Chapter 334 One-sided battle situation

The platoon of militiamen Xiao Liang brought from Guangzhou was only stationed from Victory Port to Guangzhou in March, replacing the armed personnel originally sent to Guangzhou. What is different from the previous group of personnel is that this group of militiamen are all

The "veterans" who have been to the Annan battlefield and have been tested in actual combat do not have much nervousness when facing the enemy. Compared with the tens of thousands of South Vietnamese troops who have to deal with the Annan battlefield, these disgraced bandits are not at all nervous.

Being looked down upon by the militiamen. Although there was a ten-fold difference in the strength of the two sides, the militiamen did not feel much tension. They just mechanically followed Xiao Liang's whistle instructions, loading, aiming, shooting... and repeated

They have done thousands of tactical actions in daily training.

The stormtroopers sent by Liao Dabi were basically bold and sinister desperadoes, but in their past experience of attacking various villages, they had never encountered such intensive long-range firepower. A charge within a hundred steps.

, after the dozens of people at the front were knocked down by the invisible and intangible lead bullets, the people behind were a little confused - they were captured as promised, but there was no resistance as promised?

Finally, a few lucky guys rushed to the nearby barbed wire fence, but the dense barbed wire fence was densely covered with sharp hooks and iron pieces. The slightest contact would cause skin wounds and blood flow. Although the injuries caused were not serious,

As long as the forward momentum is delayed due to this, the militiamen will immediately be fired at close range by the militiamen more than ten steps away. When shooting at this distance, the militiamen can even omit the step of aiming, and the hit rate is much higher than

The target during the shooting run was much higher. So in front of this corrugated barbed wire fence that was only chest high, the bandits became living targets and were knocked down row by row by lead bullets without any resistance.

It must be said that Liao Dabi's men were still very capable of fighting. Even in the face of a one-sided massacre, the desperadoes did not choose to retreat, but continued to charge upward. Finally, someone stepped on the corpse of his companion and jumped over the barbed wire.

Waving the machete in his hand and screaming, he rushed towards the parapet. But unfortunately, what awaited him was not gold and silver treasures, but densely packed iron-tipped spears.

Before the unlucky man could decide whether to block the attack from the left or the right first, he was stabbed by seven or eight spears at the same time. These spearmen were all militiamen of the Li Family Militia, and Xiao Liang was not in a hurry to let them take them.

The muskets were used as long-range firepower, but the spears were used as cover for close combat.

These bandits started charging from two to three hundred paces away. By the time they reached this point, they were already out of breath and their hands and feet were weak. They had no strength to fight. In addition, they were fighting alone. They wanted to fight with the spear formations of the militiamen.

They were just delivering food, almost knocking over every one that came. The Haihan militiamen, who were waiting for work, calmly continued to maintain the shooting rhythm, attacking the bandits who were still trying to climb over the barbed wire fence.

When the loss of the bandit stormtroopers exceeded two-thirds, the survivors who saw no hope of attacking Zhuangzi finally lost the courage to continue to die and began to flee back. Xiao Liang did not intend to pursue the escapees, so

The militiamen turned their guns and pointed them at the bandits who were still resisting. After a burst of gunfire, these stubborn bandits were also killed on the spot. The first wave of attacks launched by the bandits on the west side of Lijiazhuang was completely defeated.

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From near the parapet to a hundred steps away, the corpses of the bandits fell all the way. There were also many people who were not seriously injured, lying on the ground, screaming or rolling. The situation was very miserable. However, Xiao Liang did not care about this.

He was so moved that he immediately ordered the militiamen to get ready and let the civilians at the rear step forward to clean up the battlefield and re-reinforce the damaged section of barbed wire.

The fighting situation in the north was almost the same. The stormtroopers assembled by several bandits also suffered heavy casualties. The fourth company with more flintlock guns placed their opponents at a distance of about thirty meters before starting to focus their fire.

Shooting, intensive firepower claimed the lives of hundreds of people in just a minute or two. The stormtroopers here did not even have a chance to rush to the parapet and have close contact with their opponents like their comrades in the west.

