Zhao Qingyu kept thinking in his heart, this fire was really evil, and wherever he led the troops, the fire would spread. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Now it was fatal, the 1st Company of the Ranger did not dare to stay, and kept advancing all the way, and the terrain along the coast became more and more steep, and it was impossible to walk at all by the next day.

Iwami Province has many mountains and few plains, and all the mountains that start along the coastline are planted with trees, and it is a custom that the Iwami area has maintained for a long time to plant trees after cutting down trees.

Now the fire together, the sea breeze blows, it is simply a catastrophe, 1 company has nowhere to hide, seeing that the fire is still spreading behind them, everyone has no choice but to go inland a little bit, under the baking of the fire, continue to move forward.

On the evening of the second day, when everyone couldn't hold on, the spread of the fire finally slowed down, and the team immediately rested, Zhao Qingyu distressed released the eagle falcon with some scorched feathers from his arms, and let it slowly try to see if it could fly, and the final result was very desperate.

The 1st Company is now separated from the coastline by several cliffs, and the falcon is temporarily unable to fly, after resting for the night, seeing that the fire is spreading here again, it can't wait for death, Zhao Qingyu led the team to continue to move forward, thinking to see if he can find a flat road to the coastline.

It took 10 days, but fortunately, the wind was blowing inland, and it was only in the morning and afternoon, so everyone was able to walk in front of the flames and survive.

His team kept fleeing from the flames day and night, and finally on the 10th day, they found a slightly calmer hill, and the excited 1st Company immediately turned around and ran towards the sea.

But at the same time, thousands of Japanese soldiers came out in the distance, looking at these enemies in tattered clothes, their eyes were red and swollen, Zhao Qingyu knew that these people must also be victims of the fire.

Looking at his scorched hair and crumpled clothes, Zhao Qingyu sighed, "We are also victims." ”

Unfortunately, the enemy would not listen to his explanation, and when they were told to set off the first fire, it happened to be seen, and this man also drove the small sampan to run ahead of them to report the news.

Several daimyo in the most marginal area of Iwami Province were really hurt by this fire, and after getting the news that the person who set the fire had not yet escaped, they immediately joined forces and searched for the "murderer" along the coastline.

At this time, when they saw the main master, they could still bear it, and the peasants didn't need the agitation of the samurai, so they directly rushed over with red eyes and screams.

The samurai were afraid that these peasants would have no strength before they ran to the opposite position, and kept shouting "Slow down, slow down." ”

One of the samurai said with some emotion: "This is simply the most incredible day of my samurai career, I didn't expect that one day the peasants will run too fast." ”

The other man stopped, gasped and said, "Yes, I can't outrun these peasant soldiers, it's really embarrassing." ”

Zhao Qingyu checked the terrain, behind him was the spreading fire, the north was the sea, the enemy occupied the other two sides, there was nowhere to escape, the enemy was trying to encircle his own troops.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qingyu shouted, "Flag bearer, plant the military flag on the beach and see if the responding sea boat can see us." ”

Then he turned around and ordered, "One row, two rows, in three deep formations, half a meter apart." Three platoons mounted and prepared for the assault. ”

As soon as they lined up, they heard a soldier shout, "Company commander, it's not good, there is a problem with the copper case ammunition of the rifle." ”

"What's going on?"

"The grease used for sealing melted and mixed with gunpowder."

"I'm in the Olympics, why is there a problem at this time. Can you give it a try? ”

The fighter pulled the bolt, loaded the ammunition, pulled the hammer, and pulled the trigger.

A "bang" sounded much smaller than usual, and a projectile rushed out of the muzzle and landed on a rock more than ten meters away, making a dull sound.

Ye Meng's voice rang out: "Is this a turtle spitting?" At such a distance, who can you hit? ”

Everyone's faces were covered with black lines.

I've been running for my life for the past few days, and I don't have time to check ammunition or maintain weapons, so I didn't find out that something was wrong until now, and it was really a leak in the house that happened to rain overnight.

Zhao Qingyu saw that the enemy had rushed to within 400 meters, and ordered, "All of them, shoot in groups, and see if you can fire a few bullets." ”

The crowd fired together at the sound of the whistle, and only a third of the ammunition fired, and of that third, only half hit the charging crowd.

The bullet hit the crowd, and immediately came down to more than a dozen Japanese peasant soldiers,

Although the ultra-long range of the 1st Company frightened the enemy, there were thousands of people on the opposite side, and the loss of only a dozen people was not taken into account, and the team continued to charge.

After 10 rounds of continuous shooting, nearly 100 soldiers of the Xuan Army only hit more than 100 enemies, which can be regarded as the worst result in the history of the Xuan Army.

However, the soldiers of the 1st Company did not have time to check the results, and they did not even have time to pick up the copper shells that had to be recovered according to the regulations. The enemy is already about to reach 100 distances, and with the current ammunition situation, I am afraid that hand-to-hand combat will be necessary.

The soldiers of the Xuan Army are not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, and the bayonet is one of the most important trainings in the training subject, but now their own numbers are at an absolute disadvantage, and hand-to-hand combat is really at a loss.

