Chapter 31: The Sound of Artillery One Hundred and Five Years Ago (Part II)

Xu Yifan was now rushing towards the most violent whirlpool in the west.

The carriage borrowed from the consulate for the special carriage of the commissioner was undulating on the bumpy road, and it looked like it was about to fall apart.

All the way, it was all flames, all ruins, all rubble. After the power of the mob was unleashed, the destructive power was extremely powerful, extremely amazing!

The trainees on the carriage were all holding on to the edge of the carriage, trying their best to stabilize themselves, and checking the bullets by the way. The bullets they transported from Zhiyuan were only about 1,000 rounds, and each gun was divided into more than ten rows. The battle of Zheng He Mosque just now has been fought for more than half of the battle. The gun-wielding soldiers adjusted their own bullets, and just looked at Xu Yifan who was standing in front of the car with tense faces.

The car was followed by some of the strongest Chinese youths, and the number was probably nearly 1,000. They all panted one by one, and followed Xu Yifan's straight back, each with a baleng knife or wooden stick snatched from the thugs. One couldn't run, and the people around him hurriedly supported them.

In such a quenching and retraining, it is not only the students under Xu Yifan who have been baptized!

Zhang Yu stood beside Xu Yifan and shook the reins vigorously. The steward's skill in driving the carriage is also extremely skillful, no matter how difficult the road is, the horse's chewing ring can be loosened left and right, and it can be bypassed without slowing down!

Only the cuckoo was squatting in the carriage, biting his lip and taking care of Li Xuan. The cadets spontaneously gathered around them and protected the two girls. Du Juan looked at Li Xuan, and then looked at his master for a while, his mind was all on Xu Yifan. And Li Xuan's soft body rose and fell with the shaking of the carriage, and the wound on his ribs was entangled, and the blood stains were no longer annihilated, as if the blood had stopped, but he had not woken up yet.

Xu Yifan didn't look back at all at all, just frowned and looked ahead, looking around.

On both sides of the road, there were crying Chinese, some of them were corpses, some were covered in blood, and they seemed to have lost their minds and walked around, trying to find a safe place. Behind the rising fireworks, I don't know how many of the same tragedies there are! There were not many thugs left in the streets, and the brigade was rushing west. Seeing Xu Yifan and them coming over murderously, they were in a daze at first, and then slipped away like rats. Those who can't run will be put down on the spot, and the sticks and baleng knives in the hands of the Chinese youth will be the result. These Chinese youths who escaped from the riot in front of Zheng He Mosque have never eaten blood like this!

Blood for blood, life for life!

On the streets, not a single foreign soldier or policeman could be seen, and it seemed that they had faithfully carried out the orders of the Dutch colonial authorities in front of them, not to interfere in the riot against the Chinese. The situation is in such a mess that the new orders of the Governor's Palace cannot reach them, and it is not known when these forces, which are supposed to maintain law and order, will take action.

Looking into the distance, I faintly saw the head of a mob under black pressure. The carriage ran forward for a while, and it was already out of the city, turning onto the dirt road to the west of the city, and as far as the eye could see, it seemed that the entire indigenous thugs of Surabaya were concentrated here!

These thugs rushed in all directions, rushing towards the big houses. But unlike in Surabaya City, every Chinese here is trying their best to resist! Everywhere there are crowds fighting, fighting, desperate. The rice fields have been trampled in a mess, and some rubber forests have been set on fire. Especially on the main road towards the Li family in Mutang, there were more hedgehog thugs. shouted and shouted in their native language, and the noise was chaotic and violent to the extreme.

Xu Yifan looked forward and vaguely saw that on the head, there was his festival flag fluttering and flashing, which could be seen for a while, but not for a while.

Li Yunzong and they were surrounded, but they were still fighting! The gunfire was no longer audible, and it seemed that they had run out of bullets. And the thugs here are not only numerous, but also fierce, and they can't even be deterred with guns! With such a small team and a few hundred rounds of ammunition, can you clean up the chaos here?

This thought was just fleeting, Xu Yifan patted Zhang Yu on the shoulder, he quickened his speed again, and the soldiers raised all their guns in an uproar. Looking back again, the students and Chinese youths on foot were all following behind them, some of them vomiting blood while running, but they still looked at him with a resolute expression.

