Red Mansion: Fuyao River and Mountain
Chapter 147: Hiding from Heaven is Difficult
Chapter 147: Hiding from Heaven is Difficult
The runners and prisoners in the car jumped out screaming. The burly runner shouted at people to snatch the two boxes full of tools from the car.
The horses pulling the carts were also ignited by the fire spreading from the carriages, and they rushed madly towards the huge rocks blocking the road ahead, but the mountain road was too narrow to accommodate several carts running side by side.
Soon several large carts were squeezed together, and before they could rush to the huge rock blocking the road, they completely blocked the road. Several horses on fire kept struggling and making miserable roars.
At this time, the sound of bowstrings was heard from behind, and six or seven feather arrows were shot out, killing the burning horses.
The scorching flames licked the grease on the horse's carcass, creating a strange sense of horror and cruelty, and the fire grew stronger and stronger.
Huang Youan and the sturdy yamen runner originally wanted to lead their men to climb over the huge rocks that blocked the road, but the fiercely burning carriages and horse carcasses completely blocked their retreat.
The sturdy yamen runner shouted a lot, and the yamen runners and prisoners rushed forward and pulled out long knives with narrow blades from the two tool boxes.
At this time, there was no distinction between yamen runners and prisoners, and they rushed to and fro on the road like a swarm of bees.
Now they don't know that they have fallen into someone else's trap and someone has set an ambush here in advance.
The huge rocks blocking the road, the burning porcelain jars, and the galloping horses that were shot to death in time were all meant to completely block their way forward.
He had only run a few steps when he heard two loud noises ahead. The two big trees on the side of the road were somehow uprooted.
The thick tree trunks fell to the ground, blocking the way back. A large number of people emerged from behind the trees and cliffs on both sides.
Dozens of people in the lead were holding muskets, lined up in three rows, and stood neatly behind them. The gunners in the first row raised their muskets and aimed at them.
Behind these musketeers were more than a dozen archers. Judging from the official uniforms they wore, they should be the government's regular archers.
The two people standing in the front seemed to be the ones in charge. One of them was a teenager with a handsome face, a resolute expression, and a scimitar hanging from his waist. He stood out in the crowd.
Next to the boy stood another young man, wearing the official uniform of a government official. Huang Youan recognized him immediately. He was Deng Hongchun, the Liuhe County official!
Yang Hongbin and Jia Cong beside him said: "The guess of Chengshilang is absolutely correct. These wanderers really disguised themselves as yamen runners and prisoners and hid in the construction site to do labor. What a trick to deceive the world!
No wonder we searched the entire Jinling City but couldn't find any trace of them!
Jia Cong said: "Although the faces of the bodies in Shicaowozi were all scratched and unrecognizable, the coroner at the government office found that many of the bodies had scars on their hands and feet, which were caused by handcuffs.
It was determined that some of the bodies were prisoners, and recently the government had sent a large number of prisoners to serve on the construction site.
I copied scriptures in the temple every day. In my spare time, I would look at the construction site from the third floor of my official residence. I was deeply impressed by the prisoners serving on the construction site, and that is how I connected the two things.
I asked Liu Hai, who was guarding the scene, and according to his daily inspections, the prisoners who were doing labor and the escorting yamen runners almost never spoke.
In daily conversations, it was the man named Huang Youan who spoke up, and Liu Hai didn't take it too seriously at the time.
Now that I have discovered the bodies in Shicaowozi, I start to think about it carefully and doubts arise in my mind.
After examining the body found in Shicaowowozi, Yang Pingshi concluded that the deceased was most likely killed by Japanese swordsmanship.
The yamen runners and prisoners who created the scene were so reserved in their words.
There is only one explanation left, that is, the yamen runners and prisoners who created the scene were impersonated by Japanese people, and most of them could not speak the language of the Great Zhou, so they kept their mouths shut in an attempt to cover up!
It was they who killed the government officials and prisoners, and hid in the construction site by taking the place of the dead.
Yang Hongbin once again experienced Jia Cong's meticulousness and said:
"The clerk has come up with such a good idea to lure them out of the construction site. Otherwise, there are hundreds of craftsmen there. If a bloodbath breaks out, the consequences will be disastrous."
Jia Cong smiled and said, "It is also because Yang Pingshi is very careful. He asked the prefect Jia that the government office wanted to transfer personnel from Liuhe County. If you hadn't pretended to be the head of Liuhe County and led them away, my method would be useless no matter how good it was."
