Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 197 Internal and external cooperation
On the evening of May 22, it was a cloudy day. Thick clouds obscured the waning moon, and not a single ray of moonlight could shine through.

A dark and windy night is a perfect time to kill and set fire.

Chen Yunhan led more than a hundred of his men and quietly approached the Jiang family compound, and quietly ambushed them one mile away from the Jiang family compound.

It was pitch black all around and I couldn't see anything outside.

However, Qu Shaoyang, who was patrolling in the northwest corner, was always paying attention to the movements outside.

Just as midnight arrived, I heard three calls of a night owl outside, one long and two short.

When Qu Shaoyang heard the noise, he knew that his uncle and his men had arrived.

So he drew out the dagger hidden in his sleeve and approached the artillery tower in the northwest corner quietly.

There are watchtowers at the four corners of the Jiang family compound. Logically, each watchtower should have six gunners, who take turns on duty in the first and second half of the night.

But today everyone has diarrhea. Just now one of them hurried to the toilet, and now another one is also running out, holding his stomach.

Qu Shaoyang hid in the dark. The man just ran out and before he could go far, Qu Shaoyang slashed his neck with a knife.

Blood gushed out along the artery on the side of the neck, and soon the gunner died.

Qu Shaoyang carefully dragged the man into the dark, then stepped into the artillery tower.

At this time, there was only one gunner left in the turret. He also had a stomachache, but the other two had gone out, so he could not leave and could only stay there reluctantly.

Hearing the footsteps, the gunner paid no attention, thinking it was the other man coming back.

"You're back just in time. My stomach is so full. You stay here while I go to the toilet."

As he spoke, the man hurried out.

Unexpectedly, just as he came to Qu Shaoyang, Qu Shaoyang raised his knife and cut his neck cleanly.

After knocking down the second man, Qu Shaoyang picked up the opponent's rifle and put it on his shoulder.

He was a newly promoted security guard, and he used an old musket, which was not as useful as a quick-firing rifle.

Just after I dealt with this, I heard footsteps outside, and then a man walked in cursing.

"Damn it, that evil landlord, I don't know what he gave us to eat. We went to the toilet three or four times this evening."

While he was cursing, Qu Shaoyang had already come up behind him, cut his neck with a sharp dagger, and knocked him down.

The three gunners in the northwest corner turret were all eliminated.

Qu Shaoyang took down the lantern hanging on the turret and used something to control the brightness of the wick, three on and three off.

Chen Yunhan outside saw the light flickering three times on and three times off on the northwest corner turret and knew that it was his brother-in-law sending them signals.

So he waved his hand and led his men carefully towards the wall.

"Everyone, be careful. There are ground guns and pits here. Be careful not to get caught."

Following the drawings given by Qu Shaoyang, Chen Yunhan accurately avoided the locations of the ground guns and pits and quickly came to the west door.

The two brothers Xingjia and Xingye, who were hiding in the dark, also saw the lights on the northwest corner turret.

Thanks to everyone having stomach problems tonight, the compound was a bit chaotic and no one was controlling the farmhands' comings and goings.

The two of them quickly approached the west door, wanting to open it and let the people in.

There were security guards patrolling at the west gate. Xingjia and Xingye took out their revolvers and shot the patrolling guard to death with a few bangs.

Then, the two came to the west door, removed the heavy bolt with great effort, and opened the door.

The sound of gunfire from the west immediately alarmed everyone in the compound.

The gunners, guards, and the men of the Jiang family knew that things were not going well, so they immediately came out of the side rooms and ran to the four corner turrets. Qu Shaoyang was guarding the northwest corner turret, pulling the bolts one after another, and there were only bangs and bangs, and in the blink of an eye, he knocked down six or seven gunners and guards.

Xingjia Xingye hid in the dark and pulled the trigger repeatedly, killing several people.

At this moment, everyone in the Jiang family compound was stunned.

They couldn't understand why the northwest corner artillery tower was firing at their own people.

At the same time, Chen Yunhan saw the west door open and quickly rushed in with his men.

After a year's development, Chen Yunhan's gang can be said to be strong and well-organized.

Each of his men was armed with a rifle, and they rushed into the yard as swiftly as a tiger descending from a mountain.

There was a burst of gunfire, and more than a dozen people in the Jiang family compound fell down.

When the gunners, guards, and other men saw this situation, they knew that the gang had broken in.

Moreover, this gang is large in number and has strong firepower.

Everyone knew that the situation was hopeless, so they laid down their weapons and gave up resistance.

Their lives are their own. They are just working for their employers. It is not worth it to risk their lives and be buried with the Jiang family.

The only ones who fought desperately were the Jiang family. However, with the cooperation of Qu Shaoyang and Chen Yunhan, the resistance of the Jiang family was useless.

Within two quarters of an hour, all the able-bodied men in the Jiang family were beaten to death.

Chen Yunhan led about a hundred people and rushed forward as if he was in an empty space.

All the men, women, young and old in the Jiang family were taken to the front yard and kept under guard.

The servants, farmhands, security guards, etc. were also tied up to prevent them from running away and leaking the news.

Afterwards, Chen Yunhan ordered his men to search everywhere, and to take out all the gold, silver, jewelry, cloth, fur, precious medicinal herbs and supplements, without leaving anything behind.

Coincidentally, when Qu Shaoyang came back, he said that Jiang Yongzhang needed a large sum of money for his business, so Jiang Chengan and the three heads of the families pooled the money together.

About 17,000 to 18,000 taels of silver and banknotes were collected and kept in the eldest house.

I had planned to arrange a few people to be sent to Kuandian City tomorrow, but I didn't expect that these people would fall into the hands of the gangsters and were directly searched out by Chen Yunhan's men.

In addition to these, each family also had private money, especially the women, and all kinds of gold, silver, and jewelry were searched out, box after box.

Chen Yunhan ordered his men to tie Jiang Chengan and seven or eight other brothers to a pillar and beat them with a whip, forcing them to tell him where the silver in their home was hidden.

"Old Biden, if you tell me the whereabouts of the silver today, I can still spare your life.

Otherwise, I will count the number of people who are surnamed Jiang in the Jiang family’s courtyard today. I will not let any of them go.”

Jiang Chengan had been a tyrant all his life, but he never expected to encounter such a catastrophe in his old age.

Naturally, those old guys were unwilling to speak, with an attitude that they had no money but their lives to lose.

He closed his eyes and refused to say anything no matter how Chen Yunhan beat him.

When Chen Yunhan saw this, he decided to kill all these old guys immediately.

The Jiang family has been tyrannical and bullying the people in the village for many years. There are few innocent people left. There has been a lot of complaints outside for a long time. It is not a pity for such people to die.

Most of the able-bodied men in the Jiang family had died in the previous exchange of fire. Now that these old guys were killed, only children and women were left in the family.

Among the female members of the Jiang family, except for the wife who was married in a formal ceremony, many of the concubines were brought in through various means, such as coercion, inducement, and forced buying and selling.

At this time, many women burst into tears, especially the concubines, who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

(End of this chapter)