Chapter 139 The sound of drums and horns 11
[139] The sound of drums and horns starts to fight (11)
Autumn afternoon.
The golden sun shines all over the earth.
On an unknown hill outside Jiaoxi County, Xie Jiaxiang, the sentry of the White Horse Club and the confidant of Bai Xiaoqi, stood in the sun with another young rider, holding an ordinary binocular of more than 200 yuan given by Yao Fan, and staring closely at the movement of the Qing army cavalry out of the city.
Under the hillside behind them, a jujube red horse and a gray zebra white horse are leisurely bowing their heads and eating grass. The jujube red horse is a new horse that the white horse will buy with the high salary paid by Yao Fan. Although Yao Fanxu gives the white horse 50 taels per horse, the white horse will only give 30 taels per scout horse a month, withholding it. 20 taels will be donated.
This jujube red horse is probably used to eating the dry material at home. It is a little careless about the green material on the hillside, but blindly grinding the old gray white horse with its neck, as if it hopes to be favored by the old horse.
"Five battalions have all come out!
Grandma's! This is going to be big!
Thunder! Let's inform Yao Dong's family as soon as possible.
"Hmm!"
The two quickly turned around and ran down the hill, turned over the horse's head, and shouted:
"Drive!!!"
"Drive!!!"
The jujube red horse was a little frightened by Xie Jiaxiang's loud shouting. He spread his four hoofs, shook his head violently up and down, and ran all the way behind the gray zebra white horse.
Xie Jiaxiang ran all the way. After seeing the team, he ran all the way to Yao Fan under the red flag to stop the horse's head. He turned over and got off the horse and worshipped: "Your excellency!"
"Call me chairman, or Comrade Yao Fan."
Yes! Chairman! All five cavalry battalions of the Qing army were dispatched! I guess they are still twelve or three miles away from here. They came all the way slowly, which should have been full of horsepower.
"Good! Keep looking!" Yao Fan encouraged.
"Chairman, my companion Lei Zi fell in front of them. I'm going to change him."
After saying that, Xie Jiaxiang got on the horse again and went along the way.
"Chairman, shall we line up to meet the enemy?" Li Hainiu said.
"There is no need to line up, inform the battalions to slow down the march, and the march should not be dragged too long." Yao Fandao.
"This official road is high in the north and low in the south. If I lead cavalry, I will definitely choose to break from the north." Li Hainiu said.
When Xie Jiaxiang came to report again, Yao Fan had vaguely seen the Mongolian cavalry armor following him from afar.
All the officers of the army immediately blew the iron whistle of the emergency gathering, and a sad whistle echoed in the autumn field. The soldiers all lined up nervously and held the rifle firmly in their arms.
"Report!"
"One!"
"Two!"
"Three!"
"Four!"
“............”
When Xie Jiaxiang slapped his horse and ran to Yao Fan again, his face was full of panic and tears.
"Chairman! Lei Zi was caught by the Qing soldiers!"
Yao Fan bit his lip, and whenever he had no idea, he would bite his lip.
"I know, thank you for your hard work! Now your reconnaissance mission has been completed. From now on, you follow the big army.
"Chairman! But Lei Zi..."
Li Hainiu scolded: "Shut up! When is it? "I'm not good at it!"
Xie Jiaxiang thought so and led the jujube red horse to stand aside silently.
"Chairman! It's the Qing army's outpost!" Li Jun stood on a stone by the roadside with a telescope and shouted.
"How many people?"
"About 20 cavalry." Li Jun reported.
Yao Fan knew that a cavalry battalion of the Qing army was divided into 10 teams, and 250 people were divided into 10 25-person cavalry.
"This is the sentry of the Qing soldiers. Lei Zi must have been captured by them." Li Hainiu judged.
Yes! The five cavalry battalions of the Qing army are currently divided into three routes, all the way down the official road, heading east in the north field, enveloping all the way south, and continuing to come along the official road all the way. Leizi and I were surrounded by the Qing army's sentry. I finally escaped from the horse. Leizi's old horse really couldn't run... Whoo-woo..." Xie Jiaxiang said and cried loudly.
