On the front, Li Gangsheng withstood a wave of "pig attacks" from the regiment's heroes, and on the side, the "surprise attack" of a small group of gunners led by Ma Huliang was repelled by a single salvo from the ninth squadron. Ma Huliang was not as "smart" as Yang Xiaodong.
Brave and fearless." When the blood of the people around him splashed on his face, he ran away immediately.
When the soldiers of the 1st platoon began to pursue with their bayonets drawn, the regiment heroes in Yangjiazhuang collapsed immediately, and hundreds of them fled. Yang Juren was almost pushed by the fleeing regiment members and fell to the ground to death. Fortunately, Yang Erhu still remembered his uncle.
Your Excellency, he led a few soldiers to save him from the scattered crowd.
Seeing the complete defeat, Yang Jinghui was disheartened, and felt that he would not be able to see his "father" when he went back, so he drew his sword and was about to kill himself. Yang Erdong quickly snatched the sword away and said: "Master, don't be discouraged! It won't matter if you lose for a while here.
The Kun bandits are strong and have few people, so we can just stay out of their way!" After saying that, he quickly ordered a few servants to carry Mr. Yang and escape in a hurry.
By the time the follow-up troops of the 2nd Company arrived, the Xiang Yong who ambushed them had been driven off the battlefield, leaving only corpses and wounded scattered on the ground.
However, Li Gangsheng was not happy at all. It seemed that he had won a complete victory, but in fact, three people in his platoon were killed on the spot, and ten others were injured to varying degrees, two of them seriously - this is almost synonymous with death.
Several of those with minor injuries were "unfit for combat duty," which meant that although they did not need to be evacuated to a field hospital, they still had to leave the company and go to the "recuperation team" accompanying the army to perform some simple field duties.
After this calculation, there were a total of thirty-four people, and the pure reduction reached eight, almost a quarter. Although the enemy abandoned more than a hundred corpses on the battlefield, and there would be no shortage of prisoners, no matter how many people were killed and captured, it would still be enough.
But it is pure attrition of its own.
Li Dong led people to search and capture prisoners in the bushes. There were Tuan Dingxiang Yong who could not escape everywhere in the bushes, and many of them were injured. Some people were not seriously injured, but it was difficult to accommodate the prisoners at the moment, so they could not
Don't take any prisoners who move around on their own, just leave them where they are and let them fend for themselves.
Over and over, a total of more than fifty prisoners were captured. After urgent interrogation of the prisoners, they learned that the enemy was a Xiang Yong from Yangjiazhuang. This broke out a debate among the commanders.
Because he encountered an ambush, Wu Baliu, the commander of the 2nd company, was worried that the communication line would be threatened, so he advocated a raid on Yangjiazhuang first. Wu Baliu was promoted to the 10th Battalion as the company commander shortly after entering Guangzhou, and his company rank was higher than that of the senior captain.
I'm at a lower level, so I'm not reconciled to this "victory" that isn't clean enough.
However, Yang Zeng, the detachment leader of the Suijiang detachment and the commander of the 8th Battalion, believes that their primary purpose is to break the siege of Shijian and ensure the security of the gateway to Guangning County.
"Our army is now divided into two routes, water and land. The purpose is to reach Shijian as soon as possible. If we divide our troops now to suppress the bandits and rashly enter the mountainous area without knowing the situation, there is a high possibility of suffering losses. Besides, Xiangyong cannot threaten Suijiang's water transportation.
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Although Huang Chao was present, he felt that it was better for him to speak less on military issues and let the commander take charge.
At that time, it was decided that the plan would not change, and the 2nd Company and the Wuzhou Squadron would continue to move forward by land to break the siege of Shijian.
Suijiang is different from Xijiang, which is busy with shipping. There are vast mountains on both sides of the river. The narrow roads make the troops drag for a long time. In addition, this is a "non-security area", and enemy troops may appear from all directions. The ambush just now caused heavy losses. The two men suffered heavy losses in the ambush.
Although the seriously wounded man was evacuated immediately after boarding the ship, in fact everyone knew that the disaster was more serious. If it happened again, one of his platoons would be wiped out. The heavy responsibility made the 2nd company commanders Wu Baliu and Li Dong nervous.
It was so tight that even the officers and non-commissioned officers under him became nervous.
However, the rest of the trip was uneventful. Villagers in the villages we passed fled far away. Occasionally, we encountered a village that strictly guarded its walls and only sent people to bring tea to "welcome the army's crossing". There was no hostility.
Wu Baliu would ask questions every time he encountered such a village. He learned from the local people that those who surrounded Shijian were the Yangjiazhuang warriors who ambushed them - many villages were angry at Yangjiazhuang.
Dare to say it. As for the battalion commanders and chiefs who most want to know about the movements of the Yao people, they know very little. They only know that some local Yao people follow the bandits to cause trouble, and there are also several villages that join forces to plunder, but there are no large groups of people. It seems that there are no large groups of people.
, Chief Huang’s judgment that the Yao people were just “taking advantage of the fire” was correct—they had no intention of large-scale rebellion.
Wu Baliu led the team hurriedly and slowly, and finally arrived at a place less than 2 kilometers away from Shijian. This place is known as the South Gate of Guangning. The so-called small town is just a larger village, located in the mountains beside the river.
The alluvial plain is protected by a wooden wall. Yangjiazhuang Township Yong, who surrounded the Shijian, set up a wooden fence at the traffic pass to control the road and several villages on the nearby hillside.
