Chapter 155: Gunfire in the Jungle II

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The forest is deep and densely wooded, and the shrubs are thick. The Argentine leading officer, who had entered the woods, was vigilant and immediately issued an order for the pursuing troops to halt their advance.

The order was conveyed by a couple of petty officers, and in less than two minutes the troops of more than a hundred men all stopped.

There was no sound of the pursuing footsteps of the troops, and the woods suddenly became quiet, and the two backward gauchos in front of them also disappeared into the woods.

More than a dozen birds flew up from the sides of the Argentine troops, and a burst of birdsong sounded.

"All on alert, ready to fight!" The Argentine officer clenched his short gun and aimed it at the place where the birds were flying in front of him.

A pike dart shot out of the bushes with a sharp chirp and struck the neck of an Argentine soldier standing on the outskirts of the crowd.

Hit by an arrow in his body, the Argentine soldier subconsciously reached out to his neck, and as soon as his hands touched the end of the arrow, the whole person suddenly fell to the ground weakly.

The bows and arrows were fired at the same time as the Argentine officers shouted warnings, and before more than a hundred people could shoot back, the gauchos hiding in the bush took advantage of the brief moment to launch a counterattack.

Immediately following the first shot, more than fifty crossbow arrows, bows and arrows, spears, javelins, and a weapon somewhere between a bow and a javelin were fired simultaneously at the Argentine soldiers on the path.

The javelin thrown by the "poof" volley hit the enemy's body, and the inertial force transmitted at high speed dragged the hit Argentine soldier back two or three meters away, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground.

A soldier who is hit by a bow and arrow may be able to live, but being hit by a javelin in the main part of the body is worse than death, more painful than death, the strong penetrating power of the javelin penetrates the internal organs of the soldier's body, causing the person who was hit to continue to bleed, and at the same time, the pain caused by the serious injury of the internal organs is unbearable for ordinary people.

In just a moment, the counterattack composed of spears, javelins and other cold weapons caused many casualties to the Argentines, and more than 20 people were wounded or killed before the enemy could be found.

After the attack, some panicked Argentine soldiers with rifles and nervously shot at the jungle bushes in front of them, but they did not have the slightest clear aim.

Hundreds of rifles fired blindly, bullets piercing through leaves and bushes, hitting trees or land, but not a single scream of an enemy could be heard.

For a long time, the victory in the encirclement and suppression operations against the Indians and gauchos has cultivated the mentality that the Argentine troops can be proud and underestimate the enemy.

Easily captured the village of the Gaoqiao people, followed the pursuit and tried to annihilate them all, but he didn't think that the Takahashi people could set up an ambush on the way to escape.

In the occupation of the village, the Argentine troops suffered only two minor casualties, and no one was killed, and after entering the jungle, in the first round of the battle with the gauchos, there were more than 20 casualties on their own side, and nearly half of them could not hold out until the end of the battle. The Argentine officer hiding under a tree and watching his soldiers lay on the ground and wail in pain, regret and anger in his heart.

The number of casualties in the army was too large, how did he go back and explain to his superiors in the army.

The gauchos, hidden in the shadows, constantly fired javelin-throwing wind weapons at the Argentine soldiers, but the Argentine soldiers' blind counterattacks had limited success.

Every minute of time was delayed, the Argentine soldiers in the jungle suffered a loss, and the leading officer hid behind a tree to observe the situation on the battlefield, but could not find a good solution, and had to give the order to retreat.

When the order to retreat was issued, the Argentine officers gathered more than 20 soldiers around the area and retreated first, and the other Argentine soldiers quickly followed after receiving the order, shooting at the woods on both sides and retreating.

Behind a hidden bush, Davis calmly observed the Argentine soldiers retreating towards him, waiting for a suitable target to appear.

Davis was hiding at the entrance to the woods, about fifty meters away from the clearing outside, and when the gauchos in the woods counterattacked, he did not move, but remained silently in place.