They were killed later, and most of them fell in front of the barbed wire fence.

Although there were many casualties in the first wave of confrontation, it only lasted a short moment in terms of time. Such a casualty rate was really too heavy for the bandits who numbered only a few thousand. Liao Dabi did not

By the time the surviving men escaped back to the formation, they were already furious: "Where is this guy Li Maozi who is cheating on others? Catch this bitch quickly!"

Not long after, the dejected Li Maozai was escorted over by his men, but before Liao Dabi could get angry, Li Maozai knelt down directly with a "pop": "Boss Liao, I didn't know that things would turn out like this.

Ah! I beg you, sir, to give me a chance!"

"With so many brothers killed and injured, how dare you beg for mercy? If I give you a chance, who among us will be convinced?" Liao Dabi was filled with hatred and anger. He pointed at Li Maozi and cursed: "You said there are no strong men in Lijiazhuang, so you can do it easily.

Take it, did so many musketeers fall from the sky or pop out of the rocks? Did you conspire with the government to deliberately lure me here so that the officers and soldiers can set up an ambush and kill our brothers?"

When Li Maozi heard this, he was very slapped. He quickly shook his head and argued: "There is absolutely no such thing! Boss Liao, I am willing to guarantee with my life that I have never conspired with anyone, let alone schemed against Boss Liao.

With all my brothers!"

"Guarantee your life? Okay! Very good!" Liao Dabi took a few steps back and forth and made a decision: "You will lead the attack in the next round! If we can't defeat it, you don't have to come back!"

When Liao Dabi was in chaos, messengers came from the north and asked Liao Dabi why he encountered such strong resistance. Liao Dabi could only deduce that this was the militia of Lijiazhuang, and waited until everyone had rested

Launch an offensive together, use all the strength at hand to conquer Lijiazhuang. In order to prevent the allies from giving up, Liao Dabi also gave a very good reason - the militiamen who protect the village are so desperate,

They are also equipped with sharp weapons such as muskets, doesn't it just prove that the village has a lot of wealth?

However, the allies were not so easy to get rid of, and they immediately proposed to renegotiate the proportion of the spoils. Therefore, under the situation that the wounded soldiers who had returned from the previous round of defeat had not received timely treatment, several leaders had temporarily put aside the current war situation.

They went to the side and started bargaining back and forth through messengers. The people who were killed and injured in the charge just now have been forgotten by the heroes of each family and have become complete cannon fodder.

However, Liao Dabi and his friends are not the only ones who are unlucky at this time. Zeng Aniu, who was trying to make some extra money on the Shawan waterway, is now in a state of tears. After enduring the "Discovery"

After two back and forth attacks, the fleet that Zeng Aniu had worked so hard to pull out from his hometown in Xinhui County was basically reduced to half—this included the ships that were damaged but not falling apart. Look at that

This is a big and majestic strange ship. Except for some scratches on the waterline on both sides of the bow, there are no conspicuous injuries at all.

"I am provoking someone!" Zeng Aniu looked angry, completely forgetting that half an hour ago, it was he himself who ordered the "Discovery" to be taken down. He looked at the slow movement of the "Discovery" at the fork of the river in the distance.

As the "Discovery" turned around, Zeng Aniu couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He raised his voice and shouted: "Get out! Get out!"

The deputy next to him asked: "Boss, don't you wait for Liao Dabi and the others on the shore?"

"What the hell are you waiting for! A boat has blocked the waterway. How could the villager be unprepared? Liao Dabi probably kicked the iron plate this time. If he wants to die, let him die. My life is not precious.

I will accompany you! Call brothers, retreat quickly!" Zeng Aniu's mind was obviously much clearer than Liao Dabi's. Although he still had the strength to fight, he decisively chose to give up. Although he had these small boats to take the "Exploration"

There is no good way, but it is actually quite easy to escape the pursuit of a large ship in the dense water network nearby. After all, in terms of the flexibility of traveling on inland waterways, this sea-going ship is far from comparable to a small boat.

