Chapter 090 Siege

Obviously, this is a secret stronghold of revolutionaries. Looking at the terrain, it looks like a peninsula by a lake, surrounded by water on three sides and connected to the land on one side.

The revolutionaries chose this place as a secret stronghold, which should be because it is relatively secretive. The lake can't be seen at a glance. It is far from the stronghold of the Qing soldiers. The trees on the peninsula are dense and easy to hide. Moreover, the cliff is a commanding point. A mountain bag with a radius of dozens of miles does not exceed the cliff at an altitude. On it, you can have a panoramic view of dozens of miles. If there is a slight movement on the lake, you will be immediately found by the people above.

However, from the perspective of military science, this is a dead land!

The terrain on the peninsula is so narrow that it is impossible to accommodate large troops, so this determines that the defensive force here cannot be very strong. And that cliff is the only basis of the guard, but it is also the grave dug by the guard. Once the attacker surrounds the cliff, the people above will have no way to escape.

The revolutionary people are weak, and once they are surrounded by the Qing army, it is impossible to get reinforcements. They have only one way, which is to die with this cliff!

Zhou Charter secretly sighed that the revolutionaries are all hot-blooded young people, but they have no military experience. If they want to fight with the Qing army, they can't fight with blood alone! Based on this stronghold, Zhou Charter concluded that once the revolutionaries want to launch an uprising in Shanghai, they will definitely lose!

What's worse is that the revolutionaries actually regard this place as a gathering place. Just now I heard from Shi Zhongji that Xu Xilin gathered 500 guns here, which is probably the main force of the revolutionaries. Once found by the Qing army, these 500 people are the turtles in the urn!

Zhou Charter hurriedly said, "Good sister Yun, has your sister Qiu gone to the cliff?"

"It's none of your business where she goes!" Ge Yun said.

Zhou Charter said, "Good sister, you'd better go to her quickly and ask her to come back quickly. It's very dangerous there!"

Jiang Naiwu scolded: "Dog spy, don't play tricks here!"

Zhou Charter had to say, "Brother Jiang, to tell you the truth, I'm not a spy of the government!" This morning, my two brothers were arrested by the Taoist government. The Qing soldiers insisted that they were revolutionaries and wanted to arrest me. In order to avoid the pursuit, I jumped off the wall and broke into your house.

Zhao Pusheng! Don't fucking fool people around here!" Jiang Naiwu scolded, "Just now you admitted that you were a spy, and you fucking confessed in a blink of an eye! Damn, you're not a spy. How did I let the Qing soldiers do it!"

Zhou Charter said, "Brother Jiang, it's a coincidence that the gathering of sages was brought up by the Qing soldiers and happened to be met by me. But I know that there is a traitor inside you, who is the traitor's secret! He not only betrayed the gathering of talents, but also told Yan Qionglin the news that Sun Wen arrived in Shanghai to launch an uprising. Only then did the Qing soldiers strengthen the vigilance of Shanghai!"

"Then why did you just admit that you were a spy?" Ge Yun asked kindly.

"Good sister Yun, I was caught by you just now, and I can't explain it clearly. You are going to kill me again. If one sentence was inappropriate, I would have died long ago.

"Then who is the traitor?" Ge Yun asked kindly.

"His name is Xiong Mantang."

Jiang Naiwu laughed and said, "Well, you are a spy. Seeing that you can't live, you still want to frame Brother Xiong to put your back. You fucking think we are three-year-old children!" Yun's good sister, this guy's mouth is full of cannons. Don't be fooled by him!"

"Hmm!" Ge Yun nodded solemnly: "Brother Xiong Mantang is a good man. This spy falsely slanders others!"

Zhou Charter is in a hurry: "If I slander him, my family will die..."

Jiang Naiwu shouted, "If you don't slander him, you will die in the whole family!" The Qing dog deserves to die!"

Four faint smoke appeared on the skyline in the distance.

In Lushun, Zhou Charter has long been familiar with this scene - the soot on the horizontal plane means a fleet, which is the soot burning by the ship. However, the tonnage of the ships on the lake is small and the smoke is much lighter.

Four green smokes are four fireboats.

In the Qing Dynasty at the end of the 19th century, shipping companies started by foreigners have appeared in the rivers, lakes and seas of the Qing Dynasty, but the scale is not large, and it is generally a single small fireship sailing.

What does it mean that there are four small fireships at the same time?

Zhou Charter said urgently, "You two, I don't have time to talk to you. The Qing soldiers are coming!"

Jiang Naiwu was shocked, looked at the lake and said, "Dog, it's really coming. Hello, Yun, go up the mountain quickly, inform Miss Qiu and others, and quickly move to the mainland. Jiang Naiwu also judged that the four faint soot must be the four troop carriers of the Qing soldiers.

"I can't go!" Zhou Charter said, his body was horizontal and stood in front of Ge Yun's good body.

