At this time, the Republic of China, a republic of five ethnic groups, was facing a major crisis.

After the end of the European war, the greedy eyes of the Western powers turned to the Far East and to China. As early as December of the seventh year of the Republic of China, the envoys of Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan put forward an exhortation to Beijing for peaceful reunification, suggesting that China quickly convene a North-South peace conference to end the civil war and achieve the goal of peaceful reunification. This exhortation was initiated by Britain and the United States to oppose the policy of "reunification by force" of Duan Qirui**, which Japan had vigorously supported, in an attempt to install a pro-British and American regime to replace it, and Japan was forced to participate under strong pressure. Subsequently, there were many obstacles, and the protracted North-South Peace Conference was held, which lasted until the ninth year of the Republic of China, and no substantial progress was made. During this period, because of the "21 Articles" Shandong issue negotiations, it provoked unprecedented turmoil throughout the country, causing a serious political crisis to Beijing ** manipulated by Duan Qirui. At that time, Wu Peifu, a division commander who was not prominent in the past, suddenly rose and became a prominent figure. In the autumn of the eighth year of the Republic of China, he and Cao Kun, the economic envoy of Sichuan, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi, launched and organized the Anti-Anhui Alliance of the Eight Provinces. In May of the ninth year of the Republic of China, Wu Peifu led troops from Hengyang to the north and went straight to Baoding, during which he constantly issued statements of "striking the war and making peace", and connected to the telegram, scolding Duan Qirui of the Anhui Department for his traitorous behavior, claiming to support the petition struggle of students and local people in various places against the "21 Articles", which won a voice of praise. Since then, with the support of Britain and the United States, Commander Wu Peifu has created his own "enlightened politics" for the Republic of China by virtue of his position of strength.

The politics of the military has always been completed by war, and Wu Peifu and Cao Jing's envoy secretly united with Zhang Dashuai outside the border to decide to fight a war to "save the Republic of China"!

At the same time, Duan Qirui also stepped up his steps, preparing to strike first, "give Wu Peifu a little color"! On the one hand, Duan quickly transferred the Northwest Frontier Army to the vicinity of Beijing, and on the other hand, he personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Bandit Suppression Army, and proclaimed to "crusade" against the Southern Shaanxi People's Army and the Sichuan-Yunnan Yasukuo Army. The essence of this arrangement lies in the fact that "the east is attacking the west" and intends to fight a decisive battle with the direct army in Henan. Unexpectedly, when the news of Duan's expedition to Shaanxi reached the gates, Zhang Dashuai immediately used the excuse that the border guards were dispatched and Beijing's defense was empty, and asked the Feng army to enter the customs to "defend the Beijing Division", which made Duan Qirui cry and laugh and was very embarrassed.

In May of the ninth year of the Republic of China, the whole country was in chaos, and the dark clouds of war had already rumbled with bursts of thunder, and the warlords of Zhi, Anhui, and Feng were clearly aware that a major war was inevitable.

Zhang Guixin, the envoy of Ningyang Town, is also strongly aware of this, whether he wants to or not, this battle of Zhiwan must be fought. If this war really starts, if Lao Duan insists on fighting this war in Henan, then he will be considered to have fallen into blood mold. First, his team is to be involved; Second, Li Si Mazi will wait for the opportunity to enter Ningyang. Therefore, he really hoped that this big war would not start; Even if you fight, don't fight in Henan.

This is only his hope, but it is not his hope that determines the war, but the interests of those politicians of the Republic of China, and his hope is worthless in the eyes of those politicians of the Republic of China.

However, for the local people in Ningyang, his hope is an order, he hopes that there will be no riots in Tianjiapu, and there should be no riots in Tianjiapu! He hopes that the potters of Tianjiapu will keep to themselves, and the potters of Tianjiapu will have to keep to themselves! He was very annoyed when the delegation in Beijing was intercepted, and he felt that he was too weak in dealing with the troubles of the kilns. At present, the situation is very tense, the two departments of Zhizhi and Anhui are tense, and the war is about to break out, these ignorant kiln people actually do not know the current affairs, and regard his Zhang Guixin's repeated patience as weakness and can be bullied, and they dare to intercept the committee with weapons.

He was determined to use force and dealt with it seriously. Otherwise, even if there is no war, he will have to be brought down by this mob!

Moreover, the old men of the Beijing Committee have already decided that the kiln people of Tianjiapu are rioting bandits, and they should not be polite to the rioting bandits, and the old men of the committee have ordered to suppress them! What else does he have to say?

On 3 June, he transferred another regiment to Tianjiapu, and together with the original regiment in the town, two regiments totaling about 1,600 people, prepared to launch a fierce attack on the people who occupied the mines and kilns, and solve all problems by force. On the morning of 4 June, he went to Tianjiapu again in person, sat in the company's official building, and ordered more than 1,600 soldiers under his command to deploy layers of defenses around the entire mine moat and prepare for war. At noon that day, he urged Zhang Heran, the governor of Ningyang County, to come forward and advise the workers to take the initiative to quit. The potter does not follow. At 2:10 p.m., he gave the order to attack. At 2:20 p.m., gunfire broke out throughout the mining area, and gunsmoke filled the air...... At 3:05 p.m., he ordered to monitor the reporters stationed in Tianjiapu of various newspapers, arrest Liu Yihua, a reporter of Minxin Daily, and strictly seal up the news of the war. At 4:50, he ordered his subordinates to rush to Hu Mansion and Tian Mansion to detain Hu Gongye Hu Delong and Tian Dongyang, the second master of Tian, who participated in the riots......

