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Volume Three: The Wind Rises in the South Chapter 138 Under Siege

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    Ten minutes later, Lao Qi saw a small patch of reeds appearing on the river bank in front of him. He turned around and made a gesture. The knowing soldier rowed the boat toward the reeds. When the boat approached the shore, Lao Qi  After making a gesture, the first one slipped into the water and held the edge of the boat with his hands. The other soldiers imitated his example and pushed the boat together into the reeds.  Lao Qi carefully separated the reeds and looked towards the place where the gunfire was concentrated. He was pleasantly surprised to find that the straight line distance between the big banyan tree and the place was less than 200 meters. He could even clearly see the second rear of the Napoleon cannon.  There were two or three oak barrels containing gunpowder stacked more than ten meters away. It was obvious that the besiegers did not follow the artillery regulations at all, otherwise they would not have placed so much gunpowder so close to the artillery instead of placing it in the trench to avoid danger.  Hit by a stray bullet and killed.  "That's great, Qi Touer. Those bastards are just babies, but it saves us a lot of energy. At such a distance, a blind man can hit the powder keg. A burst of gunfire will solve the problem!" said a man behind him!  The soldier whispered excitedly.  "Yes, at such a close distance, none of those gunners can survive!" A low voice of response came from behind Lao Qi. These people originally came to be death squads with the preparation of death, but now there is no need to take risks, the feeling in their hearts is  The joy is naturally beyond words.  "No!" Lao Qi shook his head and whispered: "Now that we are here, we have to finish things. We have to go over and break the cannon!" "Did it?" The soldier who just spoke  He asked back: "Then what should we do?" Lao Qi looked back and saw that the soldiers behind him were all wearing shirtless pants and Burmese clothes for the convenience of movement. He whispered: "You all follow me, don't  Speak and follow my gestures!" After that, he got out of the reeds and walked towards the big banyan tree.  Seeing this, several people behind him gritted their teeth and followed.  The group of people walked straight towards the cannon, and met several groups of Burmese people sitting around the campfire eating and chatting on the way. Lao Qi just walked past as if it was nothing, and pretended not to hear anyone saying hello.  These insurrectionists were originally gathered together temporarily in dozens of teams, and many of them did not know each other. They all thought that the enemy was still surrounded, and they did not expect that these few people were coming around from behind.  The answer is to go eat and drink.  He actually let Lao Qi break through like this.  Finally, a guard standing next to the gunpowder barrel shouted: "Which leader are you from? Why are you running around? This is not a place for running around!" Lao Qi couldn't understand what the other party was saying in his mouth, so he shouted in a low voice.  : "Ignore him, rush over to kill first, and then seize the cannon!" After saying that, he shouted loudly, pulled out the dagger from his waist with his right hand and stabbed the opponent's throat hard. He twisted it hard and felt a warm feeling on his fingers.  of liquid flowing down.  "Kill the thief!" The soldiers behind him stood up and shouted, straightened their bayonets and rushed over. The cannons were busy beside the cannon. The gunners didn't know what was going on, but they were stabbed to the core by the shining bayonets. Even if they reacted quickly,  The one who turned to run away was immediately shot from behind and fell to the ground.  "Quick, load double the shotgun!" Lao Qi shouted loudly and looked behind him. He saw that the soldiers in the back who were eating and drinking by the campfire had not noticed the situation here yet, but there were more than 20 uprisings resting on the parapet in front.  The strangers discovered the situation here, and while shouting something to each other, they came closer.  "Quick, move quickly! Lower the muzzle!" Lao Qi saw his men lowering the muzzle, grabbed the short spear wrapped with a fuse that was thrown aside, and lit the fuse on the fire door.  With a loud bang, the 12-pound Napoleon gun jumped back violently, and a red flame was ejected from the muzzle. A scream suddenly came from the opposite side, and nearly a hundred iron bullets fired at close range tore apart the gun.  He broke the penis under the rag and knocked it to the ground.  A gust of river wind blew away the white smoke produced by the burning gunpowder. Lao Qi was satisfied to see that there were no enemies standing upright on the lawn opposite.  "You guys go over and clean up those guys on the ground, and you clean the barrel of the cannon!" Lao Qi casually gave two orders, turned around and found a powder barrel and a long length of match rope from the cannon, and waited until his men used a gun full of vinegar to  The brush roughly cleaned the gun barrel a few times, and he poured seven or eight tablespoons of gunpowder into the muzzle, then tamped it down, put a shell in, often inserted a piece of fuse through the gun door, and then put the few pieces of gunpowder into the muzzle.  The barrel of gunpowder was moved to the cannon, and after lighting the fuse, he threw the torch aside, turned to his men who were watching dumbfounded and said, "Run!" Then he was the first to turn around and run towards the parapet.  In the bamboo shed, the earth traveler was lying on a pile of dry straw, sleeping soundly.  These days, he has united dozens of troops to besiege the trading station. He is so busy that he sleeps no more than three hours a day. Just now he couldn't stand it anymore, so he got into the bamboo shed and slept for a while.  There were a few sparse gunshots, but Earthwalker regarded it as drizzle and continued to sleep.Snoring like thunder.  Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside, like a thunder in the plains, which woke up the earthwalker. Before he fully woke up, he instinctively pulled out the pistol on his waist, rushed out of the bamboo shed, and shouted loudly:  : "What's going on? What's going on with that noise just now?" The Earth Walker shouted twice before he saw one of his men running over in a panic, shouting repeatedly: "It's not good, it's not good, the cannon is broken!  "What?" The soilwalker was stunned when he heard the sound, and then became furious. He pushed the man away and ran quickly towards the twelve-pound Napoleon cannon. When he ran to where he was, he saw the gun.  The surrounding area of ??the cannon was pitch black, full of traces of gunpowder explosions. Only two broken wheels were left on the cannon carriage, and only the dark cannon body was left. Moreover, four or five cracks had appeared on the solid barrel, and in some places there were even  It was slightly twisted and deformed, which was obviously the result of someone loading an excessive amount of gunpowder into the barrel and then igniting it.  The earthwalker was almost driven crazy and shouted loudly: "Where are the gunners? I'm going to hang them alive. Damn it, didn't I tell you that no matter how much medicine you put in, you have to follow the rules. One point more and one point less.  No way, who asked them to release more? " "Chief, leader!" The subordinate replied timidly: "It wasn't the gunner who put the wrong amount of gunner, it was the Bei bandits in the trading station who killed the gunner and then shot him again.  There was a lot of gunpowder in the barrel, and then the cannon was fired! ""Bei Kou?" The soil walker glanced around and saw more than a dozen corpses scattered on the grass. They were obviously the gunners who had just been killed. He was moving back and forth.  After taking two steps, he pointed at the breastwork and said angrily: "There are only a few Bei bandits in the trading station. You have a breastwork and cannons, and yet they came over to kill you and blew up the cannons? Even the pigs in the forest are better than you."  ! At least when they were killed by the Northern invaders, they still knew how to hum and tell their companions that the enemy was coming." The soil traveler knew that there were only a hundred people in the trading station, and there must have been some casualties in the past few days. At most, there are no more than three people who can be used to fight back.  There were ten people, and there were nearly a hundred people guarding the artillery on his side, and there was also a parapet to rely on, but the other party blew up the cannon. How could he not be furious?  "Leader!" The subordinate was a close confidant of the Earth Walker. He felt a little aggrieved, but he did not dare to confront him, so he had to explain in a low voice: "The Northern invaders came from behind. There was no parapet over there. They took the opportunity to kill the gunner.  After the guards on the parapet were discovered, they were blasted by shotguns and dispersed. When the guards elsewhere found out, they had already exploded their cannons and rushed back to the trading station. " The soil traveler was stunned when he heard this.  He walked back and forth a few steps, observed his surroundings again, and understood what was going on.  It turns out that these people are composed of dozens of small groups ranging from more than 200 to 20 to 30 people. There is no close connection with each other, let alone strict military discipline.  Under special circumstances, when carrying out small-scale ambushes and sneak attacks, you can still fight well. However, as the number of people increases, the combat effectiveness will continue to decline, especially since the soil walkers do not have enough military experience and are not as clear as Gray Eyes.  We should try our best to maximize our strengths and avoid weaknesses, limit the scale of our military operations to less than two or three hundred people, and avoid tough battles and large-scale field battles. This resulted in such a big flaw in our encirclement line, and we were beaten by the enemy.  Suddenly.  Now that there is no such heavy artillery, which was obtained with great difficulty, it will be even more difficult to break through the enemy's defense.  "Chief, what should we do now?" the subordinate asked in a low voice.  Earth Walker suddenly felt an unprecedented irritability in his heart. For the first time, he felt that he was so far away from the goal he had always dreamed of. He shook his teeth and waved his arms impatiently: "Take the body away.  , bury it well!¡± ¡°What a good man, Lao Qi is really a good man!¡± ¡°He charged into the midst of thousands of troops and blew up the enemy¡¯s artillery without losing a single person. This is simply Guan Erye!¡± ¡°What is Guan Er!¡±  "Sir, Lao Qi is from Zhending, Hebei. He is clearly Zhao Zilong from Changshan. He killed seven in and seven out, beheaded more than fifty members of General Cao Ying, and captured seven spears. He was full of courage!"  Everyone was jubilant, with smiles on their faces. A few of them argued endlessly over whether Lao Qi was Guan Yunchang or Zhao Zilong. No wonder they were so happy. Lao Qi not only blew up the opponent's cannon, but also all eight people he brought with him.  They were not injured. When they escaped over the parapet and returned to the trading station, the enemies on the front line had no idea who they were and thought they were an attack by their own side. When it was discovered later, they had already fled back to the trading station.  "Thanks to you this time!" Fei Xianghong patted Lao Qi's shoulder excitedly: "More than a hundred lives of everyone depend on you." At this point, he turned around and shouted to the others: "Thief  We don¡¯t have artillery, so we can¡¯t open our village. There is food, water, and bullets here. As long as we hold on for three to five days, the traitors will have no choice but to retreat!¡±  ??!  " A burst of cheers broke out from the crowd, soaring into the sky. Under the big banyan tree, Tu Xingzhe sat under the big banyan tree. Not far away, dozens of soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield. After a while, several men came over. The leader of the group came to Tu Xingzhe.  The traveler saluted: "Chief, that cannon no longer works!  " "Is there no other way?  " "Chief, the gun carriage, medicine rod, measuring cylinder, musket meter, etc. are all gone, and there are already cracks in the gun body. If the gun is fired, it will explode, and only one of our own people will be hurt!  "
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