Chapter Seventy-Six: The Fifth Column of Blind Movement
Lin Zhennan sat in the hall, at this time December was already a relatively cold winter in Annan, but he kept wiping the sweat beads on his forehead, trying to calm down and pick up the teacup, but he heard the teacup on the teacup be shaken by his trembling hands. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info He was very conflicted at this time, and he couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart why the new army that caught the spy didn't catch this spy who had infiltrated the city and let him run here. If he was caught by the new army, he would be hanged and would not be interrogated at all, but as soon as this spy arrived at his home and handed it over, he would definitely be interrogated, and it would be unclear at that time. Under the pressure of the spies, he had to contribute more than 100 dings, so that these families could act according to the deployment of the spies, and their task was to attack the west gate after the fire started, and after succeeding, open the city to the barbarian army.
At this time, a small guy ran in and crawled in, panting and saying to the restless Lin Zhennan: "Old man! In the city - a fire broke out. ā
Lin Zhennan sat up suddenly, and before he had time to get excited, he sat down on the wooden bench again, his right hand fell weakly on the table, and inadvertently knocked the tea cup on the blue brick pavement and fell into pieces. His face was gray at this time, and he knew that as long as he shouted, his life would change forever. He inadvertently found that his throat was so dry that he couldn't even say a word.
The spies were also waiting anxiously on the side, and at this time, when they saw Lin Zhennan standing up but sitting down in a daze, knowing that he didn't have the courage to give an order, he quickly stood up and arched his hand at him and said, "Congratulations to Master Lin, it's a great time!" The opportunity to contribute to my Celestial Empire has arrived! ā
Lin Zhennan's pale face showed a hint of mockery and a bitter smile, and the little guy who rushed in to report the news waved his hand and said, "That's it!" Go, let us go against Simon!" ā
At this time, there were already fires in several places in the city, but this was not the destruction caused by the fifth column, but Qian Longzhou's plan to lure the enemy. He instructed the firemaster to pile up a lot of firewood and grass in several open courtyards in the city, and to light it when any of the barbarians were defeated, so that they could disrupt the plans for destruction in the city. The other party doesn't have a walkie-talkie, and even the flying pigeon is wishful thinking, and when he suddenly sees the fire when he doesn't know what the battle situation is outside, he will definitely fall into the trap.
At this time, Lin Zhennan, who turned back three times in one step, walked out of the gate with knives, guns and sticks in his house, but he didn't notice that there were people hidden in the dense canopy of several tall and big ancient trees in the city, these people were painted with black and green oil paint on their faces, wearing auspicious clothes, and a lot of fresh branches and leaves pinned to them, and they were looking at them with binoculars in their hands.
"Qian Longzhou, pay attention, there are more than a hundred people in the Chengxi Lin Mansion who have just gone out and are walking west with weapons in hand, it should be Neiying, get ready!" One of them quietly picked up the walkie-talkie and said inside.
"Okay! Roger that! Qian Longzhou excitedly put the walkie-talkie on the table, and the Annan officers beside him were shocked at this time, what is this box in the hands of this patriarch? Being able to utter human words, could it be some kind of trick and trick of these Chinese? But at this time, it is obvious that you can still talk to the people inside, but can you hide people inside?
Qian Longzhou didn't care what these shocked Annan officers were thinking, he pointed at Li Benchu and ordered: "You! And you! He pointed to another hundred households assigned to the fire division before and ordered: "You two lead the troops to carry fire extinguishing tools, prepare to fight the fire, since these spies who have mixed in have already begun to act, they must not be the hundreds of people in this district, and the fire has already started in the city, then the person in charge of setting the fire will start to act, you first put out the fire as bait, and then closely monitor, and if you find that the fire is broken, you must put it out as soon as possible!" Just go! ā
The two hundred households hurriedly surrendered their orders and left, Qian Longzhou pointed to another hundred households in charge of city defense, "You take your soldiers to block the retreat of these rebels who came out of the Lin Mansion." "This is the only way for the rebels to get here, they will inevitably flee in all directions after being routed under the walls, and your task is to intercept and ensure that these defeated soldiers can only escape back to the Lin Mansion and then catch the turtle in the urn." ā
This hundred households were obviously stunned for a moment, and he asked weakly: "May I ask Lord Qian, what does it mean to catch turtles in this urn?" ā
Another hundred households on the side hurriedly pulled him aside with a smile and shouted in a low voice: "Catching turtles in the urn is to catch turtles in the clay jar, which means to surround the enemy and catch them." The hundred households hurriedly nodded their heads to show that they understood.
"Hurry up, don't let these rebels escape." Qian Longzhou waved his hand, and then pointed to another hundred households on standby and said: "Your task is obviously heavier, you have to lead the ......"
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Lin Zhennan walked and felt a chill rising from his back, this is very wrong, this is broad daylight, although the barbarians outside are attacking the city, why is there still no one on this road? He couldn't help but look left and right, yes, there was no one along the road from his position to the West City Gate, and there was no one at the intersection of the road, only the noisy footsteps of these people on the bluestone pavement.
