Chapter 164 Detours and Interspersed
August 1900 was a period of shame for China. On August 2, the Eight-Nation Alliance gathered troops to Beijing as in history. There were a total of 150,000 Boxers and Qing troops gathered in the distance between Tianjin and Beijing. However, the Qing army lacked courage and the Boxers lacked rifles and ammunition. The tactics adopted by the Qing army and the Boxers were still like charging on the battlefield of cold weapons. Facing the closely-killed modern rifles of the Eight-Nation Alliance, which had not been destroyed by artillery, this kind of charge was just to die. If the Qing army had an artillery regiment mobilized by the commander-in-chief, it might not have been defeated so badly. As early as August 4, the Eight-Nation Alliance approached Beijing, but due to the hot weather and corn.
The coalition forces started to attack the city on August 14th. On the 15th, Beijing was captured. The commander of the coalition forces announced the robbery for three days, like the ancient barbarians. In these three days, countless crimes against women were committed against people and murders occurred. On the 15th, Cixi hurriedly dressed up as an old woman and fled west to "royal hunting". On the way to escape, Cixi announced the order of comprehensive reform and summoned Li Hongzhang to Beijing to negotiate peace. After receiving the news of the fall of Beijing, Li Hongzhang was depressed to go north, but history changed. When the Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing, Li Hongzhang had already determined that the strategy of the Linkshe Club was to seize Shandong this time. However, the combat plan of the Linkshe Club was not imagined at this time.
What was the Linkshe doing when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing for such a long time? In this era without strategic bombing of aircraft, gathering troops and gathering supplies was the king of war. In this month, a large barracks and warehouses became a large barracks and large warehouses in northern Jinan. Local soldiers on the entire Shandong Peninsula had been trained and were stationed everywhere in the Shandong Peninsula. After Weihaiwei and Qingdao were captured by Linkshe, Japan, Britain and Germany organized several Marine raids, but they were not facing the Qing army that had been hit and defeated. The fierce counterattacks on the highland fort and the three warships were sunk. More than 1,500 Three Kingdoms soldiers who landed were killed and captured.
After the report of Zuo Qiang's attack on the enemy from the north was introduced by the General Staff of the Yanchu Club, a large number of officers said that the plan was feasible, but Cheng Pan did not make any statement. After everyone finished speaking, Cheng Pan asked: "How many troops do we have in Shandong?" Zuo Qiang said confidently: "Take the newly expanded troops with the troops with the expansion in Shandong. We have a total of 348,000 troops in Shandong, of which 180,000 troops can be used for mobile combat near Jinan." Cheng Pan suppressed his hands to stop Zuo Qiang's further description, and then asked: "How many troops do foreign coalition forces have in Tianjin and Beijing." Zuo Qiang felt that Cheng Pan's tone was a little wrong and he was not as excited as before.
He said: "In the Tianjin-Beijing area, the number of foreign coalition forces is about 50,000. If Russia goes south from the three eastern provinces, we will face 70,000 to 80,000 within a month." Cheng Pan then asked: "If the coalition forces take the initiative to go south, how many people will be?" At this time, Gao Yun, who was in charge of intelligence, stood up and replied: "According to the intelligence in Beijing, the Japanese and German troops are prepared to go south, and the total number should not exceed 30,000." Cheng Pan stood up and looked at everyone and said: "If we annihilate these 30,000 people for the first time, I ask you, will the coalition forces be stupid and attacked by land from the north for the second time? If they do not attack from the north and land from the coast of Shandong, what should we do?" Liu Shi stood up and stood up.
"Report Chairman, we reserved enough troops in the Shandong area to use space to offset their gunfire, enough to prevent the remaining coalition forces from landing on various coasts." Cheng Pan stared at him and asked, "You mean, we have to be guarded for a long time in Shandong?" Liu Shi threw away the explanation words, and said, "Chairman, you said you were preparing for a long-term war." Cheng Pan shook his head and said, "Long-term war preparations are to ensure that we have a complete failure in Shandong. This worst situation occurs. Once we can't defeat the coalition forces of various countries in Shandong, we must also waste it in Shandong. The Bei'an Industrial Base will definitely not receive threats.
