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 immigrants from Guangdong poured into Guangxi. As a result, in addition to the places where sand and gravel were accumulated and difficult to cultivate, even the rugged valleys were burned and cultivated, and rice and other crops including buckwheat, Various grains including broad beans, peanuts, etc.
Some people may say corn and sweet potatoes... I'm sorry, but the corn growing areas are mainly in Guizhou, and very few are grown in Guangxi. Historically, it was not until the Daoguang period that corn, also known as corn, was widely promoted in the mountainous areas of Guangxi. The reason for this change was actually the degradation of cultivated land caused by excessive land reclamation.
Autumn harvest is approaching now, and the entire valley area looks golden. The almost 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 watch the scenery. They had seen too many such scenes in Hoi An and Java Island. They now look similar to the American soldiers walking in the paddy fields of Vietnam more than a hundred years later. They are wearing green combat uniforms, sleeves rolled up, helmets, fixed straps on their chins, rifles in both hands, and rapid Walking on the field ridge.
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, since the two sides were one kilometer apart and separated by a hill more than thirty meters high, they didn't notice each other.
Now Meng Denggao's first goal 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: Wherever the army is facing an enemy, the mountain is close to the valley, and the place of life is considered high... On the flat land, the right side of the back is high, and the life before death is life. What this means is that when fighting in mountainous areas, you should choose "raw land" and be high in the sun; while when fighting in plains and hilly areas, you should 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 who was capable of writing and martial arts, although Meng Denggao had never been on the battlefield, he was familiar with military books, memorizing them all by heart, and he had also helped the county capture several tough bandits.
Historically, before the Jiaqing era, the Qing court's martial arts examinations required passing the external examinations such as archery, horse riding, and archery, as well as the internal examination of "one strategy and two theories." According to the Qing Dynasty martial arts test papers preserved by later generations, it can be said with great certainty that the martial arts students in the Shunkang, Yongzong and Qianlong periods were all proper intellectuals. Those who wrote in small regular script, tsk tsk, compared to Zhao who had practiced calligraphy for several years. Everything new is good.
So General Meng Xiucai Meng Qian sent a team of ten people 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 high and look far away, but he sent two top soldiers.
Although the wolf soldiers from Pinglefu were all mountain hunters and could climb a hill of more than thirty meters without any difficulty, their physical fitness was far inferior to that of the scouts of the Northern Navy. As soon as they started climbing over there, the two soldiers here were like rabbits, swishing and swishing up to the middle of the mountain in a blink of an eye. You must know that during the war, time is always measured in minutes and seconds.
Nowadays, being a scout in the North Navy is a very enviable thing. Among other things, there is a daily quota of half a catty of meat, and unlimited canned fish. Everyone who knows this 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 finished speaking, the companion who was on guard heard a slight noise and hurriedly made a gesture, and the two of them immediately ducked and hid behind a 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 buckler, and the other hand hanging down held a six-inch iron javelin, with one in his mouth. The man walking behind him was holding a crossbow in 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, hold it between four fingers and put the tail in the palm. When encountering an enemy, throw it 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 just one kind, but a mixture of many. In addition to the antidote provided by the wolf soldiers, they will die if they see blood.
Immediately behind the two wolf soldiers, three guys armed with pick knives and steel forks appeared, all in the same costume. The pick knife is the standard weapon of the Green Camp of the Qing Army. It is two and a half meters long, with a long and narrow blade of more than 70 centimeters, and a 1.5 meter long wooden handle. Immediately afterwards, several more Qing soldiers also showed their figures.
Seeing more and more Qing troops emerging from the grass, and before Chen Wenxiu came up behind them, the two scouts hesitated slightly, picked up their rifles and opened fire.
"Pah~~! Pah~~! Ah~~!" The two leading wolf soldiers were shot to death without any surprise. However, almost at the same time, a wolf soldier walking behind the two people also fell down.
Because the 7.62mm bullets used by the North Navy had too strong penetrating power, coupled with the close range shooting, 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. How could they kill three of them in one fell swoop? One of them hurriedly leaned over to check, but little did he know that this action saved his life. It was during this dazed moment that a crisp sound sounded again. The companion standing beside him groaned and fell to the ground, while another bullet whizzed past his turban.
Wang Yuanfang, the founder of the Northern Navy Scouts, has a famous saying: The first to open fire on the enemy is the king.
