The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 258 Ambush of the US Army
Standing on the flat and straight city wall, there is no obstruction to the vision at a glance. The range of the Maxim heavy machine gun is more than 2,000 meters. As long as they are within its range, all enemies will become its hunting targets.

As the American soldiers ran back along the city wall, they were bombarded with hot and dense rain of bullets from the Maxim heavy machine guns. The American soldiers fleeing on the city wall were constantly hit from behind by bullets with powerful kinetic energy, and they fell headfirst onto the city wall with screams.

There were even cases where someone was penetrated by the Maxim 11mm bullet, and then the bullet with greatly reduced kinetic energy would penetrate into the back of the person in front.

The number of fleeing people left on the city wall was dwindling, and gaps were beginning to appear among the fleeing American soldiers.

Bullets had already passed through the fleeing crowd and hit the chaotic American soldiers who were still scrambling to sneak down the city, causing casualties among the American soldiers here. This made the American officers and soldiers who were fighting for the chance to survive no longer care about the orders of their superiors. Several people instantly jumped onto each rope, and then several or even dozens of people fell down the city together.

Since there were more than a dozen people hanging on each rope, it seemed through Teng Yuzhao's telescope that dozens of human strings suddenly appeared on the city wall. Some ropes even broke suddenly due to the excessive weight. Then, a group of American soldiers rolled in pain under the city wall.

Some people saw their comrades being hit by the deadly hail of bullets from the Maxim gun, and they desperately climbed up the arrow raft to avoid the dense hail of bullets.

The American troops on the city wall were quickly cleared out under the fierce and intensive rain of bullets. At this time, a large group of officers and soldiers of the assault brigade who were hiding behind the shield vehicles swarmed out from behind the shield vehicles and pounced on the area of ​​the city wall where a large group of American troops had just gathered.

Seeing this, the American soldiers hiding in the arrow stacks were so frightened that some of them jumped directly from the more than ten-meter-high city wall, while others jumped onto the city wall and raised their hands.

Through the telescope, Teng Yuzhao clearly saw that five or six American soldiers were shot dead because their raised hands swayed slightly in order to maintain their balance when they jumped back onto the city wall.

"Boom boom", several grenades exploded under the city wall. However, although these grenades were powerful, the results achieved were very limited. Under the city, there were only the bodies of hundreds of American soldiers who were killed or injured and seriously injured.

At the same time as the grenade exploded under the city wall, explosions were also heard outside the city, followed by the sound of rifle and Maxim heavy machine gun firing from the city. Teng Yuzhao knew that these were the soldiers of the assault brigade that had rushed to the area where the U.S. troops were climbing the city, blowing up the U.S. troops' ladders and shooting at the U.S. troops outside the city.

The two American troops that had already arrived at the foot of the city were frightened and stopped when the Maxim heavy machine guns on the city fired. They had obviously realized that their retreat had been cut off by the Qing army defending the city.

However, the two groups of American troops were only slightly stunned for a moment, and then they started running again at the same time. They were no longer as cautious as before, but rushed towards their respective targets.

The idea of ​​these two American troops was simple. Since there was no access to the city nearby, even if they wanted to retreat and recapture the city wall, it would be impossible.

Since they had no way to retreat, they had only one way to save themselves, which was to attack the Qing army from behind the East Gate. This would not only allow the Russian troops at the East Gate to enter the city, but also allow them to regain communication with the Allied Forces outside the city, putting them in a position where they could attack or defend.

The other larger group of American troops had the same intention. As long as they could capture Chongwenmen, they could also rush along the city wall to rescue the Russian troops at Dongbianmen. This would not only open a passage for themselves to exit the city, but also allow them to receive a large number of Russian troops into the city, thereby quickly expanding the results of the battle and defeating the stubborn Qing troops in the city.

The first to be ambushed were the more than 2,000 American troops heading towards Dongbianmen. As they were running quickly on the deserted street, they were suddenly struck by two Maxim heavy machine guns placed in the second-floor windows of a restaurant facing the street at the end of the T-shaped street. The American troops in front were knocked down in large numbers on the street, and the bluestone paved road was instantly stained with a layer of blood.

Then, a black object emitting green smoke was suddenly thrown out from the courtyards on both sides of the street, from the roofs, and even from the windows of the houses, which puzzled most of the panicked Americans and Filipinos.

Soldiers from European powers would be familiar with these small hand-thrown bombs, or grenades. Almost all European powers had their own grenades, but they were no longer in service. But at least they would not be unfamiliar with grenades, and they would know that they could kill them. But American soldiers had no idea about grenades, because in their country, although someone invented two things similar to grenades during the Civil War decades ago, and even obtained patents in their country, these two things similar to grenades had never been used on the battlefield, and their shapes were also extremely strange.

Both of these strange grenades have impact fuses. One looks like a small mine, while the other is almost a slender mortar shell.

If these two types of grenades were used in the Qing Dynasty, they could barely be used in city sieges, but on the battlefield, they are useless.

As for the indigenous Filipino soldiers, they didn't even know what a grenade was.

The 14th Regiment of the US Army had just been transferred from the Philippines and was immediately involved in the battle to attack the capital of the Qing Dynasty. It was completely unprepared for the grenades of the vanguard army.

Therefore, the hundreds of black things that were suddenly thrown out from both sides did not make them feel that scary.

Many people ignored the things wrapped in oil paper around them that were emitting faint blue smoke and making faint "hissing" sounds, and were still scrambling to get them, lying on the ground, or hiding in the corners of doors.

Some people even wanted to break into the courtyards on the street to avoid the dense rain of Maxim bullets.

However, it was impossible to break into the courtyard through the gate and hide, because those gates were blocked by people inside without exception.

Just as the US troops on the street were in chaos, "boom, boom, boom", amid a series of violent explosions, rapidly spreading clouds of smoke and dust suddenly exploded in the chaotic ranks of the US troops on the street. The strong shock wave not only tore and blew away the limbs of US officers and soldiers, but also carried iron nails and gravel flying everywhere, and shot into the bodies of the US troops without hesitation.

For a moment, the streets were littered with blood and flesh, and broken limbs and arms and damaged rifles were thrown high into the air.

This sudden and violent explosion not only completely stunned the still somewhat confused American troops, but also caused them heavy losses. This round of Teng grenade explosions alone left corpses and thousands of wounded soldiers bleeding and screaming on the streets.

Just after the explosion was heard and before the smoke and dust on the street had dispersed, black gun muzzles appeared on the roofs and windows on both sides of the street and began shooting at the stunned American soldiers who were still hiding on both sides of the street.

For a moment, the street was filled with bullets flying everywhere. The intensive shooting with almost no blind spots caused the number of casualties among the American soldiers who were unprotected on the street to rise rapidly. The remaining American soldiers who had not been hit by bullets or who had not been hit in vital parts completely lost their command and began to flee in all directions screaming and howling.

Some people tried to go into the alleys on the side of the street, and unsurprisingly they were blocked there.

In every alley, the way was blocked by the well-organized soldiers of the Second Mixed Brigade, and then there was a burst of volleys of gunfire. In some alleys, the American soldiers who were resisting stubbornly were also attacked by grenades thrown from the yards or roofs nearby.
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