Chapter 50: Thwarting the Assassins with a rangefinder

During this period of time, it happened to be Xiaoqing's school holiday. So Zhang Zhimu takes Xiaoqing and Xiaohu to swim every day. Yang Yulin followed to watch the excitement at night when she had nothing to do, she was a pure landlubber and resolutely did not go into the water. After a few times, I saw Xiaoqing and Xiaohu swimming happily in the water, and I couldn't resist Zhang Zhimu's persuasion, so I also went into the water to learn to swim. So that more people go swimming at night. Huang Yukun was very angry when she heard that Yang Yulin also went into the water to swim, she felt that it was really unseemly for a woman to wear a little bit of water in the water, but what Yang Yulin wanted to do, it was useless for anyone to say, as long as Zhang Zhimu did not object.

Xiaoqing and Xiaohu like to go swimming, probably half of the reason is because after swimming, Zhang Zhimu will take them to eat a delicious meal, and they can eat whatever they want. This kind of thing is definitely the happiest thing for the two of them. So the two children didn't eat well for dinner, because they were both thinking about what they had eaten in the evening. However, Zhang Zhimu knew that if they didn't eat enough, they wouldn't be able to swim at night, so he had to persuade them to eat something.

Huang Yukun said to Zhang Zhimu: "The children are all spoiled. ”

After swimming with Yang Yulin and the children today, after eating supper, he was a little tired, and Zhang Zhimu wanted to go to bed earlier.

Zhang Zhimu's three-story building has an independent courtyard. Huang Yukun's cousin lives on the first floor, Huang Yukun, Xiaoqing and Xiaohu's rooms are on the second floor, and Zhang Zhimu and Yang Yulin also have their own rooms, which are on the third floor.

For safety reasons, all the windows on the first floor are fitted with iron railings. There were soldiers standing guard on all sides of the building. Fangcheng of Yaogang enclosed all the buildings on the entire gang inside, and the gate of Fangcheng was closed at night, which was much safer.

Although Zhang Zhimu knew that Li Zicheng's people had infiltrated the kiln, most of the people who lived in Fangcheng at night were people who had come to the kiln a long time ago. Almost everyone Li Zhi has carefully examined it. Zhang Zhimu is still relieved about Li Zhi's work.

Despite this, Zhang Zhimu still asked Huang Yukun and Yang Yulin to keep the pistol out of his reach at night. Huang Yukun didn't think so, she was afraid that Xiaohu Xiaoqing would not be safe to get the pistol, so she kept the pistol locked in the box. But after Zhang Zhimu told her the seriousness of the matter, Huang Yukun would also take out the pistol at night, and put the gun in the box when he got up in the morning. Needless to say about this kind of thing, Yang Yulin, not only did she put the pistol in her house, but also the rifle in the house.

Zhang Zhimu When they walked back from outside, light snow began to fall, and the snow never stopped.

Although the soldiers standing guard on Fangcheng were all wearing fur coats, they still felt very cold in the cold wind from the heights, and they all hid in a place to hide from the wind and shrank their heads. Because Fangcheng is a five-story building, no one can come up, so they think that standing guard is also on duty, and they don't have the slightest vigilance. They didn't know that in the snow outside the wood outside the square city, there were more than a dozen people in white cloaks who were staring at the city. After midnight, the guards in the city changed shifts, and the people in the city did not move, because they knew that the people who had just taken up their posts were generally more vigilant. After a while, the sentry was completely frozen, so he went back to find a shelter and hid in the wind.

