Maybe there really are ghosts and gods in this world! Amid the sound of the airship's gas motor, Commander Pan Shizhong stood in the airship's pod, looking at the starlight outside, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Even if he had learned a new thing, he still couldn't explain the strange scene last night with common sense -- just when the airship was about to return because it couldn't land, a huge thunder suddenly remembered in the east of Beijing, and the huge thunder with lightning not only illuminated half of the sky, but also shook the whole world. The thunder sounded, the heavy rain poured down, and the four airships that were ready to return slowly descended under the pressure of the raindrops, and landed steadily on the buffer bag, and when the unloading was completed, the raindrops suddenly became smaller, and the airships slowly rose again without waiting for the auxiliary airbags to expel the air.

This is the case with the four airships in front, and the same is true for the four airships in the back, above the western mountain, as if something is controlling the rain, and the sudden rain makes the eight airships only take three and a half hours to complete the operation that usually takes five hours to complete. Are there any ghosts or gods in the world? Pan Shizhong only thought about this question for one day, and when he flew to Beijing again the next day, he suddenly felt in his heart that there were ghosts and gods in this world.

"Captain, this Tartar Emperor is really a good time to live, you see that the moon is still missing." While the captain was pondering, the co-captain next to him seemed to be unable to suppress his excitement and said a nonsense.

"The twenty-sixth lunar month is only the waning moon, according to the previous calculation, the moonrise time is at 2:50 in the second half of the night, and the moonset is at 2:50 in the afternoon during the day. It's the first half of the night, and of course it's out of sight. Pan Shizhong thought that the deputy was just asking questions. Reflexively recited the moonrise and moonset time, but he understood after a while that the deputy had nothing to say, so he only asked, "Where is it now?" Have you passed the West Mountain? ”

"Captain, down there is the West Mountain." The co-captain replied, "It's almost ten o'clock, and we'll be landing in an hour." Now the correspondent is contacting the commandos in the outer city. ”

According to the general staff's battle plan, one of the airships will land directly in the outer city of Beijing, and the approximate landing location is near the Fazang Temple to the west of the Temple of Heaven, which is the closest to Chongwenmen. After receiving the weapons, the troops will directly attack Chongwenmen. The captain and deputy captain were very clear about the landing, not only had they read the map, but they were also sent directly to the capital to inspect the terrain. Fly the kite. Beijing's outer city is indeed very barren, most of the houses are against the inner city walls, and the landing site is just a wasteland.

The General Staff believed that it would not be difficult for the airship to land here, but in the opinion of the commander of the airship, Pan Shizhong. Landing here is ten times more difficult than on flat ground. There are buildings in the city no matter what. As long as there are buildings, the direction of the wind on the ground is uncertain after it has bypassed the streets and buildings, large and small. The airship is extremely large, and once there is a ground wind that changes direction, the operation of the airship will become extremely unstable. At that time, if it misses, it is very likely to crash into the city wall or the house outside the landing site, and the most serious thing is that the airship airbag will burst and spark in the collision. That landing would have been a disaster.

When all the airship captains volunteered to get this task, Pan Shizhong's speech only snatched this task. There are only two reasons for him, one is that the Dragon Airship is the oldest, and the aluminum in it is also problematic, even if it falls, the loss is the smallest, and the other is that he is the commander with the longest flight time, the most experienced, and if there is really an accident, he is also the most able candidate to turn the tide under unfavorable circumstances. Although Pan Shizhong relied on these two reasons to get the task, he was not sure about it in his heart. But the thought in his heart was: if you fall, you will fall, as long as it doesn't explode.

