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Chapter 1486 Crazy Night

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In a city that completely imitates the style and layout of a Chinese city, the streets are neatly arranged like a chessboard, and the patrol troops of the city defense army are scrupulously patrolling to prevent sabotage by the spies sent by the French colonists and ensure the peace of the party.

After the success of the Hue uprising, the rebels secretly rushed to repair a simple earthen airfield on a flat dam on the top of the Tongyi hill west of the Xiang River in Hue City, striving to accommodate various types of transport planes taking off and landing.

On January 1, the airport was inaugurated, and all kinds of guns, ammunition and strategic materials arrived in Hue by AN6 large transport aircraft and mosquito transport aircraft. Up to today, the Hue City Defense Army has changed its guns with guns, changed into the standard camouflage uniforms of the An Jia Army, and its guns have also been replaced by Type 38 rifles to medium-scale semi-automatic rifles, and each patrol unit is equipped with submachine guns and shell guns, and its firepower has increased greatly.

The situation was progressing very well, the French were successfully repulsed, the Anjia army in the north was overwhelmed along the way, and good news followed. Now, the enemies of Vinh City and Da Nang have no intention of attacking Hue City, and the danger on the north and south flanks has basically been eliminated, and most people firmly believe that it will not be long before Hue City will be under the control of the squadron.

The night was dark.

In the northeast corner of Hue City, boxes of yellow, orange and orange bullets were quietly passing, and one by one, the men of the Jing nationality with green turbans on their heads silently took the full cartridges and pressed them into the magazines of the Type 38 rifles.

Due to the threats and temptations of Vo Van Thieu, Nguyen Xiang San and others, most of the political parties gathered in Hue City were bewitched by alarmist words, and they were full of fear of the arrival of the squadron, worried that the birds would be all the lackeys, so they quietly took action and fought hard, ready to control their own destiny.

At first, the rebels quietly kept their preparations as close as possible, obeying orders issued secretly from the operational command. But later, as the night deepened and the zero hour approached, one by one, the outlaws, whose eyes were red and stimulated by the dream of being promoted to become rich, slowly poured into the courtyard and began to assemble in a whole team based on the political party and under the leadership of their respective leaders.

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, with the crisp sound of gunshots, three red signals popped out over Hue City, and the shouts of killing suddenly rang out, countless doors were pushed open from the inside, and the rebels involved in the incident rushed into the street with guns, and the silent Hue City quickly woke up from sleep.

Pan Peizhu, who lived in a luxurious mansion more than 500 meters outside the west gate of the palace, was awakened by the sound of gunfire and shouting of killing, and came out of the bedroom in disheveled clothes.

Listening to the movement outside the window getting louder and louder, Pan Peizhu called the special line of the city defense commander Ruan Haichen again, but the phone could not get through, and in desperation, Pan Peizhu had to come to the courtyard, so she wanted to open the door and go out to check what was going on.

At this time, a squad of soldiers who had been ordered to come to Pan Peizhu's side as a guard had already assembled, and seeing that Pan Peizhu wanted to go out by himself, the squad leader, Sergeant Ruan Zhichao, hurriedly stopped him, and after asking about the situation, he immediately sent all the soldiers out to find out the information and see what was going on outside.

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On the dark streets, a battalion of city defense troops, ordered by the city defense headquarters, went to the spot where the gunfire and red flares were raised, to check the situation, and did not want to collide head-on with the rebels with green turbans on their heads halfway.

Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire rang out, and sparks flashed in the air.

Since most of the city defense troops had received professional military training, they reacted extremely quickly, and almost immediately fell to the ground and continued to raise their guns to shoot, and only two fighters were injured.

And the rebels were in a mess, crowded together, and paid attention to the vigor of the blows, striking and rushing, not paying attention to tactics and coordination at all, and falling a large area at once. Seeing that the situation was not good, the rebels in the rear looked for a place to hide, and due to poor coordination, the front and rear teams collided together, crowded and trampled, and the city defense troops seized the opportunity to shoot with submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles, and the rebels suffered heavy casualties.

The rebels managed to hold their ground, and under the cover of street corners and some ridges, flower platforms, whetstones, pavilions and columns, they opened fire on the city defenders, and a fierce exchange of fire broke out in the center of the city.

For a time, the neighborhood was covered in a dense rain of bullets, and the sound of gunfire was incessant.

