In the end, I stopped them from pursuing further, and this kind of thing, if there was no cooperation from other troops, and it was just a stick that was not very easy to use in the narrow and cramped mountains and forests with limited vision.

"They Are Righteous and Obedient"

After a simple and brutal torture of the few remaining seven or eight hundred corpses, Yang Zaixing, who wiped the blood on his hands, came over and whispered to me.

"The kind of ...... that doesn't ask the reason for right and wrong, and gives money to sell your life"

He seemed to be quite familiar with these peers, so he was particularly familiar with looting and cleaning up......

"It's not less expensive to just hire them......"

"Yes,......"

I caressed a few of the captured helmets, round-edged hexagonal helmets, or arc-shaped eight-petal helmets with simple arabesque carved into them, or delicate idols of gods lined in suede or velvet tailored to the shape of the head.

This kind of customized equipment with a personal color is an exclusive right only for high-ranking officers, and it is just an accident that it was attacked and seized, or is it something else.

Although the opponent menacingly rushed to the front of the car wall, it was a fierce fight, but due to the role of protective gear and the proper protection of the construction of the defense line, the actual casualties caused were very small among the wounded, and most of them were minor injuries that could be re-returned to the team with a little cultivation, and the unlucky ghosts who were really fatally injured were only a fraction or a single digit of each team.

Therefore, after resting on the spot for half a day, we set out again with the captured armor, knives, spears, and other trophies that were still intact.

And that's just the beginning, and in the next few days,

All sorts of attackers pop up like weeds. At most, it was encountered seven times in just one day, and this kind of overwhelmed frequency could easily make ordinary soldiers mentally exhausted and highly nervous.

Even the slightest hint of nervousness was a volley of fire, but fortunately this time they carried enough ammunition base and reserves, and I even ordered them to be allowed to shoot at their own discretion, anything that looked suspicious in the field

Although a lot of flowers and plants were damaged and destroyed, and many small animals and beasts were accidentally injured, and a lot of fresh ingredients were added to the marching cooks, there were also a small number of targets that hit the target.

The spies who were climbing on the trees or crouching in the grass were killed and wounded. Or to disturb those hidden ambushes and raiders in advance.

In this atmosphere of high tension and vigilance, there was also another obvious side effect, the marksmanship and firing frequency of those sergeants also improved.

Many of the new hands that had been replenished before, shooting with the flow almost with their eyes closed, were now finally able to squint in the choking smoke, looking for a target before firing.

At least they know how to gather with their comrades, use the fire hammer as a weapon for mutual cover and fighting, block and stumble the enemy, create opportunities for the friendly troops behind them to shoot, and even wait for the support of nearby hand-to-hand combat troops.

The battlefield is the best teacher and internship experience, and the consequences of not being serious and slacking off are likely to be the price of not being able to regret it, so that the originally worrying team also has a certain ability to fight hand-to-hand combat.

Especially in most cases of long-range kills of the enemy from a certain distance under the cover of comrades, it is extremely calm and reassuring, and it is also easier, so that the memorized rules and training results can be brought into play, and they become mature and sophisticated in a short period of time.

After we climbed many hills and hills, crossed long fields and rivers, we arrived at our first destination, the grain institute in Changxi Town.

Some of the local low-spirited and scattered officials and civilians who stayed behind seemed to be taken aback by the heads of the cars we had brought with them.

Or rather, they were quite surprised, we were a little tired, but almost unscathed in morale and high spirits, at least along the way, although some casualties inevitably accumulated, but we did not give up on any of the wounded.

The local grain yard officer was a Guoyi lieutenant who commanded two regiments of garrisons plus a mule and horse team.

It's just that his trembling belly, and even if he changes into a new uniform, the lingering smell of wine and fat powder can't help but make people suddenly realize and be disappointed by the gold content of this so-called captain of the grain institute.

I really have to rely on myself for everything, I sighed secretly.

He refused his "kindness" in arranging to enter the town for hospitality, and only put forward a supplementary request for fresh supplies on the spot, and directly arranged to stay on the edge of the renovated warehouse in the house donated by a large family, and then dug a trench according to the standards of field warfare, erected a fence, and camped on the spot for the night.

Then I ordered that the heads be hung on wooden poles by the wooden wall that surrounded the market town, and then the next night I arranged for the crouching men to find the sneaky figures peeing out of the wooden walls from afar.

Although we have not been able to catch any solid evidence, it is enough to determine one thing, these traitors, indeed without the cooperation and cover of some locals, are absolutely not so easy to haunt and act arbitrarily.

After two days of delivery and reloading, we set off again, this time with more than 100 large animals and corresponding men from the local transport team.

This self-cooked, big-bellied lieutenant wanted to send some guards to accompany him on the grounds that the road was not clean, but after walking a distance out of Changxi Town, he gave me an excuse and sent him back.

