All this happened in the blink of an eye, without any delay, in just twenty seconds.
The violent shock wave overturned the surrounding guards, and the windows of the two adjacent cars were completely shattered. The black car produced by Junda Company was severely deformed, and one wheel was blown off. The explosion also ignited the fuel tank, and the car The flames quickly broke out.
The cyclist was tens of meters away at this moment, and the two attackers who were the first to open fire on the street were also seriously injured.
Covered in blood, they staggered away for a while and then gave up. They leaned against the telephone pole and were helpless. There were drops of blood along the way.
"Thieves are causing trouble! Call the police!"
"The water is leaking, hurry up and put out the fire!"
"Don't crowd in here and get in the way! You're blocking the road!"
Although today's rainy day is very bad, there are still many pedestrians coming and going on the street. After all, this is the most economically developed place in Ming Dynasty.
After the attack, panicked citizens quickly moved away from the scene and began to spontaneously seek help.
Someone rushed to the public phone booth next to it and dialed the "000" phone number - although the popularity of telephones is not as popular as that of Europe's advanced industrial countries, the Ming Dynasty was one of the first countries to try calling the police. Yingtian Prefecture and Shanghai Prefecture It was officially implemented at the beginning of this year.
"This is Nanhui County Police. Stay calm, don't panic, and briefly describe the situation."
"There are...many people shooting! Ah! There are explosions! Someone come quickly..."
"Calm down, miss, tell me the location."
"Hmm...I...it seems to be the intersection of Anchang South Street and Yu'er Lane!"
Nowadays, there are no walkie-talkies for everyone. The efficiency of calling the police is actually not high. After receiving the call, the local police station cannot contact the patrol officers around the incident immediately. It can only be said that it is more convenient than running to call the police manually. .
In fact, police officers patrolling nearby streets had already rushed over after hearing gunshots and explosions.
Later, as more and more patrol officers arrived at the scene, the two attackers who were helpless were arrested after being briefly bandaged, but the attacker who threw bombs on a bicycle managed to escape.
At the scene of the incident, before the fire completely engulfed the entire car, the dedicated guards struggled to drag out the bloody and seriously injured Chen Zhongxu.
At the same time, Beijing.
The second meeting in the Wenhua Palace has been going on for about a quarter of an hour. The factories in Beicheng District have started production today, and the shops in Nancheng District have also opened one after another.
At the eastern foot of Qingliang Mountain in Xicheng District, employees of the Daming National Broadcasting Company also came to their workplaces one after another - this is where the company's headquarters is located.
There is a tall tower behind the headquarters building, which is the company's broadcast tower.
In order to facilitate the dispersion of radio waves and make work more convenient, in the 24th year of Zhichang, the company headquarters and radio broadcast tower were located on a flat land at the eastern foot of Qingliang Mountain.
At that time, the government and the opposition debated for a long time whether the design of the broadcast tower should imitate the steel structure appearance that showed industrial strength like the Eiffel Tower or follow the traditional pagoda shape, and finally decided on the latter.
This radio broadcasting tower is largely based on the Glazed Tower of Baoen Temple and the "Iron Tower" of Kaifeng. It has eight sides, 18 floors, about 116 meters high, and is decorated with various neon lights.
During the day, the glazed tiles shine under the sunlight; at night, after darkness falls, the neon lights are colorful.
At this time, a car and a minivan entered the city through Qingliangmen, and then headed east along Qingliangmennei Avenue until they turned left to the north at the intersection.
Two vehicles slowly stopped at the entrance of the broadcasting company's headquarters. Several guards on duty were wondering why the two vehicles were here. The next second they saw someone jumping out of the truck with a gun.
The muzzles of the black hole were pointed straight at them, and the attackers who rushed over shouted sternly: "Get away, don't seek death!"
The three guards drew their guns and fired back one after another, but their pistols were too weak compared to the attackers' Winchester lever rifles, Remington semi-automatic shotguns, and Refond shotguns.
In just a few breaths, the three of them were knocked to the ground.
The attackers had a clear division of labor and acted neatly, and went straight to the headquarters building.
The gunfire just now shocked the employees at the headquarters, and the subsequent menacing dozen or so attackers made people even more frightened.
However, these guys don't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately. They consider themselves to be just, and their goals are very clear - to seize the radio control of the broadcast tower, make speeches, and broadcast their own opinions!
"Get out of here, don't get in the way!"
"Get out of here! What are you standing there for?"
