Chapter 430: Engagement
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Zhang Wenliang replied, and immediately ordered the commander of the third battalion under his command to lead the leading soldiers and horses to set up a camp here, set up a grain platform, and be responsible for transporting grain. The battle with the Qing army was not necessarily a one-time drum, if it was a stalemate for more than ten days, the supply of military rations for the Mawei army would have to keep up. After the construction of this side, the two grain stations that were only forty or fifty miles away from each other were left to be guarded by soldiers, which not only transported grain and grass energy to the army continuously, but also ensured the safety of his back road.
The army then camped in the same large camp. Jiashan County is not far from here, Jiashan County is surrounded by Qing army people, tomorrow the march will be a big battle with the Qing army, so Zeng Yang decided to rest the whole army here for one night, so that the soldiers can recuperate. lest the hungry and tired army be unable to resist the Qing army, and if there is a small defeat under the county seat of Jiashan County, the impact on morale will be very bad.
"We will set off early tomorrow morning, and about tomorrow afternoon, our army will go to the city of Jiashan County." Zeng Yangxing said to the division commander and chief of staff at the evening meeting, "According to the Qing army, it is not only stationed in the city, but the city is small, and there are camps outside the city, with more than 40,000 men and horses, and artillery, which is very strong if it is just a defense, but there is a Zheng army behind them, and the Qing army can dispatch more than 20,000 people." We're comparable. Therefore, our Ponytail Army must take it down with one blow. No setbacks! ”
"Yes!" The generals agreed loudly.
It was another sunny day, and the sun was shining overhead, and it was hot. Spicy. Even if the sun was scorching again, the soldiers did not have Jiang Jun's hat to take off their heads to cool down. The scout team Hua Jian stopped his horses in the shade of a tree on the side of the path, and several scout cavalry brothers followed.
"Captain! Why don't you go? One of his brothers asked.
"It's a fart, it's so hot. What the hell is this place! We'll talk about it later! Hua Jian cursed, they were all wearing the armor of the cavalry division, which was not only hot but also heavy in the sun. The leather is still emitting a bad smell. He was ordered to lead the scouts to the front to reconnoiter the enemy. He took off his helmet to feel better. Not only sighed. This battle is really a difficult thing, not to mention the fear, this march alone will cost him half a small life.
"Captain, hang this helmet on your horse, it's too hot to carry!" A scout next to him surnamed Niu said with a frown, his face covered in sweat like everyone else.
"Okay, let's do it." Hua Jian hung the head of his helmet on the horse's back. "Drink saliva first, damn you have to save some! In this hellish place, there are a few small rivers in the back section, why can't you find it here like looking for someone to drink. "They had almost drunk all the water they had brought with them. But for a while, I couldn't see a place to replenish the water. There is no acupuncturist and no small river here for more than ten miles, which is really strange!
"Captain. I still have water here. The scout surnamed Niu smiled and handed over a kettle, "I brought two more brothers before I went out today." You're our leader, you can't go wrong! ”
"Your mother, you kid cursed me to death!" Squad leader Hua Jian scolded with a smile, but he also drank the kettle every time he politely took it. After drinking for a while, Hua Jian's small group of scouts and cavalry immediately separated from the team, left the main road, and set out to patrol the west to find out if there were any signs of enemy activity. They walked for more than ten miles in one go, and along the way, they didn't see a single person except for a few ordinary people who were occasionally seeing them working in the fields. He tried to arrest a few people for questioning, but as soon as the people saw the soldiers in armor, they immediately fled. It was difficult for the horses to catch up in the paddy fields, and even if they caught up, they couldn't do anything to the common people, so several scout members were so angry that they scolded their mothers. When you arrive in the village, every family is also closed, and they don't pay attention to you at all!
Since they couldn't find the people to ask, they had to continue to ride their horses slowly. In the densely populated Fujian, I am used to staying in this densely populated Jiangnan area, either dry land or paddy fields, but they are all fertile fields.
