Soon after, a red lantern was raised in a barracks outside the town of Huangnigang, which was a signal from the rebel troops in the town, and it was also the target of artillery observation.

"Distance xxx, bearing xxx. Aim, put! The artillery platoon commander gave the order to open fire crisply.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The barrel of the mountain cannon retreated sharply, driving the cannon body to shake slightly, and the two 75-mm shells broke free from the shackles of rifling, broke through the air with an initial velocity of nearly 300 meters per second, drew a beautiful high-angle arc in the air, and then plunged to the ground, bursting out two gorgeous flowers of death, and the sound of the shell exploding was transmitted back to the hill after a few seconds.

"Nearly missed. Adjust the angle xxx, the direction xxx. Aim, put! The artillery platoon commander calmly adjusted the high and low angles and firing boundaries of the mountain artillery, and then two shells flew over, hitting the red lantern accurately, and in the flames of the explosion, the figures scurrying around could be seen.

More than 20 shells were bombarded in one breath, and the red lantern was blown out twice, until a green lantern was raised, and the artillery stopped bombardment, and then, turning the muzzle of the cannon in another direction, fired fiercely at a newly raised lantern, and later, there were more and more red lanterns in the area of Huangnigang, and the two mountain guns had to point at different targets, although this dispersed the fire, but deepened the panic inside and outside the town, and the red lanterns were automatically extinguished one after another, This meant that the commanders of those camps accepted the persuasion to surrender, or surrendered command, or changed their stubborn positions, and led their subordinates to respond to the uprising, and the revolutionary forces grew steadily and rapidly.

At the same time, in the highest courtyard in the center of Huangnigang Town, Duanfang, the minister of the Qing Empire, the governor of Liangjiang, and Lang Yinchang, the right attendant of the War Department, were hurriedly directing the Goshha guards to shoot indiscriminately, standing in this high-walled compound, continuing their stance against the revolution.

Listening to the explosions that sounded from time to time in the distance and near the distance, Duan Fang had no master, shrunk behind a grinding plate, covered his ears with both hands, and couldn't stop shivering, he felt as if he had returned to the Daqianmen Railway Station in the 31st year of Guangxu, back to the luxuriously decorated carriage, and there was a revolutionary standing next to him with horizontal eyebrows and a bomb in his hand, for a while, Duan Fang himself was confused, he couldn't tell whether this was his hallucination, or whether there was really a person standing in front of him.

"My lord! My lord! The man in front of him shook Duanfang's shoulder vigorously, and finally brought this first-class member of the imperial court out of the illusion.

The revolutionaries were gone, replaced by Zhang Biao's almost distorted face.

"Huh?" Duan Fang covered his ears with his hands, raised his head and looked at Zhang Biao with a blank expression.

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around! It's all the other way around! The eighth town in Hubei, the twenty-first mixed association, and the ninth town in Jiangsu are all in chaos! The lowly position was also shot by someone! Zhang Biao squatted down.

Only then did Duan Fang see clearly that Zhang Biao's left neck was covered with blood, dyed red with most of the military uniform on the left, if this bullet missed a little more, Zhang Biao might have been "martyred".

"It took a lot of effort to lead people out of the encirclement, and now there are chaotic soldiers everywhere! My lord, the Hubei New Army and the Jiangsu New Army are all finished, and they are no longer our soldiers! Zhang Biao helped Duan Fang up, and said eagerly: "My lord, while the rebels are not surrounded yet, let's fight to the death, and we must also protect the adults to kill them!" ”

"Boom!"

Before he could take a step, a shell fell outside the courtyard and exploded only a dozen steps away from the courtyard wall, and the scorching shrapnel flew in all directions, and a Goshha who was lying on the wall and shot screamed and covered his head and fell from the wall.

"I'm not leaving!" A crying howl sounded in the darkness, and before he could crouch back down on the millstone, a large red lantern was thrown in from outside the courtyard and rolled under the wall.

"Quick! Extinguish it! Extinguish it! Zhang Biao shouted frantically, and without waiting for others to understand what he meant, he ran over in a few steps, and trampled on the lantern with a pull.

"Don't be stunned! Shoot, shoot! Shoot at everyone who is close to the yard! Can't let them throw the lantern in, and if they do, it's over! Wherever the lantern falls, the cannon hits! Zhang Biao stood under the wall and howled a few times.

