Chapter 115: The Capture of Hanjing
"Is there a situation down there?" The soldiers at the gate shouted at the five false soldiers. The Japanese soldiers who were organized by the five special combat members could not speak Japanese language, and they did not know what the other party said. The leader suddenly became wise in a hurry, raised his hand and shook it impatiently, and the Japanese soldiers above retracted their heads without saying anything.
"Oh my god, it's dangerous." The leader wiped a handful of sweat, and then said to the person behind: "Let's get started." Two of the five quickly broke away from formation and ran towards the city gate, while the other three went up the city wall.
The two Japanese soldiers in the doorway never came out, because they had already dozed off in the corner of the doorway, and the two special combat team members stepped forward lightly and stuck each other's necks with their hands, and before the other party could wake up, they directly twisted each other's necks with their wrists.
The two of them felt for a long time from the Japanese soldiers and found that there was no key, one of the team members waved his hand at them, touched the door and took out a box of tools from his waist, picked out a thin needle and began to pull the lock spring, and the other pulled out the pistol on his waist and stood guard.
The three members of the team who went up to the city tower pretended to sleep in the city tower, and when they passed by the sentry near the city tower, one of the team members suddenly showed a dagger, and the Japanese soldier did not wait for the shout to cry out, but he felt that his neck was cold and he didn't know anything.
The two team members in the back pulled out two grenades from their waists, pulled out the fuse, and one of them stretched out his foot and kicked open the wooden door of the tower. Before the Japanese soldiers inside were awake, the two threw the smoking grenade into the tower, and then the two rolled backwards on the spot.
There was a violent explosion, and blazing flames erupted from the gates and windows of the tower. The three members of the team checked to see that there was no longer a living mouth in the tower, and one of them beckoned to the castle, and more than 30 people who were waiting under the castle immediately ran up the stairs to the castle tower.
One of the officers in the team said: "Brothers, now our task is to hold the city gates, and we must hold on until the arrival of the large army. Everyone agreed in unison and immediately began to look for their own positions, loaded their rifles, and placed their grenades one by one in a convenient place, and began to prepare for battle.
Hearing the explosion, the Japanese barracks were the first to be in chaos. The co-captain of the wing, Matsu Binchang, who was stationed in Hanjing, was awakened by the sound of an explosion, and he shouted, "What happened? A Japanese soldier ran in and said, "My lord, it seems that there has been an explosion in the South Gate Tower." ”
"Let's go see what's going on." Matsu ordered as he got dressed. After a while, a small group of Japanese soldiers touched the vicinity of the south city gate, they were a little dumbfounded when they saw the city gate wide open, and then a burst of dense bullets suddenly came from the city, and the Japanese soldiers were caught off guard and were shot down a dozen of them, and the rest of the people turned around and ran.
"What? Enemy soldiers occupied the South Gate? After receiving the news, Song's long eyes widened and he immediately ordered all the soldiers in the barracks to go out and recapture the south gate immediately. He knew very well that if the enemy captured the city gate, the only possibility was that there was a large army behind, and if he could not recapture the city gate immediately, the little strength in the city would not be able to withstand the attack of the opponent's large army.
Qiao Fei held a pistol in one hand and peeked out from the entrance of the tunnel. This is a side hall in the palace, belongs to the very remote kind, not only the hall is covered with thick dust, the courtyard outside the palace is also covered with long grass, not only is there no guard here, I am afraid that few people usually come.
Qiao Fei jumped out of the tunnel, close to the wall, and looked out along the already dilapidated window, and found that there were many palaces here, and the terrain was complex, which was suitable for his team to hide. As soon as he waved, the people in the tunnel jumped out of the tunnel one after another.
There were more and more people in the palace, and with a wave of Qiao Fei's hand, the warriors in the palace rushed out and followed Qiao Fei lightly against the wall. Qiao Fei distinguished the terrain and pointed to the largest palace and said to the people next to him: "That is the sleeping palace of King Hanping, let's go there and have a look." ”
Not far from the palace, Qiao Fei found that there were many sentry posts near the palace, and it seemed that the family of King Hanping was indeed imprisoned here. If the soldiers raided out, they were sure that they would be able to destroy the Japanese soldiers in a very short time, but the Hanping royal family inside was named by Fang Xiaoyu to be protected, so it was a bit too risky to do so. Just when Qiao Fei didn't know what to do, suddenly an explosion came from the direction of Nancheng, and a soldier said in a low voice: "Battalion commander, they seem to have succeeded." Qiao Fei nodded.
When the soldiers heard the explosion, many of them craned their necks and looked in the direction of the south gate, and the formation and sentry posts were scattered for a while. "It's now." Qiao Fei waved his hand at the warriors behind him, and he was the first to rush out.
Seeing dozens of people rushing out of the darkness, the Japanese soldiers were even more panicked, and they hurriedly loaded their muskets with ammunition, and those who were quick began to take out flint and light the arquebus.
Qiao Fei took the lead, holding a Beretta pistol in each hand, firing his bow left and right, shooting again and again, and several Japanese soldiers fell in response. The soldiers in the back also opened fire, and the Japanese soldiers were soon killed and wounded.
