Outside Xizhimen, it is the location of Xizhimen Station, the Beijing-based starting point of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. In Xiao Letian’s previous life, it was Beijing North Station. Any passenger who takes the train from Beijing to Inner Mongolia, Chifeng and other directions must go here!

In other words, the predecessor of Beijing North Station was Xizhimen Station, and Xizhimen Station was the starting point of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway built by Zhan Tianyou, but why did Zhan Tianyou choose this place as the starting point?

That's because before there was no railway, Xizhimen was also a place of developed commerce and trade, echoing the areas of Dongbianmen and Guangqumen, it is the two major logistics bases of the capital.

There is a canal on the other side of Dongbianmen that leads directly to Tongzhou. People say that the end of the Grand Canal in the Beijing-Hangzhou can be found in Tongzhou, but it is not. In ancient times, people relied on water transportation. There was still a small canal from Tongzhou to Dongbianmen. Cargoes from the south can be disembarked directly into the capital, especially grain ships!

The goods follow the Grand Canal to Tongzhou, and some of them follow the water route to the East Bianmen, while some of them are converted into dry roads, and they go directly to Guangqumen and enter the prosperous market in the southern city of the capital!

But Sijiu City cannot rely solely on logistics in the south to support it. There are also trade transactions in the northwest like Mongolia. How can these goods be stored and distributed?

Just outside Xizhimen, there is a large warehouse and market here. It is said to be a Caoshi outside the city gate, but it is actually a commercial town with a permanent population of less than 10,000 people!

Don’t forget that there is a waterway outside Xizhimen to connect Kunming Lake and Reed Pond, and then enter the capital from Jishui Pond. You can take a boat here!

Every summer, Cixi would go to Kunming Lake or Xiangshan to escape the summer heat. Most of the time she would take a dragon boat on the dock outside Xizhimen, and go straight to Kunming Lake along the waterway!

This waterway also has its name. The area around Xizhimen is called Zhuanhe. The way you go to Kunming Lake through Xizhimen is called Nanchanghe!

This waterway existed until the founding of the People's Republic of China. When Xiao Letian was a white-collar worker in Beijing in his previous life, he sailed on this small canal several times to travel to Kunming Lake!

Get on the boat from Beizhan and head straight west through the zoo and Zizhuyuan Park. You can enter Kunming Lake all the way. It is a very leisurely tourist route in Beijing! It is very suitable for slow travel!

However, in the Qing Dynasty, this waterway could carry more freight tasks. The Summer Palace has not been built yet, and Cixi did not often live anywhere, so 90% of the transport capacity of this waterway is freight in a year!

It is precisely because this place is a water and land conflict that Zhan Tianyou chose to be the starting point of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway!

Such a large commercial market, with warehouses connected to shops, military camps next to residential buildings, one courtyard after another entangled with slums, making the terrain extremely complex!

The soldiers of the Eight Hundred Xishan Camp relied on the buildings to hold on to each other. They only had some casualties when they were fired by machine guns. After the three treasures on the city wall began to be dispersed, the three treasures on the city wall were helpless to these people.

The moment the fifth master's cavalry appeared, the three treasures on the Xizhimen city tower shouted, "Light the torch! Light the prince!"

The city wall along the Xizhimen suddenly shone into the sky, and piles of firewood were lit. The fires soared into the sky, reflecting half of the sky outside the city!

At this point, the officers and soldiers of the 800 Xishan Camp realized that they had been fooled, "Fuck! We were trapped, there was no such thing as the prince opening Xizhimen. Someone gave us fake information!"

"Damn it, this is going to kill us!"

To the east of Caoshi is the tall Xizhimen Tower and the urn city. The city walls and moat block their attack!

The south and west sides were full of cavalry, and the horse's hooves rumbled like thunder. Only the north side was a little quieter, but there was only a gap!

To the north of this quiet space is the fire that is getting stronger and stronger on the reed pond, and there are also shouts that swept the earth faintly!

What should I do? Should I break out from this limited security gap in the north? Or should I stick here? Without the idea of ​​senior officers, these company commanders were immediately in a state of confusion.

The advantage of low-level officers is that they can contact grassroots soldiers, train together to eat and live together, and establish a reliable intimate relationship between the two sides, which is very beneficial to controlling the troops.

However, the disadvantages of low-level officers are even more obvious. They have a weak grasp of the overall situation of the battlefield and have no effort in the map. They are completely unable to form a strategic perspective on the battlefield!

Today, there is only one way in front of them, which is to break through from the north. If they can attack Guangtong Temple in the northwest of the river, they might have made a wonderful achievement!

But unfortunately, the highest official of these people is the company commander, a grassroots officer who can't even understand the contour map!

On the ever-changing battlefield, you have no ability to find the Eye of Life and Death in a few seconds!

There was no time for them to waste. Just when these people were struggling to break through or hold on, the vanguard war horses had already rushed into the Caoshi, and these soldiers could only be forced to hold on!

Yi Qiong made up his mind today. As soon as the pioneer rushed into Caoshi, his military order caught up!

"The prince has an order! Fire attack... reduce casualties... burn out all outside Xizhimen, leaving no one behind!"

The kidnappers shouted excitedly, "Oh... the golden belt for killing people and setting fire! Burn them to death... no one left..."

The burning torches rolled into the residential and warehouses. The masters of riding and shooting can even temporarily roll out the burning rockets with gauze on the horse's back!

The three treasures on the top of the city were even more appreciative of their appetite when they saw the prince’s thunderous method!

"Okay! OK... Drop all the torches on the city wall and add fire to the prince!"

Bundles of torches were thrown off the city wall, and the savage soldiers galloped at high speed, and they were nimble and snatching their bodies to the side to catch bundles of torches!

A torch soaked with pungent kerosene, a red burning torch would be a slight twitch on the flames. It would be difficult for people to step on it if they were thrown into the building!

The smoke rolled and the fire was soaring into the sky. The soldiers from the Xishan Camp did not force it out. The people who were hiding at home could not stand it anymore. The people who did not escape early rushed out of the smoked house like crazy, screaming and running around the streets!

Some elderly, women and children with inconvenience can only kneel in the corner and kowtow to beg for mercy!

These savages would not care about the lives of the people. Some of them were even jealous of killing them. Even though they did not block his way, he deliberately used war horses to hit and trample on them.

After all, the Imperial Guards and the Guards of the Capital were not that barbaric and had some kindness to the people. When they saw that they were not good at their attitude, they quickly rode their horses to catch these crazy savages.

"The prince has an order! Do not hurt innocent people... let them scatter and escape by themselves!"

"Are you a fucking madman? That's a common man. Why do you cut your head when you come up?"
Chapter completed!