The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 180 Another Fight

"Boom boom boom."

Amid the sounds of gunfire and shouting that gradually moved southward, faint artillery fire could be heard from the northeast, and one could even see faint flashes of exploding shells. This made Teng Yuzhao, who was standing on the southern city wall of Tianjin, feel nervous.

I silently said in my heart, "What is coming has finally come!"

The sound of artillery in this direction must have come from the Russian and German troops who occupied the Navy Camp in the northeast. They should not be aware of what was happening in the south of the city. They were cooperating with the Allied Forces attacking the south of the city to launch an attack on Tianjin City from the northeast.

Historically, it was because of the fear that the road to retreat to the north would be blocked by the Allied Forces that Yu Lu and others led the main force of the defenders to retreat to Beicang.

Because, as long as the Allied Forces occupied the Navy Camp, they could threaten the retreat of the Tianjin City defenders at any time.

However, now that Teng Yuzao had won victory after victory, the coalition forces had to urgently and massively increase their troops, which made Yu Lu and a group of generals want to leave the isolated city of Tianjin as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the additional troops of the coalition forces are still the Japanese troops closest to the route, which makes Teng Yuzao not too worried.

At least, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was relatively much weaker.

Even though the battle in the south city had not yet ended and the Russian and German troops in the northeast began to attack Tianjin City, Teng Yuzhao was not very worried.

Teng Yuzhao knew that the reason why this coalition force in the northeast, with the Russian army as the main force, first attacked the Navy Camp and Ma Yukun's Wuwei Left Army north of Laolongtou Railway Station was not only to ensure the safety of Laolongtou Railway Station and prevent Ma Yukun's troops from raiding Laolongtou Railway Station, but also to attract the troops of the defenders in the city to create opportunities for the coalition forces to capture the South City.

In other words, this coalition force did not have a plan to join the coalition forces in the south of the city to attack Tianjin City at the beginning. However, what this coalition force never expected was that the more than 6,000 relatively elite left-wing troops led by Ma Yukun actually retreated northward after a brief resistance. This freed them from all worries, so they had unrealistic expectations.

In fact, this coalition force might still be fantasizing that the defenders in Tianjin would also escape from Tianjin like the left army led by Ma Yukun, allowing them to capture Tianjin, an important city in the north of the Qing Dynasty, without a fight.

Teng Yuzhao was not unprepared for the attack launched by the coalition forces in the northeast. The vanguard troops participating in the annihilation of the siege coalition forces in the south of the city included only Hu Dianjia's Third Regiment, Liu Shijiu's Assault Battalion, Pan Jinshan's Independent Detachment, and a battalion of training troops mainly responsible for defending the south city wall. In addition, there was a battalion of Li Xianze, which was the one that attacked from the east and surrounded the fleeing coalition forces.

It was Pan Jinshan's independent detachment that surrounded the coalition forces from the west of the city.

The trained troops of the other two battalions were responsible for defending the east and west city walls respectively.

Although they are called defensive units, in fact, the training troops of these two battalions can only play the role of sentinel and guard at most.

The two battalions of Liu Yuzhi's regiment in Tianjin, the two battalions of Li Xianze's regiment, the two battalions of the artillery regiment, and Cao Futian's more than 6,000 Boxers were all deployed by Teng Yuzao to the northeast. These troops seemed to be numerous, but it was not easy to destroy this coalition force mainly composed of Russian troops during the day. However, at night, if they dared to attack Tianjin, they would definitely not get away with it.

"Zi Yu, get me Captain Hu of the Third Regiment."

As Teng Yuzhao spoke, he stared at the direction where the sounds of gunfire and shouting were gradually fading away in the south.

The call was quickly connected. Before Teng Yuzao could speak, Hu Dianjia shouted excitedly on the phone, "Xingfu, great victory! Great victory! A rare great victory!"

"I estimate that in this battle alone, we have killed more than 2,000 Japanese devils in the city. Now we have to see what happens outside the city."

A great victory was certain, and Teng Yuzhao was even certain that this was the greatest victory in decades since the war with foreigners. However, Teng Yuzhao still suppressed his excitement, which was the same as Hu Dianjia's.

"Xuan Qing, the coalition forces in the northeast have begun to attack us. I now order you to issue an order immediately to order the battalion of the Second Regiment to ambush on the road between the Navy Battalion and the Laolongtou Railway Station. Once the coalition forces retreat, they can only attack from the flanks and are absolutely not allowed to intercept them head-on, otherwise they are likely to be attacked by the coalition forces inside the Laolongtou Station."

"besides."

"Once the Leasing Coalition sends troops to support the fleeing coalition forces, you must create as many illusions as possible to make the coalition forces mistakenly believe that we have enough troops."

"The troops pursuing and attacking South City are absolutely not allowed to get close to the concession, and at most they cannot go beyond Haiguang Temple and the South Machinery Bureau."

"If the Allied Forces in the Concession"

The battle to destroy the coalition forces attacking Tianjin City started at around 1 a.m. Although the fighting inside Tianjin City ended before 2 a.m., the battle to pursue and encircle and annihilate the coalition forces of Britain, the United States and France did not end until after 4 a.m.

It was not because of how the three kingdoms' armies were able to fight, but because after they discovered that they were surrounded, hundreds of allied forces fled into Haiguang Temple and put up a desperate resistance, so the end of the battle was delayed.

The troops of the Third Regiment even fought a not-so-small battle with the remnants of the Allied Forces who were attacking Tianjin City and with more than 2,000 Allied Forces who rushed out of the concession.

Although there were more than 10,000 Allied forces in the concession, due to unclear circumstances, and most importantly, they had no idea what was going on, the troops attacking Tianjin did not dare to go too deep behind the defense line.

(End of this chapter)