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"Mayor, find some ladders from the bottom of the mountain." The peasant and soldier captain came to Chen Guang.
Chen Guang looked behind the other party.
Behind the opponent, several peasant soldiers came over carrying ladders.
Naturally, these ladders could not have been built by farmers and soldiers cutting down trees. First, there was no time, and second, there were no tools. These ladders could only be borrowed from farmers down the mountain.
"Put the ladder against the wall and let the firecrackers reach the wall." Chen Guang ordered the peasant and soldier captain.
The courtyard walls of Bujie Temple are taller than those of ordinary farmers' homes, and they are made of blue bricks. They are very solid. They are taller and stronger than those of ordinary wealthy families. They can only live in the courtyards of officials and eunuchs in Yanqing Prefecture. The wall is barely comparable to the wall of Fujie Temple.
The peasants and soldiers carried the ladder and rushed to the edge of the courtyard wall. The front end of the ladder was pressed against the courtyard wall, and it was only the length of the forearm that was equal to the height of the courtyard wall.
Two of the three ladders are on the wall on the left side of the temple gate, and the other ladder is on the right side of the temple gate.
"Firegun hands, come on." The peasant soldier captain shouted to several peasant soldiers holding fireguns.
The six gunmen among the peasant soldiers ran towards the three ladders.
Six peasants and soldiers, two each with a ladder.
One firecracker holds the firecracker in one hand and climbs the ladder, while the remaining firecracker holds the ladder for the opponent.
When the gunman climbing the ladder was about to lean out of the courtyard wall, he began to load the gunpowder and lead in his hand, and lit the match rope on it.
Although the three ladders are placed separately, they are not far apart.
The three gunmen standing on the ladder made a gesture to each other, and then the three men suddenly stood up, with their bodies from the chest up leaning out of the courtyard wall, and the fireguns were also lifted up and aimed at the courtyard wall.
boom! boom! boom!
Three firecrackers were fired almost at the same time, and screams came from the yard.
Chen Guang looked at the gate of Bujie Temple expressionlessly.
Without a reason, he would not be able to attack a temple as popular as Bujie Temple. Now that the monk of Bujie Temple had given him an excuse to attack Bujie Temple, how could he do it because of a few soft words from the abbot of Bujie Temple? Let Fujie Temple go.
As long as the monks of Bujie Temple insist not to open the temple door and surrender, he doesn't mind massacring Bujie Temple.
After the three firecrackers standing on the ladder fired their firecrackers, they hid behind the courtyard wall and reloaded the firecrackers in their hands.
After loading the medicine, he leaned out from behind the courtyard wall again and fired the gun again into the courtyard.
The monks who had been shot in the temple were in a mess. No matter what the fat monk did, he could not stop the monks behind the temple door from running for their lives.
The gunman who fired the gun did not hide his body back on the ladder this time. Instead, he strode on the courtyard wall and called his companions below to come up.
When the gunman under the ladder climbed up the courtyard wall, the person riding on the wall had already filled the gun in his hand.
The two firecrackers who were riding the ladder on the courtyard wall lifted it up and put it inside the courtyard wall. One of the firecrackers stepped on the ladder and entered the temple.
The monks who were originally hiding behind the temple gate now ran away, leaving only two corpses and a few people who were still alive after being shot. No one tried to stop a few gunmen from climbing over the wall and entering.
Bang!
There was a sound of a wooden stick falling to the ground from behind the temple door, and then the temple door was opened from the inside.
"Peasants and soldiers enter the temple to arrest people. If they encounter resistance, they will kill them on the spot." Chen Guang ordered the farmers and soldiers to enter the temple.
He had no objection to killing the monks in the temple. He was a horse bandit when he was on the grassland. Later, when two fingers were broken during the battle with the Northern Barbarians, he quit the armored cavalry camp and entered the martial arts hall to study.
He came to Yanqing Prefecture from the grassland only half a year ago and became the mayor.
Peasants and soldiers entered Bujie Temple through the temple gate.
Divided into three teams, each team was equipped with two fire gunmen, and began to search the temples and courtyards of Fujie Temple one by one.
Chen Guang led several policemen and grain tax officials behind the peasant soldiers.
Within half an hour, the monks were caught outside the Main Hall one by one. Chen Guang stood in front of the threshold of the Main Hall, with the muzzle of the only squatting tiger cannon pointed at the many monks outside the hall.
"Senior Brother Chen, the poor monk has already agreed to pay the grain tax, so why do you have to work so hard to force him to do so?" The fat monk was also among the people being harassed. At this time, he no longer had the calmness he had before, and the monk's robes on his body were stained with a lot of dirt. soil.
Chen Guang looked at the other party coldly and said: "I have given you the opportunity before, but it is a pity that you did not cherish it, great monk. Now you have taken action, which constitutes a de facto tax resistance. Isn't it too late for you to want to pay the grain tax again?"
"Bujie Temple is willing to compensate Mayor Chen." The fat monk said eagerly.
Previously, he thought that a town mayor was just an assistant official, not even an official. In the past, the people Bujie Temple made friends with were all high-ranking officials, and the local magistrates would be polite to him when they saw him.
He naturally looked down upon a mayor who was not even a county magistrate, and wanted to fight for Bujie Temple so that Bujie Temple would be exempted from paying taxes.
If he had known that a mayor could be so fierce, he would not have stood up to him no matter what.
Chen Guang said indifferently: "It's too late. The moment you, the great monk, decided to resist the tax, the fate of Bujie Temple was already decided."
The fat monk couldn't help but tremble when he heard this.
He felt the slightest murderous intention from the other party's tone, but he couldn't think of any reason for the other party to kill him.
Although he did order the monks to attack him, it was Bujie Temple who suffered the loss, and those who died were all monks from Bujie Temple. The people brought by the other party did not suffer.
"Mayor, we found some women." The peasant and soldier captain came to Chen Guang's side and glared at the fat monk in the crowd with vicious eyes.
The face of the fat monk standing in the crowd suddenly changed.
Chen Guang said: "Take me there."
The peasant and soldier captain walked in front to lead the way.
After taking a few steps, Chen Guanghui turned around and told the peasant soldiers who were guarding the fat monk and others: "Keep an eye on this group of monks. If there is any abnormal movement, you are allowed to kill them on the spot."
After saying that, he left quickly.
The peasant and soldier captain took Chen Guang to a courtyard of Bujie Temple.
"This is where the monks live, and those women are in the yard adjacent to the monks' residence." The peasant soldier captain explained to Chen Guang.
The two people crossed the courtyard one after another and came to the courtyard next door.
Two peasant soldiers stood guard in front of the courtyard gate.
The courtyard is not big, and there are three large tile-roofed houses facing the courtyard gate.
As soon as he entered the main room, Chen Guang was stunned, and a cold look quickly appeared in his eyes.
"As soon as the peasant soldiers searched the yard, they found them." The peasant soldier captain's tone was gloomy, with a hint of murderous intent.
On the earthen bed in the house, a dozen naked women were huddled together, with only a quilt to cover them.
The women on the kang looked haggard, with dull eyes, as if they were dead, and there were bruises and bruises on their exposed bodies.
