Chapter 2: Condemnation of Egypt (2)
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Although because of the critical situation, it was impossible for the reconnaissance detachment to calmly report the military situation one by one. The black soldier who came back from the second delivery of the letter could not tell anything more than tearfully saying that many people had died, and that a soldier of the reconnaissance detachment had detonated a bag of explosives to cover their departure.
The destruction of Wen Jiàn was because the detachment that delivered Wen Jiàn felt that they might not be able to guarantee Wen Jiàn's safety and might be captured, and in order to prevent this from happening, Wen Jiàn fell into the hands of the enemy, so Wen Jiàn was destroyed in advance. Except for the text of the core military force mobilization instruction, which was marked as a special number, all the other documents were destroyed.
But this is enough, this sentence in the military newspaper is enough to explain the situation.
Liu Tie got a company sent by Ding Yi in the afternoon, the reconnaissance company of the regimental headquarters of the guard regiment, which can be said to be the elite of the elite, this company was added to Liu Tie's rescue detachment, and they brought Ding Yi's words: "Take them out, they want to see people alive, and they want to see corpses when they die." ”
So the rescue detachment, reinforced by a reconnaissance company of the guard regiment, began to march in the rainforest on the edge of the desert, along the Nile in the direction of Kina in the rainforest on the edge of the desert, and they did not ride any of the Arabian thoroughbreds of the horses, not a single one, and each company of the baggage platoon brought with them the Mongolian horses that had come with the fleet from China, only the Mongolian horses. to be able to support such a march.
On the second day of departure, Liu Tie met the third messenger. It seems that the reconnaissance detachment of the division headquarters of the 1st Rong Division seems to have been given a buffer. At least they had time to write a fairly detailed battle report, and even the terrain they were in, and the route they were turning to, and drew a simple contour line, scale diagram, of course, it could not be too accurate, although for veterans of the reconnaissance major of the Rongyi Division, it was not too difficult, but there had to be a time period for them to rest, and it was possible to do it.
The battle report is written in Arabic numeral cipher:
“…… Ammunition statistics of our department: rifle bullets. There is still more than one base number per person; pistol bullets, there are still two bases; grenades, two per person; grenade grenades, one base for each body; 1.8-inch mortar, all ammunition is still in use. Casualty statistics: Black regiment soldiers, three suicides, two deaths from rainforest natives blowing arrows, five killed by Mamluk; After the two were captured, they were killed by our snipers from a distance and confirmed dead; Eleven seriously wounded will probably not survive until tomorrow morning, and five broke down and fled and were killed. Also listed below are the units and positions and names of those black soldiers.
Then there were the casualties in the headquarters of the reconnaissance detachment. "The sergeant and deputy squad leader of the communications class, Lu Shishi, a native of Cangwu, Wuzhou, died in the line of duty by detonating the explosive bag. perished with twenty-seven horse-riding Muryuk soldiers; Sergeant deputy squad leader of the pistol squad, Qinggeltai, a member of the Duyin tribe in the grassland outside the Guanwai. Alone led away about 100 enemy horsemen and died in the line of duty. Next to the remains of the martyrs, parts of two disassembled revolvers were found. The firing pin has been broken; Reconnaissance squad sergeant squad leader, Chen Hanzhang, Xiguanren, Guangzhou Prefecture......"
There were no seriously wounded soldiers, seven of the soldiers listed in the headquarters of the reconnaissance detachment, all of whom died heroically, not a single one was seriously injured, not a single one was missing, not a single person was captured. This shows that the reconnaissance detachment never gave up their robes, and after the martyrs died, they sent people to confirm that they were not fleeing like lost dogs, and that they were fighting, despite the disparity between us and the enemy, and despite the lack of any news of reinforcements, they were still fighting.
Even, they did not use mortars.
Although mortars are more effective at killing and injuring the enemy than grenades and grenades, the larger charge than the latter two, the sound of explosions caused by them, will undoubtedly attract the attention of many waves of the enemy, so they are avoiding attracting the attention of the enemy, they do not give up hope, they do not give up the thirst for victory!
"Go to Suez and give this letter to the gentleman as well." Liu Tie was silent for a moment, hurriedly wrote a letter that was also recorded in Arabic ciphers, and handed it to the three black soldiers who delivered the letter, "You guys move faster." ”
When Ding Yi received this letter, he let out a long sigh, because the code in the letter translated into one sentence: "Our department will immediately launch a rescue operation to ensure the completion of the task." ”
At the back of the letter is also a sign by Cao Jixiang. Why did Liu Tie write such a letter?
Liu Ji, who took the letter to archive, didn't understand, but Ding Yi understood very well.
Liu Tie meant to ask Ding Yi to come here and stop sending troops to reinforce him.
Why? Because he wanted to change the route of the march, he no longer planned to go all the way along the Nile according to the original plan, and then expected the reconnaissance detachment of the 1st Rong Division to meet at the agreed point. In that case, if Ding Yi sends troops to him again, he will probably lose contact.
Liu Tie did this because he had read from the battle report that the reconnaissance detachment of the Rong 1st Division was in danger.
