Chapter Fifty-Three: Night Attack on Lanzhou, Treasure Stolen

When the battle started on the Guyuan side, Ningde and the others had already approached Lanzhou. Before the army arrived in Lanzhou, Meng Si'er sent a telegram to Ningde. What Meng Si'er means is that this time they will take advantage of their internal response in Lanzhou to perform another sneak attack play. Ningde, of course, wanted this the most. Therefore, the army did not arrive in Lanzhou and camped in advance.

At this time, the Dashun army in Lanzhou had already reported that the Yaogang army had come over, and it was determined that the Yaogang people would come to the city tomorrow. The city of Lanzhou was busy, and the mighty general finally did not make up his mind to abandon the city. They had no choice but to defend Lanzhou. However, some generals have quietly arranged for their families to cross the Yellow River and flee west.

That night, the cavalry of Ningde and their brigade suddenly rose up and went straight to Lanzhou, and Zhao Jinli also urged everyone to hurry up and pack up, and led the infantry overnight to follow Ningde and them to Lanzhou to advance.

Meng Si'er and the others arranged for everyone to sleep well during the day, and they got up at night. Everyone brought their weapons and quietly went out, dodging and going straight to the east gate of Lanzhou. Before leaving, Meng Si'er contacted them through the radio, and they knew that Ningde had brought a large number of cavalry to hide outside the east gate of Lanzhou. Just waiting for Meng Si'er and them to open the city gate. As soon as the gates were opened, they rushed into the city.

However, when Meng Si'er came to the east gate, he found that the situation was not good. Because the Dashun army knew that the Yaogang people were not far away, although they would be able to go to Lanzhou City tomorrow, they had strengthened their vigilance today. There were a few sentinels on the front of the city gate, but now there are more than a dozen. Two stood guards, and the others rested against the fortifications inside the city gates. Several large torches are lit here, illuminating the front of the city gate. Apparently, there were also additional soldiers on the city gate tower.

As soon as Meng Si'er saw the situation, the sweat came down. However, he did not move, and waved his more than 30 people to hide in a courtyard. Then he briefed Ningde on the radio about the situation. Meng Si'er's suggestion was that he prepared to divide his troops into two routes, all the way directly to the city gate building, occupy the city gate building, and put down the suspension bridge; The other rushed directly to the city gate and opened the city gate. This required the cavalry outside the city to rush in as quickly as possible. Because these people couldn't hold out for too long against the Dashun army of the brigade.

"That's it," said Ningde, "as soon as the drawbridge is lowered and the city gate is opened, they will be able to rush in immediately." ”

Meng Si'er returned to the city with their men and attacked a patrol of twenty people on a remote street. When the patrol turned, they suddenly jumped out and beat them all to death with ****. The body was then dragged into a yard. Twenty men changed into patrol clothes, came to the city gate, and walked from the side road to the city gate tower. As soon as they walked to the city, someone in the Dashun army in front of the city gate said, "Hey, it's weird! What are the patrols in the city doing on our walls? Something is wrong, right? ”

Another said, "Don't worry about it." If you ask someone, they might wave their hand and give you a mouthful. ”

At this time, Meng Si'er and the others had more than a dozen people left, and they quickly rushed towards them. They knew the situation was bad at first glance and shouted "Stop! Hold it! ”。 But when they raised their spears, the continuous bullets in the hands of these people who rushed over knocked them all into holes, and these soldiers fell here unwillingly. At the same time, such a scene was also staged on the city gate tower. However, Meng Si'er and the others shot closer, because they were wearing Dashun Army armor and were easy to approach the Dashun Army soldiers.

However, this time the shouts of the sentinels alarmed the nearby Dashun army. They are all very vigilant in these extraordinary times. Hearing someone shouting, a group of men immediately rushed towards the city gate. More than a dozen people who rushed to the city gate left four people to block the soldiers of the Dashun army, and the others hurriedly rushed to the city gate, removed the top door bolt, and several people pushed the city gate open with a "squeak". The officers and soldiers of Dashun who rushed over saw the city gate open from a distance. They understood that someone was going to open the city gate, and needless to say, it must be the kiln men outside. These people rushed over desperately, and the four of Meng Si'er's people were waiting for them with automatic rifles. Seeing that it didn't work, he didn't care about the expansion of the impact of the gunshots, and shot at these Dashun soldiers. The fiery red bullets fired by "Papapa" knocked the rapidly charging Dashun soldiers to the ground one by one. Those soldiers of the Dashun Army who did not fall still rushed over without hesitation. But no matter how fast they charged, they couldn't get as fast as the bullets of automatic rifles. This group of more than 30 Dashun soldiers, wielding broadswords and spears, were all hit by four rifles.

