Chapter 170: The Sacking of the Summer Palace

Although there are more than a dozen forts on the north bank, only two are actually used to block the bridge deck, which should be said to be negligent in design, because the bridge deck of the Bali Bridge is surrounded by stone closed guardrails on both sides, and as long as you lie on the bridge deck and crawl forward, the bullets on the side are useless. With a series of smoke bombs and poison gas bombs mixed with the past, the two fortresses were immediately wrapped in thick smoke, and then the machine guns that were shooting inside were dumb, at this time the Qing army had already been frightened by the murderous reputation of poison gas bombs, and when they saw that they were suddenly white, the first impression was that the opposite side was poisoned, and then smelled the smell of poison inside, so don't run quickly.

Of course, Zhang Zuolin on the south bank didn't know this, more than 20 demomen still followed the plan to grab an explosive bag per person, bent down and quickly rushed to the opposite bank under the cover of the bridge railing, and saw that in the forts on the left and right sides of the scene, all the firepower quickly turned to the bridge deck, and for a while the bullets and small-caliber shells smashed densely past, making this small bridge of only more than 50 meters as if it was burning.

But at this time, the various units of the loyal army in the back had already arrived one after another, and the mortars were quickly set up, and the shells and gas bombs were smashed one after another, and soon the machine guns and the rotary tube guns were dumbfounded, and under the cover of dense artillery fire, the demomen rushed across the bridge deck, touched the bottom of the two forts, pulled and then threw the heavy explosive bag directly from the firing port, and then rolled over and rolled under the river beach, and after a few seconds, two loud bangs were thrown into the river by the fragments of the blown fortress.

The destruction of these two main fortresses is equivalent to opening a passage on the bridge deck, and the earthy yellow crowd quickly rushed to the opposite bank, and then diverted away, rushing up with explosive packs from the shooting dead ends of other fortresses, pulling and throwing into the firing port, huge explosions sounded one after another, and one after another fortresses turned into ruins in the light of the explosion, and the blasting work was not half carried out, and the Qing troops in the remaining fortresses immediately opened the door and fled in a hurry when they saw that the situation was not good. But alas, what awaits them is a dense number of bullets.

The loyal and brave army of Tongguò Bali Bridge immediately followed up with a steady stream of kills towards the city of Beijing, and Cixi calmed down at this time.

"Your Majesty, remember that now that you are the emperor, we have no way out, we can only fight to the death, whether it is Yang Feng or that evil obstacle, they will not let us go." She looked at Pu Wei, whose little face was white, and said.

"Lafayette, let's go! Just like when Wenzong Xianfeng Ye was in the past. Pu Wei said with a sad face, speaking of which, when he first became the emperor, he was also full of ambition. Now his intestines are about to turn green, and he has been complaining to his grandfather for the past few days.

"Ridiculous, is this the same as then? At that time, it was the invasion of foreigners, and the people of the world hated the enemy, Wenzong only temporarily avoided the edge, and the army of King Qin arrived to naturally force the enemy army back, but now in this situation, those local governors who will be with us, if we are still in this Beijing city. If the abolished emperor gets the city of Beijing, we will become rebels, no matter where we flee, we will only be betrayed. What's more, can we escape? Devil Six angrily scolded his grandson, saying as if his brother was not buying Beijing City with money.

Pu Wei was so frightened that he quickly shut up.

"The Queen Mother, now the shape is urgent. Yesterday, Dashanyan, a retired general of the Japanese state, once came to the door and volunteered, willing to take a group of Japanese officers who traveled to Beijing to help defend the city. I think these people are sincere, and I might as well give them a chance to atone for their sins. Devil Six said.

"Can the Japanese believe it?" Cixi was a little puzzled.

In fact, the number of Japanese veterans who went to China to make a living during this period was extremely large, although Japan was allowed to retain a maximum of 100,000 troops after the war, but in fact, how could the Japanese government, which had lost its pants, maintain so much, Ito Hirobumi succeeded as prime minister after his death was a big man who broke his legs, and the first thing he did was to disarm, anyway, Japan was already like that, so he simply broke the jar and broke his legs, and put on a posture of letting the king pick up, and the army was reduced to only three divisions, It is just to maintain a minimum psychological guarantee, so that the number of active-duty soldiers who have been dismissed alone will reach more than 100,000, and those who serve as soldiers will be able to go home and farm the land, and those middle and high-ranking officers will naturally not be the same as the untouchables.

At this time, Cixi organized a new army on a large scale, so they were all looking forward to showing their strengths, but it was a pity that first, they were defeated and lacked sufficient advertising effect, and secondly, there were friends in Shanxian County who picked up the graves of wild boar skin fathers and sons and killed hundreds of thousands of Manchus in the northeast, so they were not very popular, and only a very small number of jobs were obtained, but this war gave them hope

"Queen Mother, if you beat others, you naturally don't dare to guarantee it, but it's different when you beat Yang Feng, don't forget that they have a blood feud with Yang Feng." Devil Six said with a smile.