Well, this was actually not what he said, but what he heard from his superiors when he was a soldier. This means that it doesn't matter whether you can hit him or not. At the very least, you can scare the enemy into hiding, so that you have a chance to fire a second shot. Otherwise, after looking at it for a long time, is there any difference between shooting the left eye and the right eye?
"There's a situation! Class 1! Go around 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 noise. However, the sound of the gun after adding a silencer became very clear. It was not the "boom" sound of a gun at all. It was like someone hitting a hard object with a split bamboo stick. Mr. Meng Qian asked, "What are those people in front doing?" There is nothing to do when you reach the top of the mountain. Are your balls aching from leisure?
Meng Denggao was just thinking about going up to scold those bastards later when he saw a black figure rolling down from the top of the mountain like a bereaved dog. Seeing the man getting closer and closer to him, two of his men immediately stood in front of him and stopped him.
"What happened?"
Hearing someone ask a 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!"
The intellectual Mr. Meng Qian knew very well that he could not be polite to 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 and their blood flowed." 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.
This is? Meng Denggao's pupils shrank, he had a keen sense that something was wrong, and he was about to tell his men to stay away when he heard a loud bang, followed by another, and a wave of air rushed towards his face, knocking him staggering, and his ears were buzzing. There was a loud buzzing sound.
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. By now, you would be a fool if you didn't know what was going on.
He reached out and pulled out his sword, and shouted: "Brothers! The North Sea 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! Promote him to the boss!"
As he shouted, the flag bearers 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, looked at each other, and then, led by several veterans, got up one after another and began to climb 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 captains of each team also rushed in front with green pennants. This situation startled the two scouts who were squatting on the top of the hill, thinking that this was a hornet's nest, right?
Why are the Guangxi wolf soldiers so brave? Some people say that Guangxi is poor, so its folk customs are tough, and it is also said that Guangxi has practiced martial arts since childhood. The problem is that the Yao and Zhuang people, both natives of Guangxi, have a different life. They are equally tough, but they can't beat the wolf soldiers every time.
In fact, the bravery of the wolf soldiers mainly lies in their unique organization system, which completely complies with or.
To put it simply, "Whenever one 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 it as a crime, and even worse. The ears are cut off." This is true for one person, as well as for a team.
In addition, "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, and behead those who are defeated and flee, pretending to use gold and silk to leave the ground, or fighting for it without pursuing them."
Faced with the constant severing of heads and ears, 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".
The Japanese pirates, the Hou Jin Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Sun Yanling who rebelled during the "Three Feudatories Rebellion" 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 there.
No matter how fast the two scouts fired, they could not stop the more than 200 Qing troops approaching. Furthermore, even with the addition of a silencer, the noise during shooting cannot be a deterrent. At the same time, thirty shotgunners under Mengdengao also opened fire. They hid behind the rocks on the hillside. They did not take aim at all. They just fired randomly, and then loaded the gun in a hurry, without any plan.
There were loud gunshots above the mountainside on the north side of the hill, white smoke filled the air, and the strong smell of burning black gunpowder made the musketeers cough.
In fact, it was not the muskets 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, was also able to throw 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.
As the three groups of wolf soldiers rushed 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. The hail of bullets and several grenades caused heavy casualties to the wolf soldiers who rushed in front.
As the people rushing in front fell one by one, the timid ones turned around and ran away in fear. Meng Denggao's eyes were blazing at this time, and he swung his knife angrily and killed a young man who was fleeing at the front. The others behind him were all frightened. Mengden raised his knife and shouted: Brothers! Military law is ruthless! Anyone who dares to escape will be shot to death! We work together to win this battle, and I won’t take any of the rewards! "
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 pay for it. Coupled with the three-way attack, the two sides are constantly getting closer to each other, 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 a 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 bayonet 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 who had been hit by iron javelins on their arms and legs 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 an extra 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 subordinates were still standing, Chen Wenxiu thought that it might be over today.
When he finished firing 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. Explosion. The group that went around from the side finally arrived.
Facing a sudden attack from the side, the last courage of the wolf soldiers was exhausted. Seeing that they could not win, the living people turned around and ran back, even Meng Denggao did the same. The Qianzong flag was also thrown on the hillside and ignored. Looking at the enemy in the distance, Chen Wenxiu, who was exhausted, had his legs weak 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, more than 90 were killed in battle, and more than 20 were injured and captured.
