At the first moment of Si, under the order of Cheng Ce, two hundred armored soldiers from the Eight Banners of Jingkou divided into left and right wings and pressed from Ganheyan to Suiyuan. After they walked fifty steps, another two hundred armored soldiers followed.

Unlike the previous Eight Banners soldiers' combat methods, the one who walked in the front was fifty tall and large armored soldiers. Each of them was pushing a wheelbarrow common in the Jiangnan region. A thick Eight Immortals table was tied in front of the frame, and several layers of quilts were covered with.

It is obvious that these "cars" are specially used to resist bullets. When Mianen knew that ten unidentified people came to Suiyuan, he was quite afraid of the weapons of the North Navy and thought of this trick.

This "earth tank" similar to another time and space dates back to the night attack launched by the Qing army in Ningguta seven years ago on the Northern Navy. Although the sneak attack carrying a quilt failed, it still attracted Fu Kang'an's attention afterwards.

He asked his personal soldiers to find quilts and door panels, and then wet them with water and conduct repeated experiments. In order to imitate the power of the North Navy's weapons, he also used the Zanbarak heavy musket, commonly known as "two-man lifting", to shoot at a distance of twenty steps. After many tests, it was found that at least five layers of soaked quilts were covered on the door panels, and the quilts had to be covered with soil so that they could not be penetrated.

In order to solve the problem of easy movement, the craftsmen found a wheelbarrow, fixed the two door panels to the left and right sides of the frame, and connected it with a horizontal panel in the middle to cover the person pushing the cart behind. In this way, the thing turned into a small car.

After watching the shooting effect, Fu Kangan believed that this method was feasible, so he made it in batches in the army, and wrote the matter in the memorial and reported it to Qianlong.

In fact, the Qing army used a large number of chariots during the Nurhaci era, which was also called "licensed chariots" at that time. According to the "Complete Book of War and Defense" compiled by Fan Jingwen, the chariots used in the Later Jin Dynasty were made of thick wooden boards covered with cowhide and iron sheets. Small bricks and stones were hit without moving, large bricks and stones were hit and rolled down, and firewood was thrown without burning. It had a strong defensive power against the firearms of the Ming army at that time. When the Later Jin led the army to capture Shenyang, the chariots played an important role.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, as the Qing army equipped more and more firearms, the tactics also evolved into line-up shooting and cavalry encirclement. When Kangxi personally conquered Galdan, the chariot completely withdrew from the Qing army's military establishment.

Although Fu Kangan created a unicycle, it seemed to be very useless in its subsequent battles against the North Navy. For small-scale operations, it depends on the terrain, but mountains and dense forests cannot be used. Although it can block the North Navy's rifle bullets and grenades from splashing shrapnel in large-scale operations, it is useless to encounter machine guns and cannons.

In Mianen's opinion, the ten people in Beihai Town definitely did not have cannons. At most, they were quick guns. It was just right to use carts, so he asked craftsmen all over the city to build carts overnight. However, the craftsmen used the eight-immortal tables that every household in Jiangnan area had. After all, it was a bit unreasonable to remove the door panels in the cold weather.

The Eight Banners Armored soldiers from Jingkou all advanced very smoothly at the beginning. They carefully passed through several acres of vegetable fields in Suiyuan. After checking the nearby thatched huts, they found that they were all empty. Maybe they were in a hurry to leave, with the charcoal and embers in the brazier. A few chickens that were not too late to take away were walking back and forth in the fence, making uneasy clucking sounds.

To the west of the vegetable field is the "Qunyu Mountain Head", which is called one of the twenty-four scenic spots of Suiyuan. It is called a mountain, but it is actually a large garden full of plum blossoms, magnolias and peonies. On the west side is a "mountain" made up of Taihu stones.

On the north side of this garden, there is a fence wall of more than one person tied with bamboos, extending to the northwest direction. The north side of the wall is the gate leading to the inner room of Yuan's house; and walking south along the downhill road on the northwest side of the bamboo wall, you can enter the Taohua Dike on the south.

The wheelbarrow cart was difficult to leave when it entered the garden. The armored soldiers, who were originally in an orderly formation, also dispersed into a group here and a group there. Just as more than a dozen armored soldiers came to the north and tried to push them down, they heard a noisy buzzing sound from far to near in the air, which sounded like a large group of bees.

But it’s early winter now, where are the bees coming from?

The soldiers' eyes passed through the bare branches and looked into the sky. They saw a strange-shaped gray object flying from the west, like an octopus. When it flew to the top of the soldiers' heads, it hovered. At this time, a few sharp-eyed guys noticed that there were several egg-shaped objects hanging under the gray object.

"God! What is that?" These Eight Banners soldiers who have lived in Jiangnan for decades have never seen this thing. They were all stunned.

"Is it a bamboo dragonfly?"

"Nonsense! Have you ever seen such a big bamboo dragonfly? It can still make strange screams!"

"Why can't you? Just make a whistle below. I've made one for my son."

“…”

"Is there an egg under its belly? How dark it is. One, two, three, four, four!"

