Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 46: A Deadly Battle
Lin Fei was startled and asked hurriedly: "How many enemies are there? How long will it take for them to reach us?"
The sentry replied, "According to my estimate, there are about five thousand of them. They will arrive in about half an hour."
Lin Fei asked, "Are they all Filipinos?"
The sentry nodded, and Lin Fei thought for a moment and asked, "What weapons do they have?"
The sentry said: "Most of them were holding machetes and sticks, and many were holding long iron pipes. I don't know what they were used for."
Lin Fei said: "That iron pipe must be used to launch blowpipes. Although the blowpipes of the Filipinos are poisoned, the range of the blowpipes is very short. We have nothing to be afraid of."
Li Mingbai said: "City Lord, this is very strange. Why did the Filipinos come to our place?"
Lin Fei pointed at the head of the Xistal tribe and said, " It must be his men who went to tip off the enemy."
Chief Xistal said innocently, "I was under your watch from the beginning to the end. I didn't have any time to send out my men. Don't blame me if one of my men went to report the news!"
Lin Fei said coldly: "Be quiet! I didn't blame you."
After Lin Fei finished speaking, he called Li Mingbai over and said, "Old Li, you lead a company of brothers to stay in the town and escort the Chinese craftsmen to evacuate. I will lead people to stop those Filipinos."
Li Mingbai and Lin Fei took separate actions. Lin Fei led the main force southward, thinking, "Time is urgent now. We don't have time to build fortifications. We can only defend in the wilderness. This is called 'field defense' in tactics. Because of the short preparation time, this kind of defensive operation is difficult to fight. Fortunately, the enemy is the Filipinos who don't have guns and cannons. As for blowpipes, they can't hurt anyone at all."
Field defense is a test of the commander's level. In this combat style, the commander needs to find the most advantageous defensive elements in the terrain and then make use of them. Lin Fei carefully observed the terrain and felt a chill in his heart, because the terrain of this generation is all plains, there are no commanding heights to use, and there are a lot of trees and bushes on the plains, which are convenient for infiltration and concealment. If the Filipinos use these trees to infiltrate and get close to us to launch an attack with sudden poison blowpipes, it will inevitably cause us great casualties.
At this time, Niu Dalong came over and said to Lin Fei: "City Lord, this seems to be the military death zone you told us about. What should we do?"
Lin Fei frowned and said, "Go and order each company to prepare for battle first."
Niu Dalong then went to convey the order. Lin Fei took off his rifle from his back and thought to himself: "Since this place is a dead end and not conducive to defensive operations, I will simply use our strong firepower to attack instead of defend and fight a counter-attack with these Filipinos."
Lin Fei waved his hand to call Niu Dalong over and said, "Dalong, you lead the first battalion and go around the flank of the Filipinos from the woods on the east side. When you hear gunshots from my side, you will attack. Remember, when you attack, take advantage of our firepower and shoot when you are far away from the enemy. When the enemy catches up, you retreat and continue to shoot while retreating. Do you understand?"
Niu Dalong nodded and turned away. Lin Fei called Niu Dahu over and said, "Dahu, you lead the second battalion to attack the Filipinos from the front. When attacking, instruct each company to form a wedge formation that is convenient for exerting firepower. Do you understand?"
Niu Dahu also nodded in agreement. Lin Fei said, "Okay, get ready immediately and wait for my order to attack."
Niu Dahu also turned and left. Lin Fei waved his hand and called the sniper team over. He said to everyone, "Do you remember how we captured the leader of the Karakatu tribe?"
Everyone answered in unison: "Remember! It's a decapitation battle!"
Lin Fei said loudly: "That's right, it's a decapitation operation. We are going to conduct another decapitation operation today. Everyone follow me, do you understand?"
Everyone shouted in unison: "Understood!"
Lin Fei prepared everything, and soon a large group of Filipinos appeared on the opposite road. The people in the front were holding long blowpipes, and the people behind were holding machetes and sticks. They were no different from the Macapaslo and Karacatu tribes that Lin Fei had defeated before.
Lin Fei watched the Filipinos getting closer and closer, waved his hand, and shouted loudly: "Attack!"
As soon as Lin Fei finished speaking, the soldiers of the three companies formed a wedge and walked towards the Filipinos. The Filipinos were not to be outdone. They raised their blowpipes and shot the blow needles at Lin Fei's soldiers. However, the range of those blow needles was too short and they did not hurt Lin Fei's soldiers at all.
Lin Fei saw that the distance was close to 200 meters, waved his hand, and shouted: "Shoot!"
All the soldiers opened fire together, and bullets rained down on the Filipinos. The Filipinos fell one after another. At this moment, Niu Dalong led his troops to rush out from the woods on one side and shot at the Filipinos from the side. The Filipinos fell down again.
