Jiujiang Mansion, the hometown of Tao Yuanming and Huang Tingjian. It is named after the nine rivers of the Yangtze River, such as Ganjiang River, Poshui, Yushui, Xiushui, Ganshui, Xushui, Shushui, Nanshui, Pengshui, etc., which flow into the Yangtze River.

The ancients said that spring rain is as expensive as oil, but this year's spring rain is too big and too much, and the heavy rain stops and the light rain is still flowing endlessly.

Outside the Jiujiang City of Madang Mountain, the south bank of the Yangtze River is guarded, where the river is narrow and the water is turbulent, which is the most dangerous place of the Yangtze River. The Madang Fort built on the mountain was built in the Daoguang period, rebuilt after the Sino-Japanese War, designed and supervised by the Germans, it took three years to complete, the upper and lower three layers of the fort were purchased from the German Krupp heavy guns, and the largest three calibers reached a terrifying 380 mm.

Madang Fort and Hukou Fort are each other's horns, jointly defending this Yangtze River pass. Any ship that tries to pass through here will be under the threat of a gun.

The defenders of the fort were supposed to have a total of 600 infantry and artillerymen, but now there were less than 50 left, and the others were all taken to Anqing by Huang Huanzhang.

A soldier in his twenties opened the lotus leaf bag and said to a man with a black face: "My lord, you see, the roast chicken of 'Gu Jinhe', the beef of 'Zhang Huihui', and the little ones are specially prepared to honor you." ”

The man with a dark and calm face is the team officer here, and when he saw the roast chicken and beef, his face was better: "Well, you kid is still a filial one." Then he remembered something, and his face was depressed: "Everyone else goes to Anqing to eat and drink spicy food, so I leave a few of our grandmothers who don't love to drink the north wind." ”

It was a shed that sent roast chicken and beef, and he said with a wry smile: "My lord, if you want to open it, this Anqing City is easy to fight?" Maybe the mutton didn't eat and got into trouble. ”

The team officer grabbed the chicken leg with his hand, shook it slightly, and the chicken fell apart, and then he had a little smile: "It's 'Gu Jinhe', and the flesh and bones can be separated with a shake of the hand, hehe, his things are authentic." "Pick up a piece of chicken, stuff it in your mouth and chew it.

Shedmu asked quietly: "Master, I'll boil it again, and take two sips of good incense, right?" ”

The team officer shook his head like a rattle: "Forget it, it's just a few dozen of us, in case someone sneaks up, then you can't find the body if you die??? By the way, where did you get the money to buy these things? ”

Tanemme whispered, "I sold two guns. ”

The team officer pouted and said, "This is also worth sneaking around?" Didn't you just sell two broken guns? Those adults even dare to sell Green Cannon and Race Electric Cannon, what is it worth for us to sell two big guns? Come, keep drinking. ”

The two of them began to eat again, and a few soldiers next to them smelled the fragrance and swallowed their saliva.

"My lord, I've heard people say that there are a lot of rich people in Anqing City, is it true?" Tanem asked.

The team officer took two sips of wine, and the words were obviously more: "It's not, you don't see that the people of Anhui are poor, and there are more rich people, the salt merchants of Lianghuai are rich in the world, when Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, and the gold mountains and silver seas that took over the flowers several times were all paid by salt merchants, and this person is just nine cows plucking a hair, which does not hurt the muscles and bones!" It's like our Jiangxi, the common people are poor, even the government is poor! Our Li Dudu is also supported by food, and he is richer than others, Anhui, Hubei, and Guangdong, Anhui, Hubei, and Guangdong give Nanjing a salary of 1 million, and he has to take 2 million, and if others pay 2 million, he has to pay 5 million??? His old man has the face of President Sun Da, but the foundation of Jiangxi can be leaked, and the brothers have not been paid for three months! If we were not poor and crazy, how could we send Lord Huang to fight Anhui? ”

Tanmu looked around for a moment, then lowered his voice and said: "I heard that Lord Huang attacked Anqing this time, not by the order of Governor Li, Lord Huang plans to take Anqing City and go to Shanghai with gold and silver treasures. ”

The team officer was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Who did you listen to?" Don't dare to say that. ”

Shed said: "The little red girl of the Xiyuan Pavilion, isn't it Lord Huang's good looks?" She said it to me herself. She said that Mr. Huang wanted to buy her a bungalow in the Shanghai Concession. ”

The team officer said with an expression of envy, jealousy and hatred: "You kid is tired of life? Do you dare to stick to an adult woman? ”

The shed sneered: "Don't hide it from the eldest brother, I also have enough for this soldier, I have discussed it with a few brothers, if the salary is not paid next month, a few of us will go to the city to find a few rich people, smash their 'ring kiln', and go to the mountains to fall into the grass." ”

