Chapter 164: Detours and Intersperses
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August 19oo was a period of shame for China, on August 2, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army gathered its forces to march to Beijing as in history, and there were a total of 150,000 Boxers and Qing troops in the distance between Tianjin and Beijing, but the Qing army lacked courage and the Boxers lacked rifles and ammunition, and the tactics adopted by the Qing army and the Boxers were still like charging on the battlefield with cold weapons. If the Qing army had an artillery regiment that had been mobilized by the commander-in-chief, it might not have been defeated so badly. As early as August 4th, the Eight-Nation Coalition approached the city of Beijing, but due to the hot weather and the obstruction of cornfields, the coalition army began to attack the city on August 14, and the city of Beijing was breached on the 15th, and the commander of the coalition army announced the robbery for three days like the ancient barbarians, and these three days countless crimes against women, murder and robbery were born, and Cixi hastily disguised herself as an old woman on the 15th and fled west to the west for "royal hunting", on the way to escape, Cixi announced the order of a comprehensive change of law, and at the same time summoned Li Hongzhang to Beijing to negotiate peace, Li Hongzhang was dejected and prepared to go north after getting the news of the fall of Beijing, but history has changed, and when the Eight-Nation Coalition occupied Beijing, Li Hongzhang had already determined that the strategy of the Chain Hammer Society this time was to seize Shandong. But the battle plan of the Hammer Society was unimaginable to the whole world at this time.
During such a long period of time when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing, what was the Hammer Society doing? In this era when there was no strategic bombing by aircraft, gathering troops and materials was the royal way to fight a big war, and in this month, the northern part of Jinan became a large barracks and a large warehouse. The local soldiers of the entire Shandong Peninsula have been trained and are stationed in various parts of the Shandong Peninsula, after Weihaiwei and Qingdao were taken by the Chain Hammer Society, Japan, Britain, and Germany organized several raids by the 6th Naval Squadron, but they were not faced with the Qing army that was defeated and routed, and the fierce return fire on the highland batteries and the sinking of the next three warships, more than 1,500 soldiers of the Three Kingdoms who boarded the 6 were killed and captured.
After Zuo Qiang's operational report on attacking the enemy from the north was introduced to the staff headquarters of the Sickle Hammer Society, a large number of officers said that this plan was feasible, but Cheng Pan did not make a sound, and after everyone finished speaking, Cheng Pan asked: "How many troops do we have in Shandong?" Zuo Qiang said confidently: "Bring the newly recruited troops, we have a total of 348,000 troops in Shandong, of which 180,000 troops can be mobilized near Jinan." Cheng Pan pressed his hand to stop Zuo Qiang's further description, and then asked, "How many troops are there in the area of Jinjing by the foreign coalition forces?" Zuo Qiang felt that Cheng Pan's tone was not as excited as before, and he said: "In the area around Jinjing, the number of foreign coalition troops is about 50,000, and if Russia moves south from the three eastern provinces, we will face 7 to 80,000 people in a month." Cheng Pan then asked: "If the coalition forces take the initiative to go south, how many people will be there for the first time?" At this time, Gao Yun, who was in charge of intelligence, stood up and replied: "According to the intelligence in the area of Beijing, the Japanese army and the German army are ready to go south, and the total number should be no more than 30,000. Cheng Pan stood up and looked at everyone and said, "If we annihilate these 30,000 people for the first time, let me ask you, will the coalition army make a foolish second attack from the 6th Route in the north?" If they don't attack from the north and climb 6 from the Shandong coast, what will we do? Liu Shi stood up and said: "Report to the chairman, we have reserved enough troops in the Shandong area to offset their naval artillery fire with space, which is enough to prevent the remaining coalition forces from landing on various coasts." Cheng Pan stared at him and asked, "You mean, we have to guard against it for a long time in Shandong?" ”。 Liu Shi gave Cheng Pan's questioning and eyes to throw away the words of explanation, and he said: "Chairman, you said that you are going to prepare for a long-term war. Cheng Pan shook his head and said: "Long-term war preparation is to ensure that we have a complete defeat in Shandong, the worst situation occurs, once we can't defeat the coalition forces of various countries in Shandong, we will also have to spend it in Shandong, and the Beiwan industrial base will definitely not be threatened." Zuo Qiang asked with some understanding: "Chairman, you mean that we are going to have a big one." Cheng Pan took the military map and drew two lines on the map of Hebei with a red pen, one line went straight into Baoding, bypassing from the west side of Beijing to the north of Beijing, which was a big detour, and the ultimate goal was to block the possible contact between the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Russian reinforcements in the north, and the other line was to go straight to Tianjin to cut off the retreat of the foreign coalition forces from the sea. In order to achieve this strategy, the western flank must have the ability to run long distances and hold the position, and the western flank should be equipped with rifles and grenades, and carry more heavy machine guns, while the troops directly penetrating Beijing and Tianjin must have a strong surprise attack capability, and artillery should be used here in a concentrated manner.