When they opened the city gate here, Meng Si'er and his people also put the drawbridge while blocking the soldiers of the Dashun Army who rushed from both sides of the city wall.

At this time, hearing the sound of gunfire on the side of the city gate, Ning De had already commanded the cavalry to come to the front of the drawbridge. When the drawbridge was finally lowered, the cavalry of the kiln gang people rushed across the drawbridge and rushed into the city gate building. The cavalry who rushed in first rushed along the side road to the top of the city gate tower, and they were going to support the defenders above, because Ning De told them that now the city gate tower was our internal response, and they had too few people, so they had to support them as soon as possible. When a company of soldiers rushed up to the city gate, Meng Si'er and the others had already killed a lot of the Dashun troops who had rushed over from both sides of the city wall. However, the Dashun army knew the importance of this place better, and they continued to charge one after another, and the corpses almost blocked the passage of the city wall. Meng Si'er grabbed a few rifles and almost hit the barrel of the gun. Supporting Meng Si'er, the soldiers of their kiln gang came up, Meng Si'er handed over the task of defending the city gate and building to them, and their people were sweating profusely one by one leaning on the battlements of the city wall and panting, Meng Si'er knew that the overall situation had been decided now.

The cavalry of the Dashun Army, which rushed in later, did not stop at the city gate, the rifles in their hands kept spewing tongues of fire, and they rushed towards their assigned targets non-stop. Those Dashun officers and soldiers who were awakened by the sound of gunfire and hand explosions immediately fought with the kiln soldiers who rushed into the city.

The mighty general in the city of Lanzhou originally wanted to sleep well today, because tomorrow the Yaogang soldiers will come to the city, and he may not have a chance to sleep well. I didn't expect the Yaogang people to come to attack today. At first, he was startled when he heard the gunshots, but then he heard not a lot of gunshots, and it didn't look like a large group of people had come in. However, the soldiers who came in reported that the gunshots were coming from the direction of the east city gate, and it was likely from the city gate building. The mighty general was shocked and shouted: "Go and support the east gate, they want to open the city gate, and the kiln gang people must be outside the city." ”

But it was too late, he had just gathered some troops, and the gunfire had already spread from the direction of Dongcheng to the whole city.

As soon as the group of men and horses it assembled came into the street, it was dispersed by a group of kiln cavalry rushing over. His team had no ability to resist the Yaogang cavalry, because the "muskets" in the hands of the Yaogang cavalry were too powerful, and a dozen were a string.

The mighty general had no choice but to retreat to the courtyard of the general's yamen with the team around him.

Towards dawn, there was a battle in the city. In all directions of the city, there were gunshots, hand explosions, and shouts. Because there are 40,000 troops in the city of Lanzhou, the density is too large. These soldiers, who had nowhere to run, put up a desperate resistance. The mighty general hiding in the general's yamen also had no way, and now he had a limited number of troops at hand, and as soon as this little force came out of the general's yamen, it would be eaten immediately. At dawn, Zhao Jinli led a large group of infantry into the city. In this way, the city of Lanzhou was even more crowded, but fortunately, most of the soldiers of the Dashun army fell to the ground. Zhao Jinli, who entered the city, commanded everyone to start searching for the remnants of the enemy. Until noon, the gunfire in the city fell silent.

At the same time as entering the city, Ningde had already sent a team of men and horses to the Zhenyuan Bridge outside the city to take over the pontoon bridge, and then sent troops to cross the river along the pontoon bridge and occupy the bridgehead on the west bank.

Ning De and Meng Si'er were on the East City Gate Tower, watching the battle in the city. The gunshots stopped. Ningde ordered the transport team to drive the steel spring carriage into the city, and immediately pulled the dead out of the city, and the old way was cremated on the edge of the Yellow River. After cleaning up the remnants of the enemy in the city and transporting the corpses, it was dark.

