"Prince Chun! Prince Qing! Our chance has finally arrived, let's start taking action..." In the British Embassy, Yi Xuan and Yi Kuang were already on their war horses, with their prince's flag beside them.
The courtyard was crowded with British soldiers and Qing leaders. Outside the embassy, there were shouts of death throughout the city, and there were rumbling cannons and gunshots in the distance.
Yixuan was already numb. He looked at everything in front of him expressionlessly. He wanted to resist but didn't know how to do it. Prince Qing, on the other hand, accepted his fate and took it as it came, taking whatever step fate pushed him to take.
Boom... a cannon shot, and a column of black smoke rose from the house in the northeast corner of the British Embassy. Even though the people in the yard were mentally prepared, the sudden close range shelling also shocked them.
Then there were boom...boom...two cannon shots, and fire broke out in several houses north of the British Embassy!
"Someone bombarded the embassy...Someone fired artillery at Dongjiaomin Lane...The Qing Dynasty was unable to maintain its own order, and the embassy was forced to intervene to counter the rebellion..."
"We are just... We led the troops to intervene under the leadership of the two princes of the Qing Dynasty! It was the Qing Dynasty people who asked us to send troops!"
"Fight... join the fight..."
"Kill! Kill..." Three hundred soldiers in the British Embassy shouted in unison, frightening Prince Qing and almost falling off his horse.
The foreign devils finally joined the war, and the British troops rushed out of the embassy. At the same time, the Russian embassy in the south and the French embassy in the east all opened their doors.
"Kill...the Qing people are shelling Dongjiaomin Lane...protect the safety of the embassy..."
Tsarist Russia sent 500 troops, France sent 400 troops, plus 300 British troops, a total of 1,200 foreign soldiers suddenly appeared on the streets of the capital.
The American and German embassies did not make any movement at all. They just watched quietly on the wall, watching quietly and motionless!
The flags of Prince Chun and Prince Qing were raised and fluttering arrogantly in Dongjiaomin Alley. A group of people rushed to the east with a roar. Prince Qing asked in confusion, "How to go this way? Wasn't the cannon shooting just in the north?"
"Your Majesty... we are going to Chongwen Gate! Let's build this city gate to welcome Emperor Guangxu into the city! We don't need to worry about the outer city. We have to open a gate in the inner city anyway!"
"Chongwen Gate is heavily guarded. I heard that Hunjun sent Doluo and Guan Lu to take charge of all defenses from Chongwen Gate to Xuanwu Gate!"
"I heard that Zuo Jigao is still guarding Zhengyang Gate! I'm afraid we can't fight this tough guy ourselves if we don't let the foreign devils come!"
"Ah! No wonder there is no news about Zuo Jigao all night. So he is guarding Zhengyang Gate? He is responsible for the defense of the inner city of the capital?" Yi Xuan asked in horror.
You are right. Zuo Zongtang, who rushed back from the front line, no longer has any soldiers in his hands. His Hundred Battle Legion stayed in the distant Western Regions, but his reputation is still there.
At the critical moment, Emperor Tongzhi appointed him as the admiral of the nine gates of the capital, and restored this official position, allowing him to temporarily station at Zhengyang Gate to direct the battle.
But what decision can the old man make? When the whole city is in flames, Zuo Jigao, who has no soldiers in his hands, can only worry and have no choice!
Fuqing's response to the emergency was not wrong, and the old man did not agree to send the garrison on the city wall into the city to quell the chaos. Once these soldiers merged into the sea of thugs in the city, they would not be enough.
But no matter how pessimistic the old man was, he never expected that there would be so many rebellions in this city!
"How do you govern the country? How do you assist His Majesty when I am not in the capital? Why are there so many rebellions in the entire capital?"
"The British devils have made it clear that they want to go sideways and have given all their guns to the rebels. Fu Qing, what are you waiting for? Ask for help, ask Xiao Letian for troops!"
"The British intervened, but the Chinese have no attitude at all?"
The old man stood up and broke the pipe stem in his hand, but at this moment there was a burst of intensive gunfire from the east, and there were killing sounds from the direction of Chongwen Gate.
"Report...report...report to the commander...More than a thousand foreign soldiers suddenly appeared in Dongjiaomin Alley...They pulled out more than ten cannons and were bombarding Chongwen Gate!"
"The thugs are attacking the city... Dorobu is urgently asking for help..."
"What..." Zuo Zongtang's heart tightened and he almost fainted, "Where...where are the foreign soldiers...bring my personal guards up, no, no, no, I will go there myself!"
Zuo Zongtang couldn't walk at this moment, his heart was tight and his eyes were dark. The loyal guards carried the sedan carried by two people, protected by thousands of soldiers, along the city wall to support Chongwen Gate.
Before reaching Chongwen Gate, the team could no longer move. The cannons were rumbling in front, and the enemy artillery under the tower was firing upwards, and the smoke from the explosion was one after another.
"Commander Qi... We cannot go out because of the danger ahead... Britain, France and Tsarist Russia... they are shelling the tower..."
"Our red cannons are no match...the heavy machine guns can't reach the range of the cannons...General Doro is leading his brothers to kill the thugs!"
Zuo Jigao struggled to climb up the city wall and looked down. At this time, the sky was pale and he could already see the outline of some battlefields clearly!
The gate of Xuanwumen faces south, and the Wengcheng is also to the south, while the foreign soldiers from Dongjiaominxiang opened fire from the north. This was originally a stab in the back.
There are two spacious horse paths in the north that can lead directly to the city wall. Fortunately, Fuqing responded well and asked the ministries to block these with sandbags and other obstacles in the middle of the night.
Heavy machine gun fortifications were erected at the back and heavy troops were deployed for defense. Only then did the foreign devils not rush onto the city wall!
These foreign devils are more cunning. They don't have the ability to fight, but they command the thugs to rush forward like crazy. Anyway, the two princely flags are here, and the number of minions gathered is countless. At this moment, there are already tens of thousands of people.
"Prince Qing Chitose...Prince Chun Chitose...let the foreign masters provide artillery support...prepare the death squads!"
"Kill...kill at Chongwenmen! Welcome His Majesty to the capital...kill..."
"Good news has come from Nancheng...You'anmen has been opened...Xishan Camp has surrendered...His Majesty has entered Nancheng!"
"Open the Chongwen Gate and welcome His Majesty to the throne..."
Boom, boom, boom... another round of shelling, the foreign Japanese's artillery fire was dense and accurate, and debris from the Chongwenmen Gate Tower was flying!
"General...General..." A round of artillery fire brought more than thirty artillery shells to the city. After the smoke passed, Doro was lying in the rubble, not knowing whether he was alive or dead!
One of the four most loyal guards of Emperor Tongzhi did not fall on the battlefield in the Ili Valley, but was seriously injured by foreign artillery fire in Sijiu City!
"The general is still alive...hurry up and rescue him..."
This round of shelling was so violent that the rebel death squads rushed towards the horse road like crazy. The enemy and we fought desperately across the sandbag wall.
The rebels fought while demolishing, while the new Yulin army retreated while fighting!
At this time, a lot of English chants suddenly came from the British army, and then row after row of soldiers began to line up. They fired behind the death squads to cover the siege.
Immediately afterwards, France and Tsarist Russia also began to send infantry to cover the siege. They did not participate in hand-to-hand combat, but were responsible for covering the battlefield. Only when they found figures shooting from the Qing army on the city wall, they immediately shot to suppress it!
Once you encounter a large group of Qing troops gathering, immediately greet them with artillery!
"The suppression was successful...the sandbags and rocks blocking the door were removed!"
