The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 3 Two Teng Yuzao

As the order was issued, chaotic and hurried footsteps suddenly sounded in the yard of the military camp, and several sentries hurriedly ran to the barracks of their own posts to convey the order to prepare to set off.

The assistant Li Yulin and the chief instructor Liu Changfa, along with two clerks, ran to call Hu Daqiu, the shed leader directly under the captain, and arranged for his men to go to the chief husband in the camp. The soldiers in this shed then led teams to help the two committee members in charge of the camp's food and wages and weapons and ammunition to help them sort out the food, wages and weapons.

Captain Teng’s residence is a suite with a living room outside and his bedroom inside.

Manager Teng hurried into the bedroom, pulled out a brown cowhide suitcase from under the bed, took out the key to open it, and uncovered the clothes placed on top of the suitcase. He did not care about the hundreds of taels of silver in the suitcase. Instead, he continued to reach his hand under the suitcase, took out two heavy cloth bags, and then closed the suitcase and locked it again.

Following the sound of footsteps, two people walked in from outside. They were two clerks in the camp. One of them was holding a teapot with boiling water and began to make tea for Captain Teng, while the other clerk began to help pack Captain Teng's belongings.

Captain Teng ignored all this and carefully carried the two heavy cloth bags to the outer living room. He opened the bags with slightly trembling hands. As the bags were opened, a pistol in a brown cowhide holster appeared before him, but this pistol was much larger than the Browning revolver he had in the holster on his waist.

With slightly trembling hands, Teng opened the holster and took out the large blue-painted pistol. What appeared before him was the famous German-made Mauser C96 pistol, commonly known as a box gun, box gun, or large mirror.

The Mauser pistol in Captain Teng's hand has a long magazine with a twenty-round magazine. It should be called a mirror box gun in China.

Looking at the gun that finally pulled him back into reality, Captain Teng couldn't help but feel dazed...

In his concept of time, just a few hours ago, he was an assistant lecturer teaching modern world war history at a military academy more than a hundred years later. But for some reason, just because he was drunk at a classmate party at the military academy, he inexplicably traveled through time to the late Qing Dynasty, more than a hundred years ago from his time, and it was the disastrous Gengzi Year that brought shame to the Chinese people.

After he woke up from being knocked unconscious by a cannonball, he noticed something unusual not only from the pigtailed figures surrounding him, but also from Yu Lu's robe and his crane patch, and the inexplicable extra memories in his mind also reminded him that he had traveled through time and space to become a captain of the Qing Wuwei Army who had the same name as him, also called Teng Yuzhao.

In particular, the real and severe pain from the wound on the back of his head made him more certain that he did not accidentally enter a film and television shooting location, and everything he faced was a reality that could not be more real. Although his name is still Teng Yuzhao, he is no longer the Teng Yuzhao of the 21st century, but the Teng Yuzhao of the late 19th century.

Or, it can be said that he is now the commander of the Qing Wuwei Army, Teng Yuzhao, and no longer the assistant instructor Teng Yuzhao.

What made him happy and fortunate was that Teng Yuzhao was not a mediocre Qing army officer of that period. He was the first graduate of the Beiyang Military Academy who accepted the Western military education system. More than ten years ago, he was even fortunate enough to be recommended by the then Zhili Governor Li Hongzhang to study military in Germany. Among the four people who went to Germany to study with him was Duan Qirui, who later became a famous Beiyang giant.

However, Teng Yuzhao was upright by nature and strict in military discipline. After returning to China, he served in several places, but was not liked by his superiors. Finally, he had to return to the Beiyang Military Academy as a teacher.

Fortunately, in the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, which was the year before last, Ronglu, the governor of Zhili, formed a new army, the Wuwei Army. Teng Yuzhao, who was unwilling to be lonely, was finally appreciated by Ronglu and was transferred to help train the new army.

