Chapter 119, Yuhang Town Mopping Up Battle "We have a long march, comrades, look forward, The team flag is flying high, and the commanders are at the front The soldiers are all brave and young, with sharp eyes like eagles.
We all have the supreme honor of having made great achievements in battle.
We must speak clearly and let the enemy remember: We have traveled all over the world and will fight again if necessary.
Soldiers set out, set out, set out My dear, I will write to you all the way back, Hear the military trumpet calling, Goodbye, let’s go, go, go” Early the next morning, after letting all the soldiers in the army eat a meal of sticky rice cooked with red beans, which is said to have special meaning, Major General Sun Yang and Zhuang Zhuang took out five thousand soldiers from the miscellaneous troops from all over the world.
According to the pre-divided teams of fifty people, holding a war zone map that was rushed out based on satellite aerial photos, and under the guidance of the Phoenix Villa guide waving a small yellow flag, they embarked on a journey to sweep the villages and towns around Hangzhou.
When the mopping up teams raised their flags and set out for battle, they all sang translated versions of former Soviet military songs with southern and northern accents.
Since the founding of the Chinese League, choosing which national anthem and military song to choose has become a big problem: if it is improvised, it is obviously a bit difficult to come up with a popular classic song with the level of music of the time travelers. , and if they directly copy those ready-made classic songs, modern Chinese military songs usually either have too obvious political overtones, or have geographical terms such as the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.
For those who lived on the east coast of North America or the Pampas of South America in the 17th century, For people in the grassland, there seems to be a lack of identity.
In addition, the tune also tends to be pathos, which does not fit the "main theme".
The passionate and tragic story of defending one's country in the face of adversity is completely different from the heroic ambition of taking great strides to conquer the world.
As for the military songs of European and American countries, most of the classic songs are too cheerful and lack the sense of military chill.
Compared with the older military songs of Western European powers, such as the British Grenadier March, they were created during the era of queuing to be shot.
Soldiers were needed On our side Listening to the military music and walking in unison with the drum beats, while facing the incoming bullets and artillery shells with the front of the chest, if the tune is not more cheerful, it will easily make the soldiers who are already under great pressure have a nervous breakdown.
It is like a modern pill that needs to be wrapped with a layer.
Like sugar coating.
And those less cheerful tunes are often mixed with "disharmonious words" such as God, king or foreign place names, which are seriously inconsistent with the tone of the Chinese League's "atheistic republic".
After so much picking and choosing, I decided to start with the opening song of the Soviet Red Army Radio Station in the 1950s and 1960s.
Because there were no specific names of places or people, the purpose and idea also conformed to the actual strategic needs of the Chinese League, and it was filled with enough content.
Due to its optimism and aggressiveness, it was successfully selected as the military anthem of the Chinese Alliance Army.
As for the military song of the Chinese Alliance Navy, it is still being debated.
For the time being, the fleets of each country can only sing their own songs.
In short, five thousand miscellaneous troops with super-era firepower and weapons were scattered, singing loudly and setting off to launch a mopping up operation.
However, when the revenge arrows of the "Australians" have brought the entire Hangzhou area into the range, the local wealthy gentry are still unaware of their subsequent miserable fate.
In their eyes, their village does not rely on Qiantang.
Jiang, far out of the range of naval guns, was guarded by well-fed armed servants.
And once they leave the strong ships and cannons, the bandits will be like a tiger without teeth, at least they will not be more difficult to deal with than the Japanese pirates of the past.
Little did they know that what they were about to face next was the most brutal and brutal special security force under the Chinese Alliance Star Ring.
Although they sing the war hymn of the Soviet Red Army, the style of this mob is definitely more inhumane than the German fascists.
These miscellaneous troops sent out by Major General Sun Yang to carry out mopping up operations were mainly led by naturalized civilian officers from various union republics who had made mistakes and served meritoriously.
They were called "Security Army", "Fenggong Corps", "Overseas Brigade" and "Foreign Legion". "," Auxiliary Legion" and other various titles.
As for the identity and origin of its grassroots soldiers, it is even more miraculous.
It can almost be said that they are the most notorious violent maniacs, scum and criminals from all corners of the world.
Scalping someone with an ax The Indian warriors, the Russian Cossacks who cultivated the land with horseshoes and sabers, the Tungus hunters in the outer Northeast who were forced to fight against the harsh nature since birth, the Korean official slaves with strong tendencies, came to the East or New World with dreams of getting rich.
