Chapter 141 The Records of the Western Xinjiang Storm 11
readx; On March 17, 1932, at the border of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, about seven kilometers away from Lanzhou City, a 10,000-strong cannon fodder unit composed entirely of several local militia groups was moving towards the ancient city of Lanzhou occupied by the China Social League in the dark, not caring whether they were discovered by the China Social League opposite. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
A few hours later, the Lanzhou City Social League took control of the direction of the area.
"Report to Comrade Battalion Commander, a large number of suspected armed people have been found two kilometers from the front line, and the number of about 10,000 people is coming this way." After returning from the reconnaissance of the enemy situation at the front, Second Lieutenant Liu Minjun, who was in charge of reconnaissance of the enemy situation at the front, reported the situation to Major Zhao Muhua, the commander of the first battalion who was sitting in the town, on the city wall of Lanzhou.
"Really, ten thousand? Are you sure. Zhao Muhua, who was lowering his head and sorting out the firearm in his hand, did not look up, his eyes kept staring at the semi-automatic rifle in his hand that kept checking the 7 mm caliber twenty-round magazine, and only after making sure that there was nothing wrong with the firearm did he look up and stare at Liu Minjundao.
"Yes, we have reconnoitred so many enemy troops, and we have found that the enemy is using old weapons. Many of them are home-made weapons such as birds/guns or carrying guns, and there are many old firearms made in Hanyang, and quite a few of them are weapons such as broadswords, spears, shuttles, and darts......" Sensing the skeptical gaze of the battalion commander, Liu Minjun continued what he had just said.
"Yes, that is, the 10,000 troops in front of us are cannon fodder, so do you find other troops behind them? Let's say, for example, the enemy's regular army. Rubbing his delicate chin, Zhao Muhua, who had closed his eyes for a while, opened his eyes and looked at Liu Minjun, who was standing straight in front of him.
"Report to Comrade Battalion Commander, we have not found any shadow of the enemy's regular army at present, but judging by some signs, we cannot rule out that the enemy is hiding somewhere and is watching from afar, and as long as we show any flaws, the other party will not hesitate to strike." Liu Minjun finished what he had just said.
"Alright, you go down and get ready for battle." After listening to the second lieutenant's analysis, Zhao Muhua, as the battalion commander, lifted the semi-automatic rifle in his hand and put it on his shoulder, and waved his hand to the subordinate to signal him to go down.
"Yes." Liu Minjun gave a military salute to the battalion commander and turned to leave, she just returned to her reconnaissance platoon to check the guns and prepare for the upcoming battle.
After walking for an hour or two, there was still less than three kilometers away from Lanzhou City, and the black and oppressive crowd formed by these militia groups lined up in ten horizontal queues, and in a very loose formation with a scale of 1,000 people per column, this array that looked similar to the ancient Macedonian phalanx slowly walked towards Lanzhou City, which was close at hand, and the lazy crowd in the queue seemed to be not coming to fight but to go to the outing.
Because the trees outside the city have been cut down many years ago, so there are bare scenes everywhere outside the city, some of them will blow strong wind and sand every time there is a strong windy weather, and over time, many places outside the city have piled up a lot of small sand dunes several meters high, and within the effective range of the rifle fire range of 400 meters, there are several piles of sand dunes several meters high that block the sight of many people above the city wall, where a larger sand dune can hide dozens of people, and there is no way to detect it due to the limited line of sight.
As a local, understanding the surrounding environment is a necessary survival point, otherwise it is not clear what is the environment here, there are some things that need to be paid attention to, and some things need to be prepared, and when the time comes, you will face it alone in such a harsh living environment... I'm afraid there is only one way to die.
"Inform the sisters to put the enemy at a distance of three hundred meters and take aim, and when the time comes, listen to the sound of the battle flare gun and give the order to fire." Holding the telescope in both hands, he saw a sand dune a kilometer away, and a black crowd was surging behind it, Zhao Muhua put down the telescope in his hand and instructed the herald beside him.
"This damn sand dune terrain ......" Seeing the herald go down to convey his orders to the surrounding female soldiers, Zhao Muhua suddenly stared at the undulating sand dunes of several meters outside the city in front of him with a pair of Danfeng eyes that were almost about to breathe fire, and then in annoyance, he slammed his fist against the dry large bricks and stones on the city wall.
Originally, it should be less than half an hour's march from the city of Lanzhou, but it took more than half an hour to toss under the advance of this group of cannon fodder grinding and slowly soaring snails, if it was on the boundless plain just a thousand meters away, it would casually be hit by the accurate bullets fired by the opponent's rifles, and fortunately, this place was full of sand dunes of different heights three hundred meters away, so that the female clones staying on the city wall had no way to aim and shoot.