The person who was waiting for the ambush outside Fangcheng felt that it was almost over, and the leader waved his hand to the back, and a person wearing a white cloak and holding two bamboo poles in his hand quickly crawled to the bottom of Fangcheng on the ground, came to the city, stood up against the wall, connected the two bamboo poles in his hand into one, and sent the bamboo pole up against the wall, there was a hook on the bamboo pole, and hooked the edge of the iron window outside the window on the second floor. Since the kiln gang square city is composed of buildings built on four sides, there are windows from the second floor onwards, and for the needs of defense, there are a layer of iron windows outside the windows. When the iron window was exposed to the wall, the man hooked the iron window with a hook. This hook that hooks the iron window has a rope attached to it. The man tested the strength of the rope with his hand and felt that it could withstand the man. He grabbed the rope with both hands, and climbed up quickly like an ape. When he reached the second floor, he wrapped his foot around the rope, freed up one hand, lifted the bamboo pole, and once again hooked a hook to the window on the fourth floor. This man appears and disappears in the wind and snow that blows in the cold wind. When the man had gone up to the fourth floor, he stretched out the bamboo pole again, and hooked the hook to the buttress on the upper floor. The man held his breath, slowly climbed the mountain, and when he put his hand on the battlement, he turned over and climbed onto the battlement. Unexpectedly, the soldier standing guard above happened to avoid the wind with his arms closed under the battlement, he heard that there seemed to be movement, and when he opened his eyes, a person appeared in front of him, and he didn't see what was going on. A throwing knife was plunged directly into his throat. The soldier held the throwing knife stuck in his throat in his hand and tried to stand up, but he had no strength and fell down unwillingly. I guess he's still thinking that no one should come up from there.

After the man had killed the sentry, he crawled on the ground and came to the sentry standing guard on the other side. The sentry was also squatting under the battlement and taking a nap in his arms, and someone climbed to his side and didn't notice it, but someone cut his throat with a knife.

The man who climbed up to the city quickly returned to the place where he had gone up, and dropped a thin rope, and the people below tied the head of a thick rope to the thin rope, and the people above pulled the thick rope up with a thin rope, and quickly tied it to the battlements, and then shook the rope downward. The people below knew that the top was fixed, so they climbed up along the rope one by one. All of these people are athletic, and there is no mud and water in the process of going to the city, and they are obviously all trained. There were twelve men who came to the city. They climbed on the top of the city and looked inside the city, and the whole city was already asleep peacefully. And they tied a great rope to the battlement, and went down to the city by the cord. When they had all come down, they gathered together and muttered, and the leader waved his hand. The twelve people divided into two teams and went straight to Zhang Zhimu's three-story building.

Zhang Zhimu's courtyard has a soldier standing guard at each of the four corners, according to the requirements, the soldiers in one corner can see the soldiers standing guard in the other two corners, if there is a problem with the soldiers standing guard in one corner, the soldiers in the other two corners can find out, so that they can issue a warning.

But when such an ordinary soldier faced these supreme masters, his fate had already been decided. While the four soldiers were shivering in the wind and snow, a person jumped up next to them almost at the same time, and they were all killed by the silent blow of the leaping person.

Zhang Zhimu's yard is not only manned outside, but there are also two people on duty in the yard. They would keep patrolling the yard. The attackers obviously knew the situation in the courtyard, they took the human ladder alone, slowly stretched their heads to the wall to look inside, and found that when the two people walked along the root of the wall to the front of them, they suddenly sent out two flying knives, and the flying knives were directly inserted into the necks and throats of the two people, and the two people struggled for a while, and there was no movement. But it was this struggling movement that attracted the attention of Saihu in the yard, and he rushed out of the nest and screamed into the yard. But the people outside the courtyard wall quickly retracted their heads. Saihu didn't hear the sound, so he retreated into the nest. But it seemed to smell something wrong, and snorted twice with its nose, but when it saw that there was no movement, it didn't make any more noise.

Saihu's cry frightened the attackers outside into a cold sweat. The attackers outside took out the prepared things and threw them at the door of Saihu's den, but Saihu came out and sniffed it, screamed a few times and didn't eat. When he saw that there was no movement, he went back to his nest.

This made the people outside anxious and had no choice, so they had to break in.

The men jumped into the yard from all four directions together, and Saihu heard the voice barking wildly.

But at this time, the cry of the race tiger was even more terrifying, from the balcony on the third floor, the sound of a string of automatic rifles rang out, three people were knocked to the ground on the spot, and the others immediately rolled and hid, and after another burst of gunfire, there was a scream, indicating that another person below had been shot. At this time, the people downstairs began to return fire with muskets. They had taken it from the soldiers standing guard downstairs. Yang Yulin hurriedly returned to the house from the balcony. The bullets shattered the glass on the third floor.

