When Li Maocai left the "Feiyun Village" in disheart and walked on the official road to Youzhou City, Chen Kang, who only wanted to avenge his younger brother, had already led a large group of people to the left of the camp of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Camp". However, Chen Kang did not rush to attack the other party's camp, but under the leadership of the minions who had come here yesterday to inquire about the news, he first came to a large grave bag where his younger brother and more than 100 minions were buried and paid a simple respect.

Chen Kang swore an oath in front of his brother's grave that he would not sweep away the invading enemies of the "Flying Dragon Village" this time and would never withdraw his troops. Then, he led his 400 minions to the camp of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion".

Although Chen Kang was eager for revenge, the experience accumulated over the years for thieves made him not blindly attack the opponent's camp, but led his men to approach slowly, and stopped when he entered the land of two arrows to observe the opponent's reaction. However, to Chen Kang's surprise, there was no movement in the camp of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion", and not only did the opposing minions not go out of the camp to confront him, but even the sentries at the gate of the camp did not react to his arrival, and still patrolled back and forth at the gate leisurely, as if Chen Kang and his four hundred men did not exist at all.

The other party's reaction made Chen Kang in a dilemma. Attack, I'm afraid that the other side will have some ambush. Stand back, I really can't swallow the revenge of killing my brother. Between the dilemma, Chen Kang subconsciously began to rein in, and the speed of his horse became slower and slower, and finally stopped completely two or three hundred steps away from the opponent's camp. As Chen Kang stopped, the minions behind him also stopped. The team of more than 400 people just stood there without advancing or retreating, and there was no movement for a long time.

Chen Kang's side was stagnant, but the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Camp" camp opposite became extremely busy. As the soldiers on the watchtower transmitted the distance and direction of the enemy from the camp calculated by Tang Chao one by one, in the center of the barracks, the soldiers of the mortar squad nervously adjusted the mortar firing elements, and intercepted the fuse of the mortar shell to the appropriate length, so as to ensure that the shell could explode in the air before it landed.

After a short adjustment, the leader of the mortar squad raised his right hand and signaled to Qian Yuanshan and Xin Feiyu behind them, indicating that the mortar squad was ready to fire.

Qian Yuanshan looked up at Muttel upstairs, and when he saw that the other party also raised his right hand, and after signaling that everything was normal, he nodded to the leader of the mortar team. The squad leader immediately slashed his raised right hand, and the eight launchers lit the fuse of the mortar shell in their hands almost simultaneously and threw it into the muzzle.

With a muffled "tom", eight mortar shells were fired out of the muzzles almost simultaneously and into the blue sky. After reaching the highest point of flight, the eight shells turned downward under the influence of gravity, followed a graceful parabolic trajectory, and fell sharply towards Chen Kang and his men, who were still hesitating.

As the mortar fell weakly, a slight "hissing" sound reached Chen Kang's ears, and just as he looked up to the sky suspiciously, trying to find out the source of the sound, eight shells exploded almost simultaneously above the heads of Chen Kang and his men. With the rising smoke of gunpowder, the minions of "Feiyun Village" fell in pieces, and the screams were endless.

Before Chen Kang and the other surviving minions could figure out the situation, the second cannonball fell again. The speed with which the mortar was fired was fully revealed at this moment. But in just twenty seconds, four shells were found from each mortar, and the eight mortars added up to thirty-two shells.

The gunpowder smoke from the explosion of the shells completely enveloped the minions of the "Feiyun Village", and Tang Chao, who was standing on the watchtower, could not see the enemy under the smoke even if he adjusted the magnification of the telescope to the maximum. He was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and complained in his heart that the mortar squad was fighting too hard, which not only made him unable to see anything clearly, but also made the subsequent Ranger squad unable to get much oil and water. When the time comes, Lao Thirty-five will definitely come to complain to him, saying that he is determined not to let him kill him.

Tang Chao's estimate was very correct, and the soldiers of the "Feiyun Village" in the smoke at this time could be said to be extremely miserable. The formation, which was originally quite neat, had been blown to pieces, and there were only 12 out of 10 minions still standing. All the horses that had not been killed were frightened, and they were so mad that they kicked and bounced there, and no matter how much the knight on the horse could control them, they could not be quiet. As the frightened horses kept jumping and kicking, some of the minions who were lucky enough to escape the shelling could not escape the heavy hooves of the horses, and were trampled to broken bones and tendons, and died on the spot. ,

Among these wildly beating and kicking horses, there was one that was Chen Kang's mount. And Chen Kang, who was riding on its back, was very lucky to escape the shelling just now, but his left arm was slightly injured. At this time, he was doing his best, trying his best to control his beloved horse to calm down.

