"Crash!" The sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground was heard immediately, and two figures were quickly cast on the red window paper by the candlelight.
"Help, help, someone is here!" A figure in front shouted and ran away, running around the fallen tables and chairs and running towards the door. Then, without having time to open the door, he quickly turned back and continued to circle around the tables and chairs.
A figure behind him was chasing after him with a knife in his hand. However, he was blocked by the obstacle at his feet. For a moment, he was unable to do anything to save the escapee!
"Help, help, someone is coming, someone is coming, someone is here to pick a fight!"
"Help, help! The assassin killed Captain Zhao!"
"Help--"
The sound kept coming out of the window, making it look particularly shrill in the night sky.
Through the window, Dou Rong could clearly tell which figure was Han Qing. However, she did not dare to risk hurting her lover by shooting an arrow to help. She could only stare at the window paper without blinking, her heart beating almost as fast as
Come out of the throat!
Dou Sha, who was standing beside her, was even more nervous. The arm holding the folding shield kept shaking and trembling.
He felt that the biting night wind seemed to have suddenly stopped, and the howling of wolves all around also disappeared. The starlight above his head quickly dimmed, and the candlelight in the window suddenly became as bright as the sun.
The figure on the window paper suddenly became extremely clear. And the movement seemed to become extremely slow.
Dou Sha could clearly see Han Qing's blade slashing past his opponent, but the gap was only half an inch three times in a row.
He instinctively wanted to rush over to help the fight, but found that his legs were shaking so much that he could not move. He wanted to urge his sister to release the arrow quickly, but found that his upper and lower teeth were constantly colliding with each other, and he could not speak a complete sentence at all.
Just when he was so nervous that he almost suffocated, the Tang Dao in Han Qing's hand finally struck his opponent on the back. Blood sprayed all over the window again, dripping down along the window paper.
Dou Sha's mood suddenly relaxed and he could finally breathe normally. At this moment, from the surrounding huts, Red Lotus cultists finally rushed out, roaring and rushing towards the lobby where the lights were still on.
Because they were in the darkness, siblings Dou Rong and Dou Sha were completely ignored by the believers, and no one noticed their existence.
But Dou Rong did not hesitate to trigger the mechanism, and used a crossbow to shoot the fastest leader of the Red Lotus Cult from the side and front.
"Wring it for me!" She dropped the crossbow without hesitation and pulled out two throwing knives from her waist.
A Red Lotus cultist was so angry that he yelled and rushed towards her. She stabbed him in the head and hit him on the bridge of his nose. The latter immediately screamed and fell down, covering his nose with his hands and rolling on the ground.
Another Red Lotus cultist raised his knife and swung it left and right in front of him, trying to block the hidden weapon. Dou Rong swung the knife over again, hitting the man's descendant root.
"Hey--" Dou Sha responded at this time, and hurriedly opened the crossbow. Before he could load the crossbow arrows in place, several feather arrows had already whizzed in, and in an instant, they smashed the siblings on their sides.
Get mud splashing.
"Bang!" Dou Rong raised the folding shield with her feet in time and blocked herself and her brother.
More feather arrows flew in, making a popping sound on the surface of the shield made of bamboo boards and coarse cloth. However, not a single feathered arrow successfully broke through the shield's protection.
The bows in the hands of the bandits were too soft, and the arrows they shot were not powerful enough. The combination of bamboo slices and coarse cloth could remove most of the impact on the arrow's edge.
"Whoosh!" Dou Sha finally loaded the crossbow, but forgot to give it to his sister. Instead, he aimed at a Red Lotus cultist who was getting closer and closer and shot at it.
As a result, the crossbow arrow missed, and the opponent screamed loudly in fright, and hid behind a nearby rolling platform.
"Shoot him, shoot him!" Shouts kept coming, and more Red Lotus cultists rushed out of the huts, using hunting bows made of bamboo or ash wood, to greet Dou Rong and Dou Sha from a distance. They were already there.
Han Qing, who killed their helmsman and the general inspector in the lobby, was collectively forgotten by them.