Zhang Zhimu in the house said: "Yulin, you go and guard the stairs, hold on for a while, and our people will arrive soon." ”

The assassination of Zhang Zhimu by these 12 attackers was an inevitable operation that Li Zicheng's intelligence department had only begun after a long period of preparation. The timing of this operation was chosen before Li Zicheng's army was about to encircle Taiyuan (Jinyang), so that if the operation was successful, Li Zicheng's Dashun army would arrive, and the Yaogang people were still in chaos. In order to cooperate with this operation and leave Zhang Zhimu in a state of paralysis, Li Zicheng ordered not to take any action against Yaogang.

But what they never expected was that it was the first cry of the tiger that made Yang Yulin jump up from the bed, and while jumping out of bed, he also picked up the rifle. Yang Yulin, who has extremely sensitive ears, has already heard that Saihu's cry is different. Usually, Saihu will never bark at night for no reason.

Yang Yulin, who didn't even wear a coat. came to Zhang Zhimu's room and shouted, "If there is a situation, get up quickly!" The people who turned to the second floor and pushed Huang Yukun away shouted, "If there is a situation, go to the third floor." ”

Then Yang Yulin jumped to the first floor, pushed the door of her cousin's room, the door was locked from the inside, Yang Yulin raised her foot and kicked the door open, and shouted to her cousin: "Hurry up, go up to the third floor, there is a situation." ”

The sleeping cousin was woken up by Yang Yulin's kicking of the door, and was very unhappy, but when she heard Yang Yulin shouting that there was a situation, although she was not satisfied, she didn't squeak, so she groped for clothes, Yang Yulin was angry and went up with a mouth, and then dragged her directly upstairs. Only then did the cousin who suffered a mouth know that something was wrong, otherwise Yang Yulin would not be in such a hurry. She had no choice but to endure it and didn't dare to say anything.

Yang Yulin had just taken her cousin up to the second floor, and Huang Yukun, who was holding the child, was getting Xiaoqing and Xiaohu out of their bed and walking to the third floor.

Yang Yulin got everyone to Zhang Zhimu's room, and at this time Zhang Zhimu had already put on his clothes and held a pistol, and lifted the corner of the curtain to look outside. Seeing Yang Yulin and them coming in, Zhang Zhimu said: "I called the duty room and told them that we have a situation here, and asked them to send someone over quickly." ”

Yang Yulin said: "Great, I think the sound of the tiger is wrong. Get down on your stomach, I'll see! Saying that, Yang Yulin quietly opened the door of the balcony, came to the balcony with a gun, just in time for the people outside to jump into the yard, Yang Yulin held the gun to the three people on the opposite side is to pull the trigger, a string of bullets, hit the three people on the opposite side, turned the muzzle of the gun and knocked down another one. At this time, the man who jumped into the courtyard opened fire. Yang Yulin had no choice but to retreat into the house. Zhang Zhimu said that she should guard the stairs, and Yang Yulin came to the staircase with a gun. At the top of the stairs, Yang Yulin could hear the sound of someone kicking the door open on the first floor. Then someone ran upstairs. When these people got to the second floor and looked at the third floor, they took their guns and slowly went up to the third floor, and Yang Yulin hit the stairs again. On the stairs, with a few screams, a few people rolled down with a grunt.

Yang Yulin was guarding at the staircase, Zhang Zhimu was very relieved, he held a pistol, looked out through the window, and suddenly found that two pairs of hands appeared on the handrail of the balcony, Zhang Zhimu knew that someone came up, held the pistol to the balcony, and as soon as the two heads appeared, Zhang Zhimu "dangdang" was two shots, and the two people fell from the balcony, and then heard the sound of falling to the ground.

