Chapter 800 The blocking battle on the twin lakes and twin embankments
Gao Liugeng's worry soon became a reality. After learning that Lan Chun's team was frustrated, Mian En gave the death order with a sneer.
He asked Cheng Ce to gather all the troops and musketeers of the Eight Banners in Jingkou, and launch waves of charges from the direction of the vegetable garden. Two hundred people each time, attacking in turn, required that the outer garden, including Tianfeng Pavilion, must be captured within two hours. At the same time, he
Another hundred people were transferred to Lan Chun, and he was given half an hour to break through the gate of Suiyuan and enter the inner house.
Half an hour later, with the sound of intensive drums, the Qing army launched another attack despite the heavy snow. The members of the action team felt the pressure suddenly increased. When Gao Liugeng, who was walking down the mountain, discovered this situation, he gave the order to the walkie-talkie,
Let everyone use all their weapons.
The first to open fire were the three team members hiding behind the rockery at the top of Qunyu Mountain. As soon as they opened fire, five or six of the attacking Qing troops were instantly defeated. Some were shot and died, while others rolled around after being injured.
Go back.
Because their weapons were equipped with silencers, the sound was very low, completely different from the sound of musket shooting imagined by the Qing army. They were immediately stunned and they didn't know where the bullets came from.
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Finally, a sharp-eyed Qing army discovered the black muzzle behind the rockery and reminded loudly: "Get down quickly, the thief is behind the rockery!"
Wu Ni, who was leading the team, was furious when he saw this. He personally led 30 gunmen forward, and under the cover of the shield car, they fired at the rockery in turns.
These musketry soldiers from the Supervisory Central Army are well-trained. They clear the barrel of the gun very quickly and have good accuracy. Under the continuous shooting, the Taihu Stone, which Yuan Mei regarded as a treasure, was hit with rubble flying.
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Just when the Qing officers and soldiers thought that the opponent's firepower was suppressed, they began to scream and jump forward, and two grenades suddenly flew out from behind the rockery and landed towards the densest position of the Qing army.
"boom!"
"boom!"
These two grenades were the same as the traps Lan Chun and the others encountered before. They did not delay the fuse and exploded when they touched the ground. After the explosion, seven or eight Qing soldiers immediately fell into a pool of blood. Immediately afterwards, a dense rain of bullets came from behind the rockery again.
Shot at the Qing army.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Two AKS74Us equipped with silencers were spitting out tongues of fire. One of them was specifically shooting at the Qing army tank sixty meters away. Soon, the table covered with quilts and sand was turned into a sieve.
, several bird gunners hiding behind were also shot one after another.
Faced with the hail of bullets fired from dozens of meters away, the surviving Qing soldiers had no choice but to lie on the ground to hide and were unable to fire arrows back. Although the junior officers in the team shouted loudly and told them to continue the attack, no one dared to get up.
Seeing that the battle situation had reached a stalemate again, Wu Ni was in a state of panic. Just when he didn't know what to do, he suddenly heard a loud "rumbling" sound hundreds of meters away to the east. After a moment, a magnolia tree as thick as a calf appeared next to the rockery.
The tree snapped.
When the Qing soldiers lying on the ground saw this scene, they were a little confused and didn't know what happened. The three action team members who hid behind the rockery and fired were also a little confused. Could it be that the top of the mountain behind Yongqing Temple
The fort opened fire?
But the top of the mountain is several miles away from here! It makes no sense for the Qing army to fire like this.
"The direction of the firing seems to be east...not good! They..."
Before the middle-aged man, the eldest of the three, could finish his words, he heard the thunderous rumble in the distance again, four times in succession. Four iron bullets weighing more than three kilograms passed through the snow curtain and struck out from the distance.
Whistling in the air, one of them hit the rockery, and the upper half of the huge Taihu stone collapsed suddenly.
The three action team members were unable to dodge and were disgraced by the flying rubble. One of the unlucky ones even had a ray of paint on his arm. Now they all understood, and they hurriedly retreated to the rear before the gray dust mist dispersed.
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At this time, Wu Ni, who was hiding behind the "earth tank", also understood what was going on, and his eyes shone with excitement. Ignoring the dissuasion of his men, he stood up from behind the shield car, brandished his sword and shouted: "Brothers, the prince, please use the cannon."
Pull them up! Now the Northern Pirates are finished! Anyone who wants to get promoted and make a fortune, kill them!"
After hearing this, the Qing soldiers woke up and got up from the ground one after another. Each of them had a ferocious look on their face, shouted "kill" in their mouths, and rushed towards the rockery.
