The Qing Dynasty
Chapter 256 The US Army Enters the City
Chapter 256 The US Army Enters the City
"Report to the Lord, a foreign devil has already started to climb the city wall."
Soon after, a communications staff officer sent by Liu Shijiu hurried over to report to Teng Yuzhao.
In Teng Yuzao's telescope field of view, a head wearing a typical American gray grab sports cap appeared, cautiously emerging from the city wall, followed by a chest in a khaki military uniform.
As the American soldier clung to the battlement and looked around the city, the copper buttons on his uniform occasionally reflected a bright light under the sunlight.
This is the khaki tropical uniform with copper buttons that was first adopted by Americans in the military uniform reform in 1898. It was mainly distributed to US troops in the Caribbean and the Philippines.
Practicality and suitability for field operations are the keynotes of this type of clothing. Its cut is simple, or it can be said to be concise. Of course, this simple military uniform naturally has low decorative value.
This grab-and-go cap of the U.S. military is a favorite of American soldiers stationed in tropical areas because of its sun-shading function.
This should be Calvin P. Titus, the bugler of the 14th Regiment of the U.S. Army, Teng Yuzhao thought secretly in his heart.
Following a burst of hurried footsteps, a slightly breathless voice sounded behind Teng Yuzhao.
"Report, the entire Imperial Guard Battalion has arrived at Chongwen Gate. Please give us your instructions, sir."
Teng Yuzhao put down the telescope, turned around, and saw the commander of the Guard Battalion, Hu Daqiu, standing behind him, panting and fully armed.
Teng Yuzao nodded, pointed in the direction of the East Gate and said, "Hua Zhang, you will personally take a sentry to the city and be ready to go along the city wall to the East Gate to support the Gansu troops there at any time."
Teng Yuzao pointed to the end of the city wall a few hundred meters to the east and said to Hu Daqiu, "There is a sentry from the Second Mixed Brigade there, and they are also under your unified command."
"Your mission is only one, which is to prevent the Russian army from climbing the city walls and to use the city walls to block the Russian army as much as possible, so that they cannot rush into the outer city. Even if the Russian army breaks through the city walls at all costs and rushes into the city, you must inflict as much casualties on the Russian army as possible, or at least make the Russian army that breaks through the city walls lose a layer of skin."
"Your fire support posts will be deployed on the Chongwen Gate and near the gate to prevent the coalition forces from rushing into the inner city."
"The remaining four posts and the grenade platoon of the fire support post will temporarily stand by the city gate as a reserve force. However, you must bring the Maxim heavy machine guns of the four posts with you. You have few people, and they will be needed at the East Gate."
The strength of the Guards Battalion has been greatly increased in this expansion. It is now organized into six sentries, including a fire support sentry. Although the battalion headquarters only has a guard platoon and a grenadier platoon and no other directly affiliated units, the number of people is still slightly more than that of the first battalion of the Mixed Brigade.
As for the grenade platoon of the Guards Battalion, it is not unique to the Guards Battalion. Although during combat, each outpost of the vanguard army will receive a lot of simple grenades made by the camp office, there is still a group of soldiers in each unit who are specifically responsible for throwing grenades. These people are tall soldiers with long arms, and their purpose is to throw the heavy Teng grenades farther.
Hu Daqiu received the order and hurried down to the city to make arrangements.
Teng Yuzhao once again pointed his telescope at the section of the city wall south of the East Gate.
In just a short while, more than a dozen American soldiers appeared on the city wall. This should be because Calvin P. Titus did not find anyone guarding this section of the city wall after he climbed up, and the American soldiers had already set up ladders. Guangqumen was one or two kilometers away from where the American soldiers climbed the city wall. The American soldiers did not send any troops to Guangqumen, not to mention that it was the attacking point of the British army.
It is much closer to the East Gate, only a few hundred meters away. However, since the East Gate is oriented north-south, the outer city wall where the East Gate is located extends eastward from the inner city wall and then turns south. The location where the US troops climbed the city is in the southeast corner of the East Gate tower. There is a certain blind spot when looking from the tower at the location where the US troops climbed the city.
As long as the U.S. troops did not try to rush along the city wall, it would be difficult for the Gansu troops guarding the east gate to discover that the U.S. troops had already entered the city.
Moreover, rushing along the bare and uncovered city wall was definitely not a good idea. They would be subjected to intensive volleys of fire from the Gansu Army on the East Gate Tower and on the city wall, and the casualties would certainly be heavy.
What's more, the people waiting for rescue there are the dishonest Russians.
As Teng Yuzhao expected, the U.S. military quickly lowered dozens of ropes from the city wall, and then a large number of U.S. soldiers began to slide down the city wall into the outer city along the ropes. Teng Yuzhao even saw heavy machine guns hanging from ropes.
Although there were dozens of ropes, it still took these American soldiers, who had not received special training, more than half an hour to get more than 5,000 people down to the city.
Teng Yuzhao looked at the watch on his wrist again. He was already extremely anxious. Seeing that the time was almost 11:30 in the morning, the British army should arrive outside Guangqumen in a while.
Teng Yuzhao was very worried that if the fighting started at Guangqumen, the U.S. military would rush over to support the British army into the city. If the two allied forces were allowed to join together, his idea of greatly weakening the U.S. military would fail.
Although the distance was quite far and Teng Yuzhao could not clearly see the appearance of the American soldiers in and outside the city, he could still tell from their height that most of them were tall and must be real American soldiers.
There are more than 2,000 soldiers who are shorter and thinner, and most of them should be Filipino soldiers.
Because of his past life, Teng Yuzhao also had no good feelings towards these Filipino soldiers.
No matter whether they were Americans or the Filipinos who were a vassal state of the United States, Teng Yuzao had no psychological burden in killing them.
Just when Teng Yuzhao raised his wrist to check the time again, a scene that made him happy appeared.
The nearly 6,000 American troops gathered under the city no longer waited for the American troops who were still slipping down from the city wall, but began to split into two groups. The larger group followed a wider street and quietly moved towards Chongwenmen. The other group, which consisted of only about 2,000 American troops, began to shuttle through the streets and alleys, heading towards the East Gate.
It is estimated that the commander of the US military felt that his troops had successfully entered the city, and it would be somewhat unreasonable to watch the Russian army suffer a hail of bullets in the East Gate city wall. Therefore, he separated this force to prepare to attack the Gansu Army at the East Gate from behind.
At the same time, Teng Yuzao discovered that the shield vehicles near Guangqu Gate on the city had quietly moved forward a long distance since they had begun to move forward.
Thanks: Qingfeng Piaoguoyang book friend for his encouragement!
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(End of this chapter)
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