Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 675
He hurriedly rushed to the west to see that a large group of enemies had crowded to the edge of the ditch, throwing things into the ditch while setting up ladders on it.At this time, the other two men also arrived, and the four men opened fire on the enemy to the west at the same time.

They fired one after another, and a rain of bullets knocked down a dozen bandits, and the bandits behind turned and fled.

The whistle sounded again, and all the men dropped their hot rifles and ran to the other side.The soldiers who could barely crawl out were helping to load the ammunition.This half hour was the busiest half hour in Wang Wu's life.Run, shoot, run, shoot, the sergeant's whistle blares, and it never seems to stop.Everyone was so exhausted that they almost fell to the ground.Finally the enemy retreated.

"How many bullets are there?" Wang Wu asked the sergeant.

"There are a lot of bullets, and there are more than 2000 rounds." The sergeant said, "There are also a lot of guns, but no one uses them."

"Don't save bullets. The enemy will shoot as soon as they come up. We can't let them shoot arrows close to the embankment. Our people are too precious."

Now, there are only 24 of them left. Some patients died one after another, and the rest were dying.Two more were killed in battle.

There are only 7 people who can pick up a gun to fight, including Liu Bin who has hardly used a rifle.

The survivors were worn out by the fierce fighting, and another day of fighting like this would wipe them out.

"Bury all the dead in the camp." Wang Wu ordered, "Collect their belongings and bury them separately. It should be better buried."

He returned to the tent of the command post, took the documents, manuals, maps and other things of the work team, and the IDs of all the team members to the field stove outside, and lit them with a match.

Then he threw in his ID, negotiable notes and the like.The fire was raging, and black paper ash flew out of the stove.

Before long, my head will be chopped off.Wang Wu stared at the fire and lit a cigarette, thinking: I am going to die.

Unless there is a miracle, the annihilation of their small team is doomed.

He thought of his wife, children, and his family's land and house. He was a rich peasant.After the bandits were wiped out in Daolu Village, there was no extortion by the bandits, so he let go and worked hard to make the family business sound and colorful.Became a local agricultural demonstration household.The Tiandihui also specifically sought him out and asked him to join the association.And he is also eager to try, ready to use the "Australian farming method" after joining the association, and do a big job.

Wang Wu knew that after his death, he would be buried in Cuigang on a cannon carriage under the escort of the soldiers of honor, of course there would be gunfire and funeral ceremonies; he would pay his wife, children and parents a large sum of money. His family members will always be taken care of by the Australians: there will be no greedy relatives, clansmen, and villagers to seize his family property, and no one will dare to bully his wife and children, because they are "survivors"— ―In the civil system of the crossing empire, this is a noble title.Only the families of those who died in battle were entitled to this title and the privileges that came with it.

He knew all this - he would have nothing to worry about after he died.

He returned to the tent that served as a makeshift shelter—the air was stale and filled with the smell of death.Liu Bin squatted beside a soldier who had just died, covering his face with his hands and sobbing.

Wang Wu really wanted to say something to comfort her—but he couldn't say anything.He is not like Chief Du and Chief Dong who can say a lot of very reasonable things about everything.

He thought for a long time and went out again.The sergeant was polishing his rifles. There were piles of rifles beside him, and he polished each rifle carefully.

"It will be used later," he said. "The gun won't work until it's cleaned."

Wang Wu said, "It would be great if there were grenades."

"I heard that they were all used up in Chengmai. Now they are only distributed to the field army in the direction of Qiongshan." The sergeant said, "When our battalion went to fight in Chengmai, each person was given two. It's really useful! One blows up a large piece—a real 'palm thunder'!"

"Have you dealt with the extra stuff?"

"We're only half a row, and there are no paperwork or anything like that." The sergeant said indifferently, "As for the military ID cards, I have already collected them all and burned them. Only this—" He pointed to the two badges on his chest. chapter.

This is the "Chengmai Battle Victory Medal" and "The First Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Victory Medal" which were issued not long ago.

"The bandits definitely don't want this thing, so I'll keep it."

"Bury it and leave it to the family. It's always a thought."

"I have no family." The sergeant said with a bitter smile, "I didn't have time to marry a wife—and luckily I didn't."

While talking, a whistle sounded from the watchtower: "The enemy is lining up!"

Fighting broke out again.

In the afternoon, the bandits went to the village and tore down all the thatched roofs of the villagers. They harvested a large amount of dead wood and weeds, and threw them in bundles upwind.Dense smoke rose from the damp straw.Float to the camp.

