Cui Minggui was greatly alarmed.
What was that net?
He couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't rush over rashly.
So, he turned his gaze back to the Zheng family members.
"Ten people, charge straight through and break that net!"
The Zheng family looked at the four people who had just fallen and hesitated.
But this time, before Cui Minggui could speak.
The Wang, Lu, and Fan families simultaneously drew their weapons and pointed them at the Zheng family.
"Either go, or die!"
The targeted Zheng family members looked resentful.
But circumstances were stronger than men, and they could only brace themselves and go.
Ten people walked out from the crowd and desperately ran towards the net.
Upon reaching it, they rammed it with all their might.
Sizzle!
Not only did the electric net not fall, but it electrocuted them and hung them on it.
The smell of scorched flesh drifted to Cui Minggui and the others.
Cui Mingfu from the Boling Cui family immediately threw up.
"Ugh! What the hell is this!"
"You Zheng family brats, get out here! If you can't break that net, none of you will be allowed to go back alive!"
Fan Tong of the Fan family directly grabbed one of the Zheng family members and sliced off half his face with a knife.
"What are you all standing around for? Charge for me!"
The Zheng family members looked at each other.
With two hundred against a thousand, there was clearly no retreat.
Then, Zheng Yaoyang, one of the Zheng family members, stepped forward and said to the others.
"Brothers, let's charge. Don't stand here. Whoever survives, remember to ask the family head to seek justice for us!"
With that, he rushed directly towards the electric net.
The others could only grit their teeth and follow.
One hundred and eighty-four people charged towards the electric net together.
Qi Sui, hiding behind the electric net, twitched.
"Damn! Can that pillar buried two meters deep hold up?"
Well, the result was definitely that it couldn't hold up.
The electric net was knocked over by so many people.
Not only was the electric net knocked over, but the wires and the concrete pillars supporting them were all broken!
But.
The first few dozen people who ran ahead also fell with the electric net, and not one could get up!
Only over a hundred people managed to get up.
Zheng Yaoyang, tripped by the people who had fallen before him, did not charge forward and thus escaped with his life.
He looked at the other five families still not crossing the bridge and gritted his teeth.
"Brothers! Remember, take advantage of the chaos to grab the treasures!"
"There are plenty of valuable things in this workshop!"
"Kill!"
With that, he took the lead and charged into the workshop.
The electric net was still a hundred paces away from Qi Sui.
Qi Sui was not flustered. He had seen scenes with hundreds of thousands of people; what were a thousand or so people?
His soldiers were the same.
Some even started betting, gambling on how many they could kill this time.
After the Zheng family had rushed past the electric net, Cui Minggui finally felt relieved.
"Charge with me! Kill! Loot! Capture the craftsmen!"
"Young master's orders, one craftsman is worth one guan coin!"
"Charge!"
A thousand people instantly surged from the bridge, heading straight for the workshop.
The Zheng family had already reached a point less than twenty paces from Qi Sui.
In the faint moonlight, they could aim and shoot clearly.
Ptooey~
Qi Sui spat out the twig he was chewing, took out Long Ya from behind him.
"Brothers, it's time to work!"
He said, loaded the bullets, and raised his gun.
Zheng Yaoyang, who was at the forefront, was not tripped this time.
A bullet passed directly through his chest, hitting another person!
The two fell almost simultaneously, as if pulling back the curtain!
Excluding the hundred people who had reached the rear of the six families, there were still over a hundred guards scattered elsewhere.
Qi Sui's two hundred or so muskets opened fire in unison!
The remaining hundred or so Zheng family members could not stand after just one round.
Cui Minggui, charging from the bridge, was terrified.
He exchanged a look with Cui Mingfu, seeing the same fear in each other's eyes.
"Bad! Retreat quickly! They are prepared!"
He said, turning back with his men and fleeing.
And the fire leader, with his hundred men, had already circled around from another bridge.
As the fire leader gave the order to fire, they pulled the triggers simultaneously.
In the moonlight, they reloaded the cartridges and fired.
Dealing with such a rabble, any formation shooting was too much respect.
Free fire was enough to achieve mass output!
The five families, a thousand men, unable to advance, unable to retreat, began to jump into the Longshou Canal.
One after another, like ducks being driven into the water.
Qi Sui was not afraid of them escaping. When there were no more enemies standing on the shore.
Qi Sui pulled a hand grenade from his pocket.
A proper hand grenade!
Explosion radius of three meters!
Not that Meng Han hand grenade that could only knock people down!
A thin iron shell filled with black powder and steel balls, weighing a total of two pounds!
No fuse needed, pull-pin ignition.
After pulling the pin, it triggered a small mechanism inside, the ignition primer used here was a bullet primer!
From pulling the rope to detonation, it was at fastest three seconds, at slowest no more than five seconds!
Qi Sui pulled the safety pin on the hand grenade and threw it directly into the crowd swimming in the canal.
These were standard issue for the defense team, one for each person!
With Qi Sui leading, everyone else threw their hand grenades.
For a time, explosions and screams echoed from the canal!
When everything had subsided, the water in the entire Longshou Canal was dyed red with blood, and there were dismembered limbs everywhere!
Not a single intact body remained!
By the time Fang Er arrived, Qi Sui had already led his men in cleaning up the battlefield.
There were a few survivors near the electric net, all tied to trees.
"Marquis, a total of over a thousand people. These few were lucky enough to survive the electric net and were tied up by my subordinates."
Fang Er walked over and patted the face of one of them.
"With so many people, they shouldn't be mountain bandits, right? Speak, which family sent you?"
The person being patted was Zheng Yaoyang's clansman. He had woken up when he was tied up.
When he saw over a thousand people disappear in the blink of an eye, he was completely stunned!
Under Fang Er's cold, smiling gaze, his legs became wet.
"Six, six, six families, all, all, sent people!"
Fang Er turned around.
"Alright, I know. It was you Zheng family members!"
"Qi Sui, kill them all, leave no one alive!"
"Then, pile the bodies together, douse them with fierce fire oil, and burn them!"
The person who was tied up was dumbfounded.
"Marquis, Marquis, I said six families, not just the Zheng family!"
Qi Sui directly smashed his teeth with the butt of his gun.
"The Marquis said, only your Zheng family!
Didn't you hear clearly?
Guards! No need to kill them, save a bullet!"
"Throw them in with the other bodies and burn them!"
That night!
The fires burning the bodies by the Longshou Canal continued until dawn!
The six families waited all night and received no news.
When the people sent to scout returned, they were all dumbfounded!
It wasn't the six family heads who were dumbfounded.
It was the scouts who were scared into idiots!
After sending a second wave of people to scout, they learned that everyone sent out last night had been eliminated!
Before they could voice their opinions, an imperial eunuch arrived from the palace.
"Lord Zheng, His Majesty requests your presence. Please accompany me."