The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 134 Another job

In just a few minutes, Teng Yuzhao and his guard squad had circled most of the perimeter of the square of more than a thousand square meters. Although only seven or eight Russian soldiers died by his bayonet, with the cooperation of him and the guard squad, dozens of Russian soldiers were killed by them or by the assault brigade soldiers because of their interference.

The number of officers and soldiers of the assault brigade originally gathered in this square was nearly twice that of the Russian army. The two sides just barely ended up in a draw, but under the crazy slashing of the "big knife team" led by Liu Shijiu, the Russian army was gradually losing strength. At this time, they were disturbed by Teng Yuzhao and his men outside, causing the Russian army to suffer casualties even faster.

As the number of remaining Russian troops decreased rapidly, more soldiers of the assault brigade were freed up. No one had to face the fierce assassination of the Russian army alone. Instead, it soon turned into a besieged or even a group fight. Often two or three soldiers besieged one Russian soldier, and sometimes four or five people worked together to besiege and kill one Russian soldier. This made the Russian troops who had been holding on hard unable to hold on, and they began to retreat continuously.

“Ding ding ding ding.”

A loud charge horn suddenly sounded outside the north city of Dongjuzi, and then there was a huge wave of shouting and killing outside the north city. Then, first there was the sound of intensive Maxim gun shooting from the northeast direction of the city wall, and then there was the sound of heavy machine gun shooting from the east direction of the city wall.

Teng Yuzhao knew that Liu Yuzhi's regiment had arrived. At the same time, the heavy machine gun post on the city wall also began to cooperate with the regiment's attack in a timely manner, suppressing the British troops outside with firepower.

The sound of heavy machine guns from the east should be helping the few remaining Wuwei Front Army members who were still resisting to block the attacking Russian army.

"Da-da-da, da-da-da."

At this moment, the sound of firing from the Maxim heavy machine gun was heard nearby.

This was the sound of the Maxim heavy machine gun firing that Teng Yuzhao had been waiting for for a long time. Teng Yuzhao, who had retreated to more than ten meters outside the battle group where the fighting was still going on, could not help but look up. On the roof of a tall building several dozen meters away, the barrels of three Maxim heavy machine guns were sticking out, continuously spraying bullets. The muzzles of two of the heavy machine guns were pointing at the earthen city wall to the south, and they were continuously firing there.

There was also a heavy machine gun whose muzzle was aimed at the rear of the fighting regiment, firing intermittent bursts of fire there.

However, the burst firing technique of this heavy machine gun was still a little unskilled, and all the bursts fired were long bursts, without short bursts.

When the three Maxim heavy machine guns on the roof started firing, Teng Yuzhao finally felt a little relieved.

This was because Wu Peifu found the commanding heights in time and carried three heavy machine guns up there.

The heavy machine guns on the roof were firing towards the south, which meant that some coalition soldiers were unable to withstand the attacks of the remaining assault battalions scattered in Dongjuzi and were beginning to withdraw from Dongjuzi. The two heavy machine guns were probably conducting blocking fire on these Russian troops.

Teng Yuzhao was not worried that there were still coalition forces from the south that continued to rush into Dongjuzi, because the coalition forces attacking from the south were at most more than 2,000 people, and with the common group charge mode of the great powers, once the wall was breached, the more than 2,000 attacking coalition forces would rush in. It would definitely not be possible that there were still coalition forces from the south that had not rushed in after such a long time.

What Teng Yuzhao is most worried about now is the battle situation between the cavalry battalion and the Japanese cavalry, as well as the battle situation of Liu Yuzhi's regiment destroying the British troops in the northeast corner.

Since there are no problems here anymore, there is no need for Teng Yuzao to stay here any longer.

Hundreds of people from the assault brigade besieged the remaining two or three hundred Russian troops, and their own heavy machine guns provided suppression and cover on the outer commanding heights. Teng Yuzhao could not think of any reason why Liu Shijiu could not defeat these remaining Russian troops.

As long as Liu Jiujiu dispersed these Russian troops here, and then joined forces with the Wuwei Front Army, the Boxers, and the Training Army that had not had time to escape in Dongjuzi, it would not be difficult to completely wipe out the coalition forces that had invaded Dongjuzi. Teng Yuzao did not bother to greet Liu Jiujiu, or even care about the frequent gunfire and shouts in half of Dongjuzi. He led his personal guard squad and rushed back to the west gate, where there was a horse path to the upper city.

Although the wall of Dongjuzi was not built very high, being only six meters high, half the height of the 12-meter-high wall of Tianjin City, it still had all the qualities that a city wall should have.

The wall of Dongjuzi is much lower than ordinary city walls in height, and its structure is similar to ordinary city walls except for the east, west and north gates which are made of brick and stone.

Not only are there horse paths between the upper and lower city walls, but the width of the city walls is also sufficient, more than ten feet wide.

Although it was only intended to serve as a wall when it was first built and was not intended to have a military defense function, Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, which rose to prominence by conquering and suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, should have been accustomed to the earthen wall style used to build camps at the time. The Dongjuzi wall they built was the same as the wall of the Beiyang Military Academy, which was a shrunken city wall.

As soon as Teng Yuzao ran to the west gate, he saw Wu Peifu, accompanied by several communications soldiers holding wire hooks and telephones wrapped with copper wires, and a dozen artillery observers carrying artillery telescopes. They were jogging out of the west gate, laying out the copper wires and looking around, as if they were looking for a commanding height for observation and aiming.

As soon as Wu Peifu saw Teng Yuzhao, he immediately ran over.

"Teacher, the artillery battalion has set up a simple position behind the woods. This is the spotter sent by the artillery battalion. Where are you going to command?"

The artillery battalion's telephone should not only transmit observation, aiming and artillery correction data information in a timely manner, but also preferably receive artillery orders in a timely manner.

However, this time, Wei Jinghai and Teng Yuzao's super-small, or micro-staff department, had to be responsible for both reorganization and transportation tasks, and was really too busy, so Teng Yuzao did not bring anyone from the staff department with him.

Without those staff officers, naturally no one would worry about communications. Fortunately, Wu Peifu was careful and after discovering this problem, he ran to the artillery battalion on the way here to give instructions, asking the artillery battalion to pull down the telephone line in time to facilitate Teng Yuzhao's command.

Teng Yuzhao was very satisfied with Wu Peifu's action of taking the initiative to serve as a staff officer. He shouted as he ran towards the horse that led to the upper city.

"Set it up on the city wall, and follow me with the telephone line."

Teng Yuzhao ran so fast that he had already climbed onto the city wall before he could finish his words. Once there, he hurried to the parapet, lay on it and looked out of the west gate.

Although there were no more shouting and gunfire outside the west gate, and it was obvious that the fighting there was over, Teng Yuzhao really couldn't let go of his worry. After all, this was the cavalry battalion's first real battle.

Moreover, it was the most brutal cavalry battle.

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