Chapter 105: War begins (III)

At noon, 3:5 kilometers southwest of Miaozishan, Huangbaoling. Shengtang

The rumbling cannon sounded from the direction of Miaozi Mountain for more than ten minutes. Two officers and soldiers in different military uniforms stood on the protruding rocks on the side of Huangbaoling Mountain, observing the continuous rolling smoke and ignited wildfires in the direction of Miaozi Mountain through telescopes. They turned around from time to time and loudly informed the situation to more than a hundred officers and soldiers sitting in the smooth valley.

More than a hundred officers and soldiers sitting on the ground eating were divided into two distinct camps. They were wearing yellow Sichuan military uniforms and large caps, and the reconnaissance company directly under the Yangsen regiment. The number of officers and soldiers was more than 120. The people who were eating in their hands were all Sichuan military-style iron bowls.

While eating, the officers and soldiers looked curiously at the fourteen-man team surrounding the opposite side. More than a hundred officers and soldiers were surprised and envious of the costumes, shoes and hats of the team, all of which were made of special daggers, military pistols, oval grenades, Mauser rifles equipped with ten rounds of magazines, and two light machine guns with weird styles but huge power.

On the other side, fourteen officers and soldiers wearing rare four-color camouflage uniforms and camouflage cloth helmets were also having a meal, but the guys they were eating were much shabby. The rice bowl was a bamboo tube that was cut off casually, and the chopsticks were two bamboo branches that were picked up by hand. Only flat military water bottles taken out from their waists were rare.

Although the two officers and soldiers were together for only two days, more than a hundred officers and soldiers of the Yangsen Reconnaissance Company were surprised to find that the reconnaissance team directly under the Border Army Command was not only equipped with strange equipment and quick action, but also had superhuman shooting skills. Whether it was marching or fighting, they were unique and mysterious everywhere. Even their food was unique and very simple. They ate rice provided by the brothers of the Reconnaissance Company, plus the salt they brought with them and the wild vegetables collected from the mountain, but each of them ate with relish, and no one spoke during the meal. It was so quiet that everyone felt uncomfortable, and it was also very incredible.

Yang Sen's reconnaissance company commander Fan Shusheng is Yang Sen's cousin. He just graduated from the first phase of the Baoding Military Academy in March. He and Liu Wenhui, Lin Yungen, Tang Ying, and He Guanglie, who returned to the Sichuan Border Defense Army to follow the old instructor Xiao Yimin, were classmates of the same period. He had also learned about the construction of the Sichuan Border Army from Liu Wenhui and others who had been in communication with Xiao Yimin for a long time. Therefore, he knew the border army more well, but he had never heard of when the border army had such an elite reconnaissance team and where he got such advanced weapons and equipment.

After two days of getting along, Fan Shusheng and Peng Zisong, the captain of the reconnaissance team, were already familiar with Peng Zisong, but in the morning ambush operation, the performance of Peng Zisong's two sniper teams and two machine gun teams was too shocking. Until now, Fan Shusheng still remembered the tragic situation when the enemy battalion commander and several company commanders were shot in the head. Until now, Fan Shusheng still felt that the two powerful machine guns that were extremely powerful and killed countless people were shocking, but they were not as amazing as Peng Zisong's amazing gunsman who knocked down the enemy battalion commander Tian Linggai two hundred meters away with one shot.

The sound of cannons in the direction of Miaozi Mountain finally stopped, and the raging mountain fire was spreading, and the thick smoke rose up to a height of hundreds of feet. It could be seen clearly ten kilometers away.

The soldier in a camouflage uniform standing on the rock on the mountainside jumped off the boulder, ran to Peng Ziyue who was checking the guns, and half-kneeled down and whispered to report.

Peng Ziyue nodded and pointed to the winding path and a long rugged ridge to the north. The report soldier nodded and stood up, and issued a series of brief orders to more than ten brothers.

More than ten brothers immediately began to prepare for combat. Two machine gun teams took out four seventy-round drums from their backpacks and began to check the interfaces and load them in detail.

