The road of history is not a sidewalk on Nevsky Prospekt, it marches entirely in the fields, sometimes through dust, sometimes through mud, sometimes across swamps, sometimes through jungles. - Chernyshevsky
Many people on the Internet said that Cixi did not lead the Yulin Army when she fled west, but invited a dart bureau in Beijing, and the Li family dart bureau protected all the way, so the bandits did not dare to intercept it.
However, this is just a story. Historically, on August 15, 1900, Cixi, prince Duan, Prince Qing, Prince Zhuang and other princes and nobles, as well as Guangxu, and Empress Longyu and other female relatives fled west. Accompanying them were thousands of troops from the Eight Banners Army Divine Machine Battalion and the Tiger Gun Battalion.
The thousands of Eight Banner Corps were foreign gun units, armed with American and German carbines. This kind of guard strength is not something that ordinary bandits and attackers can take advantage of. After all, these people's foreign guns were still rare in The Chinese people at that time, and these people could not beat foreigners, but they were still very experienced in fighting ordinary domestic armed gangs.
When I arrived in Guanshi, I did encounter a dart board opened by a person surnamed Li, but instead of inviting him to escort him, he was asked to sacrifice 4 camel caravans.
Arrived at Yulinbao on August 17, by which time it was deserted and all the inhabitants had fled. The streets were silent, the doors were closed, and only bandits were outside the city. After Cixi and the others arrived, they concentrated in some courtyards, and the double and single carriages were also tied outside.
All the Eight Banners Guards were scattered around the guards, but they could not find enough food, there was already a shortage of food, many people were hungry and thirsty, and it was not until August 21 that they entered Xuanhua Province to solve the food problem. Subsequently, the Huai army bravely led Ma Jinxu and others to lead the troops to escort.
By September 1, the troops of Dong Fuxiang, the admiral of Gansu, had also arrived to guard Cixi and his party, and by this time, the Qing army guarding Cixi had reached several thousand, and all of them were foreign gun troops. Every day, thousands of people cleared the road in front, thousands of people followed behind, others were guarding around, and the anti-Qing forces simply did not have the opportunity and strength to assassinate Cixi.