Chapter 20 The Decisive Battle of Tianjin
Zhang Hu'en flew over the Bohai Sea like a big bird. The night was so quiet. The moonlight shone on the sea surface, reflecting the ripples of the sea. He quietly landed on the mast of a Russian battleship with three chimneys. He looked at the troubled Russian soldiers wearing blue military coats below, and he quietly slid down the chimney.
These soldiers were loading ships to transport ammunition and supplies, and some troop transport ships were slowly lowering. Looking at their neat and neat steps, Zhang Hu'en decided to save some profit first. His right hand aimed at a Russian army standing next to the railing, and the man fell from the deck. When the people around him found someone fell into the water, they immediately shouted in a hurry, throwing swimming rings and laying rope ladders. After Zhang Hu'en pointed seven people in a row, they found that something was wrong. They shouted that there were spies on the ship and began to search everywhere. Seeing that they were alert, Zhang Hu'en quickly changed his position and continued to hide in the dark man on the top of the ship. The dozens of Russian troops who were being knocked down one after another made these people afraid. They all gathered on the deck and looked around vigilantly, not knowing where the sharpshooter who was secretly setting guns was.
"Bang bang bang!"
Three flares were hit by the first mate and Zhang Hu'en hurriedly lay on the top of the boat, clasping the hull with his hands tightly. His mind power gradually groped with his hull. Soon he used his mind power to control the battleship. The Russian army looking around did not notice the sharpshooter. When he was nervous, he suddenly found a heavy muffled sound from the hull, and the battleship slowly drove forward.
"What's going on? Haven't you put down the anchor?"
The captain came out of the lounge in disorganized clothes. The first mate said innocently and explained that the people in the boiler room were also puzzled. The ship was moving again after the shutdown.
"Stop the boat. Stop the boat quickly!"
"Captain, we didn't add coal!"
The entire battleship accelerated towards the front left, and the captain came to the control room. He looked at the dark sea with a telescope and said in shock:
"Quick. Look straight ahead with the inquiry light. It's an American warship, we can't bump into it!"
Several searchlights immediately lit up and headed towards the US ship 2 nautical miles ahead. The star officer on the US ship immediately discovered the Russian Empire battleship that was rushing towards him. The alarm was immediately sounded. All the personnel dispatched to start the anchor boiler immediately, but everything was too late. Zhang Hu'en controlled the battleship and crashed into the US ship in the waist. After a violent roar, the US ship chose to fire at the Russian ship. It was originally the most correct choice, but because the incident suddenly happened, everything was too late. The Russian ship pierced the abdomen of the US ship as if it were picked up. The huge impact sound and strong vibration made the abdomen of the US ship cut off in the waist, the sea water flowed back, the soldiers fled, and the blade of the Russian ship was destroyed. The front end was soaked, and the two warships lost their combat capabilities.
Zhang Hu'en used his old trick again and continued to play the trick of hitting a ship with a ship in the dark. After 12 warships collided one after another, the remaining coalition warships discovered the problem. They turned the bow of the ship and drove towards the outer sea. Zhang Hu'en, who had exhausted his mind, had to return on the water.
"Pang Wei, Han Yiyi's Ministry of Rites has been defeated."
After landing, Zhang Hu'en ran towards Balitai, and the news of the uprising and the Qing army being defeated constantly in his mind. The Qing army is now divided into three parts to defend Tianjin, most of the Boxer Regiment and Ma Yukun, and Xu Bangdao's troops attack the Zizhulin Concession; Tianjin's four gates, together with Zhou Dingcheng, Hu Dianjia's troops defend Lao Longtou Railway Station under the leadership of Yulu, Nie Shicheng, Yuan Shikai's troops defend Balitai, Ronglu Central Army and the rebel army defend Lao Fo.
Zhang Hu'en rushed towards Balitai. Along the way, there were mixed figures of militia, Qing soldiers and rebels. The soldiers did not know the generals, and the generals did not know the soldiers. Wherever they passed, they were both chaos and chaos. The residents who retreated from Tianjin were also mixed with the army and the army was in chaos.
