Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 320 Bloodshed in the Salt Pond (1)

The joint exploration team, Professor Ouyang, and his party were suddenly attacked by horse bandits. Fortunately, Tang Qiuli had made arrangements in advance for possible unexpected situations and specially sent two detachments of the special operations detachment to be responsible for the task of protection.

There are about 400 people in the two special operations detachments. However, their equipment is tailor-made according to the nature of the troops. They only have a few heavy weapons and do not have much advantage in firepower.

The soldiers of the special operations detachment have extremely strong individual combat capabilities. This kind of defensive battle in the field is not their specialty. Moreover, the number of horse bandits is far more than three times that of them, and most of their energy is allocated to take care of them.

One can imagine the pressure on dozens of combat personnel.

Because it is for the purpose of exploration, the special operations team does not carry much ammunition, but more supplies, instruments, and equipment. If it gets into a hard fight and runs out of ammunition, this priceless exploration team will be destroyed.

The horse bandits should all be cavalry. On the undefensible salt flats, the cavalry would be a disaster for troops lacking heavy weapons. As long as the horse bandits charge as a group, the soldiers of the special operations unit can only use

Fighting to the death, but what about Professor Ouyang and the others? They can only end up being at the mercy of others.

Tang Qiuli was sweating profusely. In so many years, he had never encountered a crisis that made him frightened but he had no good solution. As the saying goes, water from far away cannot quench the thirst of near, and there are no available weapons in hand.

He thought of asking for help from the Red Army, but according to the innkeeper, the nearest Red Army was a hundred or so miles away from here, and half a day was wasted every time he went there.

I have no choice but to use my thirty-two men as reinforcements. What’s funny is that I donated all the rifles in the hands of the soldiers. The soldiers are now unarmed. We can’t let the soldiers go with bare hands.

Dealing with more than a thousand heavily armed horse bandits, right?

Tang Qiuli was so anxious that he was running around in the room. He gritted his teeth and could only make a risky move.

He called the innkeeper in, got straight to the point, and asked him directly if he could buy guns, ammunition and horses in this town. The boss hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, horses are easy to talk about. Every household here has fast horses, so it won't be a problem."

, but it’s hard to tell about guns and ammunition. Since the Red Army arrived here, they have collected all the weapons scattered among the people!"

Tang Qiuli told the boss to prepare thirty-two fast horses at an easy price. As for the guns and ammunition, you can think of a solution. Then, he told the boss the dangers encountered by the joint exploration team without hiding them, and asked the boss for help.

Find a way.

The boss was shocked when he heard this, and then he understood the reason for Tang Qiuli's anxiety, and immediately agreed to help.

He also told Tang Qiuli that before the Red Army arrived here, this area was often plundered by horse bandits from Ningxia and Gansu. These guys committed murder, arson, snatched property, and robbed women. They did all kinds of evil. His father would die.

In the hands of the horse bandits, the people in this area hated the horse bandits deeply.

Since the arrival of the Red Army, they have dealt heavy blows to the horse bandits who broke into the area. They have driven these harmful beasts back to Gansu and Ningxia, and the people have been able to live a stable life, although the life is miserable.

These are finally stable, right?

After the boss finished speaking, he hurried out to collect what Tang Qiuli wanted, but Tang Qiuli could only wait impatiently. Using this time, he wrote a letter to be sent to the commander of the 25th Red Army, General Xu Haidong.

, explaining the reason why he could not keep the appointment on time.

Then, he found a young man who looked very smart, gave him two pieces of ocean, and asked him to ride a horse, rush to the Red Army station as quickly as possible, and deliver the letter to their commander.

Watching the young man beating the horse like flying and disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye, he felt a little comforted. It seemed that the people in this place grew up on horses and their riding skills were quite good, so there was no shortage of good horses.

The innkeeper acted quickly and had all the horses ready. He said, "I believe the guest officer. When you come back, we will have to calculate the cost of hiring the horses. We will encounter difficulties. We can't let you spend a lot of money to buy horses, right?"

Tang Qiuli was very touched by these words. It was just a thought that he gave the boss some more money in exchange for such great help. The people in this place are really kind and simple, and it is not difficult to understand.

, why their hearts are all towards the Red Army, as long as anyone treats them well, they will be rewarded several times.

However, the weapons obtained by the boss made Tang Qiuli dumbfounded and dumbfounded.

These weapons are all kinds of things, but none of them fit the hand. There are shotguns made of iron sand, and blunderbuss. There are a few rifles, they are all old, the rifling is worn away, and the bolt is pointing straight down.

Lose.

There was still a squad leader of the special guard who asked the boss if he had any cold weapons such as bows, arrows and crossbows. He reminded the dreamer that the boss slapped his thigh, as every household has these things.

After working hard for a while, the thirty soldiers of the special guard were finally fully armed, carrying blunderbuss, shotguns, carrying bows and arrows, crossbows, and riding various war horses. Tang Qiuli never dreamed that his most elite special

It's really a fate that the Guardsmen will be equipped with such weapons one day to face more than a thousand horse bandits.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Special Guard have a habit of carrying eight grenades with them at all times. This is all Tang Qiuli's current strength. He has 100,000 troops, but he has to use these ancient weapons to deal with the vicious horses.

bandit.

