The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 47: Killed by the river
After watching Li Jinyu use the German camera in the heavy machine gun bunker to take pictures of the entire battlefield, Teng Yuzao also began to arrange for Wei Jinghai to write a battle report to report the victory to Zhili Governor Yu Lu.

Stimulated by Teng Yuzhao's generous rewards, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the regiment was very high. The excited soldiers not only cleaned up the battlefield quickly with battle reports, but also counted the results of the battle quickly.

In this battle, a total of 1,278 Russian soldiers were killed, four British officers, 64 Italian officers and soldiers, and 32 Austrian officers and soldiers were killed.

One hundred and forty-two officers and soldiers from Russia, Britain, Italy and Austria were captured, of whom thirty-six were dark-skinned Indians in the British army.

Among the prisoners, 11.43 were seriously injured and were slightly injured. Most of these seriously injured were injured by the Maxim heavy machine guns. The mm caliber bullet would leave a bloody hole on the body. If it hit the wrist, even one bullet could blow off a hand.

The body of the Russian major who had escaped Teng Yuzao's gun was also found by the soldiers. Although the Russian major had escaped Teng Yuzao's gun, he died in the heavy machine gun fire. In addition to a gunshot wound on his right shoulder, there were three large blood holes on his body. It was obvious at a glance that these were bullet holes from the Maxim heavy machine gun.

This battle not only wiped out a large number of coalition forces, but also captured a huge amount of spoils.

Two Maxim heavy machine guns and more than 36,000 bullets were seized.

More than 1,300 rifles of three models in good condition and in good working order were seized.

Among them, there is the M1891 rifle, which is the standard rifle of the Tsarist Russian army. It is also called the Mosin-Nagant, and there are of them;

The British and Austrian armies were using 1866 British Winchester rifles;
Italian Carcano rifles, fifty-eight.

One hundred and forty-two revolvers were seized, including British Webley revolvers and French M1892 revolvers.

The French M1892 revolver is different from all other revolvers in the world in that its cylinder swings to the left. Teng Yuzao knows that this French standard pistol was used until World War II.

Since the coalition forces thought that they could annihilate or at least defeat the vanguard army in one battle with their absolute superiority in manpower, they did not carry too much ammunition. Most of the bullets were carried by individual soldiers, and there were only eight boxes of rifle bullets. Therefore, the exact number has not been counted for the time being, but it is estimated that there are at least hundreds of thousands of rounds.

In addition, there are six military telescopes and twelve command swords.

However, the seized weapons, ammunition and supplies were far more than that. Except for the clothes of the prisoners and fallen soldiers, all the soldiers' cowhide belts, bullet boxes and other items were confiscated, including the soldiers' personal belongings, which were all sorted and stacked.

Among these items were more than 1,500 sets of cowhide belts, bullet boxes, and water bottles, as well as 1,250 pounds, 960 Austrian kronor, more than 6,800 Italian lire, and more than 13,800 rubles.

Teng Yuzhao made a preliminary estimate and found that if converted into silver, it would be worth about 60,000 taels of silver.

From the seized properties, it can be seen that the Tsarist Russian soldiers were generally poorer, even poorer than the Indian soldiers.

Due to the protection of trenches and the fact that the Allied officers received special attention from the vanguard before the hand-to-hand combat, most of the officers carrying pistols were killed before the hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, the vanguard suffered very few casualties, with only 15 killed, 24 seriously injured, and 6 slightly injured. The vast majority of these casualties occurred in the hand-to-hand combat.

Compared with the Russian army, the vanguard army is at a disadvantage in terms of height and physical strength.

However, compared with the number of coalition troops killed or wounded by them, the casualties of the vanguard army were almost negligible.

Even so, these casualties still made Teng Yuzao heartbroken, as his capital was still too little. After Liu Yuzhi led the prisoners to shout, the concession on the other side, which had been silent until then, soon rowed a sampan over, with a coalition soldier on it waving a white flag.

Teng Yuzhao saw through the telescope that there was only one Russian major and one British major on the ship, and there was a captain for both Italy and Austria.

Teng Yuzhao had no interest in them. They did not agree to the ransom Teng Yuzhao offered yesterday. He did not want to waste time with them.

Teng Yuzao called Liu Yuzhi over, "Yuxuan, I don't have time to deal with these people. Go meet them."

"Tell them that I can give them not only the wounded but also the bodies of the fallen allied soldiers. However, they have to agree to our conditions. First, we have 140 dead and more than 60 wounded, rounding it up to 200. They need to compensate us for the loss. Each person needs 300 taels of silver, a total of 60,000 taels of silver, or the corresponding amount of British pounds."

A staff officer reminded quietly, "Sir, our casualties are not that serious, you..."

Liu Yuzhi smiled and waved his hand to stop the staff officer who was trying to remind Teng Yuzhao that he had remembered the wrong number.

"Your Excellency is right. That's not much. We must squeeze as much money as possible out of the foreign devils at this time."

Teng Yuzao also smiled and said, "Yes, that's what I mean. If they agree to compensate us for our losses, we can talk about the bodies of the wounded and the dead. Otherwise, forget it and let them all go back."

Teng Yuzao took a breath and continued, "We won't give them the wounded for free this time. The wounded are all the same, and they need fifty cowhide belts and fifty pairs of military boots for each person they exchange. The corpses are not given for free either, but we can halve them, still military boots and belts, and we can convert them into silver and pounds."

Liu Yuzhi said viciously, "Sir, just wait and see. I will go and meet these foreign devils. If they are unwilling to pay compensation for the losses of our vanguard army, I will kill all those prisoners in front of them."

Although Teng Yuzhao was unwilling to kill the prisoners, it was necessary to deal with evil people, so it was not impossible to scare these people.

After explaining the situation to Liu Yuzhi, Teng Yuzhao returned to the machine gun bunker with the battle results statistics list.

Li Jinyu had already run outside with two heavy machine gunners carrying a tent, saying they were looking for a place to develop and print photos.

At this time, the photo must first take out the film and then be exposed in a darkroom.

Teng Yuzao threw the battle report to Wei Jinghai. Wei Jinghai had already written the victory report to Yu Lu according to Teng Yuzao's instructions. Now he just needed to add the specific numbers.

After Wei Jinghai finished writing, he immediately arranged for the guard squad leader Li Dazhu to take two people and ride on horseback to the Zhili Governor-General's Office.

After arranging the victory report, Teng Yuzhao had not even had time to catch his breath when Liu Yuzhi came back excitedly, which made Teng Yuzhao a little surprised and even angry.

"Yuxuan, are those foreigners ungrateful? Go find two foreigners and shoot them right in front of them by the river!"

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