America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 177 Gambling

The wind column rotated, roaring, and quickly headed towards Roswell.

Chen Jianqiu galloped on horseback and continued his journey to chase the wind with Black Radish.

They soon ran parallel to the wind pillar. Chen Jianqiu kept a relatively safe distance and watched the monster crash into the town viciously.

The first to bear the brunt were several abandoned adobe houses on the outermost edge of the town.

They were submerged in the wind pillar, and Chen Jianqiu could not penetrate the thick dust wall around the wind pillar to see clearly what was happening inside. However, after the wind pillar passed, there was nothing left there.

Most of the people left in the town did not expect that the tornado would come in the direction of the town. At this time, they were running wildly towards the outskirts of the town, screaming loudly as they ran, and the screams were mixed with Spanish.

and English, but were quickly drowned out by the roar of the tornado.

Only one person did not leave, he was the local priest.

Yes, there is actually a priest in this rundown town.

A few years ago, he and Vaughn's army brought the Lord's "grace and teachings" to this land.

The spear and the cross are now about to be destroyed.

At this time, he was standing in front of his little adobe church, looking at the raging wind pillar, closing his eyes and praying.

The storm quickly engulfed him and his church, tearing everything into pieces and throwing the fragments high into the air, flying around the center of the wind column and moving forward with the wind column and the clouds.

In addition, Chen Jianqiu also saw things that "spiraled into the sky" because he had no time to escape, including but not limited to: cows, horses, wooden fences, buckets, etc.

This tornado was like a juicer, sucking everything it encountered into the air and mixing it together, leaving a trail of ruins behind it.

It looks like this town is about to be destroyed.

Chen Jianqiu is a little regretful. If his plan succeeds, now this monster will actually destroy him!

But then he thought about it.

If you smash these scraps of copper and iron, just smash them. If you don't break them, you can't stand them. Maybe it's a good thing.

Chen Jianqiu drove the black radish to deflect, and moved further and further away from the tornado, heading towards the stone fortress.

What he is more concerned about now is actually the situation on that side.

Two days ago, in the stone fortress, on the stone wall.

A soldier with big ears in uniform watched Vaughan leave with the large troops searching for oil, and smiled.

According to Vaughn's previous ranking, he was not included. He was just a veteran leader with a slightly higher status than other soldiers.

But last night, before leaving, Vaughan called him to his barracks, gave him a face-to-face instruction, and then gave him the command of the dozens of people left behind.

"Remember, after we leave, do it as soon as possible, preferably at night!" Vaughn finally warned, and he threw his pocket watch to Big Ear, "Do it well. If you do it well this time, you will be the winner."

Next garrison officer."

Thinking of this, Big Ear suddenly became filled with ambition, and his eyes showed a fierce light.

Killing? When is it not killing? There were only about ten people in the group, and there were two women among them.

So, he turned around and prepared to make arrangements.

However, he only saw one soldier with whom he usually had the best relationship standing behind him. Apart from that, there was no one left on the city wall.

"Where are those Indians?" Big Ear had to ask the soldier, "And where are the people on the wall just now? Where have they gone?"

The soldier pointed behind him and inside the stone wall: "Well, there it is."

Big Ears quickly ran to the other side of the stone wall and looked in the direction pointed by the soldier.

In the camp inside the stone wall, in front of the house where the Indians lived, there was a large table made of three small tables.

A group of people surrounded the table three levels inside and three outside. Among them were the Indian soldiers and their colleagues.

They all stretched their necks and stared at the table inside, where they could tell each other.

In the West, there are only two activities that can attract so many people to one place at the same time.

One is a duel, the other is a gambling game.

What is happening now is obviously the second one.

There were several people sitting around the table, including Holmes's followers and his own soldiers.

At this time, it was a black man's turn to be the dealer. He had a stack of poker cards in his hand and was dealing cards to everyone.

"Everyone, everyone, listen to me. If you lose everything, please leave." The black man shuffled the cards in his hand and said to the gambling participants sitting at the table.

Big Ear is a little annoyed. Vaughan has just left, and these people are just like herding sheep, and they don't take their temporary commander seriously at all.

He hurriedly climbed down from the city wall and ran towards the crowd.

