Chapter 121: The Sweeping Battle of Yuhang Town (II)

After gathering more than 200 troops and receiving the support of "heavy fire equipment" from the rear, the thieves once again approached Yuhang Town.

Li Meng held a cigarette in his mouth and stood at the entrance of Yuhang Town, the sturdy watchtower made of huge blue bricks, as if he was coldly laughing at the inadequacy of this group of distant visitors - three smashed heads, hanging high on the flagpole at the top of the watchtower, seemed to show off the strength of the guards, and the owners of these three heads fell silently on the cold dirt road at the entrance of the town, not only were their heads cut off, and the bits and pieces on their bodies were touched, and even their clothes were stripped off by the "thrifty" Yuhang townspeople...... Such a bleak scene fully illustrates the cruelty of war, so that although Li Meng's rookie recruits have been fully trained, they have not seen much blood, they can't help but feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

As an old soldier who was accustomed to seeing life and death, Li Meng just took off his hat lightly, mourned for a few seconds, and then ordered the attacking troops to line up quickly. Under the military order, these motley troops, who had been somewhat loose and crumbling, immediately began to show the discipline they had cultivated through a long period of stick education. For a while, the sound of the captains' commands and the tapping of long leather boots echoed repeatedly on the official road outside Yuhang Town. And the sappers brought by Zhao Yinggong also lifted the oilcloth covers on the wheelbarrows and began to serve the five hand-cranked six-barreled Gatling guns hidden underneath.

Li Meng stepped forward and gently flicked the handle of one of the Gatling guns, and was satisfied to see that it made a slight grinding sound, indicating that it was in good condition. Compared with machine guns, this early rapid-fire weapon was very clumsy, but it was more than enough to deal with the current situation -- at least it could give this group of gentry who did not know what shame was to fully feel the "iron fist of the people".

On the other side, when the thief pushed out the wheelbarrow, a commotion broke out on the watchtower at the intersection: cannons, this gang of thieves has cannons! However, the moment the gun jacket was lifted, the riot stopped. The villagers, who thought they had a false alarm, laughed at these stupid thieves for tying up the bird guns, trying to disguise the cannons to scare people - this watchtower is only made of green bricks and has three floors, can the birds be pierced?

The ridicule of the villagers did not last long, and the five prepared Gatling retort guns soon let out a roar, and thirteen millimeter lead bullets enthusiastically poured into every window of the bunker, immediately blowing off the skulls of several unlucky people, splashing red and white on the faces of everyone around, triggering one piercing scream after another...... Only Chen Jialuo, the "firearms expert", lay on the floor at the first time, and did not forget to reach out and press down his two nephews, and kept comforting in his mouth, trying to quiet the two frightened little guys.

After a while, the gunfire stopped for a while - in a sense, the villagers of Yuhang Town were not wrong, and the seemingly blazing bullet rain only left some insignificant traces on the appearance of the watchtower, but it successfully broke the psychological defense line of these rookie newcomers.

Next, although Chen Jialuo kept roaring, wanting to order the villagers to get closer and fight again, it was a pity that no one could hear what he was saying. The villagers, who were frightened by the bloodshed of the battlefield, as if to strengthen their courage, hysterically shot out all the firearms they could find...... The white smoke from the bird's shot enveloped the entire watchtower for a while, and no one could see what they had hit. After a while, the already loaded Tiger Squat Cannons also opened fire—but unfortunately the thieves were too far away, and the shotguns hit nothing.

In short, when a gust of wind blew away the smoke, the villagers who had opened their eyes to observe the results of the battle were all very disappointed - the gang of thieves still stood five hundred paces away, not only all of them were safe and sound, but they also pointed to the watchtower and laughed loudly.

Immediately afterward, a tall thief, who was about the rank of official, waved a knife and shouted something, and suddenly a dense rain of bullets struck, and all the villagers who had not had time to lie down in the window were smashed into a bloody sieve-the Gatling Barrel Gun, which had completed the heat dissipation, opened fire again.

