Chapter 107: Bluffing
Gu Mazi came to Xiaodongguan with cavalry and sports cars, but found that the road had been blocked by deer, rejected horses and sandbags, followed by black muzzles and soldiers of the Huaishang Army.
There are only two paths to the armory, and they are all blocked.
The result of taking a step back is that the southern battalion, which has run out of ammunition and food, is broken and then the whole army is annihilated, and there may be a way to survive if you take a step forward.
When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, fight!
"Rush over, rush over! Death to those who stand in my way! ”
Gu Mazi brandished his saber and galloped on his horse, bullets whistling past his ears, and the cavalry behind him lay tightly on the horse's back and lowered his body, clamping the horse's belly with his legs, squeezing the horsepower to the limit.
Xue Zilin commanded the student army to keep firing guns, and a few horses fell after a row of guns, but the cavalry on the opposite side was still fearless of the charge. Xue Zilin secretly said that it was a fluke, if he came a little late, the bandits of the spotted leopard would probably have lost their positions and ran away.
Seeing that they fell one by one, Gu Mazi, who was shouldering the heavy responsibility, didn't dare to hold on too much, so he had to restrain the war horse, and retreated with a flick of the horse's head, and the cavalry skillfully put a row of guns and circled the war horse back. A cavalryman grinned and said: "Brother Mazi, these guys are a little tricky, I'm afraid it's not a way for us to rush so hard, and the brothers will fight out after two more trips." ”
Gu Mazi bit his lip and didn't say a word, the two roads leading to the armory were blocked, although the opposite side was only extremely rudimentary fortifications such as deer barricades, horse rejections, and sandbags, but with foreign guns and machine guns, this street was turned into a death trap.
From the corner of the street to the fortifications of the Huaishang Army, it was only two hundred meters, and it was such a short distance, but it was as insurmountable as a moat.
The cavalry jumped off their horses one after another, looking for everything that could serve as cover, and then hid behind and put their guns, the cavalry of the Anhui Revolutionary Army used Manlixia cavalry guns, which were much better than the guns of the Huaishang Army, and the level of training was far from being comparable to the student army that had just thrown a pen from Rong. Under the fire, many Huaishang soldiers were knocked down, and the shooter of a machine gun was also changed three times.
If he had changed to the ordinary party armament, I am afraid that he would have lost his gun and fled for his life, but Xue Zilin's student army still fought to the death, and the machine gun shooter would replace it with another one after defeating one. Gu Mazi couldn't rush over if he wanted to, and Xue Zilin couldn't repel the cavalry of the Anhui Revolutionary Army, who had already killed the red eyes.
The two sides are deadlocked, and it depends on whose nerves are more tenacious and whose capital is stronger. At present, there is no doubt that Xue Zilin has the upper hand, he has a student army of 300 and a bandit team of more than 200 Tongbai Mountain, while Gu Mazi only has more than 100 people, there are only more than 70 cavalry with weapons, and the rest are unarmed artillery.
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Huang Huanzhang took the Jiangxi People's Army all the way into Anqing City with a swagger. The defenders in the city were fighting fiercely with the Huaishang army, and it was just time for him to pick up the leak. The hard bones were handed over to Zhang Huitao's Huai Shangjun, and the rest was all meat!
"It's all a bit fucking promising, how much money do ordinary people have? Lay down the Anhui Military Advisory Office, and move home with Jinshan and Yinshan! Huang Huanzhang couldn't stop cheering up the people's army.
The people's army braved the heavy rain along the way to trek on the muddy mountain road, and they were already exhausted to the extreme, but they were all in good spirits at the moment. Legend has it that the gold and silver in the Anhui Military Advisory Office were piled up, and the silver dollars, copper rounds and paper bills found by the Guanghua Bank were used to pave the floor and paste the windows. Huang Huanzhang said that as long as the Military Advisory Office is defeated, half of it will be handed over to the public and the remaining half will be taken by everyone, and whoever robs it will be whom.
When the 5,000-strong Jiangxi People's Army walked to the door of the Military Advisory Office, they were stunned for a moment, only to see that the gate was open, and there was no sound inside.
There is an ambush? Huang Huanzhang's first thought was that he had fallen into a scheme, and after watching it for a long time, he felt that it was not like it, so he had the courage to send a hundred people to search, and the person who was sent was carrying a rifle on his waist and reluctantly walked into the empty military advisory office.
After a long time, one of the soldiers rushed out and shouted, "It's empty, there's no one inside." ”
Without waiting for Huang Huanzhang to order, the Jiangxi People's Army rushed in with a roar, smashing open one office after another, except for a pile of burnt documents, there were only tables, chairs, benches and the four treasures of the study. Not to mention the mountains of gold and silver, I haven't even seen a copper plate.
"Damn, I was tricked by He Zudao, this old bastard!" Huang Huanzhang was furious, and when he looked back, He Zudao, who had been following him, had long since disappeared.
Bang!
Knock, knock, knock!
Dadada, da???
There was a rush of gunfire in the distance, the rumbling should be the large-caliber heavy artillery, the knocking was the sound of rapid-fire guns, and the rattling rhythm of the gunfire was the machine gun that the veteran feared the most.