The potters made full preparations in all respects to cope with this war. During the occupation of the mines, they formed eight regiments of 8,000 potters according to their family names and areas, and carried out a meticulous division of labor group by regiment and team by team, and the organization was tight. Each regiment, each team, and each group of them was able to fight alone in the way they were customary. Fighting is one of the glorious traditions passed down from their ancestors, and the Hu family to which the Hu family belongs is based on fighting, and earlier, their entire family participated in the Twist Army Uprising and fought against the Qing army; Then, he fought for half a century for the land and the Tian family. They were not afraid of war, which had become an important part of their lives. They know very well in their bones that if they want to gain a foothold in this chaotic world, they have to adapt to all kinds of wars, and they have to fight all kinds of wars. The Tian family and foreign potters were also prepared for war. Although they are not as gangsteristic as the Hu family, when reality forces them to have no way out, they will also rise up, and they will rise up! Rebellion is not their sin, it is the sin of the officials. The officials forced the people to rebel, and the people were not guilty, and the sages and ancient sages also said this truth! They are forced to go to war, they don't want to go to war with the ** army, they want to divide their kilns in peace, and dig their hungry food from the deep underground, but ** doesn't even allow this! More than 1,000 people were buried under the kiln, no one alive or dead, but they blindly stood on the company's position to speak! They petitioned the committee of ** with great hope, and the committee members ordered to shoot at them, and they were regarded as rebel bandits! They think that this Republic of China ** is really not good, it is a bit of a thing! In the early years, the emperor did not deal with the people of Li like this, and the Republic of China was simply inferior to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty! In fact, the Republic of China also sat in Beijing after the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. The Republic of China can rebel against the Qing Dynasty, why can't they rebel against the Republic of China? If the rebellion is guilty, the first culprit is the Republic of China!

This thought belongs to Master Tian Er, and once Master Tian Er's thoughts are spoken and spread, they become everyone's thoughts. Everyone has a great belief in the ideas of Tian Er, and believes that Tian Erye has found a sufficient theoretical basis for the just war of the potters.

Naturally, theoretical grounds alone are not enough; In addition to ideology, theory, and the just nature of war, it is also necessary to have sufficient manpower and material resources to conduct a war to determine the outcome of a war. They are not lacking in this area. man, they were eight thousand; They had broadswords, spears, spears, and cannons. They have relied on these weapons to deal with the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, to deal with bandits and thieves, and to deal with every weapon between families, and now they still have steel guns and bullets, which are enough to deal with the attacks of Zhang Guixin's soldiers. In addition, they also knew that Brigade Commander Li Si Mazi, who was close to him, was also willing to be their backing, as long as they suffered losses, Brigade Commander Li's team might be able to drive to Tianjiapu and deal with Zhang Guixinli with them! This news is conclusive, it came from Tian Er and Hu Gongye, and it is 100% reliable! Tian Er Ye and Hu Gongye didn't let it be passed on, in fact, everyone understood that the second master and Hu Gongye wanted everyone to spread it, and the bigger the rumor, the more scared Zhang Guixin became!

Master Tian Er and Master Hu Gong are smart!

The support did not only come from the bandit Zhang Heiyan and Brigade Commander Li Si Mazi, but also from all walks of life in the three counties around Ningyang, and hundreds of thousands of people in the surrounding three counties, all of whom gave them valuable support. The gentry and businessmen of the three counties unanimously agreed that it was unreasonable for the people of Tianjin to come to their territory to open mines, and it was even more unreasonable for such a big disaster to be so arrogant. Therefore, the farmers of Tianjiapu should fight. As soon as the leading figures from all walks of life in the three counties of gentry and businessmen speak, what else do the people of the three counties have to say? Their local concept was originally very heavy, the gentlemen and elders thought that it should be beaten, so they were very unanimous that it should be beaten, and the Ningyang Red Gun Society, which was banned by Zhang Guixin, was active again, and I heard that Fan Wuye, the chief teacher of the Red Gun Society, had secretly communicated with the heads of the Red Gun Society, and was ready to give strength support to the Tianjiapu kiln people when necessary. Under the unrelated activities of Tian Er and Li Si Mazi, the gentry and merchants of the three counties decided to expel Zhang Guixin, and the best excuse for driving Zhang Guixin was to prompt Zhang Guixin to start a war with the kiln people.

The gentry and merchants of the three counties had no good impression of Zhang Guixin, the town guard, and although Zhang Guixin repeatedly paid attention to establishing good relations with them, they still held a grudge against him. The gentlemen have always believed that Zhang Guixin is a bandit who does all kinds of evil, and he is never qualified to be the town guard of the three counties of Ningyang! The old man can't forget the attack on Ningyang County when he occupied the mountain as the king, and he can't forget the tyrannical behavior of the gentry of the three counties during the Xinhai period, when he took the opportunity of the "revolution" to hang and beat the gentry of the three counties, many of them were hanged and beaten, and that time, the president of the Ningyang Chamber of Commerce was beaten to death! Their memory is excellent, and they have not forgotten this hatred, and they dare not say it in their mouths, but they have long been there waiting for the opportunity for revenge!

