Guangxu's suspicion of Yu Lang only delayed the most precious time, and it was not until the assault team blasted open Tiananmen Square that he joined Yu Lang and Shu Qing's subordinates, and then took the Eight Banners Guard Camp and the Ouchi guards to evacuate the Yangxin Palace urgently. When he left, Yu Lang didn't forget to use the trick of adjusting the bag, and found a eunuch wearing a dragon robe, he wanted the eunuch to go to the east, but who expected that the eunuch and a few guards didn't go far and scattered in fear, and the eunuch turned back to the Palace of Cultivation of the Heart without supervision.

The Yangxin Palace is the boundary, the south is the emperor's office, and the north is the three palaces and six courtyards, the concubines all live in it, and it is the place where the emperor is free. According to common sense, if the queen concubine can't take it away when she escapes, she will also be executed, but Guangxu has no interest in other women since the death of Concubine Zhen, and now that the enemy is in hot pursuit, he and Yulang don't have this mind at all, and go directly from Yongshou Palace through the Body and Palace, Chuxiu Palace, and then through the Shunzhen Gate of Qin'an Palace, and go to Jingshan.

Qi Xiaomao caught the fake in the Yangxin Palace, and everyone chased directly to Jingshan under the anger, but as soon as he entered the Yongshou Palace, he heard the screams of the women everywhere, and the palace princess who had not been seen before finally appeared here, not caring about those women who were looking for death and life, Qi Xiaomao led people to the northernmost Shunzhen Gate of the Forbidden City, according to the map, this side crossed the Shenwu Gate and the Tube River, which is Jingshan. Guangxu had fled to Jingshan, but Shenwumen and the other side of the Tube River left a battalion of Praetorian Guards, although these rookies were panicked, but under the command of the co-commander Shu Qing'a, a dense volley of guns came over, so that the commando team who rushed to the front suffered a small loss.

The Qing army wanted to snipe to the death, but the reason why the commandos dared to attack the Forbidden City with hundreds of people. Naturally, there was plenty of ammunition and fierce firepower, so he didn't let go of the gun at all. In addition to setting up machine guns on the top of Shufangzhai and Qin'an Temple, the assault team smashed more bazookas and mortars in unison, and the Praetorian Guards of the upper half of the Shenwu Gate were bombarded by the bazookas, and the gunfire suddenly stopped, and the distance of more than 30 meters from Shunzhenmen to Shenwumen, the commando rushed in. As long as they rush through, there is nothing that the commandos will not win. In less than a few minutes, the whistle that had been cleared by the enemy troops in the Shenwu Gate blew up, and now it was for the assault. All that's left is how to cross the tube river and rush into Jingshan. However, Jingshan is not so easy to fight, in addition to having a high wall like the Forbidden City, it is also a double structure. The gate of the outer wall is called the North Gate. The city gate of the inner wall is called Jingshan Gate, and more than 1,000 people of the inner guards, guard camps, and janissaries who retreated into Jingshan with Guangxu are guarding here

Guangxu Yulang wolf bèi fled into Jingshan, in fact, he wanted to pass through Jingshan from Di'anmen out of the imperial city, and then from Andingmen to Beiyuan, but before he got out of Jingshan, the Baoyi camp on the side of Di'anmen came over, led by Zhang Zongxiang and a few Manchu Qianzong, Yulang saw him and shouted: "Why don't you stay in Di'anmen?" ”

I glanced at the untidy clothes. Zhang Zongxiang, who was covered in smoke and dust, was so busy that he knelt down and said, "My lord, Xizhimen has been occupied by the rebels. They are killing all the way to the Imperial City, and we can't stop it at all! That's when I retreated from Di'anmen to here,"

As soon as Zhang Zongxiang said that Xizhimen was occupied by the enemy, and that Di'anmen was not defended, Guangxu and Yulang trembled, and Yulang shouted: "Di'anmen is also occupied by bandits? ”

"Big... My lord, Di'anmen didn't... Didn't keep the ......" Zhang Zongxiang replied, but before he finished speaking, Yu Lang scolded: "I killed you dog minion!" After that, he slashed over, but he ran wildly in the middle of the night, and his hand was out of force, and the knife didn't collide with Zhang Zongxiang.

