Chapter Seventy-Four: Head to Head (2)

"President, do you want to inform Governor Uki and ask him to send the defenders of the castle to act together?" Yoshino asked again.

"No, this time I'm going to use our Koga ninjas to completely wipe out this group of Nishiki Guards. Based on my understanding of them, according to the normal staffing, the Jinyi Guards in the Yamen of the Ming Dynasty stationed in North Korea will command no more than 50 people at most. With the strength of nearly 300 of my Koga ninjas in the city, it is completely possible to destroy them cleanly. There's no need for Mayuki-sama anymore. Ichiro Sugitani said lightly.

The reason why Sugitani Ichiro didn't want to use the Japanese defenders in the city was because of his own considerations. First of all, judging from Pyongyang's first confrontation with the Ming Jinyiwei, the effect of using the army against this group of cunning Ming spies is not obvious;

Secondly, there were many armies belonging to the daimyo from all over the country stationed in this city, and before Guanbai unified the various parts of the country, they were actually in a state of competition for hegemony with each other. Although they have now all returned to Guanbai, they are not united with each other, and sometimes they will fight each other. Using them may not have a good effect;

Third, since the Koga ninja led by him set foot on the Korean mainland, although they have played a certain role in the Japanese army's siege of the city, they have all made wedding clothes for others.

For the Koga ninja who is entrusted by Sekihaku, this time Sugitani Ichiro wants his team to have a beautiful annihilation battle alone, completely eliminating the hidden dangers of this royal capital, so as to further stabilize the position of Koga ninja in Sekihaku's heart.

In Tongfu Ju, after Fang Shan's door went out and returned to his room, Luo Shiyin himself also chose a Wansheng Fulang machine, and then instructed Shi Lang to distribute the remaining guns in the box to each team member.

This Victorious Franc machine is actually an improved hand-fired firearm - a repeating arquebus, commonly known as a crutch gun. It is a small prototype Franc with a crank, 37.5 cm long, using a loading method similar to that of large and medium Franc machines, and can fire three shots in a row with a range of 150 meters.

Shi Tianji got this extremely powerful Wansheng Franc Machine, and immediately happily compared with Xie Yuan.

Li Ruzhu also got one, and after listening to Shi Lang introduce him to the performance, power and use of this firearm, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: I can't imagine that the weapons of the suzerainty are so advanced, but the army of our state is still in the era of big swords and spears!

When Ye Ruliu organized the rebel army to resist the Japanese on the southeast coast, she had seen the bird gun used by the Japanese Koukou, which was not much different from the launch principle of the Wansheng Franc machine, so after Shi Lang's brief introduction, she quickly mastered the use of the Wansheng Franc machine in her hand.

It's been nearly five watches.

Almost all of the guests were asleep. The hall on the first floor of the entire inn was empty and quiet. A few night rats crept out of the hole in the corner, and when they looked around alertly, they quickly dispersed to find the scraps that had fallen from the guests on the ground during their dinner, and two of them were biting at snatching a few grains of rice scattered on the ground.

"It's on fire!"

Suddenly, a frightened cry came from a room on the second floor, and several rats who were stealing food were disturbed by the shouts and burrowed into the cracks in the wall in panic.

One after another, guests quickly dressed themselves from their rooms and came to the hallway. Smoke was already billowing from the hallway, and it was impossible to see which room the fireworks were coming from.

Panic began to spread among the guests, and the instinctive reaction was to desperately squeeze up the stairs in a vain attempt to descend to the first floor and rush out of the inn.

Luo Shiyin and others were also crowded onto the stairs by the crowd. Shi Lang, Shi Tianji, Ye Ruliu, Fang Shan, and others gathered around Luo Shiyin in case of accidents.

Suddenly, Shi Lang's eyes found that a man wearing a gray shoulder was squeezing through the crowd from behind, quickly approaching Luo Shiyin, and when he was about to approach Luo Shiyin, a short knife suddenly appeared in the man's right hand, and with the help of the power of his body rushing forward, he stabbed Luo Shiyin fiercely.

