Chapter Seventy-Nine: Turning to Tuweizi
When the rebels retreated, Wu Shengtian immediately sent village soldiers, slid down the wall with ropes, cleaned up the corpses of those rebels, used a big axe to cut off the heads of the rebels' frozen corpses, pulled up the city wall with a big basket, hung up on the wall, and hung two or three hundred heads.
At the end of this day, the new township soldiers in Xishan Village also contributed a lot, and they also knew very well that once the rebels invaded the village, they would face what fate they would face, so under the instigation of the officers, they were also ruthless, and fought to the death with the rebels.
Wu Shengtian immediately began to check today's losses, after this day of fierce fighting, Xishan Village also paid some price, a total of more than 30 casualties, but there were not many deaths, only a dozen, most of them were killed and wounded by the rebels with firecrackers and bows and arrows, but there were also two village soldiers, because when pouring water and throwing stones downward, their feet slipped, and they fell off the wall and were killed by the rebels.
But the condition of the injured is not optimistic, because most of them are injured in the upper body, mainly in the chest and face, once injured, they are generally seriously injured, and on this cold day, although there is a medical officer and three ambulance soldiers here, it is not necessarily possible to save them.
In order to mobilize morale, Wu Shengtian still ordered the medical officers and ambulance soldiers to do their best to rescue these wounded, and ordered people to prepare some coffins in the village, collect the bodies of the fallen villagers or soldiers, and set up a mourning hall to go to worship with Liu Wei, and let the soldiers and villagers, and even the villagers, go to worship.
Seeing that the dead could be treated so well and the wounded could be treated so well, the soldiers and villagers in the village, even the villagers, the old and weak, women and children, were very moved, and they were even more determined to fight to the death.
And they also saw that these families brought by Liu Yuanwai, as well as these families of unknown origin brought by Wu Shengtian, are all heroes, all of them are fierce pawns, they can fight and kill, and they have a lot of good things at hand, the rebels attacked desperately today, but so many people were killed, and they didn't even touch the edge of the wall, which is unbelievable, which also makes the people in the village have full confidence, and feel that as long as these people are there, then even if the rebels come, they are not afraid.
As a result, the entire Xishan Village fought fiercely for a day, and the morale can be said to have reached its peak.
Wu Shengtian also specially sent people to Tuweizi on Yangma Island to report the victory, and reported the battle situation to the personnel stationed in Tuweizi, Liu Wei saw that Wu Shengtian was doing a good job here, and he didn't need his help, considering that Tuweizi needed a person to sit in town, so after discussing with Wu Shengtian, he rushed to Tuweizi overnight and went to Tuweizi to sit down.
Zhang Tao was depressed to death, pondered all night, discussed with his subordinates, and the next day as expected, he gave up attacking Xishan Village, led the troops to bypass Xishan Village, and began to set foot on the frozen sea, attacking Tuweizi, intending to capture Tuweizi, which is estimated to have a lot of food and women, and maybe even a lot of goods.
It's okay if you can't defeat Xishan Village, as long as you can capture Tuweizi, it can still be regarded as a success, as long as you get enough food, then things will be easy to do.
So on the third day, Zhang Tao led the rebels and began to attack Tuweizi.
However, their starting point was very unfavorable, because Tuweizi and Xishan Village were across the sea, and the rebels had to step on the ice behind Xishan Village and launch an attack on Tuweizi.
Wu Shengtian saw that the rebels were going to walk on the ice and go to the earthen fence of Yangma Island, so he ordered Dai Fang to take people to transfer the cannon to the back wall, and fired at the rebels gathered on the beach from behind, although the distance was a little far, but the number of rebels was very large, and the shells did not pursue too high accuracy, as long as they hit the enemy group, it was enough to kill and injure a large number of rebels.
The two cannons fired together, and after a few rounds of shelling, many rebels were killed, so Peter Zhang Tao had to lead his troops and move towards a distance until he ran out of the range of the cannons, and sent troops from a farther place to step on the ice and attack towards Tuweizi.
But is it easy to fight? Obviously, this is not the case, although the wall of Tuweizi is not high, but the company commander of the naval company who has been sitting here in the past two days has not been idle, including several of Liu Wei's subordinates, who command a large number of refugees here, fetching or boiling water every day, and pouring water on the Tuweizi.
Now this season, it is the coldest time, even if boiling water is poured on the ground, it will freeze into ice after a while, and the entire wall of the earthen fence is frozen so smooth that even ants don't want to climb up, and the wall is thickened by ice a lot, and it becomes almost indestructible.
In addition, a large amount of water was poured on the ground outside the wall, and it quickly became icy, and it was completely slippery, and it was not easy to climb the dirt fence that was not too high in this situation.