Hundreds of meters away on the edge of the vegetable fields to the east, Jingkou deputy commander Cheng Ce kept chanting "God bless the Qing Dynasty" after learning about the situation. He said to himself that the prince was so good at predicting the situation that he ordered five cannons.
Otherwise, it will only cost people their lives.
It turned out that after Mian En decided to launch a second attack, he felt that the firepower of a hundred gunners might be insufficient, and the fort located in the mountain behind Yongqing Temple could not play a supporting role due to the heavy snow and poor visibility. Therefore.
He then used the imperial envoy's seal and wrote a warrant, asking his men to quickly go to Mancheng with the gun and transfer five more mountain-splitting cannons from the armory.
Although General Qinglin of Jiangning wanted to protect Yuan Mei's family and even asked his son to inform him, he was unable to do anything about it. So after receiving Mian'en's order, he could only obey it.
Now he hopes that Yuan Mei's family can escape smoothly, but he also doesn't want the Eight Banners of Zhenjiang, who are also Manchus, to suffer heavy losses, and is terribly entangled.
As mentioned before, the Qing army's mountain-splitting cannon is not particularly heavy, and the gun body weighing several hundred kilograms can be loaded on a horse-drawn carriage. In addition, Jiangning City is under martial law today, and there is no traffic jam on the streets, so I picked it up from Qinglin.
Order, only half an hour had passed until the five cannons were transferred to the scene.
Knowing that the battle situation ahead was unfavorable, Cheng Ce saw the artillery arriving and didn't care too much. He hurriedly ordered the gunners to fire. The artillery association leader who led the team looked at the vast white field in the distance and thought to himself, where can I hit?
ah?
"Just shoot over there!"
Cheng Ce made an estimate and raised his finger to look in the direction. What he thought was that regardless of whether the hit was successful or not, making a sound would at least establish a prestige and boost morale.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The assistant leader was helpless, knowing that behind the plan was Prince Ding, he did not dare to offend, so he had to let his subordinates prepare. Because the Qing army's artillery carriage was too short,
The gunners were afraid of hitting their own people in front, so they hurriedly found a slope to set up the five cannons and opened fire in the direction of the top of Qunyu Mountain.
On the other side, Gao Liugeng, who had just passed the Duhe Bridge, was startled from the sound of the first cannon. He thought it was the fort on the mountain that fired. But the subsequent four cannon shots and the judgment of the direction of the sound made him
He understood that the Qing army fired artillery from the east.
Don't ask, the betrothed prince must have brought in a few more cannons.
After thinking about this, Gao Liugeng immediately used the walkie-talkie to notify the three team members who were ambushing in Suiyuan's "Nantai", asking them to delay the Qing army's offensive pace, and then asked the three retreating action team members to attack the "Echo Gate"
Retreat. When they were setting up the battlefield, they set up explosives at the gate of the Echo Gate and the "Shuixi Pavilion" on the west side. As long as they blew up the passages on the east and west sides, they could carry it until night.
After a while, gunshots rang out from Nantai, and several explosions were heard in the distance. Gao Liugeng picked up the walkie-talkie, pressed the talk button and said: "I am No. 1, what's going on over there? Over.
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"Hundreds of enemies are coming. We don't have many bullets, so we can't stop them! The trap at the gate of the inner house has been triggered! It's over."
"You immediately retreat towards Xiao Qixia and meet up with Guoxiang and the others! Over."
"Understood! Over."
While talking on the phone, Gao Liugeng ran towards the echo gate. As soon as he passed the Yuanyang Pavilion, he saw three people on the embankment dozens of meters away, shooting back and retreating towards him.
He rushed to the half-man-high sandbag fortification on the west side of the echo gate. He picked up his gun and fired at the Qing troops who were approaching from dozens of meters away. In the blink of an eye, he knocked down five or six people, including two.
After being shot, the guy rolled into the cold Hanlian Pond.
With his joining, the Qing troops who rushed over were beaten and scurried away. The narrow embankment gave them nowhere to hide. They retreated one after another and disappeared into the snow curtain in the blink of an eye.
Soon, the three withdrawn team members also entered the fortification. Gao Liugeng saw that one of the men in his thirties had gauze tied on his arm and blood oozing out, so he asked while changing the magazine: "Nine
Brother, are you injured?"
"It's nothing, just scratched a little bit, it's not a problem. Hey, what do you mean by this? In this weather, you can't see people from a hundred paces away, but these bastards were blinded from a few hundred paces away!
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The person Gao Liugeng was talking to was named Tao Laojiu, who was also a disciple of Chang Family Boxing. He started training earlier than Gao Liugeng and was also a well-known figure in the Huanghuai River Basin.
"Brother Ninth, what I'm most worried about now are the two cannons on the back mountain. If the snow lightens or stops, there will be trouble in Tianfeng Pavilion."
