Chapter 120: During the mopping up battle in Yuhang Town Time passed little by little as the Shen family and the Chen family made intense preparations for the war.
The legendary Kun thief with green face and fangs finally approached Yuhang Town.
In the early morning of the third day after the Yuhang Town League Training was established, a sweaty hawker brought the bad news that the bandits were coming.
On the eve of the war, there was silence in Yuhang Town.
Chen Jinnan, a fifteen-year-old boy who was selected to be a brave man for a day, was wearing an old uniform that did not fit well, holding the blunderbuss tightly, and tried hard to hide himself in the small window of the watchtower at the entrance of the town.
Behind him, his fingertips were slightly white due to excessive exertion.
He looked up and glanced at his uncle Chen Jialuo, who was smoking a pipe with a calm face.
He couldn't help feeling ashamed, feeling that he seemed a little less like a man.
As of now, no one in Yuhang town has seen the appearance of the Kun thief with their own eyes, and they don’t know how many soldiers the Kun thief has.
Due to the lack of military experience, no one in the town thought of sending a spy to Qiantang.
Take a look at the riverside; I just heard the vendor who came from Xianlin Town next door said that there were not many thieves who broke into their town yesterday, only about fifty people.
But all of them have bronze heads and iron arms, and are invulnerable.
Among them were short Japanese bandits with bandy legs, Western ghosts with red hair and green eyes, and bald Yakshas who were all in black.
At the beginning, when Xiangyong from Xianlin Town saw that there were few Kun thieves, the leading martial arts master wanted to take advantage, so he took four to five hundred strong men and used bamboo spears to hoe fish just like in the past.
Fork or something, he screamed and rushed out.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this group of people rushed out of the town, the thief's blunderbuss rang out, and it rang out for seven or eight rounds.
After these seven or eight rounds of cannons were fired, more than half of the team members in Xianlin Town were missing.
Thirty percent of them were knocked over by the cannons, and 70% of the people saw that something was wrong and simply acted.
Ran away.
The one hundred and eighty person who didn't run away was the one who finally rushed to the Kun thief by luck.
He thought that he should win now.
Who would have expected that the Kun thief's bird can be equipped with a blunderbuss sword?
After several rounds of fighting, After stabbing them down, the brave warriors were beaten to a pulp, and the thieves chased their butts all the way into the town.
At the moment, the gentlemen of Xianlin Town have either left their wives and concubines and run away, or they are being hung on swings from the beams by thieves.
The most unlucky wealthy families have even had their ancestral graves dug up.
Several old people in Yuhang Town shook their heads when they heard this, saying that the Japanese pirates were not so heartless and crazy back then.
"It seems that these thieves who have killed thousands of swords are really fierce, but our Yuhang Town is not Xianlin Town that doesn't even have firearms.
As long as the Kun thieves dare to come, let them have a taste of our Chen family's fire guns.
We must beat them until they hear it."
The name of Yuhang Town makes me tremble.”
The young Chen Jinnan held tightly the gun made by his uncle Chen Jialuo, a "famous firearms master", with both hands.
He murmured to himself to encourage himself, but he had no idea about the "Kun" that had just wandered around Yuhang Town not far away.
Thief", we haven't even figured out where this place is yet.
"Where are the bunch of houses in front of Yuhang Town, Cangqian Town, General Manager Tang?"
In the cold and desolate winter fields, former Jiaozhou salt lord Li Meng looked left and right at the map in his hand, but he still felt deeply confused.
As the mainland strategy unfolded, each of the union republics began large-scale military expansion.
Li Meng, a time traveler who once organized an armed rebellion in Shandong and had extensive experience in guerrilla warfare against the Ming Dynasty's official army and landlord regiments, was naturally caught by the military, so he had to end his short career as a train salesman and take him with him.
Several Shandong brothers and a group of miscellaneous troops, holding the rank of captain, once again embarked on a journey to sweep the south of the Yangtze River.
As a special treatment for travelers, more than half of the 50-member team that Li Meng is leading this time are Han Chinese from Hainan Island, and the remaining half are also Japanese security forces who have served in Hainan Island for a long time.
I don’t know much Chinese, so at least I’m not good at language communication.
