Chapter 87 The Song Family Granary
Song Pinghe was panicked, but he still forced himself to calm down and thought about what to do.
The courtyard wall has collapsed for a while, and the cannons originally on the courtyard wall have also been buried in the ruins. Next, the thieves are about to launch a strong attack and rushed up directly.
If you can't stop it, then it will be really done.
Song Pinghe took several deep breaths in a row, calmed his breath and shouted: "Everyone is on the wall, use muskets and bows to block them. If the bandits dare to come over, we will kill it without leaving any armor."
When Song Pinghe tried to continue to boost morale, the light gunners of the bandit army who had already stopped outside had already vigorously pushed the light gun in their hands forward as soon as the courtyard wall collapsed.
It spanned more than 100 meters in a short time, and finally opened fire quickly over a range of more than 100 meters from the courtyard wall!
The range of these light guns is not very good, and they are not good at a distance of a little lethality, but the iron beads are still very lethal as a large number of shrapnel shot at a distance of more than 100 meters.
As the ten light cannons from Baoxiang Camp fired one after another, the Song family guards on the courtyard wall immediately suffered heavy casualties.
The remaining people who have not yet died or injured did not dare to appear, for fear of being killed by shrapnel.
More importantly, some people have begun to be unable to withstand such a fierce defensive battle and escape one after another.
Song Pinghe touched the blood on his face, and a shrapnel just now cut across the blood from the small wound left on his face!
He is also very lucky. If the shrapnel is a few centimeters more, he will have to meet the ancestors of the Song family on the spot.
However, at this time, he no longer cared about the pain of the small wound on his face and said to a group of people who turned around and ran away: "Everyone will go back to fight the thief, each of them will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. If you dare to escape, you will be killed immediately and take back the whole family's tenant land."
"As long as we resist and retreat, the bandits will not be able to fight in."
"If we can't stop it and let the bandits kill in, everyone will die!"
Song Pinghe shouted continuously, saying to everyone, trying to get them back to the wall to resist.
After Song Pinghe's shouting, hearing this, many people from some hospital guards and young men hesitated, and some even stopped.
The thief army is terrible, but offending the Song family is equally terrible. If he dies, it is also said that if the family is taken back from the Song family, their family will starve to death!
But not long after, the young and strong people ran away again when they stopped running away...
This time, Song Pinghe stopped shouting!
Because after multiple rounds of light artillery fire were covered by the bandit army, the musketeers and archers of the bandit army had already crossed the light artillery and opened fire at the top of the courtyard wall within a hundred meters.
This is not important. What matters is that a group of bandits in armor rushed towards the collapsed courtyard wall!
The bandit army has launched a strong attack, which not only caused serious casualties and injuries to our guards and young men, but also directly overwhelmed the last courage to resist.
Song Pinghe knew that no matter how he threatened and tempted the young and strong guards, it was impossible for them to stay here to resist.
Song Pinghe looked at the bandits who had already rushed to the ruins of the courtyard wall, and then looked at his own guard who were fleeing to his life.
He closed his eyes slightly and murmured: "Fuck Ru Niang's thief"
"My old Song family has a two hundred years of foundation..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly fell backwards. At this time, his chest wall had been shot out by musket bullets, and a large amount of blood was flowing out. After a while, he tilted his head and died.
After Song Pinghe was killed by the bandits' muskets on the courtyard wall, the butler and several other entourages who were still by his side all turned around and ran backwards.
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Luo Zhixue on the other side saw that his soldiers had already rushed into the Song family manor and nodded slightly: "This time the artillery whistle was doing a good job."
This time the attack on the Song Family Manor was smoother than expected, and the reason why it was so smooth was because the artillery post performed well.
Two 600-pound long cannons personally commanded by Zhang Chenglin successfully destroyed a section of the courtyard wall of the Song Family Manor after multiple rounds of artillery attacks, and destroyed the Song Family cannons deployed on the courtyard wall.
Then Zhang Chenglin asked his ten light cannons to advance and covered the troops on the courtyard walls of the Song Family Manor. This seriously injured the Song Family Guardian, but also seriously destroyed their determination to resist.
When the musketeers and archers stepped forward to suppress the fire, few people in Songjiazhuang dared to use arrows and the muskets to resist.
The last armored infantry rushed forward and launched the last attack was natural.
The artillery outpost played a greater role than expected during the entire attack. Originally, Luo Zhixue expected that the attack on Songjiazhuang would cause dozens of casualties. If he was not lucky, he might have more than a hundred casualties.
But now it seems that the actual casualties will be much less than expected.
Now, except for seven or eight unlucky guys who were stubbornly resilient, the Song Family Guardian was killed with muskets or bows and arrows, everyone else is still fine.
After the subsequent attack into the Song Family Manor, the soldiers of Baoxiang camp did not encounter much resistance. There was not much resistance, so there would naturally be no casualties.
