55 Outpost battles, scouts against scouts
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As Pang Yu expected, at this moment, Beiwei has already used his way to inform the marching Ming Dynasty army that the short-haired bandits are staring at you.
These Ming troops were more regular than the Tuntian military households like Lao Slippery, and the marching speed was not more than 20 miles a day, but they also failed to meet the requirement of 60 miles a day in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts". On average, I wander around thirty or forty miles a day. Beiwei estimated the time and felt that Tang Jian and the others would have enough time to prepare, so they did not deliberately hinder the advance of the Ming army.
However, when those Ming army scouts called it "not collecting at night" and exposed too obvious flaws, Beiwei couldn't help but "play" it. This is a purely professional habit, after all, in modern times, he has practiced ambush and sneak attack techniques for several years, but he has never had the opportunity to really practice it, and his hands will definitely itch when he has the opportunity now.
At the beginning, these Ming troops were quite careless, and a few horseback scouts actually dared to run away from the large army four or five kilometers away in a group to do reconnaissance, so that these "night not collected" ran so far was obviously not conducive to the ambush plan behind the crossing crowd, so Beiwei decided to let them restrain themselves......
On the official road leading from Qiongzhou Mansion to Chengmai County, behind a small hill at a bend, four young men lurked quietly in the wild grass, all wearing auspicious clothes covered with turf vines, and their faces were also painted with dye.
Zhang Xiaoshan twisted his body a little uneasily, wearing such strange clothes made him a little unaccustomed. Unlike those modern military enthusiasts who are used to playing games, he is an authentic Ming Dynasty peasant Zhang Lu's mountain son.
"Don't move. Even if you are bitten by insects, you have to endure it. ”
The "Mr. North" at the front did not look back, but he was completely able to detect his small movements. Zhang Xiaoshan immediately lowered his head obediently and did not dare to make any more movements. This Mr. North is obviously very prestigious in the short-haired army, and he is the only one in this small team.
He still can't believe that he was selected to participate in this exploration team, but these short-haired people have always spoken very cheerfully, and never hide their questions, and the captain Tang answered his father's questions directly:
"We will definitely build a full-fledged army in the future. And expand the size of the army, and if you do a good job, you will be the first officers. Therefore, let you learn our ways of fighting as much as you want. ”
Zhang Lushan's nickname of "old slippery head" was given to him by the short-haired people, and of course his brain was flexible enough, and he nodded again and again as soon as his eyes rolled:
"Good! Okay, my hill will definitely be fine! ”
So now, Zhang Xiaoshan carefully observed the every move of these gentlemen and learned their combat methods according to the instructions of Captain Tang and his father.
Beiwei didn't pay attention to the careful thinking of the Ming Dynasty native behind him. He doesn't mind teaching others by the way. But it is not deliberately taught. After a moment of quiet waiting, a vibration signal came from the intercom on his chest.
The north latitude opened the answer, and the dismissal of the observation group sent a message from a hilltop with an excellent view behind the side:
"Note that the two enemy cavalry are approaching, and there is no other backup in Mine."
Beiwei straightened up, changing from the original lying and lurking position to a half-kneeling position ready to attack, but because of the auspicious clothes on his body, his figure was still hidden by the grass. And he didn't take up his weapon either, just quietly watched the corner of the intersection.
The sound of horses' hooves gradually came, and two Ming cavalrymen turned out from the intersection. It should be a scout. But their vigilance is not high, and they actually talk and laugh while walking, and do not pay attention to the surrounding situation at all.
They were about to pay the price for this omission, and the distance was about fifty meters, which was the distance at which the homemade crossbow machine could exert its power. So he picked up a strong crossbow with strings and arrows from the grass pit in front of him, and there was also a five- or six-and-a-half automatic with loaded bullets for him to choose from.
Holding his shoulders with the back brest and aiming slightly, Beiwei did not hesitate to pull the trigger.
"Buzz". The arrows loaded with triangular arrows flew straight out. It was right in the throat of one of the Ming scouts, and the scout's eyes widened. He opened his mouth wide but couldn't scream, and he straightened up and planted his mount.
The other scout who was talking to him was obviously extremely shocked, and for a moment he was stunned. If he had reacted quickly and quickly dismounted to cover himself with the help of the horses, he might have made Beiwei a little more troubled, but the loss of consciousness in these few seconds was irreversible.