Peng Ziyue walked to Fan Shusheng who was coming, humbly told him the attack plan, and then walked to the hidden ridge together, overlooking the road more than 300 meters below and discussing in a low voice.

Thirty minutes later, the vanguard of Cao Kun's army appeared in sight. The two ambush vanguards crawling on the mountain ridge more than 100 meters began to become nervous. Seeing that the three enemy teams of more than 20 reconnaissance vanguards had already rode their horses through the ambush range below, and the two commanders had not yet issued strike orders. More than 100 officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company could not help but get anxious, while their commander Fan Shusheng was lying beside Peng Zisong and whispered.

"Zi Song, how about I'll go to your reconnaissance unit to study for a while after the war?"

Peng Zisong still held the telescope steadily to observe the eastern corner of the road at the foot of the mountain: "I really don't know, I can't care about this."

"Then can I ask those guys Liu Wenhui to ask for help with the relationship?" Fan Shusheng asked.

Peng Zisong put away his telescope and thought about it and told Fan Shusheng truthfully: "Liu Wenhui and the four elder brothers are no longer in the command headquarters' staff office. Before they came out, they followed a battalion of the teaching regiment to go to the front line of Xikang's Arrow Furnace. I'm afraid they won't be able to come back within three or two years."

Fan Shusheng was shocked: "They were actually sent to quell the rebellion?"

"Yes, our military stipulates that military academy graduates must go to the grassroots troops for more than two years before they can be officially promoted to lieutenant after two years. Those who have no military merits can only start as a second lieutenant, and every four years." Peng Zisong explained in a low voice.

Fan Shusheng was shocked and touched the major collar seal on his collar, looked at Peng Zisong, and found that he had no military rank sign except for a yellow-bottomed black panther armband. He couldn't help but ask curiously: "Zi Song, what military rank do you have?"

"Second Lieutenant." Peng Zisong replied.

"You have just graduated from Sichuan Military Academy, right? You don't have the skills like you have just graduated. If you hadn't been in the army for four years?"

Fan Shusheng was still guessing at this time, and seemed to have no concern about the situation of the enemy, showing excellent psychological tolerance.

Peng Zisong, who was not very good at socializing, couldn't help laughing. He looked at the distant intersection where the enemy troops had not yet appeared, put down his telescope, and whispered: "My younger brother has been in military service for six years, and has won the first-class merit twice and fourth-class merit, and then he has been the second lieutenant."

Fan Shusheng was shocked: "Two first-class merits, four third-class merits? Oh my God! I heard that your border army's evaluation of merits is very harsh, but I didn't expect that how did you do it so strictly... By the way! Is it because you have good shooting skills to make so many military achievements?"

Peng Zisong smiled and said, "I really told you to be right. If I don't say it, I have violated the discipline."

Fan Shusheng saw Peng Zisong climbing to the front right and whispered in the machine gunner's ear. After thinking about it, he rolled in place, turned to the sniper observer on the left, and pulled the observer to his side:

"Brother, I want to ask, how many people your captain has killed? Who have they killed... Oh! Don't look at it, he can't hear it, just tell me quietly."

"Our captain only killed officers above the company commander. From the Sichuan-Yunnan War to the present, he has killed twenty-one people, including the enemy battalion commander in the morning."

After saying that, the observer immediately retracted and continued to observe the enemy situation at the foot of the mountain. He seemed very afraid that his actions would be discovered by the captain.

Fan Shusheng opened his mouth wide and looked blankly at Peng Zisong not far away. Peng Zisong suddenly raised his hand and made a gesture. Fan Shusheng was shocked and immediately climbed to the edge of the ridge to look down. He saw hundreds of enemy cavalry entering the east intersection first, and the long infantry team soon appeared in sight.

Fan Shusheng quickly took out his pistol and suddenly found that the pistol could not hit the enemy three hundred meters away from the mountain. In a hurry, he immediately crawled backward, snatched a soldier's rifle and bullet bag, and quickly climbed up to the original position to load and aim. After observing for more than three minutes, Fan Shusheng's sight caught an enemy officer riding a horse.
Chapter completed!