"Bring up the door-breaking hammer." Huang Kezun gave the order directly.
Following Huang Kezun's orders, his men quickly brought up a cart. On the cart was a log so thick it took two men to hold it together, with the front end shaved to a very sharp point.
"Knock on the door." Huang Kezun said directly without any hesitation.
Following Huang Kezun's words, seven or eight people pulled the cart back a short distance, then suddenly pushed the cart towards the door in front of them and slammed it hard.
After a loud bang, the wooden door shook and went straight inward, even making a cracking sound. It was obvious that some of the wooden boards had been broken.
Inside the yard, everyone's face looked grim.
A man in his forties stood behind the crowd, holding a knife with a dark face and looking very anxious.
A man ran up to him and asked directly, "Master, what should we do now? They're banging on the door and will be coming in soon."
After hearing this, the hall master gritted his teeth and said angrily, "How come these people came so quickly?"
"The news just came in. It is said that the incident happened last night, but the news has been blocked. Now that people have been dispatched, the news has come out." The subordinate said anxiously.
"We can't stay here anymore!" the hall master said angrily, "Block the door, and then we'll escape through the back door. If the back door is blocked, we'll climb over the walls on both sides. We can't wait to die here!"
It was basically impossible to defend this courtyard. As time went on, more and more Ming troops would arrive, and this courtyard would be impossible to hold on to. By then, all of these dozens of people would die here.
After hearing this, the subordinate nodded quickly and said, "I'll go right away."
At the same time, at the back door of the yard.
A young general came up quietly with a dozen people.
The equipment of these dozen people was different from that of the previous Ming army. They all wore black leather armor, carried long swords in their hands, had daggers tied on their legs, and had no other protection except an iron plate tied on their foreheads. It was obvious that they didn't want helmets to be in the way. They had steel crossbows hanging around their waists and two short guns on their backs.
The leading general, who was in his twenties, glanced at the men behind him and said directly, "There's already a commotion up ahead. Have the houses on the left and right been cleared out?"
"Report to the captain, all the positions have been cleared out and our people have been assigned." The subordinate said hurriedly.
The captain nodded and said, "Fire the flares, the action begins."
After saying this, someone beside the captain took out a flare and lit the fuse behind it.
The hissing sound of burning quickly ignited the arrow above.
"call out!"
A sharp whistle was heard, and the arrow rose into the air. Then, with a snap, it instantly broke into pieces in the air.
The dozen or so people took a step back, ran to the wall, kicked the wall hard, grabbed the top of the wall with both hands, kicked the wall again with their feet, and jumped directly to the top of the wall.
Seeing the sticks sticking out from inside, these people did not panic. They raised their crossbows and shot downwards.
The crossbow arrow was very accurate and hit the throat of the person below directly, and the person fell down immediately.
The man on the wall jumped down, raised his crossbow, and shot arrows at the surroundings. The same man quickly fell from the walls on both sides.
They took turns covering each other, advancing quickly with crossbows, and when they saw someone, they would quickly shoot an arrow. The people behind them carried knives and would go up and stab anyone who was alive, moving very quickly.
The group quickly moved towards the center. Not only was they fast, but they also did not make any mistakes. It was obvious that these people had received professional training.
The hall master in front was leading his men to retreat in an orderly manner towards the back door when he suddenly saw a man running towards them in a panic.
"Why are you running?" The hall master kicked the man and said angrily, "Why are you panicking? The most important thing right now is not to panic."
The man hurriedly said, "Master, someone is coming from behind! There are also people coming from the left and right sides!"
"They're really ruthless!" The hall master gritted his teeth and said, "At this point, we have no way out. Let's fight our way out of the back door together! Only by fighting our way out can we survive, otherwise we will all die!"
At this moment, the hall master couldn't understand why he was discovered.
Although these people were planning a rebellion, they had not taken any action. They had only collected some food in Jining and had not done anything else. How come they were found?
Someone in the palace was trying to assassinate the emperor, and the hall master had just learned about this. But this matter had nothing to do with him, and even if someone had done it, he was unaware of it.
However, the hall master was not sure that this was not done by someone else in the sect. What if someone did it and he didn't know about it?
Besides, I have a lot of swords and guns, and even armor here, so it is impossible to let anyone in.
If they were really allowed to search, they would have no way of escaping. Now they could only take things one step at a time and try to fight their way out of here and find a way to survive.
"Let's go!" After saying this, the hall master led his men to charge backwards.
The group quickly rushed to the backyard and saw a dozen people wearing leather armor.
Everyone was stunned by the outfit. What was going on? However, they didn't dare to be stunned for long, as they rushed forward with knives in hand.
You can't be distracted during a life-or-death battle.
The black-armored men on the opposite side also reacted quickly. They quickly took out two short guns from behind and pulled the trigger without any hesitation.
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