Chapter 45: Christ Church
Seeing so many strangers approaching his courtyard, Xu Luoyan's heart tightened slightly, put the piano on the stone platform, stood up from the seat, and asked the housekeeper, "Grandpa Xu, who are they?" ”
"Oh...... They were Boxers, and they wanted to climb from the courtyard of the eldest lady to the opposite side of Qiang. The butler replied.
"Boxers?" Xu Luoyan frowned, she didn't have a good impression of the Boxers, because in the past few days, she had heard a lot of things about the Boxers killing ordinary people and women, thinking of this, her heart trembled, and she couldn't help but take a step back, leaning on the verdant tree behind her, looking at Wang Jundao and his party, with a frightened look in her eyes.
Wang Jundao smiled at this time and said: "Don't worry, girl, although we are Boxers, we will not do that kind of thing of Jianyin and silver captivity, just temporarily borrow the girl's courtyard for a while, and leave after using it, and we will never hurt the girl in the slightest." ”
"Oh......" Xu Luoyan finally let go of her hanging heart, I don't know why, Wang Jundao's faint smile and clear temperament made her feel very relieved, she couldn't help but look at Wang Jundao a few more times, and found that Wang Jundao was very handsome, there was a kind of confident majesty on his body, he was arrogant and not arrogant, and his body exuded a strong sense of righteousness, she never thought that so many things would gather on a person's body, and the most shocking thing was that this was such a young person.
At this time, ten stairs were carried into the courtyard one after another and placed on the nearly six-meter-high fence.
The first to go up the stairs were naturally the ten 'divine soldiers' of Li Jinghua and Wang Jundao, Li Jinghua was familiar with the terrain in the church, and the ten 'divine soldiers' were real sharpshooters and martial arts masters, so they naturally had to go up to take the lead.
Immediately afterward, thirty 'Excalibur' special fighters also stepped on the highly pouring stairs and hurried up.
The housekeeper was dumbfounded, the more than 20 people who had just climbed over the courtyard wall were real masters, especially the eleven people in front, any one of them could take his life, and the more than ten in the back were inferior, but they were also absolutely good hands, he was very glad that he did not choose to go against Wang Jundao before, otherwise Xu Fu was afraid that he would really be restless today.
Wang Jundao arched his hand to the housekeeper and said, "Xu Mansion is very kind this time, and I will report it later." ”
Then he saluted Xu Luoyan again and said, "Excuse me." ”
After that, he waved his hand at Lei Ba next to him, and the two disappeared in place like lightning, and then, speeding up the two stairs, taking two or three steps tightly, the bodies of the two appeared on the wall, and then the two jumped off the six-meter-high wall without hooking at all.
This scene was so startled that Xu Luoyan completely covered her mouth, obviously everything just now had exceeded her cognition too much.
The housekeeper was also shocked, and when he came back to his senses, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and instructed the housekeeper in the courtyard, "You carry all the stairs down." ”
"Grandpa Xu, what did they do in the past?" Xu Luoyan couldn't help but ask the housekeeper.
"Alas, miss, the slogan of the Boxers is to help the Qing and destroy the foreigners, of course they are going to destroy the church." The butler said with a sigh.
"But how can the Qing court be so easy to support? How can foreigners be so easily destroyed? Xu Luoyan said.
"Yes......" the butler was about to say something, but there was a fierce gunfire in the church next door, and he could hear that it was the sound of a Mauser pistol.
Xu Luoyan was startled, and said with some fear: "Grandpa Xu, are they killing people over there?" ”
"Maybe, I don't know, I don't think they're the kind of people who kill innocents indiscriminately." The housekeeper felt that Wang Jundao's group was different from other Boxers, and should not kill innocents indiscriminately.
"Will he be in danger then?" Xu Luoyan suddenly asked a little worried, and a little nervous.
"Who?" The butler asked curiously.
"Ah...... It's the person who just talked to me......" Xu Luoyan's face was a little shy, and she didn't dare to look at the housekeeper.
The housekeeper sighed in his heart, his own young lady wouldn't fall in love with the leader of the Boxers, right?
He is old and sophisticated, and he still has this bit of eyesight, but he can't say anything, so he has to say: "Miss, I'll go and inquire, I will report to you at any time if there is any news." ”
"Hmm......" Xu Luoyan's face was a little hot, and he nodded embarrassedly.
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In the Christian Church, Wang Jundao rushed to the front door with five divine soldiers and ten 'divine sword' soldiers, while Lei Ba rushed to the back door with five other divine soldiers and twenty 'divine sword' soldiers.
It didn't take long for the front and back door machine gunners to be completely eliminated from behind by several Divine Soldiers, and the machine guns were also controlled by the 'Excalibur' fighters.
Subsequently, more than 100 soldiers of the Tai'an Army armed with pistols rushed into the Christian church from the front door under the leadership of Han Muxia.
For a while, the exclamations and cries in the church rang out, and most of them gathered in the main hall of the church, while some of them cowered in their rooms and did not dare to come out.
