Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (36)

Liu Baochang of Gongling is very familiar with Luo Wei's troops, the year before last, Luo Wei's troops stayed in the Gongling area for almost a year, and the villagers of Gongling have long been familiar with their work and rest rules. Every morning, they would blow a loud wake-up call, followed by the lively sound of military training. No matter how sleepy or tired they are, the team's daily morning exercise is necessary and never stops. Liu Baochang thought that it was the same today, early in the morning, he was waiting under the big tree at the entrance of the village, and he also prepared a lot of baked cakes and soft cakes, ready to start the labor army early in the morning.

What Liu Baochang didn't expect was that he waited until the third pole of the day, and did not wait for the team to come out of the morning exercise, Liu Baochang was a little angry, and ran to the door of the ancestral hall to ask the sentry on duty, why did he not have morning exercises, and Chief Luo's team did not have morning exercises. The sentry opened his half-asleep eyes and told Liu Baochang that the commander of this team was not Luo Wei, but Shi Chong, and Luo Wei was now the deputy of the regiment, regardless of the facts. Liu Bao was furious, why did the team change to Shi Zhong as the chief, and he couldn't even do morning exercises!

It's not that Shi Chong didn't have morning exercises, but because today's task was too tiring, and he rushed for two days in the first two days, so he was exempted from the morning exercises of the brothers. It was not until half past nine o'clock that the wake-up call sounded in the barracks, ten o'clock, dinner, and at half past ten, the assault company and the reconnaissance company left Gongling with the cattle and carts collected from Gongling.

To Liu Baochang's surprise, at noon, Zhang Cripple, who was detained in the ancestral hall, was also released. Zhang Cripple was not as decadent as he imagined, but very energetic, with a light on his face, a smile, found Liu Baochang, thanked him very much for his care, and told him to let the village organize a batch of cakes and cakes made during the New Year, put them on their donkey carts, and bring them back to Gaohebu to sell, and let Liu Baochang go to Gaohebu to collect the money in a few days. This batch of cakes and cakes has become the heaviest burden for Liu Baochang, and it is really unexpected to hear that Zhang Cripple can solve a batch. Liu Baochang thanked him a lot, and after putting the cakes and cakes made by his family in the car, he piled the cakes and cakes of some related households on the donkey cart, until the car was so full that he almost didn't even leave the lame man's seat.

In front of Liu Baochang, Luo Wei threatened Zhang Cripple a few words, warning him that if he leaked the news that the troops had arrived in Gongling, he would kill his entire family. Zhang Cripple carefully dealt with it, and even said that he didn't dare, and after the performance, he got up and left.

On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head, the Yangtze River basin, the north wind has receded, the south wind has not arrived, it is the season when the sun is counting, as long as you are bathed in the sun, you will be warm all over your body, once you leave the sun's shine, you will just be cold all over the body. Walking in the light of the sun, the more you walk, the more spiritual. Shi Zhong led the team, walking in the Duxiu Mountain, although the mountain is beautiful but not green, although the forest is lush but not secluded, before the continuous march for two days, it is indeed tired, today I slept well, the brothers of the guard battalion immediately refreshed, it is good to be young.

There are two roads from Gongling to Chaling, one is to pass through Gaohebu, the other is to bypass Gaohebu, the distance of the two sections of the road is almost the same, but the road conditions are very different. Relatively speaking, the road through Gaohebu is easier to walk, it is the official post road, the road is relatively flat, and there are more people walking. The one you go around is through the famous Duxiu Mountain, which is a mountain path. The trail is barely legitimately legislating for carriages, and some sections are in disrepair and need to be slightly trimmed to allow carriages to pass. Shi Zhong and the men and horses did not walk fast, nor in a hurry, he knew that even if the men and horses carrying grain and grass from Anqing set off early in the morning, they would have to walk for more than six hours to reach Chaling, and no matter how slow he was, he would set up an ambush position before they arrived. This kind of thing is arranged too early and tired.

The reason why Shi Zhong was able to have no fear was because Zhang Shenghu's reconnaissance company had already taken the lead. If there is any situation, Zhang Shenghu will use the walkie-talkie to report it in time.