The wall of the Song family's courtyard has been taken down, and the head of the Song family Song Pinghe has been killed in battle. The most important thing is the Song family's guard and the temporarily recruited tenants, young and strong, servants and others have been extremely panicked, rushing to escape one by one, and no one dares to stay where they are fighting with the soldiers in Baoxiang camp.
The dog was wearing thick armor, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, panting and following his comrades toward the warehouse in the Song family manor in front of him.
It is not accurate to say that they are killing them, because there are no enemies on the left and right in front of them.
Dogzi is not gasping for breath now because he is fighting with the enemy. In fact, he has never fought with even one enemy along the way.
The reason why he ran away now was that when he was more than 100 meters away from the Song Family Village, he followed his comrades to the collapsed courtyard wall gap. After rushing in, he went to the warehouse where the Song Family stored food according to the order.
Wearing armor weighing dozens of kilograms and holding a shield and a waist knife, this body is carrying a heavy load, not to mention running for hundreds of meters in a row.
This did not exhaust him, but was just breathless, and was able to continue running with his comrades. That was because of good food and drink and proper physical training in the past two months.
If it were him before, he would probably be even worse.
Running all the way to the warehouse, the captain in front of the team ordered: "Control the warehouse immediately, and do not allow anyone to enter or exit. If you resist, you will be killed."
The purpose of Baoxiang Camp attacking the Song Family Manor this time was simple and pure, and it was for the food and other materials in the Song Family Manor. Therefore, after breaking through the courtyard wall and entering the Song Family Manor, the soldiers of Baoxiang Camp who continued to go deeper and pursued the remaining soldiers, also rushed to the warehouse as soon as possible.
The people in the Songjiazhuang were frustrated and burned the warehouse directly.
At the same time, it is also to avoid chaos, people snatching food and other supplies from the warehouse.
Therefore, these warehouses must be controlled as soon as possible to ensure the safety of materials.
This is also because Gouzi and the others were sent to the warehouse after they came in.
After Gouzi and a few comrades entered the warehouse, they were shocked by the scene inside.
"Oh my god, how much food is there!"
He pushed open the door and entered the warehouse, all he saw was full of food, piled up slowly.
Gouzi has never seen so much food in his life. Even though he had been to the logistics center of Songshan Village before to transport grain, he had also seen the granary in Songshan Village.
However, the granary in Songshan Village is a tiny witch compared to the granary in front of you.
Not to mention that Dog Zi was shocked, the captain of the team was shocked: "This Song family is really a big family. Just such a warehouse of grain is probably enough for thousands of us to eat for half a year."
Someone said next to him: "This is just one of their granaries, and there are three granaries here."
The captain hurriedly led people to check the other three granaries one by one. Like the first granaries, they were all filled with food.
The grain in the four granaries, even according to the current high grain consumption level of Baoxiangying, is enough for thousands of people to eat for two years.
"I've sent it, our Baoxiang Camp has really sent it this time!"
After being shocked, the captain immediately said, "Hurry up, go and report, and let the superiors send more people to come to visit the guard."
There is no accident in any case that there is so much food. His team is only more than 30 people, so it seems that the troops are insufficient to guard these granaries.
Not to mention that there are other warehouses, cloth, farm tools, horse materials and other messy things that store other materials.
These warehouses also require troops to be stationed to avoid any problems in the chaos.
Luo Zhixue, who was behind, soon learned that he had found a large amount of food and other materials from the warehouse in Songjiazhuang, and immediately said: "Send additional personnel and be sure to fully control each warehouse. There must be no mistakes."
I really came to Songjiazhuang right. The Song family is really a big family. In the chaotic times, there are hungry outside, but there is so much food hidden in the Songjia manor.
Huang Guangmao, who was standing by, heard that the Song family's food was enough for them to eat for two years, couldn't help but remember what happened in Songjiazhuang last year, which made him unable to help but complain to An Yong next to him: "Song Ping and this bastard cried poorly with me last year, and in the end they only gave me 300 kilograms of grain, 300 kilograms. Is this what people do?"
EYongduo laughed: "Isn't this good? The food saved is now in our hands."
Compared with Luo Zhixue and others who attach the most importance to control the warehouse, the task of clearing out the remaining enemies is less important.
Of course, these remaining enemies cannot escape. The Song family manor is so big that these people can't hide for long. As for running out, there are more than 100 cavalrymen from Baoxiang Camp outside.
They can't escape!
Under Luo Zhixue's order, Baoxiangying quickly sent more reinforcements to control the Song family warehouse. More than 100 people blocked and controlled the entire warehouse area, and at the same time strictly controlled the fire to avoid causing fires in chaos.
Only after ensuring the safety of the warehouse did the Baoxiang Camp turn its attention to clearing out the remaining soldiers.
Chapter completed!