Chapter 747 The undefeated legend of the wolf soldiers
Although Guangxi is located in a remote place in the southwest, now, all the wasteland in the area under the jurisdiction of Wuzhou Prefecture has been completely developed.
Since the "San Francisco Rebellion" was put down, there has been no war in Guangxi. As the Qing government spared no effort to implement the immigration policy, a large number of Guangdong immigrants poured into Guangxi. As a result, in addition to those places where sand and gravel were accumulated and difficult to cultivate, even the rugged valleys
The land was burned down and cultivated, and rice and various grains including buckwheat, broad beans, peanuts, etc. were planted.
Some people may say corn and sweet potatoes... I'm sorry, but the planting areas of corn are mainly in Guizhou, and very few are grown in Guangxi. Historically, it was not until the Daoguang period that corn, that is, corn was common in the mountainous areas of Guangxi.
Promotion, and the reason for this change is actually the degradation of cultivated land caused by excessive land reclamation.
Autumn harvest is approaching now, and the entire valley area looks golden. The nearly ripe rice is like a huge and undulating yellow carpet spread among the green mountains. The surrounding peaks and hills are covered with masson pine, fir trees and various kinds of trees.
Bamboo, the scenery is really pleasant.
However, Chen Wenxiu and his twenty soldiers were not in the mood to look at the scenery. They had seen too many scenes like this in Hoi An and Java Island. What they looked like now was just like those walking in the paddy fields of Vietnam more than a hundred years later.
They looked like soldiers from the United States, wearing green combat uniforms, sleeves rolled up, helmets, fixed belts on their chins, rifles in both hands, walking quickly across the field ridges.
When they rushed north along the east bank of Jianjiang River for more than two miles, Meng Denggao and his men appeared on the golden "carpet" like black ants. However, because the distance between the two sides was one kilometer, and there was
They were separated by a hill more than thirty meters high, so they didn't notice each other.
Meng Denggao's first goal now is to occupy the hills ahead and use them as a foothold for the next battle.
There is a saying in the art of war that whenever the army is facing an enemy, the mountains are close to the valleys, and the place of life is considered high... On the flat land, the right side is high, and the front and the back are life. This means that when fighting in mountainous areas, you must choose the "place of life".
", stay high and face the sun; when fighting in plains and hilly areas, choose a flat place, preferably with your back to a high place, with the front low and the back high.
As an eighteenth-century intellectual capable of both literary and military skills, although Meng Denggao had never been on the battlefield, he was familiar with military books, such as "Sun Tzu", "Wu Zi", and "Sima Fa" by heart. He also helped
Several gangsters were captured in the county.
Historically before the Jiaqing era, the Qing court's martial arts examinations required not only passing the external examinations such as archery, horse riding and archery, but also the internal examination of "one strategy and two theories". According to the Qing Dynasty martial arts examination papers preserved by later generations, it can be very
It can definitely be said that the martial arts students in the Shunkang, Yongzong and Qian dynasties were all well-educated intellectuals, and those who wrote in small regular script were, tsk tsk, better than Zhao Xin, who had practiced calligraphy for several years.
So General Meng Xiucai Meng Qian sent a ten-man team to take the lead in climbing the mountain, and he followed with a large team of people. Chen Wenxiu on the other side also planned to climb the hill. Without the drone, he could only climb higher.
Looking into the distance, he sent two elite soldiers.
Although the wolf soldiers from Pinglefu are all mountain hunters, it is not difficult to climb a hill of more than 30 meters, but their physical fitness is far inferior to that of the scouts of the Northern Navy. They have just started climbing over there, and here
The two soldiers were like rabbits. They were halfway up the mountain in a blink of an eye. You must know that during the war, time was always measured in minutes and seconds.
It is a very enviable thing to be a scout in the North Navy nowadays. Among other things, there is a quota of half a catty of meat every day, and canned fish can be eaten in unlimited quantities. Everyone who knows this
Everyone in the country is envious and jealous. In these days, even big landlords only eat a few kilograms of meat during festivals.
