As more Northern Marines arrived to join the battle, the situation of hand-to-hand confrontation between the two sides became more and less; from one-on-one at the beginning to two-on-one and three-on-one later.
The Northern Navy had more people, armed with sharp weapons, higher pensions, and became more and more courageous. On the contrary, the Qing army had fewer and fewer people, their momentum dropped, and they could no longer resist.
Some leaders and co-leaders were unwilling to surrender. When they couldn't fight, they simply wiped their necks with a knife, or rushed at the guns of the North Navy. Some people knelt on the ground dejectedly, threw their weapons aside, and never used them again.
They gained the courage to continue fighting; while more were killed by angry soldiers with bullets and stabbed to the ground with bayonets.
Some Qing troops also tried to escape into the forest, but under the pursuit of several bright flashlights, the dense rain of bullets beat them like a hornet's nest.
Hu Ji, who was blocked by his men from passing by, was pacing back and forth in the distance, holding in his hand the "handicraft" that Zhao Xin gave him back then, taking it out and putting it back.
The bright flashlight light and shadow swayed from time to time in the dense forest, and the swishing sounds of shrub branches and leaves as people ran, the sound of gunshots one after another, and the hoarse screams of the injured filled this mountain clearing.
Several disheveled female doctors and nurses, with no regard for their own safety, ran to the still-smoldering ruins of the field hospital, rummaged through the still-usable medicines and bandages, and immediately ran to the injured Beihai navy to provide first aid.
The disgraced Zhu Dagui and his wife hid in a tree pit at the foot of the slope to the north of the camp. The couple looked at the fighting scene in front of them with trembling fear. They were almost scared out of their wits. Fortunately, they ran fast just now, but if they were any later, they would have been killed.
The armored soldiers caught up.
Zhu Dagui and his wife said in a trembling voice: "Dad, what are we doing? Otherwise, why don't we just resign the village chief and let's take Xiao Shun back to our hometown?"
"Bah! You really have long hair and short knowledge. Can you afford 50% of the rent when you go back? Besides, now that I have no braids, my head will be lost if caught by the government!" Zhu Dagui glared fiercely and told the woman to be humble.
He turned his head and looked at the Qing troops who were fighting with the Northern Navy, and cursed: "The stupid officers and soldiers almost caused me to meet the King of Hell."
The couple were muttering when they heard the sound of branches being broken from behind, which scared Zhu Dagui and his wife. When he looked through the light, he saw a gray-white head popping out from behind the tree. This time
Zhu Dagui was even more frightened.
"village head?"
Hearing that the voice sounded familiar, Zhu Dagui waited for a while before trembling: "Who? Who is there?"
"Village chief, it's me, it's me."
Zhu Dagui squinted and saw a man slowly walking out from behind the tree. He was still limping. His arms were injured and his head and legs were wrapped with bandages.
"Zhu Ni Se?"
"Why."
Zhu Dagui confirmed the identity of the other party, then carefully leaned over and helped Zhu Nise over. He asked, "Why are you alone? Where are the others?"
Zhunise sighed and said: "I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I got up to urinate, and unexpectedly I heard some noise... Oh!"
In fact, it was Zhunise who set the earliest fire. He first knocked out the doctor and nurse doing rounds with a low stool, and then lit the tent on fire with half a bottle of alcohol that he had stolen while disinfecting his wounds in the afternoon.
Unable to move and afraid of being accidentally injured by one of his own people, Zhunise found a place to hide.
He consciously acted in a concealed manner, thinking that even if the Qing army succeeded in a sneak attack, he would have to go in and out quickly. He couldn't run fast like this. Instead of doing this, it would be better to lie down first, recover from his injuries and then find an opportunity to escape.
The three of them were talking in a low voice when suddenly a sharp shout came from not far above their heads: "Who is there! Come out! If you don't come out again, shoot!"
Zhu Dagui shuddered in fright and shouted quickly: "No! It's me, Zhu Dagui! The village chief of Xingkaihu No. 2 Village!"
When the three people helped each other climb up from the slope, they were completely unable to open their eyes under the flashlight. A soldier from the North Navy lowered the brightness of the flashlight, walked forward and looked at it for a while, recognized Zhu Dagui, and then signaled to the others.
Put down the gun.
"Oh, it's Village Chief Zhu. Why are you hiding here? Why is there a wounded person?"
Zhu Dagui hurriedly said: "This is also from our village. Hezhe. His name is Zhunise."
The soldier nodded, illuminated the bandage on Zhu Nise's body with a flashlight, and then said: "The migrant workers are at the edge of the mountain in front now. You go over and have a rest first. Someone will bring you water and clothes later."
Zhu Dagui quickly clasped his fists in thanks, then supported Zhu Nise and walked slowly away.
The battlefield on the south side of the Western Front Headquarters was as bright as day. A company of Northern Navy soldiers were cleaning the battlefield with bayonets in hand. Those who died had to be stabbed, and those injured Qing soldiers could do nothing as long as they did not run or resist.