Lu has become a captured English pirate, a German mercenary whose profession has been war and plundering for generations, a professional slave-catching team that has brought blood and tears to Black Africa and North and South America for centuries, and a slave-capturing team who captured " After "enlightenment" The black slave soldiers who turned around and harmed their compatriots, but the proportion of Han soldiers was less than a quarter, and even these only Han soldiers were mainly released from prison.
Needless to say, these guys are a bunch of extremely vicious people. of rabble.
Although they are a mob speaking n kinds of languages, basic military discipline is still guaranteed.
Holding military flags and arranging a square formation is quite decent, not to mention the Japanese and Koreans, who can have meat and fish for three meals a day.
The taste of rice is astonishing.
Even the more lax black and white soldiers have acquired basic discipline and obedience under the day-to-day education of instructors and supervisors with sticks and whips.
As for those stubborn and stubborn soldiers who are disobedient, now Are they all in the mines or plantations?
Generally speaking, the troops engaged in mopping up operations are basically composed of these messy people.
In terms of charging into battle and storming strongholds, they are probably slightly worse than the regular army.
But when it comes to doing "dirty work" like security warfare, they are extremely smooth and skillful.
They are definitely lacking in moral integrity and ruthless.
They never have superfluous things like military honor in their minds.
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Currently, most of the land forces under Major General Sun Yang are bullies and afraid of the strong.
The remaining small number of regular troops are only enough to garrison Phoenix Villa and monitor Hangzhou City.
Therefore, as a sign of knowing people and being responsible, the tasks assigned to him were to cut off the canal, take in the homeless Caoding and refugees, massacre the landlords and gentry, frame the Ming Dynasty Zhongliang, establish order in the occupied area, and collect as many people as possible for the rear. food, labor force, as well as alleviating the imbalance between men and women in the union republics, plus "specially provided" beauties from the south of the Yangtze River for travelers to enjoy In order to create an atmosphere of panic to the greatest extent and put pressure on the Hangzhou government, when these soldiers passed the Hangzhou city wall, they would raise their guns and fire a volley at the top of the city as a souvenir, and then run away before the defenders had time to react.
So, the sound of gunshots like exploding beans It rang intermittently from morning to noon, which made the rich and wealthy people hiding in the city unable to help chanting Buddha's name.
At the same time, they criticized the prefect Liu Mengqian: These damn thieves have come to the door, and you can't even come up with a way to retreat from the enemy.
He comes out as a really incompetent loser.
However, compared with the misfortune that was about to befall the landowners in the countryside, the little scare they received was nothing.
Although the Jiangnan water town has always given people the impression of peace and prosperity, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Hangzhou also suffered from Japanese pirates.
Every time Japanese pirates sailed to invade, they went up the Qiantang River.
The largest one was in May of 1555, the 34th year of Jiajing, when more than 10,000 Japanese pirates invaded Hangzhou.
In that era, the Yiwu soldiers under General Qi Jiguang once left a great reputation here, and there are still many popular stories that are widely told to this day.
But by the end of the Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period, the last remaining descendants of the Qi family army had long been buried on both sides of the Hun River in Liaodong.
The actual combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty officers and troops in Zhejiang is generally not as powerful as the rural warriors organized by the landlords and gentry.
In general, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Emperor maintained a guard army in Beijing that was basically unable to fight, nearly a million distant relatives and clans who only had free food and did not work, and millions of people who only existed on paper.
There are ghost army guards and military households, and there is also a group of insidious officials, the Donglin Party, who are thinking about how to cut off the government's tax revenue and collapse its financial resources.
Even if the imperial court wanted to reorganize its armaments, it could not raise the minimum funds.
Therefore, in addition to barely squeezing out the little fiscal revenue to support the last few decent border guards, the imperial court could only naively hope that the people would not only bear heavy taxes and corvee, but also voluntarily The emperor took the initiative to help the imperial court defend the empire at his own expense.
As a result, when the news of the invasion of the Kun bandits came, according to the practice of this era, Magistrate Liu naturally closed the city gates tightly and never attacked.
At the same time, he sent people to inform various towns and called on the local gentry and local tyrants to organize rural warriors. , to defend Sangzi by oneself.
The clerk's office in the yamen also dug out the old files from the Jiajing period, slightly changed the year names, names of people and places, and copied several copies as they were, and then sent out a notice to the four towns and eight villages on strengthening the rule of law throughout Hangzhou Prefecture.
Important documents such as notice on team training construction and several guiding opinions on team training construction in Hangzhou Of course, there are no documents with these two names in this time and space, but there are still proclamations and notes with similar contents.
