The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 155 Not One Left
It should be said that the Russian army's reaction speed is not slow and they can be considered well-trained.

Only a few seconds later, except for the seriously injured Russian soldiers who were unable to move and had to struggle and scream on the official road, there was no one left standing on the official road. All the Russian soldiers who were not dead had crawled to the side of the official road where Teng Yuzhao was. Many quick-reacting Russian soldiers had even lay on the roadbed, ready to open fire on the ambush troops on the other side of the official road.

However, the slope of the official roadbed, especially the shallow ditch underneath, made the Russian soldiers lying on the roadbed very uncomfortable. The half-meter-high roadbed plus the shallow ditch made it extremely difficult for the tall and strong Russian soldiers to shoot at the opposite side. If the Russian soldiers lay on the roadbed, their bodies would bend backwards into a reverse bow shape.

Kneeling on the roadbed, their posture seemed too high, and most of the Russian soldiers would expose half of their bodies.

Only by sitting on the ground can you aim and shoot, but sitting is an extremely unfavorable posture for shooting.

Just when the Russian army was in chaos, everyone saw a sudden light in front of their eyes. Several flares were already hanging high above the official road in the ambush area, and then flares continued to rise one after another.

Although these flares are far from being able to illuminate the entire ambush area of ​​one thousand meters, the light is enough for people to see the scenery clearly and distinguish between friend and foe.

In the light of the flares, a Russian soldier who had just rolled down the official road and climbed up from the ground suddenly discovered with horror that this side of the official road was also extremely dangerous, because just a few meters behind them, in the green gauze tent on the side of the road that was left with only half of it due to the dense rain of bullets from the opposite side, there was a large group of nervous Qing soldiers as far as the eye could see, holding their guns and pointing the black muzzles at the backs of his comrades who were still in a mess.

The light from the flares that kept rising and slowly lowering made the light here flicker, and the bayonets on the Qing soldiers' rifles flashed with cold light.

The reason why these Qing soldiers were very nervous was that the Russian soldier saw that the muzzles of many Qing soldiers' guns were shaking constantly.

The Russian soldier who rolled down was just a dozen meters in front of Teng Yuzhao's position. Teng Yuzhao did not hesitate. Without waiting for the Russian soldier whose face was distorted by fear to scream, Teng Yuzhao raised his hand and fired a shot, hitting the extremely terrified Russian soldier's face with blood.

Almost at the same time when Teng Yuzhao fired the first shot with the Browning in his hand, the ambush area on his side also instantly rang out with the intensive and rapid sound of shooting from Maxim heavy machine guns and rifles and pistols.

The intensive shooting at close range knocked down the still chaotic Russian army again, especially within the range of the Maxim heavy machine gun, which made the chaotic Russian army's brains burst and limbs fly everywhere.

In the light of the flares, wherever the Maxim heavy machine gun swept past, a stream of blood mist would rise.

The Russian army, which had suffered a series of sudden attacks, was completely overwhelmed. Many of them even crawled back to the official road to avoid the fierce attacks from behind.

The sound of "di da da" military bugles suddenly rang out, and the entire ambush area erupted in a deafening cry of killing. Amid the cry of killing, nearly four thousand officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment with sharp bayonets rushed out from the green tents on both sides of the official road and pounced fiercely on the remaining coalition forces, which were mainly Russian troops.

As the ambush troops rushed out of the green gauze tent, the remaining coalition forces, which were scattered in a long snake formation on the official road, were quickly divided into dozens of sections by the vanguard officers and soldiers, and then surrounded by a large group of vanguard soldiers. Suddenly, dozens of large and small battle groups appeared on the official road and on both sides, and the entire battlefield was filled with the loud collisions of bayonets or gun butts and screams.

After suffering a series of fierce attacks, the unprepared Russian army had less than half of its officers and soldiers left. Although there were almost always two or three, or even three or four soldiers surrounding a coalition force and fighting on the battlefield, some of the more than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment were unable to join in.

Because the ambush area was too narrow, the officers and soldiers who could not take action for the time being took the initiative to disperse to the outside of the large and small battle groups, or to the sides of the official road. They not only supported the officers and soldiers who were in danger in the fight at any time, but also surrounded and killed the few coalition forces who broke out of the encirclement in the chaos and tried to escape into the green tent.

Although most of the coalition forces were tall and had long arms, which gave them an advantage in fighting, the vanguard not only had more people and more power, but all the officers with pistols were able to free their hands and constantly look for opportunities to shoot and kill the coalition officers and soldiers who were resisting stubbornly. This caused the number of the remaining coalition forces, which were already few in number, to rapidly decrease, and it was only a matter of time before all of the more than 2,000 coalition main forces were wiped out.

Teng Yuzhao, who was tightly surrounded by the guard platoon and had not been able to join in, was extremely excited, but his face was full of bitter smiles as he looked at Wu Peifu and Li Jinyu, who were waving Brownings in their hands and were also eager to try.

"We are no longer needed here. Let's go to the eastern assault brigade and take a look."

