Chapter 4 Attacking the Mountain
Liu'er was close to the officers and soldiers under the mountain, but there was no response under the mountain, and there was not much time, and I saw a group of officers and soldiers carrying up a few black iron pillars from under the mountain road, and they fell down obliquely.
"It's a cannon!" The little bandit who knew the goods screamed.
Of course, the well-informed Liu'er also knew what it was, and seeing that the officers and soldiers were carrying up the cannons, it was obviously not good.
"Quick! Fire, fire! "Since the officers and soldiers want to open artillery, it is better to fire the artillery on their own side first! Liu'er immediately gave the order to open fire.
There is indeed a cannon here at the head gate of Jinji Ridge, but this thing is a bit old, it is said that when a remnant of the Boxer Rebellion escaped from the Qing army, they fled to Jinji Ridge and left this cannon here. After the owner of the village, Huang Sanpao, occupied this Jinji Ridge, he didn't know where to find it, and he set it up at the first mountain gate. After this ancestor was put here, he once let it go once, and the big iron egg that was blown out smashed into two on the spot under the mountain that could not be hugged by a person, and the power was extremely great, and it was a sharp weapon for the defense of the cottage. Today, in order to deal with the officers and soldiers, I can't say it, so I have to use it again!
Whether the antique cannon on the cottage can be fired is a problem, the main thing is that he took a bit long to prepare this thing. You have to put gunpowder, you have to put iron eggs, and you have to light a fire, and the time it takes to make this thing sound is not a little bit.
As we all know, when the Braided Dynasty first entered the customs, it suffered a big loss under the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, and their great-grandfather was killed by the cannon. The authorities of the Later Jin Dynasty have always been more reluctant to use firearms, and the cannons they used were eliminated by the Caucasians after they were purchased later, while the things owned by the Boxers were eliminated by the imperial court, and after being put for dozens or hundreds of years, it is a bit exaggerated to use them here.
The artillery that came up from the bottom of the mountain was the artillery company fighters of the independent regiment, and the five 80 mortars that Gao Quan had just asked for from the division headquarters were not willing to use, and it was enough to fight a bandit, and it was enough to use the previous 60 guns. The 60 mortar has little power and light weight, so it is more suitable for use in mountainous areas. As soon as the soldiers set up the two mortars, they fired!
"Tom! Tong! "Two shells, one fell on the walled gate, and the other directly crossed the walled gate and exploded inside the walled gate! At this time, the bandit artillerymen on the gate were still busy weighing gunpowder.
"Boom!" There were two more explosions, and the officers and soldiers under the mountain fired two more cannons, which were much more accurate than the two cannons just now, and they all hit the gate of the village! The first gate of Jinjiling is an all-wood structure, and in later words, it is a real material, environmentally friendly and pollution-free. It's just that this pollution-free wooden gate, when it encountered the first cannonball, it had been blown up several times, and a large piece of wood broke off the gate, followed by two more cannonballs, and this pure wooden gate could no longer dutifully protect the bandits.
With the "Boom! "There was a loud bang, and in the smoke and dust, the heavy wooden door collapsed! The bandits and bandits lying on the top of the big wooden gate, along with the antique-level general cannon, also fell down heavily, and at the same time, there were more than 100 bandits in the head of the door, Liu'er.
The big wooden gate is five or six meters high, more than ten meters wide, this fall, the movement is not small, not only the bandits on the gate of the village broke their bones, the big iron cannon did not fall outside the door, but smashed into the inside with the gate! How heavy is that big, two palm-thick big wooden doors? Coupled with this exaggerated antique cannon, all of a sudden, the bandits standing behind the door were photographed more than a dozen times! These dozen people, even if they are basically not alive, the dozen or so who fell down with the gate of the village, even if they did not die, were seriously injured, and where they lay down, they were left humming.
Wang Dazhu saw that the gate of the village had been blown down, and waved his hand, "Give it to me!" ”
The fighters of the first battalion, armed with rifles, rushed up the mountain road. The bandits of the Toudaomen are still in shock, and their big leader, Liu'er, lies there, not saying a word, not moving, and not knowing whether he is dead or not. How can bandits who have lost their leadership be able to organize themselves to fight back? Some people ran to the main peak behind them, some were busy rescuing those comrades who were wounded at the walled gate, and a few people shot and sniped on the mountain road. After more than 10 days of training, the soldiers of the first battalion are now proficient in releasing their guns, and although they are not very accurate, they also know how to press bullets, pull bolts, and pull triggers.
Wang Dazhu invested in a company at one time, he wanted to rely on the strength of the crowd, and wanted to take down the bandit cottage in one go! Although the mountain road was narrow, and although the bandits were shooting and sniping from top to bottom, our soldiers had many guns, and few of the bandits put their guns down the mountain.
After experiencing the great change of the collapse of the walled gate, there were only one or twenty bandits in total, Wang Dazhu's company of more than 100 people, more than 100 guns, this rush and one shot, these 20 bandits were killed on the spot, and the rest of the bandits turned around and ran away when they saw that the momentum was not right. Although the soldiers of the first battalion have not been soldiers for a long time, they also know that if they stay on this dangerous mountain road for a long time, their life safety will not be guaranteed.
At the beginning of the gate, there were more than 100 bandits, more than 20 were killed and fell to death by the gate, and the officers and soldiers under the mountain were shot, and five or six were hanging, and there were about 70 people left, and there were thirty or forty people who turned around and ran back to the main peak, and when a battalion of soldiers rushed to a gate, there were only twenty or thirty bandits left. When these bandits saw that there were so many people coming up from the official army, what kind of strength did they have? Except for a few who escaped into the woods, most of them surrendered. After the gate was successfully resolved, Wang Dazhu made persistent efforts and led the soldiers of the first battalion to rush to the main peak immediately, and the gate was handed over to the company of the third battalion to defend.
Although Zhang Erxiao, the commander of the third battalion, was also very lively, this time he personally brought this company with him, Wang Dazhu ordered, and he had to stay at a gate honestly.
The main peak is more dangerous, and the number of bandits on the mountain is also higher. Since Wang Dazhu was determined to attack it, of course the bandits couldn't resist it. Huang Sanpao, the owner of Jinjiling Dazhai, didn't want to be really incompatible with this group of officers and soldiers, but whenever there was a little room for maneuver, he still thought that the two sides could live in peace. Since Huang Sanpao has a relationship in the county, of course he knows that the counties below the mountain are now full of troops. These people have even lost Taiyuan, and their hearts are full of resentment, and now if they become a leading bird, they will offend this guy, and Qiu Ba is afraid that there will be no place for him in the sky and on the earth.
"Adults at the bottom of the mountain, please wait! I'm willing to recruit An! Huang Sanpao, who was forced into a corner, climbed to the wall of the main peak and rushed down, shouting loudly with all his strength.