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Volume 3: The Wind Rises from the South Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Battle of Babu Village 2

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    "Yes, Mr. Duncan! We Scots are as stubborn as stone. No one will move without your order!" the officer replied with a smile.  "Very good!" Duncan waved his riding crop with satisfaction. After his men left, he said to himself: "Okay, the curtain has opened and the actors have come on stage. Let's watch the show!" The battle is going smoothly.  It started around four o'clock in the afternoon on the second day after the army occupied Babu Village. At that time, the number of Burmese farmers who arrived on the battlefield was already eight thousand to ten thousand. It had been ten hours since these people set out at six o'clock in the morning.  They had not eaten before, and exhaustion and hunger made them even more anxious. They gathered in groups according to their village communities, and lit bonfires to prepare their own dinners. Many people came to Babu Village.  Draw water from the nearby pond. Compared with the surrounding areas, the water quality here is much cleaner and clearer.  At this time, a group of soldiers carefully moved along the side of the highland to the side and rear of the pond. After firing two rows of guns at the water-drawers, they launched a charge. The sudden attack killed and injured dozens of farmers.  The remaining people began to flee in panic, but after many days of rain, the paddy fields that had absorbed enough water had turned into a swamp. Those who escaped fell into the mud one after another. The Shunjun soldiers standing on the ridge could easily  They killed the escapees with rifles and bayonets in the paddy fields. The blood seeped into the muddy water and was quickly washed away by the rain, as if God could not bear to see what was about to happen.  The farmers on the edge of the paddy fields watched all this, and the calls for help and screams from their fellow villagers and friends echoed in their ears. They were quickly angered. Their huge numbers gave them courage, while the parapets and buildings obscured the Shun army.  , making them unable to see the true strength of the enemy, as if there were only less than a hundred shooting riflemen on the field ridge.  At first there were dozens of people, then hundreds, and finally thousands of people took up arms and charged towards the village with deafening shouts.  Facing this terrifying crowd, the Shunjun soldiers immediately turned around and ran away.  Run towards Babu Village on the high ground.  In Babu Village, the Shun Army had built a breast wall using materials obtained from piles of earth and demolished houses. The entire breast wall was not in a straight line, but a semi-arc shape that was concave inward. The riflemen were hidden behind the breast wall.  At the heights at both ends of the village, the Shun army built two protruding semicircular fortresses, in which were placed multiple ten-barreled 11mm Gatling guns - also known as Gatling guns, a hand-cranked gun barrel  It is a suppressed firearm that rotates on its axis to fire in bursts, and Batu set up the artillery observation post in the semicircular fort on the left.  When the crowd had reached half of the rice field and began to slow down, the observer in the observation post shouted loudly according to the marks that had been tested in advance: "The enemy has entered area 11, the distance is 1,500 meters, the altitude angle is minus ten  "Five degrees!" "The enemy has entered area 11, the distance is 1,500 meters, the altitude angle is minus 15 degrees!" the officer repeated loudly, and a soldier holding a red and white flag in each hand turned around and faced  Send a signal in semaphore to the artillery position more than 200 meters away.  The artillery officer who had been staring at the observation post with a telescope shouted out the data loudly. The gunners who had been waiting behind him immediately repeated the data loudly, while instructing the gunners to adjust the direction and height of the artillery, and  Load the shells, close the gun door, and begin to loudly report to the officer that the preparations are complete.  "Test firing of the armored cannon!" the officer shouted loudly.  "Test fire this gun!" the commander of the A-gun gun shouted loudly, and then the gunners of the A-gun ran away, plugged their ears, opened their mouths, and then the gunner pulled the match rope fiercely, and the 75mm mountain gun fired fiercely.  Jumping back, a ball of fire erupted from the muzzle, and then a stream of white smoke erupted from the muzzle, covering the sky above the artillery position.  Kabu struggled to pull his right leg out of the knee-deep mud. He felt panicked and quickly used his bamboo spear to lean on the ground to avoid falling. After running five or six hundred meters in the mud, his physical strength was already gone.  To the limit.  Kabu looked around and saw that most of his companions had also slowed down. Apparently their situations were similar to his own, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he wasn't slowing down alone, he didn't have to worry.  "Come on, don't stop, you lazy bones and muddy legs!" the Burmese soldiers yelled loudly, and the whips in their hands danced in the air, making a sharp sound.  In order to strengthen the control over these temporarily recruited farmers, Meng dispersed some of the soldiers and mixed them into various village communities. In fact, he served as the supervisor of the army. When he saw Kabu stopping, he rushed over to urge and intimidate him.  .  Kabu pulled the bamboo gun out of the mud and was about to move forward when suddenly a piercing scream pierced the sky. He instinctively shrank his neck, and there was a violent explosion behind him.  Kabu turned his head, and the sight in front of him made him open his mouth in surprise: dozens of meters behind him, a large amount of muddy water was flying into the sky, forming a muddy water column.  "Bah!" Kabu spat, and a lot of the muddy water that fell hit him, and even a little got into his mouth.  He is trying to escape from his lack of knowledgeLooking for the reason for the scene just now, an object suddenly fell in front of him, splashing mud and water all over his face.  Kabu wiped his face angrily, and was about to curse a few words, when suddenly the object emerged from the muddy water, and it turned out to be a severed leg.  "Buddha!" ??Kabu immediately fell into the muddy water. He threw away the bamboo gun in his hand and almost hit the Burmese soldier beside him. The Burmese soldier grabbed the bamboo gun in anger and stuck it fiercely.  Bu's back was twitched, and Kabu hurriedly got up after feeling the pain, and hurriedly took the bamboo gun that the other party had thrust at him. He heard the other party's roar in his ears: "Asshole, rush up and get close to the Chinese cannon."  It's a miss!" Kabu turned around dully, and before he could move his legs, a dense scream came from his ears. He instinctively fell into the muddy water, and the bitter muddy water immediately poured out.  At the same time, he felt a violent tremor coming from the ground. Kabu quickly curled up, his whole body trembling involuntarily.  No matter how much time passed, Kabu climbed up from the muddy water. While groping to see if his body was intact, he looked around and saw mutilated corpses scattered everywhere. But what surprised Kabu was,  But my heart was empty, and there was no fear like before.  He shook his head, trying to find his bamboo spear. A familiar body came into view. It was the Burmese soldier just now. He quickly leaned over and helped him up, only to see his hands.  His eyes were wide open, there was an inch-long hole in his throat, and blood was pouring out from the wound. Kabu tentatively stretched out his right hand and waved it twice in front of the opponent's eyes, but there was no reaction.  "Crash!" Kabu threw the body into the muddy water. At this time, he was full of confusion. There were only a few living people around. The fierce shelling by the Chinese just now had completely defeated these farmers. All the farmers could still move.  Everyone dropped their weapons and ran around frantically - no matter which direction it was, as long as they could get as far away from these terrifying demons as possible.  "Bang!" There was a gunshot from behind. Kabu turned around and saw that there were already some more Chinese soldiers on the parapet. They were lined up in a sparse row and were slowly walking towards him, away from him.  The nearest one was less than two hundred meters away, and their gleaming spears could already be seen.  Kabu looked around and saw that a fleeing farmer was shot in the back and fell in the paddy field.  He immediately stopped. He couldn't run fast in this paddy field. With an idea, Kabul suddenly stiffened and fell backward, lying on his back in the muddy water, like an unlucky guy who had been shot suddenly.  "Victory!" Batu proudly handed the telescope to the orderly on the side, and said with a smile to Chen Zaixing, who was carefully observing the battlefield with the telescope: "How about it, Brother Chen, what I got is not bad, the puppet king and these rabble are not vulnerable at all."  , the artillery team fired two or three volleys and dispersed them! "Well! It seems that I was worried about not having enough ammunition!" Chen Zaixing put down his telescope with satisfaction and looked at the soldiers cleaning the battlefield in the distance!  Having reached the edge of the paddy field, they began to return to their position. Their main task was to capture some prisoners to obtain necessary intelligence and to deal with the enemy's wounded soldiers.  "Brother Chen, you are worrying too much. If I hadn't known whether Yingyi was personally involved, I would have simply launched a bayonet attack to solve the problem later!" Batu pointed proudly at Shun, who was hidden behind the parapet.  Army soldier: "How can those chickens and dogs be compared with the attack of our warriors!" "Then I wish Brother Ba a great success and be able to take charge of the battalion as soon as possible!" "I don't dare, I have to rely on Brother Chen for this.  "You have so many kind words in front of Mr. Wu!" Batu and Chen Zaixing laughed for a moment. At this time, the soldiers of the Shun Army who were cleaning up the battlefield had come back and captured more than ten people alive. Batu and Chen Zaixing were both staying in Myanmar.  It didn't take a short time, and there was no need for an interpreter. I was called directly to ask. Unexpectedly, I asked seven or eight questions in a row, but all of them were farmers captured temporarily. Whether it was the number of the Burmese army or the weapons they equipped, whether they were British or not.  The ** team is all confused and doesn't know anything about it.  This situation made Ba Ba annoyed. Huo stood up suddenly, pulled out the pistol from his waist, and shot the Burmese man in front of him until his brains burst. He shouted: "I don't know this, I don't know that, so what?"  What's the use of keeping you barbarians? Just kill them all!" Chen Zaixing quickly reached out to stop Batu and whispered: "I guess these are ignorant people who were recruited temporarily. Why bother with them? We will be there in the future.  If we establish a foothold here, the future will be long. Killing more is useless!" Batu snorted coldly. He also knew that what Chen Zaixing said was true. At this time, a voice came from those farmers: "General, I, I know what you want to ask!  " Chen Zaixing and Batu both turned around and looked towards where the sound came from. They saw a group of Burmese farmers kneeling on the ground, stretching out a trembling arm, which seemed particularly abrupt.  Chen Zaixing took two steps forward.The one who raised his hand was a short and stocky man. His body was covered with mud and water, just like a mud monkey. His slightly raised eyes revealed the light of hope.  "Stand up, what's your name?" Chen Zaixing turned to the soldier beside him: "Bring him some hot water and dry food!" "People in the village call me Kabu, sir!" Kabu looked at him carefully.  The Chinese man speaking to him should be a high official from the way he gave orders to the soldiers. He realized that his future destiny would depend on the likes and dislikes of the Chinese man in front of him.  Kabu humbly bent down and wanted to kiss the soil in front of Chen Zaixing's feet with his mouth.  "Get up! Kabu!" Chen Zaixing knew that this was the etiquette of Burmese people showing obedience and respect to people with a higher status than themselves. He spoke to Kabu as slowly as possible: "Kabu, I am serving Emperor Dashun.  Ordered to escort the prince and princess of the legitimate king of Myanmar Xipao back to Mandalay to ascend the throne, why did you raise weapons to attack the envoys of Emperor Dashun, as well as the prince and princess of the legitimate king? " Kabu's face?  He immediately showed a confused look. From his stammering and incomprehensible answer, it was not difficult for Chen Zaixing to understand that this Burmese farmer did not understand what these high-sounding terms represented. Kabu just stammered and replied:  He only got an order from the village chief: the king ordered all men to take up arms to resist the invasion of the Chinese from the north. As for the orthodox king, princes and princesses, he didn't know anything about it.  "I can forgive you for the crime you committed out of ignorance, but now that you know it, you should tell me how many soldiers the puppet king has, how many cannons he has, and are there any foreign mercenaries in the army who look different from you?"  "This?" Kabu thought for a while and replied: "The king's soldiers have as many men and women in as many villages as my fingers and toes put together, and the cannon pulled by an elephant has five palms.  There are so many fingers, a cannon pulled by an ox has as many fingers as two palms. As for the foreigners you mentioned, there are not many of them. There are only as many as my fingers plus toes. They are all riding horses.  "And Elephant, be a commander in the army!" "How many people are there in your village?" "Many, many!" Kabu scratched his head, worrying about how to express his meaning in a language that the other party could understand.  , suddenly he pointed at the Shun Army soldiers sitting on the ground not far away and resting: "If there are people with one palm, they will be almost the same as the population of our village!" "Very good!" Chen Zaixing showed a satisfied smile on his face  : "Take him to the back, give him food and drink, then wash him clean, change his clothes and bring him to us!" At this point, Chen Zaixing turned around, smiled and said to Batu: "How?  ?" "There are 10,000 infantry, 25 heavy artillery, and 50 light artillery. The British are only training officers. Judging from the number of officers, the new army will not exceed 600, which is about the same as I expected!" Batu said with satisfaction!  He smacked his lips and said with a smile: "You are really good at taking out so many things from the mouth of a barbarian who can't even count!"
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