Zhu Wenkui took a pistol, put it in a bag, and hung it around his waist. He put another loop of rope on his shoulders and went back to the courtyard. However, more and more people had entered the wall, and he was not confident in his own force, to be honest, and he was a little hesitant for a while.

There were slightly fewer enemies in the courtyard, but almost all the crossbowmen were aimed that way; By the wall and behind the house, although there are many places that can be covered, there are more than a dozen enemies gathered, and it is not easy for him to deal with it by himself. Now, I don't know which way to go.

As he hesitated, Nurhachi scurried against the wall. The road on this side was not wide, and the enemy was caught off guard, and it was not even easy to hide for a while, and the whole row of people was turned over by his arched man. Lucky to be planted on the side, there is still strength to call; A thug in the corner was not only pushed out a few steps away by it, but also stepped on directly, and for a while there was only air out but no air intake, and he was not alive at all.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Wenkui hurriedly rushed over, cut down a person who tried to get up to block him, and rushed into the ancestral hall in one go.

The "sacrificial vessels", account books and portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang here were all taken away by Princess Ma and others in advance, and the shelves were empty. Still, there are a lot of things that are too late to pack. He flipped it slightly, dropped his sword, picked up a cowhide pouch, put it on the wooden machine next to him, and then shook the handle and began to inflate it.

Still, the movement here attracted the attention of others. Two mercenaries followed, Zhu Wenkui hurriedly turned around, and the two of them looked at him and yelled at him. However, Zhu Wenkui didn't know much about their words, and he couldn't understand them at all when he spoke quickly. At this point, I really don't have time to chat with them.

The sword he didn't use easily, so he simply picked up a big axe from behind the portrait frame and slashed it at the mercenary. But those two mercenaries weren't that easy to deal with. Instead, he who came near flashed his axe and crossed the spear and stabbed him in the leg.

Zhu Wenkui was almost knocked down again, leaning on the shelf to stabilize his figure. Another mercenary stabbed him in the face with a sword, Zhu Wenkui subconsciously flashed to the side, waved the axe with one hand, forced them to retreat, grabbed a long iron nail from the shelf next to him with the other, and threw it at the mercenaries like a woman.

It's a pity that he still didn't let Na Nuxia have that ability, the two mercenaries just protected their eyes and stepped back to both sides, not even the skin was broken. However, Zhu Wenkui immediately stepped forward and waved a few more times. The two stepped back and wanted to surround him, but the space in the room was too small, and as soon as they took a step, before they could get around, Zhu Wenkui instinctively stepped forward sideways, wanting to fight.

The tricks he used with weapons seemed to be completely out of order, that is, he relied on his strength and fought blindly. But he is very sensitive to the environment, and his armor is strong, and he fights like a stunned young man, regardless of it.

During this period, he showed a big flaw, and the spear-wielding mercenary immediately stabbed him in the abdomen, trying to resist him, and the sword-wielding mercenary also hurriedly stepped forward, holding a small iron shield in one hand to protect himself, and stabbing him under his armpit with the other. However, Zhu Wenkui directly ignored the more powerful short spear, and pushed forward, facing the sword-wielding mercenary is an axe.

The other party obviously didn't have his desperate spirit, and he didn't dare to try to see if he could take the shield and force it on, or kill the other party before he was hacked to death. He hurriedly took two steps back, but instead ran into his spear-wielding accomplice. The two glanced at each other, and they didn't have time to complain, as if they were worried that Zhu Wenkui would rush up to change his life again, but they retreated a little.

Zhu Wenkui was also a little hesitant, reached out to grab the pistol on his waist, and stopped again. But this action was seen by the two men, and they were determined to stride out of the house at once, and went to call out to the other companions, as if they were ready to solve the troublesome figure in a more sensible way.

A mercenary with a crossbow came running, followed by several thugs with short knives each. The mercenaries pushed and shoved the thugs and let them go ahead, but this attitude seemed to make the thugs hesitate, and there seemed to be some different opinions on who was first.

The mercenaries still became overseers here, and after a while, the thugs were "convinced" by them to come over. However, at this moment, a shot was fired from the side of the barrier, and the crossbow-wielding mercenary, whose most obvious target was killed instantly. The others immediately hurriedly retracted behind the wall, not daring to block the door.

At this moment, there were several explosions at the door and at the opening of the wall. The enemy only cared about rushing hard, and the light was not good at night, so he didn't pay attention to the anomalies on the ground at all. The people who were unlucky enough to stay over there were blown up. The enemy, who was besieging the fortress, heard the sound behind him, and quickly turned around and hesitated.

