Chapter 138 Night Attack
Gao Di personally came forward to appease the battalions and told the troops that they had to raise military funds in one night and that they would pay two months tomorrow. After they arrived at the Qingzhou camp and met Zhang Cunren, the governor of the three provinces, they could make up all the funds. The battalions were settled.
In fact, Gao Di is not without money. In recent years, he was a backer of a new city merchant in Daying, Jiaozhou, and he could share more than 200,000 taels of money every year. The salary paid by the court was also deducted. Over the past ten years, Gao Di's net worth was no less than one million. In addition to buying property in the hinterland of Shandong, most of his wealth was in Jiaozhou City.
When the United States first landed in Qingdao, it demolished Jiaozhou City, and all the foundation stone bricks and tiles were used as the requirements for fortress construction. Later, the United States spent several years in the land of Denglai. Most of Jiaozhou was a battlefield, and the sea was banned from the border. There were no people in the local area. There were nearly tens of thousands of people in Jiaozhou City, except for the green camp, they were family members. Jiaozhou City was just a dilapidated earthen encirclement. Because they wanted to move to Qingzhou, the Jiaozhou camp was like sprinkled green beans, covering the surrounding area of Jiaozhou City. At night, Gao Di had just comforted the battalions and went to the city to raise military funds. The Hussars led by Bart had arrived.
"I need twenty people to sneak into the city, attack at night and disrupt the morale of the Green Camp. Who would like to go?" Bart asked in a low voice as he looked at the hundreds of people surrounding him.
"Count me."
"I! I want to go, I want to make contributions!"
"And me!"
A loud or low voice came from the dark crowd, and twenty people were soon gathered together. Bart swept across their strong faces, all of whom were veterans of the war who followed him to fight south and north. Bart said: "The general has led 6,000 cavalry to attack. Our mission is to disrupt the order of the thieves, but we cannot kill them. You know what to do."
"Simple, throw a few grenades and put a few guns!"
"Slash a few times on the butt of the animals and make them mess up."
"Let a few fires in a place where there is no one, and shouting that the enemy is coming, so I will try."
Bart focused heavily. The vanguards took off their bright cavalry uniforms, put on the armor of the Green Camp, tied a linen on their feet, and held a wooden piece in their mouths. After they packed up, they rushed out of the hidden bushes and quickly disappeared into the night. They pretended to be patrols and crossed the camp of the Green Camp outside the city. When they met the real patrol, they hid. One hour later, they came to the city wall.
The moat had long dried up and there were no bamboo sticks. The group of people crossed the moat and walked against the shadow of the city wall. In addition to the sound of the jackpot knocking on the clapper, the soldiers on the night were discussing how much money they could pay tomorrow. The city wall was just a surround, with wind and sun, and there was a gap. A group of people climbed up the ladder, used a dagger to deal with the sentry, got off the wall, and divided into several teams and spread out.
Admiral's House.
The cool breeze at night blew into Gaodi's room, and the veil was floating gently. At this time, Gaodi was sleeping soundly, and his face was full of complacentness. Although he did not follow the original idea, Gaodi felt that he had a better opportunity. If he could act as an insider and fight back in a critical war, it would be a great achievement. In the United States where he did not see his origin, he could also control the real power of a side. It would be better to stay in this surround and be scared all day long.
With a rapid knock on the door, Gao Di woke up. His wife, Zhou, put on her top, rubbed her eyes and opened the door, muttering: "What's the matter? If you disturb your rest, you will definitely hit you tomorrow."
The door was opened, and Xia Gui rushed in. Regardless of Zhou's obstruction, he ran to the bed and shouted: "Sir, no, I'm calling Dongfan, you've entered the city."
Gao Di, who had just woken up, seemed to be a little sleepy and didn't seem to react. "Dongfan has called and has already entered the city." Gao Di sucked it, suddenly laughed, sat cross-legged, and said, "Xia Gui, are you crazy? How could Dongfan have called?"
Gao Di had already agreed with the Wu Xing to give four days to withdraw his family to Qingzhou, and then the army dispatched cavalry to cooperate with Gao Di, the palace behind the palace, to perform a good show. The agreed day has not yet come, so how could the Dongfan call?
Xia Gui pointed out the window and replied, "Sir Admiral, listen carefully, there is already chaos outside."
Gao Di looked out the window suspiciously, and there was only the bright moonlight. He listened with his ears, and there seemed to be a low cry for killing. He ran to the door without caring barefoot, and heard more clearly, and it was still red and obviously had already set fire.
