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After receiving Lin Yuan's call back, Ou Zhenhai began to wait anxiously. The next day, on the morning of November [-]th, a team of trucks pulled thirty small boats to the division headquarters. The small boat that can carry more than a dozen people couldn't help complaining to the captain of the transportation team: "Can't you get us some big boats?"

The leader of the transport team said helplessly: "The load-bearing capacity of the road here is not enough. Now these ships are already the largest ships that can be transported. If the ships are bigger, the cars will sink into the ground."

Ou Zhenhai sighed, and said, "It's fine, just use this boat reluctantly, and pull the boat to the water platform, where we will put the boat into the water."

The captain of the transportation asked: "Shuishuitai? What is that place?"

Ou Zhenhai smiled and said, "You'll know when you get there." Then he asked the captain of the transportation team to lead the car up a high slope. From the top to the bottom of the slope, there was obviously a road paved with green grass, which directly led to the river. On the side, Ou Zhenhai pointed to the road and said: "This is the water slide we made ourselves. We didn't have a slide a while ago, and it took a lot of effort to get the boat into the water. Now it's good. The boat can go straight on the slope." Slip into the water."

Ou Zhenhai said to the people below the high slope: "Hurry up and pour the oil on the slide, let's put the boat down." So the people poured oil on, unloaded the boat, and quickly got thirty small boats into the water .

Seeing that he now has 1000 small boats, each boat can carry about 1000 people, and can transport more than [-] troops across the river at a time, he thought: "We have already scouted out: the fortifications from the riverside to Xiangyang City. It's all empty, so [-] men can go over and occupy those fortifications."

So Ou Zhenhai ordered the troops to cross the river, and at the same time ordered the artillery unit to use 122mm cannon howitzers to attack the city wall of Xiangyang. Zhang Zhidong knew when he decided to stick to Xiangyang that the city wall of Xiangyang was vulnerable to the powerful firepower of Lin Yuan's troops. So he decided to use the Han River and Xianshan Mountain as barriers to stop Lin Yuan's troops, so he didn't raise or thicken the city wall.

Under the impact of shells, several gaps in the city wall were quickly blasted, and the small boats carried the landing troops across the Han River and occupied the fortifications between the city wall and the Han River. Just as the troops were about to charge, they suddenly saw the city gate. Opened wide, a fast horse galloped out, and immediately one of them held a big white flag and rushed towards the position. Everyone thought: "This man came out holding a white flag, he must not come to attack us. Could it be that the defenders in the city are going to attack us?" Surrender?"

The offensive unit was the No.19 Regiment of the Seventh Brigade of the Third Division. The head of the regiment was Xia Zifeng. Don't shoot, bring the man who surrenders to me!"

Several soldiers went over immediately, stood guard in the trench, and aimed their guns at the man. The man came to the trench and got off his horse. He led the horse and raised the flag and walked towards the trench, shouting loudly as he walked: "Don't shoot, Don't shoot, I have something to see your superior."

Seeing that the man was unarmed, the two soldiers went out carefully, pointed their guns at the man, searched him, found no weapon, took the horse aside, and brought the man in front of Xia Zifeng, Xia Zifeng asked Said: "You are holding a white flag, but are you here to surrender?"

The man said, "I didn't come to surrender. I came to deliver a letter and something. The reason why I held up the white flag was because I was afraid that you would shoot me."

Xia Zifeng asked, "What letter? What?"

The man replied: "The letter and other things are on the horse. You will know when you read it."

Xia Zifeng gave the two soldiers a wink, and the two soldiers came back after leaving for a while and said, "There is a package right away, and inside the package is a letter and a box. We brought the letter to you, and we opened the box to look at it too." Yes, it's inside..."

The soldier paused at this point, Xia Zifeng hurriedly said: "What's in the box? Don't hesitate!"

The soldier hesitated for a while before saying, "Inside the box are two human heads!"

As soon as the words came out, the envoy screamed, Xia Zifeng looked at the envoy and asked, "Don't you know what's in the box?"

The messenger shook his head in panic, and said, "I don't know, I really don't know. If I knew there were two human heads inside, I wouldn't have come here. It's so creepy to carry two human heads on my back!"

Xia Zifeng nodded, opened the letter and asked the messenger, "Who sent you here?"

The envoy said: "It's the guard in the city, the general of Xiangfan, Mr. Xiao Chengyong, and the letter is his own handwriting."

Xia Zifeng nodded, turned to the soldier while reading the letter, "Is there anything special about those two heads?"

The soldier replied, "It's the heads of two women. One looks to be in her 60s and 30s, and the other looks to be in her [-]s."

Xia Zifeng read the letter while listening, suddenly his expression changed, and the soldier hurriedly asked, "Commander, what's wrong?"

Xia Zifeng took a deep breath and said, "Xiao Chengyong said in the letter that one of the heads in the box belongs to his mother and the other belongs to his wife."

As soon as the words came out, everyone exclaimed, and they discussed: "What does the enemy guard kill his relatives and send us their heads? What does it mean?" A soldier asked: "Why did Xiao Chengyong send two Give us a human head?"

Xia Zifeng let out a long sigh and said, "He said in the letter that he would swear to the death to defend Xiangyang. He had killed his whole family and died for the country, so he was waiting to die with us!"

At this time, an officer said: "Regimental Commander, I think Xiao Chengyong is a guy trying to gain fame, and those two heads don't necessarily belong to anyone."

Xia Zifeng smiled lightly, and said, "It doesn't matter whether they are real or not, we just need to take down Xiangyang City! I ordered, cover the city with heavy machine guns and mortars, and attack the city with all our strength!"

A soldier asked: "Commander, what about the envoy?"

Xia Zifeng said: "We don't have such a big enmity with the Qing court. We don't need to kill an envoy. Let him go back." Several soldiers then released the envoy, and the various troops under the regiment immediately launched a campaign against Xiangyang. Offensively, the troops used fire cover during the attack, and focused on rushing. They used small forces to assault the gap in the city wall, and concentrated their firepower to suppress the Qing army on the walls on both sides of the gap.

The assault group set off immediately and walked towards the gap on the city wall. Only then did the machine gunners behind discover that there was no Qing army on the top of the wall at all, so they did not shoot. After waiting on the road for a while but did not find any traces of the Qing army, he climbed over the dilapidated wall that was half a person high and entered the city.

Xia Zifeng and the others were watching the commando from behind. As soon as they entered the city, they heard fierce gunshots from the city. They were all from the commando. Xia Zifeng instantly understood that the commando was under attack. He immediately said: "Second commando, charge me!"

But at this moment, two people covered in blood rushed out of the city wall and rushed towards Xia Zifeng without looking back. Xia Zifeng looked at the two men and was surprised to find that they were the commandos warrior.