Chapter 155: Sneak attack on Ning Yuan
The sudden extra figure on the city wall startled Zhang Zuolin, who was leading dozens of soldiers and carrying boxes of antimony and was quietly touching the city, he quickly raised his hand to stop his subordinates, and a group of people squatted down close to the ground, and the gray cloak was covered on the gray ground, forming an excellent camouflage.
He had just come from Fujian for reinforcements, probably because he was from the Northeast, so he was personally named by Governor Yang to join the operation, of course, he didn't know that Yang Feng was just interested in his name, in fact, at this time he found several more familiar names in the Loyal Army, such as Yu Xuezhong's father Yu Wenfu, a Mi Zhenbiao who was mixed in the Yi Army, but unfortunately the three Beiyang heroes are now under Li Hongzhang, otherwise they can make a large collection of Beiyang warlords.
Yi Ke Tang A is famous in the northeast, as soon as he thought that he was going to sneak attack Yi Dashuai, who was known as the Tiger General, Zhang Zuolin couldn't help but feel a little excited, his eyes were firmly fixed on the two figures at the head of the city and cursed there secretly, to be honest, he really didn't expect that there were still people in Ningyuan County who were bored and came out to patrol at this time.
However, the two of them at the head of the city did not find anything abnormal outside, in the bare wilderness in winter under the moonlight, it was unbelievable to find more than 30 people who were almost integrated with the ground at a distance of more than 200 meters, but the two of them had no intention of leaving, Ning Yuan County Ling was a very good talker, and now he couldn't go all out, but he chatted with Iktang A quite speculatively.
Zhang Zuolin, who didn't go outside, was in a hurry, and the whole brigade behind him was waiting! He waved his hand lightly, and the soldiers began to move forward slowly, taking a few steps and stopping to see the reaction on the city wall, and then a few more steps to see the reaction, just like a pack of wild wolves ambushing their prey. It went on like this for almost a quarter of an hour, and finally we reached the moat.
At this time, the county commander suddenly glanced at the city in confusion, and Iktanga asked casually, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, maybe I'm wrong, I remember that there were no stones there, how did it seem that there were more stones." The county magistrate said that the dozens of people squatting there did look like a pile of stones with their heads bowed and their cloaks covered.
After all, Iktanga is a veteran who has been fighting on the battlefield since the time of the monk, and immediately realized that there was a problem, and did not hesitate to pull out his own pistol. The kung fu that was about to aim happened to be opposite to Zhang Zuolin, who was looking up and peeping at him, although the distance was still dozens of meters away, he immediately recognized that it was a living person, and there was no need to think about who it was at this time.
"Enemy attack!" Iktanga yelled, and then pulled the trigger.
"Rush over!" Almost at the same time as him, Zhang Zuolin also roared, and at the moment when the bullets flew past his ears, he raised the latest submachine gun in his hand, and the dense bullets immediately whistled towards the city, and beside him were ten sappers carrying zhayao. Under the cover of submachine guns in the hands of twenty escort soldiers, they rushed like crazy to wade through the knee-deep moat, but the thin ice on the surface of the river had a great impact on their speed, and Zhang Zuolin was anxious. Of course, this is just a minor annoyance. The nearest defender is also under the city, and it will take at least two minutes to wake up from the bed and get up and rush to the top, and now there is only one gun on the wall and it is pressed down by submachine guns. So the sappers successfully rushed through the moat, then piled up two hundred kilograms of antimony and antimony at the base of the wall, installed the timed detonator, and then hurriedly turned around and ran back.
At this time, there was a great chaos in the city. Everywhere the lights were lit up and countless soldiers poured out of their dwellings, many of them did not care about wearing clothes, grabbed their weapons and ran in the direction of the spring and gate where the gunshots rang out, the nearest had already begun to ascend the city, and the attacking troops hidden in a forest five hundred meters away also rushed out after the gunfire rang out, and rushed through the moonlit wilderness like a tide, and it was seen hidden behind the women's wall, and Iktanga, who was so beaten by the dense bullets of the submachine gun that he couldn't raise his head, was terrified.
As soon as I thought about this formation, I knew that I had been attacked by the main force of Yang Feng's army, but the question was why did they run from Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan silently? Lacking maritime awareness, it is difficult for him to think of Yang Feng's famous landing ships.
"My lord, the thief is backing up!" The county magistrate suddenly came over and said, it was difficult for him to be a scholar who was not frightened at this time, in fact, Yi Ketang Ah did not know that there were many bandits in the mountains west of the road, and when he was a county magistrate here, his courage would usually be greatly exercised, otherwise he would not dare to look out in this situation.