"Then summon him to the palace to meet him!" Cixi nodded and said, she really has no choice now, there are a lot of Beijing soldiers, six or seven people, it's no problem to make up 100,000 people, and there is no shortage of weapons, there are more than 300 cannons of various calibers alone, as for other guns, ammunition and food, these supports are very easy for a year or two, but there is no real commander, the best is Zai Yi, Zai Xun and so, as a result, Tongzhou and Bali Bridge did not hold and ran back, can't they still rely on them to defend Beijing City, right?

When he heard the news of Cixi's summons, Oyama Yan, who was staying in the Japanese Embassy in China, couldn't suppress his excitement, turned to a large group of officers from the Satsuma Domain, including Kuroki Weizhen, and waved his fist and shouted: "Gentlemen, the time for revenge has come!"

He was actually squeezed out of the military circles, and after the war, Japan was in a mess, after all, the country had come to this point, and there must be a group of people responsible for it, coupled with the fierce competition in personnel for the army's abolition and dismantling, and the intensification of internal factional contradictions, the Minister of War Yama Prefecture Tomotomo took the opportunity to squeeze out these generals from the Satsuma Domain, so he forced the then commander of the Second Army, Oyama Iwa, and the commander of the Sixth Division, Kuroki Weizhen, to resign on the grounds of the fiasco of the counterattack on Tokyo, and then dismissed a large number of Satsuma Domain officers and retired from the army. Of course, in order to show his fairness, he also threw his good student Katsura Taro into the reserve, of course, this is only temporary, and it will definitely be reactivated in two years.

But Dashanyan and these people don't have any chance to use it, and their end can only be to go home to retire, but the question is how can he go back to his home now? His home is in Kagoshima, and now the name there is the German Far East, and almost half of the relatives in his hometown were killed by the Germans because of the resistance to the occupation, and the officers of the Satsuma Domain, who even had no home, hated Yang Feng so much that they couldn't sleep on his skin and eat his bones, and there was this opportunity to avenge his hometown relatives, so they were naturally full of expectations, so their leader Dashan Yan went to the palace with the eunuch to see Cixi.

And at this time, in addition to some of the remaining along the way, the remaining 20,000 loyal and brave army of the main force also arrived at the city of Beijing, but did not rush to attack, this time it is different from the last time, the last time I came to Beijing, the city said that the combat effectiveness is zero, but after almost a year of hard work, it is impossible to easily defeat it, so the first thing to say is that the 20,000 army is to build a military camp, and at the same time divide 5,000 people to clean up the surrounding counties, of course, the most important thing is that they still have a big job.

"Miss Han?" Chen Zhong looked at his sister in Caiyi who came out of the car with some surprise, he didn't expect that it was actually Yang Wangye's personal secretary who personally escorted the supplies for him.

"Commander Chen, transfer a battalion to me, I have important things to do." Wearing a military uniform, Caiyi said with a solemn face.

Chen Zhong was stunned for a moment, but then understood, if there was no special matter, how could the king of Zhennan send one of the future princesses to the front line, he hurriedly handed over his guard battalion to Caiyi's command, the battalion commander of this battalion is actually Caiyi's brother, since it is a special job, it is most suitable for their brother and sister to be together.

After nightfall, this battalion took more than 100 trucks to the north to bypass the city of Beijing, and went directly to the northwest of the city, because he was worried about their safety, Chen Zhong quickly ordered the cavalry regiment to follow behind to protect, although at this time the Qing army had all been retreated into the city, but this has been a small force to act alone, it will inevitably attract some of the Qing army that is not cool-headed, after all, the city of Beijing is too big, 20,000 people can not besiege the city at all, if it is in distress in the west of the city, it is difficult to rush over in time to support.

At this time, the defenders of Beijing City looked at the long dragon with the car lights on and trembled there, and they dared to go out to harass them.

"Chengxi? What are they doing in the west of the city? Cixi, who was looking at the map of Dashanyan facing the city of Beijing and explaining the defense plan to her and the devil six, was stunned by this news.

"Lafayette, there are still a lot of thieves, the headlights are lined up for miles, and there are cavalry following, it is estimated that there are 5,000 people." Fortitude said with great certainty.

"The Old Summer Palace? No, it's the Summer Palace! They are going to loot the Summer Palace! Devil Six said immediately.

At this time, Cixi also understood, her lips trembled, and she said with a sad and angry face: "These traitors! ”

Caiyi is here to loot the Summer Palace, there are so many treasures, can't Cixi give them to Guangxu to enjoy after Cixi steps down, right? Since this is not as good as Yang Wangye to enjoy it himself, the task of Sister Caiyi is to load all the treasures in the Summer Palace and send them to Qinhuangdao, and then load them on a ship and send them to Fuzhou, as for the future, it is naturally to be sold, although it is not suitable to sell to foreigners, but the domestic rich can still be, at this time the Chinese folk wealth is still very sufficient, rather than letting those old people guard the coffin, it is better to use these treasures to dig out and build a few warships, especially the landlords of those inland provinces, It is certainly hopeless to persuade them to invest in industry, but they will definitely rush to collect antiques and treasures. (To be continued......)