The night was dark, and the Japanese soldiers were basically asleep. Kawasaki Daisa has a high fever, and the medics are busy trying to cool down. Tsukamoto Nakasa returned to his brigade headquarters, looked through the roster, and had a headache about the casualties and reduced the number of casualties by 20%, how to explain this. There is also a headache for the cavalry captain, a total of forty horses, which has damaged five farts, how will I scout tomorrow. The deputy of the wing is not worried, anyway, the captain of the Kawasaki team will not be able to take his turn to take the black pot if he is alive. At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was like ink, and the Japanese army's open and dark sentinels were nodding and staring unconsciously, in fact, in the era when there were no searchlights, they could not see the movement in the fields two hundred meters away.

"It's all loaded," He Laoba's subordinates reported, "Brother He, do you want to do it?" ”

"Slap" slapped the back of the head, "I still want to be a bandit." Call the detachment leader, you know. ”

"Ah, yes, big brother, detachment leader, the projectile is loaded, please indicate whether to launch or not."

"This is what the is like being a soldier, the buns are all steamed, and the lid pad is in a hurry. Go and see if the petrol bottle throwers are all set up. ”

"It's all together, the brothers of the three detachments came to report just now, and they said that they are all ready for fifty meters according to the requirements, big brother, no, the detachment leader should move the guys."

Raising his hand to look at the foreign watch, the luminous needle had already pointed to the four, picked up the iron horn, and yelled: "Little ones, fire!" ”

The lead spikes are sparking, and they are looking shorter. Suddenly, there was a dull roar, a pillar of smoke rose up, dozens of 60 pounds of conical medicine bags with sparks were thrown diagonally into the air, and after a while, I saw a pillar of mushroom smoke rising inside and outside the high Yulinbao courtyard wall, and the house collapsed in an instant. The three detachments that quietly moved to the front of the fort gate had already set up a gasoline bottle thrower, and after a sound of spring tension, one by one the three-liter gasoline bottles went straight to the fort gate, and the fireball rose quickly, and just about to rush out of the gate, several sentries were licked by the flames, so they turned around and ran away with the flames, and after a while, they became moving torches one by one.

At this time, the deputy of the wing jumped up from the room he chose, "Nani, where is the enemy attack?" ”

The staff officer hurriedly came in and reported, "Report to the deputy of the wing, we have been attacked by the Qing army's artillery, and the preliminary judgment is that it is more than 15 millimeters of heavy artillery, at least more than 25 guns are firing at the same time, and we have not seen the infantry attack, but we have suffered heavy casualties now." ”

"Baga, there are not so many heavy artillery in the Qing Kingdom. Quickly let Tsukamoto's brigade prepare to meet the enemy infantry, and the cavalry squad sent troops to search. I'm going to see Your Excellency, Wing Commander, and you'll be in charge of liaison first. ”

"Hay."

After a busy moment, Japanese soldiers in white shirts and crotch cloths rushed out of the houses, only a few of them were neatly dressed, and most of them were armed with guns. However, apart from dodging the "shells" that flew in from time to time, they had no targets at all. I wanted to go up to the city, only to find that the plank road in the original fort had been burned down, and the wall less than a foot wide could not stand and shoot, and there was nothing to do without a ladder for a while. In the midst of the panic, one after another smoking canisters flew in, and they landed on the ground without exploding. The Japanese soldiers lying around waited for a long time and did not see any movement, so they quickly got up to check, only to see the thick smoke stinging, and after a while, they were gone, and the Japanese soldiers who wanted to check the situation of the jars around were so soft that they fell to the ground one by one, and there was no movement for a while.

Because of the smoke and flames that exploded and burned around them, no one paid attention to the problem of these canisters, until some soldiers ran and fell headlong, and most of them were dizzy and did not realize the strangeness of the situation.

"Yaga, the smoke is poisonous." The deputy of the wing reacted when he found his guard falling headlong at the entrance of the wing department, but it was only enough for him to run out into the street to check the situation, and then he was soft enough to be at the threshold.

"The boss hasn't moved, let's go in and take a look." The boss of the party family always did not stop, and sure enough, there was another crisp sound on the steel helmet, but this time Boss Du did not shake his hand in pain, because he was holding a grenade with a wooden handle in his hand, looking at the dizzy party boss, and smiled proudly, "Sample, if you want to rush to reincarnate, I won't stop you, a few of your party brothers will go in first, and we will go in and send it to you in half an hour, okay?" ”

"Forget it, your boss can wait, what are we in a hurry."

Half an hour later, there was no movement. The brothers of the three detachments had just entered Yulin Fort, and as for He Laoba's artillery team, they naturally packed up the projectiles outside, and even the soil pit where the projectile barrels were placed was dug again into the shape of a stove, and the dry grass and branches were smoked black.

A Japanese soldier with a wet towel covering his mouth and nose was lying in a corner, and the golden hook rifle in his hand had been opened to the safe, but unfortunately he passed out without blocking the smoke. Boss Du kicked the little devil with his foot, and he was happy with the party brothers, and a few rough people in the party family were so embarrassed that their faces were flushed, if they hadn't waited for half an hour to come in, this little devil might have opened a transparent skylight on their brothers.

