The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 167 Wish Failed
It was Liu Shijiu and his dozen or so broadsword team members who suddenly charged into the battle from behind.

All the members of Liu Shijiu's big knife team are highly skilled in martial arts, and some of them are even outlaws who have roamed the world.

Not only are these people usually brave and fierce, their moves are also simple and ruthless, and every time they swing their swords, they will bring about a bloody storm.

"Damn it, brothers, we've made a fortune today. These are the big hurdles for the foreign devils. Kill them! Kill all these foreign devil officers for me. I'll personally go to the president to ask for credit for you!"

Liu Nineteen's words immediately aroused great interest among the group of killers. Someone in the crowd shouted, "No one can compete with me for this tall guy. This tall guy belongs to me."

"This Japanese devil officer is mine."

In a short time, a dozen or so ferocious men hacked to pieces the guards of a dozen Russian and Japanese officers who tried to stop them from killing their commander, and then they rushed forward and hacked those officers into pieces without a human form.

The Cossacks and Japanese soldiers who were trying their best to resist and protect their leader, when they saw their leader being torn into pieces in an instant by this group of vicious villains, dared not continue to fight. With a shout, more than a dozen Allied officers and soldiers abandoned their opponents and turned to run. The rest who were slow to react had already been dismembered by sharp swords in a rain of blood.

"Brothers, kill them! We have defeated the foreign cavalry. I don't want any of them alive. Kill them all."

Liu Shijiu's voice, like a broken gong, was very penetrating, and cheers immediately rang out on the battlefield. The shouts and the sounds of swords and guns clashing suddenly became much louder.

Even the two sentries from the first battalion who joined the battle started shouting and fighting more fiercely.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Teng Yuzhao couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Originally, he sent Liu Yuanshou, who was also a graduate of the Beiyang Military Academy, to the assault battalion as deputy captain. Not only did he expect Liu Yuanshou to assist Liu Shijiu in commanding the battles, he also wanted to use Liu Yuanshou and dozens of veterans from the old troops to gradually transform the Boxers in the assault battalion who were used to being lax and fierce, so as to integrate the assault battalion into the vanguard army as soon as possible.

Now, it seems that wish has not been fulfilled.

Teng Yuzao found that not only did he fail to achieve his goal, but on the contrary, not only the newly selected recruits but also those from the training army were made extremely ferocious by Liu Shijiu and others, even the people from Teng Yuzao's old troops headed by Liu Yuanshou were full of murderous intent and banditry.

Moreover, ever since they won a great victory in hand-to-hand combat in the East Bureau last time, Liu Shijiu's assault brigade has become more and more methodical in hand-to-hand combat, and even seems to have a special liking for large-scale hand-to-hand combat.

As the Allied cavalry took the lead in fleeing and the soldiers' charge became more fierce, the Allied cavalry, which had long been unable to resist, collapsed instantly. Hundreds of people fought desperately to reopen a gap and tried to escape for their lives in the darkness.

Behind them, a large group of assault brigade soldiers ran after them, hearing the bloody bayonets. At this time, Teng Yuzao finally heard Liu Yuanshou's hoarse shouting orders, "Stop chasing, fire volleys."

After Liu Yuanshou shouted at the top of his lungs, the large group of soldiers who were in high spirits stopped and hurriedly pulled the bolts of their rifles, firing "bang bang ping pong" at the backs of the hundreds of fleeing Allied cavalry. Unfortunately, their marksmanship was far inferior to their level of hand-to-hand combat.

Although their chaotic looting killed or injured dozens of the fleeing Allied forces, it still allowed a large group of Allied cavalry to successfully escape into the darkness.

"Big brother!"

Teng Yuzao, who was stunned by what he saw, finally shouted out. Liu Shijiu, who only had eyes for the foreign devils, suddenly saw Teng Yuzao not far away. He was stunned and quickly glanced around. He saw that the guards and Wu Peifu and others had surrounded Teng Yuzao tightly in the crowd, and then he relaxed.

They turned around and glared at and cursed at the members of the Big Knife Team who were having so much fun killing that some of the foreign devils had thrown away their weapons, and some were even kneeling on the ground with their hands raised high, showing their clear intention of surrender.

"What the hell are you all still standing here for? Go kill those foreigners!"

The President strictly prohibits the killing of prisoners. Many of them were caught red-handed, right under the President's nose. This made these rough men at a loss for a moment, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

The murderous aura on his body disappeared without a trace in an instant, just like a group of children who had done something wrong were caught on the spot by their parents and were waiting to be scolded furiously.

It was not until Liu Shijiu reminded them that these people reacted. They turned around and ran quickly, rushing into the group of more than 200 allied troops who were intercepted and surrounded, and continued to kill frantically.

Seeing that the situation was settled and it would only take a moment to encircle and annihilate the Allied cavalry, Captain Lu of the First Battalion loudly called out to the men of the battalion to leave the battlefield and gather around him, and then led his men to gallop quickly westward. The convoy led by Li Xiance had already arrived at the battlefield, and he had to rush to the front as soon as possible to clear the way.

Teng Yuzhao also saw the convoy in the middle approaching the battlefield. He didn't have time to talk nonsense and asked anxiously.

"Brother, have all the horses of the coalition cavalry been dispersed?"

The purpose of attacking this cavalry was to prevent being harassed and entangled by them. In Teng Yuzhao's plan, he did not expect the attack to be so smooth, so the task he gave to the assault brigade was to kill and disperse the coalition's war horses as much as possible while attacking this coalition cavalry. However, Teng Yuzhao did not see any coalition troops escaping on horseback, and there was not even a war horse on the battlefield, which made him very worried.

Although only three or four hundred coalition soldiers escaped, as long as these three or four hundred cavalrymen were there, they would still cause considerable trouble to the rapidly retreating vanguard army.

"Ha ha!"

Liu Nineteen did not answer Teng Yuzao's words, but laughed out loud. Seeing Teng Yuzao's anxious look, Liu Nineteen knew that this was not the time to keep him in suspense, so he waved his hand and said, "Xingfu, you can rest assured that my brother will do his job, but those war horses are still fine."

Although Teng Yuzhao felt relieved after seeing Liu Jiujiu's expression, he still asked worriedly when he heard Liu Jiujiu say that the war horses were still there.

"Have they all been dispersed?"

If the war horses were forcibly disturbed and dispersed at night, by the time the coalition forces had gathered their horses, they would have almost reached Tianjin City. Even if the coalition cavalry caught up with them, he could rely on the city wall to fight against them. But if not.
Liu Nineteen could not hide his excitement and said, "Xingfu, don't worry. I will divide the troops into three groups. One group will go to the place where the foreign devils park their war horses. One group will go straight between the foreign devils and their horses as soon as the battle starts. The third group is the main force of the assault brigade. With one charge, they rushed into the camp of the foreign devil cavalry. Except for a few dozen foreign devils who grabbed the war horses and ran away, the other more than a thousand big foreign horses belong to me."

Teng Yuzhao was equally excited when he heard that Liu Shijiu not only prevented the allied cavalry from escaping on horseback, but also seized more than a thousand war horses.

"Brother, the assault team fought very well in this battle and deserves the credit."

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