afterglow

Chapter 230 Qingliangshan Broadcasting Tower; Speech

All of this happened in a flash, without any delay, and it took only 20 seconds before and after.

The violent shock wave overturned the surrounding guards, the windows of the two adjacent cars were completely shattered, the black car produced by Junda was seriously deformed, a wheel was blown off, and the explosion also ignited the fuel tank. Flames quickly sprang up.

The cyclist was tens of meters away at this moment, and the two attackers who fired first on the street were also seriously injured.

Covered in blood, the two of them staggered and fled for a while before giving up, leaning against the telephone pole and catching them, dripping blood all along the way.

"The thieves are making trouble! Hurry up and call the police!"

"It's flooded, put out the fire!"

"Don't get in the way! It's blocking the way!"

Although today's rainy day is terrible, there are still many pedestrians coming and going on the street. After all, this is the most economically developed place in Ming Dynasty.

After the attack, the panicked citizens quickly left the scene of the incident, and then began to seek help spontaneously.

Someone ran to the nearby public telephone booth and dialed the "〇〇〇" phone number—although the popularity of telephones was not comparable to that of the European advanced industrial countries, Daming was one of the first countries to try calling the police. It came into effect at the beginning of this year.

"This is Nanhui County Police, calm down, don't panic, and briefly describe the situation."

"There... There are a lot of people shooting! Ah! There is also an explosion! Come on, someone..."

"Calm down, miss, tell me the location."

"Hmm... I... seem to be at the intersection of Anchang South Street and Yu'er Lane!"

Nowadays, there is no walkie-talkie for everyone, and the efficiency of calling the police is actually not high. After the local police station receives the police, it is impossible to contact the patrol police around the incident in the first place. It can only be said that it is more convenient than running to the police manually. .

In fact, police officers patrolling adjacent streets rushed over after hearing gunshots and explosions.

Afterwards, as more and more police officers arrived, the two attackers were arrested after simple bandaging, but the attacker who threw the bomb on a bicycle managed to escape.

At the scene of the incident, before the fire completely engulfed the entire vehicle, the conscientious guards dragged out the bloody and seriously injured Chen Zhongxu.

At the same time, Beijing.

The second meeting in the Wenhua Palace has been going on for about a quarter of an hour. The factories in the northern district have started production today, and the shops in the southern district have opened one after another.

At the east foot of Qingliang Mountain in Xicheng District, the employees of Daming National Broadcasting Company also came to their workplaces one after another—this is where the company's headquarters is located.

There is a towering tower behind the headquarters building, which is the company's broadcasting tower.

In order to facilitate the divergence of radio waves and the convenience of work, in the 24th year of Zhichang, the company headquarters and radio tower were located on a flat land at the foot of Qingliang Mountain.

At that time, the ruling and opposition parties debated for a long time whether the design of the broadcasting tower should emulate the steel structure appearance of the Eiffel Tower, which shows industrial strength, or follow the traditional pagoda shape, and finally finalized the latter.

This radio tower largely refers to the glazed pagoda of Dabaoen Temple and the "Iron Tower" of Kaifeng. It has eight sides and eighteen floors, is about 116m high, and is decorated with various neon lights.

During the day, under the sunlight, the glazed tiles shine brightly; at night, after nightfall, the neon lights are colorful.

At this time, a car and a small van entered the urban area through Qingliangmen, then went east along Qingliangmen Inner Avenue, and turned left to north at the intersection.

The two vehicles slowly stopped at the entrance of the broadcasting company's headquarters. The guards on duty were wondering why the two vehicles came. The next second they saw someone jumping out of the truck with a gun.

The muzzle of the black hole pointed straight at them, and the attackers who rushed over shouted: "Get out of here and don't seek death!"

The three guards drew fire one after another, but their pistols were too weak compared to the attackers' Winchester lever rifles, Remington semi-automatic shotguns, and Ruifeng shotguns.

In just a few breaths, the three of them were thrown to the ground.

The attackers had a clear division of labor and acted neatly, and went straight to the headquarters building.

The gunshots just now shocked the staff at the headquarters, and the menacing attack of a dozen attackers made people even more terrified.

But these guys don't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately. They claim to be righteous, and their goals are very clear-to seize the radio control of the broadcasting tower, make speeches, and broadcast their opinions!

"Hurry up, don't let this get in the way!"

