As an 800-year-old imperial capital, Beijing City has its wall defense facilities are very complete. The height and thickness of the city walls are incomparable to other cities. Although it has experienced many invasion wars during the alternation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the majesty of the Beijing city walls and towers has remained unchanged since the time of the past. On the contrary, the construction of the Qing court over 200 years is even better than before.

Beijing has four city walls, divided into palace city, imperial city, inner city and outer city. The entire outline looks like a "convex" from the air. The raised parts are palace city, imperial city and inner city, and the big head is the outer city. From palace city, imperial city, inner city to outer city, each city has a city gate. The palace city has 4 city gates, the imperial city has 4 city gates, the imperial city has 9 city gates, the inner city has 9 city gates (as the saying goes, the nine gates governed by the nine gates), and the outer city has 7 city gates.

Palace City: Meridian Gate, Shenwu Gate, Xihua Gate, Donghua Gate. Inside 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 wall that protects the palace city, built around the Forbidden City, with four city gates: **, Di'an Gate, Dong'an Gate, and Xi'an Gate. ** is the main gate of the imperial city.

Inner City: The inner city is a city built around the imperial city, with 9 city gates, namely the south: Zhengyang Gate, Chongwen Gate, and Xuanwu Gate; the east: Chaoyang Gate, Dongzhi Gate; the west: Fucheng Gate, Xizhi Gate; the north: Anding Gate, Desheng Gate.

It is said that the nine city gates have different uses. Zhengyang Gate is the gate for the emperor to travel. The emperor goes to the Temple of Heaven every year to worship. Now the people call Zhengyang Gate the front gate. Chongwen Gate is the gate for wine carts, and generally wine carts entering Beijing from other places go through this gate. Xuanwu Gate is the gate for prison carts. Generally, death row prisoners are taken from here to Caishikou for execution. Chaoyang Gate is the grain truck, and a large amount of grain from the south to Tongzhou. After loading the truck, they enter the city from Chaoyang Gate. Dongzhi Gate is the gate for ordinary people to walk through department stores. At this time, there is a place outside Dongzhi Gate.

A very prosperous market outside the city. Fuchengmen is the gate of the coal truck. The coal burned in the city is transported from Mentougou to this gate to enter the city. Xizhimen is the gate of the water truck. The royal nobles living in the Forbidden City do not drink the water in the city. The living water they drink is pulled into the city by the water truck from the west to Yuquan Mountain. Deshengmen is the gate of the army, which means "victory travel". Andingmen is the gate of the army. It is also the gate of the city where the manure trucks in the city pull out of the city. The nine-gate admiral is the highest official in charge of the nine city gates of the inner city. In the Qing Dynasty, he was a first-rank official.

Outer City: The outer city is the residence of the people other than the royal nobles in the south of the inner city. There are 7 city gates, namely Yongding Gate, Zuo'an Gate, You'an Gate, Guang'an Gate, Guangqu Gate, West Gate, and East Gate.

Song Feng's guard cavalry regiment reached outside Andingmen, but unfortunately, there was no Qing army station on the periphery of this 800-year-old imperial capital. All the Qing army in the capital that was supposed to be guarding the capital around the capital shrank to the Three Mountains and Five Gardens.

On the night when Song Feng reached outside Andingmen, a secret spy from Bai Zetang came to report the news from the third outer camp outside Beijing. There were two people coming, all of whom were in Qing army uniforms. However, it was a secret spy arranged by Bai Zetang in Jianrui Camp in Beijing.

The information sent by the visitor was very useful. The Qing army forces and deployments in the capital were introduced in detail. The Guardian Camp, Jianrui Camp and Fanzi Camp were the outer three battalions. They originally had camps and their respective camps and dangerous places outside the capital. However, since the martial law in the capital, Prince Gong of the Qing court ordered the troops of the outer three battalions to shrink. Except for the guardian Camp and Jianrui Camp, Fanzi Camp and other troops, the remaining soldiers and horses, were stationed in the Sanshan and Wuyuan outside the capital.

The remaining troops mobilized from various places were all stationed in the capital city. A total of the following forces were gathered in the city: the Eight Banners Front Army, 12 battalions of the Capital Guards, 15 battalions of Shenji Battalions, 25 battalions of Shaanxi and Gansu reinforcements, 20 battalions of the Qing army shrinking near the capital capital, with a total of 80,000 regular troops, 785 artillery gates, plus the Qing army stationed in the outer three mountains and five gardens, including the Old Summer Palace and other Qing troops. A total of nearly 120,000 Qing troops gathered in the capital city. Of course, this is not the case with the 50,000 Qing troops in the Senggelinqin army fighting in Baliqiao, Tongzhou and the British and French coalition forces.

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 handsome." After saying that, the guards and cavalry generals laughed and turned their faces, saying, "But since we have arrived here, wait for our enemies to come to our door. All parts will spread out and attack everywhere, use a small group of cavalry forces to restrain and entangle the Qing army, and find out the virtual and realities of the Qing army. If any enemy attacks, we will resolutely strike!"

The next morning, the Qing army seemed to have discovered that the Taiping Army had arrived, a cavalry unit with more than 1,000 people had arrived. The Qing army of the outer third battalion sent a cavalry of more than 3,000 people to conduct a test, and the two sides fought an encounter in Longdao Village, north of the city.

