Chapter 20: The Decisive Battle of Tianjin
Zhang Huen flew above the Bohai Sea like a big bird, the night was so quiet, the moonlight shone on the sea, reflecting the sparkling waves of the sea, he quietly landed on the mast of a Russian battleship with three chimneys, he looked at the Russian soldiers in blue military coats who were disturbing below, and he quietly slid down the chimney.
These soldiers were loading ships to transport ammunition and supplies, and some troop carriers were slowly lowering, and looking at their neat and neat steps, Zhang Huen decided to collect some profits first. His right hand was aimed at a Russian soldier standing next to the railing, and the man fell down from the deck, and the people around him found that someone had fallen into the water, and immediately shouted in a hurry, and threw the swimming ring and put the rope ladder, and after Zhang Huen knocked down seven people in a row, they found out that the situation was wrong, shouting that there were spies on the boat, and began to search around, Zhang Huen saw that they were more vigilant, and quickly changed a position, and continued to hide on the top of the boat. They all gathered around on the deck, looking around warily, not knowing where the marksman who had secretly planted his gun was.
"Bang bang bang!"
Three flares were hit into the sky by the first mate, Zhang Huen hurriedly lay on the top of the ship, his hands tightly clasped the hull, and his telekinesis gradually groped with the hull, and soon he used his telekinesis to control the battleship. The Russian troops, who were looking around, did not find the marksman, and when they were nervously unable to do so, they suddenly found a heavy muffled sound from the hull, and the battleship slowly moved forward.
"What's the matter, haven't you already lowered the anchor?"
The captain came out of the lounge in disheveled clothes, and the first mate explained innocently in Mao Ziyu, and the people on the other side of the boiler room also wondered, obviously it was stopped, why did the ship move again.
"Stop the boat. Stop the boat! ”
"Captain, we didn't add coal!"
The entire battleship accelerated towards the left front, and the captain came to the control room. Looking at the dark sea with a telescope, he was shocked and said:
"Quick. Hit the searchlight straight ahead, it's an American warship, we can't crash into it! ”
Several searchlights immediately lit up, shining towards the US ** ship 2 nautical miles ahead, and the star officer on the US ** ship immediately spotted the Russian Imperial battleship that was speeding over, immediately sounded the alarm, and all the staff immediately set up the anchor boiler, but it was too late. Zhang Huen maneuvered the battleship to crash into the US ** ship, after a violent roar, the US ship chose to fire at the Russian ship, which was originally the most correct choice, but because of the incident, everything was suddenly too late, the Russian ship pierced into the belly of the US ship as if it had been picked up, and the huge impact sound and strong vibration made the belly of the US ship be cut off by the waist, the sea water poured in, the soldiers fled, and the explosion broke out, and the bow of the Russian ship was destroyed. The front end was flooded, and the two warships were considered incapacitated.
Zhang Huen repeated his old tricks and continued to engage in the trick of colliding ships with ships in the dark night. After the collision of 12 warships one after another, the remaining coalition warships discovered the problem, and they turned their bows and headed towards the open sea.
"Pang Wai and Han Yili have been defeated."
After landing on the shore, Zhang Huen ran towards Balitai, and the news that the Boxers and the Qing army were defeated kept ringing in his mind, and the Qing army was now divided into three parts to defend Tianjin, and most of the Boxers and Ma Yukun and Xu Bangdao attacked the Zizhulin Concession; Tianjin Simen, together with Zhou Dingcheng and Hu Dianjia, defended the Laolongtou Railway Station under the leadership of Yulu, Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai defended Balitai, and the Ronglu Chinese Army and the Righteous Army defended Lafayette.
Zhang Huen ran over towards Balitai. Along the way, there were mixed figures of militia groups, Qing soldiers, and rebels, and the soldiers did not know the generals and the generals. In addition to chaos and chaos, the evacuated residents of Tianjin were also mixed with the strength of the army. At sixes and sevens.
