Chapter 271: The Battle of the Mountain Villa (5)

The Chinese defenders were firing desperately, while the rebel soldiers were charging forward with no regard for the bullets flying everywhere, and even the heavy artillery bombardment could not slow them down in the slightest.

Seeing that the other party was getting closer and closer, Liu Mingzhao said loudly: "Attack freely with grenades." "All the fighters started throwing grenades desperately. Although the grenades inflicted heavy casualties on the other side, there were not many grenades after all, and there were only four or five grenades per person, and there were more than 100,000 enemy troops on the opposite side, and the other side was blown up on their backs, but they still couldn't stop the other party's charge.

"Draw your sword and charge me." Chen Junhe, Liu Mingzhao and Zhao Xiao, the commander of the 1st Guards Division, issued almost the same order. The two divisions of Tubo County drew their thick-backed broadswords and rushed forward, the militia of the mountain villa also rushed forward with bayonets, and even Fang Xiaoyu's guards were sent out.

The battle was extremely fierce, and the two sides seemed to have returned to the era of cold weapons, greeting each other with knives to each other's vital points, and there were no more gunshots here, only the sound of the big knife striking, and the click of the knife when it cut into the flesh and bones. Although the guards and militia were very brave, the Chinese side was small after all, and it began to lose strength over time.

At this moment, a strange cannon sound sounded, and a small caliber shell exploded in the rear of the rebels, blowing away three or four soldiers. Xiahou Huan, who was surprised, looked back and found that four strange-looking iron boxes were rushing towards them, followed by thousands of soldiers.

"There's an enemy attack from behind." Some of the soldiers noticed that something was wrong, and despite the small number of opponents, there was still a lot of commotion among the rebels, who were already low morale, especially when they found that the guns in their hands were useless against the iron box. Under the influence of the enemy on their backs and the fear of the kind of iron box monster that can fire cannons, the rebel soldiers began to flee one after another, and when they found that they could no longer stop the rout, Xiahou Huan had no choice but to flee for his life.

Seeing this situation, Fang Xiaoyu and Wang Xuan also immediately mobilized all their strength to follow behind and chased after them, Xiahou Huan's rout saw that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, and the first thing they thought of was that there was still the Cheng family's army in the capital, so they all fled to the capital together.

Fang Xiaoyu, who was chasing after him with all his troops, couldn't help but curse secretly, he knew that the Lu Dao chariot could achieve such a sensational effect, it was better to take them out at the beginning, if he took them out, maybe he would have won the victory a long time ago.

No matter what, now that he had finally won, Fang Xiaoyu decided to follow behind this rout and take advantage of the chaos to attack the capital. There was no Cheng Yuhuan in the rout army that fled, he was relieved after seeing the small number of troops on the opposite side of the Chinese Collar yesterday, and he had rushed back to the capital overnight and escaped by luck.

At this time, Cheng Yuhuan no longer cared about Lanting Villa, and the most important thing for him now was to loot the wealth of the capital, and at the same time let the second prince ascend the throne and become his puppet.

Cheng Yuhuan has an almost perverted desire for money, and due to the intentional or unintentional suppression of the Chinese collar over the years, the Cheng family's property has shrunk a lot, and now he urgently needs to take advantage of this opportunity to make a big profit. To this end, he not only asked Cheng Wei, the secretary of the household department, who was familiar with the official treasury, to lead people to check the treasury of the household department, but also asked his third son Cheng Feng to control the royal wealth, and raided the famous rich households in the capital from house to house in the name of searching for rebels.

Because Cheng Yuhuan has served in the capital for many years, he knows exactly who is the rich and who is the rich here, so the few people who are not worried about the front line lead people to loot money, and all the troops of the Cheng family are scattered all over the city, and they are unprepared for the upcoming crisis.

The soldiers of the Cheng family at the city gate were used to prevent the rich from escaping, and they were chatting with each other in the city gate cave with nothing to do, when suddenly the smoke and dust in the distance alerted them.

A company commander immediately ran up to the castle tower, put his hand on the pergola and looked into the distance, and found that running in his direction was a unit wearing yellow military uniforms, which was the military uniform of the Praetorian Guards in the capital.

He breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be his own people, but he was a little strange, why did the soldiers of the Xiahou family run around so unformed, and some of them didn't even have weapons in their hands, and he couldn't help but gasp when he looked at the back of the team. Under the guidance of the four chariots, all the soldiers of the Chinese Leader and the Tubo Allied Army went into battle and pursued closely behind.

"There is an enemy attack." The company commander's mournful shouts alarmed many soldiers who were raiding the houses under the city, and before these soldiers could react to what the situation was, the defeated soldiers of the Xiahou rebels had already entered the city.

The soldiers of the Cheng family guarding the city gate originally planned to prevent them from entering the city, but the tide of routs rushed into the city before they could stop them, and the guards were involuntarily shocked into the city.

