Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2181 Stone Stream ([-])

On the front, Li Gangsheng withstood a wave of "pig bursts" from the regiment warriors, and the "surprise attack" of a small group of bird gunners led by the sloppy side was also repelled by a volley from the ninth squad.Ma Huliang is not as "brave and fearless" as Yang Xiaodong, he immediately ran away when the blood of the people around him splashed on his face.

When the soldiers in the 1st row started to chase with their bayonets, the regiment warriors in Yangjiazhuang suddenly collapsed, and hundreds of people scattered.Yang Juren was almost pushed to the ground and died by the fleeing regiments. Fortunately, Yang Erhu still remembered his uncle, and took a few soldiers to rescue him from the broken crowd.

Seeing the crushing defeat, Yang Jinghui was disheartened, and felt that he would be ashamed to see his "elders" when he went back, and he would kill himself when he drew his sword. Yang Erdong snatched the sword with a sharp hand, and said, "Master, don't be discouraged! It doesn't matter if you lose for a while here. Kun bandits have strong soldiers and few men, so I'll wait a little while to avoid them!" After saying that, he quickly ordered several servants to carry Master Yang and flee in a hurry.

When the follow-up troops of the 2nd company arrived, the ambushing Xiangyong had been expelled from the battlefield, leaving only the messy corpses and wounded on the ground.

However, Li Gangsheng was not happy at all. It seemed that he had won a complete victory, but in fact, three people in the platoon died on the spot, and another ten were injured to varying degrees, and two of them were seriously injured-this is almost synonymous with death.

Several of those who were slightly injured were "not suitable for combat duty", that is to say, although they did not need to be evacuated to a field hospital, they had to leave the company to join the army's "recuperation team" to perform some simple field duties.

Calculated in this way, there are a total of 34 people, and the pure attrition has reached eight, almost a quarter.Although the enemy abandoned more than [-] corpses on the battlefield, and there will be many prisoners, no amount of killing and capturing can match the pure attrition of one's own personnel.

Li Dong led his men to search and arrest the prisoners in the grass.Tuanding Xiangyong who could not escape was everywhere in the bushes, and many of them were injured.Some people were actually not seriously injured, but it is difficult to take in captives at present, so the captives who cannot walk around by themselves are all taken away, and they are left where they are to fend for themselves.

Back and forth, a total of more than 50 prisoners were caught.Urgently interrogating the captives and learning that the enemy was Xiangyong from Yangjiazhuang, a dispute broke out among the commanders.
Because of the ambush, Wu Baliu, the commander of the 2nd company, was worried that the communication line would be threatened, so he strongly advocated sweeping Yangjiazhuang first.Wu Baliu was suddenly promoted to the 10th Battalion as the company commander shortly after entering Guangzhou. Even his military rank was one level lower than that of a senior captain, so he was not reconciled to this "victory" that was not crisp enough.

However, Yang Zeng, the leader of the Suijiang Detachment and the commander of the 8th Battalion, believes that their primary purpose is to break the siege of Shijian and ensure the safety of the gate of Guangning County.

"Our army is now divided into land and water routes, and the purpose is to rush to Shijian as soon as possible. If we divide our troops to suppress bandits and rush into the mountains, the situation is unknown, and the possibility of suffering is very high. What's more, Xiangyong can't threaten Suijiang's water transport. .”

Although Huang Chao was present, he felt that he should speak less about military issues and that it would be better for the commander to be in charge.

At present, it is decided that the plan will not change. The 2nd Company and Wuzhou Squadron will continue to move forward by land and relieve the siege of Shijian.

Suijiang is different from the Xijiang River, which is busy with shipping. Both sides of the river are surrounded by mountains, and the narrow roads make the troops drag for a long time. In addition, this is a "non-security area", and enemy troops may appear in all directions. The ambush just now suffered heavy losses.Although the two seriously wounded were evacuated immediately after boarding the ship, in fact everyone knew that the danger was not good.If he does it again, one of his platoons will be reimbursed.The great responsibility made the nerves of the 2nd company commanders Wu Baliu and Li Dong very tense, and even the officers and non-commissioned officers under them became tense.

However, the rest of the itinerary was safe. The villagers in the passing villages fled far away. When they came across a village with a fortified wall, they just sent people to bring tea to "welcome the army to cross the border" without any hostility.

Every time Wu Baliu came across a village like this, he had to ask questions.From the mouths of the local people, it is learned that the one who surrounded Shijian was the Xiangyong of Yangjiazhuang who ambushed them-many villages dared not speak out against Yangjiazhuang.As for the Battalion Commander and the Chiefs most want to know the movements of the Yao people, they seldom know that the local Yao people have followed the bandits to make trouble, and there are also several villages who have united to loot, but there are no large groups of people and horses.It seems that Chief Huang's judgment that the Yao people are just "taking advantage of the fire to loot" is correct - they have no intention of large-scale rebellion.

Wu Baliu led the team to hurry, and finally came to a place less than 2 kilometers away from Shijian. This place is known as the southern gate of Guangning. The so-called small town is just a bigger village. On the alluvial plain, there is a wooden wall for protection.Yangjiazhuang Township, which surrounded Shijian, set up a wooden fence at the traffic pass, controlling the road and several villages on the nearby hillside.

