Henry walked back to the center of the garden and again emptied 12 bullets from two double-action revolvers, sending away all 12 guards who were still struggling with relatively minor injuries.
Then Henry strode toward the first floor of the main building - having just spent nearly two minutes checking the 19 rooms, he estimated external enemies would arrive soon.
The first floor hall was completely empty with no one there. Henry immediately opened the doors of six rooms one by one to check.
Counting from the left, the first and second rooms were empty - a kitchen and storage room.
The third room was locked from inside.
Henry walked five or six meters away, took out a Winchester rifle and fired three shots at the door lock area, immediately breaking it. Then Henry took out a German Shepherd's corpse and threw it at the door.
"Bang!" The door was completely shaken open. A thin white man inside fired repeatedly at the German Shepherd, but was shot in the head by Henry with his rifle.
The room was full of file bags and notebooks.
Whether this thin man was harboring false hope or his position was too low to have authority to burn these documents, he hadn't destroyed these archives.
Henry collected all these archives, then went to open the fourth room on the left that was similarly locked.
This time after the German Shepherd broke open the room, there was no one inside, only some account books and several boxes of cash.
Henry took everything.
Next was the fifth room counting from the left - the door was wide open, inside were guns and ammunition, which Henry collected entirely.
Particularly notable were 6 Sharps military model M1878 rifles and 1200 rounds of .50-90 ammunition.
This rifle maintained basic characteristics of large caliber, heavy long barrel, breech-loading, falling-block action, exposed "S-shaped" hammer, etc., with a caliber of .50-90.
Besides replaceable front sights and adjustable range fixed sight board above the chamber, it also had a Creedmoor-style vertical peep sight installed on the stock neck for fine adjustment.
The .50-90 caliber bullet had a bullet diameter of 12.7mm, cartridge case length of 2.5 inches (63.5mm), with 90 grains (about 5.83 grams) of powder, so the muzzle velocity and power were astonishing, capable of bringing down a buffalo with one shot at over 900 meters.
Things like black bears would go down with one shot.
It was said that two years ago a cowboy in Kansas even used it to precisely bring down an Indian chief at 1500 yards (about 1372 meters).
The gun's disadvantage was that it could only fire single shots, and weighed about 12 pounds, with a total length of 1.2 meters. Ordinary people needed to use a shooting rest to aim properly.
The last room had eight double-decker iron beds, completely empty.
Henry walked up the stairs holding double-action revolvers in both hands, step by step steadily, his footsteps like death's drumbeats striking the heart of Dressler who was ambushing at the second floor stair entrance.
He took a deep breath, left hand supporting his right wrist, a LeMat revolver held firmly in his right hand's tiger's mouth.
The gun's hammer had been switched down to shotgun mode.
There was only one chance - a 20-gauge shotgun shell was ready, must spray eight or ten holes in the enemy.
At the last step of the stair corner, Henry felt a faint stinging in his brow. He took out a bandit's corpse from his space and threw it to the corner of the stairs.
"Bang!" With a tremendous roar, the bandit corpse that had been kept fresh was riddled with countless dense wounds, blood flowing.
"Bang!" Henry flashed out and shot Dressler in the forehead with one shot, making him fall backward.
He ignored the fierce bandit corpse just thrown out - after all, this corpse had no bounty.
Henry quickly ran to the second floor, collecting Dressler and the LeMat pistol that had fallen to the ground into his space.
There was no time for detailed searching now - large enemy forces could arrive at any moment.
The second floor had only four rooms. Henry first rushed into what looked like the master bedroom, found nothing special, then quickly entered the study.
This time Henry quickly discovered the clues. Perhaps from too much use over too long a time, the wear marks on the bookshelf switch were too obvious.
The other party probably never expected this place would be quickly breached.
After all, nothing had happened for years, and they often had to retrieve and store things - no one would be that cautious.
Opening the hidden compartment behind the bookshelf, inside was a small safe measuring 8 x 12 x 10 inches.
Henry collected the safe then checked the study again. Finding nothing else, he quickly left the study.
Of the other two rooms, one had ten iron beds, one was a conference room.
Henry placed a chest-high granite stone on the second floor, then stood behind it holding two double-action revolvers, waiting quietly.
This was less than 40 meters from the main entrance. Henry's firing speed with pistols was much faster than with rifles.
Moreover, since the main building was the nerve center, the guards outside or other responsible persons couldn't possibly not come to rescue.
At least there was still so much money and archives here.
Especially the archives - there might be many things inside that would die if exposed to light.
Furthermore, this was not far from downtown Denver. Such intensive gunfire would soon attract law enforcement, so the other side didn't have much time.
Henry quickly calculated that he had just released 108 souls. Below the release bar there were still 64 gray pearl shells, 82 white pearl shells, and 2 green pearl shells - should be enough.
Soon, in less than a minute, over a dozen guards poured through the wide-open villa entrance, with dozens more behind them, all carrying rifles.
"Bang bang bang" Henry began high-speed shooting.
The fifty-plus guards behind concentrated fire to suppress Henry, while about fifty guards in front charged frantically, wanting to rush into the main building so Henry couldn't handle both ends.
Unfortunately, they completely miscalculated this time.
At nearly 40 meters distance, it would take at least 5 seconds for the vanguard to reach the main building.
And in 5 seconds Henry could empty 5 rounds of dual guns - 60 bullets. At this distance Henry was almost perfect accuracy.
So the 58 guards shooting from behind desperately discovered that no matter how much concentrated fire, they couldn't kill that guy standing behind the granite cover. Only that stone occasionally chipped off a few small fragments.
While the 54 vanguard charging forward were shot dead one by one on the charge route within seconds - not one could rush into the main building.
Just then, Henry shouted and fell backward.
Finally brought down this cockroach pest!
The 58 guards behind were overjoyed and all ran toward the main building.
Then they despairingly discovered that after running only ten-plus meters, that pest stood up again holding dual guns and firing repeatedly, making these guards momentarily unsure whether to continue running forward or stop for a firefight.
However, Henry wouldn't hesitate. He prioritized shooting the guards charging in front.
"Bang bang bang" Under intensive gunfire, the front guards fell like rice cut by a sickle.
Later, even several guards collapsed and turned to flee frantically, but still couldn't escape the soul-chasing bullets like death's calling card.
From when these 112 guards began their attack and charge, Henry only took about ten seconds to bring them all down.
The space's instant gun switching combined with his various talents made him achieve effects with two double-action revolvers far exceeding future automatic weapons.
After all, Henry's hit rate was far too high.
(End of Chapter)
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