"Damn, the Qing army didn't move at all, that's weird!" Hua Jian scolded, "Could it be that these guys are still eating, drinking, and having fun in Jiashan County, sleeping with a little girl!" ”
"The captain is right!" The soldier surnamed Niu echoed, "The Qing army just knew that our army was coming, and where did they dare to come out to fight, a group of cowardless ghosts!." ”
"Let's go, it seems to be a dense forest two or three kilometers ahead, and then go to the edge of the woods over there! Maybe the Qing army has an army hidden behind that piece! "Hua Jian drank water and was in good spirits.
"Six hundred meters in the direction of five o'clock in the southeast, fifteen enemy horsemen! Moving northwestward! While resting, one of the scouts who was observing from the tree whispered. Since there is no lack of mobility, the scope of the reconnaissance team is quite wide. They also adopted a system of slicing and contracting, dividing the area between this Yonggang town and Jiashan County into five pieces. Each of the five Scouts is formed into a squad, each responsible for a small area. As soon as information is discovered, it will immediately report the situation like a large army in the rear.
The scout team immediately led people to choose a commanding height here and set up an observation post. A warrior uses a telescope to observe the surroundings in the foliage at the top of a large tree. He took out his binoculars and observed according to the instructions of the sentry: fifteen Qing cavalrymen were indeed approaching listlessly six hundred meters away, and their armor, helmets and swords hanging from the saddle all indicated their identities.
"Don't worry, they're coming towards us, put within a hundred meters and open fire." Hua Jian ordered, "Report to the two of them!" Tell them to pay attention. ”
Seeing that the fifteen-mounted enemy had already walked less than a hundred meters away from him, Hua Jian made a gesture of "ready to shoot". Then he pulled the rifle in his hand in front of his eyes and carefully aimed at the Qing knight who looked like an officer at the head.
Just when Hua Jian once again looked into the distance. Suddenly, he felt the smell of danger. Just a roll on the spot. Then a sharp whistling sound sounded in his ears. An arrow burst through the air and shot at him. The arrow flew past his ear and nailed to a big tree, and Hua Jian was surprised: there is still an ambush of the Qing army here! I didn't dare to think about it at the moment, so I quickly turned the horse's head and prepared to flee for my life. At this time, several more arrows whistled, and one of the scout cavalry beside Hua Jian fell off his horse. The scout bull who was still talking in Rory just now was already lying on the ground, and an arrow was stuck straight into his head. The plasma and brain slurred all over the ground, and Hua Jian himself was so frightened that he almost fell off the horse. However, the scout Su zhì was quite tall, and he still slapped his horse and began to flee.
"Let's go!" He bowed low, wrapped his arms around the horse's neck, and whipped it on the horse's buttocks. "Bastard!" Hua Jian cursed, quickly adjusted his body, and when he turned around, he already took his handcuff and pulled the trigger on the Qing army who was so fierce in archery. The bullet accurately hit the shoulder blade of the Qing commander on the opposite side, causing his body to rush forward and the bullet to come out of his mouth. The force of the impact tore half of the jaw off, and the body fell from the horse into the mud.
One shot is over. Several other differences were also reflected, and the handcuffs were immediately fired, "Bang bang bang!" "Bang bang bang!" "Bang bang bang!" Three shots per person in a row, the dozen or so cavalry chased by the Qing army also fell four at once, and two Qing soldiers actually turned their horses to flee at this moment, but the most powerful thing in the horsetail army was the rifle, and the bullets quickly caught up with them, and the two who escaped were shot and fell off their horses one after another.
After this experience, several scouts no longer thought about escaping, and rushed up to shoot at these Qing soldiers, and after the three short fire guns were finished, they immediately picked up their rifles again, and all fifteen Qing cavalry fell. But if you fall down, but five of the horses have fled, they must have returned to the Qing army.
"It's a pity!" Hua Jian looked at the two empty saddle war horses that had fallen into the desert, and couldn't help but scold. These are the few high-quality Mongolian horses in their south, and even Wu Sangui is not easy to get from Tibet! "Quick, brothers, pull the horses back, and the carcasses into the ditch!" He then ordered, "Report, the third district has eliminated fifteen Ming scouts!" ”
The reconnaissance team killed this group of Qing troops, so that the Qing army quickly lost a piece of news, and the Qing army sent several groups of scout horses in a row, but they did not come back.
