Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

Seeing this, Li Chaoqin couldn't help but think of the two sentences said by Shi Bangyao, the former governor of Zhangzhou.

Could it be!

Did Shi Bangyao tip off the Zhou family?

Otherwise, how could they hide so many people in their house!

And looking at the skills of these people, it is obvious that they are not ordinary servants. It seems that their abilities have been honed through years of fighting!

"withdraw!"

Thinking of the importance of being a brave man and not suffering a loss in front of him, Li Chaoqin ordered a retreat.

But at this moment, shouts and screams were heard from all around the Zhou family mansion.

Li Chaoqin looked back and saw a large number of people surrounding them.

They were holding knives, guns, sticks and clubs in their hands, with fierce eyes, and they approached this side while shouting and cursing in a disorderly manner.

Li Chaoqin's heart suddenly tightened.

There is no way these guys are here to help me!

Although they looked ragged, there was no sign of hunger on their faces, and they did not look like disaster victims at all.

More like thieves!

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw!"

He hurriedly shouted at his men who were still fighting with Zhou's servants.

However, it is not so easy to withdraw from the battle!

The Zhou family's housekeeper burst into laughter.

"Want to go?"

"Don't you even look at where you are!"

As he spoke, he chopped down a small flag of the Jinyiwei with his sword, and rushed towards Li Chaoqin at a speed that was totally inconsistent with his appearance.

As he moved, a centipede-like scar appeared and disappeared on the back of his neck.

This is definitely not something that a good citizen would have!

There was a fight between Zhou family servants in front and a large number of bandits blocking his way from behind. Li Chaoqin felt like he was falling into an ice cellar.

In the capital, such a thing would never happen.

After leaving the capital, he never expected that he would encounter such a thing!

When did the East Factory’s reputation cease to be famous?

Even the Jinyiwei could be besieged?

But at this dilemma, the sound of horse hooves came from afar, and the earth was shaking.

Everyone looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw more than a hundred cavalrymen galloping from the official road!

"kill!"

The cavalry came very quickly, and when they rushed behind the bandits, the leader raised his knife and shouted loudly, splitting the huge head into two halves on the spot.

Red and white, scattered everywhere.

But when he saw who the person was, Li Chaoqin became even more confused.

Shi Bangyao?

Prefect of Zhangzhou?

Why is it him? !

Chapter 96 There’s something wrong with Shi Bangyao!

The south is mountainous and has many waterways, so cavalry is a rare type of soldier here.

Although the cavalry led by Shi Bangyao did not ride on good horses, their momentum was not weak at all when they charged.

Li Chaoqin dodged the blade of the Zhou family's housekeeper. The tension on his face disappeared, replaced by full of brutality.

"Today, I will wipe out your entire Zhou family!"

Before he finished speaking, he raised his leg and kicked the Zhou family's housekeeper in the waist.

The Zhou family's housekeeper rolled on the ground in a mess, stood up, glanced at Shi Bangyao, spat out a mouthful of blood in hatred, and cursed Li Chaoqin.

"Don't think you can turn the tables just because Shi comes!"

"Today, even if the king of heaven comes, you will die here!"

"Everyone! No one will leave alive!"

Li Chaoqin didn't know who gave this guy the courage to say such words.

He doesn't want to know either!

Now, he just wanted to chop the old man in front of him to death with a knife.

When the Jinyiwei flagmen and the Dongchang guards saw the reinforcements coming, their morale, which had been low, suddenly rose again. They waved their weapons and continued to fight with the Zhou family's servants.

Shi Bangyao led the cavalry and charged at the bandits outside.

After just a few rounds, they were defeated with overwhelming force.

Afterwards, the servants of the Zhou family could not hold on for long.

Seeing the bandits outside retreating, the servants soon gave up fighting and fled out of Zhou's house.

The Zhou family's housekeeper, who was fighting with Li Chaoqin the moment before, suddenly disappeared.

Those servants who failed to escape, seeing the Zhou family's housekeeper disappear, dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

Li Chaoqin did not go to greet Shi Bangyao, but shouted at his men.

"Enter the house and search!"

"I'll dig three feet deep to find him!"

"Yes!"

The small flags and bandits who were intact entered one after another, while the remaining wounded ones stayed at the gate of the house to collect the bodies of their companions.

As for those members of the Zhou family who died, they were roughly piled together, waiting to be burned.

Strangely, Shi Bangyao had no intention of saying hello to Li Chaoqin. After killing the bandits, he took the cavalry and left.