A rough count showed that nearly 30,000 corpses were transported out and more than 10,000 were taken prisoner. What's even more interesting is that this time two mighty generals were captured alive.

When the radio in Yaogang was once again reported about the achievements of the Yaogang people in Lanzhou, Li Zicheng couldn't help but burst into tears. He was very remorseful in his heart. He ran out, but his officers and soldiers who did not come out, from Ningxia Mansion, Yulinwei, Qingyang Mansion, Guyuan to today's Lanzhou, all knew that they were invincible, not to mention that they had a bloody battle with the Yaogang people. Deep self-blame made Li Zicheng unable to eat for several days and fell seriously ill.

After Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang divided their troops, there was no major battle along the way, and they rushed to Xianyang along the Qin Straight Road, and then stayed on the north bank of the Wei River, and he took a few people to Xi'an to meet Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He.

As soon as Liu Yun entered Xi'an, he couldn't believe the scene in front of him. There is no indication here that a major change has just occurred. The streets are full of people, people doing business shopping, coming and going, a peaceful scene.

Chen Yufeng and the others set up the command center of the former enemy in the yamen of the Shaanxi capital command envoy of the original Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Liu Yun came in, Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He, and Li Jing, who had already received the news that Liu Yun was coming, were already waiting here.

It has been two and a half months since the war began. After so many battles during this period, they all looked forward to meeting.

But after they had met and greeted each other, there seemed to be not much to say, for almost every day they communicated by telegram. Nothing more about general things.

Ouyang He smiled and said, "Hehe! Although we have been apart for so long, we have more communication than usual. That's the benefit of our communication tools. ”

"yes, I'm afraid that in the future, if we don't have a radio station, we won't have a war." Liu Yun also deeply felt that he couldn't do without the radio.

"Don't worry! "I heard Zhimu say that I might bring a radio station to every soldier in the future." ”

"Haha!" After listening to Chen Yufeng's serious words, several people laughed.

Li Jingle bent down and said, "Haha! Every soldier carries a radio station, so he doesn't have to fight, and he is tired to death! ”

Ouyang He took it and said, "However, have you heard Mr. Zhang tell a lie?" Let's just say that this radio station, if you weren't all using it, did you believe there would be this thing before? ”

Liu Yun said: "Yes! Maybe Mr. Zhang will be able to get something for us in the future. ”

"Liu Yun, it's just right for you to come back, we are going to hand over the area south of Weishui to you. It is mainly responsible for the exit of those Qinling Mountains. Mr. Ouyang and I are going to Lanzhou, and someone here must be in charge. Chen Yufeng said.

"Yes, Uncle Shi. You can go without worry, I will take care of it here. "Liu Yun knows that you can't leave people here.

"In the evening, let's have a good drink and celebrate our teacher." Ouyang He said, "We haven't drunk alcohol for a long time, so we take the opportunity to take a vow." ”

"Senior brother, I'll invite you to dinner at noon!" Li Jing said, "I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"Good! Don't be careful, you kid. Liu Yun said, "This time you showed your face again." Tell me what's going on with you! ”

Liu Yun and Li Jing both changed into casual clothes and found a clean restaurant in Xi'an City to sit down. I ordered a few Shaanxi dishes and drank them. It's been a long time since they've been so idle. In the past, Li Jing trusted Liu Yun very much, and Liu Yun also liked Li Jing very much.

After a few glasses of wine, Li Jing told Liu Yun about him taking people to take treasures.

Li Jing took a squadron of its own special forces, a battalion of soldiers and a hundred steel spring carriages, led by the two brothers who had returned from reconnaissance, and rushed to the treasure place at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains.

When they entered the pass, they left a company of soldiers to block the pass. The rest of the men continued into the mountains. When they came to the place where the wagons were parked, they were all gone, except for some tents, in which no one had moved.

Li Jing suddenly had a little bad feeling, because so many carriages were gone, which means that there must be a lot of people coming back here.

Li Jing asked the two people who had returned from the reconnaissance: "Did the stragglers who robbed your horse come in and pulled the carriage away?" ”

"I can't. It's okay for the stragglers to ask for horses, but what do they want wagons for? When a man said this, he was surprised, "Are they ......?"