They will not be shot, they will be tied up with ropes and taken back.
The first-class guard Bobin was also tied up now, but because he suffered gunshot wounds in his legs and shoulders, he was carried on a stretcher by two Qing troops and escorted by several Northern Navy soldiers to a temporary first aid point.
The field hospital in the logistics camp had been reduced to rubble. Several migrant workers who came to help clean up found a female body in a collapsed tent after burning.
Seeing the blackened body, a migrant worker cursed: "You're going to die these days! How can you have the heart to attack a woman!"
Several people sighed for a while, then found a piece of cloth that was still intact, covered the body, and carried it to the storage point.
Thirty minutes later, Zhao Xin received preliminary casualty and loss statistics. The Beihai Navy Logistics Garrison Company suffered heavy losses. The company commander was killed in battle, and three platoon leaders were killed and two were seriously injured. The entire company suffered more than 70 casualties. The headquarters of the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Regiment
Because of the close firefight with the Qing army, in order to avoid accidental damage, more than 30 people were seriously injured and five were killed. After a hand-to-hand battle, more than a dozen people were killed and almost everyone was injured; while the headquarters suffered only losses.
Two sentries were killed, but the others were unharmed.
As for the migrant workers, there were many casualties. Many were burned to death directly in their tents; others were shot and hacked to death indiscriminately by the Qing army for running around.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After listening to the report, Zhao Xin's face was livid with anger, and he thought to himself that this was a hell of a night, I have never suffered such a big loss! Fortunately, I have been matched with An Shao
Thermal imaging night vision device.
Hey~ wait a minute! Zhao Xin figured out something was wrong. He suddenly remembered that the logistics camp had also issued a set of night vision goggles. What did the hidden whistle do?
Thinking of this, Zhao Xin said to his subordinates: "Find the secret sentry immediately. If you want to see the person alive, you will see the body if you die!"
More than twenty minutes later, news came over the walkie-talkie that the body of the secret sentry was found. He had been stabbed in the chest and neck. The night vision goggles and rifle he was issued were gone.
"Pay attention to inspect every corpse of Qing army!"
On the other side, Zhu Dagui and the other three arrived at the col where the headquarters was located and found a place to sit down. When they saw someone carrying a pot to pour water, he got up and went over. He was also very thirsty, so he drank two cups first and then poured them again.
When he was walking back with a full glass of water, he accidentally saw Qibukadai, another Hezhe native in the village, squatting in the crowd and looking around. Zhu Dagui walked over and kicked him lightly with his foot, and sighed: "You kid
He actually survived!"
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Whale Town resettlement site, the wooden house with a Datong bunk structure was full of snoring, but the old boxer Wu Zhong, who was lying on the bunk, was not asleep at all.
From getting off the ship yesterday morning to arranging a place to rest in the evening, the day went by in a blur for Wu Zhong. He has lived for more than fifty years and has traveled far and wide. He has never seen an official who would bathe the refugees, give them new clothes, or even
Have your body checked by a doctor.
The meal was not ordinary. At noon, there was a large pot of stewed radish in pork bone soup and white flour steamed buns with bran. The young man Li Han also said that the reason why everyone was not given meat was because many people were weak and could not eat anything all year round.
You can't eat more than a few mouthfuls of oil, otherwise your intestines won't hold up after eating, and you'll definitely get a stomachache.
After dinner, Wu Zhong asked Li Han specifically to find out what the people in Whale Town ate for two meals a day. Li Han smiled and said to him that the staple food was the same, and they were also white-flour steamed buns with bran. He was still a doctor
They specifically stipulated that if you don’t eat bran, you will easily get sick.
However, what Li Han said next shocked Wu Zhong. Li Han said that we in Beihai Town do not have two meals a day, but three meals a day. Sure enough, when dinner was served in the evening, everyone was given hot soup noodles, and at noon
The remaining bones were stewed with cabbage and radish in a pot, but the noodles were still white!
This shocked all the new immigrants. It was only natural that they had a good meal right after they got off the ship. The landlord's family treated the foreman to a meal and provided them with sorghum rice.
Good guy, I’m giving you white flour steamed buns, but I’m also giving you white noodles! Although Wu Zhong’s family is well off, he can’t eat white flour and meat every day. Sorghum is the staple food for two meals a day, and it’s only harvested throughout the year, that is, during the Chinese New Year.
Eat a pound or two of meat to make dumplings. Even in the prosperous Jiangnan, those long-term coolies only had two meals of brown rice a day. A little fish and shrimp would already make people feel like they were in heaven.
Wu Zhong stared at the dark roof, thinking about it and couldn't figure out, how could Beihai Town be so rich? How could it be possible?!
Thinking of the scene at the port after disembarking yesterday morning, he was dazzled and overwhelmed. Wu Zhong seemed to be in a dream. If it is really like what Li Han said, the rebel leaders in Beihai Town want to let the common people in the world be able to
If they live like this, how can they be considered rebels?
