Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 155: Gunshots in the Jungle Part

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The forest was deep, dense, and overgrown with bushes. The Argentine officer who entered the woods became alert and immediately issued an order for the pursuing troops to stop advancing.

The order was conveyed by several junior officers, and in less than two minutes, the army of more than one hundred people all stopped.

Without the sound of pursuing troops, the woods suddenly became quiet, and the two lagging gauchos in front also ran into the woods and disappeared.

"Flutter!" More than a dozen birds flew up from both sides of the Argentine troops, and a burst of bird singing was heard.

"Everyone be on alert and prepare for battle!" The Argentine officer gripped his pistol tightly and aimed at the place where the flock of birds was flying in front.

"Swoosh" a javelin shot out from the bushes with a sharp buzzing sound and accurately hit the neck of an Argentine soldier standing on the outskirts of the crowd.

The Argentine soldier was hit by an arrow and subconsciously reached out to support his neck. As soon as his hands touched the tail of the arrow, he suddenly fell to the ground with powerless strength.

Arrows were shot at the same time as the Argentine officers gave warnings, and before more than a hundred people had time to fire back, the gauchos hiding in the bushes took advantage of the brief moment to launch a counterattack.

Immediately following the first arrow, more than fifty crossbow arrows, bows and arrows, spears, javelins, and a weapon between bows and javelins were simultaneously shot at the Argentine soldiers on the path.

"Puff puff" the javelin thrown in the air hit the enemy's body. The inertial force transmitted at high speed dragged the hit Argentine soldier back two or three meters, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground.

Soldiers who were hit by bows and arrows might survive, but being hit by javelins in major parts of the body would be worse than death and more painful than death. The strong penetrating power of the javelin would pierce the soldier's internal organs, causing continuous bleeding. At the same time, the pain caused by severe damage to the internal organs is unbearable for ordinary people.

In just a moment, the counterattack consisting of cold weapons such as spears and javelins caused considerable casualties to the Argentines. More than 20 people were injured or killed before they saw the enemy.

After the attack, some panicked Argentine soldiers held their rifles and fired nervously at the jungle bushes ahead, but without any clear target.

Hundreds of rifles fired blindly, bullets passed through leaves and bushes and hit trees or the ground, but not a single scream was heard from the enemies being shot.

The long-term success in the encirclement and suppression campaigns against Indians and Gauchos has cultivated in the Argentine troops a mentality of pride and underestimation of the enemy.

They easily captured the Gaucho village and pursued them in an effort to annihilate them all, but they did not expect that the Gauchos could set up an ambush on their escape route.

After occupying the village, the Argentine troops suffered only two minor injuries and no one was killed. However, in the first round of fighting with the gauchos after entering the jungle, more than 20 people were killed or wounded, and nearly half of them could not survive until the end of the battle. The leading Argentine officer hid under a tree and watched his soldiers lying on the ground wailing in pain, feeling regretful and angry.

The army suffered too many casualties, and he was not sure how he would explain this to his superiors.

The gauchos hiding in the dark continued to launch javelin throwing weapons to attack the Argentine soldiers, but the blind counterattacks of the Argentine soldiers had limited results.

With every minute of delay, the Argentine soldiers in the jungle suffered losses. The leading officer hid behind a tree to observe the situation on the battlefield but could not find a good solution, so he had to issue an order to retreat.

After the order to retreat was issued, the Argentine officer gathered more than 20 soldiers around him and retreated along the original route first. The other Argentine soldiers quickly followed after receiving the order, retreating while shooting at the woods on both sides.

Behind a hidden bush, Davis calmly observed the Argentine soldiers retreating towards him, waiting for a suitable target to appear. Davis was hiding at the entrance of the woods, about fifty meters away from the open space outside. When the gauchos in the woods launched a counterattack, he did not take action, but quietly stood still.

The Argentine troops did not engage in a fight with the gauchos hiding in the woods and focused on retreating. After suffering more than a dozen casualties, more than ninety people reached the edge of the woods.

The attacks of the gauchos in the woods were becoming weaker and weaker. There was an open area less than a hundred meters ahead and the danger was about to be over. The entire army, including the leading officers, breathed a sigh of relief.

The exit of the woods was in front. The leading officer relaxed his vigilance, walked out from the crowd of more than 20 people, and called over two low-level officers to inquire about the casualties of the troops.

Davis stayed quietly behind the bushes and watched all the movements of the Argentine troops.

He quietly pulled out a weapon similar to a feather arrow from the wooden tube behind him and put it into the rough hole of the wooden stick with a curved hook in his right hand. He held the upper end of the rough hole with his thumb and slightly raised the wooden stick to find the best throwing position.

The weapon used by Davis is called a dart thrower, an auxiliary tool that can make darts fly faster, farther and more accurately. It was once widely used by American Indians for hunting. After the Europeans colonized America, the Indians and Gauchos used this weapon, which was simple to make and made from easily available raw materials, to fight against enemy invasions, dealing a heavy blow to the Europeans.

After the native white people took control of Argentina's political situation, they inherited the Spanish tradition and prohibited Indians and gauchos from owning weapons. For the safety of their tribes and themselves, Indians and gauchos used primitive wooden javelins, shuttles and other weapons to defend themselves.

Davis is an excellent dart thrower. Using the dart launcher he made himself, he can throw the dart a hundred meters away and accurately hit the target a hundred meters away.

Davis's superb shuttle launching skills made him a well-deserved warrior in the village, and now, he will use the weapon in his hand to kill the commander of the Argentine troops and defend his dignity as the leader of the tribe.

After the identity of the Argentine officer was discovered, his every move was under Davis' close surveillance. The two low-level officers around him gradually distanced themselves from him. The Argentine soldiers who were hurrying out of the woods were getting closer and closer to the ambush site of Davis and more than a dozen gauchos.

140 meters, 130 meters... 100 meters. When the Argentine officer was nearly meters away from Davis, the dart launcher was raised above the bushes. Davis' eyes became sharp. If he missed the first shot, it would be very difficult to kill the Argentine officer again, so he had to gain greater confidence before attacking again.

The shadows of the trees were cast on the ground one by one. The woods were sparse as far as the eye could see and the sun was shining directly on the open space. The Argentine officer looked straight ahead and did not notice more than a dozen pairs of hateful eyes behind the bushes and grass not far away.

The Argentine officer quickened his pace and took a few quick steps. Suddenly, he felt something soft under his feet. He lowered his head and saw a pile of freshly dug soil sticking out from under the thick leaves.

"Not good!" A sense of crisis suddenly surged into his mind. At this moment, Davis suddenly stood up from the bushes and decisively threw the shuttle in his right hand.

The sharp sound of a shuttle breaking through the air suddenly rang out. While the other Argentine soldiers were at a loss, their commander had already fallen heavily to the ground, his limbs trembling slightly.

Davis aimed at the Argentine officer's head. The shuttle hit the target and flew out of the body, nailing it to the tree with a trace of blood.

The Argentine officer twitched for only a few seconds, and then became completely motionless.

Traps, suspended bamboo rafts, and flying shuttles, more than a dozen ambushed gauchos took advantage of the situation to attack, while Davis quietly watched the moment before his opponent's complete death.

The anger and violence quickly dissipated after the Argentine officer stopped twitching. Davis took a last look at his opponent lying on the ground, blew the whistle and ordered the ambushing gauchos to retreat.

The Gauchos were not numerous, and with the geographical advantage in the woods they could eliminate some of the Argentine soldiers, but it was impossible for them to be wiped out completely. Therefore, after the revenge, they had to leave quickly to prevent the tribe from suffering greater casualties.

(End of this chapter)