The Argentine troops did not entangle with the gauchos who were hiding in the woods, and retreated, and after paying more than a dozen more casualties, more than ninety men walked to the edge of the woods.

The attack of the gauchos in the woods was getting weaker and weaker, and less than a hundred meters ahead was an open area, and the danger was about to be lifted, and the whole army, including the officer who led the team, breathed a sigh of relief.

In front of the exit of the woods, the leading officer relaxed his vigilance, walked out from among more than 20 people, and beckoned two low-level officers to inquire about the casualties of the troops.

Davis stayed quietly behind the bushes, taking in all the movements of the Argentine troops.

Quietly pull out a weapon similar to a feather arrow from the wooden barrel behind his back and put it into the rough hole with a curved wooden stick in his right hand, clasp the upper end of the rough hole with his thumb, and raise the wooden stick slightly to find the best place to throw.

The weapon used by Davis is called the shuttle dart projector, which is an auxiliary tool that can make the dart fly faster, farther and more accurate, and was once widely used by the Indians of the Americas for hunting, and after the Europeans colonized the Americas, the Indians and gauchos used this weapon to make simple and easy to obtain raw materials to resist the invasion of the enemy, which brought a lot of damage to the Europeans.

After the native whites took control of the political situation in Argentina, they inherited the tradition of the Spaniards and forbade the Indians and gauchos to have weapons, and for the safety of the tribe and themselves, the Indians and gauchos used primitive wooden javelins, shuttles and other weapons for self-defense.

Davis is a good shuttle player, and with the shuttle dart launcher he has made himself, he can throw the shuttle to a distance of 100 meters while accurately hitting a target at a distance of 100 meters.

Davis's masterful shuttle firing skills have made him a worthy warrior in his village, and now he will defend his dignity as a tribal leader by killing the Argentine commander with his weapon.

After the identity of the Argentine officer was discovered, his every move was closely monitored by Davis, and the two low-level officers around him gradually distanced themselves from him, and the Argentine soldiers who hurried towards the woods were getting closer and closer to the ambush site of Davis and more than a dozen gauchos.

140 meters, 130 meters...... 100 meters, when the Argentine officer was nearly 100 meters away from Davis, the pike dart launcher was lifted above the bush, Davis's eyes also became plattering, and he missed a blow, and it was very difficult to kill the Argentine officer again, so he had to master greater certainty before attacking.

The shade of the trees was hidden on the ground one by one, and the eyes could see that the trees were sparse and the sun was shining directly on the clearing, and the Argentine officer looked straight ahead, not noticing the dozen pairs of hateful eyes not far away, behind the bushes and grass.

The Argentine officer took a few quick steps, suddenly noticed that he had stepped on something soft under his feet, and lowered his head, and a pile of freshly dug dirt peeked out from under the thick leaves.

"Not good!" A rush of crisis surged through his mind, and at that moment, Davis suddenly stood up from the bushes and resolutely threw out the shuttle in his right hand.

The sharp sound of shuttles breaking through the air sounded suddenly, and in the confusion of the other Argentine soldiers, their commander had already fallen to the ground, his limbs trembling slightly.

Davis aimed at the Argentine officer's head, and the shuttle hit the target and then broke away, nailed to the tree with a trail of blood.

The Argentine officer convulsed for only a few seconds, then completely immobilized.

Traps, suspended bamboo rows, shuttles, more than a dozen ambushed gauchos took advantage of the situation to attack, while Davis quietly watched the moment before his opponent was completely dead.

The rage and rage quickly dissipated as the Argentine officer stopped convulsing, and Davis took one last look at his opponent lying on the ground, blew his whistle and ordered the gauchos who were in ambush to retreat.

The gauchos were few in number, and they could eliminate some of the Argentine soldiers by virtue of their geographical advantage in the woods, but it was impossible to wipe them out completely, so a quick departure after the revenge would prevent the tribe from paying more casualties.