Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 168 Occupying Baitu Village

A scout rushed back from the front and came behind Xi Yaya's horse—yes, he was the only officer with a horse, and he rode Nick's beloved "Alan Chi", which was really a horse. All the aborigines along the way paid attention to him. There are very few horses in Hainan, let alone such tall and handsome horses.

After marching in the mountains, he seldom rode a horse. This place is high and densely forested. If someone lays an ambush, he, the only one on horseback, will be the first to beat him. Although Xi Yaya is afraid of walking, he still understands that his life is important.

After panting and trekking on the mountain road for more than two hours, he has already begun to regret why he promised Wu Nanhai to send troops to him as free laborers for a month in order to borrow this horse.

"Commander Xi, the front is the checkpoint of Baitu Village."

"Are you sure?" Xi Yazhou asked while wiping his sweat.

"Sure, someone has been sent to call for them to open the door."

"Then shout slowly," Xi Yazhou waved his arms, "every row, rest where you are! I'll take a rest first."

Xiong Zhuan has been yelling with an electric horn for half an hour, but the wooden castle on the side of the intersection is still silent, the road is cut off by a thick round wooden fence, and the gate is tightly closed.Not even a human figure can be seen on the fortress.But the flash of knives and guns can be seen indistinctly in the sun.

"Okay, let's get something powerful." Xi Ya looked at it with a telescope for a long time: this kind of wooden fortress can be taken down within 10 minutes of launching an attack.

"Old Xi, Beiwei called. They have infiltrated the 100 high ground 41.3 meters behind Mubaozhai. Do you want to attack the enemy?"

"Let him monitor it. We fought all the battles, so these rookies don't have to practice."

"understood."

"Platoons, prepare for battle, bayonet!"

Following the shouts of the officers, the soldiers sitting by the road quickly put the water bottles away, stood up, and lined up under the urging of the squad leader.

With the help of the guards, the officers opened their backpacks, took out the stab-proof vests from inside and put them on--if they were worn on the march, they would be too hot to die.The rattan helmet was also replaced with a steel helmet.

"Okay, give them a few shots first to try something new." Ying Yu said helplessly.

The first shot smashed the wooden gate, and the debris flew across.Then the Second Artillery hit Mubaozhai, one shot tore down the wooden female wall, and the other simply punched a hole in the wall.

The effect of the 12-pound iron ball flying out with smoke trails was horrifying. The soldiers in the teaching battalion cheered when they saw how powerful their cannons were.

Almost at the same time, white smoke came out from the walls of the village and there was the sound of gunfire. The soldiers who were cheering were all shortened by half. Some of them simply fell to the ground and covered their heads tightly. Some people were about to turn around and run away.The formation is a bit chaotic.

"Oh my god!" Although Xiong Buyou was not an officer, he had already put on his whole body, brought his beloved flute, and was going to take the lead in blowing the "March of the Grenadiers" to launch a column attack.Unexpectedly, when the enemy's artillery fired, the teaching camp, which had been training hard for a month, was thrown into disarray.

"Stand up, stand up, don't mess up." The officers all drew their sabers to maintain order.

"Recruits are afraid of guns", this TMD is really a truth.Xi Yazhou cursed the group of soldiers looking at him.When they go back, they have to hit their heads repeatedly with cannons.He secretly planned.

Youhuo Saber pointed upwards: "Any bastard who dares to look back, I'll chop him off! Stand still. You bastards!" Soldier.

The shells fired from the walls of the village fell to the ground less than 100 meters away.Ying Yu knew at a glance that there was nothing to be afraid of, and he was using scrap copper, rotten iron and stones as shells again.

"Keep shooting!"

Xi Yaya did not immediately order the soldiers to charge.The solid iron bullets smashed towards them one after another, and the log fell apart like a pushed building block under the impact of the heavy hammer from the gunfire.The whole fort was a pile of logs, smoking and burning.

Soon some people rushed out of the gate of the village, brandishing knives and guns in an attempt to fight hand-to-hand, but the platoons of the infantry who had stabilized did not allow them to exert their combat effectiveness.After the first row of shots fired, more than a dozen people had already fallen to the ground, and the rest screamed horribly, and fled back stained with blood.

Xi Yazhou ordered the trumpet to attack.This time I didn't make a fool of myself, and each platoon accurately and alternately covered the leap forward according to the requirements of the training outline, and quickly broke into the bayonet.The ground was full of dying people who had been hit by shells and wood, and the soldiers began to stab them with bayonets without mercy, screaming one after another.Xi Yazhou shook his head: These soldiers don't have much will to fight, and they kill without mercy.Is it good or bad?

The captured captives were tied together in strings of ten. Xiong Buyou hurriedly interrogated them. Almost all of them were from Fujian. People send some money and rice every month to live, that is, they work as part-time laborers and village braves.

As for the cannon and gunpowder, they were bought from the red-haired man who had come here to repair the ship.I also bought some red-haired muskets, but because I don’t know how to use them, it’s useless to hurt people all the time.

"What the fuck is wrong with the world." Xiong Buyou said indignantly after asking, "Da Ming is about to end, even a big village is recruiting its own troops."