Yin Chang leaned over with a horse lantern and asked in a low voice, "Where did the rebels get their artillery?" Did they take the baggage boats? ”

Zhang Biao covered the wound on his neck, bared his teeth and said: "It's not like the cannon in the battalion, it's from the opposite hill, and the cannon is on the mountain!" Your Excellency, you still don't understand? The rebels have bullets in their hands, and there are artillery assists on the mountain, so there must be foreign aid! Baggage boats? The people sent by the lowly duty have been beaten back, and the ammunition there may have become a riot. ”

"Could it be Anqing? Anqing rebels? Yin Chang looked up, but the courtyard wall was too high, and the hill could not be seen from the courtyard. After dark, the cable telegraph connecting Wuhan was lost, and Yin Chang felt strange at that time, but now that he thinks about it, he is afraid that the rebels did it.

"My lord, give the order, if we don't break through, we won't be able to escape!" Zhang Biao wailed.

But before Yinchang could give the order to break out, a shell fell into the courtyard and exploded, and several Goshha flew into the sky, and the order in the courtyard was suddenly chaotic.

"Don't tell them to throw lanterns! Don't tell them to throw lanterns! Zhang Biao shouted hoarsely, but it was useless, because there were no lanterns thrown into the courtyard, which was no longer necessary, the iron bridge outside the town had been taken by Wu Zhenhan's commando, and now the uprising Hubei New Army Engineering Battalion had set up a telephone line outside the town, and had direct contact with Zhao Bei, who was in charge of the overall situation on the hill, and there was no need to rely on the lantern to instruct the artillery to shoot, through two military telephones, the artillery on the hill could accurately extend the fire in the dark.

"Surrender! You are surrounded! If you don't surrender, the jade will be burned! Outside the courtyard there was a shout of people, clear in the darkness, apparently using a simple loudspeaker, and in conjunction with it, the gunfire outside was silent for a moment.

"Is it Bai Wenwei outside? You eat the king's fortune, but you pull the flag and rebel, you ask yourself, what is the court sorry for you? Zhang Biao heard the voice of the person who shouted, although he was not his subordinate, but he had spoken a lot with Na Bai Guan during the autumn exercise, and the other party's thick Shouxian dialect was impressive.

"Zhang Biao! To tell you the truth, I, Bai someone, have already joined the Alliance, and the Yue Wang Association in Anqing City also has my share! Don't mention any favors from the court to Lao Tzu, phew! Lao Tzu is to rebel against the Qing Dynasty! Let me tell you, now not only the Hubei army has rebelled, but our new army in Jiangsu has also rebelled, and Xu Shaozhen has also been captured by us, we have made up our minds that if we don't eliminate you, we will never leave! The man outside shouted.

Looking at those subordinates who had wavered, Yin Chang raised his pistol, "snapped" two shots, and then shouted: "I will wait for the king's fortune and the matter of loyalty to the king!" Today is the time for me to be faithful to the king. Whoever dares to surrender, I Yinchang recognize him, but my pistol does not recognize him! ”

"Yin Chang! You thief, you are guilty of great crimes! Suffer death! …… Fire! The man outside the courtyard shouted, and with an order to open fire, the sky sounded again with the sound of "whooshing" shells breaking through the air, one shell fell on the firewood house behind the courtyard, causing a raging fire, and the other shell blew the wing house into tiles and fell all over the yard.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

In just a few minutes, more than a dozen shells fell in the yard, and then the bombardment suddenly stopped.

"The pioneer officer has an order! Capture Yin Chang alive and reward a thousand taels of silver! Capture Duan Fang alive and reward a thousand taels of silver! Brothers in the courtyard, catch the dog and receive the reward! If you are stubborn and resist the revolution, you are to blame! The shells of the revolutionary army will blow up all the reactionary forces! Although you are banner men, as long as you do not resist the revolution, we will give you a way out! The cypress outside the courtyard continued to stir up the morale of the army.

Yin Chang found that there was something wrong with the eyes of several Goshha beside him, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and before the gun in his hand could be raised, he was hugged by a person from behind, and then a few more people pounced up, snatched all the pistols and horse lanterns in his hands, cut his arms back, pressed them to the ground, and followed Yin Chang's nine dragon belts were pulled away, tying his hands behind his back.

"Zhang Biao, you have a good soldier! One thousand taels of silver, the official is worth this price? You dog minions, the beads on the top of the official are more than four thousand taels of silver! ”

Yin Chang heard Duan Fang howling not far away, turned his head to look, but saw that not only Duan Fang had already been captured, but even Zhang Biao, the commander of the Eleventh Town, was also tied up like a dumpling.

"Listen to the brothers outside, we have captured Duanfang and Yinchang! Don't fire again! If you swear not to kill us, we will surrender! One of Goshha killed the captain of the guard, and while wiping his bayonet, he shouted at the outside of the courtyard wall, and by the way, he took a knife and cut the yellow coat on Duan Fang's body, and threw it out of the courtyard wall with Yin Chang's pistol.

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