Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 523
After everything was ready, Li Jinzhong shouted: "Come on!", and then turned out from the corner first with the door panel in hand, and with a burst of sound, several long arrows were nailed to it.

A few soldiers rushed out to follow, and the door panels instantly connected into a shield wall, covering a large area of ​​space. A dozen grenadiers and sword shield fighters followed closely behind. Li Jinzhong and the others stepped forward, and the shield wall The wall began to move towards the gate and towards the gate of this house, and bows and arrows were constantly nailed to the door panel during the forward process.

"Throw a few!"

Seeing that the gate was getting closer and closer, Li Jinzhong ordered loudly. He ordered this because he was afraid that the Qing army would open the gate and rush out to clean them up if they found out that there were too few of them. A wave, so that the Qing army didn't care about killing it.

Two grenadiers ignited the thunderbolt and threw it into the courtyard across the courtyard wall. One of the powerful grenadiers threw the thunderbolt obliquely into the gate.

Sure enough, two muffled sounds came out, followed by a burst of howling ghosts and wolves from inside the gate. More than a dozen people gathered together and were about to open the gate to kill the Ming army. Fuck off, although no one was killed on the spot, four or five people were killed by the fragments shot out after the explosion.

The two grenadiers threw four or five thunderbolts one after another, and the dull explosion sounded one after another. A large puff of gunpowder smoke mixed with dust rose up, and soon covered the gate of the courtyard.

Seeing this, the people holding the door quickly sped up their pace. In the blink of an eye, the group of Ming troops entered the blind spot of shooting bows and arrows. A grenadier rushed to the gate holding a thunderbolt with three fuzes connected together. After placing it well and igniting it with thick incense like cigarettes, it turned around and ran back like a rabbit with an arrow in its ass.

After Li Jinzhong and others erected the door panel on the ground, a group of people squatted down on the spot, and the grenadier rushed over and quickly lowered his body.

Amidst a dull and loud noise, the blasted pieces of wood, masonry, copper door knocker and other sundries splashed everywhere, and smashed on several erected door panels. Before Li Jinzhong could stand up, Zhao Er The dog rushed over from the alley opposite with a large group of soldiers.

Li Jinzhong stood up abruptly and shouted: "The shooter comes forward!"

Immediately, he held the wide door panel and rushed forward, and the others also hurriedly got up to follow. The brigade behind followed quickly under the cover of the diffuse gunpowder smoke. It was thrown in the yard where the gatehouse was blown down, and as the long arrow fell, screams of pain rang out in the yard one after another.

Twenty blunderbusses rushed forward with loaded firecrackers. Li Jinzhong and the others got out of the way. A team of four blunderbussers quickly formed a small blunderbuss formation. Step outside and start firing inside.

Twenty rounds of firecrackers were fired, and as far as the eye could see, in the spacious yard inside the gate, at least [-] Qing soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the rest were gone.

Li Jinzhong threw the door panel aside, picked up a long gun from a Ming soldier who died in battle on the ground, turned around and said loudly: "The sword and shield hand follow the forehead first, and the archer and grenadier follow! Er Gouzi, Leave a few people to collect the remains, and bring the rest to follow behind!"

Two of the more than a dozen sword and shield fighters stepped forward to cover Li Jinzhong, and this small group rushed into the courtyard across the broken bricks and rotten wood on the ground.

The blood flowing from the fallen Qing soldiers on the ground in the courtyard has turned dark red, and there are several shallow pits on the side left by the thunderstorms. A large number of flies flew up and down on the corpses, greedily enjoying their belongings. feast.

Li Jinzhong looked around under the cover of two round shields. There were no living people in the front yard without a screen wall, and the four doors in the lobby facing the gate were open, but there seemed to be no trace of the Qing army inside.

Li Jinzhong looked at the moon gate across the east and west courtyards, and after thinking for a while, he called Zhao Ergou over: "Er Gouzi, I guess the remaining Jiannu hid in the backyard. In this way, I will distribute it and lead people through the back door of the main hall." Search from the back, you search from the west, Zhou Quanhu, your team searches from the east.

We have three teams, each with five sword and shield players, six gunners, two archers, two grenadiers, and ten spearmen. Still, the archers and musketeers went to the windows and doors, and the spearmen went to the door. After the thunder blasted, the sword and shield players went into the house to kill!Beware of Jian slave bows and arrows! "

"Honorable order!"

After Zhao Ergou and another member of the team, Zhou Quanhu, received the order, Li Jinzhong called the soldiers who poured into the yard to form a formation. After Zhao Ergou and Zhou Quanhu selected the corresponding men, they led them towards the moon gates on both sides. Go, Li Jinzhong led people in through the main entrance of the lobby, bypassed the screen at the back of the lobby, and rushed to the courtyard on the second floor from the back door.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, the three teams gathered together in the garden at the back of the five-entry courtyard.

"Er Gouzi, Zhou Quanhu, how about the two of you?"

Li Jinzhong leaned his spear on a pillar in the long corridor, took out the iron water bottle from the bag on his waist strap diagonally across his back, pulled out the cork and drank wildly, then wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth. Looking at Zhao Ergou and Zhou Quanhu who rushed over, they asked.

Zhao Ergou, who was thin and grown up, was wearing rough clothes, put the blood-dripping long knife into the sheath, grabbed the water bottle in Li Jinzhong's hand, raised his neck and took a few mouthfuls, and handed it to Zhou Quanhu, panting. After a few mouthfuls, he replied: "General Manager, this team beheaded seven Jiannu in total, and lost three of them, all of whom were shot by teaching Jiannu's bow and arrow!"

The handsome Zhou Quanhu took the water bottle handed over by Zhao Ergou and replied, "General Manager, this team beheaded four Jian slaves, and one of his subordinates was slightly injured by an arrow!"

It was around noon, and from the fight at Chenshi to the present, the team of soldiers led by Li Jinzhong was also exhausted, and each of them took out their kettles to drink water to quench their thirst.

Fortunately, there is a shady place all the way after entering this house, otherwise, everyone is wearing thick cotton armor, and the physical strength has been exhausted just by basking in the scorching sun for an hour.

At this time, a knife and shield player who observed the enemy's situation from the flower window at the corner at the end of the corridor hurried over, gasped and said after standing still: "General Manager, there is a two-story building in the garden behind. After observing carefully, I saw Jian Nu on the second floor, the number of them is unknown, the garden is very spacious, there are about thirty steps to the small building, and there is no shelter!"

"Boss, how are we going to fight? Uh, let's disassemble a few door panels and come over, let's still play the same way before rushing into the yard, and blow up these bastards!"

Zhao Ergou took off his helmet, raised his arm and wiped it all over his face. With the dust, sweat and blood on his face, he looked somewhat embarrassed.

"Thinking about it, the brothers have exhausted their strength so far, so we don't have to fight Jiannu again in the end! Zhou Quanhu, you take a team to the gate of the garden to be on guard, beware Kill Jiannu! Er Gouzi, take someone to cook in the kitchen, find vegetable oil and firewood and bring them over, the more the better, let's roast this group of Jiannu!"

After thinking for a while, Li Jinzhong made a decision.

His team has done a lot of meritorious service so far, and the most important thing next is to save their lives to enjoy the post-war rewards. If there is no guarantee that there will be casualties, it is better to simply take the most trouble-free way. way to resolve the fight.

(End of this chapter)