The place name of Tianjin Wei first came from the early years of Yongle, when Zhu Di, the king of Yan, crossed the river from here to the south, and gave the name Tianjin is the meaning of the ferry of the Son of Heaven, and later set up a guard due to the military role, which is the so-called Tianjin Wei.

During the Tongzhi period, Tianjin Wei was not large, and the low city wall protected a very small city, curled up at the corner of the Haihe River, facing the Haihe River in the north and east of the four city walls, and the old cast iron red-coated cannons on the city wall shocked the four directions.

According to the old generation of Tianjin, the four roads of North Road, South Road, East Road and West Road are the city walls of Tianjin City in the past.

After the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Tianjin in 1900, in order to punish the resistance of the soldiers and civilians in Tianjin at that time, the Eight-Nation Coalition ordered the demolition of four city walls and the construction of four wide roads.

And in 1906, the first bus line around the city was set up on these four roads, and at that time there was a proverb that spread down the 'four roads, safe wires, white card batteries around the city' It was from that moment that the military role of Tianjin was declining day by day, while the commercial status was booming, and it even surpassed Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

In fact, the process of transforming Tianjin from a military city to a commercial city has begun since the Tongzhi period, when Xiao Letian took the Wave Breaker to see this important northern town, the darkness before dawn had just passed.

"Look at it, such a large residential area outside the south city wall, the black pressure is endless, and the wharf on the side of the Haihe River all proves that Tianjin Wei has begun to transform into a commercial city, and this group of incompetent Manchurians still uses this place as a military town......

"Look at the cramped and aggrieved city wall, I'm afraid it can't even be self-sufficient in drinking water, right? Even if it is a military town, it is not qualified, waste is waste...... Brothers, let's be a volunteer demolition team today..."

"The gunners are in position, the breech is loaded with solid pellets, and the eastern wall is blown down... The infantry prepared for the landing and forced the captives into the city......"

Xiao Letian stood on the tall stern tower and said domineeringly, "Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty dares to attack our special zone, then they must be mentally prepared to be beaten back by us, and you must never be timid when dealing with hungry wolves...... The Forces nouvelles fought..."

Xiao Letian roared, and then the shouts of the soldiers on the three warships rose one after another like the tide of the sea and spread to both sides of the Haihe River.

"The Forces nouvelles fought...... Prepare for battle..."

It's just dawn, and the whole city hasn't fully woken up, and there are only sporadic early folks wandering around the streets, and there are still a few early shops around a bit of popularity.

At this time, the people of Tianjin Wei already knew the news of the fiasco of the Mailer army, but everyone seemed to be indifferent, not because these people were bold, but because their inherent thinking was at work.

"Tianjin Wei, except for the British and French alliance that year, there has not been a military disaster in the history of the Qing Dynasty in the remaining two hundred years, and even the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Heavenly Kingdom did not see the city wall of Tianjin...... Just rely on him Xiao Lotian? I think it's ...... mysterious."

"It's, it's... Fighting a war is not a child's play, and he Xiao Letian only relieved the siege of Tanggu yesterday, and it will take three days just to clean up the battlefield, and those wounded soldiers will not be able to be treated...... Taking advantage of the rising prices these days, it's true that we can make more money......"

"Yes, yes, yes, listen to the third master, these days the big families in the city are busy moving and fleeing for their lives, and some of them are Yangluo for us to pick up, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity......"

Everyone is thinking about getting rich, even the garrison is thinking about how to extort two rich families, from ancient times to the present when the society is chaotic, it is a good opportunity for wealth redistribution, as for the threat of the new army, no one cares.

But reality slapped the group in the face, and when the three warships broke into the city, and when the frenzied roars of the soldiers rang out, the city panicked as if it had woken up from a nightmare in the middle of the night.

"What's wrong? What's wrong...... Look at the Haihe River, there are foreigners' warships on the Haihe River......"

"Bullshit foreigner, that's Xiao Letian...... Didn't you see that big banner of Xiao characters? Grandpa Buddha, Xiao Lotian has come to slaughter the city, and he has come to take revenge......

The streets were full of adults crying children, and the streets were full of rampant noises, and I didn't know whose door panel was knocked down, and the clay pot of that house was broken, and Tianjin Wei was fried all of a sudden.

At this time, the defenders on the city wall also panicked, and under the pressure of countless officers' leather whips, the trembling soldiers began to clean up the red-coated cannons, and they didn't know how long they hadn't trained, and they actually rubbed out handfuls of rust from the barrels.

"Where are the snipers, kill those who are ready to resist......" Xiao Letian gouged out his ears, as if to hear the enemy's screams more clearly.

Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun didn't care about this kind of sniping within more than a hundred meters at all, and after a while, there was already white smoke on the kung fu battleship, and now Xiao Letian brought them a more reliable Mauser rifle, equipped with an optical sight, which can be described as a tiger with wings.

Bullets hit the defenders' chests accurately, and corpses fell from the sky, and in less than three minutes, the city was already in chaos, and countless people were shouting in chaos.

