America 1881: Legend of the West

Chapter 101 Fireworks in the Dark (Fierce fighting at the town entrance, one chapter was combined for continuity)
Since the night in Montrose is chaotic now, it might as well make it a little more chaotic.

Chen Jianqiu turned to the backyard, where Teresa's carriage was parked.

When we came out of Pitkin, the car was loaded with a lot of stuff.

The valuables were taken back to the hotel, and the necessities were moved to the gun shop's warehouse.

The guns, which were intended to be brought to Zhang Danian, had all been unloaded into the warehouse, waiting to be inspected and maintained.

So now all that's left in the car is a pile of explosives and iron projectiles wrapped tightly in thick paper.

These explosives were non-standard explosives that Clark found from somewhere. They did not have detonators. They were filled with black powder as ignition powder and ignited with fuses.

This detonation method is very mysterious. Either the amount of medicine is not enough to misfire, or the amount of medicine is too much and it is extremely uncontrollable.

Mr. Nobel, who was far away on the other side of the Atlantic, first thought of this method twenty years ago, and then sent his brother to the sky with his own hands.

Danny was initially very reluctant to carry these unstable contraptions, but Teresa insisted.

The old couple had a theoretical exchange about this car of explosives, from physics to chemistry to ethics, and the conclusion was that Danny had a slap mark on his face.

"Jerry! Where's the horse?" Chen Jianqiu shouted into the store.

Jerry ran out in a panic, took out two pack horses from the stable, and hitched the carriage to them.

"You drive!" Chen Jianqiu got on the horse and said to Jerry.

"Boss, please let me go. I don't even have the guts to do it." Jerry turned around and ran away, with a cry in his voice.

But after taking a few steps, I felt my body rising into the air.

Chen Jianqiu lifted him up and threw him into the driver's seat of the carriage.

"Don't worry, I won't let you die. You remind me of another beloved friend of mine. I just saved him a few dozen minutes ago." He said to Jerry seriously.

With a sad face, Jerry drove the carriage and followed Chen Jianqiu toward the entrance of the town.

At this time, the battle at the entrance of the town has also entered a fever pitch.

As a captain who had served in the Confederate Army, Thomas showed that his meal in the army was not in vain.

After experiencing the initial panic when the herd appeared, he quickly gathered his core armed forces and launched a formation based on the nearest residential buildings at the entrance of the town.

The herds of cattle had dispersed, and some had already rushed into the streets of the town. The remaining ones that were still rampaging at the entrance of the town were already under the gunpoint of the Ku Klux Klan.

Thomas gathered a few large-caliber shotguns and handed them to the gangsters who were hiding in the houses closest to the street.

This thing is the ultimate weapon against bulls.

Previously, a crazy bull rushed towards Thomas from a distance. The captain fired all 13 bullets from his rifle into the bull before it fell to the ground a few meters away from him.

The shotgun went off, and a bull was hit by bullets from three different directions. Before it died, it crashed into a stack of iron barrels on the corner of the street.

The iron barrels rolled in all directions at the entrance of the town. Two barrels contained kerosene. The liquid flowing out of them ignited when it met the burning firewood scattered on the ground.

The town entrance suddenly burst into flames, and the night was illuminated like day.

Shots were fired one after another, and the remaining bullocks fell one after another. But along with them, those who continued to fall were the Klansmen who shot around Thomas.

Asuka and the others were still hiding near the barn, sniping at Thomas' men in the dark.

A Klansman stood on the second floor and shot a dying bull below. But with the sound of a gunshot, his body froze, he climbed over the wooden railing, and fell from the second floor.

"Hey, Bird, you hit another one." Sean, who was hiding behind the fence, said excitedly to the Indian behind the manger.

After Teresa's inspection, he found nothing serious, so he put on a cloth bag and ran to the front to watch the fun.

But before he finished speaking, a dense burst of bullets was fired in their direction, smashing the manger into pieces.

Asuka couldn't dodge, and a flying piece of debris pierced his arm.

The gun in the Indian's hand fell off, and Danny behind him quickly threw away the gun in his hand, dragged him behind, and handed it to Teresa.

After dealing with those pesky bulls, Thomas finally had his hands free to deal with the attackers on the stable side.

These bastards have caused him to lose almost all of his temporary gang members, and a dozen of his direct troops were killed or injured by their guns.

At this time, the scene at the entrance of the town was like hell. Dozens of people were lying on the open ground. Some were holding their wounds and moaning, and some were motionless. Some of them died from the impact of the cattle, but more Most of them were shot by Thomas's men or trampled to death by the crowd.

The sparks scattered everywhere have grown and grown, burning all kinds of flammable materials they can come into contact with.

The two wooden houses at the front were also on fire. The poor owners of the houses had already ran out, and were kneeling and wailing in front of the flames all over the sky not far away.