Although only seven people were killed, a single-digit number of casualties, they already accounted for nearly a quarter of the number of reconnaissance detachments, that is, a casualty rate of more than 20 percent. In ancient and modern times, in China and abroad, it is beyond reproach that an army will collapse when it reaches 30% casualties. Of course, there are some particularly elite troops that can fight to the point of one soldier, but that is just an exception, a special case, and it is impossible to use this kind of combat example to require soldiers.
And with a casualty rate of more than 20%, the reconnaissance detachment has actually reached the limit.
Why do they keep sending black soldiers to deliver letters? At this time, isn't there one more person, one more strength?
If you look at the battle report, you will know that the number of black soldiers who died in the attack of the opponent, including the natives of the rainforest, was only seven.
But three committed suicide, two were captured, and five collapsed and fled, and the psychological endurance of the black soldiers was very poor, they simply could not adapt to this kind of high-intensity combat, and the important thing was that they did not believe that they would win the final victory, and they did not have the belief that the Chinese army would be mighty in the four provinces!
Therefore, the officers and men of the reconnaissance detachment simply sent them out to deliver the letter, at least run back to Suez, they can still recognize the way, and they are not willing to receive from Xu Bin every month as the refined salt of military salary, which is a huge wealth for their tribe.
Having reached this point, Liu Tie felt that it was impossible to march, camp, and search step by step.
He's going to attack, he's going to follow the diagram of the reconnaissance detachment, and he's going to go straight into the rainforest!
Three days later, at noon, the three cavalry signal soldiers galloped from the direction of Cairo, and as soon as they arrived outside the camp outside Suez, they tore off the sweat toveils that wrapped their heads and faces, checked the identity documents of the guards, and then rode into the camp with the privilege of field signal soldiers, and shouted: "Great victory!" Cairo victory! ”
Li Bing, who commanded the police corps, listened to the sound of the good news, and couldn't help but shake his head and chant: "Gaochang soldiers and horses are like frost and snow, and the soldiers and horses of the Han family are like the sun and the moon, and the sun and moon shine on the frost and snow. "This is the Old Tang Book. The sentence in "The Biography of Xirong" is the time when Tang Taizong was in power, the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, Zhuyi Mountain called the sky Khan, and the Tang army waved after the Ping Gaochang and set up the Anxi Protectorate!
The officers and soldiers of the Rong Second Brigade in the battalion were very annoyed: "But I lost an opportunity to earn military merits!" But they also cheered for themselves for the robes of the first brigade, "My Ming army is mighty!" "My Ming army is mighty! ”
But Ding Yi's smile was a little far-fetched, although he taught Liu Ji to draft orders, praised Zhao Fu and Wan An, and went to the camp of the Rong Second Brigade, the Marine Brigade, and the Police Corps, and the fat man read out the good news loudly: "Our army has gone down to the ancient city of Cairo and captured the caliph Mustanjid!" The Sultan of Mamluk filled the city and fled! Then Ding Yi made a speech to boost morale.
But when he returned to the command, his brow was still tightly knit.
Even when Mo Rena came over and wanted to talk to him, Ding Yi also smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not happy, can you teach me to be quiet?" ”
Whether it's Wen Fatzi, Mo Rena, or Liu Ji, naturally they don't dare to disturb Ding Yi.
However, after Xu Bin listened, the old gentleman was furious, rushed into the command headquarters and shouted at Ding Yi and asked: "Rujin, you are the soul of the army of tens of millions of tigers, the minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the lord of the seven seas, An Neng is so depressed because of the thirty or so soldiers!" Where have you put all your soldiers? Where is Daming? ”
Ding Yi reluctantly raised his head and said to Xu Bin: "Mr. Yanghao, I know that this shouldn't be the case, but in my heart, it's uncomfortable." ”
Ding Yi, who has always been known for his iron and blood, is good at killing, and is known for being the best at killing people in his life, Xu Bin saw it clearly, and two lines of tears oozed from the corners of his eyes.
Because of a military report, the last black soldier messenger sent by the reconnaissance detachment of the Rong 1st Division.
They didn't meet Liu Tie's rescue team, there were five of them, and they were all the black soldiers alive on the side of the reconnaissance team.
"They fired artillery, the largest kind of artillery, and led away the encircled Mamluks, otherwise, there would be many, many Mamluks, and they would not be able to escape at all!" The black soldiers who delivered the letter were obviously much better than the previous ones, and perhaps this was the reason why the reconnaissance detachment kept them around, and they were probably able to assist in the battle.
The black soldier was in tears, kneeling on the ground and weeping bitterly: "Let's say, let's die together, the sergeant said that we won't shoot, don't drag them down." But we know that there are no bullets, and the guns are dismantled and smashed and thrown into the Nile! The sergeant said we can't die together, we have to send the military report over! ”
This military newspaper was written in plain script, because all the members of the communications squad had been killed, and the original lieutenant captain of the reconnaissance detachment had also died, so the deputy squad leader of the pistol squad acting as the commander of the reconnaissance detachment could not use the code to write the military newspaper. Please do not send aid, our department has been martyred, and the Ming Dynasty is mighty! (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)