The Battle of Hualou Peak was the first battle of the Qingdao Battle. Although this battle was not long and less than an hour later, it was the first time since the People's Army formed a military force that fought head-on with the enemy on the battlefield and achieved the final victory. Its significance is far beyond this battle, and it also shows that the People's Army has basically prepared the ability to fight independently.

However, after the war, a total of 74 German soldiers were killed and 21 captured. The People's Army also killed 56 soldiers and injured 23. Among them, 14 were seriously injured and needed to be sent back to Weihaiwei for treatment. The war loss ratio between the two sides reached 1:0.7. The People's Army participated in the war with almost three times that of the German army, and it also had drone reconnaissance assistance. In addition, it also achieved the advantage of double-teaming and encirclement in tactical terms, but it still achieved only such results, which shows that the People's Army is still quite different from the world-class army of this era.

Of course, the People's Army has only been in more than two months since it was formed, and there have not been many battles in between. Therefore, from this perspective, this is also a normal result. In any case, the People's Army will eventually be the winner of this battle, which is the most important thing. As a growing army, it not only needs to experience on the real battlefield and fight against other strong armies, but also requires continuous victory to quickly grow into a powerful army.

At this time, Luo Yue also led the battalion to the battlefield and ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up immediately, collected spoils, buried the enemy's corpses, and at the same time contained the bodies of prisoners and his own soldiers, and rescued the wounded and evacuated the battlefield as soon as possible.

It was not because of the fear that the German army would come back, but because of this battle, the first battalion had stopped in the Laoshan area for a day, and the large troops behind had already caught up. Therefore, Luo Yue had to rush to join the main troops as soon as possible and continue the battle behind. Of course, now that he had entered the periphery of Qingdao area, the army should indeed cooperate in combat.

At this moment, a few people pretending to be civilians of this era also came to the battlefield from the back mountain. Although they stood on the edge of the battlefield, they watched the soldiers busy cleaning the battlefield, their faces showed a look of surprise.

It turned out that these people were the guides who led the People's Army to launch an attack behind the demarcation army. There were four people in total, namely Jiang Haidong, Yang Jie, Zhang Shuo, and Liu Zonghai. Among them, Jiang Haidong, Yang Jie and Zhang Shuo were all members of the Boxer Rebellion, and they were all old subordinates of Zhu Hongdeng, one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion. Among them, Jiang Haidong was also a disciple of Zhu Hongdeng, and Liu Zonghai was a local hunter in Laoshan and was Jiang Haidong's cousin.

The warriors traveled through the times to replenish fruits in history, and they also knew the causes and consequences of the Boxer Rebellion. They knew that Zhu Hongdeng was an important leader of the Boxer Rebellion and one of the founders of the Boxer Rebellion. In fact, the Boxer Rebellion was a very loose organization and did not have strict regulations and systems. Its members included poor peasants, handicraftsmen, urban poor, small vendors and transport workers, as well as some officials, rich gentry and even princes and nobles. In the later period, many rogues and rogues were mixed with. Historical records said that "from princes, nobles, ministers, and ministers to prostitutes and superiors, almost everyone was not in a group." It was this loose and disorderly organizational structure that also destined that the Boxer Rebellion could not achieve great things.

There are different opinions about the origin of the Boxer Rebellion, including the Boxer Association, the Township Group, the White Lotus Sect, the Little Knife Society, and even the Axe Gang, but it is generally believed that it should be mainly in the form of the Boxer Association. Therefore, this also destined that the Boxer Rebellion could not have a single founder or founder group. However, the Boxer Rebellion was originally initiated in Shandong, and there was basically no objection to this. The main leaders of the Shandong Boxer Rebellion were Yan Shuqin, Zhao Sanduo, Zhu Hongdeng, Wang Liyan, Benming Monk, etc. Among them, Zhu Hongdeng was the most popular.

Zhu Hongdeng, whose original name was Zhu Fengming, was from Zhegou Town, Sishui County, Shandong Province. He practiced medicine. In May 1898, he set up a field in Dalizhuang, Changqing County (now Changqing District, Jinan City) to practice boxing and recruit believers. However, the name of the organization at that time was still Yihequan. In June, he led the boxers to attack the largest Xujialou Church and Hedong Turtle Church in Changqing County. Now he has gained great reputation.

In February 1899, Zhu Hongdeng led some of the boxers to move to Chiping County, leading the boxers to burn churches in Liangzhuang, Wangxiangzhuang, Mashawo, Balizhuang, Yeguantun, Yaojiazhuang and other places, and contacted each other with other Shandong Yihe Boxing leaders, monks Benming, Xu Fuhe, Wang Liyan, Liu Taiqing, Yu Qingshui and others, and supported each other. In October, Jiang Kai, the magistrate of Pingyuan County, suppressed the local Yihe Boxing group, and Li Changshui, the leader of Yihe Boxing in Pingyuan County, rescued Zhu Hongdeng. Zhu Hongdeng, Zhao Renping, Gaotang, Enxian, Changqing and other local Yihe Boxing people came to help and defeated Jiang Kai's army.

Then, the governor of Jinan, Lu Changyi, led the Qing army led by the governor Yuan Shidun and Jiang Kai, came. The two sides fought in Senluo Hall, but Zhu Hongdeng was defeated and retreated to Chiping County. Zhu Hongdeng also became famous for these two battles and became the most famous person among the leaders of the Boxer Regiment in Shandong.

Yu Xian, the governor of Shandong at that time, hated foreign countries, agreed with the people's anti-foreign religion, and actively supported the development of the Boxer Rebellion. It can be said that the development and growth of the Boxer Rebellion was inseparable from Yu Xian's support and promotion. There is a saying that Yu Xian changed the Yihe boxing to the Boxer Rebellion. It was with Yu Xian's open and secret support that Zhu Honglan made such a big noise, even confronting the official army.

