Chapter 23 The Eight Grades
In the county office, dozens of White Lotus Sect members fled all the way to the back door, but saw that the back door was closed, and more than a dozen "officers and soldiers" were lying on the wall and pointed at the courtyard with fire guns.
Behind him, Su Chengyu also led people to chase closer.
A disciple of the White Lotus Sect raised the iron fork in his hand and shouted: "We are all capital crimes of rebellion, and if we are captured at this time, we will also die, fight!" ”
The bandits immediately had the intention of fighting back, but many of them had even thrown their weapons just now, and they were at a loss for what to do at this time.
Su Chengyu signaled to the guards guarding the back door, and then there was a bang, including the guy who was agitating desperately just now, and five or six bandits were killed in an instant.
Su Chengyu pointed his pistol at the sky and said in a loud voice: "You are persecuted by the cult, and you will not die for your crimes!" ”
The Zhu family reacted very quickly and immediately repeated it in Hokkien.
People are always willing to believe what is good for them when they are desperate, and immediately some members of the congregation throw away their weapons and fall to their knees. A few people with clear brains who knew that they were going to die rushed up with red eyes, and Shi Lin and the others raised their knives and solved them very neatly.
But Su Chengyu frowned - he hadn't seen Ye Li yet.
He instructed the guards to disperse and search in the county office, and asked Shi Lin and others to put the surrendered bandits in the county government prison.
Su Chengyu sat in the lobby and constantly sent people all over the county to search, but there was no trace of Ye Li.
However, Shi Lin brought more than a dozen people and said that they were released from prison. Most of them were gentry and celebrities in Qingliu County, who were tied up by Ye Li and begged for ransom.
Everyone couldn't stop thanking Su Chengyu. Among them, there are three foreigners, who speak Chinese very smoothly, and one of them even blurted out the words "General Shenwu".
Ye Li heard the sound of guns, shouts of killing, and screams in the county office, and his feet immediately sped up a few points.
When he ran all the way to the edge of the wall of the flower hall, he asked two tall disciples to drag him up the wall, and was about to turn out, when he heard someone shouting not far away: "He is here!" Don't run! ”
When Ye Li turned his head, he saw an "officer and soldier" dressed as a member of the White Lotus Sect who was shooting an arrow with his bow outstretched, and then he had a sharp pain in his leg and fell from the wall.
Outside the county office, one hundred and fifty or sixty White Lotus Sect members who had rushed to the rescue began to attack the main gate.
The dozen or so guards defending the main gate of the county yashi soon couldn't hold on and came to the lobby to ask Su Chengyu for reinforcements.
On one side is Ye Li, and on the other side is the main gate attacked. Su Chengyu was immediately dispatched, and he took thirty people to defend the main gate, and Shi Lin took ten people to catch Ye Li.
Some of the gentry and celebrities also picked up weapons on the ground and came to help.
By the time Su Chengyu led people to the main gate, many bandits had already climbed into the courtyard. He immediately organized a firing shot to suppress the enemy's momentum.
After the guards eliminated the few bandits in the courtyard who did not die, they climbed the wall one after another and shot outward with firecrackers and bows and arrows.
And the three foreigners just now were unexpectedly strong. They picked up three bird guns, one crouched on the roof to shoot, and the other two loaded their ammunition, and they were extremely skillful, and each time they fired the guns, hitting the most needed support.
On the other side, Ye Li led more than a dozen disciples to retreat into the back kitchen, defending by the window. These disciples were all his henchmen, and they fought back very fiercely.
Shi Lin could only shoot at them from a distance for a while, and several attempts to rush over were blocked back.
Su Chengyu asked people about the situation on Shi Lin's side, and he was very anxious. He didn't know how Liu Guoxuan's progress was, if there was no breakthrough on that side, he would have to rely on catching the bandit leader Ye Li to break the game. Otherwise, after a long time, the enemy will gradually find out his own details, and it will be really troublesome!
It is necessary to divide the forces to quickly take down Ye Li, so that the whole situation can be revitalized. Su Chengyu's gaze swept over the corpses of several White Lotus Sect members on the ground, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed.
A moment later, from behind the gate of the county government, Wang Guru's mournful cry came from behind, "Master, you died so miserably!" ”
Su Chengyu's words were still in his ears, "You first deceived the city gate, and then spread rumors about tens of thousands of officers and soldiers attacking the city, do you think the White Lotus Sect can still tolerate you?" But if you cooperate, I will count you anyway and save you from death. ”
Subsequently, a human head was carried by a long bamboo pole and appeared in the sky above the county office, and Wang Gu suddenly cried even harder.
Two groups of people inside and outside the county government stopped at the same time and looked into the air.
The people outside looked at the bloody human head, eager and unrecognizable. After a long time, someone shouted: "Master Wang, is this really the old man of the incense master?" ”
Wang Gu cried, "Master has been killed by officers and soldiers. You wait, I beg them to wash Master's remains. Then he bargained with the "officers and soldiers" to clean Ye Li.
At the same time, twenty guards accompanied Su Chengyu to reinforce Shi Lin. The roof, side, and main entrance attacked together, Ye Li and his disciples were invincible with their fists, and in a few moments, they were cut down by the guards who jumped down from the roof. Shi Lin took advantage of the moment when the bow in the back kitchen stopped for a while, and with a shout, he led people in.
The sound of the sword soldiers quickly subsided, Shi Lin was covered in blood, walked out with a human head like a god, and grinned at Su Chengyu, "Master, the thief is ambushed!" ”
The "discussion" at the gate of the county government quickly yielded results, and the "officers and soldiers" agreed to let Wang Gu wash Ye Li's body.
The bamboo pole was slowly withdrawn, Wang Gu cried and shouted for a while, and the sect members outside the county government stood still and didn't know what to do.
In just a stick of incense, a human head was thrown out of the county office, which was still bloody and had not been cleaned at all.
A bold stepped forward and turned the head face up, and suddenly there was a burst of exclamation among the bandits, "Lord Ye Xiang is dead!" ”
Liu Guoxuan was anxious and rushed to the county office, afraid that the shopkeeper Su would not be able to resist, but he was encountering the White Lotus Sect members running around like lost dogs.
He was not polite, he stepped forward for another burst of slashing, and finally rushed into the county government with bloody heavy clothes, and saw that the shopkeeper Su was holding a short gun and all the "family members" waiting for him, obviously killing the bandits in the county office.
Liu Guoxuan stepped forward with a laugh and patted Su Chengyu on the shoulder, "It's a pity that Shopkeeper Su is a businessman, why don't you go into battle with Zai Xia to kill the enemy and revitalize Daming Heshan?" ”
Seeing the conversation between the two, the Zhu family brother hurriedly came over to be a translator.
Su Chengyu smiled slightly, "I was about to go into battle with you to kill the enemy." Will you be under my command? ”
"Your subordinates?" Liu Guoxuan smiled even more happily, "Where did you come from as a businessman?" When he said this, he suddenly looked around, and said in a low voice, "Shopkeeper Su doesn't know what he means?" This word is not to be used indiscriminately. ”
"I'm not interested in business. Forget it, this time to recapture Qingliu County, Sun Tuiguan should be able to promote me as a sentry commander, although I have no rank, but at least I am a court officer. He was obviously very excited, "I will do my best to help you declare the imperial court for the reward and compensation from the shopkeeper Su." ”
Su Chengyu shook his head and said, "No need for Sun Tuiguan." How about you being my 100 presidents, eight products? ”