Chapter 19: Night Raid
A month later, the bandits came to Bauhinia Village as scheduled to collect "Taiping money".
The merchants in Bauhinia Village behaved very deferentially, and honestly took out 30% of the profits they had earned in a month and handed them over. The patriarchs of the three surnames of Zhou, Wang, and Zheng also gave a large amount of liquor and cooked meat, accompanied by a smiling face, and asked these heroes to take care of them in the future.
Yuan Jie, the "flying monkey" who came with enough people and was ready to use some methods to kill chickens and monkeys, was greatly delighted after being shocked, and arrogantly warned the town's fathers and elders to follow this rule in the future, and then roared away with a cart full of belongings.
Yu Tianlai sat in the Yan family's tofu workshop, looking at the backs of the thieves in the distance, and a sneer with a deep meaning appeared on his face.
At night, Yu Tianlai followed the route of the last climb and climbed the Great Sage Peak silently again. He first observed the movement around him, then untied a long, thin and tough rope from his waist and hung down from the top of the cliff.
After a while, he felt the rope in his hand tighten, and then he was pulled three times in a row, and immediately withdrew the rope upwards, and in a short time a large package was lifted up from under the cliff.
Yu Tianlai first hid the package behind a rock, turned around and sneaked inside.
Tonight is the end of the month, and although the weather is clear, there is no bright moon in the sky, and it is pitch black all around.
Next to a bonfire, there are still five bandits sitting around for the night.
Yu Tianlai knew that if his plan was to go smoothly, he had to solve this no one first. He took a deep breath, leaned on the ground, and performed the technique of ambushing the deer, quickly approaching under the cover of night.
When Kankan reached the range of the fire, he paused slightly, and then his hands and feet were charged at the same time.
Suddenly, Yu Tianlai put his feet and hands on the ground at the same time, and the power accumulated to the apex exploded, and his body shot out like an arrow from the string against the ground, instantly passing through the space reflected by the firelight, and came behind the two bandits who turned their backs to him.
His palms came out together, imprinting on the back of the hearts of the two thieves extremely quickly and lightly, and the soft palm power penetrated through his body and turned fierce, breaking the hearts of the two of them in one fell swoop.
At the moment when the two thieves didn't say a word and their bodies fell down, Yu Tianlai's body rose upward, his palms turned into claws and poked out left and right, pinching the back of the necks of the other two thieves who were about to scream in shock, and twisted his wrists as his ten fingers tightened. Only two soft sounds of "click" and "click" were heard, and the neck bones of the two thieves were broken, but the cry finally did not have time to exit.
Relying on the bandit he was holding with both hands, Yu Tianlai's right leg kicked out in the air, and the fierce force on his leg forced the burning bonfire to separate to both sides, and his toes hit the throat of the last bandit opposite the bonfire.
The thief's throat was shattered, his eyes bulging and he fell on his back, and he didn't have time to make a sound.
Before and after two lives, this is the first time Yu Tianlai has killed people. But he has killed countless beasts in the mountains and forests over the years, and after seeing the tragic scene of Baishui Village, he has long thought in his heart that he will not treat these bandits who have annihilated humanity as human beings, so he is extremely decisive and ruthless when he starts, and there is no psychological discomfort after the incident.
Lightly supporting the bodies of the five thieves in a sitting position, Yu Tianlai returned to the edge of the cliff to retrieve the package.
He sneaked to a tent where the thieves lived, squatted down, took out an arm-thick bamboo tube with two bamboo knots, took out a bunch of incense, took out one of the sticks and inserted it into a round hole drilled in advance at one end of the bamboo tube, and then sent the bamboo tube under the tent, leaving only a small piece of incense sticks outside, and finally lit the incense sticks with a small section of charcoal firewood drawn from the bonfire.
After doing all this, Yu Tianlai went to the other tents and repeated what had happened over and over again, the only difference was that he cut the incense stick short every time. He has experimented countless times these days, and he can almost guarantee that all the incense sticks will burn at the same time.
Yu Tianlai made a move on each tent, except for the two small tents in the center where the Yuan brothers lived. The reason why this is so is only because the ears and eyes of masters like the Yuan family brothers are far sharper than ordinary people, as long as he is the slightest negligent to make a sound, it will also alarm these two people and cause the previous achievements to be wasted. And in addition to the wings of the two, he is not afraid that they will be able to escape to the sky, but he does not have to force them to do everything in one fell swoop.
Fortunately, there were no accidents during the whole process, and the wine and meat that the three family heads gave to the bandits during the day should have played a great role.
Yu Tianlai came to the horse pen with the shriveled package, and found a corner to wait quietly. There were the last two bamboo tubes at hand, but what was inserted in the round hole was no longer incense sticks, but the medicine of the cannonball.
About a moment later, clusters of fire exploded in the tents almost in no sequence, accompanied by thunderous explosions and terrible screams.
The bamboo tubes were the secret weapons that Yu Tianlai had carefully made during the month, and each bamboo tube was divided into two sections, one containing gunpowder and pieces of broken iron from the town's artillery operations, and the other filled with fire oil. When the incense sticks ignite the gunpowder at the end of the burn, the explosive and hot metal chips and oil that are flying everywhere become the deadliest weapons.
Watching the blazing and bloody bandits escape from the shattered, smoking and burning tents, and rolling on the spot to try to extinguish the flames without caring about the multiple wounds on their bodies, Yu Tianlai raised his hand a few palms to split the wooden fence facing the bandits, and then ignited the medicine on the last two bamboo tubes, and threw it into the horse pen with shaking hands.
"Boom, boom!" two more flames burst out with a loud sound.
There was no oil and pieces of broken iron in these two bamboo barrels, and the amount of gunpowder was much less, which was actually two extra-large artillery pieces. But just these two explosions will be completely frightened crazy by the dozens of bad horses that have been alarmed by the explosions, fires, and screams on the other side. They screamed frantically and rushed out of the gap in the stall, desperately rushing towards the bandits who were already in disarray, and trampled along the way, and many of the bandits who had escaped from the explosion and fire were reduced to mud......
When the fire rose from the top of the Great Sacred Peak, the two solid wooden doors on the wall below were separated from the left and right, and Yim Wing Chun walked out of the door with a pair of bloodstained butterfly knives in his hand. Just now, she sneaked into the wall alone, and killed more than a dozen bandits on duty here with the double knives in her hands.
Nearly 100 young people from the Bauhinia Village have come to the gate of the village, each of them holding a short stick with an iron tip inlaid at both ends, carrying five four-foot-long bamboo javelins behind their backs, and looking at Yim Wing Chun with excitement and reverence on their faces.
Yim Wing Chun's face was a little pale, the first time she killed someone, she finally felt a little uncomfortable in her heart. But when she turned her head to see the fire on the top of the mountain, her worry about her senior brother made her quickly suppress this discomfort, and waved her hand and ordered: "Go up the mountain!"