Kung Fu Movie Time Travel

Chapter 123 Prince Yi died in battle

There were about 3,000 people besieged in the embassy area, 2,000 of whom were Chinese seeking protection, 400 foreign men, 147 women, and 76 children.

Protecting the embassy includes 409 foreign sailors and marines, equipped with three machine guns and four small artillery pieces.

There are enough water wells and food in the embassy. There are also 150 ponies available for consumption in the British Embassy.

On June 11, British Vice Admiral Seymour led more than 2,000 people from the Eight-Power Allied Forces to seize the train from Tianjin to Beijing.

The imperialist war of conquest of China inspired the Boxers to resist resolutely.

On June 12, the Boxers joined forces with Dong Fuxiang and Nie Shicheng of the Qing Army to cut off the invading army's connection with Tianjin.

From June 14th to 18th, the coalition forces were surrounded by the Boxer Rebellion in the Langfang, Luodai, and Yangcun areas. Facing the coalition forces armed with modern guns and artillery, the Boxers fought bravely against the enemy and regarded death as home. They fought the enemy with their flesh and blood.

Showing great courage and patriotic enthusiasm, killing and wounding more than 300 enemy soldiers, Seymour was defeated and forced to retreat to Tianjin along the Northern Canal. The Boxers shattered the Eight-Power Allied Forces' plan to invade Beijing.

In mid-June, the invading imperialist navies, under the command of the Tsarist Russian naval admiral, jointly attacked the Dagukou fort. They were resolutely resisted by the defenders. The Qing army damaged and sank 6 enemy ships, killing and wounding more than 200 enemy soldiers.

When the fighting was fierce, the guard general Luo Rongguang was shot and died. The Qing army lost its command and the Dagu Fort fell.

On the same day, Cixi held an imperial meeting and issued an edict to dissolve the Boxer Rebellion.

But one day later, after Cixi received information that her conservative ministers had forged the Eight Kingdoms' invasion of troops to actually ask her to abdicate and allow Guangxu to be restored, she was furious and asked the conservative Prince Yi to lead the Boxer Rebellion.

Before and after this, the secretary of the Japanese Embassy was executed as a spy by the Qing soldiers when he went to Yongdingmen to join the Seymour Allied Forces. The German Minister to China, Klind, was shot dead by the defenders at the Dongdan Archway.

On the 21st, the Qing government "declared war" on all countries. He also posted a reward in Beijing offering a reward for killing foreigners.

After the fall of Dagukou, thousands of reinforcements from Russia, Britain, Germany and the United States broke into the Zizhulin Concession on the west bank of the Haihe River in Tianjin and launched a fierce attack on Tianjin City and its surroundings. The Boxers rose up to defend Tianjin.

Dong Fuxiang led a section of the Boxer Regiment to attack Laolongtou Railway Station, killing and wounding more than 500 Russian soldiers, and occupied the station several times.

Zhang Decheng led the Boxers and a section of the Qing army to besiege Zizhulin, use the "Fire Bull Formation" to level the minefield and rush into the concession. Nie Shicheng's Qing army defended the Haiguang Temple area in the south of the city.

In July, during the Battle of Balitai, Nie Shicheng was shot seven times, suffered abdominal rupture and intestinal bleeding, but continued to fight until he died of blood exhaustion.

On the 14th, the coalition forces suffered more than 900 casualties and fired poison gas cannons before capturing Tianjin.

In mid-August, more than 20,000 coalition troops invaded Beijing from Tianjin. The troops that entered Beijing from Tianjin in mid-August were actually only about 16,000 troops from seven countries (two of which were only symbolic flag-bearing troops).

They are: 8,000 Japanese troops, 4,800 Russian troops, 3,000 British troops, 2,100 American troops, 800 French troops, 50 Austrian troops, and 53 Italian troops.

The next day, when they arrived at Beicang, they were stubbornly blocked by the Guards and the Boxers led by Prince Yi. They used poison gas again before capturing Beicang.

However, the coalition forces paid a price of 635 casualties, and the poison gas cannon ("low artillery") was also destroyed.

On the 13th, the coalition forces entered the city of Beijing and attacked Dongbianmen, Chaoyangmen, and Dongzhimen. After learning about this, Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled in panic.

Prince Yi was wearing armor, holding a spear, and brought with him all the remaining Boxers and the masters of the palace, including the magic hand Ao Bai, the flower boxing king Buting, the fast-legged Bai Longfei and the palace guards, and more than a thousand people.

He launched a death-like charge against the Eight-Nation Allied Forces who were about to break through the gates of the capital. The generals died in hundreds of battles, and the warriors returned after ten years. They would rather die on the battlefield and be wrapped in horse leather than escape with their lives.

"I am Prince Yi of the Qing Dynasty! All officers and men, follow me to kill the foreigners and protect the country! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Prince Yi shouted loudly, and with a pair of handsome black horses, he took the lead in charging towards the more than 20,000 Eight-Nation Allied Forces and countless hail of bullets!

However, the rifles in the hands of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, both in terms of range and power, were far from comparable to the smoothbore flint muskets used by the Boxers who followed Prince Yi in the charge.

Coupled with the cannons in the hands of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, a large number of more than a thousand people led by Prince Yi were killed by cannons before they could even rush in front of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces.

Then due to the difference in shooting range, some of them were shot dead by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces.

By the time it was time to actually cause harm to the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, there were less than two hundred people left on Prince Yi's side.

But when it comes to real hand-to-hand combat, there are only about twenty people alive, and each one of them is a master of strong kung fu.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Prince Yi was charging crazily among the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, with more than 20 people including Ao Bai and Bu Ting protecting him.

Suddenly, hundreds of soldiers from the Eight-Nation Allied Forces were chopped down to the ground by Prince Yi and others.

However, before Prince Yi and others could expand their victory, more than a dozen machine guns were already aimed at them. At the command of the commander of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, a storm of metal bullets enveloped Prince Yi and others.

No matter how skilled Prince Ren Yi and others were, they dodged and blocked many bullets with their weapons, but in the end they were still beaten into pieces.

Prince Yi, who was covered in blood, raised his long sword and roared angrily: "Our Qing Dynasty will not perish!"

Then he fell into a pool of blood with his eyes wide open. At this point, the forces of the Qing Dynasty in the capital were running away and dying, and there was no one left.

"I didn't expect that he didn't flee the capital with Cixi and the others, but chose to stay and fight to the death!"

At this time, Wang Wu, who was standing at the top of the city, saw Prince Yi lying in a pool of blood, and said to Tan Sitong with some admiration.

Tan Sitong replied with some emotion: "There is never absolute good or bad in this world, it's just different positions!

Fifth brother, it’s been so long and there’s still no news about Anan? "

Wang Wu's eyes dimmed and he said, "No, I still haven't found it. Yun'er has been in a state of despair all day now.

Let’s not talk about this for now. Is there any news from Mr. Song? "

Tan Sitong also stopped sighing and said seriously:

"There is news from Mr. Song that Mr. Sun, together with representatives from the thirteen provinces, has gathered 10,000 troops to aid the capital. If the time is right, it should be here today!"

Wang Wu sighed and said: "It's a pity that Prince Yi and others are unwilling to cooperate with us. They would rather break the jade than guard the city wall with us, waiting for strong reinforcements!"

"It seems that Cixi and other conservatives fled the capital, which greatly disappointed the prince. In addition, in his eyes, we are actually rebellious officials and traitors, so he made this choice."

Tan Sitong also sighed.

If Prince Yi and his more than a thousand Boxers can cooperate with them, there is still a high chance that they can temporarily hold the city gate and wait for reinforcements.

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