There are too many obstacles, and those naturalized civilian officers are more unlucky.
Some of them even have black Africans who speak Swahili, white Europeans who speak Spanish, French and English, and Russian Cossacks at the same time. and Indian warriors who spoke unknown languages.
But even so, it still couldn't change the fact that Captain Li Meng got completely lost in the strange Jiangnan water town not far from Phoenix Villa.
Facing the lack of heat in the winter sunshine, Li Meng stared at the map in his hand with a look of embarrassment, as if he could see some treasure from it.
There is no doubt that this map based on satellite mapping is absolutely accurate, but it is also fuzzy.
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The map can mark the location of a slightly larger pond, but there is no way to tell him where he is.
Can provide a frustrating coordinate number xxx east longitude, xxx north latitude.
This is certainly scientific, but what Comrade Li Meng wants to know more is which township or village he is in.
This was so sad that Li Meng couldn't help but feel a faint sadness in his chest.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
After all, no matter how clear the satellite reconnaissance pictures are, they cannot keep up with on-the-spot surveys, and there is no way to directly copy the modern Hangzhou map, because although Hangzhou is still the same Hangzhou, the subtle place names at the next level, in ancient times, are still the same.
The difference from modern It is astonishingly large, and the locations of many villages and rivers have also been significantly changed, so in the end I could only send out an incomplete map.
Except for "large places" such as Fucheng and County, which have names, the names of the other villages and towns are It’s all blank and users need to find out by themselves.
Obviously, this kind of unreliable map, which looked like a guessing game, made Li Meng, who didn't have a very good sense of direction, become confused while walking.
What's worse is that the guide assigned to him is also unreliable.
He can still recognize the road near Phoenix Mountain, but becomes blind when it is further away.
At this moment, he was standing in a bare winter field, puzzled by the unfamiliar town at the end of the horizon.
So, Li Meng picked three soldiers who claimed to have experience in riding horses, plus various supplies provided by Phoenix Villa.
The reliable guide formed a small reconnaissance team to find out where this place is, and also to see how the defense of the town in front is and whether it is easy to capture.
Since it was difficult to get horses in the Jiangnan water town, the four scouts could only set off slowly on small donkeys.
On the other side, as the four "donkey riders" gradually approached, a small commotion suddenly broke out among the village warriors guarding the watchtower at the entrance of Yuhang Town.
The real Kun thieves came, although there were only four of them. , not as green-faced and fanged as in the legend, but he does have the same short hair as the monk who returned to secular life, and the one-and-a-half-foot-long gun sword is also just like the legend, glowing coldly in the sun As soon as he saw the thief appear, the young and energetic Chen Jinnan hurriedly raised his firearm and was about to start fighting.
As a "firearm expert", his uncle Chen Jialuo quickly slapped his hand to stop him: "It's too far, we can't hit him."
"Please be patient and keep them close first, and then listen to my orders.
Everyone must be ready to shoot tigers and cannons together.
This is the thieves' reconnaissance cavalry.
In order to scare the monkeys, we can't let anyone go."
The Yuhang town warriors on the watchtower were all convinced, so they all held their breaths and said nothing.
Sure enough, these four thieves riding donkeys first wandered around in the distance for a few times, and then carefully looked at the people standing on the pillars.
At the boundary marker on the roadside, I noticed that there was no response from the watchtower, so I boldly walked over gradually, and walked faster and faster until I reached the foot of the watchtower.
One of the leading bandits jumped off his donkey next to the watchtower, took out a piece of paper from his arms, and recited something loudly to the people inside.
Unfortunately, the village warriors in Yuhang Town hardly understood the words in Mandarin.
In the days before it was popularized, if Cantonese people communicated with Hangzhou people in dialect, they would basically be talking like chickens and ducks.
Especially the young man Chen Jinnan, who was going into battle for the first time, didn't even listen to a single word.
He was so nervous that he almost soaked the gun with sweat.
At this time, Chen Jialuo, the "firearm expert" of Yuhang Town, suddenly reached out and slapped the wall hard, shouting: "Hit!"
After hearing the order from his family uncle, Chen Jinnan immediately leaned half out of the window subconsciously, aimed at the leading thief and opened fire.
