Chapter 1037: Silencing

Sun Zhen went to see the prisoners held in the coastal camp and had a general impression of the appearance and dress of the Maolishe natives. The two people who came up were dark-skinned, with tattoos on their faces and chalk totems on their necks.

There was a wild boar tooth pendant hanging from his waist, a deerskin apron around his waist, straw sandals on his feet, his long hair tied into a ponytail behind his head, and his appearance was roughly the same as the captives Sun Zhen had seen.

However, Sun Zhen and others were all lurking in the bushes. The two natives did not notice their presence at the first time. Of course, they probably did not expect that their opponents would come to the door of their house. The two of them took care of themselves.

He was talking to himself without noticing that the danger was so close to him.

Sun Zhen made a gesture to the subordinates next to him, and then slowly took out the dagger from his waist. Now that the two people had collided, Sun Zhen was not going to let it go, lest his whereabouts would be leaked, but if he opened fire in this place

The gun will undoubtedly alert the enemy. Sun Zhen is not afraid of the natives in the village coming out, but he just doesn't want to affect his unfinished mission, so he plans to use quieter means to deal with the target.

These natives who have been active in the wild all year round undoubtedly have beast-like intuition. Although Sun Zhen and others did not make the slightest sound, the two people still seemed to sense something was wrong five or six meters away from the bush where they were hiding.

, and slowed down in unison. The two looked around suspiciously, trying to find the source of their uneasiness. One of them inhaled repeatedly through his nose, as if he smelled a strange smell in the air.

Sun Zhen has never been a person who takes chances in doing things. When he saw these two people slowing down, he knew that it would be difficult for his team to hide any longer, so he immediately launched an offensive decisively. He rushed out of the bushes first,

Taking three or two steps with his long legs, he had already stepped in front of the two natives. Although the two people were in an unexpected situation, they did not stay there. The first one picked up the bamboo spear in his hand and pierced Sun Zhen's chest and abdomen.

between.

Sun Zhen turned slightly to let the tip of the spear pass, but the dagger in his hand had already been cut directly along the shaft of the spear. If the opponent held on to the spear and did not let go, his fingers would be cut off at this moment. This native

He probably didn't expect that such a big man like Sun Zhen could react so quickly. He lost the opportunity to change his moves after a moment's hesitation, so he could only give up and retreat to get rid of the dagger in Sun Zhen's hand.

Another native was about to pounce, but Sun Zhen kicked him in the chest and flew backwards. Before he could land, several soldiers pounced past Sun Zhen.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the native turned around and wanted to flee into the village, but Sun Zhen would not let him go. He chased after him with two big steps, stretched out his left hand, grabbed the back of the man's neck and pushed him backwards.

Drag. The man's feet moved forward, but his head and neck could not escape from Sun Zhen's big hand, and he was immediately dragged into the air.

Sun Zhen caught up half a step further, and continued to pull back with his left hand, while the dagger in his right hand had already come down from top to bottom, and had been inserted into the man's chest before his body hit the ground. There was a thud, and it seemed that the man was nailed to the ground.

It was normal on the ground. Sun Zhen was afraid that he would scream, so he covered his mouth with his left hand. The man grabbed the dagger on his chest with both hands and seemed to want to pull it out. However, Sun Zhen pressed half of his body on it, making him

There was no way to exert force at all, and he soon ran out of energy to struggle.

Sun Zhen did not relax, letting blood seep out from the seams of his hands. He turned to look at the fighting on the other side, only to see that four or five people had turned another native over and pinned him to the ground, and someone had stuffed something in his mouth.

, leaving him speechless.

"Evacuate!" Sun Zhen knew that someone might pass by this place at any time. If there were a few more passers-by, he might not be able to knock them down in time before they called the police. The most important thing at the moment was to quickly deal with the two people at hand.

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Although the team led by Sun Zhen were relatively new "recruits" in the special operations battalion, this was not the first time they had carried out a similar reconnaissance mission, and they were familiar with how to deal with such situations.

Together with Sun Zhen, he dragged the native he stabbed to death into the bushes. Someone else brought branches and swept away the messy footprints and blood stains on the ground. Fortunately, the ground was full of mud. Just sweep it a few times and scatter some branches and leaves.

There are no traces of the struggle just now. It won't take long for the rain from the sky to return this place to its natural appearance.

