The Qing Dynasty
Chapter 404 Running A3
Chapter 404: Running Ah San
As soon as the charge on the left was sounded, it immediately caused chaos among the fake British troops on the right who were attacking the Guards blocking troops.
Originally, these fake British troops had been frightened by the shocking scene of more than a hundred mortars concentratedly bombarding the Japanese army. They were afraid that the same misfortune would befall them next, and their pace of attack had become hesitant.
At this time, seeing that the vanguard troops on the left had already charged towards the Japanese troops who were scared to death by the fierce artillery fire, how could they hold back? Without any agreement between them, many fake British troops immediately stopped their cautious charge and turned around to run back.
These soldiers who escaped first immediately triggered a chain reaction among the Indian soldiers' attacking forces, like an avalanche. The more than a thousand Indian soldiers in the attack, like a blocked flood, finally found an outlet, and immediately ran backwards frantically with billowing smoke and dust.
Seeing these attacking Indian soldiers retreating like a tide, the 3,000 Indian soldiers behind them no longer cared about the restraint of the British officers. They turned around and ran, scrambling to try to escape back to the stone bridge along the same route.
The battalion on the right blew the charge. With the sound of the charge, more than a thousand officers and soldiers of the Guards bravely rushed out of their positions with bayonets in hand, shouting and rushing towards the nearly four thousand fake British troops.
For these fake British troops, the loud charge was like a death warrant. They dared not delay any longer. Based on the principle of "a friend would rather die than themselves", they immediately spread their legs and started a crazy race for their lives with their companions like wild horses.
None of the Indians wanted to fall behind and be stabbed to death by the bayonets of the vanguard officers and soldiers who were charging fiercely from behind. Many Indians even dropped their rifles and ran for their lives in order to run faster.
Some Indian soldiers who were reluctantly gathered around the British officers waving pistols no longer cared about the threats from these British officers waving pistols and turned around to join the fleeing crowd.
Finally, the dozens of British officers, seeing the sharp bayonets getting closer and closer, also spread their legs and rushed into the fleeing team.
Then, a spectacular scene appeared in the field of view of Wu Peifu's telescope.
More than a thousand officers and soldiers of the Guards, armed with rifles with bayonets, were ferociously chasing after the four thousand fake British soldiers. The fleeing fake British soldiers had completely lost their resistance and were like a group of frightened horses, running away with billowing dust.
The fleeing fake British troops not only left behind more than a dozen heavy machine guns on their offensive positions, but also left behind a large number of rifles along the way.
"Hahahaha", seeing such a scene, Wu Peifu and the two staff officers beside him were shocked at first, and then they couldn't help laughing.
Such a scene made Teng Yuzao couldn't help laughing.
However, Teng Yuzhao is somewhat immune to such scenes.
In his previous life, Teng Yuzhao had read in the information that our soldiers resolutely launched a counterattack to safeguard the integrity of the country despite the fact that their weapons and equipment were inferior to those of the enemy and the combat environment was extremely unfavorable.
At that time, our soldiers not only fought against a larger force with a smaller one, but also killed and forced the Indian elite to flee in the plateau area where the enemy was relatively adapted. There were even ace troops that were wiped out by our army in an organized manner.
According to historical records, a platoon of Chinese soldiers dared to attack an Indian battalion, and even chased nearly a thousand Indian soldiers all over the mountains and plains.
Even more than a hundred years later, when the two sides were confronting each other with sticks and stones and the Indians still had the advantage in numbers, these Indians were no match for the Chinese soldiers. Not only were they beaten and forced to flee in panic, dozens of them were even beaten to death.
With such a record of the Indians fighting against their own soldiers, it was not something to be happy about that more than a thousand officers and soldiers were chasing around four thousand Indians.
These Indian soldiers are bullies at heart. When they encounter someone weaker than them, or when the situation on the battlefield is in their favor, they will become very ferocious.
However, when they encounter an army that is much more powerful than theirs, or the battlefield situation is unfavorable to them, they will immediately be beaten back to their original form, becoming as timid as mice and like frightened birds.
"Teacher! If these impostors keep running away like this, I'm afraid they will soon be left with no one with weapons."
"Hahahahaha," Wu Peifu couldn't help laughing excitedly before he finished speaking.
"This captain is very good and decisive. He is a good candidate!"
Teng Yuzao, who was also very excited, said as he looked at the back of the battalion of the Guards Association that was chasing after the fake British troops.
"Teacher, this is the Second Battalion of the Imperial Guards, and the commander is Li Guochang."
Teng Yuzao's praise of his subordinates made Wu Peifu very excited, and he hurriedly told Teng Yuzao the name of the captain, hoping that Li Guochang would leave a good impression in Teng Yuzao's mind.
Teng Yuzao nodded and said, "Very good! Very good!"
"Zi Yu, I need to go to the front to check out the battlefield situation. It's a bit far from here."
When Wu Peifu heard that Teng Yuzhao was going to go to the front, he was shocked and spoke hurriedly.
"Teacher, it's too dangerous ahead. I'll send a staff officer to check the situation."
"Besides, now, we have defeated the foreign devils' attacking forces on both wings. The situation where the foreign devils were outflanking us from both wings has now been completely reversed. We are now resisting the fierce attack of the Russians head-on, and then outflanking them from the back."
"If we only look at the battlefield in Hexi, the foreign devils' attack has already failed. Teacher, there is no need to worry at all."
"You are absolutely right." Teng Yuzao shook his head.
"But at such a critical moment, I still feel uneasy if I don't see it with my own eyes." Seeing that Wu Peifu still wanted to stop them, Teng Yuzao said, "There won't be any danger. Our people are very close to the foreign devils on the battlefield. The foreign devils won't dare to fire for a while. Besides, I won't go directly to the battlefield. I'll just observe the situation from a closer position."
