On the fourth day of April in the eighth year of Xianfeng, Xin'an County, Guangdong

At noon, on the official road leading to the county seat, there was an endless stream of people coming and going. Today is the birthday of Manjushri Bodhisattva, the people of the four towns have come to the city to catch the temple fair, although it is already noon, but the people who come and go inside and outside the city still do not decrease.

Shi Laoqi, the head catcher of the county government express class, sat in the herbal tea shed by the south gate, drinking tea while looking at the villagers walking in front of the shed, but he was secretly thinking in his heart. Now the world is getting more and more chaotic, as soon as this Xianfeng Ye sits in the Dragon Court, Guangxi's long hair began to make trouble, crisscrossing several provinces in a few years, and finally occupied Jiangning and established a small court; The foreigners began to make trouble again, bombarding Humen again, burning the city pass, and entering the city of Guangzhou in November last year, and the governor Bai Gui and the Guangzhou general Mu Kedene only lasted one day before they were demoted, and the Yi chief Pa Xia Li set up a "coalition committee", saying that it was to let Bai Gui continue to hold his original position, and to put it bluntly, it was not for him to be a puppet for him to drive. Governor Ye Mingchen was taken prisoner, and he heard that he was captured by foreigners and taken to Hong Kong. Now the foreigners occupy the provincial capital, and at the same time send troops and ships to the north, saying that they want to attack Beijing, and it seems that they will not be able to move the capital this time.

"What an eventful time!" Shi Laoqi sighed. Because he has read a few days of books, he is a little more knowledgeable than those illiterate soap officials in the yamen, and he usually travels widely, and he is still well-informed, but Beijing is too far away for him who has only been to Guangzhou at the farthest. Thinking of this, he patted his ass and stood up, and shouted to the owner of the tea shed: "Shrimp dumplings, keep the tea money account!" ”

The man named Shrimp Dumpling Bing was a man in his thirties, with a fat face, his head was shining, and he responded with a smile: "Seventh Master walks slowly, come often!" ”

As soon as Shi Laoqi stepped out of the tea shed with his front feet, he heard the pedestrians on the official road in the distance suddenly shouting, and after listening carefully, he heard that it was shouting, "Run!" The foreign devil called!! "All the way, the burden-bearers, the cart-bearers, and the ruin-driving people all ran to the city gate in vain. Men, women, old, and young are shouting and screaming, wolves are rushing, chickens are flying and dogs are jumping.

Shi Laoqi stepped forward quickly, grabbed one of them, and asked, "What's the matter?" What are you yelling about? ”

That man was a small trader in his thirties, and he was suddenly caught, so he naturally struggled desperately, but Shi Laoqi had eaten public food for seven or eight years, how could he break free easily? Seeing that he was still struggling to the death, Shi Laoqi shaved his two big ears and fanned them. After two slaps, the small trader found out that it was the county's head catcher who caught him, and hurriedly shouted: "Seventh master, seventh master, it's not good!" ……”

"Smack!" With a bang, Shi Laoqi scraped the fan with big ears again, "Hang your grandma, dare to curse your seventh master!?" ”

"It's not! No! "After being slapped three times in a row, the corners of the hawker's mouth have been broken, his teeth are a little loose, and his speech is slurred." Small...... How dare the little one curse the Seventh Master? It's really ...... It's really a big deal! ”

Shi Lao Qiyi grabbed the vendor's collar and lifted him up. "What's wrong?"

The peddler pointed behind him, "Over there, there are foreign soldiers over there!" ”

Shi Laoqi was taken aback, and looked in the direction he pointed, only to see a group of people in strange costumes walking on the official road in the distance. Unconsciously relaxed, the peddler fled to the city as if he had been pardoned. Shi Laoqi didn't care about him, put his hands on the pergola, and looked at the group of weirdos. I saw twenty or thirty men at the head, all of them tall, at least a head taller than the villagers who were fleeing from all directions, and they all wore green iron helmets with elephant mouths, and their clothes were colorful, as if they were made of rags.

Seeing someone wearing a green hat, Shi Laoqi couldn't help but feel a little funny, but when he saw the guy in the hands of the group of people, he couldn't laugh. The barrel with a ghostly light in the black, the short sword with a cold light at the front end, what else can it be if it is not a foreigner's foreign gun?