Xie Wendong, the leader of the village yong who surrounded Shijian, was originally the second in command of the country bandits.Yangjiazhuang Township bravely rose up to suppress bandits in the surrounding area. Seeing that the situation was not good, he was coerced and lured by Master Yang, annoyed the big boss and sacrificed the cottage.

There were five or sixty old bandits under him, and they were also a force in the Yang family village.Yang Juren guarded against him and used him at the same time.This time, in order to win people's hearts, he was sent to lead a team to attack this stone gorge, so that he could make a small fortune.

Jiewen Dongyuan thought that the stone gorge would be the same as last time, so he opened the door and surrendered, obediently offering his goods.Therefore, only more than 100 regiments were brought here, and the rest were young men from various villages attached to Yangjiazhuang.It's not their turn to have weak goods, so let's get some rags, furniture and pots.

Unexpectedly, a small national army was stationed in the town, and the fortifications were repaired. He led the regiment to charge for a while, but was beaten by firearms before he could climb the wall of the village. The ammunition was unleashed by the militiamen temporarily recruited from the town. After a round of beatings, Xie Wendong's men couldn't withstand the firepower, and immediately withered.

Xie Wendong was furious, there were some desperadoes under him, but there were too few people, the brigade was composed of ordinary people, seeing that Shi Jian was tough, no one was willing to risk their lives to do it.There was a stalemate.

There was nothing he could do, Jiang Wenming, his "Military Adviser", suggested that since he couldn't take it down for a while, it would be better to block the road first, lest reinforcements from the county would come to rescue him.At worst, they will be surrounded for several months, forcing them to surrender without food.

This Jiang Wenming was originally an unworthy scholar. He owed gambling debts, so he had no choice but to go up the mountain to become a bandit.Because he can read a few words and has a vicious heart.Knowing how to shoot a gun a few times, he can be regarded as an "all-rounder in civil and military affairs", and soon became a "military adviser" in the cottage.

He knew that this bandit's "career" would not be famous, so he got in touch with Yang Juren very early on, and often did some dirty work that Master Yang was inconvenient to show up on weekdays.This time, Jiang Wenming also contributed to the resolution of Donghuo and the return of the leader to Yangjiazhuang.

Xie Wendong already knew about Master Yang's ambush and suffering a great loss.Not only Yang Erhu sent an envoy long ago, asking him to withdraw his troops quickly, so as not to be bitten by the Kun thief and suffer another big loss.Yu Heiqi, a former subordinate who had fled from the battlefield, also ran to him and told him everything that had happened.

"How many people are here?"

"I saw only forty or so people, and I was defeated by them." Yu Heiqi was still in shock, "That firearm is powerful!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Can you tell me how powerful the guns are?" Xie Wendong said impatiently, "I'm asking how many people are there in their brigade?"

"This one, I didn't see it... I dare not say it." Yu Heiqi said, "I only know that the gang of thieves is on a boat..."

"roll!"

Xie Wendong didn't pay attention for a while, and running away is naturally the safest way to go.But Shi Jian's mouthful of fat was on his lips, but he didn't have to eat it, which was a bit regrettable.Especially last night, he just brought hundreds of catties of gunpowder from the cottage, and he was going to use a boat to float it there, blow up the wall of the village along the river, and then break into it while taking advantage of the chaos.If you run away by yourself, these things will be in vain.

After much deliberation, he decided not to run away for the time being, but to hurry up and do this job first--anyway, the brigade of the Kun bandits was by boat, and it would be the day after tomorrow at the earliest to get here against the water.As for the troops coming over by land, there are only a few dozen people, just send some troops to block them with wooden fences.Presumably these dozens of people can't attack.

Discussing with Jiang Wenming at the moment, the two sides divided the troops into two. Jiang Wenming took half of the people to block the intersection, and he took the other half to attack Shijian.

"...you hurry up and do it, and you have to go if you don't have it." Jiang Wenming told him.

"I can save it." Xie Wendong said carelessly, "You just need to let the thieves' land spies rush over to kill them--I heard that they are all very capable men and horses."

"No matter how much they can fight, there are only dozens of people. I just can't hold out here. They don't have artillery, so they can't attack easily."

Jiang Wenming said this with some confidence. In order to attack the fortress, in addition to gunpowder, he also brought a lot of firearms such as lychee cannons from the cottage, and an iron cannon from the Ming army—this was old in the cottage.In order to fight Shi Jian, Xie Wendong moved all the old people out.

With these firearms, wooden fences, and quickly repaired forts, it is always no problem to resist dozens of people.

Wu Baliu's advance team arrived before dark. He heard the report from the front soldiers that the enemy had actually built fortifications on the road and set up cannons.Because it was getting late and the surrounding environment was more complicated, it was decided not to attack that night, and to deal with it after dawn the next day.

"Tomorrow, our 2nd company will be the main attack, and you will follow behind." Wu Baliu gestured on the topographical map he had drawn hastily, "The terrain here is narrow, and it is not easy for the troops to deploy..."

"I request that our squadron carry out the main attack mission tomorrow." Li Dong said, "Please support us with firepower from the Fubo Army."
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