When walking to a stone bridge, there was a sudden shouting and killing sound in front, only to see a group of nearly 200 British, German, Italian, Austrian troops under the leadership of a British ** officer across the bank to fire, although the Qing army and the Boxers and the various righteous armies shot at it, but the casualties were doubled, a team of old men with red cloth carried big gongs and drums, suona, bamboo fungus stood on the periphery for a burst of blowing and singing, only to see a group of Boxers holding big knives and shouting knives and guns do not enter the number rushed out, Pingping Bang Bang fell most of them, The rest rushed onto the stone bridge and collapsed on the bridge without taking a few steps.
Two machine guns continued to strafe at the head of the bridge, killing countless regiments on the other side of the river, Zhang Huen picked up a big knife, rushed to the stone bridge in a position, and evaded the machine gun fire in a fluttering shape, and suddenly plunged into the defensive circle of the coalition army, and cut off the head of the British major with a knife, and the four ** people around him stabbed him with bayonets, Zhang Huen connected the index finger of his right hand, poked over several Austrians, and overturned a German with a backhand, and the whole person rushed towards the machine gunner like a cannonball, and the Boxers and Qing troops over there suddenly had little pressure, shouting and rushing across the stone bridge and killing into the enemy line, the 200 Four-Nation Coalition troops saw that something was wrong, threw down 21 corpses and retreated towards the way they came.
Zhang Huen hacked the machine gunner to death and said to a small leader of the Nominal Peace Regiment:
"Don't use big blades, change what you can, give that machine gun to the officers and soldiers, they will use it!"
The little leader nodded hurriedly, and before he could ask Zhang Huen's identity, he saw this blue-robed Taoist fly up to the roof and head towards Balitai. Zhang Huen moved on the roof, saw the fleeing more than 100 Four-Nation Coalition troops stopped in front and relied on the barricades to build two directions, and then rushed to the house and jumped down, and there was another burst of tigers into the flock of sheep to slash, several green forest heroes appeared on the roof with longbows, helping him annihilate half of the coalition army, and the rest of the people no longer had the heart to resist and fled directly towards the Russian army position 800 meters away.
The Russian army set up a square formation in a boxy formation, with more than a dozen artillery pieces in the center, shooting in the direction of Balitai, and the Qing army in the direction of Balitai was also returning fire with artillery, and both sides had damage, but obviously the casualties of the Qing army were greater, Zhang Huen led the militia regiment, the Qing army, and the righteous army from the south to attack the Russian army's policy, and soon caused a two-sided attack on the Russian army. Zhang Huen grabbed those artillerymen in the void and threw them all into the large army that followed behind. Those people were stabbed to death by knives and guns when they landed, more than 300 Russian troops lost artillery support, and the formation was broken by Zhang Huen. There was no way to fight back, and immediately retreated towards the concession after losing 30% of the number of people.
Zhang Huen and they relieved the southern encirclement of Balitai. Immediately towards the velvet factory in the east of Balitai, where there is also an artillery team of the Japanese army, is firing at Balitai, the southward troops got Lao Maozi's 17 artillery, immediately turned the muzzle of the gun to the weaving factory to fire, Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai also found that the siege on three sides was suddenly missing one side, and found that the reinforcements in the south had defeated Lao Maozi on the top of the mountain, and immediately organized a death squad to launch a decisive assault on the Japanese army in the east.
The artillery of the Qing army all fired at the towers of the weaving factory. There was the joint headquarters of the British general Seymour, the Italian general Vincento, and the Japanese general Yamaguchi Sutomi, and the Japanese, British, and Italian forces in the east were shelled from both sides, and suddenly fell into command confusion.
Seymour sent 200 sailors and 800 Japanese commandos of Yamaguchi Suchen to form a joint recapture combat detachment to the south, and met the Boxers led by Zhang Huen at the head. After a period of killing, more than 400 coalition troops evacuated in a hurry.
With the continuous shelling of the Qing army, the tall tower in the weaving factory actually put up a white flag in the early morning of the second day. to show no war. Zhang Huen and several soldiers of the Yihe Regiment hid in a rice shop to rest, and took the opportunity to manipulate Cixi to order a general attack.
