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Chapter 431 Attack on Beijing (10)

At around 11:30 noon, Zhu Yaping led the reinforcements to Beijing and also brought a batch of ammunition and medical medicine to the troops attacking Beijing.

The two sides met in the palace, and the medical team that came with the reinforcements immediately started working in Wenhua Hall. In the battle to attack Beijing, two people were injured in the People's Army soldiers, and more than 60 others were seriously injured. Although emergency treatment was carried out after the battle, this was only an emergency treatment. Now that professional medical personnel arrived, medical personnel naturally treated the symptoms. Moreover, among the prisoners of the Eight-Nation Alliance, there were also a large number of injured soldiers, but even the People's Army itself did not have medical personnel and did not carry many medicines with them, let alone treat the injured prisoners, which could only let them die. Although the soldiers traveling through time have humanitarian feelings, they are not "Holy Mother". They are not so noble that they are demanding themselves and treat the prisoners well. But now with medical personnel and sufficient medicines, of course, the prisoners should be treated.

In addition, Zhu Yaping also brought news to everyone that Tianjin will send a group of personnel to Beijing tomorrow, led by Qin Zheng, including a regiment army, as well as more than 300 temporaries and more than 500 local personnel. They will be responsible for taking over the administrative affairs of Beijing. However, the top priority of the People's Army is still to fully control Beijing as soon as possible, and the reinforcements have arrived in Beijing. The available mobile forces have reached four battalions, and they are fully capable of completely cleaning up the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing.

At this time, the soldiers who left the palace to inquire about the news had also returned and reported the reconnaissance to the command center. Now of the 13 city gates outside Beijing, five were controlled by the People's Army, namely Zuo'anmen, Yongdingmen, You'anmen, Deshengmen, Andingmen, and Xuanwumen, Zhengyangmen and Chongwenmen located in Beijing. The eight city gates are now controlled by the remaining troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the number of defenders at each city gate is different. The most defenders are Chaoyangmen, with about 15oo people, and the defense lines are even arranged under the city; while the fewer defenders are Dongzhimen, Dongbianmen and Xibianmen, with only about 1 and 2oo people garrisoned; the remaining defenders are between 5oo-1oo.

However, the reconnaissance soldiers could not distinguish the nationality of these troops, and could only confirm that the Japanese army guarding Fucheng Gate was the Japanese army, because only the Japanese army looked closest to the Chinese, while other foreigners looked similar.

After hearing this, Zhu Yaping and *** were relieved, because the Eight-Nation Alliance is stationed at each city gate, which means that the Eight-Nation Alliance has no unified command and can only fight on their own. The People's Army can defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance at each city gate one by one. If the Eight-Nation Alliance can gather at this time, it will be a problem.

However, the reconnaissance soldiers also reported that in addition to the central axis and the imperial city, the order in Beijing is very chaotic. Not only are there a few scattered Eight-Nation Alliance soldiers committing murder and captives, but there are also many local rogues and gangsters taking advantage of the opportunity to rob and commit crimes. In addition, according to the reconnaissance soldiers, there are two churches that have been besieged by a group of Chinese people, one of which has been broken. Although the reconnaissance soldiers did not enter the church to take a closer look, they can only see a mess inside, with several corpses in the church costumes. Among the people besieging the church, there are still people wearing Boxer costumes.

It turned out that although the Eight-Nation Alliance was disbanded and stationed at the city gates separately, they could only fight on their own. However, after the People's Army occupied the palace, they did not rush to attack the remaining Eight-Nation Alliance, which gave the Eight-Nation Alliance some time to breathe. Originally, the Eight-Nation Alliance soldiers had snatched a lot of treasures and property in China, and they did not intend to snatch them anymore, but the stolen things were either kept in the command center of the palace or stored in their own embassies. The People's Army occupied the palace and sent troops to Dongjiaomin Lane. As a result, the stolen things were basically gone. A few Eight-Nation Alliance soldiers were unwilling to accept it, so they planned to snatch a little more. In addition, there were some rogues who took advantage of the chaos to take advantage of the chaos to take advantage of the situation.

In addition, it was the opportunity to kill foreigners to vent their anger and revenge, and the targets of revenge were usually churches. Because the conflict between the church and the people was one of the direct inducements of the Boxer movement, at the peak of the Boxer movement, all major cathedrals in Beijing were besieged by the Boxer Rebellion, and many clergy and teachers died in chaos. After the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, the surviving clergy and religious people carried out brutal revenge on the Boxer Rebellion and assisted the Eight-Nation Alliance to capture and kill members of the Boxer Rebellion. Of course, these two unilateral persecutions were mixed with a large number of private interests, private revenge, private revenge, etc.

