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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 610: Battle of Outposts

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    As the imperial capital for 800 years, Beijing's city wall defense facilities are very complete. The height and thickness of the city walls and city towers are unmatched by other cities. Although it has experienced many invasions and wars at the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Beijing city walls and city towers have been repaired several times.  Its majestic appearance is still the same as before, but it is even better than before due to more than two hundred years of construction by the Qing court.  =====

    Beijing has a total of four city walls, which are divided into the palace city, the imperial city, the inner city and the outer city. The entire outline looks like a "convex" character from the air. The convex part is the palace city, the imperial city and the inner city. The big one's  The location is the outer city.  From the palace city, the imperial city, the inner city to the outer city, every city has a gate. The palace city has 4 gates, the imperial city has 4 gates, and the inner city has 9 gates (as the saying goes, nine gates  There are nine gates under the jurisdiction of the admiral) and seven gates in the outer city.

    Palace City: Meridian Gate, Shenwu Gate, Xihua Gate, Donghua Gate.  The interior of the palace city is the Forbidden City (Forbidden City). The south gate of the Forbidden City is the Meridian Gate, the north gate is the Shenwu Gate (Xuanwu Gate), the east gate is the Donghua Gate, and the west gate is the Xihua Gate.

    Imperial City: It is the royal city wall that protects the palace city. It is built around the Forbidden City and has four gates: Tiananmen Gate, Di'an Gate, Dong'an Gate, and Xi'an Gate.  ** is the main entrance of the imperial city.

    Inner City: The inner city is the city built around the Imperial City. It has 9 gates, namely: Zhengyang Gate, Chongwen Gate, and Xuanwu Gate in the south; Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhimen in the east; Fucheng Gate and Xizhimen in the west.  ; North: Andingmen, Deshengmen.

    It is said that the 9 city gates have different uses. Zhengyang Gate is the gate for the emperor to travel. The emperor used Zhengyang Gate every year when he went to the Temple of Heaven to worship. Nowadays, ordinary people call Zhengyang Gate the front gate.  Chongwenmen is the gate for wine cars. Generally, wine cars from other places entering Beijing use this gate.  Xuanwumen is the gate through which prison cars pass.  Generally, prisoners on death row are escorted out of the city gate from here to Caishikou for execution.  Chaoyangmen is used for grain trucks. A large amount of grain from the south to Tongzhou via the Grand Canal enters the city through Chaoyangmen.  Dongzhimen is the gate where people go to buy department stores and sundries.  At this time, there was a quite bustling market outside Dongzhimen.  Fuchengmen is the gate for coal cars. The coal burned in the city is transported from Mentougou to this gate and enters the city.  Xizhimen is the gate to the waterwheel. The royal nobles living in the Forbidden City do not drink the water in the city. The domestic water they drink is brought into the city from Yuquan Mountain in the west by waterwheel.  Deshengmen is the gate through which troops enter, which means "travel to victory".  Anding Gate is the gate through which the army troops return to the court, and it is also the gate through which the dung carts in the city are pulled out of the city.  The Jiumen Admiral was the highest official in charge of the soldiers patrolling the nine city gates in the inner city. In the Qing Dynasty, he was a first-grade official.

    Outer City: The outer city is the residence of common people except the royal nobles in the south of the inner city.  There are 7 city gates in total, namely Yongding Gate, Zuo'an Gate, You'an Gate, Guang'an Gate, Guangqu Gate, Xibian Gate and Dongbian Gate.

    Song Feng¡¯s Guards Cavalry Regiment arrived outside Andingmen. Unfortunately, there were no Qing troops stationed in the dangerous peripheral areas of this eight-hundred-year-old imperial capital.  All the Qing troops in the capital who were supposed to be guarding the surroundings of the capital shrank to three mountains and five gardens.

    On the night when Song Feng's troops arrived outside Andingmen, spies Bai Zetang from the Third Battalion outside Beijing came to report the news. There were two people coming, both dressed in Qing army uniforms.  But it was the spy arranged by Bai Zetang in the Jianrui camp in the capital.

