Chapter 259: Scuffle in West Africa (3)

The sky was close to dawn, there was a bloody scene in the African wilderness, John led three thousand soldiers to take advantage of the darkness before dawn, quickly carried out the capture operation, in the face of the power of the musket, coupled with the surprise plan, there was the tribal chief Enka the most in-command, John's troops assisted, Jack's slave capture plan was very successful, and several tribes within a radius of three hundred miles were wiped out by them.

Looking at the black slave team of nearly five or six thousand people in front of him, Jack was very excited, except for the 10,000 pounds paid to John, this time Jack will make a lot of money. As the second son of the family, Jack cannot inherit the family's fortune, but he can use some of the family's resources. This adventurous plan of the black slave trade is a long-planned action of his, and with this successful transaction, he can become a good slave trader and lay a good foundation for the future business empire.

Looking at the slave team in front of him, and then looking at Enka next to him, this idiot still wants to become a citizen of the Kingdom of England, to be his own business partner, phew, dream about it. Thinking about the promise he made to Enka, he felt ridiculous in his heart, what a luxurious villa, what a beautiful manor, if there was such a good thing, what risk would he take to come to this barren place, he would have enjoyed it by himself a long time ago, and he still wanted to share half of his profits? Don't pee and take pictures, see what you look like, and when you get on the boat, you will become one of the black slaves.

John led half of his soldiers to the front of the team, his task was not yet completed, and he had to escort these black slaves to the port, where he would get the other half of Jack's commission, and ten thousand pounds would be his greatest fortune recently, think about the rich men in the city of London now, their luxurious and luxurious life, and they will soon become one of them, and an action like this, in a few times, he will become a rich man, and he will be happy when he thinks about it, this kind of money is too easy to earn, There is no risk in the slightest.

Just when John and Jack were leading the team to be happy and enjoy a good dream, gunshots suddenly rang out in front of them, and dozens of people in front of the team fell one after another, and at the same time, gunshots also rang out at the back of the team, and it was accompanied by the explosion of artillery, and the whole team was a little chaotic in an instant. They were attacked in front and behind, and they were very dense with gunfire, which surprised John, and he couldn't figure out what kind of enemy would attack them at this time.

Zhu Kezhen and his team had been following behind for two hours, and with the assistance of Ndaru and them, Zhu Kezhen and the others finally found a suitable ambush location. This is a slightly undulating hilly area, and it is also a three-way place, according to this terrain, Zhu Kezhen divided the team into three parts, the front interception, the back attack, let John divide his troops into two parts, long ago according to Zhu Kezhen's plan, Endaru and the five of them took advantage of John's army to inattention and mixed into the ranks of the black slaves, their purpose was to organize their captured comrades, and take the opportunity to escape when the chaos occurred, after all, a squad of more than a hundred people, It was a very difficult battle to fight an enemy of more than 3,000 people.

John calmly observed the situation on the battlefield, about three hundred meters in front of him was a small hill, which happened to be the place where the road bended, and it happened to block his vision, and he couldn't see how many troops there were, and the terrain behind him was the same, but the fierce gunfire showed that there should be a lot of troops, because as far as he knew, if it weren't for a large number of troops, there would not have been such fierce gunfire at all.

Without any hesitation, John quickly divided the troops into two parts, the front one went to open the advance route, and the latter idea contained the pursuing troops, as for these black slave trophies, they were handed over to Jack and their bodyguard team of more than 100 people, anyway, these black slaves were tied with ropes, and they were not afraid that they would run away, so let's see the situation of the ambushed enemy first.

Just when John's team split up and started the battle, the middle of the team remembered the gunfire again, but this time the gunfire was not too loud, but the continuous shooting was very tight, Jack's subordinates who guarded the black slaves fell one after another, and four or five thousand black slaves, like wild horses that exploded a herd, suddenly rioted, it turned out that it was Ndaru They had already untied the rope, and these captive black slaves had been freed, and under the leadership of Ndaru and their people, they quickly ran to the side of the small fork in the road.

