Chapter 27 Ambush

On April 23, Jingtingbin and Zhao Sanduo gathered tens of thousands of people in the village to plan for chaos. After receiving the news on the same day, Zhao Dongyun immediately began to gather and disperse the troops and ordered the troops to prepare for the advance and suppress.

Early the next morning, the people in Guangzong County found that the fake foreign devils in the city began to walk out of the city in a neat formation and went straight to the northeast. Most people knew what was going on, but there were also a few understanding people.

"Have you heard that Jingtingbin's group raised flags in the north yesterday? Well, these troops went to fight them!"

In addition, there are also several people from the Lianzhuang Association. After they saw that the new army in the city left the city one after another, they also secretly left the city, and then went outside the city to ride fast horses to try to inform the village.

Don't mention these little things, but on Zhao Dongyun's side, today, just like when he led the army to fight, he was wearing a new army's regular suit, riding long horse boots, riding his batch of white tall horses, and the command knives that never left him were still hanging around his waist.

When Zhao Dongyun personally led the main troops such as infantry and machine guns to go north, Wu Changlan's cavalry troops were already north in advance. In addition to going forward for reconnaissance, they had to walk on both sides of the main force to prevent being attacked by the rebels. Due to the large number of rebels he faced, Zhao Dongyun was also a little worried about the cavalry. More than 100 people ordered to strengthen two machine guns for them. Anyway, there are many horses on the side of the cavalry. After directly disassembling the machine gun, it can be used to carry the horse and maneuver at high speed.

The cavalry came forward, while Zhao Dongyun's main force drove into the village at a rapid pace.

At 10 a.m., the front cavalry reported that they had found a large number of bandits in Dongzhao Village. There were a thousand people. Half an hour later, the cavalry once again reported that Wu Changlan led his troops to attack the bandits, killing and injuring hundreds of people, and the enemy dispersed east!

After hearing the news, Zhao Dongyun didn't feel much. More than 100 elite cavalry are equipped with the most advanced riding guns and machine guns, using the most popular cavalry method today. If he can't take the Dongzhao Village guarded by thousands of exiles, then there is no need to fight this battle.

However, this news was nothing or even taken for granted for Zhao Dongyun, but after the same news reached Jianji Village, Jing Tingbin and others were surprised.

"So more than a thousand rebels were defeated? Can't even resist for a moment?" Jing Tinbin couldn't believe the news.

Zhao Sanduo, who was beside him, also frowned: "Although our rebels are not armed, their morale is high, and many religious people are not afraid of death. How can they defeat so quickly!"

According to the prediction of Jingtingbin, Zhao Sanduo and others, it is normal for more than 1,000 people to be unable to defend Dongzhao Village, but this normal is based on the premise that Zhao Dongyun leads the main force to attack.

Referring to the precedent of the defeat of the Nanhe County Rebel Army, even if the Rebels on the side of Dongzhao can't win, they can still stop the Qing army in a few days. With this time as a buffer, they can pull up more people, and at the same time, they can form a scene with the rebels in Wei County, Nanhe and other places.

After connecting the whole Rebels in Shunde Prefecture, the whole game of chess will be able to survive. At that time, there will be at least 50,000 to 60,000 rebels, and the Qing army can't help them with the existing thousands of troops.

And the longer it takes, the better it is for them, because then they will have more time to expand their power. Every more day of delaying the Qing army, their number can be thousands or even thousands, not to mention that the situation in the whole south of Zhili is serious now. There will be a fierce fire. What they want to do is to become Mars, and they are looking forward to igniting the whole Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places.

Don't think this is their fantasy. In fact, this kind of thing has a great chance of success!

The xenophobia of the northern people towards foreigners and the teaching cases that occur from time to time are an important reason. In addition, the sharp decline in the living standards of the northern people in recent years is also an important reason.

In recent years, the climate in Zhili, Henan and other places is not good, and there is a lack of crops in many places. Natural disasters have always been a period of high incidence of peasant uprisings. Of course, this is not the main reason. Now China is not at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In recent years, China has not suffered large-scale natural disasters. Therefore, even if some areas in the north are affected, the court can transfer food relief from other places, so the problem of natural disasters is not serious.

Among the causes of the peasant uprising in the late Qing Dynasty, this can only be regarded as one of the reasons, and it is not the main reason. The main reason for the uprising of a large number of northern peasants around the year of Gengzi was the foreigners.

In the early stage, it was the people's hatred towards foreigners, including teaching plans, rumors, etc., such as foreigners want to eat children raw, build churches with pregnant women's flesh and blood, which led to great panic among the people, and the people who deserved to be deceived from the side, resulting in the formation of the Boxer Rebellion in the Gengzi year.

The later period, that is, the present after the year of Gengzi, is also related to foreigners. In addition to the above-mentioned teaching plans and rumors, there is also a foreign tax factor.

Foreign tax is also the compensation to the great powers in the year of Gengzi. Naturally, these compensations cannot fall from the sky with its mouth open. If the Qing court wants to make compensation, it needs to collect more taxes, and more taxes must increase the burden on the people. Jingtingbin's United Council is a rebel organization with the goal of resisting taxes.

When these joint associations or other peasant organizations aimed at fighting taxes mixed the Boxers, it naturally developed into large-scale riots and uprisings.

From these perspectives, it can be basically concluded that the northern region in 1902 is the people's foundation of a large-scale uprising. All they need is a little Mars, and Jingtingbin and Zhao Sanduo act as the Mars that set off the original!