Fortunately, Chen Kang was a master of horse riding and training, not only was he not thrown off by the war horse in a state of madness, but used his skills to stabilize it, and finally made it completely quiet.

However, before Chen Kang could breathe a sigh of relief after stabilizing his mount, the situation changed significantly. As the smoke cleared, a well-formed, murderous cavalry unit appeared in his and his men's sight, wielding glittering horizontal swords.

There was no suspense in the ensuing battle, and the "Feiyunzhai" minions who had not yet recovered from the panic were killed by the Ranger squad like claws chopping vegetables - even if a few "Feiyunzhai" minions escaped the Ranger's blades, they were eventually named by the excellent rifle shooters who had been ambushed in the nearby woods beforehand. And Chen Kang, who was finally able to control his mount, didn't even have time to pick up the big gun, but Muttel who rushed in front of him cut off his head with a knife.

It was a short battle, from the first shell to the killing of one of Zuihou's "Feiyunzhai" minions, which lasted less than ten minutes in total. This was also a completely one-sided battle, and at a small cost of three rangers, one of whom was seriously wounded, the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" completely annihilated more than 400 people under Chen Kang, the owner of the "Feiyun Village," and all of the more than 400 people were killed, and none of them survived.

When Li Fu reported such a disparity in losses, Xin Feiyu said with emotion: "It seems that 'if you fall behind, you will be beaten' is indeed an unbreakable truth. In the face of advanced weapons that are nearly a thousand years ahead of themselves, no matter how fierce a soldier is, there is only a dead end. ”

"Brother Xin is right," Tang Chao agreed, "Judging from the two days of fighting, with the two sides approaching in numbers, the side with the inferior weapons is completely in a state of slaughter, and there is no room for resistance. ”

"In my opinion, even if the two sides are not close in numbers, as long as the backward side does not have ten times or more troops ahead of the side, there is still no possibility of victory." Xin Feiyu further extended.

"Even if there is a tenfold advantage in troops, the backward side may not be able to take advantage" Tang Chao shook his head and said, "In the previous life, in the Zulu War in the nineteenth century, more than 400 Boers who were only armed with muskets, with the protection of the circular oxcart formation, successfully repelled the attack of tens of thousands of Zulu soldiers, killing and wounding more than 3,000 opponents, but their own losses were slight. In comparison, the weapons at our disposal are more advanced, and the enemies we face are less than a fraction of the Zulus. If you can't achieve such a result, then you will really see the hell. ”

"That's it," said Muttle, repeatedly, "Brother Twenty-Four is right. Dealing with these bandits is just a piece of cake. Don't say it's them, according to the brothers, even in the face of the regular army of the Liao State, we can easily clean them up. ”

Seeing that the brothers became more and more energetic and arrogant the more they talked, and gradually became a little empty-eyed, Qian Yuanshan felt the need to beat them up, so as not to get carried away - after all, the idiom "arrogant soldiers will be defeated" is not in vain.

Therefore, Qian Yuanshan raised his hand to stop the brothers from continuing to appreciate themselves, and said: "Whether it is 'Baihua Village' or 'Zishi Village',. Including the 'Feiyun Village', which is known as the most fierce cavalry on the green forest road in Youzhou, they may be very good at robbing houses and bullying the people, but compared with the regular army, they are just a rabble composed of bandits and grass bandits. The reason why they were able to gather in the mountains and forests and make the local government helpless was that they were able to occupy a certain advantage in the face of the officers and soldiers who were at the same level of science and technology as themselves. What's more, the officers and soldiers who came to suppress them were so sincere that they fought to the death to the end. ”

At this point, Qian Yuanshan paused, looked up at the mountains in the north, and then turned his head to look at the North China Plain in the south, where there was no trace in sight, and said meaningfully: "Brothers, don't get fluttering because you have won a few small victories, let alone be carried away by them. Let's extinguish Sanzhai is a means, not an end. 'Operation Temper No. 1' is only the beginning, not the end, of our military training.

After all, these bandits are nothing compared to the enemies we may encounter in the near future. If we give our future enemies a hundred points, these bandits will not even be able to reach five points. We still have a long way to go before we face a truly formidable enemy. The meaning of the words 'proud soldiers will be defeated' is clear to everyone, and I don't need to explain it. ”

Qian Yuanshan's words made Tang Chao and the others, who were originally a little hot-headed because of the successive victories, quickly calm down, and everyone reviewed their mistakes to him, and said that in the future, he would definitely take every enemy in the future seriously, and there would never be any more thoughts of underestimating the enemy.

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