." Zuo Qiang asked with some understanding and understanding: "Chairman, you mean we want to do a big fight." Cheng Pan took the military map and used a red pen to draw two lines on the Hebei map. One line penetrated directly from the west side of Beijing to the north of Beijing. This was a big detour. The ultimate goal was to block the possible connection between the Eight-Nation Alliance and the northern reinforcements of the Russian army. The other line was to go straight to Tianjin to cut off the retreat of foreign coalition forces from the sea. To achieve this strategy, the West Wing must have the ability to raid long distances and hold positions. In addition to being equipped with rifles and grenades, heavy machine guns must be carried more, while the troops directly inserted into Beijing and Tianjin must have strong raid capabilities, and artillery must be used here in a concentrated manner.
After Cheng Pan drew the two lines, he said regardless of everyone's surprise: "War is gambling. If you don't win the enemy's bets at once, the enemy will always think that you have a chance to turn things around." Zuo Qiang said to Cheng Pan: "Chairman, your work is too big, you have to finish it in one bite." Cheng Pan asked what difficulties there were in this plan. After discussing with some military chiefs, Zuo Qiang concluded that the possibility of success of this plan was 40%. After failure, the possibility of one-third of the people from the Eight-Nation Alliance fled into the sea is 50%. The possibility of a complete failure of the entire army losing more than 100,000 is no more than 5%. Even if the coalition forces fail, they do not have the capital and courage to continue invading Shandong. The entire plan can be implemented, but the only difficulty is that the number of new recruits in the entire army is too large and have not experienced fierce battles and may not be competent for the battles of these two high-intensity large corps.
Zuo Qiang whispered: "If you can solve the logistics for everyone." Cheng Pan immediately refused: "I will do nothing else in this war except to formulate a combat plan and boost morale on the front line. A strong army must be able to overcome any difficulties, not by relying on external forces of a crutch." Gao Yun interrupted at this time: "But this war is about national destiny." Cheng Pan said: "The national destiny was fought by you, not by cheating. Even if this failure, we still occupy Shandong and steadily defend the industrial zone.
Our strength will be stronger in two years. This failure is just a setback. The rise of a great power and the establishment of a strong army are all achieved through a series of setbacks. If I don’t let go this time, when do you hope I will let go?” What Cheng Pan and the members of the original thirty people said were confused. Cheng Pan and several military chiefs hid in the same house. Cheng Pan put down his words. This time, the army of the Scythe Hammer Club broke through and was a dragon. If they could break through, they would become dragons sooner or later. However, if Cheng Pan helped to cheat, there would never be a chance for him to be a dragon.
Zuo Qiang and others finally made a strategic plan. After confirming that Cheng Pan let go, several military chiefs were unsure and were a little excited. This war could test the strength of the Sakura Club. Cheng Pan was right. As long as he broke through this time and had the experience of winning the battle with the great powers, the Sakura Club's army would have the military spirit of a world-class army.
The reason why Cheng Pan decided to let go was that the main god had reminded him that he was in an important event of historical interlacing, and that changing history in an unscientific way would lead to major causes and effects.
This combat plan was named the Vise Project by the Scythe Hammer Club, and it was the climax stage in the later film of the Eight-Nation Alliance invasion of China.
On August 25, Beijing was completely controlled by foreign coalition forces. In addition to doing all kinds of evil in the city, the foreign coalition forces also began to go out to hunt down the Boxer Regiment. The Boxer Regiment failed to fight against foreign humiliation. At this time, the commander of Wadesi of Germany was 30,000 people invaded Baoding. At this time, the 180,000 troops of the Scythe Club and 500 cannons also attacked northward. The first battle was the important strategic node of Baoding. At this time, Baoding was in the hands of the Boxer Regiment. The reason why Baoding was held in the hands of the Boxer Regiment was that the Boxer Regiment killed all the foreigners who were hiding in the church to take refuge. The Boxer Regiment did do inhumane things here.
However, his bad boy came to educate himself. The Scythe Club launched the Battle of Baoding first, and invaded Baoding City within three hours, and implemented a curfew system. Cheng Pan felt that he could not get the shit pot of Baoding Cathedral, but there was no need for the Eight-Nation Alliance to do more excessively in Beijing.
On the 27th, the Kamahammer Society fought with foreign coalition forces at Baoding. The Kamahammer Society used its absolute superior force and firepower to launch a land war with the foreign coalition forces that had been fighting smoothly in China. The 30,000 foreign coalition forces were the largest of the Japanese, 15,000 Germans, and 7,000 Russians. Wadesi looked at the Japanese's strict discipline and brave fighting spirit, and attacked Beijing. In addition to robbing the Qing government's official warehouse, he did not commit internship crimes against civilians (there are two morals with the Japanese in the Nanjing Massacre). Wadesi watched the excellent Japanese soldiers advance and exclaimed: "Japan is the only literary article in Asia.
