The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 498

The building where Mu Zhiqing stayed was a small courtyard with two entrances, just four or five miles north of Changguowei Camp.Qi Li'an chose this place because it was closer to the guard, and the security was guaranteed.

In the ear room of the outer courtyard, Yale, who was sleeping soundly, bounced up without warning, threw off the thin quilt, and fell asleep with his clothes on.

He grabbed the saber next to his pillow and flashed out the door, turned around and stepped on the window sill, reached out and grabbed the eaves for a struggle, and the whole person jumped onto the roof.

He has lived in the mountains of Yunnan for many years, and he has been in the company of wild beasts. He has developed an extremely keen intuition, and even tigers and wolves cannot approach him within a hundred steps at night.

Sure enough, he raised his eyes and saw a faint fire approaching rapidly in the night. Judging by the number of torches, there were at least two to three hundred people.

Yale quickly took out a piece of bamboo, put it on his mouth and blew lightly, making a low whining sound.

When he blew the third sound, the doors of the entire courtyard opened almost at the same time. Nearly two hundred guards had gathered in the courtyard, and someone knocked on the door of Mu Zhiqing's room.

At the same time, on a tree outside the building, a soldier in a black cloak also noticed something strange in the binoculars, and immediately slid down the tree to report the news to the officer not far away.

The officer pondered for a while, and ordered: "It's late at night, the person who came is not kind. Order to execute the plan with the word 'B'."

"Yes!"

Hundreds of people suddenly appeared around the building where there were only insects and frogs just now, but they were "servants" or "craftsmen" who followed Mu Zhiqing during the day.At the same time, two carriages parked at the back of the courtyard drove out, and the two hands on the carriages handed out firecrackers to the people waiting on the roadside along the way.

The night in October was already a bit chilly, Mu Zhiqing rubbed her eyes and yawned, then tightened her collar and said: "It's the middle of the night, I can't even sleep well..."

Before she finished speaking, three or four hundred people suddenly jumped out of the distance, screaming and flocking to the small courtyard where she lived just now. The blades of the forest stood coldly shining under the large torches.

The courtyard door was kicked open, but then there was an exclamation.

"Not right!"

"Why is there no one?!"

Crooked Jiaojiao is also a person who has been licking blood from the edge of the knife for a long time, and immediately reacted, "Not good! I fell into the trap, go back quickly..."

Before his men could turn around, they suddenly heard hundreds of people beside him shouting in unison: "Aim!"

"put!"

Then there was a roar of firecrackers, and the tilted head Jiao could only see the flashes of countless firecrackers in the night, and there was a mournful wail beside him.

He then swept the torches around, his eyelids twitching in fright—at least thirty or forty of his subordinates were shot to the ground in the row of guns just now!
Damn it!Tilted Jiao cursed repeatedly in his heart, didn't Li Xingde say that this fat sheep is just a small official from the Ministry of Industry, and all the people he takes are craftsmen?Could it be that they are gunsmiths? !This firecracker is too damn fierce!

How did he know that after Shaoxing was attacked last time, Zhu Linmi became very cautious in terms of safety.This time when Mu Zhiqing went to the island, he not only equipped the guards led by Ya Le with fine armor and hard bows, but also specially selected two companies of personal soldiers to accompany him.

The Dragon Guards personal barracks are composed of the best and most loyal soldiers selected from the entire army, and their combat effectiveness against these miscellaneous pirates is simply a sledgehammer.

With another chorus of "aiming", the people with tilted heads shrank in the small courtyard in fright, not daring to show their heads, and the crackling sound of bullets hitting the brick wall was heard like rain.

Li Xingde saw that the time was almost up, so he immediately led two hundred Chang Guowei's infantry to the small courtyard where Mu Zhiqing lived, and just halfway there, he heard the constant sound of gunfire from the north.

He climbed up and watched from a distance, and the fires flickered in the night, fearing that there would be hundreds of firecrackers firing in succession.

Tilted Jiao is quite capable!Li Xingde thought, where did you get so many guns without making a sound?It seems that I don't need to do it myself tonight.

He greeted very easily, "Follow up, don't let the pirates escape!"

When his men arrived a hundred steps away from the small courtyard, they saw a large area of ​​firecrackers shooting towards the courtyard on the west side.

Li Xingde was about to order his subordinates to guard the four intersections to prevent the "sea bandits" from escaping, when he heard a pig-killing roar from the small courtyard, "Li Baihu, why did you come here?! Help quickly, the idea is too strong! "

How dare this idiot yell so openly, it's over if people hear it!A cold light flashed in Li Xingde's eyes, so he could only get rid of all Qi Li'an's people...

Wait, this voice is true, but why did it come from the courtyard?Li Xingde's pupils shrank, could it be that Qi Li'an's man fired the gun on the west side? !
He hurriedly asked people to get in touch with the people in the courtyard, only to know that nearly half of the pirates had been killed, and hurriedly ordered to attack "Qi Li'an"'s men.

The soldiers of the Dragon Guard Army first saw that it was the flag of Chang Guowei, although they heard the words of the pirates, they were worried that it was a countermeasure. Now they saw that these guards dared to fire their guns and arrows in this direction, so they immediately turned their guns. Mouth salvo.

Dozens of people were killed on Li Xingde's side, and the back of his neck felt cold, and he hurriedly ordered the tiger squat cannon he was carrying to be brought up.

At the same time, at the back of the infantry line of the Dragon Guards, someone took out two copper pipes from the carriage, and put them on the wooden frame next to the carriage with difficulty.Another soldier stuffed something into the end of the copper pipe and held up a torch to ignite it.

Then there were two loud bangs, blood and flesh flew across Li Xingde's team, two whistling iron balls easily passed through several soldiers, and finally smashed down two small trees behind them.

It turned out to be two No. [-] Franc cannons!For the safety of the queen-to-be, Zhu Linmi tried everything she could.

The two cannons roared one after another at an extremely fast speed, plus the sealing ring sent by the Ningbo Rubber Factory a while ago, the firepower was many times stronger than Chang Guowei's two small tiger crouching cannons.

"My mother! And cannons?!"

"Is this the Red Barrel Cannon?!"

The soldiers of Chang Guowei were so frightened that they fell on the ground and did not dare to move at all. The two tiger squatting cannons were thrown aside and no one paid any attention to them.

Tilted Jiao was delighted to see that "Fat Sheep" and Li Xingde were engaged, and hurried out of the courtyard, running wildly without looking back.

The soldiers of the Dragon Guards immediately turned their muzzles again, and a burst of miniature bullets flew by, and the slower-moving pirates hurriedly retreated back into the courtyard.

When Li Xingde saw "Qi Li'an" going to attack the crooked jiao, he turned his head and ran away no matter how he cared about murdering and exterminating him.But as soon as he turned his head, he saw a group of men in black quietly surrounding him from three sides.

These people shot feathered arrows first, and then drew out their scimitars one after another to pounce on them. Each of them was skilled with swordsmanship, like killing chickens and sheep, bleeding Li Xingde's subordinates one by one...

At dawn the next day, Mu Zhiqing, who had two dark circles under her eyes, led Qi Li'an and others to escort seventy or eighty guard soldiers and more than 100 pirates to the outside of Jikang's camp.

Ji Kang's heart was bleeding—including his confidant Li Xingde, a total of 130 of his subordinates died.

But he still had to apologize and praise Qi Li'an for his meritorious service in suppressing the bandits, and secretly rejoiced that Li Xingde was dead, otherwise he would have been dragged into the water as well.

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