The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 45 Hand-to-hand combat

The huge casualties finally made the temporary commander of the coalition forces unable to bear it any longer. More than a hundred meters away from the vanguard position, he shouted loudly and gave the order for a quick charge.

Since he injured the Russian major, Teng Yuzhao had no time to look for the missing Russian major. Instead, he kept pulling the bolt of his rifle, aiming at the Russian officers who kept coming up to take over the command of the troops. When there was no suitable angle to kill or wound the Russian commanding officer, he did not stop, but accurately killed the Russian soldiers who stood in front of the officer one by one.

Watching Teng Yuzhao pulling the bolt, aiming, and shooting like flowing water, then pulling the bolt, aiming, and shooting again, the whole set of actions was not only extremely coherent, but also extremely fast, and especially extremely accurate. Every shot resulted in the person falling down, and there was never a miss.

As the remaining Russian assault troops got closer and closer to the vanguard's position, Teng Yuzhao almost raised his gun and fired, as if he could accurately hit the enemy on the opposite side just by shooting based on his feeling.

This scene left several staff officers stunned.

Wei Jinghai reacted quickly. He rushed to the door of the heavy machine gun bunker in a few steps, snatched the rifle from the bugler guarding the door, and quickly returned to Teng Yuzhao. After Teng Yuzhao's rifle made a sound of blank fire, he immediately handed the rifle in his hand to Teng Yuzhao.

However, although Teng Yuzao took the rifle handed over by Wei Jinghai, he did not continue to shoot at the Allied forces through the firing hole of the machine gun bunker, because when he looked through the firing hole, his field of vision was completely filled with Allied soldiers charging at high speed with their sharp bayonets.

With a distance of less than 100 meters, the coalition assault troops would reach the position in less than ten seconds.

Moreover, Teng Yuzhao clearly heard that the gunfire on the battlefield had become very chaotic and rapid. It was obvious that the soldiers were panicked and at a loss when facing the coalition forces that were rushing towards them at a close distance.

Teng Yuzao turned around and rushed out of the machine gun bunker like a whirlwind, shouting loudly, "Blow the horn and charge!"

One of them was holding a gun in one hand and pressing on the trench with the other hand, and then he jumped to the top of the trench.

Almost at the same time when the bugler who had been following Teng Yuzhao blew the charge, the charge was also sounded near another machine gun bunker a hundred meters away. Liu Yuzhi must have realized that if the vanguard army did not charge, they would be pressed into the trenches by the rushing Allied soldiers, and the vanguard army would be passive.

As the two charge bugles sounded, shouts of killing suddenly erupted from the vanguard army's positions.

Teng Yuzhao had no time to think. He stood on the trench, quickly pulled the bolt, and fired three consecutive shots, killing three tall and strong Russian soldiers who had rushed to a distance of more than ten meters. However, after firing these three shots, it was too late for Teng Yuzhao to shoot again. The three Russian soldiers with bayonets who rushed towards the heavy machine gun bunker had already pounced in front of him.

"kill!"

Teng Yuzhao, who had no time to fix his bayonet, roared like thunder, and rushed towards the three Russian soldiers like lightning with his G98 rifle without a bayonet.

With a "click", Teng Yuzao moved the rifle barrel and pushed away a Russian bayonet that was about to pierce his chest. At the same time, he dodged two other bayonets that were stabbing at his ribs. He inserted himself into the middle of two Russian soldiers like lightning, and swept the butt of his rifle across the jaw of the Russian soldier on the right. He raised his left foot and kicked another Russian soldier in the abdomen. With a "click", the bones of the Russian soldier who was hit in the jaw by the butt of the rifle had his jaw shattered by Teng Yuzao's butt. He flew backwards in the air and fell on his back in front of the position. The other Russian soldier who was kicked in the abdomen took a few steps back. Just as he was about to hold back the pain and pounce on Teng Yuzao again, Teng Yuzao's butt of the rifle had already taken advantage of the momentum to swing up and smashed the third Russian soldier's brain.

Then he smashed the rifle in his hand hard at the Russian soldier who rushed over again. Taking advantage of the brief moment when the Russian soldier pushed back the rifle, Teng Yuzhao quickly pulled out the Mauser pistol that was inserted diagonally at his waist, rubbed it on his thigh to deflect the gun, raised his hand, and fired a shot, hitting the third Russian soldier in the face.

Before Teng Yuzhao could continue shooting at the Russian soldiers rushing over from behind, the two guards left behind by Li Dazhui had already rushed in front of him and faced the two Russian soldiers.

At the same time, "bang bang bang", the sound of pistol shooting began to sound continuously behind him, and several Russian soldiers who were about to surround Teng Yuzhao were killed or wounded on the ground.

Wei Jinghai, several staff officers, and the machine gunners who had reacted had already rushed behind Teng Yuzhao with pistols in hand.

Since there are fewer soldiers but more guns than soldiers at the front, the heavy machine gunners are equipped with self-defense pistols. The ones they use are the revolvers that Teng Yuzhao looks down upon.

Although Teng Yuzao's two guards were tall and strong with agile steps, they had no advantage compared with the Russian soldiers who were used to fighting with bayonets. Teng Yuzao did not dare to delay. He rushed between the two men and fired two more shots to the left and right. The two Russian soldiers who were shot were stabbed with bayonets by the two guards before they fell.

"Follow me and kill them."

Teng Yuzhao waved the Mauser pistol in his hand, and with the protection of two guards on the left and right, he led Wei Jinghai and others into the crowd of Allied soldiers, killing all the way, continuously shooting and killing the Allied soldiers who were close at hand, rushing to wherever there was danger.

At this time, the Mauser pistols that Teng Yuzhao equipped to the vanguard army officers finally showed their power. The officers all held pistols and, under the cover of the soldiers, constantly looked for opportunities to shoot and kill the Coalition soldiers. Even if they did not kill the soldiers but only injured them, they would be stabbed to death by the vanguard army soldiers who rushed up later.

There were only a hundred or so Allied soldiers who had managed to survive the hail of bullets, including more than fifty Indian, Italian and Austrian soldiers wearing British uniforms. These people could have been charged with the help of fierce Russian soldiers, but as they watched the Russian soldiers in the front being either shot to death or wounded by the pistols of the vanguard officers or stabbed down with bayonets by groups of vanguard soldiers, these people, whose fighting will was not strong, dared not continue to resist.

Some people were so scared that they dropped their guns and ran for their lives, while others simply lay on the ground with their buttocks sticking up, shaking like a ball, shouting in a language that the soldiers could not understand.

The soldiers, who were so blood-thirsty that they were mad at themselves, had no time to stop. They stabbed more than a dozen unlucky surrendered soldiers with their bayonets and were about to continue attacking when they were stopped in time by Teng Yuzhao.

Teng Yuzao shouted, "Those who surrender will not be killed!"

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