At noon, the sun rises in the sky, neither hot nor cold, which is the most pleasant time of the day in Nanjing, which is about to enter the twilight of autumn.

The standoff at the eastern foothills of Qingliang Mountain has lasted nearly five hours, the surrounding streets have been cordoned off, and onlookers have been repeatedly evicted, eventually confined to a full block away.

Previously, in order to cut off the broadcast that spread "slandering the government and mobilizing people's hearts", Yi'an Police Si Lang Zhong, who was personally present and in command, ordered to destroy the antenna on the top of the tower with minimal damage.

It is quite difficult to attack from the bottom up, and the accuracy of the curved fire weapon of the mortar is not enough, and the slightest deviation from the front and left and right will pass by the top of the broadcasting tower; The Type 19 38.4mm infantry gun, which had a relatively straight trajectory, did not have sufficient elevation angles.

As a last resort, they could only ask for support from the capital garrison.

Mobilizing troops at the feet of the Son of Heaven is not an ordinary nature, and no one dares to try to cut it first and then play.

As a result, the requests were reported layer by layer, and orders were issued layer by layer, and it was not until now that a combat anti-gun team from the Fourth Brigade of the Praetorian Guards arrived by car.

"Boom! Boom! ”

They had to place their guns on stacked wooden boxes to gain sufficient elevation angles, and two Type 35 anti-aircraft guns fired more than a dozen 14.4mm armor-piercing incendiary and instantaneous bombs at the antenna at the top of the tower.

The hoarse speech on the radio came to an abrupt halt, leaving only the background noise of the air.

Heavy weapons were not used to destroy the antenna, which minimized collateral losses.

"The antenna has been destroyed, why don't you give up your weapon and capture it immediately? Don't do the fight of the trapped beasts! Meaningless! ”

However, despite forcibly disrupting the means of communication to the outside world, the attackers ignored the persuasion of the surrounding police officers to surrender, and continued to shoot and try to resist to the end.

"Hahahaha-if you make a living, wouldn't you break your promise? Today is the will of death! Sacrifice in exchange for the epiphany of the world! ”

The exchange of fire at the scene has not been interrupted, but sometimes sparse and sometimes dense.

After a few hours, the police officers' positions were already covered with yellow bullet casings, as well as pools and bloodstains. During this period, there were a total of 22 casualties among the Ying Tianfu Police and the Yi'an Army!

The Yi'an Army moved two Type 19 38.4mm infantry guns, which had long been obsolete by the army, to the headquarters building, and deployed them behind suitable windows on the second and third floors respectively, aiming at the broadcasting tower dozens of meters away and firing.

In the sound of "bang", one shell after another pierced through the windows of the broadcast tower with precision, exploding inside it!

This infantry cannon was designed for precision fire in European warfare, giving infantry detachments the ability to counter enemy machine-gun fire points. However, its shells are too small, and the charge is only 29g, you must know that the Type 18 grenades equipped by the Ming army have a 60g charge.

How powerful can such a weak explosion be in the spacious interior of the broadcast tower?

Although they were caught off guard at first and suffered a few defeats, the recalcitrant attackers inside quickly found cover.

As a result, although the battle looked very good from the outside, the continuous explosions and billowing black-gray smoke drifted out of the windows, but there were few casualties inside.

"It's now! Up, up, up! ”

Unbeknownst to the Yi'an soldiers, they mistakenly thought that the thieves would be blown up and suffer heavy casualties, so they launched a decisive attack.

The main entrance was tightly blocked, and even after a few shells, it was still blocked by various tables, cabinets and other debris, so the soldiers had to go through the windows.

The standby generator power is limited, the elevator has long been stopped, and the two sides have engaged in a battle in the stairwell, the gunfire of "da-da-da" and "bang-bang" is extremely dense, and the fierce resistance of the other party completely exceeds everyone's expectations!

In this close-range firefight, which was less than ten meters away from face to face, the old Lebell rifles and Winchester lever rifles equipped by the Yi'an soldiers did not take advantage of anything, and the shotguns and shotguns in the hands of the attackers were even sharper.

Due to different national conditions, the number of automatic weapons equipped by the Ming military and police is not large, and it is completely inferior to its counterparts on the other side of the ocean today, although the latter was also forced out by the "Chicago typewriters" of the gang members.

The attack was thwarted, and after a few minutes of stalemate, the Yi'an army was forced to retreat.

The failed attack resulted in seven casualties, three dead and four wounded, and the distraught soldiers estimated that the opposing side had lost about three.

At this point, the Ying Tianfu police and the Yi'an army have done their best, but the entire broadcasting tower is still firmly occupied by the attackers.