The Kingdom of Ming”. The Qing people who saw along the way were insensitive and dirty like the natives of Africa. It was such a nation that killed noble Europeans, which was inexcusable. Wadesi seemed to have chosen to forget what the coalition forces did in Beijing a few days ago. Wadesi was like revenge, and the opportunity came soon. The cavalry who went to investigate discovered a large number of Chinese troops in front. This army had no braids and let Wadesi know that he was meeting the red bandits in the south. Wadesi said to all the officers: "Young men, the enemy is ahead, let me crush them again."
Wadesi's wish to crush the Scythe Hammer Corps was not realized. The Scythe Hammer Corps launched an attack from three directions southeast and west. The troops led by Wadesi went south this time with a total of 64 cannons, most of which were mountain cannons. The firepower was particularly strong in front of the Boxer Regiment that was charging for the group, but in the three-three tactics, you can only destroy 2 groups at most even a 105 howitzer. In each platoon of the attack, the size was divided into order, and a platoon leader died in battle and the second could quickly take over. Faced with the attack of the Scythe Hammer Corps, the coalition forces found that their firepower could not be defeated.
. Soon the coalition's machine guns began to strafuse. Before the coalition's machine gun was arrogant, several 50 mortar shells were sent to them. At this time, the heavy firepower of the Scythe Hammer Club also fired. Wadesi felt that he had made a major mistake today. When the dense shells released the Flower of Death in his artillery positions and crowds, Wadesi shouted: "No, no, this is not a boxer, this is not a mob, this is an army, the army." The battle between the artillery clusters quickly separated the outcome. Nearly ten times the order of magnitude cannot be compensated by tactics and technology, and the coalition has no tactical advantage.
When the Japanese soldiers were approaching the Kamahammer Club, their officers shouted: "Put on the bayonet, rush up, rush up, and win, for the emperor, plate." During this period, there was a false theory that "bullets and shells are fools, only bayonets are heroes". At this time, all countries of the great powers attached importance to the thorn fight, and their minds were filled with the idea of serving the country after the victory of gambling in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. These Japanese launched the pig attack without hesitation. Kamahammer Club is now
The automatic firepower is not omnipotent. When the water pipe submachine gun is stuck, the firepower is not dense, but the Japanese queue is much sparse. Within two hundred meters, the army of the Kamahammer implemented the final bullet suppression, and then a rain of grenades. In this process, the Japanese formation created a gap. The originally scattered Kamahammer soldiers quickly moved closer to the three of them and rushed towards the Japanese in one unit. The bayonet was cruel in the war. Kamahammer and the Japanese army had new recruits.
Someone turned around, but at this time he turned around, he died, and his back exposed to the bayonet was dead. Due to the large number of people in the Scythe Club, the damage of the triangular bayonet was slightly strong, and the Japanese counterattack was suppressed. The soldiers of the Scythe Club who had just won the victory immediately joined the bayonet attack on the Russians. Although the Russians had a tall and big man, they faced the most elite veterans who brought out from the Dabie Mountains. After the failure of the Scythe Club, they pulled the grenade.
The Russians were terrified by holding the enemy's momentum to die together. The invading army came to China to make a fortune. They never thought that they were so desperate. The bayonet battle was immediately at a disadvantage and a large-scale escape began. However, after the start of the Baoding Battle, a team of 5,000 people had detoured the rear during this period. The soldiers of the coalition army were fully armed and intercepted the troops surrendered in the change of Russian, English, German, "subtracted the gun and did not kill".
On the 27th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Wadesi Army killed 12,000 prisoners and captured 13,581 people. The battle of the Scythe Club reduced 11,345 people. After leaving 5,000 people to be captured, the vise plan officially started. After the Battle of Scythe Club, the troops began to be divided.
Wadesi and the Japanese Russian officer who handed over the command knife wanted to see the commander of the Kamahashi Club who commanded the battle, but were told that they were not available. Looking at the large troops of the Kamahashi Club continuing to head north, a frightening guess appeared in Wadesi's mind. The Japanese commander on Wadesi's opponent said, "Matsui, we should not go out this time."
As the battle outside the city began, a large number of foreign coalition forces were escorted into the city at night. The originally hostile sentiment towards the army of the Sakura Club entering Baoding immediately changed drastically. Citizens kept coming out of their houses to take revenge and threw stones, and the scene was very chaotic. Finally, the Sakura Club came forward to maintain order and declared that after the war, "all foreigners will be punished after the trial, and the people in the world will see how to punish foreign devils. Don't destroy the prisoners until now." The people stopped. The war outside the city made the Sakura Club's actions to hire civilians in Baoding much easier.
