"Shopkeeper Gao, the carriage is ready, do you think it's time to call the master?" , Gao Jing glanced at the gray-haired but energetic dart master in front of him, and hurriedly arched his hand: "Master Dai, I'm going to trouble you this time......

"Don't be polite, let's ask the master to board the car early and set off......" said the master with a wave of his hand. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Gao Jing also knew that this was not the time to be polite, and as soon as he turned around and was about to enter the hospital, he heard a loud voice suddenly sounding in the door: "Don't call, the old man is here......"

As soon as the voice came out, I saw an old man dressed elegantly dressed and with white braids walking out, and the dart master hurriedly greeted him and said, "Master Qiao, the carriage is ready, this time I brought thirty people, which is enough to ensure your safety." ”

"Hehe......" The old man touched his beard, looked at the wall of the carved Baishou picture on the opposite side of the gate, and a trace of indifference suddenly rose on his eyebrows, but he returned to normal, and said: "Gao Shopkeeper, the affairs of the family will be handed over to you, and you must ensure safety." Gao Jue nodded hurriedly: "Don't worry, master, as long as Gao Jing is in the compound for a day, he will ensure the safety of the Qiao family......"

"Well...... Master Qiao nodded, under the protection of dozens of men with spears on their backs, he flew into the carriage, the leather whip snapped in the air, the wheels rolled slowly, through the curtain of the carriage, the old man Qiao in the car looked at the four words of Qiao's courtyard on the courtyard gate, and sighed after a long time. Gas.

The carriage was in a hurry, and the dart masters seemed to be facing a great enemy, holding the spear for several hours without daring to blink, and as soon as there was a wind and grass, they galloped over to check, until Taiyuan City appeared in the field of vision and let out a sigh.

At the gate of the city, a large number of soldiers were full of nervousness, repeatedly checking the merchants who entered and exited Taiyuan City, and saw the horse team printed with the word Qiao, and hurriedly moved the fence into the city. I'm going to freeze here! "What are you yelling about...... a soldier holding a knife in his chair, looking at the shouting porter and shouting: "That's Master Qiao of the Dade Pass number, and you can compare?" ”

Seeing the soldiers glaring at each other, the porter muttered a few words and didn't dare to say more, but his eyes revealed a trace of excitement, and he glanced at several partners, and immediately walked into the city after the inspection.

Today's Taiyuan City is obviously extraordinary, a large number of soldiers and militia groups are scattered in the streets and small ports, coming and going as if they are facing a great enemy, and the porters immediately turned into a secluded path, and surrounded after seeing that there was no one around.

"The Qiao family is also here, it seems that a famous businessman in Shanxi is coming today, after checking the terrain for a while, you benevolent people will immediately go out of the city to respond, and the others will immediately go to find a high place with me, and see if we can send a telegram to contact the troops." After the porter at the head gave the order, the remaining few people immediately nodded, and each carried the burden into the streets and alleys of Taiyuan City.

With the handlebar-type horse parking, Mr. Qiao lifted the curtain and stepped out of the carriage with the support, raised his head and saw a three-story brick and wood structure commercial building, and there were only four big characters on the plaque "Sanjin Business ......".

Jin Chamber of Commerce.

As a group of wealthy people in this era, the fame of Jin merchants in the late Qing Dynasty was almost a household name, and the ticket number they founded is now open all over the north and south of the river, and such chambers of commerce have also spread all over the provinces and cities with their footsteps, "but the great is still in the birthplace of Jin merchants."

Although the Qiao family is wealthy, the two major ticket numbers of Dadetong and Dadeheng are all over China, and the family assets are said to have reached 10 million taels of silver, but they are not rich among the Jin merchants, just because the compound is more famous.

Xiang Ri Shengchang, Wei Taihou and other ticket numbers, whether it is funds or connections, are not worse than the Qiao family, and even stronger, which shows the wealth of Jin Shang.

After being at home for a long time, it is rare to go out once, and Master Qiao seems to be in a much better mood, and while constantly greeting acquaintances, he also asks: "Everyone, has the governor ......been here?"

"The governor has gone to inspect the defense, and he will be able to ...... later."