Now, if we don't take other measures, we can only use the most stupid method - to fill in with people, to fight more and less, and to exhaust the opponent, at the cost of 20 or 30 casualties.

The police officer, who witnessed the whole process, was so angry that he stomped his feet, but there was nothing he could do.

You can't really use stupid tricks, right? That's too embarrassing, it's even more embarrassing than calling for help from outside, and it will seem like you're disregarding people's lives!

After a while, he made up his mind and ordered: "Report the situation, come as it is, and ask for help from the army!" ”

Someone next to him was entangled and said: "I have already asked the army for help before, and now I ask again, is it a little ......?"

"It's come to this, do you and I still have an important face and a shelf? This is the capital, and spending an extra second will ruin the face of the country! ”

"Yes!"

Compared with the emperor, who was not in a hurry and sat firmly in the Diaoyutai platform, the crown prince showed more disgust and displeasure at this radical radical approach.

He made a special call to inquire about the progress of the purge, and although he did not urge it, in the eyes of the people, it was actually a disguised urging.

Since no combat readiness order was issued, the garrison of the capital was still in a daily state, and the reaction speed was also very slow.

Although, as far as the regulations are concerned, even on a day-to-day basis, any unit must ensure that at least two detachments are on alert at all times, for example, an entire battalion needs to have two platoons and a whole regiment needs two teams.

However, this order has not been implemented in place for a long time, and the perennial days of peace have largely eroded people's vigilance, and officers and soldiers generally feel that this ratio is too great—why is it necessary to have such a vigilance force in normal times?

Therefore, in actual implementation, everyone is accustomed to halving it, and it has always been completely sufficient, enough to deal with occasional emergencies.

But this time is different, since it is not appropriate to use heavy weapons, then what is the difference between the forbidden army and the army and the Yi'an army? At most, they are better equipped and trained, and they have essentially become light infantry.

Now the garrison commander was asking which troops could support immediately, and Zhou Changfeng, who had just put down his chopsticks, couldn't help but complain: "Haven't you finished lunch yet?" ”

Zhao Hanfeng, who looked helpless, spread his hands and said: "I just asked, the thieves are stationed in that broadcasting tower, with long guns and short guns, as well as machine guns. ”

"Machine guns?! It's outrageous, where did it come from? ”

"It's a British turntable gun, who knows where it came from."

Both the British and Russian armies had machine guns fed by cartridges, the former being the Lewis light machine gun and the latter being the Deg Galev light machine gun.

As an early light machine gun, the Lewis light machine gun had quite good overall performance, and was also widely used as an aviation machine gun, and almost all of the rear-seat machine guns of the Allied biplanes were it. When the Ming Dynasty began to develop its aviation power, it naturally brought it back when it introduced a series of British and French fighters.

The aviation version of the Lewis light machine gun generally used a thickened double-layered cartridge disc, which could hold more than 90 rounds of ammunition and a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute, which is quite impressive even now, twenty years later.

In view of Zhu Lingjing's reminder, the 1st Marine Regiment had been prepared for a long time, and these days it has been rotated in turn, from morning to night, to ensure that two teams are on alert, and the reconnaissance units affiliated to the regiment are even on standby all day.

Unexpectedly, I thought that there might be a riot of a large scale, but it turned out that it was just a group of dead soldiers who seized the broadcasting tower to build momentum, but it made the Ming military and police so anxious.

"It's really hard to deal with such well-prepared and heavily armed bandits." Zhou Changfeng muttered.

Interestingly, after suffering such a loss and such a faceless incident, Daming is likely to become the first country in the world to form a professional SWAT team.

SWAT, or Special Tactical Unit, was established for the first time with the help of the Marine Corps because the Los Angeles police felt that conventional law enforcement forces could not effectively respond to the increasingly serious violent crime, so they established a professional and elite SWAT team for the first time, which is known as LAPD-SWAT.

"It's not far away, Brother Zhou, are we going to join in the fun?" Zhu Lixuan stretched out his hand and scratched on the map, looked up and asked.

Starting from Jiangxinzhou Wharf, the opposite side is the confluence of the Qinhuai River and the Yangtze River, along the Qinhuai River to the south for a while is the Qingliangmen, after landing on the shore, it is only one and a half miles away from the eastern foot of Qingliang Mountain.

If you move quickly, the whole journey may only take half an hour.

Although Zhou Changfeng felt that it was unnecessary, it was likely that the daylilies might be cold after the pass, because the reconnaissance battalion and engineer battalion of the mixed third brigade were very close to there.

However, he still made a telephone call to the garrison command and envoy to report the situation of the 1st Marine Regiment, which was ready to be dispatched at any time and could arrive within two quarters of an hour.

