Cheng Qi The process of catching up with the large army can be described as twists and turns, a lost dog that comes out of the side of the road from time to time can scare them, and when there are still two blocks away from the train station, they rushed past a group of thugs armed with machetes to chase and slash a middle-aged man, Cheng Qilu roared when he saw the injustice, and went up and looked up with a magazine to knock down three thugs. The rest of the thugs saw that the situation was not good, and Huang Yang went over to help the uncle, fortunately he was only slightly injured, although there was blood on his back, it was only flesh wounds, as long as he got to a safe place, he would be fine.

Huang Yang saw that he was fine, so he asked him to follow him. Who knew that this uncle snorted and chirped: "I haven't taken the title deed and passbook at home yet." ”

Huang Yang stomped his feet angrily: "When is this, I still need this!" ”

The uncle said: "This is my lifeline, how can I live without them!" ”

Cheng Qi said: "Hey, isn't there a knife there - you take the knife and go back to grab your title deed, we will wait for you at the train station." ”

The uncle said, "I'm alone, and I won't use a knife to get it back, don't you have a gun?"

Cheng Qi spread his hands: "I've run out of bullets, it's better to have a burning stick now." "Indeed, the greatest use of a short gun without bullets is to smash people. He took two knives from the corpse of a thug, gave one to his uncle, and took one himself. Everyone walked forward together, and although the uncle was muttering all the way about how serious the loss of his property was, he didn't dare to say anything more, and followed the army.

When I arrived at the train station, there were also a lot of people gathered here, and there was even a small group of armed soldiers. Cheng Qi squeezed over, Huang Taiji saw him, and said, "You guys are here, it's really blessed by God." We got a wagon, enough to pull everyone here away - this is Sergeant Li Gang, and he and his squad are the last survivors of the 155th Regiment. ”

Cheng Qi gasped, and finally knew why the riots in the city had spread almost all over the city, but no army had come out to quell it, and it seemed that the army was the first to be wiped out.

Suddenly, someone pointed into the distance and shouted, "Look, the Great Library!" ”

Everyone looked at it together, and saw that the majestic and solemn library had now become a blazing torch, lighting up half of the sky.

After the fighting subsided, the case file of the special military court recorded the arson and murder scenes of the large library, and the defendant Yi Puxin stated:

An old man (confirmed to be the director of the Great Library) was brought to us, and the chief ordered the building to be burned down in his presence. The terrified old man begged him not to commit such a barbaric act that destroyed civilization. But the leader said, "Old man, what is in this?" ”

"This is the largest library in Ibo Province and one of the largest in the entire river. There are 300,000 books in it, including many precious historical materials of ancient dynasties, as well as the writings of sages of the past dynasties, which are the crystallization of human wisdom! ”

One of the missionaries beside the leader said: "Is there our most sacred scripture, the true scripture given to our last prophet by the one true God?" ”

The old man said: "Naturally, there are, and there are many versions. The missionary was very angry and said, "There is only one true scripture, how many are there, and those are apocryphal scriptures and should be burned." ”

The old man said, "There are many works on astronomy, geography, and biology in it, all of which are rich." ”

The preacher said, "Are they written in the scriptures?" If there is, then it is a duplicate of the canon, and there is no need to keep it. If it is not written, then what contradicts the true scriptures are the words of the devil and should be burned immediately. ”

The chieftain listened to the words of the missionaries and ordered the majestic library to be set on fire.

From the evening of the sixth day of the third month to the dawn of the seventh day of the third month, there were countless casualties among the soldiers and civilians in the castle, and according to the investigation of the Statistical Committee of the Special Military Tribunal after the war, on the night of the rebellion, at least 10,000 civilians could have been killed, and if the statistics were a little more relaxed, then there might be as many as 20,000.

As for the property damage, it is even more numerous. In the entire Shattered Leaf City, countless families and shops were looted. Panicked residents thought the rebels had attacked the city in advance, and they often fled their homes without their possessions, only to return to their homes in ruins.

As for those who did not leave in time, their fate was even more tragic.

Ma Wei and his rebels knew that it would be self-defeating to stay in such a city with train commuters, so they began to prepare for evacuation on the third day of the rebellion - before the evacuation, Ma Wei gave the order to burn the city, turning the entire city into a sea of fire, the rebels loaded the young women into carriages and took them away, and the men were executed in various cruel ways.

The bodies of more than 300 young students were found in the pond in front of the provincial university, where they were pushed into the pool with their hands and feet tied, drowned, crushed and suffocated. And in one hospital, hundreds of patients who had not had time to evacuate were locked up in the building and burned to death. Female nurses were stoned to death after being subjected to inhumane mass abuse. The famous surgeon, Professor Pandenov, was thrown out of his office window and fell to his death for refusing to cooperate with the rebels.

