Han Xing asked, "What is the place behind the stove house?" ”

Ji Yufen said: "It's a neighbor's pigsty, it's dirty and smelly, usually his house poops, and the feces leak there." ”

Han Xing suddenly became interested, and said to Ji Yufen: "Let's go, take a look!" ”

Ji Yufen was still reluctant to go: "It's dirty and smelly, it's still a neighbor's house." What are you doing there? ”

Han Xing pulled Ji Yufen and said, "I can't take care of the dirty smell, it's still my life that matters, take a look!" ”

Knocking on the door of the neighbor's house, Han Xing saw this pigsty at a glance, it was really dirty and smelly, and there was a little pig in it, running around in the pen, not only and pee, but even the toilet of the master's house was built next to it. The owner pooped, and the pig ate it again, which is called recycling.

Han Xing shouted and said, "Okay, this hole is built in a pigsty?" ”

Ji Yufen was unhappy: "How dirty is that, besides, you can't dig it?" Even if you dig it, you can't go down, even if you go down, you can't go up? ”

Han Xing said: "This task will be handed over to me, and we will dig it for you." The entrance to the cave is temporarily open, so it's easy to get down. After getting off the people, they immediately covered the hole with a wooden board from it and sealed the hole with dung. Now I'll build a leak for you, and when you open the door, drain the manure into the bucket, and then you can come up. I suggest that you plug the hole in your stove house immediately. ”

Although Ji Yufen was reluctant, seeing that Han Xing said it so sincerely, she had no choice but to agree.

Han Xing called Wu Xiaoming again, asked him to immediately send a team, drew a drawing for him, and told him to build according to this drawing, immediately open this hole, and it must be completed tomorrow morning.

"Yes!" Wu Xiaoming agreed and immediately carried out the order.

On February 16 of the lunar calendar, the gray sky opened a new day, and the small north wind was blowing, making people instinctively shrink their necks. On the wall of Zhangjialou, the feet of the joint defense team members on duty kept moving, so that the frozen feet were a little angry, and they didn't dare to pee under the wall, because as soon as they took off their pants, the only bit of heat on their bodies was shaken away.

Outside the wall of Zhangjialou, on the yellow and bare earth, there are some white snow powders in a nest, which are as hard as sand grains, and with the wind flow, they flow to that side for a while, and blow to this side for a while. Even the sparrows that got up early were nowhere to be seen, and they were so cold that they didn't know which nest to hide in.

The swimming sentinels suddenly found that not far away, a yellow flow of people began to move towards Zhangjialou. The sentries put their hands on the pergola and watched carefully, some wearing Japanese military uniforms, some wearing imperial alliance army clothes, and some recalcitrant army clothes. The post-whistle immediately shouted: "The devil is coming, the Imperial Army is coming, the recalcitrant army is coming-"

After a while, the big bell of Zhangjialou roared, and under the huge buzz of the bell, Zhang Chenggang's rapid and powerful voice came: "All the joint defense team members go to the wall, all go to the wall-"

The whole village immediately took action, and all the commanders and fighters of the guard battalion, the militia of the joint defense team, the women of the women's federation, and the children of the children's group all ran quickly towards the wall. Even the old man, who could barely move, trembled out of the door, holding a wooden stick and peering over the wall.

This time, Li Qishan not only brought the main force of the recalcitrant army, but also contacted by Inoue and brought the help of the Japanese army in Liaocheng. Right next to Li Qishan, the Japanese army adviser Inoue personally gave advice to Li Qishan. Li Qishan's command post was located in the Xujia woodland outside the north gate of Zhangjialou.

As soon as Li Qishan's troops arrived, they immediately heard the bell of Zhangjialou ringing, and then all the members of the joint defense team went up to the wall. I only saw that the wall was crowded with people, and it seemed that countless people were running on it.

Li Qishan stammered and said to Inoue: "Inoue Taijun, how should we fight this battle?" Is it to concentrate one of our regiments, under the cover of machine guns, to rush up. ”

Inoue shook his head and said, "No, no, your soldiers are not, and they don't understand tactics." No matter how many people you go up, it won't be a problem. The reason why Zhangjialou is difficult to gnaw is because they have high walls, so let's bombard them with our mortars first, kill and wound them in large numbers, destroy their walls, and then attack with our infantry. ”

Li Qishan stretched out his thumb and praised Inoue and said: "High, high, is high, not a senior consultant." We just want to shell with artillery, don't we! Or is the imperial army powerful, very powerful, just use mortar bombardment, bombardment of the wall of Zhangjialou, see what to do with Zhangjialou's Tuba Road? ”

Why is Inoue's adviser so arrogant, because he asked the Japanese army in Liaocheng to bring 3 94-type 90mm light mortars. After a while, three Type 94 mortars bombarded the wall of Zhangjialou.

This mortar, with a caliber of 90.5 mm, has a maximum firing range of 3800 meters and a projectile weight of 5.26 kg.

This mortar can not only shoot in a curved way, the shells can hit the wall directly, but also the rate of fire is also fast, firing about 40 shells per minute, almost faster than rifle fire.