As a result, the pitiful counterattack fire in the watchtower was easily and completely suppressed. A few sappers carrying explosive bags on their backs took the opportunity to run to the front of the team, and in the pre-dug soil pit, they set up the famous "unconscionable cannon" in the liberation war, which was a well-known artifact of the Liberation War -- the official name should be the "explosive bag projectile", in fact, it is a mortar with an iron barrel as a barrel, and after filling it with propellant, put the explosive bag bundled into a disc shape, and then ignite the propellant, you can throw a 10-kilogram explosive bag to a distance of 150-200 meters. The caliber of this weapon is astonishing -- the caliber is as large as the barrel is, and the powerful explosive impact of the huge explosive package will blow up the bunkers and men and horses wherever they pass. The enemy who was blown down often could not find any wounds on his body, but he was bleeding from seven holes, and he was shocked to death. Therefore, it is called "no conscience cannon".

Of course, this thing is powerful, but it also has many flaws, first of all, the range is too close - but in the days when you were lined up with arquebuses to shoot, this distance was enough. The second is that the trajectory is unstable, the accuracy is not very good, not to mention the moving target, even the fixed target may not be hit - so Zhao Yinggong is very generous to put out ten "no conscience cannons" in one breath, how can this watchtower be blown down.

So, with the loud roar that sounded ten times one after another, ten explosives bags drew ten graceful curves, and fell around the watchtower like a goddess scattering flowers...... Then he continued to lie there quietly, only the long fuse was still flashing with sparks......

-- Like the vast majority of the rabble gathered in the Hangzhou war zone, the sappers assigned to the owner of Zhao Yinggong from the rear seem to be mainly rookies and fools. In order to prevent these unreliable sappers from blowing themselves and their comrades into the sky with a careless sloppiness, Zhao Yingong had to strictly order them to keep the fuse to the longest, and explicitly prohibited any dangerous behavior of cutting the fuse.

Fortunately, in the process of the slow burning of the fuse, the townspeople on the watchtower failed to make any counterattack. The rain of bullets from the five Gatling guns knocked back any brave villagers who dared to show their heads. Even in the gap between the ceasefire and heat dissipation of the Gatling barrel gun, the infantry phalanx, which had already been neatly arranged, would fire in three stages according to the officer's order to ensure that there was no way for the people in the watchtower to come out

Then, the ten explosive packets finally let out an enthusiastic roar, kicking up billowing smoke and dust, blasting rubble and loess everywhere......

Suddenly, Chen Jinnan, a fifteen-year-old boy lying on the ground with a bird gun in his hand, suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and then he was horrified to find that he seemed to be deaf, although Chen Jialuo, the clan uncle next to him, shook his shoulders vigorously, and his mouth opened and closed as if he was yelling something, but he couldn't hear a word clearly. And his younger brother Chen Jinxing lay on the ground and vomited heavily, and all kinds of disgusting filth flowed into a large piece.

However, it seems that because the explosive bag landed off target and did not explode directly next to the bunker wall, the watchtower did not collapse even after such heavy damage-" ...... This fortress of the landlord's old wealth is really strong! Li Meng, the former salt lord, whistled and was surprised to find that the torn green bricks were still solid and filled with tamped loess, so the watchtower that was knocked down by a wall was still tenacious! Standing there, firmly guarding the road leading to the town...... But it didn't help!

“…… Let the sappers fight another round of conscienceless cannons! It's too much trouble to bring the explosives bag back. ”

After a while, the huge roar sounded again, this time, the solid watchtower that had stood for a hundred years at the entrance of Yuhang Town finally failed to survive anymore, but made a squeaky sound, slowly collapsed, and a huge smoke was raised, and the villagers who had not been able to escape were all buried here...... The next moment, Li Meng personally blew the trumpet of the charge, brandished a snowy saber, and commanded everyone to rush towards the unprotected town together.

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“…… Dangdang! Thief! The thief is in town! ”

With the howls of the defeated soldiers and the loud sound of gongs, the town of Yuhang was closed for a while - the bravest men were all buried in the watchtowers, and when the thieves rushed into the town with bayonets, only a few heroes who took advantage of the fire to rob were left to clean up.