Moreover, on the side of Tuweizi, two twelve-pounder guns were also placed, which were garrisoned by a dissatisfied naval corps company and most of the infantry company, and the strength was not less than the defenders in Xishan Village, and there were a large number of refugees available here, and the newly formed township soldiers were more numerous, with more than 1,000 people, and it was not very difficult for them to defend Tuweizi.
And Liu Wei in Tuweizi, has a good reputation, very popular with these refugees, after he came to Tuweizi, the morale of the refugees and villagers here is even higher, after hearing about the situation of the battle in Xishan Village yesterday, they are full of confidence.
Although these villagers could not go out to fight the rebels in the field, there was still no big problem in defending the village, and the villagers were issued with more spears, even if the iron spear heads were not enough, they also found some hardwood, sharpened it, put it on the fire to roast it, make it harder, and then dip it in water, after freezing, it was still very sharp, and there was no problem in stabbing people to death.
Seeing the rebels attacking, the sea wolf soldiers first took the lead and shot with a variety of long and short rifles, the equipment of the marine company was not as good as that of the army, and the use of shorter navy rifles, and the number of rifled guns was not much, mostly some smoothbore guns, but on the unobstructed ice, it was still very good to fight the rebels.
As soon as the rebels entered a few dozen paces outside the earthen enclosure, the sailors armed with short-barreled Nanji-style rifles immediately fired a volley of gunfire and threw them on the ice.
In order to prevent bullets, the rebels temporarily tied some snow climbing plows, piled up some bundles of firewood, and pushed them to attack Tuweizi, so as to resist the bullets fired by Tuweizi, although it had some effect, but it could not guarantee that all the rebel generals could be covered, and many people were still killed and wounded.
But Tuweizi has its limitations, because Tuweizi is relatively low, only one and a half high, the rebels don't even use ladders, people can climb Tuweizi by stepping on people's shoulders, and there is no deep trench outside Tuweizi as a fortification, so after the rebels are ruthless, they successfully attack under Tuweizi.
Once they were under the earthen enclosure, the Seawolf soldiers could give full play to their firepower, leaning out and firing downward, and the rebels had nothing but shields, and were killed in an instant.
Seeing that a large number of rebels poured under the earthen enclosure and began to build a human wall to climb on the earthen enclosure, the sea wolf soldiers immediately collectively put on their bayonets, and the seamen suffered a little, their short-barreled navy-type rifles, whether long or short, were generally not equipped with bayonets, but they all had single knives, or axes, and at this time they also prepared some long guns, so they simply replaced them with long guns.
The earthen enclosure was very wide, and a large number of village soldiers and refugees, as well as the soldiers of the sea wolves, all stood on the earthen enclosure, each holding a spear in their hands, and they did not use the method of rolling wood and stones, and directly went to the spear formation to resist the attack of the rebels.
The rebels saw that it was relatively easy to climb the soil fence, although they slipped here and often threw them enough, but seeing that they could climb the earth fence, they still shouted excitedly, you are fighting for me under the reward, trying to climb the earth fence, and slaughtering the damned Xishan village soldiers and refugees above, and revenge the revenge of the past two days.
But what these rebels didn't expect was that they finally stepped on the shoulders of their accomplices and climbed to the top of the earthen fence, and just after they showed their heads, a snowy spear tip flashed in front of them.
A cluster of spears, at the moment when the rebels showed their heads, under the loud shouting and shouting orders of the officers, were stabbed forward by those township soldiers and refugees, with the strength of milk.
The assassination techniques of these villagers and refugees may be very bad, sometimes they want to stab the neck, they may stab the deviation, but they can't stand the crowd, the dense spears are stabbed out together, so that the rebels who are emerging are unstoppable, and a large number of people have just climbed up the earthen enclosure, and the upper body is exposed, and they are shot a few times head-on, and when they are pierced through the body, they fall down from the earthen enclosure with blood and howl.
However, the rebels gathered under the Tuweizi could not see what was happening above, except that the rebels watching the battle from a distance could see what was happening on the Tuweizi, these rebels who approached the bottom of the Tuweizi did not know what was going on above, so after the person in front of the head climbed up and was stabbed to death, the rebels behind continued to step on the shoulders of the people and climb up, the edges of the Tuweizi were all ice, and they were even more slippery and did not leave their hands, so they could only clasp the edge of the Tuweizi and climb up hard.
But when they exerted their strength to feed, they finally showed their heads, and their faces were pierced in the face by spears, some of them were pierced directly through the neck, and some were pierced through the chest, one by one, like dumplings, and the corpses fell to the earth.
(There is a weak scream, begging for a monthly pass!) )