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The sound of the explosion made Fan Yongdou's hands tremble, and the several account books he had just picked up fell on the table.

Then he looked panicked.

He never expected that the officers and soldiers would use artillery as soon as they came up!

Or a grenade?
In short, it would be outrageous to use such a powerful firearm to attack a private home.

It also explained that the Da'ei court had probably found out about his family's involvement in the Qing Dynasty and smuggling of contraband.

This time I broke into the house, I am afraid that I was not prepared to leave a way for the Fan family to survive.

Fan Yongdou immediately urged him.

"Quick, quick! Don't pack the rest, pack your bags and get ready to go!"

While talking, he quickly packed some important account books into the baggage.

At this time, various cries came from the direction of the gate.

"The officers and soldiers are calling in!"

"Run away!"

"Spare your life, Master Jun!"

"Kneel down and surrender without killing!"

"···"

From time to time there was a gunshot.

Obviously, the troops who rushed in were not polite to those who dared to resist.

In the maze-like terrain of Fan's mansion, even if a standing army came, they would not dare to be careless at all.

Because the terrain was narrow and congested, some of Fan's loyal followers relied on their knowledge of the roads and could easily cause casualties to the Yi army even if they were armed with cold weapons.

However, in the photo of the ferocious move of the Yi army directly blasting open the gate of the Fan family's mansion with artillery, only a few of Fan's servants dared to resist. Most of them fled in panic or knelt down to beg for mercy.

Fan Yongdou knew his nursing home and servants very well.

Although his family does business abroad all year round, they have trained a group of nurses and thugs who dare to fight.

But now most of these people are in Datong Mansion, and there are only dozens of absolutely loyal guards staying in Laiyuanbao Mansion.

If the Wei army was not serious, these guards and servants might still dare to rely on the terrain of the house to resist.

But now that the Yi army's artillery, grenades, and muskets are all being used, I'm afraid not many would dare to resist.

Even if they resist, they can't stop the Yi army for long.

Therefore, after cleaning up the important account books, he took several concubines, personal maids, and several inner house guards and retreated into the tunnel.

The inner house nurse is not only a confidant of the Fan family and his son, he is also a member of the Fan family and is absolutely loyal and reliable.

However, when it came time to enter the tunnel, an old and lustful concubine refused to go in.

She grabbed Fan Yongdou's sleeve and cried anxiously: "Master, Hua'er hasn't come here yet."

Snapped!
Fan Yongdou slapped the concubine to the ground and said angrily: "It's not like he doesn't know the tunnel is here. Does he still want us to wait for him?"

"I have to wait here for you! Anyone who comes with me should get down quickly!"

After saying that, Fan Yongdou entered the tunnel first.

The other concubines were all relatively young, either without children or with children around them. At this time, they took them with them and went down to the tunnel with Fan Yongdou.

"Master, master!"

The old and lustful concubine shouted a few words, but when no one paid attention to her, she regained her senses and quickly went down to the tunnel.

This tunnel was built by several generations of the Fan family and leads to a place two or three miles away from Laiyuan Castle.

Because the tunnel is not a straight line, its actual length exceeds five miles.

In addition, Fan Yongdou had many women and children, so he did not leave very fast.

After walking for a while, Fan Yongdou felt very uneasy, so he said to the nursing home manager: "Fan Zhong, you take four people behind to protect the women and children. I will take the others to the front to explore the situation outside the tunnel."

Fan Zhong knew that Fan Yongdou was probably afraid of being dragged down by women and children and wanted to get out of the tunnel first.

But he still responded: "Don't worry, sir, as long as I live, I will definitely take people out!"

Fan Yongdou patted Fan Zhong on the shoulder, turned around and walked away quickly.

Even though he is over sixty, his legs and feet are in very good shape and he walks not much slower than the nursing staff.

···
Outside the Fan family mansion.

Hua Jiehai, deputy of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Standing Army, and Xu Jiaying, the colonel and battalion commander of Xuanfu in charge of Xiuyiwei are both here.

It can be said that these two people are both high-ranking second-class generals who are investigating Shanxi merchants this time.

