Red Mansion: Fuyao River and Mountain

Chapter 148 That Bloody Light

Yang Hongbin, who was standing by, looked at Jia Cong in shock, and saw that he was concentrating on watching the advance and retreat intentions of those Japanese ronin.

Once the efficiency of the triple-hit shooting could no longer match the advance and retreat speed of the Japanese ronin, he would order the archers to shoot arrows to disturb the enemy at the right time.

Provide the most appropriate buffer and timing for the triple-shooter's reloading and rotation shooting.

The archers and the three-shot gun formation were perfectly integrated together, almost making up for the less than two breaths of interval between bullets.

This requires a strong grasp of the rhythm of the battlefield and an extremely calm and meticulous mind.

Perhaps a brave general who has been on many battles and has extraordinary wisdom can achieve this.

But he was just a teenager, and I heard that he was a bookworm. He had never even left the capital before. How could he have such courage and strategy?

In the past, he didn't believe that there were geniuses in the world who were born with knowledge, but today it seemed like he had seen it.

After the third round of bullets was fired, the remaining Japanese ronin, at the cost of their companions' deaths, continued to retreat and finally put some distance between themselves and the gun array.

Jia Cong ordered loudly: "Move the spear formation forward, archers on guard, listen to my orders!"

Three rows of gunners crossed the trees blocking the way in an orderly manner, and under the command of Jia Cong, they maintained their formation and moved forward slowly.

The dozen or so archers behind, under the command of Jia Cong, shot arrows to cover the movement of the gun formation.

When the gun array and the retreating Japanese ronin were within shooting range, they stopped advancing and rearranged their formation.

A new round of three consecutive attacks begins, the archers harass the enemy, and it is another massacre without suspense!

After only the second row of bullets, the remaining Japanese ronin fell down one by one like wheat waves being cut down. In the end, only five or six people were still standing, but most of them had gunshot wounds on their bodies.

Jia Cong was just about to command the third row of gunners to shoot and put an end to the matter once and for all. He didn't think that these fearless ronin would surrender voluntarily.

At this moment, the burly ronin leader suddenly leaped into the air and landed on the stone wall next to him.

Then he ran a few steps on the stone wall in a strange way, and kicked his feet hard, flying into the air like a big bird. His body actually flew over the gun array in the air and rushed straight to the place where Jia Cong was standing.

This sudden change caught everyone present by surprise.

Yang Hongbin was horrified and shouted, "Stop him!"

Archers from the government office had already shot arrows into the air. The sturdy ronin leader, although in mid-air, swung and chopped with the sharp Japanese sword in his hand like lightning, and actually cut down all the arrows.

However, the inertia of his leap in the air was consumed by the slashing arrows, and he just landed in the three-section gun array. The rows of fighters that had been in neat formation suddenly fell into chaos.

This ronin leader was the most skilled in martial arts and swordsmanship among his accomplices. As soon as he landed on the ground, he swung the Japanese sword in his hand left and right, quickly killing the two gunmen who were close to him. His movements were as fast as a ghost.

All the gunmen were terrified, fearing that they had been attacked, and they subconsciously scattered. The more alert among them raised their rifles to shoot.

However, the ronin leader did not engage in a confrontation. He leaped left and right like a tree frog, and whenever he saw someone approaching him, he would swing his knife. Not only was it impossible to aim, but he was also afraid of hurting his own people.

The direction in which the ronin was heading was exactly where Jia Cong was standing.

He had just led his accomplices to attack, but he did not expect that the enemy's muskets used a strange formation, and their power was much greater than usual. Combined with bows and arrows, they almost killed all of his men.

He saw clearly just now that both the spear formation and the archers were commanded by the strange young man with a scimitar on his waist. He was the culprit and he hated him to the core.

Now only a few of his companions were left, and he himself was also shot and wounded. There were still more than a hundred government troops besieging them, and he was sure that he would not survive today.

Before he died, he would not be willing to die unless he killed the leading young man, so, with his fierce and violent temper, he seized the opportunity and rushed into the enemy's gun formation.

These Zhou people relied on the advantages of their muskets, but they were vulnerable once they got close to him. In a blink of an eye, he hacked four of them to death, and no one who stood in his way could stop him.

The young man was already right in front of him, so he summoned up his remaining strength, leaped into the air and slashed with his sword.

This move of swift sword in the air is the unique skill of his family's sword technique. He runs in the air, coordinates the speed of jumping and falling, and swings the sword to cut with great power.

How could the young boy resist? He was cut in half with just one blow, avenging the deaths of dozens of his companions.

When Yang Hongbin saw the ronin slashing at Jia Cong with a powerful knife, his heart seemed to jump out of his throat.

Just now, the ronin jumped into the gun array and used his sword skills so fiercely that he killed several people in a short moment. How could a young man like Jia Cong escape?

Seeing that this tough battle to encircle and suppress the Japanese ronin was about to be won, Jia Cong's thorough planning and good command would definitely be the main contributor in this battle, and I, who assisted him, also made a considerable contribution.

If at this last moment, this man who made the first contribution was killed by the ronin, how embarrassing it would be. Jia Cong had just been promoted by the emperor, and King Ning also valued him very much. If he met with an unexpected accident, I don't know how things would end.

