The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 365: A Fierce Ambush

Teng Yuzao continued decisively, "Also tell Hu Dianjia that if something unexpected happens, if the Japanese supply corps is in their area."

"The Japanese's transport troops will have to be dealt with by their Third Mixed Brigade alone."

"Wu Ziyu's Imperial Guards will launch an attack on the Japanese brigades that follow. Do not give the Japanese guard brigades time to deploy their artillery. Other troops will arrive soon to support them."

Although there was a contingency plan, Teng Yuzao couldn't help but ask Wei Jinghai to remind Hu Dianjia and Wu Peifu to be prepared for emergencies at any time.

Teng Yuzhao was determined to seize the large amount of weapons, ammunition and military supplies transported by the Japanese Army's supply corps.

In this ambush, the first priority is to seize weapons and ammunition, and the second is to eliminate the coalition forces accompanying the escort.

Although half of the coalition forces had entered the ambush circle and nothing had happened until then, Teng Yuzao remained in a highly nervous state, and his tense nerves hardly ever relaxed.

Teng Yuzhao knew that the more important it was, the more they had to remain on high alert. If the hidden soldiers were exposed, or if someone accidentally fired due to nervousness, it would seriously affect the outcome of the ambush.

It is even possible that the ambush will fail.

Although Teng Yuzao had taken into consideration the possibility that the recruits might accidentally fire due to nervousness and had therefore taken preventive measures, he was still somewhat worried.

Last night, he had issued strict orders to all troops that before the shelling began, except for the heavy machine gunners and sharpshooters, and the veterans who had joined the Vanguard Army since Tianjin, all other recruits who had joined the Vanguard Army in the capital, not only those from the Boxers but also those sent by Li Yulin's Camp Office, must turn off the safety of their rifles.

The success or failure of this ambush is extremely important to Teng Yuzhao.

Teng Yuzhao even believed that the victory of this ambush would greatly undermine the arrogance of the coalition forces and accelerate the situation to tilt in his favor.

"Marshal, Captain Liu reports that the foreign vanguard has entered the ambush area of ​​their assault column."

After listening to Wei Jinghai's report on the phone, Teng Yuzhao hurriedly turned the telescope lens to the official road to the south.

Sure enough, through the mist that was gradually dispersing under the morning sun, a faintly fluttering Union Jack appeared in the field of view of Teng Yuzhao's telescope, and then, rows of marching teams appeared in the field of view of his telescope.

As the distance between him and this small British force continued to narrow, Teng Yuzhao could gradually see clearly that this was a company of British troops.

In the team, except for a few British officers on horseback, the British soldiers marching in formation were all Indian soldiers with turbans and big beards.

As these Indian soldiers moved, a dazzling cold light flashed from time to time in the British army ranks.

That was the result of the bayonet on the rifle carried on the shoulder of the Indian soldier reflecting in the sunlight.

Teng Yuzhao knew these Indian soldiers too well.

The Indian soldiers, who look tall and strong, are actually useless and only look good on the outside.

Teng Yuzhao dared to guarantee that as long as Liu Shijiu or Zhu Kaishan brought a platoon of men with broadswords, they would kill them and force them to flee in panic, abandoning their weapons and armor.

This company of Indian soldiers marched very fast. If you looked at their neat marching formation, you could hardly tell that they were the vanguard of a large army, because they looked so arrogant and indifferent to others.

It took them less than half an hour to pass the nearly seven-mile-long assault column ambush area.

Moreover, when they reached the middle of the assault column's ambush area, a large force of the British, French and American coalition forces arranged in four columns had already hurriedly moved in and appeared in the field of view of Teng Yuzhao's telescope.

Walking in the front were the British South Asian colonial troops. Except for more than a thousand genuine British troops, the rest were all Indian soldiers.

Following them were the skinny French Southeast Asian colonial troops, and finally the American colonial troops. Those colonial American troops were almost as skinny as the French colonial troops, except that their skin seemed darker.

Without exception, these large groups of officers from the British, French and American Allied Forces were all riding tall horses, and some seemed to be constantly scolding their subordinates, urging them to speed up their march.

Unlike the American army, the British and French armies had large-caliber artillery towed by two, three, or even four tall European or Arabian horses.

Although the gun bodies and barrels of these cannons were heavy and of large caliber, their speed was not slow at all when pulled by these strong horses.

Although Teng Yuzhao was very envious of these large-caliber artillery pieces, he also knew that even if he took them, they would not mean much to him. It was not that they would not be of much use, but that they would be almost completely negligible.