Now, the opportunity has finally come, and they want to borrow the blood of the potters to write Zhang Guixin's atrocities! Then, Zhang Guixin was expelled from Ningyang by legal means!

Therefore, the kiln people must fight resolutely, must fight well, and must fight a river of blood, otherwise, they will be too sorry for the hard work of the gentlemen.

The gentlemen and the elderly have donated generously, you have a thousand, he has donated a lot of money, and some people have even donated guns to protect the family. There is only one purpose, to drive away Zhang Guixin and establish a new Ningyang with pure folk customs.

At this time, public opinion in the provincial capital was also greatly favorable to the kiln people, and several newspapers headed by the "Minxin Daily" reported on the riots in Tianjiapu day by day, and the well-known "Minxin Daily" reporter Liu Yihua published signed articles one after another to scold Zhang Guixin and Dahua Company, calling on all walks of life in the provincial capital to pay attention to the situation in Tianjiapu, predicting that Zhang Guixin's bandits would bloody bullets to suppress the innocent people, and public opinion in the provincial capital was in an uproar, led by a vice president of the provincial chamber of commerce, and the "Tianxin Case Support Association" has been established.

Under the care of politicians, warlords, bandits, gentry and businessmen, hooligans, ruffians and enthusiastic gentlemen of all shapes, this war that determines the local politics of Ningyang has been smoothly pushed into the track, it will run according to its own laws and inertia, and it is impossible for anyone to stop its outbreak with their own strength.

It's a fantastic war!

The gunshots exploded from all directions at the same time in an instant, and at that time, Gong Ye was in a daze in the main shaft steam room. He sat in an iron swivel chair in front of the winch console, trying to figure out what a winch was. Why can a dozen SAIC cars rumble and spin? He carefully flipped the brake handles on the console, and a pair of curious eyes stared motionlessly at the huge roller in front of the console, hoping that it would rumble under his control. However, after a long time, the huge drum full of wire ropes did not move. Gong Ye was a little angry, and kicked the iron console with his foot, and scolded while kicking:

"Fuck it, this foreign thing is bullying too!"

Beside me, a worker in a machine factory said:

"Gongye, it's not a bully, it's a steam outage; If there is no steam, how can it still drive? ”

Breathe one’s last? This foreign thing is not an animal, how can there be a breath, Gong Ye thought that the worker was bluffing him, his eyes widened, and he said hatefully:

"Don't talk nonsense, you kid, this iron guy is not a cow, horse or mule, why can he lose his breath? If it really dies, Gongye, I can whip its qi up! ”

Gong Ye was very confident, as if what was towering in front of him was not a steel machine, but a cow, a horse, or a mule or something!

The worker knew that Gong Ye had misunderstood, and explained:

"Gongye, that's not the case! I'm talking about steam, it's steam. Without the propulsion of steam, the machine cannot spin. ”

"Oh! Oh! ”

Gong Ye understood. Gong Ye is knowledgeable, Gong Ye pinched his pointed chin, frequently moved his thin head, and said to himself:

"Not really, if there is wind, if you use a bellows as big as a house to blow the wind, and use a mule and horse to pull the bellows, this iron fellow will be able to spin!"

The worker disagreed with Gong Ye's opinion and insisted that the steam engine could only act on the machine with steam, and the wind could not do it.

Gong Ye's genius invention was denied by others. Gong Ye was a little annoyed, so he waved his hand and said disdainfully:

"You don't understand, you don't understand! Gongye, I eat more fucking salt than you eat, can this simple truth be hidden from me? The truth of this foreign machine is about the same as the truth of the windmill! ”

"No, Gongye! Steam is steam, wind is wind, these are two different things, isn't the company's little train also driven by a steam engine! Do you try to switch to a windmill? ”

Gong Ye was not happy. He could not believe that the machine shop worker in front of him knew more than he did. His face suddenly stretched long, and he coughed very majestically, ready to reprimand the worker, but at this moment, the "bang bang" gunfire exploded, and Gong Ye was startled, and rushed out of the winch room, standing on the high steps of the door and looking around.

In front of the winch landlord is the main shaft building that has been burned down by the fire, and a red pennant flutters on the sloping steel beam of the shaft building, and a potter who is responsible for the lookout task is climbing the steel beam step by step, looking like a clever monkey from a distance. To the west of the winch room is a tall factory building of the company's machine factory, and the high bluestone wall of the factory completely blocks Gongye's view. To the north was the company's coal yard, and Gong Ye saw the smoke rising from the edge of the moat from the middle of the two small hill-like coal piles.

"It's a fight, Gongye!"

"It's a fight!"

"It's really a fight, Gongye!"

The people who gathered around Gong Ye shouted and screamed one after another.

"Look at the situation, the attack is quite ruthless!"

"Grandma, I really want to fight with my grandfather!"

"Fuck, Gongye, listen, machine guns, machine guns!"

…………

Gong Ye stood on the steps with a heavy heart and did not speak, his eyes fixed on the direction of the North Moat River, where the gunfire was most intense, pondered for a long time, and then, turning around, hurried into the winch room, and paced restlessly.