Shi Laoqi secretly screamed, "Not good! Then he turned and ran to the gate of the city, and in an instant he overtook the peddler just now. When he rushed through the city gate, he did not forget to tell the people guarding the gate, "Close the city gate quickly, I will go and report to the eldest master!" Then he ran to the yamen in the city. I didn't run far before I heard a gunshot, and when I looked back, I saw that five or six people guarding the gate and the people who were still watching the excitement at the city gate just now were all scattered.

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Seeing that all the local natives were rushing towards the city gate, the people guarding the gate wanted to close the city gate while driving away, and a man wearing 87-style army camouflage and the rank of lieutenant on his shoulder at the front immediately made a decision, pulled out his pistol and fired a shot into the sky, and then saw the people blocking the city gate squeezing into the city like crazy, and the people who wanted to close the city gate just now also escaped cleanly.

After waiting for a while, the city gate was empty, all kinds of shoes, goods, chickens and dogs were thrown to the ground, and the lieutenant said into the walkie-talkie: "The city gate has been opened, and no danger has been found for the time being, I will take a platoon into the city now, and you guys will hurry up!" After speaking, he didn't wait for the other party to answer, so he shouted to the people around him: "The first, second, and third squads will enter the city in order, and the squad leaders will lead the team to act according to the original plan, the first squad will advance twenty meters along the city gate avenue to build a defensive line, the second squad and the machine gun team will go up to the city tower, and the third squad will guard the city gate and receive the follow-up troops!" ”

The squad leader and his men had to use everything they could use to build a defensive position, and the carts, door panels, tables, and sacks were piled together to form a simple bunker fortification; Under the leadership of the squad leader, the second squad cautiously went up to the city tower along the road, searched around, and the stove in the city gate tower was still boiling water, but the people had already run clean, except for sending one person to the city wall on both sides as a guard post, the rest of the people were all facing the city as the second line of defense; A machine-gun squad also built an improvised machine-gun fortification above the city gate, and two soldiers wielded a Type 57 heavy machine gun, the muzzle of which was pointed directly at the street directly opposite the city gate; The third squad completely opened the half-hidden city gate and cleared the road for the troops behind.

After a while, the follow-up troops arrived, and there were more than a hundred soldiers in camouflage uniforms. Walking in the front is a Dongfeng Mengshi, but this car is not the same as what people usually see. The body is completely encased in a layer of steel plates, the front windshield and side windows are equipped with barbed wire, and a 12.7mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun is installed on the roof, and a steel shield is installed, and a soldier wields a machine gun to watch the surroundings vigilantly. They were followed by two pickup trucks, all heavily armed with soldiers, and most of the other soldiers were on either side of the three vehicles, slowly following along.

Dongfeng warriors stopped at the city gate, and a man who was also wearing a Type 87 camouflage uniform with the rank of major on his shoulder walked down. This man wears a camouflage combat cap of the same style, a pair of toad glasses covers most of his face, making it difficult to see his appearance, a military satchel, a water bottle and a pistol holster hanging from his waist, and the combat boots on his feet are polished, which makes people think that he is a vigorous and resolute soldier at a glance. The lieutenant hurriedly greeted him, "Brother Xiaoma, the city gate has been completely controlled, and there has been no fighting, but no prisoners have been captured." ”

The man who was called "Brother Xiaoma" casually took off his sunglasses, and saw that he was on the right and left, with a sturdy body, well-proportioned facial features, and wheat-colored skin, which was considered a handsome guy by the standards of the new century. The Major Ma looked at his watch, patted the lieutenant on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Dawei, you guys did a good job!" It only took ten minutes, half as little as expected. "After that, he took out his weapon from the car - a Type 81-1 automatic rifle and carried it on his shoulder." You lead a platoon to defend the city gate, political commissar Shen and I lead the team to attack the county government, and the mortar platoon must also set up positions on the city gate to provide fire support for the city. You're going to guard the back door for everyone! ”

Lieutenant Dawei raised his hand and gave a military salute, "Yes!" Mission completion guaranteed! ”

While the two were talking, the soldiers on the two pickup trucks in the back jumped out of the car one after another, and a few of them carried two 60 mortars to the city gate tower, and the other soldiers unloaded boxes of shells, and the political commissar Shen in the mouth of the major was mobilizing the soldiers gathered at the city gate before the battle. Political Commissar Shen is also a man in his 30s, medium height, wearing a pair of glasses, although wearing a military uniform, he also looks polite. "Comrades, this is our first battle in this new time and space, so we must play our majesty! At the same time, it is necessary to carry forward the fine traditions of our army, conscientiously implement the policy of 'three major disciplines and eight points of attention,' and let the masses in the new time and space see what it means to be a mighty army and a civilized army......