The team officer took a sip of wine and nodded: "It's okay, it's natural for a soldier to eat food, and the emperor is not a hungry soldier." ”

The shed sighed and said: "Over there in Anhui, the soldiers are paid five yuan a month for eating and clothes, and the soldiers who are laid off are six yuan a month as patrol policemen, and the silver hair is evenly paid for a day, which is like us here!" If you give me five dollars a month, the ghost will become a bandit. ”

The team officer also smiled bitterly: "If Lao Tzu hadn't made some money in the Qianqing Dynasty, now his wife and children still have to drink the northwest wind!" Anyway, Lao Tzu also graduated from the army high school, and now he is a group of people who don't know a big word, and he doesn't know that it's a 'one' word, and he can't even read the ruler of the cannon, and he rides on his head to shit and pee, and I'm fed up with this nest, and I say that the Republic of China is the same, and everyone is the same, let the fucking shit ????? Brother, if you don't pay my brother anymore, forget it with you! Live for a day and be happy for a day, and die for a full ghost.

After the team officer said that, he saw a few soldiers drooling at the door, and scolded with a smile: "Rabbit cubs, I haven't seen meat for a long time, right?" Come in and eat two mouthfuls of oily stuff in exchange for your bran intestines. ”

The soldiers rushed in, picked up the roast chicken and beef with their hands and filled them into their mouths.

While eating, they inquired: "This time, Lord Huang defeated Anqing, we should pay off, right?" I can't open the pot at home. ”

The team officer was already a little drunk, and said with a blushing face: "Salary? Shut up your grandma! The money is all in the bitch's hot bed, his grandmother's! ”

The soldiers looked at each other and said boldly: "My lord, is it okay to beat Anqing?" The brothers are waiting for money to buy rice for the pot! ”

The team officer said angrily: "Fight Anqing, fight Anqing, there is no shortage of soldiers and salaries in Anqing, and the governor of Anhui will also divide the fields between the soldiers and the poor, and open an official warehouse to set up a porridge shed to relieve the victims??? Let's still beat people, are we sorry? Our Jiangxi is good, all the people doing business on the street have been searched, and no one has collected the bodies of those who starved to death on the street??? If it weren't for the fact that our Jiangxi army had a holiday with Anhui, Lao Tzu would have defected to the past! ”

The little soldiers looked gloomy, they also heard about the conflict between the Jiangxi army and the Anhui Revolutionary Army in Nanjing, after this Liang Zi was knotted, they just wanted to defect to others, and they refused to accept it!

"In these years, my father and mother are married, everyone takes care of everyone, as long as I have a gun in my hand, I will not starve to death, if I pay this month, I will forget it, as long as I don't pay it, Lao Tzu will go up the mountain, where not to eat a bowl of rice!" The more he talked, the more annoyed he became.

"My lord, there seems to be movement outside?" A small soldier.

The team officer said with a dark face: "It must be the person on duty who smells the wine, let them also come in and drink two glasses to warm up." ”

"Thanks!"

There was a sound of a gong gong outside, and then a loud shout: "Don't move! ”

With a thud, the door was kicked open, and a young officer in a German-style military uniform with a large brim and a button-lined shirt walked in, followed by a dozen soldiers with Mauser guns.

"Who are you?" The team officer asked timidly.

"The 1st Marine Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the Anhui Revolutionary Army! The contemptible person is the head of the regiment, Kuang Haishan! ”

The team officer was frightened at that time, and said tremblingly: "I have heard the name of the head of Kuang for a long time, and it is like thunder. ”

Kuang Haishan looked at the roast chicken and beef on the table, picked up a piece of beef with tendons and threw it into his mouth, and said with a smile: "This tastes really good." ”

The team officer was also a little knowledgeable, and he boldly asked, "Didn't I hear that Commander Kuang's regiment is not in Nanjing?" How to ???"

Kuang Haishan laughed and said, "Don't you think it's strange? It's not because I'm afraid of Madang Fort, my brother had to land fifty miles away from Jiujiang City and enter Jiujiang by land. ”

A room of soldiers guarding the fort was cold, the Jiangxi army had already formed a bond with the Anhui Revolutionary Army, and Huang Huanzhang ran to attack Anqing again.

