Chapter 814: War in the suburbs of Beijing (4)
Yang Meng and the commanders of the British and French Allied Forces had many problems to face, but time did not obey the command of the generals on both sides. In one month, Tsarist Russian mercenaries landed in Beitang. During this period, Erjin's British and French Allied Forces camp also had the fragrance of meat every day.
In one month, the snow in the wilderness was still quite thick. This month was very difficult for Yang Meng's men. Although frostbite was barely stopped, once the war started and the army entered the wilderness to stop, the frostbite would increase again.
Both sides were actively preparing, but Yang Meng came with bad news. Shi Dakai's men were raided by Tsarist Russian mercenaries, with heavy casualties. The 50,000 men who were originally given him were only more than 20,000 after the battle.
"Damn it! How did Mr. Shi fight this battle? He was sneak attacked by the Russians in his hometown? It's such a fucking joke!
Tens of 17,800 people were killed overnight. Can this battle be fought?
What do shadows do for? Can't even detect the movements of 50,000 Tsarist Russian mercenaries?
Bastard! All the fucking bastards, they were sneak attacked at their doorstep, and they didn’t do this even if they lure the enemy!”
Shi Dakai's men were regarded as the British and French coalition forces as the most powerful combat power of the Qing Dynasty, and it was expected that they were valued, but it was unacceptable that Shi Dakai was attacked by a sneak attack that Yang Meng could not accept.
"San Ye, the Russian mercenaries came out of the camp in white cloth at night. The shadow was discovered a little late, which caused Shi Dakai's men to be raided by the Russian mercenaries.
According to Shi Dakai, many of the Tsarist Russian mercenaries were hunters, and their sergeants were solved by these Tsarist Russian hunters!"
Xu Ziwei's response made Yang Meng scratch his head a little. This is a fucking special operations! This matter is probably not done by the Tsarist Russian military, and maybe it is the attention of those Tsarist Russian hunters.
OK! He who wanted to establish a special forces was knocked down by a group of Tsarist Russian hunters. This classic battle is in his own family, and he is the one who was injured. It is difficult for Yang Meng to accept it!
"Ask Shi Dakai if he can fight, and if he can fight, he will give the British and French coalition forces a blow, burn their military funds in Beitang. I will let Ya Zi cooperate!
Let Zhang Luoxing and Senggelinqin's troops be prepared to go out! If an English-French coalition army belonging to Erjin will run away, I will kill them both!"
After being slapped by Tsarist Russia, Yang Meng was not a man who swallowed his anger. Since he wanted to play special operations, he had to give those foreigners a careful response!
Burning the food and supplies from Beitang will surely speed up the progress of the British and French coalition forces. Finding places to set up condoms will make both the Russian hunters starve these bastards to death!
"San Master, this matter is not easy to deal with!"
"What's wrong with it? Let Wei Tuozi's men cooperate and defeat an British and French coalition. Don't we have the uniforms of the British and French coalition forces there? We dressed up as a defeated soldier and fled to Beitang. Without more than a thousand people, we could burn their food and grass. Shi Dakai beat them up and ambush them again. What's the difficulty of this?
Some methods are good for our people, but not bad for foreign devils. Remember to let them wear boots from the British and French coalition forces and don’t expose them!”
Revenge is what Yang Meng wants to teach the entire army, not afraid of losing, but afraid of not having a memory if he suffers loss. He will get it back immediately if he suffers loss. What kind of foreigners are still Russians, take revenge to them to death!
With the cooperation of Wei Tuozi and his troops, Shi Dakai quickly chose the target, and a camp composed of three teams of Britain, France and Russia became the target of revenge.
It was also a night battle, with the cooperation of the shadow's intelligence. With the help of Wei Tuozi's new army, Shi Dakai's troops dispersed more than 10,000 Three Kingdoms coalition forces in one hour, and chased and carried out in the wilderness and night. The troops of Shi Dakai, who went deep into the city of Beitang, fought all the way to the vicinity of Beitang Tucheng. The team of more than 20,000 people disrupted the 160,000 British and French coalition forces.
