Chapter 81 War

During the civil strife in the Qing Dynasty, Britain, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Austria-Hungary, and Russia formed the famous Eight-Power Allied Forces and landed in Dagu, Tianjin. Where is their attack target?Beijing. The second Opium War taught the foreign devils a truth: as long as they fight to the home of the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, they can get the maximum benefit. Cixi originally planned to rely on the Boxers to fight against the Eight-Power Allied Forces, but it turned out that this naive idea was a complete joke. Although the Boxers are good at destroying, but in the face of the attack of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, their swords, wooden sticks and other weapons and invulnerability skills are useless at all. Falling down like harvested wheat... So to fight the coalition forces, you have to rely on the regular army of the imperial court-the Wuwei Army under Rong Lu, and the Gan Army under Dong Fuxiang.

Rong Lu's number one hero, Nie Shicheng, who defeated the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese War, bravely fought against the Eight-Power Allied Forces in Balitai, Tianjin. It is regrettable that at the critical moment when Nie Shicheng led the army to fight bloody battles, the Boxers actually avenged their personal revenge and ransacked Nie Shicheng's home in the rear. Nie Shicheng was very sad when he got the news, but he did not go to the battlefield privately to settle accounts with the Boxers, but continued to lead the Qing army to fight against the Eight-Power Allied Forces until the last drop of blood was shed.

After the battle, the German general led his entourage to take a red blanket, covered Nie Shicheng's body with his own hands, then took off his military cap, and ordered the German soldiers to shoot into the sky to pay tribute to Nie Shicheng's body. The coalition forces captured Tianjin, then quickly pushed forward to Beijing to rescue the besieged embassy. In fact, the embassies of various countries in Dongjiaomin Lane, Beijing, are not in danger of falling. Although they only have 400 people guarding them, they are not in any danger at all when facing the attack of the regular army led by Rong Lu and the tens of thousands of Boxers. They are still reading newspapers and drinking leisurely. Tea.

It doesn't make sense, does it?Tens of thousands of people are fighting against hundreds of people. If you are determined to exchange your life for your life, and you can deal with an enemy whose number is only one percent of your own, isn't it just a snap of your fingers? No wonder you think so.The truth of the matter is: Rong Lu didn't want to fight, but the Boxers who wanted to fight couldn't fight. Although Ronglu has always been loyal to Cixi, for example, he firmly stood on Cixi's side during the "1898 Coup", but Ronglu knew that this matter could not be done, it was a violation of international law, and it would not end well in the future.

Therefore, when Cixi forced him to lead an army to attack the embassy, ​​Rong Lu let Dong Fuxiang's army with the worst equipment to fight, with little effort. Not only that, Master Rong Lu, who was not hospitable at all, suddenly became a hospitable person. He even sent watermelons, vegetables, and condolences to foreigners during the war, and he almost didn't say "It's such a pleasure to have friends coming from afar." Even later, when the strength of the embassy was exhausted, Rong Lu made people pretend to be bandits to supply the embassy with ammunition and bullets.

As for the Boxers, although they were large in number and wanted to kill thieves, they were isolated from the front line by Lord Ronglu's army. Their task was to climb to the roof and raise their voices to cheer for the regular army. "Change Notes"). However, when the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacked Beijing, they did not thank Rong Lu, a kind-hearted man who protected their embassy district, but severely damaged his army, almost destroying his entire army.I don't know if Master Rong Lu was foaming at the mouth from anger. On August 14, the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered the capital.

On the same day, Cixi and Guangxu fled Beijing in a hurry. The fall of the capital and the escape of the head of the government is a great shame for a country next to subjugation. Flames blazed all over the city of Beijing, and houses and buildings were instantly reduced to billowing smoke, leaving only the sound of crying. However, a bigger incident occurred in the Northeast: the Russians took advantage of the time when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded and occupied Beijing, and created the "Jiangdong Sixty-Four Tun Massacre" in the Northeast. It turned out that the Russian devils had long taken a fancy to two pieces of land in China, one was Hailanpao and the other was Jiangdong Sixty-Four Villages.They want to completely draw the two pieces of land under their own name, what should they do?Killing all the original owners one by one, wouldn't such unowned land become their own?

The massacre planned by the Russians began on July 16. Tens of thousands of Chinese people in Hailanpao and Jiangdong Liushishitun were either drowned, burned, shot, or stabbed to death... ...The mourning was everywhere, and the blood flowed like a river.Thieves who rob something are afraid that the owner will ask for it back, so they must kill the owner after the robbery. This is the Russian! This is what happened in China in the first year of the 20th century (1900) and what it looked like...