Chapter 179
Returning to the barracks arranged by Wang Jiayin for himself, Cao Bianjiao whispered to Li Guodong: "Brother, what you said just now is really a bit ruthless. If it is passed on to the court by someone with a heart, it may be difficult to explain."
"I just wanted to arouse Wang Ni so that I could get him drunk." Li Guodong replied softly.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, we should do it, right?"
"It's almost done, let's arrange it. I'll arrange the bird gunner to the roof. My night-time blast and your uncle's servants go to open the city gate; the Taixi musketman follows behind."
Before it was dark, Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Iron Cavalry had already set out and was approaching Hequ County.
At this time, Wang Jiayin was already drunk. He had already vomited twice at the table before. After vomiting, he was drunk by Li Guodong and others. After the banquet, two "confidants" Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong helped him back. As soon as they returned to the bedroom, Wang Jiayin fell softly on the bed, making a loud snoring sound.
The two "confidants" stood at the door of the house and kept watch, paying due diligence, and no idle people were allowed to approach. Wang Jiayin's other guards were all drunk.
"The time is almost over, let's do it." Zhang Liwei made a gesture to Wang Guozhong.
With the benefit of being Wang Jiayin's confidant, the two sneaked into the bedroom, and only heard the sound of snoring on the collapse. Zhang Liwei pulled out his steel knife, tiptoed to the edge of the bed, raised his sword and fell, a radiated blood mist splattered on the wall, and Wang Jiayin's head fell from his neck. A generation of heroes was killed by two unknown people.
Zhang Liwei held his head in his hand, turned around and gestured to Wang Guozhong: "Let's go!"
The two took Wang Jiayin's head to the door of Li Guodong and Cao Bianjiao's barracks and knocked gently.
"Who?" someone asked vigilantly.
"It's us, Zhang Liwei, we have succeeded."
The door opened, and Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong took Wang Jiayin's head into the door.
"Have you succeeded? Okay, we're starting to do it too!" Cao Bianjiao nodded and gave an order.
The soldiers touched the door of the warehouse where the grain truck was parked, opened the mezzanine, and took out the weapons from it. Then Li Guodong's bird gunman climbed onto the roof and loaded the ammunition. One hundred elite soldiers didn't take them away at night and started to attack in other places in the city. They touched one barracks after another and sent the sleeping thieves inside to the west one by one.
Cao Bianjiao walked towards the city gate with five hundred clans. Li Guodong's two hundred flintlock spearmen followed behind.
"Who?" The bandit soldiers on the city gate tower found someone approaching and shouted.
"Kill!" Cao Wenzhao shouted, pulled out his knife and rushed up the steps first, and rushed towards the city gate tower.
Li Guodong behind him ordered: "Breaking the gun!"
Two hundred flintlock gunmen picked up muskets and pointed the bandit sentry on the city gate tower to pull the trigger. The deafening gunshot sounded, and the flintlock guns blew out flames. A row of projectiles flew up to the city gate tower. More than a dozen bandits standing on top spewed out blood arrows and fell down one after another. Two of them were beaten to fall from a backward green onion above the city gate to the ground.
Cao Bianjiao and his servants rushed to the city gate tower, and cut melons and vegetables with a long sword in his hand. The dozens of bandits guarding the city gate tower were all cut into a pool of blood.
More than a dozen other servants rushed into the city gate and opened the city gate. At the same time, Cao Bianjiao, who had already climbed the city gate tower, asked his servants to lower the suspension bridge.
"Kill!" Cao Wenzhao, who had been waiting outside the city, pointed his spear in his hand towards the opening city gate.
"Kill!" Thousands of Guanning iron cavalry galloped behind Cao Wenzhao and rushed into the city from the cave gate.
The sound of guns in the city continued, and the bird gunner hiding on the roof aimed at the bandits who rushed out of the house and pulled the trigger. The fire spurted on the roof, and the bandits who rushed out of the house were immediately beaten into a sieve.
The two hundred flintlock gunmen have also changed to free shooting, constantly killing the bandits rushing out of the house.
The city was already in chaos, and many houses were lit, and the fire illuminated the streets. The cavalry rushed back and forth on the streets. The bandits who rushed out of the house were either knocked out, trampled into meat paste, or flew past them by a cavalry and flew into the sky.
Cao Bianjiao's five hundred clans, Li Guodong's one hundred nights and two hundred flintlock spearmen were not idle either. They specialized in drilling into alleys where cavalry could not perform, and kept killing the bandits who were wearing clothes randomly.
Li Guodong personally brought two hundred musketeers through an alley, but saw more than 300 bandits suddenly popping up in front of him, waving various weapons in his hands and coming to Li Guodong and the others.
"Stop three rows, release!" Li Guodong ordered.
The deafening gunshots sounded, and seventy-three musketeers fired the first row of bullets, and a blood mist suddenly rose across the alley. The first row of musketeers who had fired the bullets immediately retreated, and the second group of seventy-three musketeers stepped forward, aimed at the rushing bandits and pulled the trigger. Another round of gunfire, the bandits fell down. The third row of musketeers came up and shot, knocking down another row of thieves who were trying to rush up.
Two hundred flintlock gunmen were divided into three rows of shooting, and the gunshots were round after round, without stopping for a moment. The more than 300 thieves on the opposite side fell down layer by layer like peeled onions. In a blink of an eye, a pile of corpses like a hill was piled up in the middle of the alley.
The flintlock rifle loads much faster than the bird gun, and it uses paper cartridges to load ammunition. A well-trained musketeer only takes ten breaths to complete the reload. It is divided into three rows of shooting, and an average of about three breaths can shoot a round of bullets. With such a shooting density, the bandits cannot rush through the narrow alley.
Li Guodong, with two hundred flintlock spearmen, pushed through alleys like a bulldozer, and the enemies that appeared in front were knocked down one after another.
On the street, Cao Wenzhao's cavalry rushed back and forth, Li Guodong's musketeers advanced in the alley, Cao Bianjiao's servants and Li Guodong's night stop. Whether the thieves rushed onto the street or hid in the alley, they could not escape the fate of being killed.
The sky gradually became brighter, and most of Wang Jiayin's thieves in Hequ City were annihilated, and those who were still alive hid in their houses and dared not come out. The 5,000 stones of food sent by Li Guodong yesterday were intact, and the fire in the city had not affected the warehouse.
The Ming officers, soldiers and infantrymen behind us entered the city one after another. After Hong Chengchou arrived, he immediately ordered the infantry to search from house to house and search out all the remaining bandits.
In the afternoon, more than 3,000 elite old thieves in Wang Jiayin's old camp were wiped out in the city, and most of them were killed, and more than 500 were captured. There were still 3,000 thieves in the city, who were not Wang Jiayin's elite old thieves, but were entangled with the thief, and more than 2,000 were captured.
"Give me your life! Give me your life! All the soldiers! We will never follow the thief again!" More than two thousand ordinary thief prisoners knelt on the ground and begged hard.
Hong Chengchou was unmoved at all and ordered that the more than 2,500 thieves beheaded without discrimination.
"Duchen Hong, how to deal with the more than 20,000 refugees outside the city?" Cao Wenzhao asked.
Chapter completed!