Chapter 65: The Aftermath (1)
The oil lamp emits light faintly, but it is not very large, so it can only illuminate the vicinity of the desk. Cao Jinliang, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, was so smoked that his eyes were red like rabbits, and he scolded secretly, remembering that he was happy to practice with a few guards during the day, and forgot all about the paperwork, and had to come to work tonight, so he could only scold a few words of the rabbit cub - he resolutely refused to admit that it was the reason for his greed - and then held the pen in the inkstone pond and licked the ink again, sighing and continuing to write.
"On the eighth day of the first month of Ding Mao in the year of Wuchen of Chongzhen, Team A was fully equipped and ordered to ambush the nameless valley twenty miles southwest of Lingyunguan. On the same day, at noon, we set off at noon, took a shortcut in the mountains, and all the staff arrived at the nameless valley in full gear. Check that the terrain in the valley is flat, two acres are strange, there are mountains around to shelter, can shelter from the wind, and the forest is dense and the grass is deep. Team A has ten musketeers, forty pikemen, and the captain also wears a short-waisted knife with a half-breastplate, and wears a green cloth armor outside. ”
Cao Jinliang gradually forgot the discomfort of his eyes, picked up the pen and muttered for a while, and then smeared and rewrote the numbers in front of him, looked at it for a moment, and then continued to write: "To the ambush place, the spear is in front, the fire gun is behind, and they are covered with branches and leaves and sand. ”
"The number of thieves in the rest of the darkness is more than sixty, there are soldiers without armor, and there are sackcloth and straw sandals. The leader is regarded as one, and there are subordinates. The two are tall and short, the dwarf is the leader, the muscles and flesh are knotted, the tall one is the subordinate, the Kong Wu is powerful, and the real martial artists are also. The thieves have bows and arrows, bamboo bows and iron arrows. Look at the face of panic, to the valley, all gather firewood and light the fire after sitting on the ground, there is little food, although there are many wounded, but they can walk, there seems to be no serious injuries inside. ”
"When the thief is about to fall asleep, the remaining arrows are believed to be fired, and the five firearms are fired first, and then the five firearms are fired later, and several rounds are repeated, although the barrel is so hot that it is too hot to hold, but it is all intact; The spearmen formed a formation of five men, the thieves could not be defeated, the fierce and vicious men stepped forward with swords, three men stepped forward, and two men were ready behind. Among the three, two fought with spears, one took cover, and many thieves could not escape. There are a few people who are highly skilled, and the three of them can't be trapped, and the last two can't be spared. ”
"Among them, there are five thieves, fierce and difficult to control, even injured three of our side, as if to get out of the state, will preside over the gun first, inspire morale, and trap it with two troops, when it is, will preside over the eight-foot spear, the gun style is brutal, such as a spirit snake spitting letters, even injuring two people, the soldiers take the opportunity to stab to death, and then surround it, and then transfer the fire gun, kill with the fire gun, and finally no one is lucky."
"This battle is unusual. In the past, when encountering thieves, they were scattered as soon as they rushed, and they were cowardly outside, and the thieves on the eighth day of the first month of Ding Mao had few tenacities, and they could fight a little, and there were rules and regulations in the war, and there seemed to be a tacit understanding between the thieves, but they were tired and frightened, and the battle was almost a touch of collapse, and the individual ferocity did not damage the overall situation. ”
"Our army suffered seven minor wounds, three seriously wounded, and no casualties."
"In this battle, 32 thieves were killed, nine thieves were seriously injured, countless minor injuries were innumerable, several people escaped, and more than 10 people were captured. The details of the review are attached. ”
"In this battle, our army won the victory with fifty whole ambushes and bandits, and my advantage is three: first, our army is prepared and unprepared, and the troops are fast; The second is to calculate the mastermind correctly, and the third is to train the well-trained soldiers on weekdays with sharp armor, and the gun gun uses the barrel made by the new law to fire more than a dozen bullets, and the barrel is hot and cannot be touched, but it is as strong as before, and there is no risk of exploding; The soldiers relied on the cuirass to save their lives, but they were smaller, and the craftsmen and others could enlarge them as appropriate. ”
"One of the bandits' defeat was that he fought for a long time and was killed to the point of losing his courage and blood. As a soldier, once he loses his courage, it is useless to have sharp armor; Second, although the bandits on this road are different from others, they are a rabble after all, and they have no basis for advancing and retreating, and they can't twist a rope, and they have no strength and force. It can be seen from this that as Qi Shaobao said in "The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training", the way of military training, the soldier must first be courageous, disciplined, and again in the armor, the soldier will have no courage, he will not be able to fight, he will not see blood, his comrades cannot be rescued when they encounter the enemy, and they cannot parry when they encounter the enemy; If the sergeant does not obey the rules, it is like a plate of loose sand, and no matter how strong and refined the equipment is, it is useless. The way of the military formation, such as the arm and the finger, is uploaded and issued, this war thief is defeated here, and our army is victorious here. ”
The ambush in the middle of the night on the eighth day of April clearly provided a lot of talking points for the guards. Intimidated by military orders, the guards are not allowed to talk casually, but it is obviously okay to brag with their comrades and partners - only Team A went that night, and nearly half of the men were left behind, but when Team A came back proudly with the bandits as victors, the guards who had no chance to fight were so jealous that their eyes were red - the Li family has rules, and if they win the battle, the individual must be counted as merit, and the collective must also be counted as credit, and the rewards will be different after that, and the most important thing is that this is a rare opportunity to accumulate credit! According to the rules of the Li family, the winners of training and combat can accumulate merit, and the reward and promotion must be determined by merit, which could not be fairer.
