There were four green soldiers who came in, and there were a few more outside the door. Their dark shadows looked quite strong, and the big blades in their hands reflected the cold light under the lantern.
Yu Shun and his companions flashed the hands holding the guns behind them and said calmly: "What do you want to do?"
"What are you doing? Check you guys!" Under the light of the lantern, Qingbing with a sharp voice named Wu swept his triangular eyes around and asked, "Where did you two come from?"
Yu Shun spoke Jiaodong dialect and said in a deep voice: "Wen Deng!"
"Ha~~ Wen Deng is now occupied by Beihai Pirates, how did you two escape?"
"We are not from the county town. We live outside the city and are running around."
The man surnamed Wu snorted, raised his fist and put his feet on Yu Shun's bedside. He squinted his face and squinted his eyes. He smiled at Yu Shunpi and said, "Okay, you still dare to blow up the thorns? I lived there before. Why don’t you get a primer to register at the store?”
"The primer is inside the package." Yu Shun frowned and said, "I wanted to get the primer before, but the store clerk said that since I'm staying for one night and leaving, there's no need to register. You'll know after you call him and ask."
"I don't have time!" The man surnamed Wu put on a sinister smile, stood up straight, raised his knife and pointed it at Yu Shun: "Now I suspect that both of you are spies for the Northern Pirates! Come back to our house and tell us the truth! Even if you are a fucking iron cock, I still have pliers to pluck out your hair!"
After that, he stretched out his hand to grab Yu Shun's collar. Unexpectedly, Yu Shun's move was faster. His left hand was as fast as lightning. He caught the opponent's jaw with one blow. At the same time, he stepped hard on the opponent's feet with his right foot. His surname was Wu. He immediately screamed.
In the flash of lightning, Yu Shun released his left hand and inserted it into the opponent's arms. With a strong lift, Wu heard a loud cry and flew sideways like a paper kite. With a "boom", his whole body hit the middle of the two rooms. A large hole was suddenly smashed into the partition wall, which was a mixture of fence and soil. People had already gone to the next door. Mud, grass knots were flying around the room, and dust and mist were rising into the sky.
Since he was caught accidentally in the countryside of Rongcheng four years ago, Yu Shun has practiced grappling and fighting hard in the past few years. He has also practiced Chang Family Boxing with Chai Rugui as his instructor for more than half a year, and he can deal with ordinary people with ease.
At this time, even the next door was in chaos. There was a lot of yelling and grunting, shouting "there are thieves", swords and sticks drawn, some running away, and some crawling in through the holes...
The man surnamed Wu probably broke his head somewhere, and blood flowed all over his face, mixed with mud. He looked as embarrassed as he wanted. He covered his head with a knife, stood up unsteadily, and turned around to point. Yu Shun and Yu Shun shouted: "These two are spies of the North Sea Pirates! Brothers, we have many people, please reward them for taking them down!"
All of a sudden, I heard the clanging of the gongs and sieves on the street outside. The strong men of each household were greeting and shouting "catch the thief". The shouts and curses came from far and near, and it seemed that the whole village was awake.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Yu Shun and his companions took their baggage and were about to rush out. The man named Wu stood at the entrance of the fence hole, dazed, and suddenly woke up, stamped his feet and pulled his throat with all his strength. He shouted: "Block the door! You two idiots are leaving!"
"boom!"
A crisp gunshot silenced the man surnamed Wu and suppressed the voices of people inside and outside the house. Yu Shun's companions opened fire. The problem is that this guy has been shooting at either nine or ten rings before, but this is the first time he has shot at someone. In addition, the light was dim, and the bullet whizzed past the Qing soldier named Wu's ear, and then disappeared into the partition behind him. Earth wall.
The man surnamed Wu only felt his left ear feel warm, as if some liquid had splashed on his face. When he touched it with his hand, he discovered that his left ear was gone! Immediately afterwards, heart-rending pain surged instantly, and he did not dare to touch the wound with his left hand. He only hovered a punch away from the wound and screamed.
