Chapter 737: Shanxi (6)
After Fan Sanba finished speaking, he hurriedly went to Zhangluo, several big shopkeepers of the Fan family stood by Fan Yongdou's side, they only rushed back from various places a few days ago, and originally wanted to leave Jiexiu this morning, but who would have thought that there would be thieves entering Jiexiu County before dawn.
"These thieves are really daring, they actually dare to fight Jiexiu's idea, do they want to rebel?"
"Is there still less rebellion now, any guy who pulls the flag, can gather tens of thousands of displaced people in an instant, no matter how they are all dead, what is the matter of rebellion."
"It's not going to be the exile army that enters the city, there is no reason to talk about this gang of thieves, if tens of thousands of thieves are allowed to enter the county, it will be bad."
Fan Yongdou shook his head and said in a deep voice: "It can't be a thief, you listen to the sound outside, there is no noise, there is not even a person who shouts and screams, even the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can't do it." This group of thieves is not simple......"
Several of Fan's big shopkeepers next to them listened to Fan Yongdou's words, their faces changed at that time, and they also felt that this was the case, since they came to the front yard, they didn't hear any noisy sounds.
"Bang...... Bang ......"
Suddenly, there was a dense muffled sound in the distance, which was particularly loud in the silence of the night. Fan Yongdou and several of Fan's big shopkeepers were shocked in their hearts, it seems that the thief has a fire gun in his hand, and the sound of the fire gun is not messy, it looks very neat, at first glance, it is a well-trained salvo, and the chaotic blind play of the Ming officials and soldiers are completely different things.
"Boom ......"
Another loud bang came from a distance, and this time Fan Yongdou's hearts suddenly fell to the bottom, and the thieves still had cannons. Fan Yongdou's face was full of solemnity, with a pair of cloudy eyes, staring at the direction of the cannon fire in the distance. He couldn't figure it out. Where did this thief come out, not to mention that he was powerful, and he was so well-trained.
Not to mention the thieves, even the drills of the border army have been seen by him, compared with the thieves who entered the city today, they are also heaven and earth. Ordinary thieves or Ming soldiers. If you enter the city, you will already be in chaos, and you will only think about how to rob the silver and how to harm the women, how can you still be so quiet.
"Bang Bang...... Boom ......"
There was a neat sound in the distance, which sounded like the footsteps of many people running together, but their footsteps landed almost at the same time, and their steps were very neat.
The voice is getting closer and closer to the Fan family compound, but the people in the Fan family compound are listening. It was like a myriad of hammers hitting their chests all at once, and their hearts trembled as they almost jumped out of their chests with the sound of approaching footsteps.
"Give me the wall of the courtyard, and whoever takes the firearm will put it on me when he sees someone, and if he guards the courtyard today, he will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver per person, and the casualties will be doubled. If the thief breaks the courtyard of my Fan family. Don't even want to live, let's fight for it......"
Fan Sanba's eyes were red. Pulling his neck and roaring hoarsely, he commanded the guards of the home and the subordinates to bring a few bowl-mouth guns and tiger squat guns from the border army to the front gate, and a group of people hurriedly loaded the cannons with iron sand. There were also some guards with bows, crossbows, three-eyed guns, and bird guns, who climbed the walls and roofs of the courtyard, lit the fire ropes, and were ready to fire at any time.
The Fan family's armament is very strong. If it is an ordinary thief, it is really not easy to break the Fan family's compound. Even if it is the Ming official army, if there are no dead or injured people, they will not want to break through the Fan family compound. It's a pity that they are facing the Far Eastern Army. Although it is only a homeless person who has been trained for a few months, it may not be possible to deal with the Houjin Horse Team and the Mongolian Iron Cavalry, but it is really not a thing to deal with the Fan family compound.
Li Ming and Wang Bo led the troops to the street of the Fan family's compound and stopped. Wang Bo turned around and shouted behind him: "The sword and shield men come to the front, and the riflemen and musketeers follow, pay attention to the people on the wall, and kill him for me if you dare to take the lead." ”
A group of sword and shield hands ran up with a square shield nearly one person high, organized a shield wall, and slowly advanced towards the main gate of the Fan family's compound. Behind him were riflemen and musketeers, who followed behind the sword and shield men with their guns in hand, and the men on the outside pointed at the wall as they walked with their guns in hand.
"Bang...... Bang ......"
Several riflemen of the overseas brigade, seeing the figure on the wall, opened fire decisively, and fired out the two shotguns loaded with double-barreled shotguns, and the pieces of lead bullets swept over the sky, instantly beating several homeguard bodyguards who were preparing to sneak attack on the wall into a sieve.
Other riflemen and musketeers also opened fire, the bodyguards of the Fan family's courtyard on the wall, who were suppressed, did not even dare to lift their heads, and even jumped off the wall with rolling and climbing, and some of the guards who were seriously injured fell into the courtyard and screamed, and the mournful sound made the Fan family, who were already frightened in the courtyard, even more panicked.
The assault troops at the front of the team had already arrived in front of the main gate of the Fan family's compound, and Wang Bo shouted: "Come up from the engineer squad, blow up the door for me, the cannon of the artillery squad will be erected, and if the gate is broken, I will ......be killed."
Several soldiers of the engineer squad quickly placed a set of explosives with explosives and wire wheels, and then left the gate of Fan's house with wire wheels and ran to the street corner dozens of meters away.
At this time, the bodyguards in the Fan family's compound jumped down from the courtyard wall, and the dense firepower of the Far Eastern Army made them swept off the wall one after another before they could fire, and they had to pile up heavy objects and dirt bags in front of the gate.
Then put a few tiger squat cannons and bowls in the front yard, and many courtyard bodyguards with bows and crossbows, three-eyed guns and bird guns guarded the courtyard in front of the gate, or climbed on the roof, making a stubborn posture. But the morale of these bodyguards and subordinates is not very good, and they are all very scared.
Especially the people who were at the wall just now, they had already seen the firearms of the thieves outside the door, and the overwhelming iron swept up the wall, and some of the people who came up were beaten to a thousand holes and died a miserable death.
Fan Yongdou and several of Fan's big shopkeepers all hid in the house, lying on the edge of the window and looking at the direction of the door tremblingly. They all know that today's gang of thieves is not simple, and the Fan family's compound is afraid that it will not be able to hold it.
And Fan Sanba has fallen into a state of hysterical madness, holding a steel knife, wielding and hoarsely commanding many bodyguards to protect the courtyard, in a vain attempt to rely on the strong Fan family compound to defend until the arrival of reinforcements from foreign officers and soldiers.
"Boom ......" Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering loud bang.
The two tall main gates of the Fan family's compound were instantly blown apart, and the large stones, soil bags and logs piled up in front of the main gate were also blown up by the huge impact.
The many bodyguards and family members standing in the courtyard in front of the main gate of the Fan family's compound felt as if they had been pushed hard by a huge force, and they flew out one after another.
Immediately afterward, the people gathered in front of the door were blown away by stones and wood chips flying in all directions, and suffered heavy casualties. Even those who were not injured were so dizzy by the loud noise that they could no longer hear anything but buzzing in their ears. (To be continued......)