However, among those who showed off and boasted with their companions, Liu Xiaoqi was not included. Two days later, he was promoted to captain for his outstanding performance in the battle with the bandits, and he was the quickest to rise since Li Yongzhong established the guard. But when others looked at him, they didn't seem to have much joy. So there was something in the middle of the guards, saying that Liu Xiaoqi had a calm and unassuming temperament, and he was a material.
But in fact, only Liu Xiaoqi knew that in the battle that night, he almost failed to rush forward. When the partners of the same army raised their guns and shouted and rushed towards the bandits, Liu Xiaoqi only felt that he was in a huge insect cocoon, the cocoon clothes were getting closer and closer, almost suffocating, his joints were stiff, his muscles were stiff, even if he wanted to desperately not fall behind, he found that he was getting more and more unable to take a step, and the spear that he was already accustomed to was holding in his hand at the moment, weighing more than a thousand catties!
He fell behind his companion, and in the confusion, a stumbling bandit crashed into him! At this moment, the same army had already surrounded the two murderers who were fighting the trapped beasts, and they had no time to care. The guards still don't have much experience in dealing with the enemy, and the military formations that originally covered each other have appeared large and small because of the impact on the bandits, if the bandits are more experienced, the guards will have to suffer a big loss this time!
The bandit with a pale face and a panicked face originally thought that he was about to die, but found that Liu Xiaoqi on the opposite side was trembling, his eyes were straight, and he almost couldn't hold the spear in his hand! His heart was suddenly ecstatic, knowing that this was the first time he had met the battlefield! This was God's chance to escape! Without the slightest hesitation and fear, he raised the waist knife in his hand, and with a strange scream, he was about to cut it down according to Liu Xiaoqi's face!
At the critical moment of his life, Liu Xiaoqi seemed to have finally woken up, he subconsciously pushed the spear forward, and the one-foot-long spear head slammed into the blade of the knife, making an ugly and piercing creaking sound, and several stars of fire splashed out! The bandit was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, Xiao Qi had already stepped forward, neatly retracted the gun and loosened it, and stabbed into the soft and unprotected abdomen of the bandit mercilessly, he gritted his teeth and crunched, everything around him seemed to have nothing to do with him, and what Liu Xiaoqi saw in his eyes was only the gun head that had already submerged into the human body.
Without the slightest hesitation, he turned his right hand holding the barrel of the gun heavily, and the cold and hard metal triangular pyramidal tip immediately stirred up the intestines! The bandit looked at his young opponent in astonishment, his hand loosened, and the blade fell silently on the sandy floor, he tried to grab the spear that was about to try to leave his body, but the rapid loss of energy prevented him from completing this seemingly normal action, and finally, the spear was resolutely pulled out of his body with a canopy of flesh and blood, and the bandit fell to the ground with a heavy expression of disbelief.
Liu Xiaoqi didn't have time to take another look at his first opponent, he took two steps past the corpse, and was surprised to find that his originally dry mouth had moisture again, and his stiff joints and muscles became soft and powerful again, and he almost shouted "Kill!" with the joy of a teenager. He excitedly rushed in the direction of his comrades.
After the war, Cao Jinliang, the team leader, recommended him as the commander of the first team of Team A on the grounds that Liu Xiaoqi fought bravely and trained attentively in peacetime - before this battle, the guards were only five people in the battle, and the team was still directly commanded in peacetime, after the battle on the eighth day of April, Li Yongzhong made up his mind, no longer had many concerns, and decided to build an armed force that only belonged to him according to his own mind and the opinions of Cao Jinliang and others - according to the rules set by Li Yongzhong at the beginning, all recommendations must be publicized for three days, After there was no objection, it was passed, and Liu Xiaoqi was originally mentally prepared to be refuted by others, but what he didn't expect was that although there were indeed a few unconvinced guards who said a few strange words behind their backs, there was really no objection.
When the small bronze iron piece representing Wu Chang was pinned by Li Yongzhong to his folded felt hat, Liu Xiaoqi, who was excited, was finally able to be sure that through his own hands, he had finally changed his fate.
The inconspicuous battle on the eighth day of April was like a pebble thrown into the lake, and although there were ripples, the lake finally calmed down and stopped fluctuating. But in the minds of those involved, this seemingly insignificant battle is by no means so weightless.
Chen Peipei held her chin and smiled at the corners of her mouth, as if she was extremely interested in the scenery outside the car window, and looked at it intently for a long time. But Zhi'er is more than her mother, Chen looked at her for a long time, the smile on his face deepened, and he threw the fan in his hand on his daughter, Pei Pei was frightened, and his whole body trembled, and when he turned around, he found that Chen was looking at her with a smile, and couldn't help but shout in a long voice with a little shame: "Mother......!" ”
"The scenery is so good outside?" Chen smiled and teased his daughter, wearing a golden thread on his head? Bun, wearing a brand-new big red group pattern round-neck placket long jacket, with a three-point smile in the corner of his eyes, the end is elegant and square, where can you see the heroic appearance of holding a bow and arrows before!