The moment he opened fire, Chen Jinnan felt his body shake, and the gun followed by a burst of white spray.
The smoke choked his eyes and made him feel sore and numb.
In the hazy haze, he seemed to see the thief holding the paper shake for a moment, showing an expression of disbelief, and then fell down without even making a sound.
Chen Jinnan, who had shot someone with a fire blunderbuss for the first time in his life, had no time to shout out a joyful cheer when he heard a series of crackling sounds around him.
Uncle Chen Jialuo and a dozen other Chen family members also fired their blunderbuss. .
Under such close range shooting, three of the four defenseless thieves were knocked over.
Only the thief who was farthest away hid behind the donkey and escaped temporarily.
Next, the four tiger squatting cannons that had been carefully collected for nearly a century in the Chen Family Ancestral Hall were set on fire one after another.
The sound of the cannons was like thunder, and the broken stones, broken tiles, and scrapped lead of substandard caliber were fired.
The bullets blasted out like a violent storm, but even such a magical weapon could not leave the last thief behind.
After the smoke dispersed, the guy was still safe and sound, but seeing that the situation was not good, he abandoned his companions and turned around and ran away. .
Even in Qi Jiguang's era, the Crouching Tiger Cannon was only an auxiliary weapon that mainly fired shotguns.
The advantage was that it could stuff any broken stones or broken porcelain pieces into it, and it could dazzle the enemy's face at close range.
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The disadvantage is: the range of this thing is very short, and it is not powerful enough when attacking a city.
In field battles, the gun position is fixed, making it inconvenient to move and even more difficult to aim.
By the Qing Dynasty, it was replaced by the carrying gun, which was similar in power but lighter.
At least three lifting guns can weigh as much as a squatting tiger cannon.
It can be seen that ancient Chinese firearms are still improving.
But no matter what, the village warriors of Yuhang Town were victorious and successfully defeated the Kun thieves.
The people on the watchtower cheered for a while, and some people quickly reported the news to the squires in the town.
Then piles of "victory cakes" and large pots of white rice were brought up.
The man who brought the cake also said that a pig was being killed in the town and he would treat everyone to a feast in the evening.
Hearing the news that there would be a reward banquet in the evening, there was an even louder cheer in the watchtower.
In this happy and proud atmosphere, everyone was trying their best to show off their bravery just now, as if they had not just attacked.
He retreated only a few of the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry, but instead defeated the enemy's generals, destroyed everything, and fought a great victory: "You see, I killed the thief who was the leader just now."
"Shit, I obviously beat him to death.
If you don't believe it, go look at the piece of paper in his hand.
It's full of holes made by me."
"You're such a bear, but you can still make holes.
I see you're using a blunderbuss to hit the ground to make holes."
"Stop arguing, hurry up and find two people, pick up the Japanese pirate's muskets, and look at the muskets.
Isn't it the time for you to drink a celebratory drink?
Just four thieves came, and one escaped.
Soon the bandits of Kun will arrive, and there is still a battle to be fought."
Chen Jialuo stopped the juniors' quarrel with a sullen face, "I'll cut off the head and hang it at the door, and I'll bring the donkey back as soon as possible."
Following Uncle Chen Jialuo's roar, the juniors in the town hurriedly moved into action, and the first musket delivered naturally reached Chen Jialuo's hands.
The local heroes gathered around him curiously, wanting to see how the "number one firearms man in Yuhang" would play with this strange foreign gun.
Picking up a blunderbuss with the leading head open, Chen Jialuo frowned and weighed it in his hand.
He was surprised to find that this thing actually felt better than his most precious blunderbuss.
Next, he roughly figured out this stuff After realizing the child's principle, Chen Jialuo, with the attitude of trying it out, raised the gun and pointed the rear sight at the body of the Kun thief thirty steps away.
After pulling the trigger hard, he was surprised to find that the dragon's head was motionless. .
He muttered in confusion, "Maybe it was broken just now."
He then took the other two captured guns and followed the same pattern.
The two guns fired smoothly.
The first gun hit the target steadily.
The corpse instantly caused a burst of blood mist to rise from the headless body that had just died less than an hour ago.
