Chapter 18: Ambush
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"Over the years, bandits have robbed homes and houses, and I really haven't heard of them coming out in broad daylight. But company commander, why don't we find the sect inspector and ask him to send someone to assist and eat the Sea Dragon King in one bite? Zhang Daniu asked again.
Zhang Renjie smiled: "Don't count on those guys, they won't do it if they don't have benefits, even if they beat them, they won't really fight, and when the time comes, they will scare the Sea Dragon King back, and they will continue to trouble us when they turn around?" At that time, the bandits will always play tricks with you, can we stand it? It's better for us to work harder and destroy him in one go, even if we can't destroy him, we can also cripple him, so that he can't trouble us anymore! ”
"Yes!" The three platoon commanders nodded in understanding.
"It's the Dragon Boat Festival in a few days, just send these guys to see Grandpa River God, and get rid of this harm for the people! Uncle, now you can take the members of the fifth class with you, and you don't need to take weapons, just pretend to be ordinary villagers ten miles away to investigate. ”
"Gotcha, I'm going!"
The summer night has always been so quiet, especially in this rural place, where the crickets in the grass come and go, and the trees by the river are not far behind. A sound of "whoa~~" and "whoa~~" sounded in the river, and the Hongze Lake water thieves under the command of the Sea Dragon King rowed more than twenty boats into the Zhangfu River. The starry sky at night is seldom beautiful, the moon in the sky hangs playfully, and the bright moonlight illuminates the fields and the river.
More than ten years ago, there were still one or two cargo boats rowing on the Zhangfu River from time to time, both large and small boats, after all, the Zhangfu River was not only connected to the Huai River but also connected to the canal. Now it is impossible to see more of the previous scene, after the Qing government handed over the grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the steamship China Merchants Bureau for shipping, the river transportation has plummeted, and the towns along the canal have been in sharp decline for many years, and the Zhang family's winery business has also been greatly affected.
Zhu Wu, the second leader of the Sea Dragon King, and Chen Heita, the fourth leader, led eight teams under their command with a total of 180 people and drove towards Zhangjiazhuang, the wharf town, without a single boat on the river, not even a ghost shadow.
"Second brother, you said that the 100 people who were just recruited by the Zhang family also dare to go against us, is it tired and crooked, the third also said that his Zhang family is not ordinary, and the bullshit is not ordinary. A landlord's house can still turn up to the sky, and he is scared to see him, this time he is so oily and watery, he doesn't come! Chen Heita sat on the board of the boat and said angrily. Hmph, this time he got the gun, and his team couldn't catch any of them! ”
"Okay, it's not big or small, is the third one your name? Call the third brother! You've been nagging all the way, can you let me be quiet for a while. The meeting will come, everyone must cheer up, but the Zhang family also has a hundred people, twenty guns, no matter how to fight, you have to break a few brothers, and the meeting will obey my orders. Zhu Wu said to a few of the water thieves who were wearing them.
"Don't worry, second brother, the brothers have been dispatched no less than once or twice, which time is not under your command. It's just that this time the eldest brother also said, try to kill as little as possible, damn it, if you want me to say, killing one is killing, killing a group is also killing, it's better to slaughter all the Zhang family, and see who else dares to go against us in the future! ”
Zhu Wu stretched out his hand and gave Chen Heita a brain jump: "You know this, don't make trouble for the eldest brother!" Recently, there has been a lot of movement in Huai'an Mansion, and the new prefect is always thinking about suppressing bandits, who are the bandits, aren't we? Huai'an Mansion is so big, there is an old hammer head in Funing, there is a Tianjiao in Yancheng, and there is Meng Laohu in Taoyuan, among several of them, we are the biggest and most difficult to fight, I heard that the new prefect is preparing to deal with Meng Laohu in Taoyuan, I want to pick up the soft persimmon and pinch it first, but if we make too much noise here, the government can't fight us if it wants to. ”
"That's good, it's cheap Zhang's rabbit cub. Then let's grab things and don't kill people! But the Zhang family wants to resist to the death, let's kill a few! Chen Heita hooked his head and looked over, and the red light of the torch illuminated his unhappy face.
