Chapter XXXVII
In the thirty-three days after the Great Crossing took place, the number of people in the Wonsan area was about 80,000, and there were 18,000 official members of the alliance area, including audit members, including 9,000 regular members and 9,000 members during the audit period.
And the number of troops also reached 1,800 people, a total of 14 companies. Although the increase in the number of soldiers has slowed down, the overall quality of the soldiers has increased considerably, and many of the soldiers in the wall guards have shown their strong side, firmly holding back the invading rioters, and defending every inch of land and every grain in the Union area.
It has been proved that once people have hope and belonging, then they will burst out with endless power, although their food has been reduced to half eating wild vegetables and half gnawing on tree bark, and only occasionally eating a little meat foam. But they firmly believe that as long as they get through the difficulties, good days will come.
On this day, the clouds were somewhat gloomy and seemed to be accumulating rain. This kind of weather, which makes it easy to feel heavy in the heart, will not remind people of the day before the Great Crossing took place, when the weather was also so gloomy, and now it is just missing the faint light of that time.
The soldiers guarding inside the walls were holding their weapons and looking around nervously, and they could sense that the situation outside the walls was a little different today. Because there were many people gathered in the distance outside the wall, and they looked at the Union District with strange eyes, and the soldiers knew that these people must be attacking the Union District again.
The review period members who built the fence outside the fence have long been arranged, and there will be a special space in each alliance area for the review period members to rest, although the position is very crowded, but it can still be accommodated.
The highest officer stationed in the No. 3 Alliance Area was Liao Huan, the deputy regiment commander, who led nearly 600 troops from five companies to garrison here. Liao Huan was also aware of the anomaly outside the wall, which often happened a few days ago, but the number of people gathered at that time was not so large.
In the past few days, there have been quite a few attacks in Alliance Area Three, but those are only a few hundred people, and they have not caused much damage to Alliance Area Three, and this time, the number of people gathered outside the wall has reached more than a thousand, and it is still increasing.
Liao Huan had already ordered his soldiers to be more vigilant, and if any crowd of more than fifty people approached the wall for no reason, they only needed to warn once, and if they continued to approach after one time, they would be killed directly.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the clouds in the sky were still gloomy, but it still did not rain. This makes many people's mood more and more depressed, and they really want to find an outlet to vent out.
As if affected by this weather, the crowd gathered outside the fence finally couldn't hold back, and the agitation rang out, and soon, hundreds of people began to rush towards the wall east of Alliance Zone Three.
The soldiers guarding the eastern wall also reacted immediately, and in this case, the soldiers did not forget to warn loudly, and it was obvious that the rioting crowd was not moved at all, and rushed to the wall frantically, just shouting constantly: "Hand over the food, hand over the food!" ”
In their current thoughts, there must be a huge amount of food in the alliance zone, and although they knew it was impossible, they had already forgotten all their worries when they were hungry.
The crowd had already rioted, and the soldiers guarding the wall of course no longer cared about anything, and directly waved their weapons to kill these rioting crowds.
"Pay attention to the defense in the first row, and don't smash the stones when you throw them. Don't worry about the second platoon, swing your weapons, and strike when it's time to strike! The company commander who was stationed on the east wall of the No. 2 Alliance Area was Ma Yutao, who himself was wielding a crude stone hammer and shouted: "The archery squad of the third platoon aims at those who have weapons, don't let them get close." The brothers of the reserve company picked up the stone and threw it vigorously, but they must aim and throw it. ”
There were only five companies of 600 soldiers stationed in the No. 3 Alliance District, and there were only about 100 soldiers in each of the four directions of east, west, south and north. It was difficult to defend a wall with such a small number of men, so many of the strong members in Alliance Area 3 were also mobilized and formed into reserve companies to disperse to the various walls to assist the army in defending them.
The number of people in the reserve company is not fixed, there are two or three hundred people or even five or six hundred, and these people are both full members of the alliance zone and members of the review period. It is only that the full members are subject to military deployment, while the review period members act on a voluntary basis. Although Lin Yue customized a very strict audit for the members of the audit period, they gave them great freedom, they only need to obey the labor service, not the military affairs. But when the Union Zone is attacked, a large proportion of these people volunteer to go to the wall to help protect it.
Most of the men in the reserve company were unarmed, and their attack was basically by throwing stones. As early as a few days ago, the Union District arranged for a large number of people to pick up stones outside the fence, and move them to the Union District, no matter how big or small. Now these stones have played a great role, don't look at it thrown over, at most it is just to smash some bruises, but once the number of stones is large, it is also extremely terrifying, a wave of stones covers the past, and it is not a problem to kill dozens of people.
But there is also a disadvantage of throwing stones, that is, the stones you throw out, others can still pick them up and throw them back, but under the cover of various attacks, there are not many people who can pick up stones. What's more, the crowd is very chaotic, and if you bend down to pick up a rock and accidentally get hit, you will only be trampled to death.
