Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 321 Bloodshed in the Salt Pond (2)

This is an ancient castle built by border guards at an unknown age. After years of erosion and carving by wind and sand, only the village wall that is more than ten feet high remains. Most of the lookout holes and arrow stacks on the wall remain intact.

Perhaps in order to resist the plundering of the cavalry from the Mongolian plateau, Tuweizi occupies the only high ground in this area, and there are specially built anti-cavalry facilities outside the wall.

After the joint exploration team withdrew into the earthen fence, they placed the expedition team members in a relatively safe place. More than 300 soldiers climbed up the fence and stood ready with arrow stacks and lookout holes.

The horse bandit cavalry rushed to the wall of the village and found it insurmountable. They were so anxious that they turned their horses around. There was only one entrance directly east of Tuweizi. Under the shout of a bandit leader, the horse bandits swarmed towards the village gate.

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Suddenly, bullets were fired from the wall, not densely. More than 300 soldiers were scattered on the four walls. There was no dense firepower at all. Although the bullets fired were very sparse, the accuracy was very high. It was a precise shot.

After each shot, one of the horse bandits fell off his horse and fell to the ground.

After a volley of guns, the horse bandits woke up and realized that the terrain was not favorable for the cavalry. They beat their horses out of the range of the fire and concentrated them all at the entrance of the stockade, hoping to take advantage of the speed of the cavalry and attack the wall in one fell swoop.

Under the command of a bandit leader, about three hundred horse bandits, shouting wildly and beating the horses like flying, with the sabers in their hands raised high, launched an attack toward the gate of Tuweizi like a violent torrent, and the yellow dust kicked up by the horse hooves billowed.

,aggressive.

The cavalry's charging speed was astonishing. They were several hundred meters away and arrived in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, a dense rain of bullets shot out from the gate of Tuweizi. The firepower was fierce and concentrated, which was different from the sparse shooting on the wall of the village.

The horse bandits who rushed at the front felt as if they had been swept by an iron broom, and they fell to the ground together with their horses.

The two squad leaders had rich combat experience. They saw that the gate of the village was the only weakness. Time was tight and there was no time to set up roadblocks, so they transferred all the eight light machine guns to the gate of the village and added shell guns to form a

As long as the gate of the village can be defended as the only fire attack point, the stalemate with the horse bandits can be continued, and then the division commander can be asked for reinforcements.

The tactics they adopted were undoubtedly very correct. The horse bandits in the first shock wave were immediately disrupted from the charging rhythm. Seeing that something was not going well, the horse bandits behind them reined in their horses hard, turned their horses' heads, and ran back.

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It was not so easy for the horse bandits in front. They could no longer hold back the momentum of the charge and could only continue to charge despite the rain of bullets. More than a hundred horse bandits lay dead in the wilderness. Only a dozen of them rushed into the fence. Then,

The gate of the village was flooded by shrapnel from the grenade explosion.

The horse bandits who rushed in had no follow-up troops and became a lone army. These horse bandits showed their ferocious nature, shouting wildly and waving their sabers, and rushed towards the unarmed Professor Ouyang and others.

The soldiers of the special operations detachment flew down from the wall of the village, knocked the horse bandits under their horses, and rolled into a ball on the ground. They were fighting hand to hand. These horse bandits had no advantage at all. In the blink of an eye, more than ten horse bandits were there.

Bodies of various shapes were lying on the yellow sand, and the horses that had lost their owners stood there blankly.

After the smoke from the grenade explosion dissipated, the corpses and dead horses at the gate of Tuweizi were exposed to the afternoon sun filled with yellow sand. The strong northwest wind of the Loess Plateau could not blow away the strong smell of blood.

The horse bandits in the first shock wave retreated in a hurry after losing one-third of their troops. They did not expect that these scattered teams in civilian clothes would have such strong firepower, and they suffered a big loss due to their carelessness.

The horse bandits adjusted their tactics, using light and heavy machine guns to form suppressive firepower, and organized several consecutive charges, but were repulsed. Hundreds of horse bandits' bodies were left on the salt flats.

After repelling several attacks by the horse bandits, the soldiers of the special operations detachment also suffered heavy casualties. More than 30 people were killed and more than 70 people were injured. The unit lost almost one-third of its combat effectiveness.

The gate of Tuweizi was stained with Yin Hong's blood, which showed how fierce the battle for the gate of Tuweizi just now was. It was mainly the heavy machine guns of the horse bandits that caused the greatest damage to the soldiers.

Later, the horse bandits organized several small-scale attacks, attacking from all four sides. Now, the horse bandits could not take advantage. Long-distance precision shooting was the specialty of the special operations detachment soldiers. As soon as the horse bandits showed up, they would be able to shoot accurately.

When I ate a flying bullet, my brain exploded.

The two sides have temporarily reached a stalemate. However, the situation is extremely unfavorable to the joint exploration team. They are holding on to a desperate position. If there are no reinforcements, when their bullets run out, they will be at the mercy of the horse bandits.

The horse bandits, who were no longer attacking, concentrated all their light and heavy machine guns, aimed at a wall, and opened fire violently. The dense bullets peeled off the wall layer by layer, just like high-pressure water washing away sand.

A big gap was soon opened. The horse bandits divided into two directions and launched a fierce attack. The soldiers of the special operations team were under tremendous pressure. The battle entered a fierce state. On several occasions, the horse bandits had already attacked.

