There are only 500 foreigners defending the people's lane in the eastern suburbs. Why can't the Boxer Rebellion100000 be fought?

Speaking of the boxer era, there are indeed too many bizarre things.

For example, the Qing army and Eight-Nation Alliance have been in full swing in Beijing and Tianjin, but the embassy district, which is isolated from the capital and has less than 500 foreign soldiers, has been repeatedly attacked. This is really weird.

Tell a joke first. Words around the empress dowager cixi red man, Wu Weijun and Rong Lu received orders to attack the embassy district, he is also very worried, it is not easy to know.

Why, don't say that Empress Dowager Cixi may have lost her mind for a while, or she may have been dominated by Wang Zaiyi and others. If the embassy is razed to the ground and all the envoys are destroyed, it will destroy the whole family if we investigate afterwards!

So, Rong Lu deliberately let GanJun of Dong Fuxiang, the worst in strength, play. Why? Because there are only some home-made cannons in the east, and they can't be shot down!

Soon, Duan Wang also saw the doorway, so under the guise of the imperial edict of the queen mother, he transferred Wu Wei and the new school Zhang to separate? Fireworks? Come and help.

Zhang Fenton also made a whisper. One thousand this fireworks rang, the situation is out of control, he immediately ran to the boss Rong Lu, insisted that honor the next order as evidence.

Rong Lu is an old fox. He refused to leave written evidence, and it was difficult to make it clear, so he had to hesitate to make it public. As soon as the gun goes off, you can hear it in the palace! ?

Just like that, the guns in the embassy area rumbled, and the result was all empty guns. How can they be defeated?

To tell the truth, if we had to capture the embassy district at that time, let alone one, even ten would not do.

According to statistics, there were less than 500 troops in the embassy district at that time. According to Italian Minister Savago, the first batch of embassy guards was 337. German and Austrian guards arrived on June 2nd, including 52 German guards and 37 Austrian guards.

To sum up, the strength of the embassy guards in Gengzi Year should be around 450.

In addition, 30 French sailors and 1 1 Italian sailors were sent to protect the church (North Hall) of the IV Library, so the actual strength of the embassy area is only about 400.

With so few troops and no artillery, it is not easy to win. !

Then someone wants to ask, why not take it?

In fact, the joke in front is not entirely a joke, because the so-called Qing army besieged the embassy area, but the Qing army separated the embassy area from the Boxer, preventing the Boxer from attacking the embassy and killing all foreigners!

Of course, because of the complexity of the situation in the year of Gengzi, Empress Dowager Cixi did order the Qing army to attack for a few days, but its purpose was not to kill all foreigners, but to vent their anger and express it a little.

In fact, the fact is very simple. Empress Dowager Cixi could not fail to consider the particularity of embassy staff. If the embassy district is really razed to the ground, the situation will really get out of hand.

As a result, I only pretended to attack and secretly sent materials to the embassy district. Otherwise, don't say attack, even if you are hungry, those people in the embassy district will starve to death!

As for the missionaries and parishioners of Xishiku Church (Beitang), they are not so lucky.

Due to the lack of effective protection of the Qing army, although Beitang in Gengzi was not captured by the Boxer Rebellion, it also suffered heavy losses, including hundreds of French and Italian soldiers.