It was Tao Dayong's brigade of the 3rd Division that attacked Xizhimen, and it was much more difficult to attack the inner city of Beijing from the west than to attack the inner city from the outer city. Although he took advantage of the surprise attack, as soon as the war started, the patrols and patrols on the side of Di'anmen gathered over, and Tao Dayong, who had just taken down the arrow tower of the urn city, used countless mortar shells to crush the crazy counterattack of the Qing soldiers.

The Qing army is braver than previously imagined, but Tao Dayong, who has been in battle for a long time, fully understands why the Qing army is so brave, this is just their first reaction, when they really understand the firepower and strength of the attacker, and have learned the tragedy of the war, then these soldiers who have not seen blood will definitely be scattered, and no one can be more cruel and iron-blooded than their own subordinates who were killed in the fierce war between Japan and Russia.

As Tao Dayong thought, after the first counterattack was fruitless, the 6th Brigade that launched the attack again captured the Xizhimen Tower, and advanced to the Qingqing Palace, the Qing army that had seen the firepower of the 6th Brigade was completely dispersed, and the ground was mostly rifles and patrol jackets, and the inner city was full of people, and it seemed that these Qing troops had hidden in their homes.

The Qing army was defeated in such a battle, making the originally prepared wall-breaking tactics useless, with only regrets, Tao Dayong in addition to sending troops to control those palaces, but also ordered a regiment of troops to directly attack the Tai'anmen, which is the northernmost point of the imperial city, if the commandos in the city did not catch Guangxu, then he is likely to flee from here to the outside of the city. Although there is the 5th Brigade over there, if it can be caught in the city, then it is better to catch it in the city.

The Qing army collapsed too quickly, and the 6th Brigade Regiment really blocked Guangxu before he escaped from the imperial city, but they were not sure that Guangxu was still in the imperial city, but they chased after the fleeing Baoyi battalion, and then encountered the desperate resistance of the Baoyi battalion in the Shouhuang Palace in the north of Jingshan, but this desperate resistance did not make the regiment commander Zhang Fuqiang understand that there were big fish in it, he still blocked the side doors on the east and west sides of Jingshan in accordance with the attack procedure, and then broadcast to the defenders: "Listen to the Tartars inside, Zhang Fugui, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 2nd Army of the Revival Army, you have been surrounded! You're surrounded! The whole of Beijing has already been occupied by us! The whole of Beijing has already been occupied by us! Lay down your weapons and you won't die! Lay down your weapons and you won't die! …… Listen to the Tartars inside, I am Zhang Fugui, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 2nd Army of the Fuxing Army, and you have been surrounded! You're surrounded! ……”

Hearing that it was the Renaissance Army outside, Yu Lang and Zhang Zongxiang immediately knelt down, Guangxu's face was also pale when he heard this, he thought it was just a rebellion or mutiny, but who would have thought that this was a revolution.

Zhang Fugui's voice was very loud, and the voice passed over Jingshan and only reached the ears of Wang Menghui on the roof of Shufangzhai. He was so excited that he almost fell off the tile surface, Guangxu hadn't caught it yet, but he came to grab business. He commanded loudly: "Quick! Tell Qi Xiaomao to hurry up. Don't let Tao Dayong rob us of our credit. ”

Wang Menghui actually didn't give an order, the commandos at the front began to attack, tossing for most of the night, only caught Guangxu a dragon robe, he was really going to be arrested by Zhang Fugui, and the commandos would have no face to see people in the future. In the deafening sound of the announcement, Beimen was hit by more than 20 rockets in an instant. Before the explosion was over, the front team of the assault team rushed in, and the click of shotguns continued. Countless coats and Praetorian Guard soldiers were bombed into direct flights; When the front team and the Qing army were scuffling, the rear team carried bazookas to cross the two armies in hand-to-hand combat, more than 200 people rushed through the royal road, and more than 20 bazooka shooters fired again at Jingshan Gate. While the bazooka was still flying. The rear team rushed directly into Jingshan Gate regardless of casualties, the Tartars here are twice as many as the outer gates, nearly a thousand Eight Banners Guards, Baoyi Battalion, Praetorian Guards, and Da Nei guards are blocked here, this is actually not all the Qing troops in Jingshan, Zhang Fugui in the north broadcast, and there are also more than 1,000 Tartars.