At the same time, fierce gun battles also broke out in the area of the Imperial City in the south of Hue City.

About 6,000 rebels, shouting "Qingjun side", rushed towards the imperial city, preparing to take advantage of the large number of people to take the palace in one fell swoop and control Emperor Bao.

The garrison of the palace guards, about a battalion in strength, raised their attention as early as the moment the guns rang out and the flares were lifted into the air, and from time to time they fired flares into the night sky, illuminating the surroundings of the imperial city. Therefore, when the rebels shouted and rushed to more than 400 meters outside the city wall, they were discovered by the guards and immediately opened fire!

The guards were all carefully selected from the rebel army in Hue, all of them were members of the Annam Stormtroopers of Hung Hung Hung She, these retired officers and soldiers recruited from the An Jia army, their fighting will was by no means comparable to that of ordinary rabble, even if they fought to the last man, they would not be afraid to retreat.

Although the number of rebels far exceeded that of the guard troops, each of them prepared a maximum of two magazines, plus the rebels did not have artillery, mortars and other heavy firepower to help the battle, and the imperial city's own defense system was extremely complete, with moats, city walls, and firing battlements readily available, the rebels' charge was quickly repulsed, and the battle entered a stalemate.

However, the rebel leaders, stimulated by the dream of promotion and fortune, still continued to send out death squads, shouting slogans such as "invulnerability", holding a long siege ladder, charging the imperial city, striving to erect a passage over the moat, and then cross the city walls, attack the imperial city, and capture the emperor alive.

A gate on the city wall was lined with light and heavy machine guns, spitting out furious tongues of fire, unprotected rebels, many dead and wounded, under the dense metal bullets, stumps and broken arms flew horizontally, dead bodies were scattered and overlapped, many siege ladders were shattered by machine gun bullets, and the front of the moat was full of blood, like a hell on earth.

Bullets "swished" over the palace, and from time to time branches and leaves broke and fell to the ground, and everyone in the palace panicked and looked for a place to hide.

Emperor Bao, who was secretly discussing with Wu Tingyan in the theater room of the inner court, was shocked and asked again and again what to do? Wu Tingyan was speechless, he didn't expect Wu Wentai and the others to move so fast, and they started without even leaving a buffer time, and he couldn't help but hate in his heart.

Fortunately, at this time, Ling Xing, who was temporarily serving as an attendant officer, calmly arrived with the officers and soldiers of the "Blue Fox" brigade, and sent the pale and weak Emperor Bao and the equally colorless Wu Tingyan into the air defense bunker that had been built in the imperial city after the end of the last European war.

Subsequently, Queen Ruan Youlan of Lan Fang and all the concubines, palace maids, and eunuchs were also quickly taken to underground bunkers by the guards to avoid the threat of stray bullets.

When the entire city of Hue was shrouded in gunfire, about 1,000 rebels, led by Nguyen Xiang San, bypassed the heavy posts and went straight to the houses of the armed forces commander Hu Xuelan, Hue city defense commander Nguyen Haichen and others in the north of the city, but Nguyen Xiang San, who was trying his best, rushed to the ground to find that several surrounding houses were empty.

Ruan Xiangsan, who was unwilling to fail in his mission, caught a few panicked aborigines from nearby houses and asked them, and was told that although this was the residence assigned to Hu Xuelan and others by Emperor Bao after the uprising, and was equipped with palace maids to serve, they generally came to have a meal when they got off work, and they would rush to the military camp outside the city at night to supervise the military administration.

Disappointed, Ruan Xiangsan ordered the troops to set fire to several houses, and then returned in a huff.

At this time, the prime minister of the provisional government, Pan Peizhu, was in big trouble.

Hearing the gunshots getting louder and louder, Phan Pei Zhu fidgeted, and soon, eleven guards sent to inquire about the news returned to report that there was a serious rebellion in Hue City, and countless militants were besieging the imperial city, and at the same time, a rebel army was rushing towards Phan Zhai, and it was necessary to move immediately.

Pan Peizhu was not a rigid person, and immediately asked her family to hide in the cellar of her home, and then evacuated immediately with the guards. Who knew that just after going out, their team was greeted by a dense rain of bullets!

The rebels who were ordered to control Pan Peizhu were about 800 people, and the firepower network built by the Type 38 rifle was better than a large number of people, and one bullet per person was enough to form a powerful surface killing force.