"Shut up!" Thomas, who was in a bad mood, was annoyed by the wailing. He turned around and "rewarded" the man with a shot, and the man fell to the ground with a plop.

Minutes before, he had lost his home; minutes later, his life.

Thomas was in no mood to care about this. He had seen this scene many times.

Twenty years ago, at Gettysburg, he led his troops to charge with General Pickett. After an hour of rifle volleys and artillery bombardment, the people around him stopped ten times and three times, and there were people all over the place. Limbs and corpses.

A few years ago, in South Carolina, he led his gang and burned down a black settlement. No one was released alive inside. He still stood on the small mound, chatting and laughing with the people around him. He even joked to his men that he smelled meat.

Where is this?
"They're all over there in the barn, kill them all!" Thomas shouted.

The remaining dozens of people are all the elite among the elite, and some of them escaped from South Carolina with him.

The iron barrels that had been hit by the bull were scattered on the street, the wooden pillars that were knocked to the ground, and even the bull's body became bunkers for the Ku Klux Klan. They used them to build barricades in the direction of the barn. shooting.

Only then did Asuka and the others realize that due to the wind, the flames had extended towards the barn.

Their side has been illuminated, and darkness is no longer their advantage. Moreover, if the flames continue to burn like this, sooner or later this side will become a sea of ​​fire.

Adam loaded his rifle with bullets again, and he glanced at Asuka and Sean behind him, who had lost their fighting power.

"Should we retreat towards the church first?" Danny bent down and rushed to Adam's side. He leaned against the corner with a gun, looking for an opportunity to fight back.

But the dense bullets from the opposite side suppressed his body and he was unable to turn around.

"I'm afraid the other side doesn't want to let us pass." Adam ran to the other side of the barn, turned around and fired a four-shot burst, hitting three people on the opposite side, but was immediately hit back by a wave of volleys from the opposite side, and was almost killed hit.

"Their attention is all on us now. No matter which direction we run, we might get shot." Adam said, "Besides, when that guy comes back, he won't be able to find us."

"But why hasn't this guy come back yet?" He held the gun, leaned sideways, blocked the opponent's shooting angle, and glanced in the direction of the town entrance.

Suddenly, through the firelight, he saw a vague black shadow appear behind the KKK members.

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A KKK member was hiding behind a wooden box and peeking out.

The muzzle of his gun was locked on both sides of the barn. The people on the opposite side had just been driven back to the back of the barn. What would happen next would probably be to move along the entrance of the town and encircle them from the side.

"Hey, what do you think the boss will do with those guys on the other side?" He patted his companion who was concentrating intently.

"How should I know?" His companion was very impatient. People around him were dying, so he didn't bother to pay attention to the chatterbox next to him.

"Did you hear any sound?" The chatterbox felt something was wrong. There was a burst of gunfire at the entrance of the town, but he seemed to hear the sound of horse hooves amid the gunfire.

"Would you please shut up!" The companion fired another shot and pulled the lever of the gun.

The chatterbox was about to start cursing.

Suddenly, a cylinder fell between him and his companions, with a burning fuse at the end of the cylinder. "Fuck, it exploded..."

"BOOM~~"

Before the chatterbox could finish the last words of his life, he and his companions were blown away and fell on the ground not far away, covered in blood.

Having the same experience as them was another person in a house not far from them. There were four KKK members hiding in a room near the window.

They didn't even notice the bomb thrown in from the other window behind them, and were blown to pieces.

Thick smoke came out of the window. Two of the four people were knocked to the ground, one was pierced in the head by shattered glass, and the other was covered in blood, half hanging on the windowsill.

The KKK members, whose attention was just focused on the direction of the barn, were startled by the explosion behind them.

They all turned around, looking for the source of the explosion.

Behind them, a man in a cowboy hat and riding a black horse emerged from the shadows.

The man on the horse held a stick of dynamite in one hand, and the fuse was sparking and crackling.

"A gift for you, friends from the KKK." Chen Jianqiu threw the explosives in his hand away.

This time, the two sticks of explosives were aimed at the second floors of the houses on both sides.

Accompanied by two explosions, two groups of people in the sniper position on the second floor were blown down along with the floor. The people who were blown down "huggled" the ground, and several of them had their legs broken on the spot.

"Kill him quickly, he's going to throw explosives again!" Thomas was the first to react. While yelling, he raised his gun and was about to shoot at Chen Jianqiu on the horse.

But Chen Jianqiu also saw him. There was a torch standing next to Hei Luobo. He took the explosives from the side of the saddle and put the fuse to the fire.

The fuse was lit.

"The leader comes first!" Chen Jianqiu used a little force with his hands this time, and the explosives flew incredibly fast and landed at Thomas' feet in the blink of an eye.

Thomas was hiding behind a carriage and taking aim. When he saw the explosives flying towards him, he ran away without thinking.

