The Tanggu Fort, which was across the river from the Dagu Fort, has turned into a ruin. The guard general Long Ruyuan was blown away by the flowering artillery shells of the British and French forces, and most of the more than a thousand defenders died. The rest were either captured or surrendered, and only a few people escaped back to the Dagu Fort by chance.

The Dagu Fortress could not last long. Although the fortress itself had been reinforced many times and was almost like a permanent fortification, in the fierce battle for many days, under the powerful artillery fire of the British and French Joint Fleet, the Dagukou Fortress was also bombarded with holes and scars. Most of the large and small artillery on the fortress also lost, and it could no longer effectively suppress the fleet and storm-formation of the British and French Allied Forces.

Even so, the British and French coalition forces showed no sign of stopping their attack. The British and French coalition fleet composed of 105 steam paddle ships drove to the sea surface of Dagukou again. The 18,000 British and French infantry, including more than 2,000 Chinese mercenaries, also came from the direction of Gegu, where the main force of the Qing army was once stationed. The Dagukou Fortress, which had only more than 2,000 defenders, had a double-teamed front and back. The Scottish bagpipes and French drum beats complement each other, predicting that the cruel war will begin again.

Amid the military singing between Britain and France, a Qing soldier who had previously surrendered came to the Dagukou Fort with a white flag and submitted a letter of persuasion to the Dagukou General Shi Rongchun, and openly shouted: "Shi Junmen, the court has abandoned us. The monk has already run away with the Eight Banners army. What else do you insist on? Surrender, for the brothers of the fort, surrender!"

"Bang!"

The answer to persuade the traitor to surrender was a bullet fired by Shi Rongchun himself. The original mesh gun had extremely poor accuracy and only hit the land under the traitor's feet. The traitor screamed and turned around and ran away. Shi Rongchun, who had a bandage on his forehead, put down the musket with expressionless face and shouted to the left and right: "Brothers! The fort is here, we are here! The fort is dead, we are dead! The court will never ignore us, and the emperor will never ignore us!"

The soldiers of the fortress, whose clothes were mostly darkened by artillery fire, nodded one after another. Even though most of them were actually panicked and timid, some Qing soldiers still had firm expressions and firm will. There was also a ginseng general whose ears were cut off by shrapnel and shouted: "Fight with the foreign devils! Let the foreign devils know that our Qing Dynasty is not so easy to bully!"

"Fight with the foreign devils! Fight!"

Unfortunately, the times have changed. No matter how high the fighting spirit and high morale are, they are no longer the key factor in determining the outcome in the battlefield of this era. When more than a hundred British and French warships fired artillery and launched bombardment, the Dagukou Fort was soon shrouded in a huge smoke of artillery fire. The Qing army soldiers with blood-red eyes were desperately firing against the smoke, but because of their backwardness in technology and equipment, it was still difficult to accurately hit the enemy's warships. The British and French fleets, which had more than five times the number of ships than the last Dagukou Battle, rumbling on the Dagukou Fort, constantly hitting solid artillery shells and flowering artillery shells onto the Dagukou Fort. The Qing army soldiers also kept roaring and falling down in the artillery fire, staining the fort.

In this era, the top two British and French troops ranked in the world were equally brave. Before the bombardment of naval guns was over, the soldiers of Britain and France were already lined up in densely straits and drumming and whistling the volleys to attack the fort. The Qing soldiers fired desperately, but they could not stop the two world-powered armies even after a half-step. It was not until the British and French coalition approached the fortress that the Qing soldiers barely blocked the progress of the British and French coalition forces with their own troops with their superior advantages, forcing the soldiers of Britain and France to fire fire in a musket.

The firefight against muskets was still the Qing army was hit by the fire. Although the British army's m1842 rifle was not as fast as the striker gun equipped by the Prussian army, it easily shook eight streets of the match-rope gun equipped by the Qing soldiers; although the fire rate of the Minni gun equipped by the French army was slower than the m1842, its accuracy was more than ten times that of the match-rope gun. Amid the gunshots that were as dense as a blow, they fell one after another, and were still the Qing soldiers on the Dagukou Fort. The previous general who shouted that he had fought with the foreign devils was quickly shot in the head and fell to the ground and died.

There was even more miserable for the Qing soldiers. The grenade guns in their hands were not only backward in technology, but also lagging behind in terms of technology and quality. After a long period of continuous firing, not only did the barrel explode one after another, but the barrel also boiled and heated to the point where it could not be recharged. Forced Qing soldiers to take off their pants and urinate to cool the barrel like the movie "Opium War"...