Seeing that he couldn't stop Teng Yuzhao, Wu Peifu had to give up.
However, since Xu Ting had already led the special guard squadron to assist the Second Battalion of the Guards Association in pursuing the counterfeit British troops, Wu Peifu still sent a platoon of guards to follow Teng Yuzhao, and two other staff officers and a cavalry communications squad followed behind to facilitate Teng Yuzhao to convey orders in a timely manner.
Teng Yuzhao turned the hill from the left. Although the personal guards surrounded Teng Yuzhao in the middle, the guard platoon sent by Wu Peifu still surrounded him on the outside. Along the way, everyone opened the safety of their weapons and nervously checked the surrounding situation.
This was especially true when passing through an area where Japanese troops were under intensive mortar bombardment.
Because there is a high possibility that there are still Japanese soldiers who are alive.
Fortunately, they did not find any surviving Japanese wounded soldiers along the way, but their senses were strongly stimulated by the broken, bloody corpses of the Japanese soldiers everywhere and the disgusting smell of barbecue.
The soldiers of the guard platoon tried hard to hold back the urge to vomit, and only after they turned the hill did they feel relieved.
The remnants of the Japanese army that were chased by Li Jinyu have joined together with the Russian troops attacking from the front, as well as the subsequent Russian and French troops rushing over from the stone bridge. They have stabilized their position and are struggling to resist Li Jinyu's attack under mortar fire.
On the hillside, the entire picture of the front battlefield could be seen. Although there were still intensive gunshots and the sounds of mortar shells exploding on the battlefield, the battle had become completely one-sided.
At this time, the mortar bombardment no longer used intensive bombardment that was almost covering the area. Instead, wherever the coalition forces gathered, three to five, or ten to twenty shells would fly over in time, and then explode violently among the coalition forces, followed by a rain of blood, which would immediately scatter the gathered coalition forces.
As a result, now, except for the stone bridge, the coalition forces in other places are trying their best to avoid getting close to places with more people. Basically, there are seven or eight people, or at most a dozen people in one place, using the terrain to resist the shooting while slowly retreating towards the stone bridge.
The coalition forces' heavy machine guns had long been silent, not only those on the west bank, but also the dozen or so heavy machine guns on the east bank.
These heavy machine guns were either destroyed by mortar shells or were repeatedly attacked by the heavy machine guns and sharpshooters of the Guards Association who were high up on the hill. Any foreigner who dared to approach the heavy machine guns would soon die.
In the current situation where the coalition forces are doomed to fail, no one would risk their lives to operate heavy machine guns to fight back.
The Russian troops that attacked the two hills had already retreated to the river bank. From the top of the hill to the river bank, there were Russian soldiers' corpses everywhere, as if a layer of khaki carpet still bleeding had been laid on the gentle slopes of the two hills.
Although the coalition forces had already thought of retreating to the east bank, the only stone bridge had not only been blocked by the dense firepower of several heavy machine guns on the hill, but also a few mortar shells would fall near the stone bridge from time to time, scattering the groups of coalition forces who wanted to escape across the stone bridge under the rain of bullets. A thick layer of corpses had already piled up near the bridgehead.
Many coalition forces have now completely given up the plan to escape to the east bank from the stone bridge. Some coalition officers and soldiers who can swim have already jumped into the more than 100-meter-wide Juma River and began to swim towards the east bank.
However, although the number of heavy machine guns of the Guards Association was insufficient, most of them were concentrated on two hills, and their number exceeded twenty.
In addition to the two heavy machine guns that blocked the stone bridge and the dozen or so heavy machine guns that fiercely fired at the retreating Japanese, Russian and British Allied Forces on the river bank to suppress their resistance, the remaining heavy machine guns on the two hills were all firing at the Allied Forces that were swimming densely on the river.
At this time, on the surface of the Juma River, not only were there a large number of coalition forces' corpses floating down with the current, but even this section of the river water had been dyed red by the coalition forces' blood.
In the sunlight, the surface of the Juma River was flashing with eerie blood-red waves.
In Teng Yuzhao's opinion, the battle was nearing its end at this point.
Today's battle can be said to be a war of luring the enemy and blocking it. With the help of a large number of mortars with quick response and inferior forces, we not only blocked tens of thousands of coalition forces' pursuit in one fell swoop, but also inflicted huge casualties on the enemy and eliminated a large number of coalition forces.
Today's battle can be considered a great victory.
Although this victory was achieved with the efforts of the officers and soldiers of the Guards Association, the key factor to the victory must be the mortar battalion. They are the most critical link in achieving today's victory and their performance is excellent.
What's more, what made Teng Yuzhao most satisfied was that the mortar battalion had few shells left, and he knew that well.
At this time, the mortar battalion did not fire all its shells at once. Instead, it launched a short covering bombardment, causing huge casualties to the densely packed crowds of coalition forces on both sides of the river. After blowing them apart, it immediately took the initiative to launch the current focused and targeted bombardment.
The benefits of doing this are self-evident. It can not only save artillery shells, but also maintain the continuity of the fire, continuously putting huge pressure on the coalition forces.
In particular, the artillery bombardment of the large coalition forces on the east coast was particularly noteworthy.
The main Allied force on the east coast began to retreat hastily after suffering a sudden and fierce artillery bombardment.
The mortar battalion was able to make an independent decision to adopt a much greater bombardment density against the retreating coalition forces on the east bank than on the west bank, and to extend the bombardment, chasing the coalition forces and bombing them all the way. Now the coalition forces have been bombed back five miles away, and they have completely lost the ability to cover the retreat of the coalition forces on the west bank. This makes Teng Yuzhao particularly satisfied.
"Marshal, the foreign devils want to surrender!"
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