The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 157 You Have to Acknowledge the Person Who Killed You

Teng Yuzao waved his hand at the more than 100 Russian prisoners in the yard, "Kill them all, don't spare any!"

"Yes."

After Li Xianze answered, he immediately turned around and fiercely ordered a sentry leader who had been waiting not far away, "Tell the brothers, don't spare any of the Russian prisoners, kill them all!"

Teng Yuzao turned around and said coldly to Wu Peifu, Li Jinyu and the row of guards who were full of resentment, "You guys go over there too and help me vent my anger!"

"Yes."

Wu Peifu, Li Jinyu and guard platoon leader Xu Ting all took out the pistols from their waists, loaded the bullets into the chamber, and then strode into the yard with a platoon of soldiers, following the sentry leader.

Although they could not understand Mandarin, the Russian prisoners surrounded in the yard realized that something was wrong when they saw the sentry leader and Wu Peifu and his group coming towards them with murderous intent. They immediately stood up in panic, and some even shouted in Russian, trying to rush out to escape.

But how could it be possible for these unarmed Russian prisoners to break out of the encirclement of hundreds of vanguard troops who were armed with live ammunition and whose rifles were equipped with sharp bayonets?

Even without counting the hundreds of soldiers of the Second Regiment on guard near the village entrance and outside the courtyard, the sentry surrounding them, plus the row of guards led by Wu Peifu, added up to nearly three hundred people. Three hundred fully armed soldiers could not do much against more than a hundred unarmed prisoners. In just a few minutes, more than a hundred prisoners were stabbed with bloody holes by bayonets amid gunfire and screams, and all died.

After killing these evil Russian soldiers, Teng Yuzao was still a little unsatisfied. Listening to the gunshots that were still ringing from time to time in the village, he said bitterly, "Kill all the rest as well."

Li Xianze was stunned by Teng Yuzao's words, and he hurriedly said, "Sir, although we didn't capture many prisoners this time, we still have three American officers and dozens of Annan prisoners from the US military. In order to prevent these people from seeing us kill these Russians, I have locked them up in an empty granary in the village. These people..."

Although Teng Yuzao had no good feelings towards the Annamites and Americans, he gave up the murderous intention after thinking about it.

Teng Yuzhao thought about it, and suddenly realized that since he was somewhat concerned about the reputation of killing prisoners and being held accountable later, why didn't he use his series of victories to build up more momentum for himself!

If he used his successive victories against the Allied Forces well, it would be enough to shape himself into a national hero. For a great hero, not to mention that his minor mistakes would be forgiven by the world, even if the imperial court wanted to harm him in the future, it would have to take into account the outcry of people all over the world.

Now, the people of Tianjin City must know about his achievements, and with Yu Lu's endorsement, the court will certainly believe it. But the people of the capital may not know about it, and the officials, gentry and people in other provinces will know even less. After returning, it seems that Li Yaoting has to find a way to spread all his achievements through newspapers, and quickly establish his reputation as the mainstay of the Beiyang government in resisting foreign invasion.

Teng Yuzhao thought again that the battle in "Beiyang Military Academy" was proved by photos, Xigu and the attack on the concession were also certified, and even the battle of Dongjuzi by Pan Jinshan, Lianjun and the Boxers could prove it. But no one could prove the battle tonight, and no camera was brought over. It was unfounded and would inevitably be criticized.

Thinking of this, Teng Yuzao did what he said and immediately took out a small notebook and a pen from his pocket. After writing a few lines of English on the notebook, he privately handed the page with English written on it to Li Xianze.

“Pick out a captured American officer, give him a captured horse, and send someone to escort him back to Dagukou as soon as possible.”

Seeing that Li Xianze was a little confused, Teng Yuzao said, "I plan to let the coalition forces collect the bodies themselves, but they can't just take them away casually. After the Japanese, Russian and American troops collect the bodies, they must write me a reply stating how many bodies of officers and soldiers of their respective countries they took away, and have their highest commander in Dagukou personally signed. Otherwise, they will not be allowed to collect the bodies, and I will throw all the bodies of their fallen officers and soldiers into the river."

Li Xianze suddenly realized and nodded, saying, "This is a good idea! It not only saves us some effort, but also gives us evidence of destroying the foreign devils. When we hand it over to the court, we don't have to worry about anyone slandering us for false military achievements."

Taking advantage of the opportunity when Li Xianze arranged for people to release the people, Wu Peifu walked up to Teng Yuzao and said in a low voice, "Teacher, as the saying goes, killing people is not enough. We killed so many foreign devils, and we still forced them to sign to confirm. Isn't this a bit..."

Teng Yuzao looked at Wu Peifu and said with a stern face, "Zi Yu, are you going to say that what I did is against the way of the saints?"

“Students don’t dare!”

Seeing Teng Yuzhao's sullen face, Wu Peifu couldn't help feeling a little worried.

Teng Yuzao also knew that he was a little too serious, so he said with a smile, "Zi Yu, you have to remember that these coalition forces are invaders who invaded our country. To deal with invaders, any means are acceptable. I am going to kill your people immediately, and you have to agree with it."

