After the troops set off, Sun Dewang and the rest of the leaders did not sleep, and kept waiting for news in the Guangming Temple. It wasn't until the early hours of the morning that the news finally came back, and several masters realized that the stealing camp last night had failed, and it was a miserable failure. From the mouth of the depressed Sun Deming, several leaders of the cottage who stayed behind roughly knew the process of last night's sneak attack, and the twists and turns of the battle situation made Sun Dewang and several people dumbfounded.

Sun Deming's deployment was decent in the eyes of a layman, but in the eyes of an insider, there were big problems: the attack was not carefully reconnoitred, and the troops, equipment, and defense priorities of the officers and troops stationed in Zhangjiazhai were unknown; What is even more regrettable is that there is no focus on the distribution of troops, and there are three teams, one each in the east and south, and the reserve team is not considered. And he couldn't listen to the opinions of Zhou Yi, the captain of the third team, and Long Qian, the captain of the eighth team, and only stipulated the route and time of the attack, "Whoever goes to the village first is a hero, we will see you in the village." "Showing stupid arbitrariness.

Sun Deming firmly believed that as long as he rushed into Zhuangzi and fought each other in short quarters, with the bravery of his old team, the officers and troops would be defeated.

The root is still underestimated.

The vigilance of the officers and soldiers was very high, and they were discovered by the sentries as soon as they touched the Zhangjiazhai where the officers and soldiers were stationed, and the defenders reacted very quickly, and as soon as the guns rang out, the officers and soldiers resting in the stockade went to the temporary positions. The carefully planned sneak attack of Mengshanzhai turned into a storm, with three teams attacking from the east, south, and north, and the bandits rushed towards Zhangjiazhai under the leadership or shouting of the captain and the chief, but the first round of attacks was soon woven into the defenders' blazing net.

Sun Deming led the first team to attack from the south. He made this arrangement with selfish motives, and all generals who regarded the army as their private property would unconsciously make this kind of mistake when directing operations. Zhangjiazhai is the village that the thieves must pass through to march westward, the terrain is very familiar, there are two gates in the village, which are located in the east and west directions, and the west gate is the main gate. There is only one main street in the east-west direction, and the rest are irregular north-south alleys, if you look at it from the air, Zhangjiazhai looks like a small centipede facing west.

Because of the existence of Mengshan thieves, Zhangjiazhai has been looted countless times in more than ten years, although the thieves have thieves, the vast majority of bandits are born poor, Sun Dewang formulated, Liu Yucai perfected the village rules There are also regulations that are not allowed to rob the poor, but it does not say what kind of people are poor. In the village, when sending troops to the west to release horses, they must pass through Zhangjiazhai, and those who have a little surplus wealth are always disturbed by the people of the cottage. On the whole, Mengshanzhai is a special group that only consumes and does not produce, and lacks almost everything from food to use. If it is said to be borrowed, who would dare to go to the bandits and demand the return of the property? Therefore, the villagers of Zhangjiazhai fled from the ancestral village one after another and escaped to Maoyang Town and Pingyi Village. All that is left in the village is the destitute who cannot escape, and the walls of the village are not repaired.

Sun De knew that the Nanzhai Wall was the easiest to breach, because one section was almost flattened. And the east wall is the most difficult, because there are walled gates and dilapidated city towers. So he handed over the east to the third team, which he thought was relatively strong in combat, and his old team attacked from the south. But his arrangement was wrong, and the facts would soon teach Sun Deming a bloody lesson.

Let's start with the east. Zhou Yi soon discovered that there were at least a hundred rifles shooting at the Dongzhai wall, and the accuracy was amazing. In the intensive fire of the officers and soldiers, his team members fell crookedly like autumn crops.

Zhou Yi, who was anxious and panicked, shouted, "Get down, get down." But his voice was barely heard in the sound of gunfire, and the untrained bandits were already panicking under the sudden blow, either knocked down by the rain of bullets, or turned around and ran back, and many more were knocked down as they fled.

"the dog, get down!" The screaming Zhou Yi was shot in the left shoulder, and fell to the ground with a scream, and his two guards were shot in the head and died in a stunned moment, and fell next to Zhou Yi, red blood accompanied by white brains stained Zhou Yi's body. The other guard was so frightened that he lay next to Zhou Yi and shivered, forgetting even his basic duties.

In the first wave of the attack, the elite third team lost about fifty men, of which at least twenty were killed.

The first team attacking from the south road was also defeated, and the officers and troops took special care of the non-existent wall, built temporary fortifications there, piled up the breastwork, and the attack of one team crashed headlong into the fire net of the officers and troops, and the first team of the attack caused at least ten casualties, and the first team that was suddenly attacked was repulsed, but the casualties were much smaller than those of the third team.

