w"For the emperor, for China!"

Just under the yellow sand outside Beijing, a group of young cavalrymen shouted such slogans. Although many of them may not know what such slogans mean, they clearly know their mission and know that this is the most glorious moment in their lives.

Beijing City, a city that they have heard of countless times in the play, slid across their fingers. Although they have not seen the walls of Beijing, they have already smelled the smell of the capital.

That's right, it's a fighting atmosphere. When they approached Beijing, the enemy troops in front of them became firm, and there were even several occasions when the Eight Banners soldiers met with their white soldiers.

The military system of the Qing Dynasty was the core of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades. More than 100,000 Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades were the core of the entire Qing Dynasty's military force. Once something happened, use this Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades as a mobile force to carry out absolute combat across the country. Although with the passage of time, this Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades of the Forbidden Brigades of the Forbidden Brigades is no longer as glorious as they were in the past and has even become a symbol of the decay of the Eight Banners of the Eight Banners, after all, it is the most worthy force of the Qing Dynasty.

Especially when the Hong Army cavalry penetrated deep into the city of Beijing, these Eight Banners children also had to go out of the city to fight for their hard-core crops. If they were to fight away from Beijing, their morale would not be worth talking about, but here is their hometown and where they grew up, so they even lined up to fight with the Hong Army.

Yesterday's battle was so cruel. Although the cavalry of the Hong Army first charged forward, and then the infantry attacked. The volleyball roared and the bayonets came into battle, and finally left more than 200 Eight Banners soldiers on the battlefield. However, the two cavalry companies participating in the battle also paid the heavy price of killing sixteen horses, injured thirty-four soldiers, and killed 18 soldiers. The wounded for forty people, and many such battles occurred near Beijing.

But this aura also made the soldiers of the cavalry brigade fight bravely. They felt that this was the best opportunity. If they missed this opportunity, they might regret it in their entire lives. All the cavalry shouted: "Go into Beijing, fight to Beijing!"

Ren Zhu looked at his cavalry team. His mood was solemn and relaxed. He shouted: "Just have another assault. The Lugou Bridge is ahead. Yes, it is the Lugou Xiaoyue mentioned in Storytelling. If we rush forward, we will be the Beijing Cavalry Brigade!"

In the history of the Hongjun, it is very useful to order combat units in famous cities, especially in the recent battles between Henan and Shandong, where honorary titles such as "Kaifeng Regiment", "Luoyang Camp", and "Jinan First Regiment" appeared, which can be a great excitement for this newly built cavalry brigade.

An officer replied to him: "Not only Beijing, but also Jinzhou, and Shengjing, are all our spoils!"

This is not the Nian Army brothers that Ren Zhu is familiar with, but a standard Hong Army cavalry cavalry cadre. According to his own boast, he even participated in Zhou Xiuying's Battle of Jinyun, and they also represented the new forces in the Fourth Cavalry Brigade.

That's right, the 10th Regiment is not the most experienced combat experience and does not have natural cavalry, but this regiment has a group of cavalry cadres led by Zhou Xiuying. Their fanaticism exceeded everyone's imagination. They even went to the point where they repeatedly charged seven times in front of the formation, and finally dragged the Qing army infantry with more than ten times the strength. Therefore, Ren Zhu smiled: "It's good to have a few more honorary units in the brigade, but Lao Liu, you have to save some strength and break into Beijing's military and political victory. You have to rely on Lao Liu, your integrated group! The real numbers are reported by each regiment."

That's right, although the three cavalry regiments in Beijing have made great achievements in all sizes, many cavalry units have jumped in from southern Hebei to now, and have fought dozens of battles with the enemy. The troops and horses and officers and soldiers have been severely reduced. When advancing from Yinan, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade had a total of 2,400 personnel and 2,500 war horses.

But now the cavalry in Ren Zhu's hands are only the numbers reported by the officers.

"The 10th Cavalry Regiment integrated team, with 224 officers and soldiers, and 180 war horses!"

"The 11th Cavalry Regiment, 567 officers and soldiers, and 210 war horses!"

"The 12th Cavalry Regiment, 384 officers and soldiers, and 370 war horses!"

"The brigade's direct team, 140 officers and soldiers, 110 war horses, and four artillery pieces..."

All three cavalry regiments encountered significant losses, and many small units fell behind. The main force of the 10th Cavalry Regiment was entangled by a large Qing army. It finally broke through the Qing army with a total of more than 5,000, but half of the regiment's troops were about one day away from the brigade headquarters. Now only a small part of the 10th Cavalry Regiment came.

Now that the Fourth Cavalry Brigade has participated in the war, nearly one-third of its personnel and war horses have been lost, and in the subsequent battles, more personnel may be lost. However, Ren Zhu was surprised to see that unlike his battle during the Nian Army, the morale of the entire army was strong and the troops could participate in the war at any time.

