The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 262 Tradition and Killing

"Boom boom" The battle of Li Xianze's Second Mixed Brigade to eliminate the remaining American troops who were stubbornly resisting in the courtyard also started at this time. This made Teng Yuzhao's nervous mood relax a little.

Most of the residents in the outer city are ordinary people, merchants and shop owners. Although there are also wealthy families and even many big merchants, the truly wealthy and powerful officials still live in the city. The inner city is where high-ranking officials, people of noble status and great wealth live.

The few courtyards where the remaining American troops held out stubbornly should have been the shops of several large merchants. Although the walls of these courtyards were also tall and solid, they were obviously far from the real mansions of the wealthy.

Although the caliber of the Gruson 57mm mountain cannon is not large, its power is still incredibly great in front of these walls. One shot will blow down a section of the wall.

Under the frequent bombardment of the two Gruson mountain cannons, a large section of the courtyard wall was soon blown to pieces. Then the artillerymen operating the Gruson cannons, braving the hail of bullets from the American soldiers stationed in the yard, inside the house, upstairs and on the roofs, aimed their guns at the houses. Every shell would blow up their targets, causing smoke and dust to fly, houses to collapse, and even ignited several fires.

Fortunately, at this rate, it won't take much time to eliminate these remaining enemies.

Just when Teng Yuzao was thinking about ending the battle here as soon as possible so that Li Xianze could free up troops in time to rush to support Liu Shijiu who was besieging the American and British troops who were about to converge together, a white object that kept shaking suddenly appeared in the field of view of Teng Yuzao's telescope.

After a closer look, I found that it should be a shirt or some other kind of clothing, which was lifted by a rifle and stretched out from the window of a house occupied by American soldiers, and was shaking desperately.

Obviously, the stubborn American troops had completely lost their will to resist in the face of the artillery.

With one person taking the lead, a chain reaction soon occurred. More than a dozen white flags were stretched out from the houses occupied by the US troops, and they were waving desperately. Even in some houses and courtyards, guns were impatiently thrown out.

These American soldiers must be extremely worried that if they surrender too late, the next shell will fall on their houses or walls without hesitation, blowing them to pieces and never seeing the American sun again.

Teng Yuzhao couldn't help but secretly despise these American soldiers in his heart. They always surrendered in a timely manner, just like they did when facing the Volunteer Army in later generations. It seems that this tradition of American soldiers is still very long. I really don't know how they defeated the British on the North American continent.

At the same time, Teng Yuzhao was secretly glad for these real and fake American soldiers, as they were finally able to save their lives.

Because Teng Yuzhao knew very well that his subordinates would always find various reasons to kill these invading foreigners, no matter they were Easterners or Westerners, or even those fake foreigners who looked not much different from Chinese people. They would use excuses such as saying that the other party had intentions of resisting or were not prepared to surrender to justify their killing of prisoners.

And the generals under his command, without exception, all turned a blind eye and completely chose to ignore the behavior of their subordinates that clearly violated his requirements.

When it comes to the issue of whether to kill prisoners, Teng Yuzhao, the time traveler, is truly alone in the vanguard army.

Killing prisoners would have disastrous consequences that would affect the entire Qing army and even other Qing troops. That is, the coalition forces would choose to fight to the death and resist to the end, which would cause the vanguard army to suffer more casualties.

At the same time, the coalition forces will not take any prisoners, and their captured personnel or those who are unable to continue fighting will be killed.

This vicious cycle is just like a popular saying in later generations, "Come on, let's kill each other."

When he thought of this, Teng Yuzao couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Just when Teng Yuzao was feeling helpless, he suddenly saw a Colt M1895 heavy machine gun thrown down from a small building by American soldiers who were eager to surrender. This made Teng Yuzao's heart tighten and he almost cursed out loud.

He saw several M1895 heavy machine guns being hung from the city walls by the US military.

Although the firepower density, or firing rate, of this heavy machine gun of the US military cannot be compared with the Maxim heavy machine gun, it is lighter because it is air-cooled and does not have the heavy cooling cylinder of the Maxim. Of course, since the cooling effect of the M1895 cannot catch up with that of the water-cooled one, its sustained firing time is much worse than that of the Maxim.

In addition to being lightweight, it has another significant advantage: its ammunition is the same as the U.S. military's rifle ammunition.

In Teng Yuzhao's view, this advantage is worthy of praise. It is not only a common practice in later generations, but also what he is happy to see now.

He obviously looked down upon the useless side-loading rifles of the US military, but he could use the large amount of ammunition he had captured. In today's battle alone, he had captured hundreds of thousands of bullets, which were enough for more than a dozen Colt M1895s to use for a long time.

"Go, immediately tell Li Xietong my order. All the Yankee heavy machine guns must be confiscated intact, the battlefield must be cleaned up carefully, and all the American rifle bullets must be collected as much as possible."

Teng Yuzhao turned around and sternly ordered one of his personal guards.

"Yes."

The guard responded, turned around and ran down the city to pass on the message.

When Teng Yuzhao saw that the battle with Li Xianze was completely over, he turned around and quickly returned to the city wall. Since the battle here had already taken shape, he needed to find out the situation with Hu Dianjia as soon as possible.

Teng Yuzhao almost bumped into the communications staff officer who came running out in a hurry.

"grown ups."

As soon as he saw Teng Yuzao, the staff officer hurriedly began to report, "Deputy Chief of Staff Wei just called and said that the British troops at Guangqumen have nearly 5,000 men who have entered the city. The assault brigade has begun to block the city gate and has launched artillery fire on the British artillery positions and follow-up troops."

"In addition, Commander Hu has also completed the deployment at Qihua Gate. Deputy Commander Wang of the Assault Brigade and Deputy Commander Pan of the Independent Brigade have already led their troops to Qihua Gate."

"Now the two battalions of the artillery brigade have been deployed. Once the ambush on the U.S. troops is over, Commander Hu will start letting the Japanese devils rush into the city. However, Commander Hu asked for instructions. Even without counting the Gansu Army, he already has more than 20,000 people. Letting in 5,000 devils is a bit too few. He wants to ask for your permission to let in more devils."

"Also, Commander Liu of the Artillery Corps said that the streets after Qihua Gate into the city are relatively wide and more suitable for using the conscienceless cannon. He requested to use it."

Hu Dianjia was no longer satisfied with simply luring 5,000 Japanese soldiers into the city, but wanted to eliminate more Japanese troops at one time. As for his generals, they did not develop a fear of the Allied Forces because of the setback in the battle of Anping. On the contrary, their fighting spirit became increasingly high, which made Teng Yuzhao very happy and excited.

Although Teng Yuzhao repeatedly reminded his generals not to be arrogant and underestimate the enemy, he also did not want his subordinates to be timid or even cowardly in the face of a strong enemy. He needed his generals to be a group of lions, not a group of sheep.

Of course, what Teng Yuzhao most hopes to see are his subordinates who are cautious, vigilant, and smart lions who can judge the situation.

If he could take advantage of this opportunity to inflict more casualties on the Japanese army, Teng Yuzhao would certainly be happy to see it, but if it was not 5,000, then it would be 10,000!
This idea that suddenly popped up in his mind scared Teng Yuzhao himself. Being surrounded by powerful enemies, he had to use only 20,000 people to annihilate tens of thousands of enemies in one fell swoop. This idea was somewhat crazy.

However, when I think about the fact that the combined number of British and American troops in the outer city has exceeded 10,000, isn't it still under my control?

This made Teng Yuzao feel a strong desire to fight.
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