Jiang Naiwu shouted: "Damn spy, you fucking want to rebel, I will kill you first!" With that, he pulled out the dagger and stabbed Zhou Charter in the chest.

Zhou Charter's arm was tied back and could not move. He had to turn sideways and let the dagger, sweep one under his feet, and his toes swept Jiang Naiwu's ankle. Jiang Naiwu's feet were unstable and fell to the ground. The dagger went into the reeds and disappeared.

Ge Yunhao shouted delicately, grabbed Zhou Charter's arm, took a bite, and bit Zhou Charter's arm.

The pain made Zhou Charter grin, but he didn't care about the pain. He twisted his body and shook off Ge Yunhao. He gritted his teeth and said, "The Qing soldiers have already surrounded the cliff. If you go up, you will throw yourself into the net!"

"Nonsense!" Ge Yun shouted.

"I'm talking nonsense!" Zhou Charter said, "You don't even think that we can see the soot. The people on the cliff have seen the hull of the ship for a long time. Do you need to report it? The Qing soldiers are not fools. They swaggered from the lake. If they are not prepared, wouldn't they obviously let you run!"

Ge Yun was so stunned that he didn't know what to do. Jiang Naiwu got up on the ground and shouted, "Don't fucking talk nonsense. I don't believe it!"

Zhou Charter sneered: "Believe it or not. I can tell you clearly that your sister Qiu has long been a prisoner of Qing soldiers. As for Xu Xilin, I'm sure that he is trapped on the mountain and can't come down!"

"How do you know?" Ge Yun asked kindly.

"The Shi Zhongji was a little alert. He heard that the atmosphere here was wrong, but he didn't understand what had happened." Zhou Charter said, "There must be ambush of Qing soldiers around the cliff, otherwise, it would not be so quiet here."

"How do you know it's not our people!" Jiang Naiwu asked.

"Bah, do you have cannons?" Zhou Charter shouted.

Ge Yun said honestly, "We only have rifles, no cannons."

Zhou Charter said, "Look, what's under your feet! This is left by the wheels of the wild cannon.

There are several rut in the mud under the feet, which are different from the carriage rut used by ordinary people. Zhou Charter is used to such a rut, and Jiang Naiwu and Ge Yun are good, and they have never even seen wild cannons. How can they recognize such a rut?

Jiang Naiwu was suspicious: "But where did the Qing soldiers come from?" If they had come from the lake, the people on it would have found it long ago!"

Zhou Charter said urgently, "There is still a need to ask!" They came around from the land behind the cliff!"

As soon as the words fell, a group of people in all their clothes jumped down from the red wall and rushed down the mountain. These people wear a variety of weapons, and the weapons in their hands are even more strange. There are Murata-style rifles in Japan, as well as earthencers in the Qing Dynasty, and more people hold spears and knives.

As soon as these people rushed halfway up the mountain, they heard the dense gunfire in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain. The people in front of them were shot one after another, beaten flesh and blood, and fell down.

Obviously, the group of people were the revolutionary army gathered here. They saw the troop transport ship on the lake and knew that the Qing soldiers were about to arrive and were about to transfer, but they did not expect that there were Qing soldiers ambushed in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain and were caught off guard.

Ge Yun's face turned pale: "Brother Jiang, there are really Qing soldiers. Sister Qiu and they really have an accident!"

On the red wall on the cliff, a man with glasses waved his pistol and shouted loudly. More and more revolutionary troops rushed out from behind the red wall, regardless of the rain of bullets, and rushed forward one after another. After a while, there were corpses on the cliff.

Zhou Charter scolded hatefully: "Who is the four-eyed dog with glasses? Is there such a fucking war?"

"He is not a four-eyed dog, he is Xu Xilin's eldest brother!" Ge Yun shouted.

Xu Xilin is a scholar with no military experience. Under his command, the revolutionary army was killed and injured by the Qing soldiers. If it continues to work like this, there is no need for the Qing army to launch a general attack, and these revolutionary forces will be damaged on the road to charge.

A loud noise was heard, and a fire appeared on the cliff, and a shell fell to the red wall, rising a stream of smoke. In the smoke, Xu Xilin's body, like a broken kite, floated down the red wall.

On the cliff, the revolutionary army, which had lost its command, finally stopped its suicide charge and fled to the cliff one after another, but their escape was lawless. Many people stood up and ran all the way, leaving their whole backs to the Qing soldiers, becoming the living targets of the Qing army, and dozens of people fell on the way to escape.

The revolutionary army finally withdrew behind the red wall. However, countless shells flew up the cliff and landed on the verdant mountain. The roof in the jungle was hit by shells, igniting a raging fire. In the fire, the revolutionary army was blown up and howling.

On the lake, four small fireships are getting closer and closer to the shore. It can be seen that the ship is full of soldiers with live ammunition. They came to reinforce. There were at least 2,000 soldiers on the four small fireboats.