In Xinzhou, Xinkou Village, there is a typical Shanxi Merchants Guild Hall.
The guild hall has three courtyards: front, middle and back. There is also a stage in the main hall, the Temple of Wealth, the Seventh Temple, and the Wenchang Hall. Each stage is nearly five feet high. On both sides, there are entrance and exit passages respectively, and the roofs are all in the shape of double-layered mountain brackets.
Beforehand, Fox Fairy had already found out clearly that the tools used by this gang of profiteers to print fake military stamps were displayed openly in the main hall of the Central Courtyard. It was truly extremely unscrupulous.
Soon, the Fox Fairy led everyone close to the main hall of the central courtyard. Looking through the gap in the side door, they saw a huge square inside.
Except for the majestic main stage in the middle, both sides are covered with wing buildings, all of which are separated into small rooms by wooden pillars. At a glance, there are about dozens of wing rooms.
But in the middle of the hall, the hundreds of seats that should have been there have disappeared, and instead, there is a scene where fake military stamps are being printed in full swing.
The lanterns hung high one by one complemented each other with the surrounding candlelight, making the entire hall brightly lit, like daylight.
There are large desks in the middle of the square. On the desks, there are ink, paper, templates, printers and other tools and materials needed to print fake military stamps. They are so densely packed that at a glance they look like a small It's like a market, lively and busy.
However, they seem to be used to it, and their cooperation with each other is quite tacit. Many people are busy in the square in the temple, to the point where they don't need to communicate with each other through language. It can be seen that what they do is not a short-term thing.
Judging from their tacit cooperation, technicians and clerks printed out each version of the military stamps, then cut them into pieces, and finally put stacks of cut fake military stamps into wooden boxes.
In the elegant rooms around them, there were many strong men holding various weapons, including swords, and even a few blunderbuss, and three of them were wearing leather armor.
Several people who looked like housekeepers walked back and forth in the square as if they were on patrol. From time to time, they picked up a large uncut military ticket and analyzed it carefully. Occasionally, they would exchange a few words in a low voice.
Seeing such a scene, Du Qi and others were about to explode with anger: These profiteers are so damn audacious.
Several people looked at each other, and Du Qi also looked at the big monkey Hou Mingli, waiting for his signal, and he was about to take action to completely eradicate this gang of human scum who dared to destroy the foundation of the Yongyi Army.
Hou Mingli was not in a hurry. He gently raised his hand and pointed at the muskets on the wing and the three leaders wearing leather armor, indicating that they would pay more attention to them.
Immediately afterwards, Hou Mingli's hand pointed to the first wing on the left side of the stage. Du Qi looked up and saw that it was really different. In addition to a fat man in gorgeous clothes, there was also a charming and charming girl. The woman is waiting beside him.
Hou Mingli told Du Qi in sign language that the fat man must be captured alive, and Du Qi nodded slightly to express his acceptance of the military order.
But at this moment, I saw that the fat man seemed tired. He suddenly stood up and slowly walked out of the wing with the support of the charming woman. Seeing this, a housekeeper hurriedly called four servants to accompany him. Behind the fat man.
Upon seeing this, Hou Mingli hurriedly led everyone aside. He signed to the fox fairy Hu Jie and asked him to lead two people to capture the fat man. They must do it cleanly and without any extraneous matters.
After a while, the palace door was opened from the inside, and seven figures walked out slowly towards the backyard.
Hu Jie gently waved his hand in greeting, and three black shadows, like ghosts, followed closely behind the group of people and disappeared into the dark night.
After Hou Mingli gave the code word for action, the eleven people outside the hall quickly took out cotton kerchiefs and wrapped them around their mouths and noses. Then, six more people moved behind them, holding in their hands, A black iron bump appeared.
This iron lump is quite similar to the enemy of ten thousand people, but it is much smaller than it. It is only half the size of the enemy of ten thousand people and slightly larger than an adult's fist.
But it is the newly developed poisonous smoke bomb developed by the Yongyi Army Yunzhou Workshop in accordance with Zhang Cheng’s instructions!
This kind of poisonous smoke bomb used by the action team is no better than the one used by the Shenji Battalion on the battlefield. First of all, it is not powerful enough, because it does not rely on the power of the explosion to kill the enemy.
Secondly, this kind of poisonous smoke bomb does not kill the enemy by releasing poisonous gas, but only quickly releases dense smoke to confuse the enemy and create chaos, making it impossible to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy and losing a certain degree of resistance.
Therefore, this kind of poisonous smoke bomb is basically only used by the action team of Antang. Ye Bushou in the Yongyi Army only occasionally carries one or two as a backup.
But even so, after lighting the fuse, there will be a "chichichi" burning sound. In this silent night, no matter how small the sound is, it will become very harsh and completely impossible to hide.