The British and French Allied Forces, who had just won a big game, did not expect such a retaliatory attack. The battle ended here, just the beginning. Beitang Tucheng, which had become a gathering place for food and supplies, was also vulnerable to Ya Zi's hands, and easily exploded a big hole in the frozen wall.
Tung oil and fireworks became the best firearms. In a few blinks, the fire in Beitang Tucheng started to catch up. The commanders of the British and French forces naturally knew which one was more important, but it was not so easy to put out a fire on frozen land.
Because of the gathering of large troops, the defense in Beitang area was also a little relaxed. In the eyes of the commanders of the British and French coalition forces, the Qing army did not dare to attack the coalition headquarters, but who would have thought...
After a while of rescue, most of the British and French military funds became candle heads that lit Beitang. However, the evil Yazi escaped easily. Seeing Yazi, who had almost no injuries, was attacked by Shi Dakai, whose confidence had plummeted, and he also recovered his fighting spirit. He struck while the iron was hot and gave the British and French coalition another knife.
The busy British and French coalition forces reluctantly organized a defense line. Facing the temporary defense line that the British and French coalition forces put together, Shi Dakai's reaction was also very quick and he left after taking advantage.
Most of the military capital was burned and caught off guard by the Qing soldiers. The British and French coalition forces suffered only a small number of casualties, only four or five thousand, but they could not afford to suffer face! The army's stomach could not afford to suffer even more!
After six weeks of food, supplies and supplies for more than 100,000 troops, after a fire, there were only less than two weeks left. In less than two weeks, the British and French coalition forces were about to conquer the capital of the Qing Dynasty!
More than 80,000 British and French coalition forces, plus 100,000 Tsarist Russian mercenaries, left behind 50,000 British and French coalition forces to protect Beitang. The army of 130,000 people was also an unstoppable force.
The British and French coalition forces were not slow to advance, and they looked like they were sixty miles a day. With such a speed, they could reach the capital in five days and reach Zhangjiawan in three days. It was impossible to reach the capital, but Zhangjiawan was still possible. In Zhangjiawan, Yang Meng also prepared a generous gift for the British and French coalition forces, and the bodies of more than 10,000 people.
Erkin's British and French Allied Forces were somewhat vulnerable under the blade of the cavalry. Zhangjiawan, which had no fortifications, the cavalry of Senggelinqin and Zhang Luoxing could enter and exit at will, interspersed with surprise attacks. This is the tactic of the cavalry. Although Erkin's British and French Allied Forces had eaten human flesh for more than half a month, their fear of the Qing army had been buried deep in their hearts.
When countless cavalry appeared in front of them, how could there be any tenacious counterattack? How could there be any desperate attempt? Some are just crying, some are just disintegrating! Some are just heart-pounding mercy!
Retreat in front of the cavalry means suicide. Senggelinqin's cavalry wants to avenge the Mongolian robes that died tragically in Zhangjiawan and Baliqiao; Zhang Luoxing's Nian Army also needs a letter of surrender and not joining the war? The Nian Army is useless, it is a rebel! Yang Meng's Kangba elite cavalry is just an elite army that obeys orders. They are not begging for mercy, but Yang Sanye's military orders.
Although the begging for mercy is heart-wrenching, Senggelinqin's Mongolian horse team cannot forget those same tribes who died under the guns of the British and French coalition forces; Zhang Luoxing's Nian horse team. They want to fight for survival, and if they don't kill people, they will be killed. The choice is very simple for the Nian army; the Kangba cavalry under Yang Sanye only obeys Yang Sanye's orders, and killing people on the battlefield is the glory of Kangba men!
Revenge, forced and glorious, created the Zhangjiawan slaughterhouse. The cavalry that had not captured the enemy's heads had to participate in the dismemberment and let everyone in the cavalry see blood was Yang Meng's order to Senggelinqin and Zhang Luoxing.
In the battle of Zhangjiawan, the cavalry only took half a day, half a day to leave broken bodies everywhere in Zhangjiawan.
The vanguard of Tsarist Russia in Mikhail arrived at Zhangjiawan first and saw the tragic situation of the Zhangjiawan abort. The Tsarist Russian mercenaries retreated. Such a war is no longer a war, and this is revenge!
