America 1881: Legend of the West

Behind Songo Fortress is a hilly area with ravines.

These ravines may be deep or shallow, but they are basically not next to each other.

At this time, a group of people, waving shovels and hoes in their hands, were digging forward frantically, connecting these ravines as much as possible to create a road to the fortress.

An old man nearly eighty years old, wearing a sleeveless cloth jacket and holding a shovel, was at the forefront of the team.

He shoveled the shovel down, submerged it into the soil, stepped on it, exerted force on his waist, and a shovelful of soil was shoveled out.

The old man turned around, poured soil into the basket behind him, and then quickly shoveled a shovel.

"Uncle Danian, please put on your coat. There are too many mosquitoes here. It will be troublesome if you get bitten!" A young man handed a long sleeve to the old man and said earnestly, "Boss Chen asked us to take good care of you. If you There are three advantages and two disadvantages, how should we explain them?"

Zhang Danian didn't look back: "I'm very thick-skinned, so I'm not afraid of these bugs."

The young man's face was full of embarrassment: "You are always here to command, not to charge into battle. Just leave the digging to us. You are almost eighty."

"Eighty? What happened to eighty?" Zhang Danian straightened up and turned his head, "When I was in the Taiping Army fighting in Changsha, we dug that tunnel. You dug it? Do you know how to dig it?"

He wiped the sweat from his head with the edge of his coat and continued digging:

"The soil here is not too hard. We have to dig harder. Jianqiu gave us a week. I told him it only takes three days!"

He turned his head and glared at the young man again, pulled the long sleeves from his hand and put it on:

"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and take the basket of soil out!"

Zhang Danian, who was hard-spoken and soft-hearted, led a group of people to dig trenches behind Songo Fort.

This was the secret mission assigned to him by Chen Jianqiu.

Zhang Danian, who was born in the Taiping Army Geotechnical Camp, agreed without thinking.

The members of his unit were all miners and railroad workers, and they were quite experienced at doing these things.

Since there are many natural ditches here, Zhang Danian and his team's workload is much smaller. In addition, the terrain is uneven and there are many vegetation, making them very concealed.

From the city wall, basically nothing can be seen.

Chen Jianqiu and the others staged a feint attack right in front to attract the attention of the defenders, and at the same time searched for the Xibaya scouts who had left the city.

From the second day of the feint attack, no living scouts returned to the city.

Lieutenant Gonzalez and his defenders were now blind and had no idea what was happening outside.

But the lieutenant didn't feel too much pressure.

First of all, the commander on the opposite side did not organize a strong attack. To put it nicely, he was cautious, but to put it badly, he was afraid of death.

How can you be afraid of death in a war? What's more, it's a siege.

Secondly, there are sufficient supplies in his fortress, including a lot of water, so he is not afraid of siege at all.

He believed that these rebels would either be unable to hold back, swarm forward and be beaten to pieces by his two heavy machine guns, or they would retreat as before.

However, the lieutenant began to paint in the house.

He put the easel by his bed.

Draw a few strokes, then climb into bed, look at your painting, and slowly fall asleep.

In the dream, the lieutenant entered his own painting.

He walked alone through the jungle.

No enemies were encountered.

The Chinese seemed to have withdrawn.

Behind the jungle is a vast savanna, with wild dogs, zebras, and antelopes running wild on the grassland.

The scene that followed became magical.

These animals flew up and floated in the air as they ran.

A building that looks exactly like the Bullring in Madrid suddenly rises from the grassland.

The lieutenant's own steps became lighter.

He also floated into the bullring.

There, he saw his sister and brother who died in the civil war, as well as the Cubans he killed!

Their skin colors vary, some are white, some are black, and some are Chinese.

They actually stood together, waving to him in the middle of the bullring.

The lieutenant rushed towards them in a rage.

He couldn't tolerate his relatives and his enemies being together.

"You devils, don't try to trick me!" the lieutenant shouted.

But a huge explosion suddenly sounded behind him.

The lieutenant looked back and saw that half of the bullring behind him was crumbling.

"Sir! Sir!"

A voice floated from the air.

"Sir! Sir!"

Lieutenant Gonzalez's eyes shot open.

He found one of his own soldiers standing beside the bed, looking panicked and saying to him in despair:

"Sir! The call is coming! The call is coming!"

"What started a fight?" The lieutenant's mind was still a little confused.

"The city wall behind was blown down by the enemy! The enemy came in!" The soldier cried in despair.

The lieutenant jumped up from the bed.

He didn't even have time to put on his clothes, so he put on a pair of trousers and rushed out of the door, looking towards the back of the fortress.

It should be dawn at this time, the sky is just getting bright.

In the direction he looked, gunshots and killing sounds were loud, and a group of uniformed soldiers loomed.

"Where are the soldiers? Where is my machine gun?" the lieutenant shouted, "block them, go up the wall and fight them back!"

"We tried it." The soldier cried in despair. "No one can stand on the front of the city wall. If you go up, you will be knocked down. You can't hit the sides at all. They seem to have come out of the ditch."

"In the ditch?" The lieutenant was confused now.

But the battlefield didn't give him much time to think.

More and more enemies are rushing in.

The lieutenant took the gun from the soldier and rushed over.

But as soon as he reached the halfway point, he saw two Chinese soldiers coming face to face.

The two sides had a face-to-face meeting.

Without hesitation, the lieutenant and the soldiers behind him raised their rifles and fired. Unexpectedly, a hail of bullets came from the opposite side.

Maybe it was a hasty fight, and neither side hit.

The lieutenant hurriedly pulled the bolt and prepared to shoot again.

Little did he know that the soldier on the opposite side quickly changed his kneeling position, held his gun and fired again.

The rate of fire was completely suppressed.

This time, the opposite side took aim.

The lieutenant was knocked to the ground in an instant, but the soldier behind him didn't last longer than he did, lying next to the lieutenant two seconds later.

The same thing happened in other corners of the fort.

The Chinese soldiers followed the trench to the gap in the city wall and rushed into the fortress on the collapsed rubble.

They carried automatic firearms such as BARs and fired at the Spanish soldiers who blocked them.

Most of the Spanish soldiers were asleep.

They heard the signal and came out disheveled with guns in hand, some of the bullets not having had time to be loaded.