CHAPTER XXII
Beiwei quickly found the target pointed out by Yang Muqin, he wiped his nose a little unwillingly, and all the people in the scope looked dumbfounded, especially the gray robe Master Wen, who was even more anxious, I don't know whether he was worried that he would not be able to send people out to report the news or he was distressed by the silver scattered in the paddy fields. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Now, as long as I pull the trigger, Master Wen is a commodity in history who hasn't even made a splash." Beiwei said depressedly. "It's a pity, why do you have to be captured alive?"
"Who knows? It's really annoying that you can't fight such a good opportunity. Yang Muqin continued to search for the target on the wall that was worth paying attention to. The guy in the homespun cloth short coat next to Wen Xinyi should be a leader, and he can be killed first, and then the one in the light blue homespun short coat about five meters to his right should also be a valuable target. ā
In this era, the army fighting at war is to highlight the difference of officers as much as possible, because they do not have a communication tool such as walkie-talkies, and conspicuous officers are indispensable whether it is to command battles or to be easily found by heralds to convey orders. Not to mention that the officers had to rush to the front to boost morale during the charge, so often as soon as the officer died, the battle was over, and the soldiers saw that the officer who was conspicuous in front was hanging, so naturally they were left to run for their lives frantically. And the long-range weapons of this era are relatively close, the riding bow is only 35 meters, the foot bow is only 40 meters, even the extremely powerful firearm is only within 50 meters to exert its power, with the poor quality of the projectile in this time and space, the shape of the projectile is not standardized, and it is considered a burst of luck to be able to kill a target within 35 meters. What's more, with the inferior quality of firearms in this time and space, the phenomenon of exploding the chamber when firing occurs from time to time, and the soldiers do not dare to train at all in peacetime, and it is simply a random fight when they hold it in their hands during combat, so even if the officers are dressed conspicuously, they are still relatively safe before the infantry of the two sides come into contact, so they do not need to worry about being eliminated first. This habit has also been gradually learned by the paramilitary forces of the Xiangyong, so at this time, these small leaders of the Xiangyong on the wall of the wall are dancing and directing the Xiangyong family members under them to run back and forth, as conspicuous as they want.
"Master Wen, it seems that there should be only one ambush for the pirates now, if we send more people out, the pirates won't know who to fight, so we might as well send ten people to rush out together." A small leader offered advice to Wen Xinyi. "When you get down to the ground, you will scatter out, the pirates will definitely not be able to catch up, and the pirates are using firearms, they must be being loaded at this time, so you might as well rush out now."
"Master," a strategist-looking guy on the side said again, "Although there are more than two hundred pirates at the east gate now, there are only a few dozen at the south gate, we might as well send two hundred villagers to rush out directly, which will inevitably disrupt its deployment, and will also make this pirate ambush too late to shoot, so that the people sent out will be able to reach the city of Qianhu more safely." ā
Wen Xinyi nodded, and called ten family members who were relatively fast on weekdays, and each of them divided thirty taels of silver, and asked them to go straight to the city where An Yun's thousand households were located after they went out. If they are killed, they will give their families ten taels of silver as a pension. If you succeed, you can get a reward of fifteen taels when you come back, and you will be promoted to the head of the family. This promise of a reward caused the morale of the group of family members to rise and scream, and they were all discussing how to spend the reward at this time, and they didn't take the snipers of the special reconnaissance team in ambush in the jungle seriously at all.
Xue Ziliang's first and second rows arrived at the south of Wenjiazhuang, which was all dry land at this time, with many unnamed crops planted in the fields, and it was very dense even in winter in this tropical region, and it was enough to be as tall as a human calf. As soon as they were in place, they approached two hundred meters in the direction of Zhuangzi, which was exactly within the range of the rifled version of the Senate rifle, and then threw a lot of thistles forward. These thistles are strung together with ropes, which are an insurmountable obstacle for these enemies wearing cloth shoes and straw sandals or even barefoot when defending, and when turning to attack, they only need to quickly follow the rope to clear the way forward, which is quite convenient to use.
Just as they had just laid the thistle, they only heard a cannon sound in the direction of the south gate, and the gate of the village suddenly opened, and hundreds of villagers poured out from it. This was originally expected to be 200 people of Xiang Yong at this time more than 300 people, many Xiang Yong felt that the impact of this group of dozens of pirates must be very easy, many of them were originally fugitive soldiers or outlaws, I have seen a lot of firearms battalion drills on weekdays, knowing that firearms need to be about fifty steps to exert their power, as long as they rush to about 100 steps to slow down the speed can let the fast runner block bullets for themselves, and then when the pirates reload again, they can rush up and slash. Naturally, this kind of merit cannot be let go. So many of the villagers who were not in the attack sequence at all mixed in, and as soon as the gate of the village opened, they rushed out with a scream.
However, it was completely different from the battle they imagined, and these pirates in light blue clothes were a little flustered at first when they saw them rush out, but they regained their composure when they saw one of the men with a star embroidered on his shoulder holding a slender long knife and waving it a few times.
