Patio cottage fort.

The 50 guards personally led by Zhu Daolin went straight to the main courtyard on the high platform in the rear, and a burst of gunfire was also heard in the direction of the west turret at this time.

In the blink of an eye, the entire walled fort screamed in all directions, screaming for a long time.

The last 1,000 recruits rushed up the walls along the steps on both sides of the gate, replacing the 100 guards who were the first to attack, and guarding the fort, the wall, and the two gates.

Zhu Daolin, who was wearing a steel helmet and wearing a big coat, rode his horse to the gate of the main courtyard, and Li Yuming and the other five people had already turned over and dismounted, set up a human ladder to climb the courtyard wall, unhooked the semi-automatic rifle behind him, pulled the bolt and loaded it, and looked for the target.

Dozens of guards brought a thick trunk of a tree, and in the midst of the "crackling" gunfire and screams, they quickly adjusted its direction and aimed at the closed gate full of copper nails to accelerate the impact.

"Boom—"

After a loud bang, the heavy gate collapsed.

Zhu Daolin, who was holding a dark broadsword, put down his mask, roared and rushed into the courtyard gate first, looking around, and found that in addition to a dozen corpses and a few injured nurses who were rolling on the ground and wailing, the rest of the nurses and family members had already scattered and fled.

Zhu Daolin shouted "stop advancing," ordered Li Yuming's five people on the courtyard wall to go around to the roof of the middle courtyard to attack, ordered the rest of the guards to put on bayonets, casually drew the revolver on their waists, held a sword in one hand and a gun in the other, and led more than 40 guards with loaded guns and ammunition to rush into the open middle gate, and preemptively opened fire on the more than 20 family guards who gathered in front of the main hall with firearms.

"Bang bang—"

After the thick smoke of gunpowder, most of the more than 20 family members had collapsed.

As soon as the two leaders of the courtyard who were hiding behind the pillar raised their guns and aimed them at Zhu Daolin, who was rushing in front, they were shot in the face and neck by Zhu Daolin three times in a row.

Zhu Daolin, who was not stopping, quickly put away the empty revolver, picked up the sword with both hands, and struck hard. Smash the hidden door to smithereens.

The leader of the family, who was hiding behind the door and preparing to carry out the plot, did not have time to scream, half of his head and shoulders were neatly split, and two streams of blood arrows shot up, and the scarlet hot liquid sprayed all over the hall.

Zhu Daolin broke into the bloody main hall, and more than 100 guards quickly arrived, and without Zhu Daolin's order, they were divided into a team of 10 people to carry out a strict search.

Li Yuming and 5 people on the roof arrived later. While carrying his rifle, he said distressed how many bullets he had fired.

Zhu Daolin walked to the side of the three guards who had been shot in the arm and calf by the firebolt, carefully examined the injuries of each of them, and reassuredly ordered the other brothers to take out the medicinal powder to stop the bleeding and bandage them, and then pointed to the black hole in the chest of the guard in front of him that was broken by lead bullets, and then pointed to the steel helmet on the head of the other guard that was dented by lead bullets:

"See? If you don't wear a cotton coat on the outside and no stab-proof vest on the inside, this buckshot will go through the chest! ”

"Look at it again. If you put on a steel helmet and put down the mask as required, this bullet can tear off the skull! ”

"Usually you always think that you are good at it, but you think that bulky protective equipment is in the way, but now you should understand, right?"

"It's just a small firefight, if it's on a battlefield where thousands of people are fighting fiercely, who knows when a sharp arrow and a few lead bullets will fly?"

"You must keep this lesson in mind and make a difference in the battlefield. First of all, you have to make sure you survive! ”

The guards nodded frequently and checked the protection and weapons on their bodies. Wear helmets, tighten your belts, and scatter the guards at the entrances and exits of the wide main hall.

In less than an hour, the entire seemingly well-defended fort was completely under the control of the new officers and soldiers.

More than 920 surrendered Yanding and nursing homekeepers were driven to the compound inside the main gate to be guarded, and more than 1,300 coachmen, tenants, men, women and children. They were gathered in another courtyard.

The battalion commanders rushed to the main hall of the Intermediate Courtyard one after another to report the results to Zhu Daolin, and several soldiers took out paper and pen to count them one by one, and soon came up with the final results:

In this battle, 273 horses, 370 mules and donkeys, 266 carts, about 2,700 stones of sea salt, 120,000 stones of various grains, 185 head of cattle, cloth in a warehouse, and a large number of agricultural tools were captured.

At the same time, about 280 taels of gold were also found. 37,500 taels of silver, 66 arquebuses, 42 three-eyed muskets, 75 standard bows and crossbows, and more than 700 swords, guns and halberds were confiscated.

Even if it is a mental calculation or unintentional sudden attack, and there is a huge advantage in weapons and equipment, but after a battle, the recruits still killed 7 people, seriously injured 6 people, and slightly injured 54 people!

Of course, compared with the results of killing 219 enemies and capturing 920 people, this number is nothing, but Zhu Daolin still shook his head.

At present, the officers and men of various departments are carefully screening and checking whether there are salt dings and nursing house members hiding among the tenants.

Zhu Daolin muttered for a while at the note full of battle results, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and immediately issued an order to Li Yuming and the battalion commanders:

Li Yuming was in charge of asking the tenants to identify the housekeepers and the head of the nursing home in the village, and then send them to the front yard for separate interrogation, and those who refused to confess were severely tortured...... The cottage guarded by so many people and horses, and it is also the private salt distribution center in the Jiaonan area, it is impossible to only have only a few tens of thousands of taels of silver! ”

Li Yuming and the six battalion commanders immediately ran out, and Zhu Daolin ordered the guards to divide into groups of five and once again carry out a more detailed search of the entire courtyard.

After a while, Li Yuming came in a hurry and reported an important situation to Zhu Daolin: "Among the captives, there is a deputy Qianhu of Aoshanwei, named Ma Shuzong, who is very arrogant after knowing the identity of our guest army, there are more than 30 people around him, and they all say that they are from Aoshanwei. ”

Zhu Daolin weighed it slightly, and decisively ordered: "Behead all those surnamed Ma and all those who call themselves Ao Shanwei, and leave no one behind!" As a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, he was in cahoots with lawbreakers and resold illicit salt, when did they have a military law in their eyes? ”

"Hmph, at this time, I remembered that I was a Ming soldier, it's late, kill!"

"Will it be ......?"

Li Yuming was very hesitant.

Zhu Daolin's eyes narrowed: "How many soldiers are there in Ao Shanwei?" More than 2,000 military households have all become lowly salt households who can't eat enough and don't have warm clothes, and the remaining hundreds of scum can turn the sky upside down? Annoy me and destroy them all! ”

"What are you still standing for? Do you want me to do it myself? ”

Li Yuming couldn't help but shudder: "My subordinates will deal with it!" ”

Li Yuming led more than 50 guards to run to the courtyard inside the east gate, and the deputy Qianhu surnamed Ma was still loudly questioning the two recruit battalion commanders who led the troops to be on guard, and hundreds of disheveled and trembling men echoed excitedly and loudly, and many soldiers scolded loudly, seeing that the posture seemed to rush up at any time and fight desperately.

Li Yuming, who was extremely annoyed, no longer had the slightest mercy, and rushed to the middle of the half-moon-shaped encirclement and ordered loudly: "The general has an order: if there is resistance, kill him!" All of them, sword drawn—" (To be continued.) )