The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 305: Speculations Raised by Zhu Kaishan
The coalition forces held their positions tightly and refused to move out, but Teng Yuzhao did not dare to sit idle.

Although Teng Yuzhao wanted to deal another heavy blow to the coalition forces outside the city, and even wanted to take advantage of the fact that they were divided up and stationed there to concentrate his forces to deal a devastating blow to one of them, or at least to severely damage one of them, he finally gave up the idea.

Although Teng Yuzao took advantage of the favorable terrain in the city and the coalition forces were eager to rescue the people who had been besieged in the embassy area in the city for several months.

It is even possible that because they had just successfully raided the Vanguard Army in Anping, they underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, giving him the opportunity to inflict severe damage on them. However, there were still nearly 100,000 coalition forces outside the city, not only did they not suffer serious damage, they still have twice the number of people as before the expansion of the Vanguard Army. Even if the strength of 40,000 new recruits was discounted and barely included, their strength was still stronger than the Vanguard Army.

Moreover, although the coalition forces were stationed in different places, the number of people in each place was probably more than 30,000. With his current strength, it would be almost an impossible task to attack and annihilate any of them.

Because as long as the other side can hold on for an hour or two, their reinforcements will arrive.

Not to mention that the vanguard army now has a large number of new recruits. Even if they are all well-trained troops, it is unrealistic to eliminate more than 30,000 coalition forces who are relying on their positions to defend themselves in a short period of time.

Especially in the current situation of lack of automatic weapons, in order to maintain a certain density of firepower and to break through the enemy's positions, a large group charge is necessary.

Not to mention that the Allied Forces also had a large number of Maxim heavy machine guns, even their superior artillery would inflict heavy casualties on the vanguard's assault troops.

Since the coalition forces will not attack the city for the time being, Teng Yuzhao dare not sit idle. He will naturally not miss this rare breathing time.

On the second day after inflicting a severe blow to the Allied siege forces, Teng Yuzhao ordered his troops to quickly begin training and conduct large-scale military exercises throughout the army.

As time was short, training had to be carried out in a hurry, so this training plan was personally drawn up by Teng Yuzhao.

Since time was pressing, Teng Yuzao certainly did not dare to waste it easily. Even in order to cultivate the discipline of the troops, Teng Yuzao always paid great attention to the soldiers' military posture and formation training. However, this time due to time constraints, only one hour of formation training was arranged every day.

The rest of the time is arranged for shooting, bayonet fighting and sword training.

The shooting and bayonet training was short, with only twenty days. Even if the training was arranged 24 hours a day, it would be impossible for the recruits to reach the standard of proficiency and mastery.

Teng Yuzhao made this arrangement simply in the hope that these recruits could perform these movements passively and mechanically so that they could subconsciously respond to stress when necessary.

To achieve true proficiency, whether in shooting or bayoneting, one needs to accumulate experience through long-term combat in the future.

As for the broadsword, the Boxers lacked everything except the broadsword. Many of the new recruits who were used to using broadswords carried a broadsword on their backs.

In a short period of time, if hand-to-hand combat were to take place, these men would be a greater threat using their broadswords.

The person who was most happy but also most conflicted about this expansion was Liu Shijiu.

Because there was Zhu Kaishan, the Boxer leader who was proficient in martial arts, many new recruits who were also proficient in martial arts strongly requested to join the assault detachment.

With the addition of a large number of new recruits who are proficient in martial arts, the size of Liu Shijiu's broadsword team has been rapidly expanded. Now the number of the first battalion of the assault detachment, which is the broadsword team that specializes in using broadswords in hand-to-hand combat, has exceeded 2,400 people. This is the result of Liu Shijiu's selection, otherwise the number would be even greater. Looking at these agile team members who each have a Mauser pistol or revolver, plus Teng's hand grenade, and a sharp broadsword, this first battalion has become a very elite assault force.

Even Teng Yuzao felt jealous and immediately made the decision on behalf of Liu Shijiu. When the twelve M1895 heavy machine guns captured from the US troops were divided into two, six each for the assault detachment and the independent detachment which had fewer heavy machine guns, he directly decided to allocate three of the six M1895 heavy machine guns of the assault detachment to the First Battalion in order to strengthen its firepower.

If there wasn't already a special guard squadron, Teng Yuzhao would even want to take out a squadron from the first brigade to follow him.

Teng Yuzhao was not the only one who was jealous of the powerful assault detachment. Even Zhu Kaishan, who was originally assigned to the independent detachment as deputy commander by Teng Yuzhao, found Teng Yuzhao like the other recruits and insisted on joining the assault detachment.

This made Teng Yuzao quite embarrassed. After all, the assault detachment already had two deputy commanders, Wang Decheng and Liu Yanshou. If Zhu Kaishan was added, the assault detachment would have three deputy positions, which would somewhat weaken Liu Yanshou's power.

In particular, Liu Shijiu is already a sworn brother of Wang Decheng. If Zhu Kaishan is added, Liu Yanshou will be in an even smaller minority in the assault detachment, even though he is now the first deputy detachment commander, responsible for overall military command responsibilities.

The assault detachment also became a force completely led by the Liu Shijiu brothers, which was something Teng Yuzhao did not want to see.

However, Teng Yuzhao’s thoughts could not be expressed in words.

As for the reason for not agreeing with Zhu Kaishan's transfer to the assault detachment, Teng Yuzhao gave the simple reason that the independent detachment was short of a deputy position and he could not favor one over the other.

Before Liu Shijiu can be absolutely trusted, Liu Yanshou's presence is very necessary.

After learning that Teng Yuzhao was in a difficult situation, Zhu Kaishan took the initiative to find Teng Yuzhao and said that he still needed to learn more about fighting and had not made any achievements. If he was promoted to a high position suddenly, people would think that he was relying on Liu Shijiu's help. Therefore, he did not want to be a deputy detachment captain. It would be enough for him to stay in the big knife team of the assault detachment.

The most anxious person about this matter was Liu Shijiu. Liu Shijiu even went to Zhu Kaishan in person and asked him to obey Teng Yuzhao's orders.

Although Liu Shijiu had not read many books, he liked to listen to storytelling books such as "Xiaoxiazhangyi" and "Grasshopper Heroes". The influence from these stories was very beneficial to him. It can even be said that Liu Shijiu benefited greatly from them.

Teng Yuzhao could feel that Liu Shijiu seemed to understand his thoughts and was trying his best to stop Zhu Kaishan in order to keep a low profile.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Kaishan was still stubborn and insisted on his own opinion, which left Liu Shijiu helpless.

Teng Yuzao was somewhat dissatisfied with the fact that Zhu Kaishan was still going to the assault detachment, but Zhu Kaishan had already stated that he could not be the deputy detachment commander, which left Teng Yuzao speechless.

We can't force Zhu Kaishan to take up the post of the independent detachment.

Moreover, Liu Shijiu's attitude also made Teng Yuzao feel at ease.
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