The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 364 The Foreigners Come In

Teng Yuzhao refused the offer of his two bodyguards to follow him to the observation post, and simply took his Mauser rifle and two rows of bullets from the guards.

Teng Yuzhao put the bullets in his pocket and climbed up to the observation post alone along the rope ladder hanging from the big locust tree.

Teng Yuzhao has now completely regained the shooting feeling he had when he was training in the special forces training team in his previous life. Teng Yuzhao believes that this is probably the result of his ability to fully coordinate the muscle groups throughout his body.

Now, within 500 meters, he can accurately hit the target with just his naked eyes, which is no longer a difficult task for him.

Although this distance is far from the legendary record of Zhang Taofang, a senior volunteer soldier, who shot and killed an American with a Mosin-Nagant rifle without a scope at a distance of 800 meters decades later, such a result is enough for Teng Yuzhao.

Although Teng Yuzhao knew very well that in such a large-scale group battle, even if his rifle could hit the target every time, its impact on the overall situation on the battlefield would be almost negligible, he still brought his Mauser without hesitation.

Because, when he thought that he was facing the Japanese devils head-on, Teng Yuzhao felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart.

The observation post of the General Staff Office was located between the branches at the top of the crown of the big locust tree and was built with door panels.

It not only has a platform for standing, but also has a chest-high breastwork facing the official road. It is double-layered, filled with sand in the middle and guardrails made of coarse hemp rope on the other three sides.

The sand-filled compartments were very effective in blocking small-caliber ammunition. Unless hit by a Maxim heavy machine gun bullet, it would be difficult to penetrate the 6.5mm caliber bullet from the Japanese Type 30 rifle flying from several hundred meters away.

There were two staff officers on the observation post, one holding the microphone and receiver of a telephone, while the other holding a telescope, observing the direction of the end of the official road to the south through the dense branches and leaves of the big locust tree.

Hearing the noise, the two staff officers turned around to check, and saw that it was Teng Yuzhao coming up. They hurriedly wanted to salute, but were stopped by Teng Yuzhao.

"Continue with your mission, do whatever you need to do, I won't disturb you."

After Teng Yuzhao finished speaking, he walked to the corner of the observation post, put his rifle at his feet, and then took the telescope off his neck.

Although the observation platform is not very large, it is still about five or six square meters. Teng Yuzhao can stand in a corner without affecting the two staff officers and his observation line of sight will not be affected at all.

The observation platform is located in the middle of the two ambush areas of the 1st and 2nd Mixed Concorde Assault Columns. Here, the situations on two battlefields can be observed at the same time.

Teng Yuzhao raised the telescope and first observed the ambush situation of the assault column.

Teng Yuzhao was somewhat worried about the concealed position of the assault column, especially the straw piles on both sides of the official road.

In the field of view of Teng Yuzao's telescope, many straw piles have been erected on the open space of 200 meters on both sides of the official road. From the outside, there seems to be nothing wrong with them. The size and style are no different from the straw piles erected by the villagers.

The only thing that made Teng Yuzao feel a little uneasy was that in the open fields that were several miles long, there were many scattered straw and yellow leaves, which had just fallen when the straw was being moved and the straw piles were erected.

At least Teng Yuzhao felt that these straw leaves had fallen recently.

Liu Shijiu must have also discovered this problem. At this moment, some soldiers from the assault column were nervously picking up these yellow leaves.

Wei Jinghai's voice came from the receiver, and the staff officer holding the receiver and the receiver hurriedly handed them to Teng Yuzao. "Marshal, the vanguard of the foreign devils has entered the ambush area of ​​the Third Mixed Brigade. They are very careless and have not searched the surrounding green tents and those straw piles at all. It is estimated that in about 20 minutes, they will rush to the ambush area of ​​the assault column."

Wei Jinghai's call made Teng Yuzhao sigh slightly.

"Ningbo, call Liu Shijiu and tell him that his people who are dealing with the scattered straw and leaves must all go into hiding in ten minutes. The foreign devils will be here soon."

Ten minutes is definitely not enough for the assault column to clean up the mess. Now Teng Yuzhao's only hope is that the vanguard troops of the coalition forces will not notice these abnormal phenomena.

Teng Yuzhao turned the telescope towards the ambush area of ​​Liu Yuzhi and Li Xianze.

The southernmost end of the ambush area of ​​the 1st and 2nd Mixed Brigade was about 300 meters away from Teng Yuzhao's location.

But in the morning light, the area shrouded by a light mist was extremely quiet. No one could be seen, and there was no other sound except for the occasional bird song carried by the wind.

Although there were some straw piles in the open fields in their area, the number was much smaller than that here in the assault column.

However, the area that Liu Yuzhi and Li Xianze were in charge of still allowed Teng Yuzhao to see some clues.

In an open space in the field only about 200 meters away from where Teng Yuzhao was, there were six slightly larger straw piles standing symmetrically on both sides of the road.

Although no fallen leaves were seen on the ground, the six larger straw piles were not only overly symmetrical, but also almost the same distance from the main road, all within 50 to 60 meters. There were three on each side, about 50 meters apart, distributed in a fan shape, with the trumpet-shaped mouth close to the assault column's ambush area.

Teng Yuzhao guessed that there should be Maxim heavy machine guns hidden in these six larger straw piles. If there were these six Maxim heavy machine guns here, they could not only block the Allied Forces that wanted to approach the Japanese Supply Corps, but also prevent the Japanese Supply Corps from escaping to the Allied Forces of the United States, Britain and France in front.

In particular, the two machine gun positions close to the assault column are in an excellent position. They can not only connect the two ambush areas into a whole, but also suppress the firepower of the Japanese baggage troops when the assault column charges when necessary.

During the time that Teng Yuzhao was observing the ambush areas of the 1st and 2nd Mixed Brigades, the soldiers of the assault column had disappeared, and most of the withered yellow leaves scattered in the fields had also disappeared.

Although there are still some dead leaves scattered in the fields, most people passing by on the official road will not care if they don't look closely.

Ten minutes later, Wei Jinghai called Teng Yuzhao again to inform him of the situation, saying that the vanguard of the coalition forces had entered the ambush area of ​​the assault column.

At the same time, the main forces of the British, French and American coalition forces had all entered the ambush area of ​​the Third Mixed Brigade.

The observation post of the 3rd Mixed Brigade could already see the shadow of the Japanese Army's supply corps advancing from behind.

"Notify the troops to take cover and not be exposed."

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