Tongzhou, Duanjun Wang Zaiyi, who is responsible for guarding here, never expected that Yang Feng's people would actually set up a pontoon bridge more than 100 meters long on the North Canal in the south of the city in one morning, and then avoided the heavily guarded Zhangjiawan defense line and rushed straight to Tongzhou City, looking at those steel monsters rumbling on the snow, he had a feeling of dreaming.

He doesn't know how hard Yang Wangye has made in order to be able to come and go freely in the Beijing-Tianjin area with dense rivers, crawler bulldozers, crawler tractors, crawler cranes, crawler excavators, these construction machinery that were originally in history in this era are purely fantastical, and now the Yang's Automobile Factory in Sweden has all appeared, not to mention the canal that is 100 meters wide, and he doesn't care if he is asked to erect a temporary pontoon bridge on the Haihe River.

Zai Yi was not the first to eat his mechanized bridge building equipment, the first was Rong Lu, he put a co-ordination in Lutai, trying to pull the people of Lutai as a back, relying on street battles to defend the Jinyu Railway Ji Canal Bridge, but did not want to be responsible for attacking Lutai's third brigade in the upstream overnight effort to erect a pontoon bridge, and then cut off the logistics supply line of the Lutai defenders from behind, the street battle was not a day, and the Qing army with a bullet consumption rate like flowing water could not hold on, under the persuasion of Zhirui himself, The defenders, cut off the supply of ammunition, simply surrendered.

"Lord Wang, let's withdraw, this Tongzhou can't hold it." A cronie beside him looked at the cannons outside the city, and said tremblingly, Zai Yi's soldiers are even more rubbish, Zai Zhen is a regular army there, he is a group of armed police and militia put together, although he has the reputation of a fourth town, but in fact, many people just know how to shoot.

"Bastard, when is this, how can we escape!" Zai Yi rebuked in awe-inspiring anger, and at this moment, an officer ran over and cried, "Lord Wang." King Zhuang ran away! ”

"Huh?" Zai Yi was also dumbfounded, he and Zaixun were on one side, he was in charge of Tongzhou City, Zaixun was in charge of the canal defense line in Zhangjiawan, and made an appointment to support each other, of course, the main thing is that he supported Zaixun at that time, for which Zaixun also sent him a beauty, who knew that Chen Zhong did not follow their routine at all, this guy did not go directly to Zhangjiawan, which is the closest to Beijing, but crossed the river downstream. Then according to the route from Tianjin to Beijing last time, he went straight to Tongzhou, so that he would become Zaixun in the back to support him, and Zaixun was not stupid, and this kind of thing of sending him to death would naturally not be done.

"King Zhuang said that he retreated to the north bank of the Tonghui River to defend Bali Bridge and Zhangjiawan City, in case the rebel army bypassed Tongzhou and attacked Beijing." The officer said with a sad face.

"I'm cāo his ancestor, who has ever seen a fight against Beijing bypassing Tongzhou?" Jae-yi was so angry that he forgot that Jae-hoon and he were both descendants of another five hundred years of life, and as soon as he finished scolding, he heard a strange sound of breaking the air. Immediately afterwards, the city tower not far away was torn to pieces by a huge ball of fire, and a piece of blown up tile flew past his head, and Zai Yi, who had experienced the battlefield for the first time, instantly peed his pants.

"Retreat, retreat! The thieves are strong. We should not waste our forces here, and retreat to the north bank to join forces with King Zhuang. He swallowed hard and said, the people next to him had been waiting for him for a long time, before the real shelling began. The defenders on the city wall all ran away at once, and then opened the north gate and went straight to the Bali Bridge.

The artillerymen on the side of the Loyal Warriors don't know yet.

"Bomb, blow up. The hardcore crops who hid behind the women's wall and didn't dare to show their heads were blown up directly to see the wild boar skins. Ye Feng, deputy commander of the Second Division, stood on the 105mm heavy artillery position and said viciously, he is also from overseas Chinese, and what does not match this poetic name Yan Zòng is that he is a brutalist man who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy.

"Vice-seater, why didn't anyone fight back?" The commander of the artillery regiment next to him said suspiciously.

"Fight back, I'm afraid those Qing soldiers are scared to pee their pants at this time, and they dare to fight back?" Ye Feng said with a confident sneer.

At this time, suddenly a horse ran from the east of the city, and the person on the horse ran and waved his hand vigorously, and at the same time he didn't know what he was shouting, and it could be seen from the telescope that it was an ordinary person, and the two soldiers here hurriedly stepped forward, and then saw the man hurriedly turn over and dismount, and kowtow directly on the ground, and then one of the soldiers ran to this side.

"Ran away?" Ye Feng's eyes almost popped out.

"Deputy seat, it is said that as soon as we opened the gun, the defenders in the city ran away." The soldier couldn't help but smile and said, Zaiyi is running, the people in the city can't run, those shells hit the city wall, it's okay to say, a little higher will hit the city, guess the people here who don't know that the defenders have run, then don't hurry out to inform, otherwise they will blow up again, Tongzhou City should be flat.