The employees who were granted amnesty ran away in a hurry, almost rolling and crawling, as if they would be killed if they slowed down.
In the blink of an eye, the first floor of the building that was quite busy just now was empty.
The attackers did not stay here long, but left the building through the back door and rushed to the pagoda-shaped broadcast tower.
In addition to the two associates of the broadcasting company, four or five employees were also detained and asked for help.
"You are finally here..."
"Move quickly, the thugs will be here soon!"
"You five go guard the door, and you two go to the second floor and watch."
At the entrance to the first floor of the broadcasting tower, several people closed the door and moved the tables, cabinets, and chairs next to them to block the door.
Then they began to redistribute weapons and ammunition. The two people on the second floor even took out an old aviation-type Lewis light machine gun that they didn't know where they got from the big box they were carrying, as well as three thickened ammunition trays. and a bag of loose 7.7mm MkVII rifle ammunition.
The well-organized attackers performed their duties. In the control room on the fifth floor, several employees were carefully debugging the machine under the threat of guns.
At this time, the sirens coming from the distance were getting clearer and clearer.
Because the incident occurred not in a remote area, the patrol officers around Qingliangmen rushed over quickly after hearing the gunshots. The employees who escaped described to them the horrific features of these attackers. .
"Are you masked?"
"without."
"What weapons did you bring?"
"Guns, lots of guns! Everybody had a gun."
"Uh... let's be clearer, short gun or long gun?"
Because they were unsure of the situation inside and knew that these attackers had "heavy firepower," the first patrol officers who arrived did not choose to enter rashly.
They quickly dispersed nearby onlookers and then moved barricades to block the road.
After the police reinforcements arrived, the police officers were divided into two teams of about 20 people, and they rushed into the headquarters building together.
All the employees here had fled. After a quick search, everyone determined that the attackers were all trapped in the broadcast tower at the back.
Dozens of Yingtianfu police officers relied on the building and formed a semi-encirclement formation around the radio tower dozens of meters away.
The police officers used loudspeakers to shout at the radio tower, asking the attackers to surrender immediately.
"Listen to the thieves in the tower, immediately throw away their weapons and come out to surrender!"
"It's still too late to change my mind now, but I just need to stay in prison for a few years. He will change his past and become a good citizen."
"What's the use of fighting a trapped beast? If you resist stubbornly, you will definitely end up being shot to death indiscriminately!"
Cursing sounds came from the window on the second floor of the radio tower, "What you say is better than what you sing. What an idiot! What a stupid bitch!"
"Da da da--"
"Bang! Bang!"
A series of machine gun bullets and shotgun shells as dense as exploding beans were fired at everyone. The thirty to forty police officers present were shocked and immediately opened fire back.
The exchange of fire between the two sides was extremely fierce, crackling like several firecrackers being lit, and the citizens near the broadcasting company seemed to have returned to the New Year's Eve.
There were tens of meters apart. There were light machine guns, shotguns, and hunting rifles over there, and most of them were pistols here. The police officers who had the numerical advantage seemed to be firing back intensively, but it was of no use at all. Instead, they were shot by the other side. Too heavy to lift my head.
"It's too fierce! Just relying on a short gun can't do it!"
"Report quickly and call someone to help!"
The embarrassed Yingtianfu police called the Yi'an Police Department to report the scene and asked for support.
Two police officers had just been patrolling in Beicheng District, and now they arrived spontaneously, but before the car could stop, a deputy superintendent ran over.
"Turn around, turn around! Go to Donggua Street, there is a gun shop there, borrow some guns quickly!"
Just like that, half an hour later, two police officers rushed into Xu's Gun Shop at the end of Donggua Street. The shopkeeper thought they were coming to arrest him.
However, after expressing their intention to requisition guns, the store clerks cooperated very quickly and quickly stuffed more than a dozen civilian automatic rifles, lever rifles, three-barreled hunting rifles, and shotguns on the display cabinets and gun racks into the trunk of the police car, along with Several large bags of various ammunition were given as gifts.
It's not that they don't want to pay more, but the guns in stock are all sealed, and the gun barrels are full of sticky gun oil. They won't be cleaned until they are sold. Now it won't be possible to fix it for a while.
The arrival of more than a dozen long guns finally gave the police officers at the scene some confidence. Even though they still could not overpower the attackers in terms of firepower, they at least reversed the one-sided situation.
Obviously, this situation cannot be solved by Yingtianfu police alone.
