readx;??? When the Imperial Garden stewards and eunuchs with hoes and shovels arrived to dig out all the dragoons buried in the tunnel, most of them had already lost their breath, and only one who was extremely lucky was isolated in a fairly strong tunnel and not buried. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After a little cleanup, Russell specially caught ten people among the soldiers of the Annam Forbidden Army who were watching next to him, and asked them to open the way in front with torches, and the Medeno dragoons with pistols and daggers followed behind, the Medeno people who chose this time are all slightly shorter, about 1.6 meters, such a height can also wear helmets, in case they encounter the enemy at close range, those who have helmets during the fight still have to take advantage. However, after only advancing more than thirty meters, the second mine planted by the new army immediately made them understand that the helmet was useless in the face of the explosion.

The position of the second grenade is very bad, it will be lit by a thin bamboo tube, this thin bamboo tube almost two meters long perfectly covers the fire of the fuse, the fuse transmits the countdown of death to the rear of the direction of travel, the grenade is also in a small hole in the wall with the fuse pulled diagonally above, once the fuse is ignited, the grenade about the size of the lead ball of the old time and space will roll down to the ground, and then quickly explode. Although the explosive power of these grenades loaded with black powder was not large, in this narrow passage, the shock wave was able to vibrate back and forth for a short time, and with nowhere to dodge, the explosion of the second grenade successfully sent the three or four Medeno dragoons who were on guard behind them quickly to the western sky, and at the same time succeeded in causing the collapse of the tunnel again. This time, Russell was not swept away by the air flow from the entrance of the cave again, he stood aside very predictably, watching the two soldiers who were rushed out of the cave at the same time.

"General, what should I do?" The attendant on the side hurriedly asked, Russell was also at a loss at this time, he had never fought such a battle with such an enemy. The soldiers he sent in were all veterans with rich combat experience, whether they were riding horses or on foot, they were all veterans of combat, not to mention that most of them were the elite who survived a hundred battles, and these people were sent to the front as scouts when they fought in peacetime, and now this enemy Mao has not seen a single one, and more than 20 have died, what a sinister enemy this must be?

"What else can I do? Keep getting people out and send them again! Russell's face was blue and white for a while, and he didn't want to send his own people to death again, but now that there were so many dead and wounded, if it was like that, where would the face of the elite Marine Dragoons of Medeno be put in the future? What's more, I haven't even seen the face of the enemy until now, and this is the first time I have encountered such a sinister and cunning enemy. There was also a thought in his heart that he wanted to win back face in front of these enemies, you know, as a soldier, especially as the elite of Medeno, where can he swallow this breath?

It took about half an hour for the stewards and eunuchs of the Imperial Garden to dig out the people who were buried inside, except for the two soldiers of the Annam Forbidden Army who were frightened at the front and the three or four dragoons who were blown up at the back, the people buried in the middle section were either dragoons or the Annam Forbidden Army, and there was no survivor anyway.

At this time, the Annan people who still dared to watch the excitement on the side had already run away, and no one wanted to be caught by the next one to open the way, and even the forbidden army responsible for escorting these eunuchs to work had gone.

"This general!" A eunuch in his forties approached, "There's someone here who wants to talk to the general." ”

Russell turned his head, and in the distance there was another eunuch in his forties, also in his forties, with a hoe in his hand, looking at this side with trepidation. "What's the matter? Speak quickly. ”

"General!" The eunuch hurriedly nodded and leaned over, "Why didn't the general let the soldiers use the lanterns to open the way?" ”

This immediately woke Russell awake, and his men all lit torches into it, and the narrow places where the flame of the torches was very low, and it was easy to light the fuse that was buried at the top of the aisle—people rarely keep an eye on what was above their heads while traveling. If you change to a lantern, not only is it easier to illuminate, but it will also not light the inconspicuous fuse above your head, which is naturally much safer.