Iktanga hurriedly poked his head out quietly, although he was immediately hit back by a machine gun bullet in the distance, but he did understand that the enemy under the city was running back like crazy, he was only a little flustered, and then his face changed drastically, and he grabbed the county order that he didn't know why, ignoring the whizzing machine gun bullets, and ran along the city wall at a speed completely inconsistent with his age in his sixties.
"Go back!" Iktanga shouted at the oncoming subordinates while running, but he stopped this side, but the other side didn't know anything, hundreds of soldiers braved the machine gun bullets fired from a distance to rush to the women's wall, and then began to shoot out with rifles, Zhang Zuolin, who had run more than two hundred meters, estimated the time, and plunged into the dirt pit next to him without hesitation.
Iktanga, who was running wildly, suddenly heard a loud sound like the sky cracking behind him, and almost hit his back with a huge force, as if he had been hit by a frightened war horse, and the whole person threw himself out, and he rolled several times on the hard gallop of the city wall before stopping, and then he felt countless gravel fall, and he squatted against the female wall with his head in his hands, and did not raise his head again until the rain of rubble fell.
Looking at the original position behind him, a section of the city wall tens of meters long has disappeared, only a pile of wreckage is piled up there, and the huge gap looks particularly strange in the moonlight, and just outside the city, countless enemy troops are swarming.
At this time, the county commander came out, opened his mouth and shouted in panic, and there was blood on his forehead, but what he shouted, Iktanga couldn't hear a word, the veteran in his sixties pushed him away impatiently, and then raised his pistol and yelled at the soldiers who were almost stupid next to him: "Rush up and throw grenades, plug the gap!"
At this moment, his hearing suddenly recovered, but he happened to hear a yellow-belted officer scream: "The city is broken!"
Then the guy turned around and ran, and without hesitation, Iktanga raised his hand and shot him down, and then roared: "Plug the gap, and those who escape will be killed on the spot."
The soldiers hesitated to rush to the gap, but they didn't take a few steps, and they were pressed by the machine guns in the distance and lay on the ground one by one and refused to advance, at this time the attacking vanguard had already crossed the moat, but they encountered some trouble, a group of reinforcements of the Qing army just arrived, a volley of guns came over, and more than a dozen casualties were killed in an instant.
But then the submachine guns on this side fired, and the dense bullets knocked the Qing troops on the opposite side to pieces, and the soldiers with rifles began to swarm in, and at the same time countless grenades were thrown to both sides, and with the sound of dense explosions, the recruits under Iktanga who had just formed the army no longer had the courage to resist, and fled from the gap one by one screaming, and Iktanga didn't stop them even after killing five or six.
Yi Shuai, who ran out of bullets in the gun, sighed helplessly, fortunately, he could still fight street battles, he knew very well that it was impossible for the loyal army to occupy Ningyuan, Yang Feng had not openly torn off his painting skin so far, and it would be true to attack him, and he would take advantage of the night cover to sneak attack, inflict serious damage on himself, and withdraw after dawn, and then he could not admit that he had done anything, that is to say, as long as he held on until dawn, these people would naturally retreat.
It's a pity that he knows the way, and the soldiers under him don't know the way, most of these people are mixed meals when they are soldiers, and how many of them have the courage to resist resolutely? Coupled with the frightened people, at this time, the entire Ningyuan City was a chaotic scene of crying father and mother, and the Qing army scattered everywhere was even more headless like flies, and soon found that there were no enemy troops in the other three directions, since this was the case, then don't hurry up.
Before Iktanga walked to the county government to direct the street battle, his soldiers had already poured out of the west, and the north second gate began to flee the city, after learning the news, Iktanga was so angry that he almost fainted, but he couldn't do anything about it, the loyal soldiers were advancing towards the county government at a very fast speed, and the vast majority of the Qing troops in front of them could be said to be crushed at the touch of a button, driven by grenades, automatic pistols, and bayonets, especially those submachine guns that imitated Bobosa, and after adding a big drum, In the narrow streets, it was like a broom to clean up the Qing army in front.
"Marshal, hurry up, if you don't leave, the enemy army will hit the county office." Yuan Shoushan's younger brother Yongshan said earnestly that he was originally killed on the battlefield of the First Sino-Japanese War in history, but now he is the standard commander of Yiketanga's personal soldiers.
"What to go, I want to see what those thieves can do to me!" Iktanga shouted a little angrily, he was really unwilling to lose this battle, but if his soldiers can have a little courage, not to mention defeating the enemy, there is absolutely no problem in holding on until dawn.
How could Yuan Yongshan be in the mood to care about his temper, if he didn't leave, he would really knock on the door, who knew what would happen to Lu Dao when the time came, as soon as he waved, the soldiers next to him immediately rushed up, ignoring the angry roar of Iktanga, directly set him up and stuffed him into a carriage and rushed out of the city gate to the north and fled in a hurry. (To be continued......)