Zhang Shenghu's reconnaissance company, according to Zhang Cripple's words, quickly found the ambush. This is indeed a good place for ambush, from the tea ridge to gather, is a fairly flat field, after entering Sunjiachong, and see some low hills, the ambush position is selected next to the road in the north of Sunjiachong, the most favorable conditions here are not mountains, but there are trees, both sides of the road, are dry ponds, the bottom of the pond is much shorter than the road, the road passes through the middle of the pond, it seems to be high. The ambush was on the left side of the pond, and across the pond there was a forest, and in front of the tree was a withered yellow artemisia grass, and a hundred or so people hid in it, and no one who walked by on the road could find it.

Zhang Shenghu put the farthest post at Gangziling, south of Chaling, and as soon as the transport team walked out of Gangziling, he immediately notified the ambushed team to enter the combat state.

There is Zhang Shenghu as an outpost, Zhang Shenghu arranges, and Zhang Shenghu takes care of the aftermath, which is also the reason why Zhao Shengan likes to fight with Zhang Shenghu the most.

What made Shi Zhong a little annoyed was that Zhang Shenghu also clarified his location, which was the Sun family ancestral hall not close to the ambush point. The ancestral hall is not old, it is very clean, there is a wide square at the door, the ancestral hall is made of blue bricks, there are exquisite tiles on the top, there is a tall ancient tree on the left and right sides of the ancestral hall, the leaves have long been gone, leaving only the branches of the teeth and claws. A table of eight immortals is placed in the open space, and there is a white porcelain teapot on the table, and some snacks. Seeing this, Shi Chongle was happy, and in the ancestral hall of the Sun family, even the gunshots at the ambush point may not be able to be heard clearly.

Shi Zhong scolded with a smile: "I'll just stay here? What are you doing here? Can't see or hear, worry about it? ”

Zhang Shenghu said with a smile: "Yingzuo, here, I don't know if I can see or hear or hear, I know, I feel at ease if you stay here." ”

Zhao Shengan also smiled and said: "This place is excellent, the scenery is beautiful, the sun is warm, if you get some peanuts and soybeans and send some wine, it will be the life of the gods." ”

"It means that I will go with you, and this place will be the end, and the rest will be nothing for me?" Shi Chong sat on the Taishi chair next to the table of the Eight Immortals, and said with a smile: "Okay, I left Deputy Luo in Gongling, and you left me here, this is really a report and a report." But I'll put it in front, if you don't play well this time, don't think about throwing me behind next time. ”

Zhao Shengan and Zhang Shenghu smiled, stood up and saluted, and said, "Please see our methods." ”

Shi Zhong drank a pot of water, ate another piece of pastry, and leaned back on the Taishi chair and squinted his eyes, extremely bored. Finally, he found something he liked, and a mouse slipped out of the ancestral hall and lazily basked in the sun in front of the ancestral hall. Shi Zhong walked around the mouse lightly, first plugged the hole not far behind the mouse with a piece of hard soil, and then screamed loudly. The mouse was surprised, turned around and drilled into the rat hole, only to find that the hole was missing in front of him, the mouse ran left and right in a panic, Shi Zhong picked up a bamboo chicken cover, threw it over like a fishing net, and covered the mouse inside.

Stretched out his hand to catch the mouse, found a rope, tied a half-foot-long bamboo to the tail of the mouse, and then let the mouse go, let the mouse fly, the bamboo was too heavy, and too much of a hindrance, the mouse was tripped by the bamboo from time to time a big heel, and finally on the small ditch, the mouse hung himself alive in the air.

The happiness brought by the rat passed quickly, and Shi Zhong asked the confidential officer next to him for the first time: "Is the grain delivery team up?" ”

This time, there was finally a reliable answer: "The grain transport team has already passed Chaling, and it is estimated that it will be able to enter our ambush circle in about ten minutes." ”

Shi Zhong suddenly had a spirit.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng'an in the ambush circle already had a feeling of urgency, and his deputy company commander Zhang Chongshan was chattering about the situation in his ear: "It's a carriage, it's all a carriage, it's not the people who drive the carriage, it's the soldiers, it seems that the peaceful founding army in Anqing is not at ease to hand over the military rations to ordinary people for transportation." The escort team was at the front and back, with fewer people in front of the front, about one platoon, and more people in the back. ”

Zhao Sheng'an nodded, adjusting the battle plan, the hand artillery platoon, responsible for the escort team in front, the first platoon, responsible for the escort team behind the palace, the hand cannon platoon will do it first, and then the platoon will do it. It is required that the 18 Japanese-style 89-type hand cannons of the hand cannon platoon should be fired at the same time, and they must fall on the leading part of the escort team, and try not to blow up the transport team in the middle. A platoon fired when the hand cannon exploded, using a dense burst of bullets to knock over as many enemy troops as possible behind the hall. Immediately followed by a platoon, a third platoon of water Lianzhu began to pack up the enemy who was driving the cart, striving to shoot people but not horses, if not sure, you can let go. The second platoon always obeys orders and charges with him.

