Great time travel

1 Twenty chapters, Yuhang town mopping up battle
Time passed little by little in the tense preparations of the Shen family and the Chen family, and the legendary blue-faced and long-toothed Kun thief finally approached Yuhang Town.

——In the early morning of the third day of the formation of Yuhang Township, a sweaty peddler brought the bad news that the gangsters were coming.

On the eve of the battle, Yuhang Town was silent. Chen Jinnan, a 15-year-old boy who was selected as one of the township brave talents, was wearing an old uniform that didn’t fit well. , his fingertips turned slightly white due to excessive force... He raised his head and glanced at the clan uncle Chen Jialuo who was smoking a pipe calmly.

Up to now, no one in Yuhang Town has witnessed the appearance of the Kun Bandit with their own eyes, and they don't know how many soldiers the Kun Bandit has. Because of the lack of military experience, no one in the town thought of sending a spy. Go to the Qiantang River to have a look; I just heard from the peddler who ran over from Xianlin Town next door that there were not many thieves who broke into their town yesterday, only about fifty people.But all of them have copper heads and iron arms, and they are invulnerable.Among them are the short, bow-legged Japanese pirates, the red-haired and green-eyed Western ghosts, and the dark bald Yaksha.

At the beginning, Xiangyong of Xianlin Town saw that there were few thieves, and the leader, Mr. Wu Juren, wanted to take advantage of it, so he pulled four or five hundred strong men, just like in the old days when fighting with weapons, holding bamboo guns and hoeing fish. With a fork or something, he rushed out screaming.Unexpectedly, as soon as this group of people rushed out of the town, the gangster's blunderbuss rang, and it rang for seven or eight rounds before it was finished.After these seven or eight rounds of bird guns were fired, more than half of the group training in Xianlin Town disappeared, 80% of them were knocked down by bird guns, and [-]% of them saw that something was wrong, so they simply said nothing. Ran.There are still [-] No. [-] people left who did not run, and they finally rushed to the front of the thief by luck. After being stabbed, it was those Xiangyong who were beaten to pieces, and the gangsters chased their butts all the way into the town...

Right now, the gentlemen of Xianlin Town are either leaving their wives and concubines and running away, or they are being hung from the beams of their houses to swing by the thieves!The most unlucky big households even had their ancestral graves dug up.Several old people in Yuhang Town shook their heads, saying that the Japanese pirates were not so crazy back then!
"...It seems that this group of thieves who killed thousands of knives is really fierce, but our Yuhang Town is not Xianlin Town that doesn't even have firearms! As long as the Kun thieves dare to come, let them taste the taste of our Chen family's firecrackers! Yes! Definitely Beat them until they tremble when they hear Yuhangzhen's name!"

The young Chen Jinnan tightly held the firecracker made by his clan uncle Chen Jialuo, a "famous firearms expert", and muttered to himself to cheer himself up, but he didn't know the "gun" that just wandered around Yuhang Town not far away. Thief", I haven't even figured out where this place is...

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"... Chief Manager Hall? Cangqian Town? Yuhang Town? Where is the pile of houses in front?"

In the cold and barren winter field, Li Meng, the former Jiaozhou salt lord, looked left and right at the map in his hand, but he was still deeply confused.

——With the launch of the Continental Raiders, each republic has begun large-scale military expansion.Li Meng, a traveler who once organized an armed rebellion in Shandong and had rich experience in guerrilla warfare against Ming Dynasty officials and landlord regiments, was naturally arrested by the military, so he had to end his short career as a train salesman and take him with him. Several Shandong brothers and a group of miscellaneous troops, with the rank of captain, embarked on the journey of sweeping Jiangnan again.

As a special treatment for those who travel through, more than half of the 50-member team led by Li Meng are Han Chinese from Hainan Island, and the remaining half are also Japanese security forces who have served in Hainan Island for a long time. Chinese, so at least there is no big obstacle in language communication... But those naturalized military officers are more unlucky, some of them are even stuffed with African blacks who speak Swahili, Spanish and French And English-speaking European whites, Russian-speaking Cossacks and Indian warriors who don't know a language...

