Just when the battle at Yongding Gate was in intense heat, the first and third battalions also attacked the left and right gates.

The first battalion commanded by Luo Yue was responsible for attacking Zuoanmen, which was one of the city gates guarded by the Japanese army. The defenders had about 800 people. However, when the first battalion attacked Zuoanmen, most of the Japanese army were transferred to support Yongding Gate. The Japanese army stayed at Zuoanmen to guard the troops with only more than 100 troops. Just a few people were very strong even if they were guarding the city tower, let alone defending the city walls on both sides of the city tower.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is because the Eight-Nation Alliance is too small to guard the city walls of Beijing at all, so it is useless to arrange them.

Luo Yuexian ordered the firepower of the battalion to open fire on the city tower of the city tower to suppress the defenders on the city tower, and ordered the base camp to take 8 siege ladders to detour from the left to the city wall about 50 meters away from Zuo'anmen to push the city.

Although Luo Yue did not know that most of the defenders guarding Zuoanmen were transferred to reinforce Yongding Gate, considering that the total strength of the Eight-Nation Alliance was limited, the force guarding Zuoanmen could not exceed 1 ooo, so it should be the limit of the enemy's guard range when we go around 5 ooo meters away from the city tower.

Sure enough, when we arrived at a place about 50 meters away from Zuo'anmen Tower, it was dark and deserted. When we approached the city wall, we set up the siege ladder onto the city wall without any movement.

Although the Eight-Nation Alliance was short of troops, it still laid a lot of sentinels on the city wall and sent patrol teams to patrol on the city wall regularly. However, since a large number of troops were drawn from Zuoanmen to support Yonganmen, all sentinels distributed on the city wall were also revoked, and the frequency of patrol dispatch was reduced, which was also helpless. Moreover, the firepower strengthening company of the first battalion was firing at Zuoanmen, so he had no time to worry about going to other places.

Of course, the first company would not care about these things. If there is any movement, it would be necessary to attack the city. If there is no movement, it would be necessary to attack the city. Therefore, the company commander Ban Xiaowei of the first company immediately ordered to start siege. The three squads of the second platoon of the first company and the second platoon of the attack were climbing up the city walls of Beijing through 8 siege ladders.

Because he had conducted special ladder training at Tongzhou Railway Station, the second platoon soldiers climbed the ladder quickly. In just over ten seconds, the third squad leader Li Zhuangyong was the first to climb the city wall in Beijing. Li Zhuangyong was also quite excited. He was beaten by the Eight-Nation Alliance and fled from Beijing, but now he has finally returned to Beijing.

However, Li Zhuangyong did not forget his mission. After all the soldiers of the squad climbed the city wall, he immediately led the entire squad to guard the city wall and cover the other troops to climb the city wall.

Time was not over. All the soldiers in the company climbed the city walls of Beijing without any obstruction. Moreover, Ban Xiaowei looked around on the city wall with his night vision goggles, at least within the reach of his eyes, he could not see the trace of a guard. The gunshots on the other side of the city tower could still be heard very clearly.

Ban Xiaowei immediately informed Luo Yue of the results of the city climbing through the intercom, and Luo Yue immediately ordered the first company to attack Zuoanmen immediately. At the same time, he ordered the third company to attack, and also led 8 siege ladders to climb the wall from about 20 meters to the right of Zuoanmen.

After receiving Luo Yue's order, Ban Xiaowei immediately ordered to lead all the soldiers of the company to advance from the city wall to Zuoanmen. The troops responsible for the front line were still the second platoon.

The width of the ground on the city wall is about 10 meters, and it is very flat. It doesn't take much time to get close to less than 10 meters from the city tower at Zuo'anmen. Since torches were lit on the city tower, it can be seen very clearly that many guards hid under the battlements and did not dare to look up. However, at this time, the defenders on the city tower focused on the firepower suppression outside the city. No one noticed that the enemy had climbed the city tower and approached their flanks.

Luo Yue knew the progress of the first company as soon as possible, and at the same time, he knew that the third company had already climbed the city wall. Therefore, Luo Yue also ordered the second company, who was guarding the position, to attack Zuoanmen.

The defenders had not understood what was going on, and the enemy's shooting suddenly stopped. But at this moment, a burst of gunfire came from the left. More than 10 Japanese soldiers were urged to defend themselves and fell to the ground. The other Japanese soldiers were immediately in chaos and quickly turned their guns to fight the sudden enemy.

However, after a row of shooting, the soldiers of the first company had already installed bayonets and charged towards the city tower. The Japanese troops guarding the city also had bayonets, and both sides were ready to start a hand-to-hand battle.

Li Zhuangyong held a rifle and rushed to the front along the steps. When he was still two or three steps away from climbing the city tower, he was intercepted by a Japanese soldier. The other party held a gun in both hands and stabbed towards Li Zhuangyong. Li Zhuangyong's figure shortened and dodged the bayonet, and the bayonet in his hand also rushed to the feet of the Japanese soldier.

