Chapter 131: Bandits
Liujiazhai is not big, only 1,200 households. Now that the pirates are crowded in, there is a feeling that the stockade is overcrowded.
The side facing Zhu Houwei was almost 200 meters wide, and there were about 100 pirates and people from Liujiazhai standing on it.
Zhu Houwei nodded to Zhu Yuan, Zhu Yuan understood, and shouted, "All loaded." "When everything is installed, it is still a row of 50 people, the ladder is in the hands of the third row of people, and when it reaches a distance of 50 meters, Zhu Yuan will stop, and then aim and shoot.
The enemies on the wall also bent their bows and prepared to shoot arrows, but it was the land and water battalions that fired first. There was a burst of gunfire, and more than 20 people fell on the wall. With the walled wall as a cover, the hit rate of the shot still decreased. Zhu Yuan mechanically let the second platoon shoot, and more than 10 people fell. At this time, no one dared to stand on the wall, and they all bent down or squatted, using the wall as a cover, waiting for the land and water battalion to attack.
Seeing that no one stood up, Zhu Yuan continued to order the loading, and then changed the queue. Divide 90 people to stand in three columns and continue to suppress vitality below, while the other 60 people are ready to climb the wall through 2 short ladders.
The team continued to walk forward for 30 meters, and at this time it was only 20 meters away from the wall, and the people in the third row were only about 30 meters away. The soldiers who climbed the wall carried their spears behind them, and the first few people were holding rattan cards. There is also a short gun pinned to his waist, so that he can hold a rattan card in his left hand, a ladder in his right hand, and the one who follows directly will take a short gun.
Liu Yushan didn't have any opportunities to show in front of him, and he didn't engage the enemy at all with the spear, but only stabbed a few when he checked if there were any enemies lying on the ground and pretending to be dead. At this time, behind the rattan player, he also followed. Although he was holding a spear, he still climbed very quickly.
The rattan player was at the top of the wall at once, and the pirates waiting on the wall also stood up and prepared to attack the rattan player. The soldier with the Dingyuan gun under the wall did not shoot, after all, the enemy who stood up was too close to the rattan player, and if he shot rashly, he might accidentally injure his own people, and they were not worried, because there were also marksmen.
The best marksman in the amphibious battalion will be awarded the marksman, and as a marksman, he will practice decapitation tactics in battle, strike at the enemy commander, and cause command disorder to the enemy army. In Zhu Houwei's imagination, there is another title above the marksman - sniper. This is not just a matter of accurate marksmanship, but also the ability to fight independently, which is very demanding. You can choose the ambush location according to the venue, you have to know how to hide yourself, you have to change places after a shot, and so on. Due to the high requirements, the training has not yet begun, and soldiers like this have the feeling of special forces, and the training is not a moment.
There were 5 marksmen in 150, and when their comrades climbed the ladder, they aimed their guns near the ladder, and as soon as someone showed their heads, they immediately attacked. The rattan players on the two ladders went to the wall almost at the same time, and a total of four pirates around them immediately stood up, brandishing their katanas and preparing to give the rattan players a deadly attack. It's a pity that as soon as I stood up, I was shot in the head, and a big hole was opened, and the red and white splashed everywhere, which was extremely disgusting. It splashed on the other crouching pirates and on the clothes of the rattan players. The rattan player just frowned, then jumped up to the wall, took out a short gun, and fired a shot that hit the nearest enemy. More pirates and people from Liujiazhai around stood up and prepared to fight. The soldiers of the amphibious battalion under the wall fired, and the "bang bang bang" fell a little too much this time, about 20 people, and only 30 people shot in this round, and the hit rate was very high.
The pirates who were closer were not attacked, but their attacks did not work, and they were all cut down on the rattan plates. And at this moment, the second soldier came up to the wall, and at once he fired a short gun, and one person fell. Another ladder came up was Liu Yushan, I saw him holding a spear in both hands, stabbing forward, and a knife still cut on the rattan plate was stabbed in the chest. Liu Yushan used great force, and there was no armor on the body, and the head of the spear more than 20 centimeters pierced from the chest and stabbed out from the back, and the Japanese invaders tightened all over, and then they were soft to the ground.
The soldiers of the second platoon of the "bang bang bang" water and land battalion opened fire, and at this time there were no people standing at the head of the wall, and they all fled to the village. Only after 3 or 5 minutes, all 60 people climbed the wall. Those who climbed the wall in front did not rush down directly, but directly shot at the fleeing enemy. waited until all 60 people came up, and then went down the wall, opened the gate of the wall, and let Zhu Houwei and them in.
Zhu Houwei and the others were just about to enter the village, when they suddenly heard a terrible scream from the depths of the village, as well as an angry reprimand. Then more and more, Zhu Houwei and Zhu Yuan both frowned, and immediately ordered to go in.
