Chapter 77: Down with the Invaders
In addition to facing the crisis of food shortage, the coalition forces invading from Yunnan and Hei provinces also suffered non-combat attrition, too long logistical supply lines, and unfamiliar geographical environments...... Factors such as unsuitability to water and soil made the two-way coalition forces in a dilemma.
I wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, take the opportunity to take advantage of the barbarian Qing, I wanted to use the war to feed the war, and collect food and materials from the people of the barbarian Qing, but I didn't expect the people on the march to the empty house, and there was nothing left, and I didn't expect the miasma to be so powerful......
After running for several days in succession, hundreds of miles deep into the hinterland of Manqing, the two coalition forces that lacked food and medicine fell into panic one after another, seeing one companion after another fall ill, witnessing one comrade-in-arms after another being reduced to corpses, and the coalition forces that invaded the two provinces fell into panic one after another.
Withdraw? It will take seven or eight days to leave Manqing, and most of them will starve to death on the way without food! Enter? The people of all the villages in front of them have strangely disappeared without a trace, and if they are not supplied, they will be starved to death sooner or later.
When people are hungry, they can eat anything, since ancient times, there are many things to eat grass roots, bark, Guanyin soil to satisfy hunger, and there are many things to eat when they are easy to eat, and the two coalition forces that lack food have eaten the pigweed on the side of the road.
In the 21st century, it is a wild vegetable that is green and pollution-free, and has high nutritional value.
The climate of each region is different, and the flora and fauna of each region are also different, and some people cannot adapt to the plateau climate, water and soil in different places...... Most of the coalition forces that invaded Dian Province came from the Garo Kingdom, and the coalition forces that invaded Hei Province were mostly Caesars.
Watching his men fall one after another, the commanders of the two coalition forces were full of remorse, and wanted to take the opportunity to make some gains, but in the end, they didn't catch a single hair, and their subordinates began to attrition in non-combat, and more and more of their men died of illness every day......
Decades later, in the world war, there were more than 100,000 Yanhuang soldiers who went away to the Savage Mountain, and only about 40,000 people were left when they left the mountain, except for the more than 10,000 people who died in battle, nearly 50,000 people died in the mountains, and the mortality rate was as high as 50 percent.
For example, climbing snowy mountains, crossing grasslands, etc., non-combat attrition is also terrifyingly high, and the harsh natural environment is no weaker than the rain of bullets and bullets......
Everyone lives in a different environment, everyone's immunity is not the same, people in a certain area, with their own immunity, can resist some poisonous insects, once into another environment, maybe a slightly poisonous insect can kill him.
The coalition forces that invaded Yunnan Province and Hei Province increased the number of non-combat attrition, followed by a great chaos in the army, and the number of deserters increased over time, and those foreigners who were deserters were killed by the people lurking around the coalition army before they ran a few kilometers.
Mantosen, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces outside the capital, pretended to make peace with Li Hongzhang while waiting for the arrival of the artillery team.
The Royal Palace, the Golden Luang Palace.
"Your Majesty, you can't wait." Zhang Zhidong said.
"Your Majesty, wait any longer, the artillery of the coalition will come." Kang Wuwei said.
"Your Majesty's safety is related to the Barbarian River, Mountains and Societies, and please move your Majesty to ......," Li Hongzhang said.
"I beg your majesty to move." One by one, the officials knelt on the ground and kowtowed in agreement.
"Pass the order, early tomorrow morning, and fight to the death with the coalition forces outside the city." Xu said through gritted teeth.
"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" A group of officials knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
At dusk, the allied artillery arrived, and Mantosen immediately ordered the artillery to be fired.
"Boom, ......Boom, Boom, Boom" shells whistled out one after another.
"Boom, boom......, boom" explosions rang out, and the city walls collapsed with them, and the city gates were reduced to pieces.
"Attack!" Shinji Asada pulled out the command knife in high spirits.
One by one, they rushed to the city shouting and screaming, and they were originally hungry and panicked, as if they had seen delicious food.
"Your Majesty, it's no good, the foreigners have come in." A eunuch screamed.