"Get out! What are you staring at?"

The employees who had received the amnesty rushed out, almost rolling and crawling, as if they would be killed if they slowed down.

In the blink of an eye, the first floor of the building, which was quite lively just now, was empty.

The attackers didn't stay here for long, but left the building through the back door and rushed to the pagoda-shaped broadcast tower.

In addition to the two accomplices of the broadcasting company, four or five employees were also detained and asked for help.

"You are finally here..."

"Hurry up, the dog legs will come later!"

"The five of you go to guard the door, and the two of you go to the second floor and watch."

At the entrance on the first floor of the broadcasting tower, several people closed the door, and moved the nearby tables, cabinets, and chairs to block behind the door.

Then they began to redistribute weapons and ammunition. The two people on the second floor even took out an old aviation-type Lewis light machine gun that they did not know where they got from the big box they were carrying, and a full three thickened magazines. And a bag of bulk 7.7mm MkVII rifle bullets.

The well-organized assailants performed their duties. In the control room on the fifth floor, several employees were adjusting the machine tremblingly under the threat of guns.

At this time, the siren sound from a distance became clearer and clearer.

Because the place where the incident happened is not remote, the patrolmen around Qingliangmen hurried over after hearing the gunshots, and the escaped workers described to them how terrifying the attackers were. .

"Is there a mask?"

"No."

"What weapons did you bring?"

"Guns, lots of guns! Everyone has a gun."

"Uh... let's be clear, a short gun or a long gun?"

Because they were not sure about the situation on the inside and learned that these attackers had "heavy firepower", the first patrolmen who arrived did not choose to enter rashly.

They quickly dispersed the onlookers who were watching the excitement nearby, and then moved in barricades to block the road.

After the police reinforcements arrived, the police were divided into two teams of more than [-] people, and rushed into the headquarters building together.

The employees here have all fled, and after a quick search, everyone confirmed that the attackers were all trapped in the broadcasting tower behind.

Relying on the building, dozens of Yingtianfu police officers formed a semi-surrounding formation around the radio tower tens of meters away.

Police officers used loudspeakers to shout at the radio tower, demanding that the attackers surrender immediately.

"Listen to the thieves in the tower, immediately throw away their weapons and come out to surrender!"

"It's still too late to change my mind, but I just spent a few years in prison, and I'm still a good citizen if I make up my mind."

"What's the use of fighting trapped beasts? If you resist in a corner, you will end up being shot to death in the end!"

Abusive voices came from the window on the second floor of the radio tower, "Speaking is better than singing, you fart your mother! You are so stupid!"

"Da da da--"

"Bang! Bang!"

A series of machine gun bullets and shotgun shells that were as dense as popping beans hit the head and face, and the thirty or forty police officers present immediately fired back after being shocked.

The exchange of fire between the two sides was extremely fierce, crackling like a few firecrackers being lit, and the citizens near the broadcasting company seemed to have returned to around the end of the year.

There are light machine guns, shotguns, and shotguns over there, and most of them are pistols here. The counterattacks of the police officers who have an advantage in numbers seem to be intensive, but they are useless at all. I can't hold my head up.

"It's too fierce! You can't rely on short guns alone!"

"Report quickly and call someone to help!"

The distressed Yingtianfu police called the Yi'an Police Department to report the situation on the scene and asked for support.

The two police officers had just been driving on patrol in the northern urban area, and now they came spontaneously, but before the car stopped, a deputy police superintendent rushed over.

"Turn around! Go to Donggua Street, there is a gun shop there, hurry up and borrow some long guns!"

In this way, half a quarter of an hour later, two police officers rushed into Xu's Gun Shop at the end of Donggua Street, and the shopkeeper thought they were coming to arrest him.

But after expressing their intention to requisition the guns, the clerks cooperated very well and quickly stuffed more than a dozen civilian automatic rifles, lever rifles, three-barreled shotguns, and shotguns on the display cabinets and gun racks into the trunk of the police car. Several large bags of various ammunition were presented.

It's not that they don't want to give more, but that the guns in stock are all packaged, and the gun barrels are full of sticky gun oil, which will be cleaned up before they are sold. Now it will be a while.

The arrival of more than a dozen long guns finally gave the police officers at the scene some confidence. Even though they still couldn't overwhelm the attackers in terms of firepower, they at least reversed the one-sided situation.

