After entering October, autumn has arrived in Hunan. At this time, the southwestern tribes of Hunan fell into the hands of the Guangfu Army, Chenzhou, Guiyang, and Daozhou, the places where the Taiping Army had fought, had been owned by the Guangfu Army at this time. The Taiping army once tried to attack, but never found a chance to Yongzhou, a large city in Hunan, was also taken by the Guangfu army. Guangxi, in the southwest of Hunan, has been controlled by the Guangfu Army, and Liangguang and southern Hunan have become one, backed by the sea, and live in southeast China. From the layout theory of Go's "golden horn and silver edge grass belly", the Guangfu Governor's Mansion that successfully occupied a corner of China is quite good.

For the officers and soldiers of the Liberation Army, especially for those brothers from other provinces other than Liangguang, the completion of the goal of occupying Liangguang means that the troops can continue to go north, and every way to the north means that everyone is getting closer and closer to their hometowns.

This kind of distance is different for everyone, for example, Zhou Jinguo, the battalion commander, is from Hunan, or Yongxing from the north of Chenzhou. When the Taiping army occupied Chenzhou, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan was stationed in Chenzhou, and Wei Ze led his troops to camp in Yongxing, north of Chenzhou. It was at that time that Zhou Jinguo joined Wei Ze's team. He didn't expect that he would be gone for so long, and seven years had passed since he stood near his hometown again. Of course, Zhou Jinguo didn't expect that after only seven years out of his hometown, he set off from Hunan, traveled to ten provinces, and saw the world that he couldn't even think of before.

Zhou Jinguo was very dissatisfied with the status quo of the Liberation Army being satisfied with seizing Chenzhou and other places, and the troops stopped less than a hundred miles from his home. When fighting in Hebei, the troops marched on the endless plains, and they could walk a hundred miles in two days. Even in Hunan, where the mountains are dense, it will take the troops less than four days to complete a hundred miles.

In response to such a situation, Zhou Jinguo has been trying to convince the regiment commander and even the brigade commander that he only needs to take one step forward. As long as you can take the Yongxing area. But the regiment commander and the brigade commander clearly told Zhou Jinguo that it was not the division commander who gave the order, not even the army commander Lei Hu. It was Governor Wei Ze who ordered the troops to stop in Chenzhou.

Hearing that it was an order from Governor Wei Zedu, Zhou Jinguo could only settle down temporarily. He could find the regiment commander and the brigade commander, but he couldn't see Wei Zedu, who was far away in Guangzhou. Even so, Zhou Jinguo found a pen and paper, and wrote a letter with great effort, first asking Wei Ze to give the order to go north, and also writing in his thoughts that he wanted to go home quickly.

Zhou Jinguo only began to learn culture after joining the Liberation Army, and before he was able to read and write, he was just an ordinary peasant. Hunan is very prosperous, but that's all about the rich. Even if the poor are illiterate, they can still learn to farm. Study, you have to have talent, even if you don't have a Wenqu star, you have to have some Wenqu Xing's breath. The people on the mountain, who have never read for generations, have not lived like this?

With three or four hundred words, he can read the military orders of the Guangfu Army and the orders of the Guangfu Governor's Office. can also write some simple military orders, and the accumulation of these knowledge did not allow Zhou Jinguo to learn to write some good articles with sincerity. In other words, his heart was full of passion to go home, but the accumulation of writing only allowed him to write a letter full of military order style.

Half a month later, that is, in November, Zhou Jinguo did not get the expected reply. The troops fought for peripheral forces in the Hunan army every day, although the Guangfu army did not have major military operations. However, with slow but effective action, the Hunan army was driven out of the vicinity of the Guangfu army.

Zhou Jinguo's battalion was in charge of this operation. The 2nd Division, which was responsible for the defense of Chenzhou, had each unit dispatch high-level marksmen to attack the strongholds of the Qing army. For example, several rivers where Chenzhou is located can go straight down the river to Hengyang, and the Hunan army sent a lot of troops to camp on both sides of the river in order to block the water.

Instead of sweeping these camps, the large forces of the Liberation Army sent small troops to surround these camps of the Qing army. A single-hit rifle has enough lethality at a distance of 200 meters, and the accuracy is better when replaced with a copper bullet. Lying on the formation 200 meters away from the Hunan army's camp, Zhou Jinguo wore a hat made of straw on his head, and aimed at the enemy in the distance with bated breath.

