The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 147: Victory and Nonsense

Although it was a bit busy and even chaotic, everything went smoothly. Even the fallen vanguard army, the Wuwei vanguard army, Pan Jinshan, and the Boxer Wang Decheng's subordinates were carefully buried by the soldiers along with the prisoners.

However, this is still a battlefield and a war could break out at any time. There would definitely not be enough time to bury them one by one, so they could only be divided into three places and buried separately.

Then, in front of each large mound of earth, a wooden board with words written on it was erected as a tombstone. The real tombstones could only be erected for the fallen soldiers after the war was over.

As for the bodies of the fallen Allied forces and their severed limbs, the vanguard army had no intention of burying them separately. They simply ordered the prisoners to hastily dig a large deep pit, threw the bodies of the Allied officers and soldiers from several countries into the pit, and buried them.

Under the current weather conditions, these bodies must be buried in time, otherwise a plague will occur, which is no joke. After all, this is Chinese land and the common people are our comrades.

According to Teng Yuzhao's request, the seriously wounded soldiers of the coalition forces were taken to the riverside by car. Under the watchful eyes of the nervous coalition forces on the opposite side, these seriously wounded soldiers who had only been simply bandaged were placed on the river bank, and then the convoy turned back to Dongjuzi. Teng Yuzhao would never keep these seriously wounded soldiers of the coalition forces in his hands.

As they rushed to Dongjuzi early in the morning and started a series of battles as soon as they arrived here, the relevant food had not been prepared yet, and there was no time allowed for them to cook a delicious meal.

So, although they won a great victory, the vanguard army's lunch today was still a bit simple, with only rice, a piece of pickled cabbage for each person and a box of captured Russian canned food.

There was plenty of meat, as hundreds of Japanese and Russian war horses were killed, and there were two or three hundred thousand kilograms of horse meat alone. However, there was not enough time to prepare it for the officers and soldiers now, so they had to leave it until the evening.

Although we will not be eating this large amount of horse meat for lunch, the meat must be processed immediately, otherwise it will go bad quickly in the current weather.

Using the large canteen in the East Bureau, the cooks had already begun cutting up large chunks of horse meat, then marinating it with salt for later consumption.

As time was tight, Teng Yuzao still had many things to arrange and it was impossible to use lunch time only for eating. So related matters had to be discussed and arranged during the lunch time.

Therefore, Teng Yuzhao called all his trusted generals and military commanders in Dongjuzi to have dinner with him.

The arrival of Wei Jinghai and his staff meant that Teng Yuzhao's command center began to operate. Not only were reconnaissance, vigilance and other related matters taken over by the Staff Office, Teng Yuzhao no longer had to worry about the arrangements. Even Teng Yuzhao's meals and rest were arranged by him.

The lunch location was in a small courtyard where the Dongjuzi General Office usually worked.

Teng Yuzhao couldn't remember who the general manager here was, but this general manager knew how to enjoy life and had some taste. Not only were there willow trees planted along the walls in the yard, there was also a lush green grape trellis in the middle of the courtyard. The yard, shaded by green trees, seemed very quiet.

However, what was a bit disappointing was that at this moment, more than a dozen telephone wires were pulled into the main room in the yard from outside.

In addition, staff officers from the Vanguard Army's General Staff Office were busy coming in and out of the yard from time to time. At the gate and around the yard, Hu Daqiu's men were standing guard with live ammunition. All of this added a hint of evil to this quiet and elegant yard, which was quite inappropriate.

The spacious and bright main hall in the courtyard was naturally used as a war room, and the wing room on the left was used as Teng Yuzhao's temporary dining room.

The general manager of the Beiyang Machinery Bureau was a fourth-rank official, so the construction and decoration of this courtyard, which was equivalent to his official office, had to be more exquisite. Moreover, the Beiyang Machinery Bureau was a lucrative position with plenty of money.

The most obvious thing here is the windows. In the courtyard where the main hall is located, all the room windows are equipped with bright glass, and even in the rooms with closed doors and windows, it is still very bright.

A large round table was placed in the middle of the wing room, and Teng Yuzao, Wei Jinghai, Liu Yuzhi, Li Xianze, Liu Changfa, Liu Shijiu, Xue Qian and others sat around the table. Although these people were all generals in the Vanguard Army, and even Teng Yuzao, the newly promoted president of the Vanguard Army, was present, the food was still not rich, but it was much better than that of ordinary officers and soldiers.

There was only a large pot of chicken stewed with mushrooms, a plate of braised pig's trotters, a plate of pork stewed with cabbage, a plate of braised beef, a plate of pork head, a plate of pork liver, a plate of caviar, and a large plate of Russian sausage on the table. The caviar and sausage were both brought back by Liu Yuzhi from the Russian barracks.

In addition to having more and richer dishes, there was also something special: each person had half a bowl of Fenjiu in front of them, which was contributed by Liu Shijiu.

According to Liu Shijiu, although they were in the army during wartime, today's great victory was exciting and they should have some wine to celebrate.

Knowing that these people could drink a lot, Teng Yuzao agreed with Liu Shijiu's suggestion. However, Liu Shijiu could only drink two bowls of wine, while the others could only drink half a bowl of wine.

Teng Yuzhao's alcohol tolerance was actually quite good. As far as he could remember, he could drink a pound of liquor without any problem. However, in his previous life, he didn't like drinking liquor very much. He only liked drinking beer, but beer was a rare commodity now.