I heard the deputy captain say that he had arrived at Xishan, which was only 40 kilometers away from Beijing. Pan Shizhong said, "The people who stepped up to contact Wang Menghui, although there is no moon at night, the starlight is very bright, and the clouds are thin, once the airship lands, maybe those patrol officers will surround it." ”

In fact, without the captain's orders, the high-power radio of the correspondent on the airship kept calling Wang Menghui's department in Beijing in plain language, "Tiger... Tiger ......, I'm Youlong, please answer when you hear it! Tiger... Tiger ......, I'm Youlong, please answer when you hear it! ”

The airship called in the sky, and the correspondent of Wang Menghui of the handkerchief alley wore headphones, sweating profusely to fine-tune the channel, listening carefully to the static electricity squeak from the air frequency, just thinking about finding out the sound from the current sound, finally, a whisper flashed slightly, but it was still heard by the correspondent, the channel was fixed in this position, with the fine-tuning of the channel, the call inside became louder and louder, "Tiger... Tiger..., I'm Youlong, please answer ...... when you hear it"

The correspondent didn't have time to catch his breath, and hurriedly shouted, "You Long, You Long, I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger!" ”

"Captain, we've been contacted!" The chief of the communications section, who was standing on the side, hurriedly said to Wang Menghui.

"Ahh Good! Get in touch quickly. The time is coming, let them land right away! Wang Menghui, who was dressed in the uniform of a patrol sergeant, stood up suddenly, and only pulled him and said.

"Captain, we've been in touch again." Said the head of the communications section. Everyone listened attentively, and the correspondent inside was shouting, "...... Dragon, Dragon, Ground Breeze, Ground Breeze, Landing Lights All On, Landing Lights All On, Permission Landing! Permission to land! ”

"That's it!" Wang Menghui shouted to the officers in the same patrol uniform: "Now go to Fazang Temple as planned." When encountering a patrol officer, it is best to use a knife to solve it, and never shoot. ”

Wang Menghui said not to shoot, but a gunshot rang out outside, and when everyone was shocked, a team leader, Qi Xiaomao, said: "It's a gun being fired outside the city, it seems that the troops outside and the patrol police outside are on fire." ”

It is impossible for tens of thousands of troops to advance to the capital quietly, outside the city is the territory of the Shuntian hunting and robbery camp, although it has been repeatedly retrenched, but there are still several thousand people, its west camp is under the jurisdiction of the west city wall to the Lugou Bridge this section, in this area set up several patrol points, it is estimated that the avant-garde troops did not deal with the patrol police, let them fire the guns.

"What a bad luck!" Wang Menghui thought that there was a gun outside, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice. No matter how much positive it is now, he said again: "Set off immediately, and kill the patrol police if you encounter them!" With that, he took the lead out of the house.

The patrol officers in Beijing do not carry guns during the day. Generally only a three-foot-long black baton is wielded, and the patrol sergeant can only carry a sword from the outer city; At night, the patrolmen were allowed to carry guns, but they were confined to the watchpost all night, and the other patrolmen only patrolled the watchpost, and did not patrol. Wang Menghui has been in the capital for a few years, and it is very clear where there is a watchhouse. Now the car shop is located in the handkerchief alley area, which is two miles away on the north side of Fazang Temple, and hundreds of people are touching the dark. Soon the landing site was reached.

Even if it was far away from this ancestral agricultural altar, the roar of the diesel generator over there was still coming, and Song Liguo, who was stationed here, saw that Wang Menghui also came out, and hurriedly came over to report: "Captain." Those patrol officers in Xiannongtan have all cleaned up! "Song Liguo is talking about the people sent by the Inner City Patrol Department to guard the generator. In the evening, when Song Liguo came forward and invited them to drink, they were all tied up, so as not to get in the way.

"Well done! Stone. Wang Menghui said, and then looked at the sky, looking for the airship that was about to land.

In the dark and moonless sky, even if there are stars, it is still difficult to find an airship in the sky. Wang Menghui looked. The others are also looking out, very soon. Song Liguo saw a long shadow in the west and shouted, "Look, over there!" ”

Everyone followed the direction he pointed, and soon saw a long shadow floating slowly a few miles away, and the shadow was not only drifting closer, but also landing. After crossing the western wall, its height only dropped to less than 200 meters, and at this height, the huge body of the airship was more than 130 meters long and 12 meters high. In the amazement of everyone, the airship flew closer and lower, and the sound of the gas engine, which had been muffled by the diesel generator earlier, became louder and louder.

