(Maopu Chinese) A few days before the Qingming Festival, it is the peak period for Haishan people to worship the mountain and sweep the tomb.

On such days, of course, it is the most prosperous season for He Xiaojun's restaurant, these days, He Xiaojun almost doesn't even have time to sleep, and he pounces on the work of making siu-mei.

Moreover, after this period of market investigation and the number of orders, seeing that a stove could no longer meet the needs of the market, He Xiaojun and Da Niu hurriedly started to add a "ground hearth" for barbecue in the yard.

On the day of the Qingming Festival, the restaurant ushered in the peak period of "siu-mei" sales.

Although the custom in most places in Haishan is to sweep the tomb before the Qingming Festival, there are also a few places where the custom is to sweep the tomb on the day of the Qingming Festival.

Because many people concentrated on this day to sweep the tomb, He Xiaojun and the roast mei in their restaurant exploded in orders on the day of the Qingming Festival, and he had to start the preliminary work of the siu mei on the day of the Qingming Festival two days in advance.

On this day, He Xiaojun took advantage of the time when there were no guests on weekdays and worked until five o'clock in one go, before he could marinate and dry 20 suckling pigs and more than 70 geese.

When He Xiaojun breathed a sigh of relief and was about to wash his hands, he began to prepare for the evening business, when a strange noise came, so that he didn't even have time to wipe his hands, so he hurriedly rushed to the top floor of the restaurant to watch what was happening.

It turned out that He Xiaojun, who had just finished the drying work, heard two "pop, pop, pop" three blasting sounds.

Recently, due to the frequent number of tomb sweepers, the sound of artillery battles has been heard every day, so when he first heard these three sounds, He Xiaojun didn't feel anything abnormal at first, just thought that it was a tomb sweeper who set off the cannonballs.

However, He Xiaojun felt strange when he came back to his senses, the general artillery battles were burned in a row, and only children played with them, and they would be burned individually. And now at this time, the children have already gone home to eat, so why is there a single sound of cannonballs? And, at this time when it's getting late?

He Xiaojun's curiosity has not yet fallen, and the continuous explosions that follow seem to be specially designed to relieve his doubts.

However, although this continuous blasting sound made He Xiaojun sure that it was not the sound of an artillery battle, it also shocked him. Because, although the blasting sound is continuous, it is definitely not emitted by the artillery of the whole company, because this blasting sound is irregular.

He Xiaojun, who was born as a military fan and had experienced real guns, immediately distinguished that the blasting sound was gunshot.

It's been more than half a year since I came to the county, except for the day when I competed with Hu Feng in the police station, I haven't heard a gunshot, what is this gunshot?

Moreover, the place where the gunshots came from is not far from He Xiaojun's restaurant, and it should be no more than a few hundred meters away.

There was a gunshot near the restaurant, and He Xiaojun, as one of the bosses, of course, had to figure out what was going on, so he rushed to the top floor of his restaurant as soon as possible to take a look.

He Xiaojun's small restaurant was a popular three-story building in the county at that time, and it was the same height as the surrounding buildings. However, the place where the gunfire came from was at the junction of the west of the city and the suburbs of the city, and it came from the only stone bridge that entered the city from the west of the city.

The garrison of the city had a guard at every entrance to the city.

The garrison guard post on the west side of the city is set up on a large banyan tree not far from the bridge head of the city on the stone slab bridge that enters the city in the west of the city.

He Xiaojun, who is not very familiar with the garrison, knows that there are two soldiers on duty in each squad at the sentry here. At this time, the gunshots like fried beans were fired from the other side of the seventy or eighty-meter-long stone slab bridge towards the position of the garrison sentry.

The small building of He Xiaojun's restaurant has a terrace of more than ten square meters on the roof. The sundeck was made of cement by the original owner. For the sake of beauty, the original owner also made a hollow fancy with some ceramic pieces on the low wall facing the sundeck. Now, He Xiaojun is looking through those hollow places to observe the situation in the place where the gunshots came from.

When He Xiaojun saw it, he was immediately startled by the scene in front of him. Because, when he saw the person who fired his gun at the garrison sentry, it was actually a black one.

At some point, on the outskirts of the city, a ring-shaped military position was built with sacks containing unknown things, and no less than 30 people fired at the garrison's sentry post.

The men who had shot at the garrison were surrounded by a large crowd of people who were discussing something. In addition to this large group of people, there are many people scattered around this group of people. Some of them were sitting on the ground resting, some fiddling with their weapons, as if they were ready to go into battle at any moment.

The people on the other side of the bridge, He Xiaojun made a rough visual inspection, and estimated that there were more than two hundred.

On the side of the garrison's sentry, under such a dense attack, there has been no response, and I don't know what the condition of the garrison soldiers in the sentry post is? Whether they were injured or killed.

Due to the large number of people who shot guns, it took him time to blink, and He Xiaojun estimated that the other party had fired more than 100 bullets.

Judging from the clothes and mixed weapons of the group of people who shot at the garrison sentry, plus the situation of those who dared to shoot at the garrison, He Xiaojun estimated that the other party should be bandits.

What surprised He Xiaojun was, how did the bandits come from such a big battle? Not only are there a lot of them, but there are also a lot of guns, and the bullets are better shot like water without money.

When He Xiaojun was in Chen Village, he had learned about the situation of bandits in the county from Squad Leader Liu, and he didn't seem to have heard of such a large gang of bandits with so many weapons in the territory of Haishan.

Now, where did such a group of bandits come from? Moreover, how are the two sentry posts on the garrison side doing now?

Soon, He Xiaojun's suspicions were solved.

Among the bandits on the other side of the river, after seeing so many shots fired by their own side, and the garrison sentry did not listen to the bandits' shouting, He Xiaojun couldn't help but be stunned.

In He Xiaojun's memory, all the information he had come into contact with showed that the county seat of Haishan had never been attacked by bandits. As for the county seat of the neighboring county, there is information that it was once occupied by bandits, and even the county magistrate was kidnapped by the bandits, and the information shows that the bandits who broke through the county seat of the neighboring county were a gang called "Black Tiger Village".

In other words, half of the bandits' shouting across the river should be true, but the incident of attacking Ningcheng is not recorded in history, and it is my own memory that is wrong? Or is the documentation incomplete? Perhaps the trajectory of history has changed?

However, these doubts only flashed in He Xiaojun's mind, because he had no time to care about these doubts now, and he had to think about how to face the sudden situation in front of him.

If the bandits attack the city, their own business will definitely be affected, and since the location of the restaurant is the first to bear the brunt, maybe the first target of the bandits after entering the city is their own restaurant.

The restaurant, but it is the lifeblood of the present in this other world, and it is a springboard for the future, of course, it must not suffer any mistakes. Therefore, He Xiaojun had to turn his mind and analyze the current situation.

Depending on the situation, the bandits on the river did not lie, they really had more than two hundred people and more than a hundred guns. The garrison of the county seat, full of battles, only had more than 30 people and more than 30 guns. As for the police station in the county seat, according to He Xiaojun's understanding from Hu Feng, it is only more than 20 people with seven or eight guns, with the strength of the military and police in the city, can it resist four times more bandits than his side? Cat flutter Chinese