Jie Wendong, the leader of Xiangyong who surrounded Shijian, was originally the second in command of the bandits in the countryside. Yangjiazhuang Xiangyong rose up to suppress the bandits in the surrounding areas. When he saw that the situation was not good, he attacked the big leader under the coercion and inducement of Mr. Yang.
, dedicated the cottage.
There were fifty or sixty old gangsters under him, and they were also a force in Yang's village. Yang Juren both guarded against and exploited him. This time, in order to win over people's hearts, he sent him to lead a team to attack the stone gorge.
He made a small fortune.
Jie Wendong originally thought that the stone gorge would be the same as last time, so he opened the door to surrender and obediently offered his belongings. Therefore, he only brought more than a hundred members of the regiment, and the others were strong men from various villages who had joined Yangjiazhuang to "make a fortune"
, by the way, it also builds momentum. If the wealth is too small, they can get some rags, furniture, pots, etc.
Unexpectedly, a small group of the National Army was stationed in the town and additional fortifications were built. He led the group to charge for a while, but was beaten to death by firearms before he could climb the wall. In addition to Nanyang rifles, the National Army also had many captured weapons.
The weapons and weapons were fired by the militia temporarily recruited from the town, and they were beaten randomly. Jie Wendong's men could not withstand the firepower and immediately withered.
Jiewendong was furious. He had some desperadoes under his command, but there were too few of them. The whole group was made up of ordinary people. Seeing that Shi Jian was a tough guy, no one was willing to risk their lives. There was a stalemate.
When there was nothing they could do, his "strategist" Jiang Wenming suggested that since they couldn't take it down immediately, it was better to block the road first to prevent reinforcements from the county from coming to save them. At worst, they could besieged for several months and force them to surrender without food.
This Jiang Wenming was originally a poor scholar who owed gambling debts and had to go up to the mountains to become a bandit. Because he knew a few words and had a vicious heart. He could also use a gun and a stick a few times. He was considered an "all-rounder in both civil and military affairs". He soon became a copycat.
"strategist".
He knew that this bandit's "career" was not one of fame, so he had established a relationship with Yang Juren very early. He often did dirty work that was inconvenient for Mr. Yang to show up. This time, he solved the problem of Donghuo and the leader returned to Yangjiazhuang.
, Jiang Wenming also contributed.
Jie Wendong already knew that Mr. Yang suffered a big loss from the ambush. Not only did Yang Erhu send an envoy long ago, asking him to withdraw his troops quickly, lest he be bitten by the Kun thieves and suffer another big loss. A past person who fled from the battlefield
His subordinate Yu Heiqi also ran to him and told him everything that happened.
"How many people are here, Kunthief?"
"I only saw about forty people, and they were defeated by them." Yu Heiqi was shocked, "That firearm is powerful!"
"Stop talking nonsense! Do you think the Kun thief's firearms are very powerful?" Jie Wendong said impatiently, "I'm asking how many people there are in their team?"
"I didn't see this... I dare not say anything." Yu Heiqi said, "I only know that the Kun Thief Brigade took a boat..."
"roll!"
Jie Wendong didn't pay attention for a while. If he wanted to run away, that would naturally be the safest option. But Shi Jian had a mouthful of fat on his lips and didn't have to eat it. It was a bit regretful, especially since he had just eaten it last night.
The village has transported several hundred kilograms of gunpowder, intending to use boats to float it over, blow up the walls of the village along the river, and break in during the chaos. If I run away, all these efforts will be in vain.
After thinking about it, he decided not to run away for the time being, but to seize the time to do this job first - anyway, the large force of the Kun Thief came by boat, and it would have to be the day after tomorrow at the earliest when they could travel upstream. As for the people who came overland,
, there are only dozens of people, just send some troops to block them with the wooden fence. Presumably, these dozens of people can't attack.
At that moment, they discussed with Jiang Wenming and the two sides divided their troops into two. Jiang Wenming took half of the men to block the intersection, and he took the other half to attack Shijian.
"...You hurry up and take action. If you don't succeed, you have to leave." Jiang Wenming told him.
"I don't have to worry about that," Jie Wendong said carelessly, "All you have to do is let the Kun thieves' land spies rush over to attack them - I heard they are all very capable men."
"No matter how hard we can fight, we can only defeat a few dozen people. I can't hold on here. They don't have artillery, so they won't be able to attack easily."
Jiang Wenming said this with some confidence. In order to attack the fortress, in addition to gunpowder, a lot of firearms such as lychee cannons were also transported from the village, as well as an iron cannon from the Ming army - this was an old thing in the village.
In order to clear the stone stream, Jie Wendong finally moved all the old people out.
With these firearms, as well as wooden palisades and quickly repaired forts, it will not be a problem to resist dozens of people.
Wu Baliu's advance team arrived before dark. He heard the soldiers in front reported that the enemy had actually built fortifications on the road and set up cannons. He thought there was a heavy concentration of troops and did not dare to take it lightly. Because it was getting late and the surrounding environment was
It was more complicated, so I decided not to attack that night and wait until dawn the next day to deal with it.
"Tomorrow our 2nd Company will be the main attack, and you will follow us." Wu Baliu gestured on the hastily drawn terrain map, "The terrain here is narrow and it is not easy for the troops to deploy..."
"I request that tomorrow's main attack mission be carried out by our squadron." Li Dong said, "Please ask the Fubo Army to support us with firepower."——
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