Chan decided to use cannonballs to answer the bandits' unreasonable demands.

Although he is a master of cannon taught by the West Point Military Academy, this breech gun made in the Guangxu year has not been used, but this is not difficult for him, it is nothing more than a large gunpowder, first fill gunpowder, and then fill the shell, the shell is cast by the county blacksmith with pig iron, the size is not up to standard, in order to prevent the leakage of gunpowder gas, the outside is covered with a layer of rags.

The breech guns produced by the Sanmen Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau were loaded with black powder, inserted with twists, and quietly aimed at the bandits who were resting comfortably on the river beach.

Xia Dalong, as a representative of the gentry, was invited to the city wall to watch the battle, and he couldn't turn the sky anyway, so he simply calmed down and watched what Chen Zikun used to fight with the bandits.

After all the weapons were in place, Chen Zikun took out the silver shell and looked at it, no more than two hours, no less, just in time.

He ordered: "Take the sound of artillery as a signal, shoot freely." ”

The order spread throughout the city, and everyone held their breath and prepared to kill the bandits.

Chen Zikun personally lit the cannon and lit the twist with a torch, the fuse sizzled and burned, and everyone covered their ears with their hands.

With a bang, the strong recoil pushed the heavy cannon backwards, and a cast-iron cannonball whistled out of its chamber, striking the bandits hundreds of feet away with ten thousand strengths.

This cannon was aimed at Liang Maocai's location, and the dog dared to rob Yao Yilei, and if he didn't blow up Ya Ting to pieces, he couldn't solve this bad breath.

Liang Maocai became the leader of the bandits at a young age, it is not a waste of fame, in the face of danger, experienced bandits will always have foresight, and make the most favorable judgment for themselves, Liang Da Boss rushed forward, the whole person lay on the ground, unfortunately, the position of the head on the ground happened to have a stall of fresh ** horse manure, all let him taste it.

The whistling of the cannonball was in his ears, in fact, he might not be able to hit him if he didn't jump, and the breech gun was not a sniper rifle, and the accuracy was not so accurate, but because the bandits gathered more densely, this cannon had a lot of results.

The bandits watched as three of their companions were broken by the shells, and the round iron balls changed after hitting the human body, turning into seven or eight sharp pieces of iron, killing two more mules.

Two more shells followed, but the bandits were on alert, and the results were small, but at the same time the guns rang out from the top of the city.

The bandits were too bold to think that the people of the county would not dare to shoot them, and the camp was set up a mile outside the city, and the pistols could not reach them, but this distance was just within the effective range of the rifles.

The crackling on the city is like firecrackers, and the people are so excited, they are almost catching up with the New Year, and they don't aim at it, they are shooting indiscriminately, they don't care if they can hit people or not, there are a few guns that use black powder to hit very smoothly, and the city is filled with festive gunsmoke.

The bandits suffered, crying for their fathers and mothers, and when they were full of urine and urine, Liang Mao got up from the ground, his face was covered with horse manure, and when he wiped his face, he saw the brothers scurrying around, and there were dead people and dead mules everywhere.

"The surname is Chen, I will grass your ancestor!" Liang Maocai pulled out the box cannon and slammed it towards the city wall, his marksmanship is good, but the range of the box cannon is not powerful, and it is strange that he can hit people after a mile.

Liang Maocai raised the monocular clairvoyant to look at the city, and saw an old man standing next to his great enemy, Chen Zikun, who was Xia Dalong who had come to attack the county seat!

"Xia Dalong, I don't share the sky with you!" Liang Mao fully understood that Xia Dalong had betrayed himself, and this old dog must have wanted to ask for merit and reward with his own head, so he set up this shocking scam.

The family members who killed the tiger's mouth shed tears of remorse, and regret should not be~

It's too late to regret now, listening to the density of gunfire on the city, there are at least two hundred guns, the brothers can't beat them at all, leaving Qingshan without worrying about the lack of firewood, Liang Mao hatefully poured the bullets in the gun into the city, and shouted: "Little ones,!" ”

The bandits left a dozen corpses behind and retreated in a hurry.

There was a cheer from the city, and Chen Zikun became a hero.

Xia Dalong left quietly, the hatred in his heart deepened, he knew that after such a trouble, the friendly and tacit cooperative relationship between himself and the bandits was completely smashed.

……

After the bandits retreated, the people's army came out to clean up the battlefield, picked up more than 10 shotguns, 7 dead mules, and 15 bandits were killed and wounded and abandoned on the battlefield.

Naturally, the weapons were confiscated, the bodies of the mules were pulled off, skinned and boiled, and the three armies were rewarded, and the dead bandits were also easy to do, and the heads were chopped off with axes, and the starvation cages were woven with sorghum grates, and hung on the city to show the public, and the most difficult thing to deal with was a few injured bandits, and it was difficult to decide whether to kill or close.

Chen Zikun is a bandit, and seeing the bandits is like meeting his mother's family, but the current situation does not allow him to show favoritism, he said, the army is only responsible for fighting and killing the enemy, and how to deal with the bandits is the responsibility of the county magistrate.

