Chapter Seventy-Five: The Short Spear
On a rainy night, two people hid under a big tree outside the town and smoked, there was only one explanation, these two people were sentinels, there was some big person in the town who was worthy of their protection, the heavy rain distracted them, and on such a night, they didn't think that there would be an expeditionary force coming, so they relaxed their vigilance.
As soon as the sentry was spotted, Roque motioned for the whole team to stop.
"What's wrong?" Struggling in the mud, Henry came to Roque crookedly like a tumbler.
"There's a sentry under the big tree ahead." Roque pondered that it would take a certain amount of skill to take out the Sentinels without attracting the attention of others, and Roque asked himself if he could do it.
"Maybe it's one of ours." Henry still has a fluke mentality.
"Don't be stupid, if it were our people, with such a heavy rain, the sentinels wouldn't know where to go for a long time." Roque is welcome, in fact, the British Expeditionary Force in the Boer War was inferior to the Boer coalition.
"So what are you waiting for? Kill them! "Henry was murderous, and all the Boers were now flying cheques in Henry's eyes.
"You're crazy-" Roque pressed down on the muzzle of Henry's gun that had been raised, and signaled to the town with his chin: "With such heavy rain and dutiful sentinels, there must be big fish in the town, you and Anton will lead people around and set up machine gun positions on the other side of the town, and I will attack from this side to see how much we can earn this time." ”
It's not just Henry who is a money fan, but Roque is too, and no one is going to get along with the pound.
"Good idea, waiting for my signal." Henry agrees with Roque's plan.
This is also the safest way, if there are really big people in the town, then as long as the battle starts, the first reaction of the big people in the town will be to flee immediately, instead of organizing a counterattack on the spot, because no one knows how many expeditionary forces will attack on a rainy night, so fleeing is the first option, and when the time comes, Henry They just need to wait for the rabbit.
"How do you give me a signal, a Morse code with a heavy machine gun? So how do you arrest people? Once you've set up your machine-gun positions, you'll be on the attack in the early hours of the morning to get people out of town. "It's good that Roque has a pocket watch, and it's a good thing to be high-tech.
"You're a genius!" Henry was completely impressed by Roque, who is this, is the training of the Huayong Battalion so high-end!
Seeing Henry and his party disappear into the rainy night, Roque raised his hand and called Li De over: "Do you see that big tree outside the town?" There are two Boer guerrilla sentinels under the big tree, I want to deal with them silently, who among our people can do it? ”
Roque asked himself if he couldn't do it, so he had to work together, and there were many talented people in the Chinese police, three stinkers, and Zhuge Liang.
"Touch the whistle - let the Gaude brothers go, they used to be hunters, and they are the best at this." Li De really has a way.
Really good at it, Roque called the brothers Gao De and Gao Deng, and after explaining the situation, Gao De and Gao Deng nodded again and again, and Gao De took out two stainless steel short spears from the canvas pocket with his backhand.
"You still have this thing with you?" Roque was amazed that the police department had issued Webley revolvers and Lee Enfield rifles, both of whom had their own weapons.
"Head, my brother and I thought that we might be able to hit a rabbit or something on weekdays and open a small stove for our brothers." Gao De casually took off his raincoat and took off the suede shoes on his feet.
Roque was immediately full of confidence in the two Gaode brothers, and sure enough, they were professional, taking off their raincoats for ease of movement, and taking off their leather shoes for the sake of approaching quietly, not veterans, and they couldn't notice these at all.
"Wait, let's go together." Roque wants to go with Gauder and Gordon to confirm that those two people are the sentinels of the Boer coalition, and Roque is also worried that there will be a third sentry, one more person, one more security.
In fact, there is no need to be so careful, in the rainy night, some faint sounds are all muffled by the sound of wind and rain, and there are basically no people to be seen from ten meters away, Roque and Gauder and Gordon cautiously touched forward until they could hear the sound of two sentries chatting.
Do not understand!
But Roque could tell that the sentry was speaking Dutch.
Although Dutch and English are two languages, Dutch is somewhere between German and English, both of which belong to the Germanic language family, and is closer to English than either language.
Sure it was a Boer, Roque nodded to Gauder and Gordon, each holding a short steel spear, and bent over the two sentinels.
In the drizzle, Roque only saw a flash of cold light, but did not hear a sound, and the two sentries were knocked to the ground.
Not counting knocking down to the ground, Gaode's short spear was absolutely steady, accurate, and ruthless, the short spear directly penetrated the sentry's neck, nailing the sentry to the big tree behind him, and the sentry "Hehe" gasped and grabbed the spear handle hard, trying to pull the short spear out of his neck, but the blood gushed out like a faucet that opened the floodgates, and the sentry slowly stood still.
"Well done!" Roque's heart was like water, and he stepped forward to check on the dead sentry.
It is indeed Boers, they are taller and more backward than the average British, the expeditionary force is already equipped with Lee Enfield, and the rifles of these two men are Martini Henry, and the other is a Winchester M1873, there is no doubt that they are Boers.
Martini Henry rifle, perhaps also used by the British army, the use of Winchester M1873 must be the Boers, although this gun has a relatively fast rate of fire, but because of the use of pistol bullets, so the charge is small, the range is short, and no British army will choose this weapon.
"Well done!" Roque did not hesitate to praise, Gaude and Gordon smiled, they were the first veterans to come to Cape Town, the craft of hunting was useless in Cape Town, and when they came to the Orange Free State, they finally shined, as long as they hugged Roque's thigh, the future can be expected!
"Hurry up and get something to eat, we'll touch it in the early hours of the morning, and if anyone finds it, attack it head-on, Reed, protect your explosives bag, don't get wet." Roque was full of confidence, and with his heart or not, the big fish in the town, Roque was determined.
The rainy night is indeed difficult, but in order to win, Roque can only choose to wait in the rainy night.
Finally, the sky began to show the whiteness of the fish's belly, and the heavy rain that had been falling all night finally stopped, and Roque glanced at the town still shrouded in morning mist, and quietly gave the commandos the order to attack.
The heavy rain did paralyze the Boers' vigilance to the greatest extent, and Roque and their smooth entry into the town showed that the Boers had only placed two sentries outside the town, and did not even arrange a secret sentry.
But the success ended there, after all, they were not professional special forces, and Roque and they were not fully prepared, they did not know enough about the situation in the town, Gao De had just tried to open the courtyard door of the first house, and the dogs in the yard immediately began to bark.
What a dog thing!
Then storm it.