Chapter 164: Air Raid (Part II)
The walls of Baotou were almost cut off by bullets, the battlements were shattered by machine guns, and the huge square wood was carried by the Mongolian horse bandits to hit the gate, and the people of Baotou inside used sandbags, tables and chairs and everything else they could to resist the crumbling city gate.
The defenders had run out of bullets and were struggling to support themselves with bricks and bayonets, and they had only one thought in their minds: in a quarter of an hour, reinforcements would arrive!
Hundreds of Mongolian horse bandits had already climbed up at the top of the city, and they were like a variegated color in a gray velvet blanket that gradually spread and gradually joined together, and the defenders and the common people were almost crazy, picking up everything they could use and fighting with them, and if they couldn't do it, they rolled down the city with an enemy group.
Everyone silently thought in their hearts: Reinforcements come quickly! Wang Damao's legs could no longer support it, kneeling on the ground and overturning a horse bandit with a bayonet, he felt that the world was spinning and wanted to faint, he knew better than anyone that it was impossible for reinforcements to arrive so quickly, and it was inevitable that Baotou would be broken by the enemy. The reinforcements of the advance army could only avenge them, collect their bodies, and hope that they would erect a monument for themselves and their comrades, with the names of all of them written on them.
Ghosts with names can hear the cries of distant relatives, and souls can cross the Great Wall and return to their hometowns, and will not become lonely ghosts outside the fortress. Wang Damao looked at it, the horse bandits were densely crawling all over the city wall, the city gate was shaking incessantly, and there were fewer and fewer comrades around him??? It's all over, and even death can't fall into the hands of horse bandits!
Wang Damao made up his mind, gritted his teeth and stood up with a broken military flag, stood up with his back against the battlement, and shouted: "Dad, mother!" My son is not filial, and he can't give you a pension to the end! ”
After that, he turned over and was about to jump down, but was firmly held by a soldier.
"Let go of me! Bastard, Lao Tzu can't fall into the hands of horse bandits and suffer piecemeal! Wang Damao said angrily.
"Battalion commander, look!" The soldier pointed to the sky.
There was a loud buzzing sound in the air, as if hundreds of millions of wasps were flapping their wings at the same time.
Wang Damao looked up, only to see two strange things flying in the distance, he stared at the round eyes and couldn't figure out what kind of monster it was, the Beiyang Army and the horse bandits who were fighting at the head of the city raised their heads almost at the same time, and the bloody fight suddenly stopped.
Two huge strange birds made a deafening "buzzing" sound from the sky, the strange birds flew very low at most about twenty meters from the ground, and after getting closer, the people below were surprised to find that there were people inside!
After circling in the sky, the strange bird flew to the top of the horse bandits under the city wall, and the lama who accompanied the army knelt down and kowtowed while chanting words, and the other Mongolian horse bandits also knelt down and kowtowed like pounding garlic.
Two small black dots fell from the strange bird, and it staggered and landed among the horse bandits, and a moment later two loud explosions were heard.
The horse bandit who was kowtowing and chanting the scriptures was blurred by the explosion, and I don't know who shouted in Mongolian: "Monsters, monsters have come to kill us!" ”
Thousands of horse bandits exploded their nests like bees without a king, and even the warlords threw their rifles and fled in all directions, "dong, dong" and two explosions, and many frightened horse bandits with weak legs and feet also woke up, and rode on their horses and galloped aimlessly, they didn't know where they wanted to flee, they just wanted to get as far away as possible from this monster that could drop thunder and lightning from the sky.
Utai and Delentai tried to stop it but couldn't do it, and even they were overwhelmed by the rout.
"Father Khan, get on the horse!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Delentai helped Utai onto his horse and fled far away with the rout.
There were bursts of cheers from the top of the city, and some people shouted in surprise: "This is ours, ours!" ”
Wang Damao's eyes widened, and he found that this monster actually had an iron-blooded eighteen star pattern on its body!
"It's ours, our reinforcements have arrived!" Wang Damao jumped up in surprise, and completely forgot about the injury on his leg.
The courage of the defenders and the people in Baotou City was greatly increased, and they fought hard to kill the horse bandits who had rushed to the city, and the horse bandits were frightened by the strange birds, and their legs and feet were weak, and they almost stretched out their necks and let people cut them at will.
The Mongols almost have no superstition, in addition to believing in Lamaism, they also believe that everything has an order, believe in immortality, they see a strange bird that pretends to be a human and can spread thunder and lightning, instinctively think that it is a demon, and cannot afford to have the slightest sense of resistance.
These two strange birds were the two "Feng Ru-3" reconnaissance planes carried by the advance army, and the pilots were all confused by the Mongolian horse bandits fleeing all over the mountains below, and they did not expect that casually dropping a few small five-pound aerial bombs could produce such dramatic consequences. Originally, Kwong Haishan sent them over as a symbolic gesture to boost the confidence of the defenders in the city and allow them to hold out until reinforcements arrived. I didn't expect the people of Wutai to be so unbeaten, and a few small bombs scared their souls!
