The Qing Dynasty
Chapter 294: The Number That Makes People Kill with Effort
Chapter 294: The Number That Makes People Kill with Effort
After dinner, in a large wing of the Ministry of Revenue, Teng Yuzhao was making a summary of the battle.
Although it was already dark, bright lanterns were lit in the four corners of the room, and there were even large basins of ice on the floor in the four corners, but the summer in the capital was very hot, so the doors and windows had to be kept wide open.
These ice cubes were sent by Zai Yi's family members in the Prince's Mansion. The summer in the capital is very hot, and many wealthy families have built ice cellars to store ice for use in summer to cool down.
Sitting on both sides of the long table were all the senior officers of the vanguard army in the capital. There were Li Xianze, Hu Dianjia, Liu Shijiu, Cao Futian, Liu Changfa, the top officers of each unit, as well as deputy captains of the assault battalion Wang Decheng and Liu Yuanshou, and Pan Jinshan and Zhu Kaishan of the independent battalion.
What was somewhat special was that Li Yaoting, director of the Vanguard Army Security Department, was also present.
".In short, in one sentence, in today's battles, the Second and Third Mixed Brigade, as well as the Assault Battalion and the Artillery Brigade, all fought very well. But don't forget that the Independent Brigade also contributed to today's victory."
"It was Brother Cao who sent most of his troops to support you. Also, Deputy Captain Wang Decheng organized 8,000 new Boxer recruits in a short period of time. This strengthened your troops. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to achieve such a great victory."
"Your victory is inseparable from the accurate and fierce artillery fire of the artillery corps. Without their help, your victory would not be so smooth and the casualties would be greater."
Teng Yuzao took a sip of the tea on the table and continued, "For every battle today, we need to form a battle summary as soon as possible."
"Combat summaries are not only an effective means for senior officers to continuously improve their command capabilities, but are also of great help in improving the military combat capabilities of officers and soldiers at all levels, from soldiers to generals."
"Especially since there are many new recruits in the army, the battle summaries of each squad, platoon and sentry are particularly important. This can quickly improve the military quality of ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers. When you go back, you must strictly supervise them and report to you as soon as possible. Don't neglect this."
After Teng Yuzao finished speaking, he looked at Liu Shijiu.
Liu Nineteen laughed dryly and said, "Xingfu, don't worry about the assault brigade's battle summary. Yannian is supervising it closely. Not only does he urge the squadron leaders to make summaries, he also personally goes down to the squads and platoons to participate in the battle summary meetings. Even I am forced to hide from him."
Liu Shijiu's words elicited a burst of suppressed laughter.
Although Liu Shijiu was a very smart person, and even with the help of a specially assigned staff officer, he had become very familiar with modern military combat command capabilities in just a few months, but he was still a little uneasy about the frequent meetings and studies, and often found excuses to go to the army's training ground and personally lead the soldiers in training.
In order to avoid Liu Yanshou's urging, Liu Shijiu would often play hide-and-seek with Liu Yanshou. For this, Teng Yuzao had talked to Liu Shijiu many times.
Seeing that Teng Yuzhao seemed somewhat dissatisfied with Liu Shijiu's lack of attention to the battle summary, Wang Decheng hurriedly spoke.
"Marshal, I haven't done well in this regard either. In the future, I will follow Yannian to the troops below to supervise, and I will also remind Chengxiang to go along."
Cao Futian also said hurriedly, "Marshal, Ruiguang and I haven't done enough. The battle summary of the independent brigade was supervised by Brother Mingguang. We will also work harder in the future."
There is one obvious benefit to having Liu Shijiu around, and that is that as long as Teng Yuzhao reminds Liu Shijiu, others, especially Cao Futian, Wang Decheng, and Pan Jinshan, will consciously compare themselves with Liu Shijiu and find and acknowledge their own shortcomings.
Hu Dianjia also said with emotion, "What the Marshal said is true. This battle summary is indeed good. By summarizing the successes and failures of the battle, everyone's military quality will be greatly improved." "Take me for example. At first, I didn't take this summary too seriously, but after writing this summary, I felt very touched. To be frank, I feel that my command ability is much stronger than it was two months ago."
In the past, some people called Teng Yuzao "Sir" and some called him "General". But since Hu Dianjia called him "Marshal" for the first time this afternoon, this title spread throughout the army like a gust of wind. Now everyone has changed their way of addressing him and calls Teng Yuzao "Marshal".
Although Teng Yuzhao felt that it was a bit premature to be called Marshal, if he were now the Governor-General of Zhili and Minister of Beiyang, he would accept the title calmly.
Although his current rank is sufficient and he even has tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, he is still just the general manager of the Beiyang Zhili Military Affairs.
But if you think about it carefully, since these people have already started shouting, it’s no big deal. You can’t ask them to change their words now.
Therefore, Teng Yuzhao is no longer surprised by the title of Marshal, and can even accept it without any psychological burden.
Teng Yuzao encouraged everyone a few more times and then said, "Next, please ask the deputy chief of staff to report the results of the battle to you."
"Next, I will report the results of this day's battle."
After Teng Yuzhao finished speaking, Wei Jinghai picked up the battle statistics that had been prepared long ago and began to report to these people.
"Today, from noon to 5 p.m., our army fought two ambushes near Guangqumen and the final encirclement and annihilation of the remaining enemy forces, as well as the defense of the city at Dongbianmen to assist the Gansu Army, as well as the ambush at Qihuamen, the assault outside the city, and the forced surrender of the foreign devils in the Legation Quarter in Dongjiaomin Lane. A total of six battles."
"In total, we killed more than 15,600 Japanese soldiers, more than 4,200 Americans, and nearly 5,000 British soldiers. In addition, we assisted the Gansu Army in killing 3,112 Russian soldiers inside and outside Dongbianmen. In total, we killed nearly 28,000 foreign soldiers."
The number announced by Wei Jinghai immediately caused exclamations from the generals in the conference room, especially Zhu Kaishan, who was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.
Although Zhu Kaishan and Wang Decheng commanded the new Boxer recruits who joined the vanguard army to help transport the bodies of the foreign devils out of the city in the middle of the night, and saw the bodies of the foreign devils lined up for a long distance, they had enough intuitive understanding and knew that many foreign devils were killed in this battle.
But when I heard such a huge number, I couldn't help but open my mouth in surprise. More than 28,000 people, even if they were standing in a row, they would be so killing that people would be relieved!
The surprise of these generals who participated in the battle was no less than that of Zhu Kaishan.
Although they all commanded the battle personally, Liu Shijiu even led the big knife team and personally led the team to charge at the critical moment of the ambush, defeating the resistance formation that the British army had just organized in one fell swoop, and even killed a British colonel on the spot with a knife, disrupting the British army's resistance.
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