As for the first-class generals, they were brigade commander Zhang Xin, Major General Ai Huasheng, who was in charge of the embroidered clothing guard in the northern area of ​​​​Beizhili, and the deputy inspector of North Zhili, the prefect of Xuanfu and the counselor of North Zhili.

These four are now sitting in the county government office in Zhangjiakou Fort City, paying attention to the dynamics of each action team and presiding over the overall situation.

"Report! The Fan family's inner house has been invaded!"

A guard rushed out to report the progress.

Hua Jiehai nodded and said, "I understand."

When the guard entered the Fan family's mansion again, Xu Jia on the side responded: "According to our information, this Fan family's mansion must have a secret passage leading outside the city."

"It's a pity that the spies we sent into the Fan family are not even qualified to stay in the main house of the Fan family, let alone understand such core secrets."

Hua Jiehai laughed and said, "Don't worry, Colonel Xu, the Fan family won't be able to escape even if there is an underground tunnel."

"This time we not only mobilized a brigade from the Beijing Garrison Division to assist in patrolling the border, but also a regiment of Cavalry Guards was divided into multiple cavalry squads to patrol inside and outside the border wall."

"Unless the Fan family builds a tunnel thirty miles outside the border wall, there is no way they can escape our arrest."

Xu Jiaying nodded, "The Fan family and the other eight families are Shanxi merchants named by the Holy Spirit to be dealt with strictly. They are worthy of our going to war."

At this time another guard ran out.

"Report! A tunnel was found at Fan Yongdou's residence in the inner house, and several core members of the Fan family including Fan Hua and Fan Yongcheng were captured!"

"According to what these people said, Fan Yongdou and others had fled out of the city through the tunnel, and Battalion Commander Li Zhao personally led a team of guards to chase them in!"

Hua Jiehai nodded and said: "Search every corner of the Fan family mansion as planned and arrest all Fan clan members and servants. In addition, pay attention to search for other tunnels and secret rooms!"

"As ordered!"

The guard responded and immediately went to deliver the order.

At this time, Xu Jiaying frowned and said, "Commander Hua, we don't know what preparations the Fan family has made in the tunnel."

"If they have gunpowder, Battalion Commander Li may be in danger if they pursue them like this."

Hua Jiehai really didn't expect this.

After all, as Da'ei's elite frontier army, it was a bit negligent to be sent to assist in the investigation and arrest of some merchants.

Therefore, his expression changed after hearing Xu Jiaying's words, and he immediately called a guard and said, "Send someone quickly to catch up with Li Zhao and tell him to be careful and be careful to prevent his family from blowing up the tunnel!"

"As ordered!"

Although the order was issued, Hua Jiehai still didn't look relaxed.

Based on his understanding of Li Zhao, he might be catching up with the Fan family now.

Therefore, his order just now may not be delivered in time.

If their brigade suffered too much loss while assisting in the arrest of Shanxi merchants, it would not only be ugly, but also unacceptable.

···
In a mountain depression two or three miles northwest of Laiyuan Fort, there is a seemingly ordinary small village called Chengjiacun.

There is a small landowner in the village, whose surname is Cheng. It is said that his ancestors were members of the former Ming Guard House.

Today, more than 20 households in the village are all tenants of his family.

There are many such villages near Zhangjiakou, but they are not noticeable.

No one knew that this small landowner from Chengjia Village had become a loyal lackey of the Fan family.

Therefore, the Fan family built the tunnel exit in the Cheng family courtyard.

Although the possibility of the Cheng family betraying the Fan family was extremely small, Fan Yongdou still sent several absolutely loyal and reliable clan members to live in the Cheng family's side courtyard.

This day.

A few people were playing the horse crane in boredom when they heard a strange noise coming from the stable.

They hurried over and saw the eldest young master Fan Sanbo and his family coming out of the tunnel, so they all went up to help.

One of them asked, "Master, is there something going on at home?"

If something serious hadn't happened to the main house, it would be unlikely that the eldest young master of the Fan family would have taken the tunnel to get here - the Fan family's tunnel was not very spacious and would be very uncomfortable to walk on.