It was the eight teams that successfully attacked the stockade that Sun Deming looked down on. Long Qian's attack was slightly later than Zhou Yi's third team, and as soon as the gunshots rang out, Long Qian stopped the team that had just launched the charge.

Long Qian walked at the head of the team, feeling the black general eight teams to move into a trench washed out by a rain that had long been optimistic, Long Qian summoned his three squad leaders to have a pre-battle meeting, once again emphasizing his predetermined tactical arrangement, Long Qian's plan was to attack in two ways, avoiding the front of the wall, and attacking from two endpoints, that is, part of the northeast and northwest wall. His decision was to take the first squad as the left flank, commanded by Lu Shan, the leader of the first squad, and the third squad with Feng Guozhu as the right flank. After stipulating the contact password and the meeting place after entering the village, Long Qian left Wang Mingyuan's second squad as a reserve to occupy a cemetery in the north of the village, there are more than a dozen large willow trees on the cemetery, which is the only terrain in the north of the village that is conducive to defense.

Then he told Lu Shan to pay attention to the essentials of the charge, to be fast and fierce, and not to hesitate on the open ground.

These attack essentials have been repeatedly talked about in the usual training, and the squad leader and the team leader remember it very well.

As soon as the gunfire rang out in the east and south of the village, so did the guns on the north wall of the wall. The officers and soldiers reacted quickly, blurred figures shook on the uneven wall, and rows of dense bullets came at the eight teams of soldiers who rushed to the wall in the wilderness. The attacking soldiers all subconsciously lay down, and Long Qian squatted under a jujube tree about twenty zhang away from the wall, aimed at the shooter's position with the flame of the opponent's gun, and fired again and again, suppressing the opponent. Feng Guozhu, the leader of the third team, shouted, and led the team members to jump up and rush towards the wall 100 meters away.

Long Qian ran forward a few steps quickly, and the guard Jiang Yun followed closely behind Long Qian, carrying a spare rifle for Long Qian. Long Qian crouched down again, continuing to look for his shooting target, the magazine of the first French-made Lebel rifle was empty, Jiang Yun quickly handed over the rifle that was ready, Long Qian took a shot and knocked down an enemy who was half exposed on the wall, at this time another figure occupied the position of the person just now, and it only took two seconds for Long Qian to put it down again. Then he jumped up and quickly caught up with the three team members who were charging, Long Qian could also see from behind that it was a chief of the Feng Guozhu team named Sheng Guang, this chief seemed to be afraid of the tragic situation of his companions constantly falling to the ground, and his pace slowed down significantly, Long Qian shouted, "Don't stop!" Rush up, stay here and wait for death! There weren't many of them, and we won by rushing in. ”

Long Qian's appearance boosted morale, the shouts around him rang out, and in less than a minute, he had rushed to the wall, and now he could clearly see the shaking figures on the wall, and the guns and flames produced by the shooting of the officers and soldiers were more and more, and the team members around him were constantly shot and fell, screaming. Now is the most critical time, Long Qian can't care about the dead and wounded companions, squatting on the ground and shooting quickly in a crouching position, shooting all the remaining bullets of the second rifle, and knocking down at least two more enemies, and the team members who rushed to the front have already crossed the dry trench and pounced on the half-man-high wall.

Long Qian was relieved to see that his team members did not flinch under the dense firepower, which showed that his hard work in the past few months had not been in vain. To his delight, the wall in the north was still in dilapidated old shape, and it was not difficult to cross such an obstacle, and there was no need for special engineering equipment, and those things Long Qian did not have.

Long Qian took Jiang Yun's loaded rifle again, threw the empty gun to Jiang Yun, and he ran two steps forward, and he could already see the defender's clear upper body. Long Qian threw out the throwing knife, and the knife was accurately inserted into the throat of one of the defenders. Then Long Qian grabbed the wall with one hand, turned over and jumped into the wall. Before him, at least five of his companions had already climbed over the wall, including the squad leader Feng Guozhu.

As the eight teams of men and horses pounced on the wall, the piercing gunfire just now seemed to stop all at once, all around were heavy gasps and shouts, fierce and cruel hand-to-hand combat unfolded on the wall and in the wall, because of the brave actions of the leader, the two squads of the eight teams of sixty people broke through the defenders' fire interception in two minutes and rushed into Zhangjiazhai from the north.

Long Qian's eighth team attacked the stockade, but he didn't know that the Ludao official army had repelled the attack on the east and south sides, especially Zhou Yi's third team, which had broken up under the accurate and dense fire of the official army, and Zhou Yi was shot in the left shoulder and was saved from the battlefield by his subordinates. The first team led by Sun Deming himself was also repulsed, and the three masters were scolding their soldiers at the moment, preparing to organize a second attack. However, his eight teams captured the walled wall and attacked Zhuangzi in the first charge.