The anti-Qing movement began with the looting of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

"Father, we can't charge any further! We can't charge any further, let's retreat!" Nie Xianfan knelt on the ground, covered in blood, and pleaded desperately, clinging to his father's legs.

Nie Gongting swayed; he too had been hit by two bullets. His bright yellow jacket was covered in blood!

"General!" All the guards knelt down in unison.

"Father, have you forgotten what your brother-in-law said? Preserve your health and wait for the right opportunity! The army your brother-in-law sent to pick us up has arrived. Let's get out of here quickly! It will be too late if we delay any longer."

Seeing the corpses scattered on the ground, large tears rolled down Nie Gongting's cheeks. His hand loosened, and his blood-soaked sword fell to the ground. He collapsed limply to the ground.

"Father!! Someone come here!" Nie Xianfan hugged his father tightly and had his personal guards escort him to the carriage that had been prepared beforehand.

"Withdraw! Alternate cover!"

As soon as the order to retreat was given, all the officers and soldiers turned and ran. The reason they hadn't collapsed earlier was only because Nie Gongting had been leading from the front and supervising the battle. Now that the commander-in-chief hadn't shown up, no one could restrain them.

The allied forces were also taken aback. They had originally come to attack, but their advances had been forced into a defensive posture by the Wuwei Army's several charges. They relied entirely on their artillery and heavy machine guns to inflict heavy casualties on the Qing troops.

They were prepared to withstand several more charges from the Wuwei Army before the Qing soldiers were wiped out. But unexpectedly, the enemy suddenly withdrew?

"Yoshi! The Qing people are in defeat! Pursue them!" A Japanese officer was the first to react, brandishing his saber and leading several hundred Japanese soldiers in black uniforms in pursuit.

The other allied forces picked up their weapons and slowly followed behind, beginning to clean up the battlefield.

Let the Japanese try to steal the credit! They saw how desperate the Wuwei Army was just now, and they're not willing to fight these lunatics!

The Wuwei Army was fierce in battle and quick in retreat. The Japanese soldiers were still armed with single-shot rifles and had no heavy weapons. They had only managed to kill a dozen or so wounded and outgunned soldiers before they had no choice but to pick up their rifles and give chase.

Luckily, this place is flat and level, so we don't have to worry about getting lost!

"Young Master, don't panic, come this way!" A cavalryman charged into the chaos and came to Nie Xianfan's side.

"Alright!" Nie Xianfan took a breath and ordered his troops to follow. The remaining one or two thousand Wuwei Army soldiers hurriedly followed.

After chasing for four or five miles, a grove of trees appeared in the distance, and opposite it was a small mound of earth about ten meters high. The fleeing Qing soldiers escaped across the main road in the middle.

Seeing that they were only a few hundred meters away from catching up, Masao Kameda brandished his sword and shouted, "Hurry up!" He then took the lead and gave chase.

Just as the group of Japanese soldiers arrived at the mound, gunfire erupted, "rat-a-tat-tat..." Four tongues of fire shot up from the mound and the grove of trees, suddenly sweeping towards the Japanese soldiers.

Masao Kameda felt a chill rise up his back and quickly lunged to the ground.

"Pfft pfft pfft..." Bullets the size of fingers pierced the bodies of Japanese soldiers, spurting out streams of blood.

Large numbers of Japanese soldiers fell in heaps, and in an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and corpses littered the field. The open field offered no cover, and the more than a thousand pursuing Japanese soldiers were all within range of the heavy machine guns.

Four heavy machine guns were firing in a crossfire, and the main gunner shouted excitedly, it was so exhilarating!

Masao Kameda lay prostrate on the ground in terror, burying his head in the earth. After an unknown amount of time, the terrifying gunfire finally ceased.

As Masao Kameda was about to get up, he suddenly felt a tremor in the ground and heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from afar.

"Cavalry! Run!" Without thinking, Masao Kameda scrambled to his feet and ran back. Many of the remaining Japanese soldiers stood there dumbfounded, horrified by the gruesome scene.

He screamed in fright when the cavalry came into view, threw down his gun, and ran away.

A cold smile appeared on Shen Xiaohu's lips as he swiftly swept past a Japanese soldier, a slight hesitation emanating from his outstretched blade. The Japanese soldier's head flew into the air.

Shen Xiaohu didn't even glance at them, spurring his warhorse to charge towards the next Japanese soldier! Two hundred cavalrymen charged past, and not a single Japanese soldier remained standing.

Masao Kameda inwardly groaned; on this plain, no matter how fast a person ran, they couldn't escape the pursuit of cavalry. The screams coming from behind only spurred him on to run for his life.

Unfortunately, he was chasing too fast and was in the lead, so now that he's running away, he's fallen behind.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Masao Kameda felt a chill on his neck before he was lifted into the air. Then everything went black!

"Stop! Don't chase!" Shen Xiaohu stopped his horse, dismounted, picked up a military knife, and examined it closely. The hilt was silver; not bad!

He'd seen this officer a long time ago, and he still wanted to run away! Humph! Shen Xiaohu tore off the officer's major rank insignia and searched him.

There were a dozen or so silver dollars, a fountain pen, a pocket watch, and a telescope. Shen Xiaohu packed his things, turned, and mounted his horse. The New Army didn't reward soldiers based on kills. These Japanese soldiers got off easy!

Nie Xianfan watched blankly as the Shandong New Army cleaned up the battlefield. In less than ten minutes, over a thousand Japanese soldiers had been wiped out? This wasn't a battle; it was a massacre!

"Young Master, let's go! We have to leave, the foreign devils will catch up soon!" A cavalryman walked over; he was from the Wuwei Army and of course recognized Nie Xianfan.

"Alright!" Nie Xianfan nodded. He called over the Wuwei Army soldiers who had the same expression as him. He had just brought these men to stay and help hold off the pursuers, but he hadn't expected them to witness such a spectacle.

"Little Tiger, I can't believe you've become a battalion commander in just six months! That was a fantastic battle. We also have Maxim guns, but we didn't realize they were so powerful!"

Nie Xianfan certainly knew Shen Xiaohu; when Shen Lian went to the capital, Shen Xiaohu had also visited the Nie family.

"It's just that these Japanese soldiers were caught off guard, we launched an ambush, and the terrain here is good. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been easy to achieve such a result!" Shen Xiaohu nodded and said, still showing a hint of pride on his face.

"There's really no comparison! Our Wuwei Army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, but we didn't inflict many casualties on the Allied forces! Sigh!" Nie Xianfan shook his head and sighed.

"You're fighting a positional war, and you've done a great job! If it were any other army, they probably would have been routed after just a few shells!" Shen Xiaohu said matter-of-factly.

In a positional war, although we are slightly stronger than them, we will certainly suffer heavy casualties.

After the remnants of the Wuwei Army and the cavalry battalion had gone far away, a large number of allied troops arrived. Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, the allied officers exchanged bewildered glances.

Just how powerful an enemy must have been to cause such massive casualties in such a short time?!

"How is the commander?" When Nie Xianfan arrived with his remaining troops, Zhang Da Kui and a group of officers personally came out to greet him.

"He was shot twice, but neither time in vital areas, so it shouldn't be a big problem!" Nie Xianfan shook his head.