Chapter 23 Aftermath
Xiang Botong committed suicide, and the rebellion he planned was also completely defeated. The rebel soldiers, who had already collapsed the moment the Rangers appeared, dropped their weapons and fled among the pirate captives. However, they did not go far before they were intercepted by the "Wolf's Teeth" squadron and a company of cavalry who came up from all sides.
Perhaps it was because they had received orders from Zeng Zhilin before they came, or perhaps they were extremely indignant at the behavior of these rebels, and the soldiers of the "Wolf Teeth" squadron and cavalry company were extremely ruthless to these rebels and pirate captives who were running around like headless flies, and they did not mean to show mercy to the past. Regardless of whether the rebels or pirates who ran over were hostile or not, whether they had weapons in their hands or not, they were greeted only by the rain of bullets.
Under heavy infantry and mortar fire, pirate captives and rebels fell in pieces. In a short time, the beach was already littered with corpses and rivers of blood. However, there are still smart people under the heavy firepower. After some of the pirate captives and rebel soldiers narrowly escaped the first few rounds of shooting, they finally understood a truth - these "Wyverns" who came to surround them would not discern whether those who were running around wanted to escape or attack, and all the enemies who stood would be shot. So, after being defeated by more than half of them, the remaining pirates and rebel soldiers also learned to behave, no longer running around and screaming, but according to the requirements of the "Flying Dragon Army" to treat prisoners, holding their heads in their hands, kneeling on the ground, trembling and waiting for the other party to deal with them.
Presumably, Zeng Zhilin did not give the order to kill, and after rushing back and forth in the camp of the rebels and pirate prisoners, and the "wolf teeth" squadron and cavalry company that came up from all sides, did not continue to kill the enemy soldiers who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but drove these people together and tied them up one by one.
In addition to the soldiers responsible for guarding the prisoners, part of the rest of the "Wolf Tooth" squadron came to the position held by the third platoon to inform the third platoon commander of the situation and help them rescue the wounded. The other part looked for a ship to go to sea and reported to Huang Hai and others who were waiting for news on the big ship. The Ranger squad and cavalry company, on the other hand, turned their horses around and divided into small groups to search in different directions, trying to get back as many pirate captives as possible who had already been released - the pirate captives captured by Broadcom as "cannon fodder" accounted for less than half of all the pirate captives held at the seashore, and the rest were left unsupervised before the rebels attacked the three platoons, and many of them took the opportunity to escape from the detention sites.
Judging from the current situation, the crossing not only needs these captives to hold those pirates who are held in the salt pans, but also needs them to know the way of navigation, familiar with the water's handlebar style and sailors to act as teaching assistants, and assist those ship bosses and sailors who have been invited by the crossing team to be teachers to train newcomers, so as to establish the "Flying Dragon Army" sea combat liliang - after all, driving a ship to sea is far more complicated and esoteric than foot shooting, and it is difficult to master without a large number of experienced veterans to "pass on the help".
Of course, it is unrealistic to expect to capture all the pirate captives who escaped. After all, some of these people have been running fast for almost two hours, even if the ranger squad and the cavalry company are riding horses, even if they are late, they can rush to the front of the fleeing captives, but the direction of the pirate captives escaping is very arbitrary, and the scope of dispersion is extremely wide, not to mention relying on these two cavalry to chase alone, even if the two companies of infantry that are still rushing over in a hurry to join the encirclement ranks, it is impossible to guarantee that all the passages will be blocked, and it is normal for fish to slip through the net.
With the help of the telescope, the distance between the two sides is not very far, and the battle on the beach, Huang Hai and others are in full view. From the precarious position of the third platoon of the Eighth Company, to the emergence of the "Flying Dragon Banner", to the rebels and pirate captives on the beach who were all gathered together and waiting for severe sanctions, Huang Hai and the others were sometimes nervous, sometimes elated, and their attention was fully devoted to this very limited counterinsurgency operation.
