Chapter 194: Kill the enemy in one blow
Duan Haiping, the head of the Ten Elders of the White Lotus Sect, "Blood Sea Wanderer", rubbed his palms excitedly, waiting for the good news from more than ten miles away, from the side of the Caoyun Chief Soldier Xingyuan.
Duan Haiping couldn't wait to kill someone, his terrifying demeanor with red eyes, chapped lips, and excited walking around provoked the other White Lotus Sect disciples to secretly retreat, for fear of provoking this demon.
Just like the bloody and terrifying reputation he has spread in the rivers and lakes, he can also be regarded as the number one killer in the White Lotus Demon Sect, roaming the world for decades, killing people like hemp, and even to the point that the "Great Sage Shengde Holy and Mingshen Sect Master" has to warn him that if he wantonly kills, he will destroy the image of the White Lotus Sect.
This time, he can finally take advantage of the incident to kill justifiably, with rolling heads and rivers of blood, which is what people like him who are thirsty for killing people are looking forward to the most!
Cooing sound, from the backyard, there is a huge pigeon loft, by a special person domesticated hundreds of carrier pigeons - Yangzhou businessmen gathered, from the Yuan Dynasty there are big businessmen domesticated pigeons to pass business opportunities to various places, the White Lotus Sect of this secret agency is located not far from the Cao Gang, not only rich businessmen gathered, among which there are many carrier pigeons, even the Cao Gang general merchants also use this kind of flying creatures to transmit the news of Cao Yun, naturally no one will notice this courtyard.
Now, the thirty pigeons have been tied to a paper scroll with a secret order, once they receive the news from Master Bai, the pigeon cage will be opened immediately, and these pigeons will fly to their respective targets with the message of death, and the people of the White Lotus Sect who received the order will immediately launch it, turning the southeast half of the Zhu Ming Dynasty upside down, killing a river of blood!
The cultist who was hiding in the attic and watching the sky shouted in surprise: "Here, Big Brother Bai's dove has flown over!" β
Duan Haiping's face was overjoyed, and the master of the incense and the senior brother of the Dharma transmission also exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath that had been held in his chest for a long time: Finally, it was successful!
"Huh," the sharp-eyed believer was surprised, "how come there are three pigeons?" β
Duan Haiping's heart chuckled, and she listened attentively, but suddenly her eyes showed a fierce light, and her face became hideous.
In just a moment, the White Lotus Sect also heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves from far and near, and the secret sentry set up outside the courtyard gate also stumbled in, shouting angrily: "No, it's not good, the officers and soldiers of the puppet dynasty are here!" β
Qin Lin quickly attacked, and in an instant, the White Lotus Sect was facing the catastrophe of annihilation, Rao is murderous Duan Haiping, while he was calm, his eyes flashed with an unprecedented trace of panic.
How fast the horse team galloped, before the White Lotus Sect could react, Qin Lin had already led his troops to rush to the front of the courtyard and commanded all the officers and soldiers to besiege it.
This guy rolled his hand into a horn and put it to his mouth, and shouted: "Everyone inside, listen, you have been surrounded, there is no hope of stubborn resistance, hurry up and disarm and surrender!" Surrender leniently, resist strictly, and do not attempt in vain to challenge the iron fist of the people's dictatorship......"
Not only were the White Lotus Sect disciples inside the courtyard inexplicably surprised, but even the officers and soldiers outside were also confused, feeling that this Qin Chief was really unfathomable.
Fat Lu sneered and ripped Qin Lin's clothes: "Brother Qin, what did you just say about the iron fist?" β
Ah uh~ Qin Lin scratched his scalp, and seemed to have taken out the set of guest negotiators in the past, his old face turned red, and he quickly changed his words: "Listen to the people inside, the court is magnanimous, and now God is gracious, you can quickly abandon the secret and cast the light to be lenient, and the counterattack is even more to atone for the crime, think about yourself, don't be obsessed!" β
This time I understood it, but the effect was not ideal, and the yard shouted one after another: "Eagle Claw Sun is dreaming, the master fights one is enough to fight two and earn one!" β
Qin Lin shook his head, these brainwashed diehard cultists, it was really difficult for him to know his way back.
Don't say much, he is very chic and puts his two fingers together and faces the yard.
The Chinese officer who came with him immediately shouted in a long voice: "All bow - fly!" β
At the sound of the noisy bowstrings, hundreds of feathered arrows were shot into the courtyard from all directions with a whooshing sound, and almost at the same time the sound of snatching and grumbling could be heard from within.
