The attacker was suppressed in the stream and the ditches were unable to move forward. The feather arrows shot out from the Zhong Mansion were fierce and accurate. The few soldiers who climbed up were shocked to see that there were caltrops outside the courtyard wall, and for a moment, it was difficult to move forward.

Wang Qiang stared at the opponent on the courtyard wall wide. At this time, he finally understood that the plot against others was probably plotted against by others. He was too careless. While ordering the infantry exploring forward to retreat, he asked the crossbowman to step forward under the cover of the shield to prepare for suppression. However, Wang Qiang was not sure about the effect of this suppression. Because of the lack of bows and arrows, these soldiers were not very good at shooting, and were not on the same level as the soldiers in the Zhong Mansion.

"Brother Wang." A man behind him trotted over, "The general has an order, and all the archers shoot up at the fastest speed, without having to worry about the correct head, just shoot, and gain some time."

Wang Qiang looked back and saw that it was Niu Teng's personal guard. Behind him, more than a dozen men in black were also squatting on the ground with their waists. He nodded: "I understand."

"Also, all the soldiers blocked their ears. No matter what sound they heard, they were not allowed to panic or move around." The guard continued.

Next, all the rebels received this strange military order. For these thousands of people, only a very small number of people who came out of the Han Dynasty knew what this meant.

Everything was ready. Wang Qiang gave the order, and hundreds of crossbowmen who were transferred up quickly pulled the bowstrings and placed feather arrows on the courtyard wall. As for whether it was accurate or not, they couldn't control it. Anyway, the order issued by the superiors was to shoot with the fastest speed.

When the dense feather arrows roared over, more than a dozen men in black stood up at the same time and put a black guy in their hands on the torch to light it. The sound of burning sounded, and Wang Qiang smelled a faint smell of sulfur in his nose.

After swinging his arms, more than a dozen black objects swept through the air, and after the courtyard wall that exceeded about thirty meters, landed on the courtyard wall. Then, loud noises came from one after another. Along with bursts of fire, more than a dozen consecutive loud noises were superimposed together, and in everyone's ears, it seemed that they could hear an extremely long sound of thunder, and not far away in the sky, but near in the ears.

After the thunder sound, although the attackers blocked their ears, the loud noises still scared them. All fortunes seemed to have completely stopped at this moment. On the other hand, in the Zhong Mansion, at this moment, there were ghosts and howlings, and a long piece of courtyard wall collapsed. The Zhong Mansion soldiers who stepped on the ladder and shot desperately, and the Zhong Mansion family soldiers who supported the courtyard wall suffered heavy casualties.

After the collapsed courtyard wall, the soldiers of Zhong's family ran in panic. More than a dozen men in black jumped up and while running forward, more than a dozen black lumps flew out of their hands and flew farther away.

Another burst of explosions sounded, and in the fire, Niu Teng followed his dozens of personal guards and rushed forward with the man in black.

"Kill, kill in!" Niu Teng shouted loudly.

Wang Qiang stood up with a thrust, and the soldiers around him lay on the ground, so scared that they could not move. He was furious and kicked him randomly. "Stand up, stand up, attack, attack!"

Under Wang Qiang's kicks and beats, the soldiers in the stream finally came back to their souls. Under Wang Qiang's leadership, they shouted and rushed into the courtyard, although there was still a little trembling in the sound.

When the loud noise rang out, Zhongli stood up from the chair and said, "Explosive!" He trembled. He calculated everything, but he didn't. The Han Dynasty actually secretly brought this weapon into Shu County.

He looked at the dense bandits rushing in from outside the collapsed courtyard wall, and at the Zhong family soldiers who were running around like headless flies in the yard, his face turned pale, it was over, and everything was over. When the Han people used gunpowder to break the city in the Chu Kingdom, even the regular army of Chu was so scared that they were in a state of terror, let alone these family soldiers?

The loud noises were blown up not only the Zhong family's courtyard wall, but also the courage and determination to resist, and the rest would be one-sided massacre.

He raised his hand gently, covered the window, turned around and walked to a corner of the room, opened a large cabinet door, took out a jar of good wine from the top floor, held it in both hands, walked to the table, opened the jar, and poured the cup with amber-like fine wine. There was a rush of footsteps downstairs, and with a slam, the door was pushed open, and Zhong Huai appeared in front of Zhongli with blood, "Father, I can't stop it anymore, I can't stop it anymore." He staggered forward a few steps, thumped, fell to the ground, twisting his body and trying to struggle to get up again, but he was powerless.