Xu Yifan pointed forward with one hand: "Shoot!" Forge a path! The only one who can save us is ourselves! ”

The sound of gunfire rang out suddenly, and the thugs who were still rushing forward at the back suddenly knocked over a few. But the whole scene was chaotic to such a point, those thugs were all looking at the wealth of those Chinese families at their fingertips, who noticed the small team coming from behind, who could still hear these faint gunshots?

The carriage was speeding forward at high speed, and the cadets were desperately firing. Finally, some of the natives turned around, and their eyes widened and they rushed forward. They huddled together with the thugs in front of them, and one by one they let out panicked cries of unknown meaning. Seeing that the carriage was about to rush into the crowd, Xu Yifan, who was gritting his teeth, had his eyes flickering, and the cuckoo was already standing beside him and handed over the six-wheeled pistol: "Master, you take it!" ”

Xu Yifan took it and looked at the cuckoo, she was standing firmly on the violently bumpy carriage, and she was already holding a baleng knife in her hand. The little face was tighter than his, and it was tightly guarding his side.

Xu Yifan just glanced at it and turned around, and a shout burst out from his chest: "Fight!" ”

With a bang, the carriage rushed into the crowd, and the four healthy horses trampled over the natives until they had exhausted all their momentum. All around are black pressed human heads, shaking baleng knives. Twisted faces desperately dodged the carriage, but the crowd was too dense to wait to be trampled on. The wheels of the carriage spun at high speed, bringing flesh with them until they clogged the axles. The whole cart fell sideways as the horse overturned. Zhang Yuyuan opened his eyes, pulled the chewing ring hard, and grabbed a few horses stiffly!

The cadets got closer to a place where they couldn't get any closer, and snapped out a row of bullets. At such a close distance, a single bullet can often penetrate the bodies of several thugs! Before the bullets were finished, they had already jumped out of the car, stabbed out seven or eight bayonets with cold light, and picked out a few thugs, and used too much strength to stab the thugs throughout. Just hang on the bayonet and twitch!

Xu Yifan had a cold face, and he also put his pistol around. This time, he was also a pioneer and went into battle in person. No matter how bad the marksmanship is, it has knocked over several indigenous thugs! The cuckoo was like a little tigress, and the balemon knife flashed in her hand. I don't know how many dirty paws I stomped down and stretched out to the wheels, wanting to push the carriage down and tear Xu Yifan off!

On the other hand, Zhang Yu was controlling the horse, and he was also dancing with a knife, stomping on it more quickly than a cuckoo. The cold light is a splash of blood. At the same time, he was also pulling four healthy horses, and the huge hooves didn't know how many people had kicked away!

Rao is like this, there are so many indigenous thugs that they are still surrounded to the death. It was constantly crowded by the crowd. In a short period of time, the students who were surrounding had already shortened their bayonets and resisted desperately with their fists and rifle butts. No one can hurt Lord Xu in the slightest!

Seeing that it is already impossible to prevent, everyone is injured. When Xu Yifan received a stone on his head. The shouting in the back was loud again, and the rioters were pushed away in waves. The one who took the lead in rushing in was Zhang Xuzhou, a northern man! He had sharp bareng knives in both hands, and he pounced on them like a mad tiger, slashing one or two with every swing. The rest of the cadet sailors guarded him, followed by hundreds of Chinese youths! At this time, they all rushed forward with red eyes and knives on their bodies, unaware of the slashing knives on their bodies, and just tried their best to cut down the surrounding indigenous thugs. Some Chinese youths had completely lost their physical strength, and even grabbed a thug by the neck and rolled with him to the side of the road.

The crowd pushed around, and a large pile of people was squeezed down, and then countless pairs of feet stepped on, and what was not hummed was a mess of meat puree. Such a team pounced, and the thugs on the road finally faltered, they thought that they could easily bully and slaughter these Chinese, but these Chinese were fighting with them! They shouted and pushed outwards as hard as they could, and more indigenous thugs were trampled down, and they jumped into the paddy fields on the side of the road, fleeing for their lives. The flow of people in the hedgehog group finally slowly dispersed, scattered in a larger area, and wanted to get as far away from these guys as possible. All that's left is a mess of flesh and blood.

There were also seven or eight scarred and tattered cadets, still back to back, their blood-red eyes wide, looking at everything around them. And that Xu byte flag is still fluttering in this little pile!