The White Lotus cultists in the courtyard were even more sympathetic, they hid in the corners of the walls and under the tables, arrows flying in front of them, and they heard the sharp whistling sound of breaking through the air and the sound of snatching nails into the earthen wall or the door and table, like the baptism of a storm, and from time to time there was a tooth-aching pop sound from arrows entering the human body, and the muffled hum of the injured and the dying.
"Damn Talon Sun!" The White Lotus disciples cursed angrily.
After about five or six rounds of arrow rain, the arrows gradually did not start to be so dense - the elite soldiers used the army's strong bow to shoot more than ten arrows and their arms were sore, not to mention that Qin Lin was carrying a Cao army horse team, not a regular archer, and the rate of fire was much slower after five or six rounds.
"Brothers, follow me!" Several incense masters slammed open the door and rushed out with their waist knives raised.
The remnants of the cultists chanted "Vacuum Hometown, Childless Mother" followed, these believers were completely brainwashed diehards, even if they were seriously injured under the rain of arrows just now, they still charged fiercely with their weapons.
Qin Lin was about to order a frontal attack, but the enemy still had the courage to kill directly, he sneered: Do you still want to resist stubbornly?
Ten shotgunners lined up on horseback goose wings, while raising their guns and aiming.
Shotgun is a kind of musket that appeared in China in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
The court and the people of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to firearms, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di father and son chased the Mengyuan out of the desert in the north, and the classic tactics they relied on were "the gods and guns in the front, the horse team in the back, first with the guns to destroy the enemy's front, and then the horse team to charge the enemy formation", and then all kinds of firearms flourished.
Thirty years ago, during the Jiajing period, the Ming army captured some people who were good at making Western-style muskets in the battle to recover Shuangyu, which had been occupied by the Japanese and the Portuguese. Ma Xian, Li Huai and others learned the method of making muskets, and on the basis of them, they studied and improved, and 20 years ago they created the first batch of arquebuses in China, which were "more exquisite than the West", and the first batch of them reached 10,000, which was called "bird guns".
Shotguns are not so powerful that they can only hit birds, some people say that they get their name because the muzzle of the gun resembles a bird's beak, and some people say that this gun is extremely accurate and can hit birds, so it is called a shotgun.
In later generations, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were mostly criticized, in fact, it was not that the technology was backward, but that the system was corrupted in the last years of the dynasty, and the quality was poor due to cutting corners; In the early years of Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli, the Ming Dynasty was still quite prosperous, and the shotguns manufactured were quite sharp, Qi Jiguang in addition to the well-known mandarin duck array, in the later period, he also beat the Japanese with shotguns, and the new army of Jizhen was the large-scale use of various firearms including bird guns.
Shotguns are not as projectile as bows, so the ten shotgunners just now did not fire, lit the arquebuses and waited for the fighters.
When the White Lotus Sect rushed out from the main gate, it was the fighter plane that arrived, Qin Lin gave an order, and the shotgunners pulled the trigger together.
The copper dragon head fell into the primer pool with a sizzling burning rope, and the ignition powder was ignited instantly, and the flame passed into the chamber along the ignition hole, which immediately ignited the gunpowder, and the rapidly burning high-temperature gas pushed the lead shot along the barrel...... There was a bang, and the muzzles of the ten guns erupted with small white flowers!
The White Lotus Cultist, who was rushing in chaos with his weapons in hand, was like being hit by an invisible galloping horse, and his body fell backwards as soon as he leaned back.
Immediately, five or six White Lotus Sect disciples, including the two Incense Masters, were knocked over by this round of muskets, and the rest were also demoralized.
The spearmen stood still, and the cavalry trotted to accelerate.
The battle battle is completely different from the fighting in the rivers and lakes, the elite soldiers of the Cao army, under the leadership of the middle officer and the flag officer, launched a wave-like impact with five cavalry in a horizontal row, and the five sharp spears were neatly flat, like the fangs of a beast, which made people fearful.
The White Lotus Cultists, wielding their weapons, collapsed under the first wave of onslaught, and the cavalry scattered towards the spurs, followed by a second and third waves...... Even if the last incense master who is quite good at martial arts, he only has the opportunity to fire crossbow arrows in the first wave of impact, shoot over a cavalryman, and then lose the strength to fight back, relying on his martial arts to barely survive two or three rounds and then have no strength left, either the tendons are broken and broken by the war horse, or the spear is stabbed through the heart.
The White Lotus Sect is very powerful in playing conspiracy, assassination, and cult brainwashing, but the real sword and real gun war are still far from being compared with the imperial army.
Huo Chonglou laughed, and also wanted to rush up to show his skills, but as soon as he lifted the reins, he was stopped by Qin Lin.
