Chapter Eighty-Eight: Ransacking
Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Sack "When we arrived, everyone acted quickly, and according to our previous division of labor, each performing its own duties,"; One of the leaders of the group spoke in a thick Mexican accent.
The twenty or so knights behind agreed one after another, and fell silent again.
This horse team, a total of twenty-nine people, all of them were revolvers with rifles, and several of them had some self-made detonators in the back of their horses, which was already very strong at that time; In the team, those wearing round brimmed hats make up a large part of the team. What does this mean? It shows that there are many Mexicans, and the Mexicans' marksmanship and ruthlessness in their bones are world-famous.
The leader of the gang was Fonseca, who was also Mexican, but he apparently preferred American cowboy hats, except for a colorful Mexican cape on his upper body, a Winchester rifle on his back, two revolvers hanging from his legs, and six homemade detonators, three in the front and three in the back of his belt.
As soon as they entered the town, they slowed down their horses, apparently not wanting to attract too much attention.
Along the avenue, after crossing three streets, Fonseca waved his hand in the air and said, "That's it, let's get moving." ”
Standing in front of them was none other than Citibank, the only bank in the town of San Bernardino.
This bank is private, opened by the Blair family, but its size, in the surrounding area is definitely the largest one, the whole bank has two floors, don't look high, but the area is not small, just the front face, it is nearly five meters wide, using a double-open large iron door.
The Blair family, for the sake of the safety of the bank, hired a total of eighteen gunmen to defend it. Three shifts, six people per day, take turns on duty, which can be described as imstrict.
Hearing the leader's instructions, two people walked out of the crowd at the moment, each took out a homemade detonator, placed it on the big iron gate, and lit it with fire. Shouting: "It's going to explode"!! Then he ran back as fast as he could.
The rest of the people immediately dodged to the sides.
After a while, I heard a loud "boom" that shook the sky, and the two large iron doors that looked sturdy were directly impacted into the hole by the power of the explosion.
"Quick, rush in!!" Fonseca gave an order, and the nearly thirty bandits drew their pistols and rushed towards the bank one after another.
The six gunmen who were resting inside, still sleeping at this time, were suddenly awakened by a bang, and quickly picked up the guys, ran out of the lounge, and went outside to check the situation, but they were confronted by the group of bandits rushing inward.
After seeing each other twice, they both knew something was wrong and started shooting directly!! For a while, there was a loud gunfire in the house, "Bang bang, bang bang!" The sound went on and on.
The distance between the two sides is nearly ten meters, and there is no obstacle to shoot at each other, so is it good? The two gunmen were shot directly in the skulls after the first round of gunfire. Three gunmen were beaten into a sieve. Only one did not die in the first place, but he was shot in the chest and abdomen, and he definitely did not survive.
As for the bandits who rushed inward, although they had known about the bank before they came back, and that they were defended by six gunmen at all times, they were still shot at each other at such a close distance by a round of gunmen's fire, killing two people, slightly wounding two, and seriously wounding one.
Seeing this, Fonseca immediately shouted: "Leave two people to take care of them, and the rest continue to act." With that, he personally led the people and continued to rush inward.
The bank had already explored the location of the vault before they were about to rob it, so it didn't take more than thirty seconds for Fonseca to reach the underground vault.
Fonseca waved his hand, and a Mexican with a mouth full of rotten teeth stepped out and took out a bundle of six detonators from his coat. It is placed on the side wall of the steel door.
The gate of this underground vault is still very strong, of course, according to the standards of this year, the single-opening steel gate is five centimeters thick. But can it withstand such a bombing?
It was a full six detonators, and the big rotten tooth lit the fuse and yelled: "Hurry up and hide!" ”; The rest withdrew.
"Boom" was another bang.
When the crowd went back again, they waved their hands and fanned their faces in front of them in order to drive away the thick smoke and dust.
Look again, good guys! Not only was the steel door blown into the vault, but even the ceiling above was blown up in large chunks. You can see the ceiling on the first floor.
"Don't be stunned, at least four bags of gold coins per person, go in and get them"! With that, Fonseca rushed in first.