The battle between the front and back was already a headache for John, and there was a sudden change in the middle, which made John, who was commanding the battle in front, a little anxious, but if Jack and they died, his huge sum of five thousand pounds would not be paid. Just as he hesitated to wait, the gunfire in front gradually became smaller, the dense gunfire just now suddenly could not be heard, and the fierce gunfire behind was also small, there were only sporadic gunshots before and after, but the power of these sporadic gunshots was not small, his soldiers still kept falling, and it was much less than the soldiers who had just lost, he felt inexplicable, so he didn't care about the front and back, so he chased after the fleeing black slaves, these black slaves are all pounds, in case Jack they died, These black slaves became his commodity, which was much more than the honorarium of 10,000 pounds, so he had to take a share.

Zhu Kezhen's troops were too small, only a hundred people, he had to be careful, after attracting the enemy on both sides, he himself personally led a dozen soldiers to start attacking Jack's bodyguard team, these dozen people were all using *, so that the firepower was very fierce, and soon broke up Jack's bodyguard team, opening a way for Endaru and them to escape, and then they had to retreat, lest these escaped blacks trample them to the ground, you must know that there are panicked people who escape from death will not have any scruples, As long as they block the way of escape, they don't know if it is the person who saved them, they will hit everyone who stands in front of them, and if they are knocked down at this time, there is only one way to die.

This is a very technical rescue common sense, fortunately, Zhu Kezhen's subordinates are very skillful, after killing Jack's bodyguard, seeing Ndaru leading people to rush over, he quickly got out of the way, scattered to both sides, and began to block the bodyguards who tried to intercept. At the same time, the teams attacking on the front and rear sides also began to move here, leaving only a few snipers on both sides to suppress the enemy who charged them.

The escape of four or five thousand people was not a small movement, and they could not leave the battlefield in a short time, but fortunately, Ndaru was still a little famous in this area, found a few of the chiefs and friends, and had a little organization, so it still took a lot of time. Zhu Kezhen and his comrades-in-arms could not guarantee the safe evacuation of every black man, so the black man behind was shot and killed by John's troops, knowing that the soldiers who had come from both sides arrived, and the war improved. Zhu Kezhen ordered the soldiers on both sides to set up the new hand-cranked machine guns and shoot at the pursuing English soldiers along both sides of the fleeing crowd.

After all the young and strong blacks left the battlefield, Zhu Kezhen's troops were completely released, and the soldiers on both sides also rushed back, and there were only a few casualties in the team of a hundred people, Zhu Kezhen felt a little relieved, after all, as long as there was a war, someone would die, which was unavoidable, so he arranged for the soldiers to start an orderly retreat according to the predetermined plan, so as to let the blacks who broke through the encirclement run farther, get out of the entire battlefield, and return home safely.

As the black youth broke away and the war became clearer, the angry John finally found that the attackers were only a small army of about 100 people, but they had caused nearly 200 casualties, how long had it been! The casualty was unacceptable to him, and he quickly made up his mind to eliminate all the attackers. quickly organized a chaotic team, organized into a square team, and prepared to rely on dense firepower to encircle and annihilate Zhu Kezhen's team.

The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, if John and they attack in a skirmish, Zhu Kezhen is only a team of 100 people, and it is really impossible to intercept it, but with them going to become a square team, this gives a chance. When John commanded the soldiers to line up in an attacking formation, the mortar team and machine gun team brought by Zhu Kezhen completely exerted their power, the shells exploded in the crowd, each shell would bring more than a dozen casualties, the machine guns strafed past, and immediately lay down like cutting wheat, and the number of casualties increased sharply, several times more than the casualties caused by the rescue of the black young man just now, and the attack formation was quickly dispersed.

Tactical mistakes, the gap in weapons, so that John had to choose to retreat, the 3,000-strong troops lost four or five hundred people, this is the biggest loss after entering the African continent, John had to report this battle to his superiors honestly, as for whether it will attract attention, John himself does not know, but he himself is completely finished.