Chapter 20: The Bombed Coalition Loses Their Temper

'Bang Bang! ’

Nakamura Taro's face was flushed with anger, looking at the person in front of him, and he was even more angry with his left and right hands at the same time, although even Nakamura Taro himself felt a little sore at the moment, but he still couldn't hide the anger in Nakamura Taro's heart.

The status of the Japanese in the coalition forces is not high, but who would have thought that the Japanese have had a series of accidents recently.

The baggage team was blown up twice in a row, and the first time it was said that it was a coincidence, then forget it. But what about the second time? They had clearly sent a squadron of troops to escort them all the way, followed by two brigades, and two thousand troops followed closely to protect them.

But that's it, this batch of supplies was still bombed.

As one of the leaders of this mission, how can Taro Nakamura not be angry? This time, the Japanese lost not only materials, but also political capital.

Just because of this incident, it is enough to make the Japanese have no confidence at the international negotiation table, and the interests that originally belonged to the Japanese will also be taken away by those Western powers, and they will look at them without a straight eye.

"Ishida, you're really impressing, aren't you? Yes? Nakamura Taro kicked him hard and kicked him directly in the stomach.

The huge force made Ishida Tadayi take a few steps back, and the painful look on his face was uncontrollably revealed. However, Ishida Tadayoshi could only force himself to hold on, and then quickly returned to his original position, waiting for Taro Nakamura's next action.

And at this moment, Ishida Tadayoshi is also full of resentment in his heart.

Isn't it just to bite the enemy? But who knew that the reinforcements behind had not appeared for a long time? And who knew that Ikeda's idiot would take it upon himself to go after another group of enemies who attacked them? As a result, there were not enough troops on the side of the baggage team, which allowed the enemy to pick up the loophole?

Although in Tadashi Ishida's view, the decision he made was not wrong, even the right one. It was only Ikeda's assertion that caused the mission to fail.

But Taro Nakamura is his superior after all, and it is normal to get angry at Ishida Tadayoshi at this time.

Who let Tadayoshi Ishida, who escorted the convoy, killed a total of twenty-six people and wounded eleven others. On the contrary, the troops of the two brigades that served as reinforcements in the back suffered heavy casualties?

Although he was beaten, Ishida Tadayoshi was not angry at all, and he would definitely double the amount he would get back from Ikeda when he returned, and this was the consistent style of the Japanese military circles.

"Your Excellency Captain, the command orders you to immediately lead all the troops back to Tianjin." Taro Nakamura, who was about to continue to be angry at Tadashi Ishida, suddenly received an order from the headquarters.

Taro Nakamura, who received this order, was also puzzled, and he didn't know the reason for this order? However, since it was an order, he could only do it, and returned to Tianjin with the remaining 1,000 men and another brigade.

Originally, after returning home from this war, Taro Nakamura was going to be promoted to the position of co-captain, but after experiencing this incident, Taro Nakamura had already seen that the position of co-captain seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him. Even, it is possible to be transferred to the reserves.

Taro Nakamura looked up at the sky helplessly, and said secretly in his heart: "Grass and mud horses! ’

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Tianjin, the headquarters of the coalition forces!

"Nakamura Nakasa, what the hell is going on up ahead?" Gaisley asked with a look of displeasure.

There had already been examples of a Russian battalion being annihilated by a heavy bombardment, and the Japanese had repeatedly told them to be careful before they set out, but who knew that the final result would still be so unacceptable.

Although the Japanese were not completely annihilated, and the situation was much better than that of the Russians, it was not much better.

The martyrdom directly killed more than 100 Japanese soldiers and more than 200 lightly and seriously wounded, and these people could not recover their combat capability in a short period of time.

The coalition army, which was already outnumbered, lost more than 800 people in just three days. And this is also the largest casualty of the coalition forces since they entered the Qing Dynasty.

"Hey! Your Excellency, the Commander, the people of China are very cunning, they keep attacking us, luring our convoy to pursue them, and then attack us while there is no escort with the baggage squad. As for the munitions that were detonated, they were the ones who worked on the shells we transported, and they exploded whenever we moved the bodies of the warriors, or picked up the scattered munitions. I think the Russians were defeated by them in the same way. Taro Nakamura explained very sincerely.

Although the coalition command had warned them to be careful, no one knew how they managed to detonate the ammunition.

Because the Russian army that I experienced before has long been wiped out, this time is equivalent to the experience that the Japanese have gained for the coalition forces with their own experience.

"Explodes just by moving?" Gaasley frowned deeply.

"Your Excellency Nakamura, failure is not terrible, but dishonesty can cause some unnecessary trouble." Nikolalenkovich said, apparently, he didn't agree with that statement.

"Cannonballs will only explode if they are exposed to an open flame that burns for a long time, or under a violent impact, and will explode as long as they move? Nakamura, don't you think this statement is a bit ridiculous? Gaisley said.

As a soldier, almost everyone knows under what circumstances an artillery shell will explode, and the conditions that trigger the explosion are also something that every soldier must keep in mind.

According to Taro Nakamura, there were no open flames at the scene, so theoretically, unless they were manipulating a cannon and delivering the shells into the middle of the convoy with unmistakable accuracy.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the shell to explode. And the Japanese are obviously not stupid, even if Taro Nakamura does not give any explanation, Gaisley is absolutely convinced that the Japanese must have been light and careful when carrying those shells.

But how did the shells explode?

"It's not impossible, if the other side takes advantage of the fact that the Japanese allies are not paying attention, and still a grenade comes in, it can also detonate these munitions. But in this case, the person who threw the grenade obviously did not survive. The Japanese allies did not find any enemy corpses nearby, so this speculation is clearly not valid.

Now, that's all that's left to guess, the enemy has at least one weapons expert who can easily make changes to the shell, as long as we move the shell, it is considered to have triggered the fuse, and then the shell can be detonated without us knowing, causing more ammunition to detonate. Wadsey analyzed.

As a political general, in this analysis, it is obvious that none of the people present are opponents of Waldersee, and Waldersea is also based on some military research results in Germany, plus this possibility analyzed from Nakamura Taro's description.

Whoever can do this must be a super talent. But they have never heard of such talents in the Qing State.

But no matter what, after Wadsey's words, it made all the people on the scene have some little Jiujiu in their hearts, and secretly made up their minds that they must find this person, and then take it as much as possible for their own use, if it really doesn't work, just kill him, and everyone can't get it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the situation is now very clear, I don't think there is any need for us to continue to delay this matter, and ending the war as soon as possible will be of great benefit to everyone." Gaisley shook his hand, this time the British only lost a little supplies, and not a single soldier or anything.

Therefore, the British did not mean to take revenge, and although the Russians and the Japanese were a little reluctant, there was no way to do it now, and they could not delay the whole process of the war for the sake of revenge.

"I think so." Wadsey nodded in agreement.

Because the commander of the coalition forces, Seymour, has been circling around Shanghai and other places, so he can not continue to lead the coalition forces to attack, through the German side, Wadsey has been recognized by various countries, if nothing else, it will not be long before Wadsey becomes the new commander of the coalition forces.

Therefore, Wadsey also hopes to end this farce as soon as possible, attack the capital as soon as possible, and end this war.

"Then according to the decision we have discussed before, the Japanese allies and the Russian allies will escort all the supplies to the front line, and as for the group that has attacked us several times, we will solve them in the future." Gaisley announced.

This decision was discussed after receiving the news that the baggage team was attacked again, and asked Nakamura Taro to come back, first, to understand the situation, and secondly, to let him escort the supplies up again, in fact, it was that simple.