The Qing army began to know that the Mawei Army was not easy to deal with, and Zeng Yangxing also understood that it seemed that the enemy did not intend to be obediently besieged by him in this area, but was ready to fight him under the city of Jiashan County. "This Qing army is really not easy to handle." For the first time, Zeng Yangxing felt a little worried. His intentions were discovered so quickly.
The generals were all waiting for Zeng Yang's order, and in another hour and a half, it would be dark, and more than 20,000 troops and baggage were still on the way, and if they could not reach Jiashan before dark, they would have to camp on the spot - he could not hesitate at all.
"Not good! The Qing army brigade came. There are more than 3,000 cavalry!! "The front-line scouts sent the information that Jiang himself desperately obtained to Zeng Yangxing's desk as quickly as possible. Not long after, there was a lot of smoke and dust behind him, and there must have been troops coming.
"Pass the order, don't entangle with it, the whole team will attack and shoot while retreating like a big camp. Put the enemy near the camp and shoot again!.
"Understood!" The generals responded loudly.
Sure enough, the cavalry of the Qing army arrived soon, and this Qing army really liked to rush forward to fight, but he no longer knew the trend of the times. On the front line, Hua Jian, who had retreated into the big formation, and several other brothers raised their new rifles and pulled the trigger on the cavalry galloping on the road, and then the team members around him also fired one after another.
In the midst of the terrible gunfire, cavalrymen were constantly shot and fell from their horses. This sudden shooting took the Qing army by surprise, because he did not see any sign of anyone putting a rifle at all. But from the sound of gunfire, he knew that the other side was not very numerous, at most three or four hundred. And the Qing army was still deeply fearless of death, in order to harass and delay the advance of his men and horses, he shouted, "Rush with me!" Immediately, despite the fact that people were constantly shot and fell off the horse, they went straight to Jiashan County.
Hua Jian and the other captains bragged on both sides of the road, causing the Qing army to drop more than 20 horsemen on the road. Hua Jian originally wanted to fight another ambush, but the infantry of the Qing army behind him had already rushed over the mountains. Zeng Yangxing heard a few sporadic shots of our guns in front, judged that the enemy army had already deployed, ordered the infantry to disperse and form a formation, and ordered Zhang Wenliang to personally lead dozens of family members who started to show to rush in front.
Hua Jian is also newly selected, and his combat experience still lacks some combat experience. It turned out that he thought that the enemy was just like this, and he was simply vulnerable under the Fujian rifle, and he would see the infantry of the Qing army pouring all over the ground, waving flags and banners, swords and guns like a forest, and his heart was beating wildly, mother! Isn't that spectacular? I thought that there would be a machine gun, and I was afraid that I couldn't carry it - there were too many people!
"Quick! Fall back! At that moment, he ordered the whole detachment to retreat, he raised his rifle and did not aim, he shot directly into the air, and then hurried down to the ditch to escape. The retreat route of the tea team was surveyed in advance, and the terrain was used as much as possible to avoid the enemy's pursuers. Because the weapons used by the special investigation team were all fire-free bullets, and all members were equipped with camouflage uniforms, it was difficult for the Ming army to identify their location in the wilderness.
The Huajian team has also made a great contribution this time. More than a dozen people were lost in the last blocking shot in front of him, including one of his own generals. The enemy's untraceable shot made him fearful. But the men and horses behind him kept coming, so he had to lead the men and horses to the county seat.
Brigade commander Zhang Wenliang first heard the gunfire and shouts of killing in front, and knew that the advance had already received the enemy, and he was on the left side, so he hurriedly ordered the three battalions under his command to quickly rush to reinforcements with the standard. He personally led the family and the town mark to answer in the back.
"Sue the generals, let's move forward steadily, don't mess up the battle first!"
On the side of the Qing army, the rear team not only had a large amount of baggage, but also the village warriors and the local young strong army, these troops were very unreliable, and they would break and flee at the slightest wavering. So no one took special care of him......
Line up, raise your gun, and you're ready to shoot! The 7th Division of the Mawei Army really engaged the enemy for the first time, and everyone was a little nervous, and the rifle in their hands trembled slightly.
"It's the same as when you usually train, there is no difference at all, follow my orders, all of them, raise your gun!" (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)