It doesn't matter if anything else, Huzi also has food and drink in the city, and he can find a place to live in Xiaojiu or Gouzi, the most important thing is that this Nalan Shiheng means to lock the city gate, until the Russian soldiers come to the city, and the city gate can only be opened after the results of the first battle.

The city gate was closed, and there was no news inside and outside the city, so it must have been until one of the people from Sun Mountain Village wanted to enter the city but was stopped back, so that Mr. Peng could know that Huzi had been trapped in the city.

This time, it's really going to be a war.

It has been a chaotic time, and all these years have been spreading the news of wars here and wars there. But Changtu has always been safe. Many people say that Changtu is a treasure land of feng shui, and there is a black mother who is blessed with luck. But this time the black mother is not good, Lao Maozi is bound to attack the city, just like attacking other cities all the way before.

Even those bigger cities have been lost, can Changtu Mansion City stop these old hairies? Definitely not. Everyone's heart is like a mirror. But didn't General Nalan Shiheng make a guarantee? said that he wanted to protect the integrity of the people in the city.

Those who were able to escape had already fled, and those who remained in Changtu were either so poor and lonely that they had no relatives to rely on and no money to move out - like those who begged for food. Either his net worth is in Changtu Mansion, and he will definitely not be able to live without Changtu - like the Chen class master...... Or can Zhao Buddha be counted among them? What's more, now that the city gate is blocked, I can't leave if I want to. can only believe that Lord Feng'en Fuguo Gong is a man of his word, and believes that the children of the training army can fight a way out.

The rest is nothing more than praying to God and worshiping Buddha.

The Boxers were stationed more than a mile outside the north gate, and they could be seen clearly from the city wall. Obviously, I didn't see any baggage supplies brought by the Boxers - since the edict was issued, where did the Boxers get the baggage supplies - but every time they had a meal, they could still see the smoke rising from the Boxer station, and even the whole pig was lifted inside, eating meat in large pieces, looking so uncomfortable?

Is it really the Boxers who are protected by the gods and Buddhas? ! According to the report of the Green Camp spies sent out by Nalan Shiheng, there were people who delivered supplies to the Boxers from the surrounding villages and towns, but they were scattered and could not find a specific source. The meat was also purchased directly from the people of the surrounding villages and towns, and I don't know who paid for it.

There is also a financier behind the Boxers. It's news, but it's not news. The Boxers are all dying people, and whoever gives them food is using their own money to play in the water. There were a total of 796 people in the Boxers, most of whom were strong men, and even if they ate the first day, it would be a lot of expenses. The fine grains are served with meat, and it takes at least five days. If the entire Changtu Mansion can have this handwriting, two slaps can be counted.

Waiting is the most difficult, and now the people of Changtu are now like gunpowder, and the black and gray grains are tightly pressed into the wooden barrel of Fucheng, just waiting for a little spark to blow up the sky, and then turn into ashes.

What should come is always coming. On the sixth day of the Boxer camp, Lao Maozi arrived outside Changtu Mansion.

It's really a piece of black pressing. Five thousand? 10,000 people? Nalan Shiheng, who was holding the "clairvoyant mirror" and looking into the distance, found that he couldn't count them. Seeing so many foreign devils, his legs and stomach have turned tendons! This is still Lao Maozi's vanguard troops, think about it, if Lao Maozi conquers Changtu Mansion City, there will be more troops in this granary in the future to replenish, and then take advantage of this to pounce on Fengtian.

When the Boxers were still less than two miles away, Lao Maozi stopped and lined up to rest. Nalan Shiheng didn't look at it anymore and walked down the city tower alone.

The Boxers were moving. Led by the Lady of the White Flowers, everyone was silently packing up the contents of the camp, piling them together and burning them to the ground—the boxers lit a huge bonfire in the middle of the official road outside the city.

In this campfire were their tents and bedding, their personal gold and silver and softness, and the sand and artemisia racks for cooking and the buckets for drawing water...... and the braids on their heads.

Seven hundred and ninety-six boxers knelt down on one knee in unison, and surrounded the bonfire. Our Lady of White Flowers clapped her hands three times, and more than 700 people spoke together, resounding and shaking the sky:

"The disciple looked at the blue sky, all the masters were by his side, eighteen arhats, twenty-four heavens. Help the disciple and teach the ruler to drag the knife. The drag knife turned into goose feathers; The iron ruler turned into lamp grass; The stone in the center of the roll turned into a blister; A body turned into copper skin and iron bones, and turned into Taishan. He wears twelve iron hats on his head, wears twelve layers of iron armor, three turns of copper leather bag, and three times of iron bag. Masters, Generals! Help the disciple to send it quickly, please God come up! ”

The Boxers in their mouths called the divine order, reciting a paragraph is not finished, but also silently reciting in their hearts, which way of inviting the gods to teach skills.

Do they really believe that they are "copper skin and iron bones twelve heavy armor, not into the sword and spear to pull out the mountain"? Not necessarily. But as they stood up with their blades in their hands, a temperament lingered in each of them. This kind of temperament is called "seeing death as home", and this temperament is called "sacrificing life for righteousness"!

In the Boxers, there were no high-ranking families, most of them did not understand the national righteousness, and they were cruel to foreigners and their own people. In fact, if you are not cornered by foreigners, who wants to stop your head from the waistband and beg for a life? Now the imperial court has also cornered these people, so they have burned their braids, planning to "kill one is enough, kill two to earn one".

