troops.

Russia transferred all its troops in Lushun and Yingkou to Tianjin, with a total strength of more than 7,000 troops.

The United States urgently transferred troops from the mainland and the Philippines, with a total strength of more than 4,000 troops.

France urgently transferred troops from Annam, with a total strength of more than 2,000 troops.

The expeditionary force sent by Germany was on its way to China.

Italy and Austria-Hungary also urgently mobilized more than 2,000 people to arrive in Tianjin.

Together with the coalition forces that attacked Tianjin before, the strength of the Eight-Nation Coalition in Tianjin has exceeded 50,000.

And due to the change in the strength of the various countries, and these fears of the prince and the king, gradually disappeared in the hearts of the commanders of the countries, and the countries were dissatisfied with the proposal to temporarily appoint Wadsey as commander-in-chief.

In order to compete for the position of commander-in-chief, the commanders of the allied countries quarreled over this, and the date of the attack on Yanjing was delayed again and again, and time passed day by day, and the allied forces never reached a consensus on the question of who would be the commander-in-chief, and the embassies of various countries in Dongjiaomin Lane also completely lost contact with the allied forces, which made the countries even more nervous.

Time is of the essence and cannot wait any longer.

After some heated discussions, the coalition forces finally decided to attack Yanjing on August 4, with 10,000 of the 50,000 coalition troops remaining in Tianjin, and the remaining 40,000 allied troops divided into two routes, one was the left-wing army corps composed of more than 20,000 people of the United States and Britain, and the other was the right-wing corps composed of 20,000 Russian, French, Italian and Austrian troops.

On the afternoon of August 4, 40,000 allied troops marched from Tianjin and along both sides of the canal to Yanjing.

In order to stop the advance of the coalition forces, the Qing army had already built two lines of defense between Tianjin and Yanjing, and sent armed guards to garrison them in both places.

The first line of defense is the Beicang defense line laid by Beicang Town, with about 10,000 defenders, and the second line of defense is located in Yangcun, with about 8,000 defenders. Yulu, the governor of Zhili, who fled from Tianjin, led the commander-in-chief of the defensive battle on the outskirts of Beijing, and personally went to the front to supervise the battle.

In the early morning of August 5, 10,000 Japanese troops took the lead in launching an attack on the Beicang defense line, and engaged 10,000 Qing troops stationed in the garrison.

After dawn, the artillery fire of the coalition forces on the right bank of the canal also joined the bombardment of the Qing army's position, and the intensive artillery fire began to drive the Qing army out of the trenches, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties and was forced to withdraw from the position and retreat to Yangcun.

What the Qing army brought back to Yangcun was not the increase in the number of Qing troops, but the fierceness of the coalition attack and the terror of the coalition artillery.

On 6 August, the blockade battle at Yangcun began as scheduled, and after only 90 minutes, the defenses of the Qing army, which had no courage, completely collapsed, and because the American troops moved too fast, they took the lead in occupying the Qing army's position, but the artillery fire of the coalition forces that did not know the truth rang out again, causing heavy casualties to the American troops.

Faced with the situation of defeat, the 56-year-old Yulu was powerless to return to heaven and committed suicide with a gun.

On August 7, Cixi still appointed Li Hongzhang as the minister plenipotentiary, so that he could immediately call the external countries of the e-commerce industry and make a truce.

The fact that the Qing soldiers were fighting desperately with the allied forces on the battlefield and that Cixi, the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, ordered peace at this time is simply an extreme irony and the greatest sorrow in the thousands of years of Chinese history.

Wang Jundao ordered Luo Shiguan to take charge of the administrative affairs of the three counties, ordered Nie Yuanzheng to take charge of the military affairs of the three counties, Nie Yuanzheng to take charge of the military affairs of the three counties, Nie Yuanzheng to garrison Zunhua County with the third regiment of the Longwu Army and the newly formed Sixth Regiment to garrison Zunhua County, ordered the newly formed Yue Fengxian's First Cavalry Division to garrison Jixian County in the west, and ordered Murong Ke's Second Cavalry Division to garrison Qianxi County in the east.

On the afternoon of August 8, Wang Jundao led Zhang Decheng's first regiment, Tang Jian's second regiment, Pang Wei's fourth regiment, Cao Futian's fifth regiment, Wu Wenruo's baggage engineering regiment, and Lin Heier's logistics regiment to Yanjing!

On the afternoon of August 10, more than 30,000 troops led by Wang Jundao bypassed Yanjing and arrived at Tanzhesi Town.