"The Ming Dynasty is coming to an end, but the post-Jin Dynasty is not much fun." Xi Yazhou lamented, although one order and one chaos seem to be an inevitable cycle of Chinese civilization, but the cycle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties is a rare historical retrogression— ——When countries in the old world were about to step into the threshold of modern civilization, China unexpectedly became a cruel and backward slave-owner country, the people became impoverished and ignorant, science was destroyed, and culture was castrated... what remained was a Macartney rated it as the "golden age" of "China is being barbarized".

Xi Yaya is not a star fan, but no matter how rotten Daming is, there is no ugly tail on his head.For this point, he can't let this time and space repeat the tragedy of history.Not many days will be the first month of the second year of Chongzhen. Huang Taiji is about to start raiding and looting activities in the Central Plains. The current army is still so naive... A strong sense of crisis came to his mind.

"Xiao Wei, you leave the belt and run forward, arrive at Baitu as soon as possible, and don't enter the village for now." Xi Yazhou called Wei Aiwen to assign tasks, "Block all the land exits of the village, and don't let them escape!"

"understand!"

"The blockade at sea, with the Fubo, they should have arrived. After you arrange it, fire a red rocket to notify them."

The remaining soldiers cleared the field, bodies were thrown into ravines, and logs were cleared from roads.Xi Yazhou saw that the mountain here was relatively steep, so he ordered a platoon to stay here to guard the back road.Other troops continued to advance towards the village.

At 3 p.m. that day, Baitu Village surrendered.Villages are fortified.The mixed wooden fence and rammed earth walls, the turrets built with thick tree trunks, and the four corners of the rare village are still bulging forts. It doesn't look like a Chinese rural earthen village, but a European-style simple castle.Some of them tried to escape from the sea, but the artillery battery from the Fubo forced them back.With no hope of breaking out, the 12-pound mountain pomegranate simply smashed through a turret, and the village surrendered.This made Ying Yu heave a sigh of relief - there were not many shells left.

After detaining all the elders in the village who came out to express their sincerity in surrender.Xi Yazhou ordered the troops to enter the village to receive them.After going in and turning around, I realized that this place is a small paradise. Although the houses are simple and simple, most of the villagers look healthy and well-dressed. When they see them coming, they also show normal fear, unlike some poor and white villages. Go in The common people look like dead fish.

The warehouses and various workshops in the village were sealed and sealed. Xi Yazhou went around the village in person, and the discipline of the soldiers was still strict-of course, this was the result of the presence of traverser officers.

The naval convoy sailed into the port and unloaded supplies and ammunition from the ships.The staff of the Planning Committee who counted and received the trophies and Wen Desi himself were also brought in-he came as a shipbuilding expert.The greatest wealth of Baitu Village lies in its shipyard. They need to evaluate whether Baitu has the value of continuing to use Baitu as a shipyard. If relocating the shipyard means giving up a lot of existing infrastructure, then setting up a shipbuilding base in Baitu It is more economical.

The shipyard is on a sandy beach near the bay outside the village, and there are still several unfinished or under repair ships on the ship frame.

On the spot inspection, Baitu's shipbuilding facilities are very complete, with special iron, hemp, tung oil, paint, and even a small lime kiln.But Baitu Port is really too small.Although it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the water depth is more than ten meters, only 8 to 10 hundred-ton ships can berthed on the water surface of the entire port.The shipbuilding capacity of the village is roughly the same. There are no completed ships on the ship frame, only one is a 400 material ship, and the rest are small fishing boats used by coastal fishermen.

"This place is really nice." Wen Desi saw such complete facilities of the ancient shipbuilding industry, his eyes lit up, he looked left and right, and almost forgot his purpose of coming here.

"It's a pity that it's too small. It's okay to be a safe haven. It's too small to be a shipyard."

"It's a bit tasteless." Wen Desi felt a bit reluctant to give up his love. Not only the water surface of the port is small, but the open space is also limited.It can be seen that the current scale is almost its limit.

After deliberation, it was decided to relocate the entire village, first remove the women, children, old and young, and leave some craftsmen to complete the boats on the boat racks.All the materials and materials here can be transported away, especially a large amount of high-quality timber, which is a scarce material for the shipbuilding industry of the crossing regime.

Xiong Buyou announced to the elders in the village that they must all move to live in Bopu, where the traversers will help them build a new shipyard, and housing and private plots will also be provided there.

Xi Yazhou didn't give Xiong Buyou too much time to preach the superiority of the "new countryside". He sat on the horseback, leaned on a long saber, and looked at these people with a murderous look.

"Let's gossip, go back and tell the villagers to pack up and prepare to go in batches!" Behind Xi Yaya stood a row of infantry with bayonets on them, making his words more convincing.

There is not much nonsense, and there is no need for political mobilization or the like, bayonets and cannons are the last word.Villagers were ordered to pack up and prepare to move.It is estimated that the entire migration will last for a long time, and a platoon led by Li Jun will be stationed here temporarily until all the migration is completed.

(End of this chapter)