How could the rout of the Xiahou family and the Cheng family soldiers scattered all over the city be the opponents of the coalition army that came with great momentum, not to mention that the weapons of the coalition army can take a great advantage in street battles, and under the organized attack of the coalition army, the Cheng family army was in chaos without being organized.

Cheng Yuhuan, Cheng Wei and Cheng Feng, father and son, were also wrapped up and abandoned all the looted treasures and fled south, but before fleeing, they did not forget to take the second prince away, and the coalition army soon took control of the whole city. Seeing the mountains of treasures, Fang Xiaoyu was dumbfounded, but he quickly reacted, and immediately ordered the troops to block the news, put the whole city under martial law, and all the treasures were sealed in the imperial city, and heavy troops were sent to guard them.

"Uncle, what do you think we should do next?" At this time, Fang Xiaoyu asked Wang Xuan's opinion.

Wang Xuan said: "What does the virtuous nephew mean?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "We have already occupied the capital, is it not until the reinforcements arrive that we will defend the capital, and use this as a base to spread outward, as long as the army of the Chinese territory and my uncle's Tubo County cooperates, it will not be difficult for us to control the Central Plains." ”

Wang Xuan smiled and said, "Do you control the Central Plains region?" The feasibility is very high, so what then? Nephew, what do you think will happen in the future? ”

"And then?" Fang Xiaoyu really didn't think that far.

Wang Xuan said with a smile: "Don't forget that the Xia family supports the descendants of the Xiahou family, and the Xiahou family also has a lot of power in the counties of the East China Sea, several main figures of the Cheng family have escaped, and they have also taken the second prince." If we take control of the capital and then control the Central Plains, several families will regard us as their greatest enemies, and they will unite to attack us. ”

Wang Xuan was kind to his future son-in-law: "The Xia family controls hundreds of thousands of regular troops, although the Xiahou family does not have many armies, it has a navy, and the southwest region where the Cheng family is located is the most densely populated area of the Lanfang Empire, do you think they will still lack soldiers?" Even if your Chinese army is strong enough to subdue them, it will attract you with a large number of troops, and if other powers are against you, you will be very passive. ”

Fang Xiaoyu listened to Wang Xuan's explanation and nodded again and again, he was fascinated by the population and economic scale of the Central Plains, but he didn't see the huge crisis. Now the Lanfang Empire is a dispute between the four families, and whoever occupies the counties of the Central Plains will have to face all the firepower of the other families, which is very dangerous.

Wang Xuan continued: "Now that the wealth of the entire capital has been collected by Cheng Yuhuan, the old horseman, and sent to us, as long as we have this wealth, what are we afraid of?" You can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, wait until a few families are exhausted and then come out to clean up the mess, what you have to do now is not to occupy the Central Plains, but to rely on the Chinese Collar to gradually encroach on the surrounding counties and slowly move forward. ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "I understand, thank you uncle for waking me up." ”

Wang Xuan said with a smile: "Your subordinates are full of talents, even if I don't wake you up, they will tell you the stakes, you don't have to be polite." ”

Fang Xiaoyu looked at the treasures that were being pulled into the palace one by one, swallowed his spit, and said, "These treasures belong to the two of us, and we will divide them equally when they are transported out of the capital." ”

Wang Xuan smiled: "My only daughter is going to marry you, what else do you have to share with each other?" You don't have to give it to me, it should be regarded as a dowry for Xiaoling. In the face of these wealths, Wang Xuan was very bold and didn't want it at all.

Since he was ready to abandon the capital, Fang Xiaoyu decided to leave as soon as possible, after all, there are many dreams at night, who knows which side of the road will come to attack him, reinforcements can be encountered on the road, and his actions must be fast.

The treasure is very good to handle, with the No. 2 patent transport, the lack of freight carriages does not matter, although the railway station in the capital does not have a locomotive, but there are a lot of spare and under maintenance carriages, are hung behind the special train to transport treasures, fortunately the special train has four locomotives, the power is enough.

Even though there were a large number of wealthy carriages to use, there were so many treasures in the capital that all the treasures were stuffed into it until all the carriages were packed, and from then on, many people who knew the inside story of the road jokingly called the No. 2 special column for the gold train.

The treasure occupied all the space, and there was no place for people to sit, so they had to collect a large number of carriages and follow the trains slowly on both sides of the railway, as for Lanting Villa, Fang Xiaoyu had to give up for the time being.

All the equipment in the factory area was destroyed by the explosives that Fang Xiaoyu used to install just in case, but unfortunately Cheng Yuhuan was too straw and was actually repulsed, and he didn't enjoy the explosives meal prepared for him.

Fang Xiaoyu and the others sat in the carriage, slowly moving forward near the overwhelmed train that could not be fast. As soon as they entered the land of Shannan County, they found a train speeding in the distance, and after their own train let out a shrill whistle, the opposite train began to slow down, but fortunately, the railway here was double-tracked, and the two trains were not in danger of colliding.

Seeing Fang Xiaoyu's team, many of the doors of the train that had just stopped on the opposite side opened one after another, and a large number of armed soldiers jumped out of the car one after another and set up in formation.