"Stop shooting, my hard-earned shells!" Ye Feng roared angrily.

Chen Zhong was also speechless when he got this news, since Zaiyi ran away, then hurry into the city, more than 20,000 people entered Tongzhou, and the next morning they began to march out of the city to Bali Bridge, the distance of four kilometers ended quickly, and the forward troops arrived at the famous ancient stone bridge, counting that many people here have come here for the second time, but last time the Tongzhou battalion let them drive away like ducks, and when they passed the Bali Bridge, they walked directly in a rowing column, but this time it was not so simple.

Zaiyi and Zaixun, who retreated here, added up to more than 10,000 people, and there were also 20 cannons, originally they were 40, but the remaining 20 were lost in Tongzhou yesterday, and now they are being used by the remaining troops of the loyal army to bombard them, those Krupp 75 cannons have a range of more than 5 kilometers, and they are lined up on the city wall to bombard the north bank of the Tonghui River.

According to their estimates, there is a Tonghui River barrier, how can they not hold on to a day, even if they run back to Beijing City, they don't need to worry about punishment, but unfortunately they overestimate the courage of their subordinates, hold on? What are you kidding, the shells began to fall almost from the moment they opened their eyes, and the entire north bank was about to be plowed over, who could hold on in such a situation, and the proportion of smoking in this batch of Qing troops was amazing, and many people were addicted to smoking until now, so they were still interested in lying in the trenches and waiting for bombs, and there was at least a city wall to rely on when they retreated to Beijing, so before the loyal army arrived, the Qing army on the north bank drove ducks under the shells.

"Come back, you bastards!" Zai Yi looked at the subordinates who ran out of the trenches and rushed towards the city of Beijing, brandishing their sabers and roaring angrily, and then he found that there seemed to be a familiar figure among the routs in the distance.

Jae-hoon also ran away, riding his BMW horse faster than anyone else, and now Jae-yi was also stupid.

"Lord Wang, shall we withdraw?" Beside him, Goshha pleaded bitterly.

Zai Yi couldn't help but let out a helpless sigh, and then turned around and climbed onto the war horse.

In order to defend the choke point of the city of Beijing, Cixi built a series of fortresses on the opposite bank, extending a full kilometer from the bridgehead to both sides, the defenders in these fortresses did not know that they should cover their infantry ran out, these guys had a solid shell protection, and they were not too afraid of the artillery fire outside, so they still held on to the opposite bank.

It was these dozen fortresses that made the third regiment of the loyal and brave army as the vanguard suffer a small loss, because the regiment commander was sick and sent back to Fujian for treatment, so Zhang Zuolin, who temporarily acted as the head of the regiment, saw that the enemy troops on the other side were fleeing, and he was somewhat greedy for merit, so he did not wait for the main force to arrive, and started an attack under the cover of the regiment's mortars, and as a result, a machine gun on the opposite bank was beaten back, and more than a dozen of his men were killed and wounded.

Ye Feng, who arrived later, didn't reprimand him too much, it was normal for a soldier to be a little competitive, and besides, this young man was the key training object of King Zhennan, and it was also beneficial for him to grow up if he suffered a loss, but then he found out that there was a problem, these fortresses were really not easy to deal with. In fact, when Zhang Zuolin attacked, the heavy artillery group arranged under the city has been suppressing artillery fire, after all, it is Bali Bridge from Tongzhou, and when the artillery is almost blown up, the infantry can just launch an attack. However, in terms of effect, it is obvious that these forts are too strong to be destroyed even if they are directly hit by 105 shells, and there are not only machine guns but also small-caliber rotary tube cannons, blocking the attacking loyal soldiers directly a thousand meters away.

He didn't know that these forts were all built by Cixi at a great cost to the British company, all of them were made of reinforced concrete, and they were all built according to the standards of coastal defense fortresses, and the thickness of the shells could withstand six-inch cannons, and the 105 cannons of the loyal army were indeed almost there.

"Hit the smoke screen, and then find a few brothers to wade through the water, carry the fried yao bag and bomb, pile up ten kilograms of antimony and antimony, and what fortress will fly." Zhang Zuolin said.

It should be said that this is a good idea, in fact, not only the Qing infantry ran out, but even the artillery in their rear ran away, after all, they are the key targets of the artillery of the loyal army, and it is naturally impossible to insist on the infantry running, which is very clear from standing on the south bank, and the Qing army that is like a duck is not much worse than the last time, so the perimeter of these fortresses is basically unprotected, and their narrow firing ports are suppressed with machine guns, and it is not difficult for the infantry to get closer, The charge of the 105th cannon is only a few kilograms, which is really difficult to deal with a reinforced concrete fortress, and it should be enough to replace it with a 10-kilogram explosive package.

"Okay, the task of breaking through the Bali Bridge will be handed over to you." Ye Feng nodded and said. (To be continued......)