Chapter 752 The Legend of the Unbeaten by the Wolf Soldier
Although Guangxi is located in a remote southwest, now all the wastelands in the areas under Wuzhou Prefecture have been fully developed.
Since the "Three Feudal Rebellion" was quelled, there has been no more war in Guangxi. With the Qing court spared no effort to implement immigration policies, a large number of Guangdong immigrants flocked to Guangxi. Therefore, except for those sand and stone accumulation and difficult to reclaim, even the rugged valleys were burned and cultivated, rice and various grains including buckwheat, broad beans, peanuts, etc.
Some people may say corn and sweet potatoes... Sorry, the corn planting areas are mainly in Guizhou, and there are very few planted in Guangxi. It was not until the Daoguang period that it was widely promoted in the mountainous areas of Guangxi. The reason for this change was actually the degradation of arable land caused by excessive land reclamation.
As the autumn harvest approaches, the entire river valley is full of golden fields. The rice that is about to mature is like a huge and undulating yellow carpet in the emerald green mountains. The surrounding peaks and hills are covered with ponytail pine, fir trees and various bamboos. The scenery is really pleasant.
However, Chen Wenxiu and his twenty soldiers did not feel like watching the scenery. They had seen too many such scenery in Hoi An and Java Island. They now look similar to the beautiful soldiers walking in Vietnamese paddy fields more than a hundred years later. They were wearing green combat uniforms, rolled up their sleeves, steel helmets, fixed belts on their chins, and rifles in their hands, and quickly walked through the ridges of the field.
When they walked north along the east bank of Jianjiang for more than two miles, Meng Denggao and his men appeared on the golden "carpet" like black ants. However, because the two sides were one kilometer away and there was a hill more than 30 meters high in the middle, they did not find each other.
Now the primary goal of Montreal is to occupy the hills ahead and use them as a foothold for the next battle.
The military strategy says: "Where are enemies of the army, the mountains and valleys are separated, and the place of birth is high...the place of plain land is easy, the right back is high, and the front is dead and the next life is born."
What this means is that when fighting in mountainous areas, you should choose a "breeding place" and stay high and face the sun; when fighting in plains and hilly areas, you should choose a place with a flat terrain, preferably with a high place back, low in front and high in back.
As an intellectual who was both literary and military in the 18th century, although Meng Denggao had never been to the battlefield, he was familiar with military books, such as "Sunzi", "Wuzi", and "Sima Fa", and even helped the county catch several bandits.
Before the Jiaqing era in history, the Qing court's martial arts examinations not only passed the field exams such as bow, horse, riding and shooting, but also passed the "one strategy, two theories" in the field exam.
According to the Qing Dynasty martial arts examination papers preserved in later generations, it can be said with great certainty that martial arts students in the Shunkang, Yongzheng and Qianlong period were all intellectuals. The small regular script was better than the Hong Tianwang who had the fame of scholars.
So Meng Xiucai General Meng Qian sent a team of ten people to climb the mountain first, and he followed behind with a large group of troops. Chen Wenxiu on the other side also planned to climb the hill. Without the drone, he could only climb high and look far, but he sent two vanguards.
Although the wolf soldiers from Pingyuefu were all mountain hunters and climbing a hill of more than 30 meters was not difficult, they were far inferior to those of the Northern Navy's scouts. As soon as they started climbing there, the two soldiers here were like rabbits, and they reached the middle of the mountain in a blink of an eye.
It is particularly enviable to be a scout in the North Navy now. Not to mention anything else, just meat is a fixed quota of half a pound, and canned fish is even more open to eat. Everyone who knows this is envious, jealous and hates it. Even the landlords only eat a few pounds of meat during festivals.
After the two soldiers arrived at the top of the mountain, they quickly looked around and felt that everything was normal. One of them turned on the walkie-talkie and reported the situation to Chen Wenxiu at the foot of the mountain. Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, the companion in charge of the alert heard a slight abnormal noise and hurriedly made a gesture. The two of them immediately dodged and hid behind the tree.
More than ten seconds later, two guys wrapped in black turbans and wearing flowery clothes and armor slowly emerged in the grass more than ten meters away. One of the leaders held a small round shield, and the other hanging down was holding a six-inch-long iron javelin in his other hand, and one in his mouth.
This type of javelin is a unique weapon of wolf soldiers. It is called "iron mark". It is made of fine iron and has a sharp head. When it is in battle, it is clamped with four fingers, and the tail is pressed on the palm of the palm. When it encounters an enemy, it can reach up to thirty steps and can penetrate iron armor.
Next to the Javeliner is a guy holding a crossbow arrow.
Whether it is a crossbow arrow or an iron mark, it is covered with the unique "poisonous worm" in Guangxi - that is, snake venom, and it is not one, but a mixture of multiple types. In addition to the antidote brought by the wolf soldiers, they will die when they see blood.
Following behind these two wolves were three guys holding knives and steel forks, all of which were the same outfits. Knives were the standard weapon of the Qing army's green camp. It was two meters long and five meters long. The blade was narrow and long, with a 1.5-meter-long wooden handle. Immediately afterwards, several Qing soldiers also revealed their figures.
Seeing that more and more Qing troops emerged from the grass, and before Chen Wenxiu came up behind him, the two scouts hesitated for a moment, picked up their rifles and fired.
"Ba~~!Ba~~!"
The two wolf soldiers in the lead were killed immediately, and one wolf soldiers walked behind them also fell to the ground.
Because the 7.62 mm bullet used by the North Navy was too penetrating, and it was shot at close range, the warhead first passed through the chest and back of the person in front, and then with blood and organ residue, it hit the abdomen of the person behind and broke the intestines.
The remaining wolves had no idea what had happened, so why did three fall down in one go? One of them hurriedly leaned over to check, but he didn't know that this action saved his life. Just as he was stunned, a crisp sound rang again, and the companion standing beside him groaned and fell to the ground, while another bullet whizzed past his turban.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wang Yuanfang, the founder of the Northern Navy scout, has a famous saying: Fire the enemy first and become the king.
Well, this is not what he said, but what he heard from his superiors when he was in the army. It means that it doesn’t matter if he can’t fight, at least he can scare the enemy and hide it, so that he has the chance to fire a second shot. Otherwise, after a long time of sight, is there any difference between shooting the left eye and the right eye?
"There is a situation! A team! Go around from the right side of the mountainside! Others follow me!"
Chen Wenxiu, who had just arrived at the foot of the mountain, heard the gunshots coming from the walkie-talkie and immediately gave an order. He threw the rifle from his shoulder to the front, held it in his hands, and used both hands and feet to speed up.
On the other side, Meng Denggao, who had already climbed to the middle of the mountain, also heard the movement. However, the gunshots with silencers became very crisp, which was not the "bump" sound when the bird gun was fired, just like someone whipping hard on the hard object with a split bamboo strip. Mr. Meng Qian thought to himself, what were the people in front of him doing? When he reached the top of the mountain, he had nothing to do, and his eggs were hurting when he was idle?
Meng Denggao was thinking about going up and scolding those bastards later, when he saw a black shadow rolling down from the top of the mountain like a stray dog. Seeing that the man was getting closer and closer to him, two subordinates hurriedly went up to block it.
"What's wrong?"
Hearing someone's question, the soldier raised his head blankly, his eyes were dull and as if he had lost his soul, and muttered to himself: "All dead! All dead! There is a ghost on the top of the mountain!"
All dead? Meng Denggao was startled, but he immediately reacted, stepped forward and slapped the soldier, cursing: "I'll throw you a carrot across the sea, where did the ghost come from in broad daylight!"
The intellectual Mr. Meng Qian knew very well that he could not be polite to these guys who could not read a lot of words. He had to say a few swear words when he was scolding, so these people would just take this trick.
The wolf soldier was slapped heavily and immediately woke up a lot. He recognized that the one who hit him was Lord Qian, so he said in a crying voice: "Sir, all four brothers are dead, their heads explode, and they have a lot of blood flowing. He didn't even see a figure."
Meng Denggao was about to ask, but he heard someone exclaiming not far away. When he looked up, he seemed to be rolling down from the top of the mountain, with faint blue smoke rising.
This is? Meng Denggao's pupils shrank, and his keen feeling was wrong. He was about to ask his subordinates to avoid it, but there was a loud bang, and then another wave of air came to his face, causing him to stagger, and a buzzing sound in his ears.
I don’t know how long it took, Meng Denggao, who was holding a pine tree tightly, felt someone shaking his arm, and at the same time, he heard someone shouting: “Sir! Sir!”
Meng Denggao shook his head, shook off a few grass clippings, and poked his ear with his fingers. Only then did he feel that the sounds around him were no longer far away. At this moment, if he didn't know what was going on, he would be a fool.
He reached out and pulled out his waist knife, shouting: "Brothers! The North Sea Pirates are on the mountain. There are not many people. Regardless of their lives, they will catch a commander and give them fifty taels! Promote to the general manager!"
As he shouted, the following flag-holding soldiers began to wave the black pennant flag and point the flag crown to the top of the mountain. The wolf soldiers lying on the hillside heard the order from Lord Qiang issued, looked at each other, and then stood up under the leadership of several veterans and began to climb towards the mountain more than 20 meters away.
Instead of gathering together, these people were naturally divided into three groups, left, middle and right. The leaders of each team also rushed green pennant flags to rush in front. This situation scared the two scouts squatting on the top of the hill, thinking that they were stabbing the hornet's nest, right?
Speaking of which, why are the wolf soldiers in Guangxi brave? Some people say that Guangxi is poor, so the people are strong, and the other is that they have practiced martial arts since childhood. The problem is that the Yao and Zhuang people, who are both natives in Guangxi, live a good life and are equally strong, but they can't beat the wolf soldiers every time.
In fact, the bravery of the wolf soldier mainly lies in its unique organizational system, which fully complies with the "Yunqijun War Art" or the "Cen Family Law".
Simply put, "Whenever a person goes to the enemy, the left and right people will be attacked and attacked, and each army will fight to save him. Otherwise, if one person dies while the left and right people will be killed in the battle. The crowd of one army will be judged as to the difference, and even the worse one will be cut off." This is true for one person, and the same is true for one team.
In addition, there are "It is better to kill those who order them, those who retreat, those who leave, those who leave, those who say fear of being killed, those who are killed, those who are rushing and chaotic, those who are killed, those who are defeated and pretend to leave gold and silk or fight for it but do not pursue it."
Faced with combat regulations that cut off your head and ears at any time, which are even stricter than the regular army of the court, the comrades around you are all relatives and friends from every village, which makes the wolf soldiers have to fight to the death on the battlefield, and have no enemies, thus creating the myth of "wolf soldiers can die but cannot be defeated".
Japanese pirates, the Later Jin, the Qing Dynasty, and Sun Yanling, who rebelled during the "Three Feudal Rebellion", all suffered a lot from the wolves. Although the number of wolves today is no longer the same as before, the military law is still there and the organization is still there.
No matter how fast the two scouts fired, they could not stop the more than 200 Qing troops who were close to each other. Moreover, because the silencer was installed, the movements during the shooting could not be deterred. At the same time, the thirty bird gun soldiers under Mengdeng also opened fire. They hid behind the rocks on the hillside, without aiming, but just put them in a mess, and then they rushed to charge the medicine without any rules.
The gunfire sounded loudly above the hillside on the north side of the hill, white smoke filled the air, and the strong smell of the black gunpowder burned made the muskets cough.
In fact, the two Northern Navy soldiers who really threatened the top of the mountain were not bird guns, but the wolf soldiers and javelin soldiers holding medicine crossbows. The crossbow arrows and iron marks that flew towards the top of the mountain like raindrops. At the same time, Meng Denggao, holding birch bows, would also suck cold-shot feather arrows. His strength was much stronger than those javelin soldiers. Every time he shot an arrow, the bow string would make a loud bang, and it was full of force.
Seeing the three wolves' troops rushing to the top of the mountain, the wolves behind were motivated and thought they would win the battle. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chen Wenxiu arrived with eight subordinates. The rain of bullets and several grenades caused heavy casualties in the wolf soldiers rushing in front.
As the people rushing in front fell down one after another, the timid turned around and ran away. Meng Denggao was already angry at this time, and he waved his sword and slashed a young man who was running in the front. The few behind him were all shocked. Meng Denggao raised his sword and yelled: Brothers! The military law is ruthless! Whoever dares to escape, kill him will not be allowed! We will win this battle together, and I will not take any rewards for all the rewards!"
When everyone heard this, Mr. Qian said so, so they had to turn around and bite the bullet and go to fight again.
It was the first time that Chen Wenxiu and his men encountered such a fierce and unafraid opponent. They couldn't help but feel timid in their hearts, and their movements of the bullets were no longer neat.
The two sides were too close at the beginning, only thirty meters apart. Now the wolf soldiers are trying their best to fill in their lives, and the three attacks have led to the continuous closer together, and hand-to-hand combat inevitably happening.
The wolf soldiers who rushed to the top of the mountain were all red in their eyes. They would slash whenever they saw the green figure, and slash and sting. On the side of the reconnaissance team, due to the silencer installed, the sword-shaped bayonet could not be deployed. The soldiers who had empty bullets either waved their guns to resist, or threw down their guns and pulled out their daggers.
Gradually, several soldiers who had been hit by an iron javelin on their arms and legs began to toxicity as they moved violently. They foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground, and they were almost out of their way.
As the captain, Chen Wenxiu had one more pistol than his soldiers. It was precisely because of this that he could keep retreating and keep firing. Seeing that fewer and fewer subordinates were still standing, Chen Wenxiu thought to himself that today might be over.
When he finished firing the last bullet and smashed his pistol at a wolf soldier, he was about to face the subsequent hand-to-hand combat, he heard a sudden sound of shooting from not far away, accompanied by the explosion of grenades. A squad that walked around the side finally arrived.
Faced with the sudden attack launched from the side, the wolf soldiers' last courage was exhausted. Seeing that they could not win, the living turned around and ran back, even Meng Dinggao. The Qian Zong flag was thrown on the hillside, and no one paid attention to it. Looking at the enemy who was leaving, Chen Wenxiu, who was exhausted, had his legs weak and he collapsed on the ground.
Chapter completed!