Chapter 216: [Seize the Nameless Peak (I)]
"Hurry, hurry! The back ones are quick to follow. Shen Pingbo jumped like a fly, rushing at the front of the team, even the guide was overtaken by him, and while running, he cheered up the soldiers in the team behind him from time to time, "Cheng Hu, be optimistic about your fourth squad, if the few sloppy guys at the end of the team are really not good, let them wait for the third squad and the artillery team, don't let them drag down the whole team." β
The man named Cheng Hu was a twenty-five or sixteen sword and axe soldier with a dark face and a strong body. He was carrying a heavy new-style backpack, with a dozen catties of iron bones on the belt buckles of the two backpacks, and the black and bright bones faintly revealed a dark red blood light, which was obviously a murder weapon full of enemy blood.
The large backpack contained a full set of foot armor with the standard equipment of sword and axe soldiers, weighing more than 60 catties, plus iron bones, more than 80 catties. Such a burden, walking for two or three hours in the rugged and steep mountains and forests, and finally marching at full speed, is definitely a severe test for any army.
These twenty heavy infantry swordsmen and axemen are all selected elites, and they can grit their teeth and hold on after trekking for a few hours with seventy or eighty pounds on their backs, but this run is enough to choke.
As soon as he heard this, Cheng Hu's face was swollen and red, and he didn't yell at his subordinates, but only pulled out the knives and axes and other weapons behind the backs of those fallen soldiers, carried them to his shoulders, and rushed forward. Several stragglers had red circles in their eyes and gritted their teeth to keep up.
"Shen Jiangzuo, it can't go on like this, even if you can occupy the top of the mountain first, I'm afraid that you won't even have the strength to lift a knife and axe, how can you kill the enemy?" The man who spoke was thin and short, unassuming, carrying a long musket, carrying an ammunition sac cross-body, and a bronze military badge in front of his left breastplate with the word "Shang" inscribed on it.
Superior Sergeant!
This is a sign of military skill, and the bronze medal is also engraved with two slightly smaller words "team general".
There are not many high-ranking sergeant musketeers in the entire Dragon Sparrow Army, no more than twenty. And this person is the first sergeant to receive this honor - the former miscellaneous soldier, now the sharpshooter, Liang Ertiao.
Shen Pingbo also felt this, his footsteps didn't stop, and he squinted and asked, "Erjo, what do you say?" β
"Let me take a team of brothers with fast feet, not more, ten musketeers, ten shotgunmen, only guns and ammunition, sprint at full speed, and seize the top of the mountain." Liang Ertiao's sweat-stained lean face revealed a sense of determination, and his eyes were fixed on the top of the mountain among the shadows of the trees.
"Twenty?!" Shen Pingbo pointed at the Yuan army team running like a snake at the bottom of the mountain, his face was grim, "You think clearly, the Yuan army is no less than a thousand." β
"On the terrain of the Nameless Peak, even 10,000 people have to line up to wait for Lao Tzu to be shot." Liang didn't blink.
"Even if you are shot, you have to face hundreds of people at a time, more than ten times the number of troops."
"As long as there are enough guns and ammunition, not to mention more than ten times the Yuan soldiers, even if it is dozens of times, I will be the target."
Shen Pingbo is also decisive, and he made a decision immediately: "Okay." You check the manpower and set off immediately. β
As a result, the special combat team of 130 people was divided into three groups: the 21 musketeers led by Liang Ertiao took the lead and advanced lightly; More than 50 musketeers and axe soldiers led by Shen Pingbo followed in the center; The artillery team led by Hu Yanxiao and the 4th musketeer squad followed.
The three groups of people are all trying their best to seize the nameless peak.
Similarly, at the foot of the mountain, the Yuan army was also in a hurry.
Both sides had their own advantages, and the advantage of the Yuan army was that the roads were wide and the march was unhindered. However, due to being at the foot of the mountain, the Dragon Bird Army was not found, so the Yuan Army's marching speed was only slightly faster than the normal march, far less than the Dragon Bird Army's desperate efforts.
The dragon sparrow army traveled through all the mountain trails between the lofty mountains, and some places could only rub against the mountain wall a little bit, not to mention mules and horses, even wheelbarrows could not push through. Fortunately, the weight of the Tiger Roar cannon is only one-third of that of the 24-pound gun, that is, about 300 catties, and then the gun body is separated from the gun carriage, and the left and right are not more than 100 catties, which is lighter than a strong man, and can be carried away almost as soon as it is hugged, even if it is attached to the mountain wall, as long as it is slower and more careful, it can also be moved a little bit.
