Just as it was getting dark, the Port Authority compound closed its gates on time, as usual.

Due to the large number of vehicles that often have to be parked, the courtyard of the Port Authority covers a large area, almost the size of half a football field.

And as soon as the gate was closed, many guards rushed out of the stone building that seemed to have few people before, and began to make pre-war arrangements.

They first cleaned up the debris in the courtyard, and then lifted out many bundles of special obstacles from the basement, and opened them to form two concentric circles around the stone building. In this way, no matter from which angle the bandits climb over the wall to enter the courtyard, they will be blocked by obstacles and become a live target if they can't run ten steps.

Prior to this, with the assistance of telescopes, night vision devices and walkie-talkies, the spies sent by the hostile parties had already been monitored by Xiong Dao's side for a long time, and the other party was still ignorant.

What the shopkeepers from Taihu Lake didn't know was that the hundreds of thousands of taels of snowflake ingots they were thinking about were actually transferred on the night they were put into storage.

After the silver was moved to a small fishing boat in the port, it was sent to Hangzhou in the past few days, and now it is lying in the basement of Tangzhuang.

Instead, there are obstacles brought in by fishing boats from Tangzhuang. These things have now been spread in the courtyard, just waiting for the shopkeepers to come and make a wave.

While the guards were preparing, it was already completely dark. Tonight, the moonlight is bright, the breeze is blowing, and the sky is full of stars, reflecting all the roads around the port, and it is a good day to kill people and set fires.

With a clattering sound of leather shoes, Xiong Dao, the owner of the port, was also wearing a special police uniform at this time, with an AK on his shoulder, and went to the roof of the building with reinforcements.

With such a big action, how could Hangzhou Station turn a blind eye? So closely behind Xiong Dao was Lu Cheng, the head of the Jiangnan Intelligence Station.

The chubby Lu Cheng was also draped all over his body at this moment, and behind him was a string of action team members who had come from Hangzhou for reinforcements.

Of course, there are more reinforcements than that. The water system from Taihu Lake to the port extends in all directions, and there are also thousands of waterways from Hangzhou to the port, so the 150 action team members brought by Lu Cheng actually secretly entered the port late the night before yesterday.

The team members were divided into two parts. Most of them lurked in the warehouses that had been emptied, and a few of them snuck into the port office and didn't show up until tonight.

At this moment, on the roof of the stone building, the team members have built sandbags along the outer edge. The reinforced concrete roof not only has sufficient structural strength, but also the flat terrain and observation advantages are also very suitable for setting up fire points.

In addition to the twenty breech guns on the roof, the two AKs are the real points of fire. These two things in the town house are used by two intelligence officers with relatively high status, Liu Qingyun and Gu Tianle.

"It seems that the intelligence of the 'test tube' comrade is very accurate, the lake bandits are going to attack tonight, and their fleet has already moved this way just now." After hearing the report from the surveillance post on the walkie-talkie in his hand, Xiong Dao turned his head and said to Lu Cheng.

At this time, Lu Cheng watched the team members on the roof of the building busy, and replied with a smile, "Hehe, the innate identity of the 'test tube' is there, and the information is of course accurate." ”

"Well, since it is effective, then in the future, we can consider letting the 'test tube' hold high the banner of anti-scum, gather the reactionary gentry, and disguise it for a long time."

"This doesn't need to be disguised, just perform in its true colors!"

When Lu Cheng said this, the two laughed tacitly.

At this moment, Liu Wang, who was wearing a short-brimmed hat in a training uniform and carrying an AK on his back, stood straight beside the two stationmasters, couldn't help but muster up the courage to interject, "Stationmaster, with the ability of our intelligence department alone, we can secretly kill those old men who eat people and don't spit out bones, why bother to mobilize so many people?" ”

"Haha, yes, the most important thing for young people is to learn to think!"

Lu Cheng patted the apprentice he brought out on the shoulder with relief, and then set up a dragon gate array against him, "Assassination is just a tactic, not a strategy. In such a large confrontation as two blocs, two camps, two countries, there is no point in large-scale assassinations. ”

"You have also been studying cultural classes for a long time, and your grades are not bad, so throughout the ages, Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, have you ever seen any force that won the world by assassinating the opponent to submit to it?"

