Chapter 24: The Longest Day (6)
The rain gradually became heavier, beating the hats, flowing down the clothes, and the night wind blew through the wet clothes and shivered cold. Although the torches have not yet been extinguished, they are all fluttering in the wind and rain like ghost fires. The horses were even more wet, as if they had just been fished out of the water.
Chai Dongliang opened the gold pocket watch again, and the hands indicated that it was half past two in the morning, and Gao Ming, He Tianshou, and Fang Qingyu had been walking for half an hour with more than a dozen people driving the two big cars. In this half an hour, Chai Dongliang feels longer than a day, and I don't know how many times I have looked at the watch!
There is no one on the official road except Chai Dongliang's cavalry, who dares to rush in the middle of the night in this year?
"Captain, look!"
A soldier exclaimed in surprise.
Chai Dongliang looked at it, and there seemed to be a little fire looming on the official road! Rubbing his eyes, it seems to disappear into the night rain.
The ghostly flames were getting closer, like the light of a torch, and after a moment the sound of horses' hooves was faintly heard.
"Commander, Commander! Got it! The knight in the distance shouted loudly as he galloped!
"It's Lao He, it's Company Commander He!" The soldiers heard He Tianshou's unique rough voice and shouted.
"All on board!" Chai Dongliang's heart hanging in his throat finally fell into his stomach.
The cavalrymen turned on their horses together, removed the Manlisha cavalry imported from Austria-Hungary from their backs, tore open the oiled paper wrapped in the guns, and pressed them with live ammunition.
"Kill into Anqing City!" Chai Dongliang drew his knife and shouted.
More than 100 cavalry swept across the official road like a violent wind, and arrived at the south gate of Anqing in an instant. The city gates had been opened, and dozens of patrol battalion guards in dirty gowns were kneeling on the ground and shivering, guarded by a dozen soldiers of the Wuhu Regiment with mounted guns. Master Gao sat on a Taishi chair in the cave of the city gate, and an officer of the patrol battalion wearing a mud and gold top was flattering him to bring him hot tea.
Fang Qingyu was also sitting on the chair, and the explosives tied to his body were not as big as the next cigarette!
This guy's nerves are really made of steel wire! I'm not afraid to blow myself up!
"Old master, thank you for your hard work!" Chai Dongliang patted him on the shoulder and said.
"Hard for what? With this thing, and then there is silver to open the way, this Anqing is just an empty city for me! Gao Ming took out an iron plaque from his purse, with a sea-like pattern on it.
Chai Dongliang was puzzled: "What is this?" ”
"The emblem of the Four Seas Gang!"
"The Four Seas Gang?"
"Smuggled salt sellers!"
Chai Dongliang suddenly realized, it turned out that Master Gao pretended to be a salt lord to deceive the city gate, it seems that the patrol battalion guarding the city gate and the salt lords have long had a tacit understanding.
Gang of the Four Seas? Together?
Chai Dongliang has finally figured out some things in the past few days, this master Gao is a member of the Communist Association, and his position must not be low, the tentacles of the Communist Association are extremely wide, and there are people from the three sects and nine streams who are active. I'm afraid that the Four Seas Gang is also controlled by the Communist Association, and is responsible for providing funds for the Communist Association!
He Tianshou mentioned the party, a mouthful of bandits, it is estimated that these people must have done a lot of things to destroy criminals!
But it's normal to think about it, how can anti-Qing activities be done without funds? Guarding the salt fields of Lianghuai, not selling smuggled salt is simply sorry for the rebellious ancestor Cheng biting gold! The revolutionary party will not waste money and money, what can it do if it does not engage in some illegal business?
"Lu Kai, you are responsible for guarding the city gate, in case of defeat, everyone will retreat... Master Gao, you take people to smash open the camp of the new army in Anqing and win the support of the new army... He Tianshou, you lead people to create chaos everywhere, remember, you are not allowed to kill people and set fires casually, let alone harm good people... A few of you, load small-caliber artillery and machine guns into a cart, and then bring explosives, and follow me to fight the armory... The bigger the noise tonight makes me as big as possible, to make people think that the army has entered the city! After completing the mission, let's attack the governor's yamen together! Chai Dongliang gave the order without stopping!
Lu Kai no longer regained his hippie smile, saluted with one fist and flat chest, and led people to turn the machine gun at the head of the city around, and all the roads around the city gate were blocked by fire.
He Tianshou took a few people to unload explosives and foreign iron buckets from the cart, and each person put a few big whips with tens of thousands of words on their buttocks, and was about to leave when Master Gao stopped him.
Gao Ming muttered a few words in He Tianshou's ear, only to see the horizontal flesh on He Tianshou's face trembling, patting his chest and saying something.
What the hell is this old guy doing? However, with his understanding of He Tianshou, the things that Gao Ming ordered him to do must be something that is not convenient for outsiders to know, but it is of great benefit to Chai Dongliang, otherwise Lao He would not have agreed.
Chai Dongliang is reluctant to ask, some things are better than knowing! As a superior person, sometimes pretending to be confused is also a science!
"Gun in hand, follow me! Kill the Tartars, punish the dogs! ”
Chai Dongliang drew a knife in his hand, shouting slogans while galloping on his horse! Fang Qingyu followed closely with a platoon of cavalry, and the shouts resounded through the streets in an instant.
