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Chapter 62 Victory

The messy camp suddenly exploded, and many people packed up their things and ran towards the big warehouse. As leaders, they not only had to consider the survival of the tribe because of their greed for money, but also had to consider the survival of the tribe. In this barbaric land, two thousand iron arrows were enough to change the outcome of a battle. For tribes with only hundreds of warriors, a battle could determine the survival of the tribe.

"I also want to get these rewards from that Lord Li, at least I can't get them by my enemies." The leaders who were rushing in to the crowd thought this way.

When everyone entered the house, the hearty dishes were already filled with the tables. The most attractive thing was the wine piled up next to the main seat, the sugar cane wine filled with oak barrels, the Fenjiu, the rice wine and Luzhou wine bought from Guangdong and Jiangnan, and even the Persian red wine. This was David's collection and has been taken out by Li Mingxun.

The food on the table also made the leaders salivate. The smoked lamb legs were cut into large pieces. The roasted beef and mutton filled the plate. The large pieces of cheese exuded the milky aroma. Fresh salmon and grass carp were made locally, and a few Mongolian-style stews rolled in the iron pot. Fresh beef, lamb crumbs and mushrooms, and all kinds of vegetables rolled in it. Salt, spices and peppers were added to it. The thick meat was soaked in the vegetables, and the rich aroma came to the nose.

There were several iron racks in the center of the warehouse, and the whole fan of pork, sheep and deer were roasted under the fire of charcoal. The servants and chefs kept brushing the ghee and spices on it, which was full of color, fragrance and taste.

"Everyone, enjoy this banquet, drink wine and eat barbecue at will. I have prepared a performance for you. After the banquet, I will appreciate it again. It will definitely be unforgettable for you in your life." Li Mingxun looked at the appearance of everyone's old hats and laughed.

Everyone praised Li Mingxun's generosity. The warehouses were drinking and chatting, and the atmosphere quickly reached its peak. The leaders ate and drank loudly, and danced with great enthusiasm. David looked at the dance of these dirty barbarians and put them in Li Mingxun's ear and said, "Your Excellency, do you look at their barbaric dances like puppets that lack lubrication?"

Li Mingxun drank the sugarcane wine mixed with honey and lemonade, playing with the silver wine glass inlaid with Burmese gems, and smiled and said, "The threads of these puppets are in my hands. Sooner or later, I will put them in training to the point of being put on their heads."

The delicious banquet and generous rewards made the dinner atmosphere high, and the leaders of various families celebrated. At the end, several young leaders or the sons of the leaders came to an end and wrestled in the middle of the table. Candles and bonfires illuminated their muscular bodies. A strong warrior defeated several opponents one after another, stepped on the head of the last opponent, looked around in the form of a winner amid the cheers of the crowd, and finally his eyes were frozen on Li Mingxun, shouting and pretending to be provocative.

The leaders also applauded, as if they wanted Li Mingxun to come to a battle, hoping to gain more benefits through the victory of the fight. Li Mingxun smiled, without comment, and nodded slightly at Wu Mu beside him.

Wu Mu walked out, Li Mingxun stood up, his tall body blocked the candlestick beside him, leaving a wide black shadow. He whispered: "Stop, everyone, I promise to give you a performance that will never be forgotten in your life. Let's start now. If this warrior is willing to challenge me after the performance, I will give him a chance."

As he said that, Li Mingxun walked out step by step. Many leaders came out one after another, stood in front of the door, looking at the cannon position under the night sky. Soon, a huge orange-red fireball suddenly appeared in the darkness, and then the rumbling cannon sound like a bolt from the blue. The dazzling light and deafening sound made the timid person unable to help but take a few steps back. The warrior who was about to challenge Li Mingxun just now had his legs weak and his butt sat on the ground, muttering to himself: "Bless the Bodhisattva, protect the gods."

"Look at it, Mucheng!" An Lin suddenly screamed.

Everyone looked at the wooden city illuminated by the bonfire, and several huge gaps had appeared in the city walls built by logs and earth baskets. You could see the people inside running in a hurry, making hysterical crying sounds, and the sound of artillery bombardment was still constant, mixed with the whistling sound of shells cutting through the air. The leaders watching the battle were stunned by the huge power of the artillery. Many people prayed to God and worshiped Buddha, and some asked if Li Mingxun was helped by God.