With a sound, the wine jar broke to the ground, and the fragrance of wine filled the building. Zhongli squatted down, and his hands trembled and picked up his son in the pool of blood. "Father, go quickly, you can't stop it. My second brother is dead. He was killed by the first wave of explosions. The Han people have developed new weapons, not the kind of explosive you told us."

Seeing the blood flowing from Zhong Huai's mouth in his arms, Zhong Li burst into tears. Because of his sensitivity in his position, he did not allow his son to step into the officialdom, but even so, he did not save his sons' lives in the end.

There was a fierce fighting sound downstairs, and from time to time there were screams, quickly approaching him from the ground floor, but Zhongli just looked down at the three sons who were already angry in his arms.

The sound of fighting downstairs disappeared, and a powerful footstep came step by step and appeared at the door. Looking at Zhongli squatting on the ground in the house and Zhong Huai in his arms, the person who came paused for a moment, then stepped into the door.

Zhongli looked up and looked at the man in front of him in Qin army costumes. He slowly put down the dead body of his son in his arms, stood up, sorted out his clothes, and took a deep breath: "What is your position in the National Security Bureau of the Han Dynasty? If you can bring this weapon out, your position should be quite low!"

"Mr. Zhong Hou is really smart, and he is under Niu Teng." Niu Teng bowed.

"Niu Teng?" Zhongli thought for a moment, "Is it that Ning Xin followed her Niu Bi Niu Teng when she joined Gao Yuan?"

Niu Teng smiled slightly, "I didn't expect that Mr. Zhong Hou was so clear about my background? No wonder President Cao regarded you as his life enemy. I heard that you had gone to work and returned home. President Cao even invited everyone to have a drink, and he was very drunk."

Zhongli nodded slightly, "Dean Cao, although he is a rising star, I have always admired him very much. He is an amazing ruthless character. General Niu, you have been to Shu County for a long time, right?"

"Yes, it's almost two years. We came when the peasant army uprising broke out in Shu County. It was a pity last year that we came too late and the rebel army had been destroyed. But God favored us very much. You Qin Ting gave us a second chance." Niu Teng said with a smile.

"It was not given to you by the court, but by corrupt officials like Guo Qing." Zhongli shook his head and said.

Niu Tengha laughed: "Master Zhong Hou, don't forget that among these people, there is your son Zhong Kui. You know that such behavior will harm the foundation of the Qin Dynasty, why don't you stop it?"

Zhongli smiled bitterly: "What can I do with the general trend? I can only restrain my family now, but what's the use? What should happen? I closed the door and became a deaf and blind man, but I didn't expect that I could still not die in the bed safely. This may be the retribution for my life's killing, right?"

"I'm very sorry!" Seeing Zhongli with a tired face, Niu Teng saluted the old senior in the intelligence community: "If we want to accomplish great things, we must borrow your life as an introduction."

"If I die, I believe you will have the idea of ​​attacking Zhou Liang. He was originally from Yan. After coming to Shu County, he became extremely corrupt and fell faster than imagined. What do you want to focus on him and make Shu County completely in chaos, right?"

Niu Teng was stunned, and the admiration in his eyes became stronger, "Mr. Zhong Hou is indeed amazing, you can even calculate this. Yes, Zhou Liang has fallen now. Even though Mr. Zhong Hou is away from his throne, if you die in this peasant uprising army, the court will be furious. Zhou Liang's head cannot be saved. If he wants to live, he has to surrender to us, and only we can give him a way out."

"The price is to send all the Qin troops under him into your tiger's mouth?"

"Not bad!" Niu Teng nodded.

Zhongli fell silent for a while, then slowly shook his head and said, "I'm going to die, why do you want to do this? General Niu, please let me die with decentness. In addition, please let me do something. After I die, please put me and my two sons in the coffin, so that we can't let the body be thrown away, can you?"

Niu Teng nodded: "Okay, I will send you my respectful visit to Mr. Hou."

Zhongli lowered his head, looked at his son's body on the ground, sat down, picked up the wine glass on the table, looked at Niu Teng and smiled, raised his neck and drank the wine in the glass.

Niu Teng stood quietly, and Zhongli also looked at Niu Teng calmly. Gradually, blood flowed out of Zhongli's nose and mouth. Zhongli's face twitched, but he still tried his best to sit steadily on the chair.

Looking at Zhongli's appearance, Niu Teng couldn't help but bend down deeply.

In the middle of the night, a big fire ignited in the Zhong Mansion. Before the burning raging fire, the three coffins lined up, becoming the background pattern of the rebels gradually moving away from here.

In Xialiang Town, Zhou Liang and Zhong Kui led their troops, but an hour before they arrived, the rebels besieged here had already disappeared without a trace. They divided into several small groups, quickly evacuated, and disappeared into the vast night.
Chapter completed!