He fought with his pen, sitting in front of his tent, on a pony, using a simple table, writing with an ink-stained pen (i.e., a dipping pen), ignoring the swords and swords around him.

“…… The tribesmen were attacking us from all sides, with spears and machetes in the front, bows and arrows in the back, a small part of them wearing deerskin armor, most of them unarmoured, some of them shirtless, and their bodies and faces were covered with mysterious patterns. ”

Zeyu continued: "They are inserted in the middle of our camp! ”

"Our soldiers shot at them, the fire was full of fire, as long as they hit, they made bloody holes, and at close range we used shotguns and pistols with great power, almost one by one, and the middle one fell immediately! The number of lying tribesmen gradually increased, and the air was filled with a thick smell of blood. ”

Yes, the dummmy bomb was taken, which greatly strengthened the power of the attack in close combat.

"A strong tribesman noticed me, and he pounced on me with a bright machete!"

Others are loading, Brother Zeyu is loading/B, he sits and writes with a pen like a big fight, it's strange if others don't cut him!

So Zeyu wrote: "I sat still, and the tribesman rushed in front of me, and then there was a loud bang in my ears like a thunderbolt! ”

"Someone shot me in the ear, hit the guy, the other party stood up, fell in front of me, I didn't do anything, I just couldn't hear, I wasn't hurt, he ×, after the war I lost hearing in my right ear, so I got the Order of the Purple Heart (a medal for wounded, in the southeast of the province, you can also get a medal for injuries), although I don't want to get this kind of medal!"

The hapless Zeyu lost his hearing because his right eardrum was shattered because the musket was too close, but his live report on the battlefield was a great success, and the officers and soldiers rushed to circulate it, thinking that he had written the real battle history, and in his report he wrote that the 3rd Marine Regiment fell into a crazy and chaotic battle that day, and engaged in hundreds of savage white-knuckle battles, and the guns rang non-stop, and the best thing to use was the shotguns, which had a large caliber and a short barrel, which was very suitable for close combat, And it's more powerful than a pistol (Zeyu's ears are just after hearing the slamming of a shotgun.)

The battle began early in the morning, when the scattered Clan Army attacked non-stop and did not end until nine o'clock in the morning, when the 3rd Marine Regiment was victorious.

Zeyu went to inspect the battlefield and found that the surrounding area had become a slaughterhouse, and the dead tribesmen almost filled the camp and the periphery of the camp, and the dead tribesmen later counted more than 3,600 people, and the piled up corpses became a hill.

The 3rd Marine Regiment also lost 167 casualties and nearly 500 wounded, which can be described as a great victory, but also half of the people lost their combat effectiveness.

The soldiers who had achieved the results of the battle shouted excitedly, while the soldiers who lost their comrades wept bitterly for their comrades and lost their voices, and the shamans in the Mazu Temple were invited to pray for the fallen soldiers.

Zeyu's reporting continued, and he followed the 3rd Marine Regiment to the surrounding area to clear out the tribes.

Mountains and mountains, water and water, lush trees everywhere, birds and flowers, but full of murderous intentions, Ze Yu once saw that a young company commander took the lead in front of the troops, but an arrow flew in, impartial, hit him in the neck, he kept coughing up blood in his mouth, surrounded by soldiers, and there was nothing he could do to call a military doctor, ten minutes later, he died!

The age of the officers and men in the southeast province is generally on the low side, and this company commander is not even 20 years old, and he has excellent professional qualities and a set of leading troops, and he is a very promising star in the military circles.

Although he was posthumously credited with his exploits, the military believed that he should have commanded everything in his company command position at the back of the line, rather than playing the role of a spearhead, and if he died the enemy was so large, it was likely that his company would collapse because of the loss of command.

Although it did not collapse, what made his company distressed was that the arrow was shot from the woods, and even if the officers and soldiers searched the woods, they could not find the murderer!

However, they found a nearby tribal settlement, even if it was the murderer's tribe, so they sneaked over and launched a surprise attack at dawn.

The surprise attack was a great victory, and the hundred-man tribe was taken down at a small cost of lightly wounding three people... Zeyu's record is vague, in fact, all the men of that tribe were executed, thinking that their dear company commander was revenge!

……

Zeyu was deeply involved in the battle, diligent in writing, even in the chaos of the battle, he did not stop his pen, often throwing spears, bows and arrows around him, and the soldiers fired muskets around him, and he never stopped.

Soon, his report attracted the attention of the military department, and a squad (ten people) was sent to protect his safety!

Indeed, he writes very valuablely, not only in the field of combat, but also in all aspects of the battle.

For example, he described the mountains, rivers, tribal villages, shrubs, water networks, rice fields, and other landforms and features in the mountainous and jungle areas, and the terrain is extremely complex, which has a great impact on the army's operational command and coordination.

In a humid environment, the gunpowder gun is often not easy to ignite, in this environment, the soldiers of the 3rd Marine Regiment urgently mobilized, take oil paper to wrap gunpowder, not easy to get damp, when necessary, bite through the oil paper, pour into the fire pool of the musket, so the ignition rate is high.

After that, the military department popularized the small package of quantitative moisture-proof bullets, which were not only used in jungle warfare, but also very useful in naval operations.

The jungles and mountainous areas are sparsely populated, there is a lack of materials, and almost all of the army's supplies have to be supplied from the rear, while the tropical mountains and jungles are continuous, the terrain is dangerous, and the weather is changeable, which can easily lead to the interruption of transportation, the corrosion and mildew of military supplies, and the increase in the morbidity of personnel.

For example, when the Southeast Prefecture marched into Taipei, it took effective measures to rely on river transportation for supply, and only then did it stretch out its tentacles when it established a safe camp by the river, encircled and suppressed the tribes everywhere, and rarely tired of fighting.

In this way, the logistics are strong, the sick are treated, and the officers and men have enough rest, at least to sleep in the well-protected camp.

The tropical rainforest environment is treacherous, and malaria and dysentery are prone to epidemics, but the attacking marines have effective logistical support, and the military industry closely follows up, for example, as long as conditions permit, they have to drink boiled water, and boiled water at night for the soldiers to carry, so that dysentery is so seriously reduced, and even during the day, the whole body is covered, only a pair of eyes are exposed, and the bites of mosquitoes are reduced, and malaria is less.

However, there is a problem where the body is not easy to perspire, sweat pickles the skin, causing the skin to ulcerate, and the way to deal with it is to go back to the camp to recuperate, release the shackles, and at the same time use skin ointment, drink tea (auxiliary effect), etc.

The report of the front-line troops was sent to Tainan, and then the silk company in the southeast province was urgently mobilized to provide a kind of coarse silk military uniform for the front line, which is a silk fabric and has good moisture absorption, so people who are easy to sweat in summer can easily sweat their clothes, but because of the breathability of silk fabrics, as long as there is a little wind, the sweaty clothes will dry immediately, and there will be no uncomfortable and sticky feeling.

Because it is coarse silk (relatively thick silk thread or multi-strand silk thread), it is wear-resistant and suitable for use in the jungle, and the response of the Marine Corps is very good, and at the same time it brings an effect that frightens outsiders... The army of the Southeast Province was so extravagant that they actually wore silk military uniforms!

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Zeyu's series of reports was greatly welcomed by readers, and at the same time, the military thought that he wrote far better than those big and crude reports, mobilized him to become a real soldier, invited him to become a staff officer, and awarded him the rank of major!

From then on, his reports flashed through the sky like a comet and then disappeared, and there was one more qualified staff officer in the army.