When the Yizhi Village Righteous Army was preparing to ambush Zhao Dongyun's department, Zhao Dongyun was still in Dongzhao Village, at this time, Dongzhao Village was completely free of ordinary people, and the young and strong logarithms of the previous villagers all participated in the Righteous Army, and the remaining old and weak women and children did not know where to flee.

The more than 1,000 rebels who guarded Dongzhao Village before were also turned around and ran away with one shot, so now there is no one else in Dongzhao Village except for the soldiers under Zhao Dongyun's department.

Zhao Dongyun did not stay in Dongzhao Village for too long, he soon led the troops to continue north, he wanted to directly march into the village, defeat the rebels, capture or kill Jing Tingbin, Zhao Sanduo and other masterminds.

However, outside the village, suddenly a gunshot rang out hundreds of meters away!

With the sound of gunshots, almost everyone present, whether it was an officer or a soldier, knew that they were ambushed, Zhao Dongyun hurriedly took out his binoculars and looked around, shouting: "Where is the enemy?" ”

Soon Li Zejun rode his horse and trotted over: "My lord, is it a gun from the southeast?" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "What is the number of enemy troops and how far is the distance?" ”

Li Zejun said: "According to the density of the gunshots, it should be about fifty guns, and the distance from the right team in front is about three hundred meters!" ”

"Order Gu Qizhi to take down the enemy for me!" After panicking for dozens of seconds, Zhao Dongyun began to calm down, and then continued to order according to the military knowledge remaining in his mind: "Order Lin Yongquan to set up the machine gun and suppress the fire!" ”

In fact, without Zhao Dongyun's order, his troops have already launched their own defensive and counterattack formations, at this time, the training of the Wuwei Right Army for many years has finally reflected its due value, many grassroots officers pulled out command knives or pistols, shouting various passwords to integrate the formation.

After a short time, the soldiers, under the leadership of the officer, ignored the dust on the ground and the mud on the horizon, and directly turned over and went down to the small ditch on the side of the road.

As a result, the two sides fired at each other three or four hundred meters apart, but the effect of this kind of shooting was quite limited, not to mention that the rebel foreign gun team with old-fashioned muskets could not hit the new army on Zhao Dongyun's side, and even the well-trained soldiers of the Wuwei Right Army were difficult to hit when shooting with Xinshu rifles.

However, the first minute of shooting is more important for the right army of Wuwei, after all, they were ambushed, and their first reaction must be to shoot at the enemy to suppress the fire, and whether they can be hit or not is another matter.

However, a minute later, Zhao Dongyun, who was behind, looked at a small hillside in the distance with a telescope, and then saw that although the bullets of his own troops hit that hillside, they were very scattered, and the effective hit was almost equal to zero, so he immediately ordered the infantry to stop this senseless shooting.

"Hurry up and suppress the fire from the machine guns! Let Gu Qizhi's movements be faster, don't grind! Zhao Dongyun took back the binoculars, and then looked at Gu Qizhi in front of him!

At this time, Gu Qizhi was assembling his troops, and in the marching army column just now, his troops were really at the front, which means that the troops that were actually ambushed were Gu Qizhi's second battalion right team.

Although this sudden encounter did not cause them any major trouble, it also caused a certain amount of panic, and several people were hit, and this panic made Gu Qizhi spend some more time integrating his troops.

"The left post will come forward, the middle post will come with me, and the right post will suppress the fire!" After Gu Qizhi slightly integrated the troops, he didn't care about the uneven number of people, and immediately ordered his subordinates to counterattack.

At this time, if you follow the tactics of the traditional old army, it should be a dense formation to step forward and counterattack, but that is already the backward tactics of the Napoleonic War era, and the armies of the great powers have long stopped playing like this, but the Qing army still played like this in the year of Gengzi, and as a result, tens of thousands of Qing troops were beaten by the patchwork Eight-Nation Alliance.

The reason why Yuan Shikai's new army is called the new army is not only because his equipment keeps up with the mainstream army of the West, but also because his training, tactics, etc. are also aligned with the German army.

So at this time, Zhao Dongyun didn't see that Gu Qizhi did not command the troops to form a dense straggler formation for a counter-charge, but formed an extremely loose straggler formation compared to the line formation, and they did not charge head-on, but used the few obstacles from the flanks to advance from the waist.

This kind of skirmish formation is still too dense for the era of machine guns rampant during World War I and World War II, but today in 1902, this formation can be regarded as very loose, and even sparser than the straggler charge formation during the Russo-Japanese War, mainly because the machine gun battalion under Zhao Dongyun shocked some Beiyang bigwigs too much, so that Yuan Shikai specially revised the infantry drill code, requiring the infantry formation to be wider to avoid being beaten into a hornet's nest by machine guns when charging in a dense formation.

When Gu Qizhi commanded his troops to launch a counter-charge from the flank, the machine gunners under Lin Yongquan also quickly set up the machine guns, and then aimed the machine guns at the hill ambushed by the rebels in the east and pulled the trigger. At this time, the characteristic clicking sound of the Maxim machine gun sounded, and the golden shell was thrown from the machine gun into the air, and then fell to the ground, and it didn't take long for the ground where the gun was to be covered with a layer of golden bullet casings.

The dense machine-gun fire continued to suppress the rebels on the hill in a long burst fire, and although they did not get many direct hits due to the distance, the rebels could not raise their heads under this dense firepower.

Zhao Sanduo held a revolver in his hand, and after watching the Qing army in the distance go through the panic for the first minute, he swaggered up the machine gun, and then aimed at his own position and fired.

