Chapter 875: Night
After dark, torches were lit all over the village, and the high platform in the middle was even brighter. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Chen Xinji sat on the high platform, looking at the situation around, although he didn't think much of Yan Siqi's decision, but since he had spoken, he could only go to the high platform to sit down. However, he did not feel any danger, on the contrary, he was very confident, sometimes Chen Xinji would stand up and look at the railing, there was a crescent moon on the sea level, and he could vaguely see the ups and downs of the sea, and he felt a pride in his heart, as if this piece of the sea would soon be in his hands.
A big boss walked up to the high platform and said with some concern: "I always feel that something is wrong, as if someone is secretly beating our idea." ”
"It doesn't matter." Chen Xinji said: "There are more than 1,000 brothers in our village armed with knives and guns on guard, this place, the Dutch and He Yusheng can't beat our idea, and the imperial court soldiers and horses are farther away in the sky, so I am very afraid." ”
"He Yusheng seems to have a lot more soldiers and horses than us."
"What's the use of all the soldiers who are holding bird guns? It's not like I've never seen it, that's it. Chen Xinji said disdainfully: "After they went to the island, what decent things did they do?" Just fight the barbarians on the mountains. If they dare to come, discipline them and never return. ”
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A person from the Military Intelligence Department approached, hugged his fists and said: "The situation in Shizhai is a little tight, but some sailors have been added to the garrison patrol." ”
Chang Wei nodded and said, "Okay, continue to observe." ”
The MI man nodded, and quickly disappeared into the darkness again.
The people here are carefully selected, have strong language skills, and quickly learned Hokkien and Hokkien languages, not only on the island, but also in the area of Fuzhou and Zhangzhou, the Military Intelligence Department has established several intelligence groups and action groups.
This time, Zheng Guochang was asked to close the sea area and detain Xu Xinsu and Yan Siqi's ships, of course, it was also the news that the military intelligence was responsible for transmitting.
In peacetime, the people of the Military Intelligence Department are responsible for monitoring Shizhai, and their tasks are well completed and they are familiar with it.
Chang Wei turned to Zhang Xuwen and Li Pingzhi and said: "There is not much change, we will proceed as planned, start at midnight, start first on the coast, rush to the boat to control the big boat, and leave the small boat alone." The main task is to control Yan Siqi, followed by conquering the high platform and controlling the whole village, there are five or six thousand people in the village, and there must be no more killing. ”
The last two sentences were said to Li Shouxin.
Li Shouxin quietly arched his hand and said: "Don't worry about the political affairs, the last general will not be a person who loves to kill." ”
"Me neither." Chang Wei was in a good mood and made a joke.
He and Li Shouxin have actually cooperated for a long time, and when they burned goods on the grassland, they were often under Li Shouxin. The two are also very happy to cooperate here in Taiwan, Chang Wei's orders are concise and clear, Li Shouxin is a very traditional soldier, obey orders, follow and do not disobey, Chang Wei also admires him very much.
The troops of the brigade had all eaten dinner before the evening, and this time almost the whole army was mobilized, leaving only one battalion of more than 400 troops to defend the perimeter, two brigades of soldiers and a company of soldiers to guard the base, and the rest of the troops were pulled out and waited in the place between the base and the ten villages.
The soldiers were arranged in a small phalanx one by one, each branch of the army was clearly layered, and the musketeers were all bayonets, the tips of which shone coldly in the moonlight.
Each soldier was silent, but the excitement in his eyes was also very obvious.
When it was close to midnight, Li Shouxin and other officers looked at Chang Wei and waited for the military order.
"Departure, according to the military order."
"Yes, the whole army will set off, and it will be carried out according to the military order!"
On Li Shouxin's old-fashioned military face, there was a rare hint of excitement.
He enlisted in the army as a miner soldier, and later followed Sun Yao all the way up the ranks, and became a fort guard officer after making meritorious service on the grassland...... The miners are now two people in high positions, one is Sun Yao, the chief of staff, and the other is Li Shouxin, who led the field troops and commanded an entire regiment.
After going to the island, he has been expanding the defensive circle, and has fought many times with the Taiwanese natives, but those are the barbarians who are not even as good as the northern captives, and the Mongols still have a written and decent upper and lower system, as well as a wartime mobilization and peacetime pastoral system, although rough, but after all, it is a nation that has established a large empire, and it has some connotation of the core of civilization.
These natives in Taiwan are very barbaric, there is no written language, there is no decent social system, it is completely a combination of the most primitive tribal societies of barbarism, their limited social civilization is mainly brought by the Han people who immigrated to Taiwan, but the income is very limited, in the process of expanding inland with Yusheng, the biggest resistance does not come from the imaginary Spaniards or Dutch...... The power of the Dutch is in the majority, the goal of the Spaniards is the chicken coop and fresh water in Taipei, so far the two sides have not been able to contact on land, originally the fourth regiment on the island was intended to sweep on the land, but later I learned that this is a delusional assumption, there is no road on the island of Taiwan in this year! The alpine natives have a strong sense of territory, and rarely communicate with each other, let alone build roads and trade exchanges, all the way from Taiwan to the undeveloped wilderness, full of dense forests and shrubs, all in the state of primeval forests...... Imagine a time when Taiwan's biggest product was deerskin venison and venison, and you can see what the situation was like on the island.