"Brothers, rush, the Anhui Revolutionary Army is back!"
"Brothers, reinforcements have arrived!"
There was a faint sound of shouting in the distance, and the gunfire became more rapid. Huang Huanzhang was terrified when he heard this, and with his experience of fighting two battles with the Qing army, he felt that at least a dozen cannons and dozens of machine guns were roaring at the same time.
It's bad, the main force of the Anhui Revolutionary Army has come to the rescue!
"Don't be afraid, if you defeat these Anhui guys, Lao Tzu will reward you!" Huang Huanzhang pulled out his pistol and shouted loudly.
"Fuck you, run!"
The Jiangxi People's Army had already been frightened, dropped their rifles, spears, and broadswords, and ran in the direction of the north gate. Out of the north gate and then to the west is the road back to Jiangxi.
"Whoever dares to run, Lao Tzu shoots whom!" Huang Huanzhang roared angrily, but no one listened to him at all, everyone only hated his father and mother for having two legs, and the speed of escape was more than twice as fast as when he marched into Anqing.
Huang Huanzhang saw that the team had dispersed, and he couldn't care much, grabbed a horse and turned over, beat the horse and whipped and fled towards the north gate.
In the woods two or three miles away from the Military Advisory Office, several patrol officers were setting off firecrackers under a canvas shed, and a string of large whips with swastika heads were loaded into tin buckets, and after being lit, the firecrackers exploded in the iron buckets, and the sound was similar to machine guns. Others stuffed black gunpowder into bottles and jars, sealed them with wax, lit them and threw them outside.
The violent explosion of thump, thump, thump resembles the sound of rapid-fire guns.
As for the roar of the heavy artillery, it was indeed made by the cannon, but it was not a new steel cannon, but Zhong Wuying pulled the old pine cannon at the gate of the City God Temple. The red pine, which weighs more than 200 kilograms, has been hollowed out of the inner cup, and the inside is scorched with fire, and the copper hoop on the outer bread is considered a cannon.
The muzzle of the cannon was filled with black powder, which ignited the twist, and a moment later there was a loud and earth-shaking bang.
The gray-haired old inspector and the rest of the men braved the heavy rain to shout in unison in the woods, and the sound of shouting and killing and the explosion of gunpowder outside was carried away by the cold wind.
A patrol officer grinned and said, "Less decoration, you have taken all the gunpowder from my artillery workshop." ”
Zhong Wuying scolded with a smile: "Look at your stinginess, when the governor comes back, the reward will be enough for you to open three more artillery workshops??? Decorate it more, and smash the gunpowder into the porcelain! ”
The patrol officer smiled bitterly and said, "Inspector Zhong, it's not that my brother is stingy, I don't dare to fill too much medicine in this loose cannon." ”
Before he finished speaking, he heard an earth-shattering bang.
A huge wave of air swept the patrol officer and Zhong Wuying out of the way, and all kinds of them fell to the ground, Zhong Wuying felt that there was no pain in all parts of his body, and it seemed that he had fallen apart. Before he could react, he heard a heart-rending cry: "My hand, my hand is gone!" ”
The patrol officer said with a bitter face: "I told you not to pretend so much, blow up the chamber!" ”
The old inspector shouted angrily: "What else are you talking about? Save people! ”
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Gu Mazi faintly heard the dense cannon sound in the distance, and suddenly his spirit perked up, the Huaishang Army must not have so many cannons, it must be the governor who brought Kuang Haishan's regiment back to help.
"Brothers, reinforcements have arrived, rush!"
He brandished his saber and slammed the horse's belly, and the war horse Herod screamed violently and rushed to the position of the Huaishang army. The cavalry jumped on their horses one after another, shooting with their cavalry guns while quickly attacking Xue Zilin's fortifications.
Xue Zilin hurriedly commanded the shooting, but the student army was originally extremely poorly trained, and there was nothing else except for a lot of blood, and they hurriedly fired a row of guns, but only two horses were shot and fell to the ground, and the others still galloped on their horses.
"Run!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, the bandits in Tongbai Mountain threw down their weapons and fled in all directions, Xue Zilin fired three shots in a row, shooting three bandits but unable to stop the collapse of the team. The escape of the bandit team also dispersed the student army that was waiting for them, and seeing that Gu Mazi's cavalry was already close at hand, the student army also subconsciously moved out of the way and dodged on both sides.
As soon as Gu Mazi lifted the reins, the war horse man stood up, crossed the deer and cut off the head of a student army with a knife, and the cavalry behind also jumped over the obstacles in turn, and cleaned up the student army who dared to resist with a rifle and a saber, and the artillery jumped down from the war horse, removing the deer, rejecting horses and other debris, leaving a passage for the artillery carriage behind.
The horse-drawn artillery wagon, driven by the whip, flew in the direction of the ordnance station. The artillerymen jumped on the gun wagon and took the first step, and the cavalry was finished, and also whipped their horses and galloped away.
