Xi Changzhen failed to get any news from Li Zhen and was filled with doubts. The more he couldn't think of the reason, the more suspicious he became. He began to increase the intensity of exploring Li Zhen's barracks. Every hour, a scout sent out came back. Reporting news, a continuous stream of news came back, but without exception they were all useless news.
After nightfall, Li Zhen was in the military camp.
Li Zhen looked at Smith and asked, "Have you finished dealing with the scouts sent by Xi Changzhen?"
"Well, it's done."
Smith nodded with a serious expression.
The wind direction tonight is blowing towards Zhennanguan. One hundred soldiers will enter Zhennanguan in a hot air balloon. This small-scale landing is to insert some soldiers into the heart of Zhennanguan, making it difficult for Xi Changzhen to stabilize. Soon, ten huge hot air balloons were moved out, and each hot air balloon was equipped with ten soldiers.
"ignition."
Li Zhen gave the order and immediately lit the fire.
After the fire got stronger and stronger, it slowly rose. The soldiers tied it with ropes to prevent the hot air balloon from flying away. Then the soldiers entered the hot air balloon one by one. Li Zhen stood below, guarding and saluting, watching the soldiers in the hot air balloon. , the breeze blew, and the hot air balloon led the soldiers towards Zhennanguan.
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It was already late at night, but Xi Changzhen still didn't sleep, because no news had been sent back for four hours. According to Xi Changzhen's regulations, the news sent back during the day was that a soldier must come back to report within an hour, continuously and without interruption, to keep the news flowing. Here we are. At night, a soldier would come back every two hours to report.
Now, it has been four hours, but not a single soldier has returned, which makes Xi Changzhen feel restless.
Xi Changzhen came to the tower wearing a brocade robe.
He ordered the soldiers to call over a commander and said: "You take ten scouts and go to the Qing army camp to inquire about the situation. You must be careful. I suspect that Li Zhen also sent scouts to intercept, so our scouts Hou cannot come back to report the news."
The general manager nodded solemnly, turned around and left.
Xi Changzhen leaned on the city wall and looked in the direction of Li Zhen's military camp. Suddenly, his eyes widened. Then he stretched out his hand and rubbed it vigorously, with a surprised expression on his face.
Xi Changzhen leaned on the tower, looked at the commander who had just come downstairs, and shouted: "Bring more soldiers, find out what the fire is in the sky in front of you, and find out the reason."
The general manager nodded in agreement and immediately dispatched soldiers.
At this time, Xi Changzhen had clearly seen ten light spots in the sky, and these light spots were moving, moving in the direction of Zhennanguan. As the distance got closer, the fire became stronger and stronger, and Xi Changzhen also gradually I could clearly see the light spot.
This is obviously a big ball.
There are actually soldiers inside the ball.
what's the situation.
Xi Changzhen was confused. He had never seen a hot air balloon. He was horrified when he saw the soldiers on the hot air balloon. He called the soldiers to be on guard. All the soldiers in Zhennanguan were on alert, looking at the hot ball in the sky. At this moment, the sky In the ten hot air balloons, all the soldiers were holding grenades, preparing for a round of bombing to disrupt Zhennanguan and strive to enter Zhennanguan smoothly.
"Throw it to me."
The company commander leading the team gave the order and took the lead in lighting a bundle of grenades in his hand and throwing them towards Zhennanguan.
Under the night, the fuse burned and shone with dazzling light.
In the blink of an eye, the grenade landed on the tower.
"boom,,."
There was a loud noise and a bright light burst out on the tower.
Although the power of the grenade was not able to blow up the city tower, at least the soldiers near the place where the grenade exploded were killed or knocked unconscious, especially since the grenades continued to fall like rain, and the one after another explosions blew up the walls of the city tower. The soldiers were frightened and hid themselves.
Xi Changzhen also hid. He looked at the city tower that had turned into a sea of fire, and saw that the hot air balloon in the sky had floated into the level, and his heart felt cold.
When did Li Zhen still have such an army?
The hot air balloon floated into the pass, and Zhennang Pass was never bombed again.
It's not that the soldiers in the hot air balloon don't want to bomb Zhennanguan, but because the hot air balloon floats in the air and stays over Zhennang Pass for a short time, there is not much time for the soldiers to drop grenades. When the hot air balloon enters the level, , the leading company commander looked down at the situation inside the level and found that there were military camps inside the level.
The soldiers in the military camp were all awakened.
The company commander sneered in his heart and ordered another bombing with grenades.
A round of grenades fell and bombed Xi Changzhen's camp. After the successive explosions subsided, the ten hot air balloons moved away from Zhennanguan. The soldiers in the hot air balloon did not dare to stop near Zhennanguan because they were close to Zhennanguan. Pass, it is easy to be besieged, especially when the number of people is small, defeat is inevitable, so I simply chose to continue deeper.
Chen Zhengshi climbed up the tower, looked at Xi Changzhen with a dusty face, and said loudly with an eager expression: "Sir, the Zhennan Army has suffered 600 casualties."
"Six hundred people, are you sure."
Xi Changzhen looked angry and said: "What's going on?"
For Xi Changzhen, the Zhennan Army was the most elite unit under his command. Now it lost 600 people, which made Xi Changzhen very heartbroken, especially since the Zhennan Army only had 3,000 people, 600 casualties, and a loss of five One of them made Xi Changzhen feel pain in his heart. He beat his chest and feet in anger and said loudly: "Search for me, the general. We must find out the enemy troops who entered the checkpoint. When I catch them, we will make them pay with blood."
At this moment, Xi Changzhen was already an angry tiger.
Chen Zhengshi went to execute the order, and the soldiers who entered Zhennanguan with the help of a hot air balloon began to land slowly. They stayed away from Zhennanguan, at least thirty miles into it, and persisted until the hot air balloon could no longer support it. They just started to land slowly, because the place where they landed was in the mountains and forests. When they landed, it took a lot of effort for a hundred soldiers to land.
The company commander who led the team immediately organized the team. He looked at the soldiers under his command and said in a deep voice: "Hide all the hot air balloons. We will need these if we want to leave Zhennanguan in the future."
The soldiers acted immediately and hid the hot air balloons one by one.
After solving the problem of the hot air balloon, the company commander ordered again: "According to the previous personnel arrangements for each hot air balloon, ten groups approached Zhennanguan from different directions to inquire about the situation of Zhennanguan. Remember, everyone has a Those with pistols can kill the enemy or commit suicide. If you are captured, I suggest you commit suicide to avoid being caught and tortured by the other party."
The company commander looked serious, raised his head and said loudly: "Do you understand?"
"clear."
All the soldiers answered loudly, with a deep and loud voice that startled the birds in the forest. The company commander raised his hand and gave everyone a military salute and said loudly: "I hope each of us can complete the task assigned by the commander. I don't want anyone to
Brothers are killed. Brothers, this time we are fighting alone. I hope everyone can show the spirit of our army and not be afraid of hardship or death."
"Don't be afraid of hardship, don't be afraid of death."
More than a hundred soldiers shouted in low voices.
The company commander waved his hand and said: "Pack it up and follow your respective teams to prepare for action." After speaking, the company commander called all the leaders together and determined which direction each leader should go to avoid overlap.