"It seems that the third platoon has exchanged fire with the rebels." Xin Feiyu said as he looked in the direction where the gunshots and explosions were coming from.

"Yes," Huang Hai nodded, "I hope that the third platoon can block the attack of the rebels, and I also hope that Chang Mao's kid will not have any accidents, otherwise I don't know how to talk to Deputy Battalion Commander Chang." ”

Xin Feiyu comforted: "Brother Huang doesn't have to worry, both the enemy and us use firearms. The opponent's strength is only twice as large as ours, and the three platoon commanders and Chang Mao rely on fortifications for defense, and they will not let those rebels take any advantage. ”

Huang Hai shook his head and said, "That being said, the battlefield is full of variables, and many things are unpredictable. And as the saying goes, 'bullets don't have eyes,' and it was a shame to see the brothers fighting the rebels on the shore, while I, the leader, were hiding far away from the ship and the outsiders. ”

Xin Feiyu continued to comfort: "Brother Huang, you are thinking too much. As the saying goes, 'Jiren has his own natural appearance', with Chang Mao's skill level and that clever energy, how can he be easily injured. Besides, since the day this kid joined the 'Wyvern Army', he should have known that protecting everyone in the team was the main task of the Wyvern Army, and it was their unshirkable responsibility. If he can't even do this, then he is not worthy of being a soldier in the 'Flying Dragon Army', and our formation of the 'Flying Dragon Army' will lose its due significance. The brothers thought that it was the third platoon commander and Chang Mao who were very aware of their responsibilities and obligations, so they insisted that you get on board and go to sea, while they stayed near the beach to stop the rebels who might come.

Moreover, these three Daifuku ships were the largest of all the ships of the pirates. Let's open them, on the one hand, to prevent them from being used by the rebels and used by them as tools of evil. On the other hand, in case ......, well, I mean in case the third platoon failed to hold off the rebel attack and let the rebels capture other ships on the seashore. Then, with these three big ships here, we still have the ability to fight them. At that time, even if we collide, we will be able to sink a few of his small boats, thereby weakening the rebels' liliang. ”

Although Huang Hai felt that what Xin Feiyu said made sense, he still said unwillingly: "Of course I know this truth, but I always feel that there are more than ten of us plus our personal guards, if we can stay on the shore and fight with the third platoon, we can increase the combat effectiveness of the third platoon by a large margin, and we will be more confident when blocking the attack of the rebels." ”

When Xin Feiyu heard this, he persuaded again: "Brother Huang, you don't know that the usual duty of the guards is only to protect our team members, and although they will also carry guns and ammunition when they travel with us, the number is very limited. The little ammunition they had with them might be enough for an Assassin and a small group of bandits, but not enough for a rebel army that was armed with firearms and many times as many times as them. Instead of dividing the ammunition of the soldiers in the three rows at that time, it is better to let them leave a part of the ammunition for the soldiers in the three rows, and rely on the advantages of these large ships to build a barrier for us. Even if we can't confront the rebels head-on, we can still drive directly to the open sea from the ice-free shipping channel ten miles to the south. Once in the open sea, with the advantage of our ship's large sails, it is still very easy to get rid of the small boats controlled by the rebels. ”

Seeing that Huang Hai was still arguing, Xin Feiyu waved his hand to stop his words, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Huang thinks that in the telegram sent by the fifth brother and the seventh brother, Weishenme should put ensuring that the team members do not suffer any losses in the first place, and put the extermination of the rebels in the second place. To put it bluntly, it is because in the eyes of the fifth and seventh brothers, the safety of you and me is far more important than quelling the rebellion. They would rather let the rebels gain momentum for a while than let us be in any danger. ”

Xin Feiyu said reasonably, although Huang Hai was still a little unwilling, reason told him that what Xin Feiyu said was right. For Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin, and the other traversers, the value of the five traversers including Huang Hai was far beyond the value of the soldiers of the platoon on the shore. In their opinion, it is not necessary to say that one platoon is exchanged for Huang Hai and other five people, even if one battalion is exchanged for one of them. Soldiers can be recruited and retrained if they are lost, but once they are lost, they can never be replaced. Therefore, after a long struggle of ideas, the Yellow Sea finally stopped talking, but raised his binoculars and looked at the battlefield near the coast. ,

At this time, near the beach, which was only more than two miles away from their position in the Yellow Sea, the battle between the third platoon of the Eighth Company and the rebels of the Eighth Company had entered a fever pitch. Seeing that the sky had completely brightened, and his subordinates could not advance an inch under the tenacious defense of the third row, Xiang Botong was already anxious in his heart, although he was still very calm and calm on the surface. He knew very well that although it was now his own side that continued to attack, and the third platoon had no chance to counterattack except for struggling to parry. But it was himself and his brothers who were in real danger.