However, the traces visible on the ground are well covered, but the smell of blood in the air cannot be dissipated immediately, especially since these natives are good at hunting in the mountains and forests, and their sense of smell is particularly sensitive. The only way is to drag the people further away and let them go.

The source of the bloody smell should be as far away from the roads surrounding the village as possible.

Sun Zhen and the other two people dragged the native's body far away, found a pit and threw it down. They picked up a handful of grass and roughly wiped their dagger, then inserted it back into the cowhide scabbard on the side of their legs. At this time,

Several other people carried another native over and asked Sun Zhen for instructions on how to deal with it.

No one in Sun Zhen's team could understand the native language, and it was quite troublesome to escort the prisoner back to the camp. Sun Zhen saw that the native was dressed just like the dead one, so he shouldn't be.

He might be an important figure in the tribe. After a slight hesitation, he slit his throat and signaled to get rid of him. This native has no prominent status and is a burden to carry around, and it is impossible to let him go.

If he leaves to report the news, it is naturally safest to execute him on the spot.

At that moment, someone pulled out a dagger and leaned down to kill the corpse. The body was also pushed into the pit. Then everyone cut some branches and leaves nearby and covered it. If you didn't have the intention to turn it over, it would be difficult to think of the pit when passing by.

There are two bodies hidden.

From the sudden encounter with the enemy to the clearing of the battlefield, it only took three or four minutes. Fortunately, during this period, no natives appeared again at the wrong time, allowing Sun Zhen and others to deal with the corpses more calmly and then leave. However, their reconnaissance

The mission did not end here. Sun Zhen decided to continue marching according to the original plan and survey and record the environment on both sides of the southwest side of Maolishe.

Detouring from the west side of Maolishe to the south, the whole journey is basically marching on the hillside. It is undoubtedly a more difficult route, but the view is relatively good, and you can definitely observe the situation within the tribe more comprehensively than the plains on the east line.

.However, after learning from the previous lessons, Sun Zhen consciously moved the team farther away from the tribe to avoid accidentally encountering natives operating outside the village.

Sun Zhen will not be merciful to these natives, because he also knows very well that if these natives have the opportunity, they will also kill himself and other partners without hesitation, just like what he just did. The reason why he is worried

When meeting other natives, I just don’t want such unexpected factors to affect my mission.

Although the route taken by Sun Zhen's team is more difficult to travel, it is actually safer than the route on the east side. The scope and frequency of native people's activities in the valley plains are significantly greater than in the mountainous areas on the west side, so in addition

The groups of people are actually more likely to encounter native people who are out for activities. But it is a little regrettable that the rainfall makes their observation field less clear. Looking from the mountain forest to the tribes down the slope, the visibility is estimated to be less than 300 meters.

If you want to see clearly the scale of the tribe and the distribution of buildings, you really have to walk slowly around the periphery and look at it from different angles.

Judging from the size of the village that can be observed so far, Sun Zhen speculates that the population of Maolishe should be less than a thousand people. Usually, only after the population reaches a certain number, there will be full-time soldiers or even armies in the social system, and Maolishe is far away

This standard is still far from it. This also makes Sun Zhen's assessment of the danger level of Maoli Society drop by another level. After all, for a tribe with a thousand people, no matter how brave the young and strong men are and are not afraid of death, they are still just amateurs in combat.

level, if you continue to fight against Haihan, you will only suffer massacres. Moreover, the tribe only has so many people, and the number of casualties is large enough. Even if Haihan does not take action to eradicate it, the population ratio will be seriously imbalanced, and the entire internal social system will follow.

of collapse.

For an indigenous tribe like this with relatively low overall combat effectiveness, as long as its location and approximate size are confirmed, the outcome is basically locked. Sun Zhen even felt that the transfer of an army battalion this time was really a bit of a fuss.

Two companies were enough to wipe out this tribe. Of course, Sun Zhen could more or less estimate that the commander mobilized troops to Taiwan Island not only to wipe out an indigenous tribe that had little power to fight back, but also for the purpose of destroying the tribe.

This unit will have a chance to train before heading north.

