157. Heavenly Fury
"You're all thieves!" Such a sound came from the house, and more and more villagers flocked to it, both to help and to see the excitement.
The yard of this foot shop was not small, but the so-called yard was not fenced, but only blocked by a fence, so a group of people soon gathered in front of the house, and the number was only nearly a hundred, most of them were young men with knives and guns.
"That's it." Zhou Quan nodded to the people next to him.
Li Bao raised his hand and threw a torch out, not only him, but more than a dozen torches in the room were thrown into the pile of obstacles.
The corner of the hill leader's mouth sneered, what is the use of this fire, they have already attacked it before the fire stops.
He didn't know that in the house, all the teenagers were squatting on the ground under the leadership of Zhou Quan, and the Chase Shop had already been demolished, and now it was also used to erect and block everyone's heads.
Just as the villagers rushed to the front of the house, behind them, among the inconspicuous obstacles, there was a sudden earth-shattering roar!
The pungent smell of gunpowder smoke rushed quickly as a huge fireball soared into the air, and the huge wind blew all the sand and rocks in front of the foot shop!
The explosion like a thunderbolt on a sunny day quieted down the entire Lashan Village, and the next moment, with the help of the firelight, everyone saw a huge black pit in front of the foot shop.
The nearly 100 people who originally gathered in front of the foot shop are now only about 20 left, and they are all disgraced. As for the rest, they were either scorched and blackened, or they had narrowly escaped death, and they were covered in blood, and the whole person stayed there, or lay on the ground, completely confused.
Including the hill leader who was ordered by Shi He to guard the cottage, none of them were spared!
Although the power of black powder at this time is really not flattering, but the four medicine bags totaling more than 100 catties, mixed with gravel and broken iron, exploded in a densely populated place, and the lethality is still considerable.
At the beginning, it was planned to break into Lashanzhai and how to cause as many casualties as possible to the enemy, but everyone was at a loss, but Duan Tong, who was newly joined, put forward his suggestion.
With gunpowder!
Diqiu had enough gunpowder, and after sending someone to ride to fetch it, he divided it into different bags, and then packed it in a bamboo tube, and hid it in everyone's bags. When they entered the village, they immediately took it out, and as soon as the thieves made a move, they took advantage of the chaos to pile it up in front of the wild shop along with the things that were easy to ignite.
If the thieves want to attack on a large scale, the first choice is still the main gate, which is people's habitual thinking, so Zhou Quan can judge that there must be the most thieves in front of the main gate. Everything was as they expected, the thieves really gathered in front of the door, and the result was naturally to disappear with a bang!
The situation of the house where they were located was not good, the bottom of the house was overturned in half, and countless pieces of earth and wood were splashed everywhere, if they hadn't erected the bed board and so on, and stretched out a triangle by the wall, everyone would have hid in this triangle, but I was afraid that the casualties among them would not be light.
Everyone worked together to lift the bed board and other covers, and at this time, the cry of shock was heard outside.
"Oh no, the gods are angry......"
"Thunder, thunder!"
"It's over, it's over!"
All kinds of random howls, as well as the cries and cries of the injured for help, were mixed together, breaking the death-like silence of Lashanzhai.
In the plains of Lashanzhai, there were more than 200 households with less than 300 people, and a population of seven or eight hundred, but Shi He took away the vast majority of the young people who could fight, and most of the remaining people were also gathered by the sound of the gong, just outside the wild shop.
The explosion killed one-third of them, wounded nearly half, and the remaining twenty or so intact people were all standing far away or were particularly lucky.
If they could still organize, it would not be difficult to stabilize the situation, but under the sudden abrupt change, they were completely frightened.
In their opinion, this sudden change can only be done by the power of ghosts and gods. These people of the mountains and wilderness may have never been out of their own state or county in their lives, nor have they seen the power of gunpowder!
And when Zhou Quan and the others came out of the house intact, in their eyes, they were even more blessed by ghosts and gods.
"Kill!" Zhou Quan's first order was issued.
Those villagers who were still holding bows in their hands became the first targets to be eliminated, Zhou Quan shot two arrows in a row, and the already stupid villagers became a live target.
Although he reacted, he completely lost the courage to fight.
For them, what had just happened was the most terrible nightmare, and they only wanted to escape as soon as possible, out of this land of flesh and blood, especially since the smell of sulfur was still permeating the place, and it smelled as if they were in purgatory.
It was just an impact, and those villagers who had not been injured scattered as birds and beasts. Even those who were injured struggled to flee as long as they could run.
As they fled, they let out a howl of terror, spreading their fear throughout the stockade.
The whole village had long been awakened, and the chickens and dogs were jumping, crying and shouting, and the whole night was boiling.
"Set fire!" Zhou Quan ordered.
Luo Zhu once saw the bulging luggage they brought, except for more than 100 catties of gunpowder and dozens of spear heads, most of them were ignitions. With Zhou Quan's order, everyone took out torches one by one and lit them in the embers caused by the explosion.