However, if this kind of poisonous smoke bomb is thrown into the hall after lighting the fuse, then the "chichi" sound it makes will be difficult to spread outside the hall.
When Du Qi, the Death-killing Bodhisattva, saw Hou Mingli, the monkey master, nodding to him and letting him direct tonight's actions, he couldn't help but feel a surge of blood in his heart.
After looking left and right, he conveyed the task assignment in sign language. Who was responsible for those muskets, who was responsible for the leaders wearing leather armor, who was responsible for seizing the boxes of fake military tickets, and who was responsible. Everything is clearly assigned to arrest those technicians.
Du Qi also raised his left hand. His eyes were fixed on every move of everyone in the hall, and his ears were raised, listening to everything going on around him.
After confirming that everything was normal, Du Qi suddenly put down his left hand and made a gesture of immediate action.
I saw two team members quickly blowing the fire sticks in their hands. Immediately, six team members came up and lit the fuses of the poison smoke bombs they had prepared in their hands. When the fuses in their hands were almost lit, they suddenly moved toward Throw it away in the palace.
Several soft sounds of "Pa! Pa!..." aroused the alertness of everyone in the hall. Even the technicians and waiters stopped what they were doing, and stood stunned on the spot, looking around constantly.
The servants and guards on the wings on both sides also looked nervous, clutching the swords and guns in their hands, and rushed out of the wings one after another, intending to find out.
"呲!呲!呲呲呲..."
The sound of a fuse burning rapidly reached everyone's ears. Suddenly, thick black smoke rose up everywhere. Before everyone in the hall had time to react, they saw black figures rushing in one by one.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!..."
In the thick black smoke, there was a sound of flying crossbows, followed by tragic wails. The hall where fake military stamps had been printed in an orderly manner just now became a mess.
The Antang's action team often goes deep behind enemy lines to spy, kidnap, and assassinate, or they operate outside Zhang Cheng's control area. Even on the North Road, most of what they do is something that cannot be discussed with outsiders.
Therefore, concealed weapons such as crossbows, throwing knives, poisonous smoke, etc. are what they usually use. Firearms such as handguns and ten thousand enemies are often because the explosions they produce are too shocking. Although they are also equipped with them, But rarely used.
Unless they are performing an interception mission or operating in an uninhabited wilderness, they will use firearms without scruples, including large blunderbuss, second-type blunderbuss, flying cannons, squatting tiger cannons, mortar cannons, etc., they All are equipped.
In order to support Antang's actions, Zhang Cheng ordered the Yunzhou Craftsman Camp to set up a separate research and development team to conduct scientific research specifically to meet the needs of the Antang action team.
The screams, accompanied by the muffled sound of the huge body falling to the ground, the sound of the table being hit, and the sound of weapons clashing, were completely mixed together, like a deadly symphony.
The poisonous smoke quickly filled the air, and the dazzling and choking thick smoke drifted away. Many people in the hall, such as guards, housekeepers, technicians, and clerks, were all coughing, their eyes were dizzy, and they were unable to distinguish things.
They randomly grabbed any objects around them and swung them around, even the servants. In the panic, they did not distinguish between friends and foes, and slashed randomly with the steel knives in their hands, injuring many of their own people.
"Someone sneaked in..."
"Quickly...quickly...report to the master...move in rescue troops..."
"...Fire the blunderbuss...hurry up the blunderbuss..."
Many people were screaming loudly, and even the statue of Guan Gong enshrined in the temple seemed to be looking at what was happening in front of them in surprise.
In the black smoke, monsters wearing red turbans flashed out from time to time, completely looking down on their faces, as if they were red-headed devils coming out of hell.
After they shot the crossbows, their hands were all replaced by various short weapons, including steel knives, iron whips, iron hammers, short axes, short spears, etc. Only "Life-Destroying Bodhisattva" Du Qi was the most special. It was a thick wooden stick about five feet long.
Don't underestimate the stick in his hand. Its power is no less than that of swords, guns, whips and axes. It flies up and down in his hand, hitting only the enemy's joints, throat, head and other vital points, defeating the enemy with one blow.
"boom!"
There was an explosion. It turned out to be a gunman who was still lying on the ground. He used his last breath to discharge the gun in his hand. However, he only fired the gun as a warning.
He didn't even have the strength to raise the gun and aim it. After letting go of the gun, he also used up the last bit of life. Like a lamp running out of oil, he slumped to the ground and never moved again.
However, the battle in the hall was coming to an end at this time. Although he reported the news to the outside world, it did not help. In the chaos, poisonous smoke billowed, and everyone in the hall was killed in an instant. The remaining stewards and technicians are still alive.