"Come, come, give me a gift to me. I will fight against the thief who is causing trouble!" At this time, Gao Di was still unwilling to believe that the military movement had violated the agreement. He thought that the soldiers had mutiny. Two personal soldiers came in outside and carried armor to give Gao Di. Seeing that Xia Gui was still here, Gao Di said, "General Xia, you should stabilize the Dongdaying first, and do not conflict randomly. If you make trouble on all sides, you should avoid being in trouble."
Xia Gui agreed to the promise and secretly admired himself. Gao Di is worthy of being an old corpse and has already made a brilliant idea.
After Xia Gui left, Gao Di pushed away Zhou, who was helping to wear armor, and said, "Why are you still standing there? Prepare the gold, silver and softness in the mansion. I will leave Gao Zhong, Gao Yi and the others for you, protect the Admiral's Mansion first and wait for me to come back."
Zhou asked, "Master, isn't that just?"
Gao Di scolded, "Isn't that just? What do you know, what is it? The barracks are in turmoil and life and death are unpredictable. You should prepare first. If there is any change, I will lead my own soldiers to pick you up to Qingzhou."
Gao Di was very clear about the mutiny. The soldiers did not care about anything when they were in trouble. If they were not done well, their lives would not be guaranteed. However, he was not sure. Gao Di's personal military camp was in the city. He first grabbed the troops and then controlled several important camps outside the city, and he could hold on until dawn. When it was dawn, he would give up money and the mutiny would be defeated. The only thing Gao Di did not expect was that this was not a mutiny at all, but a premeditated raid by the military.
In the eyes of Wu Xing and others, Gao Di's greatest value is to lurk to Zhang Cunren and turn against each other in the future. In this way, there is no big difference between Gao Di's subordinates or 1,000 soldiers. More importantly, Gao Di is too close to Xincheng, and can it be hidden by just acting? Since you want to act, it is better to just do it and attack Gao Di, which is more convincing than acting.
Gao Di was also experienced. He pulled two carts of silver out of the Admiral's Mansion and left the government office. He gave ten taels of taels to each of his personal soldiers and took the remaining 40,000 taels of silver all the way out of the city. At the same time, some of his personal soldiers were left in the city to arrest the people who were in trouble. However, Gao Di was still one step late after all. When the chaos in the city was in chaos, there was also a chain reaction outside the city. The Hussars hiding in the woods and bushes took advantage of the moonlight to fight out and rushed directly into the camp outside the city.
Horse hooves trampled on the messy camps and washed away tents and wooden houses. Under the moonlight, the camp was filled with all kinds of large animals, vehicles filled with food and supplies, and green camp soldiers who were resting. The Hussars fired a round of volleys with pistols or carriage guns in the distance, and then pulled out their sabers and rushed.
The quiet night was broken by the sound of horse hooves. Hussars waved their weapons and chased the soldiers running around. Some people pulled out the wooden sticks from the fire and threw them into the carts and tents. The cavalry rarely killed them, but the chaos caused was larger than the other. Gao Di, who had just left the city gate, saw this scene. Under the flames, the figures swayed, reflecting iron armor and the cold light that had just arrived. Occasionally screamed and horse neighed. Many big cars were ignited, and the burning animals ran around. Gao Di understood at this moment that it was not a mutiny, but a night attack.
He was about to lead his army to counterattack when he heard two violent explosions from the city. Then someone shouted, "Gaodi is dead, Gaodi is dead, the army is defeated, the army is defeated."
"What, am I dead?" Gao Di listened in disbelief. He saw another fire in the city, but no one ran out. He cursed angrily: "It must be the trick of the Eastern thieves. Don't listen to them. Summon the battalions and kill all the cavalry that attacked first!"
Gao Di said it nicely. He knew that the situation was out of control. He wanted to send a few troops to gather the remaining soldiers and encircle Barth's Hussars. He himself led his personal soldiers back to the city and escorted his own gold, silver and soft materials to escape, but he never thought he would be stopped by his straight men. President Qian pointed to a fire dragon galloping west in the distance and said, "Look at the Lord, that must be the Eastern cavalry who was catching the back road. If he didn't leave, it would be too late."
How could Gao Di give up his family and half of his life's wealth? He was about to doubt when Xia Gui came over and said, "Sir, please stop hesitating. Go to Qingzhou quickly. I will resist here."
Gao Di, who still wanted to persist, was protected and fled by his personal soldiers. These personal soldiers were his adopted sons, and his wealth and life were completely related to Gao's safety. He would definitely not be able to see him in danger.