But even so, it still can't change the fact that Captain Li Meng got completely lost in the unfamiliar Jiangnan water town not far from Phoenix Villa.

Facing the lack of heat in the winter sun, Li Meng stared at the map in his hand with embarrassment, as if he could see some treasure from it.Undoubtedly, this map drawn by satellites can be called accurate, but it can also be called vague—the location of a slightly larger pond can be marked on the map, but there is no way to tell him where he is , can only provide a frustrating coordinate number - XXX east longitude, XXX north latitude.This is certainly very scientific, but what Comrade Li Meng wants to know more is which township and village he is in...

This was so sad, Li Meng couldn't help feeling a faint sadness in his chest.

But there is no way to do this. After all, no matter how clear the effect of satellite reconnaissance pictures is, it cannot keep up with the field survey... and there is no way to directly copy the modern Hangzhou map, because although Hangzhou is still the same Hangzhou, the subtle place names of the next level, The difference between ancient times and modern times is astonishingly large, and the locations of many villages and rivers have also undergone substantial changes—so in the end, only an incomplete map was issued, except for "big places" such as Fucheng and county towns. Except for the name, the names of other villages and towns are all blank, and users need to find out by themselves...

Obviously, this kind of unreliable map like guessing riddles made Li Meng, who didn't have a good sense of direction, confused when walking.

What's more terrible is that the guide assigned to him is also unreliable, he can know the way around Phoenix Mountain, but if he is farther away, he becomes blind.

At this very moment, he was standing in a bare winter field, confused by the strange town at the end of the horizon... So, Li Meng picked three soldiers who claimed to have horseback riding experience, plus Phoenix Mountain Villa provided The unreliable guide of the old man formed a small reconnaissance team to find out what this place is, and by the way, see how the defense of the town in front is and whether it is easy to take...

Since it was really difficult to get horses in the Jiangnan water town, the four scouts could only set off slowly on their little donkeys.

On the other side, as the four "donkey riders" gradually approached, a small commotion suddenly broke out among the village braves guarding the watchtower at the entrance of Yuhang Town—Kun Thief!The real gangster is here!Although there were only four of them, and they were not as blue-faced and fang-like as in the legend, they did have the same short hair as the ex-monk, and the one-and-a-half-foot-long blunderbuss sword, just like in the legend, shone coldly in the sun!

As soon as he saw the thief appearing, the young and vigorous Chen Jinnan hurriedly raised his firecracker and was about to start a fight. As a "firearm expert", his uncle Chen Jialuo hurriedly slapped him to stop him: "...it's too far away. If you can’t hit them, first patiently bring them closer, and then listen to my orders, and everyone fights together! The tiger squatting guns must also be ready. This is the scouting horse of the thieves, in order to kill chickens and monkeys, we must not let any one go!"

Everyone in the watchtowers of Yuhang Town and Township Yong thought so deeply, so they all held their breaths and kept silent... Sure enough, the four thieves riding on little donkeys first wandered around a few times in the distance, and then took a closer look. The boundary marker erected on the side of the road found that there was no response from the watchtower, so I boldly approached it gradually, and walked faster and faster until I reached the foot of the watchtower.One of the leading bandits jumped off the donkey next to the watchtower, took out a piece of paper from his bosom, and chanted something loudly to the people inside, but unfortunately, the townspeople in Yuhang Town hardly understood it—— In the era when Mandarin had not yet been popularized, if Cantonese communicated with Hangzhou people in dialect, it was basically equivalent to speaking with a duck.

Especially the young Chen Jinnan, who was playing for the first time, didn't even listen to a word, but was so nervous that the bird gun was almost soaked in sweat.

At this time, Chen Jialuo, the "firearm expert" of Yuhang Town, suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped the wall hard, and shouted loudly: "Hit!"

