The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 366: Horrible Ambush

Teng Yuzhao only had time to take a quick glance at the battle situation in the first and second mixed brigade ambush areas, and then he could not see anything clearly.

Because, in an instant, the coalition forces were completely covered by the smoke and dust raised by the violent explosions of more than one hundred 75mm caliber shells and eighteen conscienceless artillery shells.

Then, a series of thunder-like explosions came into his ears. Although he was still hundreds of meters away from there, Teng Yuzhao's ears were still buzzing.

The artillery of the three battalions and three mixed brigades of the artillery brigade, as well as the artillery of the assault column and the guards brigade, all hit and bombarded the Allied forces on this section of the road. The number of artillery pieces exceeded one hundred, and with the addition of eighteen unscrupulous cannons, the power of the first round of explosions can be imagined.

Moreover, it was not only the fierce firepower attack that ambushed the coalition forces of the United States, Britain and France in front that was extremely shocking. In the ambush area of ​​the 3rd Mixed Brigade and the Guards Brigade a few kilometers to the south, although only faint explosions could be heard due to the distance, the scene was equally large.

So much so that Teng Yuzhao could see, without the aid of a telescope, a column of dust rising from the official road in the distance, like a tall city wall suddenly rising from the ground.

There, shells from 162 87mm mortars and 18 equally unscrupulous cannons exploded. The power of the bombardment was only greater than the previous ones, but definitely not smaller than the ambush area of ​​Liu Yuzhi, Li Xianzhe and others.

The shelling there was even more powerful and more intensive.

It's not just because the mortars there all fire 87mm shells, but also because the mortars have a faster firing speed, almost twice that of artillery. The firepower density is obviously more fierce than that of artillery, which is even smaller in number. The blow suffered by the Japanese army there is obviously much greater than that suffered by the British, American and French forces.

Amid the deafening series of explosions, deafening shouts of killing were heard in the assault column's ambush area.

Amid the cries of killing, tens of thousands of soldiers from the assault column and the guards association, holding sharp bayonets, suddenly rushed out from the green tent with withered and yellow leaves beside the official road that was six or seven miles long.

They shouted and rushed towards the Japanese supply corps on the official road, which had been thrown into chaos by the fierce explosions.

When the main force of the assault column rushed out of the green gauze tent and pounced on the official road, the piles of straw on both sides of the official road had already been suddenly opened by people from the inside. Before the flying straw fell, some of the officers and soldiers of the broadsword team who rushed out with cold and shining broadswords had already rushed to the edge of the official road.

At this time, the Japanese Army's supply corps was already in chaos and was unable to organize effective volley fire.

Because, not only as soon as the whistling sound of the shells was heard, more than a dozen of their officers riding on ponies were killed or wounded, and there were not many officers left to command them and organize resistance.

In addition, the sudden and violent explosion produced unexpected effects on the Japanese army's supply corps.

All the horses pulling the carts were frightened by the earth-shaking and violent explosion, and jumped around in panic. Some of the cart horses even neighed in fear while pulling the carts loaded with ammunition and supplies and charged randomly into the Japanese troops.

Some Japanese soldiers who failed to jump off the vehicle were thrown directly off the roof of the cart, and then trampled by the frightened pack horses or crushed by the heavy wheels of the cart.

Even some Japanese soldiers who jumped off the vehicles in time were knocked to the ground by the frightened horses in the chaos.

The panicked collisions of these frightened horses triggered a chain reaction among the trained Japanese military packhorses.

Some frightened short pack horses even threw off the ammunition and supplies on their backs while jumping around, and then rushed around in the Japanese baggage regiment, throwing the Japanese army into chaos.

Just when the Japanese army's supply corps on the official road was in chaos with its men and horses, the Big Sword Team had already taken the lead in charging into their ranks, followed closely by the Assault Column.

At this point, it was completely impossible for the Japanese army to organize volley fire, and they were forced to engage in brutal hand-to-hand combat where each fought on their own.

First, the Big Sword Team charged into the Japanese army, followed by the Assault Column and the Guards Association, nearly 10,000 soldiers who rushed up and rushed onto the official road. In just a short while, the iron-gray color completely submerged the black uniformed Japanese soldiers in the crowd.

"Deputy Chief of Staff, the artillery fire is very accurate and has completely covered the foreign devils in front!"

"The Third Mixed Brigade's ambush area has begun shelling the Japanese rear brigade. We can already see the smoke rising!"

"The Assault Column and the Guards have begun their charge!"

"The big knife team has already charged onto the official road!"

"Good! The assault column has all rushed onto the official road, and the hand-to-hand combat has begun." The staff officer, who was holding the microphone and almost jumping up with excitement, was reporting like a commentator in a football match in later generations. Teng Yuzhao was also standing on the observation post, holding the Mauser rifle in his hand, slightly dazed.