The first wave hit the eastern wall with only a few hundred people, but soon a second wave of people rushed in, this time with thousands of people.
"Hurry up and send a signal for help!" When company commander Ma Yutao saw that more than a thousand people were involved in the riot attack, he immediately turned around and yelled at a soldier behind him: "Hurry up and smoke wolf!" ”
The so-called wolf smoke is just a way of saying it, in fact, it is just lighting the hay on the campfire, so that the smoke can come out and call for help from the other three walls. It's just that this transmission method is more similar to the ancient kind of beacon wolf smoke, so it is called wolf smoke.
The hay on the campfire is prepared early, and there is a torch burning next to it, so you can light the wolf smoke by throwing the torch directly into the hay in case of emergency.
It takes a little time for smoke to come out after the hay is lit, and it will take time for people from other directions to send people over to help when they see Wolf Smoke, so at this moment, Ma Yutao must hold back more than 1,000 people and support them until the arrival of rescue.
"Give me all my strength to resist, reinforcements will arrive soon, and you must hold the wall before that!" Ma Yutao hissed and roared.
After hearing Ma Yutao's shout, the soldiers, who were already a little tired, continued to grit their teeth and hold on. There were so many people in the riot that even though they were guarding their positions, it was difficult to stop the crazy crowd.
Soon, a gap was broken, and a dozen or so soldiers guarding the position were pushed down or killed by the rioting crowd, and the agitated crowd immediately rushed to the gap, many of whom had already climbed over the wall.
"Get out of the way, reserve the company, throw the oil ball!" Faced with this situation, Ma Yutao did not panic, but immediately gave the order without hesitation: "The archery squad of the third platoon will shoot rockets as soon as the oil ball is thrown!" ”
Although Ma Yutao's voice was already a little hoarse, the order he gave still fell clearly in everyone's ears, and the person holding the fireball in the reserve company immediately threw it out without hesitation.
The so-called oil balloon refers to a balloon filled with gasoline. The gasoline was taken out of some motorcycles or cars, and the balloon was brought by Lin Yue when he was preparing supplies on Earth before, claiming that it was found during field exploration.
Since there are not many vehicles in this area of Wonsan, there is only a small part of gasoline, and when it is distributed to each company, there are only a dozen oil balls each.
And when the gap in the wall was broken, Ma Yutao was not distressed, and decisively ordered his subordinates to throw all the oil balls out, because the embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, if the gap was not blocked as soon as possible, the wall in the east would soon be broken, and this meant that the No. 3 alliance area would also be destroyed at one time, so Ma Yutao could not be distressed at this moment.
The thrown ball of oil smashed into the crowd and quickly broke, and a large area of gasoline immediately covered the crowd around the gap in the wall, and then three rows of archers fired rockets and landed in the crowd, the flames ignited the gasoline, and the dazzling flames immediately spread out.
"The three-platoon shield squad will open the way and advance, the spear squad will clear the intruding crowd, and the rest will guard their positions!" Ma Yutao gave the order again. The third platoon of each company in the Union zone was a reinforced platoon, which was divided into a shield squad, a spear squad, and an archery squad. If this platoon is used flexibly, it can play a great role.
Most of the shields held by the shield squad are wooden planks wrapped in a layer of scrap iron, although they cannot be said to be indestructible, but they are also very defensive. The soldiers of the spear squad are armed with iron guns made of iron pipes that have been removed from the vehicles, and their attack power is also very strong.
Under the cover of flames, nearly 100 people were burned in the riot crowd immediately, and forty or fifty of them were still within the wall.
When the crowd outside the wall saw that the gap was covered in flames, they did not dare to approach it, and turned to other directions. At this time, many people had already picked up stones from the ground and thrown them out, and many people inside the wall were knocked out by the stones.
"The shield squad is scattered to do a good job of cover, and the reserve company quickly moves the fainted and wounded soldiers down, and then do your best to find all kinds of objects to help cover it!"
After an order, everyone immediately began to implement it. It's just that the attack of the riotous crowd is too fierce, and the soldiers on guard can't resist them despite their best efforts, and two more gaps are quickly broken.
"Oops!" Seeing that the two gaps were quite large, Ma Yutao immediately knew that the situation was wrong, and shouted loudly: "Brothers of the reserve company, do your best to stop them!" ”
After shouting, Ma Yutao swung his stone hammer and attacked the crowd that rushed over. Many people in the back company immediately rushed over to help after hearing Ma Yutao's shout, but most of them still hesitated and didn't dare to step forward. These people were untrained, and they had no desperate obligation to throw stones at the rear, and they were glad to throw stones at the rear, but they were hesitant to rush to the front and fight for the life and death of the rioters.
There were more and more rioters rushing into the gap, and Ma Yutao, who was stabbed by a wooden gun that didn't know where it came, couldn't resist it, and the eastern wall was about to be breached for a while.
At this moment, reinforcements arrived, and it was Liao Huan and his direct company who arrived.