A team stopped in the darkness south of Shawo Village.
Geng Ting, twenty-four years old, is the militia battalion commander who leads the escort of new recruits.
He was shot in the leg during a raid by the puppet army a few days ago and stayed at the home of a fortress to recuperate. Yesterday, he suddenly received an order from the division to escort 126 Huidaomen armed men who had just been recruited to the friendly forces. Replenish troops.
Logically speaking, it was not his turn. Most of the troops on the plains had not returned after being transferred to the division. They were really short of manpower, so the division leader assigned him to carry out this task. He immediately agreed even though he had not yet recovered.
On the way, the underground traffic officer brought the correspondent Lu Shuisheng who rushed back to the subdivision to ask for help and made a big circle to catch up from behind.
Standing on the side of the road, he listened to Lu Shuisheng convey the order from the division asking him for reinforcements.
Geng Ting looked at the dark night to the north: "...How many bandits are there?"
Correspondent Lu Shuisheng was out of breath: "When I left, there were about two to three hundred people following me. It is said that there was a group ahead in Dahan Village preparing for an ambush. According to the comrades who were conducting reconnaissance, the number of people was only... Quite a few.”
"Isn't this just a reinforcement camp? How come there are so many bandits in this area!"
"On his way back with the captured troops, platoon leader Li Huanzhang was targeted by bandits Wang Sanzhu. They followed him for more than fifty miles. Now platoon leader Li Huanzhang should be surrounded by bandits in Shawo Village. There are prisoners in the team escorting bandits who were injured in the battle with the Eighth Route Army. The wounded and the militia..."
After listening to Lu Shuisheng's detailed explanation, Geng Ting, who was familiar with the terrain in this area, was not ambiguous and immediately ordered: "The troops must gather immediately to check weapons and ammunition!"
There was only one torch in the team, and they lined up quickly... but it was a little messy.
Geng Ting looked at the new soldiers wearing ragged clothes, and his intuition told him that these people who had not undergone recruit training should not be allowed to go to the battlefield at all. However, they were the closest to Shawo Village now and needed reinforcements.
The more than 100 members of the Huidaomen were armed with a total of twelve old sleeve rifles, plus the long rifle section of the squad he led, a total of twenty-two, with a total of fifty-six bullets, less than three per person. He himself did have an imitation shell gun. Six bullets.
There were three muskets, twenty-eight broadswords, and not all of the remaining shuttlecocks... half of them were sharpened sticks.
Next to him, Lu Shuisheng, who was slowly catching his breath and delivering the letter, was speechless. Under the light of the torch, his clothes were patched and patched. Except for a few dog-skin hats, they were all covered with dirty kerchiefs...
Those old sleeves in the team...looked at their condition...he didn't even want them.
They are so old that no one in this team who is as poor as a beggar has a military uniform, and many of them are wearing cloth shoes with visible toes in the cold weather. Such troop reinforcements?
It's almost as if you're going to die!
Lu Shuisheng hesitated for a moment: "I still have some bullets here, why don't we all split them up first?"
Because he was reporting the news, he didn't bring a long gun, but he still had more than thirty rounds of rifle bullets on him.
Geng Ting was overjoyed: "Hey, why do you bring so many bullets?"
"Hehe, we killed the 'Cheng Yaojin' of the Zodiac Sect two days ago, and everyone got almost this much."
"..." Geng Ting was stunned for a moment, and without any pretense, he directly distributed the bullets to his soldiers.
He led a team of more than a hundred people, and Li Huanzhang's soldiers had almost as many bullets as him. It seemed that the more enemies he had to fight, the more he would gain!
Since all the bandits were surrounding Li Huanzhang, with the fighting power of those bandits, he would not be afraid at all even if he brought all new soldiers with swords and spears in his hands.
I even secretly rejoiced in my heart, didn’t this mean that God wanted me to get rich?
soon.
They have been marching for more than an hour. The team has covered nearly thirty miles and is no longer ten miles away from Shawo Village!
boom...
There was a faint sound of gunfire in the dark night in the north!
Soon, the gunfire became intensive!
No need to think about it, he came just in time!
The sound of gunfire is an order, and there is no need to rest.
The underground traffic officers who stayed behind in nearby villages had been waiting at the entrance of the village early. When they saw the team coming, they immediately stepped forward to lead the way.
Geng Ting didn't have time to ask how they knew they would arrive.