    The information sent by the visitor is very useful.  It introduces in detail the strength and deployment of the Qing army in the capital at this time.  The three foreign battalions of the Old Summer Palace in the capital, Hujun Camp, Jianrui Camp, and Fanzi Camp, originally had their own camps and garrisoned in dangerous places outside the capital. However, since the martial law in the capital, Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty ordered the three foreign battalions to be abandoned.  The soldiers and horses shrank. Except for the soldiers and horses from the Hujun Camp, Jianrui Camp, Fanzi Camp and other three battalions, except for the troops brought out by Mianyu to support them, the rest of the troops, a total of more than 30,000 people, were all stationed in the three mountains and five gardens outside the capital.  .

    All the soldiers and horses mobilized from other places were stationed in the capital. The following forces were gathered in the city: 12 battalions of the Eight Banners Forward Army, 12 battalions of the Beijing Guards, 15 battalions of the Shenji Battalion, 25 battalions of the Shaanxi-Gansu reinforcements, and the shrinking Qing troops near the capital.  There are 20 battalions of the army, with a total of 80,000 regular troops.  There are 785 artillery pieces, plus the Qing troops stationed in the surrounding areas such as Yuanmingyuan and other mountains and five gardens.  A total of nearly 120,000 Qing troops gathered in the capital.  Of course, this does not include the 50,000 Senggelingqin Qing troops who fought fiercely with the British and French forces at Baliqiao in Tongzhou.

    After hearing this, Song Feng laughed and said: "More than 100,000 Qing troops are waiting for us here. It seems that we are quite honorable." After saying this, the generals of the Guards Cavalry all laughed, and Song Feng's expression changed.  Said: "But now that we are here, let's wait for our enemies to come. We will spread out and attack in all directions. We will use small cavalry forces to contain and entangle the Qing army. We will also find out the strength of each unit of the Qing army. If there is an enemy attack, we will resolutely attack."  !¡±

    Early the next morning, the Qing army seemed to have detected the arrival of the Taiping cavalry force of more than 1,000 people. The Qing army of the Third Battalion sent a cavalry force of more than 3,000 people to test it. The two sides fought in Longdao Village in the north of the city.  An encounter.

    In Longdao Village on the banks of the Qinghe River, under the early morning sunshine, Qing troops swarmed in like a rolling tide. They wore gray headbands and gray uniforms.Wearing white breeches and black riding boots, with a carbine on his shoulder, a pair of bows and arrows on the saddle, and a saber on his waist, he rushed over with murderous intent.  On the opposite side was a reconnaissance cavalry team of more than a hundred people from the Taiping Guards Cavalry Regiment. Both sides discovered each other very early. On the bad official road outside Longdao Village, the dust raised by the cavalry passed by had exposed themselves early on.

    Seeing the Taiping Army cavalry reconnaissance detachment, the Qing cavalry vanguard whistled, and a cavalry team of more than 500 people came out, roaring loudly, and galloped towards the detachment.

    More than a hundred cavalrymen of the Taiping Army Guards were not polite, and immediately divided into fan shapes to greet him. A few hundred steps away, the Taiping Army Cavalry pulled the bolts of their guns one after another, and started shooting with their rifles.  It has to be said that the Guards Cavalry's marksmanship was very accurate. More than 60 Qing cavalrymen were shot and killed within a hundred steps. This is also inseparable from the mountains of training bombs in the Guards Cavalry training camp. If you want to become a Guardsman,  To be a cavalryman in a cavalry regiment, you must first be a precise infantry shooter, then undergo long-term horseback training, and then relearn shooting skills on horseback. The cavalrymen in the Guards Cavalry Regiment often have to stay on horseback for a whole day.  , and even some training subjects include eating and sleeping on horseback.  Strict training has created the elite Guards Cavalry, but the cost is also huge. Training one Guards Cavalry costs as much as training five field division cavalry.

    As soon as the gunfire rang out, some Qing cavalry fell off their horses. Their equestrian skills were also top-notch. Hundreds of Qing cavalry whistled, bent their bodies and hid on the sides of the saddle, but their galloping speed did not slow down at all.  Coming in a hurry.  They were Qing army reinforcements transferred to the capital from Heilongjiang, Jilin and other places. At least in terms of riding skills, they maintained the fierceness of the Eight Banners soldiers.

