"This bullshit! After only three or four shots, the dishes stopped. Tang Zhidao stood next to the two cannons and gritted his teeth and scolded: "I don't know if I hit it." "Of the two large-caliber guns that were pinned on high hopes, one was completely unusable, and the other was unusable after four shells.

"Commander, be content! It's all rusted like this, and it's good to be able to shoot a few shells. Ye Huichun said with a hippie smile: "Maybe the shot just now hit, the cannon of the bandits hasn't gone off for a long time!" ”

"That's such a coincidence, and besides, the Mongolian bandits are not stupid, it is impossible to put all the cannons in one place!" Tang Zhidao said angrily: "What are you still doing in a daze, continue to give rectification, don't think about going back!" "Without artillery to suppress the opponent's artillery fire, the next battle is too passive. The most annoying thing is the so-called mixed brigade of the first division of the reinforcement army, which should have arrived the day before according to the time, but now there is not even a shadow to be found, and the defenders of Duolun City will continue to hold on to the radio, and it will arrive soon.

"Then try again!" Ye Huichun saw that Commander Tang was unhappy, so he didn't dare to slack off, and led a few of his subordinates to get busy, but how could these two old antiques be so easy to serve. In fact, these two are not very old, they are younger than those fortress guns, but they lack maintenance.

"Commander Tang, I'll forget it! Company Commander Ye, they have done their best. Lin Jianzhong, who was on the side, saw that Tang Zhidao had a posture that did not meet his goal, so he stood up and said: "No one has used it for many years before, and it is already very good to be able to shoot a few shots." ”

"Half an hour more!" Although he had given up in his heart, Head Tang's mouth was still very hard.

"Commander, commander, why are you hiding here, let me find it!" At this moment, the big iron gate of the courtyard was pushed open again, and Zhou Wenruo ran in in a hurry.

"What's wrong? The bandits are attacking again? Tang Zhidao asked suspiciously, could it be that the Mongolian bandits attacked this time even after preparing for artillery fire, and it was not right that they didn't hear the gunshots!

"No, the bandits not only did not attack, but all retreated!" Zhou Wenruo shook his head and said, "I don't know what is going on with the bandits. ”

"Yes!" Tang Zhidao frowned, waved his big hand and said, "Let's go and see it!" ”

"Regiment commander, this cannon is not in order!" Seeing Tang Zhidao striding out, Ye Huichun shouted after him, but at this moment, Tang Regiment Leader's heart was no longer on this, and Ye Huichun, who had not received the order, had to continue to bury his head in tinkering with the big guy, but he didn't expect that he would really get it.

A few minutes later, Regiment Commander Tang arrived at the former enemy command post set up on the edge of the east gate, and Du Shijie, Fu Mingyi and others were eagerly observing the enemy's movements on the opposite side.

"What's the situation!" Tang Zhidao asked eagerly while taking the telescope handed over by Du Shijie.

"The enemies on the front-line positions seem to have withdrawn, and the main camp of the Mongolian bandits seems to be in chaos!" Fu Mingyi was the first to say: "Just half an hour ago, someone came out to try to attack the city!" ”

"Could it be that the bandits want to withdraw their troops!" Tang Zhidao's first reaction was this, after all, this was the most unavoidable and only feasible plan for Babu Zabu, otherwise as soon as the official and military reinforcements fell, they would not be able to run if they wanted to run from inside and outside.

"It's not very like, it's a mess when they retreat, it's not like a planned retreat!" Du Shijie said disapprovingly: "It's more like a rout, maybe there is something wrong with them!" ”

"Something is wrong with?" Tang Zhidao frowned and asked rhetorically: "What can go wrong, unless Babu Zabu is dead?" ”

"How is this possible!" Everyone said almost in unison, Babu Zabu is very cunning, and every time he appears, he is tightly protected, so that the beheading operation of my head Tang cannot be carried out. …,

"Babu Zab is dead, Babu Zab is blown up!" Suddenly, there was a shout outside the headquarters, and Wang Guozhen, who was stationed on the high ground north of the city, ran in and shouted: "Regiment commander, I got the exact news just now, Babu Zabu was killed by our shells!" ”

"Guozhen, why are you back!" Tang Zhidao said unhappily, and then asked in astonishment: "Where did you get the news, and whether the news is true!" ”

"It's true, it's absolutely true, otherwise I wouldn't be in a hurry to come back." Wang Guozhen was sweating profusely and panting at this time, and said: "A company of three or four Mongolian bandits surrendered to Chengcheng......

"Drink saliva!" Tang Zhidao was shocked, handed over the water cup he didn't know who and said.

"No, no, no!" Wang Guozhen wiped his sweat and said: "Just half an hour ago, Babu Zabu was hit by our artillery fire on the artillery position and died on the spot!" ”

"Commander, what are you doing in a daze!" Du Shijie was overjoyed when he heard this: "Hurry up and attack!" ”

"Commander, it can't be so coincidental, right? Is it a conspiracy of the bandits! Fu Mingyi said cautiously.