After a while, the army lined up under the city cheered like thunder, and drums and horns were heard, and the soldiers whistled, knocked on shields and fences with weapons, waved ecstatically, and cheered to the fort. The artillery continued until midnight before gradually stopping. When Li Mingxun smiled and saw the guests off, the faces of the leaders changed, and they all offered courtesy and returned to their residence respectfully.

Li Mingxun rested for two hours, and when the sky turned white, he had already gotten up. He looked at the sky and said to Wumu, "Wumu, let the army attack."

"Your Excellency, don't you wait for the sky to get brighter?" David asked.

Lee Mingxun waved his hand: "Looking at the weather is a little dark, it seems that it will rain, so it's better to resolve the battle before it rains."

In the early morning, Pulu Township was awakened by the sound of drums again. In the cannon position, the gunners who had been resting for the middle of the night were struggling to clean the cannon chamber. There were more than a dozen stoves beside them. The scorched coal burned the shells red. In the distance, the mezzanine team and the spearmen had completely entered a state of invasion.

In the wooden city, Bairdai and Yintu hid behind the sandbags and carefully observed the movements outside. Although the enemy array was still the same, they always felt that they were going to do something. Unlike yesterday, the Red Cannon's cannon was reinforced again, with a trench full of sharpened branches.

"Master Bairdai, why do you feel that the enemy has no intention of attacking? They seem to have to defend the enemy to the death?" Yintu observed the situation and asked.

Baird naturally could see that the opponent was defensive. He said with a serious expression: "It's not that simple. Perhaps the enemy is preparing some trick to lure us out of the city."

"I won't leave the city. As long as we defend Mucheng, Lord Wu Bahai's reinforcements will arrive." Bairdai said firmly without waiting for everyone to ask.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief, as if they were worried about leaving the city.

With a few cannons, Bairdai shrank behind the sandbag in fright. He saw the shells flying over, but did not hit the wooden city like last night. Instead, he crossed the low wall and directly hit the buildings in the city. Several consecutive shellings were like this. Yintu glanced at Bairdai and asked, "Did this red cannon also look like a bow and arrow, and it lost its accuracy if it was used too much?"

Bairdie shook his head. He felt that it was a conspiracy in his heart, but he couldn't explain it clearly. But he knew that the enemies in the darkness were so accurate that there was no reason that they could not fight during the day. As he was speaking, a scream came from behind him. When Bairdie saw that a huge warehouse was on fire, people in constant fire ran out of it.

"Hurry up, go and put out the fire!" Bairdai pulled over the personal soldiers beside him and cursed loudly.

"Master, there is no living person anymore, why bother to take risks again!" Yintu persuaded.

Bairdai shouted loudly: "The python robes, cloth and cotton for the Wulin appreciation were stored there. Without them, what would I use to hire barbarians and get tribute sables?"

Yintu's face changed drastically and he hurriedly urged people to put out the fire, but it had no effect at all. The wooden city not only had wooden walls, but the houses, warehouses and yamen were all wooden. Red-burning shells fell down. In addition to hitting people and animals, it would inevitably cause a big fire. In less than half an hour, many fires were caught in the city. All the soldiers who could be sent were sent, but they still could not stop the fire. The nearest house kept screaming from people. There were injured soldiers there, but the raging fire was not enough to get close to them, so I had to listen to the people inside being burned to death.

Under the reflection of the fire, Bairdai's pale face looked like an evil ghost. Yintu pulled Bairdai's arm and asked, "Master, what should I do now?"

Baird looked around him with a stern expression and said, "What do you think you should do?"

At this time, Yintu had long regretted entering the city to help the guards. He said, "It's better for us to have a peace talk."

Of course, Bairdai knew that the peace talks that Yintu mentioned were surrender. He looked at Yintu and shook his head slightly: "You don't understand the hatred between us and them. This is a group of merchants from the Ming Dynasty. The unsolved hatred, the temptation of official positions and official positions will prompt them to kill me. As a Jueluo, Manchu warrior with the same blood as Aisin Jueluo, I will never bow to the Han people."

After saying that, Bairdai stepped onto the war horse, shouted with a gentle voice, "Everyone will follow me to kill the enemy without leaving any armor. As long as they destroy their artillery, there will be a glimmer of hope!"

Bairdie took hundreds of armored soldiers and rushed out of the wooden city from the city gate and the gap. He bypassed the spearman behind the fence, ran wildly under the attack of the bullet gunman from the meddles and headed straight for the cannon position. After experiencing the baptism of lead and arrows, he directly hit the fortifications in front of the cannon position. Bairdie jumped off the horse and pulled the horse away, pulled out the wooden stakes, jumped over the trench, and faced the arrows, and fought with the Soren soldiers from the Selunsu tribe, and fought until the soldiers behind the fence were attacked and finally completely destroyed.

