The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 131 Liu Shijiu's Attack
Although the Maxim heavy machine gun had been around for sixteen years, the Cossack cavalry's combat effectiveness at that time was famous for its speed, strong mobility, great lethality, and extreme ferocity, even in Europe. They were even known as the best cavalry in the world.

Cossack cavalry has long been an important armed force of Tsarist Russia. From the 18th century to World War II, they participated in all Russian foreign wars.

Some people even say that the Cossack cavalry's horses' hooves were flying in sync with the Tsarist Russia's outward expansion.

It is said that the Cossack cavalry could not only use a rifle with one hand to shoot calmly while on a galloping horse, but also lean their upper body backward while galloping down a 30-degree slope, relying entirely on their legs to clamp the horse's belly. Not only would they not fall off the horse, they could still shoot.

Because they are so skilled in horsemanship, they are also considered the cavalrymen in the world who are most reluctant to dismount to fight. They prefer to fight on horseback.

If the vanguard army were to fight against such a crazy and fierce cavalry, they might suffer heavy losses, so he had to remind Liu Yuzhi.

The distance of about 400 meters would only take an ordinary person about a minute to run on two legs. It could be said that they would be here in the blink of an eye.

The defeated Lian Army and Boxers, including a small number of Wuwei Vanguard soldiers, were finally relieved when they saw that not only their own cavalry came to rescue them, but also a large number of murderous Wuwei Army soldiers with flaming red battle flags rushed towards them, and they reached them in just a short while.

Although these large groups of soldiers, holding rifles with shining bayonets or waving sharp steel knives in their hands, were exhausted and panting, they ignored the two cavalrymen who were fighting desperately with red eyes, and did not even look at these defeated soldiers, but rushed straight to the open west gate of the East Bureau.

However, these fleeing soldiers who had just been surrounded and attacked by the Japanese cavalry were no longer panicked and ran around. Instead, they used the weapons in their hands, and even picked up the weapons of the dead or injured cavalrymen on the ground, and began to attack the Japanese cavalry from the periphery.

With the addition of a large number of fleeing soldiers, the Japanese cavalry, which had already suffered heavy losses in local cavalry battles due to their failure to concentrate their forces to organize a battle formation and their lack of horse advantage, became even more overwhelmed. Many Japanese cavalry were thrown off their horses as their horses were injured and frightened by the fleeing soldiers.

These fallen Japanese cavalrymen were either hacked and knocked away by the cavalry battalion, or hacked to death by the large group of defeated soldiers who finally had the chance to seek revenge.

A wounded Japanese pony panicked and rushed straight towards the small group of cavalry that surrounded Teng Yuzhao.

In order to prevent the madly injured horse from hitting Teng Yuzhao, the two cavalrymen blocking the front immediately rode forward and shot at the injured horse repeatedly with their revolvers, trying to kill it.

There were even two cavalrymen who quickly took off the more powerful Mauser rifles on their backs, loaded bullets into the chamber, and prepared to kill the wounded horse if it rushed past the interception.

As the two riders suddenly rushed out, a gap was immediately created in the cavalry encirclement surrounding Teng Yuzhao.

Teng Yuzhao, who had already put his bloodstained sword back into its sheath and reloaded his Browning pistol, urged his horse as soon as he saw the opportunity. Before the cavalrymen on the side could fill the gap, he had already jumped out of the circle of cavalrymen protecting him and rushed towards the open west gate of the East Bureau.

This sudden change threw the cavalry who were protecting him into chaos. The cavalry squad leader hurriedly called on his men to abandon the injured horse that was still struggling on the ground and chase after Teng Yuzhao.

Teng Yuzao rode out at full speed and reached the west gate of Dongjuzi almost at the same time as Liu Jiujiu. Teng Yuzao jumped off his horse and shouted to Liu Jiujiu, "There are still people from the Wuwei Front Army resisting inside. The whole assault brigade should rush in quickly and don't give the coalition forces inside a chance to breathe."

After Teng Yuzao finished speaking, he rushed to the west gate. Just as he was about to rush in, Liu Nineteen had already rushed in front of him and shouted, "Get out of the way."

As he spoke, Liu Shijiu suddenly rushed over.

Although Teng Yuzao was not a special forces soldier in his previous life, he at least had the potential to be one. People who have undergone special forces training have quick emergency response capabilities. Facing Liu Shijiu who suddenly rushed over, Teng Yuzao was a little surprised, but his body had already moved. Taking advantage of the momentum of the forward rush, he suddenly took a sideways step to dodge Liu Shijiu's collision. Just as he was about to rush forward again, he was blocked by someone in front of him.

The one who blocked his way was none other than Wu Peifu, who arrived breathlessly with his guard squad.

Teng Yuzao looked towards the west gate again, only to see Liu Shijiu kicking a soldier who was still running out of the East Office, sending him flying and falling back into the East Office. He turned around and shouted to the assault team that had already rushed behind him, "Brothers, charge in and help me kill the foreign devils!"

"Kill the foreign devils!"

The large group of commandos who rushed up shouted in unison, "Kill the foreign devils!"

"kill!"

Amid shouts, a large group of commando officers and soldiers poured in through the wide-open West Gate like a tide and blocked the West Gate tightly in the blink of an eye.

Knowing that he could not get in, Teng Yuzhao naturally could not blame the soldiers in the guard squad, including Wu Peifu, because their duty was to protect his safety closely.

He would not blame Liu Shijiu for his sudden "attack" on him. He knew that Liu Shijiu was also concerned about his safety.

As Liu Shijiu led the assault team into the East Bureau, the sounds of gunfire and shouting inside the East Bureau suddenly became more intense again.

The assault team arrived in time as there were still people resisting inside.

At this time, a large number of reinforcements suddenly arrived, which would catch the coalition forces that had advanced into Dongjuzi and were besieging the Wuwei Vanguard who were continuing to resist by surprise. They would even be attacked from multiple sides. Even though the coalition forces had already rushed in with more than a thousand people, in this melee situation, Teng Yuzhao was confident that with the cooperation of the Wuwei Vanguard who were insisting on resisting inside, the assault brigade could cooperate inside and outside to destroy the advancing coalition forces.

But this requires a prerequisite, that is, the coalition forces that continue to attack from outside must be stopped, otherwise the coalition forces will continue to rush into Dongjuzi, and in that case, the vanguard army will definitely be driven out in the end.

"Zi Yu, where is the heavy machine gun sent by the regiment?"

While asking Wu Peifu, Teng Yuzao searched with his eyes.

Wu Peifu, panting heavily, pointed to the back of the assault team and said, "Teacher, they are still behind."

The heavy machine gun post of the regiment had to carry a heavy Maxim machine gun and run slowly, so they could not run fast. At this moment, they had just passed the forest.
Not only the heavy machine gun sentry, but also the three Maxim heavy machine guns of Liu Shijiu's Assault Brigade were left behind.

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