"The first battalion, the second battalion of Duolun, and the merchant group are guarding the city, and the rest of the departments are immediately assembled to attack!" Tang Zhidao's mind quickly decided, he was absolutely unambiguous when it was time to take the risk. The east gate was soon opened, hundreds of cavalry rushed out, and thousands of infantry did not dare to show weakness and rushed out.

The Mongolian bandit side was already in chaos at this time, Babu Zabu's death was too sudden, and he was too important to this Mongolian army, except for him, there was no one who could command or even maintain the team of these thousands of people. As soon as the news of his death came out, many of them who reacted quickly immediately led their brothers away, and even thought of surrendering to the defenders in the city, after all, it was a dead word to freeze in the cold weather. Only Jebe, Jochi, and Daichin, the hardcore cronies of the bandits, were a little hesitant, and some of them might still have the ambition to replace them, but the time was too short to unify their troops, and there were even serious differences about where to go. As for Master Guo and the Japanese artillerymen, they had already fled and didn't know which direction to run.

"Bang bang ......" The cavalry rushing out of the city crossed the empty defense line outside the city and rushed towards the main camp of the Mongolian bandits like ducks. But at this time, although there were still nearly 7,000 people on the side of the Mongolian bandits, no one thought of resisting.

At the most critical moment of "Boom ......", the antique cannon was powerful again, and this time the first shell exploded in the middle of the main camp area of the Mongolian bandits. This bombing also completely dispelled the courage of all the bandit leaders to try to resist, and everyone's top task now is to run away, as for how many little brothers can be brought out, it can only depend on luck.

The defenders, who had been pressed and beaten for several days, could not let go of this excellent opportunity, and chased and fought fiercely until the sun went down, and did not turn back until the sun set, after all, the enemy fled too scattered, and there were too many prisoners captured, and the mere guarding was a big problem.

At first, Commander Tang was relatively cautious, for fear that the bandits would die and struggle, but who knew that they would collapse at the touch or even collapse without touching, and lay down their weapons in groups, in this case, he also sent out the damaged first battalion and the second battalion of Duolun City to capture prisoners, leaving only the merchant group and the militia group to defend the city.

"All collected property will be handed over, and once discovered, it will be severely punished!"

"Pay attention to collecting enemy guns and ammunition!"

"No beatings or killings of prisoners!"

………

Different from the last raid, this time Commander Tang did not let send a guard platoon as a law enforcement team to supervise the clearance of the spoils of war, after all, this time the mixed regiment paid a lot of price, and if he didn't get some benefits, he had to pay for the loss, and this time his descendants had an absolute advantage in the city, and he was not afraid of how much trouble others would stir up.

A platoon commander of the second battalion of Duolun did not change his bad habits (or did not lose good traditions), not only did he not allow his subordinates to hand over the spoils of war, but instead beat the soldiers of the guard platoon who came to enforce discipline, and this person was immediately regarded as a typical on-the-spot rectification, so that some soldiers who originally planned to hide their belongings had to dispel this idea. …,

The clearance work lasted until midnight, and with the thick spoils of war unified table, a few smiles finally appeared on Tang Zhidao's forehead, which had not been displayed for a long time, at least he would not spend all the money he had blackmailed for his dead and injured brothers.

"Eight hundred and thirty Mongolian bandits were killed and wounded, and 4,100 were captured" The 7,000 bandits only ran away with less than 2,000 people, and even these people who ran out were ambushed by Han Zitai, who had been hiding on the side for a long time, after running not far away, and suffered heavy losses, and the rest was not successful.

"Six Japanese-style mountain guns, eight heavy machine guns, 60 pistols, and nearly 4,000 horse rifles of various types were captured." Of course, there are more than 1,000 really good guns, and the rest are motley guns.

"1,400 war horses, 2,000 mules and horses", with these war horses, it is enough to get a cavalry regiment.

"2,000 stone of grain"

"Gold, silver, jewelry, and jade are estimated to be worth more than hundreds of thousands!" It's all Babu Zabu and his subordinates who have been scraped this year, and they have suddenly cheapened the head of Tang.

………

It is no exaggeration to say that it was the large amount of materials captured in this inconspicuous defense of the city in the annals of later generations that laid the material foundation for the Tang army that later unified the whole country and shocked the world.

"Enhe, you know this thing, you know it, you can't let a third person know!" Putting down the thick statistical table, Tang Zhidao said solemnly.

"Commander, I understand!" Of course, Lu Enhe knew what such a huge fortune meant to the gang, and it was not a good thing to spread it.

Although Tang Zhidao did some precautionary work and also gave a part of the spoils to the original Duolun garrison, there was still a lot of trouble around this matter.

At the end of November 1916, the Second Mixed Regiment of the Army, two infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion stationed in Duolun, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Tang Zhidao, the commander of the city defense, defeated the attack of tens of thousands of Mongolian bandit rebels and killed the giant bandit "Mongolian Duke" Babu Zabu. After this war, Tang Daodao began to appear on the big stage of the Republic of China era.