Because, for Teng Yuzao, the biggest difficulty is the problem of artillery shells. Without artillery shells, no matter how large the caliber is, it is meaningless and can only cause him more trouble. If he can seize these large-caliber artillery this time, he can only keep them until later, when his vanguard army reaches the border and fights the old Russians and the Japanese devils there, then he can use them.

What made Teng Yuzhao jealous the most was not these large-caliber artillery pieces, but the fact that he saw that in the French army's ranks, there were eighteen artillery pieces that should be 75mm in caliber.

From the shapes of these cannons, Teng Yuzao recognized at a glance that these were the new barrel-recoil cannons that the French were proud of.

However, even though he was envious, Teng Yuzhao couldn't guarantee how many of these artillery pieces would survive after the fierce bombardment. He could only leave it to fate.

Soon, the Japanese army's supply corps also showed up less than two miles behind the Three-Nation Allied Forces.

As soon as the Japanese army's supply corps appeared, it immediately caught Teng Yuzhao's attention.

The backs of the small packhorses, which stretched as far as the eye could see, were loaded with bundles of supplies or ammunition boxes wrapped in canvas, while the large carts in the equally endless convoys were piled high with neatly stacked tall ammunition boxes.

The packhorse team and the large caravan marched in parallel, with each packhorse being led by a Japanese soldier.

Although the drivers were young and old, they were all Chinese civilians. Without exception, there were three or two Japanese soldiers with rifles escorting the carts.

Only a few Japanese officers on ponies and messengers who kept running back and forth on ponies, led hundreds of baggage soldiers from the Japanese baggage regiment and walked in front of the transport team.

"Commander."

Wei Jinghai's trembling voice once again came from the receiver.

"All three groups of foreign devils have entered our ambush circle. Should we start the bombardment now?"

"Yes, you can give orders to the artillery corps, telling them to fire at any time."

Although the artillery company's artillery had been prepared long ago, it was inevitable to adjust the bombardment position appropriately according to the actual current position of the coalition forces. Teng Yuzhao had taken this into consideration in his plan.

Therefore, he did not order them to fire immediately, but asked them to fire as soon as they were ready, and the sound of the artillery company's artillery was the signal for the start of the battle.

Teng Yuzhao had put down the telescope at this time, picked up his Mauser rifle, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at a Japanese colonel riding on a pony in the Japanese supply corps through the gaps between the branches of the big locust tree.

After traveling through time, for some unknown reason, Teng Yuzhao discovered that his eyesight was now excellent, much better than the relatively normal eyesight in the memories that remained in this body.

At such a close distance, Teng Yuzhao could even clearly see the position of the Japanese colonel's facial features.

The commander of the Japanese army's regiment has the rank of colonel. The only colonel in the Japanese army's supply regiment is undoubtedly the commander of this supply regiment.

At this moment, the distance between him and Teng Yuzao was less than 300 meters. At this distance, Teng Yuzao was absolutely sure that he could kill the Japanese colonel with one shot.

Just as the vanguard of the Japanese Army's supply regiment was approaching the end of the assault column's ambush area.

Above this silent official road, the whistling sounds of artillery shells and the slightly dull "bang bang" sounds of unscrupulous cannons firing were finally heard.

Almost at the same time as these sounds rang out, Teng Yuzhao also pulled the trigger of the Mauser rifle in his hand.

As a few crisp gunshots were heard, the Japanese regiment commander riding on horseback suddenly tilted his head and fell off the horse on his back.

At the moment when the Japanese army commander fell off his horse, Teng Yuzhao clearly saw that there were more than one bullet hitting the Japanese army commander. He was hit by at least two bullets in the head and one bullet in the left rib. These three bullets were enough to make him dead.

Not only Teng Yuzhao was targeting the Japanese regiment commander, but at least two sharpshooters from the independent columns were also targeting him.

Almost at the same time as Teng Yuzhao fired his gun, gunfire suddenly rang out in the ambush area. The dense gunfire was like dozens of firecrackers exploding at the same time, and it was impossible to distinguish them.

Amidst the dense gunfire, a large straw pile on the road nearest to the observation post and in front of the Japanese supply corps suddenly tilted backwards, revealing a Maxim heavy machine gun. The Maxim machine gun almost immediately opened fire at the hundreds of Japanese soldiers marching on foot in front of the convoy transporting ammunition and supplies.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM" a series of violent explosions also sounded at this moment, just outside the ambush area of ​​the assault column, on the official road for more than ten miles.

When Teng Yuzao turned his head to check on the British, American and French coalition forces that were marching in front like a long snake, he only caught a glimpse of the coalition forces that had just been strafed by dozens of Maxim heavy machine guns and intensively fired by 20,000 to 30,000 rifles, killing and wounding large swathes of the coalition forces, causing serious chaos. Then, he could no longer see anything.
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