The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 332 German Main Force
Wei Jinghai's words shocked everyone attending the meeting. Just a small-scale harassment of the foreign devils, but a large number of them had caused the foreign devils, who had more than 100,000 troops, to pay such a heavy price in casualties, and their own casualties were so small!
How could they not be surprised by such results!
The casualty ratio was five to one, which was much smaller in scale than the battle with the foreign devils on the first day of entering the capital. It was a piecemeal fight, but the results achieved were not small at all.

Wei Jinghai knew that Teng Yuzhao was anxious, so he did not give the generals below a chance to interrupt and continued speaking.

"In addition to inflicting heavy casualties on the foreign devils, we also seized a lot of spoils, totaling more than 10,000 rifles of various types, including six heavy machine guns."

Wei Jinghai continued, "In the past half month, due to the daily attacks by our army, the foreign devils have consumed a large amount of ammunition, and they have to urgently transport ammunition from Tianjin to here."

At this point, Wei Jinghai couldn't help but smile happily due to his excitement.

"I have some exciting news to share with you. Since the railway from Tianjin to Beijing has not been restored, the foreign devils can only use road transportation to transport supplies, weapons and ammunition to their main forces here."

"Just three days ago, according to the intelligence we obtained from monitoring the foreign devils' telegraph lines, the First Mixed Concord Cavalry Battalion successfully ambushed a large batch of weapons, ammunition and military supplies that the foreign devils were transporting to the capital near Anding between Tongzhou and Langfang. The quantity of this batch of supplies was huge, with more than 500 fully loaded carts alone, and hundreds of pack horses."

More than 500 carts of weapons, ammunition and supplies! How much is that?
Looking at the generals who were gasping in shock, Wei Jinghai continued to speak proudly.

"In addition to these military supplies, the transport team also brought with it an artillery regiment of the Japanese army carrying 36 cannons, as well as two artillery battalions of the British."

"The foreign devils' transport team was escorted by a detachment of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, which was still recovering. Their troops were stationed in Tongzhou and Langfang and other places along the way. The foreign devils thought that this was a foolproof way."

"What they didn't expect was that right under the noses of the foreign devils' heavy troops, the First Mixed Concord Cavalry Battalion not only wiped out the foreign devils' escort troops, but also seized all their weapons, ammunition and supplies, and ambushed the foreign devils who came out to rescue from Langfang. In total, more than 5,000 foreign devils were killed in the two battles."

Amid the excited discussions among the generals, Wei Jinghai continued.

"Now, the more than 100,000 main forces of the foreign devils surrounding the capital are not only extremely tired, but they are also seriously short of ammunition."

"Also, although we have seized a lot of weapons and ammunition in the past half month, and the gap in weapons in the troops has been made up, and everyone has a gun, our guns are of various models, and each unit has not yet achieved a unified rifle model, which brings us a lot of inconvenience in combat."

"However, with this batch of weapons and ammunition seized by the First Mixed Brigade, once we join the First Mixed Brigade, the situation where the weapons of different units are not uniform will be completely changed."

Liu Shijiu slammed the table and said loudly, "Marshal, as the saying goes, strike while the sick is strong. Although our soldiers are still much fewer than the foreign devils outside the city, our morale is high. Why don't we take this opportunity to beat the foreign devils up!"

Liu Shijiu's words immediately prompted Li Xianze, Hu Dianjia, Cao Futian and others to ask for battle.

Only Wu Peifu, Hu Daqiu and Li Jinyu, who were still a little reserved, did not say anything. However, Teng Yuzhao could see that the three of them had an eager look in their eyes.

"quiet!"

In the heated atmosphere, Teng Yuzhao had to speak out to stop it.

Turning to look at Wei Jinghai, he said, "Let me tell you about the situation of the foreign devils."

Wei Jinghai glanced at the notebook in his hand and said to everyone, "Now let me tell you about the foreign devils."

"Right now, the western side of the capital is guarded by the Japanese army, and Guang'anmen and Xibianmen are guarded by two reinforced brigades of the Japanese Fifth Division. After being depleted by us for half a month, the total number of troops is less than 15,000."

"Outside Fuchengmen, the Japanese Ninth Division Headquarters and the main force of the Ninth Division are stationed, with a strength of about 20,000."

"There is only one brigade of more than 10,000 people outside Xizhimen, but the Russian army has more than 30,000 troops outside Deshengmen, and they can reach there within an hour." "In addition to the troops outside Deshengmen just mentioned, the Russian army in the north has more than 10,000 troops outside Andingmen, and there are thousands of cavalry troops outside Dongzhimen in the east."

"Outside the Qihua Gate in the east are more than 10,000 German troops, plus a small number of Italian troops."

"As for Dongbianmen and Guangqumen, only the 6th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army is stationed there, while in the south, there are about 35,000 American, British and French troops blocking us."

Wei Jinghai gave a more detailed introduction to the enemy situation in the east, north and west, but his introduction to the British and French forces in the south was a bit vague.

Wei Jinghai continued, "The foreign devils are now outside the capital. If we count the logistics personnel, there are about 140,000 troops stationed there. The number of cannons is unknown, but from the harassment in the past half month, it is estimated that they have no less than 200 cannons."

"In addition, according to the latest intelligence obtained by Director Lin two hours ago, the 30,000 German troops who recently landed at Dagukou, the nearly 30,000 Japanese 6th Division, and more than 10,000 British and French troops have all arrived in Tianjin."

"Among them, 30,000 German troops left Tianjin yesterday and are on their way to Beijing. The General Staff estimates that this main force of the German army will arrive outside the city the day after tomorrow at the latest."

"The newly arrived Japanese troops, British and French troops, escorting ammunition and supplies, have also left Tianjin and are heading for the capital this morning."

"The foreign devils also brought a lot of cannons, more than a hundred, and many of them were large-caliber artillery."

Director Lin is Lin Liansheng, the director of the Vanguard Army's Communications and Communication Department. There are many people from the former Beiyang Naval Telegraph Academy in the Communications and Communication Department under his charge.

Under the suggestion of Teng Yuzhao, a very important task is now being done, which is to monitor the telegrams between the Allied Forces and their base camp in the Tianjin Concession through the telegraph line from Beijing to Tianjin that the Allied Forces have just restored.

Now the coalition forces have more than 140,000 troops in the capital. If another 70,000 arrive, the total number of troops will be 240,000 to 250,000. What's more, no one can guarantee that they will have reinforcements on the way, and they will bring large-caliber artillery.

If the coalition forces arrive in full force, the vanguard army will then use the current harassment tactics to deal with the coalition forces outside the city, which will not only be difficult to achieve but will also be met with a fierce siege by the coalition forces' heavy troops.

Trapped in an isolated city and fighting against the heavy forces of the Allied Forces, Teng Yuzhao does not have the courage and confidence, at least not yet.

The serious situation described by Wei Jinghai made the generals calm down.

After a short silence, Li Xiance said, "Marshal, should we evacuate the capital now?"

After hearing Li Xiance's words, Teng Yuzhao knew that his goal had been achieved. At least Li Xiance, who was the first to calm down, had already thought that they should leave here.

Teng Yuzao nodded, looked at everyone and said, "Kang Nian is right. Now, our vanguard army is the main force in fighting against the foreign devils. If we are wiped out, the foreign devils will be able to run rampant in our country without restraint, and there will be no force to restrain them."

"Therefore, we cannot fight the foreign devils to death, nor can we rigidly defend one place. We must always preserve our manpower. Only in this way can we persist in fighting the foreign devils and eventually drive them out of our land completely."

"Therefore, now is the time for us to evacuate the capital."

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