Gong Ye was a little flustered in his heart. Gong Ye likes to make trouble, and he is not afraid of things, but this time, Gong Ye is indeed a little panicked. Although Gong Ye was preparing for a war from the night of the catastrophe, although Gong Ye knew that this war would start sooner or later, although Gong Ye had made full spiritual and material preparations for this war, although Gong Ye was not alone, there were three county gentry and merchants behind him, there were Red Gun Society, Li Si Mazi, and more than 8,000 potters around him, but Gong Ye was still a little afraid. He knew that this war was different from previous family wars, and if it was not done well, he might be ruined and lose his life. Because, the opponent of this war is not the Tian family, not the Dahua Company, but the town guard Zhang Guixin; He is dealing with the regular national army with a civilian rabble, and it is entirely possible that he will be beaten to a mess by those soldiers who are dedicated to fighting!

Gong Ye wishfully thought of the truce, thought of the glorious peace, and in the first few minutes of pacing, he tried to envisage all the possible ways to achieve peace - it was not too late to decide on a truce, he could lead the potters out of the mines, and promise all the conditions on the ** side, which was completely doable. But what's next? What will happen next? First of all, the potters will regard him Hu Gongye as a soft egg, and will never listen to him again, and his political influence in Tianjiapu will be completely exhausted at once; secondly, he will offend the gentry and merchants of the three counties, offend Li Si Mazi and Zhang Heiface; Again, Zhang Guixin, who had the upper hand and controlled the situation in Tianjiapu, would not accept his affection, and would definitely regard him as the culprit of the riots, and maybe he would be arrested and questioned!

Gong Ye was frightened into a cold sweat.

Bringing about peace is just as dangerous as going to war, and, strictly speaking, peace is far more dangerous to Gongye than war!

Gong Ye felt pathetic, the war was originally provoked by him; And now, if he wants to withdraw from the war, it is impossible to stop the war, he has only one way, and that is to fight hard!

But he had no choice but to fight. Gong Ye is not the kind of person who is timid and afraid, Gong Ye pokes the hornet barely, and he can provoke and hold up! Besides, this time the second master Tian can't run, if he loses, the second master Tian will have to accompany him, what's so terrible about this? The timid Tian Er Master is not afraid of death, will Gong Ye be afraid of death? Joke!

Fight!

Gong Ye really fought this time.

It is rare to fight a few times in life, a person's reputation and status are originally spelled out, and if Gong Ye fights this time, maybe he will be able to live for a hundred years!

The thought of peace was completely eliminated from Gong Ye's shriveled head—as if it had never existed, Gong Ye wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with a small hand towel, and also smoothed the wrinkles on his forehead, and sat down on the iron swivel chair in front of the operating table, like a strategizing general, he propped his elbows on the iron table of the operating table, and his sweaty hands held his sharp chin, and said very calmly:

"Yes, that's good! Well! It's better to fight than to freeze there! Isn't it? Don't be afraid! Gong Ye, I have so much property, and I am not afraid of war, what are you afraid of? Well? ”

The gunfire outside became more and more intense, like popping beans, it was lively, and occasionally there were rumbling explosions.

Gong Ye was very nervous in his heart, but he had to put a relaxed smile on his face:

"They can't get in! Gong Ye, I concluded that they couldn't get in, in the mine, we have six regiments, six regiments are 6,000 people, and there are three or four hundred steel guns, plus artillery, bird guns, as well as mine walls and mine moats, they can't attack at once! Don't be afraid! Well, don't be afraid! ”

When Gong Ye said this, his lips began to tremble, and a thin layer of sweat oozed from his wrinkled head. Gong Ye thought of a new question, he was in a trance, he was fooled again: when the war officially started now, it was he who was trapped in the warring mining area, not Tian Er Ye was trapped in the mining area, and the danger of his life was much greater than that of Tian Er Master! As soon as the GIs entered the mine, there was no way for him to retreat.

Just thinking of this, a ** top-worn potter came panting and reported:

"Gongye, it's not good, the North Moat River can't bear it, the attack of the dog day is too fierce, the brothers don't have enough guns, I'm afraid it won't work if I don't adjust a dozen guns in the past!"

Gong Ye was taken aback, and immediately ordered the workers around him:

"Quick, gather all the guns for me, go to the North Moat River, and resist the fight!"

Around the winch room and in the machine factory, there was still a whole regiment of reserve troops, Gong Ye was in a hurry, he forgot the overall concept, Gong Ye transferred the only more than 20 steel guns of this regiment to the north moat defense line, and there were only some people with big knives and spears left around him.

As soon as the gunners who were heading to the North Mine River left, another hunchbacked old man from the Tian family came with a shotgun:

"Gongye, it's broken, Dongxiaoqiao is about to be taken down by the soldiers, and the brothers are injured a lot, what should I do?"

Gong Ye thought for a moment and stomped his foot:

"Blow up the bridge, blow up the bridge with **, won't those bastards be able to attack it? Idiot! ”

"Then we'll have to add a few more guns, wow!"

Gong Ye was on fire, shaking his loose crotch and saying:

"Guns? Lao Tzu just this one gun, do you want it? Granny cunt! You ask Lao Tzu for a gun, and Lao Tzu asks who wants it?! ”

"That'...... That...... You've got to give us some more people, right? ”

Gong Ye waved his hand:

"Good! Good! Give you a team! ”

So, another team was drawn.

