The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 213 Are You Still Dizzy?

Seeing that Liu Changfa still refused to sit down, Liu Yuzhi hurriedly stood up and walked behind Liu Changfa, put his hand on Liu Changfa's shoulder and let Liu Changfa sit down.

Seeing that Liu Changfa was willing to sit back in his seat, Pan Jinshan sat down.

Although he was not the one who carried out the explosion, he still had a part in it.

Teng Yuzao smiled and said, "Qingyun, don't blame yourself. You have made a great contribution this time."

"Although hundreds of our men were injured, the coalition forces in the city were also stunned by your shocking explosion. I heard from the deputy chief of staff that many were killed and injured. Then the second and third regiments took advantage of the situation and chased us for more than a mile, driving all the coalition forces in the city to the south. Not only did they suffer heavy losses, but in the past few days, they worked hard and risked their lives at the cost of thousands of their soldiers, but the results they gained were returned to us. How do you think the commander of the coalition forces felt?"

"Also, in my opinion, at least they won't be able to launch a continuous attack on us today. We can finally take a breather and let our officers and soldiers have a good rest."

"So, you think you have accomplished something great!"

Teng Yuzao waved his hand to stop Liu Changfa from getting up again, and said to Wei Jinghai, "Ningbo, what I said is true. You must remember that this credit must be given to Qingyun."

This time, Teng Yuzhao did not stop Liu Changfa. Liu Changfa stood up from his seat, his face flushed with excitement, and saluted Teng Yuzhao very solemnly.

Teng Yuzao's words cheered up Liu Changfa, who had always looked guilty, and his face looked radiant. Wu Peifu, who now had an official seat at such a meeting arranged by Teng Yuzao, secretly admired him. He really benefited a lot from being with this teacher who had cultivated him so carefully.

Teng Yuzao smiled and waved to Liu Changfa to sit down, then he changed the subject and continued.

"Xuan Qing just said that the city wall of Tianjin might not be able to be saved. That's great!"

Hearing Teng Yuzao say again that the city wall of Tianjin could not be preserved, most people were stunned. Liu Shijiu said with some confusion and some worry.

"Xingfu, are you still dizzy?"

Teng Yuzao smiled and said, "Brother, my mind is clear, I am not dizzy."

"If we can't protect the city wall, we will be attacked from three sides. It will be even more difficult to defend Tianjin City. How can this be good?" Liu Shijiu asked puzzledly.

Teng Yuzhao sighed softly and said somewhat unwillingly.

"Tianjin is the closest city to Dagukou and is adjacent to the concession. After the Allied Forces occupy this place, they will definitely turn Tianjin into their grain and fodder distribution center. This will become their largest and most important military station in Zhili, and may even be their only military station."

"The existence of the city wall will not only make it difficult for us to harass them in the future, including burning their food and grass, but it will also make it difficult for us to retake this place in the future. The existence of the city wall will bring great difficulties to our siege, so I say it is better to have it gone."

Hu Dianjia couldn't help but ask, "Xingfu, do you mean that we should evacuate Tianjin City?"

As soon as Hu Dianjia finished speaking, Liu Shijiu became anxious, "Xingfu, are we really going to withdraw?"

"We are defending this place so well, why are you retreating just like that?"

Teng Yuzao looked at Wei Jinghai and asked, "Didn't you tell them the intelligence you collected?"

Wei Jinghai nodded and said, "Not yet. I was worried that if I told you too early, it would destabilize the defenders. So before asking you for permission, I not only didn't tell you myself, but also strictly ordered the staff and the scouts not to leak a single word." Teng Yuzao was very satisfied with Wei Jinghai's caution. Teng Yuzao nodded and said to everyone, "The coalition forces outside the city have been very active recently. Please ask the deputy chief of staff to report to you the intelligence we have collected recently about the coalition forces."

Wei Jinghai took a deep breath, stood up, picked up the brown leather-covered folder on the table that he carried with him almost everywhere he went, opened it and took a look, then said.

"According to intelligence obtained from the headquarters' reconnaissance posts and other channels, the foreign devils have recently landed troops at Dagukou every day, and after a short stay there, they will head towards Tianjin."

Due to the need to command the entire army in battle, Teng Yuzao's overly simple headquarters had to consider and arrange more and more things. Wei Jinghai was becoming increasingly uncomfortable presiding over this extremely imperfect headquarters, so, as a last resort, Teng Yuzao finally perfected his headquarters through the opportunity of reorganizing and enriching the troops.

Now we not only have Hu Daqiu's guard battalion and Li Yaoting's security department, but we also have a reconnaissance post and a communications post. The headquarters no longer completely relies on the reconnaissance personnel of each regiment to collect intelligence. The intelligence in Wei Jinghai's hands was obtained by this reconnaissance post.

"The foreign troops that landed at Dagukou are mainly Japanese and Russian. The Japanese troops are the largest, with a total of more than 40,000 troops. They should be the 5th and 9th Divisions. The Russian troops are about the same, with nearly 40,000 troops. Since our people can't understand the Russian language and can't read the Russian characters, we don't know the numbers of their landing troops."

"Moreover, troops are still landing at Dagukou."

"Our people also discovered that three days ago, three British cargo ships from Weihai and India unloaded more than 40 cannons at Dagukou. The specific model and caliber are unknown."

Nearly 100,000 allied forces landed at Dagukou, which shocked everyone present. The vanguard army now has barely 20,000 troops in Tianjin City, including the newly recruited training troops and Cao Futian's Boxers who were not much different from peasants.

Although Liu Yuzhi tried his best, the time was too short. He had only taught these people shooting and simple queue commands. Don't even think about shooting accuracy. It would be great if they could shoot the bullets in their rifles at the enemy.

As for other techniques and tactics, that will take time.

Excluding these people, there are only more than 13,000 vanguard officers and soldiers who can still fight, not including the lightly wounded.

If they were to deal with an allied force of 20,000, none of these generals would be afraid. But to deal with an allied force of more than 100,000 with more than 10,000 men, none of these people, including Liu Shijiu who has always been fearless, would have the confidence.

These generals who were concentrating on fighting street battles with the coalition forces in the city were not aware of the recent movements of the coalition forces outside the city. Wei Jinghai's subsequent report on the enemy situation made these people feel even more depressed.

"In addition, after midnight last night, our people discovered that about 20,000 foreign devils, dragging more than 40 cannons, bypassed Tianjin City and rushed to Xigu."

"Also, originally only the foreign cavalry blocked the east side of the city, but now there are more than 10,000 Japanese devils building positions east of the canal. It seems that their purpose is to prevent our army from evacuating Tianjin City from the east."

Wei Jinghai glanced at the intelligence summary in the folder and continued, "Although no large number of foreign devils were found in the west of the city, there are not only a large number of old Russian cavalrymen in the west,

"Since yesterday morning, the foreign devils have increased the number of small groups of Russian infantry patrols and secret sentries. The scouts we sent out have lost more than ten people in the west of the city, so we have no idea about the situation in the west for the time being."

Wei Jinghai raised his voice, "In short, the total number of troops the foreign devils have around Tianjin should not be less than 120,000, which is almost ten times our number."

"Now, there are 10,000 foreign devils in the east of the city, and there should be about 30,000 troops in Xigu in the north of the city. In addition to the more than 20,000 people in the south of the city who have been fighting with us in the streets, there should be at least 10,000 troops as a reserve. In other words, the foreign devils in the city and the south of the city together will not be less than 30,000. So where are the remaining 40,000 to 50,000 foreign devils? Our staff department believes that this large group of foreign devils is likely to be hiding in the west of the city."

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