The two most powerful Shen and Chen families in Yuhang Town have naturally also closed their doors for a long time. In the battle to defend Yuhang Town, these two families have the most people, and the losses are naturally the heaviest, at this time it is a gloomy cloud: the eldest master of the Shen family is crying with red eyes, and his sons are being stewed by thieves on the watchtower, and they are about to die. The second master of the Shen family was lucky, when the thieves attacked, several of his sons happened to rotate back to the town to eat, and when they arrived at the watchtower, they were already defeated, and when they returned home, they turned out to be a lot...... At this time, these few soulless juniors were describing to the elders of the family how terrible those thieves were with trembling voices.

On the other side, the Chen family was similar, and many people died in this short offensive and defensive battle. The old patriarchs of the two families all understood that this battle could never be fought again, but if they were so soft, it seemed too unwilling to let others rub and rub them round...... I have to think of a way to leave more dignity and reduce some losses. I remember that in the past, when the Japanese were rampant, there would always be a few large local households to help ventilate and report information, purchase and sell stolen goods, so as to sit on the ground and distribute fertilizer. The old patriarch of the Shen family touched his beard and thought.

However, as the leader of this group of "thieves", Captain Li Meng did not know that the brains of these shameless gentry were open, and even if he knew, he would not go to his heart - the landlord gentry belonged to the annoying existence of pests, and this was the unanimous consensus of all the traversers on governing the country. In the eyes of Li Mengyang, a former salt lord with a strong hatred of the rich, these things who are bent on not paying taxes and not working and have no loyalty are simply typical of being bitches and setting up archways - remember the performance of these gangsters when the Ming Dynasty fell, and they are not as good as Wang Chengen, a eunuch with no eggs!

Therefore, without waiting for these two pampered old patriarchs to think about whether to pull down their faces and flatter these thieves, the murderous thieves had already surrounded the Shen family compound and the Chen family compound, and then blasted open the gate and courtyard wall with explosives bags, and solved the last resistance of the two families with fire cap guns and grenades...... But then, in the face of bloody bayonets, the old patriarchs of the two families actually walked out cleanly, and asked to meet the leader of the thieves with a shelf?!!

Naturally, this inexplicable demand will not be met -- all the poor "wig" soldiers who are deeply influenced by the chiefs and think that "the big families deserve to die" in their hearts have no good impression of these big families, and immediately pounce on these two damn old men and punch and kick them: You old dog is already full of wrinkles on his face, and the concubine he married is actually younger than Uncle Ben! Uncle, I can't even ask for a wife!

As a result, in the midst of the counterattack of a group of "envious, jealous and hateful" poor soldiers, in the cries of the women and the begs for mercy of the men, the two major families of Shen and Chen, who had dominated Yuhang Town for many years, quickly went to extinction -- in accordance with the supreme instructions of the headquarters of Phoenix Villa, Li Meng organized a public trial meeting in the town's barn field, and first burned the land deeds of the two families of Shen and Chen and their usury contracts, so as to win the hearts of the people. Then, the descendants of the two major families of Shen and Chen and the captured chiefs of the Xiangyong were classified and dealt with after screening: those whose crimes were unforgivable were hanged on the spot, those who committed lesser crimes were transported to Africa to serve as coolies, and the exploited classes such as maids and servants were transferred to the Americas or Hainan Island as immigrants after ideological education.

In addition, they were also ordered to recruit poor and blind people in the town, a small part of them directly supplemented the army, and most of them went to foreign lands thousands of miles away to colonize and reclaim the wasteland, which used some coercive means...... Thanks to the custom that women in the south of the Yangtze River often want to go to the fields, this time they found a lot of women in Yuhang Town, which made the owner of Zhao Yinggong very happy: although the appearance of these women is not very good, but the needs of the female population in the union republics with a huge proportion of men and women under the rule have always been endless, which can be more effective than killing all the gentry and gentry......

All in all, when the dust settled, the population of the entire Yuhang town was reduced by one-third, which greatly alleviated the contradiction between people and land in the town...... Steamers full of soldiers and munitions came one after another, carrying the population in the smug farewell of the soldiers and soldiers, like locusts crossing the border, and swept all the banks of the Qiantang River -- in addition to Yuhang Town, Jianqiao Town and Banshan Town in Jiangbei, Linpu Town and Yiqiao Town in Jiangnan, and countless other ancient towns in Jiangnan with a long history and rich humanities, all suffered devastating catastrophes.