Under Teng Yuzhao's command, the guard platoon escorted Teng Yuzhao and began to run quickly to the east along the edge of the green tent.

Along the way, Wu Peifu and Li Jinyu, who had squeezed to the periphery of the guard platoon, originally wanted to find an opportunity to shoot and kill a few Allied soldiers, but as time went on, more and more officers and soldiers were free, and they simply could not find any opportunities. Occasionally, some Allied forces who broke out of the siege would immediately become the target of a dozen or even dozens of officers and soldiers from the Second Regiment.

From afar, Teng Yuzhao saw Li Xiance gathering the officers and soldiers who had lost their target on the official road. He knew that Li Xiance was gathering his troops to support the assault brigade and the troops in the west that were responsible for blocking the remaining enemy troops that had escaped from Dongjuzi, so he shouted to Li Xiance.

"Ignore the assault brigade. Lead your troops to the west and, if possible, eliminate the Russian troops that have escaped." As he spoke, Teng Yuzhao rushed past Li Xiance without stopping. He paid no attention to Li Xiance's loud shouts behind him, and just quickened his pace, running eastward.

Teng Yuzhao was not worried that the assault battalion and the battalion of the 1st regiment would not be able to wipe out the Japanese army of about a battalion. They had nearly three times the number of troops, and they were dealing with Japanese dwarfs and were ambushed by the enemy. If they still could not win, the assault battalion should be disbanded.

What's more, the assault brigade fought very well in the battle of Dongjuzi.

The only thing that Teng Yuzhao was worried about now was that he went too late and would miss this good opportunity to defeat the Japanese in hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, not only was the Japanese's fighting will far inferior to that of the World War II decades later, but even their bayonet fighting skills, which they were proud of in later generations, were not worth mentioning at all.

The Japanese soldiers worked hard to practice bayonet fighting techniques. It was not until four years later during the Russo-Japanese War that the Japanese army suffered a great loss at the hands of the Russians in hand-to-hand combat due to their height differences. After that, the Japanese army began to attach great importance to bayonet fighting training.

However, things did not go as planned. By the time Teng Yuzhao and his guard platoon arrived at the assault brigade's ambush site, the ambush had already ended.

Under the light of flares that were still rising in the sky, the official road within the ambush circle and the roadsides on both sides of the official road were littered with dark, short corpses. These corpses looked like a group of half-grown children in black uniforms. Many of the corpses were incomplete, with broken limbs scattered everywhere.

These Japanese soldiers' bodies, which looked like half-grown children, not only had a large number of bodies with incomplete limbs, but also many were headless. What's worse, some were cut in half with their internal organs spilling all over the ground. Such a battlefield was so creepy that Teng Yuzhao felt a little horrified.

Teng Yuzhao was not worried because there were too many corpses here, but at a glance, it seemed that those corpses were all grown children. This made Teng Yuzhao feel extremely upset. His stomach churned and he felt like vomiting.

There were many overturned carts on the official road, on the roadside, and even in the green tent. Although the carts were fully loaded with ammunition and supplies and were firmly tied up with life, a large amount of ammunition and supplies still fell from the overturned carts. Looking around, the battlefield was filled with scattered ammunition and supplies except for corpses.

The ambush here should have ended long ago, because the officers and soldiers of the assault battalion and the battalion of the first regiment were already cleaning up the battlefield.

At this time, the Japanese military uniforms were black tops and dark blue straight pants, imitating the style of the American Northern Army uniforms during the American Civil War. Soldiers wore wide-brimmed hats, and officers wore French bucket hats with red round tops embroidered with gold thread. Of course, the officers were not only equipped with command swords, but their uniforms were also very gorgeous.

This was the first time that Teng Yuzhao had seen real Japanese infantry since he traveled through time. He looked at the Japanese uniforms and swords very carefully.

There is no need to say much about the military uniforms, but Teng Yuzhao looked very carefully at the Japanese officers' sabers, and even picked up a saber from the ground to examine it carefully.

Looking at the sword with a gorgeously decorated handle in front of him, Teng Yuzhao, who was familiar with the military history of China and foreign countries, knew that this was the so-called Meiji sword.

This Meiji sword is very different from the Japanese swords used decades later. It not only has a guard, but is also a one-handed sword. If someone doesn't know the truth, they would definitely think that Teng Yuzhao is holding a Western sword.

Indeed, the so-called Meiji sword was modeled after the Western German army's sword. It was not until after the Russo-Japanese War that the Japanese army began to use the Showa sword that was familiar to later generations.

Teng Yuzhao looked at it for a while, then casually threw the saber to a soldier who was cleaning the battlefield.

Probably after receiving the report from the soldiers, the excited Liu Shijiu and the worried Wang Decheng came running over with a few people.

"Xingfu, following you into battle is such a joy!"

Liu Shijiu came up to Teng Yuzao while shouting, and said with a laugh, "We killed all of these more than a thousand Japanese soldiers. Not a single one was left alive."

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