Chapter Seventy-Six: Taking Control of the Armed Guards

More than 1,000 people from the second battalion of the first regiment of Zhang Decheng's Longwu Army had rushed to raid the homes of those unsubmissive officials who had been killed by him, and at the same time gathered the Boxer soldiers everywhere to prevent the Boxer soldiers from taking advantage of the cholera capital.

Wang Jundao's order to Wang Chengde was: try to collect the Boxers, and if you encounter those who are unwilling to submit and are evil urban areas, they will be exterminated directly!

For this reason, Wang Jundao also equipped Wang Chengde with a large number of good equipment seized from the Imperial City Arsenal and the arsenal of the Ministry of War, and gave them a full thirty heavy machine guns, and the rest were all Mauser rifles.

And the 2,000 people of the third and fourth battalions of the first regiment of the Longwu Army, Wang Jundao left them to Wei Zhongcheng, so that he could control the Military Aircraft Department, the Prime Minister's Yamen and the Six Ministries and Jiuqing, and Wang Jundao did not hesitate to equip them with the best weapons.

It would be a ruin to keep the weapons in the arsenal of the Imperial City and the Ministry of War, because in a few years, he will equip the weapons of the 'Piercing Heaven' series into the army, and these old-fashioned weapons will lose their advantage.

Wang Jundao finally knew why the Qing Dynasty was defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance in history, if these weapons were armed to the elite Boxer soldiers, only tens of thousands of Eight-Nation Coalition troops, even if the weapons were advanced, in terms of the disadvantage of away combat, it was not enough to see at all, because most of the Boxer soldiers were brave men who dared to fight hard with swords and spears and foreign soldiers!

Wang Jundao led more than 1,000 people from the first battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Longwu Army, more than 500 people from the machine gun battalion equipped with the 'Piercing Sky' machine gun, more than 1,000 people from the pistol battalion equipped with the 'Piercing Sky' pistol and Mauser pistol, more than 300 people from the assault battalion equipped with the 'Piercing Sky' submachine gun, more than 300 people from the artillery battalion equipped with the 'Piercing Sky' mortar and infantry guns, and more than 300 people from the 20,000 forbidden army and the guidance battalion with the Tiger and Par Battalion as the backbone of the army.

The first battalion of the first regiment of the Longwu Army was originally a thousand cavalry of Zhang Decheng's 'first regiment in the world', and it still belongs to the cavalry, and the 20,000 forbidden troops are also high-class soldiers who can be used as cavalry and infantry, so they are also cavalry now.

As for the rest of the troops, they were all in horse-drawn carriages, heavy machine guns and other weapons were loaded into the carriages, and in the middle of the procession, there were ministers from various countries, bishops of churches, priests, and so on, and behind the procession, there were 2,000 baggage teams transporting grain, grass and ammunition.

The inner city wall is just south of Liubu Jiuqing, and it will naturally take less than half an hour at the speed of cavalry and carriages.

The city wall is divided into the outer city wall and the inner wall, and there is a wide area between the city walls, which is the garrison of the military guards, and outside the outer city wall, there is a moat.

Due to the appearance of Wang Jundao out of thin air, the Yue army and the Russian army in the Eight-Nation Alliance were unable to attack the Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen in the east of the inner city, so that the coalition forces could only move to Zhengyangmen and Chongwenmen in the southern city wall of the inner city, which were located in the urban area and were difficult to erect effective batteries.

The well-equipped Wuwei Central Army, Wuwei Rear Army, Wuwei Front Army, and Wuwei Left Army were the main forces guarding Zhengyangmen and Chongwenmen, and the British army could not enter the inner city embassy from the Water Gate, so the Eight-Nation Coalition Army began to attack the inner city wall for more than ten hours from the early morning, and due to the terrain restrictions, it was impossible to invest a large number of troops, and it still failed to break through the inner city.

Wang Jundao relied on Cixi's edict, Guangxu's decree and the order of the Military Aircraft Department, and led the army into the inner wall without any hindrance, and the Qing soldiers on the inner wall couldn't help cheering when they saw that it was the palace forbidden army coming, because they subconsciously thought that these forbidden troops were here to support them.