"Oh, alright, let's go inside and wait." , Speaking, several people walked into the Chamber of Commerce together, and found that there was already a sea of people inside, and almost all of the people with names and surnames in Shanxi came today, in addition to these masters, most of them were bodyguards and nurses with drums, and there were a large number of gunmen around to protect them, which showed the tension of the atmosphere. 【 I want: super fast update 】

After a porter saw Master Qiao enter the Chamber of Commerce, a smile curled up on the corner of his mouth, and then he flew around the Chamber of Commerce a few times, and quietly walked outside the city gate under the scolding of the soldiers.

As the sky gradually darkened, the porter flew to the road to Taiyuan, sat on a big stone and took out a cigarette roll, and his face became a little impatient.

When the last trace of red also disappeared below the horizon, and the earth seemed to be plunged into darkness, and he finally began to fidget, a few distinctive clicks suddenly remembered in the distance.

The porter hurriedly took out a bamboo clip from his pocket, and after pressing it twice, dozens of black shadows suddenly appeared in the darkness.

"You're here......"

"Hehe......" Wenxiu walked out of the darkness, saluted the porter, handed a cigarette to the other party, and said with a smile: "How is it?" Is there any big move......"

"There is no big movement, but the governor of Shanxi has been running around in the past few days, and he has also contacted Xiangshen to form two militia groups, and it seems that he is going to resist to the end......," the porter said after lighting a cigarette and pointing to Taiyuan City in the distance.

"Oh? How many people ...... "Hearing that there are a few more militia groups, Wen Xiu frowned, after completing the Cuban mission, their squadron has been resting in Honolulu, and testing some equipment by the way, this is the first time to fight with the Qing army, although everyone said that the Qing army is vulnerable before, but this does not mean that it can be despised .

"There are about 5,000 people, these people turned out to be the caretakers of the Jin merchants, they all had two under their hands, and they all had their own guns, in addition to them, the governor of Hu Chengzhi didn't know what the price was, and he also found hundreds of horse thieves, those people were outlaws, there were not many people, but they were really very strong." The porter introduced.

"Piercing ......"

Wen Xiu's pupils shrank suddenly, stared at the two machine guns that were brought to the test, and said coldly: ""Let's come, just to find the ...... who pierces the hand" After speaking, he waved his hand behind him: "Check the equipment, and ...... in half an hour."

"All are ...... spirits"

"The army in the northwest will arrive in two days, and the governor said that after these two days, each brother can be rewarded with ten taels of silver." "He always walked over the city wall with a few soldiers with torches, and did not forget to give a few words of encouragement as he patrolled every defense.

"Head, will this rebel really come? I heard that they have all conquered the city of Beijing, and even the emperor and Lafayette are not known whether they are alive or dead, "Is it true......?" a soldier asked quietly.

"Don't listen to people's nonsense, if the emperor's life and death are unknown, how can the Northwest army still serve the king......" Wu Chang hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Guard it well, we just need to protect Taiyuan, and when the army passes, it will be over......"

After saying that, he patted the warrior on the shoulder, and walked to the next sentry post, but he did not notice that several dark shadows suddenly passed under the city, and when he left, two long blasting canisters were stuffed into the gap in the city gate.

On the city wall, the warriors cooled down, looked into the deep darkness, and prepared to lazy to rest for a while.

Suddenly, an earth-shattering loud bang sounded from under the city wall next to him, and the expanding fire stabbed everyone's eyes violently, "The city wall under his feet seemed to be opened, and countless bricks and stones flew up violently, and the entire city wall seemed to shake.

The warrior didn't even react, he was stunned by the loud explosion, and before he could react, his body sank violently, and the wall under his feet seemed to sink into a large hole and drown him in.

"Rush!" , A loud shout sounded from the darkness in the distance, and dozens of black shadows rushed through the flaming city gate like ghosts, rushing towards the city of Taiyuan, and the dense and accurate bullets directly knocked the Qing army who were observing everywhere in a daze to the ground.

From the explosion to the charge, it was only a few minutes, and people didn't even have time to react, until the nighthawks rushed into the avenue and ran in the direction of the Chamber of Commerce not far away, and the Qing army defending the city suddenly realized and hurriedly chased after it.

In the Chamber of Commerce, Master Qiao's eyes narrowed into a line, and he looked at Hu Pingzhi with a scorching light and asked: ", Lord Governor, with all due respect, I just want to ask, what happened to the emperor and the queen mother......

Master Qiao's words made the chamber of commerce, which was still very lively, suddenly fall silent, and everyone looked at Hu Pingzhi, the governor of Shanxi.