In November, Zhu Hongdeng and Monk Benming met at Huayan Temple in Boping and decided to split their troops into four groups, make a big fuss to make a fuss, influence neighboring counties, and destroy foreign countries. However, this time, the Qing army was prepared. Shandong guerrilla general Ma Jinxu led his army to attack, captured Zhu Hongdeng, Monk Xincheng, Yu Qingshui and others, and sent them to Jinan.

At this time, under the interference of the great powers, the Qing court dismissed Yuxian as the governor of Shandong and ordered Yuxian to go to Beijing and become governor of Shanxi, and appointed Yuan Shikai to replace Yuxian as the governor of Shandong. As a result, as soon as Yuan Shikai took office, he ordered the killing of Zhu Hongdeng, Monk Xincheng, and Yu Qingshui. He also severely suppressed the Boxer Rebellion. By May 1900, the Boxer Rebellion in Shandong was basically cleaned up by Yuan Shikai, and the remaining troops were transferred to Hebei for development. Later, there was basically no contact with the Boxer Rebellion in Shandong. Later, Cao Futian, Zhang Decheng and others, who led the Boxer Rebellion in Tianjin, had no information to prove what their relationship with Zhu Hongdeng and others.

However, overall, although the Boxer Rebellion originated in Shandong, compared with its later momentum, the Boxer Rebellion had not had a great influence in Shandong. Just like Zhuhongdeng, although it was a rumor in Shandong, the number of people was actually only 2,000 or 3,000 people were the most. Therefore, it was not difficult if the Qing court really wanted to suppress the Boxer Rebellion. Later, after Yuan Shikai replaced Yuxian as the governor of Shandong, it took only a few months before there was basically no Boxer Rebellion in Shandong.

This also shows that the Boxer Rebellion's ability is actually very limited. Bi Jing is just a loose group, without a clear guiding ideology or a strong leadership organization, so it is impossible to have any combat effectiveness. The reason why the Boxer Rebellion can grow and grow is extremely complex reasons and political struggles.

Of course, another important reason for the disappearance of the Boxer Rebellion in Shandong was that in April 1900, there was a major decline in the entire Shandong area, greatly alleviating the drought in Shandong since 1899.

During the two years of 1898 and 1899, droughts occurred successively in Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and other places. In Chinese history, natural disasters were often an important inducement of peasant uprisings, and peasant uprisings were often started by boxing clubs and militias. Most of the peasants participated in the Boxer Rebellion, in fact, just to have a full meal, because the Boxer Rebellion not only destroyed churches, but also grabbed large households, and of course they also grabbed enough food.

After the rain in Shandong in April 1900, hungry Russian farmers saw hope of survival because they could finally sow seeds in the land after the rain, and crops could grow, of course, much better than being a boxer. However, the rain clouds in Shandong did not float to Hebei, so the Boxer Rebellion quickly grew and grew. Therefore, the rise of the Boxer Rebellion was not accidental. However, if we follow the circular laws of Chinese history, the direction of the Boxer Rebellion should be a large-scale peasant uprising, which would either trigger a change of dynasty or be suppressed by the rulers. However, due to the complex contradictions between China and abroad in this era, the development of the Boxer Rebellion deviated from the track of history and caused the current outcome.

Jiang Haidong, Yang Jie and Zhang Shuo were fellow villagers. They were all ordinary farmers. Because of the severe drought in Shandong, their families were completely out of food and their relatives were starved to death, so they all joined Yihequan one after another. Of course, the three of them had no good feelings for foreigners and foreign churches, so they followed Zhu Honglan to destroy the church, rob the big households, and even fought against the government. Since the three of them joined Yihequan earlier, Jiang Haidong was even accepted as a brother by Zhu Honglan, and he was also considered a middle-level member of Yihequan. Therefore, while destroying the church and robbing the big households, they not only could eat enough, but also gained a lot of money.

After Zhu Hongdeng's death, Jiang Haidong also proposed to Zhu Hongdeng's brother Ji, and pulled out two or three hundred people to continue fist. However, under Yuan Shikai's strong suppression, the hundreds were quickly dispersed by the Qing army, leaving only a dozen people. The Boxer Regiments in other parts of Shandong were also increasingly difficult. At this time, it was raining in Shandong, and everyone was reluctant to make trouble. So they dispersed the stolen property and went to their hometowns to farm.

However, the three of them were also well-known in the Shandong Boxer Rebellion. Because they were Jiang Haidong or Zhu Hongdeng's brother, the government had issued a wanted order for the three. As a result, the three of them could not survive when they returned to their hometown, so they had to flee into Laoshan and defect to Jiang Haidong's cousin Liu Zonghai. They lived in a small village with only more than 20 families. Fortunately, the Laoshan area was far and wide, so they escaped the wanted orders from the government.

After hiding for more than three or four months, the three of them heard some rumors outside from the people who went to the mountains to buy medicine. They knew that all the Boxers had gone to Hebei and Shanxi. Because the Beijing-Tianjin area was in a big turmoil, they not only fought churches but also fought foreign embassies, but also received recognition from the government. The Queen Mother and Lafayette issued an order to enthrone the Boxers.

After learning about it, the three of them were immediately moved. After all, although they were forced to make a living when they joined the Yihequan, as the boxing gang expanded, attacked churches, robbed big households, resisted the government, drank big bowls of wine, and ate meat, were the most glorious moments in their lives. Therefore, the three of them missed this time very much. Now they heard that the Boxers actually made such a big hall, so they all had the idea of ​​going out to do another battle.
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