In a flash, the Japanese ronin leader chopped down with his sword, but he did not feel the usual sharp and bloody feeling of chopping flesh.

Before the sword had finished its move, the young man quickly pulled out a scimitar from his waist. His movements were so swift and agile that it was astonishing.

The two weapons collided fiercely, the sound of metal vibrated, and a streak of dazzling sparks burst out.

The ronin leader's Japanese sword was a sharp weapon that could cut through iron like mud, but even with such a powerful chop, it was unable to cut off Jia Cong's scimitar.

He was shocked to see that Jia Cong drew his sword so quickly that he could block his own. In the past, when he confronted the Zhou people, they were killed with one blow and there were rarely any repetitions.

The young man's scimitar was very strange. When the two swords collided, the other party lifted the handle of the sword and removed most of the force of his chopping blow.

He landed in mid-air, his feet were already unstable, and the force of the sword was suddenly removed, causing him to lose balance. The Japanese sword slid sideways along the unstressed arc of the blade, causing his body to shake slightly.

When masters fight, they emphasize that the force comes from the ground. A slight difference can mean life or death.

The ronin leader realized that he was off balance and felt a chill in his heart. Japanese swordsmanship is fierce and powerful, but Central Plains martial arts are more gentle and skillful. This young man is actually a master in this field.

Jia Cong caught the ronin leader, whose sword force had been neutralized by him and who was losing his balance, and slid sideways quickly, avoiding the direct attack like lightning.

Compared to the fierce slashing and chopping of the Japanese ronin, the skills he learned were more gentle and murderous.

The two bodies passed each other, their clothes and shoes rubbed against each other, and Jia Cong put the scimitar in his hand against his arm, and he cut the other person's waist with a knife, bringing out a flash of blood, and then he quickly retreated.

The scimitar in his hand was made by a master craftsman before Qu Hongxiu went south. It is an extremely sharp weapon.

It was the first time for him to face a master like the Ronin Chief. In the crisis, he was fully focused. Although the knife only slid sideways, the force was quite strong, and the scimitar in his hand was extremely sharp.

The knife actually cut the Japanese ronin's waist in half, and even his intestines flowed out. The ronin leader slowly collapsed to the ground, his eyes full of disbelief, it was obvious that he was not going to survive.

Yang Hongbin was relieved to see Jia Cong had fought with the ronin and severely injured him. Seeing that the ronin was still alive, he shouted fiercely: "Shoot!"

At least five or six Rumi guns were raised and fired in one round, turning the dying ronin leader into a sieve.

Jia Cong, who was standing by, looked at the bloody corpse on the ground, his hand holding the scimitar trembling slightly. The ronin slashed in the air with such great force that his arm felt a little numb.

If the other party had not been shot and was in a weak position, and had not even thought that he had martial arts skills, he would not have been killed by me by surprise.

If both sides confront each other with both sides intact, it is hard to say who will live and who will die in the end.

……

Prince Ning of Nanjing is in the imperial court.

The atmosphere at Prince Ning's residence today was a little strange. The entrance was closely guarded by Prince Ning's personal guards, and no one was allowed to enter or leave at will.

Not only was the Jinling prefect Jia Yucun here, but also the Yingtian prefecture's coroner and a dozen yamen runners who had participated in the investigation of the Shicaowozi incident last night were all here without a single one left.

Yesterday, based on the inspection results of the bodies found in Shicaowowozi, Jia Cong deduced that they were killed by Japanese ronin, and these ronin sneaked into the construction site of Da Ci'en Temple by taking the place of others.

The situation of the Japanese ronin chaos in Longtan Port is complicated and confusing, and the Water Supervision Bureau of the Wei Suo and the Jinling Jinyiwei have been involved.

Yingtian Prefecture escorted prisoners to the construction site to serve. This was a government internal affair, so who leaked the information to those ronin, allowing them to take the opportunity to kill and impersonate.

The leaker is most likely someone from the Yingtian government, or someone who has access to such information, and this person must be in direct or indirect collusion with those Japanese ronin.

Now, based on the incident at the stone trough, we can deduce the secret of the construction site of Da Ci'en Temple.

We want to round up and wipe out those Japanese ronin in one fell swoop and not give them any chance to escape.

It is nothing more than that things are accomplished through secrecy and fail through disclosure.

Otherwise, things like suspects being silenced in the Jinyiwei prison might happen again.

So Jia Cong and Yang Hongbin discussed and asked him to take the Ning Wang's personal guards and the soldiers under Liu Hai to guard the Shicaowuozi closely, and on the grounds of emergency, no one was allowed to leave without permission.

He also went to Prince Ning's residence and explained the whole story to Prince Ning. He also called upon the thirty musketeers trained by Prince Ning and half of Prince Ning's personal guards.

He also obtained a handwritten letter from Prince Ning, ordering Jia Yucun, the prefect of Yingtian, to bring all the people in the government office who were involved in the Shicaowozi case to investigate the case, and to go to Prince Ning's residence to discuss the matter all night.

(End of this chapter)