※The Xing team departs after dark. () Hurried march night. After a whole day of hiding in the Baopang Mountains, he continued to march in the evening, and with the help of complete maps and night vision equipment, he suddenly arrived at the cottage of the Dang Gate in the morning.

The cottage stands on a small dirt hill surrounded by solid walls and enemy towers mixed with stone and wood, and is well fortified to withstand general attacks.

The terrain around the cottage as seen through the telescope is not steep, but quite complex. It is good that the terrain of the mountain fortress is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but once it is surrounded, it is difficult to break out, so the bandits' cottages are generally not built on particularly steep and desperate roads, and they can escape quickly under unfavorable circumstances.

If they come in a big way, the party will have time to withdraw from the cottage and take advantage of the terrain here to scatter and flee. But now, He Ming had commanded his troops to quickly seize the three main access roads near Shansai before dawn, blocking the escape route, thanks to modern maps and night vision equipment.

"The troops have all arrived at the predetermined location and are building fortifications!" Trainee Staff Officer reported.

"Order all units to watch for enemy movements." He Ming put down the binoculars. Glancing at the map. The passages that can escape here are arranged for troops to take on the task of interception.

"Everyone's move quickly!" Panda urged his sappers and the educators assigned to him. They lay on their stomachs on the ground. Laborious pits are being dug and improvised anti-infantry mines are being laid. Others were building breastworks out of earth for shooting.

In addition to the main road into the mountain, the three roads where the bandits could escape were the most difficult to block, and the other two were mountain paths, and twenty soldiers built a temporary low wall of dirt and shrubs, which could be blocked by a platoon of guns and grenades.

But Datai Slope is not a road, it is a wide slope, and if the bandits are allowed to rush through this place, they will have countless mountain roads to choose from.

Panda had no choice but to intercept the bandits in this open field.

His strength was second only to that of the troops under the command post, with an infantry platoon, an engineer squad and thirty "educational soldiers" who were not yet equipped with guns. There were only bayonets and improvised issued spears. Waving the flag and shouting, the scene is still full.

Luckily, he brought with him the usual weapon of the sappers: the ground juggler.

Of course, this mine is not any of the kind that everyone is familiar with. Although some people say that they throw directional mines, they are actually primitive and rudimentary anti-infantry directional mines. Simple enough to not need a shell for mines. As for the angle of orientation, only God knows.

All the equipment was a packet of black powder, a fuse, an iron plate, and a pile of scrap metal. Dig one on the side of the road. In a shallow pit, an explosive bag is placed, covered with an iron plate, for orientation, and then piled with a layer of various pieces that can break the blood flow of the head. Of course, at the moment, all metal is a strategic material, so there is no iron plate in the mine on Panda's back, but a hardwood plank, according to the test results, as for the scrap copper and rotten iron used as a shotgun, it is replaced by crushed stone, which is carefully selected from the stone quarry, and the size is basically the same.

Every intersection where you can escape. Panda's sappers are laying these mines. Originally, the only way to detonate a mine was to use a fuse, and it was difficult to grasp the time of ignition, and it was difficult to lay a fuse that was both concealed and reliable to ignite. Since the chemical industry came up with white phosphorus and red phosphorus, the problem of pulling fire pipes has finally been overcome, although this jishu is mainly to facilitate the firing of artillery, but the sappers have also enjoyed the benefits of this improvement.

The width of the entire large platform slope is about a meter or so, and each directional mine can cover a meter distance. Panda set up three groups of five mines across the entire slope.

"Everyone listen to my command and set the ruler at four meters." Yang Zeng laid out a battle plan for his soldiers, "We use two lines and fire a salvo according to the password. Got it? ”

"Got it!" The soldiers replied in unison.

"All right, all bayonets!"

The soldiers pulled their shiny bayonets out of their leather sheaths and loaded them on. Yang Zeng checked the soldiers' bayonets, guns, and ammunition, and said a few words to the education soldiers in the back of the line. The recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time were a little trembling, and they didn't know how to take the spear.

Yang Zeng said a few encouraging words, although he didn't have any experience in the army, he also knew that he couldn't count on them in an emergency. You have to rely on veterans, and the so-called veterans have only been practicing for a few more months. The combat experience is that you fought once when the pirates attacked. Some of them simply lined up once, and didn't even get a chance to fire at the pirates.