This man, who was almost sixty years old, was very agile and dodged behind a barrel.

I don’t know if Thomas ran too fast or Chen Jianqiu threw it too early, but the bomb took several seconds to explode after it reached the target location.

However, this also made the people around lose their shooting position.

"Hurry up! Run, adjust the blocking position, and stop him. He wants to meet up with the people in the barn!" Thomas gave the order.

The KKK members dodged the bombs thrown from the opposite side while shooting at Chen Jianqiu.

But the dark horse was too fast, and it was difficult for them to judge its position in the next second. When they wanted to replace quality with quantity and shoot a few more shots to see if they could hit it.

There was more gunfire behind them.

The explosion was also heard in the barn. Adam and Danny were both veterans, so how could they miss such a good opportunity?

The KKK was attacked from all sides.

"Let's deal with the horse first!" Thomas was ready to use the same trick again and deal with the one in front of him first.

The men took position, ready to fire a volley to take out the dark horse, and the man holding the shotgun also came over.

No matter how fast you run, you can't stop me with more people, more guns, and more bullets, right?
But Chen Jianqiu did not rush to them. He turned into another street one intersection away from the town entrance.

The KKK lost their target for a moment and were dumbfounded.

Chen Jianqiu disappeared into the shadows again. He drove the Black Carrot past several houses and returned to a street corner not far from the town entrance.

The carriage loaded with explosives was parked there.

"Jerry, is my explosives tied up?" Chen Jianqiu reined in Black Radish and stopped beside the carriage.

Jerry stood up from the carriage and looked at him sadly:
"Boss, it's so dark and you don't allow me to use lights. I've only tied three bundles so far."

Chen Jianqiu took the three bundles of explosives from him. Each bundle of explosives was tied together with an iron bullet wrapped in paper.

"If you want to be blown up to the sky, I don't mind." Chen Jianqiu left after saying this.

He returned along the same route, carrying three bundles of explosives.

Thomas learned his lesson. He left a few people to continue suppressing the attack from the direction of the barn, while the others were fully alert in the direction behind them.

As long as that dark horse dares to appear again, I will immediately shoot him into pieces with these dozens of guns.

Chen Jianqiu saw the fire at the intersection from afar. He kicked his horse and Black Radish started to sprint forward.

Chen Jianqiu and Hei Luobo suddenly appeared at the horizontal intersection.

He turned sideways and threw the explosives under his arm high towards the town entrance.

Three bundles of explosives drew three arcs and appeared above the heads of the KKK members. For a moment, they didn't know whether to aim at Chen Jianqiu or to avoid this death that fell from the sky.

But Chen Jianqiu did not give them a chance to think. As the explosives were thrown out, he pulled out the Winchester rifle.

Chen Jianqiu entered the shooter state. The black powder ignition parts of the three bundles of explosives were clearly visible in his eyes, like three red giant stars in the night sky.

"Bang, bang, bang"

Three gunshots were heard, and the explosives exploded above the heads of the KKK members, creating brilliant fireworks. Even more brilliant than the fireworks were the iron bullets that were shot in all directions.

The rain of death has arrived.

The scattered iron bullets were devastating to the KKK members below.

Some of them only glanced at the sky, and lost consciousness forever the next second; some had instant tinnitus, and then felt that some part of the body was pierced; those who were farther away heard the sharp and piercing sound of iron balls cutting through the air, and they were so scared that they lay on the ground, daring not to move.

Thomas' arm was hit by an iron ball, and it was covered in blood. He never expected that in this small western town, someone would make him relive the fear of being bombarded by shotgun shells in Gettysburg.

His ears could now hear nothing but the sharp buzzing sound, and when he turned around to look at his men, he found that several of them had turned into bloody corpses.

Thomas' head was buzzing and he stood up unsteadily, holding onto the wall.

"Retreat, retreat with me quickly!" He covered his injured arm and shouted to his men.

Chen Jianqiu only appeared at the intersection for a moment, and then disappeared again. He ignored the explosion behind him and galloped towards the carriage.

"Boss, do you need more dynamite?" Jerry asked from a distance, looking at Black Radish running towards him.

"No need, they are almost dead." Chen Jianqiu continued.

"Really?" Jerry perked up immediately after hearing that the people on the other side were dead. He also heard the explosion just now. "Then can we go back now?"

"No, let's go one more way!" Chen Jianqiu jumped onto the carriage and asked Jerry to get off. "Go back to the gun shop and wait for us."

Then he raised the reins and drove the carriage towards the town entrance again, with Black Radish following closely behind.

Soon after, a dazzling fire appeared in the direction of the town entrance, like a brilliant firework, lighting up half the sky. A huge explosion was heard again.

Then, everything was silent.

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Today, there was a fierce battle at the town entrance and a chapter was closed.

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