America 1881: Legend of the West

The men sent out by Alvarez had not gone far when they encountered the signal troops coming from Ichagre.

After learning that the attackers had been surrounded, Alvarez's nervousness eased slightly.

His eyes were still on the square downstairs, but his mind was moving rapidly.

He thought about how to excuse himself later.

While Alvarez prayed that the fire in the mansion would burn as little as possible, he also hoped that the wedding below would end as soon as possible so that he could allocate manpower to support.

The number of civilians standing outside the square and watching did not decrease, but actually increased.

Alvarez's eyes swept across the crowd, and suddenly felt something strange.

"Ramos, why do those Indians look so strange?" he asked the adjutant behind him, pointing to a few people wearing linen clothes and hats in the crowd.

These people were mixed in the crowd and seemed to be passing by, walking through the crowd in their own direction.

"Oh, those people, they are not Indians, they are businessmen from China." Ramos replied.

As Alvarez's adjutant in charge of intelligence, he had met these Chinese people in the city a few days ago. Most of them were not talkative, but the leader was very talkative.

"It seems that they rescued the eldest lady on the border. Don't worry, there are not many of them." Ramos said.

Alvarez then turned his attention elsewhere.

The wedding had reached its climax, and the people attending the wedding began to dance happily.

The musician holding the guitar is playing happily. Like those who danced, he was intoxicated by his music.

Suddenly, he heard something discordant in his music.

It sounded like gunshots.

The musician looked at his companions and found that they were also confused.

He looked around again.

Apparently they were not the only ones in the square to realize this.

The crowd of onlookers outside began to commotion, and the dignitaries attending the wedding in the inner circle of the square also began to realize that something was wrong.

"Ask Alvarez what happened?"

Gutierrez was standing with Old Priego, holding a wine glass, and whispered to the attendant beside him.

He looked towards the roof and found that his guard captain was nervously communicating with the adjutant behind him.

After a while, the attendant came back with a very ugly face.

Behind him were two groups of heavily armed soldiers.

The attendant glanced at Old Priego next to Gutierrez and hesitated to speak.

"To put it bluntly, we are a family," Gutierrez said.

"There is a large group of cavalry coming towards the square." The attendant reported nervously, "Captain Alvarez hopes that you can stay away for the time being."

"It can't really be that guy Sergio, can it?!" Old Priego stomped his feet and complained, and immediately asked someone to notify his son and family members to prepare to run away.

But when he turned his head, he found that the Archon was standing motionless.

Old Priego was a little embarrassed, whether he left or not.

"You go first." Gutierrez said expressionlessly, "Safety is the most important thing."

"Then, Damian, take care of yourself." Old Priego turned around and ran away as if he had been pardoned.

He took his family, surrounded by a group of soldiers, and left the square behind the church.

The groom ran away, so the wedding naturally couldn't go on. The guests stood in the middle of the square, a little at a loss.

But they soon felt at ease.

Because Gutierrez was still standing at the door of the church.

Gutierrez looked at the leaving figures of the Prego family, turned around and ordered the housekeeper: "Have the madam and young lady retreat to the church with me."

He knew that heavy troops from the Gutierrez and Priego families were deployed around the church.

Sergio simply couldn't get in with his own cavalry patrol.

Therefore, it is safer to stay in the square; if you evacuate rashly, if the news is leaked and you are intercepted on the way, it will be a narrow escape.

The Priego family?

It's better for the whole family to be served in one pot, which just saves me the trouble.

"Tell Alvarez I'm in the church and not going anywhere."

Gutierrez said to the attendant with a livid face,

"If he can't take down Sergio with the troops of the two major families, then he should bury himself first."

At the same time, on the roof opposite the church door, his subordinate was obviously not as confident as his master.

Alvarez looked out to where the gunfire rang out.

There was the peripheral security guard deployed a few streets away from the central square. At this time, it was already at war with Sergio.

He couldn't figure it out.

Sergio had clearly gone to attack Gutierrez's mansion, so why did he suddenly appear here.