Considering that Zhejiang has not had a war for a long time, there may not be many military talents among the people.
Therefore, based on Qi Jiguang’s experience in fighting against Japanese invaders during the Jiajing period, the prefecture’s Yamen issued a notice to surrounding towns, explaining in as much detail as possible how each village should organize group training: 1,660-year-old men in each household must be registered, and three men must be drawn.
If a Ding participates in standing military training, families with young boys can recommend a Ding from several households.
The armor commander must play the role of "vanguard model", that is to say, each armor commander must act as a "trainer" and personally lead the brave men to fight.
Every village and town must set up a public office, with the local gentry serving as the head of the public office.
The village warriors have to practice every day, patrol during the day, stand guard at night, and strictly monitor the surrounding rivers and roads.
At the same time, communication signals between villages were stipulated.
One blast was to alert each village that there was a suspicious situation, two blasts meant that the bandits were coming, and three blasts meant that the enemy had arrived.
These notices were originally accompanied by architectural drawings, instructing villages and towns in various places on how to build strong fortifications.
But now that the bandits have taken up residence in the outskirts of Hangzhou, they will soon be out clearing the valleys, and they don't have much time to build deep ditches, high embankments, and high walls for the villagers.
Therefore, the Hangzhou government had no choice but to warn the local gentry to abide by the rules.
If they really could not defend their villages and towns, they would evacuate to distant counties that had not been hit by the military.
In Yuhang Town in the western suburbs of Hangzhou, before the vanguard of the Kun thieves arrived, just the official document sent by the prefect's Yamen had already made the two major families of Shen and Chen who had lived here for a long time startled.
As local forces living next to each other, these two Big families usually have many discords, and fights are common, but when it comes to sharing the same hatred, the two families finally have a sense of the overall situation, and for the time being they no longer dwell on the old grudges in the past.
Regarding the question of whether to defend the town and fight against the bandits, or to pay protection fees and buy peace, the head of the Shen family, Shen Tiande, who is over eighty years old and had personally experienced the Japanese rebellion as a child, immediately stood up and advocated impassionedly.
Prepare for war.
In his opinion, based on the experience of resisting Japanese pirates in the past, as long as the inland Yuhang Town practices village bravery, sets up water fences, sends patrol boats, and takes strict precautions, it will be enough to prevent any small group of bandits who dare to invade Yuhang.
Back.
And relying on the power of the Shen family in the officialdom, the severed head of the Kun thief can also provide a career for the younger generation of the family.
And seeing the grey-bearded old patriarch of the Shen family drooling with excitement and waving his crutch, as if he was about to kill the Kun thief with a knife, and the Shen family's enthusiastic mobilization of their young men, the Chen family in Yuhang Town also Naturally not to be outdone, the head of the Chen family not only mobilized the entire family In preparation for the war, he immediately mobilized his nephew to rush to the Chen family ancestral hall, take out the four "house-holding artifacts" tiger squat cannons enshrined inside, polish them, and install them on the watchtower guarding the entrance of Yuhang Town, so that the entire town can Everyone can know who is the pillar on the ground in Yuhang.
As a result, Yuhang Town, which used to be quiet and leisurely, suddenly seemed like an ant nest that had been stepped on by someone.
Everything became noisy: the people running on the streets were no longer servants from each house, but people holding hands and The village warriors with swords, guns and sticks, and the busy river where boats usually come and go, are no longer busy.
Instead, there is a blockade composed of wooden piles and stones, and bamboo on the river bank to prevent water bandits from landing. fence.
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The blacksmith shop in the town was working with a clanging sound.
Basket after basket of lead, iron and charcoal were sent into the blacksmith shop, and when they came out, they turned into lead and spear heads.
The tailor shop is hurriedly making cotton and paper nails.
The stitches that used to be so fine are now as big as centipedes.
Anyway, it won't take more than a few days to complete this series of work.
The people in Yuhang Town, who were originally a little panicked, have stabilized again.
Come down.
At the entrance to the official road in Yuhang Town, patriarch Shen Tiande, who was over eighty years old, directed several junior members of the Shen family to move a heavy cauldron to the watchtower.
At the same time, he shouted inarticulately that he would wait until the thieves came. , let them taste the golden juice boiling in this cauldron.
There were also four squatting cannons that had been carried to the watchtower by the Chen family, which gave these village warriors who rushed into the army great courage.
They were all gearing up to use these magical items left by Grandpa Qi back then.
Use weapons to make a career for yourself.