When a small number of defeated soldiers fled to Beijing and Beijing, the officers of various countries thought it was a joke, and the Russian officers were very angry and imprisoned several fleeing soldiers for desertion. A day after the coalition forces of various countries in Beijing learned about this "joke: a day after the joke was heard, the joke turned into a thriller drama. Fifty thousand troops in the eastern wing of the Scythe Club cut off the connection between Tianjin and Beijing, and attacked the Tianjin city and occupied the territory outside the Tianjin naval. The Eight-Nation Alliance and the Navy completely lost contact on August 29. At this time, the Eight-Nation Alliance found that a large number of Scythe Club troops also appeared on the west side.
Seymour, who performed well in this envoy rescue operation, led 4,000 troops out of the city to open up the connection with the sea. Before leaving the city, Seymour was greeted by the foreign ladies and completed this heroic operation. However, the wind was sluggish and the heroes of Yishuihan were gone and never returned. Seymour's army was attacked by the army of Sandhammer with three times the strength of the troops. After completing the annihilation of the Wadesi Legion, the whole club had no fear of foreign troops at all. At the mouth of the revenge of the Jademi Club, the Sweet Club was attacked by the army of Sandhammer with three times the force.
Under the publicity of the roster, "not letting go" became the primary target of every combat commander, which was also a loss of backward information dissemination. Seymour did not understand the process of Wadesi's defeat. Several deserters who fled back and were imprisoned in prison only said that the Scythe Hammer Club had many artillery and the bombs used the human-sea tactics. The description was very unclear. Therefore, Seymour believed that the Scythe Hammer Club was a Boxer Regiment with advanced weapons and had no adjustments in tactics. So none of the four thousand people fled back.
On September 3, the vise plan was fine-tuned. The Sakura Club decided to concentrate their forces first to crush the walnut of Beijing before the Russians could reinforcements arrived. Originally, the Sakura Club thought that the Russians had troops in the north. However, as soon as Beijing opened, all foreign troops robbed the city of Beijing, and there were very few troops outside the city. The Marine Corps at the Maritime Alliance organized three operations to open up the Beijing coalition forces, but after losing 2,800 people, the control of the Sakura Club in Tianjin was not shaken. Now European countries are crazy, and international public opinion is increasingly demanding that Russia and Japan take rescue operations.
At this time, the Japanese base camp also discussed this Asian fusion. The current top leaders of Japan are still controlled by rational people. Hirobuki Ito means that the situation in mainland China is now very unaware of what happened. At this time, the world is very vigilant about Japan, a yellow country. Japan cannot fight an unknown war for European and American ghosts. The best strategy is to wait and see what happens, and at the same time quietly contact the Kamahammer Club in Anhui.
But Tsar Nikolai was a little excited. He shouted the slogan "For the Civilized World" and ordered 50,000 gray animals to attack Beijing, but there was no railway between the three eastern provinces and Beijing. These 50,000 gray animals would not arrive for a while if they had to go by sea. On September 4, 100,000 soldiers of the Scythe Society launched a general attack on the 20,000 coalition forces entrenched in Beijing.
The Eight-Nation Alliance had no conflicts when facing the Qing army with very weak combat power. It was like hunting, and was very harmonious with each other. However, in this crisis situation, the armies of various countries did not trust each other. The previous recommended commander Wadesi was not aware of the life and death, so the command of the coalition forces had a problem.
In 1900, the Beijing man saw the scene of the changing king's flag on the city wall at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The Yanxie Society used explosives to blow up the Beijing walls through the cover of the 82 mortar. Three thousand Yanxie Society soldiers holding water pipe submachine guns became advance teams to enter Beijing. Beijing, which was harmed for more than ten days, did not become a good place for street fighting for all coalition forces in various countries. After a weak resistance, the Beijing occupied by the Yanxie Society, all the national flags of all countries were lowered in Dongjiaomin Lane, and a flag of a sickle and iron hammer was raised in the majestic revision of the Internationale.
The commanders of all the countries occupying Beijing handed over the command knife to Zuo Qiang, the commander of the general battle of the Scarlet Society on September 5. Since the Battle of Baoding, the Scarlet Society has killed and captured 42,635 armed troops from various countries. According to the figures provided by the surrendered commanders, there are about 5,000 coalition soldiers missing.
Chapter completed!