At this moment, it was the Russian army that opened fire on Yanjing City, for no other reason, because during the day, the Russian army received an urgent distress letter from the embassy.

After learning that the Russian army had launched an attack a day earlier, the armies of the United States and Britain also hurriedly entered the battle and launched an attack on Yanjing City one after another.

The Russian army shelled Dongzhimen, the Japanese army shelled Chaoyangmen, the US troops shelled Dongbianmen, and the British army shelled Guangqumen.

Shells were fired from the cannons, most of them landed on the perimeter of the four city gates, and only a few hit the walls and exploded, but for the fortified walls, these shells did not do much.

Under the cover of artillery, the coalition forces began to launch a general attack on the eastern section of the city wall of Yanjing City.

However, the allied forces met with the fiercest resistance since entering China, and the fighting lasted from early morning until dawn, and the Russian troops attacking the two gates of the inner city were blocked outside the gates all day, and could not advance an inch.

The rumbling sound of cannons had already awakened Cixi in the Forbidden City.

Early in the morning, Cixi urgently convened an imperial council.

It was a silent meeting, and although everyone involved knew that the coalition forces had begun to attack the city, none of them had the courage to admit this fact, and no one wanted to believe that this result was the price of risking war with the Eight-Nation Alliance.

The meeting was so short that no one was able to come up with an effective solution to the current situation, and it had to be brought to a hasty conclusion.

And because of the dawn, the coalition forces attacked the city gates more violently, and the army and the Russian army were the most numerous, but because the attack was on the inner city gate, they encountered the most stubborn resistance, and the armies of both countries* sent more than half of their troops to attack the city gate in turn.

The U.S. and British troops attacked the outer city gates, and the resistance was relatively small, but because each country only had three or four thousand troops, in order to capture the city gate as soon as possible, the two countries invested two-thirds of their troops to attack the city.

Despite the Coalition's attempts to blow open the gates with explosives on an unknown number of occasions, they all failed, as the soldiers sent to plant the explosives were killed by the Qing soldiers on the gates before they could break through the moat's defenses.

This continued until the coalition forces suffered losses of more than 300 people each.

Night began to come, and since the Qing soldiers defending the city had been defending the city for a whole day, the coalition forces sensed that their opportunity had come.

Under the cover of darkness, the coalition forces replaced the reserve that they had not used to attack the city, and launched another fierce attack on the city gates.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, after more than an hour of hard work, the U.S. troops took the lead in breaking through the moat defense line of Dongbianmen, placing the explosives surnamed Lie under the city gate, and pulling up a long lead, but before the lead was ignited, the soldiers who planted the lead were killed on the ground, and then dozens of soldiers who tried to rush forward to light the lead were killed.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Russian army was in Dongzhimen, the army was in Chaoyangmen, and the British army had planted explosives in Guangqumen, and the firepower of the Qing soldiers on the city gate was also weakened.

In the dark night, the situation was not clear, after a day of fighting, the exhausted Russian army and the army could not resist the Longwu army that had been ready to attack for a whole day and a night, under the bombardment of artillery, the Longwu army, which had undergone modern military training with the Boxers, only used a powerful charge to completely defeat the tired and confused Russian army and the army from behind.

The remnants of thousands of Russian troops fled southward.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the first regiment of the Longwu Army ignited the explosives of the martyrdom placed by the coalition forces in Dongzhimen, and then, the soldiers of the first regiment quickly rushed into Dongzhimen, leaving a battalion of troops to control Dongzhimen and control the outer city walls around Dongzhimen, Zhang Decheng led the remaining four battalions of more than 4,000 people to quickly control the northeast area of the inner city of Yanjing City, completely banned.

The fourth regiment of the Longwu Army led by Pang Wei also concocted the same method, and took the advantage of the fisherman who captured Chaoyangmen for a day, and rushed into the inner city of Yanjing City from Chaoyangmen.

At the same time, the rear artillery positions of the Russian army and the Japanese army were also attacked by special operations battalions.

Under the leadership of Leng Feng, the soldiers of the special operations battalion used special tactics that did not exist in this era to solve a large number of Russian artillery.

Subsequently, the baggage engineering regiment acted quickly, dismantled all the artillery of the Russian army, and hundreds of carriages were dispatched, and soon the artillery and shells of the Russian army were transported into Yanjing City, and these artillery pieces will become a sharp weapon for the defense of Yanjing City.