"Look at Lao Huo's brain," Huo Chonglou increased his forehead with his hand, and sneered: "Killing the enemy's own soldiers, Huo Mou is of course important to protect General Qin." β
Qin Lin shook his head and looked at the courtyard with a calm expression: "Kill chickens with a knife?" This group of White Lotus Sect disciples is desperately charging, and they must be covering something, so this official expects that the big man inside has not yet appeared, and now is not the time for you to make a move. β
Oh? Huo Chonglou was overjoyed when he heard this.
As soon as the words fell, a terrible scream came from behind the courtyard!
The elite cavalry of the Cao army surrounded the courtyard, and the shouts of killing in front of them were heard endlessly, and the soldiers here were also enthusiastic, but the military order was like a mountain not to leave their posts without permission, so they anxiously carried their horses around the back door.
Suddenly, a figure flew out of the wall, and the cavalrymen were startled, and several men with bows immediately released their arrows, and those with sabers and spears also surrounded them.
In the face of the rain of guns and arrows, the man did not dodge or dodge the straight and straight pounce, and the officers and soldiers were taken aback, and said in their hearts: Isn't this a peerless master in the White Lotus Sect, what kind of King Kong does not break the body, the world is shifted, and the cultivation has reached the realm of invulnerability?
Thinking of the weirdness of the legendary White Lotus Sect, the first few cavalrymen with spears in the front were a little weak in both hands.
Unexpectedly, the feather arrow burst into this person's body, and the tip of the spear pierced through the body immediately, and the feeling from the barrel of the gun really told the cavalry that they had pierced the opponent's body.
This time, the cavalry all opened their mouths, even if the "master" of the White Lotus Sect showed his invulnerability to the world, like Zhao Zilong on the Changban Slope and Lu Fengxian under the Tiger Prison, rushed into the chaotic army and opened a killing ring, chopping melons and vegetables to kill them, and even put their hands together to put a Rulai Divine Palm or Turtle Sect Qigong, everyone would not be as inexplicably surprised as now.
Is there such a person in the world who thinks that he has a long life, jumps out and automatically hits the tip of the gun?
One of the horsemen noticed something strange and turned the tip of his spear upside down, turning the body over, only to see a feathered arrow stuck in his backβit had been killed by the first few rounds of arrows before he rushed out!
So...... Everyone knew the plan, and just as they were about to retreat, they heard a sharp and piercing laughter, like the chirping of a bird at night.
Under the dark eaves, Duan Haiping, who was wearing a purple robe, no longer hid his figure, kicked his feet violently on the rafters, and the speed of the flight was as fast as an arrow from the string, only to see a purple lightning pierce the sky, and fell on the hood of the cavalry who had gathered to check the bait dead corpse!
The cavalry were deceived by his tricks, and they didn't have time to react effectively, some people raised their spears and stabbed at the figure in the air, but Duan Haiping's body was as fast as lightning, only stabbing the afterimage behind him, and some people swept with the barrel of a gun, Duan Haiping twisted and folded in the air and didn't even touch the corners of his clothes.
The cavalry a little farther away hurriedly bent their bows and arrows, but the bait and dead corpse fork was thrown out just now, and they had already shot the arrows, so how fast was it to open the bow at this time?
It was too late, Duan Haiping had already flown into several cavalrymen, only to see that he had shaken the soft sword straight with a shake of his right hand, and when he dragged it down diagonally, he cut off the throat of the cavalry in front of him, and collided with it, and the cavalry fell off his horse in the blood mist, and he saw that he was no longer alive.
Duan Haiping sat on horseback, a cavalryman on the left was too close to hand over the spear, and was holding the reins and wanted to take two steps back, Duan Haiping lifted the reins in his left hand, and the soft sword in his right hand passed through the armpit swiftly and incoherently, stabbing into the chest of the cavalryman like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter.
The cavalry was shocked by electricity, and his body suddenly froze, Duan Haiping pulled out the soft sword with a cruel smile, bringing up a fountain of red blood, obviously the blade of the sword had pierced through his heart.
was rushed into the cavalry by Duan Haiping, like a tiger entering the flock, the sword flashed, flashed, flashed, and flashed, and every time he stabbed into the vital point of the victim at the most unexpected angle, the speed was so fast that he didn't have time to react.
I saw that the blood mist was flying and the blood fountain was gushing, and the cavalry who were caught off guard fell off their horses one after another, and they really deserved to be the "Blood Sea Wanderer" and the first killing star of the Ten Elders of the White Lotus Sect.
Duan Haiping's face was covered with the blood of the souls of the dead under his hands, and her purple robe was soaked in blood into a strange dark purple, as if there were countless souls wrapped around her.