Gong Ye was still very calm at this time, and after the initial panic passed, Gong Ye began to enter the role of commander, and his mind was no longer thinking about his own interests, but how to effectively fight this war. He thought that as long as he could withstand the fierce attack of this first round, the rest of his life would be better. So, he sent troops desperately, wherever there was an emergency, he sent troops, and in less than an hour he sent two-thirds of the regiment that had been stationed there, and the holes in the defensive line on all sides were finally blocked.

Gong Ye had a little pride, and felt that he commanded this war quite well, and after sending away the potters who reported emergencies one by one, he leisurely brewed a cup of fragrant tea.

After the fragrant tea was brewed, before I could take a sip, two more anxious potters came, one was sent by Tian Dahao, who guarded the gate of the company, and the other was sent by Wang Dongling, who guarded the river between the company's mining area and the living area.

The two potters asked Gong Ye in unison if he wanted someone and a gun.

Gongye can't send it.

Gong Ye had no choice but to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and send people to send a message to the people on the four defense lines: if there is any surplus manpower, it will be transferred to Tian Dahao and Wang Dongling.

After sending away the representatives of Tian Dahao and Wang Dongling, Gong Ye suddenly thought of the company's ** room, and then ordered his subordinates to move the ** room to various lines of defense.

The company's first room is behind the machine factory, which was used in mining in the past, and it has been hoarded a lot, and it is enough to send the entire Tianjiapu to the west.

Gong Ye ordered the brothers to pack the big bags into small packets, insert medicine twists, and throw them into the soldiers' pile after lighting them. This trick really worked, after the ** bag was delivered, the crises on all the lines of defense were alleviated, and Zhang Guixin's first round of onslaught failed miserably.

The gunfire on all sides gradually died down.

While the gunfire fell from all sides, the gunfire at the gate of the company became more and more intense, and Gong Ye concluded that this was because the soldiers had changed their tactics after suffering losses, and wanted to concentrate on breaking through the gate, and then break the defense line of the kiln group.

Gong Ye immediately made a decision, immediately transferred most of the steel guns on the various defense lines to the gate of the company, and personally rushed to the gate to supervise the formation. Gong Ye knew that the company's gate could not be lost or blown up, and this gate was the only channel of contact between inside and outside the mine. If the gate is lost, first, the defense line in the mine is difficult to hold; Second, the connection between the mine and the town was cut off. And if it is fried, the food from the town will not be brought in, let alone beaten; Hunger will also starve them to death.

Gong Ye will defend the door of the company at all costs!

The gatehouse of the gate of Dahua company is made of large pieces of bluestone, two floors up and down, seven meters high, four meters wide, two carriages can pass side by side under the gatehouse, the gatehouse is a layer of solid stone fort, the front of the stone fort is embedded with four white paint characters of "Dahua Company", there are four big black holes under the big characters, the machine gun can be set up when the situation is urgent, and the road surface of the boundary street is blocked. There are two gates in this gatehouse, the first is an iron gate that can be pulled to the left and right, the second is two wooden doors that close to the middle, and in front of the gate is a moat river about five meters wide, and a large stone bridge is erected on the moat, one end of the big stone bridge is connected to the gatehouse, and the other end is connected to the boundary street. Normally, the defense of the gate is not tight, no matter day or night, there is only one mine policeman standing guard in the wooden sentry box in front of the gate, the two gates have never been closed, and the stone fort on the gatehouse has never been inhabited. Because of this, when the disaster struck on May 21, potters were able to pour into the company without stopping. 100 meters into the gate of the company, turn left and pass the small stone bridge of the inner moat river, which is the company's living area, and the small stone bridge is full of industrial and mining areas; The gate of Dahua Company is actually a gate shared by the company's living area and industrial and mining areas.

Now, the rioting potters have occupied the entire industrial and mining area, occupied the company gates, and blown up the small stone bridge, which made the soldiers who occupied the living area have to temporarily erect wooden bridges over the mine river in order to mobilize troops.

After the failure of the encirclement on all sides, Zhang Guixin mobilized a battalion of troops to occupy the commanding heights on both sides of the demarcation street facing the company's gate, and under the cover of two machine gun fire, he took turns to launch a fierce attack on the gate. The potters guarding the gate were extremely resolute in their will to resist, and they relied on the strong gatehouse and stone fort of the Dahua Company to form a network of fire on the road surface of the big stone bridge and the boundary street with dense bullets, so that the attacking soldiers could not get close to the stone bridge at all.

At this time, the two gates under the gatehouse had not yet been closed, and behind the circle of sandbags and sacks piled in an arc outside the gate, there were potters who were not afraid of death, and they frequently shot at the GIs who appeared on the boundary street, so that the GIs did not dare to show their heads on the street.

In the fierce mutual fire, the two sides were deadlocked for more than an hour, and the GIs suffered dozens of casualties, but they were not able to storm the bridge once. Far away, the potters guarding the door used guns; When the attack was close, the potters on the gatehouse threw ** bags below, and in the end, the soldiers almost did not dare to attack the gate, and they hid in the houses on both sides of the boundary street one by one and fired cold guns at the gate. The potters guarding the door also put it on the opposite side, as if they were setting off a cannon battle during the New Year.

This went back and forth, but the bullets were almost gone.

Seeing that the potters' guns were no longer fired, the GIs launched another fierce attack, and dozens of GIs forced onto the bridge......