Although it is advertised that the purpose of this army battalion going north is to replace the special operations battalion currently stationed in Zhejiang, in fact the two units will go north to the Yellow Sea to the Denglai area. And the only training opportunity for this unit before going north is probably in

On the island of Taiwan. Otherwise, to attack a few indigenous tribes, there would be no need for Navy Commander Wang Tom to specially take a boat to Miaoli to supervise the formation.

Although Sun Zhen thinks that this arrangement is a bit overkill, the task is a task, and even if it does not seem that challenging, Sun Zhen will not be careless about it.

In the afternoon of that day, Sun Zhen led his team to the south side of Maolishe. According to the map marks, they only need to continue traveling eastward for about five miles and they will see Houlong River. By then, they will go along the bank of Houlong River.

Go north and you'll be able to meet up with the troops coming to meet you.

But things did not go as planned. Just when Sun Zhen's team was about to leave the outer area of ​​Maolishe, they encountered a group of natives in the forest. Both sides discovered each other almost simultaneously at a distance of about twenty meters.

the existence of the other party.

There are about twenty or so natives in this group, all carrying bundles of freshly cut bamboo. It seems that they are planning to transport it back to the tribe. These bamboos may be used to build new shacks.

Of course, it may also be used to make weapons for hunting and killing. But these speculations are not important, because when the natives saw them, they had already thrown the bamboo to the ground and grabbed the weapons.

Maybe the natives don't know who these uninvited guests in cloaks and raincoats are, or maybe they don't care at all, because as long as strangers appear in this area, they will become intruders in their eyes. And the natives deal with intruders

There is only one attitude, and that is to fight to the end.

The battle broke out almost immediately after the two sides met. More than 20 people armed with spears and machetes swarmed forward. There was no way to attack. They probably just wanted to defeat the opponent from the front with their bravery.

Sun Zhen and his companions did not stand still. They did not care about exposing their whereabouts at this time. It was impossible to kill so many natives quietly, let alone save their lives first. The rifles in their hands were all loaded.

With the gun loaded, Sun Zhen gave an order, and one column immediately transformed into three rows. The front row raised their guns without even aiming. Sun Zhen shouted "release". After a gunshot, several people in the front row immediately

Move to the rear to give way to the shooting field of view. The second row also follows suit and retreat immediately after shooting.

Although this rotational shooting method is not what the special operations battalion is good at, it is still relatively smooth to use in actual combat. In order to maintain the distance and maintain the firepower advantage, each row of soldiers has to retreat several meters after firing.

, in this way, during the continuous retreat, the combat distance between the two sides will not be reduced to zero in a very short period of time, which is crucial for the Haihan side to exert the advantage of their weapons. If the two sides enter the stage of hand-to-hand combat,

Then the rifles in the hands of the soldiers are not necessarily much better than the spears and machetes in the hands of the natives. Although a portable dagger can be mounted on the muzzle as a bayonet, the corresponding weight is much heavier than the opponent's weapon.

The physical consumption of physical combat is greater.

This kind of hasty volley of several people in a row is almost too late to take aim, but fortunately the target is very close, and the shooting accuracy of the muskets at this distance is not easy to worry about. Basically, it means hitting where, swarming.

The natives who rushed up were caught off guard and ate several rounds of bullets one after another. Six or seven people were shot and fell to the ground. Although the rifles used by the special operations battalion were single-shot, after using fixed-load ammunition, the loaded bullets

The speed is also enough to maintain the frequency of rotational shooting without interrupting it for too long, allowing the opponent to rush in front of you and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

However, Sun Zhen did not take advantage of the battle because his side had the upper hand. Instead, he continued to fight and retreat, taking turns to fire while retreating to the west mountain. He knew very well that the sound of the gunshot would soon attract the tribesmen.

Although the native warriors here have sharp weapons in their hands, if dozens or hundreds of opponents swarm them, these guns alone will definitely not be enough. So Sun Zhen decided to get rid of the pursuit of the natives as soon as possible and retreat to the mountains.

Plan subsequent retreat routes.

During the retreat, Sun Zhen took out a bamboo flare from his backpack, checked the color, and then decisively fired it into the sky. The flare flew into the air with a slight whistling sound, and banged at a height of about thirty meters.

The ground exploded with a loud bang, bursting into a ball of green sparks. If the other teams were within two or three miles, they should be able to see this signal flare, and what it means is that the launcher has encountered the enemy.

We will retreat as originally planned.
Chapter completed!