The Russian army of 2,800 people reinforced Tianjin from Dagu, the train traveled to the military grain city station, the railway was destroyed, walked to the old dragon head station, the Qing army Boxers rose up to block, a fierce battle occurred, killed hundreds of soldiers and entered the station on the second day; More than 600 allied troops came from the direction of the military food city to attack the East Machine Bureau. The defenders fought and repelled the enemy. 17 enemies were killed. Cixi ordered the soldiers of the righteous army and the Qing army to be commended, and sent someone to strictly order Rong Lu to leave the station. Rong Lu couldn't stare at the scalp, but when he arrived on the battlefield, he ordered the soldiers to release their guns into the air, as if they were fighting peace.
After Cixi learned about it, she went to the battlefield in person, let Rong Lu take down, behead the public, and handed over the command of the Chinese army to Zaixun, Zaixun suddenly became the existence second only to Yulu in the Tianjin operation, and the actual power was basically handed over to Zhu Honglan and Liang Qichao, the two divided the army into four teams, assisted by 300,000 Boxer soldiers under their command, the first team was led by Pan Jinshan to attack Yansuotuo, Chenjiagou, Majiakou area, take the opportunity to open up the connection with the Zizhulin Concession, and help Yulu attack the 4000 coalition troops in the concession, the second team in Baimiao, The area around the Shadow Tree blocked the coalition forces fleeing from the Xigu arsenal; The third team attacked Haiguang Temple and Dongjuzi from the front, intending to drive the coalition forces back to Laolongtou Station, while the fourth team asked Yao Liangcai to lead the south to support Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai, and encircle and suppress the coalition headquarters that were stubbornly resisting in the corner of the weaving factory.
In the night, Zhang Huen woke up, he discussed with some small leaders of the Boxers, and the anger was the number, so he touched the tower alone, Zhang Huen, who had recovered two percent of his mental power, touched the top of the tower lightly, and poked the five coalition soldiers guarding the top of the tower with ten fingers, and touched down the tower, Zhong was found by the patrolling Japanese army, and a fierce battle was launched in the tower, Zhang Huen poked and hacked dozens of Japanese soldiers to death, broke into the headquarters of the coalition army, three generals and eight guards began to fight with him, but in front of the mind, Ordinary people are not his opponents at all, after a cup of tea, Zhang Huen looked at the corpses in one place, knocked down the candles, and lit the headquarters.
The righteous army and the Qing army saw that the tower suddenly became thick smoke and flames, and immediately launched a coordinated attack of infantry artillery, 5,000 Japanese troops and 1,000 British and Italian troops resisted to the death, Nie Shicheng's right arm was pierced by a bullet, wrapped in wounds, and the enemy artillery was finally destroyed by our artillery fire after killing and wounding more than 1,200 soldiers. Only 3,300 of the coalition soldiers who lost artillery support were left to evacuate to the north, and united with the Russian army in the north to resist the attack.
In this way, the commanders of the eight countries have gone to the fourth, and the rest are not to be worried; On the fourth day of the outbreak of the Battle of Tianjin, the German commander Wadsey was killed at the old Longtou Railway Station, and the corpse was cut into more than a dozen pieces and fed to the wild dogs, on the fourth day and night, the French commander Frey and the Japanese acting commander Akiyama Yoshiko surrendered in the Zizhulin Concession, and the 13,300 allied troops under his command only had more than 4,800 people left, and the American commander General Sherman saw that the general situation had gone and sent the Austrian general Grant away, and surrendered with the flag.
At the end of the war, the Empress Dowager Cixi has completely become a wasted person, and the seizure of more than ten days has made her body unable to wake up from her ignorant state, Liang Qichao, Zhu Honglan, Nie Shicheng, and Dong Fuxiang have supported Guangxu's pro-government, Yulu, Zaixun and Yuan Shikai and others immediately fled to Beijing, and the war between the imperial party and the remnants of the Hou party is about to break out, of course, these have nothing to do with Zhang Huen.
"Have you ever seen Gongsun Immortal Master?"
"Never?"
"Have you ever heard of Gongsun Immortal Master?"
"What? Who? ”
Zhu Honglantern's cronies inquired everywhere about Gongsun Qianhua's whereabouts, but in exchange for nothing, they all knew nothing, just like an immortal master was born, and disappeared into this world abruptly, leaving only an eternal legend to the Boxers. (To be continued)