Age of Rebirth

Chapter 320 Blood in the Salt Pond ([-])

This is an ancient castle built by border guards at an unknown age. After years of wind and sand erosion and carving, only the wall of the village is more than ten feet high, and most of the lookout holes and arrow stacks on the wall are still intact.

Perhaps in order to resist the looting of the cavalry outside the Great Wall from the Mongolian plateau, Tuweizi occupies the only highland in this area, and there are specially built anti-cavalry facilities outside the wall.

After the joint exploration team withdrew into Tuweizi, they placed the expedition team members in a relatively safe place. More than 300 soldiers went up to the fence, relying on arrow stacks and lookout holes, and waited for it.

The horse bandits cavalry rushed under the wall of the village, and found that they could not cross the road, so they turned around in a hurry. There was only an entrance just to the east of Tuweizi. Under the yelling of a bandit leader, the horse bandits swarmed towards the gate of the village. . [

Suddenly, not dense bullets were fired from the walls of the village, and more than 300 soldiers were scattered on the four walls of the village, which could not form a dense firepower at all. Although the bullets were very sparse, the accuracy was very high. After each shot, a horse bandit turned over and fell off his horse and fell to the ground.

After a volley of guns, the horse bandits who came to their senses knew that the terrain was not good for the cavalry, so they beat their horses out of the range of the firepower, and all gathered at the gate of the village, trying to use the speed advantage of the cavalry to attack the soil enclosure in one fell swoop.

Under the command of a bandit leader, more than 300 horse bandits screamed wildly and beat their horses like flying, with their sabers held high, like a violent torrent, they attacked the gate of Tuweizi, and the yellow dust kicked up by the horseshoes rolled. aggressive.

The charging speed of the cavalry was astonishing. They rushed to the distance of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, dense rain was shot from the door of Tuweizi. The firepower was fierce and concentrated, which was different from the sparse shooting on the wall of the village.

The horse bandits who rushed to the front fell to the ground with their horses and men as if they had been swept away by an iron broom.

The two team leaders have very rich combat experience. They saw that the gate of the village was the only weakness. Time was running out, and there was no time to set up roadblocks, so they transferred all the eight light machine guns to the gate of the village, and added shell guns to form a The only firepower attack point, as long as you can hold the gate of the village, you can go to a stalemate with the horse bandits, and then ask the commander for reinforcements.

The tactics they adopted are undoubtedly very correct. The horse bandits in the first shock wave were immediately disrupted from the rhythm of the charge. The horse bandits behind saw that something was wrong, so they reined in their horses, turned their heads, and ran back. .

The horse bandits in front were not so easy. They could no longer hold back their charge and could only continue to charge in the rain. About a hundred horse bandits lay dead in the wilderness, and only a dozen or so riders rushed into the field. The door was flooded with pieces from the exploding grenade.

The horse bandits who rushed in had no follow-up troops and became a lone army. These horse bandits showed their ferocious nature, screaming and waving sabers, and rushed towards the unarmed Professor Ouyang and the others.

The soldiers of the special warfare detachment flew down from the wall of the stronghold, knocked the horse bandits off their horses, rolled into a ball on the ground, and fought hand in hand. These horse bandits had no advantage at all. In a blink of an eye, more than a dozen horse bandits The corpses of different shapes lay on the yellow sand, and the horses that lost their masters stood there blankly.

The smoke from the grenade explosion dissipated, and the corpses and dead horses at the gate of Tuweizi were exposed to the afternoon sun filled with yellow sand, and the strong northwest wind from the Loess Plateau could not blow away the strong smell of blood.

The horse bandits in the first shock wave retreated in a hurry after losing one-third of their troops. They did not expect that these scattered troops in casual clothes would have such a strong firepower.

The horse bandits adjusted their tactics, using light and heavy machine guns to form suppressive firepower, and organized several consecutive charges, all of which were repelled, leaving hundreds of horse bandit corpses on the salt-alkali flat.

Several attacks by the horse bandits were repulsed, and the soldiers of the special warfare detachment also suffered heavy casualties. More than 30 people were sacrificed and more than 70 people were injured. The troops lost almost one-third of their combat effectiveness.

The gate of Tuweizi was soaked in the blood of Yin Hong. It can be seen how fierce the battle for the gate of Tuweizi was just now. It was mainly the heavy machine guns of the horse bandits that caused the most damage to the soldiers.

Later, the horse bandits organized several small-scale attacks, attacking from four sides. Now, the horse bandits can't take advantage of it. Long-distance accurate shooting is a specialty of the soldiers of the special warfare detachment. When I ate a flying seed, my head blossomed at that time.

The two sides formed a stalemate for the time being. However, the situation was extremely unfavorable to the joint exploration team. They were sticking to a jeopardy. If there were no reinforcements, they could only be slaughtered by the horse bandits when they were all killed.

The horse bandits, who were no longer attacking, gathered all the light and heavy machine guns, aimed at a wall, and fired violently. The dense bullets, like high-pressure water washing away the sand, peeled off the wall layer by layer.

