The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 128: First Killing of Japanese Invaders
"Yes."

After receiving Teng Yuzhao's order, three messengers from the cavalry battalion immediately rode back to deliver the message.

Only then did Teng Yuzao draw the sword from his waist and pointed it forward diagonally, "Brothers, follow me and kill!"

Before Teng Yuzhao finished speaking, he urged the warhorse under his crotch, and the big white horse leaped forward easily, rushing several meters away in an instant. The cavalrymen behind him, who had been on full alert, immediately urged their horses to follow closely behind Teng Yuzhao, and rushed towards the Japanese cavalry who were more than 400 meters away and had no time to gather.

Although Mongolian horses are known for their endurance, their short-distance sprint speed is also impressive. Most well-trained Mongolian war horses can sprint at speeds exceeding 500 meters per minute. There have even been ones that have reached a record of 1,600 meters in a little over two minutes. This speed is almost comparable to that of European horses.

The vanguard cavalry battalion, composed entirely of Mongolian horses, had reached the target in a blink of an eye from a distance of more than 400 meters, and came close to the large group of defeated training troops and Boxers who were still scrambling to break out of the encirclement and killing of the Japanese cavalry, but there were some who were faster than them.

Teng Yuzao, who started more than ten seconds later than the cavalry battalion, rode his pure white Spanish warhorse, which seemed not to be using its full strength, and strode forward like a silver whirlwind, passing from behind the cavalry battalion in a flash. In the blink of an eye, he had rushed past the horses of Xue Zhiqian and Su Xilin, who were at the front of the cavalry battalion, and swept into the group of fleeing soldiers, and rushed straight towards a group of Japanese cavalry who were still killing them wantonly.

Although this battalion of Japanese cavalry had already seen the cavalry battalion charging at them when it rushed out of the woods, the Japanese cavalry were now scattered among the fleeing soldiers. Even if they wanted to gather their forces and form a powerful formation to fight, it was too late.

However, the captain of the Japanese cavalry battalion did not care that they could not form a combat formation.

Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, almost all the cavalry of the Qing army would not fight against them. Not to mention cavalry battles, even against infantry, it was rare to see the cavalry of the Qing army.

The impression left on him by the Qing cavalry was that they were only capable of carrying out tasks such as reconnaissance, messaging, and ceremonial duties. At most, they would just put on an act on the battlefield. The Qing army would never dare to engage in a cavalry duel that could truly demonstrate the courage of cavalry warfare.

In fact, the captain of the Japanese cavalry battalion was absolutely confident that with the current loose troops of his cavalry battalion, they could easily defeat the seemingly alternative Qing cavalry on the opposite side.

Therefore, the Japanese captain only issued an order to use the existing combat units to fight against the Qing cavalry, and then he was the first to abandon the fleeing training troops and Boxers, and led the more than 40 cavalrymen following behind him, urging their horses to charge towards the cavalry battalion.

Teng Yuzhao didn't care what the Japanese cavalry thought. After riding his white horse back into the crowd of fleeing soldiers, he rushed straight towards a Japanese cavalry who ignored the Qing cavalry rushing towards them and didn't even care at all, and continued to kill the fleeing Qing soldiers and Boxers.

The Japanese cavalry slashed fiercely with their swords, knocking down a soldier who had discarded his weapon and was fleeing desperately, then turned their horses' heads, preparing to speed up and fight the oncoming cavalry.

However, just as his pony was gathering strength with its four hooves and he hadn't had time to raise the bloody sword in his hand, a flash of white lightning flashed in front of his pony. The Japanese cavalry only felt a chill on their necks, and then they felt extremely difficult to breathe. Later.
There was nothing more to say about him. The Japanese cavalryman whose throat was cut swayed and fell off his horse, while his pony, which was gathering strength, finally started to accelerate and seemed to be frightened, jumping and rushing out. In cavalry combat, as long as the horse rushed up, the cavalry did not need to swing the sword hard to kill. They only needed to extend the sword and rely on the inertia brought by the speed to cut a fatal wound on the opponent's body.

This is what happened to Teng Yuzhao just now. Because the opponent underestimated his horse speed and didn't have time to raise the sword in his hand, Teng Yuzhao didn't need to block the opponent's sword. His sword easily slashed across the neck of the Japanese cavalry.

The only thing that made Teng Yuzhao feel a little uncomfortable was that the Japanese cavalry's war horses were indeed short, just a large "donkey" not much bigger than an ordinary donkey. In addition, the Japanese cavalry were generally short in stature. Under normal circumstances, Teng Yuzhao could have laid his sword flat to his waist and dragged it horizontally, so that the sharp edge of the sword could just cut through the opponent's abdomen and rip open his opponent's stomach.

However, since the opponent's height and horse were much shorter than his, if Teng Yuzhao wanted to cut his opponent's abdomen with his sword, he had to lower half of his body from the horse's back.

If he placed the sword at his waist and dragged it across, his sword would just pass through the sternum of the Japanese cavalryman. Due to the obstruction of the sternum, his sword would only cut a long and deep wound on the chest of the Japanese cavalryman, but would not kill the opponent with one blow or seriously injure the opponent and make him lose his combat effectiveness.

For this reason, Teng Yuzao had no choice but to adopt a posture that made him extremely uncomfortable. Not only did he have to raise his upper arms a little, but his forearms were almost stretched out, so that his sword could be at the same height as the opponent's neck.

Even so, he had killed a Japanese cavalryman with his own hands, which made Teng Yuzhao feel extremely happy.

For some reason, after killing the Japanese cavalryman with his own hands, Teng Yuzhao did not feel the slightest bit of reluctance or uneasiness in his heart.

However, Teng Yuzhao had no time to think about why this happened, because a Japanese cavalryman with the rank of second lieutenant, who was also thin, rushed towards him while cursing loudly in Japanese, urging his pony and leading several nearby Japanese cavalrymen.

The leading Japanese cavalry squad leader's pony had just started running, but his speed was far from enough. Probably in order to increase the lethality of the sword in his hand, the Japanese cavalry squad leader raised his sword on the back of the running pony.

Teng Yuzhao could understand Japanese, and the curse from the Japanese cavalry squad leader made Teng Yuzhao very angry. He knocked the white horse's belly with his feet, and the Andalusian horse almost didn't need to gather any strength. It stretched out its four hooves and rushed towards the direction of the Japanese cavalry squad leader at lightning speed. Almost in an instant, the white horse had rushed in front of the Japanese cavalry squad leader.

The Japanese cavalry captain who had just raised his sword was frightened by the big white horse rushing towards him like lightning. In panic, he hurriedly swung his sword at Teng Yuzhao who had just raised his sword. Teng Yuzhao took advantage of the horse's speed and just added a little strength to his arm. He took advantage of the opportunity when the Japanese cavalry captain's sword had not yet been chopped down and chopped the Japanese cavalry captain's forearm with the sword in his hand.

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