After the two soldiers arrived at the top of the mountain, they quickly looked around and felt that everything was normal. One of them turned on the walkie-talkie and reported the situation to Chen Wenxiu at the bottom of the mountain. Unexpectedly, before they could finish speaking, their companion in charge heard a slight abnormal noise.
, hurriedly made a gesture, and the two of them immediately ducked and hid behind the tree.
Ten seconds later, two guys wrapped in black headscarves and wearing colorful clothes and armor slowly emerged from the one-meter-high grass more than ten meters away. The leader was holding a small
He held a round shield and a six-inch iron javelin in his hanging hand, with one in his mouth. The man walking behind him held a crossbow with both hands.
This kind of javelin is a unique weapon of the wolf soldiers and is called the "iron standard". The whole body is made of fine iron and the head is sharp. When facing battle, it is held between four fingers and the tail is pressed against the palm. When encountering the enemy, it is thrown out.
It can reach up to thirty steps and can penetrate iron armor.
Whether it is a crossbow arrow or an iron mark, they are all smeared with Guangxi's unique "poisonous snake" - that is, snake venom, and it is not one kind, but a mixture of many. In addition to the antidote that the wolf soldiers bring with them, they will die if they see blood.
What appeared immediately behind the two wolf soldiers were three guys holding pick knives and steel forks, all in the same costume. The pick knife is the standard weapon of the Green Camp of the Qing Army, with a total length of two and a half meters, and a long and narrow blade.
More than 70 centimeters, with a 1.5-meter-long wooden handle attached to the bottom. Immediately afterwards, several more Qing soldiers also revealed their figures.
As more and more Qing troops emerged from the grass, and Chen Wenxiu behind them had not yet come up, the two scouts hesitated slightly, picked up their rifles and opened fire.
"Pa~~! Pa~~! Ah~~!" The two leading wolf soldiers were shot to death without any surprise. However, almost at the same time, a wolf soldier walking behind them also fell down.
Because the 7.62mm bullets used by the North Navy had too strong penetrating power, and the shooting was at close range, the warhead first passed through the chest and back of the person in front, and then hit the person with blood and organ residues.
The abdomen of the person behind him had his intestines broken.
The remaining wolf soldiers had no idea what was going on, so why did three of them fall down in one fell swoop? One of them hurriedly leaned over to check, but little did he know that this move saved his life. In this stunned moment, crisp
The sound sounded again, and the companion standing beside him groaned and fell to the ground, while another bullet whizzed past his turban.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The founder of the Northern Navy Scouts, Wang Yuanfang, has a famous saying: The first enemy to open fire is the king.
Well, this is actually not what he said, but what he heard from his superiors when he was a soldier. It means that it doesn't matter if you can fight or not, at least you can scare the enemy into hiding, so there will be
This gives me the opportunity to fire the second shot. Otherwise, after taking aim for a long time, is there any difference between shooting the left eye and the right eye?
"Something's happening! Class 1! Take a detour from the right side of the mountainside! Others follow me!"
Chen Wenxiu, who had just arrived at the foot of the mountain, heard the gunshots coming from the walkie-talkie and immediately issued an order. He threw the rifle from his shoulder to the front, held it in his hand, and used his hands and feet to speed up.
On the other side, Meng Denggao, who had climbed halfway up the mountain, also heard the sound. However, the sound of gunfire with a silencer became very crisp. It was not the "boom" sound of a gun at all. It was like someone using a split weapon to fire.
He beat the bamboo stick hard against the hard object. Mr. Meng Qian thought to himself: What are the people in front doing? There is nothing to do when they reach the top of the mountain, so idle that their eggs ache?
Meng Denggao was just thinking about going up later to reprimand those bastards, when he saw a black shadow rolling down from the top of the mountain like a lost dog. He watched the man getting closer and closer to him.
, two of his men immediately stood in front of him and stopped the other party.
"What happened?"