More than an hour after the incident, a team of Yi Anjun arrived belatedly.
By this time, the attackers had used the occupied radio tower to deliver speeches to the outside world for dozens of minutes.
Officers cut power to the radio tower, temporarily halting broadcasts, but the attackers inside used a backup gasoline generator on the first floor to restore power and continue sending waves.
Compared with the government police, who had weaker firepower, Yi'an Army soldiers deployed old-fashioned Shaosha light machine guns at multiple locations on the second and third floors of the company headquarters building, firing alternately to suppress them.
Even though the aviation-type Lewis light machine gun has a large ammunition capacity, it is difficult for two fists to defeat four hands, and it was quickly suppressed and unable to fight back.
Who would have expected that in today’s Ming Dynasty capital, there would actually be a scene of two types of old-fashioned light machine guns from the European War decades ago shooting at each other?
Then, the soldiers began to cautiously approach the radio tower from both sides, trying to rush in and eliminate these guys.
But the attackers were extremely cunning. They smashed the vending machines in the lobby, opened the caps of glass bottles of Coca-Cola, orange soda, orange juice, and beer and poured them out. They combined them with the two barrels of gasoline spared by the gasoline generator to make It turned into dozens of simple Molotov cocktails.
"Bah! Huh——"
The crisp sound of breaking and the sound of flames bursting out came one after another, and more than a dozen ignition points appeared instantly!
Molotov cocktails flew out from upstairs and fell, turning the area around the broadcasting tower into a sea of flames. Some people were splashed by the flames and had to hurriedly beat and roll to put out the flames.
The attackers' counterattack was too sudden, and the Yi'an army trying to eliminate them had to stop their hasty attack plan.
This premeditated attack was extremely targeted. The occupied broadcasting tower used the frequency of the Ming Dynasty's official news agency Riyueshe to broadcast, and this time in the morning was one of the prime times when people were used to listening to the radio.
Naturally, the entire Ming Dynasty and even the entire East Asia region could clearly hear the speeches delivered by these attackers.
"...Compatriots from the north and south of the Yangtze River, we should no longer be weak! The power of the world has been that of the weak and the strong since ancient times. The strong will get stronger, and the weak will perish!"
"...We are brothers and sisters of the same blood among the 60,000 people in our country. We have similar spirits and similar circumstances. All these sufferings are caused by cowardly people! It harms the country and the people!"
"... Internally, he bullies the weak and refuses to benefit people's livelihood; externally, he is timid and unwilling to use his troops to dominate. Now that the world is in a world of great strife, how can there be any reason to let horses go to Nanshan?!"
"...What's the point of fighting? A true man expands his territory. Even if he dies on the battlefield and is wrapped in horse leather, he can still be famous in history and be admired by thousands of people in future generations. His life is not considered in vain!"
"...Are you still willing to accept the status quo? Follow our obsession and vision, soldiers and civilians across the country! No matter what we lose, we will all die, whether it is lighter than a feather or heavier than Mount Tai!"
"...They have now surrounded us, and the fighting is very fierce. We will fight here until the last moment, and we will never compromise with the foolish and treacherous ministers and their lackeys!"
"...To actually want to cut off the power supply shows how afraid those guys are and don't dare to let the world hear our words. Maybe they will fire cannons to blow up the antenna later. Everyone, the disappearance of our voices does not mean surrender! "
In Hongde Hall, this impassioned voice continued to come from the exquisite radio, surrounding the hall.
The middle-aged female official acted very uncomfortable and uneasy - she had planned to step forward to turn off the radio, but was stopped by the emperor.
"This is the true purpose of these guys," the Crown Prince on the side said in a deep voice: "The target of the attack is very clear, and the wording is quite seductive. It is bound to arouse the resonance of many ordinary people."
The emperor himself looked quite at ease. He took a sip of the warm tea and said with a smile: "It's not that I criticized the royal family. Instead, I said that it was the weak and sycophant who deceived me."
"If they were stupid enough to make enemies on all sides, the people of these two factions would not survive today." The Crown Prince shook his head slightly, "It is really noisy, Father, the aftermath of this matter will not be easy. Even the slightest bias will cause an uproar."
"So what's the problem? They are too eager to prove themselves and are too arrogant." The emperor with a calm expression said calmly: "If you are happy to see it succeed, you will naturally acquiesce; on the contrary, if it is not allowed, how can you condone making a fuss?"
(End of chapter)