What's more, Fan Sanbo came here with his family.

Fan Sanbo didn't want to hide anything, and said with a gloomy expression: "The imperial court is eyeing my Fan family, and today they suddenly sent troops to surround the mansion."

"Where are the master and the others?" another person asked.

"Father asked me to leave first, and they are behind." Several people were waiting and talking. After about a quarter of an hour, they heard movement in the tunnel.

Not long after, Fan Yongdou came up with several inner house guards.

Fan Yongdou was old after all. He was so tired that he was sweating profusely and his face was quite ugly.

He glanced at Fan Sanbo and the others, then gasped: "Fan You, you guys, move the prepared gunpowder barrels down below and set up the fuses."

"If the army comes, we will blow up the tunnel!"

Fan Sanbo and others couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this.

Because they all know that there are still many people in the Fan family who have not escaped.

Fan Sanbo couldn't help but ask, "Father, my brothers, sisters, and aunts are all still behind. What will they do if the tunnel is blown up?"

"Stupid!" Fan Yongdou shouted angrily, "If they arrive first, they can naturally be let up."

"But if they are caught by the army, the army will come first. If we don't blow up the tunnel, how can we let the army come out from the tunnel to catch us?!"

Fan Sanbo heard this and quickly admitted his mistake, "Father, please calm down. It's my son who is confused."

Immediately, Fan You and others went down the tunnel with the prepared powder barrels and fuses.

It took nearly a quarter of an hour to lay out the leads, and then several people heard a panicked shout coming from the tunnel.

"Run!"

"The officers and soldiers are chasing us!"

"Ah, I'm sprained in my ankle, please help me!"

Fan Yongdou frowned after hearing this.

He didn't expect that the officers and soldiers were pursuing so closely and seemed to be entangled with Fan Zhong's team.

Soon, his concubines, personal maids, etc. all appeared below, scrambling to climb up the ladder.

But because of too much panic and fighting, he fell down several times in a row.

When Fan Yongdou saw this, he shouted angrily, "If you continue to argue like this, don't come up! Send the child up first!"

The people below heard the sound and hurriedly sent the children to climb the stairs, with the boy in front and the girl behind.

However, just after a few children climbed up, there was a burst of gunfire and the pitiful cry of Fan Zhong and others being shot.

"Master, we can't stand it anymore!"

Fan Zhong's screams finally came.

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou glanced at the three concubines and several personal maids below, with a fierce look on his face, and decisively shouted: "Light the fire!"

Fan You and others hesitated for a moment.

Fan Yongdou saw it and lit the fire himself.

Suddenly the lead sizzled down quickly!
The few women who were still in the tunnel were completely panicked and started crying.

"Master, no!"

"Master, help me!"

"master!"

While crying, a few people started fighting again. Those who were not on the ladder pulled those who were already on the ladder down.

You pulled me and I pulled you, but no one could climb up before the fuse burned out.

Seeing that the fuse was about to ignite the first powder keg, the most mature maid suddenly pulled out the fuse!

"Bitch!" Fan Yongdou yelled angrily, then grabbed the licorice in the stable, lit it and threw it inside, and shouted at the others, "What are you doing standing there? Hurry up and light the fire! Otherwise no one can escape when the officers and soldiers rush out!"

Fan Sanbo, Fan You and others came to their senses and quickly lit the hay handles and shivered and went into the tunnel.

"what!"

"Master, no!"

"Fan Yongdou, you heartless old dog!"

"How can you be so cruel!"

The women first begged for mercy, then broke down and cursed, interspersed with screams of being burned.

Outside, the older and more sensible children were crying and calling "Mother."

A human tragedy is happening right in front of your eyes...
Li Zhao and his guards killed several Fan family servants who were blocking the tunnel, and then heard panicked shouts at the end of the tunnel.

He hurried over with a few guards. Using the light, he saw the barrels of gunpowder in front of him, and his hair stood up immediately.

"Back up! Back up quickly!"

he shouted quickly.

The guards who followed him into the tunnel were all the best among the best. They stopped immediately when they heard the sound and stepped back.