In fact, if it were replaced by the Funing army under Huangshi, which was fighting in Ningbo, the attitude towards the gentry might be a little softer. However, now the several senior officials who are presiding over the Hangzhou sweeping operation, Zhao Yinggong, the owner of the village, has suffered a lot of unwarranted disasters before, and now his mind is full of the impulse to take revenge on the society. Major General Sun Yang is from the New World thousands of miles away, and in his personal opinion, I am afraid that the Indian chiefs near Manhattan Island are closer than the gentry of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Qiu had played a nuclear explosion in the zombie apocalypse before, and accidentally engaged in a bacteriological warfare in medieval Europe, and he had no feeling for killing people or anything...... Under the leadership of a few of them, the Allied occupation policy towards the Hangzhou area became unprecedentedly harsh: any gentry who dared to resist the iron hooves of the Allied army would be regarded as reactionaries and brutally suppressed, and it would be even better if these gentry still had the fame of the Ming Dynasty on their heads -- the propaganda and education of the "relevant departments" had already rendered the Ming Dynasty useless, and these reactionaries were regarded as hardcore scum. On the issue of dealing with these guys, each squad was instructed by their superiors: "Kill more, talk less nonsense!" ”

According to Zhao Yinggong's view, there are only two fates that these landlords and gentry are about to encounter: they have been hung on the gallows or are about to be hung on the gallows.

As a result, under the deliberate indulgence of the headquarters, the squires in the counties on both sides of the Qiantang River suffered a bloody disaster all over their homes -- although most of these people were so-called "cultivators and scholars", and the masters in charge of the houses were either jinshi or juren, and even there were not a few retired eunuchs, who could make the ground tremble three times in Zhejiang as long as they stomped their feet...... However, after the Ming Dynasty government, which gave them fame and wealth, began to collapse in the war, these scholars and doctors who believed that "everything is inferior, only high in reading" found themselves so weak and helpless.

-- In the face of the rain of bullets and bullets of the thieves, their group of Jiangnan scholars, who were full of poetry and books, even if they had the intention to kill the thieves, they were powerless to return to the sky: each family naturally had a nursing home or something, but most of them were only equipped with sticks, and at best they could suppress the poor mud legs who resisted rent, and they were simply looking for death against the regular army. As for the Xiangyong group training, when the Japanese were rampant during the Jiajing period, they naturally did a lot, but after that, with Qi Jiguang pacifying the Japanese troubles, the group training of that year had already been disbanded one after another. Now no matter how urgent Zhang Luo is, where is it too late?

As a matter of fact, there are very few towns and villages in the entire war zone that can carry out fierce resistance to the same degree as Yuhang Town. Most of the landlords who are full of moral articles basically only have bundles? For the sake of death, or the whole family fled to the county seat and the prefecture for refuge, but it was only a few days late - according to historical experience, the traveler was not prepared to leave the landlord class with the slightest way to live.

However, despite optimism about the catastrophe that is now taking place on both sides of the Qiantang River, there have been times when the destructive power of the various sweeping detachments has far exceeded expectations. For example, on Phoenix Mountain on this day, looking at the billowing black smoke rising from the other side of the mountain, Wang Qiu couldn't help but be a little stunned.

“…… In that direction...... It seems to be Lingyin Temple? After judging the direction of the black smoke, Wang Qiu scratched his hair in some confusion, "...... It seems that I have reminded them before that those Japanese Christians are very fanatical about their faith, especially like to tear down Buddhist temples to build churches, and often smash precious Buddha statues, so it is better not to let them attack the temple? No, I'll have to call and ask what's going on......"

After a while, Wang Qiu finally received an answer by phone - according to his previous repeated instructions, the Phoenix Mountain Villa Command did not let any group of Japanese Christian ronin attack Lingyin Temple, but handed over this glorious task to a notorious African slave catcher......