Chapter 22: Rushing to Death
Although it is approaching dawn, people still can't see the objects in front of them very clearly, and they can only see a rough figure of the human body.
Hu Zhen led a hundred soldiers with rifles on their backs and pistols in hand to the front of the indigenous guard position, and fired fiercely at the indigenous soldiers.
The pistol held by the soldiers is an imitation 92-type semi-automatic pistol made by Hu Zhen with the 3D printing manufacturing system on the nuclear submarine, which is at least 60 years ahead of the current era, with a caliber of 9 mm and a magazine bullet capacity of 15 rounds.
When have the natives ever seen this kind of semi-automatic pistol that can be fired with a single pull of the trigger?
The number of natives in charge of the guard was not large, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and after a while, they were beaten to pieces, and the remnants also took advantage of the dark moment before dawn to scatter and flee.
Chen Zichao, who was scuffling with the enemy, heard the fierce gunfire outside the encirclement, kicked over a native, jumped up excitedly and shouted: "Reinforcements, reinforcements, our reinforcements are coming!" ”
Li Haoran's spirit suddenly perked up, his hand fell, hacked a native in front of him, and shouted: "Reinforcements are finally here, everyone work hard to beat the natives out!" ”
Hearing that reinforcements were coming, the Chinese who had been depressed immediately launched a crazy counterattack against the natives as if they had been beaten with blood, forcing the natives in front of them out of the gap in the wall.
The big leader of the natives was about to attack, but unexpectedly, Chinese reinforcements suddenly arrived and hit their weakest back, and the Chinese in the encirclement took the opportunity to counterattack and hold their positions steadily. He was so angry that he shouted on the spot, and ordered to concentrate all his efforts to turn back and defeat the Chinese reinforcements first.
According to the old habit of charging in the past, the natives lined up in a dense array formation and attacked Hu Zhen's men and horses.
This is precisely a good target for a pistol's dense bullets!
When the indigenous formation rushed into thirty meters, Hu Zhen shouted: "Fight!" ”
More than a hundred semi-automatic pistols, the speed of their continuous firing, at least more than the firing speed of three hundred single-shot rifles, the dense bullets within the effective range, forming a dense network of fire, shrouded the natives in dense figures, and the natives fell down with frightened and painful screams.
The firepower of the semi-automatic pistol is very ferocious, but the effective range is only 50 meters, and the maximum killing and damage for dense formations is 70 or 80 meters.
In the face of the test of life and death, the natives soon discovered the secret, so the natives withdrew from the range of the pistol, found concealment, and evaded the fire of the pistol bullets.
Hu Zhen looked up at the sky, only to see that it was already dawn time, and the naked eye could already see the outside world, so he ordered: "Go, we retreat now!" ”
Before the natives could react, Hu Zhen commanded more than 100 people to retreat slowly. By the time the natives reacted, they were out of the effective range of their weapons.
Seeing this, the indigenous leader was so angry that he stamped his feet and ordered his subordinates to pursue immediately.
However, at this time, Hu Zhen ordered his subordinates to put away their pistols and start shooting with rifles, at this time the distance between them and the natives was just the range of the rifles, and more than a hundred rifles overturned a large number of natives at once, and the charge of the natives was once again contained.
Hu Zhen commanded more than 100 people to retreat slowly.
At this time, the sky was gradually white, and the indigenous leader saw that the other party was only a hundred men and horses, not even a fraction of his own number, so he beat his own side with at least hundreds of casualties, and was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Immediately send the order down, leaving half of the people to storm the encirclement, and the other half to go in pursuit, no matter what, they must catch these more than 100 Chinese, and skin them and cramp their corpses into pieces.
Seeing the natives chasing after him, Hu Zhen led everyone to turn around and fire a few shots from time to time while walking, killing a few pursuers, so as to add fuel to the fire of the thunderous aborigines.
The indigenous leader was not even more furious, but was very surprised that the rifle in the hands of this Chinese armed force was completely different from the one that reloads the bullet once, and it can continue to shoot without reloading the bullet as long as the bolt is pulled. Wouldn't it be great if it was captured?
Supported by this curiosity, the natives were driven to chase after them like crazy.
When the natives were chasing Hu Zhen, the Chinese in the encirclement also saw this scene, and Li Haoran asked Chen Zichao very worriedly: "The reinforcements you are talking about are so many people?" ”
At this time, Hu Zhen's actions on the periphery had completely departed from the plan set last night, and Chen Zichao had no bottom in his heart, but he knew that Hu Zhen must have changed his plan to defeat the natives according to the new situation, so he replied with great certainty: "Lord Li Xiang, rest assured, our people are by no means the people you see, but they are ambushed and lured the natives to send them to death!" ”
"Ah, that's fine......"
Li Haoran had just witnessed the combat effectiveness of more than 100 people commanded by Hu Zhen, and he had already begun to believe Chen Zichao's words, but when he was just about to arrange for everyone to cooperate with the peripheral reinforcements, the natives once again attacked the encirclement.
At this time, although the natives suffered heavy casualties, the number of troops still exceeded 1,000, and they attacked in two parts, and both sides still felt that the troops were more than enough, so they launched attacks on both sides at the same time.
"Hmph, the natives are simply dead to do this!" Seeing the natives doing this, Hu Zhen felt that his own side was sure that he would win more with less, and ordered everyone: "Quickly retreat into the predetermined ambush position!" ”
The natives pursued all the way, and when they saw that Hu Zhen and others had occupied a jungle-dense mountain and wanted to condescendingly block their own side, they hesitated to continue the pursuit.
But Hu Zhen commanded the team to retreat from the mountain without stopping and ran to an even lower hill.
Seeing this, the natives finally chased after them with confidence.
Hu Zhen and Jiang Yunfeng retreated to this low hill and stopped retreating.
From an outsider's point of view, if Hu Zhen wanted to stop the pursuers, he must stick to the tall mountain just now, but Hu Zhen wanted to give up the better favorable terrain and retreat to the next favorable terrain, the purpose of which was to attract the natives to rush to death without scruples.
On this small mountain bag, a net has been laid for the pursuing natives: four heavy machine guns and twenty light machine guns have been placed on the mountain bag; On both sides of the mountain bag, Ouyang Yu and Liang Kunri led two teams of men and horses to ambush, and when the natives failed to attack the mountain, they suddenly came out and violently elbowed the flanks of the natives' attack formation.
Hu Zhen thought it was a low-intensity conflict and did not bring more heavy weapons, but only four heavy machine guns that used wheelbarrows to maneuver.
According to the example of using heavy machine guns in later generations, after Hu Zhen arrived in Singapore, he found a local carpenter and urgently tailored a wheelbarrow for heavy machine gun rapid mobility, which was very suitable for use in this era of backward transportation.
Sure enough, the natives did not notice anything abnormal, and as soon as they arrived, they were about to launch a ferocious attack, trying to annihilate the Chinese armed forces of more than 100 people in front of them in one fell swoop with their superiority of five or six hundred troops.