Chapter 252 Bloody Night
The fire was still burning. As the gunpowder in the arsenal exploded, it ignited the houses of the surrounding residents. The houses were brick and wood structures, which were very easy to catch fire and the fire was not easy to control.
Shi Nai'an looked at the ignited fire and the busy crowds around him extinguishing the fire. He suddenly felt a dazed feeling. All of this was too natural for the traces of artificial axes. Why did he catch fire at this time?
Suddenly, Shi Nai'an saw a figure in the crowd, and his face changed drastically: "Shi Laoer, why are you here?"
Shi Lao Er was sweating heavily and his face was covered with black dust. He said, "Mr. Shi, the fire is about to burn to the camp. I will bring people to put out the fire quickly, otherwise the Tartars in the camp will be burned."
At this moment, Shi Lao Er even joked, and Shi Nai'an asked with a dark face: "How many people have you left to guard the camp?"
"Mr. Shi, there are so many traps and mechanisms outside the camp. Besides, the Tartars have been staying honestly for most of the past six months. Nothing should happen, right?"
"Tell me quickly, how many people did you leave?"
"No one came to put out the fire."
"Silly, stupid, hurry up, lead your people back to your post. If something happens to the camp, the military will deal with it!" Shi Nai'an no longer had the elegance of the past. The fan had already been thrown aside, and he was anxious.
"Yes, Mr. Shi." Shi Laoer heard the criticism in Mr. Shi's tone and dared not say anything more: "Hurry up, go back with me!"
Shi Laoer gathered together and ran towards the camp. He suddenly recalled that his task was not to put out the fire, but to guard the Tartars. This was the task assigned by the eldest brother himself. As long as he had a breath, he could not take a step back! As a result, the fire was together and everything was forgotten.
As he turned around, Shi Laoer's face changed drastically. Many people walked towards him quickly. Against the backdrop of the fire, they showed their familiar faces. They were the Tartars in the camp!
How they came out is secondary. If these Tartars make trouble, then Gaoyou Mansion will be in chaos.
"The first team blocks the intersection on the left, the second team blocks the intersection on the right, the third team goes around to the camp, and the fourth team blocks me head-on." Shi Laoer quickly assigned the task, and his goal was very obvious. Since the Tartars came out, we should surround the Tartars here and not let the Tartars run away.
However, just now, many of the 100-man teams were not satisfied. Some of them gathered thirty or forty people and rushed over.
However, it was too late to say anything at this time. They had already neglected their duties. If these Tartars were allowed to make trouble everywhere, they would have no shame to see their elder brother again.
The cruel training played a key role here. Needless to say, the teams immediately ran towards their mission area. The men led by Shi Laoer quickly held the Tianque gun in their hands and aimed at the rushing Tartars.
At this time, the Tartars had also discovered them. Now, although the Tartars were unarmed, they had a fighting spirit burning in their chests. They picked up stones from the ground as weapons, and rushed over quickly.
"Bang, bang bang." The sound of muskets sounded, and many Tartars fell to the ground, and the Tartars behind were still rushing up fearlessly.
Rush, Rush, Rush, Only by relying on the advantage of large numbers of people can you have a way out.
Although the Tianque gun is sharp and the training is very good, every lead bullet will accurately penetrate the other party's body, there are too many people.
The fourth team had only sixty people, and sixty Tianque guns were released together to kill sixty Tartars. Thousands of Tartars rushed up!
If the distance is a little further, such as three hundred steps, then the firepower of these sixty poles is enough. However, when you find that the opponent sets up a formation and sniping, the distance between them is only one hundred steps, one hundred steps, and the distance between life and death is not even a hundred steps. If you can't rush to this hundred steps, the Tartars will die, and if you rush over, the defenders will die.
Suddenly, someone in the Tartars held the dead body on his chest and rushed over. Other Tartars followed suit.