The more you go inside, the more you find that something is wrong, the child is crying, the adult is screaming, and it is very chaotic. From time to time, people ran out of the house covered in blood and came to the main street. Zhu Yuan watched several people running towards the team, and immediately shouted, "Drop your weapons, surrender and don't kill." "These men, men and women, and two and a half old children, looked back in fear as they ran, as if there was some monster behind them. Hearing Zhu Yuan's shout, he came to the front, knelt on the ground, and cried loudly. Zhu Yuan frowned and asked, "What are you crying about, what's going on inside, speak quickly." A man in his early 30s said in shock, "The Japanese are crazy, they will kill anyone they see, the general go in and save the villagers, please general." As he spoke, he kept kowtowing, and his head hit the stone slab, making a dull sound, and blood soon appeared on his head. Several other people also kept kowtowing, and Zhu Houwei immediately decided, "Leave 30 people to collect the escaped villagers, and you take the others in to eliminate the pirates and rescue the other villagers." Zhu Yuan heard the order and immediately did it.
Liu Yushan also followed, and as soon as he walked not far, 5 or 6 pirates ran out of the houses on both sides, killing Zhu Yuan and them with a frantic face. Before they could get closer, a few short guns rang out, and the pirates fell.
Then Zhu Yuan ordered 1 rattan player with 2 short gunners to enter the house where the pirates had just escaped to see if there were any remaining enemies or civilians in need of rescue.
The further you went, the more pirates appeared, and there was a wave of about 30 pirates hiding around narrow corners, waiting for the soldiers of the land and water battalion to suddenly come out when they turned the corner, because the distance was too close, the past was sudden, and they almost didn't make it into the ranks. Fortunately, Zhu Yuan reacted quickly and shouted, "The first 2 rows shoot." "Sixty guns were fired at once, and only two of the 30 pirates were still standing, and just as the knives were about to cut into one row, the third row fired, and the two also fell. Zhu Yuan's face did not change, but he actually broke out in a cold sweat. The road in the stockade was too narrow to be used at all, the distance was too close, and the musket was a little inconvenient.
Fortunately, after this group of enemies, Zhu Yuan was more cautious, but after half an hour, he cleared out the pirates in the village. The Han pirates surrendered 11, and the pirates surrendered only 2. Zhu Yuan rescued 37 people, and Zhu Houwei collected 23 people in the back. Originally, there were about 300 people in Liujiazhai.
All the original village elders in Liujiazhai died, and the men in their prime were also lost, and most of the people who were alive were women and children. Zhu Houwei also asked what happened in the process of retracting. It turned out that the village elders of Liujiazhai hid with the pirates to the south of the village, but there was no danger to defend there. There was nowhere to go outside the stockade, so the pirates had to enter the dwellings to fight the trapped beasts. The village elder was very worried about the discipline of the pirates, so he refused to enter the house on the grounds that it was not appropriate for the family to have a female dependent, and was ready to die on the street with the pirates.
Anyway, there is no hope of survival, and the pirate is angry from his heart, and evil is born to the side of the gall, and he rises up with the Zhaiding of Liujiazhai. Originally, it was the Japanese who did it, but the people of Liujiazhai regarded these pirates as a gang, so the scene was chaotic and killed people everywhere. Unable to defeat the pirates, the Zhaiding was soon defeated, and the pirates were still angry, so they rushed into the houses and killed the people.
Zhu Houwei also asked, why did he collude with pirates and cause such a big loss to Shandong. The grandson of a village elder, who is in his early 20s, said that Liujiazhai has no choice, and he really can't survive. There is not much farmland in Liujiazhai, and most of it is dry land, and this year's harvest is not good, and each family does not have much summer harvest. Liujiazhai is under the jurisdiction of Fushan County, and the county decree does not care about the actual situation, or according to the original tax. Usually you have a kick fight, the big bucket in and the small bucket out, this year's harvest is not good, you still come like this, and when the tax is collected, the food at home will not last the autumn harvest at all. By the time the pirates came ashore, the village had been without food for two days, and it was still relying on the food looted by the pirates to survive until now. What to do in the future is no longer in the scope of Liujiazhai's consideration, people are going to starve to death, and anything can be done.
Zhu Yuan and Zhu Houwei drove the two groups of villagers to one place and were discussing what to do next. At this time, the soldiers who stayed at the gate of the village came to see that the bandits sent a few people to observe the surroundings. Zhu Houwei and Zhu Yuan both frowned, they didn't expect this gang of bandits to be so bold that they didn't even run.
Zhu Yuan and Zhu Houwei took 10 soldiers out of the stockade to see what these bandits wanted to do. Except for the Zhaimen, which was about 100 meters away, there were 6 or 7 people riding horses, watching here, but the weapons were hanging on the side of the horses, and there seemed to be no hostility.
Zhu Yuan beckoned to those people at Zhu Houwei's signal. Those people seemed to have discussed a few words, and when they saw Zhu Houwei and their guns behind them, they rode over in small steps.
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