Zhu Wenkui heard the movement, went to the door and took a careful look, and found that the group of enemies just now did not know the situation and had already retracted to the foot of the wall. He didn't care what was going on at the barricade, he turned around, grabbed his skin, rushed to the mouth of the cellar, and kicked the lid open. Before the others could react, he took a breath and rushed down.

The cellar was dug quite deep, and all kinds of debris were piled up in it. It was winter, and Zhu Wenkui had hoarded a large pile of grain and vegetables in sacks and baskets in order to survive the winter, stacked against the wall. These things were piled up all over the wall, layer upon layer, more than a foot high, up to the top of the cellar.

The rest of the cellar is filled with all kinds of large and small wooden boxes and barrels. Basically, they are all parts, tools, and various consumables for his experiments.

Previously, Guo Kang said that he might have to go on an expedition in the near future, urging him to test it to see what the difference is between different types and formulas of gunpowder, and what kind of weapon is most suitable for use. For this reason, Zhu Wenkui deliberately collected all kinds of gunpowder he had, and also mixed some by himself, and took advantage of the Guo family's relationship to go to the shooting range of the military department in the city to test fire. Compared to running to the firearms camp outside the city, this is much more convenient, and he can save a lot of time to deal with other things.

Zhu Wenkui is also very familiar with this cellar. He stretched the mouth of the cowhide pouch open, put it on his head, and rushed to the bottom of the cellar in one go, hiding behind the support column. Seeing that there were no footsteps behind him, he tidied up the mouth of the bag a little, pinched a small piece of glass from the leather bag, put it in front of his eyes, and looked out. Then the cat bent over and hid behind the onion pile.

It was a few more moments before the fire shone in from the mouth of the cellar. Through the somewhat cloudy glass, he saw people running through the hole, and several people huddled outside the hole, discussing something, and shining a torch inside, trying to figure out the situation. After a few glances, they seemed to have spotted a dangerous item that appeared to be gunpowder, and pointed a few times over there. After a few more moments, several people extinguished their torches and walked down carefully by the moonlight.

If they had carried torches, they would have found something wrong when they entered the cellar. However, those people didn't realize the problem and just rummaged around. But the cellar was already poorly lit, and they were afraid of a sudden attack, so they seemed to shrink back.

"Hell, this place smells so good." Zhu Wenkui whispered when he heard someone in Greek.

"It's full of onions." Someone else muttered, "Isn't his family a king?" Even if you wander out, how many treasures do you have? ”

"Forget it, his family is notoriously poor."

"That's also relatively speaking, people's poverty is the same concept as us. But yes, if there is a treasure in the cellar, it must be hidden in the big house. We should go over there, not hide and seek in this hellish place. ”

"What are you thinking, those Franks, still staring at them. Even if you take advantage of the chaos to get something good, you will definitely be snatched by them again. Those guys are professional robbers, and they obviously know what we want. ”

"No matter what, it's a king of the Ming Dynasty, and there will definitely not be only onions in the cellar, I guess these are all used for cover - by the way, these Italians don't understand our words, let's go find them first, and take some things from here."

"Hmm. When the Franks also come in, the Ming Dynasty will definitely fight one last time. We fled with the softness and took advantage of the chaos, lest they have to rob the money and kill them afterwards. ”

Several people discussed for a while, and finally reached a consensus.

"And what about this prince?" Someone asked.

"The Frankish woman said that as long as she lived, but I thought that it was okay to die, and those Italians didn't look like they were leaving their hands just now."

"Nonsense, fight, if you don't fight hard, you will die by yourself."

"That being said, if any of us kills him, that will definitely blame us and take us out to blame. These lords know this way every day - we Romans are as easy to coax as they are! Another immediately pointed out.

"But we'd better find him and talk about it......"

"But you also saw that there was no one to be found? I have a feeling that this person is doing it on purpose. In case of urgency, he will take a little gunpowder from this whole cellar, and this circle will have to be blown up into the sky, and none of us will want to run away. ”

"yes. Fuck, there's something wrong with this guy, who is stocking up on so much gunpowder at home......"

After a few curses, their voices fell. It seemed that after discussing for a while, someone began to shout: "Your Royal Highness, come out!" We are city dwellers, not Italians. We'll take you directly to Princess Jeanne and make sure you're safe! ”

"Oh, we're forced too! We can also take you on a run! The other added in a pretended whisper.

