Chapter 25: The Longest Day (7)

The city of Anqing was full of gunfire and shouts of killing, and the common people hid in their houses and chanted the blessings of the gods and Buddhas, and some dared to look through the cracks in the windows to see a team of horses in the uniform of the new army passing through the streets like a strong wind.

He Tianshou led 20 people to pass through several main streets in Anqing non-stop, giving full play to the cavalry's high mobility, throwing two bombs at the Yamen of Zhentai for a while, and then running to the gate of the fan treasury to shoot a row of guns for a while.

When the soldiers of the patrol battalion heard the gunshots, they threw their clever hats and slipped over the wall behind the camp, and when they heard the machine guns outside in the sky, they peed their pants at that time. The soldiers of the patrol green battalion only have a monthly salary of one or two halves of silver a month, and after deducting food, there is not even any scum left, so these people all regard being a soldier as a sideline, and their main business is to set up stalls and do small business! Let these people fight? Wouldn't it be better to expect the sow to come up to the tree!

The whole thirteen battalions, and the patrol battalion of four or five thousand people after the discount, were softened by the sound of gunfire and explosions outside, and in addition to the countless mutinies of the troops in various places recently, the soldiers were all empty guns, and the bullets were confiscated, so that they and the revolutionary party bayonets were red, and it was even more a joke.

He Tianshou didn't plan to attack the patrol battalion, but he just shot and threw bombs outside, and at most set off firecrackers in a tin bucket, creating chaos was his task. But when he heard the sound of ghosts crying wolves inside, he tentatively moved and charged with a dozen cavalry. His judgment was that it was likely that the camp was blown up inside, because he was born in the patrol battalion, what kind of virtue are the masters of these green battalions, Men'er Qing!

But the next scene still shocked him, thousands of officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion knelt in the dark in the school yard, all raised their guns above their heads, and they didn't even dare to breathe!

He Tianshou couldn't believe his eyes, looking at the crowds of soldiers in the school field, and then looking at the poor people around him, he couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp when he was surrounded by the thick lines of Lao He's nerves!

"Shoot and don't die!" He Tianshou tried his best to control his mood and shouted at the top of his throat.

"Let's get guns!" The officers and men of the patrol battalion were extremely cooperative.

Several guards, capital divisions, and thousands of general managers with crowns also specially arranged for people to collect weapons for He Tianshou, and it didn't take long for the big school yard to pile up into a hill. There are all kinds of machine guns, large and small caliber guns, but they are all empty guns, no bullets!

This is a fortune! Lao He twisted his thighs excitedly, this time he captured thousands of people, and if he was not promoted, he would at least have a heavy reward!

"Quick, hurry up to the regiment commander to pull a cart of electric cannons (Makqin machine guns), I'm afraid I won't be able to control it without that thing, there are too many people who surrendered, and it will be difficult to end if you blow up the nest!" He Tianshou whispered to the herald.

The herald happily whipped the war horse and hurried out of the school field, while Lao He used a very arrogant horse whip to command the officers of the patrol battalion to stack the confiscated weapons in different categories. These brilliant officers are more obedient than dogs, and they let He Tianshou's insults and whippings be in full swing.

"A cart of machine-gun bullets? Where can I get you a car? Quartermaster, get five boxes of bullets for Company Commander He! ”

The news reached Chai Dongliang, even he was stupid, 5,000 people were captured by more than 20 cavalry? It's normal to think about it again, in this year of China, it's not uncommon to have any demon moths!

"Although the patrol battalion has surrendered, it is absolutely impossible to expect to use these people to attack the governor's yamen, I don't know if Master Gao will rebel against the new army, whether it will go smoothly or not... But this old guy has great powers, it should be no problem, right?" Chai Dongliang thought secretly in his heart.

It's not that there is no problem, but the problem is big, Master Gao led people to rush to the new army camp, and found that the big iron gate was locked here, and there were artillery on the wall!

"Brothers of the new army, the Han people don't treat Tartars as dogs!"

"Open the door quickly, or the gun won't be long!"

The cavalry of the Wuhu regiment shouted below, but they didn't expect that the new army inside not only did not respond to them, but flew a few shells from the city!

Gao Ming was taken aback, and found that the shell was outrageous, at least a hundred and ten zhang away from his own position!

"Brother Xinjun, the Han people don't fight the Han people, they slaughter your dog officer, kill a team officer and reward 100 silver, kill a sentry officer and reward 1,000 silver, kill the pipe band...

Master Gao shouted at the buttress on the wall with the throat of the male duck, and in response to him was a bullet flying close to his head, and the hat flew away!

The cavalry of the new army was usually well trained, and when they saw that the momentum was not good, they turned their horses and ran, ran out of the street corners, and each dismounted to find a hiding place and returned fire with his rifle.

Master Gao was bareheaded, and he felt the bullets flying overhead, mixed with the explosion of shells, fortunately, the accuracy of these cannons was surprisingly bad, otherwise these dozens of cavalry would have been blown into meat sauce a long time ago!

"Han people don't fight Han people!" A cavalry squad leader shouted as he fired.

But the gunfire at the head of the city was one after another!

"Son of a bitch, fight with him!"

The squad leader rushed to his head with six or seven cavalrymen, and before he ran far, he saw that the chest of the war horse burst with blood, and he fell out of the horse, and then he was shot, lying on the ground and convulsing a few times before he moved. The few people who rushed after him were also knocked off their horses.