Liao Dabi didn't know that some of his allies had already retreated. He would not make the decision to retreat as quickly as Zeng Aniu. Regardless of the outcome of this battle, Liao Dabi's men would withdraw to their home base in the north.

, it will take at least five days on the road. The two thousand people in the team have to eat horse chews, and the food and grass supplies they need are not a small amount. If they can't capture Lijiazhuang, do they have to beg for food all the way back?

For the current plan, of course, we must first appease other allies, and then gather a large number of troops to attack Lijiazhuang again.

The situation in Lijiazhuang and Zhuangzi was much easier than when preparing for the war in the first two days. No matter how Li Nai boasted about the superior combat power of the Haihan Militia in advance, the local people would still have to see the actual performance before they would feel relieved. And the Haihan Militia

The regiment did live up to expectations, easily resolving the opponent's first charge, killing and injuring more than 200 people, but there was not even a single wounded person on our side. What kind of combat power? This is living combat power!

At this time, Li Jifeng had returned to his usual calm demeanor and directed his subordinates to deliver hot tea to the position for the militia soldiers to quench their thirst.

"Your army really has outstanding combat power. These bandits are like chickens and dogs. They are vulnerable to your army!" Li Jifeng took advantage of Xiao Liang's retreat from the front line to rest and hurriedly stepped forward to deliver it.

A tall hat.

"Boss Li, thank you." Xiao Liang smiled slightly, but he didn't mean to be humble. In Xiao Liang's eyes, the opponent was indeed similar to Li Jifeng's description, not to mention the Haihan Militia, even the Li Jia Militia.

It wouldn't be too difficult to deal with this kind of opponent. This time we sent troops, we easily gained a huge favor from the Li family.

"How do your army plan to deal with these dead and injured bandits?" Li Jifeng continued to inquire about Xiao Liang's words. With so many people dead, it would be quite troublesome to report to the officials afterwards. The Panyu County Government is also located in Guangzhou City, so it is necessary to

It would take two or three days to report to the official. With so many corpses, I'm afraid they would have started to rot.

"Catch those who deserve to be captured, and bury those who deserve to be buried." Xiao Liangyan responded concisely and concisely. He had no sympathy at all for the first batch of bandits who came up to kill them. At first glance, these people were desperadoes who regarded human life as nothing.

It's best to die, and those who are not dead can't stay in society and harm others. As for whether Lijiazhuang will report this matter to the official, what extent and results of the report, he doesn't care - if the Guangzhou government can control these

If things were done, the people would not be in such chaos.

"Do these injured people need medical treatment?" Li Jifeng continued to ask.

Xiao Liang raised his head and glanced at Li Jifeng, and instantly understood what he meant. He shook his head and said, "There is no need to treat those who are seriously injured. Let's take care of our destiny!"

Treating these injured bandits will definitely require a lot of medicine and someone to take care of them, and Lijiazhuang is obviously not willing to take on this responsibility. Xiao Liang also feels that there is no need to waste too many resources on these scum, so he simply goes ahead with it.

What Li Jifeng means.

"I understand, let's deal with it now." Li Jifeng bowed and retreated. If Xiao Liang said "treat", then Li Jifeng would have to grit his teeth and pay for it, but it was obvious that Xiao Liang had no regard for these bandits.

Sympathy, Li Jifeng is also happy to save unnecessary expenses.

The intermission period between bandits' attacks was much longer than the Lijiazhuang defenders expected. By lunch time, there was still no movement from the opponents, but people could be seen constantly coming in and out of the rogue camps to the west and north.

"No more waiting, let's start dinner!" Xiao Liang put down the telescope angrily and gave the order.

Although the first round of attacks directly wiped out the group, he did not show his full strength, which still gave the opponent a little hope of a comeback. He originally thought that the opponent would launch the next wave of attacks after taking a short rest.

Unexpectedly, these bandits neither retreated nor attacked, and just remained in a stalemate.

Of course, Xiao Liang hopes that the opponent will use his imagination to encircle Lijiazhuang. Anyway, the waterway to the south has been cleared, and materials and personnel can come continuously from the Shawan Waterway to the south. There is no need to worry about whether the opponent will

Adopt siege tactics.