Then, without saying a word, they began to walk through the village. They had already reconnoitred when they stayed overnight, the stockade was not big in the first place, there was only one main street, and everywhere they went, they used torches to light the hay sheds and firewood piles, and in a short time, thick smoke billowed everywhere, and the flames also rose to the sky!
"The thieves burned Pengcheng that day, and today we burn the thief village!" After the fires broke out everywhere and the fire was out of control, Zhou Quan said coldly: "Let's go, go to the village!" ”
The cottage mouth was guarded, and a short wall about one person high was built, and when Zhou Quan and they arrived here, the police posts on the wall and the villaged mouth had long since disappeared. Burying the last bit of gunpowder under the base of the short wall, Zhou Quan looked at Duan Tong, who had been following them, and patted him on the shoulder: "Xiao Duan, this fire, I'll give it to you!" ”
Duan Tong licked his lips: "Yes, Da Lang!" ”
Zhou Quan admires this kid very much, he has a strong personality, dares to think and do, and when he is only fifteen years old, he dares to blow up his enemies with gunpowder.
They were a little farther away, and after a few moments, Duan Tong came running as fast as he could, and then fell to the ground.
Behind them, there was a bang, and the short wall blocking the dangerous part of the mountain road, together with the watchtower behind the short wall, shook in the flames and smoke, and then fell down with a bang.
At this time, the sky was close to dawn, and the east was white, which should have been the time when the rooster crowed, but in the entire Lashan Village, there was chaos.
"Let's go, let's get out before the thieves react!" Zhou Quan said with a smile.
Lashanzhai is only the main village, and there are many small villages nearby, which are also ordered by Lashanzhai. Seeing that the fire broke out, they must come to the rescue, and if they don't leave, they are afraid that they will be blocked.
According to the path explained by Shi Fengren, everyone took a shortcut and returned to Liangshanluobian, and did not go back to get the boat, but directly looked for the official road and trotted towards Yunzhou.
As Zhou Quan expected, less than half an hour after they took a shortcut and left, the people from those villages rushed over. At this time, the fire was fierce in the Lashan Village, but the mountain people finally came out of fear, and everyone put out the fire together, but in the morning the mountain wind was very urgent, and they couldn't save it at all, so they could only watch the entire village turn into a sea of fire.
Fortunately, Zhou Quan and others are not those gangsters in the village, they still do things in a measured manner, and the vast majority of the ordinary people in the village have successfully escaped from the fire, and the casualties are mainly the dozens of people who were killed.
Everyone discussed together for a while, and at this time they all understood that they had been calculated, so when they sent people to chase Zhou Quan and others, they found that they were far away and could not catch up.
"What should be done now, the wall has been destroyed, and it can't be repaired in a short time, if the owner of the village comes back to see this situation, we can't get rid of the crime!"
"We are not to blame for this, it was the dead ghost of Luo Pile who brought in that group of god-killing rabbit cubs, and I don't know who that rabbit cub is!"
"Wait a minute, found this!"
While the leaders were deliberating, someone brought a letter and shouted.
There are not many literate people in the village, so this letter has been kept in the foot shop for a long time, and no one has noticed it, until this time, no one has seen it and brought it to the leaders.
"What's written on it?" One of the leaders asked.
It reads: Shi He, the owner of the cottage, personally opened ...... "Humanity who brought the letter."
", I mean what's written here!" The leader was furious.
"The envelope has fire paint on it, and I don't dare to open it."
These leaders looked at each other, thought about it, and one of the leaders said: "Didn't you say that the gang still has a boat in the fishing village, send someone to the fishing village to see if you can intercept them, and then send someone to inform the owner of the village, and bring this letter by the way...... The people in the village, for the time being, disperse to other villages, do you think this is good? ”
The crowd had no other idea but that. They hated the attackers in their hearts, so most of them came to the fishing village, but when they arrived at the fishing village, they found out that the teenagers had never been here at all.
"The three of you will pass the news to the owner of the village, you must be careful, don't be captured by the government." In such a situation, the leaders can only report the matter to Shi He and wait for news from Shi He's side.
After the messenger left, the leaders looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh.
"Those little cubs must have come here specifically for Lashanzhai, they are not from the government, and I don't know who they are!" A thief sighed.
"I heard that they were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and they were really ...... Although it hurt us, we have to admire, only take twenty or thirty people, go deep into the cottage, and do such an earth-shattering thing! ”
"The military advisor once said that Ban Chao was rampant in the Western Regions with thirty-six people, and what that kid did, I'm afraid that the same Ban Chao is about the same!"
No matter how much they hate Zhou Quan, these big and small bandits in Lashanzhai can't help but have a sense of respect in their hearts!
Whether it was resourcefulness or courage, or even decisiveness when killing, they vaguely felt that Lashanzhai might have caused a very terrible big trouble.
Now it is expected that Shi He, the owner of the village, and his entourage can successfully get rid of the pursuit of officers and soldiers and return to Lashan...... I don't know what was written in the letter that the owner of the village saw.