Chapter 693: Ambush
Wang Haiyang listened to Li Ming's words, nodded, and then turned to the various captains and squadron leaders next to him and shouted: "Attention all detachments, prepare to fight......"
The convoy suddenly became busy, and the officers and men of each detachment took their equipment from the wagons and put them on, and then took up their muskets and formed a battle formation in the direction of the enemy's attack.
Nearly 100 people also rode war horses, ready to assault at any time. The two modified wagons also lifted the camouflage net, assembled the two water-cooled heavy machine guns, and then set them up on special stands, ready to fire.
After a while, several war horses galloped over, and a soldier of the reconnaissance team jumped off his horse, ran in front of Li Ming in a few steps, stood up and saluted, and shouted loudly: "Commander, in the direction of nine o'clock, the convoy found unknown armed personnel, with very rudimentary weapons and equipment, about more than three thousand, who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road ahead, waiting for the arrival of the convoy. Our captain is continuing to monitor the front. ”
Li Ming returned a salute, and then said with a smile: "It's hard work, you go back and tell your captain, let him not act rashly, and continue to monitor the enemy's movements." ”
After he finished speaking, he turned his head and said with a smile to the Far Eastern officers and soldiers next to him: "It seems that they treat us as a piece of fat, and we are not afraid of breaking our teeth if we want to eat it." ”
Everyone laughed out loud when they heard Li Ming's words.
"Ocean, you command the battle, try to capture more rogues."
Wang Haiyang received Li Ming's order, and hurriedly hurried everyone to get together to study the battle plan. Li Ming and Song Tao climbed into the carriage, and the two sat on the grain bags and smoked leisurely.
Song Tao took a puff of cigarette, and then said with a smile: "Today we will also see the combat effectiveness of the Wandering Army, buddy, you said that we will not meet King Li Chuang's subordinates." I'd love to see this guy. ”
Li Ming shook his head, Li Zicheng should be in Shaanxi now. It is said that his army was routed by the Ming Dynasty last year, and he fled with the few dozen cavalry that remained. Anyway, since we destroyed the Houjin regime, now the history of the Ming Dynasty has been completely messed up, whatever, if you encounter it, you have to fight. ”
There was a rush of horses' hooves, and the cavalry squad had already left first. The convoy also slowly drove towards the encirclement set by the Wandering People's Army in front.
Not far ahead, in the bushes on both sides of the official road. It was covered with ragged homeless people, armed with rudimentary weapons and even a sharpened wooden stick in their hands.
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, trembling nervously, the stout man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old beside him looked back at him and whispered: "Sanwa, the convoy will come over in a while, and you will follow me closely." Don't be too reckless. ”
Li Sanwa nodded weakly, and said nervously: "Second uncle, I'm afraid of ......"
"If you follow the second uncle a few times, you won't be afraid. I heard the king say that this time the trade is big, there are more than 100 carriages, loaded with grain, only a few hundred people guard, can we still not take a few thousand? ”
Li Sanwa heard the second uncle say that it was more than 100 carts of grain, and her eyes suddenly turned red. He drank a bowl of porridge in the past few days, if it weren't for the second uncle giving him half a cake every day. He had already starved to death. This was his first time fighting, just to be like his second uncle, to be able to get two cakes a day.
There were more than a dozen of them in a family, and now there were only two of them left, and it was not until he and his second uncle followed the king that they survived. His second uncle has never let him fight. Thinking about leaving a seed for their family. But a few days ago, they encountered the official army, and tens of thousands of troops were scattered, and now there are less than 10,000 left.
This time, a brother sent back the news that more than 100 carts loaded with grain came from the official road, and the king took all the "elites" to ambush here on the official road. Get ready to do a ticket. Nowadays, it is rare to see caravans transporting grain, and if you want to grab grain, you can only fight around. Not to mention the casualties in that way, can you fight down two times?
Therefore, these homeless people are very excited, thinking that this transaction will definitely be successful. After all, they are ambushes, and if they fight one by one, even if they encounter the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they can win this battle.
But Li Sanwa is still very nervous, he has never even killed chickens when he grows so big, and he was always bullied by those half-sized children in the village before. If it weren't for the famine this time, he was too hungry to kill, and he wouldn't have come here to fight hard.
Suddenly, his second uncle turned around and said, "Third baby, ...... here"
Li Sanwa suddenly had a thrill, her heart was in her throat, her mouth was dry, and the wooden stick that his second uncle had just sharpened for him in her hand was full of sweat.
He heard someone shouting in the distance: "Kill......"
When the thousands of homeless people who had passed the official road twice heard this, they all stood up, took the rudimentary weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the official road. One by one, they waited for their red eyes, and roared loudly at the same time as they ran.
Li Sanwa was dragged up by his second uncle, and he also followed behind his second uncle in a daze, shouting loudly to give himself courage. There were people in front of him, and he didn't know what was on the official road, so he just kept his head down and followed.
When the thousands of homeless people saw the more than 100 carriages on the official road, all stacked high in bags and grain, and the guards guarding both sides of the convoy were only four or five hundred, they immediately became excited, brandished the rudimentary weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the convoy with a mad roar.
Suddenly, there was a dense muffled sound, and the homeless people who rushed to the front felt as if they had been smashed by a sledgehammer, and after a short period of severe pain, they knew nothing.
The soldiers of the Far Eastern Army guarding both sides of the convoy kept firing with guns, and the 28A rifles and double-barreled shotguns fired hot bullets one after another, facing the dense army of displaced people, each shot could have a result.
In particular, the 40-millimeter grenade launcher equipped in the hands of the non-commissioned officer, and the shotgun and dart bullets fired were even more swept away. A man in his thirties, led by the Wanderers' Army, was shot in the head in the first round. He was the leader of this army of exiles, and he thought he was sure to win the deal, but he didn't even think that he would take his life into it.
Wang Haiyang shouted while changing the bullets: "Prepare grenades...... Cast ......"
"Boom...... Boom ......"
As the grenades exploded in the Displaced People's Army, shrapnel flew everywhere, turning the people of the Displaced People's Army on their backs. The rest simply threw their weapons away, turned around and scattered.
When the gunshot first rang out, Li Sanwa was already stunned. When he saw that the head of a person next to him was shattered alive, and the blood broke all over him, he was so frightened that he sat on the ground.
"Ah...... Ah......h
Li Sanwa held her head in her hands and screamed loudly, her voice was full of fear, and her voice was hoarse...... (To be continued......)
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