Now the progress bar has reached 3rd level 19%.
Below the progress bar are 265 gray beads, 54 white beads, 6 green beads, and 165 gray bead empty shells, 197 white bead empty shells, and 8 green bead empty shells.
Another talent can be upgraded to LV2.
If a shotgun cannon needs 5 green bead empty shells to withstand one shot, it can only withstand 7 shots, and there are so many machine guns; the risk-reward ratio is too low, and it's not worth being reckless anymore.
Thinking of this, Henry took out a shovel from his space and dug a pit on the road surface a little behind the corner; he prepared to dig a deep pit 2 meters deep and 1.5 meters long and wide.
At the same time, every ten to twenty minutes, he would expose half of his body at the corner and fire two shots, making the guards nervous and restless.
Qi An, the commander of the manor, would irregularly launch a flare every ten to thirty minutes to prevent the enemy from suddenly pulling out a cannon and shelling the corner.
Anyway, there were nearly 100 flares in the manor's warehouse, enough to last 7 or 8 hours until dawn.
Also, to see if there were any reinforcements.
As for arranging guards to hang new gas lamps on both sides, he dismissed the idea; the enemy's marksman was too terrifying, and doing so would only result in unnecessary casualties.
The scene momentarily fell into a strange balance; within an hour, about 4 or 5 flares lit up, and the sound of machine gun fire was heard 3 or 4 times.
Many forces down the mountain noticed this strange scene.
In fact, many people had already noticed when the machine guns were frantically firing earlier, and later there were even two Bombardment, followed by flares rising intermittently from the mountainside and the sound of machine gun fire.
All of these indicated that McKinley Manor was under attack by a powerful enemy.
Many people even recalled the North-South War more than ten years ago.
After receiving this intelligence, Colorado Governor John did not deal with it immediately; he was a Republican, and he wasn't particularly fond of the McKinley Family, who were always Republicans, especially this branch of theirs that had forcefully inserted itself into the Democratic Party's stronghold in Colorado mining.
Because the Democratic Party advocated for "silver standard," they were especially eager to please many of Colorado's mining bosses.
Since the governor didn't speak up, most other people didn't have the powerful military force to intervene in this armed conflict.
Even forces with this capability would not rashly participate in such a struggle when the situation was unclear.
So, everything was as Henry expected; his conflict with McKinley Manor was not disturbed by a third party.
However, Bowie, the head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, sent three detectives to investigate the matter.
Henry spent more than three hours, finally digging the deep pit a little after 1 AM.
He didn't exhaust himself but occasionally rested, sat down to drink hot water and coffee, and then harassed the guards near the main gate of the manor.
Henry took out all 6900 pounds of dana explosives from his Storage Space, including the two 500-pound bags of explosives that had already been fitted with detonators.
He reinstalled the electric detonators, connected all the dana explosives to an electric detonator with a 180-second delay, then activated the electric detonator, put away all the dana explosives, and then released them into the dug deep pit.
The volume of this deep pit was about 4.5 cubic meters, more than enough to hold less than 1.7 cubic meters of 6900 pounds of dana explosives.
Henry immediately ran wildly down the mountain.
He didn't ride a horse, because riding a horse on a mountain road at night might not be as fast as his running.
He didn't run at full speed; after all, he still had to pay attention to the conditions on the road and on both sides, but 180 seconds was enough time for him to run over 1300 meters, round eight bends, and almost reach the fork in the road at the foot of the mountain.
"Boom!"
A huge sound came from behind Henry, and the feeling of the mountain shaking and the earth trembling immediately followed.
Then Henry felt the warm air current rushing past him at high speed, but at this distance, these no longer had any killing power.
6900 pounds is about 3130 kilograms, and the explosive power of dana explosives is 1.43 times that of TNT, which is equivalent to 4.476 tons of TNT exploding.
Henry estimated it would be enough for McKinley Family Manor to handle.
These dana explosives were all obtained from the McKinley Family, and now they were returned to them.
This time, it is estimated that the McKinley Family will not have time to trouble him for the next few days.
Through tonight's battle, Henry felt it was necessary to get two cannons into his space.
He would pay attention to this type of material in the future.
Henry secretly noted this in his heart.
Henry took one last turn, and the exit of the mountain road was about two hundred meters ahead.
"Huh?" Henry found that there were three people lurking behind the poplar trees at the intersection.
They didn't have night vision and didn't expect anyone to be able to descend the mountain road at high speed in pitch darkness, so their figures weren't completely concealed.
Henry stopped running, calmed his breathing for a few seconds, then took out the "One Thousandth" Winchester Rifle from his space and began to shoot.
"Bang bang bang!" In about two seconds, after three shots, the three dark figures instantly fell to the ground.
Prying on the strong in the middle of the night, especially in the West, was simply courting death.
When Henry approached the three, he found that one of them had a Pinkerton Detective badge on his chest; it seemed they were all Pinkerton detectives.
Henry shot each person in the chest, collected them into his space, then released a Quarter Horse, mounted it, and returned in the direction of Melon Manor.
Pinkerton detectives truly lived up to their elite status, as three more white beads appeared below the release life progress bar.
As for turning back to the manor, Henry said that a true man never looks back at an explosion.
Anyway, he had returned all his dana explosives.
Along the way, he paid attention and found no other lurkers.
After all, it was past one in the morning, and only those specifically on reconnaissance would still be lingering here at this time.
When he returned to the forest on the east side of the city near Melon Manor, Henry turned in again, then removed his mask, full beard, and handlebar mustache, and then changed to an Apa Lusa horse before returning to the manor.
When he was still about a hundred meters from the manor, Henry slowed his horse to a walk, slowly entering the area illuminated by the two gas lamps at the gate.
"It's Sheriff Henry, open the door quickly," Owen said happily.
After Henry rode into the manor, he handed the horse over to Owen, who led it into the stable, while Henry himself walked into the villa and tiptoed to his room on the second floor.
After locking the door, Henry didn't light the kerosene lamp; there was no place for bathing in his room anyway. He simply took off his shoes and outer clothes and lay down on the bed.
He first used the white bead with a flowing halo.
Instantly, he was surrounded by a warm aura that appeared out of nowhere, and he found that he had been practicing and using boxing for more than ten years, and was exceptionally talented, becoming a boxing champion with few rivals.
A minute later, Henry woke up and found that his Boxing LV1 had changed to LV4.
He now had energy equivalent to 611 gray beads, which could be used to enhance his strength or hearing talent.
However, the improvement of these two talents did not significantly boost his current combat power.
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