The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 401 The Foreigners Went Crazy
Although the several heavy machine guns on the west side of the nearby Juma River posed a greater threat to the defenders on the hill, these coalition machine gunners would be taken care of by the sharpshooters of the Guards Association. Teng Yuzhao's target was the machine gunners who were a little further away on the east side of the river bank.

The distance between the shelter and the coalition machine gunners on the opposite bank was nearly 500 meters. At such a long distance, it was almost impossible for the Guards to hit them. Even for him, the distance was a bit far.

However, Teng Yuzao still wanted to give it a try.

Although Teng Yuzao's eyesight had become very sharp, at a distance of 500 meters, he could only see the vague outline of the Japanese machine gunner's head.

The Japanese soldiers were too short, and the tripod of the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun they purchased from France was a bit high, which forced the Japanese machine gunner to straighten his body, but still only his head was exposed.

The Japanese not only introduced the French Hotchkiss heavy machine gun, they also purchased the patent, and even began to imitate it domestically. However, the Japanese army did not pay enough attention to the heavy machine gun, and the number of imitations produced today remains at an extremely low level.

In order to ensure accurate shooting, Teng Yuzhao did not seek to kill the enemy with one shot. He believed that as long as he hit the opponent's head, even if the machine gunner did not die, he would definitely not be able to operate the heavy machine gun to shoot, and that was enough.

Therefore, he only aimed at the middle part of the opponent's exposed half head.

Teng Yuzhao estimated that this position should be the middle of the opponent's nose. Hitting here would be enough to damage the brain. With the power of the Mauser rifle, it would not be a big problem to kill him with one shot.

"Bang, bang, bang" the volley of gunfire on the position fired. At this moment, Teng Yuzhao also pulled the trigger. As the butt of the rifle in his hand hit the shoulder hard, the head of the Japanese heavy machine gunner suddenly tilted back and then fell on the river bank.

At such a long distance, the Japanese army was not worried that someone would shoot at them from such a long distance. If they were hit by a bullet, it would only be a stray bullet.

As soon as the Japanese heavy machine gunner fell to the ground, the assistant gunner beside him pushed the machine gunner's body away, took over the heavy machine gun and continued to fire at the positions of the vanguard army on the opposite bank.

Teng Yuzhao did not move. He did not believe that anyone could see the gun barrel extending from the observation hole in the shelter at such a long distance, so he raised his rifle again.

Teng Yuzhao killed and wounded three machine gunners who took over the heavy machine gun in succession. The Japanese army finally reacted and no one dared to take over the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun. This attracted a Japanese officer waving a command knife to run over and ask questions.

As Teng Yuzhao pulled the trigger again and killed the Japanese officer, several Japanese soldiers nearby immediately crawled away from the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun.

However, soon several Japanese soldiers crawled over cautiously and prepared to carry away the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun.

However, they could crawl over, but if they wanted to carry this heavy machine gun away, they had to stand up.

"Bang", as Teng Yuzhao pulled the trigger again, one of the four Japanese soldiers who had just raised the heavy machine gun fell to the ground.

However, the Japanese soldier probably didn't hit the vital points and was able to roll on the ground. But the heavy machine guns they were holding immediately fell to the ground from the hands of several people. This scared the Japanese soldiers so much that they immediately lay on the ground and dared not move.

However, after the Hotchkiss fell to the ground, the gun mount and the gun body separated. Soon, the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun was slowly dragged to a distance behind by several Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground.

It was not until then that Teng Yuzhao noticed that the sound of heavy machine gun fire on the battlefield had become deafening. This was because he was too focused on shooting that he ignored what was happening around him.

Although the coalition forces' heavy machine gun firing was already very intensive just now, with more than ten of them, the sound of heavy machine gun firing now was much more intensive than just now.

Teng Yuzhao knew very well that it must be the twenty or so heavy machine guns of the Guards Association that opened fire.

"Sixth Battalion, Sixth Battalion, how is the situation over there?"

Teng Yuzhao heard Wu Peifu's anxious cries.

Although only a few minutes had passed, the situation on the battlefield must have been very serious, otherwise Wu Peifu would not have been so nervous and anxious. "Assistant Commander, the battle here is very intense and there are many casualties. Although the foreign devils' heavy machine guns are firing intermittently, the foreign devils are charging and shooting at the same time, which also causes us a lot of casualties."

The voice of the commander of the Sixth Battalion was so loud in the receiver that Teng Yuzhao could hear it clearly. It was obvious that the commander of the Sixth Battalion was shouting in a state of exasperation.

"The foreign devils are going crazy. We just repelled two waves of their charge, but the third wave of their charge has begun. Each wave of the foreign devils has nearly a thousand people. They may rush into our position at any time. I need reinforcements."

"Okay, I will send the Eighth Battalion to reinforce you immediately. You must not let the foreign devils rush to the position, otherwise, the foreign devils will rush up continuously, and then even if we reinforce you, it will be too late."

"Yes."

"Assistant Commander, if the position is lost, just think about collecting the bodies for me."

Seeing Wu Peifu taking another telephone receiver from the staff officer, Teng Yuzhao knew that the war situation was tense. He did not want to disturb Wu Peifu, so he had to pick up his rifle and walk out of the shelter.

The shelter had a limited field of vision and could only see the narrow front battlefield, which was the direction facing the stone bridge over the Juma River. If one looked through the observation hole in the shelter, one could observe the situation in the front, but one could not see the charge launched by the coalition forces in front of the hill.

For example, Teng Yuzhao's line of sight could only see the strip area on the river bank a few hundred meters away over the upper part of the hill on the left. As long as the coalition forces launched a charge and approached the hill, he would be completely unable to see it.

"Marshal, why are you here?"

As soon as he came out of the shelter, Xu Ting, who was guarding outside the door, came to meet him.

Teng Yuzao waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Just two people will be enough. You should organize your squadron and prepare for battle."

In today's battles, he fought somewhat riskily, defending with a weak force, but he was still restless and wanted to take advantage of the coalition forces, so he let nearly 10,000 of the other side in.

If they fail to handle it properly, there is a high possibility that the allied forces behind them will rush across the river.

Teng Yuzao quickly climbed to the top of the shelter, crouched behind a rock, and looked toward the battlefield. From here he could barely see the situation in the trenches on the two hills.

In the trenches of the two places, the heads of the soldiers of the Guards could be vaguely seen moving, but the Russian charge on the hillside in front could not be seen. All that could be heard was the heavy machine guns on the two hills roaring like crazy.

With the battle so intense, almost no one on the position would hide in the trenches. Everyone would pick up their guns and shoot to the death. Therefore, what he saw were basically all the people on the position.

Teng Yuzhao made a rough estimate and found that there were still about seven or eight hundred people on both positions.

The fighting had only lasted for about ten minutes, and with the Allied artillery bombardment it was only about twenty minutes. The one who suffered the greatest loss was naturally the sentry who remained on the position. But looking at the endless stream of wounded being carried down from behind the two hills, Teng Yuzhao could imagine how fierce the Russian attack was.

Fortunately, Teng Yuzhao had already seen that at the back slopes of the two hills, there was a battalion of troops each, running up the hills under the command of an officer.

"Da da da", "Bang bang bang".

At this moment, fierce gunfire suddenly broke out on both sides of the hill.
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