The Boxer Rebellion, formerly known as the Boxer Rebellion, is a private secret organization in Shandong, Henan and Zhili, with the aim of "fighting against the Qing Dynasty and regaining sight". With the deepening of imperialist aggression, the struggle of boxer began to point to imperialism. Later, the Boxer Rebellion was renamed the Boxer Rebellion, which changed from secret to public, and put forward the slogan of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries". /kloc-in the autumn of 0/899, the Boxer Rebellion in Pingyuan County, Shandong Province held an armed uprising under the leadership of Zhu Hongdeng. They burned churches, expelled priests, punished corrupt officials and bullies, and defeated the Qing army that came to suppress them many times. /kloc-in the spring of 0/900, the center of the Boxer Rebellion moved to Zhili, and developed rapidly to Beijing and Tianjin, and basically controlled Beijing and Tianjin in June. At this time, the Boxer Rebellion broke out in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Northeast China and Henan. The anti-church struggles in the southern provinces are also rising one after another, echoing the north from afar. The climax of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle took shape throughout the country.
The powerful revolutionary people made the Qing government panic. I feel that if I don't change my attitude on the surface and avoid the edge of the boxer movement, I will be in danger of being overthrown first. So Empress Cinuo played a double-dealing trick: on the one hand, the Qing government "declared war" on imperialism, and gave the Boxer a hundred thousand taels of silver, calling it "the righteous people", so as to deceive and control the Boxer and avoid the edge of the people's revolution by foreign wars. On the other hand, they colluded with imperialism in secret and slaughtered the Boxer Rebellion by the power of imperialism. She also secretly ordered the generals of the Qing army to let the Boxer Rebellion take the lead in foreign wars to destroy the power of the Boxer Rebellion.
The development of the Boxer Rebellion caused great panic of imperialism.1June 900 10, more than 2,000 invading troops from Britain, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, the United States, Italy and Austria, led by British naval commander Seymour, marched from Dagu to Beijing and committed crimes. On June 18, the Boxer Rebellion and the Qing Army launched an attack on the invading coalition forces at Langfang Station. Boxer fighters, armed with broadswords, spears and sticks, beat up invading troops using new weapons and wiped out many enemies. The next day, the allied forces began to retreat, and it was not until the end of June that they fled back to Tianjin. In this campaign, the invading army was killed and nearly 300 people were injured. At the beginning of July, Cao Futian led the Boxer Rebellion to storm Tianjin Railway Station and French Concession, fighting for two days and nights, killing and injuring more than 100 enemy troops. Zhang Decheng also led the Boxer Rebellion to attack the Zizhulin Concession in Tianjin, and once broke into the Concession. After the news of the invasion of the imperialist Coalition forces reached Beijing, it aroused the great anger of the broad masses of the people. In addition, the foreign embassy staff in Beijing repeatedly provoked the Boxer Rebellion and shot and killed people at will, so the Boxer Rebellion began to besiege the Xishiku Church in Beijing and the foreign embassies in Dongjiaominxiang in the middle and late June.
On August 4th, 20,000 people from Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing along the banks of the Canal. The Boxer Rebellion and the Qing army stopped the allied forces in Beicang, killing and injuring more than 1,000 Russian, Japanese and British invaders. Later, due to the disintegration of the Qing army, Beicang, Yangcun and Tongzhou fell one after another. On August 14, Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing. Empress Dowager Cixi fled Beijing with Emperor Xu, and on the way to escape, she ordered the Qing army to slay the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion failed under the bloody suppression of Eight-Nation Alliance and the Qing army. Although the Boxer Rebellion was defeated, it dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary forces at home and abroad and shattered the imperialist dream of trying to carve up China.