He took Teng Yuzhao and walked quickly into the village.

"Forget about these people. In this battle, I will kill all the captured Russian prisoners. As for the remaining Russian soldiers who are resisting in the village, there is no need to wait until dawn. I can't wait any longer. I will do it now."

In front of the house of a wealthy family in the village, Teng Yuzhao looked around the courtyard in the dim flickering light of a burning torch.

The house was not very large. From the outside, it looked like a three-courtyard house. However, the house was very solidly built. The walls and the houses inside were all made of bluestone. If you wanted to attack it, you would have to pay a price. But it would not be worth it to suffer too many casualties against the remaining Russian army, which was already a dead end.

Teng Yuzhao saw some soldiers chiseling the wall with tools in their hands in front of the wall behind the yard. It seemed that Li Xiance had given up on the gate that had been blown open and was preparing to start with the wall first.

The method is good, but still a bit conservative.

"Kangnian, how many grenades do you have left?"

This time, a lot of explosives were found in the East Bureau. These explosives naturally could not be left idle. Moreover, among the workers of the East Bureau that Wei Jinghai sent people to find, there were all kinds of people who could do all kinds of things. Not to mention making explosive packs, there would be absolutely no problem in making more complicated weapons, and all kinds of materials were also available.

Dongjuzi can not only manufacture artillery shells and bullets, but also fuses, not to mention the simpler pull-type fuses.

With their help, Teng Yuzao simply gave Wei Jinghai two more tasks, one of which was to make simple grenades.

The so-called simple grenade is one without an outer iron shell. If you want to make such a real grenade, you have to start a furnace to smelt iron, and then cast the iron shell of the grenade. If you want a shell with prefabricated fragments, it will be more troublesome. All of this takes time. Such grenades can only be made by Li Yulin in Xianghe.

Teng Yuzhao urgently needed a simple individual weapon, which was a grenade.

Now that it is urgently needed, we have to make something simple, that is, without an iron shell.

The simple grenade designed by Teng Yuzao was simply made by drilling a hole on the wooden handle. Through the hole, a trigger device similar to the later German wooden-handled grenade was installed on the back of the wooden handle. A circle of explosives was tied to the front end of the wooden handle, and a simple grenade was successfully made.

This kind of simple grenade will not produce explosive fragments, so Teng Yuzao mixed some small iron nails in it. In fact, small iron balls are best, but Teng Yuzao could not find any usable filling materials such as iron balls or steel balls for the time being, so he had to use iron nails.

In order to increase the power, Teng Yuzao used half a pound of explosives at the front end of each simple grenade, which is exactly one and a half times the amount of explosives in the later German M24 grenade.

"When we left Dongjuzi, I brought out the thirty-six grenades that the craftsmen had just made. I just used two of them to blow up the gate."

Li Xianze continued with lingering fear, "That thing was really powerful. It blew the gate to pieces with just one blow. We all hid 30 meters away, but two people were still injured by the flying nails."

The famous German M24 only had 162 grams of explosives, while his "Teng grenade" had 250 grams of explosives. If the later German M24 grenade was an offensive grenade, then his "Teng grenade" could be considered an offensive artillery shell.

Because the amount of explosives in 500 grams is much larger than that of the mm mortar shells that appeared a few years later, how can the power of such a large amount of explosives be small?

Teng Yuzao nodded. "The Russians in the backyard would have heard the sound of the wall being smashed. They must have been prepared and had people bundle the grenades into bundles. Four grenades in a bundle were placed at the back where the wall was being smashed, and the remaining twenty grenades were placed in bundles of ten on the left and right sides of the wall."

"Send someone to feint at the gate first, then detonate the hand grenades on the back wall to blow down the section of the wall that has been chiseled. Then, make another feint to lure the Russians in the yard to the front and back yards, then detonate the hand grenades on the left and right sides to blow down the wall, and rush into the yard from both sides at the same time."

"Before entering the yard, throw some torches inside to prevent our people from losing sight of their targets after rushing in. Also take the remaining four grenades inside. If there are any remaining Russians hiding in the house, blow them up with grenades."

Li Xianze was so surprised and delighted that he could not help but slap his thigh heavily, "Why didn't I think of this method? If I had known it earlier, I would not have let these old Russians be so arrogant."

Bundles of grenades can be prepared quickly, which is an advantage of the German long-handled grenade. When necessary, it can be bundled together for use to increase the explosive power.

Because the explosive power of this grenade containing iron nails was too great, Li Xianze ordered people to press bundles of grenades under the corner of the wall with a small millstone, and then tie a rope more than ten meters long to the fuse of one of the grenades. The people responsible for detonating the explosion and the soldiers who were preparing to rush into the yard hid behind a house more than 20 meters away.

Following Li Xiance's order, the soldiers threw dozens of torches into the yard across the courtyard wall, and then immediately ran away. Then the soldiers outside the gate of the yard began to shoot at the cinema door that had been blown to pieces, and some soldiers even shouted.

"Kill! Go into the yard and kill all the Russians."

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