The shotgun only had five bullets, and after the shot, it was a burning stick, and the rest could only be killed by the bayonet men who rushed up together and the revolver in the waist. And when the bayonets rushed up to repel the enemy, the shotgunners hurriedly reloaded. Just wait for them to fill the bomb bay. rushed up again and bombarded the Qing soldiers. More than one hundred and fifty shotguns, more than seven hundred and fifty shotguns were fired in one minute, and more than eight thousand deer bullets were rampage in the air, this wave of bullets swept by, and the remaining five or six hundred Qing soldiers just now fell half again, but after all, this is Guangxu's most personal guard, the smoke has not yet dissipated, and those guards who are carrying Pu knives shouted and rushed up, but before they arrived, they were knocked away by the front team that had just come up, and the Tartar soldiers who came to the north had been solved, More than 200 fresh troops only eliminated the remaining Qing army.

The corpses of the Qing soldiers in Jingshan Gate were piled up, and the commandos did not delay, and directly stepped on the high and low corpses and rushed to Jingshan, everyone knew that Guangxu was in front.

Jingshan broke through in the south, and the sound of guns and shouts made Zhang Fugui, the head of a regiment outside the Shouhuang Palace in the north, listen to it, in order to prevent his own people from beating his own people, he knew that there was his own commando inside, but he thought that the commando had already caught Guangxu, but now he heard that the commando was still attacking, and there was only one reason, that is, Guangxu had not yet grasped it.

Reasoning this conclusion in his mind, Zhang Fugui jumped up and wanted to give an order when his tongue was already knotted, and he only shook his head a few times and waited for it to be smoothed out before he yelled: "Attack!" Offensive! Catch Guangxu! Catch Guangxu! ”

Although Zhang Fugui's department did not have as much fierce firepower as Wang Menghui's commando, he was a regiment of more than 2,400 people, although there were not many bazookas, but the troops did not consume much at all, after bombarding with bazookas, a battalion of infantry immediately drowned the Qing army in the Shouhuang Palace, and then advanced to the palace, and the rest of the nearly 1,000 Qing soldiers were also defeated and annihilated. The Qing army that blocked the attack was wiped out, and more than 2,000 troops immediately lined up in a wide front, searching the entire Jingshan from north to south, and Guangxu was here!

Guangxu is in Jingshan, there are revolutionary armies in the north and south, and the east and west sides are blocked by the revolutionary army first, and he is now a turtle in the urn. At this time, Yu Lang was attacking the west gate with the last Qing soldiers, while Li Lianying was carrying Guangxu, who had long been unable to walk, to the west gate. But Guangxu didn't want to leave, he only shouted: "Li Yanda, let me down!" Li Chenda, let me down! ”

Guangxu shouted and beaten, Li Lianying had to stop, and after Guangxu came down, he sat on the ground. With a "whoosh", he tore off the entire placket, and then bit his index finger and wrote the entire placket, and then said: "At the beginning of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there were many killings, and now the destruction of the country is imminent, and there are millions of people in the Guan, once no one protects them, there will be no one in ten under the slaughter." Now that Yang Jingcheng occupies the capital, we will give him whatever he wants, as long as he can save my millions of lives. If you sue the princes and ministers for violating this, you will be the sinners of my Manchus! ”

After Guangxu finished speaking, he handed over the placket to Li Lianying, but Li Lianying didn't dare to take it, no matter how you look at it, Guangxu is explaining the aftermath, he only knelt and kowtowed: "Long live Lord, you have to take care of the dragon body!" ”

"Huh! Take care of your dragon? Guangxu suddenly laughed weirdly, "Concubine Zhen is gone, and I deserve to die!" But I was dragged down by the ancestral society, and today Yang Jingcheng relieved me, so good! Very good! ”

Guangxu didn't even say two "very good" and then there was no voice, and Li Lianying didn't see Guangxu's reply again. It seems that something was premonited. Li Lianying shook her hand and raised the wind lantern to Guangxu's face, and sure enough, when she saw Guangxu's face was black and the corners of his mouth were bleeding, she was already out of breath. Li Lianying's body and soul were shattered suddenly. As soon as his hand was loosened, the wind lamp fell to the ground, and after a long day of hiccups, he hugged Guangxu's uncold corpse and cried heartbreakingly. As soon as Li Lianying cried, the guards surrounding her suddenly understood what was wrong, and the belief in supporting their stubborn resistance was also a must, and the knives and guns in their hands were suddenly thrown on the ground.