Just as the short knife was about to stab Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang was quick with his hand, grabbed the man's wrist with one hand, twisted it hard, and smoothed the man into his arms, and then pressed the opponent's handle with his other hand, returned his arms, and stabbed the man's short knife into his own heart.

"Ahh With a scream, Shi Lang had already thrown the man down the stairs.

"Murdered!"

When someone saw the scene just now, they couldn't help but exclaim loudly. There was a commotion on the stairs. People scrambled downstairs.

Shi Tianji had to turn his body sideways and resist the crowd surging down above, so as not to let Luo Shiyin in front of him be squeezed down by the crowd swarming down. Just as he turned around, he suddenly noticed a person jumping up from behind the railing on the second floor, and the person waved a ninja knife with both hands, and slashed at Luo Shiyin, who was about to walk to the first floor.

Shi Tianji wanted to jump up on the spot to intercept the assassin, but his body was crushed by the guests crowded down above, and he couldn't move at all.

The Assassin was seen flying past him in the air and slashing at Luo Shiyin. In a hurry, Shi Tianji wanted to shout to remind Shi Lang and the others below, but before he could shout, he only heard a loud "bang", and the square handle that followed Luo Shiyin raised the Wansheng Fulang machine in his hand and shot the assassin who had already killed behind Luo Shiyin.

The powerful impact of the projectile fired by the Victorious Franc machine sent the assassin in the air, and his whole body immediately fell backwards, stabbing obliquely to a square table downstairs, smashing the square table to pieces.

"Protect your lords!" Coming to the hall on the first floor, Shi Lang lowered his voice and commanded Shi Tianji, Fang Shan, and the others.

The panicked people screamed and rushed out of the inn gates. But before they could stand firm outside the door, they saw a little cold light flash in the night sky, and countless ninja shurikens of different shapes shot out from the tall buildings on all sides, knocking down these guests who rushed to the door first.

The guests inside the inn didn't figure out what was going on, and there were still people rushing out the door desperately. With a series of screams, all the people who rushed out of the door were killed by darts.

"My lord, it looks like we're surrounded." Fang Handle said to Luo Shiyin with a stern expression.

"Don't panic, let's look around and choose the opportunity to break through." Luo Shiyin ordered calmly.

Fang Handle looked around and noticed that the darts outside were being fired from the surrounding buildings, and he said in a loud voice, "Shi Qianhu, you are here to protect your lordship." Shang Ji, Wu Huan, Yan Bahe, Lou Dahe, the four of you come with me! Fang Handle instructed Shi Lang, and then led the four subordinates he brought to quickly rush to the second floor.

With a few gestures from the square handle, Shang Ji, Wu Huan, Yan Bahe, and Lou Dahe rushed into the middle room in the four directions of southeast, south, and northwest respectively with thick smoke, and opened the window. Then, from the backpack behind them, they took out an explosive device called the Divine Fire Raven.

"Ready!" A sonorous voice came from all four rooms almost simultaneously.

"Okay, keep an eye on the target, launch!" Fang Shan, who was standing at the top of the stairs on the second floor, heard a shout from inside the room, and immediately commanded in a loud voice.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." With four sharp whistles, four Divine Fire Crows shot out from the four windows of the Tongfu Inn, flying towards the windows of the four tall buildings around the inn at an extremely fast speed.

"Boom-boom-boom-boom-" only four huge explosions were heard, and the fire flashed in the building, and the ninja who was hiding in the building throwing darts screamed and was blown out of the window.

Similar to the current gliding bomb, the Crow is made of thin bamboo or reeds, filled with gunpowder, and two "fire" (booster rockets) are installed on each side of the crow's body, and the bottom of the "fire" cartridge is connected to the gunpowder wire in the crow's body. During the battle, the crow is shot 100 zhang away with the thrust of "fire", and when the crow lands, the gunpowder contained inside it will be ignited and exploded.