All the Qing troops were immediately stunned! What kind of gun is this? No need to twist it!
At this moment, while everyone inside and outside was in a daze, Yu Shun rushed to a leading Qing soldier, strangled the opponent's neck with his left arm, then put a pistol on the back of the opponent's neck, and dragged him away. When I got to the door, I kicked down the straw curtain, and saw that the courtyard was full of dozens of torches, and more than twenty Qing soldiers were still staring at me, staring blankly at me. He exerted force with one arm, and the guy in his arms turned as pale as a purple eggplant, and he couldn't breathe.
Yu Shun stood at the door with a murderous look on his face and shouted: "Get out of the way and let us walk! Who dares to move, I will kill him with one shot!"
"Hero... spare, spare my life! Save... save me..."
When all the Qing soldiers saw the person in Yu Shun's arms, they immediately thought about the egg dish! The person the other party held was actually the captain of the sentry, Chief Li - the gruff voice named Li who had been giving orders next door.
At this time, a Qing soldier plucked up the courage and stammered: "Hero! Hey, from which hilltop? How dare you commit crimes in this village! We just get out of the way, you put him down!"
"Fart! Do you think I don't understand?! Get out of the way!" Yu Shun shouted, "Let them go outside the village!"
The Qing soldiers looked at me, you, and Chief Li, all waiting for him to speak. But the man surnamed Li was pinched tightly by Yu Shun's arm, and he could only hold his breath to fight for his life. His eyes were wide open and he could not say a word. The key is that there is a gun on his waist, and the dark gun body emits an icy cold light under the light and shadow of the torch.
After a stalemate for a while, the Qing troops began to slowly spread out to both sides, opening a gap about ten feet wide. Yu Shun asked his companion to walk in front, and he dragged the half-dead Mr. Li out of the carriage shop gate. In fact, the group of Qing soldiers had swords, guns, and cannons, but they only had rat-proof weapons. In addition, in the panic, they had no time to load the ammunition and light the match rope, so they had to follow behind, like escorting or seeing off, step by step.
By this time, three to four hundred people had gathered outside the store, with lanterns and torches shining brightly. Although there were many people, no one dared to step forward to show off. Yu Shun didn't want to shoot and hurt anyone casually. If he was hit by a North Korean bullet these days, if there was no military doctor to treat him, he would basically die.
In this way, the Qing army and the people in the village followed Yushun and others a hundred steps away with torches, until they left the village to the north and walked along the Jinshui River for about two miles. The companions used their flashlights to shine and found that the river here Not to mention, there are stone steps to cross the river step by step, and the dark river water flows between the stone steps.
"Cross the river!"
"Yes Yes!"
Naturally, the Qing army sentry commander surnamed Li had never seen a flashlight. From the moment he left the village, he noticed that Yu Shun's companion only held a palm-long black cylinder in his hand; he did not know how to manipulate it, and the beam of light emitted It's bright and straight, and everything it shines on along the way is even more detailed. He thought the other party was using sorcery, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to resist at all, so he just did whatever he was told.
When the officers and soldiers saw them stepping on rocks to cross the river, they shouted from the other side: "Hey! Heroes, keep your word, it's time to let our people go!" Yu Shun strangled the guy named Li and walked for a long time, and he was very tired. ; However, he knew that as long as he let people go now, the officers and soldiers would swoop up like wasps and pursue them, so he said to his companions who were better at shooting than him: "Just use torches instead of hitting people, and fire three shots in a row to scare them away." .”
The companion said "Hmm", looked at the flickering flames more than 20 meters away, then raised his hand and fired three shots.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
With the deafening gunshots, Yu Shun soon smelled the pungent smell of urine. It turned out that the captain surnamed Li who was being strangled in front of him was scared to death. This man has lived for more than thirty years and has been a green soldier for more than ten years. He has never seen a short gun that can fire continuously. He was finally convinced that the two guys who kidnapped him were most likely the legendary "Northern Pirates". At this moment, he felt extremely regretful, and he deeply understood what it means that there is no regret medicine in the world, and what it means that "the human heart is not enough and a snake swallows an elephant."