At the headquarters, Rong Lu received a report from his subordinates, and he was happy and surprised, happy that Cixi sent the forbidden army to support, and Zhengyangmen could be defended, and this also proved that the rumors that Cixi and Guangxu escaped from Yanjing were false, and the person who led the palace guards turned out to be a newcomer, and he didn't even know the name of the person who led the army.

He hurriedly asked his subordinates to send an order to invite Wang Jundao to his command room, he wanted to greet him in person, but he also knew that he needed to stick to his post now, otherwise it was very likely that the Qing soldiers who were already struggling to support would lose the only remaining trace of morale.

Soon, Wang Jundao came to Rong Lu's command room, and when he saw Rong Lu, who was already sixty-four years old, Rong Lu also saw him who was exactly fourteen years old.

Today's Wang Jundao, who is already one meter eight tall, has a handsome and resolute face, outstanding temperament, coupled with his powerful confident eyes and the terrifying majesty of his expression, making him exude a kind of royal domineering all over his body, looking more like twenty-four years old, not like fourteen years old at all.

Rong Lu didn't know why the commander of the forbidden army would be replaced, he had never seen Wang Jundao, at this time, he only thought that Wang Jundao was the son of a certain Manchu prince, and was temporarily appointed as the commander of the forbidden army, he couldn't help but ask: "Dare to ask Gongzi, which one is Lingtang?" ”

Wang Jundao said lightly: "Does Lord Rong think that I am the commander of the forbidden army who became the commander of the forbidden army with the protection of my father? ”

Childe laughed. Rong Lu's heart froze, he smiled a little, and asked, "Dare to ask Gongzi's surname?" ”

Wang Jundao waved his hand and said, "Now that the foreign soldiers under the city are raging, it's not the time to discuss this, Lord Rong should listen to the orders of the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the Military Aircraft Department first." ”

Wang Jundao said and took out all the edicts together, Rong Lu and the high-ranking generals of the Wuwei Chinese Army in the command room hurriedly patted their sleeves, knelt down, and obeyed the order.

Wang Jundao immediately read the edicts, the orders are very strange, the general meaning is to let Rong Lu transfer the power of the command of the Wuwei Zhongjun and the command of the Wuwei Army to the person who holds the order, and the Wuwei army up and down, all officers and soldiers, all must unconditionally obey the person who holds the order, and those who violate it will be killed!

After listening to the edict, Rong Lu's first reaction was impossible, how could Cixi take away his military power? How could such an edict be issued?

When Rong Lu stood up with the high-level generals present in a daze, Wang Jundao presented all the edicts in front of him, of course, it was not handed over to him!

Rong Lu could see that there was no problem with the edicts at all, but he was still unwilling, he never thought that he would be deprived of military power like this, what is this? Unloading the mill and killing the donkey?

Rong Lu gritted his teeth and said, "How could the Queen Mother and Your Majesty give such an order?" This is a major national event! There is also the Military Aircraft Department, it is impossible to give such an order, and change generals in battle, this is a taboo for soldiers! ”

"Lord Rong, is this doubting the ability of this commander, or is he scolding the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department for being stupid? Or are you saying that the queen mother and the emperor have no eyes? Wang Jundao sneered and said, he had no hesitation to consider himself handsome.

The three hats were all buckled down towards Rong Lu's head, and one was higher than the other, Rong Lu's face suddenly changed greatly, and he looked at Wang Jundao in a daze, unable to speak for a long time.

In the end, under Wang Jundao's cold eyes, Rong Lu chose to accept his fate, he smiled bitterly, and said with great sadness: "Weichen leads ......"

"Dashuai, you can't do this."

Before Rong Lu's words were finished, a strong officer in his thirties stood up against it.

Then, the officer stared at Wang Jundao and said sharply: "Marshal, he is taking away your military power, he is going to push the Qing soldiers into the fire pit." ”

"Yes, Dashuai, how can he be virtuous? Can you be the commander of the Armed Guards? ”

"Yes, there is a vertical son, and the hair has not grown, how can he lead the Wuwei Army?"

"Yes, Dashuai, how can you be responsible for defending the city?"

