Lin Weiye walked beside him and asked quietly, "It should be okay to drop the package, right?" ”

Xia Nan replied: "There should be no problem, the rebels guarding it didn't see anything wrong, and when they reacted, we would already be out of the city" These words were half for Lin Weiye, and half for comforting himself. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After answering Lin Weiye, Xia Nan suddenly remembered something, and felt very bad in his heart, and his heart began to beat suddenly. He stood up suddenly: "Oops, I forgot one thing"

Lin Weiye was taken aback, and he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Don't scare me. ”

Xia Nan's hands and feet were cold, and he looked at Lin Weiye blankly: "I forgot to take the White Lotus master and apprentice away."

Lin Weiye patted his chest and let out a sigh: "I thought what was going on, weren't they just two White Lotus Sect women, why did the eldest husband have no wife, there are several women in your family, and you still think about these two people of unknown origin?" It's not me saying you."

Xia Nan interrupted him: "That's not what I mean, they are patrolling the yamen, and if they are not careful, they will reveal our whereabouts"

Lin Weiye was suspicious: "Didn't you say that they wouldn't go against you, how could they leak your information?" ”

Xia Nan was so anxious that he stomped his feet: "They really won't betray me on purpose, but I didn't inform them of my plan in advance, the apprentice is okay, if the master is ignorant and looking for me everywhere, he will immediately go to the gang, once the guards find out that Sun Yuanhua was dropped, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"What then?" Lin Weiye was also a little panicked.

Xia Nan estimated the distance between the governor's yamen and the west gate, and immediately said: "There are still several streets between here and the west gate, if you walk slowly, as long as the matter is revealed and the rebels chase after you, you will definitely be caught up." Only gamble, hurry up to the south gate, don't be afraid of exposure. ”

So the group no longer hid, gathered together, spread their feet and ran, and at once fifty or sixty people ran wildly, and the formation was so great that the passers-by were stunned.

After all, Sun Yuanhua is old, and he is a civil official, he is pampered on weekdays, and he can't hold it after running a distance, he gasped and said to Xia Nan: "Brother Xia, I really can't run, or you take these Yiren to go first, anyway, Kong Youde won't embarrass me."

The so-called news that Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde were willing to let Sun Yuanhua return to Beijing was all fabricated by Xia Nan, and leaving him alone at this time must be more than lucky. And Xia Nan tried his best to rescue him and the Portuguese, so he naturally didn't want to give up halfway, so he ordered without hesitation: "Yuki, call a few team members, and take turns to run with Lord Sun on his back." ”

Yang Youji responded, waved his hand to summon a few team members with big shoulders and round waists, and regardless of whether Sun Yuanhua wanted to or not, he lifted him up and put him on the back of a team member, and then continued to run wildly.

Sun Yuanhua was bumped and couldn't speak: "Brother Xia looks at this posture, it doesn't look like he is going back to Beijing, but it looks like he is running for his life."

Xia Nan didn't answer him at all, just pretended not to hear, now is not the time to explain to him, wait for him to get out, and then slowly explain to him.

After all, Dengzhou has just fallen, although the large-scale looting has stopped, but the whole city is still in a state of rebel control, there are not many pedestrians on the street, from time to time there are sporadic rebels passing by, these dozens of people rushed all the way, immediately attracted the attention of a small group of passing rebels, a small leader stepped forward and shouted: "What are you doing, stop for Lao Tzu!" ”

Lin Weiye panicked, turned around and asked Xia Nan: "What should I do?" ”

Xia Nanyi gritted his teeth, once he was entangled by these rebels, whether it was blackmail or blackmail, he would not be able to get out for a while, and he would be in trouble after a long time, so he simply didn't do anything and killed it. So he shouted: "Bright guy, kill out!" ”

When Yang Youji heard this, he ordered all the team members: "All of them have it, get on the bayonet!" ”

When the fifty guards heard the order, they quickly removed the layers of Qionghai-style rifles from their backs and inserted their bayonets into the card holders.

Seeing that something was wrong, the little leader of the rebels pulled out his sword and shouted hoarsely: "Brothers, these people have firearms, hurry up and copy the guys!" ”

The rebel soldiers were all veterans of the war, experienced and reacted quickly, and they took out their weapons one after another, shouting and pounced.

The incident happened suddenly, and the distance between the two sides was too close, and it was definitely too late to line up and shoot them step by step, and the guards could only choose white-knuckle combat. Yang Youji gave an order, and all the team members raised their rifles and rushed towards each other.

Although the number of rebels is not large, only about 20 people, they are all veterans of the Dongjiang River, who have seen the battle of the Tartars in Liaodong and killed many officers and soldiers in Shandong, so they naturally will not take the other party in their eyes. In their opinion, as long as they pounced on hand-to-hand combat, this group of guys with firearms would definitely collapse out of nowhere, so they were not too afraid in the face of twice the number of opponents.

But the battle that followed was completely beyond their expectations. Fifty guards marched forward at a trotting in two neat rows, and as soon as they made contact, a round of stabs threw them into disarray, and seven or eight rebels were stabbed, but the other side was almost unscathed.

The rest of the rebels, however, were aroused to their murderous nature, wielding their swords and slashing at them without their lives. None of them are recruits, and they know very well in their hearts that either they don't do it, and once they start fighting, they will turn around and run to death even worse.

After the two sides were glued together, several guards were also cut under the desperate attack of the rebels, but the second platoon was immediately replaced, and the bayonet array of the first platoon always maintained a sufficient superiority in personnel.

Sun Yuanhua and the Portuguese were dumbfounded in the rear, and Wu Duowang muttered to himself: "My God, these people remind me of the Swiss spear mercenaries: good at hand-to-hand combat, strict formation, and unmistakable. ”

When Sun Yuanhua heard this, he asked him: "Swiss mercenaries?" What is the difference between Tessie's soldiers and the pikemen of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Wu Duowang replied: "Yes, Lord Sun, Switzerland is only a small country in Europe, but they regard war as a profession, and the mercenaries of this country only fight for money. The biggest difference between them and the infantry of the Ming Kingdom was that they did not emphasize individual martial arts, but more emphasis on formation in battle, as long as such soldiers were equipped with a certain number of arquebuses and artillery, they were able to defeat the armies of most kings in Europe. ”

Sun Yuanhua believed in Wu Duowang's words, and in these matters, these Yi people rarely lied. Looking at Xia Nan in front of him, Sun Yuanhua fell into deep thought, obviously, this young man who kept calling himself a businessman was not as simple as he said, these people who could deal with the murderous rebels were beyond the scope of ordinary businessmen. To be continued.

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