Chapter 23: Fierce Battle Ordnance Bureau (2)
Wu Chunlei raised his gun, aimed, and shot in one go, and with the crisp sound of the gun, the guy wearing the helmet hat fell to the ground and never moved again. The helmet-shaped cap falls off, revealing a bald head.
"Well played!" Song Zheyuan said loudly, and the officers and soldiers under him also cheered, and their morale was greatly boosted.
Song Zheyuan said to Wu Chunlei: "With this shot alone, you can be promoted to second lieutenant platoon deputy." ”
The bandits saw that there seemed to be an extra eye on the head of the fallen Liang leader, and the blood quickly shot out. The second charge had not yet started, and it collapsed because of the death of Liang Bald. Sun Madman was furious, he ignored Lin Fang'er's persuasion, and decided to personally lead the team to charge, and he first ordered Leader Zheng and Leader Wang to lead 300 bandits each to attack Feng Jishan's camp from both flanks to disperse the forces of the official army.
The direction of the attack of the leader Zheng was the second company guarded by Li Mingzhong, and the result was like attacking an iron plate, and more than 100 soldiers of the well-trained second company under the command of Li Mingzhong repelled three charges in a row, killing and wounding nearly 200 bandits, and the leader Zheng was also shot through the chest, and the green bushes on the left flank of the camp fence were stained red with blood. The direction of attack of the leader of the king was Yang Shaoxu's third company, Yang Shaoxu was originally going to escape, but saw that Yang Guisheng was shot by Feng Jishan, so he had to retract and resist, due to the lack of training in peacetime, the right wing was quickly led by the leader of Wang to break through the camp fence, the bandits were very brave in the white-knuckle battle, the soldiers were killed and wounded, and Yang Shaoxu was also wounded. Feng Jishan pulled out a big sword, personally led the supervision team and the fourth company to rush up, only to defeat the right-wing bandits, the leader of the king could not retreat, and was beheaded by Han Fuyu.
However, the most tragic battle took place on the frontal battlefield, when the bandit cavalry jumped over the wheat field and rushed over, Song Zheyuan commanded machine gun fire, and the rifles also opened fire at the same time, causing the cavalry to roll over on their backs. When Sun Luozi led the crowd to charge, he ordered his subordinates to fire four earthen cannons at the same time, the accuracy of the earthen cannons was very poor, one shell hit the walled gate, several soldiers behind the walled gate were blown up, flesh and blood flying, and another shell hit the battalion headquarters, seriously wounding one of Feng Jishan's guests. The morale of the soldiers of the first company was frustrated, and Sun Luozi took the opportunity to lead his subordinates to rush up in the rain of bullets, knock down the fence, and pounce into the trenches, and the two sides started a white-knuckle battle. The bandits were outnumbered and fearless of death, and the officers and soldiers were killed and retreated.
Feng Jishan rushed over with the overseer team and shouted, "Broadsword team! Follow me! He took the lead in slashing and killing the bandits, cutting down two bandits in a row, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was lifted again, and Wu Chunlei, who was a member of the broadsword team, also pulled out his broadsword and rushed into the enemy group. Sun Maniac also cut down a few officers and soldiers, when he was looking for the battalion commander Feng Jishan, but was stopped by a red-faced officer and soldier, he didn't know that this red-faced was Wu Chunlei, but he didn't even cut him several times, he felt that this kid was very clever and extraordinary, not like an ordinary soldier. Sun Maniac never thought that he would die in his hands, Wu Chunlei's martial arts are not as good as Sun Maniac, but he was born in the underworld, and he was taught by Di Xiong for several months, so he is good at using tricks. When he swung his knife and slashed at Sun Maniac, Sun Maniac only paid attention to his big knife, but he didn't expect a dagger to suddenly fly out of his left hand and plunge into Sun Maniac's thigh, and Sun Maniac bent down in pain. Wu Chunlei's big knife took the opportunity to cut down, and the cold light flashed, and Sun Maniac's head fell to the ground.
"Crazy Sun is dead! Sun Madman is dead! Wu Chunlei shouted as he picked up the bloody head of the madman Sun. The morale of the bandits suddenly plummeted, the team collapsed all at once, and those who were born as refugees hurriedly knelt down and surrendered. Feng Jishan took the opportunity to command the whole battalion to counterattack, completely crushing Sun Madman's troops, killing more than 800 captured bandits, and more than 100 casualties in Feng's battalion.
Lin Fang'er didn't expect Feng Jishan's battalion to be so powerful, in this battle, under the condition of superior troops, not only did the three leaders all die, but even Sun Madman was killed. When she rode on a horse and saw Sun Madman's head picked up, she couldn't help but burst into tears, a stray bullet hit her war horse, she fell off the horse, Fei Bao rode over, hugged Lin Fang'er who had fallen unconscious on his horse, and took Gou Zongwei and dozens of other subordinates to defect to another bandit leader, the one-eyed dragon.
After Feng Jishan interrogated the captives, he knew that Sun Madman had brought all the main forces in this battle, and only one hundred and ten old and weak remnants of the old nest of Motianling were left to guard it, so he asked Song Zheyuan to lead a company of men and horses to copy Sun Madman's lair.