Qi Xiaomao appeared at this time, under the light pillar of the flashlight. He saw a eunuch crying sharply with a man in his arms, and immediately guessed what was going on, but just as he was about to examine the body. The soldiers on the periphery suddenly shouted, "What person?!" Then came the sound of the bolt being pulled.

Zhang Fugui, who also heard the cry here, said: "Mom, pull a!" Lao Tzu's 3rd Division, you are commandos? What about the Tartar Emperor, are you holding it? ”

Seeing that it was a friendly army, Qi Xiaomao's side suddenly relaxed. He replied with regret: "Dead! Almost caught alive in one step! ”

Qi Xiaomao said "captured alive" here. Li Lianying, who was holding Guangxu's corpse on the ground, stood up involuntarily, glared at the surrounding revolutionary army, and shouted: "You killed Long Live Lord!" You are the ones who killed the Long Live Lord! With that, he rushed over.

All the troops were admonished that the eunuchs in the palace were all Han Chinese, and the palace maids with high status were all Manchu, and only those who had no status were Han Chinese. Seeing the eunuch rushing towards him, Qi Xiaomao kicked him down and scolded: "You are Han." What is there to cry about when the Tartar Emperor is dead. It's too late for you to rejoice! ”

Qi Xiaomao scolded, and Li Lianying, who fell to the ground, argued: "You killed the master!" I'm going to fight with you! You killed your master! I'm going to fight with you! You ......"

Qi Xiaomao was about to say again. Walking over from the side, Zhang Fugui kicked Li Lianying on the ground away, and then said disdainfully: "What is there to theorize with these minions?" They only know guns and knives! ”

Qi Xiaomao was uneducated earlier, but when he joined the guerrillas and was surrounded by platoon commander Chen Ximin, he liked to read, he wanted to understand how the eunuchs in the Qing Palace saw the difference between revolution and Manchu and Han, but he didn't want them to have no revolution in their eyes, no Manchu and Han, only masters. He shook his head in annoyance, only turned off the pistol safe, put it in the holster, took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhang Fugui, and only after the two sides lit it did he say: "Commander Zhang, you are very fast, I thought I would meet you in Di'anmen." ”

After the war, smoking a cigarette is the best enjoyment of the soldiers, Zhang Fugui savored the cigarette in his mouth, and said comfortably after a while: "Of course it's fast, the Tartar soldiers can't bear to fight." A lot of them lost their guns and ran home to hide them, what a fucking bastard, but those patrolmen got us in a lot of trouble. These are also cheap seeds, and they are not Tartars, why are they more desperate than Tartars?! ”

"Maybe it's the duty!" Qi Xiaomao sighed, it was not the Praetorian Guards or the Eight Banners Guard Battalion that brought the most trouble to the commandos, but the guards with knives, and these people were not Manchurian.

"Duty!" Zhang Fugui is a straightforward character, and he is not at all gentle, "If the people who resist desperately are still man, Lao Zhang thinks they are a man, but a Han people desperately protect the Tartars, no matter how loyal they are to the master, Lao Zhang looks down on them, it really doesn't want the things of the ancestors, if it weren't for the military order, I would have cut them all!" ”

Zhang Fugui complained, Qi Xiaomao did not go back, but looked east at Chaoyang Gate, Jianguo Gate, Dongzhi Gate, although the commando sent people to the east, but because of the small number of troops, only controlled some trunk roads, the city gate was not occupied, now that the war in the imperial city is over, the east city wall is occupied, then the whole Beijing is completely occupied.

When Qi Xiaomao looked at the north, Wang Menghui and the people arrived, as soon as he saw this scene, he also knew that Guangxu was dead, after confirming that the dead person was Guangxu, he said to the adjutant: "Send a report to the army commander, save our troops to occupy the Forbidden City, and Guangxu will cut himself under the sin on the eastern slope of the coal mountain!" ”

In the dark night, the captain mouthed a mouthful, more precisely, Guangxu died under the sin, and the officers who understood this history wanted to laugh in their hearts, but no one corrected it, and the telegram was sent out like this.