The troops had just left the town when the sound of horse hooves came from behind. Everyone reined in their horses and turned around to see a horse team coming up behind them, with a total of 1,780 people. They were all strong men. The leader was a man.

It was the innkeeper, holding a shotgun.

Tang Qiuli was puzzled. The boss explained that these were all those whose families had been harmed by horse bandits. Some had their wives robbed, some had their daughters raped, and their relatives were killed. They heard that there was going to be a war with the horse bandits.

The official manpower is small, they all come here voluntarily, and they are not full of hatred.

There are also a few salt porters who have been working in the Yanchi area all year round and go to Yan'an to sell salt. They are familiar with the land there and can be used as guides. There is an old man with a dark red face but a strong body and a voice like a bell.

Tang Qiuli said that he could touch the ditch bank there with his eyes closed.

The innkeeper talked about your humanity, but he can't let you guys die. It's not the rule of Jintang Town.

Tang Qiuli's throat was choked. He couldn't mention money in front of these simple villagers. This was not going to the market to join in the fun. It was very likely that someone would lose their life on the salt flats. He really didn't know how to express himself.

Feeling grateful, he jumped off his horse and bowed deeply to the villagers.

Then, he divided the villagers into groups of ten and divided them into eighteen teams. Each team assigned a soldier from the special guard to serve as the captain. They had to obey the captain's command in everything. The remaining soldiers from the special guard formed the core attack force.

The strong team set out on the road again, facing the loess that was constantly blowing up from the outside of the Great Wall, and galloped towards the salt pond, leaving behind soaring dust along the way.

The sky gradually darkened, and the wind picked up, blowing up particles mixed with salt and alkali, which made my face painful. Riding on a galloping horse, I could only tilt my head and half-close my eyes, and the green color gradually became scarcer.

What I saw were fluffy gray-red albara grasses, sparsely dotted in the desolate wilderness.

The half-grown old man who acted as the guide would jump off his horse from time to time, check the terrain, and direct the horse team, which was definitely a mob, around tall and low sand dunes, or small seas covered with alkaline flowers.

Tang Qiuli and the others were walking along the remnants of the ancient Great Wall towards their destination. The more they walked, the more desolate they became. The green color finally resembled that of a shy girl. Occasionally they saw a little face. What came into view was the boundless sand and white flowers.

of salt-alkali.

The guide suddenly reined in the horse's head, jumped off the horse, climbed up a sand dune, listened quietly for a while, then rolled down the sand dune, and said to Tang Qiuli nervously, not far ahead, you can already hear

Judging from the sound of gunfire, it was no more than seven or eight miles away.

Tang Qiuli immediately ordered that according to the prior grouping, each team would approach the horse bandits surrounding the exploration team from different directions in a concealed manner. After approaching, they must hear the sound of their own gunshots before they can launch an attack.

Climbing to the top of a large sand dune, you can have an unobstructed view of the battlefield below. In the dim dusk, more than a thousand horse bandits are attacking fiercely. The rain of bullets follows a dark red trajectory and shoots towards the target. The equipment of the horse bandits

Yes, there are at least three heavy machine guns and ten light machine guns. Fortunately, there is no heavy firepower such as mortars. Otherwise, the place being attacked would have been razed to the ground long ago.

The two captains of the special operations detachment are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time and have rich combat experience. Just as the sentries fired the alarm gunshots, they were shot by sudden bullets. Before they died, the soldiers of the special operations detachment had strong combat effectiveness and fully

Performance

A man came out, wounded, and held off more than a thousand horse bandits for twenty minutes. At least twenty horse bandits were killed by his gun. Finally, he pulled the trigger on his body.

grenade and perished together with the horse bandits who surrounded him.

The smoke from the grenade explosion drowned seven or eight horse bandits. The horse bandits who were blocked had to find favorable terrain to hide in order to avoid the deadly bullets.

The soldiers of this special operations detachment used their precious lives to win more than twenty precious minutes for the brigade. This precious time was enough to save the lives of all personnel.

The two squad leaders had no time to shed tears for their fallen comrades, so they immediately protected Professor Ouyang and more than 30 scientists and retreated to the nearest dirt enclosure.

As soon as they entered the enclosure, the sky behind them was filled with yellow dust, pressing directly towards them. The crazy and savage shouts of the horse bandits rang outside, and the sharp sabers shone with a cold light in the setting sun.

Hearing the shouts of the horse bandits and seeing the charging momentum of more than a thousand cavalry, Professor Ouyang and others could not help but turn pale, especially the young girls in the exploration team who huddled in the corner with their arms tightly folded in front of their chests.

His body was trembling.

The soldiers of the special operations detachment aimed their guns silently forward. The ferocious faces of the horse bandits became more and more clear in the sight, and the sound of horse hooves like waves struck people's psychological defense lines.