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Volume Three: The Wind Rises in the Southern Kingdom Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Uprising Three

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    Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire from behind the wall. Someone among the slowly advancing soldiers of the Shun army fell down immediately. Zhang Qi immediately blew the whistle and then violently waved his arm. Almost at the same time, the two Gatling cannons immediately fired.  There was a roar, and the two fire dragons immediately licked the wall and knocked down the exposed human body.  After a while, Zhang Qi saw that the gunshots on the opposite side had become much less frequent, and then he blew the whistle for the third time. The Shunjun soldiers lying on the ground immediately jumped up from the ground, shouting loudly and rushed towards the armory.  .  In the armory, a black-faced man was saying something loudly to Song Shen, as if he was arguing with him. This black-faced man's nickname was "Ghost Shadow" and he was one of the many little bosses under Song Shen.  "No!" Song Shen shook his head violently: "I called on people to take up arms and fight for the land to the end, but now you want me to leave my brothers and escape alone. This is impossible!" "Everyone.  We have our own positions, ours is to fight to the death here, and yours is to get out of here alive and continue fighting with the remaining people!" Guiying replied loudly, his voice was so loud that  Even the dense gunfire and shouts of death outside could not suppress it.  "I have appointed leaders to the remaining brothers. They can continue to fight without me!" Song Shen's muscles twisted in pain as he tried his best to retort: ??"Besides, the regent's dogs have surrounded the armory.  Rather than being caught and hanged when escaping, it¡¯s better to die here with the brothers!¡± ¡°No!¡± Guiying grabbed Song Shen¡¯s shoulders and stared into his eyes.  His eyes were like lightning: "The leaders you appointed are all fools. Without you, they will fight among themselves and nothing can be done. I bet that the regent would rather let all of us out.  , I don¡¯t want to leave you alone. Boss, you must live for me and the two hundred people who are about to die in the armory. There are so many poor people in Bagan now, and they all know that there are guns.  Your name, as long as you can go among them, thousands or tens of thousands of people will follow you to fight, and you can occupy Bagan, Mandalay, and the entire Myanmar, so that all poor people have their own land.  Eat the food you grow!" Song Shen looked into Guiying's eyes. He was convinced by the other party's great enthusiasm and eloquence. At this time, there was a violent shouting outside the armory. The two looked back.  It turned out that soldiers from the attacking side had broken through the wall and were engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the insurrectionists at several gaps in the wall.  The ghost shadow violently pushed and pulled Song Shen to the back of the armory. There was a small ventilation window about five meters high on the back wall. He moved a wooden box and placed it under it while urging loudly: "  Hurry, boss, the enemy's troops are not many, otherwise they will not attack the armory from one side, you must escape!" Song Shen was almost pushed out of the window by the ghost shadow. Finally, he turned around and faced the ghost shadow.  Said: "Goodbye!" "No, boss, I don't want to see you again, at least not for a short time, because I am going to die!" Ghost Shadow watched Song Shen's figure disappear in front of him, and then said in a low voice  The voice said to himself: "Song Shen, our two hundred lives are on you. You must live, you must survive!" At the door of the armory, the final and most cruel battle is going on.  .  For fear of detonating a large amount of gunpowder stored in the armory, the soldiers of the Shun army were ordered to prohibit firing after breaking through the wall. The form of combat regressed back to the era of semi-cold weapons. If you want to find an identical example, you must go back  In the era of cruel sieges like Zhang Xun's defense of Huaiyang and Hou Jing's siege of Taicheng, we can trace back to the "hand-to-hand battles" that lasted until the seventeenth century.  This kind of battle occurs when the fortress is invaded through an open gap. As a veteran said, "During this kind of attack, the smoke from the mine explosion has not completely dissipated. The soldiers on the attacking side carried hatchets and  Shield; carrying torches and gunpowder bags, groping in the dark and crowded gaps, breathing the spicy air, enduring the rain of arrows and projectiles, breaking through the defenders' blockade, and seizing these positions! "The situation of the attacker is!  It is very scary that the possibility of being besieged was taken into consideration when the armory was built. Not only are the four walls made of solid granite and bricks, but the only way to enter is through a winding and narrow corridor.  Enter the warehouse.  The soldiers struggled in this intestine full of obstacles and resisters, where a person's forehead would touch the wall, his feet would be full of debris, and his eyes would encounter darkness.  Soldiers and rebels fought in such an environment, as if engineers and soldiers from both sides met in a tunnel battle, or two ships connected in a naval battle, and the two sides slaughtered each other with axes on the middle deck.  People were fighting here as if they were in a tomb. When the first batch of soldiers rushed in, the entire corridor was filled with explosions of fire, as if they were underground.There was a lightning strike.  The attacking party answered lightning strikes with lightning strikes, and then steel collided with steel, and lead bullets answered lead bullets. Anyone who touched these swords and guns would be killed.  The torches in people's hands dimly illuminated this horrific scene.  It was impossible to see anything clearly in the passage; darkness shone with red light all around; whoever came here became deaf and blind, deafened by the deafening noise and blinded by the smoke of the explosion.  The fallen people fell among the corpses. People trampled the dead people, pressed the wounds, and smashed the broken limbs. The wounded soldiers who were stepped on let out sharp screams, and the dead people bit the foot that was on his chest.  