Chapter 77: The war in Zhuma Town
When the people of Zhuma Town rushed to Yangjiacun full of hope, Xi Xingchen was cutting bamboo with Yang Liusheng and others.
Because they ate horse meat, the people in Yangjia Village were very good at chopping bamboo, and they chopped down hundreds of bamboos in less than a while.
Xi Xingchen asked people to cut the bamboo into three meters long, and cut the end into a pointed shape, leaving the sharp branches around for use.
Just when Xi Xingchen and everyone were busy, Yang Sansong came over with Li Zheng and clan chiefs from more than a dozen villages.
After hearing the Li Zhengmen explain their intention, Xi Xingchen waved his hand and said, "Let's go, I will take you to get food."
An old man with a white beard saw Xi Xingchen leading the people from Yangjiacun, carrying hundreds of bamboos and heading out of the village. He quickly stopped Xi Xingchen and asked, "Captain Xi, the food is not in Yangjiacun?"
This old man's name is Liu Santie. He is the principal of the Liu Family Courtyard next door to Yangjia Village. Liujiayuan is a large village with thousands of households. Therefore, Liu Santie has a high prestige among the people. Even Yang Sansong saw him. When you come forward, you must respectfully call me uncle.
"Not here!" Xi Xingchen said truthfully.
When Liu Santie heard this, he immediately became anxious: "Didn't you ask someone to bring a message saying that disaster relief food would be distributed in Yangjiacun?"
Xi Xingchen said with some embarrassment: "I bet the person who sent the message misunderstood. I meant that everyone should come to Yangjia Village, and I will take you to get food."
Liu Santie looked at Yang Sansong with a puzzled look on his face. Yang Sansong could only smile awkwardly and smooth things over for Xi Xingchen: "I must have misunderstood. I will deal with those bastards later."
Liu Santie was also an old fox. When he saw Yang Sansong's expression was different, he realized that he might have been tricked, but then he thought again, as long as there was relief food, it didn't matter where it was distributed, so he thought again. Asked: "Where is the food?",
"Dafa Rice Store in Zhuma Town." Xi Xingchen said seriously.
When the Li Zhengmen heard that Xi Xingchen said that the food was in Dafa Rice Store, they immediately shouted: "You are crazy, there are bandits there."
"I know."
"Do you know that you still go there to seek death?"
"If you don't go there, where will I get the food to share with you?" Xi Xingchen said with a raised eyebrow.
At this time, everyone woke up. Xi Xingchen's so-called taking them to get food was just taking them to rob the bandits of food.
I have seen bandits robbing people, but I have never heard of robbing them.
Xi Xingchen's bold proposal immediately stunned everyone, and more than a dozen people looked at each other, dumbfounded for a moment.
"Are you going? If not, I will go back to Xunyang Mansion to report to the magistrate." Xi Xingchen pretended to be impatient, turned around and left.
"Go, of course." Liu Santi said with a stamp of his feet.
Zhongli was bringing a whole village of people to Yangjiacun, dragging their families with them, but they didn't get a drop of water. Xi Xingchen, the head catcher sent by the new county magistrate, left before he could finish three sentences. Everyone knew that as soon as Xi Xingchen left, the superiors didn't know if they would send anyone down.
They knew very well that except for Xi Xingchen who was willing to help them, no one else would care about their life or death.
Even if Xi Xingchen is killed, including Liu Santie, he will not be allowed to leave.
"That's right. The bandits robbed your food. I'll take you to get it back. It's fair and there's nothing wrong with it." Xi Xingchen's expression also softened.
There was nothing wrong with what he said, but when Li Zheng saw Xi Xingchen, he felt like something was wrong with his whole body, but there was nothing he could do about it.
After a brief discussion, the elderly, women, and children stayed in Yangjia Village. The young people from each village took the boys with them and went to Dafa Rice Store to collect food.
"You guys set up the stove and boil the water at home first. We will get food back soon." Before leaving, Xi Xingchen did not forget to tell the old, weak, women and children staying in the village.
Just like that, Xi Xingchen coaxed and deceived, led a dozen strong young people from the village, and opened the rice store in a mighty manner.
Xi Xingchen and his team had just arrived at Dafa Rice Store when they saw a group of bandits rushing out of the rice store brandishing swords.
It turned out that after Ma Gaoyi saw clearly the weapons in the hands of the victims from the observation deck, he gave up the idea of stationing for help.
It's no wonder that Xi Xingchen brought a lot of people, but all they had in their hands were hoes, poles, wooden sticks, pot lids, and most of all, bamboo without branches.
I dare say these people want to use these things to grab food. This is too disrespectful to bandits.
Ma Gaoyi also thought that if he was frightened by this rabble, it would force him to raise his head in Huangfeng Village in the future.
So a bold idea immediately came to his mind: to rush out first while the victims were not yet stable. As long as the formation of the victims was broken, the victims would collapse instantly.
Of course, Ma Gaoyi was not a hothead, he had made precise calculations.
Ma Gaoyi believes that there are 300 people on his side. Although there are still dozens of people who have not returned, every bandit is a veteran with sharp weapons and experienced many battles. Such veterans should not treat hungry victims one for a hundred. Live it.
Calculating it this way, it seems that I still have the advantage. Since I have the advantage, it would be very inconsistent with my character to shrink back.
Therefore, Ma Gaoyi ordered Ma Erbao to bring about two hundred bandits, shouting and killing them.
The person who delivers food among the messengers in Yangjia Village is chopping bamboo.
The wolf fork is made from moso bamboo grown in the south. It is old and solid, and the end of the bamboo is beveled into a sharp shape, leaving sharp branches around it. Each wolf fork is about 3 meters long. The wolf fork is made by using the front end of the wolf fork. Stab the enemy with the blade to cover the advance of the shield bearer and the attack of the spearman behind. Then came four spearmen with spears in their hands, two on each side, taking care of the shield bearers and wolf bearers on the left and right in front respectively.
