Mengshan Army

"Captain, captain," Jiang Yun hurried over, "They're going to kill those women!"

Long Qian was taken aback, "Who? Who wants to kill whom?"

"Qiu Zhicheng is leading people to kill the woman in Jizhai." Jiang Yun was panting.

"Nonsense!" Long Qian rushed towards Du Duo Village.But it was a step too late, except for the seven Ji women who followed Song Jinguo to burn dry food, the other nine women had been slaughtered by Sun Dewang's guard captain Qiu Zhicheng.

Stepping into the small courtyard that had never been entered before, the ground was covered with blood and nine disheveled corpses lay in disorder in the courtyard, Long Qian's hair immediately exploded.

"You guys! How can you do it!" Long Qian shouted angrily at Qiu Zhicheng who was about to leave.

"I'm looking for you!" Qiu Zhicheng, who was not very old but already bald, with a red face, said carelessly, "Okay, Captain Long, there are rumors in the village that Captain Long does not practice martial arts, and he is not close to women. If he had the opportunity, he detained seven women and joined his team! Hand them over, the boss has orders, and those women must not reveal the details of the cottage."

"Nonsense, someone will definitely leak the details to the government, but it won't be those innocent women. Captain Qiu, you can deal with a few powerless women. I don't know there are people like you in this world." Kind of people! I want those women, you go and reply to Mr. Sun, if you want to pick someone up, ask him to do it himself!" Long Qian said coldly, "Get out, this is my territory now."

"Grandma, it's against you! I have already seen that you are not a kid. How dare you not listen to what the boss says? Come on!" Qiu Zhicheng was furious.

There was a loud "bang"!Long Qian fired quickly, knocking the steel gun away from the guy next to Qiu Zhicheng who was about to take the gun, and the bullet accurately hit the gun in the hand of the internal guard. Send out, "Oh my god."

Long Qian quickly pulled the bolt on, and looked coldly at Qiu Zhicheng and the four inner guards he brought.

As soon as the gunshot rang out, a group of people from the eighth team rushed in. The leaders, Wang Mingyuan and Lu Shan, immediately hid Long Qian behind them, and pointed their guns at Qiu Zhicheng without hesitation.

"Captain Qiu, don't force me to turn my back on you. Go and tell the big boss that if you want the eighth team to die for him, don't mention those women." Long Qian shouted, "Get lost!"

Qiu Zhicheng stared at Long Qian resentfully, "Okay, Captain Long, you can do it, you have the guts. Let's go!"

The internal guards have already set off, and Sun Dewang or Sun Deming will never return to deal with this matter. Liu Yucai and Zhou Huanan have always protected Long Qian. Qiu Zhicheng is not a fool. It can be seen that the eighth team has been firmly controlled by Long Qian. They all understand.

"Captain, I'm afraid we won't be able to go back." Wang Mingyuan watched Qiu Zhicheng leave, and whispered to Long Qian.

"I don't even think about going back." Long Qian didn't care.

Sun Dewang's decision had already completely pushed the eighth team out. Hearing Long Qian's words, Lu Shan and Feng Guozhu were faintly excited.

"Where are those women?"

"Hiding in the kitchen." Song Jinguo said.

"Tell them, as long as I, Long Qian, are still breathing, no one will hurt them."

"He, he won't come back, come back?" Cheng Erhu was a little worried and stammered.

"Haha, if they had the courage to come back, they wouldn't run for their lives in such a panic. Don't waste your time here, Erhu, you lead someone to bury these women. The rest of them go about their own business." Long He listened attentively to the gunshots around Tianmen, and just as a loud noise came from Tianmen, everyone's expressions changed.

Wang Mingyuan said in a low voice, "I'll take my team to have a look."

"No, prepare to defend the Sixth Team's position." Long Qian turned around and left the yard, only to see a 30-year-old woman trotting over, Gudong knelt down in front of Long Qian, and whimpered, "Captain Long, your big brother En Dade, Sun Juan and the surviving sisters never forget, and they will repay your kindness no matter what you do.”

"Your name is Sun Juan?" Long Qian looked at the woman with disheveled hair and dirty face, "Stop kneeling, get up! There is going to be a war soon. You stay here first, follow Song Jinguo, the next step is to take the mountain road, the night road, you guys Get ready, I won't leave you alone. Shi Jun, follow me to Tianmen."

Long Qian left behind a group of terrified girls, and brought Ning Shijun, Jiang Yun, and Gu Xiaolin to a hillside near Tianmen.Across a sparse forest, he could see flames rising from the position from time to time, and the cannons of the government army kept bombarding him, but Long Qian didn't know the specific situation.He had to take a closer look at the defensive positions. Although the terrain around Tianmen was very familiar, and the second and fourth teams must have built fortifications, Long Qian was still worried. If the sixth team collapsed quickly, the eighth team must have a proper countermeasure.

The battle situation in front of him was fairly normal, the officers and soldiers didn't seem to launch a fatal charge, they just bombarded with cannons, the dry weeds caught fire, the smoke filled the air, and the sight line was very bad.

Long Qian noticed that the artillery bombardment of the officers and soldiers was intermittent, firing about ten rounds each time, and then took a breather.Due to sightlines, the situation of the Sixth Squad could not be seen clearly, but the intermittent shelling and impact points of the officers and soldiers showed that the Sixth Squadron had been tenaciously nailed to the position.Long Qian recorded the time of the shelling interruption and estimated the frequency of the official army's attack.Infantry coordination is a topic that must be mastered in the modern army, but Yuan Shikai's new army is obviously not perfect-the barrage slowly advances, or after the smoke from the last shell clears, the bayonets of the charging troops will immediately On the chest of the defender﹍﹍This kind of technology that even the modernized European army has not fully mastered, I am afraid that Cao Kun's troops have not mastered it, it requires sophisticated equipment and strict training.Even if the Beiyang New Army is equipped with Western artillery, it does not have the money to do large doses of live ammunition training.