Like an eagle eagle landing, the airship followed the light instructions on the ground and flew straight from an altitude of 200 meters to the designated landing site. Everyone looked at the more and more huge airship in surprise, until the bottom of the airship collided with the hill-like cushion bag, and after a huge earthquake was "bang", everyone present recovered from the previous shock.

The airship landed accurately on the buffer bag, because a lot of hydrogen gas was discharged in advance, so the airship did not bounce back into the air after the impact, but shook it vigorously on the buffer bag a few times, and then stopped. Without the slightest hesitation, the soldiers waiting on the ground rushed over according to the formation prepared before, the time was about to be eleven o'clock, they had to snatch out the guns and munitions inside as quickly as possible, and then rushed through Chongwen Gate, Tiananmen Square, Wumen Gate, Taihe Gate, only to pull the Tartar Emperor out of bed.

The airship more than 100 meters long landed in the open space on the east side of the Temple of Heaven, and such a huge figure could not be hidden. The patrol officer on duty at the head of the city at night watched this unprecedented thing slowly landing, all of them were stunned and at a loss, only waiting for the patrol chief to come to his senses, and then he was ready to make a phone call to report that there was a foreign object in the east city, but before the patrol chief thought about how to report, the patrol officers in several other places fired in panic, no one had ever seen this thing, only the sound of gunfire could help him strengthen his courage.

Warning shots began to be fired all over the city, but their gunfire did not stop after a moment's notice, unlike the gunfire just now. The root of these gunshots is the fuse, after the ringing, there are gunshots everywhere, Nanyuan, Xiyuan, Xibianmen, Fucheng Gate, Xizhimen, these places not only have gunshots, but also cannons, when the crowd is dumbfounded, finally someone woke up, desperately blowing the whistle, beating gongs and drums, shouting loudly, "Revolutionary Party!" It's a revolutionary party! The revolutionaries are attacking the city! The revolutionaries are attacking the city! Suddenly, the whole of Beijing seemed to explode!

The sound of gunfire outside the city rang in Wang Menghui's ears, and the people he brought with him were the first to receive firearms, rifles, pistols, shotguns, mortars, bazookas, grenades, these things that he had dreamed of, and now he finally grasped them firmly in his hands. With guns and ammunition, he did not wait for the follow-up troops, he blew the whistle while running towards Chongwenmen, and if he met the patrol on the road, they shouted: "The revolutionary party is attacking the city!" The revolutionaries are attacking the city! "It's good that those patrolmen don't stop it, but if they do, they will definitely shoot at them.

Two or three hundred teams marched forward, from the Temple of Heaven along Chongwenmen Street, running to Chongwen Arrow Tower, this section of the three-mile-long street Wang Menghui ran countless times on weekdays, the difference is that he used to run with a rickshaw, now he is running with a gun on his back, it used to take only five minutes to run once, and now it is estimated that it will only take more than four minutes to run.

More than four minutes is short. But these times can still prepare the Qing army stationed on the arrow tower of Chongwenmen. After a screeching click, the four-thousand-pound jack gate on the arrow tower was lowered, and the phone was not connected. The pipe band stationed in the arrow tower used the lights to send a message to the main building of the inner city while placing a gun below.

Choosing to attack the inner city from Chongwenmen was the best choice for the commandos in Wang Menghui's opinion. The three gates of the outer city and the inner city are all urn city structures, and the urn city of Zhengyang Gate in the middle is the largest, followed by Xuanwu and Chongwen. Even in the era of hot weapons, the structure of the urn city can still bring great advantages to the defenders, but, unlike Zhengyang and Xuanwu, the urn city of Chongwenmen was pierced by the railway because of the construction of the Zhengyangmen railway station in Beijing. The east and west sides of the entire urn city are railway gates, from here the troops can directly enter the urn city without climbing the city wall. As long as you smash the gate below the tower, then the Forbidden City will be close at hand.

