1900 Spring, the Boxer Rebellion became the fuse of Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China. Under this pretext, Eight-Nation Alliance carved up and plundered China in the name of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion.
The total number of troops invading China is about 50 thousand, which is well-equipped and powerful. 1900, 14 August, Beijing completely fell, and wherever Eight-Nation Alliance went, he killed, set fire to, raped and plundered! There are countless treasures stolen and looted from the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and the Summer Palace!
Among them, the famous Yuanmingyuan, after the British and French allied forces, was looted again and eventually became a ruin. 190 1 On September 7th, China was completely reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, which brought unprecedented suffering to the country and people at that time.
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1900 On August 5th, after two days of fierce fighting, Eight-Nation Alliance captured the gates of Beijing. The Qing soldiers and the Boxers fought fierce street battles with the invaders all over the capital, but they still couldn't stop Eight-Nation Alliance's iron hoof. 15 night, the us military set up a cannon at zhengyangmen.
Several shots were fired, and the Daqingmen (renamed Zhonghua Gate in the Republic of China, demolished during the expansion of 1959 Tiananmen Square) and Tiananmen Square were bombed for the second time. The gate of the Forbidden City was exposed to the invaders without hindrance. On the morning of the fall of the Forbidden City, Empress Dowager Cixi fled the capital with Emperor Guangxu.
After the city was broken, Eight-Nation Alliance held an "international military parade" in Wumen Square. Invaders from Britain, the United States, Russia and Japan, wearing different military uniforms, holding different national flags, shouting different slogans and armed to the teeth, crossed the Wumen Square.
After a short military parade, the gate of the Forbidden City was knocked down with the sound of salute, and the invaders marched into the Forbidden City in a mighty manner. Eight-Nation Alliance, as a conqueror, completely took over Beijing. Since then, the people of Beijing have experienced a year of national subjugation.
In order to satisfy the greed of non-commissioned officers, the generals of various countries unscrupulously allowed soldiers to burn, kill and plunder in Beijing for three days. The ancient capital suffered unprecedented devastation and destruction. The houses from Di 'anmen to Xi 'anmen were burned out, and the front door to Dongsi archway was desolate.
Eight-Nation Alliance not only set fire to houses, but also destroyed many beautiful buildings. The British army changed the Temple of Heaven into a mill, while the French army demolished the gate seat, pavilion seat, doors and windows of the high hall of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Summer Palace, where Russian troops and British troops have been stationed successively, is not immune.
Beijingers were also brutally slaughtered by Eight-Nation Alliance. In Zhuang alone, more than 65,438+0,700 nominal and group people were slaughtered. On one occasion, the French army shot 10 minutes in a dead end, and didn't stop until there was no one left.
At that time, people recorded that Beijing was "full of dead bodies, rotten and smoky, and terrible." Many officials committed suicide in the Qing Dynasty. "There are bodies of men wearing clothes and crowns everywhere, and bodies of women wearing red skirts everywhere."
Prince Yi was captured by a certain country's army and ordered to wash clothes for the soldiers. Not only is the work extremely heavy, but he often goes hungry. The humiliated Prince Yi finally chose to commit suicide.
Heavy disambiguation, minister of finance, fled to Baoding with Rong Lu before the city was broken. When he heard that his wife led the whole family to commit suicide, he was desperate and hanged himself.
Even so, the situation of ordinary people is even more tragic. After the city was broken, the streets of Beijing echoed with the screams of women and the lewd smiles of foreign soldiers.
According to the records of the people at that time, the allied forces "rushed all the women, regardless of their age, to the yamen" and "acted as official prostitutes", allowing the allied forces to "spy inside and commit adultery at will."
At that time, it was said that "black soldiers" were crazy when they met women. Many women threw themselves into the well when they heard the gunshot, so that five or six bodies were salvaged in one well.
Eight-Nation Alliance's looting of Beijing is not only an irreparable wound in Beijingers' hearts, but also a shameful page in the history of world civilization.
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