Beiwei immediately put down the empty crossbow after firing the first arrow, and took another loaded crossbow from the assistant next to him, and fired it with only a slight aim, only two or three seconds before and after.
The second scout also fell off his horse, also with an arrow in the throat, and they were not able to make a loud noise until they died.
The group in charge of the observation sent a message again, apparently relieving them from watching from the hills.
"Well done, the other team of scouts is about a kilometer or so away from you, they didn't find anything, and they still kept their speed."
"Got it, we'll retreat at once. Hai Duong, there is no need to answer, evacuate together. ”
"Understood, the group also retreated."
The three walkie-talkies are on the same channel, and Wang Haiyang, the group who is ready to answer in the back, can also listen to their conversations at the same time and respond quickly.
The four young men of the group cleaned up briefly, then pushed two bicycles in the grass, one for two, and quickly left the scene.
Of course, Zhang Xiaoshan can't ride, and it's not easy to learn to jump on the back seat. But at this time, he looked at the two military horses on the official road with their heads bowed and ownerless, and his eyes were full of heat
"Mr. North, can we take those two horses away?"
"You can ride?"
Beiwei didn't mean to object, Zhang Xiaoshan hesitated:
"A little bit, there used to be a leper donkey at home......"
Beiwei smiled and shook his head:
"Forget it, I can't risk you falling and hurting the ground, and we'll have to spend the next few days with them, and we won't have anyone to take care of the horses for the time being. But ......"
He thought about it, turned his head and shot an arrow at each of the two horses, both of which were shot in the legs, and the two poor animals screamed a few times and fell one after the other.
"Then they really have two less cavalrymen."
After doing this, Beiwei left with the group, and met Wang Haiyang's receiving group about 500 meters behind, and then six people rode three bicycles away from the large army of the Ming army, and the inevitable retaliatory force.
These brand-name mountain bikes are quite fast on flat roads, but even if they run into difficult roads, enemy cavalry will not be able to run fast.
The group of three led by Xie Xi will stay on the hill until after dark, and then walk to another observation point, all pre-selected at northern latitude. But now, they had to continue to observe the movements of the main Ming army, and their reaction after they found out that the two scouts had been killed.
The hill where they hid was very far away from the official road, which was beyond the distance of normal human eye observation, and they had high-powered telescopes, but the Ming army did not, so even if the Ming army searched, it should not have been searched over there...... The two scouts went back and reported...... Ha, the whole team stopped......"
Xie Xi and another member of the military group were each using high-powered telescopes to observe the enemy's movements, while another member of the third-person reconnaissance team of the observation group was carefully observing the surroundings with the naked eye, and from time to time looked at the telescope in the hands of Lao Xie and the others with envy.
"They sent a large number of infantry to search...... A large contingent of scouts was also sent, about thirty or so people...... It should be a retaliatory force, and they are chasing along the official road......"
Hearing this, Wang Haiyang touched the several mines that had been carefully fixed in the mountaineering bag on his back.
"It's only over 30...... Do you want to kill them? ”
According to the establishment inquired from the old slippery head, a battalion of about 3,000 Ming troops should have at least fifty scouts to explore horses. With the addition of generals and personal soldiers, the number of cavalry in these four thousand Ming troops should exceed a hundred.
However, probably because the horses on Hainan Island are too inconvenient to raise and transport, according to Shu Zhong's previous report and their own observations, the total number of cavalry in this army is only more than sixty, and only half of them are chasing at the moment.
However, after a little thought, Beiwei shook his head:
"Exercising restraint and exposing the power of our firearms too soon may scare the enemy into retracting, and it will be more than worth the cost."
For the same reason, Beiwei had not previously sniped any of the Ming generals, although those generals were all wearing very distinctive armor robes and the helmets on their heads were conspicuous enough, which was the favorite target of the snipers.
"But in a little while those cavalrymen will be out of the group's observation range, and if they catch up, I'm afraid there will be an encounter."
Wang Haiyang was a little worried, but Beiwei looked at the sky:
"It's okay, it's going to be dark in a little while. Although I heard that those Ming army scouts claimed to be not collecting at night, they definitely did not dare to continue to chase the night at night, it was our world. ”
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