"Master, why isn't there anyone on this street?" A family member beside him also sensed that something was wrong, and leaned over and asked quietly.
"How do I know?" Lin Zhennan couldn't help but stutter a little, an extremely bad pre-cold came up in his heart, and when he turned his head to look, several pillars of smoke in the distance seemed to have been extinguished, and the smoke that rose up had been blown away by the sea breeze and was almost invisible.
"Not good! This must have been a trick by the Annamite to lure the enemy. The spy couldn't help but pat his thigh and sighed, and before he could finish speaking, he heard a few gongs. A group of soldiers dressed in the clothes of the Annam military army poured out from both sides of the street in front of them, and the hundred households led by them shouted at them: "No one is allowed to walk on the road during the day in Champa Port today, you immediately lay down your weapons and follow us to the prison area to wait for the fall!" ā
Lin Zhennan immediately knew that he was exposed, and he was completely exposed, he turned his head to look at the spy whose face was already pale, this spy's face turned from white to sallow, beads of sweat the size of beans were dripping down his forehead, and his legs were shaking and he wanted to run back. Lin Zhennan calmed down at this time, and the steel knife in his hand waved forward and said, "People die ** to the sky!" Immortal glory and wealth! Kill these officers and soldiers, and go open the door to the heavenly army! As he spoke, he pushed the family next to him forward.
The family members were just fifteen or sixteen-year-old young men, who had originally followed the master's orders to attack Ximen, but when they heard the old man shouting from behind, their courage immediately burst out, and they grabbed the weapons in their hands and rushed towards the officers and soldiers in front. You must know that young people between the ages of fifteen and sixteen and twenty are the most easily agitated, and they are full of fighting fanaticism, and the French like young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty when they are recruited, so after only a few years of fighting in a big war, France has lost a whole generation. At this time, these family members were even more fanatical under the agitation of the ethereal glory and wealth, and rushed quickly towards the official army fifty meters away.
But the officers and soldiers did not face the battle, but dodged to both sides in unison, showing the people in the back row, and the officers and soldiers behind were also officers, but what they were holding in their hands was not a cold weapon, but a firearm. These guns are not senate rifles provided by the Chinese, but smuggled weapons that flowed out of the martial arts country in previous years, and they were only taken out for display on weekdays, and taking them out at this time made these families feel strange, what is this, why did the officers and soldiers use an iron pipe against themselves?
Before he could think clearly, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side pulled the trigger, and the fire rope on the fire door poked down, and soon ignited the propellant in the barrel, followed by a "bang" explosion, and more than a dozen people in the front were knocked to the ground. Before they could wake up, they saw the officers and soldiers holding the iron pipes moving out of the way to the sides, followed by a group of officers and soldiers with bows and arrows in their hands.
The officers and soldiers quickly bent their bows and arrows in their hands, and quickly fired a round of arrows. and shot over more than a dozen families following behind at once. In the blink of an eye, almost forty family members were thrown to the ground, and at this time, there were still more than thirty meters away from the position of the official army, Lin Zhennan naturally would not give up the attack just because the family was dead, and shouted loudly in the back, "Hurry up, they won't be able to beat us if they rush up!" As he spoke, he rushed forward surrounded by his family, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the spy running quietly backwards.
If the official army only had those more than ten firearms, then Lin Zhennan would not have a chance of winning with the remaining sixty or so family members. The officers who fired the bows and arrows fired again, and this time because of the closer distance, the damage inflicted on these family members was even more obvious, and the first few guys bore the brunt, and one of them was even hit by four or five arrows, and they all fell to the ground in a wail.
There were only ten steps away now, and Lin Zhennan almost shouted, "Rush up!" Rush up! He knew that he still had more than fifty people under his command, and if he rushed forward, these officers and soldiers with firearms and bows and arrows would definitely not be able to stop them, and if they fought, the weapons under his hands were quite a lot of wooden guns, which were more advantageous than the short knives in the hands of the officers and soldiers.
Who knew that these officers and soldiers still did not engage in battle, and the officers and soldiers holding bows and arrows in their hands moved to the left and right sides again, and there was only one person standing in the middle of the bluestone road at this time. This man was eight feet tall, with a large waist and a round waist, wearing a green dress, a green cardigan on the top, a pair of trousers underneath, a pair of black leather boots on his feet, a pot helmet made of steel that was green but clear at a glance, and a large crystal mirror in front of his eyes. I can clearly see that this person's eyes are full of contempt, and he is holding a strange bird gun in his hand, there is a steel tripod under the mouth of the gun, which should be able to be supported on the ground for shooting, and under the gun is a square box made of steel, and you can see that a string of slender metal strips shining brass-colored in the box are drawn into Fang's body.
The man held the bird gun across his waist and shouted: "The machine gun is going to fire, plug the ears!" Then he pulled the trigger.