Shi Laoer's face changed drastically: "Grenade, quickly pitch the grenade!"
The bullets of the Tianque Gun are spinning out. After entering the body, they will roll forward, causing the greatest damage to the enemy and attenuate the speed very significantly.
The result is that it is difficult to penetrate two candied haws with one bullet.
However, the pitching grenade is slower. After the opponent gets closer, he can throw the grenade with the other party. The opponent has reached the same distance and can hit himself with a stone. More importantly, the stone is just thrown over, and the grenade needs to be lit with a fire snatch before it can be thrown. Moreover, the Tianque gun must be put down to complete the process of pitching grenades, because this is an encounter, and the soldiers are not ready, so they have to take out the grenade, open the back cover, pull out the pull line, and then throw it over.
As a result, the grenade was only dropped for one round and had been flew by the opponent's stone three times. Many soldiers just took the lottery, and what's even more terrifying was that they had been approached by the Tartars.
Shi Lao Er had to issue a third order: "Get the bayonet!"
The soldiers hurriedly took out the bayonet from their waists and hung it in front of the muzzle.
At this moment, the Tartars were approaching.
As soon as the soldiers in the front row stabbed the bayonet out, the Tartars' stones were smashed over, smashing their heads to pieces. Some Tartars could not escape, so they simply used their bodies as shields, stabbing the bayonet into their chests without any hesitation, and then took a step forward, and the stones in their hands were smashed over without hesitation. It was a completely devastating way to fight together.
This is also the disadvantage of the Tianque gun. The advantage of the Tianque gun lies in its long-range firepower and usage requirements, and try to eliminate the enemy at a long distance. Once you get into hand-to-hand combat, the Tianque gun with a bayonet will never have any spears. If they are all holding steel spears at this time, it will be a steel forest, and the Tartars will definitely not be able to break through the defense line.
However, the power of the Tianque gun was not so great, and the hand-to-hand combat began.
The fourth team was wiped out. The next day, the battlefield was cleaned up, and only a few were hit by the stones that still came, and they fell to the survivors on the roadside, and all the others were killed in battle.
However, with sixty people, they wiped out the Tartars about ten times their own. There were more than 600 Tartar bodies that fell to the ground. They sniped their tenacious sniping to prepare time for the second line of defense in the rear, and the encirclements on the side and rear had also been formed.
Hearing the dense sound of muskets, Shi Nai'an immediately led two hundred-man teams who were still extinguishing the fire and rushed over and blocked the gap in the fourth team in time. At this time, the fourth team had just been broken by the Tartars.
It is important to put out the fire, but it is even more important to put out the flames of the Tartars. If these Tartars start to make trouble, the foundation that the lord has worked hard to establish will be destroyed.
Shi Nai'an was furious and must not be rude to the enemy! The lord wanted to keep these people as laborers. His plan was wrong and he should have eliminated all of these people at the beginning! He wasted so much food and almost even Gaoyou Mansion paid for it.
"Shoot!" Shi Nai'an said.
Two hundred Tianque guns and bullets formed by bullets formed a tight firepower net. If the Tartars wanted to rush over, they were destined to be destroyed.
The Tartars still rushed forward without hesitation, imagining that after rushing up like before, they fought with the defenders at close range and completely defeated the defenders, but they were no longer able to move forward.
The advantages of the Tianque gun have been fully utilized. At a long distance, a certain number of Tianque guns, coupled with rapid reloading and rapid and accurate shooting, will be a solid fire point, and lead bullets will penetrate into the body of the Tartars and continuously harvest their lives.
Qin Buhua has calmed down and can't rush over, so he can only go out first. Seeing that there are fewer and fewer people around him, Qin Buhua turned his head and led his people to break through a street entrance on the side.
Although the encirclement has been formed, there is not enough manpower here, and there is only a team of 100 people who are not satisfied with the organization. However, they are fully prepared.
