Chapter 758: Condolence Group

For the sake of safety, Baoke Masashi has been following Liu Qingshan's side, the reason is to lead the way. In fact, I thought very clearly in my heart that only following the army of the Ming Empire was the safest place. Wearing a Ming military uniform and a telescope sent by Liu Qingshan around his neck, Bao Ke Zhengzhi made an unexpected discovery.

"Your Excellency, look there, the banner seems to be Maori." An exclamation attracted Liu Qingshan's attention, and after a careful observation, he said to Gu Beiwang: "Let the cavalry company go to see what the situation is, and try not to have a contact battle." ”

The cavalry, who was on standby at the foot of the mountain, connected to the order and immediately went out. Mongolian horses are not as fast as Arabian horses and Don hippos, and much faster than Japanese horses. Maori spotted the rapidly approaching cavalry company and immediately turned around and left with his men, and today's inspection seemed to alarm the shogunate troops on the opposite side, seeing the cavalry, he thought that they were the armed forces in charge of escorting.

The distance was a little far, and the cavalry company returned in vain, and Maori, who returned to the camp, was very eye-eyed as the war horse of the cavalry company, and thought in his heart, even if it was not for food, it was worth fighting for those horses.

Masayuki Baoke said with regret: "Your Excellency, if you can defeat Maori, you will have a greater certainty of this battle." Liu Qingshan and Gu Beiwang were noncommittal about this, this kind of luck mentality has always been a taboo thing in this army. Liu Qingshan and Gu Beiwang received formal military education, and they have always not fought uncertain battles, and they tried not to take risks as much as possible. The way of using soldiers is still to be upright, and the so-called strange soldiers have never been the mainstream.

Soon, Masayuki Baoshina lost his regret and entered the state of a curious person. The moment he approached the defensive position, he felt that all the knowledge he had learned in the past was useless. It was a standard ring fortification, with barbed wire at the front of the position, and the trenches were connected by communication trenches. There were more than 100 shogunate soldiers who were guarding here before. I didn't leave for the time being, I stayed to help with some things, and I could still have a full meal.

When a soldier was wiping his rifle, Baoke stopped moving, staring at the guy in the soldier's hand, with a strong curiosity**. Gu Beiwang is a shrewd guy. Look at Liu Qingshan, towards the side of Nunu's mouth. Liu Qingshan glanced at it and said with a smile: "Let him go, it's not a bad thing to want to learn something." ”

On both sides of the ring fortifications, two Montini machine guns were deployed, this thing Liu Qingshan saw that he loved and hated, and what he loved was the powerful firepower projection ability, more than 200 rounds a minute, and the bullets were like pouring rain. What I hate is the weight and failure rate, the total weight is more than 280 pounds. In normal times, the machine guns had to be dismantled on the march and transported like mountain guns. The failure rate is indeed a bit high, and this is still improved by the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it will hurt even more. Despite all the faults, this weapon was immediately loved by the army. The Mountain Brigade was not normally equipped with such bulky weapons, and this was a makeshift machine gun battery before departure, and there were eight of them in all. More than 100 people and more than 50 animals were waiting.

Smack, Liu Qingshan stretched out his hand and slapped the machine gun. sighed: "Lao Gu, this thing is good, but it's too heavy." ”

Gu Beiwang nodded: "That's right, I heard an old classmate say that the Weapons Research Institute is developing a new type of machine gun that uses a new type of propellant. When the time comes. It can reduce the weight to less than 100 catties. I don't know if it's true or not. ”

Liu Qingshan said with a smile: "A hundred catties is enough to choke, and when you are marching, you have to be served by more than a dozen people." But it's definitely better than the current thing, and if you look at this shape, it looks like a mountain cannon. Gu Beiwang smiled: "Don't complain. When the fight starts, you'll know how important this thing is. ”

The relaxed expressions on the faces of the two are really not pretended, don't look at the opposite side, it is said that there are 20,000 rebels, plus the people or something, there can be 30,000 people. The elite of the alliance army will not take these opponents who are still playing in line to shoot in their eyes at all, it is not a level of competition at all, and this mission will not be too difficult in their opinion as long as the ammunition is constant.

"The key is ammunition, when we came, we brought two bases, we have to urge!" Liu Qingshan quickly thought of the point, don't look at the rebels on the opposite side who have not moved for a long time, which shows that they are making full preparations over there. Once launched, it must be the strongest offensive that the opponent can come up with.

"I also need to say that I made a special turn to Chiyoda, and the Tokugawa said that he would organize a thousand people to transport ammunition. I'll let Staff Officer Geng keep an eye on this, and the ammunition will be delivered by tonight at the latest. Gu Beiwang replied confidently, and the two continued to walk forward and saw the mountain artillery position hidden behind the fortifications.

