Chapter 42: Hatred of the Enemy
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But there are many benefits to being spoiled by parents, Yang Chen and his friends are equipped with horses, at the beginning, those subordinates were still happy, but after only half a day's journey, they were grinning and painful. As infantry soldiers, they rarely rode horses, and before Yang Chen could explain anything to them, they all got on the horses one by one and galloped wildly, fortunately, there were no traffic accidents, but they still suffered from the pain of their thighs being ground up.
After nearly seven days of boring travel, Shaoxing Wei arrived at the destination, Changxing Island. Changxing Island is one of the three islands of Chongming, overlooking Chongming Island in the north and Hengsha Island in the southeast, but it is the closest one to Songjiang Prefecture. The Shaoxing guards were ordered to defend against the enemy here and be sure to resist the landing of the Japanese invaders, while the Haining guards were deployed on Chongming Island in a relatively early position.
Watching the camp set up, the tents set up, and the fence erected around it, Yang Chen faintly felt the charm of war at this time. He may have been born for this, so he can naturally smell it.
The scouts went to sea in small boats to explore the enemy, and the soldiers who came and went were busy preparing for war, and the atmosphere was silent and depressing, all waiting for the storm to come. A few people standing in the big tent of the Chinese army are discussing military affairs in front of a hanging chart, those people Yang Chen is not familiar with, but from the perspective of dress, there are both military officials, civilian and military supervisors, and it may also be a local prefect officer or something.
Standing far away, Yang Chen led his seven men as a guard to silently watch them argue about the war, but he couldn't wait to run among them to discuss with them.
It turned out that the coastal defense line was too long, and they could only concentrate their limited forces on a few key places, but in this way, the coordination between the two guards was greatly reduced, and once there was a war, they would eventually end up with ineffective coordination.
However, if there are too many troops, the defense will be too weak, and it will be difficult for the Japanese to invade. After a final discussion, it was decided that a large number of troops should be placed on the two islands of Chongming and Hengsha, and that Changxing Island would be used as a reserve to keep a small number of troops, because they believed that the first two would be attacked first, and they would be violent and abnormal.
The geographical location of Chongming Island must bear the brunt, and Chongming will suffer if it loses Hengsha. If the Japanese invade Changxing Island, it will be even worse. Changxing Island is too close to Songjiang, so this may be the last line of defense.
The scouts returned and found no trace of the Japanese invaders, so they sent out a guard patrol around at night, and sentry posts were also arranged on the sea. The night was uneventful, but perhaps because of insomnia from too much worry, the soldiers were very tired, and when it was almost dawn there was no sound in the camp, and the silence was terrifying. Naturally, there is also Yang Chen among the people who have insomnia, and he is excited but has no fear in his heart.
The darkness before dawn always hides the evil, and war comes in this most oppressive and sleepy and terrifying time. The cunning Japanese did not bear the brunt of the attack on the two islands of Chongming and Hengsha at the forefront, but took advantage of the night to spare them and go straight to Changxing. The scouts of the sea may have been too careless, quietly drowning in the vast sea and endless darkness.
The first to discover the enemy was the patrol on the shore, but it was too late to find out, and the Japanese had already abandoned their ships and waded into the shallow water to attack.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”
The soldiers on patrol and guard struck the gong and the trumpet sounded, but it was only a moment of noise before the enemy struck the shore. However, at the time of the camp, the experienced generals of Wei Zhong set up the camp far from the sea, and the Japanese did not attack the front for the time being.
The alarm sounded, and Yang Chen, who had been preparing for sleeping in his clothes, led the seven people who had been up all night by him to rush out of the camp. Looking at the Japanese who was about to be killed, Yang Chen calmly gave an order.
"Xiao Anzi, hurry up and notify the enemy, quickly!"
"Brother Wang will also go, if you delay the military law!"
"Lao Zhao, hurry up and send a letter bomb to inform the officers and soldiers of the two islands!"
Yang Chen's subordinates are also ordinary people, and they have ordinary thinking, that is, they are afraid of death. A few of them were naturally a little timid when they were used to hearing the murderous name of the Japanese Invaders, but under Yang Chen's enlightenment and education, they naturally played their roles.
At this time, the sound of Wang Laohan's gong was already sounding in the camp, and the letter bomb was also in the air, and the camp exploded at once when he heard the warning. But the would-be robbers did not rush up quickly, but laughed and shouted on the shore with great might, threw the torches in their hands far away, and even picked up the gongs dropped by the guards and struck them.
"It's damn good, it's so fucking high-profile, we'll see how you die!"
Lao Shun bowed down with a spear in his hand and prepared to meet the enemy, and he smiled when he saw that these would-be robbers were so arrogant. He turned his head to look at Yang Chen beside him, and the killing intent on his face also turned back again, and he looked at those goods who didn't know how to die.
You can't blame the pirates for being too arrogant, you can only blame the cowardice of the Ming soldiers for making them accustomed to problems, and they don't take these soldiers who can only shout and run away seriously.
It is true that Yang Chen was not the only one in the camp who woke up at this time, and they also heard the warning, but they did not notify others or meet the enemy first, but sneaked away as fast as the black sprinter champion in Jamaica.
When Father Li led the generals and guards to the beach, there were very few soldiers left behind him. Even at this moment, there were still soldiers who did not know how to die, but they were slashed and killed on the spot by the overseers who had just woken up.
Father Li looked at the arrogant and arrogant widows, turned around and looked at the soldiers around him who were standing unsteadily and their legs were shaking badly, and then looked at the deserters who were cut to the ground in the distance, and suddenly his face turned pale with sadness.