However, Zhu Wenkui was not in a hurry at all, sat behind the pile of onions, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Guo Kang told him before that the ventilation of this kind of cellar is too poor, and the air in it is toxic for a long time. Take the oil lamp and go in, and the light will be extinguished. But Zhu Wenkui thinks that if you think about it the other way around, isn't it safer to use flammable materials and gunpowder in places where you can't bring open flames into this kind of principle?

Therefore, after purchasing a large amount of food in the autumn, he deliberately did not ventilate the place for a long time. When needed, just get a cowhide airbag to temporarily isolate the carbon poison outside, and then move the onion out. In this way, it seems that the grain and vegetables can be stored for a longer time.

However, it is also true that this place is poisonous. Therefore, he did not worry about these people lying in the cellar, but took out the pistol in his bag, poured out the projectile, and then began to modify it in a good time.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for someone to start subconsciously gasping for air, and he heard a thug complaining that the smell was too pungent, making him feel very uncomfortable, and he had to go up and take a breath. However, because there has been no movement here, the mercenaries above couldn't bear it anymore and ran down.

A few thugs tried to go up, but the mercenaries wouldn't let them. The two sides were blindly comparing with each other, and even pushing each other. One of the mercenaries turned around and called out, and soon another mercenary who spoke broken Greek also came in and asked what was going on.

However, before he could finish his sentence, one of the thugs fell to the ground with a thud. The others were amazed, someone went to pull him, and a mercenary went to kick him. Soon, two more people collapsed on the ground, unable to move. The others realized the problem and immediately left them, screaming that there was a devil at work here, and turned and ran.

Zhu Wenkui waited for them to disperse, then quietly came to the bottom of the stairs, looked at no one above, kicked the body a few times, and found that there was no movement. So he brought a few powder kegs and piled them up by the stairs. Then he opened the lid of a barrel, grabbed the gunpowder particles inside, looked at it, buried the pistol in the powder keg, tied the trigger with a rope, and covered it with a lid. Then, pulling that rope, I carefully walked up the steps, ready to take off the airbag and see what was going on outside.

However, as soon as he took a step, there was a loud noise outside, almost knocking him down. The shouting stopped instantly, and he hurriedly hid back into the shadows, seeing several enemies fleeing back in a hurry.

Zhu Wenkui hurriedly ran up to see it again, and this time, there was no enemy next to him for the time being, so he was able to look around and see the situation clearly.

In the yard, the barricades were torn apart, and wreckage flew all over the ground. The remaining wood is burning. By the light of the fire, he saw that the thugs and mercenaries were running in all directions, and this time even the Overseers couldn't stop them.

On the side of the main hall, the gate was also on fire, and several people ran out of the corner and opened fire to drive away the hesitant enemies nearby. Captain Jeska appeared in the alley, I don't know when it passed, but seeing that there were many people on their side, the enemy who had squatted behind the ancestral hall also fled.

Zhu Wenkui realized that the situation had changed, and seeing that the nearby enemies had no intention of fighting, he hurriedly beckoned and signaled that he was here. Over there, Jeanne poked her head out and saw him. She rushed over and jumped into the cellar as well.

"Don't go down, don't go down." Zhu Wenkui hurriedly said.

"What the hell are you doing here...... O my God! She looked into the cellar and exclaimed.

"Why did these people run away?" Zhu Wenkui hurriedly asked.

"Captain Jeska organized the people to retreat, originally intending to leave the two people behind. As a result, there were too many enemies, and they couldn't get away, so they directly lit the gunpowder behind the car. Jeanne said briefly.

Zhu Wenkui was silent for a moment.

"That's an opportunity, too." He didn't express his condolences, but immediately ordered, "Let Captain Jeska blow up the wall behind him and go from that side." I think the Greeks seem to have completely collapsed, and the French will probably have to come in on their own. The dozens of them, who couldn't surround the entire courtyard, must still walk through the gate and rush in in a group. ”

"We can't resist it now. If you keep running, you will definitely be caught up by them. However, this gunpowder is indeed enough to blow up the yard. Even if you can't kill them, you can make them dare not pursue. ”

"You're really, really, crazy." Jeanne looked at her and shook her head.

When she saw the rope in Zhu Wenkui's hand, she guessed what it was, so she reached out and patted it and asked him to let go, but Zhu Wenkui was not only annoyed, but he was not willing to go.

Jeanne didn't hesitate, reached out and slapped him, snatching the rope off.

"You still have to organize things over there, I don't have time to go crazy for you." She snapped, "Do you go by yourself, or will I drag you along?" ”

Zhu Wenkui took a deep breath and followed her to run back quickly.

(End of chapter)