“…… There are about a dozen more people, which are not easy to deal with, and the use of artillery and bombs is not considered for the time being. On the other end of the phone was Pang Lingqi's voice.

"Senior, if you have comprehensive conditions, use a sneezing poison, this is actually the best." Zhou Changfeng suggested.

There were also five ordinary company employees in the broadcast tower, and public opinion did not allow indiscriminate killing and injury of innocent civilians, so more powerful shelling and blasting would not do.

Previously, the Yi'an army only dared to fire at the first and second floors with 38.4mm infantry guns.

The sneezing agent equipped by the Ming army has two kinds of diphenychlorosine arsine and diphenylcyanoarsine, the latter is more effective, and both poisons stimulate the upper respiratory tract as the main means of action, causing nasopharyngeal burning, sneezing, runny nose, and tears, which can significantly affect people's mobility.

Compared with nervous and erosive agents, this agent is much milder, and the body can recover naturally, and if there is timely medical assistance, it is basically unharmed.

But after all, it is a chemical weapon, and it is still more toxic than the police tear gas ammunition of later generations, but now all countries have not explored the police tear gas ammunition in depth, except for Tsarist Russia, all countries lack experience in this area.

Pang Lingqi on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and finally said in a deep voice: "You are present to supervise and prepare medical supplies." ”

After receiving the order, Zhou Changfeng immediately dispatched a battalion and three teams and a fourth platoon of the reconnaissance team to set off, came to the dock by car, and then quickly sailed into the Qinhuai River in a dozen small boats that had been prepared long ago.

The reconnaissance team should have only three platoons, and the fourth platoon was an experimental unit formed after Zhou Changfeng's declaration, which was simply the special forces of the 1st Marine Regiment, and the training syllabus was modified on the basis of the scout items of the Ming Army's army drill code.

The personnel were all selected from various levels, well-equipped, with extremely strong automatic firepower, and were generally equipped with submachine guns, semi-automatic rifles, Type 20 automatic guns, and bolt-action rifles for snipers were also Type 21 rifles equipped with triple optical sights.

Zhou Changfeng's original intention in forming this unit was actually just to practice the special operations theory of later generations and try how to combine it most appropriately with today's technical conditions, and he didn't expect a special force of more than 30 people to play much role in a big war, but what he didn't expect was that it came in handy in this situation.

More than a dozen small boats sailed at high speed on the Qinhuai River, and on the left hand side was the magnificent Nanjing city wall.

"Dock, dock! The action is sharp! ”

The soldiers went ashore one after another at the pier next to Qingliangmen, and the whole team ran quickly to their destination without stopping.

Around the same time as the 200 officers and men of the 1st Marine Regiment arrived, along with men from other units, a team from the reconnaissance battalion of the 3rd Guards Mixed Brigade, and three armored vehicles and two 112mm infantry guns from the 1st Guards Division.

It can be said that the surrounding area of the broadcasting company has been surrounded by water, and the reconnaissance team of the 3rd Mixed Brigade has also sent a platoon to climb Qingliang Mountain to monitor the broadcasting tower from the rear.

"Report, Han Langzhong, the medical team already knows that we are going to release poison gas, and we can prepare immediately."

"Shhhh Don't use the word 'poisonous gas', it will cause panic among the people, and you have to use 'tears' to the outside world. ”

"Yes......"

After the discussion of the officers present, it was finally decided that the 1st Marine Regiment would carry out the assault and purge, the 1st Janissary Division would be responsible for suppressing the firepower, and the 3rd Mixed Brigade would continue to be on standby.

After half an hour, all units were ready.

On the semi-encircled front, the officers and men of the 1st Marine Regiment all wore gas masks, checked each other for tightness, and then turned on the gun safes.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The two infantry guns roared in unison, and accurately shot the diphenylchloroarsine poison into the broadcast tower dozens of meters away through the window.

This was repeated, from the upper floor to the lower floor, six rounds of twelve rounds, and the entire broadcast tower was filled with a faint, brown or green mist.

The three armored vehicles slowly moved forward, followed closely by more than 30 officers and men of the reconnaissance platoon of the 1st Marine Regiment and the 4th platoon.

Upon approaching, they burst inside through the window and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the dying attackers.

The latter, with a handful of snot and tears, even tried to throw burning bottles at the armored car, but they were all killed one after another.

"Da Da Da-"

"Grass! Left! ”

"Bang!"

"It's a worker! Don't shoot! ”

"Someone is hiding in the utility room!"

"Bang!"

At 1:14 p.m., the fanatical attackers were wiped out.

(End of chapter)