The same rickshaw driver that day picked up Huaisheng at the city gate and took him to the West Street of the City God Temple. From the information he brought back, everyone learned a lot about things outside the city, and the opponent's arrangement gradually became clear.
This time, the Xi'an Mansion of the Zodiac was carrying out a large-scale operation. The great master was in charge of the city, and some of the chief secretaries and inspectors released the prisoners and captured the Yongfengcang. The main force cooperated with the outside to seize the Yongning Gate, welcome the people from outside, and then attack the Prince of Qin's Mansion.
Outside the city were the great master Gan Xing and the great protector Luo Youzi, and in terms of military affairs, General Cheng was in charge. General Cheng and Gan Xing attacked Yongning Gate and Nanguo Gate respectively, while Luo Youzi went to seize the Laodian warehouse.
Others, led by Protector Ma Ziqian, went to seize Ba Bridge to meet the people who were revolting on the east bank of the Ba River. After joining together, they attacked Lintong or Tonghua Gate, the east gate of Waikou City. This road was mainly used to contain the Waikou City defenders.
Shen You sent his deputy Sun Qi to disguise himself as a businessman and take his entourage, chariots and horses out of the city to coordinate the operations of various ministries. The governor's Yamen sent Lu Rui and Li Tiedao to assist.
After the city gates were closed, the entire city wall was under martial law. Both the vanguard and the rearguard troops went to the city. The city was as usual, and even the red buildings were still open as usual.
The drums were beaten one hundred and eight times on the Drum Tower, and the city-wide curfew began. Under the guidance of the inspectors and local police officers, they entered from multiple alleys and surrounded the Gedan Monastery.
Several captains in Jinyi came forward and knocked on the door. After a while, they came out with three shackled and shackled monks, got into a sill car with an iron rim and drove quickly to the outer city.
From this point on, a large number of government officials, patrols and regiment drills appeared in the city. The police officers, supported by force, entered the alleys and took people away one after another.
Some were sent to Waijiao City, some were sent to Jianchasi Prison, and those at the lower level were sent to county jails.
At the beginning, the people of the Zodiac were not aware of it. Later, when more people were taken away, panicked reports came. Only then did everyone realize that the government was arresting them with a plan and purpose, so they started to make a fuss.
Unexpectedly, the government was obedient, and someone immediately came out to stop the officials and servants from arresting them, and ordered them to retreat to avoid contact.
The people of the Zodiac were baffled, but after connecting in series, they found that those arrested were all hardcore people, and they immediately realized something was wrong.
People in Xicheng began to make noises in the streets, smashed shops, and surrounded the Chang'an County Government Office and Xi'an Government Office. Later, some people rushed to the Chief Secretary and the Chief Secretary. Everything did not go as planned, but it finally started.
People in Dongcheng panicked when they couldn't find the Grand Master. Some people said that they saw many arrested people sent to Changlemen. Everyone guessed that they were captured and imprisoned in the governor's office or military camp in Waikou City.
Amid the excitement and anger, people flocked to Changlemen, only to find that they had been prepared for an attack.
After shooting with crossbows, the officers and soldiers of Chang'an Right Guard surrounded them, and a massacre began. Thousands of people fell in front of Changle Gate.
General Youwei Qian ordered a clearing of Dongcheng, and fires began to break out in several places. Dongcheng's regiment training and inspection departments were dispatched to search and extinguish the fires.
At this time, a group of government agents, with the cooperation of Yilong Guards and Tuanlian, surrounded Kaiyuan Temple and arrested the four fake monks from Gansu.
Although he paid the price of two deaths and four injuries, it was a big gain to capture all four of them!
Hearing the noise in the city and seeing the light of the fire, the Zodiac believers gathered outside the city were surprised. They didn't expect the people inside to take action in advance!
Caught off guard, they had no choice but to respond. General Cheng decided to launch an early attack and attack Yongning Gate immediately!
The problem was that they launched the attack first, and when the sound reached outside the Nanguo Gate, they did not know what had happened. They thought they had been discovered by the officers and soldiers in advance, and some people were so frightened that they ran away, and the morale of the army was shaken.
Fortunately, the messenger rushed over and told the south gate that the fighting started first, and asked this side to start too. When Gan Xing heard about it, he ordered people to raise fire and the whole army rushed to the banknote factory in Chitou.
It must be said that thousands of torches held up at night are quite spectacular. Zhao Jingzi took a look at it from a distance and could see everything clearly without even using a telescope!
He couldn't help but sneer and told the Duan brothers: "Look at how arrogant they are. They don't even need to cover up, just for us to see!"
Duan Fang said that everyone would be honest when the cannon went off. Duan Yan said:
"Sir, I think that although there are many of them, they actually lack battle experience. Let's not fight with them head-on later. We will fight with blunderbuss. Heigulongdong, they are doing it in the dark. I guarantee that these people will carry the blunderbuss after a few rounds. Can't live.
