Chapter Seventy-One: A Moment of Life and Death

Li Yingyuan's eyes were full of gold stars for a while, and he couldn't breathe, and he was about to be slowly strangled to death. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Yingyuan slammed his elbow behind him, but unfortunately the big man was extremely strong, and he didn't let go even if he took a few attacks.

This was the moment of a few breaths, when Li Yingyuan felt that he was about to be strangled, he suddenly remembered that he still had a knife in his clothes pocket, and hurriedly reached out and took it out, grabbed the handle of the knife, and stabbed it back.

During this time, there was a lot of noise in the county government, although Li Yingyuan was the initiator, he also felt that there was a lot of danger, and his identity was also likely to be exposed at any time, so he had been hiding a knife in his pocket of his clothes, but just now because of the suddenness of the incident, he forgot about it.

At this time, he stabbed back, and the big man was in pain, and his arm involuntarily loosened.

Dahan was taken aback, and when he wanted to increase his strength, Li Yingyuan took the opportunity to step down with his foot, stepped on Dahan's foot at once, and then pulled his head forward and pushed it up again, pushing it into the other party's face.

The big man unconsciously let go of his arm and covered his nose under the pain, and Li Yingyuan took the opportunity to swing it back with a knife.

Li Yingyuan studied surgery with Dr. Shepted during this time, and he was very clear about the vital points of the human body.

The big man instinctively held his neck and wanted to say something, but after all, he couldn't say anything, and he fell down after a while, unable to get up again.

Li Yingyuan looked at his hand and saw that the knife was covered with blood, so he couldn't help but weaken his legs and sat down on the ground.

"Everybody, get down!" Suddenly, dozens of people shouted together. Li Yingyuan raised his head and saw that he had unknowingly entered the county government during the struggle, and at this time his back was facing the gate and facing the county office.

I saw dozens of military apprentices directly opposite me holding muskets in their hands, aiming at their side, and marching forward neatly.

Fuck, these people actually want to kill me, Li Yingyuan felt ridiculous, these people don't want to kill the big men who are making trouble outside the door, but want to kill me?

However, at this time, there was some sanity, and Li Yingyuan suddenly reacted and leaned on the ground.

"Fire!" The apprentices of the military headquarters in the county yali picked up their guns and fired, shooting projectiles in front of all the county yamen, regardless of whether they were friends or enemies.

Li Yingyuan was lying on the ground, and vaguely saw that Zheng Sanguan and Liu Xiang were actually in the queue of these apprentices, but their faces were blue and swollen, and they looked very embarrassed.

The soldiers in the first row put away their guns and retreated, and the soldiers in the second row stepped forward with their guns, and there was another burst of fire outside the door.

After repeating this and shooting five or six times outside the door, there was no one left to stand at the entrance of the county office.

"Run, English dog thieves have great firearms!" Several big men who were a little farther away survived and tried to run back, but they didn't run far, and they were killed one by one by the apprentices from behind.

The apprentices of the military department collected their guns, continued to advance, and advanced until they reached the county yamen, pointing forward with their guns, and for a while they were extremely majestic. Whether it was the people who were frightened and ran to the county office, or the big men who took advantage of the chaos to hide in the middle to attack, they all looked at each other for a while and did not dare to run ahead.

"No one is allowed to approach the county office, and anyone who approaches will be killed!" An officer stood forward, lined with two rows of soldiers behind him, and was extremely majestic.

Li Yingyuan fixed his eyes, but it was Guo Huaiyi, who usually felt that he was frivolous, and he looked like a rough man, far less clever than Huang Cheng.

"Shoot arrows, throw fire pots!" However, the attacker also planned Zhou Xiang, and he couldn't stop it by this scare.

Dozens of archers appeared on the rooftops of several houses in front of the county office, and they condescendingly shot at the soldiers of the military headquarters. Immediately, several unlucky soldiers fell from arrows.

Then, after the crowd, several black objects were thrown, and they were still on fire when they hit the ground, and they did not go out for a while.

Li Yingyuan recognized that this was a fire oil jar that local pirates liked to use, and filled it with oil in a palm-sized clay pot, then put a strip of cloth on its mouth, lit it, and threw it over. It's hard to say how powerful this thing is, but officers and pirates are especially fond of using it.