After Cheng Pan drew the two lines, he said despite everyone's surprise: "War is gambling, and if you don't win the enemy's gamble at once, the enemy will always think that he has a chance to turn over." Zuo Qiang said to Cheng Pan: "Chairman, your hand is too big, this is to be eaten in one bite." Cheng Pan asked what difficulties there were in this plan, and after Zuo Qiang discussed it with some military commanders, he came to the conclusion that the probability of success of this plan was 40 percent, the probability of letting a third of the people of the Eight-Nation Alliance flee to the sea after failure was 50 percent, and the probability of a complete failure of the whole army losing more than 100,000 troops was only 5 percent. Even if it fails, the coalition army does not have the capital and courage to continue to invade Shandong, and the whole plan can be executed, but the only difficulty is that the number of recruits in the whole army is too large now, and they have not experienced the bitter battle, and they may not be able to fight these two high-intensity large corps in this fierce battle.
Zuo Qiang said quietly: "If you can solve the logistics for everyone." Cheng Pan immediately refused and said: "In this war, I will not do anything else except make a battle plan and boost morale on the front line, a strong army must be able to overcome any difficulties, not rely on some crutch external force." Gao Yun interjected at this time: "But this war is about the fortunes of the country. Cheng Pan said: "The national fortune is you to play, not by cheating, even if we fail this time we still occupy Shandong to hold the industrial zone steadily, in two years our strength will be stronger, this failure is just a setback, the rise of a great country, the establishment of a strong army are in a series of setbacks to survive, if I don't let go this time, when do you want me to let go?" What Cheng Pan said to the original members of the thirty people made the two confused. Cheng Pan and several military chiefs hid in a house, Cheng Pan put down his words, this time the army of the Sickle Hammer Society broke into the dragon, but if you can't break through in the future, you can still break in, and sooner or later you will become a dragon, but if you want Cheng Pan to help cheat, you will never have a chance to become a dragon.
Zuo Qiang and others finally made a strategic plan, after making sure that Cheng Pan completely let go, several military commanders were at the same time a little excited in their hearts, this war can test what kind of strength the Sickle Hammer Society has, Cheng Pan is right, as long as this time he breaks through, with the experience of winning the battle with the great powers, the army of the Sickle Hammer Society will have the military soul of the world's 6th Army.
And the reason why Cheng Pan decided to let go is that the main god has reminded us that we are now in an important event at the intersection of history, and rashly changing history in an unscientific way will bear heavy cause and effect.
This battle plan was named the vice plan by the Sickle Hammer Society, and it was the first stage in the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China film filmed in China in later generations.
On August 25, the city of Beijing was completely controlled by foreign coalition forces, who, in addition to doing all kinds of evil in the city, also began to go out of the city to hunt and kill the Boxers, who completely failed to resist foreign humiliation. At this time, the German Wadsey commander 30,000 people attacked Baoding, and at this time, the 180,000 troops of the Sickle Hammer Society with 500 artillery also attacked northward, and the first battle was Baoding, an important strategic node. At this time, Baoding was in the hands of the Boxers, and the reason why Baoding was hated by the foreign coalition was that the boxers killed all the foreigners who took refuge in the church. The Boxers did inhumane things here.
But their own bad boys to educate themselves, the Sickle Hammer Society preemptively moved the Battle of Baoding, attacked the city of Baoding within three hours, and implemented a curfew system. Cheng Pan, the pot of Baoding Cathedral, felt that he couldn't pick it up, but there was no need for the Eight-Nation Coalition to do more in Beijing.