"Gun in hand, follow me! Kill the Tartars, punish the dogs! ”
Each soldier shouted the same slogan and sped away from the street around the corner of the city gate.
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Anqing Ordnance Institute
Wang Qian, who was on duty at night, always drank small soju, and the fennel beans on the plate also bottomed out, but he always felt flustered in his heart, and saw that the night rain was still dancing outside.
Click, a bolt of lightning tore through the night sky, boom, a burst of rolling thunder!
"Master, today's thunder is like a shock in my ears, and my heart is beating wildly!" The pawn who poured wine for Mr. Wang Qian clutched his chest and said.
"Look at your cowardice, drink a sip of wine and strengthen your courage!" Wang Qian generously rewarded him with a glass of wine.
"I remember four years ago, when the thief Xu Xilin led the student soldiers to attack the ordnance station, it was also windy and rainy that day, and the thunder shook the sky!" An old soldier chimed in.
"If you don't die, just say something depressing!" Wang Qianzong's face turned pale and scolded angrily!
Four years ago, Wang Qian was just a soldier, dozens of bloodied student soldiers carried the seriously injured Xu Xilin to attack the ordnance station, those childish baby soldiers, but like a raging tiger wolf, the bullet ran out with a bayonet, the bayonet rolled up and smashed with the butt of the gun, and it was hard to beat hundreds of guards to the ground.
The person who found these child soldiers was Mr. Wang, and he was scared to pee his pants at that time, but he was clever, first fired a warning shot, and then when he fled, he didn't forget to take away the key to the armory...
The armory's door was cast from iron plates more than four inches thick, and the students couldn't open the door with all their might... Inside was a mountain of weapons and ammunition, and outside was a group of baby soldiers with empty guns!
It is this close to the end of the world, isolated from life and death, and these dolls all died in the hands of the army sent by the governor's yamen!
That night, the flames soared into the sky, that night, the thunder shook the sky, that night, the gunshots sounded like popping beans, and the blood of the baby soldiers that night stained the corridors and gates of the armory!
Whenever he thinks of the events of that day, Wang Qian always feels drenched in cold sweat, and always feels that the shouts of those child soldiers are still lingering in his ears!
"Bang bang bang..."
There was a popping sound outside.
Wang Qian was startled, jumped up from the chair, and shouted, "What's the matter? Did the ammunition depot run out of water? ”
"My lord, it's not good, it's the cavalry of the revolutionary party that has come in!"
A guard guarding the warehouse rushed in!
Wang Qian's legs trembled with fright, and he listened with courage, the gunshots outside had already sounded, and he couldn't figure out how many people and horses there were!
And most of them are the sound of cannons, Wang Qian is no stranger to the sound of machine guns, it sounds like at least dozens of machine guns are ringing together!
Oh my God! How many people have come from this revolutionary party?
"Shoot or kill!"
There was the neighing of war horses outside, and almost at the same time as the gunshots, more than a dozen war horses had already rushed into the gate of the armory, and a few guards who had not yet reacted stood stupidly. I saw that the light of the knife flashed, the head had been separated from the body, the blood from the neck spurted out, and after a while, the headless body fell to the ground.
The rest of the guards immediately fell to their knees and raised their guns above their heads, and the cavalry ignored them, still galloping towards the inner treasury of the armory.
"Quick, copy the guy upstairs!" Wang Qian always woke up from the panic, picked up a pistol, and ran to a western-style building behind, without forgetting to bring the key to the armory before leaving.
Wang Qian always knew very well that when he came out of this room, there was a distance of about twenty zhang to the armory at the back, and it only took a moment to run over. That's how he escaped last time!
"Shoot or kill!"
"Han people don't work for Tartars!"
There was a shout behind him, and Wang Qian ran away without looking back, and the keychain on his waist clanged.
"Bang bang bang!"
Upstairs in the armory, someone had already begun to shoot back at the cavalry outside, but the black lights and the shooting training of the patrol battalion were almost a look, and where could the galloping war horses be hit so easily? So it's just a posture of shooting birds indiscriminately and scaring people.
Ten steps, nine steps, seven steps, three more steps to the armory, as long as the iron door is locked, unless the revolutionary party has heavy artillery or a large amount of explosives, it will definitely not be able to open this heavy iron door, let alone break through this western-style building made of steel and ash!
Wang Qianzong's steps were fast, and he saw that his outstretched hand had touched the iron door!
Impulsive!
As soon as a gunshot rang out, Wang Qian felt that his back had been hit by a giant hammer, and his body flew out flat, hitting the iron door of the armory.
He looked down and saw a bowl-sized hole burst open in his chest, and blood gushed like a spring of water into the rain on the ground!
"Kill, smash open the armory!"
The shouts of the child soldiers sounded in his ears again, Wang Qian always covered his ears with his hands in horror, his body fell down softly, and the set of keys in his hand fell to the ground with a bang!
On the corner of the street outside the ordnance station, there are more than a dozen foreign tin buckets, and firecrackers explode in the iron barrels, which sounds almost exactly the same as the sound of a row of gunshots! Red shredded paper and white smoke flew in the night rain.
"Tong, Tong, Tong"
Three red flares have risen into the night sky!
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