In order to reward the Haihan militia for fighting bravely, Li Jifeng had two more pigs killed in the morning to give the militia extra meals. Li Jifeng's instructions to the logistics were very clear, which was to ensure that the Haihan militia had "rice for every meal" during the battle in Lijiazhuang.

Meat for meals, bed for everyone." Compared with the safety of Lijiazhuang, this amount of money is not a painful amount for Li Jifeng. He has heard Li Nai mention that the Annan people simply invited the Haihan militia to help in the battle.

It was a waste of money, and even the population and land were paid to the Haihan Executive Committee as compensation. Since I could choose to use money to solve this matter, it saved me a lot of trouble.

The rogue bandits stationed in the wilderness are not so lucky. Not to mention meat, even staple food is very tight now. There are thousands of acres of rice fields belonging to Lijiazhuang nearby, but at this time, the rice is still far from mature.

For more than a month, there was no possibility of eating it. Most people could only get a small bowl of wild vegetable porridge, the ingredients of which were almost the same as the morning meal. It could only be said to be better than nothing.

As the bandit leader, Liao Dabi naturally had a separate meal, so he didn't have to drink the astringent and bitter wild vegetable porridge. But he was not in the mood to eat at all now, because his subordinates had just reported that Zeng Aniu and his group were on the Shawan Waterway in the south.

Has disappeared.

Remembering that Zeng Aniu had swornly agreed with him on the post-war material transportation plan two days ago, Liao Dabi was so angry that he wanted to lift the table. According to what Li Maozai said, there are hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain and illicit salt in Lijiazhuang.

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, as well as all kinds of valuable things, could such a large number of things be moved away on the brothers' portable shoulders? When will it be transported?

At this time, Liao Dabi was still thinking about how to deal with the spoils after the war, but he did not realize what the sudden disappearance of Zeng Aniu and his gang meant. As for the other bandit forces, Liao Dabi finally agreed to take out the spoils.

20% of the profit was shared equally among everyone, and they decided to stay and continue to attack Lijiazhuang. Of course, for them, the criterion for weighing the pros and cons is actually very simple - if they choose to give up and withdraw their troops now, then this time it will be a 100% loss-making transaction and a loss in vain.

A group of men and food and supplies; but staying to continue to attack Lijiazhuang, although there is a risk of casualties, but if it can be defeated, it will definitely be a big deal that can last for several years. It is still worth taking this risk

of.

In the afternoon of the same day, the bandit coalition organized another wave of offensives, still launching attacks from the north and west, and the number of troops sent exceeded that in the morning, with nearly a thousand people on both sides combined. The defenders also continued to use the same tactics as in the morning

The defensive mode still uses a rotating gun formation as the defensive firepower output to carry out long-range attacks on the bandit teams rushing into the formation.

In view of the increase in the strength of the opponent's troops, the defenders on the two positions did not dare to be too confident and started shooting after the enemy entered the shooting range. Xiao Liang was responsible for this direction and even added two platoons of muskets from the Li's Militia Regiment.

Soldiers were used as firepower supplement to ensure sufficient firepower intensity within the range. However, the artillery that had been deployed on the position was still in a silent state and was not put into use.

This is because Xiao Liang insists that the opponent will definitely make a desperate move in the end, betting all the troops on hand to win or lose. If artillery is used now, it will definitely undermine the opponent's confidence, and they may not even finish this one.

will choose to leave the field. As for artillery, Xiao Liang decided to save it until the last critical moment to use it, to eliminate these potential hostile forces within the controllable battlefield as much as possible to prevent them from escaping.

This place later became a hidden danger.

The offensive launched by the bandit coalition in the afternoon still did not make substantial progress. If there is any gain, it is that they learned the lesson from the morning, lifted many door panels and ladders during the charge, and skillfully subdued the obstructionists.

Barbed wire. Of course, this small detail was not enough to affect the outcome of the battle. In the face of intensive firepower, those who rushed through the barbed wire still became the living targets of the militiamen without any suspense.
Chapter completed!