"Hold on! Hold on! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight hard for me! Let the foreigners see how powerful we are!"

Zhili Admiral Shi Rongchun always insisted on being on the front line of the land war, constantly shouting and cheering the soldiers, and was shot twice without taking a step back. However, this still could not change the huge gap between the technical equipment of the Qing soldiers and the British and French coalition forces, nor could it change the cruel fact that most Qing soldiers had low combat effectiveness. When the experienced British army seized the opportunity of the Qing army's firepower to slow down, the already exhausted defenders of Dagukou immediately showed signs of defeat.

Only a small number of soldiers came up under the leadership of Shi Rongchun, and had red eyes to fight with the British soldiers in close-range hand-to-hand combat. Most of the Qing soldiers still dared to hide in the distance and shoot. At the same time, even more unfortunately, even though some of the Qing soldiers were ready to fight back, they still could not fight against the tall and strong men and had received strict training in the bayonet battle, and were still at an absolute disadvantage in the close combat with bloody swords.

"Shi Junmen, go quickly! Go quickly!"

The remaining soldiers around him fought with British soldiers, while red eyes urging Shi Rongchun to run quickly. Shi Rongchun ignored him and held a machete full of gaps and only slashed with British soldiers. He was pierced by bayonets twice in a row and refused to escape. He kept shouting, "Brothers, come up! Come up! Come up and fight with foreign devils!"

Only a few Qing soldiers rushed up to help the battle again, but the British soldiers quickly submerged Shi Rongchun and more than 30 others like a tide. French soldiers surrounded the two wings and screamed at the Qing soldiers in the distance. During the fierce battle, the British soldiers also shouted in strange Chinese, "Surrender! Surrender and not kill! Surrender!"

Another bayonet directly pierced Shi Rongchun's chest from behind. Shi Rongchun barely opened another bayonet that was stabbed in front, but more bayonets pierced into his body one after another. Blood gushed out of his chest with bubbles. General Shi Rongchun's eyes, stained with blood, gradually lost their luster, and his tall body slowly fell down and murmured...

"My fellow villagers in Zhili, I tried my best. The main force ran away first. The court did not give me reinforcements, so I failed to defend Dagukou...Bao...Taiwan..."

Saying tribute to General Shi Rongchun and General Long Ruyuan, and to the Qing army soldiers in Dagukou. In the Second Opium War in history, the Second Dagukou Battle was the only victory for the Chinese army with their precious lives. General Shi Rongchun and General Long Ruyuan commanded the battle on the front line and died in the battle one after another. The so-called Qing army commander, Prince Senggelinqin, had always been hiding behind and hiding under the protection of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry.

After the news of the fall of the Dagukou Fortress reached the capital, the wise and powerful Emperor Xianfeng of course had no time to care about how the Dagukou Fortress was lost. How much effort and sacrifice did some Qing soldiers headed by Shi Rongchun and Long Ruyuan put in it? What Emperor Xianfeng cursed was that Shi Rongchun and other Dagukou soldiers were incompetent and failed to defend the Dagukou Fortress to gain time for him to recruit foreigners! After enough scolding, Emperor Xianfeng could only write a letter to the front again, asking the monks to continue to avoid leading the main force of the Qing army to fight with the British and French coalition forces, and also asked Ruilin and Hengfu to negotiate with the British and French coalition forces again.

However, the suffixes were unbearable, and they could not bear the stupidity and perfunctory of the Qing court, and hoped to get more robberies from the Qing court. The British and French alliedly rejected the Qing court's request for a ceasefire, and immediately launched an attack on Tianjin. Although the monk wanted to fight with the British and French allied forces, he was forced to be strict in the master's order. The monk, who was loyal to Emperor Xianfeng, could only make great strides in the cheers of the Eight Banners soldiers, and directly moved from Tianjin to Tongzhou at the foot of the capital. The Qing soldiers in Tianjin also fled one after another. The British and French allied forces easily captured Tianjin, plundering a large amount of food and grass, and completely solved the worries of food shortage.

As a result, it was at this time that the British and French forces barely sat down and started another negotiation with Ruilin and Hengfu. However, the British and French forces were not sure of making any concessions, but also increased their efforts to increase compensation, open a large number of ports, and asked for the British and French troops to protect the envoys of the two countries to go to Beijing to sign a treaty with the Qing court.