Seeing that a path had finally been made, the natives all got out of the way and turned in other directions. There are only a few thousand people left in the paddy fields, still holding knives and gesturing here. Xu Yifan jumped out of the car, didn't wipe the blood marks on his head, and strode towards those tiger ben who were standing. Du Juan Zhangyu and Zhang Xuzhou hurriedly followed, wanting to block Xu Yifan's side. Xu Yifan didn't look at the people around him, he just asked loudly: "Yunzong!" Cloud Vertical! Are you still there? ”

When he approached the cadet team, he saw Li Yunzong standing there hunched over, holding a flag in one hand and a brother who was already covered in blood in the other. When I saw someone coming, I didn't think about it, I stumbled, and stabbed it with a festival flag!

Zhang Yu stretched out his hand to block it, but the festival flag also stopped. Li Yunzong looked at everything in front of him in disbelief, his eyes widened, and the blood had completely covered his face: "My lord? My lord! ”

As soon as the adults spoke, a few of the students who were still standing around them suddenly fell soft. The soldiers and young people who followed Xu Yifan around hurriedly supported them. Zhang Xuzhou asked loudly with Li Yunzong on his shoulder: "My lord, how to control the current situation?" ”

Xu Yifan looked around blankly, their team of hundreds of people had already surrounded the boundless thugs, and the road had been closed. The thugs did not dare to rush forward, but they did not retreat, and let out a roar that was not human. The rush in just now to break the siege, I don't know how many thugs were turned into blood and mud, and the corpses were scattered all the way!

They were able to protect the front of the Li family's wooden hall, but the thugs were still storming the courtyards of other families, and some had already pounced on the courtyard wall, screaming and slamming the door. As far as the eye can see, it's all thugs!

Everyone's eyes were focused on Xu Yifan's body, he shook his body, and pointed to Li Xing, who had been following him: "You take all the wounded, rush into your Li family, and hold on!" All Chinese youths go! ”

Li Xing looked at the blood that Xu Yifan kept dripping from his forehead: "My lord, how long can this be kept?" ”

Xu Yifan gritted his teeth tightly: "I don't think they can hold up under the cannon!" ”

Li Xing was still standing still, Xu Yifan had already kicked him violently and yelled: "If you want to follow me, you can only listen to my orders!" This kick woke Li Xing up, turned around and went back to greet the Chinese youth to prepare to clean up the wounded. Xu Yifan turned around and walked a few steps, jumped into the carriage, and Zhang Xuzhou followed closely behind him with Li Yunzong.

Xu Yifan asked Zhang Xuzhou coldly: "Can you still rush?" ”

At this time, Zhang Xuzhou laughed: "Where the adults point, we will die!" Xu Yifan sneered: "Okay, let's rush towards Tanjung Perak Port again, and turn up artillery to bombard these eight lambs!" ”

The soldiers immediately gathered around Xu Yifan, and Zhang Yu also jumped into the carriage and held the reins steadily. Xu Yifan looked back and saw that Li Xuan's body was still lying on the carriage softly. His chest rose and fell slightly, and then he looked at the cuckoo who had been injured a little bit, and his heart was also soft at this time, and he said to the cuckoo: "You take Miss Li and Yun Zong, and hide in the Li family's house......"

The cuckoo was stunned, and his eyes immediately turned red, and he bit his lips: "Don't go!" ”

If Xu Yifan scolded her, he even beat her. The cuckoo has made up his mind and will not get out of the car even if he dies. At this time, Xu Yifan was silent for a while, gently touched her cheek, and smiled: "When I come back, your master still has a lot of things to do." ”

Such gentle words immediately made the cuckoo's tears fall from his eyes, and he didn't know where he came from. She glanced at Xu Yifan, picked up Li Xuan when she turned around, jumped out of the carriage, this shock made Li Xuan moan slightly, opened her starry eyes, looked around blankly, and closed it again. Li Yunzong, who was supported by Zhang Xuzhou, was about to hand it over to Du Juan, Li Yunzong's body leaning on him was tense again, his eyes were wide open, and he didn't know where the strength came from, so he jumped into the carriage and stood beside Xu Yifan.

Body straight!

Xu Yifan glanced at him and shouted: "Go!" ”

Zhang Yu shook the reins, and became excited because of the injury and bleeding, and the healthy horse, who had been restless, suddenly neighed, rumbled the carriage, and turned to the southwest. The wheels turned, rolling up the flesh and skidding. Watching the car turn, the natives who were not far behind the road all changed color, trembled and retreated, and some of them were busy jumping into the paddy fields.

The injured students shouted in unison, followed Xu Yifan's direction, and rushed back to the way they came!

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At this time, at the port of Tanjung Perak, the air was also extremely tight.

