Chapter 2943
Zheng Agui, who has only been in the army for just over a year, has completed live-fire shooting training only about ten times. Each training session involves one magazine of bullets. So far, he has only fired less than a hundred rounds of live ammunition. As for the hit rate, it is only the average level in the military, and it is definitely not on par with sharpshooters. And the proficiency is even less likely to be like that of a fast shooter, who can shoot three boxes of bullets in one minute.
Zheng Agui, who was still in shock, raised his gun and took aim for a while before confirming that the opponent had lost the ability to resist, and asked his men to step forward to check the status of casualties.
Qin Bo reminded: "Squad leader, your face is bleeding!"
Zheng Agui touched his face and immediately felt a stinging pain. When he saw that there were indeed bright red blood stains on his fingers, he suddenly became a little irritated and cursed hatefully.
The soldiers who came forward to inspect the results of the battle first fixed their bayonets, pointed at the two men on the ground and walked slowly over. If there was any movement, they would shoot first and then hit them again. The soldiers kicked away the muskets at their sides and prodded their bodies with bayonets to check for injuries.
Zheng Agui could not take care of the injuries on his face for the time being, so he asked the soldiers to immediately control the roof platform, monitor the streets and alleys in the surrounding area, confirm whether there were any rebels nearby, and cover the follow-up troops entering the town.
The conditions of the two people who were knocked down were quickly confirmed. One was shot three times in the chest and was dead, while the other was shot in the abdomen and was still conscious for the time being.
It is worth mentioning that although the two men also shot at the sudden appearance of Zheng Agui at the first time, one of them pulled the trigger of his musket and failed to fire, while the other shot missed Zheng Agui's head. However, it caused him skin trauma. If one of the guns hadn't misfired, Zheng Agui might not have been able to escape the fate of being shot.
Although the two shots fired by Zheng Agui were mostly blind, because the distance between them was too close, they were lucky enough to hit the opponent. Afterwards, everyone rushed up to replenish their shots, and a few of them hit the target.
If the previous clearing operations in the fishing village were just a warm-up, then the sudden firefight just now was a real battle. This group of people, including Zheng Agui, experienced such a situation for the first time. It was not until the battle came to an end that they began to feel a little scared.
Seeing that the situation was under control, Zheng Agui sat down on the ground, put the rifle across his thigh, then shakily took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, smoked one and put it in his mouth, but because his hands were shaking, It was amazing, I struck several matches and didn’t even light a cigarette.
Qin Bo next to him couldn't stand it, so he came over to take the match from his hand and lit his cigarette for him.
Zheng Agui took a puff of cigarette, forced a smile towards Qin Bo and said: "It was so dangerous. If the shot just missed by two inches, I would probably have a hole in my head!"
Qin Bo comforted him: "Squad leader is blessed with good luck and everything will be fine. Besides, isn't this just a reward for your military exploits?"
Although I was a little scared, I successfully killed two resistance fighters and seized the weapons. These are real achievements, and they will also be taken into consideration when assessing military merit after the war. After the brief feeling of fear passed, it was replaced by double excitement.
Next to this rooftop platform is the market, one of the few open spaces in the town. You can see that the market is full of vegetables, fruits and seafood that have not been taken away. It seems that the products here are quite rich. It is no wonder that the Spaniards have been guarding this place and refused to give up. There were no people on the nearby streets. Presumably the local residents had found places to hide when they heard the gunfire. However, there were still gunshots coming intermittently from the south. It seemed that the two companies that had landed earlier had attracted the attention of the defenders, so they did not encounter any organized resistance after landing on the north side.
At this time, the follow-up troops had also entered the town through the route they had opened up. After receiving the news, the company commander personally came to check on Zheng Agui and others in the exchange of fire and killed the enemy, and greatly praised their heroic performance.
The injuries on Zheng Agui's face were confirmed by military doctors to be just superficial scratches and did not damage his skull. He could continue to fight after simple treatment.
At this time, the latest battle situation report came from the battalion headquarters, and the company commander immediately held a brief battle meeting to explain the current battle situation to his officers.
From their current location, they can see a tall building a hundred feet away to the south, which is the fortress in the center of the town. The next combat mission is to gradually clean up the area in the town, compress the space of the resistance elements into the fortress, and annihilate them.
The two companies from the south have already entered the town, but have encountered relatively stubborn resistance and are currently trying to overcome several barricades erected by the locals. The offensive they launched from the north encountered less resistance. The battalion headquarters judged that the resistance in the town was mainly concentrated in the south, so they were asked to speed up their advance. If necessary, they could use artillery and blasting to clear obstacles.
Although there was some confusion when entering the town from the fishing village just now due to the attack, after all, the Banji Battalion is also a regular army that has undergone systematic military training. Its basic military quality is definitely much better than that of civilian armed forces. It will soon resume They gathered to adjust their status and began to clean up the town.
When the Haihan Army attacked several times in the past, the Spaniards here chose to abandon the town after resisting to no avail and fled to the mountains and forests of the island to avoid fighting. The Haihan Army, which did not aim to occupy this place, often only destroyed some of the buildings and fortifications in the town and then voluntarily evacuated, and would not go to the island to clear out the Spaniards.
But this time the situation was different from the past. Haihan's sudden offensive did not allow most areas in Masbate Town to react in time. It was even more unexpected that Haihan's offensive was to attack first from the south and then from the north. There was a dilemma.
The Spaniards soon discovered that Haihan troops had landed in the south of the town, and there were Haihan warships on the sea. The few armed merchant ships had capsized in the port under artillery fire. Their only chance of escape seemed to be to break through the Haihan Army's blockade from the south. Therefore, the armed personnel in the town gathered to the south, trying to open a hole in the blockade set by the Haihan Army.
This greatly reduced the pressure on the company where Zheng Agui and others belonged, and they did not encounter any decent resistance in cleaning up the houses in the town. It's just that it's quite time-consuming and laborious to collect the local residents who haven't had time to escape.
Most of the adult men in the town went to fight in the south. Facing the remaining old, weak, women and children, the soldiers could not deal with them harshly. They could only try to be as ferocious as possible, urging these people to gather in the streets, and then escort them away. Go to an open area on the beach to wait for processing.
Only two or three private houses away from the fortress in the center of the town, the North Route troops finally encountered the first wave of relatively tough resistance after landing on the island.
(End of chapter)