Wang Jundao walked to the front of the main hall of the church with a hundred Tai'an soldiers, and said directly to Lei Ba and Han Muxia: "You two each take fifty people, and drive all the people in the church to this square for me, remember, as long as they don't resist, try not to hurt them." ”
"Yes." The two of them each led fifty men and hurried away.
Wang Jundao called another thirty 'Divine Sword' warriors and instructed Li Jinghua: "You lead the 'Divine Sword' brothers and the 'Luowang' brothers to send orders to the various Tai'an army brothers who have entered the city, so that they can rush here as quickly as possible. ”
"Yes." Li Jinghua led thirty 'Excalibur' warriors out of the church quickly.
Not long after, more than 1,000 Christians gathered in the square at gunpoint of Tai'an soldiers, including the elderly, women, and children, more than half of whom were Chinese.
In the crowd, men in their thirties and forties were the majority, and one of them, a bearded man in his forties, had been theorizing with Lei Ba in half-baked Chinese while being driven away.
Lei Ba was furious when he heard this, and when he arrived at the square, he kicked him to the ground, and then walked up to Wang Jundao with Han Muxia, and reported in a low voice: "Young Master, all the disciples have arrived, a total of 1,231 people. ”
Wang Jundao nodded and took a few steps forward.
The bearded middle-aged man also saw that Wang Jundao was in charge, so he hurriedly got up from the ground, walked anxiously in front of Wang Jundao, and said, "You can't hurt my disciples, they are all legitimate citizens, and they haven't done anything illegal." ”
Wang Jundao could see from the man's dress that he should be the priest of this church.
"Your country attacked my country with foreign guns and artillery, made my country cede land and pay reparations, and made the people of my country live in hardship, and you also used your so-called Christian ideas to enslave the people of my country, so that they will serve you willingly, listen to you, and donate money and materials to you unconditionally, do you think these are illegal?" Wang Jundao said coldly.
"No, no, no." Father Amos denied it again and again: "My lord, Christ is not infallible, and faith is sinless. ”
"Don't talk to me about these great truths, in the name of the church, you have seized the wealth of the people, and even done those things of silver and silver captivity, don't I know?" Wang Jundao didn't have the patience to talk to this Amos, and shouted fiercely.
"No, no, no, this lord, you are blaspheming God, you are not right, I have never done what you said, and my disciples have never done these things." Amos shook his head.
"Oh? Is it? Wang Jundao looked at him coldly, and said loudly: "Lei Ba, you take ten brothers to look at the vault of this church and see how many gold, silver and jewels are in it. ”
"Yes." Lei Ba ordered ten brothers to go quickly, of course he knew where the vault was, Li Jinghua, the thief, had already figured out the secret place in the church.
"Oh, you can't do that, you will be punished by God......" Amos cried with his mouth wide open.
"Hmph." Wang Jundao snorted coldly and said, "You, and your disciples, don't produce, don't farm land, don't do business, where does your money come from?" What is it that is not exploiting the people of our country? Will you take out a large sum of silver and gold from your country to save our people? ”
"No...... The money was given voluntarily by the people, for their filial piety to God, for the salvation of all nations. Amos shouted.
"What a joke." Wang Jundao sneered and said: "If you do immoral and wrong things, you will all push them on God, and I don't know which Christianity you believe, and you dare to love God as a cover you use to grab wealth, saying that I am blaspheming God, I think you are the real blasphemy against God, God suffered, but still has a kind heart and is willing to save the common people, but you only know how to collect a large amount of gold and silver, and do not use them on the suffering people, what do you say you are?" ”
"You ......" Amos was so red as he said it, and he couldn't say anything more.
Not long after, Lei Ba came with a few brothers, took a bill and handed it to Wang Jundao, saying, "Young master, there are countless gold, silver and jewels hidden in the vault, and this is the bill taken out of the church's vault. ”
Seeing this bill, Amos's face instantly turned to ashes, he knew that it was impossible for Wang Jundao to let him go, and he knew that everything was over for him.
Wang Jundao opened the bill and glanced at it a few times, and sneered: "Dear priest, oh...... You should be called Mr. Amos, you are a real rich man, you have been a priest in this church for nine years, and you have earned more than 10,000 taels of gold, more than 100,000 taels of silver, and jewels worth tens of thousands of taels of gold, oh, and you have collected the cultural treasures of my country by various means, you are really a master of collecting money. ”
"No...... I have obtained these things through legal means, and you can't move them, otherwise the British political axe will not let you go. Amos knew that he had no choice but to put Britain out in the hope of scaring Wang Jundao.
"British political axe? Do you know what the slogan of our Boxers is? Destroy the ocean! You think I'm going to be scared of your bullshit British political axe? Wang Jundao looked at Amos and sneered, but Lei Ba stepped forward at this time, pressing the hilt of the knife with one hand and the hilt of the gun with the other, just waiting for Wang Jundao to give an order, and he was going to kill Amos on the spot.
Amos was so frightened that he retreated, his face turned pale, and said, "You can't kill me, you are breaking the law, you will be condemned by God, and you will be punished by God." ”