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After resting for an hour outside of the village, Guo Kaishan and the newly recruited members of the Boxer Faction led the group back to the village! As a result, Guo Haifeng's Boxer team had a total of more than 200 members!

After Guo Haifeng and the rest had finished recruiting, the other leaders of the group that had survived also requested for their own team to be expanded! Yan Luofu and Li Laizhong had a brief discussion before agreeing. These people didn't want Guo Haifeng, Guo Kaishan, or the others to freely choose their members. Rather, they wanted Yan Li to directly assign members to them.

In the end, after a series of arrangements, there were a total of seven teams of about two hundred people like Guo Haifeng. That added up to a total of about fifteen hundred people! The remaining troops were recruited by Yan Li and Little Flame. Currently, each of their teams had around 2500 people. However, this was not much different from their group in front of the Stone Pavilion Town!

In the great battle outside the town of Stone Pavilion, the Boxer Regiment had been the victor, and the news of the victory of the town of Stone Pavilion had soon spread throughout the whole city, which had greatly boosted the morale of the Boxer Regiment in the surrounding prefectures and counties. On May 25, thousands of people from Fangshan and the Prefectural Group led by Monk Mi Xi gathered in the vicinity of the Lai Shui Stone Pavilion to perform and request Yan Li to march into the Zhuozhou Prefecture!

Actually, the reason why Monk Mi Xi requested an attack on Zhuozhou was because the Prefect of Zhuozhou was weak and weak. It turned out that yesterday, when a group of Boxian troops from Zhuozhou was on their way to Shiting Town, they had rushed into the prefectural yamen of Zhuozhou to demand a military pay from the Prefect of Prefecture Gong. The Prefect himself had been unable to resist and had given them the money. Of course, there was another reason. Most of the troops nearby had already been defeated in the great victory!

On the second day, the more distant Boxer Regiments also arrived one after another. In just a short period of time, the number of people in Stone Pavilion Town had already reached over 30,000. After discussing with Yan Luofu, Li Laizhong, and Mi Xi, they decided that the next day would be the 27th, and the army would attack Zhuzhou!

At the same time, the dispute over the Boxer League in the Imperial Court continued, and because Jung Lu, who occupied an important position in the Imperial Court, was ill during this period (" political illness "), he and the others basically took control of the political affairs of the time. These people tended to regard the Boxer League as the Boxer in their xenophobic mood, but they did not have a clear understanding of the uncontrollable complexity of the local situation. Guided by this dogmatism, this policy of "exterminating and supporting as the main force" provided a considerable gap for the development of the Boxer Regiment, and by the time the calamity arose, it would be too late for regret.

However, the policy of the Qing government led to the Governor, Yu Lu, being ambiguous in this matter and wavering in the annihilation of the issue. Another factor worth paying attention to was the political form of the Kai-liu, the then governor of Kai-liu, who was stationed in Tianjin and was not very active in the Boxer League, while the then governor of Kai-ping, Nie Shi-cheng, was stationed in Kai-ping; thus, the task of dealing with the Boxer League at that time was mainly the responsibility of the two designated officials, Ting-jie, and Ting-Yong, who were the officials of Kai-liu.

However, it was a pity that Ting Jie and Ting Yong were at odds with each other. With Ting Jie being annihilated, while Lord Ting Yong was in charge of dealing with the situation like this, it became like he was "fighting fire everywhere". He would go wherever things went. In the case of the Boxer Rebellion, the administrative forces at the county level and their meagre military force (each of which may have only a few dozen soldiers and yamen) were insignificant before the numerous Boxers, and when the magistrates and gentry on the ground failed to persuade them, the regime at the base was basically paralysed.

Even in the case of disagreement in the Qing court, on May 26, the commander of the Nestlé, Yang Musheng, led three battalions of troops by train to the High Stele Shop, an army armed with modern firearms. But before leaving, Yang Musheng received orders from Yulu and others to "avoid the waves", mainly "take first priority, dissolve the flank". This sort of politically meaningful military task put Yang Musheng in a difficult position.