Huang Youan, who was standing opposite him, knew that something was wrong when he saw this situation, but he still held on to a glimmer of hope and shouted, "Team Leader Deng, what do you mean by this?"
"Huang Youan! You are also a citizen of the Great Zhou, yet you colluded with the Japanese wanderers who caused chaos in Jinling, disregarded the law of the country, and slaughtered innocent people. What crime should you be punished for? Surrender immediately, or I will kill you without mercy!"
Huang Youan turned pale after being yelled at by Yang Hongbin. The sturdy yamen runner beside him shouted in stiff official language:
"Don't be afraid, the muskets are useless, the Zhou soldiers are vulnerable, rush over and kill them all!" After saying that, he shouted to the people around him, and a group of people rushed over with strange shouts. Now they have no way out, and the only way to survive is to break through the siege of the government troops.
At that time, they were also surrounded in Longtan Port, but they fought their way out. Those Zhou soldiers were vulnerable and they killed nearly a hundred of them. Apart from some minor injuries, their own side did not lose a single person.
The burly yamen runner was the leader of these Japanese ronin and the most skilled in martial arts. In the battle of Longtan Port, he personally killed more than a dozen Zhou soldiers, including a thousand-householder.
Now that our retreat is cut off, it doesn’t matter. It’s just like what we did in Longtan Port. We can kill all the government troops and escape naturally.
Huang Youan watched the Japanese ronin beside him rushing forward screaming, but he took several steps back.
He knew that these Japanese ronin were very powerful, but the other party's careful encirclement and blockade arrangement showed that they were well prepared.
He is not like those Japanese dwarfs who would risk their lives for the sake of some ridiculous samurai spirit.
Jia Cong looked at the Japanese ronin who were swarming in, his eyes narrowed suddenly, and his hand gripping the hilt of the scimitar tightened.
"Ready to aim!"
"shooting!"
A burst of intensive gunfire rang out, and five or six Japanese ronin who were in the front fell down. Several who were slightly injured were still rushing forward screaming.
Jia Cong shouted again: "Shoot!"
The dozen or so archers standing behind the three rows of gunners had already been standing at a high position with their bows drawn and ready to shoot. As soon as they heard Jia Cong's order, more than ten feather arrows were shot out.
However, the speed of arrows was much lower than that of musket bullets. The Japanese were agile and had excellent swordsmanship. They could easily chop off the feather arrows with their Japanese swords, and not a single one hit them.
However, this also slowed down the charge of the Japanese Ronin.
Yang Hongbin on the side was full of surprise. Last night, Jia Cong asked Jia Yucun to deploy archers from the government office to participate in the encirclement and suppression. He didn't care at the time and never thought that Jia Cong wanted to use the archers for this purpose.
Only this wave of arrows gave the second row of gunners time to fire their Rumi guns, and dense bullets were fired again.
Because the Japanese ronin had rushed to a closer position at this time, the hit rate of the bullets was significantly improved, and the ten bullets were fired either sequentially or simultaneously.
Some ronin with high martial arts skills jumped left and right, and even leaped more than half a meter high to avoid bullets, but six or seven Japanese ronin were still shot and fell.
The sturdy ronin leader saw that the enemy's muskets were fired in a way he had never seen before. The time interval between each bullet was greatly reduced, and the lethality was astonishingly great.
Two rounds of bullets actually killed more than ten of their own people. Seeing that the situation was not good, they shouted loudly, and the other Japanese ronin stopped charging and retreated one after another.
Seeing that the ronin began to retreat, Jia Cong had anticipated that bows and arrows would make up for the shortcomings of the three consecutive musket attacks. He had already asked the archers to prepare enough arrows and shouted loudly: "Shoot! Shoot!"
Only the sound of bowstrings was heard, and a rain of arrows was shot out. The Japanese ronin who was just about to retreat had to slow down, turn around and swing his sword to chop the incoming arrows.
At this time, the third row of bullets of the three-stage attack was fired, and the archers in the rear, under the command of Jia Cong, did not stop shooting arrows, causing some agile ronin to lose the opportunity to jump and dodge.
After a row of bullets, seven or eight more ronin were knocked down.
With just three consecutive attacks, cleverly interspersed with bows and arrows to harass the enemy, he actually killed nearly half of the Japanese ronin.
(End of this chapter)
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