A big gap was opened soon, and the horse bandits split into two directions and launched a fierce attack. The soldiers of the special warfare unit were under tremendous pressure, and the battle became intense. Several times, the horse bandits had already attacked Entering Tuweizi, he was beaten out by soldiers who were more fierce than them. [

After the fierce battle, both sides were exhausted. The horse bandits lost 500 people, and the soldiers of the special warfare unit also suffered a total of more than 120 casualties.

The leaders of the two special warfare units witnessed the heroic sacrifice of their soldiers, and their hearts were already numb with pain. These soldiers are all carefully selected and good fighters, and they can play a greater role in the anti-Japanese battlefield. However, he died in the unknown salt flat on the Loess Plateau.

They witnessed with their own eyes that a soldier, who had been slashed with more than a dozen knives, blew the grenade on his body before falling down, and died together with six or seven horse bandits.

What a good soldier, just like this "bang", the person is gone, only his name is remembered, the special warfare detachment, since its establishment, when has it suffered such a big loss, in the northeast, in the hundreds of thousands of Kanto Under the environment of the army's soldiers pressing down on the border, the special warfare detachment has never suffered such a large number of casualties.

The two sub-team leaders, their hearts were torn apart, and the soldiers followed the division commander and detachment leader from the distant white mountains and black waters to the land of North China. How to explain to the detachment leader when he saw his life.

The telegram for help has been sent, and the division commander sent troops to rush here. It will take a certain amount of time, so I just gritted my teeth and waited. Before the reinforcements arrive, I will never let the horse bandits step into the field, even if it is a special war All the detachments were killed in battle, and they had to support them until the arrival of reinforcements.

Strictly speaking, the horse bandits who surrounded the joint exploration team were not professional horse bandits in the pure sense. The leader was Ma Chaozong, who was the nephew of Ma Hongkui, the warlord of Ningxia, among the five horses in the Northwest, and a brigade commander.

The troops he led, the full name of which was called the Ningdong Security Brigade, were stationed along the outer Great Wall of Ningxia, along the Anding Fort and Liuyang Fort, guarding the east gate of Ningxia for his uncle.

Because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, Ma Hongkui seldom took this place into consideration. Ma Chaozong became the local emperor of this area. From time to time, he took off his military uniform and played the role of a horse bandit.

Then, he transformed himself into a regular army of the Ningdong Security Brigade. Under the banner of suppressing bandits, he sent donations to suppress bandits everywhere, reaped benefits from inside and outside, and exterminated himself. Isn't that a big joke?

After going back and forth, the business travel in the area of ​​Yanchi was gradually cut off. Everyone would rather take other routes around the distance than pass through here.

When the five hundred members of the joint exploration team entered the Yanchi area, they were targeted by Ma Chaozong's spies. Judging from the clothes and attire of these people, it was clear that they were from the city, and they were much richer than the poor bones in the countryside. up.

Especially the dozen or so young and beautiful women with white and tender faces and a foreign smell all over their bodies, they are much more pleasing than the local country girls. Several spies followed the joint exploration team for a few days , figured out their law of action.

Fei reported to Ma Chaozong, Ma Chaozong was overjoyed when he heard that, he hadn't had sex for a long time, and his hands were itching, there were five hundred people, each counted as five hundred oceans, how much was that?

In front of Ma Chaozong's eyes, the white ocean was bouncing around. He immediately ordered a strong group of more than 800 horses, and under the leadership of spies, rushed to the field camp of the exploration team overnight.

Ma Chaozong was proficient in this kind of work. During the Red Army's westward expedition the year before last, he had joined the Northwest Five Horsemen and gathered all his forces to besiege the main force of the Red Army in Gaotai and Xichang Yingzi.

After breaking up the West Route Army of the Red Army, Ma Chaozong led his troops to search for lost Red Army soldiers along the way, and he captured many of them, including many female Red Army soldiers, who ended up miserable.

In addition to being occupied by officers of the Ma family army at all levels, some were trafficked to other places, and some were rewarded to the soldiers of the Ma family army who made contributions to the Red Army. captured Red Army soldiers.

If Professor Ouyang and the others returned to Dingbian according to the original plan, Ma Chaozong would be in vain. Even if he had the courage, he would not dare to attack Dingbian County.

According to Ma Chaozong's estimation, when these unarmed urbanites come to his territory, it is a great gift from Allah to him, but he is disrespectful. As soon as the gunshots are fired, just wait for them to be kidnapped. He also specifically told his men , bring more hemp rope.

Who would have thought that when the war started, it would turn out like this, with more than 500 brothers lost, and not even a single siege was broken, so you encountered a hard problem?

He yelled at several spies, but he didn't realize that these people had armed guards?If it goes on like this, not to mention the white flowers in the ocean, the young women in the city will not be able to get them. If the other party comes to reinforce them, I am afraid that few of my more than 1000 troops can run back. This place is far away from the Communist bandits. It's not too far away, and it will take half a day to march on horseback. [

Ma Chaozong ordered the whole army to attack. This time, the Tuweizi must be taken down. When Tang Qiuli and the others arrived, it was the moment when the horse bandits attacked most violently and the situation in Tuweizi was the most critical.