The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 418: A Clean Ambush
Looking at the approaching artillery units of the Allied Forces, Liu Shijiu frowned and asked Wu Peifu in a low voice.

"Zi Yu, why can't we see the foreign devils' baggage, ammunition and supplies? Is there another group behind them?"

Liu Shijiu's suspicion was not without reason, but Wu Peifu thought about it and shook his head.

"The foreign devils' artillery must follow closely behind the old Russians in front and provide artillery support to the foreign devils in front at any time, so they need to march at a faster speed."

"Although the foreign devils' baggage may not be very large, they must have ammunition and food, and even a sufficient amount of horse fodder. These things need to be loaded on vehicles, so the speed will definitely not be fast. I guess that in order not to slow down the marching speed, they should be with the large group of Japanese troops behind them."

"Boom boom boom", a series of explosions came from far away in the south.

Although the explosion was very faint, the dull sound still allowed Liu Shijiu and Wu Peifu to hear that it was the power of the conscienceless cannon.

According to the combat plan, the retreating troops of the 3rd Mixed Brigade will immediately use the preset positions to hold their ground and counterattack after retreating to the preset positions near Jiantou.

After the main Russian force arrived, according to the practice in the past few days, the Russian army would not stay for too long. They would quickly reorganize their troops and launch an attack while occupying the surrounding advantageous terrain.

Just before the Russian army launched the attack, this series of ambushes began. The first to appear was the unscrupulous artillery, followed by the mortar shelling.

However, due to the long distance, the gunshots from more than ten miles away could not be heard here, so they did not hear the gunshots, but heard the subsequent explosions.

The dull sound of the explosion was not only heard by Liu Shijiu and Wu Peifu, but apparently also by the commander of the Allied Forces' artillery unit on the mountain road below.

Soon, the Japanese and Russian officers on horseback in the artillery unit became busy, and soon the Allied artillerymen began to frantically urge the horses pulling the artillery and began to advance southward at a faster speed.

The Allied Forces' vanguard troops quickly passed the mountain road in front of the hill where Liu Shijiu and Wu Peifu were located, and the Allied Forces' artillery troops following behind finally entered the core area of ​​the assault column's ambush zone, which was also the area where the Big Sword Team was ambushing.

Liu Nineteen turned around and whispered to the two buglers following behind him, "Prepare to blow the bugle."

After receiving Liu Jiujiu's order, the two buglers immediately raised the bugles to their lips, waiting for Liu Jiujiu's order to blow them.

As the Allied artillerymen on the mountain road drove the horses towing the cannons through this section of the mountain road, the main force of the Japanese army escorting the artillery unit entered the area of ​​the Big Sword Team. Liu Shijiu raised his left hand high, and then swung it down suddenly.

"Blow the trumpet."

Following Liu Shijiu's loud shout, two bugles sounded instantly.

Just as the bugle sounded, a burst of rapid gunfire rang out, and the Japanese officer riding a horse on the mountain road was thrown off the horse.

Following the rapid gunfire, hundreds of vanguard soldiers, with wormwood sticking out of their bodies and wielding sharp swords, suddenly jumped out from the bushes twenty or thirty meters away from the mountain road. They rushed towards the panicked Japanese troops on the mountain road, and many of them tore off the camouflage nets on their bodies.

"kill!"

At the same time, from behind the hills, large and small, came deafening shouts. Large groups of assault column officers and soldiers with sharp bayonets on their shoulders rushed out from behind the hills, like a fierce torrent, rushing towards the Japanese troops on the mountain road. "Da da da, da da da", the fierce sound of heavy machine gun fire finally rang out on the hills, but these heavy machine guns were without exception only firing short bursts of four or five rounds, and they were all firing at the artillery of the Japanese and Russian armies.

This was because more than 600 officers and soldiers of the Big Sword Team were already engaged in a melee with more than 800 Japanese escort troops. Not to mention that the bursts of fire from heavy machine guns would injure their own people, even rifle shooting would also result in accidental injuries.

However, the heavy machine gunners still felt very frustrated when shooting today. Even when they were shooting at the Japanese artillery, they still had to avoid the horses towing the artillery as much as possible, as these horses would continue to tow the artillery backwards.

Liu Shijiu has issued an order that anyone who shoots the horses pulling the cannons will have one month's military pay deducted.

Liu Shijiu picked up the ghost-head sword that was stuck in the ground and shouted at Wang Decheng, who had just picked up the sword and ran two steps down the hill.

"Chengde, you stay at the position and command the troops. I will go down to command them."

After saying that, without caring about how Wang Decheng reacted, he roared like a tiger, jumped off a mound of earth, and rushed down the hill waving a ghost-head sword.

Behind Liu Shijiu was a squad of guards, holding rifles with bayonets and following closely behind Liu Shijiu, rushing down the hill, raising a trail of dust.

Seeing Wu Peifu looking at him, Wang Decheng smiled bitterly and walked up the hill again.

As the assault column rushed up the mountain road, the outcome of the battle was already determined. Although the Japanese army hastily fired a few sporadic volleys of gunfire, because the big knife team rushed into their team almost in the blink of an eye, the Japanese counterattack caused very little casualties to the assault column that rushed out later.

The only drawback was that in order to cover the main force of the assault column and rush up the mountain road as quickly as possible, the fire suppression of the Allied artillery units on the hill still injured more than a dozen horses pulling the cannons.

The horses that were killed by bullets on the spot were fine, but the injured horses that did not die were different. After being frightened, these horses not only jumped around on the mountain road, but even several cannons were dragged down the mountain road by the injured horses. The cannons continued to jump until they fell to the ground and became motionless.

At this time, the sound of artillery shells exploding could be heard in the distance to the south. Wu Peifu knew that this was because the 1st and 3rd Mixed Brigade had successfully blocked the Russian army and were then launching intensive mortar bombardments on the Russian troops who were compressed onto the mountain road.

The intensive bombardment of more than a hundred mortars meant that the Russian army, no matter how large in number or how fierce, could not hold out for long.

Looking at the mountain road again, the assault column's ambush was perfect. Except for a small number of Japanese escort troops who desperately tried to escape in both the front and rear directions along the mountain road, most of them were annihilated, and no artillerymen of the Allied Forces survived.

Looking at the corpses of Allied artillerymen covering the mountain road and both sides of the road, Wu Peifu could not help but smile bitterly.

Liu Changfa had repeatedly reminded that they should capture as many living artillery officers of the Japanese-Russian Allied Forces as possible so that they could learn from them the parameters of some of the Allied Forces' artillery.

However, it is not easy to stay alive in front of the group of "killer gods" headed by Liu Shijiu in the assault column.

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