Zhang Zhimu suddenly thought that Yang Yulin's room also had a balcony, and said to Huang Yukun: "Tell Yulin to pay attention to that balcony." My cousin became very smart this time, and without waiting for Huang Yukun to act, she went out and said to Yang Yulin: "Look at the balcony, someone has just come up here." ”

Yang Yulin glanced at the staircase, no one came up for the time being, so he came to the outside of his room, suddenly kicked the door open, and then flashed, at this time, a fine light flashed in front of Yang Yulin, and it turned out to be a flying knife. Yang Yulin, who flashed around, held a gun and shot a long shot, and the two people who were about to rush over in the room were beaten into a sieve.

Huang Yukun in the room heard the gunshots outside, seemed very calm, put the child on the bed, took the pistol and said to Zhang Zhimu: "You can't rely on Yulin alone outside, I look at this window, you go and help her." ”

Zhang Zhimu helped Huang Yukun open the pistol safety and said, "Just face the balcony." After speaking, Zhang Zhimu came to the corridor and said to Yang Yulin: "You look at the stairs, I look at the balcony." ”

At this time, the searchlight on Fangcheng shone directly in Zhang Zhimu's courtyard. There were a large number of people running around the courtyard.

The leader who commanded the operation knew that today's operation was a complete failure. It was supposed to be a sneak attack, but there was no way, it turned into a strong attack. As a result, only two people are now left. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he was killed by an unknown musket on the third floor, and another was killed when he shot at each other. During the storm, one was killed and one wounded on the stairs, and it seems that the four people who attacked from the balcony of two people were also unlucky.

The leader said, "Let's rush out before dawn." ”

After saying that, the two of them divided into two directions and rushed out. The leader jumped onto the courtyard wall, but before he could stand firmly, he was kicked down, and Chen Yufeng, who came down with him, stepped on him with his foot. The soldiers who came in from behind came up and tied him up.

The other suddenly crossed the wall in the other direction, and the soldiers who had just surrounded him went up and slashed him with their swords, but it was not this man's opponent, and the two of them were knocked down, and he ran over. A group of soldiers chased him from behind. The soldiers knew that he could not escape with the gates closed. But as he pursued him, he ran to the bottom of the city, and there was a great rope hanging down from the wall, and the man ran to the rope, and seized the rope and climbed up, but when he was halfway up, the searchlight shone on him, and torches were lit on the city. This person is neither up nor down, just hanging in mid-air.

The officer who came over with the troops on duty tonight came to the city and shouted, "Hey! Come down to the one who hangs. After a while, it will freeze into jerky. ”

The man had no choice but to go down the rope and tie his hands and arrest him.

Chen Yufeng entered the building, checked inside and out, and found no one else. The injured one had already broken himself.

Seeing Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng asked, "Is anyone hurt?" Why didn't Li Jing, the rabbit cub, send someone here, aren't they in charge of guarding here? ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It's okay, thanks to Yang Yulin who is very vigilant, otherwise the consequences will be miserable." The people who came here today are all masters. It's just that they didn't expect that our weapons are much stronger than theirs. I don't blame Li Jing for today's incident, the gate of Fangcheng here is closed every day, I thought it would be fine, so I asked him to withdraw his special army, and now it is estimated that his people have also been sent out. ”

"With Yang Yulin here, I'm also a little careless. However, in terms of vigilance, few people can compare to Yulin. She also practiced with his father, and without these two hits, she would have been buried outside. Chen Yufeng said.

Zhang Zhimu said: "King Chuang didn't succeed this time, so it's time to come hard." ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Many of Li Zicheng's troops are not far from Taiyuan. Soon they will surround Taiyuan. Take Taiyuan, they will be us next. Don't worry about it for now, let Yukun and the children come to my side first, it's dawn soon, clean up here, and then come back. ”

At this time, Huang Yukun hugged the child and took Xiaoqinghe and Xiaohu downstairs. Zhang Zhimu went over and touched the heads of the two children and asked, "Are you scared?" ”

"I'm a little scared." Xiaoqing said very honestly.

Xiaohu said, "Uncle, I want a gun." ”

"Well done, like a man. When you're older, I'll give you a gun. Zhang Zhimu said, and then looked at the sleeping Erhu and said: "This little guy, when he heard the gunshot, he woke up and cried twice, and then fell asleep again." It must be good in the future. ”

"My Saihu." At this time, Xiaohu said suddenly, and then ran out. After a while, I heard Xiaohu "Wow! He cried.

