Chapter 18: Precarious

Chapter 18 is at stake

This time, the firelight was seen even by Peng Hongji, the second-room elder in front of the Fran bunker halfway up the mountain. First there was a violent white light, followed by a rumbling roar like thunder.

Standing next to the corpses all over the ground, Peng Hongji, the elder of the second room, whose eyes were red, said hatefully:

"Damn, the rich man brought so much gunpowder, and he had to cry for Lao Tzu all the time. Let's see if I go back this time and settle the account for him."

This time, he no longer saved the few explosives in his hand, and seeing that hundreds of people had died, he didn't even see a single ghost shadow on the opposite side.

"All back, all back."

There are not many people in the second room, so there are no strange people mixed in, and most of them are blood relatives.

Soon, the three children who were responsible for leading the team gathered at Peng Hongji's side with the wounded soldiers.

"Elder!"

"Elder!"

"It's not like a Dutchman on the other side." One of the lads was holding a long arrow.

"Look, Elder, isn't this the bow and arrow commonly used by the natives. It's been so long, and I haven't heard a single powder gun."

Peng Hongji's preparations this time were quite complete, and he even borrowed a lot of rattan cards from Ke Yinzhi in the fourth room before leaving. These rattan cards, gunpowder guns can't be pierced.

Peng Hongji was caught in a dilemma.

Keep fighting? Why not the Dutch here? Or are they employing natives?

Let's leave now, but so many people have died, should I just give up?

Besides, if you give up, what will you say when you go back?

Boom, the movement of the corner stronghold is even greater. The thunderous explosion sounded once again stimulated Peng Hongji.

"Damn, do you really want to unify the four rooms? If this continues, there is money in the big house, there are people in the fourth room, where is there still Lao Tzu's way of life. Lao Tzu has no way to live, so he wants money to do this?"

Thinking of this, Peng Hongji dodged away, revealing a jar of gunpowder bought from the Dutch on the black market.

"You can't take people and rush again, there are not many people on the other side, so they are all hiding in the dark and releasing cold arrows. Let's blow up the fuck with gunpowder, too."

The sound of intermittent gunpowder jars exploding from Fran Castle was not heard by the Great Elder Jinquan. Under the explosion of gunpowder, the entire wooden bungalow collapsed in all directions like pieces of paper.

Then, a violent shock wave lifted the person in front of the house high and threw it down again.

Jin Quanquan was far away, and the impact he received was not so great, but he only took a few steps back, and he was able to stabilize his body.

Before he could stand on his feet, the second wave of explosions came again. This time, the explosion was transmitted from the underground, and it exploded one after another along the basement, and the final explosion point happened to be more than ten meters in front of Jin Quanquan.

This time, Jin Quanquan flew directly.

He seemed to feel as if there was someone behind him.

And then there was a heavy fall.

Poof!

There should be a person behind you. The spiked bamboo of the wall pierced through the body behind him, stopping next to his ear.

He couldn't hear anything.

The body in his fifties, after this flight, his waist is about to break.

Seeing that some people were running around covered in blood, some people were even about to rush towards them. However, you can move it yourself.

Thankfully, the man stepped onto the corpse beside him.

The blood sprayed directly onto his head.

Just when he was already in despair, a pair of large hands pulled him out of the pile of dead people.

It's the second fool who was still crying in the rose bush with the glass slag just now. Fools have stupid blessings, everyone else is pressed under the western-style building, and this thing is unscathed.

Not only did he drag Jin Quanquan alone, he might not even know that he was dragging out his own patriarch.

"I'll give you the money when I get back!" Kim Quanquan shouted loudly.

But the second fool didn't hear it at all, just dragged him out and let his face rub against the ground.

For a long time, the people who were still alive gathered one after another on the grass in front of the gate of the Huajiao base. Jin Quanquan's ears seemed to have regained their function, and countless moans, the sound of the western-style building burning, and the joyful laughter of the two fools poured into his head at once.

"Elder, Elder, we're dead! We're dead!"

Si Yihai, the captain of the foreign gun team, had been burned to a black carbon head, and he ran to Jin Quanquan, crying with tears in his eyes.

Holding back the pain, Kim Quan picked up a broken spear from the ground.

grabbed Si Yihai, threw him to the ground, and then stabbed him in the chest with a spear.

Fifty-year-old, panting. But he used the spear, which had already been stabbed half of the spear, as his crutch.