At this moment, Hu Gongye came to support with several boxes of bullets and dozens of guns. As soon as Gong Ye ascended to the gatehouse, he was anxious, shouted and shouted, and asked people to throw the ** bag down, and at the same time as throwing the ** bag, the 100 guns "banged and horned" and fired.

The GIs did not show weakness this time, the people in front fell, and the people behind immediately pounced again, and the black pressure was overwhelming. At this time, the machine guns on the ridges on both sides of the demarcation street opened fire again, and the bullets flew around the gatehouse like locusts, and the potters who were guarding behind the curved sacks outside the door could not bear it anymore, so they turned around and ran into the door, and the dozen or so soldiers who rushed to the bridge also rushed into the door.

Gong Ye was really frightened at this moment, he stumbled down from the gatehouse, and hissed:

"Quick, grandma, give me all the knives! Rush! Rush out of the gate and chop all the bastards on the bridge! ”

Under the call of Gong Ye, dozens of potters with big swords swarmed out and started a bloody hand-to-hand fight with the soldiers on the bridge deck of the big stone bridge. The clashing of swords and guns, the shouts of potters and soldiers, and the howls of the tragic dead became a ......

"Quick! Close the door! Closed! Seeing that the potters engaged in hand-to-hand combat temporarily blocked the momentum of the soldiers' attack, Gong Ye hurriedly gave the second order.

The potter who closed the door was a little hesitant:

"Gongye, there are still our people outside!"

Gong Ye was angry and said:

"I can't take care of it, close it! Close it first! ”

Two potters hurriedly closed the first iron door.

"The wooden door is closed, too! Plug it with a sack! ”

The potters did not dare to disobey Gongye's order, so they hurriedly closed the second wooden door, and then some potters piled dozens of sacks according to the wooden door.

At this moment, Gong Ye was relieved.

Wiping away the hot sweat from his head, Gong Ye hurriedly climbed up to the gatehouse again, got into the stone castle, and looked at the bridge from the rectangular gun hole.

The hand-to-hand fighting on the bridge deck was still going on, because there were more and more soldiers pouring into the bridge deck, the potters could not support it a little, some people had already looked at the empty space and ran to the gate, as soon as they saw the gate closed, they hurriedly jumped into the mine moat, and the soldiers on the bridge shot into the river, and after a while, seven or eight corpses swirling with blood floated in the mine moat.

Tian Dahao, who was in charge of the gatekeeper task, couldn't stand it anymore, and ran to Gongye's side and urgently suggested:

"Gong Ye, this can't be done! Close the door, and all the brothers on the bridge will be finished, so let's open the door! ”

Gong Ye was stunned, gritted his teeth and scolded:

"You fucking know what a shit! What if the door opens and the GIs come in? Beat! Tell the brethren to fight! Don't let the GIs on the street follow you again! ”

Dozens of guns fired at the outside of the big stone bridge, and when the road was blocked, the soldiers behind them retreated to the houses on both sides of the demarcation street. But the situation near the bridge deck was not good, there were only a dozen potters left in a swarm, and there were dozens of soldiers, and the potters were almost in a desperate situation.

Gong Ye looked very anxious, he knew that if these dozen potters were all killed, these dozens of soldiers would blow up the gate and attack the mine.

Gong Ye told the brothers to shoot with guns.

But it's not easy to fight. The soldiers and the potters were mixed together, and the two sides were moving back and forth in the struggle, and if they didn't do well, they would hit their own people.

Gong Ye doesn't care, Gong Ye ordered to fight!

"Bang bang horn" There was a burst of gunfire, and more than a dozen GIs fell on the bridge deck, and at the same time, two unfortunate potters were shot and fell to the ground.

As soon as the muzzle of the gun turned, the GIs on the demarcation street appeared again, screaming and pushing on the bridge again.

The potter's gun had to be turned back onto the Boundary Street.

Gong Ye couldn't see it anymore, and ordered to throw ** bags at the crowd of hand-to-hand combat on the bridge.

No one dared to throw it.

No one wants to throw it.

Gong Ye grabbed a bag of ** by himself, lit the medicine twist and threw it out. Unexpectedly, due to panic, the ** bag was not thrown on the bridge deck, but just fell down the wall of the gatehouse, and exploded when it landed, and no one was killed.

Gong Ye grabbed the second ** package point......

Tian Dahao stepped forward and hugged his hand:

"Gongye, no, no! If we do this, who the fuck would dare to give us their lives?! ”

Gong Ye was very uncalm, his eyes were round, the green tendons on his forehead were very high, and he couldn't breathe when he spoke:

"That'...... That...... What do you say? This...... The GIs were ...... right away It's time to attack the goal! ”

Tian Dafu snatched the ** bag in Gong Ye's hand and threw it to the ground:

"Fuck, I'll take people down and fight on the bridge, you guys continue to trap the road surface of Boundary Street, don't let them pounce again!"

Gong Ye was moved, grabbed Tian Dahao's hand and said:

"Well done! The guys of the Tian family are not bad seeds! Good! You take someone down immediately, slaughter all the bastards on the bridge for me, and when the time comes, I won't treat you badly!" ”

Seven or eight thick hemp ropes were thrown down from the gatehouse at once, and Tian Dahao and a group of potters bit big blades in their mouths and dragged ropes in their hands, jumping down one after another, and as soon as they jumped down, they immediately plunged into a melee. The potters on the bridge were already in a desperate situation and had no intention of fighting, but at this time, they saw that Tian Dafu led people to jump down to support, and regained their courage, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and gradually, they regained control of the situation on the bridge.