I don't want to leave anything potentially unstable. In a certain way, if I were cautious, I would be paranoid enough to persecute people with paranoid tendencies.

I did not even allow the soldiers to take the new ingredients obtained directly from the town, but first used them as food mats, and then cooked them into cooked food that was easy to preserve, and then sampled from cattle and local people, and after forty-eight hours of tasting there was nothing unusual, it was included in the list of allowed food.

"Beware of spies and keep an eye on suspicious ......"

I commanded Qian Shuining in the baggage team.

"I'd rather be wrong than indulge, I have my own ......"

"No......"

He is also an official now, although he is only a lowest-level military official, in the people's team and the mule and horse team, he manages a group of eyeliner and eyes and ears for me.

As a result, after two days, we caught three people who tried to sneak out by night, but unfortunately they were only the outskirts of the inquiry, and no matter how tortured they were, what they knew was quite limited.

They were lured by a wealthy stranger in the town, coerced by their families or with a lot of money, to infiltrate the task of the transport team, and only to copy what they saw and heard, and buried it under a specially marked tree on the side of the road.

After that, we didn't encounter any more harassment and arrived at our next stop, the small town of Mohe under the rule of Gwangju.

It is said to be a city, but in fact it is a large market town surrounded by low earthen walls and wooden fences, with patches of fruit forests outside the city, swaying palms, coconut shadows, and delicious grass. It almost gave me the illusion that I was back in Borneo.

However, the garrison here looks much stronger, and is full of vigilance and vigilance, which is much more solemn than the slackness and vain enthusiasm of the garrison of Changxi Town.

Because in addition to a Guizhou army, there is also a battalion of Wuqing army stationed to control this land and water point, because the small city of Mohe is located at the confluence of several large rivers in the Dongrong Plain, and in ordinary years, it is also an important customs and material transfer place.

As long as you cross here, you will enter the territory of Anyuan Prefecture,

It's just that they are a little too strict, even if they confirm the identity of our transport team, they still meticulously go through the complete set of trivial procedures before letting them in, and there is no one to see on the empty street, and the door is closed.

There were only groups of soldiers patrolling by, the rustle of walking and the shouts of passwords, which looked rather depressed and solemn,

After unloading some of the supplies, the other party did not mean to stay longer, so he urged us to continue on the road.

This can't help but make those soldiers of this army who have been sleeping in the open for a long time and longing for a bed and hot water for washing can't help but scold their mothers and complain.

It's one thing to be vigilant and ready for battle, it's another thing to be treated as a hasty passerby by by who doesn't stay much.

It took a little longer to prepare the boats for the convoy to cross the river, so that after it was dark, we were given permission to spend the night, but in a separate camp outside the city fence, there was a clear expression of distrust and vigilance.

The doubts and uneasiness in my heart became more and more serious, and I wondered if I had come by mistake this time. However, beware of beware, that night, the garrison generals still asked people to send bedding and water according to the head

It was a judge who came forward, and with this reason, carefully inquired about our situation and encounters along the way, but expressed a certain surprise and exclamation on our faces that we were able to escort us over relatively completely and as scheduled, and asked for some evidence.

However, when I asked about the situation ahead and what had happened on the ground, it was all kinds of vague evasions and ambiguities, which made people faintly more and more unpleasant.

The night was uneventful, but I wandered around the night, checking all kinds of facilities and measures over and over again, until the snoring was everywhere and the campfire was dim, and then I slept in a somewhat stuffy barracks wrapped in a blanket.

Not long after the sky turned white, I was awakened by a huge uproar, and I was shocked, could it be that the camp had been bombed, and I hurriedly dressed and put on armor, and ran out of the barracks without even washing my face.

But he saw that except for a small number of sentries on duty, whether officers and non-commissioned officers, or ordinary soldiers, everyone else gathered in the direction of the city wall, and let out some kind of loud sound of surprise and sigh.

Then I hurried over, and when they saw that I had hurried out of the crowd and let me go straight to the front of the camp wall, I found that it was not my men who were making the noise and uproar, but the officers and soldiers who had gathered densely on the riverside and on the city walls, at least several times our number.

And in the direction they were concerned, on a tributary of a great river that flowed outside the city, it had changed color, and had turned some kind of dull brownish-pink, the color of the thinning of the blood, if I had judged correctly.

Then there were what appeared to be patches of corpses and boat fragments washed down by the river, turning the entire river into mottled and filthy water. At this time, someone had already waded into the water to salvage something.

Among them were a few tattered flags covered in sludge and blood, dirty but distinctly distinct, the flag of the Marines who had only seen it the other day, the sailors who had gone from the harbor and followed the steamers up the river.