County Magistrate Liu was unequivocal and raised the court for interrogation at the city gate, so that people could identify whether these bandits had a life lawsuit in their hands.

Most of the bandits commit crimes in the wilderness, and they rarely show up in the county, so naturally there is no bitter master, but if there is no drama and singing in this warm atmosphere, it will be a very bad thing, so the county magistrate Liu was in a hurry and shouted: "Have you ever been killed by bandits at home!" ”

Thinking of the great losses suffered in the hands of the bandits, the people were furious, and poured out their endless anger on the hands of these poor bandits who were defenseless and wounded, and everyone rushed up, punching and kicking their teeth, and in a moment several bandits were killed.

The magistrate of Liu County announced that the bandits deserved to be beaten to death, and the beaters were not guilty.

When the people saw the blood, they became even more excited, and those who did good deeds stepped forward, shoveled off the bandits' heads with hoes, and walked around the streets with them in their hands, followed by a group of idlers who cheered noisily.

County Magistrate Liu shuddered, is this still the gentle and obedient county citizen of the past? This is more ruthless than bandits, could it be that everyone in Nantai County has a potential bloodthirsty factor in their bones? He was frightened by the demon he had summoned and was a little at a loss.

"How?" Chen Zikun walked over and patted Liu Youjin on the shoulder with a smile.

"The people's hearts are available." County Magistrate Liu squinted his eyes, full of pride, today he finally passed the county magistrate's addiction, and the feeling of responding to all calls was so cool!

……

The bandits retreated, and things came again, first Master Zhang breached the contract and promised not to give 100 yuan to the ocean, saying that the family was short of money, and he couldn't take out so much cash for the time being, so he owed it first.

Then the 100 catties of eggs and steamed buns promised by the boss of Drunken Xian Julin were also in the soup, but Boss Lin was a little more particular than Master Zhang, and took a few jars of liquor to make up the number, which was not a reversal.

The silk donated by Li Juren has been used, and the colorful flags on the city are his contributions, but the bandits have left, and it is a pity that these good silk are used as flags, but regardless of whether the escort envoy agrees, Li Juren asked his family to tear off all the flags and take them home, someone asked him, the silk has been cut, and it can't be made into clothes, what is the use of taking it back, Li Juren said, even if it is taken back to make a pants, it is good, and it is a waste to rest on the city wall.

Sun Haoran also carried the longevity material back, the bandits ran away, General Chen naturally didn't need to live and die with Nantai, the coffin was useless, could it not be kept.

The 800 volunteers recruited on the spot, there was no one left in the afternoon, they all went home, and the guns and ammunition issued to them were also brought back, no one felt embarrassed, they were all heroes who wanted to leave their names on the county annals, and they were heroes who beat away bandits, and it was not natural to take one or two broken guns home.

In the morning, the county town of Nantai experienced a crazy carnival, and in the evening it was calm again.

It was not Liang Maocai who suffered the most, but Xia Dalong, whose house was burned down by one-third, and the security regiment, which had always been regarded as a private soldier, was also revoked by Chen Zikun, and more than 100 brothers had no food to eat, and they complained.

Today's looting of the security group by the mob reminded Xia Dalong of the Xinhai period, when he also rushed into the county government with a group of patrolmen with braided hair, killed the county order, and ransacked the back house.

If he was young, Xia Dalong would immediately pull out a gun and fight each other, and Chen Zikun would be separated from him to the death, but now that he is older, his anger is not so strong, and he will think about doing things.

Xia Dalong's newest few old guys are all wiping their guns with gloomy faces, they haven't slowed down last night's events until now, they are all good men with strong blood, hatred can't stay overnight, snow hatred is tonight!

"Disguise yourself as a bandit and then go, you can't leave anyone to talk about." Xia Dalong explained.

Chen Zikun and the others were also very frustrated, the bandits were gone, except for a box of gold jewelry donated by Miss Xia, they didn't catch anything, and they were still the commander of the light pole.

"That's not going to work." Chan said.

"Hey, who would have expected the bandits to be so unbeaten." County Magistrate Liu said.

Chen Zikun rolled his eyes: "Most of the bandits are gone, but there are still a small group of bandits infiltrating the city." ”

County Magistrate Liu smiled knowingly: "Is this Li'er?" However, if the bandits infiltrate the city, who should they look for? ”

The two looked at each other for a moment, and they both smiled slyly.

Of course, it was to find trouble with Xia Dalong.

Don't bother the two masters, and the heavy responsibility of mobilizing the enthusiasm of the people is still on the shoulders of Master Xia.

Without further ado, taking advantage of the darkness, Chen Zikun took Wang Degui and Li Changsheng, put on a full set of black night clothes, wore a short gun and dagger at his waist, and headed in the direction of Xia's house.

At the same time, four black shadows also came out of the ruins of the Xia family, a water of the thirteen Taibao night clothes, green satin thin-soled fast boots, and the box cannon on the waist was painted with pot ash, which was not reflective at all.