More than three hours have passed since I began to discuss the rebellion with the deputy company commanders and the chief and deputy platoon commanders. Even if the damn third platoon commander was at the end of the secret discussion, after returning to his station, after some preparations, he took the opportunity to control Shen Chong, the deputy company commander he sent to the third platoon, and went to Huang Hai to tell the secret. By this time, the messengers sent by the Yellow Sea had already arrived at the salt works. According to Zeng Zhilin's attention to Huang Hai and others, Zeng Twenty-sixth Master would definitely take action immediately after receiving the news and send a horse ranger squad and cavalry company to the rescue. And in such a critical situation, the cavalry will definitely not spare the horsepower.

In this way, the distance between the two places is about fifty miles, and it will take more than an hour and less than two hours for the cavalry to arrive here. In addition, the time spent by the messenger on the road is about three hours. In other words, if the Yellow Sea did send a messenger to report the news, then the ranger squad and cavalry company of the "Wyvern Army" should not be far away by now. As a veteran who has served in the "Flying Dragon Army" for many years, Xiang Botong will never be arrogant enough to think that his liliang, which is only two platoons, can withstand the impact of cavalry, especially the rangers whose quality and level are much higher.

Now for Xiang Botong, the most important thing is time. Therefore, after a long period of attack, Xiang Botong immediately changed the previous method of charging by the rebels themselves, adopted Gao Tuo's suggestion, and sent some soldiers to select some of the pirate captives who had not yet escaped, and escorted them to the front of the two armies. The rebels then began to drive the unarmed captives to storm the positions held by the third platoon.

In this way, either the soldiers of the third platoon were unwilling to kill innocents, which greatly reduced the density of fire and gave the rebels who followed the prisoners the opportunity to rush to the position. Either the three platoons ran out of ammunition in order to shoot the enemy who dared to approach, and finally had to rely on bayonets to fight the rebels who outnumbered them.

In fact, just as Xiang Botong had envisioned, although the third platoon did not open the net against the prisoners of the clash formation because of the kindness of the woman, but concentrated its fire and fired fiercely, breaking up the captive team, so that the rebels who followed the prisoners did not find an opportunity to break through. However, after killing and wounding hundreds of prisoners, the ammunition consumption of the soldiers of the three platoons was also very large. Three platoons of forty officers and men, each with an average of less than twenty rounds of ammunition and two grenades. The rebels, having achieved their goal, continued to drive wave after wave of pirate prisoners to the positions of the three platoons, in a vain attempt to use this method to exhaust all the ammunition of the three platoons.

The officers and men of the third platoon obviously saw this, and while they were concentrating the ammunition in their hands and focusing on supplying the excellent shooters in the platoon, they were also preparing for the worst. After handing over the ammunition to the good marksman, many soldiers drew their bayonets and hung them under the barrels of their rifles, ready to fight the rebels to the death.

At the end of the day, as the gunfire of the three rows of fire became more and more sparse, the position that the captives who rushed into the formation were getting closer and closer to the positions of the three rows, and Xiang Botong, who thought that his opportunity had come, asked his subordinates to drive the larger group of pirate prisoners to the battlefield, and ordered a commando team of twenty people to follow behind these prisoners, waiting for the opportunity to rush to the opponent's position, clearing an obstacle for everyone to go to sea. Even the two mortars that had been reluctant to use them were moved out on his orders, and a limited number of shells were used to bombard the most dense areas of the three rows of blocking gunfire.

