Xiaokongtong loess fort is located in the east of Dong Zhiyuan, on the loess high slope, is a military defense, the main form is the loess block, the main form is the loess block, was built in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, there are two main types of forts: one is to use stone masonry to make stone blocks; The other is to use clay ramming to make yellow clay towers, which are majestic with four corners, and are more than 3 meters high, scattered Dong Zhiyuan's yellow clay towers, most of which have been submerged in the dust of history or replaced by stone towers

However, the loess towers still survived intact after all kinds of disasters, which has to be called strange, because the towers are rammed into the yellow mud clay, and they are light purple-red, so they are also called the copper towers

Xiaokongtong loess towering on the top of the mountain, the loess towering group is composed of 3 yellow clay towers, distributed in Buchu Village, Huizhai is 1 meter long from east to west, 35 meters wide from north to south, within the blockage is quadrangular, the yellow clay blockhouse body plane is rectangular, the bottom edge is 1 meter long, 7 meters wide, the wall thickness is 5 meters, the whole is large and small, slightly divided, built-in wooden floor layering, each layer of four walls, open in the middle of the "T" The small window of the zigzag has been made of a lookout or shooting hole, there is a wooden bucket arch building at the top to shelter from the wind and rain, there is a door at the bottom, the height is 21 meters, the width is 164 meters, the appearance of the blockage is not decorated, each side is straight, such as cutting 3 yellow clay blocks, the height is different, ranging from 18 meters to 2 meters

The loess towers of Xiaokongtong are horns of each other, forming a complete defense system, mainly used to defend against invasion and robbery in wartime, once there is something nearby, all nearby families, old and young, women and children can enter to hide, and in peacetime, they use more earth towers to store grain and grass

The small Kongtong loess towers reflect the Hui people's pursuit of deep and warm, simple and majestic, extremely powerful, aesthetic tendency, which soars to the sky and towers over the yellow clay towers, it can show the indomitable Hui people, dancing with the mountains and the national personality

It was these three forts that made Xu Zhanbiao return with a feather, because these three forts not only became a corner, so that the Qing army's offensive could not be opened, and each fort had four Francophone cannons, and the lethality of the shotgun was huge, and the Qing cannons could not shoot at the head of the city due to the range and elevation angle, so the small Kongtong loess towers became a roadblock for the Qing army to attack Dong Zhiyuan

Xu Zhanbiao's army came to Xiaokongtong North Road, and the main officers came, and they all wanted to see the power of imported Krupp cannons

In the ice and snow, thousands of civilians in Dong Zhiyuan built a fort, and built a fort under the enemy's nose, and the Li Zi battalion had already come to the front line for three days, and in these three days, the artillery officers overcame many difficulties, and the artillery officers calculated the accurate distance and height, and the engineers built three majestic wooden observation platforms with a height of more than 30 meters, and the observers could climb up to the observation platforms to observe the movement in the three forts one thousand meters away

Back to the army, the Qing officers and soldiers set up observation platforms and forts under their noses, there was no way, not far from the slope below the fortress, there were Qing soldiers guarding the heavy troops, and the five battalions of the Anhui army Guo Baochang were like a fierce beast, ready to devour the Hui army at any time, attacking the trenches, the Qing soldiers were hideous, all talking about the deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao, and wisely decided to kill and burn them all, rob them all, and not leave them behind, so as to avenge the dead comrades

Guo Baochang personally commanded the battle, has been on the front line to prepare the first attack, he looked at the three forts behind him, scolded in his mouth, is to blame Li Ziying, three days of friction, until now not a single shell fell into the enemy's fort, if said fierce, not afraid of death, brave to go to the city to fight, no one can compare to the Anhui army, this army is Zuo Zongtang's descendant troops

Don't look at Guo Baochang's complaint to Zuo Zongtang, really Zuo Zongtang immediately bowed down in front of him, hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in the northwest are under Zuo Zongtang's control, there is no combat effectiveness of the troops, Zuo Zongtang will not be brought to the Shaanxi and Gansu region to fight, of course, most of the Qing army is good at defending the city, most of the capital guards the strategic places, and the field troops can be pulled out, and these troops are about 50,000 or 60,000 horses, because the prerequisite for the field troops is to have cavalry, infantry equipment, and almost become an army, and the cavalry is piled up with silver, and the troops are cleared of artillery, and the conditions are good for cavalry