Hu Pingzhi took a deep breath, and smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth: "Everyone, I don't want to tell lies, I still don't know what happened to the emperor and the queen mother." After speaking, his voice suddenly brightened: "However, we as ministers can't watch the emperor fall into a desperate situation and turn a blind eye in any case, so the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Chang Gung, has personally led 100,000 iron horsemen to come quickly, as long as they hold for two more days, they can arrive in Taiyuan, and from here they can enter the king of Jingqin......"

"Moreover, Li Zhongtang in the south has contacted several governors and governors from all over the country, and has also raised 100,000 troops to protect the king, although we in Shanxi do not directly send troops, but when we support the national crisis, we must also be prepared to defend the country......

Although Hu Pingzhi said vaguely, who are all the people here? I don't know how much I saw in the wind and waves, how could I not hear the sound outside the strings, and suddenly everyone was uplifted.

"The governor is right, we are all the people of the Qing Dynasty, and everyone has the responsibility to protect the family and defend the country, not to mention that you don't forget, that Li Mo promoted paper money outside the customs and learned from foreigners to engage in the gold standard, if he sits in the world, then what should we do? What to do with the silver in your ticket number? Do you all watch it become waste......"

The voice, said what everyone was worried about, Jin Shang is famous for ticket number exchange, which one does not have a lot of cash in his hand, if he really wants to abolish the silver like Guanwai, then it will be a disaster for everyone here!

"You can't say that...... "Master Qiao sipped. Tea: "Foreigners also issue banknotes, and the bills issued by our various ticket numbers are also banknotes, and I haven't seen them don't want silver......"

"Master Qiao......" The one who had just spoken saw someone tearing down the stage, and immediately stood up and said excitedly: ", you are the famous lord of our Jin merchants, why did you retreat at this time?" Do you really want to watch the Qing Dynasty fall into the country......"

Master Qiao did not show weakness, and was about to defend a few more words, when suddenly, a loud noise came from a distance, and even the cups and saucers on the table suddenly shook loudly, and before everyone could understand what was going on, a little gunfire came from outside.

"The rebels are coming......"

Just as everyone was in a mess and was about to go out to have a look, several people dressed as porters suddenly appeared outside the chamber of commerce, each of them holding two large pistols that they had never seen before, and the Qing army and the nurses who were protecting them fell one after another, and blocked the gate in less than a while.

After seeing this, the casual dart master and the nursing house shot back, and suddenly the door of the chamber of commerce was also lively.

At this time, on the street in the distance, it was also a critical time, Wen Xiu knew that if he was delayed for too long, he would definitely not be able to block the other party with a few people from the Intelligence Department, so after seeing the Qing army and militia running densely in front of him, he immediately shouted: ", machine gun squad!" Listening to this voice, the two machine gunners who had been carrying the machine gun suddenly shouted excitedly, and immediately opened the bipod in front of the machine gun and lay on the ground, and the two ammunition suppliers next to him connected the circulating water tank to the cooling pipe, while the other took out a round iron box and quickly inserted it into the gun magazine.

The Type 98 machine gun is the crystallization of the Light Weapons Research Institute of the Ministry of Armament after many years of hard work, and is one of the important equipment for the Wildcat armored vehicle, and the machine gun that Li Mo put forward the concept is completely based on the German MG8/15, the pinnacle of the water-cooled machine gun.

Many people have heard of the famous Makqin and know that it was called a battlefield meat grinder in World War I, but few know that under its aura, another water-cooled machine gun is the pinnacle of the soldiers' favorite weapon.

MG8/15 is the pinnacle of water-cooled machine guns, compared with the early MG8, it uses a light receiver to reduce the original four-kilogram water-cooled barrel to three kilograms, changed to a swing grip, and at the same time the bulky pry machine gun carriage is also replaced by a lightweight bipod, in the case of installing a side-mounted 100-round cartridge box and a cooling water tank filled with water, the weight is reduced to a kilogram and has the ability to move quickly with individual soldiers, which is called the early light machine gun by military fans.

As a later generation, although Li Mo did not have MG8/15 design drawings and did not know much about light weapons, but after he put forward the concept, the equipment department immediately listed it as a priority development object, after several years of hard work, it was finally successfully developed, and Li Mo also used some other means to reduce the weight again, such as the machine gun mount used light aluminum alloy, and he did not use a cartridge box, but used the famous drum design of later generations, so that the weight was reduced a lot.