He fled overnight. When it was dawn, Gao Di, who was tired and hungry, fell off his horse. His personal soldiers did not dare to force forward. He had to find a village camp. After counting the number of people, he found that less than 800 cavalry were following him. After lunch, General Qian of the personal soldiers advised Gao Di to go on the horse again, but Gao Di refused. He knew that there were raids last night, and there would definitely not be too many soldiers in the East Fan. Otherwise, he would not have rushed into his camp quietly. Since it was a raid and he escaped from the encirclement, he would have to gather the remaining soldiers. Otherwise, he would have to take only a few hundred personal soldiers to Qingzhou, which would be a dead end.
Gao Di ordered people to be alert around the surrounding area and sent his confidants to return along the same route. Sure enough, in the afternoon, there were a bunch of defeated soldiers coming. Most of the defeated soldiers had horses, otherwise they would not have escaped. After two days of gathering, Gao Di's troops had more than 4,000, most of them had horses. At this time, the Hussars and Light Cavalry had more than 2,000 before they arrived under the leadership of Barth.
The cavalry wandered around the defeated soldiers, clashing left and right without attacking, while Gao Di led his personal soldiers to attack at night, but got weapons and horses all over the ground. Only then did Gao Di realize that the planned acting began.
Gao Di looked around, looked confused, sighed, and finally led his army to retreat.
In Jiaozhou City, the martial arts entered the Admiral's Mansion, and the people here were already kneeling together. When Zhou saw the martial arts mansion coming, he knew that he was a high-ranking official and presented a booklet, saying: "The wealth of the Admiral's Mansion is 4,300 taels of gold, 1,200 taels of silver, and twelve pearls are all here. Please ask the general to spare my family's life."
Wu Xing glanced at the young woman kneeling in front of him and asked, "Are you Zhou Zisheng's daughter?"
Zhou nodded, and Wu Xing pointed to the seven or eight children who were kneeling on his hands and asked, "Where is your biological child?"
Zhou took over a boy and a girl, both of whom were only three or five years old. Wu Xing nodded, opened a few boxes and looked at it, and picked two, one filled with silver and the other filled with jewelry, and said, "These are yours. Take your children with you, go to Zhou Wangji and find your father."
"What about them?" Zhou looked at the other wives, concubines and children.
Wu Xing shook his head: "This is not something you can control, the Military Control Commission has its own district!"
In the afternoon, Ma Kaifeng rushed to Jiaozhou City in a hurry. Outside the city, they saw all prisoners and family members of the Green Camp soldiers. Army cavalry in military uniforms were guarding the guards around. Ma Kaifeng arrived in front of the Wuxing and asked unhappily: "General, why did you become like this? Didn't you mean to use Gaodi?"
Wu Xing smiled slightly and said, "I have the final say on how to use Gao Di. Whether it can be useful depends on his own ability."
This is different from what Ma Kaifeng expected. He really hoped that Gao Di could play a role, but in the face of martial arts, he was powerless to refute. Knowing that the road was complete, Ma Kaifeng no longer struggled, but asked: "It is said that there are 70,000 to 80,000 people here. After the impact last night, there should be more than 60,000. What are you going to deal with?"
Wu Xingdao: "Take the general and above the army away for interrogation and enjoy similar treatment. As for ordinary green camp soldiers and their families, let's leave it to you. Hasn't your Jiaozhou Military Control Commission always short of people?"
Ma Kaifeng took a deep breath. Fortunately, Wu Xing did not make any mistakes on the key issues, otherwise he would really have no choice. Wu Xingdao: "I hope the army can cooperate and let these people settle in Jiaozhou City first, and I will use them in batches."
Wu Xing knew that Ma Kaifeng was worried that bringing these people back to the new city would cause chaos. After all, this was the Green Camp. Even if the officers and personal soldiers were transferred away, there were many soldiers and hooligans, and they needed to be carefully identified and used. After Wu Xing thought about it, he said, "No problem, I will dispatch the 2nd Division to come, let them repair the barracks for us first. They can't make a big wave. Chief Ma, don't stare at people. Commander Gao is about to arrive. He will lead his army to attack Dengzhou. You have to prepare all kinds of supplies for the main force of the Beiyang War Zone."
Ma Kaifeng nodded and bowed and said, "I've been taught, I've been taught!"
"General, Ma Kaifeng was from our Beiyang War Zone, why should he treat him like this?" Looking at Ma Kaifeng's back, a general asked with a smile.
Chapter completed!