Chapter 519 More Tartars come to die

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Central Helan Mountains, Huangxiakou Fortress.

Before the rise of the White Army, the Huangxiakou Fortress was very broken. The Ming army in Ningxia Zhen in the past knew that it was a military fortress and a crucial pass, but never paid enough attention. They did not set up a fortress here to directly block the enemy's entry, but simply set up a beacon to call the alarm, and it would be fine.

At the beginning, Mo Rigen tried to raid Ningxia Town, but encountered Xu Xingxia's resolute blockade at the Kalongshan Fortress. In order to seize the time, he immediately ordered some troops to enter Ningxia Town through Huangxiakou. Fortunately, Xu Xingxia and Minghao had issued an alarm in advance, otherwise Ningxia Town would have to bear heavy losses. Even so, Zhenshuo Fort was still slaughtered.

But now, more than a year has passed, the Huangxiakou Fortress has completely changed. While building Zhenyuan Pass, Xu Xingxia also planned to build real military fortresses in Dahankou, Suweikou, Huangxiakou, Chimukou and other places. After several months of hard work, all of these fortresses have been completed. The scattered soldiers of the Diaoqi Army have also stationed in various fortresses.

The fortifications at Huangxiakou cut off the entire canyon just halfway. No matter who wants to pass by Huangxiakou, you must pass through the gate of the fortress. The walls of the fortress are five meters high. Such a towering city wall is definitely insurmountable to the enemy. Both sides of the fortress are cliffs that cannot be climbed.

"These stupid Tartars."

Lin Youde stood on the fortress at the mouth of Huangxia, chewing grass roots in his mouth.

In the era without tobacco, many people like to chew grass roots. This is even more true when thinking. Lin Youde, the leader of a squadron of the Diaoqi Army, is no exception. Unfortunately, most of the grass roots in November have withered and have no taste. Even so, Lin Youde still chewed with relish and couldn't bear to spit it out. Nothing else, to the words of later generations, what he chewed was not grass roots, but loneliness.

From the day when the Huangxiakou Fortress was completed, Lin Youde led his squadron to station in this place where birds do not shit. The geographical environment of Huangxiakou Fortress is somewhat similar to that of Kalongshan Fortress, both are deserted and deserted. Except for a very small number of business trips, people who deliver supplies, or superiors' messengers, they can't see people at all. Such days are naturally a bit lonely.

Lin Youde is a typical low-level military family. He looks stupid and doesn't seem to be very smart. At first glance, he will definitely think that he is an honest farmer. In fact, everyone who knows him knows that this guy is a genius and a genius. His friends even joked that he does not bite people, and that the biting dog never barks to describe him. Otherwise, he would not have served as the squadron leader in the Diaoqi Army.

It should be known that the Diaoqi Army has high requirements for the quality of the soldiers. The Diaoqi Army's combat mode is different from that of the general army. They are scattered soldiers and have high basic qualities for personnel. As scattered soldiers, they must have their own opinions, have their own ideas, be calm in encountering things, and be decisive in doing things. In a word, you must be flexible in mind and be quick, accurate and ruthless. People who are confused, procrastinated, and procrastinated, and indecisive will definitely not be able to be competent for the scattered soldiers.

At present, all the white-clothed soldiers stationed in the Huangxiakou Fortress are affiliated with the Diaoqi Army. They are all scattered soldiers. From this perspective, they can be said to be the elite among the elite. It is just because the place they are stationed is a bit remote and unknown. Speaking of their military achievements, they are not inferior to those of the Diaoqi Army companions who fought on the grassland.

When other Diaoqi troops fought on the grassland, the battle at Huangxiakou had never stopped. Since Morigen went south to Gansu Town, this place has become the focus of the Tartars' harassment. Almost every day, Tartar archers tried to use various methods to approach the Huangxiakou Fortress. Their only purpose was to control this fortress. The purpose of the Diaoqi troops was to eliminate all the Tartars with this idea.

