Chapter 280 Caught a Colonel

Fu Xinrui stepped forward and looked at this person by the light of the fire, although this person was hunched over and panting, he could see that he was quite tall.

It's a pity that his face has been blackened and white by the fireworks, and he can't see his appearance clearly, he can only vaguely see that he is not young anymore, and he is a beard, and he is indeed a foreigner.

A military uniform that looked a little tight had also been cut by shrapnel in several places, and several places had been stained red by the faint blood coming out.

Obviously, this person has just been injured by shrapnel from a grenade and has hung up his colors, but he is still desperately reloading bullets, looking stubborn to the end.

Isn't it tough, like a soldier!

Fu Xinrui stared at him for a while, grinning slightly teasingly, revealing two front teeth that were slightly larger.

The fighters were nervously searching around, and a little later, another soldier dragged a more wounded young officer over and shook his head at the company commander, signaling that there was nothing left alive.

Fu Xinrui beckoned a squad leader, raised his hand and pointed to the small building not far away, the squad leader understood, and immediately led the soldiers to outflank the small building in a battle formation......

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After a few gunshots, the battle in the small building ended quickly.

Almost all of the officers and their orderlies joined the counterattack on the back door of the barracks, and there were only two guards and a few servants left in the building, except for the female dependents, which no longer posed a threat to the soldiers of the reconnaissance company.

Not long after, the soldiers escorted out a dozen panicked, crying foreign women from the building, and several women were holding a half-old child in their hands.

As soon as they walked out of the building, they met Fu Xinrui and Xiao Zhao, who was holding the two officers at gunpoint.

Two of them, dressed in long skirts, saw the two officers sitting on the ground, and when they were stunned, they screamed and pounced, hugged the two officers and cried loudly.

The rest of the women and children all bowed their heads and hid to the side and whispered, only a few of them, occasionally looking up, apparently frightened.

After crying a few times, the younger woman seemed to have noticed that his man was bleeding somewhere, covered her mouth and screamed a few times, and turned her head to Fu Xinrui crying and scolding.

The slightly older foreign woman just cried at first, and soon turned her head and scolded with tears.

Scolding and scolding, it gradually became a pleading......

Fu Xinrui couldn't understand what they were scolding, but judging from their demeanor, these two officers should be their husbands.

The young woman pointed to her husband's wounds, and pointed to the building, pleading for something, and several times made a gesture to run into the building.

This time, Fu Xinrui finally understood what she meant, and immediately ordered Xiao Zhao to follow the woman to the building to see if it meant to be cured with medicine.

The commander-in-chief ordered to kill fewer people, and it would be best if you could treat your wounds yourself, so as not to waste the medicinal materials of Lao Tzu's troops.

Fu Xinrui pricked up his ears and listened to the gunfire in the south, looked around, and then ordered the women and officers to gather together, go around the back of the small building alone, and go up the mountain to observe the terrain.

This Battery Hill was not very high, but it was very steep, and in his eagerness, he did not find any way up the mountain.

As the movement here gets bigger and bigger, it will definitely arouse the idea of Fortress Mountain, and what he has been worried about is whether the mountain will suddenly fire here.

In the event that artillery was fired on the mountain, the large number of prisoners gathered in the large playground, as well as his soldiers, were in danger of being bombarded.

With such an obvious threat, why didn't the commander-in-chief think that he should take this commanding heights down first?

Fu Xinrui frowned, thought for a while, and then returned to the front of the building, and simply ordered the soldiers to escort everyone back to the small building.

This small building, which is right in the dead end of the cannon on the mountain, is safer than the playground, and at the same time, it also saves these women from losing control of their emotions when they pass through the forest and see the corpses in one place.

For him, women, difficult!

A woman who is sprinkled with grief is even more difficult!

And women who are overly sad and don't understand the language can't deal with it at all!

The battle is not over yet, he has no heart to entangle with these foreign women, and he doesn't want to kill women, let alone children!

As soon as everyone entered the hall of the small building with candles, the foreign woman really carried a medicine box and hurriedly ran down from the upper floor.

Rushing to the wounded officer, she immediately opened the medicine box without saying a word, and with the help of the slightly older woman, disinfected and bandaged them one by one.

Judging by her appearance, this young woman is very good-looking, and she looks like she has studied medicine, and her movements are quite neat.

On the contrary, the one who helped next to him seemed to be clumsy everywhere, and he looked like a noble lady who had been pampered for a long time......

Fu Xinrui personally checked the guards who had been killed, then got up and looked at the women one by one.

He desperately wanted to find a local who could ask questions, even if it was a maid.

Intuitively, there must be a hidden path leading to the mountain, and the fort on the mountain is always a hidden danger.

Looking at it, Fu Xinrui was disappointed to find that none of them looked like Orientals.

There were a few little black women dressed in maid costumes, who looked like Southeast Asians, and he tried to ask a few words, but he didn't find anyone who could understand.

The gunfire in the south gradually intensified, and Fu Xinrui, who was in a hurry, no longer had the heart to rub here.

He made a quick decision and gave up his plan to go up the hill to attack the fort.

He called a squad leader and instructed: "As soon as you are in the class, stay in this building and watch over these women and children on the spot, and I will go over there to have a look." ”

"Yes!"

"Arrange the light and dark sentinels, you must be careful, don't be touched by the people on the mountain and attacked."

"Understood!"

After the arrangements were made, Fu Xinrui took Xiao Zhao and the remaining soldiers of the sharp knife squad and hurried to the place where the gun rang out.

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It was later learned that one of the two officers who was captured by Fu Xinrui was named Eric? Mendoza.

This Mendoza, in fact, was only in his forties, one of the assistants of Governor Fisusa, a high-ranking officer of the army garrison, and was actually a "colonel".

After the war, when Lin Xiao learned that there was a "colonel" officer among the prisoners, he was also quite surprised.

In later generations, when he was studying at a military academy, he studied the origins of the military rank system in the modern military of the West.

The rank of "colonel", even in the West, is a novelty in this era when hot weapons are just emerging.

He remembered that the word "colonel" came from the Italian word for "column", and as a military rank, "colonel" should have first appeared in the Italian and French armies in the mid-to-late 16th century, and was a high-ranking officer position second only to generals.

A colonel can generally command more than a dozen army companies, which is equivalent to the position of a regiment commander.

However, this title did not immediately spread to other European countries, especially the Spanish army, but was the first in the world to use the rank of "major", and the post of "colonel" was adopted very late.

Unexpectedly, Fu Xinrui and the others, now in the Francophone army, caught a colonel.

This situation shows that, on the one hand, exchanges between Western countries on military modernization are in fact much more frequent than those recorded in historical documents.

On the other hand, it shows that the Portuguese attach great importance to Macao, the fortress of the East, and they must be reluctant to lose this source of wealth.

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