No! Wu Zhong shook his head slightly. It's fake. These rebels are just inviting people to buy their hearts and deceive people into joining the gang. Once these people are assigned to farm and work for the rebels, they don't know what kind of exploitation they will endure.
What a miserable life he lived, Wu Zhong had seen too many such things.
Qianlong is the emperor and is not something that ordinary people can discuss. But the capable ministers and officials in the court are all well-read poetry and literary stars. How can they deceive us? The common people can eat sorghum every day and have a little surplus food at home.
In times of famine, if you don’t sell your sons and daughters, can this be considered a prosperous time?
But Wu Zhong immediately thought of Li Han. When eating dinner, Li Han squatted on the ground with a bowl like everyone else. He said that his family was hit by a disaster three years ago, and he almost started eating human flesh. If it weren't for Beihai Town
The old man bought him, his mother, and his younger brother at the Luoyang market, but they were picked up by wild dogs long ago.
Yes! The great disaster in the fifty-first year of Qianlong also affected Wu Zhong’s hometown Qingyun. The Wu family also gave porridge and donated money outside Zhuangzi at that time. Recalling the scene at that time, the clothes were in rags, the orphans were old and
Weak, hanging on to that bowl of porridge every day, even a stone-hearted person will shed tears for it.
But as the subordinate sent by Mr. Liu Chongru said to himself, the world is too big, and there will inevitably be a disaster, either here or there. Besides, Qianlong is in charge of hundreds of millions of people in the world, and it is impossible for him to do everything.
It's time to take care of it. Didn't the imperial court also allocate several million taels of disaster relief money at the beginning, and also allocated grain shipments to Beijing?
Wu Zhong tossed and turned all night, and didn't fall asleep until the sky was bright outside. But when it was time to have breakfast, Wu Rong, who came to look for his father, saw his father with two dark circles under his eyes, snoring and drinking porridge...
...
At six o'clock in the morning, Zhao Xin finally got the final casualty statistics. People from the Third Battalion of the Sixth Regiment searched for half the night, but still could not find the missing rifle and night vision goggles.
Zhao Xin drank strong tea while listening to the report of his staff. After listening, Zhao Xin asked Hu Ji: "How is it? You haven't slept all night, can you continue to fight?"
When Hu Ji heard this, he immediately stood at attention and said that there was no problem at all. Zhao Xindao: "Okay. Let the first battalion rest for three hours and knock down the Qing army's fortress before noon."
After hearing this, Hu Ji saluted, then left the tent and went to the First Battalion to make arrangements.
At this time, there were only two staff officers left in the tent. Zhao Xin pinched his swollen eyebrows with his hands and asked one of them: "What was the cause of death of the nurse in the hospital?"
The staff officer was stunned, turned over the book in his hand, and then said: "She was first attacked from behind and injured her head, and then died in the fire. However, judging from the degree of burns on the body, she was probably choked to death by the smoke.
of."
"Do you still have the duty records of the field hospital?"
"We didn't find it, it should have been burned."
Zhao Xin looked at the staff officer and said: "I'm giving you a task. Don't make it public and make it known to everyone. Find the nurses and doctors who survived and find out privately which areas and patient numbers the dead person was responsible for at night.
Go ahead."
After the man left, Zhao Xin said to another staff officer: "The interrogation of the prisoners will begin immediately. Find out the senior generals among the prisoners. I don't care what means you use, you must ask the story of the attack.
"
"Sir, many of the prisoners are injured. If we use severe punishment, I'm afraid they won't be able to survive."
Zhao Xin was also a little confused. This staff officer was not from the Beihai Town Public Security Bureau and knew nothing about many interrogation methods. So he waved the staff officer over and muttered a bit. The staff officer finished listening.
He showed an expression of sudden realization, thinking that there is such a way.
At this time, Ouchi guard Bobin, who was shot and injured, had already woken up. Because he deeply hated the Qing army who attacked him, the doctors and nurses responsible for the rescue did not intend to use anesthetics on these people. So he became a nurse and used iodine.
While washing his wound, Bobin, who was tied to the stretcher, screamed in pain and almost jumped up from the ground.
The two Qing soldiers who were responsible for holding down Bobin said: "Sir, please bear with me, I am treating your injuries."
Bobin looked around and roared: "Let me go! Kill me if you can! I don't want you to be hypocritical!"
"Be honest!" A soldier from the Northern Navy raised the butt of his gun and hit Bobin on the chest, hitting Bobin so hard that he almost lost his breath.
The soldier continued: "You son of a bitch! If you hadn't spoken to me, who would have thought I would save you!"
The nurse wearing a mask on the side didn't say anything. She inserted a spreader into the wound on Bobin's calf to spread it, and then picked up the surgical forceps and stretched it in.
"Howl~!!" Bobin screamed, almost fainting from the pain. After a while, Bobin, who was sweating profusely, heard the nurse say: "Take it out."
Then, I heard a "click" sound, as if something fell into the iron plate.