Although the Qing army on the Chongwen Gate put down the jack gate on the arrow tower, he knew that the pipe belt of the urn city was still not sure to hold, and he only commanded most of the soldiers stationed in the arrow tower to retreat to the city tower. Only a few dozen people were left in the Arrow Tower. And on the top of the railway door openings on the east and west sides, under the order of the pipe belt, all the guns of the Qing army were aimed at the two railway door openings across the urn city, if nothing else, the bandits must have attacked from here.

But unlike what the Qing army imagined, Wang Menghui did not choose the breakthrough point at the railway gate on the east and west sides, but directly attacked the Chongwenmen Arrow Tower. The commando soldiers did not shoot at the Qing troops on the arrow tower, only after the entire unit was in position. Use the Makqin machine gun to suppress the Qing soldiers on the arrow tower, and cover the bazooka team near the city gate to touch the near arrow tower. Bazooka though is a new weapon. But these shooters have been trained many times, in the sound of gunfire, they are not in a hurry to load the rocket, turn on the power supply, after steadily pulling the trigger, the rocket will be instantly ignited and thrown out, the tail flame is suddenly sprayed in the near distance of the shooter, fortunately each launch canister is equipped with a baffle, a flash of flames only sprayed on the baffle.

A rocket flew out, then another rocket flew out, and after four or five bombardments, the gate of the Chongwenmen Arrow Tower fell to the ground with a bang, but this was only the outermost wooden gate, and there was a jack gate inside. The city gate outside was bombarded with bazookas, and the jack gate in the middle of the door hole could be solved with explosives, Wang Menghui watched his soldiers rush in after the city gate collapsed, and then saw those soldiers running out like rabbits, others didn't know why these soldiers ran, but he fully understood the power of those explosives.

He was about to laugh when there was a sudden bang in the city gate hole, and while the ground shook, the explosion of air waves and fire only splashed out from the city gate hole, knocking down all the soldiers surrounding the city gate, most of the commandos on the ground were shocked, and the Qing army on the city tower was also shocked and jumped several feet high, falling to the ground and not being able to touch the north and south for a while.

The road ahead has been opened, as soon as Wang Menghui blew the charge whistle, Qi Xiaomao's team broke in, but they did not rush to the urn city, but along the outer perimeter of the urn city to the east and west two railway gates, from these two gates to suppress the city tower, then you can protect your own soldiers to board the arrow tower, and only by boarding the arrow tower, Chongwen Gate can be completely occupied.

Six Makqin machine guns were arranged in the three door openings in the south, east and west that had been occupied, and the mortars were constantly shooting at each other, and the shells fell densely on the wall of the urn city to prevent the Qing army from reinforcing the arrow tower in the north tower. Unexpectedly, the Qing army with bandits and artillery suddenly suffered a loss, and the Qing soldiers who had been arranged on the top of the gate hole of the east-west railway were either killed or wounded in a single shot. Under the isolation of artillery and machine gun suppression, a group of soldiers rushed to the city wall along the horse road on the inside of the arrow tower, and at this time, the small number of Qing soldiers left in the arrow tower basically lost their combat effectiveness after eating the explosion just now, and the arrow tower was occupied by the commando team in an instant.

"Captain, rush up!" Song Liguo also ran to Wang Menghui's side to report.

"Hmm!" Wang Menghui is not satisfied with the progress of the offensive, after all, this is something that has been deduced for several years, "The city tower must be taken down immediately, if it is late, Guangxu will run away!" ”

"Yes! Captain. Song Liguo jumped back again. In fact, before he jumped back, the battle to attack the city tower had already begun, it was still the mortar to suppress the horse road behind the city tower, in case the Qing soldiers behind it were reinforced, and the machine guns covered the advance of the bazooka group, only when they broke through to the thirty meters away, the dragon-like fire reappeared, and more than ten rockets flew towards the city tower, only to dumben all the gunfire over there, and the rockets on the city wall flew to the city tower. Rockets from under the walls flew towards the gates, and after a violent explosion, the last gate opened. The inner city is already in sight.

The broken city gate could not be seen in the night, but the whistle that opened the city gate could be heard in the night, and at this time, behind Wang Menghui, all the commandos had arrived. Feeling that the gunshots on the city tower were gradually fainting, Wang Menghui waved his hand, and the commandos divided into two roads, all the way to the city wall. Prepare to enter the city from a high place, walk all the way through the doorway, and prepare to enter the city from a low place.