The space in this vault is not very large, only about ten square meters, and a few iron shelves in a circle also take up space. But these shelves are full of gold coins. And some have dollars on them.
But the temptation of gold was obviously greater, Fonseca came to a shelf, reached out and grabbed two leather bags the size of small watermelons, and put them on his left shoulder, then took two more bags and carried them on his right shoulder, turned his head and shouted: "Hurry up!" ~", then carried two bags of gold coins with his left hand and walked out of the vault door; The rest of the people were basically in this state, and at least each took four bags of gold coins and started running outside.
Let's talk slowly, in fact, it took less than three minutes from the gang of bandits blowing up the bank door, to shooting at each other, and looting the vault. Although some of the surrounding residents were alarmed, and some of them were even dressed and came out to check the situation, how could they not know what was going on when they saw so many people walking out of the bank carrying leather bags containing gold coins? Turning around, he ran to the police station, but when the police station summoned people, could he still be in a hurry?
Under the leadership of Fonseca, some of them flew on their horses with a few seriously injured and shouted, "Let's go!" With that, a group of bandits beat their horses and galloped towards the entrance of the town......
Yin Hang was asleep when he heard a "boom" sound outside, and a spirit sat up from the bed, he couldn't mistake the thunder with the explosion.
Shirtless, I went to the window and looked out. Although the moonlight was very bright tonight, and the second floor where I was basically able to see through a large bungalow in front of me, there were too many obstacles in my way, so I didn't find any special circumstances.
But after a while, I heard a loud noise again in front of the right, this time it was much more mobile than the last time, but the sound was relatively muffled.
Yin Hang judged that it might be someone who detonated the explosives in the house, and it was measured a lot, otherwise, there would not have been such a big movement, but the sound was very dull.
Looking at the source of the sound, there are still too many obstacles, and the distance is relatively far, so I still can't see anything clearly. Xin said: "It has nothing to do with yourself. With this mentality, Yin Hang returned to bed.
But not long after he lay down again, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside, "Stamped, stomp, stomp!" It was gone in a few moments. There was silence for the next ten minutes, and then again there was the sound of shouting and shouting, and the trampling of the horses.
Uncle's! Ignore him! Continue to sleep......
Yin Hang, who felt that he had nothing to do with him, slept very soundly this night, and when he got up the next day, he looked refreshed, washed up, put on his own black suit, equipped himself with a gun, and went downstairs.
Before he could get below, he heard the "buzzing" sound of a group of people talking, and it came to his ears, and he said in his heart: "The business of the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel is very good today." ”
When he got down, he told the men to bring some food to the people upstairs according to the pattern of the previous two days, and then walked out of the gate and came to the street.
I noticed that today's crowd was a little different from normal - it seemed a little less. And most of the playful kids didn't play in the streets this morning.
It has something to do with last night! Yin Hang immediately made a judgment, there are very few coincidences in this world. But it's not nothing, so for the most part, Yin Hang doesn't trust coincidence very much. However, he is not an extreme person, and he also believes that there is no such thing as an "absolute" in this world.
Wait! Go upstairs for dinner first, then on the way to Blair's house with Ilsa, ask what happened last night.
He turned his head to look around, then went upstairs and went back to his room.
Ilsa was going to run errands with Yin Hang today, so he also came over to eat and drink together.
"We're going to the mayor's house today, we're going to see him off in the morning, and then we're going to Blair's house to get in touch with business." Yin Hang said to Ilsa, who was across the table......
Wilgis#Blair, who accompanies his father at the police station, George #Blair, for most of the night; After getting the news that the Citibank opened by their family was looted, the father and son got up overnight and ran to the police station to wait for the news.
Thanks to the fact that his family usually "expressed" to the sheriff, Vito had already led a dozen of his men before the two arrived and chased them out.
At this time, it was already dawn, and the two fathers and sons, sitting on the first floor of the police station, had red eyes, but more of them came from their uneasy mood.
With a few dollars left and a few bags of gold coins looted, trust in the bank is sure to hit rock bottom. If you run to withdraw money, your family may end up bankrupt after more than ten years of hard work.