The coastal areas are dominated by grasslands and dwarf shrubs, which are suitable for early colonization, and the further you go, the more difficult it becomes.
After the fourth regiment landed on the island, it had been helping the immigrants expand the peripheral area, and by the way, it had shocked Yan Siqi, who was very domineering at the beginning and regarded Chang Wei and others as subordinates, and then he had been idle.
It is impossible to advance from the interior, unless a large number of tens of thousands of immigrants come and reclaim all the way, otherwise thousands of people will go crazy in the primeval forests and mountains to Taipei.
If you want to attack only from the sea, you can also go crazy without controlling the sea power.
This is also the reason why the 12th Regiment on Phi Island has not come over for a long time...... It was useless to come, unless the soldiers were used as soldiers and peasants who cultivated.
From Li Shouxin to the military and political officer Liu Hong, to the deputy commander of the regiment Liu Jinyi, Lu Dafu and others, they were all panicked, feeling that they were going to rot and mold on this warm island.
As soon as the military order was given, the officers were at the front of the queue.
The two and a half brigades were dispersed in the form of company columns, and as they marched forward, the staff officers of each unit planned the route according to the prior deployment, and the ranks were even more dispersed.
Lu Da's company belonged to the first battalion of the second brigade, and the company commander was a young man in his early twenties, who joined the army at the age of 16 and was admitted to the military academy at the age of 17.
In any case, graduates of the military academy still have a greater promotion advantage than ordinary soldiers, they are more professional soldiers, almost all the process of adolescent growth is in the barracks, they hardly adapt to civilian life and civilian thinking, the army is everything, they are the strongest screws in the killing machine of the merchant army.
After walking forward for half an hour, the ten villages across the sheep intestine path are close in front of you.
There were many torches in the stockade, and there were more torches on the high platform, as if they were waiting to be set on fire.
Even the commander, although he was not very experienced, couldn't help but shake his head.
Such a command system design is tantamount to exposing oneself to the eyes of the enemy, which is tantamount to openly announcing "come and fight me", which is really stupid.
Surrounded by some square-shaped fields, Lu Da stood in a field of sweet potatoes that had not yet been planted, and many of last year's sweet potato leaves were left to rot in the field.
This is also impossible in Datong, each plant has a strict purpose, the fruit is used for food, the leaves can be fed to livestock, the war horses, cattle and sheep, pigs and chickens over there in Datong, which one should not be eaten?
The vines can be dried and used to make a fire, how can it be so wasteful.
Most of the soldiers breathed evenly, and only a few breathed heavily.
The 4th Regiment completed all the additions at Phi Dao, the skeleton of the regiment was sent out by Datong, and the soldiers were composed of refugees from Liaodong, who went to the island after completing most of the recruit training on Phi Dao, and then they have been training and skirmishing battles, after such a long time, each recruit has become a veteran, but the soldiers have not experienced large-scale battles, and it is inevitable that they will still be a little nervous.
Lu Xiaosheng comforted some subordinates who were obviously overly nervous, a black-faced man was trembling all over, seeing that the rank was still a squad officer, Lu Da lowered his voice and said sharply: "Bo Zhuangzhi, if you fuck like this, you will get out of Lao Tzu directly!" ”
Bo Zhuangzhi said with a bitter face: "I didn't mean to ......"
"Then think about it," Lu Dadao, "you will be wearing the same dirty clothes you wore when you went to the island tomorrow, and there will be no military robes and clean liners, no sleeping in the barracks now, no hot meals a day, and no warm weather on this island." At this time, Phi Island is still very cold, you don't have a padded jacket, our boat will send you back to the island, throw it directly, the next day you will be hungry and weak, do ten days of hard work on the island, after ten days of freezing and starvation, you can't wait to take a fire gun and shoot yourself in the face, have you thought about it now? ”
Everyone heard it, but no one said anything, but it was clear that some look of fear had disappeared from the soldiers' faces...... Compared with the battle in front of him, it is obvious that what Lu Da said is even more terrifying, everyone has the same mind, and would rather die than violate military discipline!
Although because of the tight transportation capacity and the situation in Taiwan is relatively restrictive, the military secretary did not send most of the family members as promised, but everyone knows that the family members will come sooner or later, and the family members are well taken care of in Phi Dao...... It is not without precedent, the fugitives from Liaodong are all determined and strong-minded, and many of them have violated military discipline when they first arrived in Taiwan, and these people have been punished without exception, and those who have made serious mistakes have been directly dismissed, and these people are very miserable, and many people have committed suicide by jumping into the sea on the return boat.