The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 274 Yuan Shikai's Death

On the outskirts of London, on the last position of the Beiyang warlords, Yuan Shikai watched the soldiers pouring out of the ruins of London, wearing red British military uniforms, boat-shaped caps, and holding flintlock guns or mini rifles, closing their faces in despair. eyes.

After three full months of fierce fighting, the Beiyang Army led by Yuan Shikai had reached the point where they had exhausted all their ammunition. Even if he killed more British people, what was the point?
Now the troops supporting London in England have surrounded Yuan Shikai's troops on three sides, and the British army in the direction of London has received a large number of new troops.

On the other hand, Yuan Shikai's subordinates did not even have three figures, and more than half of them were slightly injured.

If it weren't for the trial soldiers, they would often give joy to the severely wounded with limited mobility, and the proportion of the wounded would be even greater.

"Commander, we have run out of bullets made in Hanyang, and only barely usable flintlock guns are left. The enemy has already come up, do you want to charge now?
If we continue to wait until the enemy has completed the encirclement and presses up from all sides, we will be shot on the spot. "

The last captain officer beside Yuan Shikai said with a blank face, without any sense of sadness that he was about to die in battle.

In fact, apart from Yuan Shikai himself, all Beiyang officers and soldiers, even those with self-wisdom, did not feel the slightest bit of despair.

The big deal is death if they are defeated, and death is not a big deal to them at all!
The source of Yuan Shikai's misery is not his death, but his heartbroken feeling that his career has been desolate before it even started.

Yuan Shikai never expected that these british guys would spend hundreds of thousands of lives to fight him in a war of attrition for three full months!

In fact, more than a month ago, Yuan Shikai realized that the Beiyang Army under his command had completely lost its offensive ability due to the loss of ammunition for most of the advanced firearms and the loss of a large number of soldiers, and the entire front had to switch from offense to defense.

At that time, Yuan Shikai was unable to completely withdraw from London with his troops.

The rear is a steady stream of British reinforcements rushing over, and the front is the London Guards who seem to never kill them all, but their morale is very tenacious. Resist the pursuit of the British cavalry?
Therefore, Yuan Shikai once sent the captured British to the enemy's position to try to negotiate a truce, and Yuan Shikai was even willing to spit out all the previous results for this purpose, just to open a hole for the British army in the rear, leaving Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army a A chance for a comeback.

It's a pity that Yuan Shikai's Beiyang army killed too many British people. Not to mention that Queen Victoria would not agree, even if the British high-level agreed, the British soldiers below could not let Yuan Shikai's Beiyang soldiers go.

After fighting for so long, which British person living in London and its surrounding areas does not have a bloody feud with Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army?
The more people were killed, the deeper the hatred accumulated. However, Yuan Shikai, who has never been able to complete his efforts, could not completely solve the root problem of hatred by force.

Therefore, Yuan Shikai, who was rejected by the peace talks, fought a defensive war for more than a month. During the defensive war, the British army suffered high casualties due to the high proportion of new recruits, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted.

Today is the time for them to reap the fruits of battle.

Looking at the last few dozen soldiers left, Yuan Shikai finally gave up his unrealistic illusions, took out his sidearm with the last bullet in it, and pointed it at his head.

bang.

Yuan Shikai's fat body fell to the ground weakly, and the remaining dozens of Beiyang officers and soldiers turned into blue light and disappeared.

In a secret arsenal on the outskirts of London, the British military technicians who were facing the seized Mauser rifles of the Beiyang Army and the imitations made by Hanyang suddenly let out horrified shouts.

All the gun components that had been disassembled by them turned into blue light and disappeared!

Soon, Queen Victoria received the news that all the weapons and equipment seized from the soldiers of Yuri's summoned legion turned into blue light and disappeared out of thin air, which forced the suspension of the counterfeiting work!
Fortunately, after these days of imitation, the British military industry has made breakthroughs in breech-loading guns, and has developed low-cost breech-loading guns. The rest is to transform and reduce the scrap rate.

Because this breech-loading gun was imitated by a team led by a military scientific research technician named James Paris Lee, this rifle was named Lee's rifle.

Of course, this rifle is only a transitional version, and its performance is slightly inferior to that of the old sleeves made in Hanyang. However, during the war, Queen Victoria ordered an urgent production of a batch for deployment in frontline troops.

In the three months since Yuan Shikai's defeat, earth-shaking changes took place in the mainland of the British Empire.

Most of the main force in the British mainland was used to encircle and suppress Yuan Shikai, which allowed the other three warlords to develop well.

Needless to say, Zhang Xun and Zhang Zuolin, after Duan Qirui found out that Yuan Shikai was in trouble, he began to move around in the west of England, attacking the weak defenses of the British army.

Break through dozens of British towns and cities, big and small, in a row!

Among them were many important British industrial cities. Like Zhang Xun and Zhang Zuolin, they obtained a stable military supply base and began to imitate their own Hanyang-made rifles in large quantities.

Duan Qirui chose the Hanyang rifle instead of the Mauser rifle mainly because the latter's technical content is too high, the material requirements are more stringent than those of this era, and it is too difficult to imitate.

Duan Qirui urgently needed to expand his army and prepare for war, so he chose to imitate the Hanyang-made rifle, which was easier to produce.

After all, Hanyang is already in an advanced field in the UK. Whether it is the range or the rate of fire, it can beat the British.

When Yuan Shikai committed suicide, Duan Qirui had occupied the entire western part of England and formed a military land army composed of poor British people.

At the same time, Yuri received news of Yuan Shikai's death.

[The Beiyang army led by Yuan Shikai was wiped out by the local forces of the world, and all weapons and equipment have been recovered.

Only in the war where the trial legions annexed each other, the weapons and equipment would not be recycled. 】

Yuri, who was sitting on a self-made recliner, took his hands out of the clothes of the two fair-skinned, beautiful, bulging and teenage English girls beside him, and carefully looked at the reminder that suddenly appeared in his mind. frame.

"Yuan Shikai was finished so soon. It seems that the British guy still has some skills. Fortunately, I sent two trial legions in England. I hope Duan Qirui will not disappoint me too much.

The reaction of the revolutionary organizations in Ireland and Scotland was too slow, three months have passed and there is still no movement..."

(End of this chapter)