Under these circumstances, on May 27, 1900, more than 30,000 Boxer Regiments from Shiding Town, with the close cooperation of the foreign groups of Zhuozhou City, occupied the city of Zhuozhou, and hung the banner of the Boxer Regiment on the city gate. Gong Ming-pei, a state of Kenzhou, could do nothing but wait to die, the first city occupied and controlled by the Boxer Regiment, which subsequently became the headquarters of the Boxer Regiment. The struggle was aimed at the foreigners and foreign objects. They used the dismantling of railway lines, cutting of electric wires, and the prohibition of foreign goods as the main signs of the fight against the sea. On the afternoon of the 27th, the Zhuozhou railway line was demolished, and transportation and telecommunications were interrupted. In the evening, they burned the tombstone shop, Zhuozhou Station and the bridge and sleeper of the Sai Ma River.

On the 28th, thousands of people continued to advance north along the Liulili River to the Lugou Bridge line, dismantling the railway tracks and cutting down the electric wires. They also set fire to two stations, the Changxin Shop and the Lugou Bridge, the stables and the bridges and buildings along the way. On the 29th, the group began to attack the station of Fengtai. After burning the station, they continuously destroyed the storehouses, material factories, passenger cars, locomotives and open vehicles. Empress Dowager Cixi's special "dragon carriage" was also burned. Within three days, the group had demolished dozens of miles of railway from the High Stele Shop to the Liulili River, burning down six stations, including the High Stele Shop, the Changxin Shop, Zhuozhou, and Fengtai.

However, the rapid development of this Boxer Regiment in the region of Cuaibao caused great fear and shock to the feudal ruling group. In the end, the Qing government hastily dispatched troops to protect the city, stationed the stations in Lulu and Baobao, and tried to "capture and capture" the Boxers by unified action, and tried to use "extermination and utilization" to eliminate the Boxers. In the face of the cruel suppression of the official army of the Qing Dynasty, the Boxer Regiment was not afraid at all, which made it impossible for the encircling and annihilating Qing Army to suppress the bandits and protect the road.

On the 30th, Mr Nisuzheng was ordered to protect the Lubao and Jingjin railways. The Boxer Regiment burned down the Huangcun Railway, and a small group of Nie soldiers went to stop them. They were attacked by the Boxer Regiment, wounding dozens of people. After that, the three thousand soldiers of the Boxer Regiment destroyed the rails of the square, while Nie Shicheng led his army and was attacked by the Boxer Regiment. In return, the Nie Army killed five hundred members of the Boxer Regiment.

However, at that time, Wang Ziyi, the Grand Scholar Gangyi, and the others, who were at the head of the government, issued a strict decree against Shi Cheng. Governor Yu Lu ordered him to return to Rutai, where he led his troops back to Tianjin. At that time, there were more than 20,000 members of the Boxer Regiment in Tianjin, and they often killed soldiers of the army. Nie Shicheng didn't dare to resist, but the enmity between the army and the Boxer Regiment deepened. Jung Lu, the minister of war, was afraid of the Nie army mutiny, so he wrote to Nie to comfort him, saying that the soldiers were westernized and could easily be misunderstood. "The boxer harms the people and will bring harm to the country," Mr Nie replied. If there were bandits within the territory, they could not be exterminated, but what about those who held any positions? If the bandits were to be massacred, they would not dare to say a word. "

Then, Tzu Hsi sent the minister of war to co-organize the investigation of Gangyi the Grand Scholar and Zhao Shu-tzu of Shuntian Prefecture in Zhuozhou. Results After Gangyi returned to the capital, he reported to Tzu Hsi that "the boxers were loyal, the divine arts were available". Prince Zhaozhang in the middle court, King Zhaoyi in the end county, Duke Huang in the secondary government also led the Boxer League to fight against the foreigners.

The policy of the Qing government toward the Boxer League was unpredictable, which made the situation in the capital and its environs difficult to control, and finally led to the invasion of the West Moors and the Eight Nations. On May 21, 1900 (Guangxu 26), Dagu fort was lost. On May 25, the imperial court declared war on the powerful forces, ordering Nie Shicheng to lead his troops to defend Tianjin, to reclaim Dagu's cannon, and to prevent the allied armies of the eight countries from heading north.