Emperor Xianfeng was stupid and let the British and French troops enter Beijing. After flatly rejecting the latest request of the British and French coalition forces, the incompetent Ruilin and Hengfu were dismissed on the spot. The British and French coalition forces were merciless and immediately continued northward and rushed directly to Beijing.

There was really no choice but to have no choice but to instruct the monks to prepare for the battle, while sending Zaiyuan and Mu Yin to serve as chief and deputy chief envoys, and also asked them to serve as plenipotent representatives as required by foreigners, and made their last effort to demand negotiations with the British and French coalition forces.

It was okay for Emperor Xianfeng. After learning that Zaiyuan and Mu Yin were granted full power, the British and French coalition forces gave him the last chance to agree to negotiate again. They also sent British Consul in Guangzhou Bashali and French Minister Boulbron as representatives to rush to Tongzhou first, Zhangjiawan and Zaiyuan and Mu Yin to start formal negotiations.

Unfortunately, the negotiations were still unsuccessful. Although Zaiyuan and Mu Yin had made huge concessions in compensation and opening the port, due to Emperor Xianfeng's prior request, Zaiyuan and Mu Yin still did not dare to allow foreign ministers to stay in the capital, as well as open Tianjin and allow foreign military protection ministers to enter Beijing to sign a contract. The only concession made by Bashali and Bourbron was that the British and French coalition forces did not enter Beijing, and they only brought a few guards to Beijing to meet with Emperor Xianfeng to sign a contract.

After arguing, Zaiyuan finally gritted his teeth and agreed to let Bashali and Bulbron sign a contract in Beijing, but put forward a new condition and said: "You can come to Beijing to meet the saint, but when you see my emperor, you must kneel down and bow, and you must also perform the great ceremony of kneeling three kneeling and nine kowtows."

"No!" Bashali and Bulbron refused together, saying: "We are not officials and people of the Qing Dynasty. We cannot perform such etiquette. At most, we can only kiss our hands."

"But you are on the land of the Qing Dynasty, so you must follow the rules of the Qing Dynasty." Zaiyuan insisted, "If you don't kneel down to our emperor, then I can't agree to you to enter Beijing."

Bashali and Bulflon still refused, and were very angry and again proposed to lead a thousand troops into Beijing to protect their personal safety. Zaiyuan had no choice but to send a fast horse back to Beijing and report the matter to Emperor Xianfeng and ask Emperor Xianfeng to decide.

Unfortunately, when Zaiyuan's report was delivered to Emperor Xianfeng, he happened to be in trouble with Emperor Xianfeng's addiction to smoking and was in great pain. He heard that foreigners not only refused to kneel down to him but also insisted on leading troops into Beijing, but also opened up Tianjin and the envoys to Beijing, and other matters such as opening up Tianjin and the government stationed in Beijing were absolutely unacceptable. Emperor Xianfeng was furious and issued the imperial edict that had been recorded in history...

"Catch it! Ask Senggelinqin to arrest all the foreign devils! Take it to the capital to ask for punishment! Let's not talk about it, fight against the foreign devils! I don't believe it. My Manchu and Mongolian Iron Cavalry can't beat such a few foreign devils?!"

If this imperial edict was given to others, then others might have considered the importance. After all, in ancient China, there was also a habit of fighting between two countries and not killing the envoys. But Emperor Xianfeng really found the right person this time. The monk prince, who had long been angry with foreigners, did not stand the arrogant and domineering foreigners, and never took the foreign army seriously. After receiving the imperial edict, he did not consider the importance. He immediately sent an army to arrest Bulbron, Baxiali and others, and drove them into a prison car to the capital to question!

"You violate international public law! You violate international public law! Sangha, if you do this, you violate international public law. You will pay a price! You will pay a heavy price!"

Of course, the roaring monk Prince Bulblon, who had been locked in a prison car, could understand the roaring monk in Chinese, but the monk Prince did not understand the meaning at all. He just hummed: "What is international public law? I don't understand what you foreigners do! If there is any foreign law to ask Wu Chaoyue, the little barbarian, I will ignore it."

Thinking of Wu Chaoyue who humiliated himself many times and played with him, the monk prince couldn't help but burst into anger. He whipped his own whip and whipped the face of Bulbron who was still shouting wildly, and cursed: "Foreign devils, tell you to collude with that little barbarian. When I kill your army that has landed on the ashore, I will drive you out of Dagukou. I must ask the emperor to cut the little barbarian off as the people, so as not to be an insider for you!"
Chapter completed!