Those arrows had poor penetrating power and poor accuracy, but they were numerous. Suddenly, they were so overwhelmed that Dou Rong and Dou Sha, the brother and sister, hid behind their shields and could not show their heads.
"There are only two of them!"
"Get 'em!"
"Catch them and light the sky lanterns!"
Some courageous Red Lotus cultists also quickly discovered that there were no other companions around the siblings to help them, and their courage suddenly increased. They shouted and surrounded them from both sides, trying to cut the two into pieces.
"Use the musket!" At this moment, a torch suddenly whirled towards the feet of the siblings. At the same time, Han Qing's voice came from the night sky, warm and calm.
"Hey -" Dou Sha immediately had a backbone, and at the risk of being hit by an arrow, he pulled out an iron pipe from the trousers behind his back, put it on the torch and lit the twister.
Immediately, he followed Han Qing's training standards for him in Ding'an County and tried hard to aim the mouth of the iron pipe at the nearest Red Lotus cultist to him.
"Boom!" A muffled thunder suddenly sounded in his hand, making him tremble and drop the iron pipe directly on the ground.
The Red Lotus cultist and another accomplice beside him covered their faces, squatted down, and screamed in agony, "Ah - my eyes, my eyes, ah -"
"Demon spell——" The rest of the Red Lotus cultists stopped one after another, staring blankly at the torches on the ground and Dou Rong, the Dou Sha siblings, who were behind the shield, and they were at a loss.
"Boom!" In Dou Rong's hand, a fire gun also rang out. The iron sand, accompanied by sparks and thick smoke, sprayed out more than two feet away, burning several Red Thread cultists and leaving blood blisters on their faces. One after another,
He fell down and rolled on the ground covering his face!
"Sorcery, sorcery!" The other Red Lotus cultists screamed loudly, their faces turned pale, and their arms and thighs trembled at the same time.
The black gunpowder originally produced in the Song Dynasty contained in the tug-of-war gun has obvious problems with the ratio. The iron sand and projectiles ejected are not lethal enough to penetrate thick clothes on people, and the effective range is only three feet. (Note: The tug-of-war gun officially appeared in
In the late Southern Song Dynasty, its power was equivalent to holding fireworks.)
However, using it rashly made the final decision.
The backbones of the Red Lotus Sect have been amassing money in the name of the fabricated "Holy Mother of the Red Lotus" to scare the people. It is inevitable that they have evil intentions in their hearts.
Suddenly they heard two muffled thunders in the middle of the night, and saw their companions covering their faces and rolling on the ground in misery. They immediately connected the musket with the legendary "magic weapon" that can perform magic.
Magic is naturally beyond the power of human beings. They are all ordinary people, how can they have the courage to continue to rush forward against the "sky thunder"?
It was too late, but it was too soon. Just when the gangsters were so frightened that they were fighting! Han Qing had already rushed to their side. The sword flashed and he chopped down the three men holding bows and arrows to the ground one after another.
"The Konghe Division of the Great Song Dynasty suppressed bandits, only killing the head culprits and never asking for threats!" He shouted at the top of his voice. He raised his knife and stepped forward, running towards the fourth Red Lotus Sect bandit holding a bow and arrow, and hit him head-on.
Split Huashan.
"Spare my life -" the gangster had not yet recovered from the shock, and screamed, raising his wooden bow to block. In an instant, the bow broke, the string broke, and the sword kept cutting into his body along the neck.
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"Spare your life -" The distance between another gangster and Han Qing was less than three feet. As long as he thrust the blade of his hand forward, Han Qing's blood would be splashed five steps away.
However, he shouted and turned around, dropped his weapon and fled.
Han Qing ignored the fleeing men and just ran towards the other gangster with a bloody knife.
The gangster barely reacted just when the sword was about to hit his scalp. Han Qing knocked the weapon away with the first sword, and then disemboweled him with another sword.
"The Song Dynasty Konghe Division suppressed bandits, only punishing the head culprits, never asking for threats!" Blood splashed all over his face, but Han Qing didn't bother to wipe it. Like a devil with red eyes, he took big steps and threw himself down.