He laughed loudly, grabbed a killed cavalryman in his left hand and held it in front of him to block the arrows, and rode his horse to charge towards several cavalrymen who were a little farther away.
Seeing that Duan Haiping was about to come out of the formation, he looked back at the front of the courtyard, secretly thinking that he would have to take revenge in the future, and find out who was the official who presided over the round-up, and he would definitely kill his whole family to vent his anger.
"Old man, this is leaving?" There was a person standing on the roof on the right side of the front, although the voice was not loud, there was a faint sound of gold and stone: "With my old Huo here, you just stay obediently!" β
Duan Haiping was shocked, threw down the dead body of the cavalry, slapped the saddle with one palm, and his body flew down towards the roof on the left, and sneered while still in the air: "Your subordinates are defeated, and you dare to speak out?" β
The enemy's eyes were very red when he saw him, Huo Chonglou didn't answer, he rubbed his body with both hands with his mighty eagle claw skill, and his scorched nails drew a claw shadow in the air.
Duan Haiping didn't dare to slack off, and used his housekeeping skills Qingping swordsmanship, a soft sword was made by him to be superb, and even the sword turned into a ball of clear light, and Huo Chonglou sacrificed his life to fight.
Both of them can be regarded as the top figures in the rivers and lakes, this ruthless fight is really powerful, I saw Huo Chonglou's claws and shadows, dignified as a mountain, Duan Haiping's sword flew brightly, weird and vicious, and they fought in a short time.
The cavalry gradually surrounded, all wanting to avenge the slain comrades, but to rush over to hand-to-hand combat, people fought on the roof, the horses couldn't jump up, and I was afraid that the fighting was not a level of opponents, but caused chaos to Huo Chonglou; Let's release the arrow, Huo Chonglou and Duan Haiping sacrificed their lives and forgot to die in a bitter battle, maybe an arrow didn't hit Duan Haiping, but accidentally injured Huo Chonglou, isn't it wrong?
Huo Chonglou also knew the trick here, so he didn't relax under his hands, and he was pressing, wanting to make Duan Haiping expose his flaws under the strong enemy, and capture him under his claws, which was a shame.
Unexpectedly, Duan Haiping was not afraid of danger, but became more and more courageous the more he fought, the soft sword danced through the wind and rain, Huo Chonglou was eager for meritorious service, and he was sold a flaw to enter the middle palace, and the sword blade cut a bloody hole on the back of his hand.
Qin Lin had already swept the White Lotus Sect in front of him, and led all the officers and soldiers to chase him to the backyard, and was taken aback when he saw this situation: "Damn, Lao Tzu wanted to capture him alive, but it seems that he had to ...... it."
As soon as he gave the order, the shotgunmen immediately dispersed and lined up, pointed their guns at the roof, and then shouted: "Old Huo, get out of the way, I'll deal with this person!" β
Huo Chonglou had also seen the Shenji Battalion training in the Beijing Division, and he was no stranger to firearms, but the Franc machine and the general cannon and the three-eyed gun used by the Shenji Battalion were not as accurate and convenient as the shotgun, so he hesitated.
Duan Haiping was a little weak when he saw the shotgun, he was a southerner, and the Zhejiang soldiers had been using the shotgun for 20 years, and he had heard of the power of this weapon, but this thing had not been circulated among the people, and he had no way of knowing the specifics.
Taking advantage of Huo Chonglou's distraction to talk to Qin Lin, Duan Haiping brushed a few swords and forced him to hurry, and then tried to jump out of the circle.
"Fell!" Qin Lin waved his hand downward.
Although the shotgunners didn't understand what Fair meant, they also understood that they were telling them to fire, so they immediately pulled the trigger, and the ten guns were aimed at Duan Haiping on the roof.
I could only hear the sound of ping-pong gunshots, and Duan Haiping, who was still showing off her martial arts just now, exploded several blood holes on her body, like a kite with a broken string planted from the roof, struggling twice with her hands and feet, spitting out a mouthful of dirty blood, and seeing that she was no longer alive.
Huo Chonglou, who was a foot away from Duan Haiping, was frightened, and hurriedly touched whether he had been shot, and found that there was no wound before he calmed down, still surprised: Twenty years of fame in the rivers and lakes, Duan Haiping, the head of the Ten Elders of the White Lotus Sect and the "Blood Sea Wanderer" who had killed countless people, was killed by such a few shotguns? I can't even resist!
Qin Lin searched the corpse and took out a anemone from Duan Haiping's body, and he laughed strangely: "Wow, ha, ha, ha, ha, you have magic skills, I have a shotgun!" β
(To be continued)