When they reached a stone bridge, a sudden shout of killing came from the front. A group of nearly 200 British, German, Italian and Austrian troops opened fire across the river under the leadership of an English official. Although the Qing army, the Boxer Regiment and various rebels shot at him, the casualties increased. A team of old men with red cloth carried big gongs, drums, suona, and bamboo sheng stood outside and played and sang. A group of Boxer Regiment people rushed out with big swords and shouted swords and guns. Most of them fell down. The rest rushed onto the stone bridge without taking a few steps.
Two machine guns were continuously fired at the bridge, killing countless regiments of people across the river. Zhang Hu'en picked up a big knife, rushed to the stone bridge with a wind, and evaded the machine gun fire, and suddenly pierced into the defense circle of the coalition forces. He cut off the British major's head with one knife. The four people around him stabbed him with bayonets. Zhang Hu'en pointed his right index finger, poked several Austrian troops, and slashed a German army with one hand with one sword. He rushed towards the machine gunner like a shell. The Boxer Regiment and Qing army there were suddenly less pressure, shouting and rushing across the stone bridge and breaking into the enemy formation. When the 200 four-nation coalition forces saw something wrong, they threw down 21 bodies and retreated to the way they came.
Zhang Hu'en killed the machine gunner and said to a small Boxer leader:
"Stop using big blades. If you can change, just change them. Leave the machine gun to the officers and soldiers, they will use it!"
The little leader nodded quickly. Before he could find out Zhang Hu'en's identity, he saw the blue-robed Taoist flying over the roof and heading towards Balitai. Zhang Hu'en moved his body on the roof. Seeing more than 100 fleeing four-nation coalition forces stopping in front of him and relying on the barricade to build two directions. He jumped down the room and then jumped down, and another wave of tigers entered the flock of sheep and slashed. Several green forest heroes appeared on the roof with longbows in hand, helping him to annihilate half of the coalition forces. The remaining people no longer had the intention to resist and fled directly to the Russian position 800 meters away.
The Russian army formed a square formation with more than a dozen artillery in the center, and was shooting towards Balitai. The Qing army in Balitai was also fighting back with artillery. Both sides were injured. However, it was obvious that the Qing army suffered greater casualties. Zhang Huen led the militia from the south to reinforce. The Qing army and the rebels attacked the Russian military policy, and soon caused a situation of attack on the Russian army on both sides. The Russian army could not stop Zhang Huen and was torn a hole by him. Although his mind was not enough, it was still more than enough to deal with more than a dozen artillery pieces. Zhang Huen grabbed the artillery in the void and threw them all into the large army that followed behind. Those people were stabbed to death by swords and guns when they landed. More than 300 Russian troops lost their artillery support, and their formation was broken by Zhang Huen. There was no power to fight back at all. After losing 300 of them, they immediately retreated to the concession.
Zhang Huen and his friends lifted the southern siege of Balitai. They immediately advanced towards the velvet factory on the east side of Balitai. There was a Japanese artillery team there that was firing at Balitai. The troops southbound obtained 17 artillery pieces of the old Russians and immediately turned the guns to firing at the velvet factory. Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai also found that the three sides of the siege suddenly lost one side. They investigated the top of the mountain and found that the reinforcements in the south had defeated the old Russians. They immediately organized suicide squads to launch a decisive assault on the Japanese army eastward.
All the Qing army's artillery fired at the tower of the velvet factory. There were the joint command headquarters of British general Seymour, Italian general Vincent, and Japanese general Sushen Yamaguchi. After being bombarded on both sides of the Japanese, British and Italian coalition forces in the east were suddenly caught in command chaos. They did not expect that the Russian army in the south would be disbanded so soon, and even believed that they had been accidentally attacked by friendly forces.
Seymour sent 200 sailors and 800 Japanese commandos from Yamaguchi Sushi to form a joint return combat team to come to the south. He met the Boxer Regiment led by Zhang Hu'en. Zhang Hu'en took the lead in breaking into the formation, disrupting the shooting of the coalition forces. The regiments and Qing soldiers rushed in in chaos. After a burst of killing, more than 400 coalition forces evacuated in a hurry.
With the continuous shelling of the Qing army, the tower in the weaving factory actually raised a white flag in the early morning of the next day to show that it would not fight. Zhang Huen and Yi and several Yi and the regiment soldiers hid in a rice shop to rest, and took the opportunity to manipulate Cixi to order a general attack.