Of course, the Crouching Tiger Cannon alone is not enough.
At this time, Chen Jialuo, an old scholar, was teaching his nephews step by step how to cut lead bars to make gunpowder, and how to sift gunpowder to make the gunpowder uniform.
Everyone in Yuhang Town knew that Chen Jialuo made gunpowder.
The shot is extremely far and accurate.
As a traditional Chinese family of farming and studying, the Chen family has lived a life of farming and studying for generations.
This has also made Chen Jialuo, an old scholar who does not like reading but tinkers with the "crooked way" of firecrackers, become a rebel that everyone pays attention to. .
Fortunately, he was really good at making fire guns, and people often came to buy his gunpowder guns, so he still had some status in the clan and was not regarded as a prodigal son.
This time when the war broke out, the old scholar Chen Jialuo was the most excited among the whole clan.
He felt that his abilities were finally put to use.
In order to make a name for himself, he not only donated several of his collection of "high-quality" fire guns. , and also taught the unique craftsmanship of pressing the bottom of boxes to his nephews.
"Sift lightly.
In this case, the sieved medicine will be uniform and can be hit far and accurately.
Otherwise, when you use it, it will explode or just emit a burst of smoke.
Not only will you not kill people, but you will also injure people." to one's own arm" "Didn't I want to make more gunpowder before the war?
Uncle, you have such rules.
Don't fight.
Uncle, I was wrong."
This is the frustrated old scholar Chen Jialuo, using the teacher's tricks to teach the disobedient junior Chen Jinxing.
When he heard his younger brother crying and begging for mercy, his brother Chen Jinnan, who was cutting lead bars to make blunderbuss, couldn't help but be startled.
His hand was not accurate, and the originally well-proportioned lead bars were cut crookedly.
Chen Jinnan sighed with regret and continued to cut the remaining lead bars at hand.
He then picked out the uncut and unqualified lead pellets and carefully placed them in a large tea jar next to him.
These were used as shotguns for the squatting tiger cannon. used, and then began to wrap the gunpowder in old paper.
When wrapping the gun medicine, Chen Jinnan looked with envy at the tendons on his uncle's arms that swelled with the sifting, and then touched his withered and thin arms, and couldn't help but sigh.
Although scholars are people in the Ming Dynasty, Master, but why does he feel even more useless as a scholar?
In short, in Chen Jinnan's eyes, Uncle Jialuo is the most particular about making things, especially on this gun.
Ordinary people just pour the gunpowder and gunpowder directly into the bird gun, but my uncle always weighs the gunpowder and the gunpowder and wraps them one by one with paper that the Chen family's nephew has practiced calligraphy on, so as not to pour too much or Not enough.
For this reason, he was often scolded by the old man of the Chen family, saying that Chen Jialuo had tarnished his literary integrity.
No wonder he could not pass the exam after being admitted to the scholar examination.
But now that the enemy is facing us, the old man of the Chen family doesn't care about his literary style anymore.
As long as he can repel the thieves, burning a few pieces of paper doesn't matter.
In addition, what worries the two clan elders even more is that there is really no qualified commander with military experience in the town who can lead the villagers to fight.
Although there are many local martial arts scholars in Zhejiang, but the martial arts examination in the late Ming Dynasty It has long become a mere formality and has a strong component of being in vain.
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It is far less rigorous than the literary examination.
Even if you pass the martial arts examination, you may not have any real ability.
It is not difficult for any son of a wealthy country squire who is a little more powerful to spend a few dollars to gain the title of martial arts scholar or martial arts examiner.
Of course, such a title is of no use except to sound comfortable.
In fact, among the children of the Shen and Chen families, there are a few who can dance with guns and sticks, and claim to be brave and brave, but they are all brave men.
At best, they only have the "combat experience" of a few people in street fights.
If the scale of the battle is Expanding to a few hundred people would mean catching the kind of Jianghu heroes and young and Dangerous guys who fight alone all day long, which are completely different from qualified grassroots commanders.
Even if you are a young and Dangerous guy on the street, not everyone can organize a big scene where hundreds of people fight.
Even if you are a gangster boss, you still need a certain amount of organizational management experience.
Therefore, the two clan elders of the Shen and Chen families were really worried without an experienced veteran to take the lead.
So, they discussed whether to pool some money and hire a coach from the nearby Haimen Guard or the escort agency in Hangzhou.
However, the attack of the thieves was much faster than expected.
Before the training of the rural brave group in Yuhang Town could figure it out, the war suddenly came oshow7: