Traveler Major League

Chapter 148 Anxiety
Laoshan Township in the north of Ganquan County is located in the hinterland of the mountains. There are ravines everywhere and the terrain is complex. It occupies the nearest road from Yan'an Prefecture to Ganquan County. Between the two mountains is the official road along the valley to the north. , Hundreds of local soldiers drove mules and horses, pulled thirty carts, and pushed forward and backward. There were more than a dozen Ming army cavalry looking out for the post, and at the front of the convoy were more than 30 Ming soldiers. Army infantry.

At first glance, this group of officers and soldiers is a team that is about to go back after looting the villages in the area occupied by the People's Army. The reason why there are more than 100 cavalry among the more than [-] people is also very simple-the bullying people's army has few cavalry. You can detect the weakness of the people's army, if there is a regular army, you can flee to other places, if there is no regular army, you can burn, kill and loot wantonly.

The people's army came here two months ago, and now the number of people equipped with first-year rifles has only expanded to nearly a thousand, and nearly half of them have been huddled in Luochuan County as technical personnel and defense forces, and those who can be distributed to various counties With a company-level force of at most 100 people, each is assigned to several red-haired barbarian companies to form a tactical unit.

After such an average, the troops are sprinkled in this mountain like pepper noodles, and there are too many loopholes.

At the beginning, the militia teams in each village could only deliver news and maintain basic order. When they encountered the mixed force of more than 100 officers and soldiers, they were discouraged and did not dare to resist. After passing the message, the villages realized that they were afraid. Dozens of households in small villages could not beat them and they knew they had run away. In the end, there were only slightly larger villages nearby. The small ones would either be merged into Dazhai, or they would go to Luochuan. County Camp.

And this Ming army team was a returning team that broke through a Dazhai. As the main force was Liu Yingyu's subordinate Yiqi officer army. Although there were only 37 people in full, they were all in armor, and there were cavalry and township soldiers to cooperate. , the average village can't withstand the attack, and these sweaty pushes full of money, food, and goods at this time mean that they have succeeded.

The mountain road was difficult, and the donkeys and mules struggled to pull the fully loaded carts. The village soldiers were divided into five or six people in each cart to help push and pull, shouting and moving forward at an extremely slow speed.

"Brothers, work harder, return to the camp, and share money and food."

The sound of the horns in the mountains reverberated, echoing back and forth in the valley, and suddenly there were several gunshots, and the cavalry at the rear, like frightened rabbits, accelerated to the front of the convoy and joined the other team. The cavalry converged, leaving only two corpses in the chaotic place.

"Array, array, there are thieves chasing up." A cavalry shouted in horror, looking at the corpses on the ground.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, President Qi also shouted sharply: "The grain carts are lined up behind the carts, line up behind the carts, don't mess up, there are not many people on the other side, and the animals are all tied up."

As the various teams took orders, the team of more than a hundred people quickly completed the integration. The fully loaded carts on the mountain road were crossed, and the women in the team were crying depressingly. They were all the people who were looted. After being broken by the People's Army, Qiu committed no crimes, and even divided the land and property. Fortunately, it became their crime. The men who resisted or did not resist were hacked to death, and they were first raped and then ganged up. Pulling along with the team, none of them knew what kind of fate they would face in the future, and the heart of resignation raised a few glimmers of hope along with the chasing soldiers.

"Sit down, and whoever cries will be hacked to death." A village soldier leader took a long gun and slapped it with the back of his stick, and the woman who was whipped didn't dare to make any more noise.

The soldiers around Mr. Qi blew a few times with a suona, and immediately the squad leaders divided the soldiers into three queues and put them behind the cars.

"Light the fire rope." The squad leader lit the fire ropes one by one for the soldiers in the team with the tinder he carried with him. There were more than ten gunners in this flag, and the others were holding long and short cold weapons, while the more than 30 cavalry behind them picked up The Kaiyuan Bow was ready for support. In this kind of mountain road, the mobility of the cavalry was suppressed to the minimum. They could no longer detour and attack sideways, so they could only follow the troops obediently.

"Brother Lin, there are more than a hundred bandit soldiers on the opposite side, most of them are red-haired and colorful people, and they even have guns." The cavalry hundred households explained the enemy's situation to Mr. Banner. Most of the previous battles were fought by these cavalry. After the loss was too great, I cooperated with these infantry to pick out soft persimmons. I never thought that I would run into an old thief with a first-year rifle before returning home, and I was really frightened.

Mr. Banner nodded to show that he understood, and then raised his hand halfway and shouted: "Tribulus." The squad leader who heard the order repeated it in the team. For the caltrops, pull out the ropes of the caltrops about twenty steps before going out into battle, and a piece of caltrops is deployed like this. This weapon was widely used in ancient armies, and its deployment is simple and easy.

The anxious waiting of this group of officers and soldiers did not last long, and soon a group of people's troops could be seen approaching with the naked eye. In the front row were ten soldiers holding Yuannian rifles, followed by hundreds of red-haired barbarians scattered around. Mao Manduo has been hunting for a living for many years, and running is a routine thing, and now he has adapted very quickly when he switched to fighting.

"Prepare, if you don't order the shooter, you will be killed immediately." Mr. Qi estimated the distance, and repeated it again after nearly a hundred steps.

Just as Mr. Qi was calculating the distance and was about to wait until the bandits had reached sixty paces before firing, the opposing brigade stopped at ninety paces.

The reason for the stop is simple. This has already entered the range of the first-year rifles. The distance is so close only to bully the officers and soldiers. With a burst of explosion, the riflemen in the front row started When the fire was set, a burst of gunpowder smoke filled the air, and it quickly drifted away under the action of the wind.

"Swish, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" a burst of lead hit the grain truck, causing a burst of smoke and dust. Officers and soldiers were hit and fell down. After a few breaths, another row of guns fired. There are more than a dozen people, and most of them are soldiers of the army. Even if they have shields, they can't stop the 11mm caliber lead bullets. Mr. Qi hides behind the second row of grain carts and sees him following him. After the head of one of the soldiers was blown off, blood splashed all over his face. He couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Brother Chen, let's withdraw, this is impossible to fight."

The leader of the village soldiers was almost scared to pee under the rain of bullets at this time, and he didn't hear anything else, so he hurriedly shouted when he heard a word withdraw: "Run, old and young." Even the carts and livestock were thrown away, and all the ducks were released.

"Throw the long cards on the ground, let's withdraw too." The long card soldiers who heard the order placed the outer layers of their shields upwards on the road. It can also be used as a deterrent on the ground. At this time, an order was given, and the officers and soldiers quickly ran behind the soldiers. Still not fast enough.

This kind of small-group pursuit battles has been frequent since the mobile battalion led by Li Kefu arrived in the northern theater. Most of them left immediately, neither the officers nor the township soldiers wanted to go all out, and Li Kefu still couldn't solve the problem of insufficient troops in the mountain road.

This stalemate did not end until the arrival of official reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)