Bursts of fire and smoke rose from the "boom, ......boom, boom, boom" and the wall of Zhangjialou was suddenly blown to pieces, and sometimes several grenades hit the wall, and the joint defense team members were blown into the air, and several generals' earthen cannons were also blown off the wall and became a pile of scrap metal.

Han Xing had been guarding the enemy on the wall for a long time, so he didn't call the guard battalion to go up at all. He also reminded Zhang Chenggang and said: "Captain Zhang, always be on guard against the enemy's artillery attack, the enemy has not come up yet, leave a few people to watch the point, and the rest go down first!" ”

However, Zhang Chenggang had not yet experienced the experience of artillery strikes, and said to Han Xing nonchalantly: "Last time Li Qishan came, I didn't see them firing artillery!" Don't panic yet, look at the little devil clearly. ”

Since most of the joint defense team members were on the fence, it was a little late to go down when they saw the devil's artillery fire. The militiamen did not expect that the artillery fire of the little devils would be so fierce. Han Xing anxiously shouted to Zhang Chenggang: "Call the militia down immediately." ”

Only then did Zhang Chenggang shout: "One squad will leave one person behind, and the rest will all go down to avoid the enemy's shells." ”

In the violent explosion of the shells, his words could not be heard clearly at all, and by the time Zhang Chenggang finished the order with shouts and gestures, the joint defense team had already suffered a lot of losses.

Zhang Chengxin's right eye was blinded by the explosion, and he was bleeding profusely, and he was still thinking about Xiao Gang and them just now. He shouted loudly: "Xiao Gang, you little rabbits, where are you, don't get down quickly." ”

After shouting for a long time, he didn't answer, he tried hard to tear off half of the right eye that hung on his face, and struggled to open his left eye, which was covered with blood, only to see that Xiao Gang was lying next to him.

There were three or four other children lying on the ground, covered in scars and blood.

He was startled, hugged Xiao Gang, and said with a grin: "Tell you to go down, call you ...... Go down, that is...... Not going down. Alas, alas, alas......"

He wailed with a handful of snot and tears, and half of his face with blood.

Xiao Gang's body suddenly moved, Zhang Chengxin felt it, and quickly hugged the child tightly, startled for a moment, and said tremblingly: "Xiao Gang, don't scare grandpa, grandpa is not scared, you can open your eyes and take a look......"

Xiao Gang finally opened his eyes and said to his grandfather, "Our children's group has a secret? ”

"Tell Grandpa, what's the secret?"

"I didn't want to tell you. We...... Can I help you...... Net Cannon ...... Loaded with iron sand ......" Xiao just finished saying this, tilted his head and didn't move at all.

Zhang Chengxin's heart contracted for a moment, and he shook Xiao Gang, but he still didn't move at all, and his body was already too weak. The pain made the old man tremble like an egg, "Alas, alas, alas...... I said I wouldn't call you up, you're ...... Come up, my grandson...... Alas, alas, alas......"

Han Xing ran over, touched Xiao Gang's pulse, had already stopped beating, and said to the old man, "Mourn, there are no more people." ”

Zhang Chengxin was like crazy, holding his grandson and shaking it, and then scolded under the wall: "I fuck your ancestors for eight lifetimes, little Japan, what kind of ability is it to beat my grandson." You've got the ability to come to me, come on—"

In the fierce artillery bombardment, he put down his grandson, picked up the fire, lit the fire twist, and fired a shot in the direction of the Japanese army. Then quickly clear the cannon and replace the gunpowder and iron sand. Surrounded by explosions of fire, Zhang Chenggang shouted: "Zhang Chengxin, didn't you hear the cannon, hurry up and lie down, lie down-"

But Zhang Chengxin muttered in his mouth while working, and he didn't pay attention to the explosions around him at all: "Xiao Gang, it's grandpa who is not good, grandpa is not optimistic about you." You're not afraid of death, grandpa's loess is buried in his mouth, what are you afraid of......"

Hundreds of shells of the devils smashed down, and each shell hit the wall, and there was a deep pit more than half a meter deep, and one pit was one deep pit after another, so that the wall of Zhangjialou was peeling down layer by layer. Despite this, the tall wall did not collapse, and the north gate was not completely blown up.

The mortar shells landed on the top of the wall, and it was also a deep pit after a deep pit, and the bodies of the dead members of the joint defense team were lying next to it, and there was no chance to pull them down and bury them.

After the shelling, one of the enemy's regiments went on the offensive. This time it was the recalcitrant army in front, and the little devil was supervising the battle behind with a bayonet, and if anyone dared to retreat, he would greet him with a bayonet.

They crossed the blockade ditch and the deer barricade, and then carried ladders and quickly rushed towards the east gate, this time the focus of the enemy's attack was still the east gate.

The 1st Company of the Guards Battalion and the 2nd Squadron of the Joint Defense Force entered the positions on the wall. Zhang Chenggang shouted: "Earth cannon ignition-"

At this time, there were not many earthen cannons, and although there were only a few cannons, they still knocked down more than a dozen recalcitrant soldiers. Immediately, the weapons of the guard battalion and the joint defense team were fired together, "suddenly......", "da......", "bangbang......"

Dozens of recalcitrant troops fell.