At this moment, the soldiers on the demarcation street noticed the situation, and the two machine guns on the ridge began to sweep against the large wall of the gatehouse, and several of the potters who were climbing down were killed, and one of the hemp ropes was broken. However, the potters on the gatehouse were not intimidated, and many of them still climbed the rope down, and some of them even let go of the rope and jumped down halfway......

In just ten minutes, most of the soldiers who attacked the bridge deck were wiped out, and the rest of the people hurriedly fled to the demarcation street regardless of the bullets on their heads, and dozens of corpses lay on the bridge deck of the big stone bridge.

The crisis in front of the gate was lifted, and Gong Ye reopened the gate to welcome the potters who participated in the hand-to-hand combat into the mine. Gong Ye returned to his normal and former majesty, comforting the wounded potters while proudly directing the gunmen to re-enter the curved sack bunker outside the gate.

Gong Ye was much bolder, and he dared to walk out of the gate and lie down behind the bunker.

Lying behind the bunker, Gong Ye taught:

"Brothers, fight hard! Whoever fucking turns around and runs back, I'll slaughter him for a shit! If it hadn't been for the fuss and the brothers who used the knives to fight desperately, we would all be fucking done together! Do you understand? ”

"Gong Ye, it's no wonder that we don't have any bullets just now!" A kiln tunnel.

"You can't go back without bullets! If you don't have bullets, you can blow it up with a **bag! ”

"Yes, Gongye! We're not going to go back, but you can't close the door! ”

"Yes! Yes! ”

Gong Ye was a little ashamed. It really shouldn't have been closed just now, which seems a bit unkind. Gong Ye thought that he had to explain this matter to the brothers who wielded the sword, and that he had to explain to them that closing the door was a last resort; Besides, after closing the door, didn't he ask Tian Dahao to take people down to rescue him again?! Isn't Gong Ye still wrong?

Gong Ye left the bunker and hurried towards the gate. But just as he left cover and straightened up in front of the iron gate at the gate, gunfire rang out again on the Boundary Street, and a bullet unfortunately knocked him down......

Not all people want to fight, not all people are willing to fight, and when this kiln war is in full swing, there are also some potters who keep a clear head.

Zheng Fu, a potter from Shandong, is counted as one.

Zheng Fu has no good impression of Hu Gongye and Tian Er, and does not believe in the doctrines of Hu Gongye and Tian Erye. He stubbornly thought that Hu Gongye and Tian Er Ye were both a little dizzy and self-righteous, and they both turned things upside down. It is undoubtedly right to oppose the closure of the mine and occupy the mining area, but after occupying the mine, it is not to rescue people, but to be busy fighting with the soldiers, then it is a big mistake!

He didn't believe that the workers in the kiln were dead, and he was unwilling to give up this last effort.

He had to find a way to the depths of the mine and take the people on the ground to rescue the workers who were killed under the kiln; He didn't care what Gong Ye and the Second Master thought, he had to do it anyway! He Zheng Fu is neither surnamed Tian nor Hu, so he doesn't have to look at the eyes of these two masters at all. A few days ago, Mr. Liu Yihua, a reporter from the provincial newspaper, told him this truth! Mr. Liu also advocated that they act independently!

He revered Mr. Liu, and he felt that Mr. Liu's words were reasonable. Really, in this catastrophe, no one from the Second Master Tian and Hu Gongye's family died, and they must have their own purposes for being so actively involved! They don't really want to do things for everyone, but they want to take the opportunity to make something! He can't be fooled by this, and he can't be used as a gun by these two masters.

When the gunshots rang out suddenly in all directions, he took two guest potters and went down the kiln from the inclined shaft. Carrying oil lamps, a coal pickaxe, and two small shovels, they prepared to open the way to the inclined shaft. A few days ago, they tried to go down from the wind shaft, the auxiliary shaft and the main shaft to the kiln, but they were unsuccessful. The fire under the auxiliary shaft and the main shaft was burning violently, and people could not go down at all; The windmills of the wind shafts were closed, and the sloping wind tunnels were covered with soot and could not go deeper. The only hope was the inclined shaft, and the roof under the inclined shaft was so severe that the road to the kiln was blocked.

They are going to open up the road under the inclined shaft.

The downhill in the inclined shaft was steep and slippery, and water often fell overhead and dripped onto their heads, faces, and backs. The roadway is not cold, because the lower end of the roadway is blocked, the wind on the ground can not blow under the kiln, walk through the inclined shaft iron gate, down to the ground 100 meters underground, the whole roadway is extremely stuffy.

Zheng Fu, who was at the forefront, was the first to take off his coat.

When he took off his coat, a potter named Wu Sanlong next to him also stopped and asked worriedly:

"Brother Zheng, this fucking doesn't even have a trace of wind, will it suffocate us to death?"