In modern times, there is a story that when a person in a town is admitted to a university, the whole town wants to celebrate him, so people go to the only bank in the town to withdraw money, and in this way, a bank is bankrupt; Even though it was a very small bank.
The current Blair family is about to face such a result, but it is a little better; The Blair family also ran a few shops in town, and the robbers had left them with some property, which at least allowed them to stay on for a little longer.
"Father, I don't think this is the way to wait, should we exchange all the cattle in the pasture for gold, so as to stabilize the hearts of the people in the town. Or ask the Newmans to help out and scrape together some money. Wilgis turned to his father.
The seven gunmen were stunned and didn't block each other, which made Old George very angry, so how many people did the other party have? And depending on the situation, I have already inquired about it, could it be that there is an anti-bone boy within the family?
Old George was suspicious and suspicious, and when he was thinking wildly, he heard his son talking to him, turned his head and took a deep breath, and said, "It's not time for us to make a rash move, which will make the people of the town think even more that our bank is going to be unable to withstand it." Even if you want to move, you have to do it quietly! ”。 After speaking, he pondered for a while, and said, "Wait, at least you have to know whether the sheriff has chased down the bandits." Newman will come over in a while, and it is really impossible to ask him to help with these things, and our father and son cannot move lightly. ”
Wilgis nodded when he heard his father's answer, and agreed with his father's statement, but now he was in a hurry, so he got up and began to walk back and forth in the hall on the first floor of the police station.
Although old George sat firmly, he was no less anxious than Wilgis, and said, "You sit down first, don't always walk around,......"
The two of them waited in the house for more than an hour, and then they heard the sound of horses' hooves outside, and the "stampede" was accompanied by a burst of crowd discussions.
Sheriff Vito looked like an atmosphere and walked in first.
"How? Mr. Sheriff? Blair and his son hurriedly stood up and asked.
"Only these were snatched back, and the rest were run away by them, and there were a lot of people, at least twenty-five or six." The sheriff said, pointing to the eight leather pockets that had just been brought into the house by the two men.
That's eight bags of gold coins. Two police station guys, put them at the feet of Blair and his son.
Sheriff Vito added: "We killed two people on the other side, but we were cut off by a train that suddenly passed by, and let them run." ”
Old George nodded, although the eight bags of gold coins were incomparable to the number of robbed ones, they solved his urgent need, at least they could make the hearts of the residents stable and stable. So I was still grateful, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Sheriff, but I also hope that Mr. Sheriff will continue to help us, and if those bandits are caught, I am willing to pay 20,000 dollars to buy something new for the police station." It was not clear what it was, and of course both sides knew what it meant.
Vito said: "Of course, I will not let them go, I have already called someone to contact the police station in the surrounding town, jointly issue a wanted warrant, and will also gather all the bounty hunters in the surrounding area to act together, as long as I find their traces, I will definitely kill them." ”
George said, "Thank you, Mr. Sheriff, I hope it won't be too long." ”
While he was talking, Newman walked in from outside and said, "Uncle, how are things going now?" If there's anything I can do to help, please feel free to ask. ”
George waved his hand and said, "Thank you Newman, let's go home first, and then talk about things." ”
"Okay." Newman agreed, and Wilges picked up eight bags of gold coins, said hello to Vito, and followed Blair Sr. out of the police station.
There are also a lot of buddies in the Blair family, and of course the owner has to come over to help if something happens, and at this time there are four guys with guns outside the police station, they are following Vito and his gang to chase the bandits, and they have just returned.
Newman and Wilges handed the ladies the bags of gold coins; Newman said, "Uncle, do you want me to send someone to contact Kennedy?" ”
When old George heard this, he turned his head to look at Newman and said, "I know he's very powerful, but didn't you listen to what the sheriff said just now?" There were a lot of bandits in that group, and even he personally led the team and was run away by the other party. ”
Newman nodded and said, "I know this, but uncle, you also know Kennedy's ability to trace traces, and if you want to find that group of bandits in a short time, you can only use Kennedy." ”
Old George frowned, paused for a while, and then said, "Let's go home and talk about it." ”
(To be continued)