From a strategic perspective, the Tatars had to cross Helan Mountain, enter Ningxia Town, and browse the rear route of Zhenyuan Pass, forcing the White-clothed Army to draw more troops to guard the various key points of Helan Mountain. The best choice is nothing more than three passes such as Dahankou, Suweikou, and Huangxiakou. However, Dahankou and Suweikou have very dangerous terrain, and fortresses have been built. It is quite difficult for the Tatars to enter from here. Relatively speaking, the fortress at Huangxiakou seems to be easier to attack. The terrain here is relatively beneficial to the Tatars' attack.

In the past two months, Lin Youde and his subordinates have killed at least hundreds of Tartars. Now, many of the Tartars' corpses are still placed outside the fortress. These Tartars have been killed in the battles in the past few days, with an estimated seventy or eighty people. The specific number will be determined until the Tartars come up to collect the corpses. Tartars usually take five or six days to clean up the corpses. Fortunately, it is winter now, the weather is cold, and the corpses have not completely rotted, otherwise, they will have been stinking.

"Captain, the Tartars requested to come and collect the body." A soldier reported to Lin Youde.

"Agree with them to come and collect the corpses. Pay attention to surveillance. If there is an accident, shoot immediately." Lin Youde said casually. The Tartars have been doing such a thing several times. Lin Youde estimated that the Tartars would not dare to make trouble. Otherwise, their bodies would not need to be collected in the future and would rot away directly. Without the corpse, they would not be able to reincarnate.

Sure enough, dozens of Tartars who were not carrying weapons appeared in the sight of the scattered soldiers of the Eagle Cavalry Army, wearing a white pennant. They did come to collect the bodies of their companions. According to the belief of Changshengtian, if the Tatars died, the bodies should be well preserved, so that the chance of reincarnation would be greater. If the corpse is separated, they may sink into the sea of ​​suffering. If the corpse is incomplete, there is basically no chance of reincarnation.

On the fortress wall at Huangxiakou, more than a dozen scattered soldiers of the Eagle Cavalry were closely monitoring the movements outside. Under their supervision, the Tartars did not dare to play any tricks. They silently took away all their companions' bodies. The Tartars' bodies killed by the Sun and Moon guns were basically intact, and to a certain extent, it also reduced the difficulty for them to collect the bodies.

Near the fortress tower, a soldier squatted behind the battlements, concentrating on describing the word "zheng". In front of him, every Tartar dragged away a corpse, he added a stroke to the battlements. In the literacy activities promoted by the White Army, each soldier first learned his own name and then the basic Arabic numerals. Then, the fastest thing everyone accepted was probably the word "zheng". Because this is often used to count the number of enemies annihilated. The word "zheng" represents five enemies.

The battlements around this warrior were filled with regular characters, with more than one hundred. This shows that the number of Tartars killed was more than five hundred. For the small Huangxiakou Fortress, such annihilation of the enemy was already quite amazing. It should be noted that Huangxiakou Fortress is a very deviant battlefield.

Seeing that the Tartars had no intention of making trouble, Lin Youde ordered the team leader on duty to pay attention to the movements of the Tartars, and then he got off the city and went straight back to his doghouse. As the squadron leader of the Diaoqi Army, his doghouse was quite clean and the place was also good. The garrison barracks in the Huangxiakou Fortress were all red brick houses. The walls were made of red bricks and neat tiles on them. According to Xu Xingxia's requirements, there were exactly twelve people in a barracks.

Lin Youde's doghouse is in the middle of the barracks, on both sides of the team leader and others. In front of his doghouse, there is a small yard. The surface of the small yard is paved with cement and is very flat. After returning to his doghouse, he raised a coal stove, put a barbed wire on it, then set a fire, and prepared to bake something for himself.

Huangxiakou Fortress is a ghost place with few people, deserted people, and there is no shortage of food, quilts, etc., and the supplies sent there are still very rich. Anyway, Xu Xingxia is not short of money, so he will naturally not treat his subordinates badly. It seems that when a squadron leader like Lin Youde is a common thing to take chicken wings, chicken tui and other exams when he has nothing to do. If there is no trouble from the Tartars, all the soldiers can bake some good things for themselves.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a dull gunfire sounded.