"Grandma, why don't you fire the cannon yet, what kind of herald to take a look, Vice Marshal Xu, why is it as cool as a small-footed old woman, okay" Guo Baochang was furious, in addition to being dissatisfied with Li Guolou, he had already spread his anger on Deputy Marshal Xu Zhanbiao, who kept looking at his pocket watch, and it was clear that the time had come, and the military order was like a mountain, saying that if he didn't fire the cannon at the good time, he should be killed

On the fort, Xu Zhanbiao held up the telescope and looked at the fortress thousands of kilometers away, and he could see the muzzle of the cannon of the Fran machine, and said solemnly: "Li Guolou, several cannons of the enemy are a big threat to our army, and we must first knock out the cannons."

Xu Zhanbiao, as the commander of an army, has experienced a hundred battles and nine deaths, and his life is fought out by a knife and a gun, and his military exploits are present at the scene, and he attaches great importance to this battle, the military order is cruel and ruthless, and if he wins

"It is to ensure the completion of the task, and the subordinates will definitely collapse the earth wall of the fortress, as long as you can see it visually, the bunker will be bulldozed," Li Guolou stroked the huge Krupp cannon, full of confidence in himself, and even the French were defeated by the Prussians, a fortress built with loess, and the powerful artillery fire was wiped out

"Well, let's start," Xu Zhanbiao gave an order, pinning the hope of attacking the fortified position on the Krupp cannon, for the Qing officers and soldiers, without these artillery, they would also attack Dong Zhiyuan, and the military order would be to the death, and they would also charge desperately, relying on flesh and blood to build the Great Wall

For the sake of the reunification of the motherland and the territorial integrity, the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were the pride of a country, and those who belittled them were traitors

"Yes," Li Guolou straightened his chest and protruded his belly, waved the command flag to prove his ability, and when the time came for him to smash the dream of independence with a thunderbolt of anger, people with dreams of independence, anti-Qing and anti-oppression, that is, independence, starting with local secession

Standing on the observation platform, the artillery observer waved the flag Xun Xi's face trembled and howled: "Open the cannon."

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The first huge cannonball, weighing forty pounds, shot through the barrel of the cannon in a graceful arc towards the high wall thousands of kilometers away

The smoke filled the air, and everyone looked at the sky, and the sparkling iron ball carried the revival of the Qing Dynasty, so that countless heroes and soldiers did not have to brave the enemy's artillery fire and rushed to the city wall with flesh and blood

There was a loud boom, and the cannonball smashed the frame of a Franco cannon on the wall, and the rope trembled, and the earthen wall trembled under the fire

One of the gunners who had been hiding behind the Furlong was torn apart, and the other was knocked down by the barrel and hit the rolling barrel and pressed on the observer's hands and feet

On another fort, Fan Ye commanded ten howitzers, and the first round of artillery salvos fired into the fort together, and a puff of smoke rose into the fort

"Put"

On the third battery, the Krupp cannon erupted in rage, and the third fort earthen wall withstood the first impact, and with a bang, a huge piece of loess fell from the earthen wall

"Hooray"

In the tunnels, the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty raised their arms and shouted, and the three forts were all punished as they deserved

"Beat me hard" Li Guolou waved his fist excitedly, the three fortresses were like a fierce beast, so that countless heroes and Qing officers and soldiers fell to the city, this time he wanted to avenge the dead heroes, so that the fortress became a ruin, and the resisters had no reason to live

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The heavy shells made Suo Suo tremble, and the earth wall fell into pieces of loess, and the Franc cannons had long been buried in the loess, and several Franco cannons had fallen from the city

"Good fight, good fight" Xu Zhanbiao loudly praised the brilliant results of the artillery, the defenders of the Hui army did not have the Franco, the cannon can make the siege war Daqing soldiers greatly reduce the mortality rate, but he also wants to see the brilliant results, the three forts into a corner, to break the enemy's fortifications, to destroy the three forts together, this sortie is just a small test, and when hundreds of artillery pieces are pulled out, Dong Zhiyuan will be smashed to pieces, and the Qing Dynasty Yellow Dragon Banner will be planted all over this motherland plateau

The smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and wave after wave of shells smashed into the earthen walls of the three forts, and the soldiers of the Hui army not only had to dodge the shells, but those shells seemed to have eyes, and each shell smashed into a crowded place

Guo Baochang cheered, and the loess poured down from the earthen wall of a fortress, and he was eager to charge, but the cannonballs whistling over his head still did not stop, and his eyes and hearts swallowed the words again

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An earthen wall watchtower was crushed, the watchtower in the back soldiers cried for their father and called their mother, there was no safe place on the earthen wall, the original proud dead corner was also hit by a cannonball, and another watchtower disappeared from front of the eyes, leaving only a pile of rubble

The mouths of the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were wide open, and the shelling made them feel small, and the earthen wall was like quicksand, moving and the earth trembling

One by one, the incendiary bombs disappeared into the fortress like a firebird, and the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty rose with thick smoke, and a fire was already burning inside the fortress

The earth wall was no longer visible, the figure was torn apart, the earth wall was blasted out of the gaps, and in some places it was possible to climb up without a ladder, and the three forts were destroyed by artillery fire, and the soldiers of the Hui army were blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and the stumps and flesh were flying everywhere

"Tick, tick, tick, tick" sounded the loud military horn, it was the Li Ziying military horn issued an attack horn, and the artillery on the battery opened fire into the fort, allowing the front-line soldiers to brave the artillery fire

Guo Baochang waved his hand and shouted: "The Qing warriors are rushing."

In the tsunami, thousands of Qing soldiers carried loaded bayonets, carried a large knife on their backs, carried bamboo ladders and rushed to the mountain beams, and countless Qing warriors braved artillery fire to advance, some of the Li Ziying artillerymen carried copper cannons, carried ammunition boxes, and also followed the large army to climb the earthen wall

The war was very cruel and bloody, relying on blood to defend honor, so which army climbed the head of the city, which unit benefited more, Guo Baochang, and the Anhui army accepted the dangerous mission, and no one else was allowed to get involved in everything in the three fortresses

But because of the artillery attack of Li Zi's battalion, Guo Baochang agreed to let Li Guolou's 200 men participate in climbing the fort, as long as he has his life, he can do whatever he wants, this is the law of war, even if Li Guolou does not cut down on burning, killing and looting, but his soldiers have already broken out of bestiality, more than 2,000 people have robbed these 200 places, everyone is not afraid of death, and he must use killing to prove that he has become a qualified soldier

A group of outlaws in the Li Ziying camp also climbed the head of the city, and several gunners climbed the mound of earth, erected copper cannons, and began to bombard the gap, turning the originally small gap into a big gap

The bronze cannon is flexible and convenient, and the two gunners can lift and run at close range, firing hundreds of shots, and the rumbling explosions are coming and going, and there are gunners in every gap

"Okay, well, I want all these artillery," Guo Baochang was excited to see that he was rich, and Guo Zi's battalion also wanted to establish an artillery battalion

After seeing the power of the cannon salvo, Guo Baochang had an understanding, the place where the money should be spent is still willing to spend money, like Li Ziying, everything is not begging, only he came up and slapped Li Guolou's ass, the modern army should be so powerful, no wonder Li Ziying can eliminate more than 2,000 Hui cavalry at a time, this wall is easy to hit a round of bombardment, the Hui army in the fortress is wiped out, I am afraid that the Hui army on the earthen wall is almost dead

The Hui army guarding the fort has long been defeated, and the earthen walls are full of corpses, with bayonets, led by officers and sentinels of the Qing Dynasty, rushing with guns, cannons, trumpets, shouting and killing, and the smoke of gunpowder fills the air, and the lion flags are planted high on the big earthen walls, and the bronze cannons and howitzers are erected to bombard the fortress, and the war picture scroll is so long and so bloody

"Okay, so many military flags have been planted, Guo Ziying is good," Deputy Marshal Xu Zhanbiao rubbed his eyes, he couldn't believe that his eyes were not tragic, and the land was not full of corpses of Qing soldiers, and the three forts were covered with snow-capped mountains and lion flags

"Glory and glory belong to the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty", Li Guolou's eyes were full of tears, for a nation, for a country fearless of death, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty paid their youth and blood, and proved the rise of the Chinese nation with loyalty and bravery, and he personally witnessed this moment