Hearing the order from the uncle of the family, Chen Jinnan immediately subconsciously leaned out half of his body from the window, aimed at the leading thief and opened fire. The moment he fired, Chen Jinnan felt his body tremble, and the bird gun immediately spurted out a burst of white. The smoke made his eyes sore and numb... Dimly, he seemed to see the thief holding the paper shaking twice, showing an expression of disbelief, and then fell down without even groaning. ,

Hit!It was the first time in his life that Chen Jinnan shot someone with a blunderbuss. Before he could cheer with joy, he heard a series of crackling sounds around him—the family uncle Chen Jialuo and a dozen other Chen family children also fired the blunderbuss one after another.Under such a close-range shooting, three of the four defenseless Kun thieves were knocked down.Only the thief who was farthest away shrank behind the donkey when he saw this, and escaped temporarily.

Next, the Chen family ancestral hall carefully kept the four tiger squatting cannons for nearly a hundred years, and lit them one after another. The cannons sounded like thunder, smashing broken stones, broken tiles and scrap lead of different calibers. bombardment, blasting out like a storm... But even such a magic weapon failed to leave the last thief behind - after the smoke and dust cleared, this guy was still safe and sound, but seeing that the situation was not good, he threw it down. The companion turned around and ran away.

——Even in Qi Jiguang's era, the tiger squatting gun was only an auxiliary weapon that mainly fired shotguns. The advantage was that it could stuff any broken stones and broken porcelain into it, and it could smear the enemy's face at close range.The disadvantage is: the range of this thing is very short, and it is not powerful enough when attacking the city. In the field, the gun position is fixed, it is inconvenient to move, and it is even more difficult to aim.In the Qing Dynasty, it was replaced by a similarly powerful but lighter gun.

(The weight of at least three guns can catch up with a tiger squatting cannon. It can be seen that ancient Chinese firearms are still improving.)
But no matter what, the township warriors of Yuhang Town were victorious and successfully drove away the thieves. The people in the watchtower gave out cheers, and some people quickly reported the news to the squires in the town.Afterwards, stacks of "defeat cakes" and large pots of white rice were brought up.The person who brought the cakes also said that the town is slaughtering pigs, and everyone will be entertained to eat in the evening!

Hearing the news that there was a reward banquet to be eaten in the evening, there was a burst of cheers in the watchtower... In this happy and triumphant atmosphere, everyone was trying to boast of their bravery and fearlessness just now, as if It wasn't just a few reconnaissance cavalry that repelled the enemy, but it was like a big victory by smashing the army and beheading the generals:

"...See it! The gangster who was leading just now was killed by me!"

"...Fart, I beat him to death! If you don't believe me, go and look at the piece of paper in his hand, it's full of holes I punched!"

"...A bear like you, can you still make holes? I think you are punching holes in the ground with a blunderbuss!"

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"...Stop arguing, hurry up and get two people over there, and get back the foreign guns of the Japanese pirates! And the guns! Look at you! Is it time to drink celebration wine? Only four thieves came, I ran away one more, and the Kun thief's brigade will arrive in a while! This battle still has to be fought!"

Chen Jialuo stopped the juniors from making noise with a gloomy face, "...the head was chopped off and hung at the door! The donkey was also brought back! Hurry up!"

Following Uncle Chen Jialuo's roar, the juniors in the town hurriedly started to move, and the first foreign blunderbuss brought up naturally went into Chen Jialuo's hands.The townspeople gathered around him curiously, wanting to see how this "Yuhang Firearms No. 1" would handle this strange foreign gun.

Picking up a foreign blunderbuss with its dragon head open, Chen Jialuo frowned and weighed it in his hand. He was surprised to find that it was even better in hand than his most precious Franc gun... Next, he roughly figured out After understanding the principle of this thing, with the attitude of trying it out, Chen Jialuo raised the foreign blunderbuss, aimed the rear sight at the dead thief thirty paces away, and pulled the trigger forcefully, but was surprised to find that The faucet didn't move.

He muttered in confusion, "Could it be broken just now?"He then took the other two seized foreign guns and fired them in the same way. These two foreign guns were fired smoothly - the first foreign gun shot the corpse steadily, making the dead man less than an hour old. There was a burst of blood mist from the headless corpse in an instant, and after the second foreign gun was shot out, it even smashed a wooden board standing a hundred steps away in two

"...This foreign gun is so powerful!" The onlookers were all speechless, and they also admired Chen Jialuo who could play the foreign gun so smoothly.

