Chapter 140: Night Battle 1 (Fifth Update)
The French Foreign Legion connected two large villages in one day, mainly because they were not far apart and that in peacetime the villagers could easily communicate with each other. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
What Lin Haoda did not know, therefore, was that the second large village, which had been completely slaughtered under his orders and used as a military garrison, was in fact a gathering of armed relatives of the mob.
Relying on these two settlements not far away, there are relatives of the peasant rebel army, and it is natural that there is a camp of the peasant rebel army nearby!
It is well known that the local armed men have always been able to hide themselves in the event of a foreign invasion and to be informed in advance of their general military operations, so the peasant rebel army had already spotted Lin Haoda's French Foreign Legion when they slaughtered the village.
However, the peasant rebel army did not have the scarce resource of war horses, and under the blockade and investigation of the hussars, they did not dare to return to the village to report the news, because before Lin Haoda's army drove to a certain target, a small number of hussars would be sent to the periphery of the target site first.
In the same way, if the sentry of the peasant rebel army did not inform their own armed men first, but first went to the large village to report the news, it was very likely that the hussars hiding in the shadows would discover the real camp of the large army of the peasant rebel army!
You know, the peasant rebels in this area are not only from these two villages, to put it mildly, in the eyes of those peasant rebel army sentinels, these two French villages are not their hometown, how can they risk exposing a large army to notify the civilians to evacuate?
At most, these sentries of the peasant rebel army comforted them in their hearts -- they would definitely avenge the civilians of those stricken villages in the future......
Because the sentries of the peasant rebel army knew very well that a head-on battle with the French Foreign Legion in broad daylight with their forces would be tantamount to sending them to death, and the peasant rebel camp in this vicinity was only one of the vast peasant rebel armies, not all of them, and the peasant rebel army would rarely gather all of them before they wanted to launch a large-scale battle.
However, after the sentries brought the news back to the peasant rebel troops, the leaders of the peasant rebel army found that they had been forced to fight!
As Lin Haoda and others had predicted, there were no real people in the peasant rebel army at all, and the army was commanded by a group of people of high prestige, who formed the rural committees, however, the foundation of these people did not come from the allegiance of the army, but the personal support of the soldiers of the peasant rebel army below!
As the saying goes, the person in power only serves those who support his ascension, because the position of the person in power comes from those who support him, the dictator who rises to power by the army will benefit his soldiers and the families of the army, and the politician who relies on the capitalist to rise to power will naturally have to make laws that are in line with the commercial interests of the capitalists!
A president elected by the votes of the people at the bottom must repeatedly emphasize democracy and the interests of the people in all public places!
This is the reason why in the 21st century countries, those in power who rely on military dictatorship and those who rely on the power of capital are disliked by most people, because those in power do not need the votes of the people, and naturally, the consideration of the problem will also put the people who have an absolute advantage in numbers behind.
The rural committees were elected by the peasants who took part in the revolutionary uprising, and they had to take into account, of course, the feelings of the peasants below!
Needless to say, those peasant armies from the two big villages, if anyone dares to say a reason not to take revenge in front of them, it will definitely lead to a brawl and even bloodshed!
And the other peasant armed soldiers who are not from the two big villages also can't help but have the sad feelings of the rabbit and the fox, the brutality of the French Foreign Legion is obvious to all, if he continues to hide, who dares to guarantee that Lin Haoda's next target is not his hometown?
Therefore, this nearby peasant rebel army quickly set the tone for revenge!
Revenge is not death, the number and strength of the two sides are still known, when Lin Haoda's French Foreign Legion drove to the second large village, the messengers of the nearby peasant rebel army began to ask for help from the hidden 'friendly forces' in the surrounding area.
In order to cope with the suppression of the French government army, the peasant rebel army had already established a basic tactical alliance with each other, and it was not too far apart, so that in the event of a battle, they could gather together to fight the enemy together.
When the French Foreign Legion cleared the second large village and began to light a fire for dinner, almost all the peasant rebels in the surrounding area got the news and converged here!
It can be said that Lin Haoda's massacre in pursuit of the historical shattering point inadvertently caused the battle between the two sides to start earlier.
Moreover, this peasant rebel army gathered because of Lin Haoda's massacre of French villages, even if you count the surrounding friendly forces, is not the main force of all the peasant rebel army, including women and children and other logistical support personnel, there are only 20,000 people.
There were no old people and children in the peasant rebels, but there were still women, and these women naturally did not go to the battlefield, but to deal with the chores and logistics of the army, or to accompany their husbands and relatives with the army.
The arbitrariness of the peasant rebels can also be glimpsed into this way.
Of course, if you are really in a hurry, your relatives and husbands are killed in battle, these women may still take up arms to take revenge, after all, human beings are emotional animals, and anything can happen in such an extreme event as war!
Not all members of the French Foreign Legion can live in villages, a large village is too small compared to tens of thousands of troops, and people are not goods, so they can be arranged next to each other to save space......
In fact, the vast majority of the village was placed in the logistics materials of Lin Haoda's army, as well as the spare ammunition of the whole army, except for the first army corps and some light infantry guarding the village, other troops were stationed on the periphery of the village, guarding the village.
If you want to attack and destroy the supplies of the French Foreign Legion, you must first break through the outlying line infantry garrisons.
Relying on the scattered houses of the village, the soldiers stationed in the village can better use their firepower to protect themselves, and put the military supplies placed in the village into a safer area!
Under this arrangement, as long as the main force of your own army does not completely collapse, it is difficult for the flammable and explosive supplies to be destroyed by the attacking enemy, which ensures the continuity of the French Foreign Legion in the face of sudden battles to the greatest extent!
This is the advantage of the garrison staying in the settlement at night.