All the officers and men of the Beiyang Army had a gloomy face, watching the attacking troops being slaughtered by a rain of grenades without any way. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just when everyone thought that the attack was about to end in failure, an earth-shattering explosion suddenly sounded in the direction of the city gate.

"What's the matter, did someone of us rush to the city gate hole and blow up the city wall!" Feng Guozhang immediately asked his subordinates, and hope was rekindled on his face.

At this moment, on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, a puff of black smoke had risen from the direction of the city gate.

Although it was not clear what was going on there, the roar of collapse after the explosion had already told Feng Guozhang that the attacking troops had really brought him a big surprise, and in such a dense rain of grenades, someone actually rushed into the city gate and blew up the city walls.

Feng Guozhang's face was shrouded in huge surprise, and he ordered without thinking about it: "God help me, the city wall has been blown down, let the prepared reserves go up, break through the city wall, and kill into the city, don't let the forbidden army in the city react." ”

More than 2,000 Beiyang troops, armed with rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even mortars, rushed to the battlefield like a mighty wave.

Zaitao was lucky, because the city was too dangerous, and Zaitao, who liked to go to the front-line position to boost morale, was surprised not to climb the city wall, and he escaped the explosion just now.

A section of the city wall thirty or forty meters long was trampled in an instant, and hundreds of forbidden troops on the city head also disappeared in the explosion.

Zaitao, who witnessed all this, suddenly froze on the spot, unable to believe his eyes.

As for the subordinates around him, his face turned pale with a brush, and then he said to himself with a look of fear: "It's over, the city wall has been blown up, and the Beiyang Army will definitely be able to break through the city wall and kill into the city!" ”

Zaitao had already reacted from the shock at this time, and after glaring fiercely at this subordinate who was saying frustrated words, he shouted loudly: "What nonsense, we will definitely be able to block the attack of the Beiyang Army." There are not many of them left, as long as we hold on to the walls, victory will be ours! ”

"Immediately send the last target unit to plug the gap, even if it is filled with human lives, it must block the attack of the Beiyang Army. Also, concentrate all the remaining mortars and fire them at the gap. The Beiyang Army must be rushing towards the gap, and one bombard can have a result. ”

When nearly 2,000 forbidden troops rushed towards the gap, the Beiyang Army was also like a pack of wolves smelling blood, and they didn't want to rush to the gap.

The fastest reaction was definitely the artillery, and as soon as the muzzle of the gun was adjusted, a string of shells smashed into the gap.

However, because the number of mortars equipped by the forbidden army was several times that of the Beiyang army, although the artillery shells on both sides continued to explode in the offensive formation, the casualties of the Beiyang army were several times more than that of the forbidden army, and the attacking troops behind almost stepped on the corpses of their colleagues in front and rushed forward.

Soon, the two forces collided at the breach.

Compared with the Beiyang Army, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army was obviously weaker. Seeing that the Beiyang Army was killing its own troops and constantly retreating, Zaitao, who was frowning, was ruthless and ordered decisively.

"Send this king's guard battalion up, there are so many people in the Beiyang Army, as long as we block them, we will win."

"Order the guard battalion to rush up immediately and greet the attacking troops of the Beiyang Army with a pistol."

At the gap in the city wall, more than 2,000 people on both sides were strangled together, and every second someone died under the bayonets of the other side.

Seeing that the Beiyang Army was about to enter the city, Zaitao's guard battalion rushed up.

The guard battalion was not only equipped with the best weapons and equipment of the forbidden army, but also had plenty of ammunition. What's more, everyone is loyal to Zaitao, and they are all veterans who have killed people.

After rushing into the battlefield, these people carried out Zaitao's order well, entered the battlefield with pistols, and constantly greeted the Beiyang Army with bullets.

In just one photo, the Beiyang Army lost three or four hundred people.

The offensive that was still unstoppable just now was blocked in an instant, and it showed a tendency to rout.

As more and more Beiyang Army was killed by the guard battalion with a pistol with a pair of dead eyes, the trend of the Beiyang Army's battlefield collapse became more and more obvious.

In less than five minutes, more than 1,000 Beiyang troops were killed by the guard battalion.

The remaining more than 100 Beiyang Army, who rushed to the end, may have been frightened, and they did not look back, and retreated back like a lost dog.

The changes on the battlefield are dazzling, and Feng Guozhang's mood at this moment is also very chaotic.

The victory that I thought I had already won was gone at the last moment, and anyone who put it on them would feel aggrieved and dissatisfied.

Not only Feng Guozhang himself, but more than a dozen subordinates around him were also desperate and depressed. They all knew that the Beiyang Army had missed this opportunity, and it was almost impossible to enter the capital again.

Not to mention that the troops have not yet had a chance to enter the capital, the problem of insufficient troops has already doomed the Beiyang Army to be impossible to take the capital.

In the nearly two-hour offensive, the Beiyang Army not only lost nearly eighty percent of its artillery, but also nearly 3,000 troops.

You know, this is only the loss of the frontal battlefield, if you add other attacking forces, the loss is likely to exceed 4,000 people.

In this way, there are less than 10,000 soldiers left in the Beiyang Army, and they are divided into eight gates in the capital, and there are only 1,000 people in each direction.

Not to mention the attack, this little force can't even surround the capital and prevent the forbidden army from breaking through.

At this time, Feng Guozhang already had the idea of retiring from the army.

However, such a big matter is not something he can decide alone. His failure to take the capital meant that the main force under the command of the commander could only defeat the forbidden army through a decisive battle, so as to take Gyeonggi and overthrow the imperial court.

As a result, the casualties of the main forces will certainly be large.

Just when Feng Guozhang gave the order to withdraw from the army, he hesitated whether to send a telegram to the marshal and ask for instructions on retreating.

A herald with a panicked expression rushed directly towards him on a war horse.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party was wearing the uniform of the Beiyang Army and the peripheral troops did not intercept him, the nervous guards around Feng Guozhang would have beaten him into a hornet's nest long ago.

......The herald did not rush over directly, and as soon as the war horse stopped more than ten meters away from Feng Guozhang, the herald jumped down and ran all the way to him.

"General, Tianjin, something happened in Tianjin. As soon as it was dawn in the morning, a naval fleet appeared outside the Tianjin military port and suddenly launched an attack on the military port. Because the opponent's firepower was too strong, the military port battery was useless because it had no gunners. In less than an hour, the military port was occupied by the enemy. ”

"Then there is the city of Tianjin, and the enemy is not only the navy, but also the army. They marched all the way from the military port to the city of Tianjin, and our men only lasted less than half an hour before the whole army was wiped out! (To be continued.) )