A team of dozens of people formed a circle to defend the Xu Byte Banner, the symbol of the Qincha Commissioner. He looked at the more than 100 foreign soldiers and policemen around him, pointing his gun at the muzzle of the gun, and the bayonet touching the bayonet. No one will back down.

The well fortress cannon of the mountain battery had been raised, and the muzzle of the cannon pointed to the two warships from far away.

On the surface of the sea, the anchor chains of the four confronting warships had already come out of the water, and the smoke from the boiler was rising through the chimney in a tight burst of outward flow. The muzzles of the four cruisers pointed at each other, and at such a close distance, whoever hit it with one shot was a terrible situation.

The sailors of both countries were either blue or pale, so nervous that they had long since stopped foaming at the mouth. The heart is like it is about to pop out of the cavity, just staring at the target opposite. Live ammunition of various calibers have been loaded into the chamber. The gunners stood by the microphone, all looking at the bridge. A little spark seems to be enough to set this blue sea on fire!

Deng Shichang's sweat beads on his face were already the size of soybeans, and he stood in front of the bridge with his chest straight, just looking west. Plumes of smoke had already reached there. The noise of the noise drifted faintly towards here with the smoke and dust.

Chen Jinping stood beside Deng Shichang, sweating more than Deng Shichang. I was soaking wet, and I looked into the distance with a telescope for a while, and then looked far away. just subconsciously stomped his feet: "Where is Lord Xu?" How's that going to work? How's that going to work? ”

Deng Shichang didn't say a word, his figure was motionless, just looking in the direction of the west of Surabaya.

Xu Yifan should be in the place where the thugs flocked. More than 200 years in the Qing Dynasty, in this dark year of ten thousand horses, there is only one such Qincha.

An inexplicable flame surged in Deng Shichang's chest, and he was so irritable that he wanted to grab the neckline and give the order to fire!

Chen Jinping suddenly looked into the distance again: "Lord Deng! Come far and put a sampan flooding, which seems to be a mound pipe belt! ”

Deng Shichang didn't move: "What is he doing here?" Just listen to my Zhiyuan banner, this is leaving the battle position without permission! ”

Chen Jinping looked at himself helplessly, knowing that he couldn't explain to him. Now he is still in the Zhiyuan tube, and after returning to China, because of today's actions, I don't know what unforeseen disasters are waiting for him!

He bowed his head and ordered under the bridge: "Hang the rope net, pick up Lord Qiu!" ”

The sampan that came from far away quickly reached Zhiyuan, and the rope net hung down, Qiu Baoren was surprisingly agile at this time, grabbed it, and climbed up in three or two clicks. Several sailors tried to help him jump, but he waved his hand and pushed him away, and he went straight to the bridge in a puff of smoke.

Before the others entered the bridge, they heard his voice: "Lord Deng, we can't go down any longer." With such a move, the imperial court Beiyang has thunder and anger! ”

Before the words fell, Qiu Baoren had already rushed in, his face was blue and white. The official uniform on his body was already as wet as if it had been fished out of the water.

Deng Shichang turned his head and looked at him coldly: "I have already put out the banner of preparing for war, why did you leave your post without permission as a pipe band?" ”

Qiu Baoren spread his hands: "Lord Deng, do you really want to fight with foreigners?" It's crazy wow! We can't go crazy with that two hundred and five Qincha, we have to listen to the imperial court, we have to listen to the Beiyang! ”

The muscles on Deng Shichang's face twitched, and his voice burst out word by word like a clash of gold and iron: "I don't care what you think, I am the captain of the formation, and the imperial court and Beiyang have not relieved me of this position." Come on! Lord Jiang Qiu looks like he left his post without permission because he didn't respect military orders! Hang up the banner and let the deputy manager of Laiyuan take Chen Rong guerrilla to take over the position, and the order to prepare for war will not be changed! ”

The two armed sailors shouted loudly, and came to twist Qiu Baoren's hands. Qiu Baoren pushed them hard: "Crazy Deng! Lao Tzu is not afraid of death, and it is nothing to fight with foreigners, but this is a chaotic life! I see how you explain to Zhongtang and Ding Junmen! ”

He turned around suddenly, and the two sailors on duty looked at him blankly, and Qiu Baoren had nowhere to vent his anger. A sailor's mouth was pumped with a snap. He turned around and got off the bridge, and the sailors covered their faces and hurriedly followed.

