When the People's Army approached Wangjiazhai, Wang Zhanyuan had not gotten up, although Wang Zhanyuan's body was still quite strong, but after all, he was also a fifty-year-old man, and his energy was obviously not as good as that of a young man, and his son unfortunately died, and he was busy handling funerals these days, so he was indeed very tired.

When the People's Army entered the bazaar, the villagers on duty on the earthen wall found out that they naturally didn't know where the army came from, so they immediately rushed to the inner house to inform them, because at this time Wang Zhanyuan's two sons and daughters were not at home, the eldest Wang Kexing rushed to the cemetery early in the morning, and the second Wang Kefu left Wangjiazhai last night and rushed back to Jiaozhou County. Although there are two distant nephews and nephews of Wang Zhanyuan in the mourning hall who are guarding the spirit and taking care of things, such a major matter can only be decided by Wang Zhanyuan.

Wang Zhanyuan has a total of seven wives and concubines, and will spend the night in one of the rooms every day, fortunately, Wang Zhanyuan's energy is insufficient these days, so he sleeps alone, and does not sleep in the aunt's room, so that he also has a lot less trouble, one of his distant nephews Wang Kejie kicked open the door, and came to Wang Zhanyuan's bed in a few steps, waking him up.

As soon as I heard that there was an army from outside the south gate of the village, Wang Zhanyuan was excited, and suddenly fell asleep, he had always remembered the boxing bandit in his heart, and now it is finally here, Wang Zhanyuan also put down a piece of heart disease, although he knows that this boxer is different from the boxing bandits in the past, the firepower is quite strong, but Wang Zhanyuan is also a person who rolls over on the head of the knife, knowing that it is a blessing or a curse, and it is a truth that the disaster cannot be avoided, if the boxing bandit is coming sooner or later, it is better to come higher, not to mention that he has a wall to defend, and he may not be invincible, and it is better than always remembering.

In fact, Wang Zhanyuan has always been guarding against the comeback of boxers, not only arranging soldiers on duty at night on the earthen wall, but also in the name of keeping spirits, more than 30 young villagers are installed on duty at night every night, in fact, in order to prevent boxers from attacking at night, there are enough people to guard the city. And now that the sky has brightened, and the villagers have gotten up a lot, there is no need to be afraid.

And just as Wang Zhanyuan was getting dressed and getting up, he suddenly heard a series of violent explosions outside, and the sound was still endless. Wang Zhanyuan's face not only changed greatly, but he was a person who had participated in the Sino-French War, so he could naturally hear that this was the sound of artillery bombardment, and this group of boxers even had artillery. And listening to the sound has not stopped, how many artillery pieces are there, it is estimated that there are not 20 guns, which is not much worse, so is this still a boxer?

After Wang Zhanyuan got dressed, the sound of the artillery finally stopped, and Wang Zhanyuan's heart hung again, according to the experience of the battlefield that year, the enemy's shelling stopped, that is, when the charge was launched.

Sure enough, just when Wang Zhanyuan thought of this, his nephew Gao Peng stumbled in and said, "Master, master, it's not good, the wall of the wall has been blasted open by the boxers, and now the boxers have entered our village." ”

Wang Zhanyuan and Wang Kejie's faces not only changed greatly, Wang Kejie said: "Master, what can I do about this." ”

Wang Zhanyuan said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, the wall of the village has been lost, and we still have the courtyard wall? You two hurry up and recruit people to guard the hospital wall now, and I will immediately send people to the county to rescue, and we must hold out until the reinforcements arrive." ”

Wang Kejie and Gao Peng agreed, and immediately turned around and left. And Wang Zhanyuan also hurriedly took off the waist knife he used in the battle from the wall, turned around and left the house.

After entering the Wangjia Village, the People's Army went straight to the Wang's mansion, fortunately, it was still early in the morning, and there were not many people in the village who got up, and when they heard this battle, who dared to go out, they closed the doors and windows at home, bolted on the bars, and some people also pushed the tables, chairs, cabinets and beds, and blocked the doors and windows, so the soldiers of the People's Army were not hindered in any way, and they killed in front of the courtyard wall of the Wang's mansion.

At this time, Wang Kejie and Gao Peng had already recruited more than a dozen soldiers from the village and set up muskets on the wall to shoot. In the panic, two fighters were shot and fell to the ground, while the other fighters saw this, looked for cover to dodge, and then fired back. A fierce exchange of fire ensued between the two sides.

However, despite the geographical advantage of the village soldiers, the rifles used by the two sides were a generation apart, so the fire on the courtyard wall was quickly suppressed by the KPA, and five or six people were killed in a company, and the rest of the people were also beaten to the point that they could not raise their heads at all. But after all, the village soldiers have a courtyard wall to defend, and not only are the village soldiers supplemented, even if there are no muskets, but they also take cold weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows to garrison the wall.

But it didn't take long for the artillery platoon to advance a cannon, and the artillery was re-erected less than 100 meters outside the courtyard wall.