After a series of explosions, the soldiers of the third platoon suffered heavy casualties, and the strength of the resistance was greatly weakened. This mass of captives was driven by the rebels, and their steps became faster and faster, and the distance between them and the three rows of positions became closer and closer. Except for a few soldiers who still had ammunition in their hands and were still firing intermittently, most of the soldiers in the third platoon who could still continue to fight had already loaded their rifles with bayonets and were ready to fight the rebels desperately - in their opinion, they were now enough to kill one, and they could earn one by killing two. If you kill one more now, the strength of the rebels will be weaker, the people in the sea and the Yellow Sea will be safer, and the brother troops will pay less in the future when they avenge themselves. ,

Seeing that the forward who was charging into the battle and capturing was only a few dozen steps away from the three-row position, his side would soon be able to board the ship and go to sea and fight his way out, Xiang Botong couldn't help but get excited. While ordering all the rebel soldiers around him who could fight to take up arms and prepare to enter the battle in Zuihou, he urged his subordinates in charge of guarding the prisoners to drive the remaining prisoners over, so that in case this attack failed again, the next attack could be carried out in the shortest possible time, so as not to give the exhausted third platoon a respite.

Zuihou's group of captives, numbering about 200 people, reluctantly moved forward under the drive of the rebel soldiers. It had not been long before the procession, which had been somewhat disciplined, suddenly became chaotic, and many of the pirate captives even began to flee in all directions. The rebel soldiers, who had been vicious to them just now, lost their majesty, threw their guns away, and fled with their captives.

Xiang Botong, who was in a good mood just now, was extremely dissatisfied with such a chaotic situation, and while ordering some of his men who were about to throw a blow at the three-row position to turn their guns to prevent the scattered captives from disrupting his formation, he snatched a rifle from the hands of his own soldiers and prepared to shoot several of his men who fled with the captives, so as not to affect the others.

However, before Xiang Botong could shoot, the rebel soldiers around him, especially those who turned their guns and guarded the rear of their team, began to waver. No matter how much their commander shouted, it couldn't stop them from retreating a little bit. And their retreat had an impact on the rebel soldiers who were about to charge the three rows of positions, and the scene became a little uncontrollable for a while.

The root cause of this series of chaos is a flag, a flag that appears behind the rebels, a flag embroidered with a flying golden dragon. Under this banner was a cavalry contingent of only a few dozen men, menacing and murderous, wearing black armor, black cloaks on their shoulders, and even their crotch mounts were covered with black leather armor. All the rebel soldiers knew what it meant to dress up like this - the most elite rangers of the "Wyverns" had arrived.

If it is said that the rebel soldiers, instigated by Xiang Botong and others, still participated in the rebellion with a fluke mentality, and when they saw that the three-row positions that prevented them from going to sea were about to be breached, their morale was still high. Then, the appearance of the "Flying Dragon Banner", especially the appearance of the rangers in iconic costumes, broke their luck psychology and completely shattered their fighting spirit.

Despite the fact that there were only fifty Rangers behind them, none of the rebel soldiers believed that they had the strength to fight a squad of Rangers. Moreover, most of the rebel soldiers believed that since the Rangers had arrived, the cavalry company that had accompanied them to exterminate the pirates would probably arrive soon. At that time, his infantry of less than two platoons will have to fight against a multi-company cavalry, and there will be no possibility of victory in any case. So, the moment they saw the rangers, the entire rebel army collapsed. Not only did the soldiers begin to flee in all directions like the pirate captives, but their commanders soon joined the fleeing ranks.

Seeing that a stumbling block was about to be removed, he was about to become the lord of an island, and he was at ease from then on, but in the end he fell short of Xiang Botong, looking at his subordinates who were intruding like headless flies, looking at the flying dragon banner and the team of rangers who were getting closer and closer to him, although he was unwilling and unwilling in his heart, he had no power to return to the sky. He said to Gao Trance who was standing beside him: "Brother Gao Xian, now the general trend has gone. Rather than being caught and humiliated by the 'Flying Dragon Army', you and I should cut ourselves off and die like a man." ”

For this suggestion to Broadcom, Gao Trance did not respond to anything. At this time, he was already stunned by the fate he was about to face, and he didn't hear what Xiang Botong told him at all. Looking at Gao Trance's pale face and frightened eyes, Xiang Botong shook his head helplessly and disdainfully, and sighed. Then, he pulled out his matching knife and wiped it on his neck.