Facing the compliments and praises from everyone, Chen Jialuo just waved his hands indifferently, then raised the foreign gun, took out a gun from a seized cowhide box and stuffed it into the barrel, and the conspicuous little copper cap also In the same way, when the faucet was turned next, Chen Jialuo suddenly knew why the first foreign blunderbuss could not be fired just now: the mechanism of this gunfire blunderbuss is really ingenious, and it can prevent it from accidentally firing!
But... despite holding such a military weapon, he still lost his life so easily. It seems that this gangster is no more than mediocre!
Caressing the captured foreign guns, Chen Jialuo grinned disdainfully, and became more confident in winning this battle...

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"...What? You are the only one out of four? What do you bastard do for food?"

Seeing the unreliable guide who escaped with his life knelt in front of him tremblingly, Li Meng immediately became angry.

The disgraced and unreliable guide who lost his shoes was immediately frightened and wanted to lie on the ground: "...Master, no, chief, I really don't blame me, those gentlemen ran away when they saw the town. Hurry up, I can't keep up. By the time I rush over, it's already too late..."

So, with a sad face like this, he stammered and described to Li Meng the experience just now—how the leading non-commissioned officer took the initiative to show kindness, and read the Allied Army's call to action to the townspeople in a soft voice, while the people in the town How despicable and shameless, attacking without warning... After the unreliable guide roughly finished speaking, Li Meng had generally calmed down: he actually knew that the people under him were either miscellaneous or recruits. Although it looks like he's well-trained, his actual combat experience is quite lacking, and it's normal for someone to get caught accidentally.

In short, according to this guy's description, the Yuhang town in front has built a solid watchtower, and there are "elite" village warriors trained with firecrackers and artillery.Although I don't know the total number of enemies, but looking at the size of the town, there should be 7000 to [-] people in the whole town. If the gentry and gentry in the town can conscript all the strong men, at least a few hundred of the townspeople can still count. pulled up.

Although I am not afraid of fighting in the field with such a mob that is about to collapse, the opponent is obviously quite shrewd. He did not rush out to die like the regiments in other towns, but stayed in the town with complex terrain and fought defensive battles. I'm scratching my head... Li Meng calculated that there were only 53 people in his team, two of them were left behind on the road, and three were killed just now. Now there are only 48 people left, and they are all light infantry. Except for a bayonet rifle and a few old-fashioned grenades, there is no heavy equipment.

With such a force, it is really difficult to attack a bunker equipped with firearms and suppress a town with a large number of people.

"...fire a signal flare and ask for help from the surrounding squads. At the same time, contact the headquarters of Phoenix Villa and ask for heavy fire support in the battle!"

After thinking about it, Li Menglue made the above decision.So, under the leaden gray winter sky, a red flare rushed up into the sky with a piercing scream, and soon three green flares rose from all around one after another—this meant that there were three The small team is about to arrive, and by then Li Meng's subordinates will be able to gather 200 people... Although the total number of people feels a little small, they can still fight a battle so-so.

And after contacting the Phoenix Mountain Command with a radio, Li Meng also received a reply that surprised him—the owner Zhao Yingong expressed great importance to the "stubborn enemy" that resisted fiercely in Yuhang Town, so he escorted him personally. A batch of heavy equipment came to Yuhang Town to help in the battle.

However, when this batch of "heavy equipment" was escorted by Zhao Yingong, Li Meng was dumbfounded for a moment:
"... Gatling guns? Heartless guns? Hale rockets? These are some outdated scraps of metal? Since getting in touch with the central government, haven't the troops already started to change their equipment? It's just A few mortars or projectiles coming over, are they stronger than these things?"

"...It is precisely because the troops are about to change their outfits that these outdated ordnance produced by us before are piled up in the warehouse to eat ashes."

Zhao Yingong explained with a wry smile, "...I want to sell them, but I can't find a suitable market for a while... So Lingao has allotted them for waste. For a low-intensity public security war like now, as long as Using these things should be enough..."