The battle line of the 3rd Musket Regiment of the 1st Independent Brigade of the Army stretched along a ridge, which suddenly lowered in one place and plunged into the wilderness and jungle, and on the slopes leading to the front line, small hills marked the fall of the Banten people who had fallen to their deaths, and they had been killed by their brothers, so that sometimes a hand was exposed here and a leg stretched out there, and the sight made Wang Jia feel sick.

On the first night he went to the front, with his brothers in the sixth company, only those veterans of the land war could sleep, and these veterans seemed to have a "rest switch" with them.

Later, Wang Jia became acquainted with the veterans, and asked enviously how these veterans had such skills? The veterans laughed and said that they had long been accustomed to the ups and downs of the warship when they were on the warship.

News reached the regimental artillery battalion, saying that they saw natives lighting fire and cooking in a canyon full of jungle, so the artillery rushed there and carried out a fierce bombardment to destroy these enemies who still had the heart to eat, and the howling of shells overhead woke the entire front line, and the excited infantry picked up their muskets, and also wanted to join in the fun, waiting for the commander to give the order.

Company Commander Chen Shi and Wang Jia's boss Sergeant Major Liu Jie observed with binoculars, Company Commander Chen Shi just shook his head, while Sergeant Major Liu Jie shouted: "Don't fight, this is a glowworm, haven't you seen a firefly?" I'm going back to studying zoology with elementary school students! ”

The Dongnanfu Elementary School offers zoology and introduces various animals.

His voice was loud, the entire future position could be heard clearly, and the officers and soldiers burst into laughter!

In the days that followed, none of Wang Jia's company were killed, but they began to feel frightened, because they entered a road leading to the inland city of Banten, and the more silent the enemy, the more fierce Wang Jia knew that the storm was coming!

Some of the recruits were at a loss, but Wang Jia, because his home was by the sea, knew the habits of the storm, and he also saw some of the veterans acting more and more cautiously, and knew that everyone expected the same.

Disaster strikes suddenly!

A squad went to fetch water by the river, and hundreds of natives were killed.

The gunfire was loud, and by the time the troops organized hundreds of people to rush over, the battle was over, and all the fighters of this squad were killed!

A large number of people fell on the ground along with the dead bodies of the natives, and the bloodshed, because of the rapid arrival of the troops of the Southeastern Army, the natives could only rush to take some muskets.

Ever since they entered the interior to clear the Banten people, all the wells on the road had been hidden or thrown into livestock manure to make it undrinkable, and they had to deviate from the main road in order to obtain water, and the Banten people knew this, and they organized guerrilla squads to ambush near the water source and launch a surprise attack on the lone Imperial soldiers who came to fetch water.

You send a few people, and they rush out, play flash, and run when they hit.

By the time your army rushes in, they have disappeared into the vast forest, and you can only cry out in vain.

If there are many people, they will not be stupid enough to fight with you, they will enjoy the cool in the forest, anyway, they will come to harass you when they are free, come like a shadow, go like the wind, and use the guerrilla tactics of fighting if you can beat and run if you can't beat to carry out sneak attacks.

Their tactics are very threatening, making the southeast army very passive, every time they arrive at the camp, they have to carefully search the surrounding area, so that they are very passive, Lieutenant Zhao Hu in the company said that it is a trick of the natives, make you tired, and when your spirit is getting worse and worse, they will come out in a large force and fight with you.

He is the platoon commander of Wang Jia's platoon, not tall, energetic, calm demeanor, used to be the chief of the warship, it was a relatively safe position, but he joined the army to the front-line troops when the army was formed, he was silent, but very authoritative to lead his platoon forward.

Although the southeast army is red-eyed, it is still very excited and determined in spirit, and the officers have the opportunity to be promoted to the rank of knight, while the small soldiers are calculating the combat allowance and the reward income for killing the enemy, everyone has their own pursuits, anyway, being a soldier eats food, and it is a personal misfortune to die, and there is a rich reward for victory.

The trouble was that Wang Jia found him extremely dirty, and he swore that as long as he was in the city and in the barracks, he would make sure that he would clean up every day, even if it was five baths a day!

The climate here is humid all year round, and it often rains at night, so everyone has to hang themselves in hammocks to sleep next to two trees, but the camp is so large that the woods cannot be hung by everyone, but it is almost impossible to sleep in muddy places.

Wang Jia was accustomed to hearing all kinds of strange noises in the jungle, such as the cry of the cold owl, which made the soldiers feel terrified from time to time, and some of the sounds sounded like the sound of the natives approaching and sighing, so that Wang Jia had to restrain himself from firing with his pistol, and he had already used his allowance to get himself a pistol.

This pistol of the 1632 model is exquisitely shaped, it is a flintlock pistol made of blue and faint quenched steel, and the moisture-proof tin foil fixed ammunition used is very useful, as long as it is loaded, it can almost be fired, and the reaction speed is fast, which is the favorite of officers and soldiers.

When passing through the jungle, everyone carefully searched the road, and once they found the natives, if they didn't raise their hands to surrender in three seconds, the southeast army all learned the local language that ordered them to "raise their hands", called "Kaguoda"! If the other party doesn't Kagoda, they will shoot indiscriminately.

When the troops entered a clear river on the edge of "Daya", the troops set up a cordon on the opposite bank, and the officers and soldiers were allowed to spend some time on personal hygiene, they shaved their beards, bathed and washed their clothes, and when Wang Jia and the squad leader Chen Jinyong, Liu Sanshui, Luo Hui and others returned to the shore after jubilating in the river, they saw Lieutenant Zhao Hu and said with a smile on their faces: "You are so brave! ”

"How?" Everyone asked.

Lieutenant Zhao Hu pointed to the two pieces of "dead wood" floating from the upstream and said, "Look carefully!" ”

The two sections of dead wood were drifting slowly, and everyone didn't know what they meant, Lieutenant Zhao Hu took a musket and fired at the dead wood.

The dead wood was churning, and everyone was frightened, what kind of dead wood was that, this is a crocodile!

During the rest, the leaders of the platoon solemnly examined the feet of the officers and men, and the health soldiers drugged their feet and were sucked by locusts, bitten by mosquitoes, and some were even worse, bitten by centipedes, and strangely bitten poisonous spiders.

Muddy, damp, rotten water, many people's shoes were rotten and had to be barefoot daisen.

Fortunately, there were many children of peasant and fishermen in the Southeastern Army, who were accustomed to walking barefoot and withstood the test, but there were also some people who lost their combat effectiveness because of rotten feet and had to be carried away in donkey carts and mule carts.

Horses are not suitable in the jungle, but the donkeys and mules brought by the Southeast Army are very useful, they serve the people conscientiously, their scrawny bodies struggle to drag human supplies and wounded soldiers forward, and at night, they are brushed with a thick layer of anti-mosquito plaster, which is the masterpiece of the Department of Health and Disease Control of Southeast Province, and the effect is good, but mosquitoes can always find loopholes to bite.

Jungle warfare, the problem of rotten feet is definitely not a small problem, reported layer by layer, and arrived at the desk of Yan Changwu, the boss of the Southeast Mansion, and he gave the "rubber" a reward of 100,000 silver dollars!

Rubber shoes, rubber shoes, when will there be them!