"Please behave yourself. If you resist at all, I will kill you immediately!" Du Qi ordered in a deep voice.
"Here."
Everyone also sang softly, took out ropes made of beef tendons, and tied several people tightly.
Hou Mingli quickly scanned the hall with his stern eyes, and said in a cold tone: "Check carefully, don't leave anyone alive, don't forget to hit the target."
He turned around and said to Du Qi: "Bodhisattva, I will leave it to you to escort them out of the city. I will also take away the counterfeiting templates and the boxes of counterfeit notes."
"Here. Mr. Monkey, just be at ease."
"Take care of everything, and don't forget to light this damn place on fire."
"Here."
In the silent night, the Shanxi Merchant Guild Hall suddenly lit up with flames.
Entering the courtyard from the front, middle and back, they were all enveloped in the sky with fireworks, and from time to time there were bursts of crackling explosions, which shocked countless people in Xinkou Village to wake up and open their windows to watch.
Immediately, countless people rushed out with buckets and basins, trying to put out the fire in the Shanxi Merchants Guild Hall.
However, this fire was intentional. Many places in the Shanxi Merchant Guild Hall were sprinkled with sulfur and saltpeter. The fire rose into the sky. With the help of the night wind, it illuminated almost half of Xinkou. How can it be extinguished by human power?
At this moment, the entire Xinkou village was attracted by the fire in the guild hall. No one noticed that in the streets, a group of men with red scarves on their heads were running quickly, accompanied by several more Old or young people and large wooden boxes.
What is surprising is that despite such a big commotion, there has never been any movement from the garrison mansion, not even a single soldier on guard.
But people's surprise did not last long. A burst of flames burst into the sky in the direction of the garrison, and then a fire broke out in the Drum Tower. It seemed that there was a hint of danger everywhere in Xinkou Village.
Tonight, Xinkou Walled City is destined to have no sleep!
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Every place in the third town of Xuanda, especially the key points where Shanxi merchants printed fake military stamps, were more or less under the control of Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng.
As early as the end of February, after sending away the guests from Ji Liao, Zhang Cheng began to plan this matter with peace of mind. His purpose was very clear - if it cannot be used for his own use, then completely destroy it!
In order to lay out this situation, Zhang Cheng has been preparing for more than a year, and now is the best time to start taking action.
It has been more than four years since I came to this space similar to a parallel world. Many memories of my previous life have gradually faded away, but everything I have experienced since arriving here is clearly engraved in my mind.
Now, Zhang Cheng only remembers that the intruder Li Zicheng opened the seal three times but failed, and finally blew up the Yellow River dam and flooded Kaifeng, killing dozens or millions of people.
The prosperous city of Kaifeng has not been able to recover for more than a hundred years after experiencing this shocking catastrophe!
Now, Zhang Cheng wanted to prevent this catastrophe in his heart, so he wanted to take advantage of the imperial court's urging to send troops to aid Henan to launch a clearing operation in Xuanda to avoid future troubles.
While Zhang Cheng was accompanying Xie Sixin, Zhang Dou and others back to the North Road, messengers from Emperor Chongzhen and the Ministry of War urged him to send troops. As the eunuch supervising the army, Bian Yongqing was under tremendous pressure.
Emperor Chongzhen gave him two important tasks: one was to monitor Zhang Cheng for any unusual behavior, and the other was to urge Zhang Cheng to send troops to Henan Province as soon as possible to aid and suppress the bandits.
As soon as he returned to the town from the north road, Bian Yongqing visited him personally. The implication in his words was that he was urged to send troops to Henan Province. Zhang Cheng naturally took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the situation.
On February 26, at Chen time, under the command of Chen Zheng, the White Tiger Camp of the Yongyi Army set out from the flooded areas of Zhencheng and headed for Henan Province in advance.
At almost the same time, Zhang Guodong's Qinglong Battalion, which was still stationed on the East Road, also received military orders to march. This time they would take Puyin Trail, one of the Eight Trails of Taihang.
They left Zijing Pass, walked through Laiyuan and Lingqiu, passed Pingxing Pass, then passed through Taiyuan Prefecture and Pingyang Prefecture, and went straight from Shanxi to northern Henan.
In this regard, the military supervisor Bian Yongqing was also very happy. In fact, he also knew very well that the Yongyi Army had just returned from Liaodong in triumph, and the military equipment of each battalion had not yet been fully replenished. Now is indeed not the best time to aid Henan.
But the court and the emperor were pressing hard, and he had no choice. Now the Baihu Camp and Qinglong Camp were setting off in advance, passing through Shanxi and entering Henan to help suppress the bandits.
No matter what, you can always repay the emperor to comfort the Holy Heart!