"First and second platoons, forward circular firing preparation!" Xue Ziliang was not nervous, in his words, no matter how fierce the battle was, he had seen it, and those who shouted that Allah Kaba was rushing towards him with a detonator in his hand had encountered it several times, and at this time, looking at this group of natives wielding knives, guns and clubs, he suddenly had a strange feeling of dreaming in his heart.
The Marines fought in three platoons according to the previously trained shifts. Soon the first platoon opened the safety and completed the preparation for firing.
"The first group fires!" Saying that, the Barton sword in Xue Ziliang's hand swung downward.
With a burst of intense firing, the more than a dozen villagers who rushed to the front seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and suddenly fell to the ground on their backs. Their blood splashed terrified, and the villagers who followed closely behind were so frightened that they couldn't help but stand on the spot. How can a pirate's firearm hit a distance of 200 paces?
There are quite a few former firearms battalion soldiers who have served as military households, and they also hold three-eyed guns or bird guns in their hands, and when they saw the pirates on the opposite side shooting, they hurriedly lit the fire rope and began to shoot, but their firearms listened to the sound like firecrackers, and they did not kill the pirates at this time, but because of the poor maintenance of the usual, there was also an accident in which the three-eyed gun exploded. This three-eyed gun was like a large grenade, and in an instant, it put down seven or eight villagers and family members around the shooter to the ground, and the people with broken heads and bleeding or broken hands and feet suddenly wailed, making the charging villagers feel that their feet were as if they were filled with lead.
But this is only the first salvo. Xue Ziliang continued to swing his paton sword forward and shouted, "The second group stepped forward. ā
The soldiers of the first group fell to their knees and began to reload their ammunition, while the soldiers of the second group walked sideways in front of them, then raised their rifles and began to aim at the villagers who were standing stupidly and did not dare to move.
"The second group fires!"
Another puff of gunpowder smoke rose into the air accompanied by flames, and these stupid villagers suddenly fell down more than a dozen like wheat that had been cut down. At this time, in fact, Xiang Yong's casualties were not large, and the charge of 300 people was only knocked over by less than 50 people at this time, but this kind of pirate who took his life lightly at an "incredible" distance was inevitably too fierce. At this time, there were already many family members who were originally planning to take advantage of the back, and began to turn around and flee.
"The third group comes forward!"
At this time, although some of the first group of soldiers had already loaded their ammunition and placed their fire caps, they were still standing tall and kneeling on the ground waiting for Xue Ziliang's order. The soldiers of the third group were already impatient, and as soon as they heard the order, they hurriedly stepped forward to the first platoon and prepared to shoot.
"The third group fires!"
The sound of another dense fire completely dispelled the will to fight of this group of village warriors, and these pirates in the distance just kept firing their bird guns, and their own side suffered heavy casualties in the smoke of gunpowder rising from the other side, how could they fight? The other party doesn't even need to move, he can consume himself to death, but he can't even wipe a piece of the other party's skin. I saw a very lucky housekeeper, both of whom were shot and fell to the ground, he stood unscathed for ten seconds, and then ran to the stockade with a scream. This run became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and all the family members only hated their parents for having two legs at this time, and fled desperately backwards, and even had an incredible crowd at the gate that could accommodate five or six people in parallel.
However, Xue Ziliang had been ordered in advance that the purpose of this operation was to capture the greatest number of living laborers, not to maximize the purpose of killing and wounding, so although most of the first and second platoons of his marines had completed the ammunition loading, they all stayed in place and did not shoot again.
Master Wen and his advisers on the wall of the wall were dumbfounded at this time, the impact of more than 300 people was actually knocked over fifty or sixty people without even rubbing a piece of the skin, this incredible achievement made them even forget that this was originally to cover the feint attack of ten family members to go out to deliver letters, and at this time they were still waiting for their orders to run off the wall.
"Quick! Let's go, the pirates shouldn't be too late at this time......"
As soon as the family members heard the order, they grabbed the ropes and ran to the west and north of the wall. At this time, although the pirates are powerful, there should only be one or two in the west, and they will not be able to kill them all anyway. Before Master Wen's thoughts could spread, he heard the crisp sound of firearms shooting in the jungle opposite, and saw that a family member who was running in front suddenly covered his chest and fell on his back in the paddy field like he hit an invisible wall. Before Master Wen could scream, he heard the same crisp sound of shooting in the jungle to the north, and a family member who was running north suddenly burst his head, and inertia drove him to take four or five steps forward, and then fell headlong into the paddy field, and the bright red blood stained the rice leaves red. Then there was an orderly sound of shooting, and after a few seconds, only one person was left standing in place, and all the people on the wall looked at him. At this time, the feces and urine flowed on the pants of the housekeeper, and he ran in the direction of the wall with a scream. But unexpectedly, until he climbed the wall along the rope, the family was not shot at all.