An officer at the head of the city, who had been shot in the right chest, was leaning against the battlement, foaming at the blood, and he gasped and muttered to himself, "Is this a divine soldier? Is this still a human being? How can there be a reason for such a quick raid......

This Manchurian officer may not be able to understand the truth of the New Army until he dies, or he may think that if he can't do it, he can't do it to others, and the psychology of self-deception and arrogance is the root cause of the failure of this group of people.

The sniper's shooting lasted only five minutes, and there were no more standing people on the city wall, and the red-clothed cannons were aimed at the Haihe River alone, and even a pier cloth was inserted in the muzzle of a cannon, which brought a bit of black humor to the battlefield of Xiao Skilling from a distance.

"Hey...... It's really a victory..."Xiao Letian shook his head, and then gave the order: "Fire...... Quickly end the battle..."

Boom Boom Boom ...... In a dense burst of cannonfire, the entire section of the Haihe River shook, and the entire section of the river suddenly shattered into billions of waves, and orange-red flames erupted from the side of the battleship and rushed straight to the city wall.

At that moment, the people of Tianjin Wei were all dumbfounded, people forgot to flee for their lives, and stared at the east city wall with smoke and dust on their faces like dead ashes, dozens of potholes the size of basins appeared in front of people's eyes, and bricks and rammed earth fell like rain.

The mighty battleship was unrelenting, and after a brief preparation, another salvo was fired, and the heavy solid cannonballs smashed into the city wall again, this time it was not the size of a basin, and what appeared in front of everyone was a hole larger than a millstone.

Solid buckshot was the nemesis of this rammed-earth wall, and after four volleys, only a muffled thunderous sound could be heard from the head of the city, and then the smoke and dust were dragged from the head of the city to the foundation stone through a five-foot-long gap, and the collapsed rammed earth and brick walls were even paved with two fish beams inside and out.

For the Chinese, the city has a unique emotion, and for thousands of years, agricultural civilization has relied on the solid city to protect itself, and the city is a concrete symbol of security in the hearts of the people. Now the walls of Tianjin Wei have collapsed, which means that the defenders of Tianjin can no longer provide protection to the people.

"Run...... So many soldiers didn't even shoot back, didn't even fire a shot or arrow, and they counted on this group of wrecks to protect us? his grandmother's ......."

Hundreds of people fled out of the city in anger, and the streets were dark and crowded.

"It's not meant, there is ......no resistance at all," Xiao Lotian muttered and waved his hand, and the battleship began to approach the wooden trestle of the pier, and soon the big leather boots of the new army were trampled on the bank of the Haihe River.

"Hurry, hurry...... You slackers, get off the boat...... Our new army has no food to feed you...... Go to your court......"

Strings of centipede-like captives were driven off the ship and limped into the city.

"You've all memorized it for me...... All of you have been registered, don't let our new army see it again from now on, and when the time comes, we will see you again and fight once......"

"Go back to Beijing...... To tell you the truth, only where our new army will not kill you, and if we let us see it outside Beijing, we will take your lives......"

The new army began to drive away the crippled captives, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners, who had cut the ropes, limped and fled in all directions, knowing that the new army did what it said, and no one dared to linger and staggered towards the west.

After the new army rushed into the inner city, everyone knew that the acropolis had become an empty city, and the gate of the west gate had already been opened, and all the officers and soldiers in the city had disappeared without a trace.

When Xiao Lotian stepped into the inner city, he looked at the terrain in a daze, and his nose was so angry that he couldn't hang his nose crookedly, "What are you looking at stupidly? If there is no enemy, you don't know how to rob the money? I don't believe that in such a short time, they can move all the treasury away? Hurry up and grab the money......"

One sentence woke up all the new troops, and all the yamen in the entire inner city were surrounded by soldiers, one by one the local treasury was opened, and a large amount of imperial court money and grain became Xiao Letian's bag.

"Search carefully...... I've searched it all carefully... This is the interest owed to us by the imperial court, and we can't die in vain... The torture hall had already found out before, and now there were at least five or six hundred thousand silver taels hidden in the Tianjin Wei Yamen...... They must not be cheapened for nothing..."

Tianjin Wei fell like this, the whole battle lasted half an hour, the battleship fired four salvos, the sniper was covered by ten minutes of firepower, and it was as simple as the city had changed hands.

And in the whole process, the Manchu Qing did not return fire a single shot, of course, this can't be blamed on these defenders, before Mailer has transferred all the elite soldiers and strong generals of Tianjin Wei, and now there are only 3,000 old and weak people guarding the city.

The old, weak, sick and disabled who have not eaten enough for three thousand meals, isn't it a dream to fight against Xiao Letian's tiger and wolf division.

Xiao Letian looked at the pair of new troops passing through, and watched the boxes of heavy silver boxes flowing towards the battleship, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, "Cixi... I've made a move, and now I'm going to see if you're as smart as the legend says, I'm looking forward to it......"

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