They would not have the courage of Kelge! "
Zhao Jingzi nodded: "At the beginning of the charge, you lead the guard company to cut off its tail. Ugly Tornado directs the artillery to beat them hard, and then we go down to capture the prisoners!" After that, he commanded everyone to line up and move towards Qujiang Pool.
Li Dan was wounded and went to the city to watch the battle. He saw the enemy's long line of torches rushing directly towards the banknote factory. Soon, the sound of "crackling" firecrackers was heard from there.
"Hong Sheng exchanged fire with them." He muttered, turned around and nodded to Yang Yi: "Go ahead, be quick!" Seeing Yang Yi salute and then run down the city, Li Dan ordered: "Let Gao Can go, The cavalry will wait."
As he was talking, suddenly there was a noise behind him, and Lu Jiu shouted: "Sir, there is a fire in the city!" Li Dan looked back and sneered:
"Don't worry, it's just that they want to divert attention. In addition to the Biao Camp in Waiwai City, there are also Xi'an Zuowei, Inspection Department and regiment training. There is nothing these people can do."
He believed that Yang Wu and Shi Dajun, with a battalion of people, could be used at any time, and the small waves could not make much big noise.
The key now is Liu Hongsheng. He withstood and attracted the enemy, allowing other troops to complete the encirclement. Only in this way can the situation of the battle be fundamentally reversed.
Thinking of this, he turned to look at Tongyuanmen. As long as Du Shiji brings the workers from Weinan to stabilize the situation in Lintong, he can pull the cavalry back to the southern battlefield!
But the direction of Lintong is now completely dark, with not even a flicker of light yet.
Cao Jun noticed his gaze and comforted him softly: "Maybe they don't know that they are already taking action here. Don't be impatient and wait any longer." Li Dan nodded.
Suddenly an order came to report: "Thieves are attacking the governor's office."
"Didn't the Zuo Wei move out?" Cao Junyou asked in surprise, "Why did they let them rush to the Yamen?"
"Cao Zhongjun, we don't know what happened." The messenger quickly replied: "The thieves seem to have emerged from the ground and caught the brothers by surprise."
"What?" Lu Jiu said anxiously: "Sir, let me go back and take a look! This guy (Yu Liang) is good at reconnaissance. I'm afraid a one-on-one fight is not enough!"
With all the generals gone, the defense of the governor's office was handed over to Wan Siyou and Yu Liang, who were responsible for peripheral and internal security respectively.
No one expected that a thief would appear in the yamen. They thought it would be an easy job. The boss was not happy when he arranged for Yu Liang to stay with him. I never thought that thieves could actually dig tunnels to create a central flower.
Li Dan also couldn't sit still. He felt that this was his negligence. "Lao Lu, leave one class for me, and bring the instructor and the rest with you!"
"Okay!" Lu Jiu ran away. There were A Ying and Wu in the yamen, Young Master Li Cunshi who stuck to him every day and rode a big horse, and Yu Tong who had already pointed him out as his wife. None of these people could be missing!
"Leave one class behind and the rest follow me to kill the thieves!" He opened his bell-like eyes and shouted at the teaching company standing silently below the city.
Liu Hongsheng was standing behind the wall of the banknote factory at this time to direct the battle.
Due to the special nature of this factory, safety was the primary consideration, so it was originally designed as a fortress, and the core building complex was located in the bastion proposed by Li Dan.
The Chitou factory site itself is composed of rolling hills, and Li Dan decided to make full use of the original terrain.
The top of the hill was flattened to form a small fort with three-foot-thick crenellations and parapets. The small fort was like a horse's face, and a protective wall with shooting holes connected it to the next fort. Within the shooting range.
In the center of each fort is a stone blockhouse, with ladders leading up and down to underground communication trenches protected by arched cement prefabricated components and soil. Using this facility, soldiers can access small forts and blockhouses of different heights for combat.
It would be difficult for the enemy to capture this grand defense facility with seventy-three small forts without suffering thousands of casualties.
And the most terrible thing is to take advantage of these hills
In the trough, builders built winding dry trenches.
The defenders could gradually retreat through the dry trenches, withdraw all to the upper bunker, and then open the gates and release water to submerge the dry trenches below to form a moat. The gates were set deep in a little-known communication trench.
Even if the opponent captures all the communication ditches and small forts, they have not yet achieved their goal of capturing, because the two gate towers have not been captured, the top road that can be used to walk around the city has not been captured, and the various defensive points in the city have not been captured.
When it was first built, no one understood why it was designed like this. When Liu Hongsheng faced thousands of people gathered outside Waihao, he even didn't understand why he was only given 400 people to guard it.
Of course, the security team and the Workers' Self-Defense Force in the factory have obtained weapons, and there are thousands of people who can help defend, but..., he once looked at the sloping ramp and swallowed his saliva, wondering in his heart whether the city was not completed, or maybe Corners were cut, huh?