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly went out to take a look, and it turned out that Saihu was lying outside covered in blood and trembling. Zhang Zhimu looked over and saw that there were two darts in Saihu's body.

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly carried Saihu into the house, took hemostatic medicine, and pulled out the two darts with all his strength, Saihu just made a little sound in his throat. Zhang Zhimu used hemostatic medicine, put a compress on Saihu, and then bandaged Saihu with gauze. He also brought a quilt and covered it with Saihu.

After doing this, Zhang Zhimu said: "Saihu saved us again. I don't know if Saihu can survive this time? ”

Xiaohu cried again, Saihu is Xiaohu's best partner, Saihu's is a cub, no one else can touch it, but Xiaohu can touch it.

Zhang Zhimu touched Xiaohu's head and said, "You go to sleep with your mother first." Maybe you'll wake up tomorrow and Saihu will be much better. ”

After arranging their families, Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng came to the command center. Ouyang He and the others also came when they heard the gunshots.

After listening to Zhang Zhimu's briefing, Yan Boju said: "His mother is too suspenseful today. Zhimu, your guards need to be strengthened. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "There are 12 people who came today, all of them are good hands, otherwise they would not have been able to cross this city wall." There are two more alive. Li Zhi and they are interrogating, but I am worried that there are still spies that have not been caught. ”

At dawn, Li Zhi came to report and said, "There is a man who has committed suicide by biting his tongue." The other confessed that there were four more people in our kiln. Two were in the reserve of the reclamation team, but they didn't contact them because our positions were closed. These two are also masters, so we have to be careful when we catch them. The other one he confessed was the one who gave them the "Kiln Gang Weekly", and the other one worked as a handyman in our school. We'll go get them in a moment. However, the command center needs to give us a token to enter the position. ”

The gunshots last night caused quite a stir in the kiln. However, as soon as the morning dawned, all departments of the kiln gang were dispatched to introduce the situation last night, and everyone quickly stabilized.

Everything is going on in the kiln.

As soon as Zhang Zhimu returned to the office, Sun Liang came with someone. Sun Liang, who has always been very steady, looked excited. Zhang Zhimu knew that Sun Liang had made good things again.

Sure enough, when Sun Liang saw Zhang Zhimu, he asked the people who came with him to open a box he brought, and set up a tripod on the floor of the office. Then put the device on again. Zhang Zhimu knew at a glance that the rangefinder had been done.

Sun Liang said: "Mr. Zhang, our rangefinder has finally been done. We made a few in a row and used them to check each other. We also went to Li Yunhe's shooting range, actually measured some distances, and then measured them with a rangefinder, and finally calibrated them. This thing is very accurate. ”

Zhang Zhimu followed the method of Sun Liangjiao, through the window, to observe from a distance. I think it's very convenient to use. Zhang Zhimu said: "You immediately take this thing to the command center and report it to Mr. Chen and Mr. Ouyang." Then give the adjusted rangefinder to Li Wei and them, and we will be able to use this thing in no time. ”

Sun Liang said, "Okay, let's go to the command center now." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "When you go back, you will have to produce a few more rangefinders." This thing is too useful on the battlefield. But at the same time, you'll also have to look at rangefinders with longer baselines. In the future, our warships will need rangefinders that are even farther away. However, if you do it again, you also have to consider the influence of thermal expansion and contraction of the lens on the accuracy. In the past, someone had built a baseline rangefinder of more than ten meters, which was used to install it on the mast of a sailing ship. You can start with five or six meters and take your time. ”

Sun Liang said: "In fact, the difficulty of five or six meters is the same as that of ten meters. Let's go back and figure out what to do. The main thing is to see what our warship mountain needs. When I have time, I'll go to Lingshui Wharf and discuss it with their sailors. ”

Seeing that Sun Liang has grown into a talent who can have independent opinions and can take charge of himself, Zhang Zhimu is happier than seeing the success of the rangefinder.

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Paragliding, rubber model airplanes, piano making, and building an air force. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".