After the second blunderbuss was fired, it even broke a wooden board standing a hundred steps away in half.
"This gun is so powerful."
The onlookers were all speechless and admired Chen Jialuo even more for being able to play the gun so smoothly.
Facing the compliments and praises from everyone, Chen Jialuo just waved his hands indifferently, then put up the gun, took out a gun from a seized cowhide box and stuffed it into the barrel, as well as the conspicuous little copper cap.
Following the same pattern, when he next pulled the trigger, Chen Jialuo suddenly knew why the first gun just failed to fire: the mechanism of this gun is so exquisite that it can prevent it from misfiring.
However, despite holding such a military weapon, he still lost his life so easily.
It seems that this thief was just a mediocre person.
Stroking the captured gun, Chen Jialuo grinned with a disdainful smile, becoming more confident in winning this battle.
"Why do four people just come back to you alone?
What do you do for a living, you bastard?"
Seeing the unreliable guide who had escaped with his life kneeling in front of him fearfully, Li Meng suddenly became furious.
The unreliable guide who was so disgraced that he lost his shoes was immediately frightened and fell to the ground: "Master, no, chief, you really don't blame me, those uncles ran so fast when they saw the town, I couldn't keep up.
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By the time I rushed over, it was already too late."
So, with a sad face, he stammered to Li Meng how he had just experienced it.
How despicable and shameless, to attack without warning and wait until this is unreliable After the guide finished speaking, Li Meng had generally calmed down: he actually knew that the people under his command were either motley crews or new recruits.
Although they looked relatively strong in training, their actual combat experience was quite lacking. , it is normal for someone to accidentally get into trouble.
In short, according to this guy's description, the Yuhang town in front had strong watchtowers built, as well as "elite" rural warriors equipped with muskets and artillery.
Although I don’t know the total number of enemies, looking at the size of the town, there should be six to seven thousand people in the town.
If the gentry in the town can recruit all the strong men, at least a few hundred people will be considered brave.
Can be pulled up.
Although I was not afraid of fighting in the wild with such a ragtag group of people who were about to collapse, the other party was obviously quite smart.
They did not rush out to die like the group trainers in other towns.
Instead, they huddled in the town with complex terrain and fought defensive battles.
This was Li Mengpan is a little scratching his head After doing some calculations, he found that there were only fifty-three people in his group.
Two people were left behind on the road, and three more were killed just now.
Now there are only forty-eight people left, all of whom are light infantry.
In addition to rifles with bayonets and rifles, Except for a small number of old-fashioned grenades, there is no heavy equipment.
With such a force, it is really difficult to attack a bunker equipped with firearms and suppress a town with a large number of people.
"Send a signal flare and ask for help from the surrounding squads.
At the same time, contact the headquarters of Phoenix Villa and request heavy fire support for the critical battle."
Li Menglue made the above decision after thinking about it.
So, under the leaden winter sky, a red flare swayed into the sky with a piercing scream, and soon three green flares rose from all around, indicating that there were three small teams.
They are about to arrive, and Li Meng's men will be able to gather 200 people by then.
Although it feels like the total number of people is still a little small, they can still fight a battle.
After contacting the Phoenix Mountain Headquarters with a wireless walkie-talkie, Li Meng also received a reply that surprised him.
The owner of the village, Zhao Yingong, attached great importance to the fiercely resisting "stubborn enemy" in Yuhang Town, so he personally escorted a group of people.
A large batch of equipment came to Yuhang Town to assist in the battle.
However, when this batch of "heavy equipment" was escorted over by Zhao Yingong and his team, Li Meng was dumbfounded for a moment: "Gatling rifles, heartless cannons, Hale rockets, these are all outdated junk.
Since getting in touch with the central government, haven't the troops already begun to change their equipment?
Just get a few mortars or throw The cartridges are stronger than these things."
"It is precisely because the troops are changing their equipment that these backward ordnance products we used to produce ourselves are piled up in warehouses and gathering dust."
Zhao Yingong smiled bitterly and explained, "I want to sell it, but I couldn't find a suitable market for a while, so Lingao transferred them all and reused them.
In a low-intensity public security war like this, as long as these things are used, That should be enough." oshow7: