The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 285 Not Being Stubborn
"The 3rd Mixed Brigade is now collecting the bodies of the Japanese and cleaning up the battlefield. However, due to the large amount of spoils, it will take some time before a detailed battle report can be submitted."

"Also, the Second Mixed Brigade's encirclement and annihilation battle in the outer city has just ended. They have completely eliminated more than 6,000 British and American coalition forces in the outer city. The Mixed Brigade and the Assault Brigade have now begun to clean up the battlefields in two locations in the outer city."

This time, the staff officer's report not only surprised the ministers, but even Teng Yuzao was shocked.

Just now, huge explosions continued to be heard from the direction of the outer city. It was obvious that Li Xianze was still fully utilizing the power of the conscienceless cannon. How come the battle in the outer city was over in such a short time, and the Anglo-American coalition forces were completely eliminated!

In the outer city, no matter what, there were five or six thousand British and American troops surrounding it! It had only been a short time, and the battle was over!

But after thinking about it, Teng Yuzhao felt relieved.

Although the British opened up the vast sea and territory of the British Empire, most of that was due to the British Navy and had little to do with the British Army. Their army only moved in afterwards and maintained order. The army fought very limited tough battles, and for hundreds of years, it was basically fighting against the indigenous people.

It was the protracted Hundred Years' War that they fought with the French, except that the time span was long and the nature of the battle was between cold weapon wars and hot weapon wars, which was fundamentally different from modern warfare. Their combat effectiveness should have been very average.

Otherwise, how could they be defeated by the American militia who wanted independence and lose the entire North American continent?

In Teng Yuzhao's opinion, if the British Navy was the top navy in the world at that time, their army could only be considered second-rate, and the first-rate army was still the German Army.

Even the Russian army is much stronger than the British.

When they heard about the battle in the outer city, Dou Nale and Kangge's hearts suddenly rose to their throats, and even their faces turned pale at the same time.

They had just heard that the Japanese army was very tenacious, and they wondered if their soldiers would also be described as “tenacious” like the Japanese army?
There are more than 5,000 people there!
Wei Jinghai was also somewhat surprised and asked anxiously, "Why so fast?"

The staff officer also smiled bitterly and said unwillingly.

"According to the report from the Second Mixed Brigade, those foreign devils were too vulnerable to attack. After the Second Mixed Brigade and the Assault Battalion used their super cannons and fired three rounds, the surrounded foreign devils began to surrender one after another."

Hearing this, Dou Nale and Kang Ge finally breathed a sigh of relief, and their expressions quickly changed, but soon their expressions turned a little ugly again.

Because the staff officer's next words made them feel a sharp pain in their hearts.

They said that their troops were very reluctant to fight, and that this staff officer and the commander on the Qing outer city battlefield seemed to be reluctant and only accepted their soldiers' surrender under compulsion, which made the two of them feel embarrassed.

However, if you think about it again, this is still much better than being as tenacious as the Japanese army. At least most of the people here have saved their lives, and after the war, they can go back alive.

Especially Kanger, he heard from Teng Yuzhao that the 14th Regiment of the US Army was among the troops entering the city, and there were more than 2,000 American guys.

Although Claude MacArthur knew very well that the troops joining the coalition were mainly composed of South Asians, in order to cheer up the great powers and even to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, they still sent several British Marine Corps troops to join the coalition. This time, there would be real British troops among the British troops that attacked the city, it was just a matter of number.

"According to the report from the Second Mixed Brigade, after being bombarded three times by our super cannons, the foreign devils there began to raise white flags and demand surrender, so Commander Li had no choice but to order a halt to the attack and accept the surrender of the remaining foreign devils."

"Three rounds?" Teng Yuzhao remembered that the huge explosions coming from the outer city were not just three rounds. He remembered that there should be at least five rounds. It was obvious that they made some discounts, or even pretended not to see any white flag, or the British and American forces in other locations could not see the location of the white flag, ignored the existence of the white flag, and continued to bombard with unscrupulous artillery.

"How many foreigners were captured?" Wei Jinghai asked impatiently.

"According to reports, the Second Mixed Concord Assault Battalion captured nearly two thousand prisoners in total."

Out of five or six thousand people, there were still nearly two thousand left. This made Teng Yuzhao sigh secretly. John Bull and these cowboys were really lucky. Even after he deliberately ordered to take fewer prisoners, so many people were still able to survive in Li Xiance's hands!

However, this is fine.

These ministers are here. If there are no prisoners this time, or if there are very few prisoners, it will be difficult to deal with.

If that happens, the good reputation that Teng Yuzhao has left among the coalition forces would probably be greatly reduced.

Although their own army surrendered to the Qing army without any sense of honor, and was even given the abominable title of "unbanned attack", which made Dounale and Kangge somewhat embarrassed, they could not help but feel extremely fortunate when they heard that there were still more than 2,000 people left.

After listening to the staff officer's report, Teng Yuzao nodded and said to the staff officer, "Tell Commander Li to organize the troops to clean up the battlefield as soon as possible and quickly count the results of the battle."

Then Teng Yuzao looked at another staff officer, who was already sweating profusely from his anxiety. Upon seeing Teng Yuzao's signal, he did not dare to delay any longer and hurriedly reported.

"Reporting to the Marshal and the Deputy Chief of Staff, Prince Qing has arrived with a small team of Goshkha and servants, and is now at the gate of the government office."

Teng Yuzhao had no good feelings towards Prince Qing. He was an incompetent and extremely greedy man, the most unscrupulous, mediocre and corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty.

Prince Qing, whose Manchu name was Aisin-Gioro Yixin, was the great-grandson of Emperor Qianlong. Just based on his bloodline, he had a high status. He was not only an important official of the royal family in the late Qing Dynasty, but also the first Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty.

Yikuang had served as the Minister of the Zongli Yamen since the tenth year of the Guangxu period. Because he followed Empress Dowager Cixi closely, he was granted the hereditary title and became the last iron-hat prince of the Qing Dynasty.

What made Teng Yuzao most angry was that Yikuang not only sold official positions and titles, but was also extremely greedy for money. He dared to defy the world and accept bribes from foreigners in foreign negotiations, thus betraying the interests of the Qing Dynasty. He could make him give up a large tract of territory for 100,000 taels of silver.

The reason why he is called the biggest corrupt official is that Yikuang and his son embezzled and accepted bribes of more than 100 million taels of silver and had a huge deposit of 7.12 million pounds.

How could Teng Yuzhao have a good face towards such a corrupt official and treacherous minister?

Teng Yuzao snorted and said, "Could it be that Prince Qing wants me to go and greet him?"

The staff officer said hurriedly, "It's not that we want the Marshal to go and greet them. It's that Prince Qing was very angry when he saw our people were going to take away the soldiers from the surrendered embassy. He insisted that our people release them and said that he wanted to let those foreign devils out of the city as well. He even injured two of our soldiers for this."

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