They who have never practiced the art of war, they don't know what is called "queue" and "formation", they only know that they follow the footsteps of the White Flower Virgin, and they are forced to Lao Maozi step by step - or to die with the footsteps of the White Flower Virgin.

The Russian army is not blind, let alone stupid. Naturally, they could see that these braided Boxers were coming for them. Some soldiers had already lined up their guns and pointed their guns at the "culprits". Yes, Lao Maozi's reason for marching into the Northeast was to exterminate the Boxers and protect the Eastern Railway. Now they are facing the Lord!

The Boxers did not hurry or slow, and every step forward was to clench the blade in their hands tighter.

Looking at these boxers, the Russian officers in command couldn't help but laugh out loud - laughing very happily. He turned the face of one of the guards next to him and said to his own soldier in broken Chinese, "Did you see that?" These peasants of the Great Qing Kingdom, armed with primitive weapons, almost overturned our railway. Ridiculous! Now they're going to use these cold weapons to attack us! Hahahaha! Isn't it funny? ”

The officer's guard obviously didn't understand Chinese, so he could only look at his commander blankly.

"You're really boring......" Seeing that his guards didn't understand what he meant, the commander slapped him to the ground with a backhand. Blood immediately gushed from the corner of the guard's mouth and nostrils. He reached out and wiped it, and spat out two more teeth.

But the soldier's face remained unchanged, and he stood up quickly, straightened his back, and gave a military salute to the commander. The commander laughed again, two rows of white teeth exposed, folds screwed evenly across every part of his face. He patted his guard on the shoulder, and without saying a word, he turned his head to look in the direction of the Boxers.

At this time, the Boxers were already very close to the Russian army.

One hundred zhang.

Eighty zhang.

Fifty zhang.

Thirty zhang!

"Kill!"

When there were still thirty zhang away from the Russian army, Our Lady of White Flowers gave an order, and the boxers of the Boxers were all turned into tigers out of the cage and dragons entering the water! One by one, they raised their blades, shouted "invulnerability", and rushed to the battle formation of the Russian army!

That is, when the word "kill" came out of the White Flower Virgin, an officer standing in the front of Lao Maozi also shouted "CTPEЛЬ6A (fire)"!

The Russian army, which had already tightened the string in its head, got the order, and fired without hesitation! The first row of bullets was fired, and more than a dozen boxers fell to the ground. Without giving any respite, the soldiers in the second row, who had been waiting for a long time, also put their guns on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row and pulled the trigger!

In fact, this is a very backward battlefield technology, and in the early days when the rifled rifled gun armament was the mainstream, the troops used this combat method of dividing into several columns, firing in the front, and loading in the rear.

But this time is different, the opponents of the Russian army are no longer professional soldiers equipped with modern weapons, but a group of "primitive people" who charge at them with cold weapons in their hands. This way of fighting becomes extremely effective.

The boxers of the Boxers, under the repeated shooting of the Russian army, fell one by one like wheat harvested in the autumn wind.

However, only thirty zhang away! This is the distance that can be crossed in fourteen or fifteen breaths.

This old Maozi's army has not encountered decent resistance at all along the way. Everyone has seen that as long as one fifth of the people die, the other side will break or surrender, and killing the other fifth of the people is really a simple thing. With such a dense shooting, let alone one-fifth, in this short thirty zhang, the Boxers have already fallen by a third!

But this time Lao Maozi's experience was not working.

How can there be the slightest intention on the other side to flee or surrender? The people behind them, stepping on the corpses of their fallen companions in front, picked up their broadswords and rushed into the queue of old Maozi.

They're just begging for death!

Closer, many people in this Boxer Rebellion pierced a white dot and cut a white mark! It had to be a bullet through the chest and head to silence them completely. Even if they were shot and didn't die immediately, they had to rely on the strength to return to the light, reach out and grab Lao Maozi's legs, and tear off a piece of meat from them with their mouths!

Four quarters of an hour, half an hour! The battle that should have been resolved immediately lasted for an hour! The commander of the old Mao Zi paced from behind, his shiny leather boots stepping on the blood and mud, and trodding to the front.

The Holy Mother of White Flowers, who had been shot six times in her body, knelt on her knees, her body twisted backwards, and she saw that she was out of breath and less in breath, and she would not be able to live. But he refused to fall completely.

The commander looked the Virgin of White Flowers up and down several times, as if to engrave the image of this woman in his mind. Then he smiled and took out the small pistol he carried with him and put it on Bai Hua's forehead: "Goodbye, beautiful oriental girl." ”

"Bang"! With the sound of gunfire, the Boxers were completely annihilated. Seven hundred and eighty-five were killed, eleven were captured, none of them escaped from the battle, and none of them survived.

The commander of the Russian army picked up his pistol, broke the knife from Bai Hua's corpse, and made two strokes on Bai Hua's neck. Then he threw the knife away, picked up Bai Hua's head and kissed Bai Hua's lips gently, without hesitating the blood stains on his skull, the gun hole on his forehead, and the blood hole in the back of his head that was still dripping with brains.

Leaving Bai Hua's lips, the commander raised his hand to wipe the blood foam from his mouth, and said to Bai Hua in his broken Chinese: "Beautiful girl, we are about to enter the city." ”

After speaking, he walked to the head with the white flower's head.

No one came forward to collect the corpses of the Boxers and the corpses of the Russian soldiers. Groups of Russian soldiers followed closely behind their general.

Just when the commander was less than a hundred steps away from the city gate, the city gate, which had been blocked for six days, slowly opened in a tooth-sore grinding sound and the unbridled laughter of the Russian commander.