"Ah............ Ah......h

Si Yihai's heart-rending voice of pain completely overshadowed the voices of the others, and the eyes of the three or four hundred people who had already escaped attracted it.

"Escape, slash!"

Jin Quanquan saw that almost everyone was looking at him, and he used all his strength to shout.

Then leaning on his whole body, he stabbed the spear directly.

"The owner of the big house obeys the order."

He let go of his hands, letting the spear sway there like a flagpole.

"Today's events are all caused by Si Yihai's vain listening to lies. The first evil is punished, and the deceased in this operation will be compensated 150 taels of silver, and the injured will be compensated 100 taels of silver. Next, all those who act actively will receive thirty taels of silver."

Hearing the elders of the clan say this, and seeing Si Yihai who was still moaning and writhing on the ground, everyone stabilized. Began to search for the wounded in the wreckage.

At this moment, the Dutch, who had already eaten and drunk, also began to act.

Byrne's guards crawled to the sentry by the campfire with knives in their hands. Cover your mouth and go down with a knife, and the sentry's blood splatters on the campfire.

"Quick, quick."

A dozen artillerymen pushed their Furlong machine guns out.

"Bang ......" cannonballs flew out and smashed hard against the wall.

"Boom!" directly hit the Fumen soldier who was about to fall asleep with a bow and arrow.

Everyone didn't seem to have reacted yet, and even Ke Yinzhi, who was still distributing porridge to everyone in the distance, turned his head blankly.

"Bang...... Bang bang ......"

The remaining three cannons also glowed red, and one cannonball even flew over the wall and landed in the pool of water in the city.

"Enemy Attack...... Enemy attack!"

At this time, the Fumen soldiers on the eastern wall came to their senses.

Unfortunately, it was too dark on the other side, and he couldn't even see who was attacking him except for the fire from the muzzle of the gun.

"Miss......" The maid beside Ke Yinzhi trembled with fright, and the spoon in her hand that scooped porridge fell to the ground.

"Uncle Wu! Let the three teams organize everyone to return to the ancestral hall. Lao Liu! Come with me!"

Ke Yinzhi, who reacted, heard the sound of cannons and knew that it must be Dutch. Either way, she had to hold on here.

"Ah Ying, Ah Ming, go and inform the long room and the second room. The enemy is on the east side, go from the west!"

The Dutch were very disciplined, almost no one rushed up, but constantly adjusted the landing point of the shells.

Byrne knew that as long as he could blow up a section of the wall, the people behind him would not be a match for his musketeers. There weren't many shells brought, so when it came to ranging, he didn't even bother to use flowering shells.

Ke Yinzhi also understood the thoughts of the Dutch, but she had the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled of the whole clan, and only more than 70 musketeers and more than 100 archers were taken away by the big house.

"Leave it alone, protect yourself, and get out of this wall."

Rumble...... This time the shell landed accurately

On the wall, the bricks and stones splashed straight towards Ke Yinzhi.

"Be careful." Uncle Liu, who used to be his father's old servant next to him, was quick and dragged her to the ground. For a time, no one on the city wall dared to show their heads.

"Miss, we can't do this. Now there are about 100 people on the wall, and if the wall collapses, it will be too late to say anything."

"Then let people go down the wall first, and gather them all together. If you see a gap, you can fill it, and you have to hold it up." I heard the cries of the awakened dolls.

"Miss, no, you can go to the docks and ask for some help. These Dutchmen can come over, and they can't say that the big house and the second room ......" Uncle Liu didn't finish.

On the day of the all-clan meeting, Ke Yinzhi actually disagreed with Changfang's opinion. She advocated gathering those who could be used, unifying command, seeking stability instead of speed, and eliminating point by point.

As a result, he was directly scolded back by the big house and the second room. also said that this is the power that she has been planning for a long time and wants to annex the other houses.

"I can't go! If I'm gone, what will these people think? They're just hanging in one breath right now. Uncle Liu, can't you run for me?"

Speaking of which, this Ke Yinzhi has a little weakness. When she hit the city at the foot of the mountain, others didn't know that she had seen the power of this Ming fleet. However, the clan directly turned them away, and even the harvest in the city at the foot of the mountain did not give them a share.

Just thinking about it, the other side's artillery bombardment became more and more dense without interference, and they all smashed down towards a circle with a radius of less than ten meters.

The wall is already in jeopardy.