Seeing Chief Pan commanding the soldiers with shovels digging holes everywhere, Yang Zeng couldn't help but feel weak in his heart, although he already knew about the "landmine" when he was studying as an officer, but there was really no bottom about how much power it was. If only there was a cannon here, he would be relieved, he thought.

Panda himself didn't have much confidence. He looked at the fire pipes, fuses, and hair ropes of directional mines everywhere. I also shiyan pulled a few times to ensure that there were no obstacles when pulling, and whether the anger could be effective or not to reach the rush of the ten bandits, it depended on how powerful this "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers" was.

If the bandits are really brave enough to dare to "pig burst" to step on a mine with flesh and blood to open a road, then Panda still has a grenadier with Zuihou. Sappers are setting up this simple little cannon"

This is a cheap and single weapon made by the weapon design team of the Ministry of Machinery, since the invention of the "hand-held shotgun", the weapon team has set off a wave of design of one-time improvised support weapons, and this grenadier is the product of this **.

The No. 4 bullet with a cast iron pipe, a gunpowder bag inside, and a cast iron bullet once terrified the soldiers of the new army, and the chain ball grenade, which created the first martyr of the army, removed the throwing rope and could be projectile at a field angle to the concave meter under the propulsion of black powder, but the accuracy can only be said to be the direction of the projectile is generally not wrong.

The detonation fuse on the No. 4 bomb will be ignited at the same time as the burst of the projectile, similar to the ignition of a grenade fired by a smoothbore gun, but the problem with grenades is also present here: about a third of the No. 4 shells will not be detonated. It has a much lower detonation rate than throwing it out after a fire.

"Even if it doesn't explode, it has to bloom if it hits people's heads, even if it's a solid bullet." Panda is not very picky about this weapon. Twenty of them were brought. Comes out as shiyan.

All ammunition is pre-loaded haode, the launch port is sealed with wax paper, and the tail is fired with a wax-sealed ignition port, and when firing with a plug of the firing pipe, the tip of the plug is inserted, and the grenadier is equipped with a simple bracket and bottom plate. If you are not afraid of the danger of exploding, you can also wait to fire.

Theoretically, this grenadier can be reloaded on the battlefield, but for safety reasons, the military industry department recommends that the troops recycle it after firing it and return it to the factory for refilling.

If Zuihou can't stop the enemy with a single move, he will have to rely on rifle fire and hand-to-hand combat. Although Panda was absolutely confident that the highly organized and disciplined infantry bayonet fights trained by the lowly soldiers could completely defeat the bandits, he still couldn't help but feel a little trembling in his heart.

The bandit suppression force suddenly came to the city. Dang Namen, who had just gotten up in the morning, was taken aback. He had his own source of information: he knew that the pirates from Australia had recently cleared the greenwoods. At first, he didn't take it seriously, after all, the mountains and the sea are well water and river water, and the "Thirteen Villages" area under his control has also expressed its submission to this group of Australians, and it should be given a lot, and there is no reason to fight.

He climbed up the wall and looked, and on the hillside a mile away, it was the Australian people in gray tight-fitting trumpet coats that were densely packed. Some with birds, some with spears, all shining in the sun. For a while, I couldn't tell how many people there were.

Such a group of men and horses actually marched in the mountains at night, and came to his mountain fortress silently, thinking of this, he suddenly shuddered, "The Australians are suddenly armed, and they must have bad intentions." He had long heard that the firearms of the Australians were very powerful, and the artillery was even more invincible, and the defense of the mountain fortress would definitely be finished. Call all the leaders of your subordinates right now:

"Don't mess around, everyone!" He glanced at the somewhat panicked leaders, the other party's men and horses came so suddenly and secretly, which greatly shocked the bandits, "The thieves have powerful firearms." We can't fight hard with them, prepare for "running water, let's go!" ”

"Flowing water" is to disperse and escape to various secret camps in the mountains to hide, wait for the wind to pass before coming out to assemble, which is a common trick of bandits.