On the 27th, the Baoding Hammer Society fought with the foreign coalition forces, and the Sickle Hammer Society, with its absolute superiority in strength and firepower, fought 6 battles against the foreign coalition forces that had been fighting smoothly in China. Of the 30,000 foreign coalition troops, most of them were Japanese, Germans 3,000, and Russians 7,000. Observing the strict discipline and fierce fighting spirit of the Japanese, Wadsey invaded the city of Beijing, except for the robbery of the Qing government's official treasury, and did not practice crimes against civilians (the same morality as the Japanese in the Nanjing Massacre). Wadsey watched the excellent Japanese soldier advance and exclaimed, "Japan is the only civilized country in Asia." It flashed in his mind that the people of the Qing Dynasty who had been seen along the way were insensitive and as filthy as the natives of Africa, and that it was unforgivable that such a people had killed noble Europeans. Wadsey seems to have chosen to forget what the coalition forces had done in Beijing a few days earlier. Wadsey was like revenge, and the opportunity soon came The cavalry who went to scout appeared in front of a large number of squadrons, and the lack of braids in this army let Wadsey know that he met the red bandits in the south. Wadsey said to all the officers: "Lads, the enemy is ahead, let me crush them once more." ”
Wadsey's wish to crush the Sickle Legion was not fulfilled. The Sickle Hammer Society attacked from three directions: south, east, and west. The troops led by Wadsey have a total of 64 cannons in the south this time, most of which are mountain artillery, and the firepower is extremely strong in front of the Boxers who are gathering and charging, but in the tactics of the three-three system, you can only knock out 2 groups at most if you are a 1o5 howitzer. In each platoon of the attack, the order was divided, and the death of one platoon commander and the second would soon be on top. In the face of the attack of the Sickle Society, they were still in a platoon of guns and shots, and now the allied forces could not beat their firepower. Soon the coalition machine guns began to strafe, and they didn't wait for the coalition machine guns to be arrogant for a long time, and a few 5o mortar shells sent them away, at this time, the heavy fire of the Sickle Hammer Society also opened fire Wadsey felt that he had made a heavy mistake today, when the dense shells released the flower of death on his own artillery positions and the crowd, Wadsey shouted: "No, no, this is not a boxer, this is not a mob, this is an army, an army" The battle of the artillery cluster quickly separated the winners and losers, nearly ten times the order of magnitude is not something that tactics and technology can make up, Moreover, there is no tactical advantage on the part of the coalition forces.
As the Japanese soldiers approached at the Kamaksha Society, their officers shouted: "Put on the bayonet, rush up, rush up, and win, for the sake of the emperor, plates". At this time, the great powers and countries all had an attitude of attaching importance to stabbing and stabbing in their minds, and their minds were filled with the idea of serving the country after the victory of gambling in the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Japanese did not hesitate to move the pig attack, and the automatic firepower of the Sickle Hammer Society is not omnipotent, and the water pipe submachine gun also has a jam, and the not dense firepower only makes the Japanese queue much sparse, and the army of the Sickle Hammer Society implemented the final bullet suppression within two hundred meters, Then there was a rain of grenades, in this process the Japanese formation produced a gap, the originally scattered Sickle Hammer Society soldiers quickly approached the three of them to rush towards the Japanese in a unit, the bayonet war was cruel, the Sickle Hammer Society and the Japanese army had recruits, and some people turned around, but at this time turning around was death, exposing the back to the bayonet was death, due to the large number of people in the Sickle Society, the damage of the three-edged bayonet was slightly stronger, the Japanese counter-charge was suppressed, and the soldiers of the Sickle Society who had just won the victory immediately joined the bayonet attack on the Russians. Although Maozi's side was tall and had the advantage of stabbing with great numbers, they faced the most elite veterans brought out by Cheng Pan from the Dabie Mountains, after the failure of the stabbing process, they pulled grenades and fiercely hugged the enemy, and the momentum of dying together made the Russians frightened, this is the invading army came to China for money, I didn't think of being so desperate, the momentum was weak, the bayonet battle immediately fell down, and the large-scale rout began. But after the Battle of Baoding began, a team of 5,000 men had already made a detour to the rear during this time. Throwing away their armor and fleeing, the allied soldiers were encountered, and the heavily armed interception force surrendered in the Russian, English, and German tune change "shoot or kill".
On the 27th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wadsey's regiment lost 12,000 dead and 13,581 prisoners. The Sickle Society lost 11,345 men in battle, and after leaving 5,000 people to watch the prisoners, the vise plan was officially opened, and the Sickle Society began to divide its troops after the battle.
Wadsey, who handed over the command knife, and the Japanese Russian ** officer were eager to see the commander of the Sickle Hammer Society, who commanded the battle, but were told that they were not available. Watching the large force of the Scythe Societies continue north, a frightening speculation arose in Wadsey's mind. Wadsey said to the Japanese commander on his hand: "Matsui, we shouldn't go out this time. ”
As the battle outside the city began, and a large number of foreign allied troops were escorted into the city in the evening, the originally slightly hostile feelings for the Sickle Hammer Society's army entering Baoding immediately changed dramatically, and citizens kept going out of their homes to take revenge. Throwing stones, the scene was very chaotic. In the end, the Sickle and Hammer Society came forward to maintain order, declaring that after the war, "all foreigners will be punished after trial, and the world will see how to punish foreign devils, and don't break the prisoners until now." The people stopped. The battle outside the city made it much easier for the Sickle Hammer Society to hire people in Baoding.