More than 1,000 carriages from Tai'an had already arrived in Tanzhesi Town at the end of July, and the person in charge of this batch of transportation teams was Meng Xingliang, deputy head of the Tiger Ben Army's Heavy Engineering Regiment, and with it, the Tiger Roar Battalion of the Tiger Ben Army Guard Regiment.

Wang Jundao summoned Meng Xingliang and Guo Meng at the first time.

First of all, Guo Meng, the commander of the Tiger Roar Battalion, reported to Wang Jundao about the military situation in Tai'an: "Army Commander, in mid-July, the Governor of Liangjiang sent 20,000 Qing troops to attack Yizhou Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion respectively, and the Governor of Henan also sent 8,000 Qing troops to attack Caozhou Mansion, but they were all defeated by the brothers of the Huben Army led by Commander Xiang, Regiment Commander Xu, and Regiment Commander Kang, and the rest of the Qing army retreated to Haizhou, Xuzhou and Shangqiu in Henan in northern Jiangsu respectively, and confronted our army. And Yuan Shikai also let the army tentatively attack Changqing County and Zhonggong area, but under the new weapons of our army, after the losses were not small, they all retreated and no longer attacked our army. ”

"Well, well done, didn't disappoint me!" Wang Jundao laughed with satisfaction, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked, "What are the new weapons you are talking about?" ”

Guo Meng couldn't help but say: "The 'Piercing Sky' series of pistols, rifles, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, submachine guns, grenades, mortars, infantry guns, etc., especially heavy machine guns, I don't know how much stronger than the Makqin heavy machine gun, it is simply a terrifying killing machine, four 'Piercing Sky' heavy machine guns were put on the strategic fortifications, and they completely suppressed Yuan Shikai's new army attack, in addition, the 'Piercing Sky' pistols, rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns were also particularly good, and Yuan Shikai's army was completely unable to raise its head. This time, we came to Yanjing, and we also brought 500 'Piercing Sky' pistols, 500 'Piercing Sky' rifles, 20 'Piercing' heavy machine guns, 50 'Piercing' light machine guns, 100 'Piercing' submachine guns, 5,000 'Piercing' grenades, and 10 'Piercing Sky' mortars. Even if it is hit by a bullet, it will not cause an explosion, and as for the grenade, as long as the lead is not pulled, there is no problem for the bullet to shoot through. ”

Wang Jundao's eyes widened and said, "It's all developed?" ”

Guo Meng said: "Not only have they been developed, but there are already three production lines for pistols and rifles, and there is also a production line for heavy machine guns, light machine guns, mortars, grenades, submachine guns, infantry guns, etc. ”

Wang Jundao suddenly realized something, and asked in shock: "The steel I want has also been produced?" ”

Wang Jundao knew very well that without good steel, even if there was a production line, it would be impossible to produce these new weapons of his own design.

Guo Meng nodded and said, "Not only that, but now Master Cui is already building a second 'piercing' steel production line!" ”

"Thorn steel" is Wang Jundao invented, the toughness of this steel can only be compared with the steel used in armored vehicles and tanks in later generations, not only that, but also resistant to high temperature, friction, no rust, this technology, only Wang Jundao has a person, this world, there is no kind of steel can compare with the" Thorn steel "!

"Great!" Wang Jundao couldn't help but look up to the sky and laughed: "Lao Cui really didn't disappoint me. ”

In the middle of the ring, Wang Jundao calmed down his excitement and asked Meng Xingliang: "How is the development of the Tai'an area?" ”

The Tai'an region that Wang Jundao refers to naturally refers to the area occupied by the Tiger Ben army, which is now the entire southeastern part of Shandong.

Meng Xingliang said: "The new deal has been thoroughly implemented to the townships and towns in various places, and the land policy has developed to the rural areas, and because of the rapid development of the major commercial banks, the dragon currency has also been thoroughly promoted to the counties, and the Tai'an Mansion has completely used the dragon currency, industry, agriculture, and service industries are developing rapidly, especially commerce, the fastest development, under various policies conducive to business, commercial bases have risen everywhere, and the economy has prospered unprecedentedly, and under the environmental protection law, The environment has not suffered any major damage, and education has been gradually carried out in various places, and the township primary schools have been rebuilt in some of the former squire's houses, and the boys' and girls' classes have begun to open......"

Immediately afterwards, Meng Xingliang reported all the government affairs in Tai'an to Wang Jundao clearly, Wang Jundao listened carefully, sometimes surprised, sometimes excited, only he can truly understand how happy and exciting it is to let a backward place rise again!

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