Chapter 14: Don't Run Now
Last time, I was about to catch Ma Xianglin, but I didn't expect this guy to play a rope trick and escape directly.
Don't say that Cao Bianjiao, who was taking care of him at the time, was not in a good mood at the moment, just that Li Dingguo and Cao Wenzhao, who were in charge of commanding the troops at that time, were also unhappy. When this guy comes back this time, he will definitely cover him with a cloth bag, and then tie him up in ten directions to see if he can escape!
It's just that there is still a big trouble, that is, no one knows the specific location of Ma Xianglin.
knew that he set off in Chengdu, so he naturally went north to find Qin Jun's bad luck. But how he came from and where he came from is unknown. After all, he is carrying the strongest white pole soldier in mountain warfare, and at the same time, there are too many mountains and jungles in Shudi, if five thousand people really want to hide, even professional spies may not be able to find it.
"Report!" Outside, there were soldiers saluting outside the tent.
"Come in!" Yang Hong shouted at him.
The soldier came in, took out a document, handed it to Li Dingguo, and said to him, "Letter from His Royal Highness King Qin." ”
Li Dingguo nodded, took the letter and asked the soldiers to go out. The soldiers met, saluted, and left. As for Li Dingguo himself, he opened the letter for the first time and checked it, and then laughed.
"Dashuai, why are you so happy?" Hao Shaoqi's cultural level still needs to be improved, but in terms of straightforwardness, no one present can compare with him.
"The police dog battalion founded by His Highness last year now has the first batch of military dogs. They are all authentic big wolf dogs, and they will do some simple military moves. Of course, this is secondary, and the most important thing is that a dog's nose is always more powerful than a human nose, right? Let our scouts patrol the area with these big wolfdogs, and if someone ambushes or hides them, they won't miss it. Li Dingguo explained to everyone, and passed the letter down by the way.
"I see, I also seem to have heard last year that police dogs can help solve crimes, especially after chasing murderers. I heard that murderers now want to kill people, and they have to find a way to deal with their own smell, otherwise there will be nothing to hide. Cao Bianjiao is still relatively young, so he is very interested in this kind of anecdote.
"It is precisely because of this need that large cities have set up a police dog breeding base. But since there are police dogs, according to His Royal Highness's will, there should be military dogs that can take on some of the duties of soldiers, such as tracking, guarding, patrolling, searching, communicating, guarding and carrying ammunition. Now that we know that there is such a force that does not know where it will appear, it is coming towards us, so the military dogs will be very useful in this regard. Li Dingguo gave a more objective evaluation.
"In other words, now we just have to wait here to know where the enemy is coming from?" Niu Venus figured it out.
"Yes, military dogs will patrol the area, and when the enemy is still 500 meters away from us, they will sniff it out and make a warning. When the time comes, no matter where the enemy appears from, we will have enough time to deal with it. Not to mention, if our scouts find the ambush location first, it will be easier to fight. Li Dingguo nodded and said.
Of course, Qin Jun will not sit still, or wait for others to come to the door.
It is okay to set up a trap for others to drill, but the strategic purpose of the southward movement of the large army should not be dragged down by a small force of 5,000 people. According to the original plan, they would rest for a maximum of two days before starting to head south. In other words, if the other party does not come within two days, then I'm sorry, the army is open, let's fight in the field.
If it's a camp battle, there may be a lot of surprises. But in the field, there are military dog warnings and scouts patrolling, and it is not easy for the other party to touch them, and it can even be said that there is no way at all.
Sure enough, after waiting for two days without news, the army began to pull out.
But they didn't know that as early as a day earlier, Ma Xianglin's troops had reached three miles away. However, the sense of smell of the military dog is too powerful, and the spies of the white pole soldier have just entered within three miles, and the military dog has made a vigilant action on the expenditure, and the white pole soldier is not a fool, so he naturally sees that this dog is different, so he has no choice but to leave.
As a result, on this day, Ma Xianglin was not able to get close to the other party's camp at all. Because he knew that the other party could guard himself three miles away, then even if he killed him directly, with a distance of three miles as a buffer, the surprise attack would have no effect. Besides, the other party's camp is the other party's territory, and no one knows what the situation is like in the camp.
Helpless, Ma Xianglin could only choose to launch a surprise attack on the way of the enemy's dispatch.
It was only when the Qin army began to pull out the camp that he found that the surroundings of the other party were still within the guard range of the military dogs, in other words, as long as they approached, they would have nothing to hide. Fortunately, one of the soldiers said that when hunting in their village, they would use the juice of a special plant to mask the smell of their bodies, so that the prey could not smell the hunters. It is not only convenient for hunters to hunt prey, but also prevents being attacked or pursued by carnivores such as wolves and bears.