After the new army was initially formed, Ronglu no longer served as the Governor-General of Zhili, and recommended Teng Yuzhao to Yulu, who succeeded him as the Grand Councilor, Minister of Rites, and Minister of the Zongli Yamen. He even handed over a battalion of the vanguard of the Wuwei Army, which Teng Yuzhao had trained personally, to Yulu. Yulu directly recommended Teng Yuzhao as the fourth-rank commander of the vanguard battalion, commanding this battalion of new troops.

Although Yu Lu had served as a general in Shengjing and the Governor-General of Sichuan, he knew nothing about the New Army. Therefore, he highly recognized and trusted Teng Yuzao, a graduate of the Beiyang Military Academy with a study abroad background, and often asked him to assist in matters related to the New Army.

This time, it was Yu Lu who took Teng Yuzao to inspect the Laolongtou Railway Station. There were troops of Zhejiang Admiral Ma Yukun, who was temporarily under the command of Wuwei Left Army President Song Qing, stationed there. Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the railway station, they encountered a sudden attack by 7,000 Russian troops on the Laolongtou Railway Station, which led to the thrilling scene more than an hour ago.

Teng Yuzhao sighed and made a secret decision in his heart.

It was inevitable to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but now he had to hide this "treasonous" intention very well, otherwise, no matter how far he went, he would probably lose his head.

In a word, he now not only has to infiltrate the ranks of the "reactionaries", but also has to strive to temporarily become a "big reactionary" so that he can fish in troubled waters and eventually rise up from the situation.

Although he is still unclear about how far he can go in the end, but since he has come to this world, he cannot leave this life in vain.

This is also the reason why Teng Yuzhao tried his best to persuade Yu Lu to lead his troops to station in the Beiyang Military Academy.

Because Teng Yuzhao remembered that this afternoon, the British army would set out from the British Concession, cross the Baihe River, and attack the Beiyang Military Academy. In the end, the British army set fire to the armory and exploded it, which led to the death of all 90 students who stayed behind.

These left-behind students were the elite military talents of that period, and each one was very precious. He could not bear to see these students disappear so quietly in the long river of history.

Teng Yuzhao calmed himself down and looked at the Mauser pistol in his hand again. The Mauser pistol would not become popular in China until more than a decade later. The pistol in his hand was given to him by Christian, a German classmate he met when he was studying in Germany and currently the manager of the Tianjin branch of the German company Le & Co. on Zhenshi Street outside the north gate of Tianjin, as a gift to express his gratitude.

The reason for his gratitude was that Teng Yuzao introduced several arms deals of the Wuwei New Army to his branch company.

Teng Yuzhao knew very well that this earliest semi-automatic pistol had only been developed in Germany a few years ago. Although it was not very popular abroad, it was very popular in China.

Teng Yuzhao was very fond of this Mauser pistol. As a military history researcher, he had seen this type of pistol in the weapons exhibition room of the academy in his previous life and had disassembled it many times. What interested him most was that this pistol did not require any tools to be disassembled. He could easily disassemble it with just one of his bullets.

Teng Yuzhao picked up a bullet and began to disassemble the Mauser pistol in his hand. He would use this pistol to fight on the battlefield in the future. Having a pistol with excellent performance in his hand would undoubtedly increase his chances of defeating his opponent and increase his life-saving costs. He must ensure the absolute reliability of this Mauser.

Sure enough, as later generations said, this Mauser pistol has hardly changed in the decades of production since its invention. It can be said that the Mauser pistol was a nearly perfect pistol after it was developed. Teng Yuzhao quickly disassembled the pistol, picked up the gun oil, began to oil the parts, and then carefully wiped off the gun oil with a piece of clean silk.

He reassembled the Mauser pistol, removed the magazine, and began to load bullets into it.

Young Christian not only gave him a pistol, but also five hundred rounds of ammunition.

Teng Yuzhao had just finished all this quickly when his assistant Li Yulin hurried in with a stern look on his face.

(End of this chapter)