"We won!" Pan Yi looked happy and excitedly grabbed a gunman next to him.
Not only him, but also the team members around him, all looked happy.
Choosing to side with the iron field, they knew that their fate was tied to that of the iron field guards who came from Hutou Village. Now that they saw the officers and soldiers escaping down the mountain and the iron field being saved, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Sancha walked up to Jia Liu and said, "Captain, the officers and soldiers have escaped. What should we do next?"
Jia Liu looked at the direction in which the officers and soldiers were escaping, and said: "It doesn't matter whether we win or lose this battle. The key is Hutou Village. If the boss and the others win, the iron field will be truly stable."
"Master, they will definitely win." Zhang Sancha said, "Our iron field only dispatched one squadron to defeat the army. If Master, there are two brigades and two squadrons, there will be no problem."
"Yeah." Jia Liu nodded.
Both of them have confidence in Hutou Village.
The officers, soldiers and yamen's police officers all fled down the mountain. Zhang Hong did not continue the pursuit and led his men back to the iron yard.
"Thank you for your hard work." Jia Liu said to Zhang Hong who came back.
Zhang Hong said with a smile: "These officers and soldiers are too weak. With such strength, they still want to attack our Hutou Village. They are desperate."
Jia Liu then smiled and said: "The boss has long said that the only people who can threaten us are the border troops in Datong Town. The soldiers guarding other guard posts are not our opponents at all."
After defeating the army, several people were in a good mood, and the crisis at the iron field was temporarily relieved.
The mission assigned to them by the head master has been completed. There is no need to think about turning down the furnace and leading people to escape from Dongshan.
"Officers, officers and soldiers, were defeated?" Chen Hongtao walked over from the iron furnace with a pale face.
He had been guarding the iron furnace to prevent the officers and soldiers from entering the iron yard, so that he could lead people to knock down the iron furnace in time.
"Manager Chen, you came just in time." Jia Liu said, "The army has been defeated and will not be back for a while. Tell the miners that they can start the furnace."
"Okay, okay, I'll do it right away." Chen Hongtao nodded.
As the manager of the iron yard, his family and children were all in Hutou Village. If the official army captured the iron yard, he would definitely not be able to escape the charge of being a bandit. Now that the iron yard had defeated the official army, he was temporarily relieved.
After Chen Hongtao left, Jia Liu said to Zhang Hong: "We can't rest yet. Arrange miners' guards who are willing to stay at the iron yard to clean up the bodies of those soldiers. Those who are afraid of retaliation from the government and are unwilling to continue to serve as guards at the iron yard." Yes, we won’t force him, we will temporarily hold him in the building and wait for news from Hutou Village.”
"Yes." Zhang Hong responded,
At this moment, I heard someone shouting from the other side of the iron furnace: "Oh no, something happened."
While he was talking, Chen Hongtao ran over panting and said, "Something big happened. Huang Huai escaped with a few miners."
"No, these people must have escaped while we were fighting against the army just now." Jia Liu's expression changed.
One of his other tasks in guarding the iron yard is to keep an eye on Huang Huai and others. If necessary, he can kill these people in order to prevent the coke ironmaking technology of the iron yard from leaking out.
When he heard that Huang Huai had escaped, his first reaction was that Huang Huai had colluded with outsiders.
Zhang Sancha on the side advised: "Don't worry, send people to other places in the iron yard to look for him. Maybe he is just afraid and is hiding somewhere."
"That's all it can do." Jia Liu said solemnly.
Several people present knew that Huang Huai mastered the coke ironmaking technology of the iron yard. His disappearance was not a trivial matter. Although no one said anything, they already suspected that Huang Huai was connected with other iron yards.
It has been more than a day or two that the coke ironmaking technology of their iron yard has been targeted by other iron yards in Dongshan. However, the iron yard's hundreds of guards and tight defense have not given other iron yards a chance.
On the official road at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, Shi Baotou escaped from the mountain with the police officers. Also fleeing down the mountain with them were the defeated officers and soldiers.
Seeing that the bandits on the east mountain did not pursue him down the mountain, Shi Baotou walked to the panting Baihu and said, "Sir, what do you think we should do next?"
The hundred households gasped for air and looked back at the mountain road behind them. Seeing that no one was chasing them down, they said: "Go to Hutou Village, just take Hutou Village, and then go back and deal with the bandits on the east mountain."
The defeat on Dongshan Mountain had little impact on the overall situation.
He knew that as long as Hutou Village was captured, the iron field on Dongshan Mountain would be a turtle in the urn.
Captain Shi quickly nodded.
The county magistrate was still in Hutou Village. He knew that if he escaped back to the county at this time, not to mention the position of arresting the head, he might be put in jail.
Shi Daotou said: "I listen to you, sir, let's go to Hutou Village."
No matter it was the Yamen's police officers or other officers and soldiers, they no longer wanted to stay here in Dongshan and walked along the official road to Hutou Village.
At the iron yard of Dongshan, Zhang Sancha led people to look for Huang Huai and the miners who escaped.
Pan Yi and some other miner guards began to clean the battlefield, cleaning up the corpses and blood stains on the ground.
It was the first time for the miners' guards, including Pan Yi, to face a corpse at such a close distance. Smelling the pungent blood, many people lay down next to the corpse and vomited.
Those who were stabbed to death by spears were better off. Those soldiers who were killed by fire cannons died miserably. The flesh where they were hit by fire cannons was smashed. Some had a gash in their stomachs, with red and green fluids inside. All over the place.
"Look at your potential." Zhang Hong said disdainfully, "Don't be stunned, use the weapons in your hands, cut off all the heads of the corpses, and patch up the ones who are still alive, give them a good time, save the money." suffering."
Pan Yi endured the discomfort, walked up to a corpse, took out the single knife issued to him, and was about to chop the corpse's head when he found that the soldier on the ground was not completely dead. His chest was rising and falling, and he was still breathing. He was stunned for a moment.
He had never killed anyone before, but when he suddenly saw a living person who was supposed to be a corpse, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't bring down the half-raised knife.
Zhang Hong came over, frowned and said, "Why don't you do it?"
"He, he is still alive." Pan Yi pointed at the soldiers on the ground.
Zhang Hong glanced down and said, "It's hopeless. Give him a break."
Pan Yi bit his lip, knowing that Zhang Hong was right.
The soldier lying on the ground had been stabbed with spears in several places and was bleeding. The wounds and clothes were stained red with blood.
But the knife in his hand couldn't cut it several times.
Zhang Hong on the side couldn't help but sneered: "It's really useless. The captain shouldn't have saved you, a loser."
"Squadron leader, he is still alive, but my subordinates really can't do anything." Pan Yi raised the knife several times and put it down several times.
Zhang Hong snorted coldly and said: "I'll count to three, and if I don't take action, I'll go where I came from. The iron yard doesn't raise waste."
For other miners, it might not matter, but Pan Yi is different. He is alone and has already made the iron yard his home. Moreover, the captain of the iron yard guard team saved his life, otherwise he would not have attacked the iron yard with the army. time to stand up.
"One, two..." Zhang Hong glanced at the hesitant Pan Yi and said softly, "Three."
But Pan Yi made no move.
Zhang Hong didn't say anything, turned around and left.
"Ah!" Pan Yi suddenly shouted, the knife in his hand fell down, and struck the soldier's neck on the ground with a pop.
Zhang Hong, who had his back turned to Pan Yi, had a smile on his face.