"Be careful, this thing is so weird and tight!"

"No matter what it is, shoot it first!" A zodiac leader estimated the height, then took off the birch bow from his shoulder, and then pulled out a plum needle arrow more than one meter long from the quiver behind him.

Just at this moment, two "eggs" under the gray object in the air suddenly fell down, and they were almost falling into the densest place where the armored soldiers stood.

"Boom! Boom!"

Accompanied by two violent explosions, the black smoke mixed with fire engulfed the yellow wintersweet on the branches, and also blew up the already bare magnolia trees.

More than a dozen armored soldiers fell into a pool of blood in an instant, which made the Eight Banners soldiers from Jingkou suddenly explode. Although they were well-trained and skilled in bows and horses, they had never seen this! Except for those who were frightened and stiff all over, the others fled in a daze. The guys who were pushing the cart also threw the cart away and ran away like headless flies.

Soon, the armored soldiers who found no way ahead changed directions and ran towards the vegetable field they had walked past. During this period, the large "bamboo dragonfly" in the air had been hovering in the air more than 30 meters high. When more than 200 armored soldiers appeared in the vegetable field, they flew to their heads without warning and threw the only two "eggs" left under their stomachs.

"Land again! Dodge it!"

Before he finished speaking, the dried vegetable field was instantly filled with black smoke, the soil was flying, and screams were filled with screams. Several frightened chickens flapped their wings and flew out of the fence, sprinkling all over the ground.

At this time, on the top of the mountain behind Yongqing Temple, Cheng Ce, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners of Jingkou and two large guards sent by Mian En were stunned. After a while, the strange thing hovered in the air suddenly flew westwards quickly, and then fell steadily and disappeared into the bamboo forest below Tianfeng Pavilion.

Cheng Ce hurriedly raised the monocular lens in his hand and observed carefully. He only saw the bamboo forest swaying in the wind and the fine snow, and even his personal shadow was not seen.

At the same time, on Tianfeng Pavilion in the southwest corner of Suiyuan, Yuan Mei, who was leaning on a crutch, saw through a telescope that he had carefully created the "Qunyu Mountain" was blown into a tree withered by the west wind, and couldn't help but sigh. Every tree and every flower and plant there were cultivated by him by himself back then, and now it has turned into a Shura field, which is really a pity.

The pale-faced brothers Yuan Tong and Yuan Chi felt relieved when they saw the Qing army killing and injured when they took action by the people from Beihai Town.

When the boss named Gao came down with his hands before, the two brothers saw that there were only ten people, and they were all anxious and thought that it was over. Now it seems that they are really a frog in the well!

No wonder King Zhao's troops were able to surround the desert outside the pass, and the imperial army was powerless to fight back. I didn't expect that there was such a killing weapon in the world that could actually take human life from heaven!

Yuan Mei handed the telescope back to a member of the operation team. With his son's support, he went down to the first floor of Tianfeng Pavilion. He smiled and said to his family and tenant servants who were worried in the cottage, "Don't worry! The officers and soldiers were beaten away. You are all hungry, are you?"

Everyone, including Yuan Mei’s wife Wang, stared at Yuan Mei in a daze, thinking to himself, Master, you are so heartbroken, when is it now?

After a while, the chef Yang Er walked out of the kitchen next to him. The man was also very enthusiastic and bowed: "Master, I left in a hurry and didn't bring a lot of ingredients. The food box contains the chestnut cake made yesterday, otherwise I would make some porridge and make two beggar chickens?"

Yuan Mei twisted his fingers and said, "What a wonderful thing! I'll boil the pot of wine again."

Hearing these words, Gao Liugeng, who was about to go downstairs, couldn't help rolling his eyes and thought to himself that this lay Buddhist Cangshan is really a foodie!

Five years ago, three disciples of Chang Naizhou - Chai Rugui, Gao Liugeng and Li Qingwen were invited by the governor of Henan. They disguised themselves as if they were in Beihai Town and tried to assassinate Zhao Xin for the Qing court. Unexpectedly, they were assigned to the second village of Xingkai Lake when they got off the ship without saying anything.

Just as the three of them were helpless and planned to leave after the winter was over, Zhao Xin was disguised as he went to the countryside to inspect the autumn harvest. The first one to go to was the second village. As a result, the three of them revealed flaws in front of Zhao Xin's then guard Chen Jishan.

Later, the three brothers were inspired by Chen Jishan, Chai Rugui and Li Qingwen defected to Beihai Town. Gao Liugeng was worried about being implicated because his family had a large population, so he took a boat to the north of Jiangsu and returned to his hometown in Sishui, Henan.

After getting home, he settled down for a while, and went to his senior brother and junior brother's house, took out twenty taels of silver and handwritten letters, saying that the two of them are now working as martial artists in a wealthy family in northern Jiangsu, and everything is fine. With Gao Liugeng's words, the Chai family and the Li family naturally would not doubt it, and happily collected the money.