"It's almost dark, how can foreigners attack?" Xu asked in disbelief, he was about to evacuate the capital in the early morning, but he didn't expect the coalition forces outside the city to attack the city now.
"Kill!" One by one, they rushed into the restaurant yelling, reaching out to grab the food and eat the sea.
"The foreigners are in, everyone run!" People fled in all directions yelling and screaming.
"Yaga!" Seeing that the soldiers under his command all ran into the restaurants and restaurants to gobble up, Shinji Asada was envious in his heart, looked embarrassed, and after scolding angrily, he ordered the soldiers to go to the palace at full speed, seize the barbarian emperor, and collect the treasures of the palace.
"Brothers, kill me!" A middle-aged man in a zombie costume stretched out his hand and waved forward, and the dense barbarian officers and soldiers slaughtered the oncoming coalition army with a rainbow of momentum.
"Bang bang ......" The rapid gunfire continued, and the screams were endless, and the barbarian officers and soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
"Boom Boom ......" overwhelming arrows burst out, and the soldiers on the coalition side fell one after another.
Screams, screams, screams, shouts, one after another, one louder than the other.
"Devil, foreigners are devils." A brute soldier shouted with a frenzied expression.
"Run!" Another barbarian soldier shouted.
"General Nalan was killed by foreigners, everyone run!" Another brute soldier shouted.
Suddenly, one by one, the barbarian soldiers turned around and fled, and in an instant, the barbarian Qing army was defeated one by one.
"Kill the chicken!" Shinji Asada shouted.
Two hours later, all the barbarian Qing forces in the city were routed, and the palace was surrounded by allied forces.
"Li Aiqing, what can you do?" Xu asked disheartenedly.
"Your Majesty, let's surrender." Li Hongzhang said helplessly.
"Okay, Li Aiqing, I'm sorry for you to go and negotiate with the foreigners outside about surrender." Xu was silent for a few minutes, then gritted his teeth and said.
"Li Zhongtang, what are you looking for me?" Mantoson asked arrogantly.
"General Mantosen, this official is here to negotiate peace." Li Hongzhang pretended to be calm and said.
"The terms of the peace negotiation are the ones I said before." Mantosen said.
"That can't be." Li Hongzhang said in a firm tone.
"If you don't agree, I'll order the troops to attack it." Mantosen threatened.
"This official is going to ask Your Majesty." After Li Hongzhang finished speaking, he walked towards the palace again.
Seeing him come back, Xu Xu hurriedly asked, "Li Aiqing, how is it?" ”
"Your Majesty, the foreigners want us to cede ...... Refusing to accept these conditions, they attacked the palace. Li Hongzhang said.
"Yes, yes." Xun Xu said in horror.
"Please think twice, Your Majesty." One after another, officials have advised one after another to cede one-third of the territory, how can they still sit on one side? This is tantamount to cutting their flesh, it doesn't matter if you don't want it, how can you be greedy for ink and silver when the land is gone?
"If anyone has an opinion, they can go out and talk to foreigners." Xu Xu sneered.
On the morning of the next day, Li Hongzhang, on behalf of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty, again signed a treaty of the capital that humiliated the country.
Li Yunfeng, who got the news, immediately ordered the Information Bureau to announce the contents of the Beijing Treaty to the world, and at the same time issued an assassination order.
"Selling newspapers and selling newspapers, the barbarian Qing and the foreigners signed the Beijing Treaty."
"From now on, we won't be a fair place here."
"You want my old Li family's land, unless you kill me."
"The land of my old Wang family will always belong to my old Wang family, and no one wants to take it away."
"Li Hongzhang and Kang Wuwei were both killed by foreigners......"
"Uprising, if we don't revolt, we will become slaves of the country."
"It's long overdue to revolt, the barbarians are weak and incompetent, and if we continue like this, we will all become slaves of foreigners."
"Zhoujiazhuang is dozens of miles away, and my old Zhou family has inherited an industry that has been inherited for hundreds of years, and no one wants to take it away."
Three days later, a report on the defeat of the invaders was reprinted in major newspapers and spread through the streets......