Chapter 205 Medicine Depot
Seeing that Hu Ba hadn't come back for so long, an officer with a toothpick in his mouth reached out and pulled the scattered silver on the table in front of him, and smiled: "How come Lao Hu has been peeing for so long? I'll ask someone to go out and see where they are falling."
Another officer with a mole on his eyebrows next to him heard this and grinned and said, "I'm afraid I'm not falling, I'm afraid I'm going to lose in a hurry. I really went to Guanying to find my sister, and I want to use poison to fight the poison."
This made the tent laugh, and someone joked: "I think Hu Ba is probably losing all, so who will go to borrow the capital?"
The officer holding a toothpick smiled, ignored everyone, turned his head and pouted at the personal soldiers serving him, and signaled him to go outside to take a look.
Although the personal soldier was a little unwilling, he still moved his eyes away from the pile of scattered silver, secretly scolded the officer for being so stingy, and then reluctantly squeezed out of the crowd.
There were hookahs in the room, and the smoke mixed with the smell of sweat from everyone, which was really fumigating. The personal soldier lifted the curtain and smelled fresh air, and his head was awake, but when he sniffed again, the smell was wrong: Why did he smell the smoke?
When I looked up, I was so scared that I opened my mouth wide and shouted at several burning tents in the distance: "I'm leaving, I'm leaving!"
"Have you gone?!"
The Qing soldiers who were having fun gambling in the house were stunned when they heard the shouting outside. Then they were so scared that they stopped gambled. They rushed out in a panic. The table was knocked to the ground, and the broken silver and copper plates that they had no time to take were all over the floor.
"Damn it, I'm in a hurry to reincarnate!"
The officer holding a toothpick touched the sky card again, but before he could open the card, the man rushed out in a swarm, making him scream in disgust. While cursing, he walked out of the tent with push and squeeze. When he came out, the fire had risen. The fire had spread from the original fire points to the entire camp through the wind, reflecting the red light above the entire naval camp.
All the Qing soldiers were frightened by the fire. The officer holding the toothpick was so scared that he spitted off the toothpick and stared at the camp in a daze.
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"It's gone, it's gone!"
"Put the fire, put out the fire!"
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The sudden fire ignited in the middle of the night woke many sleeping Qing soldiers from their dreams. They hurried out of the tent without even wearing their clothes and shoes. Some used wooden barrels to carry water, and some used clothes to put out the fire, but the fire had already started. It was not something that human power could put out. They could only shout everywhere like a group of headless flies, looking for a safe area to hide.
Liang Biaoxiang's Guangdong Navy was originally a pirate Red Flag Navy who had been surrendered from abroad. Although Liang Biaoxiang rectified several times, the pirates still had serious habits in the camp. In addition, several consecutive defeats, the military discipline of the navy was even more corrupt. Not only were the Qing soldiers screaming, but many women they were leading in the camp screaming, and some civilians and vendors were running around with the crowd.
The fire not only destroyed the camp, but also many messy objects. After a fire was attracted by the fire, thick smoke suddenly spread everywhere, choking the Qing soldiers in that area ran upwards without looking back.
"Damn it. The fire is too big and I can't save it. Everyone get on the boat! Don't let the boat be burned, hurry, hurry!"
The fire became bigger and bigger, and it was no longer possible for manpower to extinguish it. In addition, the camp was in chaos and no one organized the fire to put out the fire. The officer holding the toothpicks no longer hesitated. He immediately asked everyone to leave here and go to the dock to board the boat. The navy was basically ships and people, and the camp on the shore was not important at all. If it was gone, it would be gone and could be rebuilt at any time. But if the ship was gone, the navy would be really gone. For most Guangdong navy officers who were pirates, the ships were the capital for their survival. Therefore, when the officer holding the toothpicks said, everyone agreed, and they were in a panic and rushed to the dock to board the boat, and then drove the boat to the river far away from the dock.
As soon as a few people pulled their legs, a Qing soldier tripped to the ground with a "Oh" and touched his hand, and screamed again with a "Oh": "Mr. Hu, it's Mr. Hu!"
"Hu Ba?" An officer stopped, "What's wrong with Hu Ba?"
The Qing soldier who was tripped by Hu Ba's body shouted tremblingly: "Mr. Hu is dead!"
"What!"
This time, the officer holding a toothpick also stopped and turned his head to look at the Qing soldier who was making a sound. Sure enough, a corpse was vaguely like Hu Ba. He was shocked and quickly stepped forward and flipped over Hu Ba's body. When he saw a dagger in Hu Ba's chest, the man had already died so cold!
"Damn it. It's not that I'm going to go out of the water, but someone touched it in!" The officer holding a toothpick let go of Hu Ba's body, got up and said harshly to the rest of the Qing soldiers around him, and then ordered the Qing soldiers around him: "You go with me to find the Lord of the General Town, and the rest of the people and President Chen go to the dock, hurry up! Never let the thieves touch the boat!"
"twitter!"
The most feared thing in the chaos is that there is no backbone. Now the officer holding a toothpick is decisive and immediately becomes the backbone of the Qing soldiers. The other two officers and the officer holding a toothpick are brothers for many years. Knowing his intentions, he didn't say much and turned around and rushed to the dock with the others.
"The thieves touched in at night to set fire. The number of people must be small. Brothers, don't be afraid. Follow me to protect the Lord of the General Town, and then kill the thieves who touched in!"
The officer holding a toothpick waved his hand and ran to the camp of General Liang Biaoxiang with the remaining Qing soldiers. After running for more than ten steps, two explosions came from the dock.
"Boom! Boom!"
The explosion sounded in the middle of the night and was particularly shocking. All the Qing soldiers were frightened and subconsciously looked towards the dock. They saw that several warships parked on the dock had already caught fire. The explosions were already in a mess, with poles and rudders flying all over the ground. The Qing soldiers on them were either killed or jumping into the water crying and howling.
"The thief burned the medicine depot on the ship!"
When a Qing soldier saw an explosion at the wharf, he thought the warehouse where the gunpowder was stolen and the thief was so scared that he was nowhere to be looked down upon.
The officer holding the toothpick turned around and slapped him, cursing: "Damn it, the medicine warehouse was blown up, your ears were deaf! Don't worry about that, come with me!"
Although the navy defeated several times, there were not many artillery on the ships called "warships", the navy stored a lot of gunpowder. All of these gunpowders were plundered by King Pingnan from all over Guangdong. This time, the navy brought tens of thousands of kilograms. He did not fire a few guns when fighting with the Ming Navy in the previous period. The stock in the warehouse was sufficient. If the thieves were really blown up, it would not be as simple as blowing up a few ships, but most of the docks were about to be blown up!
Chapter completed!