Chapter 288: The March (3)

"Alas, how can you fight a war if you eat such a little thing in one morning?" Wen Ju protested, "If you meet Mexicans......"

"Phew!" Yu Zuodong, the company commander who was on patrol, glared at him and said, "If you meet a Mexican, I won't send you over." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Company commander, you can't say that." Liu Enbo immediately protested, "When we were in San Lucas, wasn't it our 7th Battalion that forced down the Baja California Army South? ”

Yu Zuodong said: "You still say, that's their bean sprouts, and besides, it's not us who surround them, but the foreign devil battalion - I said what's the matter with you?" On weekdays, they boasted about how powerful they were, but they let the foreign devil battalion take the lead. ”

The ten battalions of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army have their own nicknames, and the nicknames are given to each other by the sergeants themselves, for example, the first battalion is jealously called the Prince Battalion because it is particularly valued.

There were many Zhongshan people in the second battalion, so everyone nicknamed the Shandong stick battalion.

The third battalion often ran last in the pull-up, so everyone "affectionately" called them the turtle battalion.

The fourth battalion was Wang Yongan's reserve cavalry battalion, which received both infantry and cavalry training, and everyone called them the leg battalion.

The fifth battalion is an artillery battalion, and the sixth battalion is a baggage battalion, which gives it the nicknames of the artillery battalion and the old cow battalion.

The seventh battalion is called the student camp because there are more enthusiastic patriotic students.

The 8th Battalion is composed of Qinggang members from Shanghi and some Shanghi workers, hence the nickname of the Gangster Battalion.

The 9th Battalion was originally the Guangdong Navy Battalion, and all the soldiers were Cantonese speakers, and everyone gave them the nickname of the Guangdong Barbarian Battalion.

As for the nickname of the 10th Battalion, although Wang Yongan called them the Shark Battalion, in the eyes of the vast majority of ordinary soldiers, the 10th Battalion is the Foreign Devil Battalion, and it is also a group of hot-headed foreign devils.

"As soon as I mentioned that the foreign devil battalion took the lead last time, our commander regretted it and gritted his teeth." Yu Zuodong said, "Tell me, if the turtle battalion lets the foreign devil battalion take the lead, that's all, it's just our seventh battalion - you talk about you, one by one you are all bragging all over the sky, but when you encounter the enemy, you will become soft feet one by one." ”

The soldiers were ashamed, lowered their heads, no one dared to refute, no one dared to speak, Yu Zuodong sighed, continued to inspect, and then sat in the front seat of the car and pretended to sleep.

After a few hours of boring marching, everyone had a sore back and legs, and finally came to a station, the name on the map is the town of Calis, the whole town is less than two thousand people, and thanks to the station, otherwise the people would have been gone.

When the Guardians arrived in Calis, the locals were so frightened that they hid in their homes and looked out through the cracks in the doors and windows.

Wang Yongan ordered the soldiers to rest for an hour and move freely, but not to harm the local people and not to cause conflicts.

Jian Shizhen, Wen Ju, Liu Enbo and Li Chen, the four of them, got off the train, walked on the local hot hard soil with guns on their backs, and hid under the trees to take shelter. ”

"Come on, if it weren't for the iron coffin, we would have died of exhaustion on two legs." Wen Ju said.

"I'm not tired to death, I'm dying of heat." Jian Shizhen gasped and said, "By the way, do you still have water?" ”

"It's gone."

"Oh my boy, I'm out of water, go and find the well."

The four of them really didn't have any water, and everyone else ran to the station to fill the water, but more than 6,000 people couldn't get their turn, so at the suggestion of Jian Shizhen, the four of them decided to come to the town to ask for water.

Many soldiers ran to the town, but when they saw that the people of the town treated them like a plague god, they had to go back to the station. Jian Shizhen immediately suggested: "Go to the village next to you." ”

"Is it too late?" Li Chen asked.

"Hey, don't you have a horse?" Jian Shizhen said, "Borrow a few horses." ”

I have to admit that Jian Shizhen's communication skills are really not good, so he borrowed four horses from the Fifth Battalion Baggage Battalion, and the four of them got on the horses and walked towards a village next to the town. At first the four men were not very familiar with the horse, but after riding for a while, they became familiar with it, and then they rode faster and faster, and ran to the village in ten minutes.

The people in the village were not as wary of the Qing Protector Army as the people in the town, probably wondering how they could come to the village, and one by one they stood curiously on the side of the road and watched them.

Jian Shizhen stepped forward and said with a smile: "Yirava, Yilawa." "Irava means water in Spanish, and the advantage of the student battalion over other units is that it is more capable of learning, faster, and more memorized knowledge.

Unfortunately, the people of this village speak a different indigenous language – and they don't know Spanish.

"Didn't Mr. Yu Da say that all Mexicans speak Spanish, why don't many of the people we met in Mexico speak Spanish?" Li Chen said depressedly.

"Ya is a scholar who talks on paper, if he doesn't know a lot of languages, he is not as good as us." Liu Enbo said.

Wen Ju unscrewed the kettle, then poured water into his mouth, looking at a few drops of water, Wen Ju pointed and said, "Water, water, do you know?" Water! We want water! ”

The locals immediately understood, and took them to the village well to fetch water, and the four men first filled their stomachs with water, and then filled the kettle. In order to show his gratitude to the local people, Liu Enbo handed over the cigarettes he bought in Hawaii, but the locals thought they were going to exchange gifts, so they ran into the house and took out a wolf tooth necklace to give back.

"Actually, Mexicans are quite simple." Before leaving, Liu Enbo sighed.

"Bang!" A bullet lifted Liu Enbo's hat off, and everyone immediately jumped off their horses and lay on the ground, looked at the source of the gunshot, and saw hundreds of cavalry appear in the distance.

"Dog's day, it's the Mexican army." Wen Ju shouted.

Jian Shizhen immediately said: "Wu Zhuangyuan, big black bull, you get on the horse first, and report to the team quickly." The Tartars and I took them around in circles. ”

"Okay, be fucking careful, don't die." The two stopped talking nonsense, pulled the horse aside, got on the horse and ran.

Jian Shizhen and Wen Ju shot back, and when they saw Liu Enbo and Li Chen walking away, the two of them got on their horses and ran to another place.

The Mexican cavalry gave chase, and knowing that they could not get too far from the large force, they circled around the east side of the town of Calis. It's a pity that their horses are all horses, and they are far less fast than the other party's war horses. The two were not trained cavalrymen, at most they were infantry on horseback, so they had to shoot in the back and try to control the horses, but fortunately they did not clumsily fall off their horses.