Baird died in vain and did not get close to any cannon after all.

Li Mingxun looked at Mucheng in the distance and said to the cannon leader beside him: "Replace the chain bullet and destroy Mucheng first, and then go out to fight."

After Bairdai's death, many barbarian leaders came over. At this time, there was no obstacle to making a choice. The older leader said: "Mr. Li, I have some friendship with that Yintu. Please give me some time. I am willing to persuade him to surrender."

Li Mingxun shook his head and said, "No, Yintu is the loyalty of the Eastern Captain, and keeping it is also a disaster."

He pulled Anlin and said, "I promised Anlin and asked him to cut off Yintu's head with his own hands. He could not break his promise. Yintu will die, and Haerman tribe will also die."

"Chief Tabai, the annoying guy in Yintu is already a thing of the past. We should discuss the new Gong Diao and Guan Wulin, right, Lord Li?" a leader said flatteringly.

Li Mingxun smiled slightly, Zheng pointed to the north and said, "Everyone also knows that the Yongning Temple Monument is your holy place, the place where my Han ancestors have visited, and I am building a temple and Yongning City there. The tribute sables and worship Wulin are held there. In five days, I will wait for you there."

Everyone nodded, and most of the leaders left. Li Mingxun patted An Lin on the shoulder and said, "Go, An Lin, avenge your relatives."

An Lin bowed and waited for the cannon to stop, and rushed into the wooden city with the spear team.

An hour later, Li Mingxun slowly walked into the wooden city and saw An Lin kneeling on the open space beside the well, with the body of Yintu and an iron basin in front of him. An Lin solemnly placed the skull of the eldest son in the iron basin, digging out the heart of Yintu with a sharp knife, crushing it with a strong and powerful hand. The minced flesh of the heart and steaming blood were scattered on the dry skull. The flesh like the dead bark of the skull absorbed part of the blood and became a little full. An Lin poured firewood and oil in, and a big fire ignited in the iron basin. Finally, the dark skull rolled out, and An Lin cried with the eldest son's skull.

Seeing that the strong man cried like a child, Li Mingxun patted his shoulder, but sighed, but felt speechless to comfort him.

"Master, what should Mucheng do?" Wu Mu, who had already cleaned up the battlefield, walked to Li Mingxun and asked.

Li Mingxun said without hesitation: "Clearn out the materials in each warehouse and the government office, carry them away, and then burn the land to white land. In the future, the Wulin and the tribute marten will be in Yongning City. In addition, cut off the dead heads and use lime and salt to build the corpse into Jingguan. I want to promote my power in the realm of the world and spread the martial arts for generations."

Wu Mu said in a low voice and hurriedly went, while Li Mingxun found Bahai and pointed to Dongfang and said, "About ten miles in that direction, crossing a mountain is where the Haerman tribe is. I will give you all the charms in the army, and send a hundred raiders and two eagle cannons to help. You can subdue the Haerman tribe."

Ba Hai looked at Wu Mu's back and said jealously: "Sir, please let Wu Mu go. I have never commanded the medley gunman, and I will not deal with Yangyi."

Li Mingxun laughed and said, "After the Haerman tribe, you can migrate your tribe here. Are you willing to imprison your tribe in the castle of Vladivostok forever?"

Ba Hai looked happy and thanked him quickly. The current situation is unbearable. Vladivostok is the place where the four battles are fought. Although Vladivostok Castle is safe, life is extremely depressing. If it can be moved to Pulu Township, although it is not as rich as Vladivostok, it is also a good place.

"What are you going to deal with the Haerman tribe?" Bahai asked.

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "All the relatives of Yintu are made into slaves. As for their tribes, I plan to place them around Yongning Temple for rewards."

"Reward?" Ba Hai said in surprise.

Li Mingxun nodded and pointed at Wumu who moved out of the warehouse with the soldiers and said, "Last year, Wumu and many charming Qilie followed me to Taiwan. Although I hired them for a large sum of money, those who have outstanding achievements will also be rewarded. I will reward Wumu and all the soldiers who have made meritorious contributions. Among them, Wumu is the first one. I will ask him to select 300 households from the Haerman tribe."

"Three hundred households! Just Wu Mu?" Bahai's eyes widened.
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