"Party boss!" Zhao Haiqing, one of the four major gold nets, said, "It is easy to run water, but the women, gold, silver and grain in the plug,"

"What the hell are you doing with this?" Although the party is reluctant, after all, it has a big idea, "stay in the green mountains, and I am not afraid of running out of firewood." Silver and women are always available. The little life is gone. ! Let's go. ”

The leaders listened reasonably, dispersed, and told the bandits to prepare for a time in the village, and the bandits were unwilling to drop their money. They stuffed the big keys of silver, foreign money, and jewels on their bodies, and everyone was stuffed to the brim. It's bulging. The party knew that something was wrong, but the bandits, who had already messed up, simply ignored his orders. The party had no choice but to take seven or eight of its own cronies and "run water" on its own

"Ignition! Burn the cottage to the ground! The party commanded.

"Boss!" Although he knew that these things were definitely not his own, he still couldn't do anything after burning down the nest that had been kneeling for many years.

"Don't be reluctant!" The party smacked viciously, "If you don't burn it, it's also cheap for these thieves." It's burned out, and everyone is clean! ”

In fact, the party still has an abacus in his heart, when the fire comes, the Australians will rush to put out the fire for the sake of goods and food, and they can't care about chasing and killing them, so it will be easy for everyone to escape from Mangtian.

"It's on fire! It's on fire! "Someone shouted from the command post.

"The enemy is starting to run away." He Ming said and raised the binoculars

In an instant, I saw that the door was wide open, and in the binoculars, the bandits were carrying large bags and small bags, holding knives, axes, guns and spears, and fled in many groups in all directions.

He Ming paid attention to their direction, making sure that he had not missed the road.

After a while, gunshots rang out in the distance, and puffs of white light smoke rose from the green mountains and green waters, which was quite beautiful.

"The mountain pass on the left has begun!"

He Ming adjusted the focus of the telescope to see the battle situation, but he couldn't see anything clearly, and a large amount of smoke from the rifle firing obscured the battlefield.

He frowned, and then turned the camera to another mountain road where the bandits broke through, the terrain here was a little more open, and the smoke would soon be carried away by the wind, only to see forty or fifty bandits, dressed in bulging bags, carrying packages on their backs were rushing to the slopes on both sides of the mountain pass, and white smoke was sprayed from the positions above from time to time, and the bandits who were shot rolled down the hillside, and some were injured and fell to the ground, struggling desperately on the ground.

"Strange, what kind of armor are they wearing?" He Ming felt strange, he had never heard of bandits having armor.

A man who had been struck was in his dying throes as a few white pieces of silver rolled down from his torn clothes.

It turned out that the bulging bags were full of goods.

Everyone suddenly realized. Someone said, "It is really a man who dies for money, and it is not easy to flee for his life with so many burdens." If you don't bring it, you might even be able to run out. ”

"Not necessarily" someone retorted. I heard an explosion in the distance. A cloud of white smoke rose from the pass, rubble and dirt flew around, and someone could faintly hear screaming. This is the Tuxu mine that was detonated.

"Detonated! Detonated! With the excited voices of the staff officers behind him,

Directional mines were detonated one after another, and nothing was already visible through the telescopes. He Ming put down the binoculars and asked, "Is there any new movement in the cottage?" ”

"Not yet. The fire burned greatly. Probably everyone ran out. ”

"Order a platoon and move towards the cottage gate. Wait for the opportunity to occupy the cottage. Don't rush to put out the fire. He Ming ordered, "Strengthen the cannon to them." "The top priority is to wipe out all the bandits, whether you have the property in the mountain or not, it is no big problem for the overall situation.

The bandits who were preparing to flow water were driven back from all the intersections, and they did not expect that the enemy would actually set up ambushes in these places, waiting for them to rush. Several groups of bandits who tried to "flow water" were beaten to the point of bleeding at the intersection, and most of them were killed or wounded. Many people go back.

The party's brain is extremely fast, and he knows that hesitation is a dead end now, so he hurriedly greeted everyone:

"Don't mess around, throw all the money on your body, you have life and money, and everyone will stand out from the big platform slope together!"

Under his repeated shouts. More than 100 people gathered around him, all of them in a panic, staring at the party gate and asking him to come up with an idea as soon as possible.

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About the behavior of the party's land bandits. From the description of bandit activities in the Republic of China period in the literature and history of Lingao.