"Free fire!" Guo Huaiyi ordered.

The soldiers immediately returned fire with their guns, their weapons were much better than the enemy's, and the archers, although they had the advantage in height, were immediately knocked down so much that they could not resist at all.

It was only at this time that Li Yingyuan had a more intuitive understanding of the armed forces of the English, and it is said that the weapons of the Ming soldiers in the military department were much worse than the weapons of the regular soldiers of the English, but against the bow and arrow, it was still a one-sided massacre. One can imagine how powerful the English are.

The crowd in the front market had thinned out by this time. The real people also woke up at this time, and they all ran away in both directions, along the small alleys, and all bypassed this killing field. Now the rest are the assassins.

There were a large number of these assassins, in the thousands, and judging from their clothing and hairstyles, most of them were Fuso.

At this time, the big men on the opposite side pushed out small carts with wooden planks erected on them. Li Yingyuan saw that the assassin with high martial arts skills was also holding a huge wooden plank, covering himself and coming to the front.

"Shoot!" the military apprentices shot forward, but the bullet could not penetrate the plank, and it made a bang, but it was bounced away.

"Damn, it's still wrapped in iron sheets on the board, and it's quite well prepared. One soldier cursed unwillingly.

"Take the wounded and retreat to the second line of defense. Guo Huaiyi, who took the lead, immediately made a decision and gave the order to retreat.

These Ming soldiers, who were mainly apprentices of the military department, and had also advanced under the intensive training of the English, all showed good qualities at this time, and immediately separated a few people to help their wounded companions, while the rest of them slowly retreated with their guns in hand.

Only then did Li Yingyuan realize that he was still lying on the ground, so he hurriedly stood up and followed the crowd back.

Seeing the Ming soldiers retreating, the big men over there suddenly erupted in violent cheers and shouted loudly.

The English have always been meticulous in their work, and they are familiar with warfare, and have never thought of relying solely on the county government gate for defense, in the county government gate dozens of meters inside, there is a second line of defense built with sandbags and trenches, etc., the apprentices are standing in a trench half a meter deep at this time, and the sandbags can cover the chest, which can provide good protection.

Li Yingyuan followed the soldiers to run behind the sandbags and squatted up, so he dared to breathe a sigh of relief. The English recruited and trained a lot of soldiers during this time, and seeing more than 100 Ming soldiers standing behind sandbags at this time, Li Yingyuan finally felt a little safe.

Zheng Sanguan and Liu Xiang stood down beside Li Yingyuan, but they were frowning for a while, as if they were not afraid of the current situation at all, but felt very interesting.

Li Yingyuan couldn't help but scold in his heart, feeling that he was a little embarrassed, far from the other party's calmness.

"What's going on, why are so many people attacking the county government? Also, why are there only us Ming people here, why are those English people gone?" Li Yingyuan couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"Damn, we've all been lied to. Zheng Sanguan cursed in a low voice: "These big Fusang families in Dinghai are subservient to the English on the surface, but secretly they collude with the Japanese to attack us.

I just heard that these Fuso bigwigs are hiding pirates in their own homes from the English, and they want to give us a cruel attack when we are not looking. It is said that many pirate ships have also come to the sea, and they are besieging the English warships.

However, the English had already taken precautions, and arranged serious illnesses in ports and other places, waiting for these pirates to come.

The English people on our county side also secretly moved to the port side, and it is said that there was also a fierce fight. As far as those of us who are of low rank don't know anything, we still want to go out to drink on this day, and we were almost made dumplings.

The bosses above us are not necessarily unaware of these military arrangements, but they hide them from us, and no one tells us. Anyway, now our county government is very empty, and only more than 200 of us Ming soldiers know this. ”

Li Yingyuan suddenly changed color. At this time, when it was safe, I noticed that from time to time there was a dull sound of artillery on the side of the harbor, both the sound of the English naval guns and the small cannons of the pirates, which sounded rumbling and endless, all of them desperately firing shells as if they were not asking for money.

"By the way, where is Chen Changsheng?" Li Yingyuan suddenly remembered something and asked Zheng Sanguan and Liu Xiang. "Do you see him?"

"Isn't he with you?" Zheng Sanguan and Liu Xiang were stunned.