The grain transport team got closer and closer, and they did not expect that in this place where the terrain was not excellent, there would be a hidden killing machine. After walking for most of the day, the puppet army was a little hard, although the sun in the remnant winter was warm, it could dry people after a long time. The 38 big cover was carried horizontally on his shoulder, and he walked dejectedly.

Zhao Sheng'an was very calm, he was waiting, waiting for the entire grain transport team to enter his attack range.

An order: "Release!" ”

Eighteen gunners released the rubber strips of the firing almost at the same time, and almost at the same time, eighteen hand-cannon shells flew over the dry pond and landed on the front of the grain convoy. The cannonballs fell, the cannons rang out, and the founding army behind the palace collectively rang out, and at this moment of mental trance, Zhang Chongshan shouted: "Fight!" The nine crutches roared at the same time. The grain convoy was hit before and after, and the convoy in the middle immediately stopped, just when they were at a loss, a crisp burst of water gunshots rang out, one shot at a time, after a burst of gunfire, more than 20 soldiers of the National Construction Army who were driving the carriage fell to the ground, and the other soldiers of the National Construction Army who were driving the car saw this, and immediately lay down on the spot and hid their bodies on the other side of the cart.

The second wave of shells of the hand artillery platoon no longer fell at the front of the grain transport team, but at the rear of the line, and the soldiers of the Peace Founding Army who were lying on the ground hiding from machine guns were blown up and lay on the ground, thinking that the commander of the second battalion of the Gaohebu Garrison Regiment who had been lying down with machine gun bullets could not avoid it, a shell fell on the top of his head, and the upper half of his body was blown to pieces.

The soldiers of the Peace Founding Army, who were still alive and behind him, immediately herded their sheep, jumped off the dry pond on the other side of the road, and ran away.

At this moment, Zhao Shengan shouted, "Kill!" ”

The second platoon took the lead, the M712 Mauser gun and the wooden box were integrated, and the long magazine of twenty rounds was fully supplied, and it shot as it ran, rushing towards the main road. Immediately behind them were three rows of water beads, as for the first platoon and the pistol platoon, they stood in place and watched the excitement, charging with crutches, which was the original intention of the Japanese when they designed this machine gun, but, except as a last resort, no one was so perverted and willing to rush to kill with crutches.

When Zhao Shengan gathered the soldiers who were still alive, Zhang Shenghu also led people to bring back the soldiers of the Jianguo Army who had fled before, and those who could not be brought back became the souls of Zhang Shenghu's guns.

Counting the results of the battle, except for one horse that was scratched by shrapnel, the other animals were not injured. Twenty-five of the founding troops who drove the car died, there were no wounded, and all who were alive became prisoners. There were a lot of deaths in the grain team, only seventeen of them were not injured in a reorganized company, and twenty-two were wounded, and in addition, all of them were killed.

How to deal with these fifty or sixty captives, Zhao Shengan and Zhang Shenghu were very embarrassed, and finally decided, please ask Lord Shi Chong to speak, Shi Chong looked at the group of prisoners, and said to Zhao Shengan and Zhang Shenghu a little annoyed: "What are you two doing, don't you embarrass me for making so many jobs?" ”

When the captives heard this, their souls flew into the sky, except for the wounded who couldn't move, and they knelt down in unison.

Shi Zhong walked around the captives three times, took out the gun several times and put it back in the holster, and finally sighed and said to the captive: "Killing prisoners is ominous, they are all Chinese, and I can't bear it." Okay, you come with me for the time being, whether you can leave a life depends on whether you are obedient or not. ”

The captives kowtowed like pounded garlic and begged: "We are obedient, we are obedient, and the commander spares his life." ”

Let the wounded sit in the cart brought earlier, and let the captured driver continue to drive his cart, leave Chaling, and slowly return.