Chapter 421 Airborne Operations (2)
After passing through the Plaza of the Palace of Supreme Harmony, the soldiers who traveled through the warriors immediately used the surrounding buildings as cover to advance to the Wuying Palace alternately. At this time, the lights were lit in the Wuying Palace, and even without night vision goggles, they could see clearly.
Not long after, the crossing warriors rushed to a range less than 150 meters away from Wuying Hall, and the footsteps had alarmed the Japanese army guarding Wuying Hall. However, at this time, the Japanese army had not realized that it was the enemy. Therefore, a Japanese soldier guarding the door of Wuying Hall shouted: "Stop, don't advance anymore, who are you?"
Yu Maolin had learned Japanese and was about to answer in Japanese to relax the enemy's army, but at this time someone changed to English and asked again. It turned out that the Japanese squad leader thought that if the army of other countries would definitely not understand Japanese, he had learned a few words of English, so he changed to English. Yu Maolin's heart moved and immediately changed to English and answered: "Don't shoot, it's your own people."
While speaking, Yu Maolin hung a grenade under the Type 95 rifle, and took advantage of the Japanese soldiers' shocked kung fu, and shot towards the door of Wuying Palace. When other traveling warriors equipped with gun-hanging grenades saw it, they all hung a grenade and fired 5 and 6 grenades at the door of Wuying Palace.
As a result, after a series of explosions, the Japanese resistance collapsed. Before the smoke at the entrance of Wuying Palace dissipated, the soldiers rushed into Wuying Palace one by one.
At this time, in the main hall of Wuying Hall, the Japanese commander Lieutenant General Yamaguchi Sushi was left with only two adjutants and several guards, with only more than 10 people left. Moreover, the explosion at the entrance of the hall just now alarmed Yamaguchi Sushi. The enemy from where he came from actually brought grenadiers. Could it be that Beijing City had been captured by overseas Chinese troops?
However, now I didn't have time to think about these things, so the gate of Wuying Palace would definitely not be able to defend. The enemy was about to attack Wuying Palace. At this time, the adjutant suggested that Yamaguchi Sushi escape from the back door of Wuying Palace, but Yamaguchi Sushi refused. Instead, he decided to fight the enemy to the death in Wuying Palace. This was not because Yamaguchi Sushi was really brave and fearless, and he was ready to die. Instead, Yamaguchi Sushi's judgment was wrong, believing that the People's Army had broken through Beijing and attacked the palace. The Eight-Nation Alliance was destroyed. Even if he escaped from Wuying Palace, he could only survive for a while. In the end, it was not that he was killed by the People's Army. Therefore, instead of being humiliated in a mess at that time, it would be better to be broken in this Wuying Palace now, and at least die like a soldier.
So Yamaguchi Sushi pulled out his pistol and shouted sternly: "What are you running away? Japan only has the generals in front of the battle, and there are no generals who escape. We will stay here and fight to the death with the overseas Chinese. Only the seven lives will repay their loyalty to the Emperor."
As he said that, Yamaguchi Sushi raised his pistol and shot outside the Wuying Palace. When the other Japanese soldiers saw it, they all stopped the idea of escaping and raised their guns to shoot. In fact, outside the palace, they were also dark and could not see clearly, and they were shooting randomly without targets.
But not long after, a violent rain of bullets shot in from outside the hall. The two Japanese soldiers screamed, and they were shot in many guns and could not get up. The others were looking for cover to hide. Even Sushi Yamaguchi was hiding behind a large cabinet. Although he was holding a pistol, he was lying on the ground and did not even dare to move. The Japanese soldiers in the room were almost completely suppressed and could not raise their heads.
Just as a series of solitary bullets hit the wall, amid the sound of the wooden body, Yamaguchi Sushi suddenly heard a few "dongdongdongdong" sounds, and then there was a "broken" sound. Several objects of fists, the size of an elliptical, rolled on the indoor ground. One of them rolled straight to Yamaguchi Sushi, and hit Yamaguchi Sushi's leather boots before stopping.
Yamaguchi Sushi was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood and said loudly: "This is an explosion..." Before the word "bomb" was said, he heard a few loud explosions of "bomb boom boom" and then there was nothing left.
It turned out that under the cover of firepower, two crossing soldiers approached Wuying Hall from the side, threw a few grenades into the window, and then quickly dodged, and immediately resolved the battle.
After the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, Yu Maolin led the soldiers into Wuying Hall. At this time, there were 6 or 7 fires burning in the hall, and the furniture, ornaments, decorations, etc. in the room were beyond recognition. There were more than 10 corpses of Japanese soldiers lying on the ground. Some of them were completely different from ordinary Japanese soldiers. They were obviously Japanese officers. But now they could not recognize their identities.