At first, the threat of the smoke was not great—the smoke was blown away by the strong wind before it reached the camp from a long distance, but the sight was obstructed after all.Batch after batch of bandits, under the cover of smoke, advanced section by section, continuously piled the burning thatch towards the embankment.In the end, the firewood pile was lit almost at the edge of the trench.

Wang Wu and the others could only blindly shoot at the crowd in the thick smoke as quickly as possible, but they couldn't stop them from releasing the smoke.In the end, the entire camp was shrouded in a choking smoke—the team members and soldiers all wore gauze masks soaked in water.Barely able to support.

The bandits finally concentrated all their forces and rushed over together.They advanced in the smoke, and they themselves were overwhelmed by the smoke, but there were so many bandits that they finally filled a section of the trench under the cover of thick smoke and climbed up the earth embankment.

The faces of the bandits were all covered with water-stained cloths.Blinking his eyes, which were irritated by the smoke, blindly waved the knife and gun.While coughing violently, he rushed forward.

Bows and arrows shot towards the camp randomly, and all the people who could move retreated to the trenches on the earth embankment to the west.Wang Wu looked at the people around him and there were only 3 people left.
The sergeant had been beheaded by bandits on the embankment.His rifle was brandished by a bandit.

There were more than a dozen rifles in the trenches.These rifles cannot fall into the hands of bandits!
"Everyone smashes everything you don't need to grab." Wang Wu said, throwing his short-barreled rifle on the rock hard, the barrel and the butt were separated, and the parts flew apart.

Others also smashed the extra guns in their hands.Then they piled all the ammunition under the embankment, and threw a torch on it.

The copper flash cap exploded violently like firecrackers, and the gunpowder exploded immediately. Driven by the gunpowder, more than 1000 rounds of mini bombs seemed to set off a huge firework, and the bandits screamed.

Wang Wu picked up a long-barreled Minie rifle used by soldiers, and loaded the bayonet.The others followed suit with bayonets.The moment he jumped out of the trench and was about to fight for his life, he saw Liu Bin, who was crouching on the ground trembling, raised his bayonet and stabbed him violently in the throat.

Wang Wu roared: "Kill!" This was his last sentence.

Liu Yixiao is very busy these days.The five or six work teams sent out have already started work, and the road extending from Lingao will also enter the state of preparing materials and work.The most important thing is to prepare for the work of requisitioning grain and Zhangtian as soon as possible.

Danzhou Qianhusuo refused to surrender, so Yu Zhiqian had no choice but to launch an expedition to Qianhusuo.Soon the military households in various guards were forced to surrender and accept reorganization.

According to the policy, a group of thousand households, hundred households, and small flags riding on the heads of military accounts and domineering were arrested—as free labor.Ordinary military households were reorganized.Military households tend to farm more concentrated fields, which is the most suitable place for large-scale commercial planting. Military households used to be the official tenants of the Ming Dynasty, and now they are agricultural workers on the state-owned farms of the empire, which makes sense.

Ye Yuming has already dispatched a work team from the "Tiandihui" from Lingao to prepare for the settlement of the Qianhu Institute in Danzhou.

"Although the buildings in Qianhusuo City and various camps are old and dilapidated, the structure is generally in good condition. It does not cost a lot of money to repair, and they can be used in the future—it is better than a broken house with mud walls and straw roofs in Zhumi. Much better." Yu Zhiqian bragged about his "great achievements" in this expedition.

He also left troops ranging from one platoon to one company in the Weisuo City and each camp of Qianhusuo, and was responsible for reorganizing and training the military households. Danzhou is an important town of "Zhenli". Before the Li District is completely unified, the Li District still needs to be deterred.Therefore, military households cannot simply cancel the matter, but must ensure that they continue to maintain a certain amount of force.

Liu Yixiao expressed concern: "It is too unreliable to directly form a militia and take control of the armed forces without political transformation."

"No problem, the transformation will take place slowly. Now we have to 'Zhenli'." Yu Zhiqian told Liu Yixiao, knowing from Xiaoqi, a military household who surrendered, that since they defeated the official army in Chengmai, there have been some dissatisfaction in Li District. signs of stability.Some Dong masters are connecting in series, which seems to be an attempt.

"From the end of summer to the beginning of autumn, the Li people will take over the villages in the Han area on a small scale, so every place at this time must 'defend against the Li'."

The news of the great defeat of the government and the army made the Li district, which had been quiet for decades after the Li people's riots in the last year of Wanli, start to surge again.Li people are not good men and women. For Qiongzhou, where there have been sharp conflicts between Han and Li for a long time, the defeat of the official army gave them an excellent opportunity.

"The report said that the Li people in Lingao have not changed, and the opening of a trading office in the Li district has also been negotiated—"

(End of this chapter)