“Maybe it’s a feint attack over the mansion, and the main attack direction is here in the square.” Adjutant Ramos analyzed, “We just need to hold them back.

"The more than 100 people at the mansion should be able to resolve the battle soon. When the time comes to come back with reinforcements, Sergio and his cavalry patrol will not be able to survive."

Alvarez felt that his adjutant’s analysis made sense.

It stands to reason that whether it is the strength of the troops or the terrain, we have the upper hand, and we still have a hostage in our hands.

But for some reason, he still felt a little panicked?

Sergio had already discovered the people ambushing outside the camp.

He originally planned to use the speed advantage of the cavalry to rush out of the encirclement, but he didn't know why the ambush soldiers suddenly withdrew.

Sergio was overjoyed and led the cavalry along the street to the vicinity of the central square.

On the periphery of the theater, they encountered the first wave of resistance.

The cavalry patrol was not reluctant to fight, but rushed and fought, and soon the theater's defense line was broken into pieces.

They didn't even leave any personnel to clean up the battlefield, and continued to fight towards the square.

If the gunshots just now were still vaguely audible, people in the square could now clearly see the dust rising two blocks away.

Screams resounded throughout the square, and the onlookers, including civilians and wedding guests, fled in all directions.

Alvarez stood upstairs, glanced at his troop layout, and felt very relieved.

Soldiers from the Gutierrez family and the Priego family were densely scattered around the church and on the rooftops around the square.

As long as Sergio comes here, this will be his burial place.

He pushed the bloodless Romero beside him to the edge of the roof.

One of Romero's feet was already in the air.

"Hey, young man, did you hear the sound of horse hooves? That's your brother, just two hundred meters away, but unfortunately, he can't save you."

Alvarez pushed Romero's upper body off the roof, stimulating the young man like crazy.

"The moment he rushes in, I will throw you down. You will see your brother's face for two seconds, and then, bang! It falls to the ground like a bag, and your brains will fly~~ Hahaha."

Alvarez pointed to the ground beneath the roof, laughing wildly.

Then, he heard a gunshot.

He felt like his heart was suddenly hit by something and torn.

Severe pain came.

Alvarez's legs could not support his weight and he fell from the roof.

Romero, who was beside him, then lost his balance, stepped on the air, and fell from the roof behind Alvarez.

Just when the young master thought he was going to turn into a meat pie.

He suddenly saw a net spread out on the ground.

Then he knew nothing.

"Holy shit, could you hold it straighter when you picked it up? I almost fell to death." Li Sifu complained to several members of the Long Xiang group around him.

"I looked at it, but it didn't touch the ground." A member of the Longxiang team observed the person they picked up and said with certainty, "It was just a shock."

They carried the net through the crowd, and when they arrived at the building, they saw someone falling from the roof.

When the net opened, the man had fallen to the ground.

They didn't follow up.

Just when Li Sifu thought the mission had failed, someone else fell down and fell into the net.

They quickly wrapped the man in a net and took advantage of the chaos to carry him out of the square along the wall.

Therefore, when Alvarez's adjutant and soldiers rushed up from behind and looked down, they only saw their commander lying on the ground, blood flowing from his chest, soaking the ground around him.

There was chaos upstairs.

Soldiers were looking for the source of the attack.

However, the commanding heights around the square are all under their control, so it can't be an insider, right?

"Isn't it too early to kill him like this? Sergio's people haven't rushed in yet." Camilla put away her gun and asked Chen Jianqiu on the side.

"Who asked him to stand so high?" Chen Jianqiu replied.

He stood behind the statue of the Holy Child, overlooking Gutierrez's soldiers below like headless flies.

Where Chen Jianqiu and Camilla were standing, these soldiers could not notice them.

Because this is the real commanding height of the entire square - the top of the church.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for ordinary people to get up here.

However, this is not a normal situation, and Chen Jianqiu and Camilla are not ordinary people either.

"The prologue is over, the curtain call is over, it's time for the show to begin."