"Of course. Those recruits for training in any regiment are ordinary people who have just put down their hoes, and as soon as we rush over, those people are almost scared. Kill a few at most, and those guys will escape. Hey, no, it's all time, what about the brothers we sent out to explore the outpost? I should have come back to report the situation! Zhu Wu suddenly felt that something seemed to be wrong, and he had sent two spies to inquire about Zhang Zhuang's situation, so that once they found anything unusual in Zhang Zhuang, they would immediately run back and report it. But the middle of the night has passed, and Zhang Zhuang is not far in front of him, but the spies sent out have not been seen.
Chen Heita didn't care: "Second brother, what are you afraid of." There must be no problem over there, but if there is, they won't be back sooner. There's a boat ahead of us and it's a small ferry, should we go ashore now? ”
Zhu Wu now has no bottom in his heart, and it seems that something is wrong, so he agreed with Chen Heita's suggestion: "Brothers, let's go ashore here, let's go around the Zhang family from here." ”
When Zhu Wu and Chen Heita were ten miles away, they were discovered by Zhang Youfa's people, and before they arrived at Zhujiadu, Zhang Renjie had already gotten the news. Now this group of people has come ashore in Caojiadu and went straight to Zhangjiazhuang, Zhang Youfa only sent a team member to report the news, and the others continued to lurk for the time being.
The terrain of Gaozhuang was too flat, and it was too close to Zhujiadu, so Zhang Renjie finally abandoned the ambush point in this place and placed the ambush site next to the small river in the former Zhuzhuang. This small river, a tributary of the Zhangfu River, is less than ten meters wide, and there is a stone bridge over the river, and the terrain on both sides is high and the trees are shady, making it a good place for ambushes.
At this moment, the members of the first and third rows were ready, and a position was set up in the grove north of the small river, and a position of more than 100 sacks of soil could effectively block the bullets of the bandits. However, there were only fifteen guns in the two platoons, and the two guns that Zhang Youde originally collected were also used.
In the middle of the night, the surrounding villages fell silent, and even the sound of cicadas could no longer be heard, and the night was terrible. A chaotic sound of footsteps sounded, and all the team members also realized that the bandits were coming!
"Hurry, hurry!" Zhu Wu kept urging, they were always in absolute chaos, so they prepared a quick surprise attack, and killed the foot of the house when the Zhang family did not react, so that the effect would be greater.
"Go down, no one is allowed to shoot without my order, and no one is allowed to move until then! Don't you understand?! Zhang Renjie finally commanded.
"Understood!" Everyone around whispered answers.
This small bridge is not long, it is a very old stone bridge. Zhang Renjie was ready to start fighting when the enemy had walked more than half of the way, and when the bandits were completely chaotic, Zhang Youfa, the commander of the second platoon, would cooperate with the attack from behind, so that the enemy could not take care of both the beginning and the end, and he would be able to achieve the greatest results.
"Put!" Zhang Renjie was the first to shoot, and the head of one of the bandits was lifted open. At a distance of less than eighty meters, the bandits were holding torches in their hands, which were obviously targets, and the targets were too easy to find.
"Put"
"Bang Bang Bang"
After more than half of the bandits crossed the bridge, Zhang Renjie took the lead in shooting, and the 14 members of the 1st and 3rd platoons of the Self-Defense Forces with guns in their hands immediately and decisively opened fire together.
The gunshots that were not dense rang out in all directions, and the bandits who walked in front with big knives in their hands were shot one after another, and fell to the ground unwillingly, and some of the bandits behind were jumped first, and then roared and gritted their teeth and stepped on more than a dozen corpses to quickly rush towards the side of the grove, and they didn't pay attention to crossing the bridge at all, and thought that the row of sacks dozens of meters away was piled up into a wall, and it was dark anyway. Suddenly, gunfire erupted, and a dozen or so of his brothers fell.
"There is an ambush, a counterattack, a shot, shoot me!" The second master, Zhu Wu, finally knew what he was worried about, the young master of the Zhang family was really unwilling to be captured, but he didn't expect to take the initiative to lead people to ambush them. This is indeed beyond his expectations, and the courage is too great, they have nearly two hundred people, twice as many as them, how dare they?! Zhu Wu didn't believe it, but the facts in front of him told him that it was true.