Watch as the troops burst in. Wang Menghui shouted to the adjutant beside him, "Are you all ready?" ”

"Captain, get ready!" The adjutant handed over the radio that had been prepared long ago -- two hundred meters to the west of Chongwenmennei Street was the embassy area, and the eastern section was defended by Germany, Austria, and France. This side is the same as the rest of the place. High walls were built, machine guns and artillery were arranged, and in order to prevent the frightened foreigners from shooting at the assault team, according to the previous plan, the troops were to broadcast to the embassy district when they entered the city.

"What are you doing for me?!" Wang Menghui is the first phase of the South African Military Academy, although he knows German, he doesn't want to personally take the radio to broadcast to the foreign minister, only to the adjutant: "Give it to her!" ”

The entire commando Wang Menghui could be named, but there was only one person he knew and didn't want to call. This is Zheng Yuxiu. This person was just a woman who joined the Revival Society when she was in Tokyo. Because she had studied at the Tianjin Girls' Church School and was fluent in foreign languages, she was assigned to the Tianjin branch of the Revival Society. In this attack on Beijing, it was necessary to broadcast to the embassy district, and it was necessary to use French. There were many students in France, but there were none in China, and in the end, there was no choice but to hand over this task to Zheng Yuxiu, who had studied in a church school, and her French was pure. However, Zheng Yuxiu was only twenty years old, escaped from marriage and was unmarried, and was ecstatic to receive this task, and secretly had feelings for Wang Menghui, the commander of the commando, so that Wang Menghui really didn't know what to call this woman.

Zheng Yuxiu didn't hear Wang Menghui's blunt title, and she was escorted by several soldiers to the city tower. The gunshots have been ringing for nearly half an hour, the whole city of Beijing has long been awakened, the embassy area is even brighter at this time, the ministers of various countries want to contact the outside world, but they find that the telephone line and telegraph line have long been cut off, the only thing they can do is to drive all the soldiers up the city wall, and then sit in the British legation to listen to the gunfire outside, guessing whether this is a rebellion or a revolution.

"Gentlemen, this cannot be a revolution!" Although he was awakened in the middle of the night, the British minister Zhu Erdian was still dressed very neatly and did not have a trace of panic. "The Renaissance Society's army is still south of the Yangtze River, and they can't fly here. I thought, maybe the army rebellion, or maybe ......"

Zhu Erdian didn't want to go on when he said this, he suddenly wanted to move a person, and he wondered in his heart who had single-handedly planned this qiē. If it works, it's a pretty good job.

"I think it's a rebellion." Japanese Minister Hikoyoshi Ijiin said. Because of the existence of the United States and the obstruction of Congress, Japan has not been able to obtain the desired benefits in Northeast China, and now he hopes that the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be overthrown and the whole country of China will be in chaos, and only in this way will the negotiations on the railways in Northeast China make great progress. "I heard that since last year, the soldiers of the whole country can only be paid half of their salaries, and as long as the Qing army does not have military salaries, it will make trouble."

"It doesn't matter if it's a rebel or a revolution. If they attack the embassy, it is a violation of public international law. Acting U.S. Minister Methody said that even though the U.S. industry is so developed, U.S. diplomats are still as timid as mice seeing cats in front of European diplomats, and he doesn't really care about what happens outside, and the key is that the embassy cannot be attacked.

Several ministers were talking nonsense, more ministers were silent, and many people were praying to God, and the attack of the Qing army and the Boxers on the embassy district in the year of Gengzi only made the hearts of those who experienced it palpitate.

While everyone was speculating, a female voice suddenly sounded out of thin air, she spoke in pure French, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is a civil war going on outside, please do not go out to avoid accidental injury!" Ladies and gentlemen, there is a civil war going on outside, please do not spread the word to the embassy personnel, so as not to be injured by mistake! ……”

The female voice was very crisp, even if the guns were constant, everyone in the legation heard it very clearly. (To be continued......)