He Youjun immediately ran away and took his people to summon soldiers. There were a burst of rapid shouts and the sound of team gathering in Zhujiazhuang. The team members who were still playing cards, lying down, sleeping, smoking cigarettes, drinking wine, or hugging a woman, ran around the Zhujia, in a panic.

"What's going on? What's wrong?"

"Why are so many people going out to attack whom? Is it necessary to use so many people?"

The wife, concubines, maids, and servants of the Zhu family were alarmed by the noise and ran outside one after another, watching the team members who were running frequently, at a loss and looked very panicked.

"You all hid in the house. Some bandits came to attack Zhuangzi. I'm not responsible if I was hit by a bullet."

"Go into the house quickly, don't wander around outside, it's in the way!"

Zhu Wenshan and the team shouted loudly at the men and women who ran out of panic.

"Oh my God, the bandits are going to attack Zhujiazhuang, hurry up and hide in the house!"

"How many of them are there? Can we beat them?"

When those who ran out heard the shouts, they were immediately frightened and panicked. They shouted and ran towards the house. Some even hid under the beds and under the tables. There were only a few brave men who were still outside and refused to go in. They looked towards the door, wanting to see what was going on.

The west of the Zhujiayuan faces the two observation towers in the direction of Wansongling. More than 40 people have already gone up. You can see ships passing by on the Huangpu River in the distance, and you can also stare at preventing anyone from sneak attacking from behind. The four observation towers are distributed symmetrically, on the four corners of the southeast, west, northwest and northwest of the Zhujiayuan.

There is a watchtower of several dozen meters high on each observation tower. Even if you don’t use a telescope, you can see figures from a distance above. There is a brick and stone structure bunker similar to a city wall below. The wall is two or three meters taller than the exterior wall of the Zhu Family Courtyard.

There is a row of four-sided holes on the top of the wall that are about the size of a human head, about forty or fifty. The two holes are several meters apart and evenly arranged. As long as these soldiers stick their guns out of the holes and hide behind the wall, they can shoot out. This is also a typical defensive fortress structure. These brick walls are half a meter thick and ordinary bullets cannot be penetrated. Moreover, these holes are vertically distributed in two directions at the corner, and can deal with enemies from both directions.

When there were people on the four observation buildings, the entire Zhujiazhuang inside and outside were within their range.

The 100 people led by He Youjun had already run towards Wansongling. Some people carried or carried the ammunition box and ran quickly. A few of them went to the nearby village to summon soldiers who had not been on duty. The soldiers who lived far away and went home were not allowed to notify them for the time being. It is difficult to tell how many people could be summoned. When those people saw such a big battle, it was still a question whether they dared to come over to help, so Zhu Wenshan was also anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

"Dingshan, please hurry up and inform Yan Guankai, saying that a bandit was attacking Zhujiazhuang and asked him to send him to suppress the bandits." Zhu Wenshan was so anxious that he shouted to his housekeeper Dingshan and quickly asked the local garrison troops to help.

However, Zhu Wenshan knew in his heart that he was not close to the manager Yan Zhiheng, and he didn't know if he could come quickly to help, so he ordered Ding Shan to bring a thousand taels of silver to Yan Zhiheng to handle the matter. However, he didn't know that Yan Zhiheng had been managed by Hou Sihai and Wilson. It was probably difficult to tell whether he would take Zhu Wenshan's silver.

Besides, the Qing soldiers in these places generally refused to work hard to suppress bandits. If they really wanted to eliminate bandit troubles for the people, how could a mountain king like Bald Three exist? There were countless such bandits in the entire Qing Dynasty. When it was time to bleed and sacrifice, those who served in the army would be afraid of death. In addition, under the rule of the corrupt government class of the late Qing Dynasty, as long as those bandits did not endanger the safety of the rulers themselves, the ruling class turned a blind eye to the bandits doing evil, and who would have nothing to do to deal with these desperadoes. Not only did they waste money and lose their troops, they would also be frightened and scared.

"Master, should we go and find Governor Liu, Liangjiang?"

"It's too late. In the current situation, when Lord Liu's orders are passed to the military camp below, we have already played around. Now it depends on whether Yan Zhiheng's soldiers are willing to help."

"Xiaoyong, come with me!"

After He Youjun left, Li Tiancheng ordered Xiaoyong, the team member who came to report.

Then he took Xiaoyong to ride his tall horse, ran for more than a mile, entered the old factory, and went to the warehouse where he privately produced arms.

"You can quickly transport the ammunition box I hid in the warehouse to Wansongling by mules and horses. The bullets brought by Liu Zhiguo and Wang Junshan are limited. Once a battle occurs, it is not enough. In addition, you production workers don't need to come down. Although you don't need to participate in the battle, you can stay on it to help. If the elite platoon needs it, you can help." Li Tiancheng pointed to the ten ammunition boxes placed in a storage room in the warehouse. Two of them were grenades, and the rest were bullets.

"Yes!" Ten workers on the production line received the order, most of them were very familiar with the formation of Wansongling.

"You workers have not undergone military training. You must be careful to protect yourself and not expose your targets. Let the elite platoon solve the problem of war." Li Tiancheng then reminded him.

Ten people left with boxes, found several carriages that they usually used for carrying, and ran along the path towards Wansongling. When they arrived at the mountain pass, they had to copy the mountain path themselves and carry the ammunition box up the mountain, which would probably take a while.

"Luckily, I have prepared two big guys." Li Tiancheng then opened the door of another small room and said to himself.

There were two yellow canvas in the room. Li Tiancheng quickly walked over and uncovered the canvas, revealing two big guys. They were the two Maxim heavy machine guns he had previously imported from the United States. This was a water-cooled cooling method, with a caliber of nearly 12 mm, with a fire rate of nearly 600 rounds, and a heavy machine gun with a belt of 300 rounds. This thing was already very advanced in the armies of various countries at that time.

The advantage of water-cooled heavy machine guns is that they are simple in principle and durable, so they have been used in our army for a long time, but they also have fatal disadvantages, that is, they must be injected with cold water to cool the barrel during use. During the War of Liberation, the reorganized 74th Division of Zhang Lingfu's troops was completely wiped out in the Battle of Menglianggu. One of the reasons is that there is no water in the local area, which led to the rapid inability to use water-cooled heavy machine guns in the army and greatly reduced the firepower.
Chapter completed!