Most of the soldiers were young men in their seventeens or early twenties, sitting or squatting on the ground, carefully examining the weapons and ammunition in their hands. The last few months of life in the original time and space made everyone understand the truth that "in troubled times, only guns are best friends", so everyone did not react to the clichés of Political Commissar Shen, and were just busy with their own business. Probably couldn't stand the verbosity of Political Commissar Shen like Tang Seng, a soldier who looked like a high school student said with a smile: "Granny Shen, don't worry, just by the looks of those women I saw just now, we will never violate the seventh article of the 'Eight Points of Attention'!" As soon as the words fell, the surrounding crowd immediately burst into laughter.

Political Commissar Shen, who was robbed, looked a little embarrassed, and hurriedly ended the mobilization in three or two sentences, and then walked towards Major Ma and them. I couldn't help but lament in my heart: just because I used to work as a youth league committee in a state-owned enterprise, I was driven to the shelves and arranged to be this thankless political commissar. learned the image of the political commissar in the film and television drama, and the experience of the secretary of the Youth League Committee to carry out the work, but no one bought it. This group of bastards, when the native-dominated army of the new time and space is established in the future, they will kick these naughty guys out of the army. Political Commissar Shen thought resentfully.

Major Ma also heard the laughter just now, and when he saw that Political Commissar Shen came over, his face was not very good-looking, so he smiled and comforted: "Don't be like those hairy boys!" These guys are used to being free and casual, and if they don't know that they can't survive independently without the collective, they won't honestly accept the constraints of the collective! Therefore, we cannot expect them to be as obedient as the recruits in the previous army, and they must be more patient in their political and ideological work! ”

Political Commissar Shen shook his head and said with a wry smile: "You have been a soldier before, and you have done so many things for you in the past few months, of course everyone respects you!" I, a political worker, in their eyes, is just a white eater, and I have no prestige at all! ”

"Don't be discouraged! Political and ideological work is a great weapon of destruction for our army, and in the future, if those indigenous soldiers are to die for our regime, it will all depend on you political workers! After all, you're the only one of us who is a professional! Major Ma encouraged.

Thinking of the natives of the new time and space who are equivalent to blank paper compared to modern people, Political Commissar Shen's mood brightened. These people should be very easy to fool! Thinking that he might become the director of the General Political Department of the All-Army in New China in the future, Political Commissar Shen felt a little enthusiastic. "I'll do my best!" Although he was already full of ambition, he didn't dare to talk too much.

Major Ma turned his head to look at the city gate, which is less than five meters high, and the city gate hole that is three meters high, and even a truck can't pass through, and said with a smile: "I'm used to seeing tall and majestic buildings like the Forbidden City, and then looking at the city gate of this small county town, I feel that it is similar to a railway culvert." ”

"Just this city gate, it is the number one cultural relic in the 'first country in the universe'!" Lieutenant Dawei also laughed and amused.

The conversation was over, the mortar position on the tower of the city gate was also completed, and Major Ma gave the order to assemble the troops. Seeing that the soldiers resting at the gate of the city quickly lined up in shifts, Major Ma quickly jumped onto a pickup truck parked in front of the queue, first glanced at the hundred or so people in front of him, and then spoke: "Comrades, it has been seven months and twenty-three days since the 'cataclysm' happened. These seven months have been seven months of hardship, seven months of unity and friendship, and seven months of courage and fearlessness. During this time, everyone put in the best efforts to survive the dangerous environment of the original plane. It may be that God does not want us humans to perish and has given us a passage to a new time and space. We came to this plane for one purpose, to survive here and rebuild our civilization. Although there are Manchu governments and Western powers in this time and space, they are all behemoths compared to our collective of only a few hundred people. But I don't think they're better than mutants! A little humor caused a burst of laughter below, and Major Ma paused for a moment, and then said, "Since we can persist surrounded by mutants, we will definitely be able to rebuild our beautiful life in the new time and space." Any person or force that tries to stop us from advancing will surely be trampled under our feet......"

Looking at the impassioned Major Ma above, and then looking at the solemn expressions of the vast majority of young people below, Political Commissar Shen sighed secretly: Maybe some people are born with the potential to be a leader, right!?

The speech continues, "Comrades! The Western powers are accustomed to talking with strong ships and artillery, so we will answer them with planes and tanks, so that they can understand who is the master of this world! Now, let them hear the first cry of our time! After speaking, he waved the automatic rifle in his hand, "Let's go——! ”