Chapter 147: Frequent injuries in the escalation of the war
Seeing the chaos of the foreign troops outside the city, the defenders in the city came out of the city in time to attack. The shouts of killing were loud and the roar of gunfire was loud. The foreign troops were in chaos and quickly left corpses and wounded on the ground. There were also some troops who had no time to break out, and they were in a panic.
And escape.
Everyone was happy to win the first battle, and the rewards from the capital came quickly. The morale of the Boxers and the defenders was greatly boosted, and they wished they could fight the foreign troops to the death.
It’s just that their good days have come to an end. I don’t know whether it’s because they lost thousands of troops in the first battle, or whether it’s because the follow-up troops from the foreign coalition just arrived. A few days later, the Tianjin offensive and defensive battle started again, and the intensity and intensity were relatively high.
It had to go up several levels before.
The roar of the artillery is earth-shattering, and the bullets are flying like a storm!
The foreign army showed an astonishing intensity of firepower. In just half a day, all the fortifications outside Jinmen were lost, and the city wall of Jinmen was crumbling under the fierce fire.
At the same time, the casualties of both the official army and the Boxers increased rapidly, with more than 5,000 casualties in one day, and both sides were stunned.
Fortunately, Lei Hu saw the opportunity quickly. Seeing the fierce firepower of the foreign army, he immediately ordered his men to evacuate the Zizhulin Concession instead of fighting against the crazy foreign army. However, even so, there were still over a thousand casualties.
Not only did his brothers suffer heavy casualties, but even Lei Hu himself suffered a loss.
While evacuating, he was accidentally targeted by a small foreign army and his arm was bitten by a bullet in the hail of bullets.
At that time, Lei Hu's heart was filled with warning signs. The moment the bullet bit his arm, the muscles and skin of the entire arm instantly linked together and trembled. It was as strong as steel and full of toughness. It actually caused the powerful rifle bullet to get stuck in the muscles.
No bones were injured.
He directly pulled the bullet out of his arm, ignoring the severe pain and commanding his Boxer brothers to evacuate quickly, thus avoiding greater casualties.
The casualties of the officers and soldiers were extremely heavy. They lost more than 3,000 soldiers in one day. They were almost destroyed by the ferocious artillery fire. By the time the sun went down, their morale was extremely low.
Not to mention being beaten and crippled, at least their morale was shattered. Dong Fuxiang and Nie Shicheng, the two military sects, didn't know if they could hold on tomorrow.
Fortunately, Lei Hu helped them a lot. He commanded 3,000 reserve troops that night. First, he used the smoke method to let the foreign barracks enjoy the wonderful taste of smoke and fire for a while, and then harassed them with gongs and drums for half the night, waiting for daylight.
Suddenly launched when the general was not bright, three thousand men and horses charged with all their strength, and suddenly broke through the exhausted foreign barracks.
Leihu just took a short rest before charging forward, with a long root in his hand that was invincible. The shadow of the stick was howling in the wind. The foreign soldiers who passed along the way either had their heads exploded or had their bones broken and their muscles broken, creating a bloody and cruel passage of death and injury.
, tough and ferocious to the extreme.
Intensive gunfire and shrill shouts broke the silence of the morning light. The entire foreign army camp was in chaos. The boxers who bravely rushed into the camp and the depressed foreign sergeants started the most bloody and crazy hand-to-hand combat. In a short time, both sides
A large number of men and horses fell.
This battle to steal the camp lasted for an hour. Seeing the light of day, the foreigners slowly came back to their senses and gradually formed a small-scale musketry unit to strangle the Boxers who rushed into the camp. As the casualties continued to increase, Lei Hu felt that
Under pressure, he waved his long stick in his hand and several foreign soldiers fell to the ground screaming. They shouted loudly and ordered the Boxers to evacuate quickly.
It's a pity that the officers and soldiers in the city did not come out in time to attack. Otherwise, the result of stealing the camp this time would be greater, and they might be able to fight back this wave of thousands of foreign troops.
After evacuating to a safe area and carefully counting the number of people, Lei Hu found that there were a full 1,300 boxers missing. Lei Hu believed that even if the losses on the foreign side were not so great, they would definitely not be small.
He was also helpless. The Boxer Rebellion's musketeers were established too late. Even if young men from the Chancheng Militia joined as middle- and low-level officers, their combat effectiveness would not be the same as that of the foreign army.
On the contrary, the boxers of the Boxer Rebellion practiced martial arts and fought hand-to-hand with the foreign troops. Not to mention how much advantage they had, it was not difficult to fight evenly. The number of foreign soldiers who killed and wounded in such hand-to-hand combat was not small.
It's just that the foreign army has many firearms and tight defenses, so it's not easy to find opportunities for close combat.
After two days of hard fighting, and two extremely effective sneak attacks and hand-to-hand battles, I thought that the foreign army would definitely take precautions, and it would be difficult to find such an opportunity in the future.
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As the Eight-Nation Allied Forces gradually took shape and foreign sergeants continued to arrive by boat from the sea, the war in the Tianjin area became increasingly fierce.
First of all, the Qing garrison at Jinmen failed to hold on and persisted for about ten days. The city defenses at Jinmen were destroyed by artillery fire, and even senior generals like Nie Shicheng died in the battle.
Jinmen was breached, and Dong Fuxiang led a remnant of the defeated troops to escape from the city in panic. It was safe only to be supported by the Boxers outside the city.
During this period, the Boxers organized and mobilized half of the residents in the city to evacuate. The remaining half of the residents were either reluctant to part with the pots and jars at home, or had no reaction to the war at all. They felt that whoever was the boss of Jinmen was not the same and had nothing to do with ordinary people like them.
In order to organize the evacuation of the people in the city, Tan Sitong almost lost his voice, but unfortunately the final result was not satisfactory to him.
"If it rains, my mother wants to get married, let them be!"
Lei Hu didn't take it seriously. These days, while he was commanding the Boxers to harass and attack foreign soldiers, he also had to help organize the evacuation of the people in the city. He was really too busy to pay attention to these stubborn people, so he simply gave up and didn't dare to.
Let them fend for themselves.
After the city was broken, the foreign troops, who had suppressed their anger, tortured them. After two days of rest, they fought their way out of the city and quickly advanced toward the capital along the railway line.
Naturally, Lei Hu would not make them feel comfortable, so the boxers of the Boxer Rebellion and the defeated soldiers of Dong Fuxiang's army joined forces to block the attack along the railway line layer by layer, preventing the foreign troops from taking control of the railway and giving them the opportunity to quickly send troops to take the train to the capital.
A fierce field trench offensive and defensive battle began. Lei Hu personally led a mobile team composed of kung fu masters to roam outside, specifically targeting the foreign army's logistics supplies, and the logistics troops launched sneak attacks, seriously delaying the foreign army.
Marching into the capital.
In order to boost morale and prevent the heavily depleted Boxers from losing morale, Lei Hu also tried his best. He always charged forward at the risk of a target, carrying bullets from the foreign army across the battlefield with great joy, and killing the generals in the foreign army with fear.
He didn’t dare to take the lead easily, and he was frequently injured...