Chapter 57 0057

"Bring up the—cannon for me!" he yelled from a locomotive. "Bring up the—cannon!" He didn't finish shouting, there was a lot of shouting behind the pile, pulling and lifting, and brought up a mother-in-law cannon in red clothes.This kind of black-scarred monster can swallow a bucket of gunpowder in one gulp, and add copper nails, iron triangles, lead sand, and iron lotus seeds. Of course, its range is far worse than that of foreign guns, but if anyone gets close to it Well, one cannon shot can kill people, a single line from the barrel of a foreign gun, and a large area from the barrel of a blunderbuss, one shot from this thing, people in a radius of ten feet will collapse if they don't die.

"Fire—a cannon!" Tang Liufa shouted in a high-spirited manner: "As long as they are not afraid of death and recognize that the muzzle of the cannon is pointing upwards, they will fire the cannon for me!" The defenders huddled by the river bank in front of the pile, everyone could hear Tang Liugua's shouts, and in the gloomy twilight, they could see one after another of those huge monsters being lifted onto the gun mounts.One statue, two statues...they counted silently, it was frightening to say, God knows how there are so many cannonballs? !Just in front of this pile, there are more than 20 cannons lined up!The gunners in red were clamoring, some pressed their caps, some cleared the barrels with cloth rolls with big heads, and some had already taken off the gun covers. The mule carts with wheels rolled on the pile, the animals carrying the gunpowder barrels screamed, some drum-shaped gunpowder barrels were unloaded, and the sound of countless barrels rolling together was like a huge thunder.

"Fire the platoon gun!" Tang Liubao yelled again. A volley of guns rang out in the dark, and the momentum was astonishing. When the defenders crossed the river, they felt that when the volleys of guns rang out, the whole pile was lit up by blue muzzle fire, and almost every pile had gunfire. The sound of the volley of guns was like a gust of wind urging the raging waves, rushing and rushing to the distance. "The first shot, test the shot!" Tang Liuwa immediately shouted, "The second shot, the test shot!... The third shot, the test-shot!" boom!boom! !boom! ! !

There were three loud bangs in succession, deafening the ears of the deaf. No matter how old those cannons are, the sound of the cannons can be so loud. On the river beach, the defenders who were lying under the artillery fire were deafened and dazed one by one, and their hearts were shaken.As the sky gradually darkened, the defenders who crossed the river were terrified by Gaoduishang's aura. Does that mean to attack with the muzzle of the guns? !One of them was crawling backwards, and each of them was crawling backwards, crawling, and suddenly there was a thick voice on the high pile yelling: "The big knife team, get ready, the turtles below are about to retreat. If you run slowly, leave their legs for me!"

When the defenders heard this, they couldn't crawl, they had to run, and Hei Li couldn't figure out who would retreat first or who would run first, so they ran away after being coaxed, and some stepped on the wrong place and fell into the deep water in the middle of the river. In the village, some ran with their shoes off and their feet bare. The squad did not form a squad, and the platoon did not form a platoon. The soldiers lost the officers, and the officers could not find the soldiers. The head of the Yadantou on the other side of the river stomped his feet anxiously, shouting that they are not allowed to retreat, and whoever retreats first will kill the other.In normal times, with his chattering vigor, he can somewhat restrain himself, but when this kind of panic comes, who will listen to him?He took his adjutant and Ma Bian to stop them, but on the way, he heard someone shouting in Heili: "The Broadsword Squad is coming across the river, Commander, why don't you run as fast as you want?!" The word "steadiness" that was often on his lips was also thrown out of the sky, and he ran with two horses. When he ran past the smoke couch, he panted and told the Opium Ghost Battalion Commander: "Change the supervisory team to the cover team." , quickly pull up and hold on,...otherwise, my...regiment, my mother is so stupid, it will... fall apart..."

And the battalion commander of the opium ghost was very arrogant. When the commander of the duck egg head talked to him, he rolled his eyes indifferently. The adjutant went up and pulled him. Hey, the adjutant flicked the flashlight, only to find that there was an unnecessary hole in his chest. "Supervisor team! Supervised team!" Yadantou head Kong yelled twice, but called two bullets that screamed past his scalp. The wind blew away the evening clouds in the sky, and the ball formed by the duck's egg head scattered away in a daze, just like the remaining clouds blown by the wind...

Torches were lit on the long high pile, and road workers, shantytowns, and coolies from Xiaoyan Village all surrounded Tang Liubao. "Master Tang, you really have it!" Uncle Lian Qi said, waving his thumb, "Where did you get these dozens of cannons?... Not only did you get all the cannons, but you even got all the gunpowder." , the gunpowder piled up behind each cannon is probably hundreds of barrels?" Tang Liupao just smiled and didn't say anything. He took two steps and walked up to a cannon. He stretched out his hand and pulled off the red cloth cannon cover, and shouted, "Look, buddies, this is this kind of cannon!"

Let's take a look, what kind of gun is there? !It turned out to be just a thick piece of wood. "Among my cannons, only three are real ones, and I have already tried them just now!" Tang Liuwa said, "The rest are all bluffers. Fengyuetang demolished a back room, and the beams and pillars were sawed." If it’s broken, just cover it with the red clothes. I said earlier that the fake cannons are in our hands, so they should be used as real cannons. The regiment of the defense army is a piece of tofu, so is it still necessary to use real cannons?” "So Mr. Tang, this gunpowder?"

Tang Liupao laughed loudly and said, "Except for the dozen or so barrels behind the three real cannons that can't be moved, the rest of the barrels are filled with oily pancakes. Open it up and eat while it's hot. It's time for us to have dinner... " The story of Iron Fan Tang Liu's witty defeat of the Beiyang Army was spread throughout Yanshi that night. Although the facts are true, they are even more exaggerated if they cannot be spread by people's mouths.Although this fire was nothing, it was enough to boost the morale of the people in the salt market.The human guns Tang Liuchao led were not as good as a brigade of the Township Protection Regiment, and he was able to hold Gaodui firmly. Wouldn't it be possible to overthrow a division of the Beiyang Army if the people and guns in Yanshi were combined?Of course, there is such a figure as Tang Liubao in the salt market, people can't help but think of Guan Baye, if there is no Guan Baye to promote talents, how can Mr. Dai and his mentors and apprentices come out and take charge?And Tang Liufa doesn't take credit at all. Whenever people praise him for his greatness, he will bring up Guan Baye and say: "What is my Tang Liufa?... Let me tell you the truth, if Guan Baye The Eighth Master is here, and the Beiyang Defense Force still has this dozen? I'm afraid the team has not pulled out the camp, and the hairless head of Yadantou has already been packed in Guan Baye's horse bag!"

However, there is no news of Guan Baye who went to Dahuze. Someone came to the county seat, saying that Sun Chuanfang heard that the attack on Yanshi was defeated, and another well-equipped division of the Jiangfang Army was dispatched from the north bank of the Yangtze River, plus an independent brigade to go north. Some people also said that the head of Yadantou wanted to abscond with a small chrysanthemum and rolled up a large amount of public funds, but was betrayed by his adjutant when he was hiring a ship. He was escorted to the chaotic mound behind the Tongyuan Bureau and killed, because no one collected the corpse, and a group of wild dogs were saved for nothing... As for the little chrysanthemum, of course it was fine, and it was really lucky that she was promoted to the mistress of the teacher seat.

Yanshi is waiting, waiting for Guan Baye, waiting for the militiamen in the Great Lakes, and waiting for another big battle...