2,800 Russian troops reinforced Tianjin from Dagu. The train arrived at the Junliangcheng station. The railway was destroyed. They walked to Laolongtou station. The Qing army Boxer Regiment fought fiercely and fought fiercely. After killing hundreds of soldiers, they entered the station the next day. More than 600 coalition troops came from the direction of the Junliangcheng to attack the Dongji Bureau. The defenders fought hard and defeated the enemy. 17 enemies were killed. Cixi ordered the rebels and Qing soldiers to praise them and sent people to order Ronglu to leave the station. Ronglu could not stare at the scalp, but when he arrived at the battlefield, he ordered the soldiers to fire guns in the air, as if he was fighting a peaceful fist.
After learning about it, Cixi went to the battlefield and asked someone to take Ronglu down, behead him and show him publicly. She handed over the command of the central army to Zaixun. Zaixun suddenly became the second only to Yulu in the battle in Tianjin. The actual power was basically handed over to Zhu Hongdeng and Liang Qichao. The two divided the army into four teams, assisted by 300,000 Zhongyi and the soldiers under her command. The first team was led by Pan Jinshan to attack Yansuotuo, Chenjiagou, and Majiakou. They took the opportunity to open up the connection with the Zizhulin Concession and helped Yulu attack the 4,000 coalition forces in the concession. The second team was in Baimiao and Shadows and blocked the coalition forces that fled from Xigu Armory; the third team attacked Haiguang Temple and Dongjuzi from the front, intending to drive the coalition forces back to Laolongtou Station, and the fourth team asked Yao Liangcai to lead the support of Nie Shicheng and Yuan Shikai to encircle and suppress the coalition command center that was resisting in the weaving factory.
When Zhang Huen woke up at night, he discussed with some small Boxer leaders. He was angry and touched the tower alone. Zhang Huen, whose mind power had recovered 20%, gently touched the top of the tower. Ten fingers came out and poked the five coalition soldiers guarding above to death. Following the tower, Zhong was discovered by the patrol Japanese troops. For a moment, fierce battle started in the tower. Zhang Huen poked and killed dozens of Japanese troops and broke into the coalition command center. Three generals and eight guards began to fight with him, but in front of Min Li, ordinary people were no match for him at all. After a cup of tea, Zhang Huen looked at the corpse on the ground, pushed down the candle, and lit the command center.
When the Rebels and Qing troops saw the tower suddenly burst into flames, they immediately launched a coordinated attack on infantry and artillery. The 5,000 Japanese and 1,000 British and Italian coalition forces resisted to death. Nie Shicheng's right arm was pierced by gun bullets and fought in a battle of innovation. After killing more than 1,200 soldiers, the enemy cannon was finally destroyed by our artillery fire. Only 3,300 soldiers who lost artillery fire support left evacuated northward and joined forces with the Russian army in the north to resist the attack. At this time, Yao Liangcai led his army to fight. The two armies attacked each other forward and backward. After a day and night of fierce battle, they finally shot Li Niwei, the commander of the Russian Empire.
As a result, the commanders of the Eight Kingdoms had gone four of them, and the rest were not enough to worry about it. On the fourth day of the outbreak of the Tianjin Battle, German commander Wadesi was killed at the Laolongtou Railway Station, and his body was cut into more than a dozen pieces and fed to wild dogs. On the night of the fourth day, French commander Frey and Japanese commander Akiyama Haogu surrendered in the Zizhulin Concession. Only more than 4,800 people were left under his command. General Sherman, the commander of the US military, saw that the situation was over, sent away the Austrian general Grant and surrendered with a flag. In this battle, the war between the Eight Kingdoms coalition invaded the Qing Dynasty ended with the complete failure of the Eight Kingdoms coalition.
At the end of the war, Empress Dowager Cixi had completely become a useless person. Her body was taken away for more than ten days, so her meal could no longer wake up from her ignorant state. Liang Qichao, Zhu Hongdeng, Nie Shicheng, and Dong Fuxiang all supported Guangxu to rule. Yulu, Zaixun, Yuan Shikai and others immediately fled to the capital. The war between the remnants of the Emperor's Party and the Hou Party was about to break out. Of course, these had nothing to do with Zhang Hu'en.
"Have you ever seen Master Gongsun?"
"Never?"
"Have you ever heard of Master Gongsun?"
"What? Who?"
Chapter completed!