"Are you going to touch up and knock off the two cannons?"
"That's the idea."
Tao Laojiu looked up at the gray sky, then looked at the bamboo forest behind the mountain, and then said: "This snow can't stop before dark, and it will be hard to say in the middle of the night. If you want to take action, the sooner the better. Otherwise, wait until dark
It will be difficult to pass through this bamboo forest if the sky is gone."
"That's what I think too. Then I'll ask Brother Ninth to help keep an eye on it. If the Qing army comes over again, they will blow up the floodgates."
"Don't worry!" Tao Laojiu responded solemnly, and then said: "Let Xiaoyao go with you?"
Gao Liugeng shook his head and said: "No, the road there is not easy to walk, I can go alone."
"Are there enough grenades? Do you want two of them for you?"
"That's enough! Maybe we won't need it yet." Gao Liugeng said, turned around and left. After a while, he had arrived in front of the bamboo sea.
It is said that bamboo can be divided into three categories according to the type of reproduction. Among them, the cluster type bamboo sprouts from the base of the mother bamboo to reproduce new bamboo. After several years of reproduction, such bamboo will form dozens of bamboos gathered together in clumps.
There is no place to put your feet down.
The bamboos Yuan Mei planted at the southern foot of Xiaocang Mountain were cluster bamboos. Over the decades, this sea of bamboo became like a huge airtight bamboo wall, strictly dividing the southern foot of Xiaocang Mountain from Suiyuan.
Gao Liugeng walked so hard! In order to avoid being noticed by the Qing troops on the mountain, he walked carefully, for fear that there would be too much movement and a large amount of snow would fall from his head. After walking for more than two hundred meters, his face and hands
His mouth was covered with blood after being pricked by branches and bamboo leaves.
While he was trudging through the sea of bamboo, the Qing army, which had taken a short rest, launched a second round of attacks along the Peach Blossom Embankment towards the Echo Gate. Compared with facing the enemies pressing up in a line on the rockery, the Peach Blossom Embankment
It's relatively easy to defend here.
The embankment that could only accommodate three people abreast made it impossible for the Qing army to move forward. The mountain-splitting artillery had not been delivered yet, so they could only hide behind two shield vehicles and advance slowly. As expected, the attack quickly failed.
Wu Ni, who was leading the team, saw it and had no choice but to send someone to notify Cheng Ce and ask him to transport two mountain-splitting cannons. Without these, it would be impossible to attack.
The Qing army retreated for a meal, but there was still no movement. Tao Laojiu and the others soon felt that something was wrong. Except for the occasional gunshots from across the lake, it was too quiet on Taohua Embankment!
Although they can blow up the gate when they can't withstand it, it is only a last resort. Now their task is to fight the Qing army. Every minute they can delay is a point. As long as the people from the special operations battalion arrive tomorrow morning, it will be victory.
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So, the honest-looking Tao Laojiu rolled his eyes and asked several team members to gather the remaining grenades on their bodies, and then redistributed the remaining 300 rounds of bullets, leaving one person guarding the fuse of the explosive.
Then he took the other two people and walked back along the original path, planning to make a sneak attack.
Snowflakes were falling from the sky, and mist was rising on the lakes on both sides of the Peach Blossom Embankment. Because the road on the embankment was narrow, Tao Laojiu and the others did not form any "three-and-three formation", but simply formed a column all the way. If they encountered
The two men walking behind would quickly disperse to the left and right, forming a crossfire to cover Tao Laojiu's rapid advance.
The air after the fierce battle was filled with blood, dull and turbid. The gunpowder smoke was wrapped in moisture and clung to the fallen lotus leaves on the lake, the embankments, and people's bodies, refusing to disperse for a long time.
When they were still more than fifty meters away from the east exit of Taohua Causeway, they suddenly heard someone shouting: "Who is it?"
"Fire the arrow!"
Several Qing soldiers shouted treacherously, and a few whooshing sounds were heard immediately. The sharp plum needle arrows cut through the snow and fog and landed on the path above the heads of the three of them.
"What the hell!" Tao Laojiu thought, he was very sure that the Qing army did not notice the three of them.
When they continued to crawl forward for another twenty meters and could already see the figures of the Qing army, Tao Laojiu felt that it was time to launch an attack. He nodded to the other two people, and the three of them attacked from behind in unison.
He took out a grenade from his bag, pulled the tab open hard, said three times silently in his mind, and then threw it out.
Violent explosions sounded continuously, and just a moment after the fire and black smoke rose, three loaded assault rifles were placed side by side on the embankment, pouring fiery bullets towards the Qing army on the opposite side.