The gunshots came from the direction of the city tower, and I don’t know who shot.

Lin Youde was coming out of the doghouse with half a pot of chicken wings. He couldn't help but frown when he heard the gunshots. Could it be that the Tartars tried to lend their companions the opportunity to collect corpses and sneak attack the Huangxiakou Fortress? Then, he shook his head and gave up this idea. If the Tartars could sneak attack the Huangxiakou Fortress so easily, he wouldn't call Lin Youde anymore.

"Well, squadron leader, what good things are there today?" Hearing the gunshots, several squadron leaders who were resting came out to see what happened. Lin Youde had five squadron leaders, and only one person needed to fight on duty, while the other four were resting. As a result, they saw the basin in Lin Youde's hand and came over to fight the local tyrants.

However, when they saw that it was chicken wings, they were no longer interested. Nothing else, these days, they often grilled chicken wings and were tired of eating them. For ghost places like Huangxiakou Fortress, the most difficult thing to preserve is actually not meat, but vegetables. The food sent behind always has too much meat and too little vegetables. In the past, people could dig some wild vegetables everywhere instead of vegetables, but now winter is coming, everything witheres and there are no wild vegetables.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Scattered gunfire sounded again.

The four team leaders also frowned.

It turns out that those Tartars really don’t abide by the rules and try to make trouble when they are collecting corpses?

However, they just frowned and did not take any action. On the city wall, there was a small team of scattered soldiers of the Eagle Cavalry Army, which would not give the Tartars any chance. It was impossible for the Tartars to rush up. The more people the Tartars mobilized, the more people they died. The past battles have profoundly proved this.

"Report!"

A soldier came down from the city and reported to Lin Youde the reason for the gunshot.

It turned out that the Tartars had just taken away the bodies of their beheaded companions and soon reappeared again. This time, they carried weapons. In other words, they were here to attack. In addition, the Tartars who attacked were all archers, and they were very flexible in their actions and should have received support from the new forces. If the guess is correct, the Tartars' reinforcements should have arrived at the Huangxiakou Fortress and tried to launch a more fierce attack on the place.

In the past, after the Tartars had cleaned up the bodies of their companions, they would wait for a day or two before continuing to attack. Today, they launched the attack, which was indeed a bit abnormal. They felt that the Tartars seemed to be in a hurry. However, even though they were abnormal, Lin Youde did not take it seriously. The terrain at the mouth of Huangxia was unable to unfold weapons and could not have too many troops. Even if more Tartars came, there was nothing scary. What should the White Army do?

Sure enough, the gunshots on the top of the city gradually became denser. Occasionally, gunshots were connected together, as if they were fired immediately. Such situations were indeed rare. Skies were very cautious when shooting. They generally did not fire when they were not sure. Therefore, the skirts of the Eagle Cavalry Army definitely did not fire in a row. In other words, under normal circumstances, there was almost no possibility of gunshots being connected together.

Now, the gunshots are connected. The only possibility is that there are too many Tartars coming up, which leads to too many scattered soldiers from the Eagle Cavalry who fired at the same time. From this, it is inferred that today's battle is probably a bit challenging. This annoyed Lin Youde. He was paralyzed and wanted to roast a few chicken wings to satisfy his cravings, but unexpectedly, at this critical moment, he was disturbed by the Tartars again. Lin Youde's hatred for the Tartars could not help but a little aggravated a little.

Seeing that the four team leaders were curiously going up the city, Lin Youde had no choice but to take a large basin of chicken wings back to his doghouse, take out all the coal balls in the coal stove, and carefully put them out. Then he took the coal stove and barbed wire mesh back to his doghouse. After all, he slowly came up to the fortress tower, raised a thousand-mile mirror to observe the situation.

Sure enough, in the canyon west of Huangxiakou Fortress, a large number of Tartar archers appeared. Their outfits seemed to be the previous Tartars, with some subtle differences. Judging from the trajectory of their activities, they should not seem very familiar with the terrain of Huangxiakou. In other words, they should be the new troops. It seems that the Tartars in front were almost dead, and more Tartars were sent from behind to die.
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