After the battle in the Forbidden City ended, Zhang Fugui took the follow-up soldiers to the east city wall after smoking, which was his defense area, and not long after he walked here, the annoying big radio rang out again. "Listen to the Tartars inside, Zhang Fugui, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 2nd Army of our Revival Army, you have been surrounded! You're surrounded! The whole of Beijing has already been occupied by us! The whole of Beijing has already been occupied by us! Lay down your weapons and you won't die! Lay down your weapons and you won't die! ”

Zhang Fugui's radio was much louder than Zheng Yuxiu's broadcast on Chongwen Gate, and the foreigners in the eastern suburbs also knew Chinese, and only now did they understand that tonight's battle was a revolution, and the revolution was initiated by the Renaissance Association. Despite this, no one understands how these revival troops came out of the capital, and no one understands what the plan of this revival meeting is, China is an extremely vast country, even if Beijing is occupied, other cities may not be able to occupy. In particular, in Guanwai, Zhili, and the southern provinces, the Qing government still had more than 200,000 new-style troops and more than 300,000 old-time troops.

When the gunfire stopped outside, Zhu Erdian shrank back in his study, writing a telegram to London, and this was the third copy. I don't know how Sir Grey would feel when he saw these telegrams, but Jurdian felt that the situation in the outside world was constantly changing, and he had a hunch that there would be more news from all over the country after the cable telegram was connected at dawn......

Thinking of this, Zhu Erdian wrote on the white paper with a quill pen: "In fact, that is to say, with the drastic changes in the situation in the Qing Kingdom, the only thing we can do is to wait for the news from all over the country to gather, so that we can make better decisions or better implement the original instructions." Sir, this must have been a war that had been planned for a long time, and although I don't know how he did it, the domination of China by such an unguessable man would only make the situation in the Far East more chaotic. If Great Britain is to be guaranteed in China, and even in the Far East as a whole, then his power must be suppressed......"

Zhu Erdian finished writing the telegram quickly, and once again he insisted that Sir Yì Grey must not allow the Renaissance Society to control the political situation in China, because it was an extremely terrible and unpredictable organization. Obviously, Zhu Erdian's praise lies in what happened to him tonight, and although the British soldiers could take Beijing, it was obviously impossible to end the battle in three hours.

Zhu Erdian's praise in the telegram, Yang Rui, who was in the Shanghai headquarters, did not know anything, he was now just facing a huge map of China, only watching the staff officers mark the occupied provincial capitals one by one. When he was drinking tea, Xu Jingxi outside came in as if he was running in, and said loudly: "Occupy Beijing!" Occupy Beijing! Occupy Beijing! ”

Beijing is the top priority of the plan, after all, it is the capital, the Qing army is tens of thousands of people there, and it will take several hours to kill, and there is an embassy area over there, once Guangxu escapes into the embassy, then the matter will be troublesome, the revolutionary army does not have the courage to bombard the embassy, and in the end, Guangxu is likely to become Puyi in later generations.

As soon as Xu Jingxi said that Beijing was occupied, everyone in the headquarters cheered, and some people applauded desperately, Yang Rui was also smiling, but he didn't just think about Beijing, but asked: "Did Guangxu catch it?" ”

"Guangxu cut himself. Die under the sin of the eastern slope of the coal mountain! Xu Jingxi recounted according to the content of the telegram, with a slight regret on his face, to Guangxu, Yang Rui meant to raise it as a pet, but he didn't expect that the cage was not built, but the pet died.

However, for Yang Rui, it is better for Guangxu to die than to be saved by foreigners, he smiled and nodded: "It's better to be dead!" What about the rest? He asked again.

"The inner city and the outer city of Beijing are all controlled, and the Praetorian Guards in the South Garden, West Garden, and North Garden outside the city have been defeated, and most of them have been captured, only a small part, about more than 3,000 Qing soldiers have retreated to the Tongzhou line overnight, and now our army has been pursuing overnight, and it will probably be able to completely annihilate this rout at dawn." Xu Jingxi said.

"That's good!" Yang Rui happily lit a cigarette. This was the second piece of good news for him, the previous one being that Shenyang was occupied by Zhang Rongbu Shun lì. (To be continued......)