    The Guards cavalry were not in a hurry to rush forward to fight, but turned their horses' heads and ran eastward, turning back and firing from time to time. Although the Qing cavalry were hiding on the side of the saddle, the horses' huge targets were still very good.  Moving the target, Qing cavalry horses were constantly hit. After the horses fell down, the cavalry on them also fell off their horses.

    When the Qing cavalry saw the Guards cavalry detachment heading east, they did not dare to catch up. They rode back to their own unit. Unexpectedly, the cavalry made a circle and came back again. They fired their guns from a distance but did not get close. They relied on their own  The muskets have a long range and constantly harass the Qing cavalry unit of more than 3,000 people.

    Seeing this scene, the commander of the Qing cavalry couldn't help but get angry. He ordered more than a thousand Qing cavalry to divide into a huge fan shape and pursue them. Seeing that this posture would kill more than a hundred people no matter what the cost.  A Taiping cavalry was torn to pieces.

    This Qing cavalry is different from the Eight Banners soldiers inside the pass. They are always armored men stationed outside the pass. They still maintain superb riding skills in the harsh environment outside the pass. They cooperate with each other tacitly, and the cavalry on both wings can quickly outflank.

    The commander of more than a hundred Guards cavalry was a company commander named Zhang Xin. After seeing this, he shouted to his soldiers in a deep voice: "Damn it, this group of Qing cavalry is really not formidable, but they want to fight with us.  To outflank, it depends on who is faster!"

    After saying that, more than a hundred Guards cavalry roared and attacked the left wing, firing volleys of rifles. Soon the Qing cavalry charge formation on the left wing was scattered. The Qing army's carbine could only fire one round, which was difficult.  Muzzleloading on a galloping horse, unless you stop, but once you do, it's the best target to shoot.

    After seeing the formation of the Qing army on the left wing scattered, Zhang Xin whistled, and the Guards cavalry put away their rifles, took out their revolvers and sabers, held the gun in their right hand, and the saber in their left hand, waving their sabers and continued to rush towards the left wing.

    Soon more than a hundred Guards cavalry approached the Qing cavalry. Revolvers fired at close range on horseback. Six bullets per person made the Qing army even more chaotic. Finally, the Guards cavalry raised their sabers and rushed into the enemy formation.  middle.  Blood mist rose into the sky, and the neighing of war horses, the screams of cavalry, and the cry of killing were everywhere. On a mottled bloody road, more than two hundred Qing cavalrymen on the left wing collapsed instantly.

    After defeating the left wing, the Guards cavalry made a perfect arc and detoured to the middle. More than 400 Qing cavalry in the middle were so heartbroken that they almost collapsed under the first three rounds of continuous gun fire.  The Guards cavalry had already replaced the barrels of their rifles on their way back to the middle. Long-distance shooting caused heavy casualties to the Qing cavalry in the middle.  Finally, the Guards cavalry made a vigorous attack and attacked the panicked Qing cavalry on the right wing, quickly ending the battle.

    Within half an hour, a thousand cavalrymen from the three thousand Qing army cavalry were defeated by more than a hundred guards cavalry, and only less than 400 cavalry escaped. The Qing army commander was stunned for a long time, until this guard cavalry  The cavalry pressed forward reluctantly and fired with volleys of rifles. The Qing army's flag bearer was knocked off his horse. Only then did the Qing army commander wake up and loudly ordered an immediate retreat.

    "Then the Qing army retreated to its own camp and never dared to come out to invite battle, and the other Qing troops also suffered from exhaustion.First of all, the cavalry can't beat them, and the infantry dare not go out to fight, and they can't catch up with them at all.  Song Feng's Guards Cavalry Regiment was also very cunning and would never attack the heavily guarded camp or the city wall of Beijing.  Therefore, except for the area near the city wall and the Three Mountains and Five Gardens camp under the city of Beijing, the rest of the areas became the territory controlled by the Taiping Army.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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