Kuang Haishan was also disgusted, poured a glass of wine with the team officer's wine glass, drank it all and said: "This has been rained all the way, borrow the wine from Brother Tai to warm up!" After that, his face changed and he said: "This fort has been taken over by our Anhui Revolutionary Army." ”

The team officer had no choice but to say with a bitter face: "That's nature, that's nature." ”

Kuang Haishan said with a smile: "Welcome to join our Anhui Revolutionary Army. ”

Ganjun was stunned for a moment, and the shed plucked up the courage to ask: "We join your army, and we also have five yuan a month?" ”

Kuang Haishan shook his head and said, "No." ”

The Gan army was disappointed, but the situation was stronger than people, even if there was no copper plate, it was better than losing the surname, so I had to pinch my nose and general.

Kuang Haishan said with a standard smile that showed eight teeth: "You are the artillery of the battery, belonging to the technical arms, eight yuan per month, and fifteen yuan for officers!" ”

"Seriously, adults aren't bluffing, are they?" Tanemi asked in surprise.

The team officer glared at him and said, "What are you talking about?" What is the identity of Captain Kuang, who can deceive you? After that, he knelt down on one knee and said respectfully: "I am willing to lead all the soldiers of the fort to return to the command of Lord Shun." ”

Kuang Haishan laughed and pulled him up cordially: "We are a revolutionary team, don't like this, and ask this brother to take me to visit the fort, I won't tell you, my brother has never seen such a big cannon in his life!" But you have to quit this big smoke right away! ”

The team officer's black face turned red, and he lowered his head and muttered, "Quit, this is quit!" ”

Walking out of the room, walking along the mountain road through the three-story fort, more than a dozen cannons are majestic, the largest 380 mm caliber Krupp coastal defense gun, Kuang Haishan and others were amazed, in peacetime the army imitated the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau and the Shanghai Manufacturing Bureau copied French 75 mm mountain guns have become cannons, and later saw the 240 mm caliber main gun on the warship, he was startled, and felt that it was probably the largest cannon in the world.

Now when I see the shore defense guns of Madang Fort, I feel that the main guns on the warship are not enough. These three shore defense guns are more than ten meters long, weigh hundreds of tons, and a child can climb into the muzzle, and a shell weighs nearly a ton with propellant!

Kuang Haishan couldn't help but secretly say that it was a fluke, if it wasn't for Chai Dongliang's explanation in advance, he would definitely not have broken into the two forts of Madang and Hukou, and the fleet would have docked in advance, taking advantage of the emptiness of Jiujiang to seize the forts by land from the side and rear. At that time, he still thought that Chai Dongliang was making a big fuss, but now he knows that if he hits hard, this kind of giant cannon can send any warship of the fleet to the bottom of the river to feed fish and shrimp as long as one shell hits.

Tengteng Teng exploded three green signal flares in the sky in the distance, and Kuang Haishan said happily: "The Hukou Fort has also been successful, and from now on, there is no place on the Yangtze River that can stop our fleet!" ”

???? Dividing line ????

"Hit me, stop them, stop them!"

Gu Mazi led the cavalry to clash left and right, shooting with a cavalry spear at a distance and slashing with a saber when he was close, but he still couldn't block all the Huaishang troops from the periphery.

In the armory, Gu Mazi used machine guns and cannons to howl the ghosts and wolves of the besieging Huaishang army, and then quickly put the cannons and heavy machine guns behind the sports car, and hurried to the southern camp. What he didn't expect was that not far from the armory station, a group of student troops rushed out from the side of the road and surrounded him. Gu Mazi pulled eight cannons and six heavy machine guns, which seemed to be a lot, but no one had the ability to put bayonets on the cannons! The artillery is usually angry, but once they are caught by the infantry, the death is ugly. In close combat, the heavy machine guns are also difficult to use, and the enemy and the enemy are mixed together, and the shooter does not dare to shoot at all. At first, he didn't dare to shoot, but gradually he was touched into the convoy, and he couldn't shoot if he wanted to.

Gu Mazi secretly said that it was not good, he didn't expect that these student babies in the Huaishang Army were so difficult, the leaders were gone, and they could still organize themselves spontaneously, and they caught themselves off guard.

More than 200 student troops and more than 50 Anhui revolutionary troops were slaughtered, and the cavalry around Gu Mazi had already fought hard, almost everyone was wounded, and they were already exhausted, and the war horses were so weak that they could barely run. Seeing that the student army had the upper hand, many Huaishang troops who had already fled also joined the battle group, and the Anhui revolutionary army was in danger and could be completely annihilated at any time.

Gu Mazi's body was also soft like a noodle, and he felt that the steel knife in his hand was so heavy that he could barely carry it, seeing that it was only noon, and it would take two hours for the governor's reinforcements to arrive??? I can't last these two hours by saying anything!

Gu Mazi grabbed the reins of the horse and patted the ears of the war horse: "Old man, ask for a way to survive by yourself, I won't accompany you!" Even if Lao Tzu dies, he can't fall into the hands of these bandits and suffer piecemeal! With that, he pulled out his pistol and pointed it at his temple.

