Hearing the threat from the gambling thugs, Xiong Minyang burst out laughing: "Brother, do you want to rely on the more and bully the less?"
"What, you don't accept it?" the thug said with wide eyes.
Xiong Min looked down and saw a stick at his feet that one of the thugs had left behind. He lightly kicked the stick with his foot, and the stick hit less than an inch in front of Xu Rendi's feet. He pointed with his finger.
The stick said: "No matter how many of you there are, I warn you, don't step over this stick, otherwise..."
"Otherwise, what?" The thug who just spoke was annoyed. He had never seen anyone dare to make such a bold statement under such circumstances. He raised his leg and stepped over the stick and said: "I
Just step over and bite me..."
Before he finished speaking, Yin Guoxian had already taken out a musket from his arms, and without saying a word, he pointed at the thug's leg and pulled the trigger.
"Snapped!"
There was just a loud noise, and a cloud of shotguns flew out of Yin Guoxian's barrel, hitting the thug in the thigh. After repeated improvements by Hao Qing, Xu Guangqi and others, the firing speed of the flintlock gun has been greatly improved.
It has the flavor of a modern firearm. Due to the use of good steel as the barrel material, the weight of the entire gun is greatly reduced, and it will not feel inconvenient at all when carried in the arms. Xiong Minyang is the commander of the firearms department, and his soldiers are originally
For those who play with muskets, it is not difficult to hit a target within a few steps.
"Ouch!" The thug fell down holding his legs, and his trousers were instantly soaked with blood.
"They have blunderbuss!"
Including Xu Rendi, everyone in the gambling house was shocked. Ming Dynasty law strictly prohibited the possession of firearms by civilians. Ordinary people would not dare to hide firearms privately. Even strongmen generally would not be equipped with them.
Fireguns, because it is also very difficult to obtain gunpowder. These few people in front of you can actually hide firearms, and they are probably from the government.
"Come up and kill them!" Xu Rendi was the first to react. He remembered that the people above had blown the wind to them a few days ago, saying that the imperial court had sent some scholar Su to investigate the matter of the powerful landowners and asked them to
Be careful not to leave any clues. Seeing the people in front of them taking out firearms, Xu Rendi instinctively connected these people with the court's investigating officials. At this time, he wanted to bribe the other party or ask the other party.
It's too late to compromise. The only way is to kill people and silence them. As for the rest of the matter, we can just find a way to settle it.
"Slowly... Shopkeeper Xu, they have fire guns, maybe they are officers and soldiers!" Some of the thugs were not stupid, so they naturally thought of the extraordinary origins of the other party. These thugs usually dared to play tricks on the people, but they never thought of fighting with them.
The confrontation between officers and soldiers. Killing officers and soldiers is a serious crime that wipes out the entire family.
"What about the officers and soldiers? We killed them all, who knows?" Xu Rendi said in a low voice. There were also a group of overturned gamblers beside him. It was impossible to kill all these gamblers, so they couldn't be allowed to listen.
to this sentence.
"But..." Everyone turned their attention to the unlucky thug who was hit in the leg. Yin Guoxian used shotguns. A total of more than a dozen grains of rice-sized iron sand hit the man's leg, causing blood to flow.
It was hard to see this. Everyone felt a little scared in front of such a domineering firearm.
"If you are not afraid of death, just give it a try." Xiong Minyang said, and took out two muskets from his arms. Together with Liao Yiming and Yin Guoxian, there were a total of six muskets aimed at the dozens of thugs, so that everyone did not dare to act rashly.
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"They are all useless. They raise troops for a thousand days and use them for a while. They are all given to me. They only have six fire guns in total. There are more than thirty of us!" Xu Rendi cursed loudly, but his own figure quietly
He moved a few steps back and hid himself behind several thugs.
"Haha, brothers, your life is yours. If you lose your life, nothing will taste good." Xiong Minyang fiddled with the musket in his hand and said to the thugs with a smile. With the weapon in hand, he did not feel any psychological pressure at all.
. He held up the gun and let the muzzle move back and forth in front of the thugs' chests. The thugs in the gambling shop who he pointed the gun at subconsciously took half a step back. No one was willing to use their body to block the bullet.
, win the opportunity for your companions to make meritorious deeds.
"The official is handling the case, everyone should get down!"
At this moment, several doors of the gambling house were knocked open, and even the larger windows were kicked open. The window sash flew out more than ten steps. Through those open doors and windows, hundreds of people poured in.
The soldiers holding spears and muskets were led by Commander Qian Zhang Yunlong. Zhang Yunlong looked up and saw that the rest of the casino was full of injured people lying on the ground groaning. Only in one corner was a group of people focused.
Then he said hello and rushed over with a hundred soldiers, forming a half circle behind the group of gambling thugs.
"Get down!" the soldiers ordered in unison, holding up their spears and muskets.
"My lords, there is a misunderstanding, there is a misunderstanding..." Xu Rendi was sweating profusely and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. Just now he had the idea of silencing Xiong Minyang and his party, but now he saw that there were hundreds of officers and soldiers, and it was obviously not that
How could he dare to resist a guard soldier who was just waiting to die?