He wanted to say that they had gone to take the treasure, but he didn't dare to say more.

Li Jing glared at them and said, "Hurry up, they didn't succeed so quickly." Speaking of this, Li Jing suddenly waved her hand and shouted, "Stop!" If someone moves in front of us, there will be no sentries on the road. ”

Li Jing arranged for one of the two people who came back from the reconnaissance to lead a team of special forces to reconnoiter and advance in front. The other took Li Jing with them, and they followed.

The special forces who led a team of special forces to reconnoiter the advance in front were depressed in their hearts. How could anyone go ahead of them to claim the treasure? No one has found out what's going on.

The group of them traveled carefully and quickly all the way, but they never found anything unusual. When they came to the front of the place where the treasure was unloaded, they heard someone talking in the distance.

They cautiously leaned up to take a look, and found that the original carriage had indeed been driven here. There are a lot of people gathered around the carriage here. What made the special forces who led the team nervous was that these people carried out the box containing the treasure from the treasure and were loading it into the car.

He told the special forces to quietly retreat, hide in the woods, and then told them not to move. He hurriedly ran back to inform Li Jing of the situation here. For he was afraid of alarming these people, and as soon as they ran away, they probably ran away with their treasures.

When Li Jing heard him come back, she was also shocked. Li Jing asked the two to draw a rough map of the vicinity of the treasure spot. Li Jing looked at it for a while and said, "We surround this place from the outside, and then shrink to the center. ”

According to Li Jing's command, everyone divided into several ways to surround it.

What no one could have imagined was that it was actually some of the soldiers Li Laiheng wanted to kill who were now carrying people out of the treasure cave.

At that meal, it was not only the three of them who did not eat, so it was not Li Laiheng and his two personal soldiers who were not poisoned.

The soldiers brought by Li Laiheng are all people with outstanding martial arts and extremely shrewd people. They killed the coachmen in the valleys, and they were all afraid that they would be killed, so a few people who were usually very good relations looked at each other and did not eat. They all slept in a tent. They heard the tossing of the brothers in the other tents when the poison was attacked, and they knew that things were as they had judged, and that Li Laiheng was going to kill them. They are usually afraid of Li Laiheng, whether it is Li Laiheng's status or ineffectiveness, they are afraid. So they didn't dare to move, and they didn't know what to do. Li Laiheng took two personal soldiers and went from tent to tent to check their lives and deaths. They thought that they were going to die today, because Li Laiheng's martial arts were something they couldn't deal with. However, Li Laiheng's personal soldiers saw that the soldiers were all poisoned, and they were afraid that they would be killed, so they ran apart. Li Laiheng caught up with one and hacked one to death, and chased the other. I didn't check it out here. But they didn't know where Li Laiheng was now, they still didn't dare to move on their stomachs. But a few people will come back later. They understood, and the person who came seemed to have tied up Li Laiheng and held one of Li Laiheng's personal soldiers. But the visitors did not check their tents, so they escaped.

When the visitors had gone overnight, they heard that there was really no sound outside, so they climbed out of the tent, found something that had not been poisoned, and walked out of the mountain.

When it was almost dark, he encountered three or four hundred stragglers. Upon asking them, they came across a carriage that had gone out of here yesterday. They didn't know that it was the carriage carrying Li Laiheng through.

By the rules, they didn't say much to the stragglers. They still want to get out of here, they don't want people to know they're alive. However, two days after they left here, they knew that Li Zicheng had left Xi'an and left from Shangyu Ancient Road. Now there is nowhere to go. The dozen or so people who escaped from death, after discussion, we have all fallen into this field now, it is better to go back and get the treasure brothers to share. But a dozen of them couldn't do it, so it took them two days to find the skirmishers again, and tell them about it, and of course they were willing. Then the whole team promulgated discipline, and said okay, this thing is done by everyone, and everything is divided equally. If there are bad rules, everyone can kill them. Everyone swore an oath with blood. Then they took the horses they had stolen, returned to the mountains, mounted the wagons, and walked to the place where the treasure was hidden.

Just as they finally moved the stones outside the entrance of the cave and carried the boxes inside the cave to the carriage one by one, they knew that someone had surrounded them.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".