boyutpedia Chapter 149: Occupation of Longquan Town
Chapter 149: Occupation of Longquan Town
These recruits who had never been on the battlefield were stunned by the sudden counterattack. Only a few of them avoided the counterattack according to the tactical moves they learned during training.
Most of the others either retreated or stood still and fought randomly. Fortunately, several company commanders reacted quickly and calmed the people's hearts.
Jiang Li lay on the ground and quickly crawled behind a big tree. After standing up, he shouted loudly, "Do what you usually train in now. Do you still need me to teach you?"
But the gunshots were so loud at this time that Jiang Li's voice could not be heard far away. Fortunately, these people were just caught off guard by the sudden counterattack.
After just a moment of panic, they reacted one after another and began to look for cover to fight back.
But the price was a dozen motionless bodies lying on the ground and more than thirty wounded soldiers wailing constantly.
Everyone seemed very panicked as they heard the wailing and gunshots that came one after another.
Until a certain moment, continuous and regular bursts of gunfire were heard on the battlefield, and people's hearts finally calmed down again.
This sound was naturally the unique sound of the Czech light machine gun. More than a dozen professionally trained machine gunners found suitable shooting positions one after another.
Then the firepower began to be output, and the battle strangely changed from an ambush to a positional war without positions.
When Marshal Xu saw that the enemy was stunned, he quickly organized a counterattack. He immediately knew that the enemy must be well-trained.
It was definitely not something that his ragtag army could defeat, so he had the idea of retreating in his mind. But when short bursts of machine gun fire were heard from the enemy position, he made up his mind to escape and retreat immediately.
The enemy not only has a lot of machine guns and grenades, but also has professional shooting skills such as short bursts. They must be regular troops without a doubt.
So he decisively gathered thirty or forty veterans and said to his adjutant, "I will lead my men to encircle them from the woods, and you lead your men to hold them off!"
The adjutant knew what Marshal Xu was thinking. He was probably preparing to escape when he saw the situation was not good. But if he dared to say no at this moment, he would probably have his head exploded immediately.
The adjutant hesitated for a while, but finally agreed reluctantly. Upon seeing this, Marshal Xu immediately led his men to the woods on the right.
Seeing the Marshal leave, the adjutant hiding behind a tree immediately took off his white underwear and propped it up with a stick to show surrender.
He kept calling on people to stop shooting until more "white flags" were raised. Jiang Li then realized that the other side seemed to have stopped resisting.
Seeing this, he ordered the soldiers to stop shooting. After confirming that there were no more gunshots, he channeled his magical power into his throat and shouted loudly, "Put down your weapons and raise your hands to surrender, or I will kill you all."
Perhaps it was because the gunshot was too loud that their ears were buzzing and the other party didn't react at all.
So he organized his soldiers to shout together until the voices merged into a loud harmony, and the enemy slowly raised their hands and came out to surrender.
Seeing that the situation seemed to be under control, Jiang Li immediately sent a few people over to check whether there was any fraud. Only after confirming that there was no problem did he send people over to accept the prisoners.
At this time, a voice rang out from the crowd, "Marshal, I have something important to report. Please let me pass."
Jiang Li waved his hand and asked him to come over. He recognized him as the man who had led the team to stop him just now.
"Who are you? Just say whatever you want to say."
"Reporting to the commander, I am the adjutant of Commander Xu. Seeing that the situation was not good, the man surnamed Xu has already led thirty or forty people and fled from the woods on the right!"
"So how many troops does Marshal Xu have now?" Jiang Li asked with a frown.
"To answer your question, Marshal, the man named Xu only left a dozen or so people to guard the house. Together with the deserters he took away, there are only about fifty or sixty people left. If you lead people to chase them, you will definitely be able to catch them all in one fell swoop!" said the adjutant flatteringly.
Li frowned when he heard this, but did not immediately order a pursuit. Instead, he sent someone on horseback to notify another group of people to come quickly to prevent the more than one hundred prisoners from causing any trouble.
Then, listening to the wailing of the wounded, he immediately called a company commander and asked him to take people to treat the wounded and asked them to do their best to save the lives of the wounded.
After waiting for two hours, another team finally arrived. The three company commanders who led the team immediately came forward to apologize.
"Stop talking nonsense. The most urgent task now is to catch up with Marshal Xu and eliminate the trouble once and for all!" Jiang Li interrupted with a wave of his hand.
So Jiang Li took several company commanders and quickly organized people to march towards Longquan Town, while the rest of the people stayed behind to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded and escort the prisoners.
When they arrived near Longquan Town, he ordered to stop advancing. After sending out scouts to investigate for a while, he learned that Marshal Xu had packed up his belongings and fled for his life an hour ago with only a few dozen of his remaining men.
Jiang Li finally felt relieved upon hearing this and led his troops into the town. When they arrived at the town, the townspeople were filled with fear and hatred when they saw an army wearing uniform uniforms and whose spirit was obviously different from that of Marshal Xu's soldiers.
As for why this happened, it has been mentioned in the previous article. In those days, there were many warlords and military discipline was extremely poor. If such an army entered the town, it would most likely cause a lot of bloodshed and might even have to plunder.
Jiang Li naturally knew what they were thinking. He did not explain but followed past practice and summoned the people to publicly try the gentry, landlords, and unscrupulous profiteers. He then distributed land and property and soon gained a foothold in Longquan Town.
It can be said that Longquan Town is indeed wealthy. After going through a familiar process, Jiang Li obtained 50 kilograms of gold, 80,000 yuan, a large amount of jewelry and jade, more than 20 shops, and 500,000 kilograms of various grains.
After doing all this, he found a piece of flat ground and began to build a simple camp. After all, Longquan Town was one of the ten large towns, and Marshal Xu was hiding in the dark, so he had to leave at least two companies of troops here.
Jiang Li's heart finally settled down when the soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield came with the prisoners.
He called together several company commanders and began a summary meeting. He wanted all officers to develop the habit of making combat summaries, so that they would become stronger and braver as they fought.
"First of all, we won the battle this time, but in my opinion there are still many problems. Now let's all tell your own opinions!" Jiang Li said seriously.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. After a long while, a company commander who was involved in the pursuit stood up and said cautiously, "Although the soldiers had been trained before, they had never participated in any battles. So when they encountered a little resistance during the pursuit, they panicked. This is a big problem!"
Jiang Li just nodded but didn't say anything when he heard this. After that, everyone saw that Jiang Li had no intention of giving up, and they also started to think about this problem.
Then everyone spoke one by one and described the problems they had discovered.
After a long time, seeing that everyone had finished speaking, Jiang Li stood up and began to summarize.