At this time, the other soldiers were immediately divided into groups and searched the rooms of the Wuying Hall one by one. Occasionally, a few gunshots could be heard. But soon all the rooms of the Wuying Hall were searched, and basically no remaining Japanese soldiers were found. Yu Maolin also seized the time to check the entire team, and there were no casualties in the entire battle.
The tasks of the other two squadrons were also completed very smoothly. The 2nd squadron had already conquered Fengxian Hall and had attacked the garrison of the Imperial Chat Room; and the 3rd squadron had basically conquered the Yangxin Hall and was conducting a short-term fraud. So Yu Maolin did not delay the Wuying Hall, so he immediately led the entire team to the next target, the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The second goal of the 1st Squadron is the Office of Internal Affairs. It turned out that this was the command center of the Italian army. Originally, Italy was a so-called player in the Eight-Nation Alliance. When the Eight-Nation Alliance came out of Tianjin and attacked Beijing, there were only 53 flag-holding soldiers participating in the battle, which was purely accumulating the number. After invading Beijing, the Italian army drew some naval supplements from the warships participating in the war. Now all the officers and soldiers are only 85. After sending some personnel to guard the walls of the imperial city, the command center has only more than 30 people.
Although the Italian army's command was ready to defend after hearing the gunshots, the number of people was too small, and the combat effectiveness of the Italian soldiers was really unavailable. Therefore, as far as I could not resist the attack of the time-travel soldiers, several grenades fell on the Italian army's position and exploded, and the Italian army's will to resist was destroyed.
However, the Italians are not as stubborn as the Japanese, and they will be broken or serve the country for seven lives. The Italians, full of romantic temperament, believe that as long as they live, there is hope. Therefore, no matter how the current situation of the war is, whether they will be beaten to death or become prisoners in the future, they will be able to live for a while, so they escaped from the command center. Moreover, there are many houses in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which also gave the Italians convenience to escape. As a result, the Italian army only lost 10 soldiers, but most of them escaped, including Galioni, the commander of the Italian army, successfully escaped from the command center and temporarily saved his life.
Although the time of capturing the Ministry of Internal Affairs was shorter than that of attacking the Wuying Hall, the results achieved were far less than that of the Wuying Hall. There were only more than 10 Italian soldiers killed, and judging from the costumes of the fallen soldiers, they were basically ordinary soldiers, and there was no one with an officer-like appearance.
But no matter what, the 1st Squadron had basically completed its mission, and there were no dead in the entire team. Only three soldiers were scratched by splashed shrapnel. From this point of view, the results of the battle were also good. Therefore, Yu Maolin dispatched a team to search the rooms of the Office of Internal Affairs to report the battle situation to the command center, and asked for the next combat plan.
Although Yu Maolin was the captain of the special forces, he was only responsible for the battle on a local battlefield. At this time, gunfire was almost everywhere in the palace and war was everywhere. Although he could learn about the combat situation of the other two squadrons through walkie-talkies, he could not control the situation in the entire venue. Therefore, the command center that fully monitors the palace through drones can only know the general trend of the entire battlefield.
Just as Yu Maolin was waiting for the reply from the command center, a soldier suddenly came to report to him that a group had a large number of Chinese people in a house building in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After inquiring, it turned out that they were some eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, with hundreds of people crowded in 5 or 6 rooms.
It turned out that when Empress Dowager Cixi, Guangxu, concubines, princes and ministers fled Beijing, she only brought a small number of personal palace maids and eunuchs. Most of the eunuchs in the palace were left in the palace. Before Empress Dowager Cixi left the palace, she still spoke to the eunuchs and palace maids who stayed there, so that no one was allowed to be narrow-minded and waited for her to come back. If this sentence was not Empress Dowager Cixi's perfunctory remarks, it means that Empress Dowager Cixi had already begun to consider peace talks with various countries at this time.
Later, the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing. Although some palace maids and eunuchs died in the chaos of the palace, overall, the palace was much safer than outside. After all, this was the palace, and various countries also knew that they could not destroy the Qing court. In the end, they would have to negotiate peace with the Qing court and gain more benefits. Therefore, they should not destroy the palace too much. Of course, most of the treasures and wealth in the palace were divided by the Eight-Nation Alliance. However, most of the palace maids who remained in the palace were preserved. Later, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered the palace and also used many palace maids. The eunuchs did some chores and things to be served. Naturally, the officers would not let the palace maids go, but they saved their lives after all. The Office of the Internal Affairs is the palace maids, a place where the eunuchs lived in the palace.
Yu Maolin was stunned. Although he received an order before the war started, he would not leave prisoners and take down all the command centers of the Eight-Nation Alliance as soon as possible, this was for the Eight-Nation Alliance. The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace were obviously not included. Therefore, Yu Maolin hurriedly reported to the command center again.
Chapter completed!