The battle in the early morning spread throughout Beijing, and some members of the original Boxer Regiment hidden in Beijing were ready to move. After dawn, they found out that the Eight-Nation Alliance was defeated and driven out of the palace. Some people even found out that the attack on Beijing and defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance were overseas Chinese. Although there was no direct connection between the overseas Chinese and the Boxer Regiment, in the eyes of some remaining Boxer Regiment, since the overseas Chinese were enemies of the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was naturally consistent with the Boxer Regiment. Therefore, they should kill a few foreigners and fight with overseas Chinese. So some people took action immediately and launched a new round of revenge on the foreigners, and the ones that were in the brunt of the Boxer Regiment were naturally the same as the Boxer Regiment. Therefore, they should kill a few foreigners and fight with overseas Chinese. So some people took action immediately and launched a new round of revenge on the foreigners, and the ones that were in the brunt were naturally the church.

Without the protection of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the church was naturally unable to resist the attack of the remaining Boxers. Fortunately, the number of Boxers was not large, and a considerable number of people were waiting and watching. Therefore, only 4 or 50 people were in actual action, and the chaos that could be caused was limited. Of course, if this continued, it would be impossible to cause another Boxer movement.

After listening to the report of the reconnaissance soldiers, Zhu Yaping couldn't help but be a little wary. It was normal to have some chaotic events during the war, but if the Boxer Rebellion was on the rise again, it would be different. During this period, both of them had made up for the historical knowledge of this period. Of course, they knew that although the Boxer Rebellion had certain positive significance in this particular era, the harm to the country and society was extremely huge. To put it bluntly, the Boxer Rebellion was an extreme nationalist movement, and it was quite stupid. Therefore, under the rule of the Time Travel Group, the Boxer Rebellion must not be allowed to appear or even be exhibited. Now the Boxer Rebellion is a trend of making a comeback, so it is difficult to guard against it. If a large-scale Boxer Rebellion is really formed, it will be troublesome.

Then the most urgent task now is to drive away all the Eight-Nation Alliance as soon as possible, fully control Beijing City, and then restore Beijing's order. Only in this way can the Boxer Rebellion be restored and the disaster will be killed in its infancy.

So the two immediately recruited three regiment commanders and conducted a simple negotiation. Finally, they decided that the Fifth Regiment, which attacked the city gates, was mainly responsible for the Fifth Regiment, and Liu Shunchang, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, was the commander-in-chief, and temporarily assigned the Second Battalion of the Second Regiment and the First Company of the Artillery Battalion to the Fifth Regiment.

Although the Fifth Regiment is not an absolute main force like the First Regiment and Second Regiment, nearly 40% of the soldiers with practical experience in the entire regiment. Moreover, although the Fifth Regiment does not have an artillery battalion, it has a firepower reinforcement battalion. It is also the only regiment equipped with an artillery battalion besides the First Regiment and the Second Regiment, so it also has considerable combat effectiveness. This is also one of the main reasons why the Fifth Regiment is also listed as one of the troops attacking Beijing this time.

Although the Fifth Regiment had not participated in any battles in the Beijing Campaign before, and now there are only two battalions, it is fully organized and a new force. After the Eight-Nation Alliance was attacked, its combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced. Therefore, letting the Fifth Regiment fight at this time just allows them to accumulate more combat experience without excessive casualties. The Second Regiment and the First Company of the Artillery Battalion were temporarily assigned to the Fifth Regiment to command, in order to strengthen the Fifth Regiment's combat effectiveness.

After the order was issued, the members of the Fifth Regiment were extremely excited. After all, it was finally my turn to go to the battlefield. Although they were just cleaning up the mess, they could participate in the battle. Although the members of the Fifth Regiment knew that the regiment could not have many soldiers with combat experience compared with the First and Second Regiments, they also hoped that the regiment could quickly improve their combat effectiveness and become a combat-capable force as soon as possible.

The target of the attack is to start with Chaoyang Gate, because Chaoyang Gate has the largest number of defenders and is quite close to the palace, so it poses a huge threat to the palace and must be removed as soon as possible.

However, although the Eight-Nation Alliance was a defeated army and lacked ammunition and heavy weapons, we must not be careless, because Chaoyang Gate is about 3 kilometers away from the straight line of the palace. However, the streets in Beijing in this era were narrow, so the People's Army's troops could not be fully expanded. Moreover, the Eight-Nation Alliance guarding the city gate had already arranged a defense line. If we blindly attacked head-on, it might cause major casualties.

After discussing with the members of the regiment headquarters, the regiment commander Liu Shunchang decided to use a battle divided into two groups, with the 5th Regiment and the 1st Battalion attacking from the city wall, while his other two battalions were divided into four groups to attack Chaoyang Gate, while the artillery company first launched artillery attacks the enemy to cover the troops' attack.

After the combat plan was formulated, the Fifth Regiment immediately attacked from the palace and attacked Chaoyang Gate. The artillery company arranged artillery positions outside the east city of the imperial city and launched artillery attacks Chaoyang Gate.
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