Teng Yuzao was not stunned by the fierce bombardment, he was so excited that he was a little dazed!
Teng Yuzhao did not expect that in just a moment, the assault column would have already reached the official road. The Japanese supply regiment had almost no time to resist and was forced into the hand-to-hand combat that the assault column was best at.

Due to the presence of Liu Shijiu, a well-known martial arts master, the assault column recruited many Boxers with superb martial arts skills. These people in turn called on their friends, so that among the Boxers in the capital who joined the vanguard army, the vast majority of those with superb martial arts skills were in the assault column.

Although these new recruits were not very familiar with the modern tactical skills and means of using Western weapons, hand-to-hand combat was their forte. They could not say that they could defeat ten Japanese soldiers alone, but for those with better martial arts, it would be absolutely no problem for them to defeat two or three short Japanese soldiers alone.

As the sword was flying, every time a cold light flashed in the air, it would bring up a rain of blood, and even the ugly head of a Japanese soldier would fly up.

The Japanese army's supply troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the assault column. One can easily imagine the result: what awaited the Japanese army's supply troops was a nearly one-sided massacre.

A few hundred meters away, amid the continuous roar of violent artillery shells exploding, "da da da", the Maxim heavy machine guns on the opposite side of the official road began to fire fiercely again.

The remaining officers and soldiers of the Japanese Army's Supply Corps had begun to flee. Many Japanese soldiers rushed out of the battle group and ran to the fields on the side of the road, fleeing for their lives into the green tent. These Maxim heavy machine guns were using dense rain of bullets to intercept the fleeing Japanese soldiers.

The fierce and dense rain of hot bullets at close range not only smashed the fleeing Japanese soldiers into pieces, breaking their limbs and arms, but also killed many frightened horses.

As the bugle call sounded, "Kill!".

The ambush areas of the 1st and 2nd Mixed Brigade also suddenly erupted with earth-shaking shouts of killing.

Only then did Teng Yuzhao notice that the sound of artillery explosions there had stopped.

According to the plan, the shelling would be carried out for five rounds, and then the shooting and shelling would stop. The two mixed brigades would take advantage of the situation to launch a charge and eliminate the remaining enemies.

However, due to the heavy smoke and dust caused by the artillery bombardment, the rifle volleys only fired two rounds and the artillery bombardment only three rounds before they had to stop, including dozens of Maxim heavy machine guns.

Because the smoke and dust produced by the explosion was so unexpected, it completely covered the coalition forces on the official road, and they could not see the target at all.

Even though the charge had been launched, the situation was not much better. Although the smoke and dust dissipated quickly under the morning breeze, the official road that stretched for three or four miles was still shrouded in smoke and dust, and one could only see the real and fake foreign devils running around like frightened rabbits.

Many Indian soldiers who were quick to seize the opportunity and the thin American and French colonial soldiers had already begun to flee into the green tents on the east side of the official road.

Although there were several Maxim heavy machine guns on the roadside that tried their best to intercept and fire at them, there were thousands of Indian and colonial soldiers who began to flee frantically. Although they were hit by the Maxim light and heavy machine guns and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, and they were mowed to the ground in large numbers, many of them still managed to escape to the edge of the green tent.

Fortunately, at this time, more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the two mixed brigades had rushed onto the official road, like an iron-gray wave flashing with a sharp cold light, rolling across the official road and quickly sweeping towards the fleeing enemies who were fleeing towards the green tent.

The officers and soldiers chased the fleeing enemy while continuously firing. Some officers and soldiers even pointed their guns directly at the backs of those coalition forces who were slow to react and just remembered to turn around and flee, and pulled the trigger.

The officers and soldiers who chased to the edge of the green gauze tent had to stop and stood on the edge of the green gauze tent in a rage, firing round after round of intensive volleys into the green gauze tent in order to inflict as much casualties as possible on the coalition forces that fled into the green gauze tent.

Thirty thousand against ten thousand is already like overcoming a problem with a sledgehammer. What's more, the more than ten thousand coalition troops had been subjected to sudden fierce artillery bombardment and the strafing of dozens of Maxim guns, plus the concentrated fire of tens of thousands of rifles. They had already been beaten out of their wits. How could they fight against the vanguard officers and soldiers who had been aroused by the shocking artillery bombardment and were filled with murderous intent and momentum?

In a battle scene like this, there is no need to wait for the result.

Teng Yuzhao didn't need to watch the battle of the assault column ambushing the Japanese supply regiment, which was what Teng Yuzhao was most concerned about, because now they were not only slaughtering those Japanese soldiers who were still resisting stubbornly. In Teng Yuzhao's view, this was already a massacre. On the roads and in the fields, there were often several soldiers from the assault column scrambling to encircle and kill a Japanese soldier.

As a result, these Japanese soldiers almost all died from several fatal wounds at the same time. Even if their heads had been chopped off by the officers and soldiers of the Big Sword Team, their headless bodies would still be stabbed several times with bayonets.

These Japanese soldiers were lucky enough not to be dismembered.

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