On the other side, as several torches were shot away by bullets, the Qing army on the other side of the Jinshui River suddenly exploded, and someone shouted: "Mother! This is a repeating fire cannon from the Northern Pirates!"
"Jiang Liu was beaten to death! Run!"
"Fart! I..."
Just as the guy who was mistakenly shot was about to argue, his voice was drowned in panic shouts. After a while, the Qing troops on the shore had already ran dozens of steps away. Just when these guys felt they were safe, three more gunshots were heard from the other side, and then someone seemed to have been shot and fell to the ground screaming.
I’m a bitch! How many shots can the North Sea Pirate's quick gun fire in succession? Stop talking and keep running away...
Yu Shun took advantage of the chaos and pushed the limp Qingjun Li surnamed forward, raised his foot and kicked him into the river, causing a huge splash of water. When the Qing army sentry commander surnamed Li stood up from the river, wiped the water from his face, turned around and looked towards the west bank, there was no one there.
After Yu Shun and his companions left quickly to the west, they did not dare to turn on the flashlight again. They walked as soon as they saw the road and climbed into the mountains. They stepped on the path between the rocks for two full hours before stopping and looking for them. Sit down and sweat in a secluded place sheltered from the wind.
At this time, the stars and moon in the sky were blocked by a thin layer of clouds. From the chaos, one could see that the east and west walls were covered with rolling hills, and the mountains were covered with dark trees. Although the autumn night is not cold, it still makes people feel chilly all over. The roaring pine waves are surging in the dark, and the old branches are shaking crazily above their heads, making a scary creaking sound.
Yu Shun took out the gourd filled with water from his bag and handed it to his companion. He waited for the other party to take a few sips and took it when he was about to drink it. He heard a soft "click" sound of the trigger, which shocked him and saw that his companion had already drawn the pistol from his waist. out.
Because the two were very close, he looked in the direction pointed by the other person's raised hand, and saw a swarthy guy as big as a calf parked there under a pine tree more than ten steps away. , two eyes as big as wine glasses, yellow and green, shining slightly, looking at the two of them without moving.
"Leopard!" Yu Shun's heart sank. From the corner of his eye, he saw that the muzzle of his companion's gun had been raised, and he hurriedly stopped him softly: "Don't move! We are downwind."
Although the guy could be scared away by just shooting, Yu Shun felt that the place he was in was already very close to Muping City, and it was unnecessary if the gunfire caused trouble, so the two of them stared at each other and faced each other. I don’t know how long it took, but the beast purred from its throat and flicked its thick black tail twice. It seemed that it was confirmed that the two humans in front of it were a huge threat to it, and it turned around and jumped reluctantly. Entering the pine forest, after a burst of noise, it went away.
It wasn't until his companion turned off the safety that Yu Shun took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. At this time, the sky became darker and darker, and the two knew that the dawn was coming...
In the Qing Dynasty, the state government of Ninghai Prefecture was in Muping City. In the early Ming Dynasty, the county was abolished and changed into a prefecture. Because the state capital was only 111 miles away from Wendeng County, after learning the news of Wendeng's fall, the city gates on the north, east, and south were closed, leaving only the west gate. After all, the people in the city have to burn firewood to eat every day.
In the early morning, as the suspension bridge outside the west gate fell, the city gate opened a gap only for people and wheelbarrows to enter and exit. At this time, more than 30 Green Camp soldiers who had been waiting outside the city gate rushed over with a roar; there were two of them. There were two injured ones, one had a thick bandage on his head and the left side of his face was swollen; the other guy had a blood-stained bandage tied around his leg and was limping while being supported by his companions.