The rebels also carried out a horrific massacre at the famous "Maple Theatre", a Romanesque building funded by the Eastern Roman Empire to commemorate the centenary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. After slaughtering more than 500 of the city's inhabitants, the rebels, feeling guilty, ordered the burning of this monumental work of art.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, Huang Taiji and others escorted more than 2,000 residents of Broken Leaf City to Almaty by train - this is not because he is proud of his achievements, but because in this chaos, only he, who was born in the military, made several decisive decisions and constantly led the people to trial and transfer. Among the panicked fleeing crowds, the pair led by Huang Taiji was the most organized and cohesive, and when they arrived in Almaty, everyone had already agreed that the worker Huang Taiji was their leader.

At this time, the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Almaty had just been assembled, and was preparing to take a train to Shattered Leaf City to strengthen the defense there according to the original battle plan.

Just when the officers and soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division had just boarded the train and were about to be punished, the herald found the division commander Li Xiangdang: "Division, the command headquarters orders - suspend the opening and wait for a new order." ”

Li Xiangdang didn't know why, but he could only do what he was told. His chief of staff, Zhang Haogu (hometown of Linqing, Shandong), said: "Division, the enemy is currently in the present, and the indecision of the command is probably a change in the front, so I suggest that a reconnaissance team should be sent immediately to reconnoiter the enemy situation around Shattered Leaf City." ”

Li nodded yes to the party, and then ordered the so-called wolf warrior detachment to be dispatched from the reconnaissance battalion directly under the division headquarters to the front line of the battlefield to conduct reconnaissance.

According to the plan of the General Staff in this case, this is just an ordinary domestic counterinsurgency activity, and the intensity of the war will even be very low, and it can also get local support, so there is no need for it? The precious scouts were scattered too early, but because of the caution of the command, Li Xiangdang also gave Li Xiangdang a wake-up call, so as not to overturn the ship in the gutter of the ace 1st Division in his hand.

In the Northern Command, Huang Taiji, who came as soon as he got off the car, was also warmly entertained - Mr. Fan Wencheng Fan, the plenipotentiary ambassador of the Liao State to the Great Xia Kingdom, took his hand and said repeatedly: "Love the general, love the general, but I scared the old man to death!" The old man thought you were in the hands of the rebels. If you break it, the old general will want the old man's life! ”

Huang Taiji took the towel handed by the orderly and wiped his sweat: "There is no danger, there is no danger." Mr. Fan, why are you here? ”

"Hey, it's not this mess. The lord of the kingdom is wrathed! Fan Wencheng said: "There are also activities of chaotic party elements in Tianzhong City, and the six gates and Jinyi guards are arresting people everywhere, and now I heard that Yibo Province is completely erosive?" Is Ma Wei dead or alive? How did Shattered Leaf City get knocked down overnight? ”

This question is not only what Fan Wencheng wants to know, but also a senior staff member of the Northern Command. Now they can be said to be blind men touching elephants, and blind men riding horses. Someone who knows something about it urgently needs to tell them what's going on.

"As I understand it, here's the thing." Huang Taiji analyzed what he saw and heard on the train this day and night: "At midnight, there were riots in various parts of the city, and the police and army were not dispatched. The riot occurred from inside the city, so it was not the rebels who attacked in advance, but it was possible that the rebels lurked into the city to start a riot. ”

"However, according to my understanding, before March, the 155th Regiment had already issued martial law, and it was difficult for a large number of rebels to infiltrate the city, and it was only possible that a small number of rebels would infiltrate the city, and they would meet with the latent elements who were already in the city, and at the same time make trouble."

"And the 155th Regiment, I saw a squad of them who escaped from Ascension, and according to them, all their commanders were invited to drink by Governor Ma Wei that night, and the brothers who remained in the barracks were rewarded by the governor of the governor's palace. Through these descriptions, I think it is self-evident who is the culprit of the Shattered Leaf City Rebellion. ”

After hearing his words, a majestic lieutenant general angrily dropped his military hat: "Ma Wei of the dog day! The world is favored by the emperor, and it is such a wolf ambition! ”

Huang Taiji saw that among the generals in the room, this lieutenant general had the highest military rank, and he couldn't help but go through the list of names in his mind, and suddenly remembered a person's name - Feng Timo, Lieutenant General Feng Timo, chief of staff of the Northern Command of the Great Xia Kingdom!

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