【39】The Sound of Drums and Horns (11)

Autumn afternoon.

The golden sun shines on the land.

On an unknown hill outside Jiaoxi County, Xie Jiaxiang, a sentry of the White Horse Club and a henchman of Bai Xiaoqi, stood in the sun with another young rider, holding the ordinary binoculars of more than 200 yuan given by Yao Fan in the future, and staring closely at the movements of the Qing army's cavalry out of the city.

Under the hillside behind them, a jujube red horse and a gray spotted white horse are leisurely grazing with their heads down, the jujube red horse is a new foal bought by the White Horse Club with Yao Fan's high salary, although Yao Fan Xu gave the White Horse Club a salary of 5 taels per horse, but the White Horse Club only gave each horse 3 taels per month, and deducted 2 taels as a donation.

This jujube red horse is probably used to eating the dry ingredients at home before, and he is a little ignorant of the green materials on the hillside, but blindly grinds the old gray-spotted white horse with his neck, as if he hopes to be favored by the old horse.

"All five battalions are out!

Grandma's! It's going to be big!

Thunder! Let's hurry up and inform Yao Dongjia. ”

"Hmm!"

The two of them quickly turned around and ran down the hill, turned over on their horses and took the horse's head, and shouted:

"Driving !!"

"Driving !!"

The jujube red horse was a little frightened by Xie Jiaxiang's loud shouting, spread its four hooves, shook its head up and down violently, and galloped all the way behind the gray spotted white horse.

Xie Jiaxiang galloped all the way, and after seeing the team, he ran until Yao Fan under the red flag before retracting the horse's head, turning over and dismounting and bowing to the ground: "My lord!" ”

"Call me Chairman, or Comrade Yao Fan."

"Yes! Chairman! All five cavalry battalions of the Qing army were dispatched! I guess they are still twelve or three miles away from here. They came slowly all the way, and they should have raised enough horsepower. ”

"Good! Keep coming! Yao Fan encouraged.

"Chairman, when my companion thunder fell in front of them, I will go and replace him."

After that, Xie Jiaxiang got on the horse again and walked along the way he came.

"Chairman, should we line up to meet the enemy?" Lehi Niu said.

"Don't queue up, inform the battalions to slow down the march, and don't stretch the marching column too long." Yao Fandao.

"This official road is high in the north and low in the south, if I lead the cavalry, I must choose to break it from the north." Lehi Niu said.

By the time Xie Jiaxiang came to report again, Yao Fan had already vaguely seen the Mongolian cavalry armor following in the distance.

All the officers of the whole army immediately blew the iron whistle for the emergency assembly, and a terrible whistle echoed over the autumn field. The soldiers were all nervously marching in a frantic formation, holding their rifles firmly in their arms.

"Count!"

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

"Four!"

“…………”

When Xie Jiaxiang slapped his horse again and ran in front of Yao Fan, his face was anxious and tearful.

"Chairman! Lei Zi was caught by the Qing soldiers! ”

Yao Fan bit his lip, and whenever he didn't have a bottom in his heart, he would bite his lip.

"Got it, you've worked hard! Now your scouting mission is complete. From now on, you follow the big army. ”

"Chairman! But he ...... to thunder."

Li Hainiu scolded: "Shut up! What time! Grinding! ”

Xie Jiaxiang thought about it for a while, and took the jujube red horse and stood aside silently.

"Chairman! It's the outpost of the Qing army! Li Jun shouted while standing on a stone on the side of the road with a telescope.

"How many?"

"About twenty or so cavalry." Li Jun reports.

Yao Fan knew that the Qing army had a cavalry battalion detachment, and 25 people were divided into ten cavalry teams of 25 people.

"This is the sentry of the Qing soldiers, Lei Zi must have been captured by them." Li Hainiu judged.

"Yes! The five cavalry battalions of the Qing army are now divided into three routes, all the way down the official road, and are heading east in the field in the north, outflanking all the way to the south, and continuing to follow the official road in the middle. Lei Zi and I were surrounded by the Qing army's outposts, and I finally escaped by hitting my horse, and Lei Zi's old horse really couldn't run...... Woo woo woo ......" Xie Jiaxiang cried as he spoke.