Entering the earthen siege, they were beaten out by soldiers who were more fierce than them.

After the fierce battle, both sides were exhausted. The horse bandits lost four to five hundred people, and the soldiers of the special operations unit also suffered a total of about 200 casualties, of which 123 were killed in battle, and two-thirds of the troops were killed.

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The two captains of the special operations squadron witnessed the heroic sacrifice of their soldiers, and their hearts were numb with pain. These soldiers are all carefully selected, and they can play a greater role in the anti-Japanese battlefield.

However, he died in battle on an unknown salt-alkali flat on the Loess Plateau.

They witnessed with their own eyes a soldier who was stabbed more than a dozen times. Before he fell, he pulled off a grenade and died together with six or seven horse bandits.

What a good soldier. With just a "boom", the person disappeared. I only remembered his name. Since its establishment, the special operations detachment has never suffered such a big loss. In the Northeast, hundreds of thousands of Guandong

In an environment where military troops were pressing down on the border, the special operations detachment had never suffered such heavy casualties.

The two squad captains felt their hearts tearing in pain. The soldiers followed the division commander and detachment captain from the distant White Mountains and Black Waters to the land of North China. They did not die in the hands of the Japanese, but were robbed of their youth by these heartless horse bandits.

How should I explain my life to the detachment leader when I see him?

The telegram asking for reinforcements has been sent out, and the division commander has sent troops to get here. It will take a certain amount of time. We can only grit our teeth and wait hard. Before the reinforcements arrive, we will never let the horse bandits step into Tuwei, even if it is a special battle.

If all the detachments are killed in battle, they must be supported until reinforcements arrive.

Strictly speaking, the horse bandits who surrounded the joint exploration team were not professional horse bandits in the pure sense. The leader was called Ma Chaozong, who was the cousin of Ma Hongkui, the Ningxia warlord among the five horses in the northwest, and a brigade commander.

The troops he leads, whose full name is Ningdong Security Brigade, are stationed along the Great Wall outside Ningxia, Anding Fort, and Liuyang Fort, guarding the east gate of Ningxia for his uncle.

Because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, Ma Hongkui rarely paid attention to this place. Ma Chaozong became the local emperor in this area. From time to time, he would take off his military uniform and play the role of a horse bandit, robbing homes and houses, attacking passing merchants, and secretly making money.

Then, he changed his identity and became a regular army of the Ningdong Security Brigade. Under the banner of suppressing bandits, he sent bandits everywhere to donate money, reap benefits from inside and outside, and suppress himself. Isn't that a big joke?

After going back and forth, the business travel in the Yanchi area gradually stopped. Everyone would rather take other routes away from here than pass by here. Ma Chaozong lost his way of making money and had not slaughtered a fat sheep for a long time. His eyes were burning with anxiety.

When the joint exploration team of about 500 people entered the Yanchi area, they were spotted by Ma Chaozong's spies. Judging from the clothes of these people, it was obvious that they were city dwellers, who were much better off than the poor people in the countryside.

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Especially the dozen or so young and beautiful girls, with fair and tender faces, and a foreign flavor all over their bodies. They are much more pleasant than the local country girls. Several spies followed the joint exploration team for several days.

, and figured out the rules of their actions.

Reported to Ma Chaozong. Ma Chaozong was overjoyed after hearing this. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time and his hands were itching. There were about 500 people. If each person counted as 500 yuan, how much would that be?

In front of Ma Chaozong's eyes, the white ocean danced wildly. He immediately mobilized a strong group of more than 1,800 people, and under the leadership of secret agents, they rushed to the exploration team's outdoor camp overnight.

Ma Chaozong was very proficient in this kind of work. During the Red Army's Western Expedition the year before last, he had participated in the Five Horsemen in the Northwest, gathering all their strength to besiege the main force of the Red Army at Gaotai and the battle around Yingzi in Xichang.

After breaking up the Red Army's West Route Army, Ma Chaozong led his troops to search for lost Red Army soldiers along the way. He captured many of them, including many female Red Army soldiers, who met tragic ends.

In addition to being occupied by Ma Jiajun officers at all levels, some were sold to other places, and some were rewarded to Ma Jiajun soldiers who had made meritorious service against the Red Army. Ma Chaozong's current servant girls and servants in the house, and many others were

Captured Red Army soldiers.

If Professor Ouyang and the others returned to Dingbian according to their original plan, Ma Chaozong would have missed the point. Even if he had great courage, he would not dare to attack Dingbian County.

According to Ma Chaozong's estimation, when these unarmed city people came to his territory, it was a great gift from God to him. However, he was disrespectful. As soon as the gunshots were fired, they were waiting to kidnap them. He also specifically told his men,

Bring more twine.

Who would have thought that the war would end like this when it started, with more than 500 brothers lost, and not even a broken wall could be broken down, so would we encounter a tough enemy?

He cursed a few spies, but he didn't notice that these people were armed escorts? If they go on like this, let alone the white flowers in the ocean, the tender and tender city girls will not be able to get it. If the other side comes with reinforcements, he will

Of the more than a thousand men and horses, I'm afraid only a few can run back. This place is not too far from the communist bandits. It will take most of a day to get there by riding horses.

Ma Chaozong ordered the entire army to attack. This time, Tuweizi must be captured. When Tang Qiuli and the others arrived, it was the moment when the horse bandits' attack was most intense and the situation in Tuweizi was most critical.