There were only six guns in the entire artillery company, and two of them were deployed here, which shows the importance that the two attached to this high ground. If it weren't for the support of the two shogunate forces guarding the forts on the left and right, they would have even wanted to deploy their entire artillery battery on this high ground. The location here is too good, you can overlook the entire battlefield, and the altitude is not too high, more than a hundred meters. As long as this high ground is held, the fortress on the front will not be attacked too fiercely by the rebels. To put it mildly, if you don't take this high ground, it is a dream to lay down the frontal earthen city, and the shells of two mountain cannons will become a nightmare for the rebel soldiers.

While the two were talking, the lieutenant company commander in charge of the highland guard came, carrying a phone in his hand and trotting: "Regiment commander, the call from Tucheng said that General Tokugawa came with a condolence group, and sent us ammunition and supplies." ”

At this time, the Tokugawa Iemitsu worldview in the city had collapsed, and such a strange-looking thing could actually transmit the sound for three miles. When I heard the voice in the microphone, my legs were as weak as the noodles with hot water, which was too scary. After Liu Qingshan's simple greetings on the phone, he said that he would come back immediately.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was lucky, the rebels on the opposite side were not prepared, so he didn't encounter trouble walking the main road. The journey went smoothly, with 500 cavalry, plus a company from the concession, and sent the "condolences" and ammunition supplies he brought to Tucheng smoothly.

Liu Qingshan's headquarters was set up in a small farm yard, and the largest landlord's house here became a field hospital. Before they reached the door, they saw two or three hundred women, cowering and kneeling on the side of the road to rest, and a straw mat of their own was spread on the ground. I don't know what happened to these Japanese, when they saw the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they were scared to death, and even everyone dared to peek.

"Lao Gu, I heard before I came that any nobles on Dongying's side have no sin in killing ordinary people on the street. It seems that this is true. Liu Qingshan sighed, Gu Beiwang nodded and said, "Even in Liaodong, no one dares to do this." In Xinghai City, it is even more impossible. Liu Qingshan said with a smile: "That's how difficult it is to transport a person to the past, and when it is transported to the realm, people are killed in vain, and General Staff Su must not be mad." ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu stood at the door and waited, and when he saw the horse team coming, he immediately stepped forward to greet him. This will not have the posture of the shogun at all, and recently, two things have been done, one is to find a woman from the Tokugawa family who is thirteen to fifteen years old and looks like a woman, and is ready to be loaded into the ship to send it to Grandpa Chen. Another thing is to let his samurai go out and take the silver consummation street around. When he saw the young woman, her appearance was still gone, she threw down a silver dollar and a bag of grain, grabbed it and left. This time it was polite, and dropped a sentence: Don't cry, she is going to serve the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow to earn a lot of money, and she will come back in a month at most. ”

This means that the shogunate was defeated too badly, and if it were the same as before, would you still give you grain and silver yuan? Just take it away, throw it out of the gate when the scourge is over, and walk home by yourself to finish. Tokugawa Iemitsu was really worried about arousing public anger, and his territory was already pitiful, with his back to the sea and a little to the north.

Even if it arouses the anger of the people, Tokugawa still has to do this thing, otherwise he is worried that these Ming troops will not serve well. Just count on them to hold on to their current territory, and they can't be a single general.

"General, the conditions are simple, don't mind." After some greetings, Liu Qingshan and Gu Beiwang beckoned Tokugawa to come in and sit down, and even a cup of tea was wooden, which was boiled water in a tea jar. Faced with such a situation, Tokugawa Iemitsu was quite worried in his heart, what if these Ming officers were not satisfied with their hospitality?

Fortunately, Liu Qingshan and Gu Beiwang didn't mention the problem he was worried about, but went straight to the point. "Shogun, there are two main reasons for the low morale of the shogunate army at present, one is food, and the other is the treatment of the wounded. The general hurried back and organized some doctors to come over and treat the wounded in a timely manner, which can greatly relieve the pressure on the soldiers on the casualties. On the issue of food, we have already sent a letter to the country, and there will be food deliveries soon. After the general returns, don't be stingy with food, and try to help the people in the territory. ”

Glancing at Masayuki Hoshina, who came in out of breath, Tokugawa Iemitsu got up and bowed to the two of them, "I'm so sorry that I couldn't fulfill the friendship of the landlord." It's really incompetent, please bear with me. Liu Qingshan smiled and waved his hand: "Don't tell us these words, tell your grandfather in the future." Our task is to help Your Excellency hold on for a month. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't stay long, after a simple lunch, he took his own people and left, Liu Qingshan and Gu Beiwang stopped when they sent them to the city, and Bao Ke Masayuki sent them a little more, and they had something to say between them.

There are a total of two hundred and thirty-eight women, according to Tokugawa Iemitsu's meaning, this is the first batch, and there is the next batch if you are not satisfied. Liu Qingshan and Gu Beiwang refused to go down to the next batch, citing the tension of the war. When he sent Tokugawa away and returned to the headquarters, Liu Qingshan said that the women outside were sent to the medical team to help and be trained as nurses. At this time, the guard came over with a woman walking with her head bowed and said, "Commander, how to place this woman?" (To be continued......)