He immediately ordered the eunuch to look for the lantern, which was easy to find in the palace, but when the lantern arrived, Russell found that he could not find the Annam who was opening the way in front. "What about Annanbing? Why is there not a single Annan soldier? ”

"General, the forbidden army has now gone to the inner library to protect and count." A little eunuch hurriedly reported, but once again woke up Russell, he came to Hue thousands of miles to seize the emperor's wealth, how could he be so bombed twice and put the cart before the horse? He almost jumped to his feet and shouted at the herald beside him: "Hurry up and assemble in one row and two platoons!" Go to the inner library! Protect the property inside! Three rows! You're in charge of cleaning up and searching here! ”

"General! In what direction is the inner library in? The commander of the first and second platoons hurriedly asked, leaving Carlos Russell dumbfounded, as soon as they entered the palace, they were brought here, and the terrain of the palace was unfamiliar, so they didn't know where to go at all.

"General, the little one knows where." The little eunuch on the side had excellent eyesight, and at a glance, he knew that these armor-piercing Maidno soldiers and the Annanites would definitely not be able to pee in the same pot, and let them fight, so they would have their own benefit. Sure enough, as he thought, Russell nodded immediately, "Okay, you lead the way, if you can arrive in time, you will be counted as a great merit, and you will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver!" ”

A little eunuch in the palace is just one or two taels of silver a month, here just lead a road there are fifty taels of silver, the little eunuch smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum, and hurriedly took a row of more than 70 people to run in the direction of the inner library.

When the dragoons arrived at the gate of the Inner Library, there were already more than fifty forbidden soldiers guarding the gate of the courtyard of the Inner Library with weapons, and when they saw the more than seventy Dragoons of Medeno rushing towards them, they didn't know what was going on at the moment. However, the duty was that they could not put these Medenor people in, and immediately blocked the door, shouting: "Stop! This is the important military state of Annam! No entry allowed! ”

With a loud bang, many of Medeno's dragoons had already drawn their pistols, some even dual-wielding, some in the back holding spears, some carrying flare-mouth smoothbore guns, and directly pointed at the black hole muzzle at the forbidden army blocking the gate.

The soldiers of the Forbidden Army are stupid, isn't this a friendly army? Why are you suddenly at gunpoint? The Mederno dragoons have long been known for their ability to move quickly on horseback in battle, allowing them to break through the enemy's weak defenses as quickly as possible, and to fight immediately and directly as infantry on the ground. This dragoon's firearms and equipment are very elite - by the standards of this time and space, they have made great contributions to the siege of the Barbarian trading post in Nicaea City and the subsequent large-scale counteroffensive, these forbidden troops know very well in their hearts, they just fled from the Barbarian army when they invaded the north, and they did not even have the idea of resisting, these people in front of them have done it against the Nanban with real swords and guns, and they are definitely not the opponent of the Dragoons.

"Everyone, don't be impatient!" An official from the household department hurriedly ran over, his hands dancing wildly, "Don't get excited! He ran to the Medeno people and saluted repeatedly: "You guest troops are here, and it is hard to come from afar, why don't you go to the side with this official and rest for a while?" I'm still waiting to open the door of the inner library. ”

The door of the inner library is still locked at this time, because this is the emperor's treasure cave, it is said that there are a thousand days to be a thief, there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, so the gate of the inner library is set up with several large locks, the siege team of the forbidden army hit the gate of the inner library for half an hour and did not open the door, so it was changed to hit the wall, but after the collision found that there was a layer of iron plate inside the wall, it was useless at all, and at the moment I could only call someone to ask who knew how to open the door among the captured eunuchs. As soon as the front foot left here, the back foot Medenor dragoons arrived, and directly took out their weapons, as if they would not give up if they did not take over the inner library.

No one knows how much silver there is in the silver treasury, but as the Emperor of Annam, how can Nguyen Phuc Nguyen have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in his inner treasury, right? The Medno people have never done loss-making business, and the reason why they came day and night was to seize Annam's inner treasury, you must know that just supporting this rebellion has already invested tens of thousands of taels in advance in the activity funds, and after sending the descendants of Lê, the spokesperson of Annam, to Hue, they also need to pay 150,000 taels to the Annam army as military expenses to attack the port of the East. It is really not easy to allocate this money, and the best way is to take it out directly from the purse of the former emperor of Annam, so that not only do the Maidno people not need to take a penny, but also make a small profit, and they can also use the money of the Annamite people to let the Annamite people shed their own blood, and they only need to reap the profits of the fishermen.