The iron-wrapped suspension bridge creaks and rises, driven by the strong mules and gears in the gate tower. The thick iron rope was ordered and specially shipped from Luoyang Iron Factory. It was ineffective even with swords and arrows, which somewhat reassured him.
The thief on the opposite side walked to the suspension bridge and pointed fingers. This dry trench was only seven feet deep, and there were no obstacles inside except newly grown grass. On the other side was a sloping beachhead and a large uphill slope. It seemed that if you charged harder, you could reach the top.
"Is this also called a city wall?" Someone laughed wildly. Liu Hongsheng's heart was hanging again.
"Vice-in-command, it seems the enemy is going to attack here?" a company commander said. Liu Hongsheng's position is the deputy regimental commander of Biaoying, so everyone is accustomed to calling him "deputy commander".
"Let the brothers get into each shooting position. They won't keep us waiting too long." Liu Hongsheng said through gritted teeth and pulled out the self-generating short blunderbuss in the holster: "Tell everyone to listen to the whistle before firing. Don't waste ammunition!"
"yes!"
Several officers from the security team appeared behind him: "Mr. Liu, what do you think we will do?"
Liu Hongsheng pointed to the artillery on the artillery position: "Three brothers are left in each artillery position to help carry the shells and gunpowder. The remaining swordsmen and shieldmen guard the entrances to all the garrison caves, and the spearmen go up the walls on both sides.
The fire gunners used sandbags to build a circular protective wall behind the gate to serve as a defensive line if the city gate was breached. "He knew that the security team of 300 people only had 100 muskets, and those people had only hit fixed targets.
"If there are losses among the people I brought, I will draw people from among them to make up for it," he said.
Sure enough, the opponent regarded the narrowed suspension bridge as the main attack point. They screamed, cursed, and pushed forward, holding all kinds of different things in their hands, and their faces were twisted in the firelight.
At this time, Liu Hongsheng suddenly found that he was in a good position, condescending! Hey, is it also an uphill slope?
As soon as he recalled the path he had taken when he came here, he suddenly realized that he was attacking from above two hundred steps away. Li Sanlang had done this on purpose!
In just a flash of thought, the crowd had already overflowed the ditch and rushed to the other side. The small concrete square between the two gate towers was filled to the brim in an instant, with people looking around at a loss.
Some people used knives to chop down the iron gates that had fallen down, and others used sticks to knock on the concrete outer walls of the gate towers. More people looked down at the flat and solid ground with blank expressions on their faces.
The whistle sounded, and fire suddenly erupted from the shooting hole six feet high above the gate tower. Then a loud explosion was heard, and there were splashes of blood everywhere as people screamed and fell.
The artillery firing position also opened fire, and a large number of shotgun pellets flew out, creating a fan-shaped surface. The firecrackers fired continuously, and the people below shouted "Ah..., ah...!"
Those who had escaped the disaster were so frightened that they ran away when they looked around at the tragic situation. The sound of artillery and gunfire continued, the figure in front was gradually obscured by the smoke, and someone in the tower coughed loudly.
The bamboo flute sounded, but the cannons and muskets no longer sounded. A group of soldiers who had given themselves tens of thousands of ammunition for their guns walked to the perforation and took over their posts. They saw hundreds of corpses strewn about below, spreading to the other side of the dry trench.
The smell of blood spread everywhere, and many people rubbed their noses with their hearts pounding.
"Hey!" A security guard who was left behind trembled as he looked at the scene outside the perforation hole: "Fortunately, fortunately
The deficit is not with them. "
"Are you opening your eyes?" The gunner of the gun took a sip at the gourd, laughed and stuffed it into his hand:
"It's nothing. You haven't seen how badly I beat Kerr on the battlefield in Liaodong. That's how miserable it is! It took three days to bury the bodies!"
Now you know why people say that our Biaoying camp is the strongest army in the world, right? That's not just a boast! "
After two or three rounds, Liu Hongsheng felt relieved. oh! So this is how the castle designed by Saburo was used? This guy's brain is really...! ..
He has been following Li Dan for a long time. Every time he fights beside him, when he looks back, he always learns a lot.
Liu Hongsheng secretly thought that although he knew a few words and knew some boxing and kicking skills, his ability to fight was far inferior!
He remembered that Brother Dan once said to him sincerely: If a person does not make progress, even nine oxen cannot pull him. The key lies in himself. Only those who are always making progress will have more opportunities!
Liu Hongsheng thought that Li Dan would need manpower this time as governor, and this was a good opportunity to perform.
The Xi'an Prefecture now is so big between Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. I wonder if it is possible for me to ask Sanlang to recommend me to become a Qian President or even a guerrilla?
When he thought about it, his mind became more active, and he wanted to fight this battle more and more!
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