"Shi Jun, Jiang Yun and I go up to have a look, you don't want to go up, you and Xiao Lin go back, let Lu Shan's team gather first, let Lu Shan bring people here, wait for my order." Long Qian listened again After a violent shelling, he felt the crisis and decided to intervene in advance.

"Captain, are we rushing out from the south? Why send Sun Dewang to his death?" Ning Shijun was an intellectual in the eighth team and was always valued by Long Qian.

"No, we must persist until dark. Otherwise, it will not be easy for us to escape. They are ruthless, and we cannot be ungrateful. Besides, we are fighting for ourselves now. You go back, Jiang Yun will follow me." Long Qian jumped up, facing Tianmen The position ran.

When Long Qian went up, he was just in time for a round of attack by the officers and soldiers.The official army did not attack along the main road, but occupied several commanding heights near Tianmen, and used their firepower to suppress the Tianmen defenders. The defensive position of the sixth team probably used yesterday's position, and in Long Qian's view, it was not used at all. Good terrain, like the small highland on the left front of Tianmen, must be controlled by hand. Fortunately, the army does not have machine guns. If a Maxim was set up on the highland, the front of the Sixth Team would have already been broken through.

The wounded soldiers of the sixth team were sent down one after another, and the dead were thrown on the ground, but the team was still effectively controlled and there was no chaos.

Before he could find Cai Chengxi in time, Long Qian and Jiang Yun threw themselves into a fierce defensive battle.With one gun, Long Qian sealed off the officers and soldiers on the small high ground to the left of the Tianmen Gate, killed two enemy soldiers in a row, and reduced the firepower to suppress the sixth team. The corpse was withdrawn.

"Captain Long, thank you very much." Cai Chengxi, dressed in gunpowder, appeared in front of Long Qian.

"My brother, don't talk about the two families." Long Qian asked for water, moistening his hot throat, "Captain Cai, we must take back that highland, otherwise we will suffer a lot. You command the brothers to suppress the dog with firepower, and I will take it with you." Someone take it."

After playing for nearly an hour, Cai Chengxi certainly knew the threat from the high ground, "Thank you so much Captain Long." Cai Chengxi's sixth team and Zhou Yi's third team were both Liu Yucai's old team, and Cai Chengxi felt a little closer to Long Qian.

"Jiang Yun, ask Lu Shan to bring something up. Bring my sword too." Long Qian ordered.

When Lu Shan came up with ten people, Long Qian said to Cai Chengxi, "Gather a few brothers with good marksmanship, don't feel sorry for the bullets, and hit Gou Ri hard. I'll go around from there." Long Qian pointed to the right "Lu Shan, come with me with your first gun, and leave those without guns behind."

Cai Chengxi was moved, but he was not polite. He concentrated seven or eight rifles and fired at the high ground, and the people covering Long Qian went down the hillside.Cai Chengxi himself was holding a rifle and shooting towards the high ground. Gray figures on the high ground could be vaguely seen in the smoke. Not to be outdone, the officers and soldiers fought back desperately.Until he heard the cry of "Go up! Go up!", Cai Chengxi saw someone rolling on the high ground, and shouted in his heart that he was doing well, and hurriedly ordered to stop shooting, and sent some reinforcements there.

The officers and soldiers didn't notice Long Qian's roundabout movements. When they found out, Long Qian and Lu Shan were already very close. There were seven or eight soldiers on the high ground. Because there were too many people, Long Qian took the lead and rushed up quickly. He shot and killed an officer who stood up and yelled, and then drew out the ghost knife and slashed at him. A brutal hand-to-hand fight killed seven or eight officers who were not good at hand-to-hand combat. Four of the soldiers led by Long Qian died. One, and two more.

When the reinforcements from the sixth team came up, Long Qian handed over the position to the team leader who led the team, and told him to dig as much cover as possible, and the bullets left by the officers and soldiers were also left for the reinforcements from the sixth team.

Back at the main Tianmen position, Long Qian said to Cai Chengxi, "Don't put so many people here, one team is enough, but the guns must be fully equipped. If one team is exhausted and another one is added, there will be death if there are too many people. You insist on half a team." Shi Chen, I will go back and make arrangements, and I will take over from you in half an hour."

"We will hold on until noon. Captain Long, you are very kind, and it is not in vain that the second brother values ​​you." Cai Chengxi held Long Qian's hand tightly.

"Time is short, I'll go back first." Long Qian also shook Cai Chengxi's hand tightly.

Fill it in one by one?Cai Chengxi fought a cold war, isn't this too cruel?But he knew in his heart that Long Qian's method might be the best, but his own people might not be able to do it.Everyone was courageous together and didn't complain. If Long Qian said it, I'm afraid people's hearts will be scattered.

Cai Chengxi did not adjust his troops.While the officers and soldiers were resting, they counted their own numbers. In just over an hour, nearly 40 people had been lost, and more than 30 of them died, mostly from the bombardment of cannons.

"Captain, just do as Captain Long said, and let them pick it up earlier." One of his small captains came over, "By noon, we will have to die at least dozens of people, not to mention we still have time. Withdraw."

"No!" Cai Chengxi flatly refused, "We can't be sorry to Liu Tou and Brother Zhou, we have to buy them more time."

"The dog is coming up again, let's fight!" Another round of offensive by the officers and soldiers began, and with the appearance of the officers and soldiers on the mountain road, the shells fell again.The people in the sixth team shouted and resisted with all their might.