Ma Xianglin immediately had a lot of these plants picked, and finally made about 3,000 people coated with the juice of this plant.
It is not possible to make 5,000 people advance in hiding, but the surprise attack of 3,000 people is okay!
This juice was really powerful, and it was already within three hundred meters, and the big dogs still did not raise any warning. It only takes about a hundred meters for the raid to begin, and if nothing else, today's white-pole soldiers are real double-spearmen, with a white-pole hook sickle in their hands and a revolver at their waists.
Perhaps because of the gunpowder problem, the range of the pistol is not very long, and it can only shoot about 30 meters at most. But to launch a surprise attack at a hundred meters, the distance of seventy meters can be reached in just over ten seconds. As for the other party, because of the raid, it is inevitable that various situations will occur, and a few seconds can still be won for the white pole soldiers.
"Raid!" Seeing that there was only a distance of about 100 meters, Ma Xianglin roared and took the lead in rushing forward.
The soldiers had already prepared the cartridges in paper shells, and they only needed to pull the trigger, and the bullets that were facing the hole in the barrel of the gun as the wheels rotated would be sparked and the projectiles inside would be shot. This primitive revolver is still in use today in Da Ming and Hou Jin...... Of course, other forces can't use it if they want to.
"Draw your gun!" Surprisingly, Qin Jun did not panic.
Because the establishment of the Qin army is not as loose as that of the Ming Dynasty, and after military academy training, every squad leader has a good military culture. They can organize their squad of fighters in the most effective way to respond to unexpected situations in the shortest possible time. In other words, even if the above has not had time to give instructions, they themselves will choose the most effective means to fight back.
At this moment, the three squad soldiers closest to the military formation took off their rifles behind them for the first time.
"Open insurance!" Since there was rear-loading gunpowder, insurance was naturally made.
"Shoot!" The squad leaders of the three squads shouted at the same time, and as for the other troops, along with their respective officers, they began to take down the rifles behind their backs and prepare to shoot.
The effective range of this gunpowder is 450 meters, and the highest range reaches 700 meters, which is still relatively backward firecrackers, but for this era, a rifle that can fire quickly and continuously without any gunpowder residue is a weapon of rifle at the level of infantry warfare!
The design of the magazine allows this rifle to fire ten rounds in a row, and the real burst does not even need to pull the bolt.
As a result, even if there were only three squads of fifteen people shooting, they had completely created the most basic barrage, and the worst thing was that the projectiles fired by the opponent's fire guns had no effect at all on Qin Jun's body.
In a few moments, when the three squads had finished firing, the large army had already begun to shoot. It was a real hail of bullets, and occasional grenades were dropped. As for the first three squads, you only need to unload the magazine, then change the magazine and pull the bolt to load, and you can continue shooting.
Ma Xianglin was really sad, he didn't expect Qin Jun's firearms to be so cruel.
He originally thought that he would die, but he was pressed to the ground by three white-pole soldiers, so it was difficult to escape. But the three white-pole soldiers who covered him were each hit by at least three bullets, and they couldn't die anymore.
"Hands up!" At this time, the three Qin soldiers had already pointed their guns at Ma Xianglin, who was still moving under the corpse.
At this moment, the war was over, and only 3,000 of the 60,000 Qin troops were shooting, and in less than ten minutes, at least 4,000 enemy troops were shot and killed. The rest are basically all wounded, and if you are lucky, you can still survive by amputation or surgery, and if you are unlucky, you can only make up for the gun.
As for Ma Xianglin, now he was really reported tightly with a large cloth wrap, and then tied tightly with three layers of rope and three layers outside.
Interestingly, it was Cao Bianjiao who was responsible for tying him up, and he scolded while tying up Ma Xianglin: "I told you to escape, I told you to escape......"
Ma Xianglin, who is enjoying such treatment, can only cry without tears at this moment......
In fact, at this moment, his brain is also blank. Maybe a qiē changed too fast, or a qiē failed too quickly, so that he still hasn't come back to his senses. Maybe I will also think about when Daqin's fire gun was so demonic, or maybe I will think about why I was inexplicably defeated?
But for him at this moment, it doesn't matter anymore.
The next day, he was directly escorted to Chang'an, where he was interrogated by the military department. If the other side is willing to surrender, then it is a good comrade-in-arms. If he refuses to surrender, the Judge Advocate General's Office will give him a happy one.
In fact, for recruiting enemy generals or something, the military department of Daqin has no interest in it now, unless it is a super talent.
Otherwise, those wastes who came from the old society and did not know anything about the advanced concepts of war will only be fed food. Besides, recruiting one means that the promotion of one of their officers will be slowed down, and the military department, as the representative of the military, naturally does not like such a thing to happen.
Therefore, Ma Xianglin went north this time, but I am afraid that it will be more than lucky.