Because he had witnessed the battle through the binoculars, when the deputy squadron leader of the "Wolf's Tooth" squadron, the leader of the squadron, who was also the leader of the squadron, boarded the Daifuku ship and was about to report the battle situation to Huang Hai and others, Huang Hai hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him and said: "The course of the battle has been clearly seen through the binoculars, and there is no need to tell the master about this." Go back, that you may keep the captives in your custody, and there will be no more escape. ”,
The deputy squadron leader took the order and left the ship. The Yellow Sea ordered the anchor to be pulled out and set sail, and the Daifuku ship sailed back to the beach.
After noon, two companies of the "Flying Dragon Army" infantry, led by Zeng Zhilin, arrived at the bay after several hours of rapid travel, and with them arrived more than 300 prisoners -- these were the escaped pirate captives that the two infantry companies encountered during the rapid march.
The rebellion of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 8th Company, Company Headquarters and 2 Platoons of the "Flying Dragon Army" was only four or five hours from the beginning of the plot to the complete suppression of Zuihou, which is estimated to be the shortest-lived rebellion. About half of the officers and men who participated in the rebellion were killed, the rest were taken prisoner, and not a single one of them was able to run away -- among the crowds fleeing in all directions, the camouflage combat uniforms worn by the rebel soldiers became their most obvious symbol, and naturally they were the object of attention, and it was a miracle that they were not all killed, and it was an impossible task to escape while they were in chaos.
The losses of the "Flying Dragon Army" were mainly concentrated in the third platoon of the eighth company that resisted the attack of the rebels with all its might, and of the 40 people in the platoon, 12 were killed, and almost all of the surviving ones, including the third platoon commander and Chang Mao, were wounded, and the losses were extremely great. The losses of the rangers and other troops who came to encircle the rebels were very slight due to the early collapse of the rebels, with only one killed and ten slightly wounded. In addition, the guards who crossed the crowd also lost one person, that is, the personal guard of Huang Hai, who was also surnamed Huang.
In addition, more than 700 pirate captives were killed and wounded, which was not much smaller than the loss of the people whose nest was raided in the first place, and it could be regarded as a punishment for helping the rebellion.
After Huang Hai and the others went ashore, they immediately set up a radio station and reported the relevant situation to the "Qingyuan" and "Jingyuan" and other places. It didn't take long, and "Qingyuan" called back. In the telegram, Wang Kunjun and Zhang Weixin, on the one hand, expressed their condolences to the officers and men of the various ministries participating in the war, and on the other hand, they expressed the committee's opinion on the handling of the rebellion -- all officers at the platoon commander and above who participated in the rebellion were to be beheaded, and all soldiers who participated in the rebellion were to be sentenced to 40 sticks and were sent to the mines to be served as hard laborers, and the specific sentences ranged from one to 20 years, depending on the degree of their participation in the rebellion, the impact of the bad deeds they did during the rebellion, and the casualties they caused to the counterinsurgency troops during the fighting.
After dealing with the officers and soldiers who participated in the rebellion, the next step is to consider the purpose of Huang Hai and others coming here. In this regard, the opinions of Wang and Zhang in the "Qing Garden," including Li Junwu and Yang Xin, were basically the same -- despite the rebellion, the purpose of Huang Hai and others was not affected in any way. The committee's opinion was that after cleaning up the corpses and bloodstains on the beach, Huang Hai immediately led people to conduct an on-site inspection, striving to build ports, wharves, and shipyards in the shortest possible time, and to make preparations for the establishment of the "Flying Dragon Army" for maritime operations. For this reason, the 1,000-strong anti-bandit team led by Zeng Zhilin will be stationed in the salt works and bays for a long time until the committee has a new order, or when the seaside project is completed.
On the morning of November 28, the seventh lunar calendar of the seventh year of the corresponding calendar, Huang Hai, Zeng Zhilin and others again received a telegram from the committee. The telegram contained only a few lines - an enlarged meeting of the Committee was scheduled for the afternoon of the 29th day of the 29th lunar calendar to discuss the problems arising from the rebellion and to propose corrections, and that all those eligible to attend the meeting must attend and not be absent.