From time to time there was silence, but this was even more terrible. People were pulling each other and rolling on the ground. The terrible gasps of the combatants were heard, and then the sounds of gnashing of teeth, the groans of the dying and curses.  Then, the roaring sound of fighting started again, and a stream of blood flowed out from the corner of the door, and it also radiated heat.  Diok stood outside the door. His face was a little pale. The attacking soldiers had changed twice. The ones who went in were fresh and strong young men, and the ones who came out were corpses with broken limbs. The door of this armory is  It's like a monster's huge mouth, swallowing people in, chewing them up and spitting them out.  The gunshots, explosions, and fighting sounds inside came out through the walls, making them particularly gloomy and terrifying.  Zhang Qi¡¯s face was like the wall of the armory, dark and terrifying. He waved his arm again, and twenty soldiers carrying pistols, gunpowder bags, and sabers rushed in again, and the brutal battle began again.  Although the resisting side has not wavered, the attacking side's numerical advantage is finally starting to take effect. No more than thirty people can still fight after escaping into the armory. With the increase in physical strength and casualties, the rebels have to  They retreated steadily, and in the end, only ten people were left resisting. The bravest among them was the black-faced man who persuaded Song Shen to escape. He quickly waved a Malay Knife, a sharp weapon.  The light reflected like flowing water under the firelight, and suddenly he slashed hard. The sharp blade cut off the barrel of a soldier of the army, and then left a three-inch-long strip on the other's face.  The soldier let out a shrill scream and fell down. Just as he was about to rush forward and take the enemy's life, he heard a cry of killing, and saw another group of enemy troops rushing in. He looked back.  But there were only five or six people left on his side who could still stand on their own. Knowing that they were outnumbered, they shouted, turned around and fled into the armory.  Diok walked through the aisle and walked into the armory. Several soldiers were pulling bayonets out of several twitching corpses. Whether it was the previous order or the current situation that was already red-eyed, the soldiers were  Never show any mercy to your enemies.  Diok's cheek twitched, and he turned to Zhang Qi beside him and asked: "Master Zhang, where is that Song Shen?" "Our people are searching, he must not be able to escape!" Zhang Qi's voice was cold and hard.  Like granite beneath his feet, he turned around and repeated the order to the soldiers who were pouring into the armory behind him: "Execute them all, take no prisoners!" The soldiers poured into the armory and quickly began to search, stabbing with bayonets.  Every wounded person they met and the corpse of their companion they were carrying out just now had made their hearts become cold and hard.  Suddenly, a soldier shouted: "Someone wants to escape through the window!" People's eyes suddenly looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, and saw a man quickly climbing up several stacked wooden boxes and heading towards the high ground.  Climb out of the window.  Zhang Qi grabbed the rifle of the soldier beside him, aimed at the man and pulled the trigger. With the sound of a gunshot, the figure swayed twice by the window and fell down.  Zhang Qi threw the rifle to its original owner and walked quickly towards the place where the man fell. When he got closer, he saw that it was the ghost shadow lying on the ground. He was lying on the ground after being shot, struggling in pain.  , blood was gushing out from his chest, and bloodshot eyes were flowing out of the corners of his mouth. It was obvious that Zhang Qi's shot had penetrated his lungs.  Zhang Qi recognized at a glance that the man on the ground was not Song Shen. He pulled out the pistol from his waist and pointed it at the other person's head, and asked in a low voice: "Song Shen?" Guiying looked at the muzzle of the gun pointed at him without fear.  , suddenly burst out into a burst of mocking laughter, blood gushed out from his mouth with his laughter, Zhang Qi frowned, and was about to ask the interpreter to come over for better questioning, when the black-faced man suddenly turned over and fell down.  It stopped moving on the ground.  Zhang Qi was stunned and quickly asked the soldiers to turn him over. He squatted down and saw that the man had a dagger in his chest and had committed suicide.  Zhang Qi stood up, his originally cold and hard face softened a little, revealing a low level of irritability. The stubbornness of the resisters made him a little confused. Like all people who have been in the military for a long time, he has a narrow-minded mind.  People always have an attitude of disgust and avoidance towards things that are beyond their understanding.  At this time, Diok came over from behind, his face a little ugly.  "Master Zhang, have you seen Song Can?"??¡± ¡°No!  "Zhang Qi turned around and revealed the body behind him: "This is just a small boss!  "    "I do not have either!  Diok's face became even more ugly: "It seems that he has escaped. Maybe he never escaped here from the beginning!"  Otherwise, he would have been beaten to death in a corner where we didn't find him at the vegetable market!  "    "No!  Zhang Qi shook his head firmly: "The bandit leader must have escaped here and personally directed the battle."  Lord Regent, you have never led soldiers, so you don't know what the soldiers think.  If the officer himself ran away first, the soldiers would not fight so tenaciously!  " At this point, Zhang Qi spat on the black-faced man's body bitterly and cursed: "Damn guy, fifty good men lost their lives!  " "Master Zhang, don't worry, I will give fifty taels of silver to each of them, and double that for officers!"  Diok hurriedly replied that he had seen the battle just now. The New Army soldiers trained by him could not intervene at all. The final attack was all due to the Shun army. Now all his wealth and life are maintained by Zhang Qihe.  The soldiers under him cannot be stingy with money.
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