"Brother Mazi, what are you doing?" When a soldier saw that he was about to commit suicide, he jumped from his horse on his horse like a madman, and grabbed him by the wrist.

Gu Mazi said with a gloomy expression: "I don't have the ability to send the cannon to the Nanda Battalion, I can't live with Camp Commander He and the brothers of the battalion??" You let go of me and let Lao Tzu die a little harder! ”

The soldier gritted his teeth and said: "Brother Mazi, we are in the army academy, and the instructor said that cavalry only attack, not defense, and must die on the way to charge!" Sensei makes the brothers look down on you! ”

Gu Mazi clenched his teeth, bit out blood from his lips, and shouted: "What I said is that Lao Tzu will die like a human being!" ”

After that, his legs clamped the horse's belly, squeezed out the last trace of strength of the war horse, sat upright on the horse's back, brandished the war knife, and rushed over against the rain of bullets from the Huai Shang army.

The soldier's tears flowed out of a line of tears, he knew that Gu Mazi was not going to fight, he was going to beg for death! The soldiers also followed his example, straightened their waists, and followed Gu Mazi to the convoy that was besieged.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear a noise in the distance, followed by a volley of guns.

"Brother Mazi, it's a Mauser, our reinforcements have arrived!" The soldier was in high spirits and shouted at the top of his voice.

This shout made Gu Mazi's strength suddenly double, and even the war horse with weak legs and feet seemed to be in good spirits, Gu Mazi shouted at the top of his voice: "Brothers, the governor has come back with reinforcements!" ”

The convoy and cavalry that were surrounded in it suddenly became more powerful, and a soldier shouted: "Long live the Republic of China!" ”

Everyone in the Anhui Revolutionary Army shouted in unison: "Long live the Republic of China!" ”

For a while, the shouts shook the sky!

The Huaishang Military Association Party, which took advantage of the fire to rob, heard a burst of Mauser gunfire in the distance, and was frightened, those student soldiers and Gu Mazi and others had been fighting for a long time, and it was already the end of the crossbow, and when they heard that the other party was coming to reinforcements, the courage they finally mustered up was suddenly reduced.

Under the elimination of one and the other, Gu Mazi immediately gained the upper hand. The escape of the party and the people's army directly gave the artillerymen and machine guns a mobile opportunity, and the distance between the enemy and us was slightly widened, and the two-wheeled Makqin sounded, and in the "dignified" copper sound, the whip composed of flames, like the tongue of the devil, licked the fleeing Huaishang army in all directions, and cut them into two pieces. "Swallow", the ten barrels of the Green Cannon were also fired at the same time, and the eleven-millimeter bullets made each target into a honeycomb.

After a while, Gu Mazi sat on horseback, and suddenly found that the people who came to reinforce were dressed in a variety of clothes, including policemen in black uniforms with Mauser guns, and more ordinary people with flat poles, dung forks, and bamboo poles.

That's thousands!

The leader is a policeman in his twenties with swollen eyes and wearing the logo of the inspector, this person is naturally none other than Zhong Wuying, who killed the police chief Lao Du and took the lead in supporting the Anhui Revolutionary Army.

Zhong Wuying commanded the police to release their guns, and after a burst of gunfire, the soldiers of the Huaishang Army fell down, and the ordinary people with cold weapons and even farm tools besieged the stragglers who escaped.

"Master Jun, are you injured?" An old inspector with a gray beard saw that Gu Mazi was covered in blood and asked with concern.

Gu Mazi arched his hand and said: "Thank you police brothers for saving me, I will ask Lord Governor for your credit!" ”

The old inspector said with a smile: "We are all bowls of the governor of Duchai, and it is natural to eat other people's food and work for others." ”

Gu Mazi was a little strange, pointing to the ragged people and saying, "Where did these people come from?" What for? ”

The old inspector smiled awkwardly: "There are few people in the police station, so we ran to the porridge shed and made up a nonsense to the homeless people, saying that we all have orders, and whoever is willing to fight these bandits will be given land??? No, all the young adults are coming! Please forgive the old man for the sin of falsely passing on military orders! ”

Gu Mazi patted his chest and said, "Without your help, I'm afraid Anqing would have been lost, I didn't say it!" This matter is wrapped up in me, and when I see the governor, even if I kneel and die at the gate of the governor's mansion, let him divide the land among these people who helped kill the enemy??? Don't let your old man's face fall to the ground! ”

As he spoke, the Huaishang army had been completely defeated, and when Gu Mazi saw the thousands of people and horses around him, he was suddenly arrogant and shouted: "Go, follow me to Nandaying!" ”

(To be continued)