"Sons, prepare to form a formation to meet the enemy!"
Father Li's voice was very loud and powerful, but it scared a thousand households around him so much that he almost fell to his knees. Seeing this, Father Li was not angry, stretched out his hand and patted him heavily on the shoulder, but his eyes kept staring at the widow not far away.
The rout behind him has been suppressed, and scattered people have also come forward to meet the enemy, but the formation has been disrupted, and the fright of the enemy's surprise attack has made the formation too panicked, sparse and uneven. The firecrackers knelt in front of the formation, filling with gunpowder while shaking their bodies, Wang Laohan was familiar with weapons, and he also knelt side by side with firearms, but his face was fearless and concentrated. The archers are also mixed with them, and their state is the same as that of the firecrackers.
Father Li stood in the center, holding a big knife in his hand, and the cold light was shining. There were sparse soldiers all around, but their expressions were very different from his, and the knives were limp and weak in their hands.
Yang Chen led all the six people except Wang Laohan, but they confronted them very close to the Japanese in front of the battle, so that the long-range attack weapons behind them would inevitably hurt them, and naturally they would not be able to exert their full effectiveness.
"Yang Chen, return to the battle quickly!"
The father-in-law's voice sounded eagerly and highly, but Yang Chen and the others were unmoved and still stood there.
There weren't a lot of raiders, only about thirty of them, which might be his vanguard, and the main force of a large number of them must be behind. But it was these few Japanese soldiers who were so frightened that the officers and troops of about 3,000 people were instantly defeated, with a ratio of one to one hundred, which made Yang Chen's heart burn.
"The same person, they are all two shoulders against one head, why are you afraid of him, who is afraid of him first, who dies first!"
"Yang Chen, you come back to me, hurry up, otherwise I will engage in military law!"
Father Li's voice was hoarse at this time, "What are you afraid of, if there is a three-long and two-short dust, how can I explain it to my daughter!" ”
Yang Chen still didn't listen to the order and stood still, but just when Father Li was about to shout again, Yang Chen's chilling voice like this winter sea breeze came.
"Brothers, kill thieves, kill thieves, rush!"
The roaring voices suddenly filled the empty beach, and the laughter of the would-be was suppressed. As soon as the shouting fell, he saw Yang Chen taking the lead and rushing towards those who were still laughing and playing.
"Die or die! Rush! ”
As soon as the remaining six people heard Yang Chen's voice, their blood was rushing wildly, and their heads were hot, and they also rushed forward with him, and the military array behind them were all stunned when they saw this situation, and there was a sound of gasping. Father Li was already dumbfounded at this time, he didn't have time to say anything, and with a wave of the big knife in his hand, he jumped out of the crowd and followed him from a distance.
The commander has personally made the adults on it, why don't you want to, the guards who are in charge of guarding are following the back of the ass of the commander Li at this time. Behind them were the fierce and murderous soldiers, and then the firecrackers brandishing their firearms and shouting to kill the enemy, among which you could also see the staggering but fierce expression of the old man.
The archers were still kneeling on the ground, first, they didn't understand why the people were still trembling just now, how they dared to take the initiative to rush the enemy, and second, they didn't have any weapons at all to use to kill the enemy, and at least there was a firearm made of pure iron to wield.
"What are you doing in a daze? Don't you see Master Li rushing up, rush to me! ”
Behind him, the overseer came to the archers who were in place and shouted, and there were already soldiers of the overseers rushing over beside him, and when they saw this, the archers did not dare to slack off, dancing arrows in one hand and rushing forward with bows in hand.
It's not the first time that they have used laughter and scolding as a weapon, they didn't even have to use this weapon before, and they could crush the enemy for thousands of miles as long as they stood there. But today's situation is different, and the use of the secret weapon is greeted with an angry response. Before the first wolf could raise his bent waist, he was stabbed in the chest with a shot.
Before they could wake up from the blood, they saw that a weak Ming soldier had been killed. They reacted and were just about to meet the enemy, but they ushered in more weapons, including double knives, big guns, firearms, and bows. The battle ended quickly, and the result was obvious, and the pirates were sent to pay tribute to the Sea Dragon King without even having a chance to react.
After the group beat this group of widows, Father Li simply kicked Yang Chen, "Damn, you don't want to die, what if you have a good show?" ”
Yang Chen just sneered vigorously, and at the same time was bandaging the wound on Xiao Anzi's arm. He was bitten by the desperately struggling wolf, and was bitten off a piece of flesh raw, and the painful elder brother Lao Shun stabbed the wolf directly into a nest with a gun.
"Let's quickly bandage the wound and rest on the spot, there will be a fierce battle to come!"
Father Li looked at the gray and white sky, and issued an order in his mouth. He looked back at the few soldiers on the beach worriedly, and his heart became uneasy, and he silently prayed in his heart that the officers and soldiers of the guard post in Chongming Hengsha would return to the defense in time and not cause a catastrophe.
His eyes surveyed the crowd but saw Yang Chen sitting cross-legged and laughing, and instantly his face had a kind and gentle appearance. He breathed a long sigh of relief, and was secretly happy for Yang Chen in his heart. If it weren't for Yang Chen to arouse everyone's desire to kill the enemy today, then it would really be difficult for him to explain, and the collapse of the officers and soldiers would make his old face unbearable, and if he was afraid of the enemy again, it would have made a bigger joke.
"Yang Chen, you little rabbit cub, go back and see how I clean you up!"
Father Li's eyes were full of love, but he didn't admit it in his heart, thinking that when he looked at Yang Chen again, Yang Chen had already made eye contact with him, with a smile on his face and full of concern.