"Yes, if you want him to defend the city, I'm afraid that it won't be long before the foreign soldiers will attack the inner city."

……

There is the first, there is the second, there is the third......

As the successive voices of opposition sounded, after a while, seven or eight officers had already jumped out to oppose Wang Jundao.

Wang Jundao snorted coldly, this cold snort with endless majesty and infinite murderous aura, instantly filled the entire command room, and the ten divine soldiers behind him also took a step forward at the same time, and their hands were neatly pressed on two twenty-shot Mauser pistols, this action, as if they could draw their guns and shoot at any time.

All the officers couldn't help but be shocked, but they were also battle-hardened people, and although they were shocked, they were not afraid, but when they were shocked, the opposition stopped.

Wang Jundao slowly swept over everyone with cold eyes, and said coldly: "Ability is made, not by saying, you say that I don't have the ability, do you have the ability?"

As an officer and general at the highest level of the Qing army, he had more than 100,000 well-armed armed guards, and with the cooperation of hundreds of thousands of Boxers, he could not even stop 30,000 or 40,000 foreign soldiers.

The defense of Tianjin lasted only one day before it was broken by 20,000 or 30,000 foreign soldiers.

The Beicang defensive line, a full 10,000 people, with its geographical advantage, blocked 20,000 foreign soldiers, and only lasted four hours before the whole line was defeated.

The Yangcun defensive line, an elite army of 8,000 people, waited for work, and only lasted 90 minutes before being completely defeated.

In the battle of Tongzhou, as soon as the foreign soldiers appeared, the Qing soldiers ran away without a trace, and the foreign soldiers occupied Tongzhou without a single shot.

The city gate on the east side of Yanjing City lasted for a day, but unfortunately it was still breached.

Now this inner city wall, as I expected, should be almost impossible to hold onto, right?

I have received news that the reinforcements of foreign soldiers from Tongzhou have arrived, if you are allowed to hold on, how long do you think you can hold out in the dark night? One night? Half a night? Or three hours? Or is it just an hour?

You not only disappointed me, but also disappointed the people of the entire Yanjing City, and the whole world, do you still have the face to say here? And the face to live? Why didn't he shoot himself directly like Yulu, the governor of Zhili? ”

Wang Jundao's words were word-for-word, loud and well-founded, and the faces of all the officers in the command room were completely unsightly, sometimes blue, sometimes white, sometimes angry, and sometimes ashamed......

In the end, an officer became angry, drew his gun and pointed it at Wang Jundao, and said angrily: "It's just nonsense, I'll kill you now." ”

Wang Jundao stared at him coldly, and it was not until he raised his gun and aimed it at himself that he took two quick and lightning steps, flew up with a kick, and kicked directly on the officer's chest, causing his whole body to fly upside down.

And when the officer landed, the bullet from Wang Jundao's pistol had already entered his head.

One shot to the head!

By the time all the officers reacted, Wang Jundao had already retreated to his original position, and said in an extremely cold tone: "If you commit the following crimes, trying to kill the supreme commander, your crime should be punished, and if anyone dares to resist again, he will end up in the best." ”

Wang Jundao's words fell, and the ten divine soldiers pulled out twenty Mauser pistols at the same time with both hands, the neatness of the movements, the speed of the skills, made all the officers feel chills in their hearts, if it weren't for the fact that they were all soldiers sharpened on the battlefield, I was afraid that they would have been scared to pee their pants at this time.

Looking at such a tense situation, Rong Lu's face was also very bad-looking, he knew that the young new commander in front of him wanted to establish his authority, but he didn't expect Wang Jundao to kill people and establish his authority, let alone that Wang Jundao would kill his people in front of him, this was simply a naked slap in the face.

But Rong Lu couldn't find a reason to seek justice at all, the behavior of his cronies just now was indeed the following crime, according to the law, he really should be shot, looking at the twenty Mauser pistols that were steaming with the breath of death, he knew that as long as he and the others made any more changes, he was afraid that he would really be shot into a hornet's nest in the next moment.

In the end, Rong Lu sighed bitterly and said, "Wechen obeys the ......"

(PS: Thank you yebaoyin for the tips and renewal tickets...... )