Lu Jianzhang heard that the Ordnance Bureau was attacked by bandits, and the two battalions were scattered, so he was shocked, and hurriedly led the other two battalions to come to reinforcements, but the marching speed was very slow, and when he arrived at the Ordnance Bureau, the sky was already dawn, the battle was over, and even Song Zheyuan came back from Motianling and seized property worth 100,000 silver dollars. After listening to the report on the battle situation, Lu Jianzhang praised Feng Jishan, scolded Lu Chengwu and Dong Shilu, and announced that Dong Shilu, the battalion commander, would be dismissed and demoted to company commander, but his son Lu Chengwu was not dismissed, and only fined three months. Feng Jishan handed over the property, he took out 5,000 silver dollars to reward Feng Jishan and the whole battalion brothers, 3,000 yuan of property as war trophies handed over to the War Department, and the rest went into his own pocket. The officers of the other battalions of the reserve army gave Feng Jishan a nickname: "Feng fool." ”
The sun set, leaving a faint flush on the horizon, and at this time, Wu Chunfeng, Yao Tiehammer and several other people appeared on the Jingxi overpass.
There is an old man who tells stories under the Jingxi overpass, Sun Tiezui, every afternoon in the open space under the overpass to set up a table to tell stories, let the listeners enjoy a few copper plates mixed with a bowl of rice to eat, Wu Chunfeng used to be in the Flying Eagle Gang, he often went to listen to him say "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", but never gave money.
Today's business was very light, with less than ten customers, most of them children, and when the guests were gone, there was only one copper plate in the bowl on the broken table. A copper plate can only buy one nest head now, and you can't even eat a meal. The thin Sun Tiezui looked at the copper plate and sighed, and suddenly looked up and saw several black-shirted men coming over, one of which was a strong man with ring-eyed eyes and a black face, Sun Tiezui, recognized it as Yao Tiezhui, who often came to collect protection money. Sun Tiezui trembled with fright and quickly straightened up.
"Yao Sanye! Small business has not been good lately! How many days can I forgive my protection fee? Sun Tiezui's voice trembled.
Yao Tiehammer said with a smile: "Old man Sun, don't be nervous, I'm not here to collect protection money, I'm no longer working in the Blue Dragon Club, now I'm eating with Feng Ye, Feng Ye is the department manager of the low-profit company, he has something to ask you." ”
Since the arrest of the boss of the Blue Dragon Society, the third and fourth children have also died in street assassinations, leaving only the second eldest Wang Mazi and the fifth-ranked third lady Guan Xue. His congregation was torn apart, and many of them joined other gangs, including Yao Tiezhu. Sun Tiezui saw a young man in a white suit and a red tie standing next to him.
The young man smiled and said, "Does Mr. Sun still know me?" I used to come to hear you talk. ”
Sun Tiezui shook his head, he used to be a young man in tattered clothes and yellow muscles, but now he is a young man with a red face and leather shoes, of course Sun Tiezui can't connect the two.
The young man noticed a copper plate in the bowl and said in a tone of pity, "Do you know why your business is so bad? Because you always talk about the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin, there are no new jokes, and everyone is tired of hearing them. ”
Sun Tiezui said: "Thank you Feng Ye for your advice, it's just that the villain is too stupid to make up new jokes." ”
The young man took out a mimeographed manuscript and handed it to him, saying, "My eldest brother has made up a new paragraph for you, what just happened in the Ordnance Bureau a few days ago, you go back and memorize it well, and from tomorrow you will say a new paragraph, and business will be good!" ”
Sun Tiezui thanked him repeatedly, took it and took a look, the title of the manuscript was: "Bandits attacked the Ordnance Bureau at night, Feng Jishan became famous in a battle!" He was just about to look down, when he suddenly heard a crisp sound of "bang", and the young man threw two white and shiny silver dollars into the bowl, Sun Tiezui was stunned, he said that he had been talking for thirty years, and the luckiest one was when a high roller rewarded two silver horns.
Sun Tiezui reminded: "Master Feng! This is the ocean, not the horned ocean. He thought that the young man had made a mistake, and he didn't want to cause trouble, so he hurriedly reminded him.
The young man smiled: "As long as you say a new joke, you can get a reward of two oceans every month." ”
After leaving the overpass, Wu Chunfeng, Yao Tiezhu and their group went to several other storytelling venues in Beijing, and like Sun Tiezui, Zhang Dazui and Liu Blind also accepted the new paragraph book and two silver dollars. The next day, the storytellers in several bookstores in Beijing began to talk about new jokes, and Sun Tiezui's business was really much better than before, there were dozens of copper plates a day in the broken bowl, and his son Sun Xiaotie also came to help maintain order.
Feng Jishan soon became a household name in Beijing, because the life of the common people was very boring in those years, there was no other entertainment, and only a few powerful people could go to high-end entertainment venues such as Bada Hutong, and most of them mainly watched theaters and listened to books. Even President Yuan Shikai knew that there was a Feng Jishan who could fight in the left reserve army, because his recently favored goddaughter He Li liked to listen to books. After the "Minfeng" newspaper learned of this, it also sent reporter Lin Yishui to the Ordnance Bureau to interview Feng Jishan, although he was refused, he succeeded in interviewing other officers, and he wrote a detailed article of more than 5,000 words about the battle, which was published on the front page of the "Minfeng" newspaper, and also gave Feng Jishan the nickname "Sanjiadian Tiger" because the battlefield was fought in Sanjiadian.
Lu Jianzhang was very happy to know about this, and said to his cronies: "I always thought that Feng Jishan was too stupid, but I didn't expect him to do propaganda for himself, now I want him to be promoted more smoothly." ”
Where did Lu Jianzhang know, Feng Jishan didn't know about this at all, it was completely caused by Di Xiong, in Lu Jianzhang's opinion, it was impossible for a person to help Feng Jishan with propaganda for no reason, but Di Xiong was such a person.