In Longdao Village on the Qinghe River, under the morning sunshine, the Qing army swarmed like a rolling tide. They wore gray heads, gray robes, blue breeches, black horse boots, carriage rifles on their shoulders, a pair of bows and arrows on their saddles, and a saber on their waists, and rushed straight towards them with murderous intent. Opposite was a scout cavalry team of more than 100 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 after the cavalry had exposed themselves early.

Seeing the Taiping Cavalry Reconnaissance Team, the Qing cavalry vanguard whistled, and a cavalry team of more than 500 people came out, whistling loudly, and rushed towards the team.

The more than a hundred cavalry of the Taiping Guards cavalry were not polite, and immediately divided into fan shapes to meet them. Across a few hundred steps, the Taiping Cavalry opened the bolts and the beaded guns in their hands began to shoot. It has to be said that the accuracy of Guards cavalry's gun technique was as accurate as a hundred steps away. More than 60 Qing cavalry were shot and dropped, which was inseparable from the training ammunition piled up in the Guards cavalry training camp. If you want to become a cavalry of the Guards cavalry, you must first be an accurate infantry shooter, and then you will have to learn shooting skills on the horseback. The cavalry of the Guards cavalry often stayed on the horseback for a whole day, and even had to eat and sleep on the horseback in the training subjects. Strict training has created the elite of Guards cavalry, but the cost is also huge. Training a guard cavalry costs the cost of training five field divisions.

As soon as the gunshots sounded, some Qing cavalry were caught off the horse, and their equestrians were also top-notch. More than hundreds of Qing cavalry were whistling, bent their bodies and hid on the side of the saddle, but the speed of galloping did not decrease at all, and they rushed towards them. They were Qing reinforcements transferred to the capital in Heilongjiang, Jilin and other places. At least in terms of cavalry, they maintained the fierceness of the Eight Banners soldiers back then.

The guards were not in a hurry to rush forward to fight, but turned their horses and ran eastward, turning back and firing a shot from time to time. Although the Qing cavalry hid on the side of the saddle, the huge horses were still very good to move the target. The Qing cavalry and horses were constantly hit. After the war horses fell, the cavalry on the horse also fell off the horse.

When the Qing cavalry saw the guard cavalry team heading east, they did not dare to chase after him. They rode their horses back to their team. Unexpectedly, the cavalrymen came back in circles and fired guns from afar, but did not get close. Relying on the long range of their muskets, they kept harassing the Qing cavalry unit with more than 3,000 people.

When the commander of the Qing cavalry saw this scene, he couldn't help but be furious and ordered more than a thousand Qing cavalry to split into a huge fan shape and chase after him. Judging from the situation, no matter how much the price it cost, he would tear the more than a hundred Taiping cavalry to pieces.

This Qing cavalry is different from the Eight Banners soldiers inside the pass. They are always armored people stationed outside the pass. They still maintain superb cavalry skills in the harsh environment outside the pass. They cooperate with tacit understanding and quickly encircle the two wings.

The commander of the more than 100 guard cavalrymen was a company commander, named Zhang Xin. After seeing this, he shouted to the soldiers under his command: "Damn, this group of Qing cavalry is really not a big deal, but if you want to encircle us, it depends on who is faster!"

After saying that, more than a hundred guard cavalry roared and attacked the left wing, and the continuous beaded spears were released. Soon, the Qing cavalry on the left wing scattered in the form of the storm formation. The Qing army's cavalry could only release one cavalry, and it was difficult to load the front on the galloping horse's back, unless you stopped, but once there was a pause, it was the best target to shoot.

After seeing the formation of the Qing army on the left wing, Zhang Xin whistled, and the guards put away their guns, took out their revolver and sabre, held their guns in their right hand and their left hand, and continued to rush towards the left wing with their sabres.

Soon more than a hundred guard cavalry approached the Qing cavalry, and the revolver fired at close range on the horse's back. Six bullets per person made the Qing army even more chaotic. Finally, the guard cavalry raised their sabers and rushed into the enemy formation. Blood mist soared into the sky, the neighing of the war horses, screams of the cavalry, and shouts of killing. On a mottled bloody road, more than two hundred Qing cavalry on the left wing collapsed instantly.

After defeating the left wing, the guards cavalry made a perfect arc and detoured the middle route. More than 400 Qing cavalry in the middle route were both broken and almost collapsed under the first three rounds of continuous bead gun shooting. The guards cavalry had already replaced the bullet barrel of the continuous bead gun gun on the way back to the middle route. The long-distance shooting caused heavy casualties and injuries to the Qing cavalry in the middle route. Finally, the guards cavalry made a concerted effort and attacked the panicked Qing cavalry on the right wing, and soon ended the battle.

Within half an hour, the 1,000 cavalry divided by the three thousand Qing cavalry were defeated by more than a hundred guards and fled back less than four hundred cavalry. The Qing army commander was stunned for a while, until the guards came up and opened fire with a continuous gun. The Qing army flag bearer was shot down and the Qing army commander woke up and ordered a loud order to retreat immediately.

Then the Qing army retreated to its own camp and never dared to come out to fight again. The other Qing army suffered from exhaustion. The cavalry could not defeat others, and the infantry did not dare to fight and could not catch up with them at all. Song Feng's guard cavalry regiment was also very cunning and would never attack the heavily guarded camp or the Beijing city wall. So, except for the area close to the city wall and the Sanshan and Wuyuan camp, the rest of the places under the city wall became the control territory of the Taiping Army. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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