Big Ears came to the side of the crowd of onlookers. At this time, the place was already three floors inside and three outside, and it was impossible to squeeze in.

He grabbed the soldier on the outside who was standing on his feet and looking inside:

"Why don't you go on duty? Where are your guns?"

The soldier turned back and glanced at Big Ear, and said angrily: "Throw it in the house, the boss is out, why are you on duty?"

After saying that, he continued to turn his head away and stopped paying attention to his big ears.

Big Ear was so angry that his balls hurt. He used brute force and started to squeeze into the crowd.

He had to stop this undisciplined behavior as soon as possible.

After defeating the nine bulls and two tigers, he finally squeezed into the inner circle.

Big Ears adjusted his uniform and was about to speak when the crowd around him suddenly started boiling again like a pot was exploding.

It seems that the results of the last round of poker have come out.

Big Ear looked up and saw that the black man was holding his head and wailing at the two A's in front of him, while a soldier opposite him was holding a large amount of banknotes in his arms, with a smile on his face.

His trump card was not big, but combined with the three jacks on the board, he won the black man's hand.

Sean stood up reluctantly, and suddenly saw the big ears behind him, and handed the poker in his hand.

"You can be the banker, I'm done losing." He said to Big Ear.

Big Ear wanted to refuse, but the deck of cards was already thrust into his hand.

The black man separated from the crowd and walked out with a sad look on his face.

The surrounding soldiers were a little unhappy. Many of them had been waiting for a while, but as soon as the temporary camp commander arrived, he went straight to the scene.

It really makes no sense.

Big Ears felt a little unhappy when he saw the looks in their eyes.

You won't let me play, but I insist on playing, even if it's just for one game.

So, he sat down directly, took out the money from his coat pocket, put it on the table, looked around, and started to deal the cards.

However, the more the cards were dealt, the more he felt that something was not right.

There were actually three flush cards among the community cards. Although they were separated from each other, it seemed like.

He quickly turned over his cards.

Sure enough, it’s a royal flush!

This move allowed him to win a lot of money, and everyone around him suddenly became more excited. Such exciting scenes are really rare.

The big man and the beautiful girl in red at the table were about to leave.

"You are too lucky to have fun," the big man said.

Big ears hugged the money on the table and widened his eyes: "Everyone, stop! Come on, keep playing, whoever runs away is the dog!"

The two of them had to sit back again.

The gambling game is still going on, and more and more people are watching around.

Big Ear's luck has not always been so good, but due to his unlucky luck in the previous rounds, his capital is quite high.

In addition, he still wanted to win when he won, and wanted to win back when he lost, so he stayed at the gambling table.

His opponents changed one after another. Gradually, Holmes's group of people were eliminated one after another, and the replacements were all soldiers from the barracks.

This soon became a gambling game among the soldiers left behind at Stone Fortress.

It was getting dark soon, but neither the gamblers nor the onlookers had any intention of ending. Big Ear asked people to bring kerosene lamps, light torches, and fight at night, with the intention of fighting until dawn.

As for dinner? What is that? Is it important to have this thing?

As the night progressed, torches were lit one after another, and the card table changed from one to two. The cowboy under Holmes kindly gave them a few decks of playing cards, which finally made them stand here.

In a place where birds don't poop, I can feel the warmth of the civilized world again.

Just when Big Ears turned red in the face and shouted to an opponent whether he wanted to increase the amount.

With a "swish" sound, an arrow was nailed to the table.

Everyone was stunned.

When they looked up at the dark night sky, with the sound of piercing the air, many arrows crossed the stone wall and rushed towards their direction.

The dense crowd was filled with people, and four or five people immediately lay down.

"The Nahuas! The Nahuas are here again!"

Big Ear exclaimed and staggered up from the stool. His legs were a little numb from sitting for a long time.

"Go up the wall! Go up the wall quickly!"

Everyone was about to return to the guns as usual, but they suddenly looked at each other and were dumbfounded.

Most of them didn't have guns.

Yes, let's bet money on who will carry a gun. In a hurry, will you use the gun to destroy the opponent?

"Go back and get it quickly!" Big Ear jumped up and down anxiously.

So, everyone started running around like headless flies again, carrying lights and torches back to the house to look for guns.

However, the results shocked them.

Their guns are gone.

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