Zhao Qingyu can't sit still, "Everyone get on their horses and prepare to charge." ”

The crowd rode on horseback and listened to the officer's command, "Ready." ”

There was a neat sound of drawing swords, the shining sabers made the atmosphere look solemn, and the 200 war horses were neatly arranged together, which was very intimidating.

The charging speed of the peasants on the opposite side slowly slowed down.

On the one hand, it was due to the prestige of the cavalry, and on the other hand, they charged too early, and with a desire for revenge, they exploded with all their strength to get here, but they were shocked by the cavalry, relieved, and found that they could no longer run.

In the end, the crowd stopped at the 100-meter line and failed to cross over.

Zhao Qingyu didn't dare to be too arrogant at this time, after all, he had been on the road for 10 days in a row, and the physical exertion was too great, and the water was cut off in the last two days, and everyone's body was about to reach the bottom line, and it was really not a good idea to charge at this time.

Zhao Qingyu licked his chapped lips, thinking to himself, "It would be best if we could just stalemate like this and scare the enemy away." ”

It's a pity that he hasn't been lucky lately, and this good wish has not been realized.

The samurai, who had been resting for a while, slowly came behind the peasants, drew their swords, and began to supervise the work of the warlords.

The peasants and soldiers, holding bamboo guns, lined up in a dense queue, and slowly approached the 1st Company.

90 steps

80 steps

70 steps

Zhao Qingyu no longer hesitated, this distance must be charged, and if he waits any longer, the speed of his own war horse will not be able to catch up, at that time, the cavalry that has lost its speed will be the target of the enemy.

But before Zhao Qingyu could give the order, a huge roar sounded from the sea, and a cannonball slammed into the queue of peasants on the opposite side, directly penetrating the entire depth, and the rain of blood and minced flesh filled the enemy ranks.

The people of the 1st Company were startled, turned around and looked behind, and the beautiful streamlined hull of the Sea Shark-101 came into view, and in the open cannon window, five black holes of artillery were pointed at this side, and wisps of gunsmoke were still rising from the muzzle of one of the guns.

"Hey, it's the Navy brothers."

The soldiers of the 1st Company took off their hats one after another and waved their hands in salute.

Kan Shu stood at the stern of the ship, the telescope saw the scene of flicking his hat, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, turned his head and used the pipe used for shouting, and ordered to the cabin below, "Test fire is on target, other artillery guns are fired." ”

After four consecutive cannon shots, the shells flew out, and in the shaking of the ship, they once again steadily hit the enemy array within a few hundred meters on the opposite side, and knocked out four blood lines for the enemy troops who were still stunned and did not come back to their senses.

The commander of the Japanese army on the opposite side was quite wise, knowing that he would not be able to please today, so he gave the order and turned around and withdrew.

The army put together by a few daimyo was able to maintain general unity when attacking, but now that it was time to retreat, they directly let the sheep go, and the peasants and samurai ran all over the mountains.

"Stop shooting, don't waste ammo. Dock as soon as possible to meet the comrades of the Ranger unit. ”

After Kanshu finished the order, he took out a small notebook and carefully memorized, "I hope to equip the rifled gun with shotguns." ”

After an hour, the comrades of the 1st Ranger Company, plus 200 horses, finally boarded the Sea Shark-101.

"Comrade Captain, thank you, if you hadn't arrived in time, our 1st company would have to be explained here."

"There is no need to be polite between comrades-in-arms."

Zhao Qingyu said firmly: "I owe you once." ”

Kan Shu smiled, "I hope you don't pay it back for the rest of your life." ”

Zhao Qingyu paused for a moment, and then laughed together.

After laughing for a while, Kanshu looked at the spreading fire and sighed, "You guys have made a lot of noise this time, and the entire mountainous area of Iwami Province has been burned down by you." ”

"Ahem." Zhao Qingyu coughed dryly twice, and he didn't dare to talk about this topic with a weak heart, and after coughing a few times, he asked, "Is there water?" The water has been out for two days, and we are really unlucky, we have not found a water source along the way. ”

"We don't have much water, we can give it all to you, hold on, according to the current strength of the wind, we can get to the next supply point in a day."

"Give us a little bit, just don't die of thirst."

Kan Shu smiled and didn't speak, turned around and shouted, "Free up drinking water for the Rangers brothers, they've been out of water for two days." ”

Without hesitation, the sailors brought up three large buckets of drinking water from below.

After the rangers got the water, they didn't drink bitterly, they silently walked up to the wounded with the kettle, carefully fed the water, and after the wounded drank it, the rest of the people shared the water one by one.

In the end, nearly 100 people used up less than one bucket of water.

Kan Shu looked at this scene and smiled, a smile from the heart, showing all the people in the vicinity of the infected person.

Kan Shu sighed in a low voice, "Although they belong to two different branches of the Xuan Army, there is no difference in the style of unity and friendship." ”

Zhao Qingyu took a sip of water and said, "That's why we are invincible." ”