"You're crying!" Li Hainiu glared at Xie Jiaxiang with disdain.

Yao Fan ordered: "Stop advancing!" All on the bayonet! The four battalions lined up in a line along the official road, with 2 people in each row in four columns! The battalion commanders formed a hollow phalanx with four subordinate companies as the unit. ”

Li Hainiu hurriedly picked up the walkie-talkie and sent an order to the rest of the battalions: "Chairman's order!" All bayonet and get ready for battle! Four battalions lined up on the spot! 2 people in each row are in four formations! The battalions formed a hollow phalanx! ”

As the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th battalions formed a hollow phalanx respectively, the front and back of the various formations stood 5 meters apart on the official road, looking like a string of sugar gourds from a distance.

Dekejina, the capital of the Eight Banners of Qingzhou, finally led three Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner cavalry battalions to the north of the official road, and Dekejina rode on the back of a black Qinghai Hequ horse, and looked at the rubber thieves in the south who had been waiting for a long time with a copper single-hole telescope.

When he saw the glue thief holding that short and ridiculous bayonet in his hand, lined up in a hollow phalanx, Dirkjina's eyes narrowed contemptuously, the corners of his mouth dropped, and he shouted with a straight face:

"The Great Qing Dynasty is mighty! Mongolian athletes! Kill the glue thief with me! ”

The horn roars violently! Dirkjina takes the lead with a saber in high alof! He led three battalions of cavalry to roll towards the south.

The two cavalry armies with yellow flags on the official road to the west and in the fields to the south heard the horn sounding, and immediately let go of the reins and began to charge in an encirclement.

Yao Fan stood in the center of the hollow phalanx of the first battalion with a steel helmet, staring ahead and waiting for the opportunity.

The sound of horses' hooves rumbled, the ground trembled slightly, and the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry began to take the bow in their hands from a hundred meters away, and they only had to shoot arrows after rushing to 5 meters.

"The courage of the Eight Banners is far worse than that of their ancestors, and the Eight Banners soldiers of 2 years ago will not take off their bows if they do not rush to within 5 meters, and they will not be able to shoot arrows and waste their bodies within less than 3 meters." Yao Fan sighed in his heart.

Yao Fan's soldiers have been holding their guns for a long time, lying in the front row, holding the guns on the mounds of soil temporarily dug up by the sapper shovels, kneeling in the back row, aiming at the enemy with guns, and standing with guns in the back row.

As the cavalry pressed into a hundred meters like a dark cloud, the commanders of each company ordered:

"Aim for all!"

Therefore, the soldiers in the back row also picked up their guns, and they could not hold their guns for too long when they shot in a standing position, otherwise they would be prone to muscle paralysis and tremor would affect the accuracy of shooting.

Almost simultaneously, all the company commanders were shouting:

"Shooting !!!"

The sound of gunfire rang out like a torrential rain, and swept the cavalry in front of them as violently as the heavens wanted to wash the earth.

The faces of the warriors were tense, even a little hideous, and the nervousness and excitement all the muscles in their bodies were caught, and only their fingers were snapping again and again!

In the roaring rain of bullets, the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry fell one after another, rolling with men and horses, dying, and screaming in pain, and returned to dust in this daytime rainstorm under the autumn golden sun.

For a while, the neighing of horses, the screams of human voices, the sound of gunshots, the sound of horses' hooves, the sound of hundreds of pounds of horses hitting the ground, and the sound of knights breaking bones and tendons after falling off their horses...... The sounds are mixed and intertwined into a hellish requiem.

"Chairman, the cavalry assault behind is even more violent!"

"The teaching companies are opening machine gun fire!" Yao Fan ordered. During this time, the training companies of each battalion completed the training task of equipping and training four "revolutionary" machine guns.

"Bump Bump! Bump Bump! Sudden Sudden Sudden T ……………………”

Even the main gunners were already highly nervous, and after receiving the order to fire, they couldn't control it, and completely forgot that they should shoot. After they rushed to the center of the advance line with machine guns in the hollow of the phalanx, they lay on the ground and desperately strafed and consumed bullets, trying to completely finish off the Qing cavalry 5 meters away.

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