This has never been an experience, especially when the 10th Cavalry Group's Integration Group was so heavy that it was even a little chaotic, not only maintained such strong fighting spirit, but also the units merged on their own and spontaneously formed new integration teams, which was an experience he had never encountered before. He said to Liu Cangbin, who asked for battle: "The mission of the Sword of the Army also depends on the 10th Cavalry Group's Integration Team. It depends on you to win the military and political affairs."

He knew that Beijing City, even Kaifeng City, Baoding City, and other famous cities were several times or even dozens of times, and they had never seen before. Therefore, even if his more than a thousand cavalry could break into Beijing, the next task of maintaining order in Beijing was particularly important. Before leaving, Zhou Xiuying personally consulted him several times, and each time he talked about the discipline issues after Li Zicheng entered Beijing.

Among the three cavalry regiments, the 10th Cavalry Regiment, the cavalry regiment led by Zhou Xiuying is the most fanatical and has the best discipline. Many times the discipline is so good that the 12th Cavalry Regiment brought from Huaibei blushed. When stationed in the same place, the regiment commander would lead the team to the opposite dough to see the other party's discipline.

Therefore, the 12th Cavalry Regiment was used as a vanguard. After a long battle, this cavalry regiment had more horses, and almost everyone had horses. They roared and unfolded in the battle formation of the company and searched towards the Lugou Bridge.

Following closely behind was the 11th Cavalry Regiment. This regiment preserved its most troop strength, but the horses also suffered the greatest losses. Therefore, the infantry integration team was temporarily organized and integrated with the cavalry to advance towards the Lugou Bridge. However, when they were about half a mile ahead, there were dense sounds of gunfire coming from the front.

The opposite were Eight Banners soldiers wearing yellow uniforms. They were a lot of people. Their infantry, cavalry, and rows of black ground were everywhere near Lugou Bridge, one after another, either holding long swords or forming a gun formation. There were also many Eight Banners cavalry.

On both sides are large groups of Han army infantry, and they are also commanded by the Eight Banners generals, with a number of up to ten thousand people, but their morale is relatively low. When they see the Hong Army cavalry appear, many infantry run away from each other. Even if the horses with Han army flags are in the middle, they still retreat step by step.

The 11th Cavalry Regiment indeed launched a cavalry attack. Although they were less than four hundred cavalry, their impact was shocking, even the defenders on Lugou Bridge were shaking. They waved their shiny sabers, shouted loudly, and came up with the roar of war horses.

For these Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigades, their only war experience was the battle with the Taiping Army Northern Expedition Army a few years ago. At that time, they also had such an advantage, but they did not achieve any results worth mentioning in the battle against the Taiping Army Northern Expedition Army. Even tens of thousands of people besieged the strongholds of one or two hundred Taiping Army defended, and there was no example of it being taken for several months.

Now it seems that the battle is repeating again. The Qing army still has an absolute advantage in military strength, but they have encountered trouble from the beginning of the array. While the Hong army was charging on a cavalry, several mountain howitzers and a large number of Minni rifles did not stop fire. These amazing ranges of firearms caused the Eight Banners soldiers to suffer casualties one after another.

This is an unbearable situation. The comrades around him fell down with a thump in the sound of gunfire, and they fell from time to time. If a shell hits the formation, there may be many casualties. Moreover, the remaining cavalry of the 11th Cavalry Regiment and the 12th Cavalry Regiment have already launched a charge.

These two regiments are troops adapted from Nian Army cavalry, so the combat style also has the traditional Nian Army color. They did not pursue cavalry charges as enthusiastically as the 10th Cavalry Regiment, but repeatedly scattered charges in squads, one after another, one after another, making the Qing army unable to defend.

This is the traditional cavalry tactic of the Nian Army. After several harassment, they began to start a frenzy offensive. Each time they dispatched one or two cavalry companies to see the weaknesses in the Qing army's defensive formation and launch an assault without hesitation. Before the Qing army counterattacked, the entire formation had already crossed.

Therefore, after the battle lasted for more than an hour, the Qing army leaned backwards more and more at Lugou Bridge, but they showed no signs of collapse.

No matter what, this is the last setting sun in the Qing Dynasty. Whether it is the officers and soldiers, they have an inexplicable confidence in their hearts. They even used infantry and cavalry to launch an assault.

"Prince Gong, the situation is really not good, so let's retreat!"

In the command formation opposite, a group of Manchu and Mongolian nobles looked as if they were ashen. They could see that although the battle situation was still stalemate, the battle situation was getting worse and worse. Prince Gong, who was riding on the horse, angrily raised his horse whip and said, "There are at most three thousand red thieves!"

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