The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 52: Oath and Gift

Teng Yuzhao personally divided the bowl of blood wine into two, and he and Liu Shijiu each took half a bowl.

Liu Shijiu first pointed to the sky and swore an oath, "Heaven and earth are my witnesses. Today, I, Liu Shijiu, and General Teng have become brothers of the opposite sex. In the future, we will be as close as brothers, destroy the foreigners together, stain the red sand with swords, and never leave each other. If I break my oath, I will be indignant to both humans and gods, and I will be struck by lightning!"

Liu Shijiu's oath was full of gangster flavor, but the oath was extremely solemn.

Teng Yuzao also swore to the sky, "Heaven and earth are my witnesses. Today, I, Teng Yuzao, and Liu Shijiu become brothers. We must act in the name of righteousness and with sincerity as our foundation. We will support each other and make a sworn brotherhood. If we break this oath, heaven and earth will not tolerate it!"

Seeing that the two of them actually agreed to become sworn brothers right away, both of them were so impatient, everyone present was stunned. Only Master Qian was stroking his sparse beard, looking thoughtful.

After Teng Yuzao finished his oath, the two men raised their wine bowls together and drank the wine mixed with their blood. Liu Shijiu laughed heartily, patted Teng Yuzao's arm affectionately, and said loudly and heroically, "Good brother, today's incident happened in a hurry. I will go back to Tianjin City and spread the notice to the leaders of various regiments. If there is anyone who is so blind as to attack the vanguard army in the future and does not give face to me, his elder brother, I, Liu Shijiu, will never forgive him."

"Okay! Thank you very much, brother!"

Teng Yuzao said to everyone with a smile on his face, "Today you all have witnessed my brother and I's oath of brotherhood. How about we drink from one bowl together?"

Seeing that the matter was done, Liu Yuzhi no longer had the intention to stop it, and immediately arranged for the guard squad to pour wine for everyone. Since it was wartime, everyone was only poured a small half bowl of white wine, and then drank it all in one gulp.

Liu Shijiu was in a hurry to go back, and Master Qian was about to say goodbye and leave. At this moment, Li Jinyu came running over excitedly with a stack of photos, "Sir, the photos have been developed, please take a look."

Teng Yuzao carefully checked the photos. Fortunately, although Li Jinyu's photography skills needed to be improved, the results were still good. At least the photos were very clear. Teng Yuzao handed the photos to Master Qian.

"Master Qian, I'm sorry to bother you. Please give these photos to Yu Zhongtang. Otherwise, the court may not believe that the vanguard army, with only a few hundred people, wiped out more than a thousand coalition troops in one battle."

After Master Qian carefully put away the photos, Teng Yuzao said to Master Qian sincerely, "Master Qian, please tell Yu Zhongtang that we must not underestimate the enemy because of this great victory. Today, the coalition forces only had more than a thousand people, and they thought that the vanguard had fewer soldiers, so they were obviously arrogant. In addition, we built solid trenches and dug anti-artillery holes for each soldier, which caused the coalition forces to suffer a great loss."

"However, the foreigners are not fools. They learn from their mistakes. If more of them come tomorrow and they are more fully prepared, the vanguard army will not be able to have such good luck again. At that time, there will be no choice but to fight a bloody battle to decide the winner."

"besides."

Teng Yuzhao sighed and said, "We don't have many soldiers available, and right now, the coalition forces are still increasing in strength. It's not easy to keep Tianjin City." The reason why Teng Yuzhao asked Master Qian to tell Yu Lu these things was that he was worried that he would be too confident in his report to the court, so that he would be forced into a corner and eventually have to defend Tianjin City to the death. That would be a loss.

Then, Teng Yuzhao pulled Master Qian, Liu Shijiu and Pan Jinshan down into the trenches. They not only checked the trenches and cat-ear holes that had been blown to pieces by the intensive artillery fire of the Allied Forces, but also carefully checked the inside and outside of the machine gun bunker.

When several people saw that the top layer of the machine gun bunker where Teng Yuzhao was located had more than a dozen hard and thick beams broken by the explosion and fell apart, and the sandbags covering this layer of beams were only left with some sack pieces hung by broken wood and still fluttering in the wind, they could not help but smack their lips in amazement.

Teng Yuzao also explained in detail how to dig cat-ear holes and trenches, and how to set up machine gun bunkers. It can be said that he explained without reservation how to dig, as well as the issues that need to be paid attention to.

When Master Qian was leaving, Teng Yuzhao told him that Li Yulin would come to see him in the next one or two days and needed his help with something.

Teng Yuzhao was grateful from the bottom of his heart for Master Qian's coming here at great risk. Although he was not sure whether it was because Yu Lu insisted on sending troops to rescue him or because of Master Qian's suggestion, after all, Master Qian personally brought Liu Shijiu all the way here, and this friendship was still rare.

Teng Yuzhao didn't want to let Master Qian, who had traveled all the way here, go back empty-handed. But firstly, he had no silver on hand, as the silver was in the hands of Li Yulin, the new general manager of the camp office. He only had the confiscated foreign currency on hand. Secondly, it would be inconvenient to hand it to Master Qian in front of Liu Shijiu and Pan Jinshan.

Although he saved Yu Lu's life, Yu Lu also did him a lot of good. Logically speaking, Yu Lu has already repaid him for saving his life, but it is unknown whether he will continue to help him in the future.

However, Master Qian was Yu Lu's confidant, and his words carried a lot of weight in front of Yu Lu. If he could make friends with Master Qian, it would be very helpful for him to continue to get more benefits in the future. Therefore, Teng Yuzhao had to satisfy Master Qian before he would be willing to help him, so he had to send him over by Li Yulin.

Moreover, Teng Yuzao was going to ask Li Yulin to go to Master Qian for another matter. He wanted Li Yulin to find a way to bring the doctors from the Tianjin General Hospital of Drug Storage and Medical Treatment and the Medical School to the Vanguard Army as much as possible. If Master Qian could help in this matter, it would be much better than Li Yulin trying to use money or force alone.

Ever since Li Hongzhang left Beiyang, few people have cared about this western medicine college and medical school. Not only Yulu, but also Ronglu is the same. These people only believe in traditional Chinese medicine and are disdainful of Western medicine. If handled well, it is possible that they can be brought to the vanguard army as a whole.

Every time he came to Teng Yuzhao, he would get benefits. Although he returned empty-handed this time, Master Qian had already understood Teng Yuzhao's meaning and naturally agreed.

After seeing off Master Qian and Liu Shijiu, Pan Jinshan also had to lead his team away. Teng Yuzhao naturally could not let Pan Jinshan return empty-handed. Nie Shicheng's Wuwei Vanguard Army had no shortage of weapons and ammunition. Naturally, he could not give Pan Jinshan the same gift as he gave Liu Shijiu a rifle. Teng Yuzhao asked Wei Jinghai to take the pistol and sword of the captured Tsarist Russian major.

This Tsarist Russian major should be of noble birth. His revolver was the Nagant M1895, which was the Russian army's special service pistol. It was a unique pistol at the time. The most special thing about it was that it had a capacity of seven rounds, unlike all other revolvers. Other revolvers only held six rounds.

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