Ou Zhenhai smiled and said, "You don't need to be so angry, in fact, the fire didn't cause us much damage!"

Chu Yuan, who was sulking on the sidelines, shouted immediately when he heard this: "What are you talking about, this fire didn't cause any loss to you?"

Ou Zhenhai smiled and said, "That's right, the fire didn't burn thirty of us to death in total. Although there were quite a few burns, they were all skin wounds and not fatal."

Chu Yuan's face changed drastically, and he said in a trembling voice: "Impossible! Impossible! Your troops are scattered in the city, and you must be at a loss when the fire breaks out. Moreover, the superiors cannot effectively command the subordinates. You will be like a group of headless chickens. There must be countless casualties in the random collision in the city."

Ou Zhenhai smiled and said, "Our radio station is assigned to the class level, and orders from the superior can be conveyed to everyone almost instantly, do you understand?"

Chu Yuan looked at Ou Zhenhai with trusting eyes, and Xia Zifeng said aside: "One more thing, we knew you had a problem before entering the city, so when we stationed, we chose places close to the city wall, so we withdrew Come out faster."

Chu Yuan thought for a long time and asked: "How did you realize that I have a problem? I took out Xiao Chengyong's head, can't I make you trust me?"

Ou Zhenhai said: "You took the head and I really believed you, but your mistake was that you were too impatient and kept letting us enter the city. That's why I thought you might have set a trap in the city."

After hearing this, Chu Yuan let out a long sigh, looked up to the sky and said, "Lord Xiao, this subordinate is incompetent, and I am ashamed of your spirit in heaven!"

Ou Zhenhai said: "I don't understand something, can you tell me?"

Chu Yuan said sadly: "If you have anything you want to ask, just say it."

Ou Zhenhai said: "If I'm not wrong, your plan is to set fire to the city and burn us to death in large numbers, right?"

Chu Yuan nodded lightly, and Ou Zhenhai continued to ask: "Then why did you kill Xiao Chengyong and feign surrender? Isn't it better to just surrender? Aren't we going to the city as well?"

Chu Yuan sighed softly and said, "Actually, the plan was not what it is now at all."

Ou Zhenhai asked, "What does that look like?"

Chu Yuan replied: "You must have heard the explosion tonight. It was from the explosives hidden in the house. These explosives are our original plan. We use these explosives to defend the city. If you attack If we can stop it, we will block it, if we can't stop it, we will use explosives to die with you!"

After hearing this, Ou Zhenhai sighed softly, and said, "Why are you bothering? We don't have any national enmity with you. Are you going to kill us if you are desperate?"

Chu Yuan raised his brows when he heard this, and said angrily, "Is there no national hatred and family hatred? Let me tell you, all the defenders we left in the city have blood feuds with you Lin Ni bandits!"

Ou Zhenhai asked: "Blood feud? How do you say that?"

Chu Yuan sneered and said: "You are in North China, in Henan, and you have distributed our land to those poor people. Those lands were handed down from our ancestors. You snatched them and gave them to others. Why don't you have a bloody feud with us? ?”

Ou Zhenhai thought to himself: "It turns out that these people have lost their interests in the reform, so it's not surprising that they hate us." So Ou Zhenhai said, "I understand, go ahead."

Chu Yuan said: "This plan was implemented well and killed many of you, but your troops soon stopped attacking and surrounded the city, so we discussed with Lord Xiao to bring you into the city. Then imitate Zhuge Kongming's method of burning Xinye, and set fire to the city. In order to bring you into the city, Lord Xiao thought of the trick of feigning surrender, and you know the rest of it."

Ou Zhenhai asked: "Then why didn't you surrender? Wouldn't surrender also allow us to enter the city?"

Chu Yuan smiled coldly, and said with a smile: "First: If we surrender, you will definitely conduct a large-scale search after entering the city, and then you will catch the people we are going to set fire to. We will follow you in the battlefield uprising and tell you that there are no defenders. , you will not search, but this is not important, what is important is the latter point, that is—”

When Chu Yuan said this, he suddenly changed the subject and said proudly: "We are the courtiers of the Qing Dynasty, how can we surrender to you traitors and thieves!"

After hearing this, Ou Zhenhai smiled disdainfully and said, "Don't make your words so high-sounding, you can take a look, how many ordinary people have you killed by setting fire to the city?"

Chu Yuan sneered and said: "If those people are the people of the Qing Dynasty, they will die with us. If they are not the people of the Qing Dynasty, they are the rioters who have illicit relations with Lin Ni. Death is not a pity!"

Ou Zhenhai thought to himself: "What kind of logic is this!" He said helplessly to his subordinates: "Take this guy down."

Chu Yuan said proudly: "I will not be your prisoner of war, Lin Ni's running dogs, give me a good time."

When everyone heard Chu Yuan swearing, they glared angrily and said, "Master, kill this kid." Ou Zhenhai waved his hand lightly and said, "No! When I report this matter to Lin Shuai, let Lin Shuai make a decision. Take him down first and lock him up."

Everyone pushed Chu Yuan down, and Ou Zhenhai asked Xia Zifeng, "Are there still Qing troops in the city resisting?"

Xia Zifeng said: "Most of them were killed when we fought against us, and the rest fled to the south. There should be only ordinary people left in the city."

Ou Zhenhai said: "We should think of a way to rescue the people trapped in the city."

Xia Zifeng said: "It's absolutely impossible for people to go in. There are fires and smoke everywhere, and you can't even tell the direction. As many people go in, as many people will die, and we don't have anything to put out the fire."

Ou Zhenhai looked at the city wall and said, "Then there is only one way. Use explosives to blow up the city wall, so that people who are close to the gap have a greater chance to escape."

Xia Zifeng said, "I'm going to direct the engineering battalion to plant explosives."

Ou Zhenhai nodded, and then reported to Lin Yuan about the burning of Xiangyang. Lin Yuan immediately said: "Inform the reporter, make this matter public, and focus on interviewing that Chu Yuan. The source has been reviewed."

"From your point of view, it was not Zhang Zhidong's idea to burn Xiangyang. Although Zhang Zhidong was a staunch supporter of the Qing court, he was a good official who cared about the common people. You wrote this matter into a leaflet, focusing on writing about the common people. It’s so miserable, beat the leaflets into the mountain, and let Zhang Zhidong see, it would be even better if you could let the common people go to bury their relatives under Mount Xian.”

"In the leaflets, you want to scold Zhang Zhidong to the brim, why use the flesh and blood of the people to get promoted and get rich, colluding with the Japanese to kill the people, that's the content, you can ask the psychological warfare team to operate it specifically, I will not say much."

Ou Zhenhai replied: "I understand, Lin Shuai."

Putting down the radio, Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "Zhang Zhidong is a famous official of a generation, why did he escape after guarding Xiangyang for a few days? What exactly does he want to do? He is now in Xianshan, which lies across Xiangyang In the south, if we don't conquer the Qing army on Mount Xian, they will definitely threaten our rear and prevent us from attacking south!"

"But what if we attack Xianshan? It will definitely not be so easy! So the Qing army held us back, maybe this is Zhang Zhidong's real purpose."

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