Because Xi Xingchen said: "Folks, let's go, I will take you there."
In short, let’s go to Mrs. Sun’s house to celebrate his birthday. We can’t be empty-handed, right? "
Jin Zhaolong led his army and drove straight in. As soon as he led his troops to the camp gate behind the No. 8 gun, the camp gate suddenly opened wide and a group of men and horses flashed out. The leader was Deng Yulin, who was ordered by Jiang Yiwu to announce the order to the Nanhu Artillery Team.
In fact, the revolutionary comrades of the Nanhu Artillery Brigade had long heard the gunshots coming from Chu Wangtai. Just because the commander of the Artillery Brigade had received a call from Zhang Biao early, they were on tight guard and could never find an opportunity to take action.
Until Jin Zhaolong led his troops to Changhong Bridge, Meng Huachen of the third battalion could no longer hold back. He rushed into the guard post with a gun and killed the platoon leader Liu Buyun who was on duty with one shot.
The reason why Meng Huachen shot Liu Buyun was because the two had a grudge.
The Revolutionary Party started an uprising during the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. This was originally an extremely secret plan. Later, the incident was exposed and became known to everyone. The cause was a disturbance caused by a few drunken soldiers from the Nanhu Artillery Brigade. Among the soldiers who were drunk and causing trouble was Meng Huachen, and the platoon leader who stopped the soldiers from drinking was Liu Buyun.
After this incident, the revolutionary comrades Huo Dianchen and Zhao Chuping who were drinking with Meng Huachen were forced to flee the barracks. The original plan for the Mid-Autumn Festival uprising was exposed, and the uprising could only be postponed again and again. Because of this incident, Meng Huachen had always been hostile to Liu Buyun. He holds a grudge and wants to kill him quickly.
This morning, Peng Chufan, Liu Fuji, and Yang Hongsheng were beheaded in the vegetable market. Meng Huachen's murderous intention towards Liu Buyun reached its peak. He kept the gun in his hand and loaded the bullet all day long, looking for an opportunity to strike.
Therefore, as soon as Meng Huachen heard that the rebels were attacking Changhong Bridge, he could no longer care about anything else and immediately shot Liu Buyun to death in public.
As soon as the gunfire rang out, the cannons immediately exploded in the camp, and all the soldiers ran out of the barracks. Deng Yulin, who was frowning, immediately drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, our actions today are to advance to death and not to retreat. We are united as one to capture Wuchang."
After Meng Huachen killed Liu Buyun, he, Cai Hanqing and others pulled out several cannons, opened the armory, loaded the shells, and shelled the right team of the third battalion first, and then the first battalion.
For a time, the entire Pao 8 Base was in chaos. The officers of the Pao 8 Base fled one after another. All the revolutionary comrades who had lost the control of their superiors ran out. Jiang Mingjing, the leader of the 3rd Battalion of the Artillery Base, randomly turned around. The 8 Pillar immediately collapsed and the whole group revolted.
Xu Wannian, the general representative of the Pao 8 Standard Revolution, immediately organized his troops and marched towards Zhonghe Gate with 12 cannons. As soon as he left the camp gate, he met Jin Zhaolong who came to support him.
The two armies cooperated with one army. When passing by Ma 8 Biao, they fired three shots at Ma 8 Biao. Ma Biao, who was under shelling, immediately blew up the camp. The officers abandoned everything and fled for their lives. Ma Biao's revolutionary comrades took the opportunity to revolt.
In the Governor's Mansion, Ruicheng listened to the continuous gunshots outside, quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said calmly: "The telephone lines of the Governor's Office have been cut off by the rebels. Let's talk about whether to leave or stay. .”
Master Zhang Meisheng heard the meaning of "go" from Ruicheng's words and couldn't help but sigh secretly.
It is the most basic common sense and consciousness of every feudal official to confine a frontier to a land. It is extremely naive for Ruicheng to have the idea of "abandoning the city" at this time.
Although Zhang Meisheng is just a "mouse-bearded master" who is good at writing and is not familiar with military affairs, he also knows that in war, morale is what matters. With Ruicheng in the Governor's Mansion, morale is there; if Ruicheng leaves, morale will collapse in an instant, and the defeat will be irreversible.
If it were anyone else, Zhang Meisheng would definitely ask: "Although the world is so big, where can you go?" But as Ruicheng's master, even if it is to live up to the "five buckets of rice" given by his employer, Zhang Meisheng must not be able to go at this time. Encourage the employer to ignore the overall situation and leave the soldiers who are still fighting outside to escape alone.
Zhang Meisheng pinched his few sparse rat whiskers out of habit and said, "Sir, the rebel party seems to be powerful, but in fact it is just a bluff. When the reinforcements arrive tomorrow, the dilemma will be solved."
Zhang Meisheng knew that Ruicheng was timid by nature, so he continued to encourage Ruicheng: "Besides, we have Zhang Shuai commanding us, so we are not without the ability to fight."
Zhang Biao patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sir. I will go and supervise the battle in person. I will ensure that the superintendent's office is safe."
Since the telephone line was cut by the revolutionary army, Zhang Biao had lost contact with the army outside the city and the left and right flags deployed in the city, so he left the coaching team, the first cavalry team, and More than 300 people from the fire brigade and the 8th Baggage Battalion were deployed at the front lines such as Baoanmenmen, Wangshanmen, Wenchangmen Long Street, Wangfukou, and Town Headquarters Street, and were ready.
When the artillery team entered the city, the battle to attack the Governor's Palace had already begun.
