Immediately afterwards, the battle sequences of all the armies in the Far East along the Yalu River began to be busy. In another hour, they would cross the Yalu River with high spirits and return to the Qing Dynasty to fight for the first time. And just in
At such a historical moment, as an incident of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, a major story also happened at an important location.
Dagu, also known as Tianjin Dagu, is the last of the seventy-two Gu in Tianjin. The estuary of the Haihe River is the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin and the throat of land and sea. On June 17, the Eight-Power Allied Forces took the first step to capture the Dagu Fort in Tianjin because it had
Only in this way can we open a fast track to Beijing. Dagu is not only the gateway to Tianjin, but also has an extremely important military strategic location because it borders the Bohai Sea to the east and the Beijing-Shanxi Railway to the north.
The great powers of various countries adopted a strategy of dividing their forces and encircling them. They first sent 300 Japanese troops to occupy the railway station in Tanggu, Tianjin, and then sent Russian and French troops to occupy the Junliangcheng railway station. Then, 935 British, American, Japanese, Russian, and German troops were sent to occupy the railway station.
The Chinese Marine Corps made a sneak attack and landed near the Dagu Fort, waiting until 10 gunboats from the Qing Dynasty entered the Haihe River at the mouth of Dagu.
28 warships from various countries sailed directly to anchor outside the fire range of the Dagu fort. At the same time, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces also issued an ultimatum to Luo Rongguang, the commander-in-chief of the defenders, asking him to hand over the fort the next day. However, the commander-in-chief of the defenders flatly refused.
So naturally, more than 30 coalition warships from various countries bombarded the Tianjin Dagu Fort with cannons under the illumination of searchlights.
The defenders immediately launched a resolute counterattack, destroying five small coalition ships. This land and sea artillery battle lasted for three hours. The Eight-Power Allied Forces used cannons on the ships to continuously bombard the defenders' positions and forts, including several hits.
After hitting the ammunition depot, two forts on the north bank of Dagukou were occupied by the coalition forces.
Subsequently, the fleet of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces continued to concentrate its firepower to bombard the forts on the south bank of Dagu, while the Eight-Nation Allied Forces that had already landed made a sneak attack from the side. Nine hours later, the defenders retreated, and the Dagu forts in Tianjin fell to the hands of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces.
The fort at Dagukou experienced the First Opium War, the Second Opium War, and the Eight-Power Allied Forces War. Although after each previous war, the Qing government added and strengthened the fort, and it had a large fort.
Fifteen and twenty-two small forts form the Dagu Fort Group, forming a relatively complete coastal defense military defense system.
Especially during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, Seng Gelinqin was specially sent to build the five main fort groups of "Wei", "Zhen", "Hai", "Gate" and "Gao", which symbolized the majesty of the Dagu fort to guard Haimen.
During the Westernization Movement, both Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang attached great importance to the defense of Dagukou. They also built three more forts, and purchased advanced defense weapons and equipment such as armored clippers, bumper ships, and mine ships from Europe.
Dagukou in Tianjin became an important military coastal defense fortress to fight against imperialist aggression. However, after the fort was captured, it became the main weapon for the great powers to defend the Far East naval fleet.
After Li Ningyu received such information, he knew that if the Far East went into full-scale war with other countries, he must not send the Yellow Sea Fleet and the Far East Fleet into the firepower of Dagukou. He could only block the fleets of various countries in the Bohai Bay.
, sent the Far East Army to attack Tianjin with great force, and recaptured the Dagu Fort. Then the Far East sea and land artillery jointly attacked the Eight-Power Allied Fleet.
The commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces is German Army General Waldersee. He naturally understands the truth. However, after the Eight-Nation Allied Forces captured Dagukou, they encountered full resistance from the Tianjin military and civilians. It seemed that the entire Tianjin was fighting against the invaders.
, so the 20,000-strong Eight-Nation Alliance Force was obviously not enough, so just after the Far East Diplomatic Note was issued, military command representatives from various countries sat together.
The Japanese representatives seemed to be very active this time, because they offered to send another 50,000 troops to defend Tianjin and protect the forts, but they were jointly rejected by the British and French. Apparently, Japan's thoughts were seen through by them. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, Japan
Not only was the combined fleet destroyed, but territory was also ceded to pay compensation, so the Japanese people were in dire straits over the years. However, after finally quitting Baifen, he blindly continued to choose a militaristic policy, which led to Japan's 5-year crisis.
A new combined navy fleet and a large number of new land forces were established, but the policy of being heavily in debt and gradually expanding the army made the Japanese people who were already suffering from the economic crisis even more miserable.
Since Japan's idea has been rejected and Tsarist Russia has withdrawn from the coalition, only Britain, Germany and France can recruit a large army in a short period of time. Therefore, in the subsequent negotiations, the three countries each sent 30,000 troops.
Army, enter Tianjin defense.
Later, Germany and France recruited 60,000 army troops in Vietnam and Myanmar colonies. They took freighters and were directly covered by the Eastern Fleets of the two countries, preparing to arrive in Tianjin. However, just when Germany and France recruited a large number of troops, the Far East had already collected
After receiving the news, they naturally came up with several ideas to deal with it.
At the call of the British mother, Australia urgently formed a naval force to prepare to participate in the Northern Expedition to the Qing Dynasty. On this issue, Australian politicians reached a consensus that the real threat from the Qing Dynasty was not the Qing Dynasty.
Instead of the Qing Dynasty itself, the great powers will turn against each other in the process of carving up the Qing Dynasty. By that time, Australia will suffer an unprecedented crisis. Therefore, they must prepare for a rainy day!
Australia has a total of six British colonies. At the request of the British mother, they quickly established a 60,000-strong naval force. As the leader among the great powers, Britain also faced a dilemma at this time. The situation in the Far East was so tense.
In order to safeguard Britain's interests and its own authority in China, it was natural that it had to send troops.
However, Britain, which is known as the Empire on which the sun never sets, has no troops to mobilize at this time. The main force of the British army is contained in South Africa. Australia is one of the most mature colonies of the United Kingdom. The Indian army has been mobilized by the British government to the world.
It was used in various places to fill the military defense void left after the main force of the British army left for South Africa.
At this time of the emergency in East Asia, Britain could only turn its attention to other colonies. Australia, as the only white-skinned country in the Asia-Pacific region, the British soldiers immediately sent troops to join the war when called by the motherland, but the Far East would not know all this.
Will Li Ningyu not remember?
After the military meeting of the great powers was just confirmed, Li Ningyu actually already knew that Li Ningyu didn't have to think about the ambitions of Japan, because this time, Li Ningyu decided to completely solve this future trouble in Asia, and at the same time, he also wanted to give other countries
A memory that will last forever.
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