"How much are you crying!" Li Hainiu stared at Xie Jiaxiang contemptuously.
Yao Fan ordered: "Stop moving forward! All bayonets! The four battalions are lined up along the official road, with 20 people in four columns! The commander of each battalion belongs to four companies as arranged units, form a hollow square formation.
Li Hainiu quickly picked up the walker and sent an order to the rest of the battalion: "Chairman's order! All with bayonets and get ready to fight! Four battalions lined up on the spot! 20 people in each row are divided into four formations! Each battalion formed a hollow phalanx!"
With the formation of the first, second, third and fourth battalions respectively, the various arrays stand 50 meters apart on the official road. From a distance, it looks like a string of sugar-coated haws.
Dekegina, the leader of the eight flags of Qingzhou, finally led three Mongolian yellow flag cavalry battalions to the north of the official road. Dekegina rode on the back of a black Qinghai River winding horse and looked at the rubber thieves in the south who had been waiting for a long time with a copper single-hole telescope.
When he saw the rubber thief holding the short and ridiculous bayonet in his hand, lined up into hollow squares, Dekgina's eyes contemptuously narrowed into a slit, turned the corners of his mouth, and shouted with a straight face:
"The Great Qing Dynasty is powerful! Mongolian athletes! Let me kill the glue thief!"
The horn is sad and long! Dekgina holds a saber high and is the first horse! Lead three standard cavalry battalions to the south like a yellow tide.
The two yellow-flag cavalrymen in the west and the south field heard the horn sounded, and immediately released the reins and launched a joint sprint.
Yao Fan stood in the center of a hollow square array with a steel helmet, staring ahead and waiting for the opportunity.
The horse's hoof rumbled and the earth trembled slightly. The Mongolian Eight Banners began to take bows from 100 meters away and shoot arrows after rushing to 50 meters.
"The courage of the Eight Banners is far worse than that of their ancestors. 200 years ago, the Eight Banner soldiers would not take off their bows if they did not rush to 50 meters, and they would not waste their physical strength to shoot arrows within 30 meters." Yao Fan sighed in his heart.
Yao Fan's soldiers have been holding guns for a long time. They lie in the front row and stand on the mound temporarily dug up by engineers. They kneel in the back row, aiming at the enemy with guns and standing in the back row with guns.
As the cavalry pressed 100 meters like a dark cloud, the commanders of each company ordered:
"All aim!"
So the soldiers in the back row also picked up the gun. They can't shoot in a standing position and shoot for too long, otherwise it is easy to muscle paralysis and tremor will affect the shooting accuracy.
Almost at the same time, all the company commanders are shouting:
"Shoot!!!!"
The rain-like gunfire sounded, sweeping the cavalry in front of him like God was going to wash the earth.
The faces of the soldiers were tight and even a little ferocious. The tension and excitement tightened their muscles all over their bodies, and only their fingers were tapped again and again!
In the roaring rain, the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry fell one after another, and even the horses rolled, died and cried in pain, returning to dust in the daytime rainstorm under the golden sun in autumn.
For a moment, the hissing of horses, the screams of people, the sound of gunfire, the sound of horses' hoofs, the sound of hundreds of war horses hitting the ground, the sound of broken bones and tendons after the knight's fall... The sound is mixed and intertwined into a soul song of hell.
"Chairman, the cavalry assault behind is even more fierce!"
"Each teaches to fire machine guns!" Yao Fan ordered. During this period, the battalions have completed the training task of equipping and training four "revolutionary" machine guns.
"tu tu tu tu tu tu! Suddenly, suddenly suddenly! Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly! ........................”
Even the main gunners have been highly nervous. After receiving the firing order, they can't control it and completely forget that they should shoot. After rushing to the center of the progressive line with machine guns in their hearts from the phalanx, they lay on the ground and burned bullets, trying to completely end the Qing cavalry 50 meters away.