In the fires all over the sky, the Tartars were falling down constantly. Qin Buhua regretted it very much. If the people like him rushed out, they would probably break out of Gaoyou City. Now, there would be no chance.
Seeing that the roads on all sides were blocked, Qin Buhua looked at the houses on both sides and said, "Hurry up, Akagi, take the people and walk from the roof!"
"General, what about you?" Akagi asked anxiously.
"My legs are already lame, and I will definitely not be able to leave. You will take people to break through the west wall. As long as one person goes out, we will have hope."
"No, General, I'll take you away!" Akagi was loyal.
"This is an order. You can lead people to break through the roof and try your best to bring all your brothers out." Qi Buhua said.
Akagi's eyes turned red: "Yes, General."
A Tartar squatted in the corner of the wall, and Akagi jumped up at this height, stepped onto the wall, climbed up the house along the wall.
Due to layout reasons, all houses are connected together. As long as you go to one house, you can get on all the houses.
Since I cannot break through on the road and am surrounded, I can only use a dangerous move and break through the roof.
The other Tartars also followed suit and climbed up the roof.
"Bang, bang." The Tianque gun was still on fire, but the shooting angle was limited, and he was afraid that the people in the house would accidentally hurt, so the shooting effect would decrease.
Hundreds of Tartars finally climbed onto the head of the house.
Qin Buhua looked at the soldiers who had successfully escaped, and felt a little relieved. He had never seen Li Pu and that Young Master He, hoping that they had escaped from Gaoyou City.
Suddenly, Qi Buhua's body shook, and a familiar feeling came, as if a mosquito bite it. Then, pain came, and the bullet had hit his chest, and the chest was getting more and more resilient, and blood had begun to flow towards the lung leaves. His eyes became more and more blurred. Finally, he could no longer support his body and fell to the ground.
When stepping on the house, you can feel the wood on the roof creaking, as if it could collapse at any time. Many people in the house went to put out the fire, but the elderly and children were still there. Listening to the shouts of killing outside, they hid at home and dared not move, so they could only recite silently, hoping that these people would leave as soon as possible.
"Chasing!" There was no other way, and it was impossible to shoot the target on the roof below. The Tartars escaped the encirclement, so the defenders had to climb up the roof and chase on the roof.
The fire was controlled, and the fire became darker and darker. Fortunately, it was getting brighter and brighter.
From time to time, Tartars were hit and fell from the roof. From time to time, some people fell down because of a failure. However, no one cared. One of them was fleeing desperately, while the other was chasing desperately. The difference was that fewer and fewer people were fleeing, and more and more people were chasing. Shi Nai'an transferred several 100 teams from other places, and must wipe out all the Tartars. One escaped and one of them was leaked.
Akagi led his men and did not run towards the nearest north gate, but headed straight to the west gate.
If you want to rush up and open the city gate, even if you go out, these hundreds of people will be exposed to the ground without any dangers, and they will be killed by the powerful Tianque guns. The only way is to attack the West City Wall and jump off the city wall to have a way out. Below the West City Wall is Gaoyou Lake.
Akagi saw that there were fewer and fewer people around him, and there was no way out, so he could only rush, and kept rushing. He caught the defenders at the city wall off guard, and jumped onto the city wall, and then jumped down. As long as one person went out, it would be considered a success.
I have never been so embarrassed by someone, nor have I ever been running so far on the roof. Sometimes there is no way out. It is like a flying man in the air, jumping directly from the roof to the opposite roof, and my skills are getting more and more skillful.
When I arrived at the West City Wall, there were only more than 300 people left by my side, and the rest were already on the road.
"Clash!" Akagi pointed to the city wall and said.
The function of the city wall is to guard against the enemy outside, so the outside of the city wall is bare, and the inside of the city wall is for the use of the defenders. Steps will be passed down at a distance. Therefore, even the most powerful city will collapse in internal struggles.
As long as you rush up to the city wall, you will have a way out!
