"Leave a few men on guard. Everyone else, go in. Pull out in three minutes!" Zhang Chun checked his watch before giving the order.
They had all firmly memorized the layout of the front half of the Sumiyoshi-kai headquarters.
As for the back half, they knew nothing about it. After all, Gu Sheng had never been there.
"Move!"
Not long after Zhang Chun and the others charged inside, the mingled reports of pistols and rifles rang out again.
The Sumiyoshi-kai men lay in ambush behind walls and around corners, and both sides kept firing.
Gunfire also erupted from other directions around the Sumiyoshi-kai headquarters. Besides the main entrance, there was a back door, another primary target.
Other men were blocking the Sumiyoshi-kai members nearby.
The area housed not only the Sumiyoshi-kai headquarters, but also several of its departments and the homes of some of its bosses.
Amid the gunfire, people fell from time to time.
Although the Sumiyoshi-kai men lacked firepower, their familiarity with the terrain allowed them to inflict quite a few casualties on Zhang Chun's group.
Zhang Chun's eyes reddened as he watched the men beside him fall to gunfire.
With the Sumiyoshi-kai men pinned inside the headquarters building, Zhang Chun pulled out a grenade, only to hear someone shout nearby.
"Brother Chun, time's up... We have to pull out..."
"Fuck!" Zhang Chun gritted his teeth. Reluctant as he was, they had to withdraw at the appointed time.
Still unwilling to leave, Zhang Chun hurled the grenade through a window.
Boom!
"Move!" He checked the man beside him. Though shot, the man was still conscious.
Two men supported him between them, dragging him toward the main gate.
The wounded man kept firing at the headquarters entrance as they carried him, keeping the Sumiyoshi-kai men from daring to show