Chapter 290: Leaning towards Tiger Mountain

In this encounter, Wen Ju, a soldier of the 7th Battalion Student Battalion, shot and killed seven Mexican militiamen and stabbed five Mexicans, while Jian Shizhen shot two Mexican militiamen and stabbed three Mexican militiamen, and two wounded eight other Mexican militiamen. The www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion were able to kill the enemy in one battle, and the two immediately became heroes of the Overseas Chinese Army. Jian Shizhen was stabbed in the thigh and ribs by an enemy bayonet and had to return to St. Lucas to recuperate for a while, and Wen Ju was surprisingly unscathed.

During the interrogation, it was revealed that the Mexican militia was a rebel militia from northern Mexico heading to the capital, Mexico City, from the cities of Juan Aldama and Cuencame. They originally planned to go directly to Mexico City, but when they learned that the Qing invaders were going to march on Irapuato, they decided to capture some prisoners first, but they did not expect that they would be completely annihilated.

Wang Yongan also received very important information: Madero, one of the leaders of the Mexican militia, sent his confidant Colonel Juan Perez as the commander of the northern defense, and built a position in Irapuato to block the Qing Protector Army.

Juan PΓ©rez, a graduate of Mexico's Central Military Academy, served in the military after graduation and served as a staff officer for the northwestern border of the Federative Republic of Mexico before being persuaded by Madero to join the rebel militia. In all the battles he commanded, Perez helped Madero's civilian army win many battles.

Perez tried his best to persuade Madero to send troops to snipe at the Qing Protector Army, but Madero was afraid that after he returned with his army, other forces would conquer Mexico City and declare himself president, and on the other hand, he saw that DΓ­az's government army had an ambiguous attitude when confronting the anti-government army, especially General Huerta, the commander-in-chief of the defense of the government army, on the one hand, ordered the army to resist resolutely, and on the other hand, he had a private contact with Madero.

So Madero decided to send 4,000 men to Perez, and then allow him to recruit militia freely and figure out how to defeat the Qing invaders. Perez began to actively recruit soldiers, and in the shortest possible time he recruited an army of 12,000 men, but by this time the Chinese had already boarded the train and headed for Irapuato.

Perez immediately led his army by train to Irapuato, where a steady stream of rebel militias from other ministries also arrived. Since Perez was only nominal and lacked the necessary heavy weapons such as artillery, he tried to use the city of Alapuato as a fortification to stop the Chinese.

"This is a very important piece of information." Wang Yongan laughed, "We need to thank these brainless Mexican militiamen. ”

"I estimate that by the time we arrive in Irapuato, they will be able to pull out at least 20,000 people." Fang Xianwu shook his head and said helplessly.

"But do they have that much ammunition?" Wang Yongan asked with a frown.

"Probably not...... Not...... There weren't that many supplies. Gong Wuyuan analyzed, "Otherwise, they don't have to defend, but fight ...... Beat...... It's called. ”

"Makes sense." Fang Xianwu said with a smile, "And although the enemy is numerous, they are not subordinate to each other, and this kind of army is the easiest to defeat." In northern Anhui that year, our 24th mixed association defeated the invincible northern Anhui bandit army. ”

Wang Yongan smiled and said, "But our arms supplies may not be enough to support the march to Mexico City." ”

Zhang Yunliang suddenly interjected on the side: "Our original goal was to get the Mexican government to hand over the thugs and murderers, is it a little deviated from the original goal now?" I think that the original goal has been achieved, or we should withdraw the troops. ”

Wang Yongan looked at Zhang Yunliang, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart and said My brother-in-law, don't you know that now we are not for the Qing Dynasty and the Chinese, but for ourselves? For 30 million pesos?

"Commander, I think we must fight, Irapuato must fight." Li Shirui, the commander of the third battalion, said suddenly.

"Oh? You talk about it. Wang Yongan asked with a smile.

Li Shirui said: "First of all, the Mexican People's Army will definitely not hand over the thugs. The reason why our overseas Chinese protectors protect overseas Chinese is not to really catch the murderer, but to warn all Mexicans and South American countries not to harm other overseas Chinese. But why should they listen to us? Therefore, we can only give them a bloody lesson, take the city of Irapuato, and fight hard with the Mexican army, so that they beg for mercy, and beat them crying on the ground and begging for mercy, so that we can completely shock Mexico, shock the countries of the Americas, and protect the overseas Chinese! ”

"Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, I prefer to go to the tiger mountains!" Wang Yongan nodded with satisfaction and motioned for him to continue.

Li Shirui said: "Secondly, I have read the map, this Erapuato is an important hub in the northwest direction of the Mexican Railway, and the occupation of Irapuato means that whether it is a government army or a rebel army, it cannot control Jalisco, Sinaloa, Sonora, Baja California, Baja California Sur, and Nayarit, so for the Mexican government and the Mexican rebel army, Irapuato is a very important city." This is one of the reasons why Madero sent a large army in Irapuato. I've heard that Madero started in Sonora, and although Mexicans don't have any concept of a nest, many of Madero's troops are Sonorans, and I think their morale will be greatly affected. ”

"Agreed!" The fourth battalion commanded Gong Xuewendao.

"Agreed." Xia Ming, the commander of the seventh battalion, also said.

Fang Xianwu nodded and said, "I also think it's feasible." ”

Wang Yongan saw that Fang Xianwu agreed, so he said: "Okay, in that case, let's continue to march to Irapuato." ”

Gong Xuewen asked, "What about the captives?" ”

Wang Yongan smiled bloodthirstily at the corner of his mouth, and said: "Since we have decided to march to Irapuato, it means that we have to fight them, then for us who have no logistical support, the prisoners can only be a burden that consumes our materials and manpower, so I suggest ...... Kill them all. ”

Fang Xianwu and the others wanted to refute, but they thought that it was true, their army was only more than 6,000 people, how could they march with the captives, and what if the captives launched an armed rebellion when they attacked Irapuato? And their supplies were limited, and it was simply impossible to distribute them to the captives to eat.

Gong Wuyuan suggested: "This matter is ...... ...... Leave it to the seventh battalion to execute, let the students see the children...... See...... See blood. ”

Fang Xianwu shook his head and said, "It's better to hand it over to them than to the third battalion, the third battalion is more suitable." "Although the third battalion is nicknamed the turtle battalion, the march is slow, that is because there are many veterans in the third battalion, especially almost all the low-level officers have participated in the battle of northern Anhui, and it is more appropriate to deal with the slaughter of prisoners of war and hand them over.

Wang Yongan considered that the students' enthusiasm might not be willing to accept the massacre of prisoners, so he handed over the handling of prisoners of war to the third battalion, and the third battalion also carried out the task very happily. The third battalion was slow, but not slow, and more than 200 Mexican militiamen stabbed them all to bayonet in the middle of the night and then threw their bodies in the desert to feed the beasts.