When a small number of defeated soldiers fled to Beijing, the ** officials in Beijing thought it was a joke, and the Russian ** officers were very angry and imprisoned several fleeing soldiers for the crime of desertion. A day after the allied forces in the city of Beijing learned of this "joke: like news, the joke turned into a thriller." The 50,000 troops on the eastern flank of the Sickle Hammer Society severed the connection between Tianjin and Beijing, attacked the city of Tianjin, and occupied the territory outside the Tianjin naval guns, and the Eight-Nation Coalition completely lost contact with the navy on August 29. At this time, a large number of Sickle Hammer Society troops also appeared on the west side of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
In this envoy rescue operation, Seymour led the 4ooo troops out of the city to open up the connection with the sea, before leaving the city, Seymour was blessed by foreign ladies, and went out of the city to complete this heroic action, but the wind was sluggish and the water was cold, and the strong man was gone, and Seymour's army was attacked by the Sickle Hammer Society army with three times the strength, and after completing the annihilation of the Wadsey Legion, the Sickle Hammer Society had no fear of the outside ** team at all, and under the propaganda of the revenge slogan of the Sickle Hammer Society, "no one will be let go" Becoming the target of every combat commander is also a loss of backward information dissemination, Seymour did not understand the defeat of Wadsey, and a few deserters who escaped back and were imprisoned only said that the Sickle Society had a lot of artillery, and the bombs were still crowded. The description is very unclear. Therefore, Seymour believed that the Sickle Hammer Society was a Boxer with advanced weapons, and there was no adjustment in terms of tactics. So none of the four thousand fled back.
On September 3, the vise plan was fine-tuned, and the Sickle Hammer Society decided to concentrate its forces on crushing the walnut of Beijing before the arrival of possible Russian reinforcements, and originally thought that the Russians had troops in the north. But as soon as the city of Beijing opened, all the foreign ** teams went to the city of Beijing to loot, and the troops outside the city were very few. At sea, the 6th Naval Brigade organized three operations to open up the connection between the coalition forces in Beijing, but after losing 2,800 men, it could not shake the control of the Sickle Hammer Society in Tianjin. Now that the countries of Europe have gone mad, international public opinion is growing louder and louder demanding rescue actions from Russia and Japan.
At this time, the Japanese base camp also took a discussion on Asian fusion, and the current high-level of Japan is still controlled by reasonable people, Ito Hirofumi means that the situation of China's big 6 is now very unknown to Japan, at this time the world is very vigilant against Japan in yellow countries, Japan can not fight an unknown war for European and American ghost animals, the best policy is to wait and see what happens, and at the same time quietly contact the Sickle Hammer Society in Anhui.
But Tsar Nicholas was a little excited, and he shouted the slogan "For the civilized world" and ordered 50,000 gray cattle to attack Beijing, but there was no railway between the three eastern provinces and Beijing. These 50,000 gray cattle have to go by sea, and they will not be able to reach it for a while. On September 4, 100,000 Sickle Hammer soldiers launched a general attack on the 20,000-strong coalition troops entrenched in Beijing.
There was no contradiction between the Eight-Nation Coalition Army in the face of the very weak Qing Army, just like hunting, and they were very harmonious with each other, but in this crisis situation, the ** teams did not trust each other, and the previous elected commander-in-chief, Wadsey, did not know whether he was alive or dead, and there was a problem with the command of the coalition army.
In 19oo, the Beijing lords saw the scene of the changing king flag at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the cover of the 82 mortars of the Sickle Hammer Society, and blew up the Beijing city wall with explosives, and 3,000 soldiers of the Sickle Hammer Society armed with water hose submachine guns became the advance team to kill the city of Beijing, and Beijing, which was plagued for more than ten days, did not become a good place for the street battles of the coalition forces of various countries, and after weak resistance, the Beijing occupied by the Sickle Society, all the national flags of all countries in Dongjiaomin Lane were lowered, and the flag of a sickle and hammer was raised in the majestic revision of the Internationale.
On September 5, the commanders of all the national armies occupying Beijing handed over their command knives to Zuo Qiang, the commander of the general campaign of the Sickle Society, and since the Battle of Baoding, the Sickle Hammer Society has killed and captured a total of 42,635 armed troops of various countries, and according to the figures provided by the surrender commander, about 5,000 coalition soldiers are still missing.
On September 6, the envoys of various countries went to the navies of various countries in the port of Tianjin under the escort of the Kamak Society with white flags, and after boarding the ship, Zhu Erdian, who was still a librarian of the legation at this time, looked at the retreating Kamaksha troops and said: "A class of forces in the Far East has risen. ”