>>2846873As the foreign defenders conserve food and water, while trying to save hungry tatsunoko, Xi Jinping continues plotting with the Antis by supplying aid from his Chinese troops. Eventually, a foreign relief force from the Eight-Nation Alliance arrives and puts down the Anti's rebellion. The troops reach Peking on the 55th day and, following the Battle of Peking, lift the siege of the foreign legations. Foreshadowing the demise of the Jinping Dynasty, rulers of China for the previous decade, the Emperor Xi, lone in his throne room, having gambled his empire and lost, declares to himself, "The dynasty is finished", repeating the phrase three times...