After a few cannons, a large gap was blown open in the courtyard wall, and the soldiers of the People's Army entered the Wang's inner house through the gap. At this time, the people's army of the other three gates also broke through the wall, of course, they did not blow up the wall, but climbed up with ropes, anyway, at that time, the people who guarded the wall went back to the inner courtyard to reinforce, and the wall was no longer guarded, several soldiers climbed the wall, opened the wall, and broke into the Wangjia Village.

Killed into the Wang family's inner house, the overall situation of this battle has been basically decided, although there are still some sporadic resistance, but it will not have a big impact, and Luo Yue looked at his watch, it only took 27 minutes from the beginning of the battle.

However, the sporadic resistance in the Wang family's mansion took almost 40 minutes, which was much longer than the time it took to fight, but it only took more than an hour before and after. The resistance in the Wang's mansion has been completely over, and those who resist have either been killed or arrested, and only a few have escaped from the Wang's village.

Li Zhuangyong and other members of the Yuan Yi and regimental regiments followed the artillery platoon to move together, and it was several of them who pushed a cannon into the village, and as a result, the courtyard wall was blasted open. Of course, the artillerymen did not need to enter the Wang family's mansion, so Li Zhuangyong and the others sat and rested on the side of the road while observing the surrounding situation. Of course, not all the warriors entered the inner house, and many remained outside.

However, at least as far as Li Zhuangyong's vision could see, these soldiers were really very disciplined, and none of them entered the houses on both sides of the road. And Li Zhuangyong also saw a scene, there was a villager hiding in a resident's house, and several soldiers chasing him did not dare to go in, so they could only guard outside the house, and then called an overseas Chinese officer, under the command of this officer, rushed into the house, caught the villager, only a few minutes before and after, and there was no movement, at most only a few scuffle sounds, and all retreated, Li Zhuangyong carefully observed, the soldiers seemed to have nothing else in their hands except for rifles, and when the officer came out, he actually bowed to the door, and then helped the family close the door。

Li Zhuangyong was secretly surprised in his heart, it seemed that the military discipline of the People's Army was true, if it was a change to the Boxers, no matter which house he rushed to, he would always get something to go. And he set his sights on the Wang family's mansion, not knowing what the soldiers inside would do, after all, these ordinary people can't copy anything valuable at home, so overseas Chinese may not look down on these small profits, but focus on the Wang family's mansion.

But Li Zhuangyong felt that this was not very likely, because there seemed to be no movement in the Wang family's mansion, and there were a lot of people coming in and out, but they didn't see anything coming out, except for the bodies of the villagers who were killed. Raiding the house, Li Zhuangyong did a lot when he was in trouble with the Boxers, that time it was all earth-shattering, chickens and dogs jumping, adults crying and children making trouble, and because of the uneven distribution of dirt, it is even more common for rats to move knives in the nest, and it will never be so quiet. From this point of view, the army of this group of overseas Chinese is really strictly respecting military discipline, and it is not a joke.

Thinking of this, Li Zhuangyong looked at the dozen or so brothers around him, all of them had red eyes, looking left and right, as if they were more and more eager to try, but they were afraid to hold back. There are also a few people who gestured to Li Zhuangyong with their eyes, as if they wanted him to start a start, before the village was destroyed and the village was destroyed, but it was a good opportunity for the Boxers to make a big profit, this Wangjiazhai is a big village, if you can let go of it, you can make a fortune. Seeing Li Zhuangyong's gaze, a person came over and said, "Brother Li, this broken village also has our share of credit, are we sitting here now?"

Li Zhuangyong glared at him fiercely and said, "Don't even think about it, let me sit honestly, whoever dares to move, see that I don't break his legs." The man shuddered with fright, and immediately retracted, muttering in his mouth, but he really didn't dare to move.

At this time, I saw Luo Yue coming over with more than a dozen guard soldiers, and the artillerymen stood up and saluted one after another, saying, "Battalion commander." ”

And Luo Yue also returned the salute one by one, and even Li Zhuangyong and the others greeted them and said, "You have worked hard." ”

Li Zhuangyong has seen many such scenes in the past few days, and not only does the People's Army not worship them, but the lower levels salute their superiors, and the higher authorities must return the salutes; according to Jiang Haidong, this is a demonstration of the equal value of officers and men in the People's Army. At the beginning, Li Zhuangyong couldn't figure out how to figure out whether this officer and a soldier could be equal? If this dignity is reversed, will anyone still listen to the commander of the officer? Although Li Zhuangyong can't figure out the truth, his method of judging right and wrong is very simple, that is, to look at the results.

At this time, Luo Yue said to the captain of this cannon: "The battle in the village is over, you guys first exit the village and line up in the market, today the platoon leader of the sixth squad has ordered two restaurants in the market to cook for us, you go and see, there is anything you can help." It's not easy to be so many of us. ”

The artillery captain said, "Yes." Immediately waved his hand and said, "The whole team gets up and leaves the village." ”

Li Zhuangyong also hurriedly got up, beckoned his subordinates, and hurried to push the cannon out of the city.