"Niang Xipi, go to the regiment commander to transfer two cannons and kill these blind-eyed deflated three!" When Master Gao saw the soldier fall in front of him, he was in pain and hatred, and the local dialect of Zhejiang rushed out of his mouth.

On the battlements of the new army camp, Li Gang, the pipe band, was also jumping and scolding: "Bastard, where are you shooting?"

Li Guanband is a descendant of Governor Zhu Jiabao, and after the New Army's horse artillery battalion raised an incident three years ago, Zhu Jiabao began to mix sand in the New Army, replacing all the officials above the Pipe Belt with his own henchmen.

Although Li Gang was a layman, he could also see that the shell was not fired in the direction of the revolutionary party under the city at all, and the five cannons at the head of the city were all bombed in the open space where no one was blowing.

"Brother Yu, you're finally here!" Li Gang saw a young officer coming over with a dozen soldiers, like a drowning man seeing a life-saving straw.

Yu Xiaobao is a sentry officer of the standard artillery battalion, a student, and when he was in the autumn of Zhangde, he once competed with the German artillery instructors in the Beiyang New Army, and he was the most famous gunner of the Anhui New Army. Ping said that he had the best relationship with Li Gang, and the two of them were brothers who had changed posts.

"Quick, help my brother beat the rebels below to death!" Li Gang said ruthlessly.

Yu Xiaobao nodded, suddenly took out his pistol, and gave Li Gang a shot in the chest.

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Li Gang looked at his chest in disbelief, and subconsciously covered his chest with his hands, blood gushing out from his fingers.

"Brother Weigen's spirit in the sky, let me greet you!"

"You, you're Xiong Chengji's man? Are you also a rebel? Only then did Li Gang realize that his brother was actually a revolutionary!

Except for Li Gang's infantry artillery battalion and Yu Xiaobao's artillery battalion, the rest of the new army in the big camp were locked in the barracks. The sound of gunfire outside rang out for a long time, and they were already alarmed!

"Officer Song, there's a fight outside!" One of the soldiers exclaimed.

"I hear, I'm not deaf... The sentry puffed on a cigarette and frowned.

"What's the matter?" The soldier asked.

Officer Song didn't speak, just smoked vigorously. Which people were attacking the New Army camp outside? Obviously, he had already negotiated with the people sent by Governor Zhu Jiabao, and as soon as the morning dawned, the governor's yamen changed its banner and replaced it with the flag of the alliance with blue sky and white sky and red ground.

Could it be that the Huaishang army has entered the city? They shouldn't be so fast!

It's possible for the Wuhu regiment, but the problem is that they don't have that many people! Listening to the movement in the city, guns are being fired everywhere, it should be that the army has entered the city, and Chai Dongliang, who is known as Sun Wen's special envoy, will not scatter beans into soldiers, where did he conjure up the army?

"We're the opposite, aren't we? Can't put it off! The soldier looked anxiously at Song Sentinel.

The Song sentinels wanted to cry without tears, and it was no longer the first time that the League would infiltrate the Anqing New Army, and each of these people admired the revolution and was determined to overthrow the Manchu Qing and establish a Han nation-state. Moreover, a large number of officials in Anqing have also done a lot of lobbying, and these people are also willing to change banners.

The current Anqing is just a ripe peach, just wait for the governor yamen to change the flag at dawn, even if the peach falls to the ground!

Where did a group of people fall from the sky to pick peaches at this juncture!

"Brothers of the new army, Zhu Jiabao, the dog governor of the Tartars, I heard that the new army is going to rebel, and they will slaughter us all early tomorrow morning...

"Whoever doesn't rebel will kill whoever he wants, kill a sentry officer and reward silver as a sentry officer, and kill a pipe belt as a pipe belt!"

There was a roar with Yu Xiaobao outside, and several soldiers used axes to split the barracks door one by one, and the new soldiers, who had long been unable to hold back, rushed out like crazy and joined the soldiers of the artillery battalion.

Rumors, absolutely rumors! Officer Song's heart was cold for a while, it seemed that this Yu Xiaobao was also in the same group as the army that attacked the barracks outside!

However, Officer Song is not stupid, he knows what the result of refuting the rumors at this time is, not only will no one believe his words, but he may be slaughtered as a minions of Tartars!

Zhu Jiabao suppressed the uprising of Xiong Chengji in the horse artillery battalion, and the ferocious means were so fierce that the soldiers of the New Army still remember it vividly!

"Master Gao, look!"

Outside the wall, a soldier exclaimed.

Under the reflection of the torches, on the flagpole of the new army camp, an iron-blooded eighteen-star flag is rising.

The Anqing New Army has revolted!

Master Gao was pleasantly surprised, and immediately ordered: "Fang Qingyu, you immediately go to He Tianshou and take down the governor's yamen!" ”

Fang Qingyu was arranged by Chai Dongliang to protect Gao Ming, but since the start of the battle, he has been lying on the ground and putting his gun, and he was fighting vigorously, when he suddenly saw that the new army had also changed banners, he couldn't help but be addicted.

"Isn't it just to kill Governor Zhu Jiabao, I don't need to find Lao He, I can do it myself!" Fang Qingyu said unhappily.

"You know what?" Master Gao said disdainfully.

Fang Qingyu smiled mysteriously: "Aren't you just afraid of staying alive?" Don't worry, even if Zhu Jiabao surrenders, I will still cut off his head! ”

Master Gao was stunned for a moment, speechless for a long time, and was a little impressed by the guy in front of him who seemed to be loyal with thick eyebrows and thick lips!