"My Lord, it's empty!"

After a cup of tea, a soldier returned to Li Chaoqin with an unwilling look on his face and pointed to the depths of Zhou's house to report.

Li Chaoqin frowned: "What's empty?"

The guard quickly explained, "Sir, this house is empty! Not a single living person is left!"

In the fierce battle just now, dozens of his brothers were killed. Li Chaoqin was not willing to accept this result.

But when he personally toured Zhou's house, the facts before him told him that this so-called Zhou's house was actually just an empty shell!

There are hundreds of rooms, and apart from beds, tables and chairs, there are kitchens and woodsheds.

Although they found food, there were only a few dozen stones.

There was no trace of the Zhou family's account book.

Just at this moment, Mu Yongyuan made a discovery.

"Sir, we found a secret passage!"

"Go over and have a look!"

Led by Mu Yongyuan, everyone came to the northwest corner of the Zhou family mansion.

This was originally a pavilion, equipped with stone tables and stone benches.

However, the stone table in front of him was pushed aside, and a dark hole was revealed on the ground where the stone table was supposed to be placed.

"Someone! Go down and take a look!"

Li Chaoqin waved behind him.

The three guards found a torch, lit it, threw a stone into the cave, and after making sure that the cave was not deep, they jumped in with the torch.

But in just a blink of an eye, a scream was heard from the cave entrance.

Then, a bandit was seen crawling out of the cave in panic.

"Sir, there's a snake!"

"There's a snake den down there!"

“It’s all soldering iron tips!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Chaoqin and others who were surrounding the cave entrance heard a hissing sound that made their scalps tingle.

In the light of the fire, a group of poisonous snakes with brown bodies and irregular stripes appeared before everyone.

The iron head, also known as the bamboo shoot snake, rat snake and evil snake, is highly poisonous!

"Damn it! This Zhou family is so vicious!"

Li Chaoqin uttered an angry curse.

"Go, get some snake repellent powder. We have to find out where those bastards have gone to no matter what!"

With a little thought, one can guess that these snakes must be raised in the secret passage by the Zhou family.

The Zhou family's housekeeper who disappeared, as well as other missing slaves and servants, must have escaped to somewhere else through this tunnel.

There are many snakes in southern Fujian, and snake repellent powder is not difficult to find.

Soon someone went into the city and bought a large bag of medicine powder. He sprinkled the powder on his body and when he entered the secret passage again, the iron heads immediately stayed away from them.

Li Chaoqin sat at the entrance of the secret passage and waited. Two hours passed, and when it was dark, the Dongchang soldiers who had entered the secret passage finally crawled out again.

"Sir, we have figured it out. This secret passage leads to Zizhi Mountain!"

Zizhi Mountain, referred to as Zhishan, is located in the northwest corner of Zhangzhou City. It is the main mountain of Zhangzhou and was originally named Denggao Mountain.

In the 13th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, someone discovered purple Ganoderma lucidum on the mountain, which is how the mountain got its name, and it was given by Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

Upon hearing the news, Mu Yongyuan stepped forward and said with a frown.

"Sir, this is trouble!"

"Zizhi Mountain is connected to Wanggao Mountain, both of which are derived from Tianbao, and have twelve peaks."

"If those bastards have entered Zizhi Mountain, it will be extremely difficult to find them!"

"Besides, Xixi is at the foot of the mountain. If someone helps them, they can easily escape to the sea under the cover of night!"

Li Chaoqin was so angry that his teeth were itching!

Although there were coastal defense garrisons such as Zhenhaiwei and Jinmenso near Zhangzhou Prefecture, the mobilization of these people required approval from the court.

He looked at the tax inspectors and mine inspectors who were transferred from various places around him and said with gritted teeth.

"Bring all your people here!"

"Even if I have to turn Zhangzhou Prefecture upside down, I will make sure the Zhou family knows what the king's law is!"

Li Chaoqin had asked them to come before just to inquire about the disaster relief grain in southern Fujian, and he never thought it would develop to this extent, so the most they could bring was two or three trusted confidants.

Upon hearing Li Chaoqin's order, they immediately sent their trusted men back to their own territory to mobilize people.

transfer order?

No need!

The people in the East Factory are responsible for their own affairs. No one has the right to interfere except the current emperor!

In addition to them, Mu Yongyuan also sent his men back to get more people.

The Zhou family brought shame to both the Eastern Depot and the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

This place must be taken back!