Chapter 145: The flames of war are raging, and hand-to-hand combat
On a certain section of the railway from Jinmen to the capital, a large number of Boxers and young boxers emptied the vicinity, and the people were not allowed to easily approach the one-mile area.
"Hurry up, hurry up, the movements are sharp, don't delay the effort!"
A Boxer with a red scarf on his head was sent around in a mess, and bags of explosives encapsulated in kraft paper were carefully buried in a cave dug in the train embankment.
Such scenes appear in several places along the railway line from Jinmen to the capital.
"Thunder Tiger, it's not appropriate to do this!"
In the house of Dong Fuxiang, the general of the Jinmen garrison, the general of the Qing army, who had no prejudice against the Boxers, was hesitant to speak.
"Isn't this something that can't be helped, the capital won't let the train line be cut off, so we can only take precautions ourselves!"
Lei Hu sat on the Taishi chair obliquely, waved his hand and said with a smile: "And Nie Junmen also strongly opposes it, it is too obvious that it is not good to do it!" ”
"I don't know what the capital thinks, the foreigners are about to knock on the door, and they are not even allowed to cut off the train line!"
On the side, Tan Sitong opened his mouth with a face full of displeasure, and said angrily: "If something really goes wrong, if the Jinmen is not defended, the foreign army can quickly kill the capital by train, and then it will ......."
The latter words were not spoken, but the meaning was already very clear, in case such a situation really occurred, this would definitely be a slap in the face to my Daqing, and my prestige or something would be trampled into the mud.
Dong Fuxiang smiled bitterly, he also felt that the decision of the capital was too fucked, but the interests involved in that train line were too great, and it was not something he could act indiscriminately at all.
"Right now, aren't we planting explosives on parts of the train route?"
He smiled: "If there is really an accident, just ignite the rails and blow them up!" ”
"It's best to blow it up when the foreign army is on the train, this effect is the best!"
Lei Hu smiled and said leisurely: "Right now, let's keep an eye on the sea outside Jinmen, I don't know when the foreign army will come from the sea, or let's take the concession first?" ”
"This ......"
Dong Fuxiang hesitated a little, and said slowly: "Although the Queen Mother promulgated the Declaration of War of All Nations, if we take the initiative to attack, will it lead to even worse consequences?" ”
"What are you afraid of, first take the Zizhulin Concession in Jinmen, just to suppress the arrogance of foreigners!"
Tan Sitong is full of momentum, looking at his posture, it is obvious that dealing with foreigners is not small in terms of attraction and stimulation to him.
"Dong Junmen, don't worry about so much, anyway, the imperial court has officially declared war with foreigners, let's just follow the instructions of the capital, there's nothing wrong!"
Lei Hu said with a smile: "This time to deal with the Zizhulin Concession, does Dong Junmen want the officials and soldiers to take action, or let the Boxers do it alone?" ”
Dong Fuxiang smiled bitterly, this kind of feeling of being forced to express his stance is really not good.
It's just that in the face of the coercive gaze of the two Boxer high-level leaders, he really didn't have the courage to accept that all the official troops would attack the Zizhulin Concession, and he didn't know what the soldiers under him looked like?
"Then there are the brothers of the Boxers!"
After holding it for a long time, he held back such an embarrassing sentence, and his city government couldn't help blushing.
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Lei Hu didn't care much, since he decided to attack the Zizhulin Concession, he used the intelligence system of the Boxer Rebellion to do some understanding, and then made a plan to be directly commanded and implemented by his subordinate militia Qingzhuang.
In other words, due to the sudden addition of 11,000 young and strong boxers under his command, in order to facilitate management and improve combat effectiveness, 500 young and strong people of the militia were urgently dispatched from Chancheng to rush over.
The plan was actually very simple, the Boxers first set fire to the Zizhulin Concession, and when the eyes of the guardian forces of the Concession were attracted, two Boxers with a scale of 500 people rushed in.
The subsequent battles were lackluster, perhaps because the concession authorities did not expect the Boxers to dare to storm the concession, not only the number of troops as a protective force was pitiful, but even the sense of defense was very common.
After the Boxer Brigade rushed into the concession, the concession authorities did not have much will to resist at all, and they all surrendered after not holding out for long.
The battle is easy and simple, but the rewards are not small.
There was a lot of money, food, grass and materials, and what made Lei Hu even more pleased was that there was also a small arsenal with hundreds of muskets and corresponding ammunition, and even two small cannons and several base shells in stock.
Stop the actions of the Boxers under his command to hurt the captured foreigners, of course, those guys with blood on their hands naturally have revenge and revenge, and the Boxers are by no means ambiguous.
The news that the Zizhulin Concession was taken by the Boxers shocked the great powers in the Jinmen area.
At this time, several great powers were ready to send troops, and some of their troops had even rushed to the sea off Tianjin by warships.
The war broke out in an instant, and the foreigners' warships opened fire first, and the Chaojinmen coastal defense battery burst into fierce artillery fire.
What is even more unexpected is that the fort failed to hold out for even a day, and was taken by the foreign army, and then the foreign army was violently killed under the city of Jinmen.
"Waste, waste, it's all a bunch of waste!"
In front of Dong Fuxiang, Lei Hu scolded unceremoniously: "The good fort couldn't hold even a day, if it wasn't for Lao Tzu's side to be prepared, he would have to be caught off guard by the foreigner army that suddenly appeared outside the city!" ”
Dong Fuxiang smiled bitterly, the combat effectiveness of the officers and troops is really so great, it is really speechless.
"Dong Junmen, I hope that the officers and soldiers defending the city will not be too thin, at least they will have to hold out for a few days!"
Lei Hu was not polite at all, and greeted directly: "The Boxers over there in the Zizhulin Concession will hold it, I hope the officials and soldiers will not pull back!" ”
After saying that, I didn't bother to talk nonsense with this guy, so I just got up and left.
The foreigner army has been killed to the door, he has no time to waste energy, just take the opportunity to let his Boxers see the strength of the foreigner army, and at the same time give the killed foreigner army a good look.
As soon as I returned to the Zizhulin Concession, fierce gunfire and shouts of killing sounded here, and a group of foreign troops had already made a detour to kill.
The dense bullets whistled vertically and horizontally, almost pressing the Boxers who were defending head-on, and the firepower was too fierce, and the Boxer brothers who had encountered such a firepower density attack for the first time were also stunned.
"Evacuate, retreat, retreat, retreat into the houses, retreat into the roads, don't fight hard with the foreign army, close the distance and fight him hand-to-hand!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, the casualties were a little large, and Lei Hu immediately gave an order......