On one side is the sheep intestine path, and on the other side is the broad road. If the Dragon Bird Army wants to seize the commanding heights before the Yuan Army, they can only fight!
This advantage was maintained until Liang Ertiao and other twenty-one swift warriors rushed out of the jungle and appeared on the ridge......
At this time, Zhang Hongfan was about to return to the camp from the mountain, when he saw the red flag on the sentry tower on the opposite hill fluttering sharply, his pupils shrank, and he did not move. Behind him, Zhang Jue and other generals were all shocked, not knowing what was happening. After a while, a sentry horse galloped over and reported loudly: "Marshal, Nameless Peak has discovered the Song army." β
Zhang Hongfan frowned: "How many people?" β
"Back to Marshal, about twenty people."
Zhang Jue immediately said: "This is the white team, and the team is behind." β
The so-called "stepping on the white" is the meaning of reconnaissance in the Song Dynasty, and the army that generally serves as reconnaissance is called "stepping on the white army". There are only twenty people, so naturally they can only be called the white team.
The sentry Baihu, who was also in charge of the task of stepping on the white, hurriedly said: "The last general has surveyed the terrain, the brigade is impassable, and the peak can only accommodate more than 100 people, no matter how many people there are, it will not help......"
The generals of the Yuan army all frowned when they heard this, if they could only accommodate so many people, then what was the intention of the Song army to send these white teams? Even if it is a hundred-man musket team, is it possible to cut off their tens of thousands of troops? Are the Song people crazy?
Zhang Hongfan's face sank like water, and he faintly felt that something was wrong, his brain was spinning rapidly, and he deduced repeatedly, but he never found any flaws, so he had to order: "Order Liu Qianhu to march at full speed." If the Song army seizes the nameless peak, take it back for me. Otherwise, I'll see you! β
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Just as the Song and Yuan armies were desperately climbing to catch up, Zhao Lie in the canyon was beating the two patriarchs of the Eight Barbarians: the contempt of Luodianfan and the locust of Lufan.
Under the witness of the generals of the Dragon Bird Army and the elders of the Eight Barbarian Clans, a seemingly ordinary musket and a round bamboo tube that looked very old with paint off were quietly placed on a flat boulder.
For the sharp weapon of the musket, Baban has been hot for a long time, rubbing his hands and constantly looking at Zhao Lie, wondering if the prison country wants to give them a batch of good things.
However, these two things fall into the eyes of those who have a heart, and they are simply five thunderbolts.
The two people who were scorched by Lei were the contempt of Luo Dianfan and the Lu A locust of Lu Fan.
Seeing the number of "two thousand and four" in the oval logo on the butt of the gun, the contemptuous man suddenly had cold hands and feet, and his original smile suddenly froze. That's the gun sold to Li Shi'an, how did it get into the hands of the Dragon Sparrow Army? This crime of colluding with foreign enemies and selling arms is not light! What can I do?
If the contempt can't laugh, then Lu A's face is as dead as ashesβthe old-looking lacquered round bamboo tube is his. There was originally a hand-drawn crooked road map, and the end of the road map was Hongtong Village.
In just one year, Babanman first abandoned the Song Dynasty and the Yuan, and then abandoned the Yuan and returned to the Song Dynasty due to the rise of the Dragon Bird Army. Fearful and attached, swaying because of profit, it is impossible to have a completely one heart. When the Yuan army was pressing, it was normal to have one or two villages riding on the wall.
Under normal circumstances, once discovered, most of them will kill chickens and monkeys, but after consulting with the generals, Zhao Hunt decided to drive tigers and wolves instead, and don't waste what can be used.
Zhao Lie stared at the two coldly: "You know what to do, right?" β
The contemptuous guy and Lu A locust nodded in panic, knowing that they would not be able to pass the current level without paying a price at this time.
Zhao Lie pointed to Taniguchi: "My requirements are not high, just one point - you gather the warriors of the clan, fill in the trench at Taniguchi, and then move the deer away." How about leaving the past and not investigating the past? β
The two of them looked at the figure of the dense armor soldier in Taniguchi, who was glowing with layers of cold light, tangled again and again, swallowed saliva hard, gritted his teeth, and let go: "Okay, let's do it!" β