The Filipinos roared and rushed towards Lin Fei's men. If Lin Fei's men were still using the manual rifle Mauser M1893, the Filipinos would have rushed to Lin Fei's men and engaged in hand-to-hand combat! But now Lin Fei was using the brand new LBQ-1 automatic rifle, which had a firing rate several times faster than the Mauser M1893. How could the Filipinos rush over?
There was another factor on the battlefield that was very unfavorable to the Filipinos. That was that people in front of them kept being shot, and the dead bodies fell to the ground, blocking the way for people on the road. The people behind them had to go around them, which slowed down the Filipinos' speed a lot.
The Filipinos couldn't resist and retreated in panic, running around like a group of pheasants. Lin Fei saw a group of guys in gorgeous clothes at a glance. They were the leaders of this group, and there was a high possibility that the tribe leader was among them.
Lin Fei called Niu Dahu over, pointed in the direction of the clan leader, and said, "Do you see that guy? He is most likely the clan leader. You lead the people to chase him on the right side and prevent him from running in that direction. I will personally lead the sniper team to block his left route."
Niu Dahu agreed loudly and led the troops to chase to the right of the clan leader. The way they were chasing was the "parallel pursuit" taught by Lin Fei himself. "Parallel pursuit" is different from "rear pursuit". Rear pursuit is chasing from behind the enemy, while parallel pursuit is chasing on a parallel line to the enemy. The biggest advantage of this pursuit is that they will not be killed by the enemy's returning fire.
Niu Dahu led his troops to chase the clan leader to the right. The clan leader didn't dare to run to the right anymore. If he ran to the right, he would bump into the muzzle of Niu Dahu's gun. So the clan leader could only run to the left with his followers. As he ran, he bumped into the muzzle of the sniper team led by Lin Fei himself.
Lin Fei shouted loudly: "Brothers, the one wearing the headdress is the clan leader, capture him alive!" After that, he raised his hand and fired a shot, killing one of the clan leader's followers. The others were also shooting while running. Shooting while running is the forte of special forces, and Lin Fei naturally conducted such training for the sniper team.
The clan leader's followers were killed one by one, and the number of people around the clan leader became fewer and fewer. The distance between Lin Fei and the clan leader became closer and closer, and soon Lin Fei was more than fifty meters away from the clan leader.
The clan leader knew that he could not outrun Lin Fei, so he led his remaining troops to stop and fight back. Lin Fei shouted loudly: "Aim and shoot. Only hit the followers, not the clan leader. Whoever kills the clan leader will be fed to the pigs!"
The sniper team's shooting skills were naturally impeccable. After a burst of gunfire, the clan leader was the only one left in the venue. However, he was fearless and rushed towards Lin Fei with a machete in his hand.
Lin Fei raised his gun, aimed at the machete in the patriarch's hand and pulled the trigger. He heard a crisp "ding" sound from the machete and a piece of the blade was blown away by the bullet. The patriarch looked at the broken knife in his hand in surprise, stunned.
Lin Fei waved his hand at the clan leader and said loudly: "Brothers, capture him!"
The two soldiers rushed forward, but the tribe leader still refused to give in and started punching. The two soldiers used Professor Lin Fei's grappling technique and pinned the tribe leader to the ground in a few moves. Lin Fei sneered, "Bring the rope over and tie this guy up tightly."
The two soldiers took out ropes and tied them up, and the tribe leader cursed loudly. At this moment, a strange cry was suddenly heard from the woods. Lin Fei looked up and saw a group of Filipinos rushing out of the woods, everyone holding a machete in their hands.
It turned out that these Filipinos were driven into the woods by the bullets of Lin Fei's men. They originally wanted to enter the woods and escape, but suddenly they found that their chieftain had been captured alive, which immediately aroused their blood and they turned around and fought back.
Zhang Chuang beside Lin Fei couldn't help but get nervous and said to Lin Fei: "Captain, it's bad. They are too close to us. We might have to fight hand-to-hand! If it's a hand-to-hand fight, they have more people than us. I'm afraid we are no match for them..."
Lin Fei laughed loudly, reached out and took out a grenade from his waist, unscrewed the back cover, held the trigger in his hand, and said, "Everyone take out the grenades and get ready. When they rush over, throw them out together."
The throwing distance of a grenade is only fifty to sixty meters, while bullets can effectively kill the enemy within a range of four hundred meters, so in the previous battle, Lin Fei's subordinates all used bullets. Now that the Filipinos rushed in front of them, the grenades finally came in handy!
Lin Fei waited until the Filipinos rushed to a distance of 40 meters, stretched out his hand to pull the fuse, held the grenade in his hand for a second, and took this time to shout: "Brothers, throw!"
After Lin Fei finished speaking, he swung his arm and threw the grenade out. The others held the grenades in their hands for a second, and then threw them out suddenly. The pause would cause the grenade to explode in the air, and the flying shrapnel would fall from the sky, covering the entire Filipino's head, leaving no blind spot. Even if the Filipino lay on the ground, he would be killed and injured.