At this point, China's main contradiction has become the contradiction between the Chinese nation and the foreign invaders! On May 28, 1900, however, Claud Maxwell MacDonald, British Minister Plenipotentiary, felt the danger to the area and called for reinforcements from 17 foreign warships anchored near Dagu. 337 foreign sailors and marines landed on the shore on May 31, 1900, and arrived in Beijing that night by train, while 89 other German and Austrian marines from the defense embassy area arrived in Beijing on June 3, 1900.

At the same time, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered Dong Fuxiang's guards to march into the city and station themselves near the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden Land. Nie Shicheng's former army was fighting against the invaders!

If you mention the front and back of the Martial Guard here, then tell me about the origin of the guards! In 1898 (the year of Qing Guang Xiang 24 years), after the suppression of the transformational changes, the die-hards led by Tzu Hsi, in order to strengthen the capital and the defenses of the near and inner regions, commanded the army and army ministers Jung Lu to command and organize the troops of the North Sea to serve as soldiers and guards. By June 1899, they were officially in the army.

The Huai Yi Army of the Department of Nie Shicheng is the forerunner and still resides in Lutai (the Great Zining River); the Gan Army of Dong Fuxiang is the rearguard and is stationed in Jizhou (the Great Zinji County); the Yi Army of Song Qing is the left army and is stationed in the customs and in the mountains; the Yuan Shikai Army is the right army and resides in the Tianjin small station. In addition, the Central Army was formed by the recruitment of brave soldiers and the transfer of eight flags, with Jung Lu as his consort and stationed in the southern park (today, Beijing is in great prosperity).

In the spring of 1900, Jung Lu played brigadier general stationed in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, and other places, the army's vanguard left and right troops were expanded into 10 battalions, while Yuan Shikai's vanguard army's vanguard was expanded to 20 battalions, with the entire army expanding to more than 80 thousand men. Except for Yuan Shikai's right army, which was the new army, and Nie Shicheng's front army, which was approaching the new army, the rest of the troops were still under the same regime, and most of the equipment was under the new weapon.

The forerunner of the Martial Guard was a member of the famous Huai Army's ten largest groups (the Open Army, the Sheng Army, the Ming Army, the Qing Army, the Ding Army, the Tree Army, the Scholars, the Song Army, the Qi Army, and the Ren Army), which were later reorganized into the "Wu Yi Army", led by the famous general, Nie Shicheng.

The former army of Wuwei was the strongest and most well-equipped unit in the army of Wuwei during the period of the alliance army of eight countries. There were about 16,200 men in the former army and about 4,000 men in the former army, totaling about 20,000. At that time, the former army was the most valued by the court. They used a large number of German instructors, fully equipped with German uniforms, and used the latest Ka98 rifle, Maxim heavy machine gun and so on. They were called "fake foreign devils" at the time.

The central army of the armed forces is a new conscription force, no issue of origin, by Jung Lu himself as President. There are no artillery units in the centre of the army. The left wing is the infantry, the right wing is the horse team, and the middle path is the mixed horse formation. The total number of troops is about 10,000.

The composition of the right armed forces was entirely based on the latest German infantry divisions of that time (1890s), including the headquarters, educational units and infantry battalions (full of eight battalions), artillery units (full of eight battalions), artillery units (full of eight battalions), cavalry units (full of eight battalions), and engineering units (full of one battalion) — a total of 7,400 men. The President was Yuan Shikai! However, since then, the right armed guard with Yuan Shikai garrisoned in Shandong.

Yuan Shikai, on the other hand, formed a vanguard of the right army of the Wu Wei in Shandong after his arrival. Unlike the previous military units, the right military vanguard was a brand-new unit, with no old baggage and a relatively new assembly system. It was the experimental unit of the Qing court that hoped to develop the army into a regular national central army. At this time, Yuan Shikai's military strength had reached nearly 20,000 people!

On June 1, 1900, Yan Luofu and Li Lai received the envoys of Yu Lu, the governor of Zhuo Prefecture. After the agreement was reached, on June 3, thirty thousand men of the Zhuozhou Boxers, under the leadership of Yan and Li, travelled to the capital to prepare for a great battle with the foreigners!