When someone asked the question, the soldier raised his head blankly, his eyes dull as if he had lost his soul, and murmured to himself: "They are all dead! They are all dead! There is a ghost on the top of the mountain, there is a ghost on the top of the mountain!"
All dead? Meng Denggao was startled, but he reacted immediately, stepped forward and gave the soldier a slap in the face, and cursed: "I threw you a carrot across the sea, what the hell is it!"
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The intellectual Mr. Meng Qian knew very well that he couldn't be polite with the illiterate guys under his command, and he had to use a few swear words when giving lectures. These people just fell into this trap.
The wolf soldier received a heavy slap in the face and immediately sobered up a lot. He recognized that the person who slapped him was Mr. Qian, so he said with a tearful voice: "Sir, all four brothers are dead. Their heads exploded, bleeding.
There was a lot of blood. I didn’t even see a single person.”
Just as Meng Denggao was about to ask, he heard someone shouting not far away. When he looked up, it seemed that something was rolling down from the top of the mountain, and there was a faint smoke.
Is this? Meng Denggao's pupils shrank and he felt something was wrong. He was about to tell his men to get away when he heard a loud bang, followed by another sound, and a wave of air rushed towards his face, knocking him staggering.
There was a loud buzzing in the ears.
I don’t know how long it took, but Meng Denggao, who was hugging a pine tree, felt someone shaking his arm. At the same time, he faintly heard someone shouting: "My lord! My lord!"
Mengdenggao shook his head, shook off a few grass clippings, and poked his ears with his fingers. Only then did he feel that the sounds around him were no longer distant. At this moment, he would be a fool if he didn't know what was going on.
He reached out and pulled out his sword, and shouted: "Brothers! The pirates are on the mountain. There are not many of them. No matter life or death, if you catch a commander, you will be rewarded fifty taels! You will be promoted to the commander-in-chief!"
As he shouted, the flag-bearing soldiers who followed him also began to wave the black pennant and point the flag crown to the top of the mountain. The wolf soldiers lying on the hillside heard Mr. Qian's order and looked at each other.
They took a look, and then, led by several veterans, they all got up and started climbing towards the top of the mountain more than 20 meters away.
These people did not get together in a swarm, but naturally divided into three groups: left, middle and right. The commanders of each team also waved green pennants and rushed in front. This situation made the two scouts squatting on the top of the hill
They were all startled, thinking that this was a hornet's nest, right?
Why are Guangxi's wolf soldiers so brave? Some people say that Guangxi is poor, so its people are tough, and they have practiced martial arts since childhood. The problem is that the Yao and Zhuang people, both indigenous to Guangxi, live a different life and are equally tough.
, but they couldn't beat the wolf soldiers every time.
In fact, the valor of the wolf soldiers mainly lies in their unique organization system, which completely complies with "Yun Ganjun's Art of War" or "Cen Family Law".
To put it simply, "Whenever a person goes to the enemy, the people on the left and right should attack him in a flanking attack, and all the troops should fight to save him. Otherwise, if one person is killed and the left and right sides do not attack, they will all be killed. The whole group will judge him guilty, or even worse.
The ears are cut off." This is true for one person, and it is also true for a team.
In addition, there is another saying: "It is better to behead those who are ordered to do so, behead those who retreat, behead those who walk, behead those who speak in fear of the crowd, behead those who rush into the enemy and cause chaos, behead those who are defeated and pretend to use gold and silk to leave the ground, or fight for it without pursuing them."
Faced with cutting off heads and ears at every turn, the combat regulations are more stringent than those of the regular army of the imperial court. The comrades around them are all relatives and friends of the same village and village, so the wolf soldiers can only move forward desperately on the battlefield, with enemies but no self.
This also created the myth that "wolf soldiers can die but cannot be defeated".
Japanese pirates, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Sun Yanling who rebelled during the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" all suffered greatly at the hands of the wolf soldiers. Although the number of wolf soldiers today is not what it used to be, the military law is still there and the organization is still the same.
exist.
