Chapter Seventy-One: Beyond Reason
All day long, these people have to suffer from the white eyes of the Shandong people, carefully holding their tails to be people, and now they can finally raise their eyebrows, they have killed and killed during this time, robbed and robbed, and they are grooms every day, and they play with fresh women every night.
This day can be said to be really comfortable, as for those Shandong generals who looked down on them before, now they are either slaughtered by them, or they have been arrested, and the living are now living with the same eyes as the gray grandson, and I feel happy to think about it.
When he saw Xishan Village and the earthen weizi on Yangma Island behind Xishan Village, he decided not to wait for the Hongyi cannon that followed behind, and immediately began to attack Xishan Village.
He didn't believe it, a group of village warriors could resist the attack of so many of his soldiers and horses.
So he gave an order, and a large group of temporarily recruited bandits and rebels immediately carried the door panels and the tables of the Eight Immortals, and drove the large crowd of ragged people to the front of the battle, and ordered them to carry cloth bags full of ice and snow on their backs, and bundles of firewood or some wood.
"You people have heard it clearly, after a while, the military order will be given, and you will run towards the stockade with your things on your back, and the cat will only rush forward with your waist down, as long as you fill the ditch with the things you are carrying on your back, even if you are done with your errands, you will be given hot soup to drink when you come back, and you will be given a piece of bread to eat if you are doing a good job!
If anyone is disobedient and retreats or runs away without permission, be careful of your heads, the knife in Lao Tzu's hand is not vegetarian! Killing you is like killing chickens! "A rebel general stood in front of the great crowd of people who had been forcibly enveloped, and shouted hysterically at them, threatening them, and tempted them with a bowl of hot soup and a small black cake made of something that he could not tell what he was, and told them what to do and how to do it!
These refugees or civilians who were forcibly coerced, all of them were like ashes, trembling all over their bodies, no one spoke, only people sobbed quietly in the crowd, after they were arrested, they were all hungry for a long time, almost starved to death, today these rebels forced them to attack the village, presumably many people will not survive today.
But if they don't live and can't live, they can't live and suffer, no one knows if they can live in the future, but if they do a good job and can run back alive, then they can get a mouthful of hot soup, a piece of cake, and be able to eat something, which is now the greatest luxury for them.
So now, these refugees don't even have the slightest intention to resist, so they can only listen to the orders of these rebels numbly, and use their weak bodies to carry the cloth bags filled with ice and snow and those bundles of firewood.
As for the other side, the bandits and rebels who were used as cannon fodder and were escorted up in the first round were also temporarily organized at this time, and some rebels led them, telling them what to do and what to do, and also hung a reward, saying that as long as they captured Xishan Village, they would be able to enjoy themselves, and the first person to attack the wall could also be rewarded to a beautiful girl.
These bandits and rebels also knew that they were cannon fodder, but now that they had joined the rebels, they could only give their lives to the rebels, so they all seemed very excited, screaming and preparing to go.
With Zhang Tao's order, the army beat the war drums, and after the rumbling war drums sounded, someone blew the horn trumpet, and the low trumpet sounded far away, and at this time, those refugees and rebels were driven one after another and began to rush towards Xishan Village.
Wu Shengtian stood coldly on the wall and looked at these chaotic troops outside, there were a lot of chaotic troops, which made him feel a little pressure, but it was not enough to make him afraid, this chaotic army could easily be dealt with for him, but in order to reduce unnecessary casualties, he did not lead his troops out of the village to meet the rebels again this time.
He ordered the Seawolf infantry to climb the wall, enter the preset position, prepare to meet the enemy, and moved a few boxes of iron-shelled grenades from the Liu family's compound and placed them on the wall, ready to fight a tough battle.
Seeing that there were nearly a thousand rebels and refugees outside, carrying tables and door panels, as well as bundles of firewood and other things to attack, he ordered: "Everyone steady, after entering one hundred and fifty steps, you can open fire, but it is best to aim and fight, try to kill as few refugees as possible, prepare in a row at the gate of the wall, once necessary, you have to go out, intercept the refugees, and circle them outside the gate!" Everyone, get ready! ”
The platoon commanders of each platoon immediately stepped forward to receive the order, ran back to the section of the wall they were responsible for, and began to convey the order.
There is nothing fancy about this kind of defensive battle, as long as the enemy army can be repulsed, and Wu Shengtian knows very well that this is a tentative attack by the rebels, and the rebels have not planned to press the whole army and fight to break the net.
