The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 247 The Queen Mother Left Beijing

The sound of horse hooves stopped in front of the cart where Teng Yuzhao was. In the dim light, Teng Yuzhao could clearly see that it was Wei Jinghai riding towards him with two guards.

Wei Jinghai jumped off the horse, threw the reins to the guard behind him, and hurriedly strode to Teng Yuzhao who had jumped off the car and walked to the side of the road.

"Sir, the Second Mixed Brigade entered the city two hours ago. They just sent back a message saying that tens of thousands of allied forces launched an attack on the capital at midnight, and stray bullets landed on the roof of the Le Shou Hall in the Ningshou Palace."

Wei Jinghai took a step forward, lowered his voice nervously, and continued.

"Sir, the people sent by Li Xian Ce also said that the Queen Mother must have been frightened by the foreign devils' cannons. An hour ago, the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and a group of ministers, escorted by Song Qing, Ma Yukun, Dong Fuxiang and others, left Shenwu Gate, passed Desheng Gate and headed north through the Summer Palace, and should have headed for Juyongguan."

Cixi finally left the capital and began her "journey" to the west.

Today is September 6th. Teng Yuzhao is silently calculating the time in his mind. Due to the sudden appearance of him and the Vanguard Army, this day is a full twenty-one days later than the original history.

Although the progress of history was only slowed down by more than 20 days by him, and also because he suggested to Cixi the hunt in advance, Cixi left the capital on the first day of the Allied Forces' siege, instead of leaving the capital on the second day after the British army broke through Guangqumen as in history.

But this still made Teng Yuzao feel excited. After all, he changed history by himself, even if he only delayed the occurrence of certain things and did not completely change them.

Teng Yuzao believes that this is enough to prove that as long as he has firm confidence and works hard to be self-reliant and strong, he has the ability and power to change history.

"Anything else?" Teng Yuzhao asked calmly.

Seeing that Teng Yuzhao was calm, Wei Jinghai, who was originally a little nervous, immediately relaxed and continued to report the situation.

"According to the intelligence sent back by Commander Li, the coalition forces advanced to a position about five miles away from the outer city at about ten in the morning and began to build an offensive position."

"For some unknown reason, the foreign troops that began to attack the city in the early morning were only Russians. They launched attacks on Dongzhimen and Dongbianmen at the same time, but the Russian army only fired artillery shells at the city wall outside Dongzhimen and did not deploy too many troops at Dongzhimen. They only made two tentative attacks, both of which were repelled by the defending Wuwei rear army."

"However, the Russians' attack on the East Gate was very fierce. Commander Li said that before they entered the city, the Russian army had already used artillery to blow open the East Gate and rushed into the city. However, the Russian army was blocked by the Wuwei Rear Army in the city wall, and there were more than a thousand Russian soldiers trapped inside."

Teng Yuzhao remembered very clearly the deployment of the Allied Forces to attack the capital. In the original history, the Allied Forces had a division of labor in the attack on the capital. The Russian army was assigned to Dongzhimen, the Japanese army attacked Qihuamen, also known as Chaoyangmen, the US army attacked Dongbianmen, and the British army was responsible for attacking the southernmost Guangqumen.

For some reason, the French, German, Austrian and Italian troops all seemed to be arranged to watch the show.

Originally, from a geographical point of view, Dongbianmen was the closest to Dongjiaominxiang. From the perspective of rescuing the foreigners trapped in Dongjiaominxiang, the US military had the best chance, but they did not become the attackers of Dongbianmen. Because this place was forcibly occupied in advance by the unreasonable Russian army. After they found that the Russian army had launched an attack on the capital in advance, when they hurried to Dongbianmen in the morning, they found that Dongbianmen had become the target of the Russian army's attack. The exasperated Chaffee could only order their attack location to move a distance to the south.

Wei Jinghai continued to report the situation, "Because the Wuwei rear army that stayed behind to guard the capital not only refused Li Xietong's request to send troops to attack the Russian troops in the Dongbianmen city wall, but also refused our troops to take over the defense of Guangqumen, Dongzhimen, and Qihuamen. Currently, the assault brigade has only taken over the outer city defense of Zuoanmen, Youanmen, Yongdingmen, and Guanganmen."

"In addition, Commander Li has taken control of Hubu Street and stationed troops in Hubu. He has also sent a battalion of troops to take over part of the encirclement of Dongjiaomin Lane."

Regarding the fact that Dong Fuxiang's Wuwei Rear Army was unwilling to hand over the defense of the east, Teng Yuzhao believed that this should be the defense division decided by the Grand Council, and it should also be the result of the arrogant Dong Fuxiang's efforts. Cixi was still very confident in Dong Fuxiang's loyalty.

Although Teng Yuzhao was somewhat helpless, he was not as worried as he was. Historically, although Dong Fuxiang's rear army was not as well-armed and well-trained as the Wuwei front army, this army from the northwest was very brave and had done a good job in defending the capital. Dong Fuxiang was even listed as one of the culprits of the war by foreigners.

But it’s also a good thing this way, as Li Xianze has more sufficient troops to carry out the tasks he has assigned.

Wei Jinghai lowered his voice even more. "Commander Li reported that the besieged foreign devils in the city have been behaving recklessly. They formally decided to surrender and leave the city last night. They must have received news that the foreign devil army is about to attack the city. The people sent by Commander Li said that after discussing with Captain Liu, Commander Li has decided to attack Xishiku."

Teng Yuzhao was not surprised by the reversal of the behavior of the foreigners trapped in Dongjiaominxiang. He was just a little angry. He found that the foreigners' previous statement that they would leave Dongjiaominxiang and Xishiku only after he entered the city was a delaying tactic. In other words, he was fooled by the foreigners.

Teng Yuzao gritted his teeth and said, "Alright, if you don't surrender, then I will force you to attack. I don't believe it. It's just Xishiku. No matter how strong it is, I will break it open. Immediately inform Liu Shijiu, and we must break through Xishiku at all costs. No matter if the people inside are foreigners or Chinese, if they dare to resist, they will be killed without mercy!"

"besides."

I would continue, "Commander Li said that Prince Duan has not left the capital yet and is waiting for you at Guang'an Gate. He said he has something important to tell you personally."

Zai Yi did not leave, which was somewhat unexpected to Teng Yuzhao. Normally, Zai Yi, the chief minister of the Grand Council, should have accompanied Cixi on the western hunting expedition, unless he was dismissed by Cixi in advance.

But Teng Yuzao remembered that in history, he was dismissed by Cixi only after the peace talks! Now that he has appeared, Cixi still has the confidence to fight, so why would she dismiss Zai Yi in advance?
If Zai Yi had not been dismissed from office, then he must have stayed to wait for me because of something really important.

"Ningbo, order the troops to speed up. You follow the troops and I will lead the special guard squadron to the capital on horseback."

Seeing Wei Jinghai was about to speak out to stop him, Teng Yuzao smiled and said, "Don't worry, this place is not far from the capital, and there are troops from the Second Mixed Brigade on guard along the way, so there won't be any problems. Besides, as the General Manager of the Beiyang Zhili Military Affairs, I can't let the Prime Minister of the Military Affairs Council wait too long."

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