"You don't have fucking ears, I told you to get down!" A soldier from Kanyu Camp kicked Xu Rendi down. Xu Rendi was about to get up, but when he was halfway up, there was another ball on his butt.
After being kicked, he had to lie there obediently.
Seeing that the officers and soldiers were numerous and unreasonable, the thugs in the gambling house lost all fighting spirit. Anyway, the boss was already lying down, so they quickly threw away their wooden sticks and followed the officers and soldiers' instructions, lying down on the ground one by one.
The buttocks were sticking out for a long time.
"Okay, you can talk now. What's the misunderstanding?" Zhang Yunlong stepped forward calmly, put his foot on Xu Rendi's back, and said cheerfully.
"Master, please forgive me, it's really a misunderstanding..." Xu Rendi's face was covered with tears and runny nose, and he didn't know how to speak.
"Mr. Qian!" Xiong Minyang led Liao Yiming and Yin Guoxian forward and saluted Zhang Yunlong. Mo San followed them with a look of fear. In his opinion, Xiong Minyang was already a big enough officer, and this Yunlong was better than
Xiong Minyang's official position is still high, so he can't be the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses?
Zhang Yunlong returned the gift to Xiong Minyang and others, frowned and asked: "Mr. Xiong, why did it take so long to send the signal? I thought you leaked the news and was arrested."
It turned out that Xiong Minyang and others came to the casino to provoke a provocation just to create a pretext so that the survey battalion could intervene in the investigation of the casino. When Xiong Minyang and others entered the casino, Zhang Yunlong led hundreds of soldiers summoned from all directions.
They had already been lying in ambush around the gambling house. The two parties agreed that after Xiong Minyang and others obtained evidence in the gambling house, they would instigate a fight and then shoot as a warning. When Zhang Yunlong heard the gunfire, he led his people to the casino to arrest them.
Xiong Minyang did not expect that the gamblers who were provoked would be so violent and actually fought with the thugs in the gambling house for more than half an hour. Since the two sides were still fighting, Xiong Minyang naturally was not in a hurry to shoot and send a signal.
People who watch the fun never find it too exciting.
"Mr. Qian, six are dead, three were thugs in gambling houses, and three were common people who gambled money. There are still a few who are dying. There are more than 200 injured, so I can't count them." A soldier
He ran over and reported to Zhang Yunlong about the situation of cleaning up the battlefield.
"Tsk..." Zhang Yunlong frowned again, "How come there were still lives lost? Three civilians died. This was an unreasonable disaster."
Xiong Minyang said: "This is Mr. Lin's order, saying that the bigger the noise, the better."
The Mr. Lin he was talking about was Li Zhi. Because Li Zhi was an imperial prisoner and did not dare to use his real name, the military only knew him as Mr. Lin. Xiong Minyang took orders from Li Zhi to cause trouble, and Li Zhi did explain to him that
Try to make the noise as big as possible, and also vaguely reveal that it is best if you can cause harm to people.
"How can I explain to Su Shoubei if a life is lost?" Zhang Yunlong muttered.
"I can just tell Gai Zhi about this matter." Li Zhi walked into the gambling house accompanied by Xue Yong.
At this time, Xu Rendi and the gangsters, croupiers, and boys in the gambling shop were all locked up. The gamblers who participated in the fight were also locked up in a big room. People were killed on the scene. These people will be killed in the future.
As a witness, Zhang Yunlong did not dare to let them go easily.
"Mr. Lin, if you want to raid Xinglong Gambling House, you only need to send troops to seal the door. Why go to all the trouble to make such a scene? These gamblers are ordinary people and do not deserve to die. Even the few dead thugs will not die.
Not to the point of death, right?" Zhang Yunlong said.
"Yes, if Master Su learns about this, I'm afraid he will blame us." Xue Yong also said timidly.
Li Zhi said disapprovingly: "Those who want to achieve great things should not stick to small details. If you change this person, you are too stick to small details, so it is difficult to achieve great things. Compared with saving hundreds of thousands of people in Runing from fire and water, a few lives can
What does it count as?”
"But... wouldn't it be better if we could avoid killing people?" Zhang Yunlong argued. He was a guard soldier and had only fought a few battles in total. He was not yet at the stage where he regarded human life as nothing. If it were replaced by Deng Kui
, maybe you will feel relieved.
Li Zhi said: "If lives are not spared, the intervention of our officers and soldiers will mean that the troops have no name. Now that six people have died at once, it is a big case. We just happened to run into it. How can we ignore it? Even if this public case is brought to the court in the future, the cabinet will not do it."
There is no way to say that changing it is a violation of power."
"Uh... Okay, sir, what you said makes sense." Zhang Yunlong was defeated, but he still had to mutter in his heart: I have heard for a long time that Li Zhi was a great scholar in the world, but I didn't expect that the person who was so cruel and vicious was Li Zhi.
Are they different, or are all great scholars so sinister?
"Seal the Xinglong Gambling House and no one is allowed to come in or out. Search each room for me, not a single piece of paper will be missed!" Li Zhi gave the order to the soldiers with murderous intent. He must find it in the shortest possible time.
To uncover the evidence of Xinglong Gambling House, we must also find evidence of collusion between the gambling house and other people, so that we can follow the clues and dig out the entire criminal network. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!