Although the Sea Wolves did not have many soldiers, they could still basically control the entire wall, and every two steps there would be a soldier standing in hand, armed with a rifle ready for battle.
The refugees staggered under the coercion of the rebels, struggling to move their legs, carrying the cloth bags and bundles of firewood, and staggering on the snow that had not yet melted.
The snow on the ground was mottled by the large blood stains, but this did not deter the refugees and rebels from advancing towards Xishan Village.
The air echoed with the rumbling of war drums and the sound of horns in the rebel array from time to time, but in Xishan Village, it seemed quiet, and only a figure could be seen in the distance, standing behind the battlement wall like a javelin, looking at the rebels and refugees who poured outside the village with cold eyes.
The rebels did not advance quickly, they carefully held the door panels and tabletops to obscure their figures, and the refugees carried their things and moved their legs forward.
Some people were so weak that they couldn't run forward, and they had to gasp for breath every time they moved their steps, and some simply fell to the ground from exhaustion halfway through, unable to get up again.
But they did not arouse mercy from anyone, and the rebels followed them behind them, threatening them with spears or sharp knives.
When they saw someone fall down and could not get up, they beat them with the back of their knives, with the shaft of their spears, and if they did not get up and continue to carry their things, then they mercilessly raised their knives and fell with their knives, or nailed them to the frozen ground with their spears.
The dying screams of refugees filled the battlefield, but there was no sympathy here, and all that remained was the brutality of human nature.
The seawolf infantry on the wall had been silently calculating the distance of the enemy, and it was only after the enemy had reached a distance of about 200 paces that the musketeers put their rifles on the battlement wall, and even the reserved shooting holes were useless.
"Wolf Tooth Rifle Fire!" A platoon commander, seeing that the enemy had reached the predetermined firing distance of one hundred and fifty paces, finally gave the order to start firing.
These musketeers, armed with wolf-tooth rifles, had already set the ruler on the body of the gun at one hundred and fifty meters, and were ready to fire it.
As soon as the order sounded, the musketeers of this platoon immediately began to shoot, and this time they did not take the form of a salvo, but allowed the musketeers to choose their own targets to shoot.
The main reason is that this gang of rebels carried a lot of door panels and other things, and they walked in a relatively scattered manner, without any rules and formations at all, and they could not kill well enough to kill the soldiers by firing a volley, but let the soldiers aim accurately on their own, but they could try to shoot more rebels.
In addition, now in Xishan Village, although there is a batch of ammunition in reserve, but the quantity is not very large, before the sea ice in Bohai Bay melts, they can not get more ammunition supply for the time being, so ammunition can be saved or a little used, plus the wolf tooth rifle is different from the smoothbore gun, its shooting is more accurate, within 200 meters, basically can achieve accurate aiming and shooting.
So Wu Shengtian decided this time to let the soldiers play their own roles, and strive to kill as many rebels and rebels as possible, and reduce the killing and wounding of those poor refugees.
Under the order, the gunfire suddenly began to sound, and a small ball of flame flashed from time to time on a section of the walled wall, rising a puff of gunsmoke, followed by a gunshot.
Zhang Tao was also observing the movement on the wall at this time, when he saw the fire and gunpowder smoke rising, his pupils also shrank slightly, and his heart was really surnamed Wan, it was true, this group of villagers in Xishan Village really started to release guns a hundred steps away.
But he still didn't believe that any bird gun could kill a person a hundred paces away, and it seemed that this time the villagers were not shooting a random salvo, but were scattered.
Can you kill someone by doing so? What is the level of the bird, of course, he also knows very well, he can hit someone fifty steps away, even if he is quite lucky, if he wants to hit someone in seventy steps, not to mention whether he can kill someone, at least he has to rely on God's favor, it is estimated that he can hit someone.
However, the village warrior of Xishan Village, who was a hundred paces away, began to shoot at the rebels sent by his subordinates so sporadically, it was just a joke! Can this distance also hit people?
So he couldn't help but feel a feeling of contempt in his heart, and he didn't feel a little nervous about it, feeling that these villagers of Xishan Village were no more than Erer, and he was very sure that he would be able to take this Xishan Village.
However, often the progress of things does not develop according to the psychology of the rebels, and when almost all the rebels think that the villagers of Xishan Village are doing this purely a waste of gunpowder and cannot pose a threat to their people, they find that things do not seem to be as simple as they think.
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