As the crowd in the distance climbed the sand dunes, the female clones saw the true faces of these people for the first time, a group of old and young men who were a little malnourished and wore white hui/hui hats were standing on the opposite side of the sand dunes looking at Lanzhou City, the first time they saw such a tall Lanzhou city wall, it was like a group of dirt buns who had never seen the world, and many of these people had never been out of the village for several generations, let alone outside the village, some of them had only stayed in the local small county town at the farthest, The city wall of the small county town is completely made of rammed earth, and there is no way to compare it with the Lanzhou city in front of which is made of bricks and stones.
"Uncle, when will we be able to take this city? I want to marry a few more daughters-in-law...... "Standing on the sand dunes, among the group of cannon fodder, a young man who is about seventeen years old gently pulled the elder middle-aged Hui/Hui who was also looking at Lanzhou City, squinting his eyes, and didn't know what he was thinking.
"Hecheng, don't think about these things when you rush towards the city wall, follow your uncle when you know no, your father and mother who died early entrusted me to take good care of you. The most important thing now is to save your own life first, if your life is gone, everything is in vain, and the child will be smart. The middle-aged Hui / Hui was the elder of this teenager and admonished him, and at the end he kept telling this teenager some things.
"Got it, uncle." The full name of the young man named Hecheng who is answering is Ma Hecheng, and the middle-aged Hui/Hui who is talking to the boy is from the same relatively secluded unknown village.
"Listen!!" This is a middle-aged Hui/Hui who is less than 1.75 meters tall, cross-body with a Mauser semi-automatic hand/gun case, and also wearing a small white hat, who is tanned darker than everyone around him, squeezed through the wall of people watching the excitement, and tossed for a long time before standing at the front... Turning to face everyone, he opened his mouth to reveal his big yellow teeth, and shouted loudly at the top of his voice.
The crowd, which had been a little chaotic, fell silent for a moment, and even a pin could be heard falling inside, and everyone looked at this guy with a mouth full of big yellow teeth, and those gazes made this guy probably feel good about himself, and unconsciously exposed his two iconic and eye-catching front teeth. I saw him clear his throat: "Fathers and fellow villagers present, the opportunity for all of us to get rich has arrived." ”
"Everybody knows the city on the other side." Seeing that many people's eyes were full of greed/desire, the short man who was very cool in his heart decided to add another fire, so he raised his arm and pointed at the ancient city road of Lanzhou in front of him that has gone through an unknown amount of history and is still standing today.
"Everyone knows that the city in front of you is not Lanzhou City, just listening to the romance, I don't know how many times I am talking about it." Hearing these words, you look at me, I will see if you are stunned I don t know how to answer, everyone is thinking in their hearts Is it necessary to know so much about a city at this time someone in the crowd spoke.
"Okay, then I won't talk nonsense, folks! The horse commanders above spoke: You can grab as much gold, silver, treasure, and women as you want in the city, but none of the women in military uniforms on the city walls and in the city and their weapons and equipment can be moved! These are all gifts for the chief above the horse chief, and I repeat who has a brain that does not belong to him... If we are caught, we will immediately execute someone on the spot for the crime of being a bandit!! And the first horse commander to attack the city was rewarded!! "The short man is not annoyed, while intimidating but throwing out a lustful/unstoppable bait, there is a way since ancient times that the wealth is moving! In short, these people, who are not afraid of death and are lured by immediate interests, are now unconsciously stepping into the bottomless pit dug for them by the China Social League.
"Oh oh oh oh oh ......" As soon as they heard that there was such a rich reward for killing into the city, most of the people below immediately chose to rush down to the city now to grab money, food, and girls, so they heard countless ghosts crying wolf howls.
"Siege! Besiege!! ”
"Siege! Besiege!! Besiege! Besiege!! The crowd didn't know who shouted such a sentence, so everyone shouted after it.
"Okay, listen to my guns as a call to siege." Since the pre-war mobilization was almost done, and the short man didn't continue to talk nonsense, he pulled out the Mauser semi-automatic hand/gun in the bolt box in the bolt lock, skillfully opened the safety drum, pounded it for a while, and the bullet was loaded and fired anytime and anywhere.
The short man looked up at the sun, and silently calculated the time in his heart, and after the time was in place, he held the gun high and pulled the trigger fiercely at a near-vertical angle to the sky, only to hear the pistol make a "pop" sound, and a 7.63 caliber pistol bullet rotated with extremely fast muzzle velocity and drilled into the sky.
After the gunshot, people with various weapons were standing next to them and rushed down the sand dunes, almost not knocking the short man standing in front of them down the dunes, and when the crowd in front of them rushed forward desperately, they were followed by many big men carrying siege ladders, making a sound of humming and panting slowly, and they were at a distance from the people in front from beginning to end.