When the Longwu army attacked the inner city of Yanjing City, the American army and the British army also broke through the Dongbian Gate and Guangqu Gate respectively, and rushed into the outer city of Yanjing City, and soon occupied the outer city walls around the Dongbian Gate and Guangqu Gate, and the tens of thousands of Russian troops who fled south also followed the British and American troops into the outer city area south of Yanjing City.

When the early morning of August 15 came, the army led by the American army led the Russian army that fled south to the inner city of Yanjing City outside the Chongwen Gate, and the army led by the British army led the army that fled south also drove outside the Zhengyang Gate of the inner city of Yanjing City.

The offensive and defensive battle of the inner city of Yanjing started at night, the sound of guns and cannons rang out from early morning to dawn, the strong and abnormal inner city gate was still not breached, the Qing soldiers and the coalition army launched a fierce battle under the inner city wall, due to the advanced weapons of the coalition army, the Qing soldiers suffered extremely heavy casualties, and several times, the city gate was almost breached.

Because the British [***] team received a secret letter from the British Minister Dou Nale before, they knew a convenient passage from the outer city to enter the inner city Dongjiaomin Lane, and the entrance of this convenient passage was located under a water gate under the moat of the southern section of the inner city wall, through which you could go directly to the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane in the inner city of Yanjing City.

After Seymour attacked the inner city, he led 2,000 British troops to the water gate.

Soon, when the coalition forces began to attack the inner city of Yanjing City at the same time, the water gate was blown up by the British army's martyr's dynamite.

However, when the British army entered the inner city through the water gate that had been blown into a large hole, they were greeted not by the fragrance of cultural treasures precipitated by thousands of years of Chinese history, but by the rain of bullets sprayed by the Tiger Army's 'Piercing Sky' heavy machine guns and 'Piercing Sky' light machine guns.

The unsuspecting British troops were strafed and fell to the ground, and in a hurry, they withdrew from the water gate, and Seymour, who was behind the army, was also grazed by two heavy machine gun bullets, so frightened that he sat completely on the ground, but fortunately, the two soldiers were quick and pressed him to the ground, otherwise he would have been shot into a hornet's nest.

Seymour, who found a hiding place, turned pale and trembled, he had never encountered such a terrifying heavy machine gun, and he didn't know how many times more powerful than the Maxim heavy machine gun.

He knew that as long as one of such heavy machine guns was placed within the water gate, his remaining soldiers of less than 2,000 would have no chance to enter the inner city of Yanjing City from here.

In fact, inside the Water Gate, there were three 'Piercing Heaven' heavy machine guns and ten 'Piercing Heaven' light machine guns, which Wang Jundao specially prepared for the British army, but he only arranged for a machine gun platoon and a company of the Tiger Ben Army Guard Regiment to be deployed inside the Water Gate.

Because Wang Jundao knew that there was such a peerless murder weapon as the 'Piercing the Sky' heavy machine gun, coupled with the fact that the Water Gate was a master and the location was unforgiving, as long as there were enough bullets, not to mention one or two thousand British troops, even five or six thousand British troops, they would not want to attack the inner city from here, and the British army did not carry artillery with the army, and even if there were, it was impossible to hit the heavy machine gun in the city through the city gate.

Seymour was worthy of being the commander of the British army, and he decisively abandoned the plan to attack from here, and led the LinkedIn army to quickly return to Zhengyangmen and launch an attack on Zhengyangmen with the Yue army.

At this time, Wang Jundao took Lei Ba, Han Muxia and ten 'divine soldiers' from the inner city to the outside, and quietly killed the guards and various battalion officers of Deshengmen in the northwest of the inner city of Yanjing City.

Subsequently, the Huwei Battalion and the Tiger Roar Battalion took control of the Deshengmen in Yanjing City without a single shot, confiscated the guns and weapons of all the defenders of the Deshengmen, and imprisoned all the weapons and people.

At the same time, the tiger and leopard battalion and the pistol battalion also launched a surprise attack from the inner city to Fuchengmen in the west, while Cao Futian's Fifth Regiment of the Longwu Army launched an attack from the outside, flanking from both sides, and easily controlled Fuchengmen.

The night gradually dispersed, the dawn had fallen, and the sunlight dispelled the darkness of the night, but it could never dispel the rumbling guns in Yanjing City.

However, just when the Qing soldiers were fighting bloodily with the coalition forces on the city wall, Cixi, the mother of the Great Qing Kingdom, had already run away!