A gangster raises his hand - the knife falls.
There are only three people on his side, and only one and a half of them are actually capable of fighting. Therefore, he is determined not to give the gangsters time to recover, and he has no right to show mercy to any gangster.
The third gangster barely blocked two moves and was knocked to the ground again.
Following closely, is the fourth place.
"The Konghe Division of the Great Song Dynasty suppressed the bandits, only killing the head culprits and never asking for threats!" Dou Sha finally came to his senses again, shouted, grabbed a musket, lit the twister on the top, and then pointed the muzzle of the gun at several
A fearless gangster.
"Spare your life——" "Boom!"
The gangsters turned around and ran away without hesitation, leaving holes in their backs covered in iron sand.
No one was injured, but none of them dared to look back. They just pretended that the "demon thunder" had struck sideways, allowing them to escape a certain death.
Dou Sha was stunned, dropped the smoking iron pipe, and reached out to grab the fourth musket.
He had no chance to waste his hard-earned gunpowder.
All around, all the gangsters completely lost their will to resist, dropped their weapons, and rushed towards the village gate in a chaotic manner. Even when their fastened trousers broke, they didn't even bother to pick them up.
And Han Qing was finally able to stop killing. Carrying a bloody knife, he chased the gangsters who were running the slowest. While chasing, he repeatedly emphasized, "The Song Dynasty Konghe Division suppressed bandits, only killing the chief culprits and coercing subordinates."
Do not ask!"
"I am a subordinate, a subordinate! My Lord, please spare my life, Lord, please spare your life!" Two Red Lotus sect gangsters in their forties couldn't run fast enough and squatted on the ground, panting and crying for mercy.
Han Qing was stunned for a moment, walked around them, and continued to chase the other gangsters. However, he quietly adjusted his speed to avoid chasing too fast and catching more prisoners, which would bring unnecessary risks to himself.
From the center of the village, he shouted and chased him all the way to the gate of the village, and then chased him along the mountain road for two miles before he stopped and quickly turned back.
When he re-entered the stronghold, Dou Sha had already tied the two surrendered prisoners into rice dumplings with ropes.
And Dou Rong, who had the same idea as him, took advantage of the opportunity when the Red Lotus Sect gangsters were chased by him and fled, and entered the main hall of the cottage. Everything inside and outside the main hall was turned upside down.
"Brother Han, hurry up and take a look. I found these two booklets next to the body!" Seeing Han Qing finally turn back, Dou Rong did not show off the mountains of silver ingots, copper coins and silk cloth, but bound the two books with twine.
, the leather booklet with blood stains on the surface was quickly handed to him.
"What is this? Is it an account book?" Han Qing took the book and flipped through it quickly. Immediately, his eyes were as wide as light bulbs.
Not only a ledger, but also a roster!
The two leaders of the Red Lotus Sect who were killed by him before obviously had high status in the sect.
Last night, the two of them were sorting out the roster of members of the Huanzhou branch and this year's income and expenditure accounts under the lamp. They fell asleep due to fatigue, and then he directly entered the room while half asleep.
"Brother Han, the prisoners said that their headquarters is in Huanzhou, only seventy or eighty miles away from here!" Before Han Qing could recover from the surprise, Dou Sha also rushed into the house and waved.
Report loudly with arms raised.
"Dou Sha, take the prisoners outside the stronghold and tie them to a tree." Han Qing shivered, not daring to delay any longer, and decisively ordered to his brother-in-law.
Then, he quickly turned his attention to Dou Rong, "You and I will light fires everywhere and light all the houses. No one will be left behind! Then, let's meet up at Dousha and return from the original road!"
After that, after thinking about it, he grabbed Dou Sha who was running out the door, and stuffed the account book directly into his hand, "Put this into the prisoners' arms and ask them to keep it. Tell them, big
Song Konghesi has arrived in Huanzhou. Those of you who know how to be wise should go home quickly after cutting off the rope, and don’t follow the Red Lotus Sect and seek death!"