No matter how fast the two scouts fired, they could not stop the more than 200 Qing troops who were close at hand. Moreover, because of the addition of a silencer, the sound of shooting could not be a deterrent. At the same time, Meng Denggao
The thirty shotgunners under his command also opened fire. They hid behind the rocks on the hillside. They did not take aim at all. They just fired randomly, and then hurriedly loaded the gun without any plan.
There was loud gunfire and white smoke filling the entire northern side of the hillside, and the strong smell of burning black gunpowder made the musketeers cough.
In fact, it was not the cannons that posed a fatal threat to the two Northern Navy soldiers on the top of the mountain, but the wolf soldiers and javelin soldiers holding medicine crossbows. The flying crossbow arrows and iron targets fell like raindrops to the top of the mountain. At the same time,
Meng Denggao, who was holding a birch bow, could also throw feather arrows. His strength was much more powerful than those of the javelin soldiers. Every time he fired an arrow, the bowstring would make a banging sound, which was full of force.
Watching the three groups of wolf soldiers rushing up the hill, the morale of the wolf soldiers behind them was greatly boosted, thinking that they would win this battle. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chen Wenxiu arrived with eight of his men, and a hail of bullets and bullets covered their faces.
Several grenades caused heavy casualties to the wolf soldiers rushing in front.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As the people rushing in front fell one by one, the timid person turned around and ran away in fear. Meng Denggao's eyes were on fire at this time, and he slashed with a knife in anger.
He caught a young man who was fleeing at the front, and the others behind him were all stunned. Meng Deng raised his sword and shouted: Brothers! Military law is ruthless! Anyone who dares to escape will be shot to death! Let us work together to win this battle.
I won’t take a penny from the reward!”
When everyone heard what Mr. Qian had said, they had no choice but to turn around and fight again.
This was the first time that Chen Wenxiu and his men encountered such a ferocious opponent who was not afraid of death. They couldn't help but feel timid in their hearts, and the action of loading bullets in a panic was not smooth.
The two sides were too close to each other at the beginning, only thirty meters apart. Now the wolf soldiers are risking their lives to fill the gap. Coupled with the three-pronged attack, the two sides are constantly getting closer, and hand-to-hand combat is inevitable.
The wolf soldiers who rushed to the top of the mountain were all red-eyed. Whenever they saw the green figure, they would chop with their swords and stab with their forks. On the reconnaissance team's side, due to the addition of a silencer, the sword-shaped bayonets could not be deployed.
, the soldiers who had empty bullets either waved their guns to resist, or dropped their guns and drew out their daggers.
Gradually, several soldiers whose arms and legs were hit by iron javelins began to suffer from the effects of intense exercise. They foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground, dying from sight.
As the captain, Chen Wenxiu was equipped with one more pistol than his soldiers. It was precisely because of this that he could continuously retreat and keep firing. Seeing that fewer and fewer of his men were still standing, Chen Wenxiu said to himself
It might be finished today.
When he finished shooting the last bullet, he threw his pistol at a wolf soldier and was preparing for the ensuing hand-to-hand fight when he suddenly heard the sound of shooting not far away, accompanied by the sound of grenades.
There was an explosion. The team that went around from the side finally arrived.
Facing the sudden attack from the side, the last courage of the wolf soldiers was exhausted. Seeing that they could not win, the surviving people turned around and ran back, even Meng Denggao did the same, and the Qianzong flag was also thrown in
On the hillside, no one paid attention. Looking at the enemies retreating in the distance, Chen Wenxiu, who was exhausted, had weak legs and collapsed on the ground.
In this battle, five people from the Hui'an camp reconnaissance team were killed, two were seriously injured, and three were slightly injured. Almost all of the dead and seriously injured were poisoned by poisonous marks and arrows. Among the 230 wolf soldiers led by Meng Denggao, 230 were killed in the battle.
As many as ninety people were killed, and more than twenty were injured and captured.