Deng Shichang stood there motionlessly, as if what Qiu Baoren said was just a breeze in his ears.

Chen Jinping looked at Deng Shichang and sighed in his heart. Ordered loudly: "Didn't you hear Deng Junmen's words?" Hang the flag! ”

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Just as the flag was raised on the Zhiyuan mast again, I saw smoke and dust rising from the wharf, and a group of foreign soldiers rushed over, and immediately sat a guy with dazzling epaulettes, who was Lieutenant Colonel Detann, the governor's adjutant.

Their foreign troops, all the way to collect the light infantry and police scattered all over Surabaya, while restoring order to the west of the city, where the most chaotic city was located. But along the way, where can I still find the shadow of foreign soldiers and policemen! The riot reached such a scale that the foreign soldiers retreated to the public buildings of the colony to carry out the task of defending, and could not be mobilized. Many of the indigenous police stripped off their clothes, blended in with the mob, and followed the violence.

When they approached the west of the city, the hearts of these dozens of foreign soldiers were cold, including Lieutenant Colonel Detann, who were all pale. The natives of black oppression are at their most violent, so how can they be suppressed? They are also too strong and a little weaker. Fortunately, the lieutenant colonel was not stupid, and his brain was relatively quick, remembering that here in the port of Tanjung Perak, there are hundreds of foreign soldiers and policemen, and hundreds of sailors can be drawn from the two warships. Immediately turned around and ran here, and his men were eager to leave the hellish place in the west.

Unexpectedly, they rushed over all the way and vomited blood, but what they saw was that the Qing military ships and the Dutch military ships were all making fires, and the cannons were pointing at each other. On the dock, the Qing soldiers and foreign soldiers are also fighting with each other!

At this time, he couldn't care about so much, and his heart was already panicked to the extreme. The riots are out of control, and if another naval battle breaks out here, how chaotic will the situation be? The lieutenant colonel didn't even dare to imagine. Immediately dismounted and found the sailors who were responsible for the signal communication on the dock, and raised the flag against the two Dutch warships, which was also called to Zhiyuan to see from afar.

Chen Jinping stood beside Deng Shichang and read these internationally accepted maritime signals.

"De-alert...... The Royal Netherlands Navy would never fire on the Qing Navy...... We need to keep order in Surabaya as soon as possible......"

Before he finished reading this banner, Chen Jinping breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank God! These foreigners don't want to make a big deal out of it yet! Military, let's also lift the alert order. You see, the cannons on the foreigner ships have turned their muzzles! ”

Deng Shichang's body trembled, almost softening. He also let out a sigh of relief: "Let's put the mound pipe and bring it out...... Let's turn the muzzle of the gun too...... It's just that the boiler can't be turned off yet...... Now it's Lord Xu, where is he? ”

Not only was he worried, but Chu Wanli, who had been tense on the dock, also jumped up and rushed straight to Lieutenant Colonel Detann, who was spinning around the dock and waiting to gather a brigade of light infantry and sailors.

The foreign soldiers shouted one after another, pointing their rifles at Chu Wanli. Chu Wanli shouted at De Tanen regardless of it: "What about our Lord Xu? What about the Qincha of our Qing Kingdom? ”

No one could understand his Mandarin, and the soldiers just scolded and raised their guns higher.

Chu Wanli turned around angrily and said loudly: "Let's turn around and rescue Lord Xu!" ”

A roar suddenly aroused a neat response, and many sailors agreed, ready to follow these scarred soldiers to pick up Xu Yifan!

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps was heard outside the dock.

Everyone's eyes turned to the past, and they saw the carriage galloping from a distance, and the carriage stood upright, it was Xu Yifan! There was blood on his face, and his official uniform was torn. The one holding the Qincha Festival flag beside him was Li Yunzong.

He and the cadets who followed the carriage and supported each other. The severity of the injuries is hard to imagine that they ran all the way to kill the indigenous thugs and fight all the way!

Everyone was in rags, and some were choking on blood as they ran. But the majestic and awe-inspiring aura is not reduced by this!

Xu Yifan's eyes only fell on Deng Shichang, and Deng Shichang also saw Xu Yifan. The two looked at each other far away, and they just collided directly. Deng Shichang grabbed the railing in front of him: "Lord Xu! ”

Xu Yifan took a deep breath and yelled at Zhiyuan in the sea and sky.

"Lord Deng! The Chinese in Surabaya are about to be wiped out! Shoot to the west! Save my compatriots! ”

(To be continued)