The singles rifle in Zhou Jinguo's hand was named "Model 1859 Rifle". Steel barrel, wooden butt, muzzle caliber 11 mm, with bayonet length of one meter five. Use custom-mounted metal-shelled bullets. The new type of copper bullet bullet was also sent to the front-line troops. At this time, the reloading technology of the cartridge case was very mature, but the production speed of the bullet warhead made of copper was relatively slow. The troops asked the fighters to save bullets. Therefore, in a battle, each soldier is only given ten bronze bullets.

The soldiers were very dissatisfied with this kind of behavior, but a battalion commander like Zhou Jinguo didn't feel much about it. Ten rounds of ammunition is indeed not much, but the characteristics of the new equipment are accuracy, and in the hands of a clever shooter like Zhou Jinguo, almost every bullet can be effective. Before the ten rounds were fired, the battle had already entered the hand-to-hand combat stage.

Even in situations where you don't have to be in a hurry, such as long-range sniping, ten rounds are more sufficient. For example, carefully adjust the ruler designed for the copper bullet, the ruler parameters are important for the rifle, but different bullets naturally need to have different rulers. Luckily, the rifle's gauge can be removed, and if it's solidified on the rifle, it's bad.

The enemy was trapped in the aiming star, and Zhou Jinguo did not shoot immediately. After so many years of fighting, Zhou Jinguo found that if he wanted to prepare for shooting, he had to not only draw the crosshairs, but also adjust his breathing. As your breathing slows down steadily, your heart rate decreases gradually. The whole person has to imagine the action of the target, and when this imagination is highly consistent with the action of the target, the finger easily pulls the trigger. This is the calmest time, the sniper is not only in a very calm mood, but also forgets the killing intent in this one, and even forgets himself. It's only the physical memory that drives their actions. Because of this, their bodies did not shake at all, and the bullets fired steadily out of the muzzle without swinging, hitting the enemy along a precise trajectory.

This is not only Zhou Jinguo's own experience, but also the high-level shooters who were selected from the whole army to communicate, argue, and use Hunan officers and soldiers as live targets to draw a more authoritative view.

Zhou Jinguo had entered a very stable state at this time, and the Xiang army in the crosshair also stopped after a series of movements as he felt, and then Zhou Jinguo pulled the trigger. Through the white smoke coming out of the muzzle, Zhou Jinguo saw that the Hunan army seemed to be smashed in the chest by a sledgehammer and took two steps back, and then fell straight backwards.

After so many years on the battlefield, Zhou Jinguo was able to determine that he had indeed hit the chest of the target two hundred meters away. If the enemy is really injured in his performance, it can only be said that his acting skills have broken through the sky. More like real than real. Zhou Jinguo felt a little sorry that the bullet hit the guy's right chest instead of his left chest. If the bullet hits the left chest, it is very likely to hit the heart, at least causing a large wound near the heart. The enemy on the other side will die quickly, and if he hits the right chest, if he is lucky, he will live for a long time.

However, this thought was fleeting, and at this time, Zhou Jinguo did not want to consider the results of the battle triumphantly here, but immediately withdrew his position along the line of communication. The backbone of this group of troops was selected to engage in cold gun shooting, but it was not enough to support it. In addition to mastering weapons, the tactics that accompany the new weapons also need to be practiced. This is not a problem that can be solved by simply practicing for a while in a military school.

One opened the chamber of the gun and stuffed the still hot cartridge casings into his pocket. Load in one more bullet and close the chamber. Zhou Jinguo carried a rifle and crawled forward, and he ran quickly with small steps. Quickly retreated.

The site of Zhou Jinguo's sniper was 200 meters away from the Hunan army camp. A distance of 200 meters is hardly a distance from the Liberation Army. Heavily armed infantry can cross this distance in less than a minute and kill the enemy's position. The effective salvo of the rifle is more than 400 meters. As for artillery, firing a cannon at this distance is like shooting a bayonet at the enemy's chest.

But for the Hunan army, things are not the same at all. Their solid shells were useless against scattered lines of infantry, not to mention the fact that these infantry were lurking to the firing point. If it weren't for the gunsmoke coming out of the muzzle after the shot, the Hunan army would not have been able to know where the person who fired the shot was.

At the beginning, the Hunan army also sent people out to chase after them. As a result, those who came out to pursue were fired upon from other ambush sites, and the losses were greater than those who were shot cold. After seven or eight days of stalemate between the two sides, the various camps of the Hunan army moved almost simultaneously, and they escaped from the camps in disbelief and fled towards a safer rear.

If it is a battle with a sword and a gun, if you are killed, you will be killed. But he lived under the threat of death all the time, and the food convoy was ambushed, and the whole army was wiped out. Continuing to hide in the camp could only starve to death, the Hunan army did not have such strong nerves at all, and they chose to flee.