However, now the defeat in Dongzhao Village is much faster than they thought. How can this not surprise them!

If they fail too fast, it means that Mars will be extinguished without waiting for Mars to burn the prai field, and this kind of thing is unacceptable to them.

"I heard that this demon army under Zhao Thief is all in strange clothes. Is it possible that they are all demons?" Jing Tingbin suppressed his panic and pretended to be calm.

After listening to this, Zhao Sanduo looked at Jingtingbin, and then his contempt for Jingtingbin flashed in his heart. This country bumpkin deserved to be the leader all his life, and he didn't even know the famous Wuwei right army.

Zhao Sanduo is an old-qualified Boxer leader. Born in Wei County, Shunde Prefecture, Zhili, he received thousands of apprentices and grandchildren in the name of teaching plum blossom boxing before the year of Gengzi. Later, he rebelled many times based on these thousands of boxers. The pace of his activities almost ran through the year of Gengzi. All subsequent Boxer activities.

This man has also been surrounded and suppressable by the Qing army many times, but this man's life is very big. In the Qing army's encirclement of the Boxer Rebellion, the leaders of other Boxers died and escaped, but he continued to rebel.

After the year of Gengzi, the Qing army besieged and suppressed the Yihe Regiment. Zhao Sanduo could only hide in Guangzong for several months, but he was a person who was unwilling to be ordinary. After just a few months, he saw that Jingtingbin was going to play armed tax resistance, and immediately ran to hook up with Jingtingbin. After drinking a few bowls of wine Zhao Sanduo said to Jing Tingbin, "Brother, I've been idle recently. Let's play rebellion!"

Jingbin is also a person who lacks his mind. Maybe he doesn't think it's enough to play armed anti-tax, so he immediately dried a bowl of wine: "This day is so boring. I'll play with you!"

So the two men agreed on the cause of rebellion while drinking wine and nibbling chicken legs.

So the Lianzhuang Association led by Jingtingbin and the Boxer Rebellion led by Zhao Sanduo developed rapidly, and the development rate was faster than the Boxer Rebellion in previous years. They not only developed rapidly in Guangzong County, but also rapidly expanded to other counties, and the Lianzhuang Association and boxer bandits in Pingxiang, Nanhe and Wei County expanded on a large scale.

As the leader of the Boxer Regiment who has been active on the front line of rebellion for a long time, he is not the eldest brother of the Boxer under him who can only shout that knives and guns are invulnerable, but a well-informed person. At least he knows that his Rebels can't beat those foreigners, and also can't beat the new ones under Yuan Shikai. Military, the only ones that can be bullied are those old troops such as military training.

After thinking deeply for a moment, he said, "Although the number of demons under the Zhao thief is small, everyone is carrying a quick grab. Although the number of Rebels is large, there are few fire and guns. I'm afraid it will be more unexpected!"

Hearing Zhao Sanduo so high that Zhao Dongyun and the new army's own volunteers were everywhere, Jing Tingbin looked unhappy: "There are tens of thousands of our volunteers, and each of them drowned them with a mouthful of saliva!"

Zhao Sanduo sneered and then said, "That's what we thought in the year of Gengzi!"

Although Jing Tingbin is a countryman who has little knowledge, he still knows something about the chaos in the year of Gengzi. He immediately did not continue to refute Zhao Sanduo's words, but waited for Zhao Sanduo to continue to say:

"Only the current plan can only use one geographical advantage. After all, they are a distant guest army, and they are far less familiar with the surrounding terrain. We can choose a favorable terrain to ambush it and repeat the victory of Nanhe County!"

Jing Tingbin said, "It's naturally inappropriate to face the array. If we just want to ambush, where should we go to ambush?"

Zhao Sanduo breathed a sigh of breath. Shit, this Guangzong is your place. I know where it is suitable for ambush! At this time, Zhao Sanduo regretted looking for Jing Tingbin, a second-man, as his rebellious accomplice.

At this time, if Zhao Sanduo knows a sentence from future generations, I'm afraid he will agree, that is: he is not afraid of god-like opponents, but pig-like teammates!

Looking at Jing Tingbin's helpless and panic, Zhao Sanduo knew that this person was unreliable and could only rely on himself to fight against the Qing army.

Immediately, he found many Rebel leaders, especially local leaders. After discussing for a long time, everyone said that there was a hillside outside Li Village. Although the terrain was not high, there were dense forests inside, and it was close to the fields, with canals and trenches, etc., which was the most suitable terrain for ambush in the surrounding area.

After the agreement, Zhao Sanduo asked Jingtingbin to gather all the foreign guns into one team, ready to ambush with this foreign gun team as the main force.

The number of this foreign gun team is many, with more than 600, but the firearm is only more than 300, because Zhao Sanduo intends to have a firearm for two people. After the man in front of him fought, the people behind him picked up the gun and continued to fight, which had the style of the Soviet army fighting hard in World War II.

It's just that most of the 300 guns are old-fashioned. Most of their foreign guns are searched from the people. Only a hundred single-shot rear-loading guns are new, and the rest are front-loaded guns, and the models are also very complicated.

At this time, except for the more than 600 foreign gun teams with fire guns, the rest are cold weapons or no weapons. Some of them are big knives and long guns, and more are hoes, sickles, wooden sticks and so on, which are worse than the traditional weapons and equipment of the exiles.

After the discussion, it was decided to sit in a large array with Jing Tingbin and prepare to fight against the main force of Zhao Dongyun, while Zhao Sanduo was ready to personally lead the foreign gun team to ambush the flank.