But the Annam bureaucrats have long been eyeing this silver, and the emptiness of the Annam treasury is known to the world, when Nguyen Phuc Yuan was still on the throne, the six ministries often fought for the money in the treasury, crying poor in front of the emperor, and their eyes were staring at the silver in the inner treasury, all thinking of taking out the silver in the emperor's inner treasury and squandering it. Now that he has taken the risk of being beheaded by the whole world, he has pulled the emperor off his horse, how can he hand over the silver in the inner treasury to the Medeno people to squander? I am absolutely unwilling to make wedding clothes for others!

First of all, I thought of dragging the people of Mednor in the imperial garden, and let them tinker for a while, and then hurry out to move the silver, as much as they could, who knows how many hours later, even the door will not be opened. And I don't know how these Maidno people received the wind, they have already arrived, and they can only see the tricks at the moment, and they will talk about it first.

"This is Lai's silver! Of course, our Mederno dragoons will be present when it is opened! How can you open it quietly," shouted the platoon commander of the dragoons, who accused the Annan officials whose faces were red and white.

"This little general! This silver was stolen from the treasury of Annan by the traitor Nguyen Phuc Yuan, and the people of Annan are not living like fire and water, we must rely on this silver to save the lives of all the people! Tobe Shangshu hurriedly explained, but he always felt that his face was feverish.

"I don't care! We are ordered from above to protect this silver from being violated, and even if we die, we will not let a penny of silver slip out of it, and prepare for battle! With the order of the platoon commander, the dragoons next to him picked up the weapons in their hands.

"Nonsense! This is the imperial palace of my Annam, in the territory of my Annam, do you dare to make a second? Zuo Xiang was originally annoyed by this group of obstructions, and finally broke them open but could not open the door of the silver vault, and now saw that the dragoons of the Medeno people were actually ready to make a move in front of him, and immediately shouted, "Come on! ”

At this time, two or three hundred Annam Forbidden troops poured out of the courtyard of the inner treasury, it turned out that in order to protect the silver treasury Annam bureaucrats had already mobilized several hundred troops to prepare here, and now when they saw that the Maidno people were going to move roughly, they simply showed their muscles at the moment.

The forbidden army is the most well-equipped and best-trained army in the Annam army, and this group of soldiers is the personal soldiers of the commander-in-chief of the northern and southern battalions of the forbidden army. The weapons held by these soldiers were completely different from those of the box army, most of them were steel knives and sharp steel spears in their hands, and there were also many soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, who were holding Shenji weapons in their hands - although they were only weapons such as three-eyed guns, they would not necessarily suffer if they fought at this close range.

Seeing that the battle was about to break out, someone shouted in the distance: "Put down your weapons!" Everyone was stunned, put down the weapons in their hands, and turned their heads to see that it was Carlos Russell. He rushed over immediately after hearing that he was blocked by the forbidden army outside the door of the silver vault, and when he saw that the battle had not yet started, he also sighed at the moment, but fortunately there was no fight. This silver is important, but what is more important is to wait for the Annan soldiers to go to the soup for them, if you kill you for the silver today, what name will you use to drive this group of Annan people to death in the future? Silver is actually nothing, anyway, the Merdeno merchants are very good at playing tricks, and if they really don't get it, there is always a way to get it back from the negotiating table.

"In this way, since some of the silver in it comes from the treasury of Annan, then the silver that is opened will belong to the Annan household department, and the rest will be handed over to the prince of the Li family as it is, right?" Russell immediately came up with a compromise with a turn of his head. The two sides argued for another half an hour, and finally passed the resolution.

Several eunuchs in charge of the keys to the treasury finally arrived late, and under the urging of a group of people, they reluctantly took out the key, but they deduced that the key was problematic and could not be opened. Russell was already furious, and immediately pulled out a dagger and directly stabbed to death a eunuch who refused to open the door, which frightened the rest of the eunuchs, and hurriedly divided them by two, and took out the keys one after another, and several people worked together to finally open the six or seven locks of the silver vault, and twisted many hidden mechanisms, with a creaking sound, the heavy door of the silver vault was finally pushed open.