This Divine Fire Flying Crow belonged to the firearms equipped by the Ming Army at that time, and it was one of the more convenient to use. Originally, the Jinyi Guard's command yamen stationed in Korea was not equipped with this kind of firearms, but a few days ago, in order to be able to prepare for the Ming army's attack on Wang Jing in the future, Fang Handle and others managed to secretly transport a batch of advanced firearms from China, including this divine fire flying crow.

"Get out!" The explosion of the Divine Fire Crow sounded, and Luo Shiyin on the first floor immediately commanded loudly.

The team members and Luo Shiyin at the scene put on hoods and rushed out of the door.

Seeing that someone took the lead in rushing out, the guests in the inn also followed behind him and rushed out together. Fang Shantou and five others also jumped from the second floor and came to the door.

"My lord, come with me!" Fang Handle ran to Luo Shiyin and said. Then, he vigorously pushed away the two panicked businessmen who were blocking in front of him, and led Luo Shiyin and the others to rush towards an alley to the north.

As soon as everyone ran a few steps, they heard the sound of crossbows on the tall buildings around the inn, and several giant crossbows roared down from the windows of the tall buildings, each with a rope attached to the tail.

With a few dull sounds, the giant crossbow was nailed into the wall of the Tongfu Inn. Immediately afterwards, dozens of ninjas armed with sharp blades slid from the high-rise building to the ground with ropes in their hands, tightly surrounding Luo Shiyin and the others.

"Luo Shiyin, you have been surrounded, and today you are unable to escape. It's better to lay down your weapons and be captured. The speaker was none other than Yoshino in a tight black ninja suit.

"Kill!" Luo Shiyin ignored Yoshino's threats and ordered in a loud voice.

"Bang, bang, bang......" Eleven Wansheng Franc machines fired at the same time, instantly knocking down the Japanese ninjas who were surrounding in front.

Fang Handle led five of his subordinates to wave the embroidered spring knives in their hands and took the lead in rushing into the enemy group on the north side.

Shi Lang, Ye Ruliu, Shi Tianji, and Li Ruzhu surrounded Luo Shiyin and Xie Yuan's bodies, protecting the two of them, and rushed north behind Fang Shan.

When the knife rose and fell, I saw flesh and blood flying everywhere, and corpses were everywhere.

Luo Shiyin and the others opened a bloody road, and they were about to approach the mouth of the alley north of the inn.

At this moment, in a high-rise building not far away, the window was slowly opened, and a Japanese iron cannon (bird gun) protruded from it. The man who wielded the gun was none other than Ichiro Sugitani.

Ichiro Sugitani took advantage of the moonlight to lean down and watch the fierce fighting crowd below. Seeing that the other party's personnel were tightly guarding one person in the middle, he immediately concluded: This person was Luo Shiyin, the commander of the Ming Jinyi Guard. After pinpointing the location of Luo Shiyin, Ichiro Sugitani aimed his gun at Luo Shiyin, who was fighting with his palm, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

Shi Tianji, who was fighting, only felt that a flame light shot out from a tall building, heading straight for Luo Shiyin in front of him. He didn't think about it at all, and flew towards Luo Shiyin.

Shi Tianji only felt that he had suffered a heavy blow to his left shoulder, and a lead shot from a Japanese iron cannon hit his left shoulder blade, and blood immediately flowed down the torn part of his clothes.

"Your grandma's!" Shi Tianji didn't care about the pain, waved the iron wedge in his right hand, and stabbed a ninja with a ninja knife into the head of his own and smashed it.

Shi Lang saw all the scenes just now, and he immediately judged that the target of the shooter was Luo Shiyin. In desperation, he waved the Wansheng Franco machine in his hand, pointed to the window where Ichiro Sugitani was, and pulled the trigger.

As the gun rang out in Shi Lang's hand, a flame shot towards the window where Ichiro Sugitani was.

Sugitani Ichiro saw that something was wrong, and in desperation, he had to throw away the bird gun in his hand and lean back to avoid the oncoming projectile. The projectile almost grazed the tip of his nose, knocking one of the ninjas behind him to the ground. Ichiro Sugitani suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.