The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 265: Encirclement and Killing of the Japanese

Just as Teng Yuzhao's hand had just grabbed the telephone receiver and had not yet had time to shake the handle, he finally heard the long-awaited whistling sound of a cannonball being fired.

Moreover, this shriek was not just one sound, but an exciting series. Judging from the sound, there should be at least eight artillery pieces firing at the same time.

Now, the Japanese troops inside Qihua Gate have almost completely mixed with the vanguard army and the Gansu army.

The two sides are only a stone's throw away from each other, with the only difference being the distance between the city walls, the streets and the houses on both sides of the courtyards.

At this time, the Japanese troops outside the city absolutely did not dare to fire at the city. The cannons that were firing now were undoubtedly the cannons of Liu Changfa's artillery brigade.

Moreover, Teng Yuzhao also heard the sound of artillery firing from the top of the city wall.

The artillery on the city wall should be the artillery of Hu Dianjia's artillery battalion stationed on the city wall. Their target was obviously the artillery positions of the Japanese army outside the city.

Hu Dianjia should have used the sound of artillery fire as the order to start the ambush, because at the same time as the artillery fire sounded, Teng Yuzhao felt his eyes suddenly darken, and almost at the same time, a large number of black grenades that had blocked out the sun all day flew out from both sides of the several hundred-meter-long main street and the walls of the city wall.

There were at least a thousand grenades flying into the air.

These grenades, trailing trails of blue smoke, flew straight into the streets, the horse paths in the city walls, and into the large groups of Japanese soldiers who were still firing desperately at the top of the city walls.

"Da da da da da da da", a dense and fierce burst of Maxim heavy machine gun shooting first sounded from the direction of the sandbag bunkers on the main street.

At this moment, Teng Yuzhao was most concerned about whether the bottom of this pocket was solid and whether it could not be broken by a single blow from the Japanese army.

Just one look and Teng Yuzhao was shocked.

The three sandbag bunkers had been pushed open from the back, leaving twelve neatly arranged gaps, with exactly three gaps on each bunker. In each gap, a Maxim heavy machine gun suddenly appeared. The black muzzles of the heavy machine guns were almost pointing at the noses of the Japanese soldiers who had rushed forward, and began to continuously and violently spray a rain of bullets with huge kinetic energy at the Japanese troops who were rushing forward.

The short Japanese soldiers who were rushing in the front and were just showing their fangs and claws were either instantly smashed in the dense rain of hot bullets from the Maxim heavy machine guns, or were cut in half. In a short while, the bunker was filled with the incomplete black corpses of the Japanese soldiers and broken limbs scattered everywhere.

Many of the Japanese soldiers who were a little further away were like seriously ill patients with malaria. They first shook violently and incredibly, and then their small bodies quickly decomposed and shattered as if blown away by the hurricane-like metal storm caused by the rain of metal bullets.

There were three heavy machine gun positions at different heights, with three Maxim guns at each height. The street, which was more than ten meters wide, was tightly blocked by dense rain of metal bullets. The surging crowd of Japanese soldiers that had just filled the entire main street was rapidly receding at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like the tide receding rapidly on the reef.

The six Maxim guns on the second and third floors no longer paid attention to the large group of panicked Japanese soldiers nearby. Instead, they raised their guns and began to fire continuously at the dense crowd of Japanese soldiers behind them.

At the same time, a row of Maxim heavy machine guns appeared on the battlements of the city wall. Only a small number of them fired fiercely at the Japanese troops below the city. Most of the heavy machine guns pointed their muzzles at the hundreds of meters long main street, and madly fired at the dense crowd of Japanese troops who had just rushed into the city and had no time to deploy, killing the Japanese troops piece by piece.

Moreover, the sounds of the Maxim heavy machine guns were not limited to these. Teng Yuzao saw through the telescope that there were also a row of Maxim heavy machine guns on the city wall firing at the outside of the city. "Boom boom boom boom", before Teng Yuzao could take a few more glances at the tragic scene of the Maxim machine guns firing at the little devils, first a large area of ​​rapidly spreading gunpowder smoke suddenly rose from the main street and outside the city wall, followed by a deafening explosion.

The huge cloud of rising smoke almost completely covered the Japanese troops on the main street in an instant.

There were as many as seven or eight hundred Teng grenades thrown onto the main street. You have to know that these were large grenades with a pound of explosives. The total weight of the explosives in these grenades was as much as four hundred kilograms. Although they were scattered explosions, the explosive power and shock wave they produced were quite considerable.

"Boom boom boom boom" Before Teng Yuzhao's ears could recover from the buzzing sound.

More violent "boom boom" explosions were heard inside and outside the city.

The explosion this time was much more violent than the sound of the grenade explosions just now. Some of the dull and huge explosions were undoubtedly caused by the ten-kilogram explosive packs, while the slightly smaller explosions should be the explosions of five-kilogram small explosive packs and 60mm mountain artillery shells.

This is the Artillery Brigade using intensive artillery fire to block the way for the Japanese follow-up troops to charge into the city, and the Third Mixed Brigade on the city wall throwing the explosive packs they received at the Japanese troops at the city gate.

These explosive packs are huge, comparable to 200mm caliber heavy artillery shells and conscienceless cannons. When they fall on the crowd, the explosive power is irresistible and will definitely blow up a large area. A ten-kilogram pack can easily kill or shock dozens of people.

Right after the explosion, amid the sound of Maxim heavy machine gun fire, groups of soldiers from the 3rd Mixed Brigade emerged from the roofs and walls of houses on both sides of the street and opened intensive fire with their rifles at the Japanese soldiers who were dazed by the explosion on the street. Bloody holes appeared on the bodies of the dazed Japanese soldiers on the main street from time to time, and then they fell to the ground.

The smoke on the main street had dissipated a little. Through the smoke, Teng Yuzhao saw that the street was covered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers and their broken limbs.

The surviving Japanese soldiers were running around like headless flies, looking for places to hide.

The Japanese soldiers who wanted to break through the doors and break into the houses on the street were undoubtedly in vain. Not only were the doors blocked from the inside, but they would also be shot at from the roofs across the street behind them.

It is even more impossible to climb over the wall and jump into the courtyard. Not only will you be shot at by volleys of fire from inside the courtyard, but you will also be hit by a hail of bullets from the rear.

In some blind spots that the Maxim heavy machine guns could not reach, a small group of Japanese troops who had just gathered together in the hail of bullets from all directions would soon be attacked by several Teng grenades. Amid the "boom" sound of explosions, they would rush back into the hail of bullets and would soon be killed or injured by the flying bullets.

There were several courtyards on the street that were pushed down by a large group of panicked Japanese soldiers who rushed into the courtyards and occupied them after fighting with the soldiers of the Third Brigade in the courtyards.

But then, they would be attacked by bullets and grenades from other Third Brigade soldiers on the surrounding rooftops and in the yards, and then a large number of Green Camp soldiers and training army soldiers waving swords and holding bayoneted rifles would come up from behind them. Then they would either be eliminated in the yard or withdraw from the yard and be baptized by bullets on the street again.

Under the dense and fierce firepower, the seven or eight thousand Japanese soldiers who rushed onto the main street finally couldn't hold on any longer. They kept firing back while tumbling and crawling towards Wengcheng.
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