Qiao Fei quickly put on a new magazine, and was the first to rush into the main hall, Li Xi, the king of Hanping, and other royal men were arranged to lay on the floor in the main hall, when they saw a group of soldiers rushing in with guns, Li Xi was so frightened that he hid in the quilt and shivered.
Qiao Feilang said: "Who is Li Xi." Hearing that the person who came was speaking authentic Chinese instead of the unintelligible Japanese language, Li Xi slowly crawled out of the quilt and said, "I am, I don't know what the military master of Lu Dao has to say." ”
Qiao Fei said: "We are the people of the Chinese Defense Army of the Lanfang Empire, and we are here to save His Majesty the King, please let the royal personnel get ready and go with us." Hearing that it was to save them, the usually slow and orderly royals played an unimaginable speed, and it only took ten minutes for them to pack up everything. The strength of the spirit is really very strong, and it seems that they have not been less angry with the Japanese soldiers these days.
At this time, the Japanese soldiers stationed in the imperial city discovered the abnormality here, and a large group of Japanese soldiers began to gather over. The soldiers howled and charged, and the bullets from the muskets flew wildly.
The soldiers of the guard company each looked for cover and began to counterattack, and the high rate of fire of the Type 91 rifle came into play, and the soldiers needed to fill the gunpowder and pellet after a shot, compacted it, and then opened the arquebus clamp and fired it with flint ignition, and the most skilled soldiers could only fire two bullets a minute.
The Type 91 rifles of the soldiers of the Guard Company can be used in more than a dozen seconds
Hit, so that although the Japanese soldiers were outnumbered, the density of fire was far from good, and their fire was quickly suppressed.
Qiao Fei whispered to Li Xi: "Don't make a noise, follow me from the apse." Qiao Fei and the others relied on a platoon of soldiers to attract firepower and cover the royal family members to withdraw to the secret passage. Li Xi looked at Qiao Fei, who was skillfully penetrating through the walls of the house, and was surprised by his familiarity with the palace.
After walking for a while, Qiao Fei waved his hand, and everyone walked into the side hall again. Two warriors stepped forward and removed the heavy wooden table, opening the tunnel door. Qiao Fei said: "Everyone retreat from here." Li Xi exclaimed: "How do you know the Tao of Lu, only the king himself is qualified to know the Dao." ”
Qiao Fei smiled: "What is this, our young master has a lot of magical powers." ”
"Young Master? Who are you talking about? Li Xi said strangely. The soldier on the side said, "Our young master is Lord Fang Xiaoyu, the lord of the Chinese Domain. Without giving Li Xi a chance to speak again, Qiao Fei continued: "Don't talk yet, the situation is very urgent now, let's go quickly, the Japanese soldiers will catch up after a while, and you will see our young master later." ”
Li Xi nodded and took the lead and walked down the tunnel. Qiao Fei saw that everyone had gone down the tunnel, and sent a signal to the covering troops, and the soldiers who received the signal to leave behind as cover also retreated from the apse in an orderly manner, and waited until the Japanese soldiers occupied the main hall again to find that the building was empty. The leader of the Japanese soldier squadron in charge of guarding the royal family immediately ordered the gate of the royal city to be blocked and the spies strictly investigated, but the royal family and others had already left from the tunnel under the cover of Qiao Fei and the soldiers of the guard company.
The two team members who pried open the city gate reached out of the city, and met Wei Lihui, who had already led the team after hearing the explosion. The two team members immediately saluted: "Report to the commander of the guard, the south gate has been successful." Wei Lihui waved his pistol and said: "Quick, we have to rush to the south gate as soon as possible, those Japanese soldiers will definitely fight back wildly." The troops accelerated their march and went straight to the south gate of Hanjing.
At this time, a fierce battle was going on at the South Gate, and the Japanese soldiers were forced by Songbian to charge to the death, completely ignoring their own casualties. The Japanese soldiers under the commander of Song Binchang were worthy of being elite, and even though the corpses under the city walls were piled up higher and higher, those Japanese soldiers still rushed desperately as if they didn't see it.
Although a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed, through the fall of their companions, the following Japanese soldiers rushed closer and closer. After all, the number of soldiers still defending the city walls was too small, and the advantage in numbers in the era without machine guns still played a big role.
Since the Type 90 heavy machine guns had not yet been installed, the soldiers of the defense forces could only rely on their rifles to intercept the approaching of the other side, and although the rate of fire of the Type 91 rifles was very fast, they could not resist the group charge of thousands of Japanese soldiers, and the defensive situation was very grim. Fortunately, they threw the torches down the city, illuminating the distance of 100 meters below the city, so that the shooting accuracy of the rifle improved a lot.
The Japanese soldiers who had outflanked them from the two city walls were also overwhelmed by the intense fire, and the grenades thrown by the soldiers from time to time inflicted great damage on the Japanese soldiers, delaying their offensive. However, each soldier only had four grenades as standard, and after repelling two attacks from the Japanese soldiers, there were few grenades left, and many fighters were also short of bullets.
The commander of the guard company in charge of the operation was sweating profusely, there were not many people and there were still three directions to defend, the lack of numbers caused the fire density was not enough, although everyone was shooting desperately, they still could not stop the tide of Japanese soldiers, and the approaching Japanese soldiers began to use the simple muskets in their hands to shoot, and the guard company finally began to suffer casualties.