However, Li Zhao took a few steps back and heard the cries of the Fan family women, but his heart moved and he turned around and ran back.

Then a fire appeared at the end of the tunnel.

He hurriedly shouted: "If you want to survive, get back! Hurry!"

Fan Yongdou's concubines didn't seem to hear it and were still cursing Fan Yongdou, but several maids had already run towards him.

However, they had only run twenty or thirty steps when there was an explosion behind them.

But those powder barrels were finally ignited and exploded.

Perhaps the gunpowder was not powerful enough, or perhaps the tunnel built by the Fan family was relatively strong. The place where Li Zhao was was did not collapse, but a lot of soil fell.

Li Zhao saw that all the maids were buried, but one of them was only half buried, so he said: "Leave a few people to rescue people with me, and everyone else should withdraw to prevent the tunnel from collapsing continuously! In addition, save the people inside." Report the situation to the top!”

Having said that, let’s go dig the soil first.

···
Fan Yongdou got up from the ground and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the tunnel had indeed been completely destroyed by the explosion.

Immediately, he glanced at the crying children and said with a gloomy expression: "These children are a burden, leave them to the Cheng family to take care of, we will leave immediately!"

Fan Sanbo had a look of unbearable expression on his face.

Although these children were all born from concubines, they were also considered his younger brothers and sisters.

And after they just blew up the tunnel, the tunnel in Chengjia Village might be exposed.

In this way, leaving the younger brothers and sisters behind is tantamount to abandoning them.

But they have to flee next, and the children are really a drag.

However, the concubine's younger brothers and sisters can be abandoned, but what about his own children?
Before he could ask, Fan Yongdou said again: "Keep all the children under ten years old!"

After that, you should first untie a horse and prepare to leave.

Looking back, Fan Sanbo and others were stunned. Fan Yongdou shouted angrily again, "What are you doing standing still? Do you want your whole family to be arrested?!"

Fan Sanbo regained his composure and could only bear the pain and leave his three children under ten years old behind, get on the horse and leave with Fan Yongdou.

Of course, they didn't forget to tell the Cheng family to take good care of their children when they left.

After leaving Chengjia Village, a group of more than a dozen people rode horses and galloped toward the northwest—there was a Xuanfu garrison general they bribed who could help them cross the border wall.

However, when they were only a few miles away from the border wall, a group of cavalry intercepted them from the side!

Seeing this, Fan Sanbo and others panicked.

Fan Yongdou shouted, "Don't panic, the Yi army has good military discipline. As long as we don't reveal our secrets, we will have a chance to fool them."

Soon, thirty cavalrymen came over and surrounded Fan Yongdou and others.

Fan Sanbo was even more panicked when he waited for the heat.

Because they could see that these cavalry were neither a garrison nor a standing army.

The leading cavalry captain glanced at the Fan family and asked, "What do you do?"

Fan Yongdou stepped forward, cupped his hands and smiled, "Hui Junye, we are here for a hunting trip. We encountered several horse bandits on the way, so we were a little embarrassed."

"Horse bandits?" The captain seemed to be diverted when he heard this.

Because these cavalrymen were all from the Cavalry Guards and had not been responsible for patrolling here before, they naturally did not know whether there were still horse bandit activities here.

However, the captain did not immediately let go of the thoughts of these people in front of him - they came here today just to escape for local Shanxi merchants.

The people in front of them looked like Shanxi merchants who had fled in distress.

Just when the captain was thinking about how to tell the difference, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl held by Fan You suddenly pointed at Fan Yongdou and shouted: "Fan Yongdou! He is Fan Yongdou!"

Fan You was shocked!

Fan Yongdou was so angry that he whipped the girl with his riding crop and yelled: "Bitch! You eat shit like this!"

The girl was whipped, rolled out of Fan You's arms and dismounted, but she smiled sternly at Fan Yongdou, "Fan Yongdou, you killed my mother and left my sister behind, you can't even hope to survive, hahaha..."

This sudden scene stunned the thirty Cavalry Guards.

The captain of the Cavalry Guard came to his senses and immediately shouted: "Get someone!" (End of Chapter)