More than 10,000 horse bandits are like antelopes chased by lions, running wildly all over the mountains, and for their comrades who block their escape path, they are unceremoniously using their sabers to cut the bloody road.
The "Feng Ru-3" has an altitude of more than 200 meters, can only carry six five-pound aerial bombs, and flies a distance of 57 kilometers??? Flying from Tuoketo to Baotou, almost to the limit.
The defenders mustered up their courage and killed the horse bandits at the head of the city one by one, and a few of the more clever ones knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
After circling a few times, the two planes saw that there were no more bandits below, and chose two flat open spaces to land. This kind of light aircraft has such an advantage, you can take off and land on any grassy ground.
"Divine soldiers descend from heaven, God bless me Huaxia!"
Ma Xun's big shopkeeper was in tears, kneeling at the head of the city to worship the sky, and all the soldiers and civilians in the city knelt down at the same time to thank the sky.
The two pilots in fur hats were startled by the tragic situation under the city, and the corpses were piled up more than four feet high, many of them were held and died by the defenders and horse bandits.
The ruined city walls were drenched in blood, emitting a disgusting stench, and the pilot, enduring his physical discomfort, shouted: "We are the advance army of the Mongolian army, and the large army will arrive soon??? We, Commander Kuang, asked me to greet the brothers of the 20th Division, you have worked hard! ”
Wang Damao propped up his body with a bullet-riddled eighteen-star army flag, and said with a breath: "Thank you to the brothers of the advance army for saving you righteously, and the fathers and elders of the Baotou army and civilians are very grateful, please let the two brothers enter the city!" ”
A gust of wind blew, the eighteen-star flag blackened by gunpowder smoke fluttered in the air, and the officers and soldiers of the 20th Beiyang Division whose military uniforms were broken and covered in blood were like a group of bronze statues, condensed in the land of Saibei!
The pilot of the advance army stood up solemnly and solemnly saluted this group of heroes who defended the territory and the people with their blood and lives in the manner of soldiers!
After receiving the telegram that the siege of Baotou had been resolved, Kuang Haishan's heart finally fell, and then there was a deep contempt, and the horse bandits in Wutai were also soldiers? With such a group of local chickens and tile dogs, they still dare to make a split?
"A group, insert me into Xiaomiaozi and Baiyangou, block the road for the horse bandits to flee west, and definitely not allow them to escape into Western Mongolia!"
"Second regiment, block the mountain road in front of Urad for me, and don't allow the horse bandits to take a step north!"
"Third regiment, block the road to Ordos for me, and don't let them escape to the south!"
Kuang Haishan kept giving orders, and in addition to the two battalions of cavalry taken away by Gu Mazi, there were more than 5,000 troops of 6,000 people, divided into three ways to intercept, and there were more than 1,000 in each direction, which was more than enough to deal with the horse bandits who had lost their souls in Wutai??? Wu Junsheng's 2,000 patrol battalion dragged a few old-fashioned Krupp mountain guns and beat them to the devil and howl, if the more than 1,000 regular troops armed to the teeth could not get rid of the horse bandits, then the Jianghuai army would simply be disbanded!
"Commander, what if Utai goes east? From Ulanqab you can go straight to Manchuria! A staff officer asked.
Kuang Haishan smiled faintly: "That's not something you think about, just carry out the order!" ”
Chief of Staff Gu Weijun's eyes showed a hint of imperceptible joy, originally the most worried was that he could not find the main force of Wutai and could not lead this disaster to Manchuria, but he didn't expect this task to be completed so easily!
Kuang Haishan didn't dare to be careless, there were 80,000 Russian troops stationed along the Manchurian Railway, and if there was a conflict, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the advance army was, it would only be 6,000 people!
What's more, there is a so-called "Great Mongolia" in the west, and the living Buddha Jebtsundamba is still the emperor in Guangxian Temple, and he has 50,000 Mongolian cavalry under his command.
6,000 men want to sweep through Mobei and smash the Mongol conspiracy to split the Mongols, and they have to drive the cavalry of Utai and Jebzundamba to Manchuria, and then take the opportunity to occupy Manchuria, and they must always be on guard against stabbing themselves and the Russians in the back!
Governor, you can really look up to me, and you can really look up to the advance army??? Kuang Haishan's heart has always been heavy!
The boat was naturally straight to the bridge, and Kuang Haishan didn't want to worry about it anymore, so he asked casually: "I don't know what happened to Gu Mazi?" Did you get Tumut Khan out? ”
When Gu Mazi's cavalry was still twenty miles away from Tumut Khan's official village, the horse bandits besieging the official village got the news, and they saw the wolf smoke lit by the scout cavalry and immediately fled. ran all the way from Chahan League to Tumut, but he didn't even see the shadow of a horse bandit, and Gu Mazi's seven orifices were smoky. Sent cavalry to chase and kill the horse bandits, but the horse endurance in northern Anhui was not good, and after a long-distance attack, he was already physically exhausted, and chased for more than ten miles to kill some slow bandits, Gu Mazi had to order the troops to be withdrawn with a snort.