At this moment, no one had picked up their chopsticks yet, only Liu Shijiu took a big sip of wine secretly while no one was paying attention.

Xue Qian's face turned a little red, and he kept stealing glances at Teng Yuzhao's expression, while Liu Yuzhi's expression was the most normal, and he was calm and composed.

Because, Teng Yuzao was holding a few pieces of paper covered with words that Wei Jinghai had just handed to him, and was in a daze. The first one was the casualty report of the vanguard army in this battle. In the battle of Dongjuzi, the vanguard army's first regiment, assault brigade, and cavalry battalion had a total of 215 deaths, 186 serious injuries, and 1000 minor injuries, with a total of almost casualties.

Among them, the assault battalion suffered the highest number of casualties. This was mainly because they had been engaged in continuous hand-to-hand combat, and mainly hand-to-hand combat with the tall and strong Russian army. Among the casualties and seriously injured, the assault battalion accounted for nearly half.

The casualties of the first regiment were much less, and most of their wounded were slightly injured.

Although the cavalry battalion suffered less than a hundred casualties, after all, they only had a total of more than 600 people, and they lost a company in an instant.

Although these nearly 600 lightly wounded soldiers will recover soon if they are treated properly and no infection occurs, and even a considerable number of seriously wounded soldiers will recover and return to the team, the combat effectiveness of the vanguard army will be greatly affected at least temporarily. This is almost the casualties of an entire battalion.

Fortunately, the second report was a report on the results of the battle and the spoils of war. After reading this report, Teng Yuzhao finally felt better.

In the Battle of Dongjuzi, 1945 Russian troops were killed, including 502 Russian cavalrymen. A total of 864 British troops were killed, including 342 authentic British soldiers and 118 Chinese warriors. The rest were fake British troops, that is, Indian soldiers. 678 Japanese cavalrymen were killed.

In addition, 122 British soldiers, 422 Chinese warriors, 546 Indian soldiers and 341 Russian soldiers were captured.

There were a total of 84 seriously wounded prisoners, including 36 British soldiers and Chinese warriors. These wounded prisoners were all captured by one regiment. Liu 600's Assault Battalion and Cavalry Battalion did not capture a single wounded prisoner. The two units only captured more than intact prisoners.

What surprised Teng Yuzhao the most was that the cavalry battalion did not capture a single Japanese prisoner, not even a single wounded one.

The weapons seized included 1768 Lee-Enfield rifles and 654 Japanese Type 2562 short rifles, which were carbines used exclusively by cavalry. The most seized were Mosin-Nagant rifles, totaling , including those seized in Russian military camps.

There were also six Maxim heavy machine guns, 962 Russian, British and Japanese revolvers, and one French Bofors field gun.

Teng Yuzhao had seen Japanese revolvers in his previous life. In order to adapt to the use of the Japanese, it was very short and was called the 26-year type.

The rest of the ammunition, artillery shells, sabers, belts, backpacks, water bottles, flour and other military supplies had not yet been counted.

In addition, there were 132 intact Don horses and 35 injured horses that could be treated. However, most of these injured war horses could only be used as pack horses after they recovered from their injuries.

A total of 648 Japanese ponies were seized, which could only be used as a means of transportation or for transporting supplies.

What made Teng Yuzhao somewhat unwilling was that the number of captured Maxim heavy machine guns was very small, but he also knew that at this time, only the British and German armies were equipped with slightly more, and there were only one or two in a Russian regiment.

Seeing that Teng Yuzhao looked at the battle results statistics for a long time without saying anything, Xue Qian stood up with a flushed face and lowered his head and spoke in a low voice.

"Sir, please punish me. Those Japanese cavalrymen are..."

When Xue Qian said this, Teng Yuzao couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

Teng Yuzhao knew that Xue Qian was going to talk about the killing of prisoners in the cavalry battalion. He had no intention of bringing up the matter. He was not even against killing prisoners, especially those Japanese devils. It was completely fine as long as the people doing it did not know.

However, he could not say this openly, otherwise his men would inevitably act recklessly. Once the foreign powers knew that he killed prisoners, they would probably fight him to the death after the war. It would be impossible for him to stay in the army. It was possible that the empress dowager in the capital would chop off his head in order to satisfy the demands of the foreigners.

Teng Yuzhao's idea was not just to scare himself. After the war, Zai Yi, the Minister of the Zongli Yamen and Prince Duan, was listed by the powers as the number one culprit who condoned the Boxer Rebellion. In the end, he and his son Puyi, who was used by Cixi to replace Guangxu as the eldest prince, were exiled to Tibet. They did not return to the Central Plains until almost twenty years later.

Moreover, Xue Qian probably didn't keep an eye on his men. Even if he wanted to stop them, he might not have been able to. The defeated soldiers who were wantonly hacked to death by the Japanese cavalry would certainly not let go of these Japanese prisoners.

As for Liu Shijiu, it is possible that not only did he not think about keeping an eye on his men, but he himself might even be the mastermind who condoned the killing of prisoners. Even Teng Yuzhao did not intend to secretly investigate the matter and was ready to let it go.

Teng Yuzhao was just thinking about how to approach this somewhat tricky question when Liu Shijiu took over Xue Qian's conversation.

"Captain Xue is right. Today is really fucking weird. The foreign devils our assault team encountered were all very ferocious and refused to surrender. Even those who were seriously injured were still struggling to fight us. It was really fucking difficult to capture a few alive!"

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