The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 387 Bullets and Flames

Although the heavy machine guns of the Imperial Guards Corps are still somewhat insufficient compared with those of the three mixed brigades, including the heavy machine guns captured during this hunt for the remnants of the US and Japanese troops, the Imperial Guards Corps now has more than 20 heavy machine guns.

Now, all the heavy machine guns of the Guards Association were lined up in a row with the official road as the center in the night.

Three carts carrying heavy machine guns with long ammunition belts were also pushed onto the official road, with the black muzzles of the guns pointing straight into the darkness ahead.

Under the moonlight, the thick heavy machine gun bullets on the ammunition belt flashed a dark metallic luster. Looking at the majestic aura of the heavy machine gun, people couldn't help but create a depressing atmosphere in their hearts.

All the other officers and soldiers of the Guards Corps, holding rifles with bayonets fixed, lined up in horizontal rows and stood ready in the open spaces on both sides of the official road.

"Bang, bang, bang", with the sounds of three mortar shells, three mortar flares rose into the sky, and when they flew over the coalition ambush area, three bright and dazzling white lights flashed instantly.

Although the light from the flares could not cover the entire ambush area of ​​the coalition forces, it could roughly reveal the outline of the ambush area. This was enough for the mortar gunner.

"Bang, bang, bang", as the sound of mortar firing continued, the whistling sound of shells cutting through the air echoed in the silent night sky, and then, in the distance, bursts of explosions were heard in the northern and eastern edge areas of the dry green tent where the coalition forces were ambushing. Along with the explosions, balls of dark red flames suddenly appeared on the northern and eastern edge areas of the green tent.

These balls of fire, blown by the night wind, spread rapidly. In just a moment, the flames merged into one, extending into the depths of the edge of the green tent near the road to form a wall of fire over a hundred meters long. The wall of fire, with dark red tongues of fire, began to rapidly rush towards the green tent to the south.

This wall of fire not only spread extremely quickly, but it also did not just burn away instantly. The places where the wall of fire passed were still burning.

The dry leaves of the green tent burned first, and then the straw that had not yet completely dried up caught fire.

Such a fire would soon turn the area around the fire wall into a scorching sea of ​​fire.

The fire spread rapidly, and in just a few minutes, the ambush area was engulfed in flames, gradually illuminating the ambush area more clearly.

As the fire started, the originally silent green tent on the east side of the road suddenly became a commotion. Then, panicked, short Japanese soldiers began to rush out of the green tent and rushed to the open space and the road outside the green tent.

As more and more Japanese troops fled in panic, thousands of them soon gathered on the open space at the edge of the green tent and on the road.

There were even some Japanese soldiers who, knowing that they were likely exposed to the guns of the vanguard troops, began to flee into the green tent on the west side of the official road.

Without Teng Yuzhao's orders, several incendiary bombs soon fell into the green gauze tent on the west side, and flames rose in the green gauze tent and quickly spread.

In an instant, the green tents on both sides of the official road had turned into a sea of ​​red fire with blazing flames. However, within a range of 200 meters on both sides of the official road, due to the green tents here, the people were forced by the coalition forces to cut and pick up the immature straw in advance, making this place temporarily cool.

"All heavy machine guns, listen up! Open fire! Hit me hard."

Wu Peifu's Shandong accent was heard amid the panicked shouts of the Japanese troops in the distance.

As Wu Peifu shouted his orders at the top of his lungs, "Da da da da", the black muzzles of more than 20 heavy machine guns lined up in a row with the official road as the center suddenly shot out tongues of scarlet flames and hot bullets, which swept towards the chaotic crowd of Japanese troops like a torrential rain, beating the panicked Japanese soldiers into pieces, causing their flesh and blood to fly everywhere and causing them to fall to the ground one after another.

Amid the intensive heavy machine gun fire, a series of mortar shells began to explode with "boom boom boom" in the dense and chaotic crowd of Japanese soldiers in the distant open space, constantly creating circular open spaces in the crowd of Japanese soldiers. The sharp shrapnel and fierce shock waves tore and cut off the bodies and limbs of the Japanese soldiers, and mercilessly threw the bloody stumps into the air, flying all over the sky, like a bloody rain.

"Bang bang bang", "da da da da da da" the dense sound of rifle shooting and heavy machine gun shooting also sounded behind him. Teng Yuzao knew that this was probably because the Japanese troops behind him saw that their ambush in front of them had failed, and began to desperately attack Li Zixiong's blocking troops, intending to rescue and support the Japanese troops in the ambush area to break out.

As soon as the Japanese troops in the ambush area escaped from the green gauze tent, Teng Yuzhao had roughly estimated from the position where they rushed out that the strength of the Japanese ambush troops in this area, according to his estimation, was about four to five thousand people, that is to say, the number of Japanese cavalry troops left behind them should not exceed three thousand.

With only more than 2,000 people, they did not pose much threat to Li Zixiong's battalion who were on high alert.

Soon, huge fires broke out in the green tents on both sides of the official road south of the blocking area behind him, turning the sky behind him red.

Teng Yuzhao only glanced behind him, then turned around and gave orders to Wu Peifu.

"Zi Yu, give the order to charge, pay attention to controlling the rhythm, and inform Li Zixiong to fight and retreat at the same time, and move closer to us."

"Yes!"

After Wu Peifu agreed loudly, he waved his pistol and shouted again.

"Brothers of the Imperial Guard, listen to my orders. Everyone, fire freely. Each sentry maintains formation and advances in a line."

After Wu Peifu's order was issued, with the official road as the center, they stretched out in horizontal rows of about 300 meters, with each sentry in one row. The guards who had been ready for battle began to advance steadily at the commands of their officers, while constantly raising their guns and firing rapidly, and then quickly pulling the bolt to reload the bullets and fire again.

After the officers and soldiers in the front row have used up the bullets in their magazines, the other two sentries behind them will quickly step forward, raise their guns and shoot again.

They kept firing bullets from their rifles and took turns firing, always keeping up a continuous fire attack on the chaotic Japanese troops in front of them.

On the official road, the three heavy machine guns on the three carts pushed forward by the soldiers were still spitting out hot rain of bullets with a "da da da" sound, just like three earth tanks, moving forward while continuously and violently spitting out deadly rain of bullets.

The chaotic crowd of Japanese soldiers who escaped from the sea of ​​fire tried to organize resistance amid the hoarse howling of Japanese officers, but their resistance was simply vulnerable under the heavy machine guns, mortars and intensive volley fire. Many Japanese soldiers who tried to resist were hit by several bullets as soon as they raised their rifles and fell to the ground.

Some Japanese soldiers were even hit by the Maxim rifle's 11mm thick bullets and were broken in half.

Although soldiers in the Imperial Guards Corps were constantly killed or wounded by bullets fired by the few Japanese soldiers who had the opportunity to shoot, in the panic shooting of the Japanese army, not many people in the Imperial Guards Corps were killed or wounded. Even if there were casualties, they would be quickly carried to the back for bandaging and treatment.

Then, the positions vacated by the dead and wounded soldiers will be quickly filled by the soldiers in the back row.

Under the tightly organized shooting of three heavy machine guns and volley guns of the Imperial Guards, as well as the fierce bombardment of twenty-seven mortars, the Japanese ambushes trapped on the official road by the fire on both sides quickly collapsed. None of the remaining Japanese troops thought of struggling to resist, and instead turned to escape.

"Zi Yu, blow the horn! Then order Li Zi Xiong. If the pursuing Japanese troops retreat, he can also launch a short assault to maximize the results of the battle."

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