Editing Human wave attack (section)

===Boxer Rebellion===
Human wave attacks were used during the [[Boxer Rebellion]] (1899–1901) in [[China]].<ref name="Wilhelm1994">{{cite book|author=Alfred D. Wilhelm|title=The Chinese at the Negotiating Table: Style and Characteristics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yd79PoqggT0C&pg=PA232|year=1994|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=978-0-7881-2340-5|pages=232–}}</ref> Boxer rebels performed human wave attacks against [[Eight-Nation Alliance]] forces during the [[Seymour Expedition]]<ref name="Xiang2014">{{cite book|author=Lanxin Xiang|title=The Origins of the Boxer War: A Multinational Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbLKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA262|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-86582-4|pages=262–}}</ref> and the [[Battle of Langfang]]<ref name="Xiang2014 1">{{cite book|author=Lanxin Xiang|title=The Origins of the Boxer War: A Multinational Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbLKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA263|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-86582-4|pages=263–}}</ref> where the Eight Nation Alliance was forced to retreat.<ref name="Xiang2014 2">{{cite book|author=Lanxin Xiang|title=The Origins of the Boxer War: A Multinational Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbLKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA264|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-86582-4|pages=264–}}</ref>

On 11 and 14 June 1900, Boxers armed only with bladed melee weapons directly charged the Alliance troops at Langfang armed with rifles and machine guns in human wave attacks and the Boxers also blocked the retreat of the expedition via train by destroying the Tianjin-Langfang railway.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Q1X5AgAAQBAJ&q=battle+of+langfang&pg=PT67 |title=The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power |first= Max |last=Boot |author-link = Max Boot |year= 2014| edition=revised| publisher=Basic Books | isbn= 978-0465038664 | access-date= 11 November 2014}}</ref>

The Boxers and [[Dong Fuxiang]]'s army worked together in the joint ambush with the Boxers relentlessly assaulting the Allies head on with human wave attacks displaying "no fear of death" and engaging the Allies in melee combat and putting the Allied troops under severe mental stress by mimicking vigorous gunfire with firecrackers. The Allies however suffered most of their losses at the hands of General Dong's troops, who used their expertise and persistence to engage in "bold and persistent" assaults on the Alliance forces, as remembered by the German Captain Usedom: the right wing of the Germans was almost at the point of collapse under the attack until they were rescued from Langfang by French and British troops; the Allies then retreated from Langfang in trains full of bullet holes.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lanxin|first=Xiang|title=The Origins of the Boxer War: A Multinational Study|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1136865893|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECbKAgAAQBAJ&q=battle+of+langfang&pg=PA264|page=264}}</ref>