As a veteran boxer who had besieged many churches and fought against the Eight-Nation Alliance, he had seen the power of these machine guns, and the dense bullets were like cutting wheat, and they were falling one by one!

And when the machine gun bullets kept hitting the hill, a few of the high-powered machine gun bullets even penetrated the mud wall where the rebels were lying on their stomachs, and then hit the bodies of the rebel soldiers.

Coupled with a large number of bullets from the rifles of the Qing army, this improvised foreign gun team was hit by more than a dozen people in a short period of time, which is not a good sign.

Don't look at this foreign gun team of more than 600 people, there are more than 300 guns, but Zhao Sanduo knows that if the real fight starts, if it is smooth, it is okay, for example, this ambush will be fought well in the first few minutes, but if the enemy reacts and counterattacks on a large scale, and at the same time the foreign gun team also suffers some casualties, then it is very likely that a large-scale collapse will occur.

Despite the demagogy of the Boxers, these people were just ordinary villagers after all, and they were not well-trained soldiers. In the face of an ambush, the soldiers under Zhao Dongyun were able to integrate their formation and launch a counterattack in just a few minutes, but the foreign gun team in front of them had already begun to panic in the face of the overall counterattack of the Qing army.

"They're coming, shoot!" A rebel shouted as he pointed to the many Beiyang soldiers in gray uniforms on the left.

"What to do, they're going to rush up!" Another rebel soldier shouted.

Zhao Sanduo gritted his teeth when he saw it, and raised his hand to aim at this soldier is shot: "Give Lao Tzu a hard beat, whoever shakes the army's heart again, I will shoot him!" ”

Even if Zhao Sanduo uses strong suppression, he will not be able to stop the collapse of this foreign gun team!

When Gu Qizhi led his right team to launch a counterattack, and when Lin Yongquan set up a machine gun to suppress the fire, they could already be declared defeated.

In less than half an hour, Gu Qizhi had already personally led the troops to overcome the ambush position of the rebel army's foreign gun team, and pursued it, killing and wounding nearly 100 members of the foreign gun team, and the rest broke up and fled.

Zhao Dongyun was still riding on a horse at this time, and from beginning to end, he and Li Zejun and other officers had never dismounted, not that he was deliberately showing bravery or anything like that, but because these officers were in the middle and rear, more than 400 meters away from the ambush of the rebels, there was no need to dismount and avoid bullets.

As for the superman-like snipers that were advertised in later generations, they have not yet appeared in this era, and even the scopes used in rifles have not yet appeared, even if a well-trained soldier uses today's rifle to shoot, he is a super elite shooter who can hit the human body two hundred meters away, and if it is far away, it is basically a blind man, and more than four hundred people are impossible to hit the enemy unless they are possessed by your traverser.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun and other officers all sat firmly on the horses, and one by one they also held binoculars to observe the battle between the right team and the rebel army in front, and commented a few words from time to time.

"I didn't expect these mobs to have so many muskets, and they almost caught their way!" At this time, Zhao Dongyun put down the binoculars, and then said to Li Zejun beside him: "Continue to march!" ”

At the same time, he said to the herald who rode beside him: "Sue Wu Changlan, let him pay attention to the musket team in the mob, continue to blockade the eastern part of the village, and not let anyone escape!" ”

After Wu Changlan's cavalry team took Dongzhao Village, they turned to the east, the purpose of which was to cut off the connection between the rebels in Zhizhi Village and the rebels in the south, and also to cut off their escape route, after all, there was a cavalry of hundreds of people in the east, and if Zhao Sanduo and Jing Tingbin wanted to run south, there was a chance that they would be stopped.

This ambush surprised Zhao Dongyun a little, but it didn't stop his determination to continue marching, and what happened next was almost no surprise!

Zhao Dongyun personally commanded thousands of troops, with machine guns to attack the village, although Jing Tingbin commanded the rebels to resist, but these rebels were simply unable to resist the attack of the army, and the cohesion of these rebels was as bad as many peasant rebels in history, when Zhao Dongyun's troops rushed, even the machine guns were not moved out to strafe, the rebels in front of them collapsed, and then the chain reaction led to tens of thousands of rebels is a big collapse.

Looking at the rout army all over the mountains, Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo burst into tears, they expected today's defeat, but they definitely didn't expect to lose so quickly!

It's not like an uprising, it's like a farce!

In the next time, Zhao Dongyun's troops were busy arresting people, but catching people was more tiring than fighting, and it took him less than half an hour to defeat more than 10,000 enemy troops, but it took him a whole day to capture leaders such as Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo.

"What are they going to do, it's just such a big place, where else can they flee to? Keep my eyes open for search, I really don't believe they can run away! ”

However, although Zhao Dongyun sternly urged his subordinates to search for the two leaders, Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo, they only caught Jing Tingbin in the evening, but let Zhao Sanduo run away.

"It's damn damn enough to get him out! But we caught Jing Tingbin, and we were able to make a difference to the top! Li Zejun's expression was smiling, and he was obviously in a good mood.

Zhao Dongyun was a little regretful that he couldn't catch Zhao Sanduo, that was the well-known leader of the boxers, it was a great achievement to catch it, but now it is not bad to catch a Jing Tingbin, this Guangzong is not in vain.

The next day, Zhao Dongyun's good news was that the fast horse was delivered to Duan Qirui in Shijiazhuang, and Duan Qirui hurriedly sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai in Baoding!

For a while, the name Zhao Dongyun once again resounded in Beiyang!