"Bastard!" Xue Zilin's hands and feet were cold, and he gave a classmate a loud ear tube: "Coward, shame!" ”
Five or six miles away, for the cavalry, it is just a war horse to have a good time, and after a while, Gu Mazi and the others have rushed to the vicinity of the ordnance station, only to see that the water that has been surrounded is impassable. From time to time, soldiers of the Anhui Revolutionary Army fell from the head of the military department.
The garrison of the military department had only one platoon, and it was all infantry with large guns, and no one could use machine guns and artillery empty. With the strong city walls, these people have been struggling to hold on for more than two hours, and now more than half of them have been killed and wounded, and the gunfire is sparse.
"Brothers! The Governor is back, and reinforcements have arrived! Gu Mazi fired a few shots at the Huai Shangjun in the distance, shouting at the top of his throat.
"The Governor is back, and the reinforcements have arrived!"
The cavalry, artillerymen, and the baggage soldiers who drove the artillery wagons shouted at the same time, and the onslaught of dozens of people actually confused the more than 1,000 people surrounding the ordnance station.
The defenders at the head of the city were in high spirits, and their hands and feet, which were originally a little stiff, also became flexible, and they skillfully pulled the bolt of the gun, and a vengeful bullet beat the wolf rushing Huai Shangjun to cry father and mother.
The encirclement of the Huaishang army was loosened, and the broadswords and pistols of the overseers could not prevent their rout, and everyone subconsciously fled for their lives, as if they would be slaughtered like pigs and sheep if they were one step too late.
With a "squeak", the steel gate more than six inches thick opened, and Gu Mazi and the others swaggered into the ordnance station as if they were in a no-man's land among thousands of horses and thousands of troops.
With another "squeak", the door was locked back from the inside. Gu Mazi fell off the horse, covered in blood, unable to figure out whether it was the enemy's or his own, and the high degree of nervous tension had exhausted his physical strength. Almost all the cavalry and artillery in the back were wounded, and the horses seemed to have been soaked in the blood of hell.
The cavalry, artillery, and baggage soldiers who followed Gu Mazi out of the southern camp totaled 120 people, 40 war horses, and 18 gun carriages, and only 46 people remained, 30 war horses, and 6 gun wagons when they arrived at the armory.
In just a short distance, Gu Mazi's colleagues have lost more than half!
But the original greenness on their faces has faded, and a tough battle has quickly elevated them from well-trained rookies to qualified fighters.
"Quick, put the Green cannon and Makqin at the head of the city, set up the cannons, and kill these bastards!" Gu Mazi's nerves relaxed, only to find that his shoulder was burning with pain, he didn't care about checking his injury, and immediately gave an order.
Outside the ordnance station, more than 1,000 Huaishang troops scattered and fled, colliding head-on with Xue Zilin, who was chasing after him.
"Go back, give me all back!" Xue Zilin drew his gun and shot at the sky, but the rout didn't pay attention to him at all, just bumping around like a headless fly.
"Shoot me!" Xue Zilin's cold order.
The student army fired together, and suddenly forty or fifty people were beaten and lay down, and this time the platoon of guns stopped the rout of the Huaishang army, and they cried and shouted, and under the drive of the student army, they picked up the discarded weapons again, and carried the ladder to the top of the armory.
What awaits them is the roar of machine guns, the muffled sound of the Grimm cannon of ten barrels, and the hornet's nest-like muzzle turns strings of bullets into flaming scythes, harvesting cheap lives. Makqin had a unique "dignified" copper sound, and the rapid rain of bullets tore the bodies of the Huaishang soldiers into blurred pieces of flesh and blood.
The pound of Grusen cannon that had just been brought to the top of the city also fired, and the shrapnel whistled where the shells fell, turning all life around them into invisible.
How is it possible for flesh and blood to fight steel? The artillery that Gu Mazi had worked so hard to bring out was full of anger at the moment, using machine guns and artillery to vent the grief of losing his comrades.
"Charge me, the student army will fight to the death!" Xue Zilin's eyes spurted blood, and he roared hoarsely.
The Huaishang Army collapsed again, the first one hundred and seven chapters bluffing, the one hundred and seven chapters of bluffing, one hundred and seven chapters of bluffing, this time they didn't even care about the bullets fired at them by the student army, and they only hated their father and mother for having two legs.
Seeing more and more people lying down around him, and hearing the high-pitched slogans of "Long live the Republic of China" and "Long live freedom" of the Anhui Revolutionary Army at the head of the city, Xue Zilin suddenly had an extremely grotesque idea.
He felt that the scene in front of him was not real, he was still the student studying in the academy, and the blood and fire purgatory in front of him was just a nightmare for himself.
He felt extremely heavy on his limbs, and for the first time since he had followed his teacher into the army, he felt tired.
Boom!
A cannonball exploded not far away, and Xue Zilin was hit by the air wave and flew up, and then fell heavily on the side of the road.
It's over, it's all over!
Xue Zilin closed his eyes quietly, his consciousness became in a trance, and everything outside had nothing to do with him anymore.
He suddenly had a kind of realization: if he could die like this, it would not be a kind of happiness.
(To be continued)