On the guard's side, although there was only one squad and the number was absolutely inferior, they were equipped with submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles, and also had a general-purpose machine gun and a 60 mortar, and they were not weaker than their opponents in terms of firepower.

Bullets shuttled back and forth in the air, and a black sedan parked in front of the door was quickly damaged by a dense rain of bullets.

With the help of a pair of iron lions in front of the courtyard gate as a cover, the soldiers who operated the mortars fired more than ten mortar shells one after another at the place where the rebels were hiding, killing a large number of rebels.

Due to the large area that needed to be defended, the fighters of the guard squad began to suffer casualties, and the mortars, which posed the greatest threat to the rebels, were the first to be muted.

The four guards who followed Pan Peizhu closely followed him pressed him to the ground, and the squad leader, Sergeant Ruan Zhichao, was so anxious that his eyes were on fire. Without a car, there is no way to escape from this dangerous place, and the situation will become more and more dangerous as the rebels gather more and more.

Seeing the rebels approaching step by step with the fire of the remaining six guards, at this moment, an armored personnel carrier painted with camouflage appeared from the direction of the east gate and stopped on the street in front of Pan's house, and the bullets hit the high-strength steel plates of the armored personnel carrier's body.

The armored vehicle quickly turned around, and a general-purpose machine gun in the front of the vehicle was aimed at the rebels, and the dense bullets were like the scythe wielded by death, quickly tearing the enemy into pieces.

Although the rebellion launched by the many parties opposing the squadron's entry into Annam had long been anticipated, Wu Ziliang, Hu Xuelan, Nguyen Hai Chen, Le Quoc Zhu and others did not expect that there would be so many people involved and such a ferocious offensive. At the critical moment, they had to use the only two armored vehicles that were airlifted and assigned to the city defense command to begin to brave the fierce fire of the rebels to protect the evacuation of important people.

The rebels were in a hurry, and the leader who was responsible for capturing Pan Peizhu hurriedly issued an order, since they could not cause substantial damage to the armored vehicle, they concentrated their firepower to shoot at the place where Pan Peizhu was hiding, and no matter what, they could not let Pan Peizhu leave safely.

Ruan Zhichao, the head of Pan Peizhu's guard squad, looked at the situation at the scene, because there was a sixteen-step staircase in front of Pan's house, the armored car could not drive to the place where Pan Peizhu was hiding, and the distance from the gate of Pan's house to the street below the steps was about 50 meters, so he could only fight.

So, Ruan Zhichao whispered to the other three guards, and suddenly rushed out with a submachine gun and opened heavy fire on the rebels, while the other three guards dragged Pan Peizhu and ran down the steps.

However, the number of rebels is increasing, and the location of Pan's house is extremely poor, it is at the intersection of the "T" shape, and the blow is too large, the squad leader Ruan Zhichao was the first to be shot and fell, his body was incomplete, and his whole body was almost destroyed by the penetration of the 38-type rifle bullets, and the rest of the guards who protected Pan Peizhu with their bodies fell down unwillingly, and Pan Peizhu, who had just rushed to the front of the steps, was exposed to the dense rain of bullets.

The bullets bloomed on Phan Pei Zhu's body, and in just a short moment, the chest of this so-called pioneer of the national liberation cause of Annam, had been crushed by intensive bullets, and when his body fell, he greedily glanced at Hue City, and then looked at the towering city wall in the distance, and finally closed his eyes unwillingly.

By the time Phan Pei Zhu died, the whole of Hue had fallen into a boil, and the rebels' reserves prepared in advance also poured into the streets with the sound of fierce gunfire, and those rebels armed with machetes, bows and crossbows and other cold weapons rushed to Hue's newspaper office, telegraph office and telephone office, and cooperated with the rebels to occupy the barracks and headquarters of the city defense army. Outnumbered, and the city defense forces had to constantly send troops to reinforce the palace, the resistance of the rebels along the way was extremely weak.

Due to the deliberate arson and the fires caused by guns, large and small fires were ignited all over Hue City. In some places, the fire spread, enveloping large swaths of residential buildings, and the sound of cries was added to the sound of gunfire, explosions from shells falling on the ground, and deafening shouts of killing.

Columns of smoke swept up the sky, obscuring the stars. This quiet night has been completely shattered by the riots launched by the rebels!