Another year later, one day, Li Qingwen and Xu Dayong came uninvited, which scared Gao Liugeng. After asking carefully, he found out that Beihai Town still wanted to recruit him, but it was not joining the army, but entering the intelligence bureau. The advantage is to go to Beihai Town for training for half a year, and then come back. He usually does whatever he should do, and only goes out for a trip if he has something to do. From now on, he will go to the farm in Sheyang Lake for one month of retraining every year.

As the saying goes, learn literature and martial arts, and benevolent with the imperial family. Although Gao Liugeng came back, his heart never came back. He donated his fame and fortune and learned martial arts, with the purpose of seeking a position, spreading the battlefield and shining his family.

At that time, the news that the Northern Hai army was at Dagukou and Zhao Xin had robbed prison in Yangzhou to save people had already reached Henan. When Gao Liugeng learned about it, he was very excited and readily accepted Xu Dayong's invitation.

However, he alone is not counted. Later, Li Qingwen took Xu Dayong to visit the Qian family's fist sects, and brought Zhao Jinchuan, Qin Chengzong, Tang Qinglian, Tao Laojiu, Zhang Yulin, Chen Tianjuan, Wang Guoxiang, Li Gentu and other people in the sect into the Intelligence Bureau.

After the Chinese New Year this year, Gao Liugeng was sent to Zhenjiang to serve as the head of the Zhenjiang Operation Team. His external identity is the owner of a store specializing in Jiang Guangye (North and South Products and Sugar Industry). His eleven subordinates also have their own cover identities. They usually don’t meet at all. They will only gather people if they have tasks. However, even if they have tasks before, they don’t need to take action personally.

This time it was different. After receiving a telegram from the headquarters a few days ago, Gao Liugeng, who felt that he was in trouble, summoned all nine subordinates for the first time, brought all the equipment, and arrived in Suiyuan that day.

After hanging out the sign "Keep the door to thank guests" the next day, he took people to survey the various places in Suiyuan. After a round, he came to the conclusion that he was like the shopkeeper Chang before. He could not keep the inner house at all. The only thing he could rely on in this garden was the small hill in the southwest.

Jiangning City is located in the hilly area of ​​Jiangnan. Although there are many hills in the city, they are not high. Xiaocang Mountain, located in the west of the city, is the remnant of Wutai Mountain to the south. When Yuan Mei was operating this place, he planted tens of thousands of bamboos at the foot of the hill southwest of Suiyuan and at the foot of the mountain. Now, decades have passed, the three sides of the hill are covered by lush bamboo forests and are not airtight. There is only one small path leading to Tianfeng Pavilion on the top of the mountain.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! If the officers and soldiers enter Suiyuan from the Ganhe River and want to enter this hill, they must walk through the narrow peach blossom embankment and pass through the suspension bridge on the lotus pond. In addition, there is another advantage here, that is, standing on the second floor of Tianfeng Pavilion, you can observe the situation hundreds of meters around Suiyuan and respond in a timely manner.

For Yuan Mei, the old man only realized how big the thunder he had stabbed when he saw Gao Liugeng and the weapons and ammunition brought by the other party. But he also knew the importance of him to Beihai Town and couldn't help but be proud. However, when he learned that he wanted to give up the entire inner house and everyone in the family was going to retreat to Tianfeng Pavilion, Yuan Mei was very reluctant to leave.

Gao Liugeng didn't care about so much. He told Yuan Mei directly that we are here to save your whole family's lives, not to protect your wealth! If you don't leave, the garden will not be able to keep it, and your family will suffer another mistake and you will be responsible for the consequences!

So, the Yuan family went out together and took two full days to pick up all the valuable calligraphy, paintings, books and antiques in their homes, and buried them in the garden on the west side of the "Shenqing Cave". It was not until this morning that they hurried up the mountain with large bags and small bags. The tenants living in Suiyuan were afraid of being implicated, so they carried rice bags and chickens, and followed them with their only possessions.

At this time, the armored soldiers who retreated to Ganheyan were in shock. After counting the people, they found that a total of 37 were injured and eleven were killed. The most pitiful thing was that the famous armored soldiers were hit by a dropped bomb and their entire heads were blown away.

Cheng Ce was frightened and his legs were trembling when he learned about the situation. He thought that this was something that ten people could do? No, he had to talk to the prince. He had to make two cannons and dozens of muskets anyway.

Half an hour later, Mian En, who was in charge of Jiangning General's Mansion, looked at Cheng Ce and the two guards kneeling on the ground, and said calmly: "It's none of your business, it's the North Sea Pirates who are insidious and cunning. I have been in Jiangnan for a long time and have never fought with the North Sea Pirates. Get up."

"Yeah!"

Mianen asked, "The thing flying in the sky has not come out again after going back?"

A guard said, "Didn't come out."

Mianen felt helpless. This kind of thing flying in the sky has been mentioned many times in the military newspapers in Shandong. It was just flying in the sky before, but I didn’t hear that there were any injuries. Now, I actually dropped bombs and exploded a large area!
Chapter completed!