These people all knew the soldiers guarding the city gate, so they all entered the city smoothly. When the gatekeeper learned from them that the "North Sea Pirates" spies had appeared at the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains more than 40 miles away, he was so shocked that he immediately rushed to the Zhizhou Yamen to report.
When Zhizhou Yuan Keide heard that the Northern Navy had appeared in his jurisdiction, he was immediately frightened and turned pale. At present, in addition to a general with dozens of green battalion soldiers and No. 100 officers in the city, there are more than 500 strong men recruited from various wealthy families and ordinary people. In addition to dozens of blunderbuss and line guns, as well as swords, guns and clubs, these people didn't even have a cannon. How could they defeat the Northern Navy?
Although I received a transfer message from Fucheng yesterday, Lord Cao of Denglai Qingbing Beidao asked each county to recruit hunters with muskets, bows and arrows to defend the city, and the blacksmith shop to build muskets and earthen cannons, but now it is too late!
However, after smoking two packs of cigarettes silently in the study, Yuan Zhizhou's panic gradually calmed down, and he had a vague idea in his mind. However, this matter must be discussed with other officials before convening the heads of various official families in the city to make a plan.
After a while, Tongzhi Fei Deying, Li Mu Zhang Zengtan, and Zhou Xuezheng Wang Guixiang all arrived. These four were the official officials of Ninghai Prefecture... Oh, and there was also a patrolman from Rushanzhai. Check, but as the North Navy attacks Bendeng, that person may not be able to come back.
Fei Deying and the other three already knew what had happened, but they all had no idea. They sat in the signing room and sighed. After Yuan Jingde came in and sat down, he slowly expressed his thoughts. The other three looked at each other, and then nodded helplessly, thinking that this was the only way. Then Yuan Jingde asked Tongzhi to send people to invite the principals of each family to discuss the matter.
Even though Ninghai Prefecture is not a big place, it still has a lot of scholarly officials. Inside the city are the Chang family, Zhao family, and Wang family in Ximen, the He family in Nanmen, and the descendants of Confucius Sheng in Dongguan; outside the city are the Li family in Xijiejiazhuang, the Yang family in Wutai Nanhuan, the Zhang family in Zeshang, and the Sun family in Yazi. Shangzhuang Yushi and others. The women and children of these families were sent to Dengzhou Mansion, while the young men and women stayed behind to help defend the city.
Half an hour later, after learning that the "North Sea Pirates" had already appeared in the territory, various families came over one after another. When Ninghai Prefecture Zhizhou Yuan Jingde saw that everyone had arrived, he took his seat in the second hall. He only heard him cough slightly, and then Said: "Everyone must have heard that spies from the North Sea pirates have appeared at the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains, and they will probably attack the city in a few days. I think our Ninghai Prefecture has been organized since the 22nd year of Dading. It has been more than six hundred years, and the country has been dynasty for one hundred and fifty-seven years! Each of your families has been living here since the Ming Dynasty. If it is exposed to war and the city is destroyed, I am afraid that life will be ruined!"
"Master Yuan said yes!"
"It's better to send someone to Fucheng to ask for reinforcements!"
Everyone just agreed in unison, not knowing what medicine Master Yuan was selling in his gourd.
Yuan Jingde's face now showed a look of sorrow and anger, and he said in a deep voice: "In order to ensure the safety of the people here and the health of your families, I have decided to send people to negotiate peace with the pirates of the North Sea...the North Sea ! Today we will elect representatives from among everyone here! Who is willing to go to the den of thieves and seek peace for the people of Hecheng?"
Okay, I dare to surrender to Beihai Town... No, let's make peace! Everyone in the hall let out a sigh of relief, thinking that this time no one would have to die. However, the officials and gentry began to tremble in their hearts when they thought of the rumors that all the Beihai navy were like wolves and tigers.
For a moment, there was complete silence in the second hall.
