Volume VIII 1311 Cannon Sounds at Half Past Five!

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If there is something Vinya can't explain, it's like a sycophant, and a person of his level has to leave no trace of a sycophant that people can't see.

Outsiders think that Vinya wants to grab credit, but Vinya wants to curry favor with Ackerson! Because he knows very well that it is very easy to become a general of the empire in the future with Ackerson's talent, and he can easily achieve the top level whether he is in politics or in the army.

This is something that cannot be envied, after all, he was born with a golden key, and he can't compare with him. For this kind of person, the resume must be clean and beautiful, without stains. Like this battle, the first half of the battle is beautiful, the credit can be left, and the end is a failure, so you have to find someone else to take the blame.

Whoever will take the blame is a knowledge, the level is too low and the back will crush you to death, Wenya's level is quite suitable, and the status is high enough to be able to rush to the top of the credit for a lifetime, and the final result is naturally happy.

But he didn't expect Exon to not appreciate it, he didn't understand Vinya's kindness at all. But he was a smart man after all, and Molière suddenly realized at the slightest reminder, and his face flushed.

"No, I'll take my own responsibility, and I'll take the sin of lax control......" The young man was still good at times, but then Venya raised his hand to stop the rest of the words.

"Exon...... It's half past five now, and we have been delayed for half an hour because of such a trivial matter, do you think it's worth it? The most important task now is to clean up the war as much as possible, and to gain time to take the gold away from here......"

"Is this really a good place? Wrong, that powerful ironclad ship may catch up at any point, and even if we can force him back with the level of our warships, how much will we lose?"

"Young man, escorting the gold down the mountain, this is the most important task, don't you have the confidence to accept such an important task I gave you?"

As soon as Ackerson's heart warmed, he immediately stood up and saluted, "It's Your Excellency the General, and you will definitely complete the task successfully!"

A conflict finally disappeared under Molière's adjustment, but this group of people was also delayed for half an hour because of this conflict, it seems that God really doesn't want to help them, and they are forced to die.

Suddenly, a soldier came running from not far away, "Report to the sir, the fortifications on the top of the hill and the last vault have been checked, there are no dangerous goods, and a safe ......"

"The last of the vaults contained a large number of silver ingots, but no gold...... Visually stored silver must be more than 20 tons...... In addition, on the top of Tangwan Mountain, some strange trophies were found, which seemed to belong to high-ranking officers, and we didn't know how to deal with them, so we asked the commander for instructions!"

Wenya and Exxon both had some regret when they heard that there was no silver after the last vault, but they were relieved to think about the rich harvest of the other three vaults.

After all, the last fortress was taken with minimal sacrifice, and it was a very good result to be able to harvest dozens of tons of silver. On the contrary, it was the officer's leftovers that the soldier said aroused everyone's interest.

Tangwan Mountain is 694 meters above sea level, marked as 694 highland on the military map, and there is a fortification with an extremely wide field of vision on the commanding heights of the mountaintop, which is the lookout post of Xiao Hexin to observe the battlefield at that time, and it can be regarded as the center of command.

In the fortifications, on a pile of sandbags, a golden pocket watch pressed a piece of paper lay there quietly, Vinya frowned, turned his head and looked at Exon, both of them saw the incredulity in each other's eyes.

This is all knowledgeable people, this gold watch is definitely handmade by Swiss craftsmen, in Europe only the rich and noble can afford to buy, a gold watch of this is tens of thousands of pounds not to mention, but also have to rely on the relationship, there is no way to just queue up can wait for you.

Why is there such a gold watch here?

Vinya picked up the gold watch and looked at the details carefully, and couldn't help but admire: "A good watch, it's really a good watch, it's worth a lot of money! Every detail is carefully carved, and I can't buy it for 12,000 pounds...... But why did the watch stop? It stopped at half past five, and someone deliberately turned the clockwork to stop it!"

Exxon grabbed the piece of paper and found that there was a line written on it in English: "Don't you like gold? This gold watch is given to you, I hope you will always remember this time, cherish every minute you spend with gold...... Is it Xiao Hexin?"

Wenya was suddenly struck by lightning, and he looked at the back case of the gold watch, and sure enough, there was a line of small English letters on it, which was the English transliteration of Xiao Hexin's three words.

At that moment, it was as if he had suddenly encountered a ghost while walking at night, and a cold air rushed directly to his head from his heels, and the hairs on his whole body exploded.

"Up...... Oh God! We've been tricked! This qiē is a trap for Chinese! At half past five, it must be the time for Chinese counterattack...... It's bad, gold is the bait, we've been tricked!"

The older the war, the less courageous he is, this is not a derogatory term, but it means that veterans of a hundred battles have a special intuition about danger, and Vinya has connected everything before and after, and the final answer is about to come out.

The blood of the officers present seemed to have solidified, and they subconsciously turned their heads to look at the chaotic soldiers all over the mountains, the soldiers who had been tired all night were sleeping and resting, the wounded soldiers were wailing, and the eyes of the cooks and medical soldiers were already tired.

Engineer and guard battalions are repairing roads and building wooden crates to deliver treasure. The artillery halfway up the mountain is also resting, and the ammunition carried by the artillery has been consumed by three-quarters, and there is no place to replenish it at the moment.

Chaos, with a glimmer of dawn, all the chaos on the battlefield comes into view!

They are all veterans of old battles, and they can see the current situation very clearly, not to mention how to launch a counterattack, even if these resting soldiers are woken up one by one and let them return to their own team, it will take two hours to reorganize the system.

Not only that, the soldiers who fought a night of bloody battles were demoralized and lacked ammunition, and they didn't even eat a bite of food or drink a sip of hot water.

"It would take six or seven hours just to gather all the troops and then go down the mountain and board the ship...... How can this be in time? My God, how can this be in time, I can't run away, I can't run away now!"

"On my command, the whole army will give up its heavy weapons and all its booty, and immediately descend the mountain to the port to assemble...... Let's get on the boat and get out of here, right away!"

Time is like flowing water, once it goes to the east, it will never return! There is no regret in the world to take medicine, how many opportunities are delayed, God will not make up for you at all, no matter how decisive the decision is, it is all too late.

At this moment, there was a sudden thunderous sound in the sea in the east, and the direction was the position of the detachment led by Hermansky, and the captain did not know with whom he had already begun to exchange fire.

Boom Boom Boom ...... At the mouth of the strait facing the Pacific Ocean, bursts of desperate cannons sounded!

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