Obviously, this situation cannot be resolved by Yingtianfu police alone.

More than an hour after the incident, the Yi'an army of the first team arrived late.

By this time, the attackers had used the captured radio tower to speak to the outside world for several tens of minutes.

Officers cut power to the radio tower, temporarily suspending broadcasts, but the attackers inside then used a backup gasoline generator on the ground floor to restore power and continue sending airwaves.

Compared with the weak firepower of the government police, the soldiers of the Yi'an army deployed old-fashioned Shaosha light machine guns in multiple positions on the second and third floors of the company's headquarters building, firing alternately to suppress them.

Even though the aviation-type Lewis light machine gun has a large ammunition capacity, it can't beat four hands with two fists, and it is quickly suppressed and unable to fight back.

Who would have expected that in today's Daming capital, two old-fashioned light machine guns from the European War decades ago would shoot at each other?

Then, the soldiers began to cautiously approach the radio tower from both wings, trying to rush in and clear these guys.

But the attackers were extremely cunning. They smashed the vending machines in the hall, opened the caps of Coca-Cola, orange soda, orange juice, and beer in glass bottles, and combined with the two barrels of gasoline spared by the gasoline generator, made Became dozens of simple Molotov cocktails.

"Boom! Huh—"

There was a crisp sound of breaking and the sound of flames bursting up one after another, and more than a dozen ignition points appeared in an instant!

Molotov cocktails flew from upstairs and turned the surroundings of the radio tower into a sea of ​​flames. Some people were splashed by the flames and had to slap and roll frantically to extinguish the flames.

Such a counterattack by the attackers was too sudden, and the Yi'an army who was trying to clear them had to suspend their plan to attack hastily.

This premeditated attack was extremely targeted. The occupied radio tower used the frequency of the Sun Moon Society, the official news agency of the Ming Dynasty, to broadcast, and this time period in the morning is one of the prime times when people are used to listening to the radio.

Naturally, the speeches delivered by these attackers could be clearly heard throughout Daming, and even the entire East Asian region.

"...My compatriots in the north and south of the river, we should not be weak anymore! The trend of the world has been the state of the weak and the strong since ancient times. The strong will grow stronger, and the weak will perish!"

"...I am the brothers and sisters of the [-] people who are all of the same blood. We are similar in spirit and in similar circumstances. These sufferings are all caused by cowardly people! Misleading the country and the people!"

"... Internally, the strong bully the weak, and refuse to benefit the people's livelihood; externally, they are timid and cowering, and refuse to commandeer hegemony. Now the world is a world of great contention, how can there be a reason for the horse to let go of Nanshan?!"

"... What's the matter with war? A man who has expanded his territory, even if he dies on the battlefield and is shrouded in horse leather, can still be famous in history and be admired by thousands of people in future generations. His life is not in vain!"

"...Are you still content with the status quo? Follow our obsession and vision, soldiers and civilians all over the country! No matter what you lose, you will die, whether it is lighter than a feather or heavier than Mount Tai!"

"...They are now surrounding us, and the fighting is very fierce. We will fight here to the last moment, and we will never compromise with the stupid, treacherous courtiers and their lackeys!"

"...The fact that they want to cut off the power supply shows how afraid those guys are, and they dare not let the world hear our words. Maybe they will fire a cannon and blow up the antenna later, everyone, the disappearance of our voice does not mean surrender! "

In the Hongde Hall, the impassioned voice was continuously transmitted from the exquisite radio, surrounding the hall.

The middle-aged female official was very distressed and very disturbed-she planned to step forward to turn off the radio before, but was stopped by the emperor.

"This is the real purpose of these guys," the crown prince on the side pondered. "The point of attack is very clear, and the wording is quite deceptive. It is bound to arouse the resonance of many ordinary people."

The emperor himself seemed quite at ease. He took a sip of warm tea and said with a smile, "I didn't criticize the royal family. Instead, I said it was the weak and treacherous people who deceived me."

"If they are stupid enough to make enemies everywhere, people from these two factions will not survive today." The crown prince shook his head slightly, "It's really noisy, father, it's not easy to deal with the aftermath of this matter, even a little bias will cause an uproar."

"So what's the matter? They are too eager to prove themselves and are too arrogant." The calm emperor said indifferently: "If you are happy to see the result, you will naturally acquiesce; otherwise, if you don't allow it, how can you condone it?"

(End of this chapter)