The horse bandits besieging Tumut Khan's official village was a feint, stopping and stopping, and there was no real action, so the casualties of the official village were not very large, and a company of soldiers in Meng Liang suffered more than 20 casualties, compared to Wang Damao, a battalion where three-quarters of the casualties were already very lucky, but many of the cattle and sheep of the herdsmen of Tumut were robbed, their wives and daughters were insulted, and their tents were burned. The herdsmen's crying outside the official village shook the sky, and the king of Bayintel was upset when he heard it. He sent the guards of the official village to disperse all the herdsmen.
The soldiers of the advance army were unwilling to fight a good battle after a long journey, and they joked around the dark clouds: "Princess, you said that whoever saved your father and the king would marry him, but we have a thousand brothers here, who are you better to marry?" ”
Wuyunzhu shook his long hair, glanced at them and said, "I also said that whoever killed Delentai is my husband!" Now I haven't seen the shadow of Delentai! ”
After that, his eyes glanced at Zhang Shuyang intentionally or unintentionally, and the surrounding officers suddenly began to coax, making Zhang Shuyang's face red.
"Since the beginning of the Great Yuan Dynasty, I have only submitted to the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains, the Great Yuan sits in Yanjing City, the ancestors surrendered to the Great Yuan, and the Great Son of Heaven ascended the throne, I am a minister to the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Emperor won the world, I am a courtier of the Qing Dynasty! Now it's the Republic of China, I only recognize Yanjing's political axe of the Republic of China, and I, Tumut, will never be this rebel and thief who betrays the Lord and defects to the enemy! After Bayint saw Gu Mazi, he pulled his throat to make his position clear.
This person's voice is very loud, and he speaks a fluent Beijing accent, and his words seem to be righteous and awe-inspiring, but Gu Mazi pondered it carefully, and always felt weird, whoever won the Central Plains would surrender to whom? Is this also a loyal minister?
These Mongol princes are quite knowledgeable about current affairs! But if you think about it again, you will be relieved, Eastern Mongolia is close to Yanjing City, if you betray the imperial court, you will naturally be the first object to be conscripted, these Mongolian princes have to make a pilgrimage to the Qing Emperor in Chengde Summer Resort every year, they are all old fritters in the officialdom, and they are definitely not as straightforward as the imaginary grassland men!
"That dog thief Utai, what kind of Great Mongol Khanate is going to be established, and I want to be crowned a prince! What can we do? Loyal ministers don't care about the two masters, and good horses don't deserve double saddles! We are born to be the people of the national political axe, and death is the ghost of the national political axe! Not to mention that today's heavenly soldiers of the adults defeated Utai, even if the adults are not there, the last man of my Tumut will never betray the Republic of China! Bayintl clapped his chest and shouted.
This sounds very good, but Gu Mazi really doesn't dare to believe it, these Mongolian princes are all old foxes who have been soaked in Manchu officialdom for a long time, which is as rough and honest as it seems. But it didn't break, just smiled slightly.
Bayintel's hospitality to Gu Mazi and others can be regarded as meticulous, not only is he respectful, but even his soldiers are accompanied by slaves, and they eat the top roasted whole camels on the grassland. Of course, the best products such as hump and hump were still sent to Gu Mazi's table.
The advance army took a boat from Anqing to Tianjin, and from Tianjin to Suiyuan by train, and slept in the open air along the way, eating dry food and dried meat, and drinking cold water. These big-headed soldiers can't wait to live here for the rest of their lives.
Bayintel heard that the advance army had rescued his only daughter Wuyunzhu, and the old tears of gratitude were overflowing, and Gu Mazi sent more than a dozen Mauser 88 rifles made in Wuhu Arsenal, he was even more excited, holding Gu Mazi and Zhang Shuyang's hands very affectionately, and he almost cut off the head of the chicken and burned the yellow paper to worship the handle. Before the banquet was over, he was going to send a few Mongolian girls to Gu Mazi as handmaidens, and after Gu Mazi refused, he took out gold and silver and gave it to Zhang Shuyang, but Zhang Shuyang also resigned.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Bayintel put forward conditions, and it should be done to support the central political axe, but can you let the advance army give them hundreds of fast guns, it is better to get a few more machine guns, and if you can make a few cannons, it will be the most perfect!
I really have a lot of appetite, and I'm not afraid to die! Sure enough, as Gu Mazi expected, this old man is not as sincere as he seems, and it is valuable to ask for loyalty! If he was really given these weapons, wouldn't this old man be walking sideways on the grassland? Maybe it's another Utai!
This old thing, just out of danger and playing yin, Gu Mazi secretly scolded in his heart! Suddenly, he found that Wuyunzhu was toasting everyone, and his spicy eyes never left Zhang Shuyang's little white face!
Hehe, there's a door!
Old guy, fight with me, Lao Tzu let you lose your daughter and break your army! Gu Mazi was extremely proud in his heart, and his smile became brighter!
(To be continued)