I was busy in the middle of the night, and I cleaned it up at dawn, but this time in addition to the little devils who were killed and burned to death, plus the smoke impurities that were too much smoke and impurities, there were still 800 little devils with all beards and tails, and there was also a wounded wing captain Kawasaki Dasa, the deputy of the wing and the captain of the Tsukamoto Brigade and other 3 people, 40 other officers, more than 700 rifles were captured, 8 Haggaes machine guns, 2 90mm field guns, 4 75mm mountain guns, 45 ocean horses, 30 sets of carts, and a wing flag, It can be said that in addition to the 2nd Brigade in the capital, the 21st Wing of the 5th Division can basically be abolished. Looking at the captured cannons, He Laoba was silly and happy, so in Du Zicheng's sincere smile, after friendly and cordial negotiations between the two sides, the four projectiles and ammunition that the artillery team was short of manpower and could not use became additional supplies for the three teams.

Looking at the Japanese devils in underwear, handcuffed with their thumbs, and connected with wires around their necks, and running back with the cart, the soldiers were happy to come over to watch the excitement. Forty miles from the county seat of Huailai, in a small village called Jimingyi, Cixi and the members of the royal beggars' tour group were resting in a large car shop. Fortunately, we were well prepared, occupied the largest compound on the side of the road, and after picking up with a few palace maids and eunuchs, we could barely live in it. Cixi has a lot of doubts about Huailai County, she has fled for three days, and the capital has long been in chaos, and Huailai and Yanqing counties did not send people to find the holy car as soon as possible, which is an unforgivable crime. In fact, Huailai County ordered Wu Yong to be wronged than the goose of the Dou family, and he sent two groups of messengers to the east to search for the holy car, but their style of these errand officials is clearly different from that of the ordinary people, so they have long been cleaned up by the Seven Musketeers of the teaching team, and today the teaching team has been ordered to sneak into the arms, and this Wu County Commander will hang himself in the southeast branch at night, and the master will also be martyred at the first time, in the name of all Qi loyalty. By the time Li Lianying and the others enter the city tomorrow, they will find that Huailai is already in a state of anarchy.

The radio station has been set up, the operator will send a string of codes, the airship assembled by Du Niang with the parts brought in the travel cabin should have been inflated and standby, and Yang Shihai will take half of the detachment to land in Caochang County, north of the capital, in three airships. If it goes well, the recruits of the training team will be able to arrive the day after tomorrow, and then these little devil prisoners of war will be handed over to the training team.

Chief Manager Li Lianying came to my headquarters again, "Oh, Lord Wu, seeing that your insurance regiment is fighting is smooth, this is like catching grasshoppers, and catching so many little noses." ”

"Hey, Mr. Li, there is a kid under my command who turned out to be a mess of the rivers and lakes, and he can order the skills of chickens and dogs, these little noses are the same as yesterday's batch, and they bite like mad dogs, so I asked my subordinates to give them some medicine in Yulin Castle, and they all fell asleep, and they happened to catch a number of alive. I think so, if Huailai County doesn't pick us up into the city tomorrow, we will use these little noses as shields, if the foreign devils catch up, I will cover the father-in-law and you and the Queen Mother to withdraw first, and you can get out when you arrive in Huailai County, let Captain Du and Captain Wu and they hold the little devils to delay time, only by blocking the foreign devils for two or three days, Lord Yuan's new army can come from Baoding and Nanyuan. ”

"This" looked at the embarrassment on Mr. Li's face, and I couldn't help but wonder.

"If the chief manager has anything to do, just give me orders."

"Lord Wu, I can't hide it, out of the palace, the holy drive is uneasy, Lafayette is restless, before the southeast of the people on the southeast to protect each other, regardless of the grace, now Lafayette around the soldiers are outnumbered, it is difficult to protect these princes and ministers, the feudal officials whose subordinates have a yellow robe to add to the mind, causing unspeakable trouble, so we think that if Lord Wu can find a way to let several Qinwang divisions rush to a place together, we will ensure that the holy car arrives, and when the time comes, we will hinder each other, but a little careful and scruples."

"The chief manager Gao Jian, according to the lower officials, there is no telegraph bureau in Huailai, it is better for us to do this, when we arrive in Huailai, let the post station in Huailai send someone to inform the army of King Qin in Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi to go out of the Taihang Eight Paths to Huailai to meet the driver, and inform Yuan Du later, the new army road in Hebei is near, and it will arrive at the same time, and then send people to let the Mongolian Eight Banners of Horqin also come to King Qin, and then the three forces will not be subordinate to each other, and Lafayette can naturally strategize, and be as safe as Mount Tai."

"Okay, it's really a virtuous minister and a good general, so well-planned, our family will tell Lafayette, and when Lafayette agrees, I will bother Lord Wu to plan and dispatch on your behalf."

"Everything must be sent by the commander, and the subordinates and subordinates will do their best to serve them."

Mr. Li went to report to Lafayette with satisfaction, and I also took the opportunity to arrange, Wu Yong's affairs must not go wrong, this seven-rank official and Li Hongzhang's younger brother Li Hezhang's fourth son Li Jingfu (Zeng Jize's eldest daughter Zeng Guangxuan's husband) is a brother-in-law, is a rare talent in Li Hongzhang's shogunate, if Li Zhongtang finds out that it is my hand tail, I am afraid I will only have to run away. In addition, there is a hidden danger, which can only be disposed of when it comes to Huailai.

Thinking of this, I smiled darkly, but I heard a crisp sound of broken tiles in the courtyard outside the door. "Who!" Damn, it won't be an assassin, could it be that Wu Yong, the family, plans to strike first, and he can't cross the party? A cat meow, it couldn't have been an assassin in disguise, and I drew my pistol and hid in the corner, ready to kill the incoming enemy. Look, ladies and gentlemen, it turns out that this is really a false alarm caused by a cat. Hahahaha.