The team immediately extinguished the torches and followed the traffic officer across the dry Liuqing River.
At this time, it is eight miles away from Shawo Village!
The team trotted all the way and continued towards Shawo Village where the gunshots were fired.
Finally I saw the distant fire shining in the darkness, four miles away.
Geng Ting immediately ordered the team to stop, and asked Lu Shuisheng to go north with a militia led by Battalion Commander Geng to reconnoitre.
Then he demoted himself to the position of company commander, and asked the militiamen he brought to become the platoon leader. The original platoon leader became the deputy platoon leader, and the team was directly divided into four parts!
Each platoon immediately organized into divisions and lined up to inspect equipment. The platoon leaders of each squad went directly to him, the company commander, who wanted to hold a pre-war mobilization meeting.
There were intermittent gunshots from the village to the north. Lu Shuisheng, who set off first, intuitively believed that Platoon Leader Li would definitely put a team outside!
He had to contact this team first.
After approaching Shawo Village for about two miles, the two of them did not approach the village any further.
The cat crouched horizontally and continued to trot around the village while imitating the sound of a night owl.
They hadn't run far when a voice suddenly came out from the darkness next to them: "Lu Shuisheng, your mother... what kind of bird calls are you trying to imitate in this cold weather?"
Lu Shuisheng was overjoyed and immediately went to meet the voice: "You care... Squad leader Chen, what's the situation with the platoon leader and the others right now?"
The man known as Squad Leader Chen half stood up from the darkness, with excitement in his tone: "What else can we do? The platoon leader is surrounded by bandits in the village... By the way... when will reinforcements arrive?"
"The reinforcements have arrived. They are gathering and resting in the south. They will be here soon."
"That's great. The bandits are gathering. Their main force is concentrated in the south. The other three directions are all feint attacks. This time we will directly take their retreat and stab them in the back. I am happy just thinking about it, hahaha... .”
"Don't be too happy too early. The reinforcements coming this time..."
"You are so hesitant, why...are there not many reinforcements coming?"
"No, they are all new recruits! The kind that have not been trained, and were recruited only by the division to recruit *** those members of the congregation."
Squad leader Chen was stunned. He happened to have captured a group of Taoist armed forces a few days ago. He knew the virtues of those people: "Fuck, isn't this a random arrangement by the division chief? Without training, many people only know how to use machetes and even aim rifles. You are not skillful, this is a battlefield, are they here to die? What a pity, I still want to trick these bandits again."
The monitor didn't even bother to ask how many people came, because there was almost no difference between more and less people.
"You two are the only ones on the periphery?"
"There are a total of eleven soldiers in a class outside. They have gone separately to scout for bandits. If you don't come, we will gather as soon as the battle starts and throw two grenades directly behind the enemy. The platoon leader will know that we are here. This side is the main direction of attack by the bandits.”
Lu Shuisheng asked eagerly: "By the way, how many bullets do you have left?"
"More than thirty rounds. I almost broke my leg watching the bandits in this dark night. It hasn't opened yet."
"Great, more than thirty, ten people have more than three hundred rounds, it can be a blast...
"What do you mean?"
"Have you heard of Battalion Commander Geng Ting?"
The squad leader rejoiced: "You mean to say that we defeated Shiyou's Third Division and a supplementary camp, captured more than 300 of them, and seized more than 400 rifles... Didn't he go to the county brigade?"
"Hehe, he was injured in the leg and happened to stay at the base area. He happened to be escorting new recruits to replenish the friendly forces of the Independent Regiment."
"Then how many troops did he bring?"
"The escorting divisional militiamen are in one class, and the new recruits are in one company."
"It's a bit suspenseful to have untrained recruits go to the battlefield..."
"Hey, that's what I wanted to ask. What do you think Battalion Commander Geng said?"
"How to say?"
"If you haven't taken out the bird in your crotch and stabbed it twice, who the hell knows the size of the bandit?"
"Fuck, don't talk nonsense. How could Commander Geng say such disgusting things?"
"Hehe, even the teacher said there is nothing strange about this."
"What Battalion Commander Geng said is true. They are just fooling around. How could the bandits know what kind of army we are coming? Okay, we will give some of the bullets to our reconnaissance soldiers later..." Squad Leader Chen knew that even the soldiers from the divisional unit They generally don’t have many bullets on them, let alone the militiamen from the county brigade. The reinforcements are not even militiamen, so they definitely don’t have many bullets!
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