Mikhail's vanguard was the Tsarist Russian mercenary who attacked Shi Dakai at night, with hunters as the main force. He had too many ambitions for the Qing Dynasty. This time, the Tsarist Russian mercenaries led by Mikhail were composed of veterans, elite soldiers, and Tsarist Russian hunters who had participated in the Crimean War.
What they want to participate in is a crushing war, not such a war. It is a highly retaliatory war, such a war scene. Even in the battlefield in Europe, it has disappeared for hundreds of years. The massacre of the losers should not be the product of a civilized society. Although Tsarist Russia is relatively backward in technology compared to Britain and France, Tsarist Russia, which claims to be a European country, thinks it is still a civilized society.
The retreat of the vanguard attracted Mikhail, the commander of the main army. When he saw the Zhangjiawan abort, Mikhail laughed. Isn’t this the result the Tsar wanted?
Britain and France are using Tsarist Russia, and Tsarist Russia is also using the UK and France. The Qing Dynasty has too many uncontrollable regions in the northeast and northwest. Britain and France may be able to gain a lot of benefits from the Qing Dynasty, but Tsarist Russia, which borders the Qing Dynasty by land, is undoubtedly the most direct beneficiary.
What the Tsar hoped for was the war between Britain, France and the Qing Dynasty, which would expand endlessly, expand, and expand again!
If Britain and France are defeated, Tsarist Russia can seek European hegemony. If the Qing Dynasty is defeated, Tsarist Russia will have a large area of territory in a short period of time. Even if the Qing Dynasty is undefeated, can he still fight against Tsarist Russia?
In the northeast, northwest, and even Mongolia, Tsarist Russia can take it into his pocket after this battle.
One hundred thousand people are not too many for Tsarist Russia. If the Qing Dynasty could lose all the money, perhaps it was exactly what the Tsar expected. After such a war, how much combat power will the Qing Dynasty and Britain and France have? Perhaps the next great empire will not set, it will be Tsarist Russia!
In order to expand the scale of the war and watch the excitement, Mikhail found the British and French coalition forces as the baggage force. The slaughterhouse in Zhangjiawan fell into the eyes of the British and French coalition forces, which was blasphemy, the greatest blasphemy! He and the Qing Dynasty were dying and soon passed to Beitang Tucheng through a long team.
In a retaliatory war, the Elliot brothers, McMahon and Baga who did not participate in the army operations knew that the nature of this war had changed, and revenge and being retaliated will become the themes of a long time between Britain, France, Russia and the Qing.
Such a war is undoubtedly very unwise. The Tsarist Russian mercenaries started and the Qing army promoted the matter, while the British and French coalition forces in Zhangjiawan were just implicated.
Tsarist Russia's intentions are sinister and cannot allow Tsarist Russia to destroy this colonial war. Charlie Elliot and McMahon, as the commanders of Britain and France, must also intervene in this war. Revenge is necessary, but it must be limited to a certain extent. If the Qing Dynasty loses the emperor, then this colonial war will be considered as Britain and France losing.
The 20,000 British and French coalition forces, led by Charlie Elliot and McMahon, headed straight to Zhangjiawan. They not only had to participate in the war but also controlled the scale of the war.
Mikhail, the Russian commander, was transferred back to Beitang with 50,000 Tsarist Russian mercenaries. What Elliot and McMahon didn't know was that Mikhail destroyed the battlefield in Zhangjiawan. The horseshoe marks on the battlefield were cleaned up by Mikhail in the name of cleaning up the battlefield.
Mikhail should be the part of killing the British and French coalition forces. This time he was not the Tsar's firefighting captain in Europe, but the Tsar's arson in the Far East. The greater the losses of the British and French coalition forces, the more beneficial it seems to be to Tsarist Russia.
Elliot and McMahon, full of revenge, planned to destroy several Qing towns on the way, but Yang Meng did not give them such an opportunity. Now, the Beijing-Tianjin area has almost become an unmanned land except for the capital and the surrounding areas of Tianjin. This is a slaughterhouse designated by Yang Meng. Of course, he will not give anyone the opportunity to slaughter the people. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!