Playing the drum is a very good way to provide dense bullets but does not take up space, the famous introduction drum in later generations is simple to load, as long as the cover is opened and stuffed into the bomb, and the spring in the middle can be used, so of course Master Li wants to pirate it, let the equipment department concentrate on research, although the capacity of sixty rounds is much smaller than that of later generations, but it is enough for Nighthawk to have a strong covering firepower for the first time!

In the dark, hundreds of Qing soldiers and militia soldiers rushed here ...... didn't expect that Nighthawk would have such a big killing weapon, and they were torn to pieces by the dense rain of bullets before they had time to think, and two long tongues of fire swept repeatedly in the night like a match, and in the blink of an eye, they beat the Qing army who came in a hurry.

Seeing this, Wen Xiu immediately patted his comrades on the side, and used the cover of the machine gun to quickly run towards the Chamber of Commerce building in the distance, and one after another bodyguard boxers in the scope flew down, and almost all those who were aimed at by him were headshots without exception.

The dense gunfire outside, especially the machine guns that appeared later, made the Chamber of Commerce a mess, and these Jin merchants who were coaxing with cattle in the past were all frightened, and shouted to the nurse who was holding the handle outside, ready to rush out desperately.

Only Master Qiao sat on the chair, listening to the dense gunfire outside, and pushed away the dart master who came to protect him: "Old Dai, you go first, the old man is old, and following you will only delay time......"

"Master" What are you talking about, I haven't been out of the Xingyi Gate yet, and the person who threw down the protector ......" The dart master was so anxious that he pulled out two money darts and hid them in the palm of his hand, and beckoned to his subordinates: "You, follow me out with Master Qiao behind your back!" After speaking, he threw the struggling Master Qiao on his brother's back, and rushed out with everyone, but before he could walk to the door, the muzzle of a black hole was already staring at his head!

"Bang ............"

After knocking down the people who tried to resist, Wenxiu fired several more shots into the sky and shouted: "Everyone is seated, if anyone dares to resist, don't blame us for being polite......"

Looking at the nighthawk who rushed in, dressed strangely and ruthlessly, even the old rivers and lakes like Dai Dart Master who had been in the rivers and lakes for decades, couldn't help but shudder, and the money dart in his palm couldn't be sent, and hurriedly escorted Master Qiao to retreat and sit down, at this time, the two covering machine gun squads also ran into the Chamber of Commerce, and without waiting to look at the characters behind him who could make the land tremble by stomping their feet, they immediately chose a good position, set up the machine gun again, plugged in the drum, and the two tongues of fire that had stopped for a long time exploded again, Immediately tore apart the Qing soldiers who were close to each other and the militia soldiers who were only armed with broadswords and spears.

Since the machine gun was set up at the door of the hall, everyone was frightened by this kind of gun that could shoot fire continuously, and looking at the soldiers who felt the fire constantly falling in the firelight, Hu Pingzhi, the governor of Shanxi, finally knew what a stupid thing he had done!

Compared with these people, the militia and the soldiers of Shanxi are simply stake-like decorations!

The sound of machine guns was like a dense war drum beating in everyone's hearts, and when the two machine guns stopped a moment later, Hu Pingzhi saw that hundreds of bloody corpses had already fallen outside, and the soldiers in the distance were all so frightened that they all shrank away, not daring to approach, and even those fierce horse thieves they invited had already escaped cleanly.

"Rishengchang, Weitaihou, Tianchengheng, Datongde, Guangtaixing, Hesheng." , When the companions of the intelligence department took the list and walked in front of the Jin merchants who were shivering with low eyebrows and drooping eyes, even Wen Xiu, who didn't care much about it on weekdays, smiled in his eyes, starting from the explosion, the raid in just forty minutes harvested almost eighty percent of the Jin merchants on the list before he came.

However, he also knew that if it weren't for these partners of the Intelligence Department, they would rely on a few people to block the door at the risk, and if it wasn't for the first time with this kind of light machine gun, he would not have had a chance to catch so many people even if he was killed!

When the list was counted, Wen Xiu's razor-like eyes swept across the audience, although the harvest was huge, he knew very well that there was no way to hold Taiyuan by relying on them, so he immediately said: "Contact the airship and tell them to immediately send a telegram to request reinforcements and operations, Taiyuan City is already under our control!" ”，