Zheng Fu wiped the sweat on his face and forehead with the ragged coat he took off, and said breathlessly:

"Nope! No! We're not far from the ground, and the wind won't be long here, so it won't suffocate people, don't scare yourself! ”

Zheng Fu lifted the oil lamp placed on the coal gang, turned on the lamp, shone it on the shed beam above his head, and said:

"It's a trivial matter whether there is wind or not, but I'm worried about these shed beams! Brother Sanlong, take a look, how many of these shed beams are good? It's all fucking rotten! As long as there is a slight movement on it, we will have to be nested inside! ”

Wu Sanlong also raised the lamp and looked at it, and his face suddenly lengthened. Indeed, Zheng Fu's worries are justified, the shed beams on their heads are also like Tian Er and Hu Gongye in Tianjiapu Town, a little unreliable, most of the wooden beams on the legs of the sheds on both sides are covered with white, white, green and green mold, rotten to the point that they have changed color, some of the shed beams are still falling slag, and some of the shed beams have been broken.

"Damn, these shed beams should have been replaced a long time ago, and those bastards in the company don't know what they eat all day!" Wu Sanlong scolded.

The No. 8 cabinet kiln worker who walked at the back, Lao Li, slipped step by step and helped the shed legs to follow, and muttered:

"What do you eat? Fuck pointing at us to eat with all your life! What are you Wu Sanlong shouting? ”

"Let's go, my son, don't scold my mother here, let's hurry up!"

Elder Li walked forward.

Zheng Fu and Wu Sanlong followed one after the other, and the lights of the three oil lamps connected into a chain of light that kept shaking, and slowly fell towards the depth of the mine.

In this pit with harsh conditions, Zheng Fu couldn't help but think of many problems. These problems are related to the vast number of potters, as well as to his own vital interests. He felt that the potters were too miserable and miserable, and in the past, he and his companions did not realize it, they thought that all this was reasonable, and they thought that it was the Dahua Company that fed them, but never thought that it was they who fed the capitalist class of the Dahua Company! The bastards of Dahua Company are bent on making money, and never care about the life and death of the potters, and the pit wood is rotten and will not be replaced, and the dirty gas is so serious that it does not stop working, which has led to such a serious disaster.

Sadly, to this day, many potters are unaware of this and think it all makes sense.

He caught up with Da Lao Li and walked side by side with him:

"Brother Li, there is a gentleman from a provincial town in our town for a while, have you heard?"

"Is it surnamed Liu, from the provincial newspaper?"

"Yes, it's surnamed Liu. I have pulled with this Mr. Liu, and I understand a lot of truths, this gentleman has no shelf, he loves to find kiln buddies to pull croa, and he also uses a small book to remember miles! ”

Da Lao Li snorted in his thick nostrils:

"Dick use!"

"Well, you can't say that! Brother Li, these truths he talked about are right for us! People say that next to our country, there is a country called Russia, and the life of other kiln buddies is better than ours! ”

"People are people, we are us! The eyes are hot, and your old Zheng will also be a goose in the next life, and go to the country of other people's geese! ”

"Brother Li, what Mr. Liu means is that people in Russia can make a world where poor people are the masters of the country, as long as we work together, we can make it!"

Da Lao Li looked down at his feet and said coldly:

"Sensei believe those pieces of soup, it's all fucking bluffing stuff. In the early years of the Republic of China, those people with heads and faces said it very well! But now you see, what's so good?! I don't think it's as good as when the Qing Emperor sits in the Dragon Court! ”

Wu Sanlong also listened to Mr. Liu's teachings, and also believed in Mr. Liu's doctrine, so he interjected in a daze:

"Brother Li, you are purely a hard and stinky dead man! Don't you want to pay longer? Don't want to live a prosperous life? Don't want Dahua's bastards to become more disciplined? ”

"Think, I think, according to my mind, I still want to fucking end the turtle nest of Dahua Company?! Okay? Can it be done? My son, this is all fate, the hit is only nine meters, and it is not enough to rise all over the world! ”

"Nope! Mr. Liu said that this is not a fate, it is caused by the oppression and exploitation of our poor people by the capitalist class! Think about it, Li Shicheng of Dahua Company has never been in a kiln, has never shaved a basket of coal, but with our labor, eat fish and meat, live in a bungalow, where did he get the money? He earns his money from us! According to Mr. Liu, as long as the coal we dig out is transported to Jiangnan, one ton can be sold for more than a dozen oceans, but the wages he gives us are less than a dime per ton of coal. ”

Da Lao Li was surprised:

"Is there such a thing? Hasn't the company been shouting that the money is tight, and always complaining that our coal can't be sold at a good price?! ”

"That's a lie! He Li Shicheng opened the mine just to make money, and if there was no money to make, he would have closed his doors and stopped production a long time ago! In order to make more money, they simply don't care about the lives of our kiln buddies! According to some guys in the know, there is dirty gas in the well, and the bastards of the company also know it, they don't take our lives seriously at all, and the result is ......"

Needless to say, this result is known to Da Lao Li himself. One of his sons, who was guarding the wind gate in the mine, was also buried inside, otherwise, he would not have been so enthusiastic about going down to the kiln to save people.

"Brother Zheng, this Mr. Liu is really reasonable, if Ming'er has a chance, let's go find him Lalagua!"

Elder Li moved closer to Mr. Liu's doctrine.

While talking, the three of them went down to a depth of four or five hundred meters of the inclined shaft and stopped in front of a large number of falling objects. They hung the lamp on the legs of the shed, first straightened the legs of the two fallen sheds, and pulled out the two shed beams buried in the gangue and coal blocks, and then put the two sheds back in place and firmly laid them, and then they started to dry the coal picks and iron milling.

They firmly believe that there are still living people under the kiln.

They are going to get them out......