The Japanese soldier also reacted quickly. He immediately raised his legs and avoided Li Zhuangyong's stab. He immediately changed his move to Li Zhuangyong, holding a gun in one hand and swept it horizontally. The Japanese soldier could no longer avoid it. The bayonet cut a wound of more than 10 centimeters on the knee of his thighs. Blood suddenly gushed out, and the whole person was in pain and retreated backwards. Li Zhuangyong took advantage of the opportunity to step forward and climbed the city tower of Zuo'anmen.

At this time, two Japanese soldiers caught up, and two bayonets shot towards Li Zhuang bravely. Li Zhuang bravely roared, pulled the rifle in his hand left and right, blocking the two Japanese soldiers' stabbing. At the same time, two soldiers climbed the city tower from Li Zhuangyong's left and right, each raising the bayonet rifles and stabbed the two Japanese soldiers.

Both Japanese soldiers were caught off guard, one of them was rushed to dodge back, while the other Japanese soldiers could not dodge, were stabbed, screamed, and fell to the ground and died.

Li Zhuangyong took advantage of the situation and waved his prickly force and made several steps forward. Behind him, more and more People's Army soldiers climbed the city walls and launched hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese soldiers.

Although the Japanese army's bayonet skills were very powerful, the first is that the Japanese army was at a clear disadvantage in terms of number of people; second, they were now caught off guard by the People's Army, and third, after the baptism of the previous battle, coupled with the hard practices over the past three days, the bayonet skills of the first battalion soldiers have made obvious progress. Therefore, after the two sides launched hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army actually suffered a clear defeat and was forced to retreat continuously by the People's Army.

At this moment, the Third Company also came from the right side of the city tower, and was attacked on both sides, and the Japanese army could not resist it. Moreover, they were blocked at both ends and had no place to escape. At the same time, the People's Army also divided a portion of the soldiers down under the city wall, opened the city gate, and let the first company rush to the front of the city gate into the city. In this way, the battalion successfully broke through Zuo'anmen.

However, the battle on the city wall was not over. Although the Japanese army had no chance of victory and had no way to retreat, the Japanese army's habitual nature of not surrendering also determined that the Japanese army would continue to apologize. In fact, even if the Japanese soldiers surrendered, the People's Army would not accept it, because the People's Army did not have the energy to contain prisoners, so the two sides fought on the city wall for a while until all the Japanese soldiers died in battle, and the battle at Zuo'anmen was over.

Luo Yue led the battalion headquarters into Beijing from the city gate, while counting his casualties; while reporting to the regiment headquarters the news of his successful occupation of Zuoanmen.

According to the original plan, after the first battalion broke through Zuoanmen, it should immediately rush to reinforce Yongding Gate, but the regiment headquarters quickly responded to the first battalion, asking them not to reinforce Yongding Gate, and only one platoon of troops were left to guard Zuoanmen, and then immediately seize Zhengyang Gate and attack in depth the inner city of Beijing to reinforce the special forces in the palace.

It turned out that at this time, at You'anmen, the Third Battalion of the First Regiment had basically controlled the situation. It would take not long to end the battle at You'anmen and reinforce the Yongding Gate. At the same time, the battle at Yongding Gate had reached the moment of Guanjian. After the regiment headquarters ordered an attack on Yongding Gate, the soldiers of the Second Battalion had already rushed into the city gate and were in a fierce bayonet battle with the defenders.

The personnel of the regiment headquarters estimated that judging from the current situation, it was not difficult to conquer the Yongding Gate by relying solely on the Second Battalion and Third Battalion. So the actual significance of letting the First Battalion reinforce the Yongding Gate is not great. Moreover, once the People's Army breaks through the Yongding Gate, the defeated army guarding the Yongding Gate will definitely retreat to the Zhengyang Gate in the inner city of Beijing. Therefore, it is better to let the First Battalion seize the Zhengyang Gate before breaking through the Yongding Gate. After the regiment occupied the Yongding Gate, they could successfully pass the Zhengyang Gate and rush into the inner city of Beijing.

At this time, Luo Yue conducted a simple inventory of the entire battalion. In the battle to capture Zuoanmen, 26 soldiers were killed in the first battalion and 12 others were injured. After receiving the order from the regiment headquarters, Luo Yue left a platoon and all the wounded soldiers to guard Zuoanmen, and led other troops and siege ladders to advance into the city. Entering Zuoanmen, it was Xiannongtan. Luo Yue led the troops to circle around Xiannongtan, turn to Yong'anmen Street, and then headed straight to Zhengyangmen.

Since all the Japanese soldiers guarding Zuoanmen were killed in battle, and the battle between Yongding Gate and Youanmen was not over yet, the defenders of Zhengyang Gate did not know that Zuoanmen had fallen, and the enemy rushed towards Zhengyang Gate.

Although Zhengyang Gate is located in the outer city and will not be directly attacked by the enemy, because Zhengyang Gate is very important, with Yong'an Gate in front and Yong'an Gate in the back, the Eight-Nation Alliance still stationed 30 British troops here. However, more than 240 people were drawn to reinforce the battle of Yong'an Gate. Now there are only more than 60 defenders in Zhengyang Gate.
Chapter completed!