"The sky is out of season, the sun and moon are out of light, and the earth is out of season and no vegetation can grow!"
"If heaven and earth are like this, let alone us mortals! But if I am given a chance of luck, if I don't seize it, I should go to hell in this life!"
Emperor Guangxu, Yi Xin, had already seen the Yongding Gate Tower directly south of the capital from a distance. In the darkness of the night, it connected to the city wall like a black dragon lying on the ground.
There were no high-rise buildings in the ancient capital, and there were no rows of downtown areas outside the city walls. It was all a wilderness of crops. There were no comparison objects to set it off, which made the city wall look even taller and majestic.
"During the Ming and Qing dynasties... In the past five to six hundred years, this imperial capital has only been captured a few times? During the Tumu Fort Incident, it was defended but not captured..."
"In the end, Li Zicheng and the others captured it, but at that time it was not a matter of fighting. The Ming Dynasty had no determination to defend itself. The entire city's bureaucracy was actually waiting for Li Zicheng to enter the city! Where could anyone fight..."
"After our Eight Banners cavalry entered the pass, this city was an empty city. The city gate would be wide open unless we took action..."
"More on... Damn it, it's the stupid British and French allied forces! Haha... How could they do it? Isn't it because my good-for-nothing brother is a coward and escaped!"
"Seng Gelinqin was defeated, and the last fighting force in the capital completely collapsed. Do you expect the big men in the city to defend the city?"
Yi Xin pointed at the city wall of the capital on horseback and was so excited that she was a little incoherent. Her son Zai Cheng next to her said a little inappropriately, "Father...and that time with Xiao Letian a few years ago..."
"Bah... don't talk about him!" Yi Xin meowed like a cat that had stepped on its tail. "If that bitch Ci'an hadn't given Xiao Letian King Qin's belt edict, would Xiao Letian have been able to get in?"
"No! Just rely on him? It's just a delusion..."
Is Xiao Letian delusional that no one can tell you apart? But today everyone is excited when they see the burning capital. The victory over the Fourth Nine City is right in front of them.
Yi Xin laughed wildly, "Hahaha... This city, the city where I was born and raised, I know all your secrets!"
"No one can defeat you purely through military means! Only when you start to stir up chaos internally can people from the outside break in!"
"From the founding of the city in the Ming Dynasty to the present five or six hundred years ago, it has always been like this, always!"
"Hahaha... Today, history is repeating itself! My tigers... the city has become chaotic, and there is no one to guard the city anymore!"
"Kill! Fight in...kill the traitorous king Zai Chun! Kill Zai Chun!"
Kill... kill... kill... In the darkness, the army rushed towards the Yongding Gate Tower like a tide.
At a quarter past four in the morning, Emperor Guangxu led his army to attack the city, and the capital was in danger!
What happened in the capital that night? Let’s turn the clock back and start with the development after the Battle of Yongding River.
Feigning an attack on the Yongding River and encircling and annihilating the Hunchun tribe was a strategy formulated by Yi Xin to encircle the point and provide reinforcements. This strategy was very successful, not only due to his own tricks, but more importantly, the 'cooperation' of many people.
The Yongding River feint attack was too difficult and too real. Dun Wang Yipei couldn't tell that it was a strategy when the Jingwu Heroes Association's military intelligence deduction was given to him.
The fifth prince didn't believe it. He looked at the precarious defense line in front of him and firmly refused to send more troops to Tianjin, which paved the way for the fall of Tianjin.
In fact, if the imperial court had been a little vigilant and issued a temporary order without sending troops from the capital, allowing Hunchun to leave two columns of Guanwai troops in Tianjin, the situation would have been stabilized.
However, the Battle of Yongding River was so brutal that no one could believe that this was a feint attack. This cut off the last chance to increase troops.
Another very important reason is that radical elements within the Chinese ethnic group are deliberately fanning the flames, and they are deliberately expanding the scale of the Manchu Civil War.
Recalling Jiang Lie and others, the military headquarters burned the military secrets, and the lieutenants committed suicide... This series of conspiracies actually had only one purpose, which was to expand the scale of the Manchu and Qing civil wars.
The more chaos, the better for those people!
Because the Chinese were blindfolded, they did not react in time that night, which also caused the war situation to collapse extremely.
Guiziliu has been putting pressure on the Yongding River defense line. More than fifteen thousand people died in this river alone tonight. The corpses covered the river and the entire river was dyed red.
Marco Polo Bridge has become a battlefield. Countless beautifully carved lion cubs were blown to pieces and disintegrated by bullets. The corpses were piled up like a mountain.
But Yixin showed no mercy and kept waiting for news from the east. Unexpectedly, there was more than one good news!
When the telegram came from Yangcun that the explosion was successful and that Hunchun was not dead but was injured and escaped, Guiziliu finally got his chance and the capital's internal line was fully activated.
But this gift package was not a gift. An hour later, he received a telegram from Ronglu from Tianjin. This Ronglu actually captured Tianjin.
Although the whole city is not under control, at least the government office has been taken down. The old city belongs to Emperor Guangxu!
Guiziliu was overjoyed. He didn't expect that Ronglu would be brave enough to attack Tianjin Wei and succeed. Wouldn't this block the last escape route for the capital?
The opportunity finally came, and all the power the Japs had managed in the capital throughout their lives was put to use now.
In the British Embassy, Prince Chun and Prince Qing, who had stayed up all night, were standing in the courtyard trying to pass the time. Suddenly there was a whooshing sound from the east side of the embassy, followed by a firework exploding in mid-air.
This one did not fall, but another one exploded in the west, and then the south city and north city exploded, as if the Spring Festival had passed in advance.
It's just that today's fireworks are shining on the road of Death entering Beijing.
"Brother Six, the plan is done! It's done... hahahaha..." The two of them laughed as much as they cried.
After a while, the British side sent a telegram to the two princes: "Dear Your Royal Highnesses, there is good news... Hunchun has been attacked in Yangcun, his life or death is unknown, and the railway has been cut off!"
"Not only that, General Ronglu has captured Tianjin! At this moment, the capital has become an isolated island..."
Hua Hua Hua... There were sounds of running military boots in the embassy. The British began to mobilize the guards. Everyone distributed live ammunition and fixed bayonets, and even launched a few artillery pieces.
Yixuan was shocked, "What! You dare to hide the artillery secretly? The treaty clearly states that the embassy can only be equipped with rifles and other cold weapons... How did you bring the cannon in?"
"Hahaha... Your Highness, if we don't bring the cannons in, how can we help Emperor Guangxu ascend the throne? The Chinese people believe in following urgent matters!"
"You... we, the Qing Dynasty, have our own sovereignty, don't... go too far!"
