The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 133 Cold Weapons in Hand-to-Hand Combat
Most of the people from the original Qianzi Regiment who joined the assault brigade used rifles, which they called foreign rifles and quick-fire rifles, when they were in the Qianzi Regiment. However, they used these modern guns only to kill the enemy at a long distance, that is, they only pursued shooting accuracy.

If we just look at shooting accuracy, most of the people in the Qian Corps have shooting skills that far surpass those of ordinary Green Camp soldiers and trained soldiers, and even many of the soldiers in the Wuwei Army are not as good as them.

However, they were not good at hand-to-hand combat with bayonets. They were more accustomed to using swords, spears, sticks, axes, and even fists and feet in hand-to-hand combat.

Fortunately, these members of the Qian Group of the assault brigade were not only young and strong, but almost all of them had good martial arts skills. They were used to being brave and fierce, and they were not afraid even when encountering brutal Tsarist Russian soldiers. This prevented them from suffering losses in hand-to-hand combat.

Many people unconsciously used the rifles in their hands as short spears in hand-to-hand combat. Although swinging and stabbing was far less convenient than using long or short spears, it could barely protect themselves.

Some people even simply removed their bayonets, rotated the buttstock and used their rifles as sticks or other heavy weapons. When they swung them, there was a whirring sound and great force. As long as they hit the Russian rifles stabbing at them, they could easily knock them away. Some even directly knocked the rifle out of the opponent's hand, and then the next moment, they would smash the opponent's brain into pieces or break bones.

In such a hand-to-hand combat, the members of the Qian Regiment, who were highly skilled in using broadswords, felt like fish in water at this time, and had the opportunity to show their skills. They shouted with excitement, and dodged like the wind in the crowd, turning the Russian officers and soldiers with incomplete limbs into victims of their swords.

Among this group of people, Liu Shijiu, the second senior brother and the third senior brother were the most brutal and terrifying.

Each of the three men held a ghost-head machete in his hand, and each led three or five men to charge left and right in the Russian crowd. The heavy machetes seemed to be light as a feather in their hands, and made a whirring sound when they were waving.

The ferocious Russian army was like a weak and frail patient in front of them. No one could defeat them. These three men could deal with their opponents with just three or two simple moves at most. More often, they would just use a knife to shake off the bayonets of the Russian army, then step forward and swing their swords. After that, their ghost-head swords would raise a rain of blood, turning the Russian army on the opposite side into headless ghosts.

The three of them were not afraid even if they faced two or three Russian soldiers working together. With just a few moves, they would separate the heads and bodies of the Russian soldiers facing them and disembowel them.

Among the three, Liu Shijiu was the most ferocious and brutal. Teng Yuzhao saw from afar that Liu Shijiu, wielding a bloody ghost-head broadsword, rushed through the crowd and cut a Tsarist Russian officer in half with one blow, causing a bloody storm around him.

"Form a battle formation and follow me."

Teng Yuzhao, who was already very excited, shouted in a deep voice without even turning his head.

Following his shout, the guards surrounding him immediately formed groups of three into a hand-to-hand combat formation, gathering on Teng Yuzhao's left and right and behind him, with the other two still following closely behind Teng Yuzhao.

After Li Dazhu went to study at the camp school, there are only eleven people left in the guard squad, which is temporarily led by the deputy squad leader. However, the guard squad is now basically led by Wu Peifu, Teng Yuzao's liaison adjutant and copywriter.

Since the last battle in "Beiyang Wubei Academy", when Teng Yuzao ignored the obstruction and personally rushed to the battlefield to participate in the hand-to-hand combat, under the repeated persuasion and request of Li Yulin, Liu Yuzhi and Li Xianze, Teng Yuzao's personal guard squad not only familiarized themselves with the team coordination tactics whenever they had free time, but also each of them had three guns, one long and two short, in addition to a Mauser rifle, each of them also had two twenty-shot Mauser pistols slung across their bodies. Their hand-to-hand combat coordination formation was two people holding rifles in front and one holding a pistol in the back.

In such a chaotic battlefield, it is extremely difficult to kill the enemy with accurate shooting from a long distance. No matter how good Teng Yuzao's shooting skills are, they are useless at this time.

But it is entirely possible to shoot decisively at close range.

"kill!"

Teng Yuzhao shouted loudly and rushed forward. He stabbed the bayonet of the G98 rifle in his hand into the left rib of a Russian soldier who was fighting with two soldiers of the assault battalion. He twisted the rifle in his hand and pulled out the bayonet, then quickly pounced on the next target.

Teng Yuzhao was not prepared to rush into the chaotic battle at this time. Not only would that be irresponsible for his own safety, it would also increase the pressure on the soldiers in the guard squad protecting him. He now had a better way to kill the enemy and there was no need to adopt such a risky method.

Teng Yuzhao and his guards were just wandering around the edge of the chaotic battlefield, constantly looking for opportunities to assassinate the Russian soldiers on the periphery.

Teng Yuzao did not rush directly into the battle group, which made the dozen or so people in the guard squad feel relieved. They were not afraid of fighting with the tall and strong foreigners with bayonets. Each of the soldiers in the guard squad had excellent skills. They were just extremely worried about Teng Yuzao's safety.

The soldiers of the guard squad were no longer under pressure to protect Teng Yuzao, and the two groups on the left and right dispersed to the left and right sides of Teng Yuzao and began looking for opportunities to assassinate the Russian soldiers. Only the five soldiers behind Teng Yuzao did not dare to move, as they had consciously filled in the vacancies left by the two groups.

Teng Yuzhao, who posed basically no security threat, kept moving quickly around the periphery. As long as he got a chance, he would strike the target in one go like a falcon hunting its prey, and would never drag his feet or get entangled in a lingering fight.

Teng Yuzhao's move posed a great threat to the Russian troops who were fighting desperately with the officers and soldiers of the assault battalion. However, since he himself was not in any danger, Teng Yuzhao could give full play to his bayonet skills. Any Russian soldier he targeted would either be stabbed by his bayonet within one or two moves, or be stabbed to death by soldiers of other assault battalions because they had to deal with this extremely dangerous opponent.

Although in Teng Yuzhao's previous life, the domestic military had basically stopped bayonet fighting training, which was once one of the five major techniques, in the early 1990s, it was not until 20 years later that bayonet fighting was resumed as a training subject in special forces and armed police forces, and then various units gradually resumed it.

But we have to admit that not only does bayonet fighting require courage on the battlefield, but even during training, bayonet fighting can also train soldiers' courage and greatly stimulate their bloodiness.

A Russian soldier who was bayoneting a soldier of the assault brigade saw Teng Yuzao rushing towards him and hurriedly moved his feet to hide in the melee. Unexpectedly, the soldier of the assault brigade who was confronting him took the opportunity, stepped forward suddenly, shouted loudly, and stabbed the Russian soldier's chest with his bayonet.
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