When Zhou Jinguo led his troops to take over the Hunan army camp, he found that the Hunan army not only fled quickly, but also completely escaped. Not only were the dead thrown in the camp, but the wounded were not brought, and these wounded were lying in several tents, and when they were left behind, the Hunan army had already decided to leave them to fend for themselves.

The Liberation Army has recently announced a new policy of taking prisoners, and in order to prevent the Qing army from having the courage to approach Guangdong too much, the Liberation Army has adopted a number of cruel policies to deter the Qing army. Now that the Liberation Army has switched from defense to attack, the cruel policy has been abolished. Captives cannot be deprived of their personal belongings, let alone killed on the spot.

This policy has brought a lot of trouble, if it was before, the troops saw that there was a living enemy, and they were shot a few times from afar. Then I rushed over with confidence. Now the troops can only slowly approach, still shouting "surrender the gun and not kill". Fortunately, the Hunan army did not have any weapons left for the wounded to defend themselves, and after the troops shouted, the wounded replied with their voices in their voices: "These officials, we have no weapons, we surrender." ”

Zhou Jinguo went in to look at the wounded, and then his eyes fell on a man who had been shot in the right chest. The guy was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a scruffy beard, and the blood stains on his clothes on the right side of his chest had long since dried up. Zhou Jinguo carefully identified it for a while and determined that this was his acquaintance. When he was in his hometown, Zhou Jinguo had a girl he liked very much, and she was the daughter of the landlord's family.

Before Zeng Guofan formed the Hunan army, such things were not a big deal. At most, the landlord's family is very tired of this boy who doesn't know the height of the sky, and finds his own son to scare Zhou Jinguo and other guys, or teach a small lesson.

Zhou Jinguo's experience is the latter, the person in front of him is about the same age as Zhou Jinguo, called Lu Shangyang, the fourth son of the landlord Lu's family. At that time, the four of them went to find Zhou Jinguo, ready to teach him a lesson. But Zhou Jinguo has seven brothers in his own family, four against seven, and there are obviously many people. The Zhou family beat the four brothers of the Lu family away.

Not long after this incident, the Taiping army captured Yongxing, and the Lü family immediately ran away, while Zhou Jinguo joined Wei Ze's troops. I didn't expect it to be so dramatic when everyone reunited. This time, Lu Shangyang suffered another loss in the hands of Zhou Jinguo. Maybe that's fate.

For Lu Shangyang, Zhou Jinguo didn't mean anything pitiful. It's just that Lu Shangyang's sister Lu Yufeng is Zhou Jinguo's sweetheart, Zhou Jinguo was eighteen years old when he joined the Taiping Army, and Lu Yufeng was one year older than Zhou Jinguo. Seven years have passed at this time, Zhou Jinguo is twenty-five years old, and he can't imagine that the twenty-six-year-old Lu Yufeng has not married yet.

However, thinking of Lu Yufeng, Zhou Jinguo had no killing intent, he called the military doctor, "Among these people, if you can save it, save it quickly." ”

The military doctor looked at the group of wounded people, and he also bared his teeth vigorously. The snipers were not ruthless, and whether the wounded were treated immediately or not, the military doctor really felt that there was no need to waste this time and energy.

Zhou Jinguo could understand the thoughts of the military doctor, and he persuaded: "I still remember, when I was in Yongxing seven years ago, I had a big fight with Zhang Guoliang's department. At that time, our military medical team had just been established, and after killing many people, the troops would select some representative ones from the corpses left by the Qing army and directly start autopsies. I was in charge of the guards, but I was terrified. It feels like a slaughterhouse. Things are different now and then, but I think we need to know what these new bullets will do. Comrade military doctor, what do you say? If you can, try to save it. ”

This remark really had some effect, if it was mainly to save people, supplemented by research, the military doctor would naturally be of little interest. But on the other hand, research is the mainstay, supplemented by saving people. The military doctor has no reason to object. After all, a military doctor is a military doctor, and when he can save people, he still won't refuse lightly. It's just that the other party is an enemy army, and the military doctor can't put too much pressure on himself. The so-called being kind to others and being kind to oneself is to grasp the scale.

Soon, the surgery began. Zhou Jinguo used his authority to send Lu Shangyang to the operating room first. Looking at Lu Shangyang's appearance of having more air out and less air intake, Zhou Jinguo was not sure whether he could survive. However, he had tried his best at this time, even if he thought of Lu Yufeng again, Zhou Jinguo felt that there was no uneasiness in his conscience. R1058