The Tartar soldiers put in full force, and the sky was already gray and bright. If they didn't jump into Gaoyou Lake quickly, they would be a living target on the water in broad daylight.
There were countless Tianque guns waiting for them above the city.
Watching the Tartars approaching, Shi Laosan shouted: "Let's fire!"
The rain of death poured down, condescending to the top, and it was easy to hit these Tartars who wanted to rush up. Many Tartars were hit by a few shots and fell down helplessly.
Under the city wall, it has become Shura Hell.
Akagi's arm was shot and his leg was shot. Looking at the city that was close to him, he fell down unwillingly. No one could break through the last fire net. The distance between the last dozen steps was the distance between life and death.
The sky gradually became brighter, and the fire in the arsenal was finally put out. After Shi Nai'an led people to block the protruding Tartars, Luo Guanzhong took over the task of commanding the army and horses to put out the fire. He had a sudden idea that if the fire could be controlled, it would be isolated from the flames and not allow it to expand outward. Therefore, he ordered that all the buildings around the fire be demolished and an isolation zone was made. Although the flame tongue in the center was very high, the fire could not jump. After burning all the things that could be burned, the fire finally became smaller and smaller, and finally extinguished himself.
At this moment, Gaoyou City had just experienced a major disaster and was full of chaos. Thinking of cleaning up this mess, Shi Nai'an also frowned.
The fire burned dozens of houses centered on the arsenal, and more than twenty missing people were houses closest to the arsenal. They were surrounded by the fire in their sleep and could not escape. The 100-man team guarding the arsenal were nowhere to be seen.
It can be imagined that when the arsenal exploded, all the soldiers guarding were shaken to the sky in a violent explosion and fell into the fire, and no one could escape.
Except for here, the losses in other places were relatively small. In addition to Shi Laoer who blocked the Tartars' charge first, other hundred-man teams suffered very little losses. Shi Laoer took on the impact of thousands of Tartar soldiers with a dissatisfied 100 team. Although the Tartars had no weapons, the scene was extremely tragic. There were a bunch of Tartar soldiers falling on the charge road, and dozens of musketeers were also killed by the Tartars' close-up Tartars' soldiers. The death was very terrifying. Many musketeers were stoned by the Tartars, and their brains were flowing all over the ground, and some were strangled to death by the Tartars. Before Shi Laoer died, he bit the ears of the Tartars.
After counting the bodies of the Tartars, I was sure that all the Tartars had fallen out and did not let one go. Even Qin Buhua fell to a street intersection. The Tartar soldiers were very brave, but also ignorant. If they did not charge directly at that time, but scattered to various places, it would cause great trouble for themselves. If they took the people as hostages, it would be even more difficult to deal with. Shi Nai'an secretly took luck.
After cleaning up the corpses all over the ground, only one person was missing. Gaoyou Prefect Li Pu ran away!
Shi Nai'an gradually clarified his thoughts: this was definitely a premeditated action. He set fire to the arsenal, causing chaos in Gaoyou Mansion. Then he sneaked back to the government office to rescue Li Pu and Yibuhua. After the rescue, these people did not leave directly, but ran back to the camp and released the Tartar soldiers in the camp, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to grab Gaoyou Mansion again!
The Tartar soldiers in the camp ran out because they dug the tunnel in advance, crossed the trap area, and set fire, and there was definitely someone else! Shi Nai'an soon discovered the problem. If Li Pu was still in Gaoyou Mansion, he would have to find him three feet away! However, if he ran outside Gaoyou Mansion, it would be a big trouble. The situation that had been maintained for six months would be broken. No matter how incompetent the province was, he would not sit idly by the nominal prefect and Daruwachi!
Shi Nai'an issued an order: close all the city gates of Gaoyou Mansion and search for Li Pu's whereabouts. At the same time, he ordered people to go to Xinghua to report to the lord and trade the strategy.
Chapter completed!