Chapter 57: Ready to Strike

As soon as the Boxers saw that they had escaped, they gave hot pursuit, and finally trapped the allied forces in the Langfang Railway Station.

This siege is 4 days, and in these four days, the follow-up coalition forces also came, reaching more than 2,000 in total.

When the coalition army continued to advance north, more than 300 Boxers rushed into the railway station, killed and wounded some of the coalition troops left behind, and began to attack the remaining ones again in the afternoon, so that Seymour, who had already set out, had to return to help.

On the 16th, Seymour saw that it was hopeless to advance northward, and was still under constant attack here, so he retreated to Yang Village.

On the 18th, more than 3,000 Qing troops attacked the coalition forces left behind at the railway station, fought for more than 80 minutes, killed and wounded more than 50 people, and the remaining coalition troops had to retreat, and after pushing to the Yangcun railway station, they were killed and wounded by the Boxers more than 40 people.

At this time, Seymour had become a passive beating, lack of food and ammunition, and had no choice, so after robbing the villagers of a few boats at night, he retreated to Jinmen.

When they walked to Beicang the next day, when they were with Mu Zhuang, they were caught by Nie Shicheng again, and after a battle, the coalition army suffered heavy losses and continued to retreat, but this time they only dared to go secretly at night, and did not dare to leave during the day.

On the 21st, when the coalition forces retreated to Daoxigu, they ran into an armory of the Qing Dynasty, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Qing army to directly defeat it.

In this way, the coalition forces were replenished with weapons and ammunition that year.

Because the coalition forces were beaten at this time, they didn't have much combat power, and they couldn't retreat back to Jinmen at all, so they had to secretly send people to ask for help.

When Yang Mushi's troops were guarding the ammunition depot, they once attacked it, but the two troops that originally defended the ammunition depot only watched and did not fight, and finally Yang Mushi could only withdraw because of insufficient troops, and failed to completely annihilate the coalition army.

In the end, the coalition team, with reinforcements, retreated to Jinmen.

He Yan is all grass and damn it, this can make the enemy run away, what about this battle?

And just when Seymour was being chased and beaten, the Dagukou Fort fell.

Until the fall of the fort, Yulu did not send troops to reinforce, just because the imperial court had not yet made up its mind about whether to fight at this time.

On one side is the main battle faction, on the other side is the main peace faction, the south and the southeast do not participate in mutual protection, only Zhili and the capital and the coalition army do it, this situation Cixi is also afraid, but at this time it is no longer possible to fight, so he adopted Yulu's method.

Do it with foreigners first, and negotiate peace if you have an advantage.

As a result, while filming people to besiege the embassy area, Yulu didn't fight, and fired cannons into the open space all day long, and secretly sent people to bring them food, drink, and He Yan put some poison in the food they sent, and poisoned them all to death.

When the time comes, you just don't want to fight.

But looking at the virtues of Cixi and others, forget it, just protect the capital, and don't care about anything else.

The Jinmen side has not stopped, the 17th Qing army plus the Boxers and the coalition army started to fight, from the 18th to the 22nd, the coalition army was blocked in the concession, and the beaten were all put up white flags, and the Qing army still failed to take them.

On the 21st, the 2,800 members of the allied army had troops in Jinmen, because the railway was destroyed, they could only walk, but they were blocked by the Qing army, 500 people were killed and wounded, and finally retreated to the concession with Seymour.

By this time, the coalition forces had reached 7,100 men, and the situation was very difficult, with a lack of food, destroyed houses, and hospitals full of wounded and overcrowded.

However, in this case, the Qing army only shelled and harassed there, that is, did not attack aggressively.

In the end, the coalition army dispatched 3,000 men on the 27th to storm the East Machinery Bureau and take down the supply points and artillery bombardment points of the Qing army, and the concession was finally safer.

By July 5, the coalition forces had reached 14,000 troops at Dagukou and 8,000 in the Tianjin Concession, reaching more than 22,000.

Next, the two sides fought around the East Machinery Bureau, and the railway was fiercely attacked, and the Qing army mobilized troops at the same time to continue shelling the concession.

In the end, the coalition forces were beaten and withdrew from the railway station, and although the East Machinery Bureau did not take it back, it fought five times and killed many enemies.

Zhang Decheng also used the fire bull array to step through the minefield of the concession and once rushed into the concession.

And the big lover in the concession also took this opportunity to shoot coldly at the foreigners in the dark, burn their warehouses, release signals, and cooperate with the Qing army and the Boxers to fight the foreigners.

On this day, the Qing army Nie Shicheng laid down Balitai, the racecourse, and the small camp gate.

On the 9th, the coalition army attacked Happy Valley, and Nie Shicheng's troops immediately reinforced from Xiaoyingmen after knowing about it, and finally the coalition army took four hours to recapture Happy Valley. Then he began to besiege Nie Shicheng in Balitai.

In the end, Nie Shi was seriously wounded in seven places, but still insisted on directing the battle until he was seriously wounded and died.

Then the coalition forces attacked the Southern Machinery Bureau, but it was too far away from the concession to defend it, so they had to burn the Southern Machinery Bureau, and then retreated to the concession.

By this point, the coalition forces had reached a point where they could not advance, could not retreat, and were extremely exhausted.

At this time, as soon as the imperial court saw that it was superior, it began to stop fighting again, and went to the coalition to negotiate peace, and then the coalition army had a chance to breathe.

Then on the 13th, the Qing army slaughtered the Boxers themselves in order to negotiate peace.

Now the Boxers all ran away.

The coalition army saw that the Qing army would not fight themselves, so they waited comfortably for the Zeng soldiers, and as soon as the reinforcements arrived, they began to attack Jinmen City.

With the fall of Jinmen, the situation of the war was suddenly reversed.

The next thing is to hit Tongzhou all the way to Tongzhou, and it is now.

He Yan knew that Lao Maozi couldn't beat him tonight, so he went to sleep after watching it for a while.

The next morning, He Yan slept until 7 o'clock before getting up.

After washing, I finished breakfast and went to the study.

At this time, the small day was already about to start, and the cannon machine Dongzhimen.

He Yan asked Chunni and Zhang Xiuying to stay in the room without being afraid.

After letting the guys take turns watching in the teahouse, they took out the remote control in the study, released the mosquito drone and let them cruise automatically, and flew to the city gate that would be attacked, He Yan was about to start killing.

He Yan used a sparrow drone to look at the battle situation in Dongzhimen, last night he used guns to shoot at each other, and today he is shooting at each other with cannons.

At this time, although the Qing army was captured by the coalition forces, there were more than 800 new and old cannons in Beijing and Tianjin, so the Qing army was not false in the artillery battle.

He Yan looked at where the two sides were shooting at each other 1,800 meters apart, and said in his heart: "At this time, if I can come out and find a safe place, I will fight with a gun and hunt for a small day, and they will doubt their lives if they can fight." ”

It didn't take long for the drone mosquitoes to reach the city gates.

He Yan didn't grind, and after controlling the sparrow to find a branch to fall, he changed to control the mosquito.

Just now, Xiaori lent Lao Maozi a large group of people, since only the two of you are attacking the city now, let's start with the two of you.