"If you assassinate Master Zhang, there will be Zhang Gongzi who will come out to inherit the family business, even if you assassinate Master Zhang's family, there will still be people from all walks of life who will jump out and become new gentlemen - as long as this model of making a fortune by sucking blood from the land still exists, then the gentleman will be produced in a steady stream."

When Lu Cheng said this, Xiong Dao smiled on the side and interjected, "Boy, you assassinated a large number of hostile gentry, so won't Cheng Ming kill him?" What is the difference between this and an open rebellion? Do you think we can raise the anti-flag with these few guns now? ”

"The idea is a little bit simpler. You must know that assassination will only make the people fear you and hate you, and will not make the people really submit to you. Lu Cheng continued, "To seize power of this magnitude in the Ming Dynasty, you must let everyone see your positive strength, and you must convince everyone." ”

Xiong Dao smiled strangely at this time, and interjected a black sentence that young people couldn't understand: "Mages are terrifying, knights are awe-inspiring!" ”

Lu Cheng laughed and continued to say to his apprentice, "Don't you see that the Tartars in the north are doing this? From the thirteen pairs of armor that year, through a bloody battle to disperse the spirit of the Ming Dynasty, now the Tartars in the Ming Kingdom has gradually had the rumor of 'invincible'. ”

What does this mean? It means that Daming's backbone has been broken! The entire upper echelons are losing faith in the Tartars to resist. Hmph, if we hadn't appeared, the Tartars would definitely be able to sit in the world in the future, and this is the right way to seize the country. ”

Lu Cheng felt that he had instilled a little too much in this indigenous apprentice today, so he began the final summary: "You have to remember that without fighting on the battlefield, without continuous bloody battles, and without the change that completely detonates the old contradictions from the bottom up, this world will not be able to sit still." ”

In the end, after rewarding Liu Wang with a "hair wash", Lu Cheng assigned homework to his apprentice, "Take a good look at the history of Jin Sui when you go back, and then write reading notes to me!" ”

While some people were talking, the lake bandit flotilla that had been launched from more than 20 miles away was steadily moving in the river. Tonight's bright moonlight and stars gave the lake bandits, who were already good at sailing at night, the best conditions for marching, so the silent fleet did not encounter any twists and turns along the way, and after sailing slowly for more than four hours, the fleet finally reached the river wharf in the outer business district of the destination port.

Previously, due to the large amount of work, the idea of widening and dredging the inland river connecting the port and forming river intermodal transportation could only stay on paper for the time being.

In this way, the goods unloaded from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the port of Shanghai must go through a transfer before they can be dispersed to the current river wharf, and then transported to various parts of the Yangtze River by countless inland river boats.

The fleet of lake bandits is now quietly parked at the mouth of Zhangsu Beach, outside the gate of the current business district.

Previously, because the port had sold out its inventory, and the port authority had intentionally or unintentionally used some excuses such as "renovation and maintenance", the commercial area had been sold out in the past few days, and only an empty city remained.

This action is objectively equivalent to helping the lake bandits' busy fleet, which can directly anchor at the river wharf, and after the large army disembarks, they can also pass directly through the commercial area and pounce on the port authority without worrying about the idlers and other news.

And that's exactly what the lake bandits did.

After the flotilla docked, several shopkeepers and cronies carrying knives and axes jumped off the ship first. At this time, the spies who came from the business district also came to report, "Everyone, there is no one in the inn, and there is no oil and water, and the merchants have gone back to sell their goods." ”

"Good! Let the brethren disembark, and don't make a noise! Commander-in-chief Qiao XVII nodded with satisfaction at this time, beckoned and ordered the crowd to disembark.

The lake bandits selected to participate in the operation this time are all elites of various gangs. So when it was time to act, these old bandits suddenly showed their professionalism, and after the eight hundred people tumbled down the shore from the edge of the boat, they did not make any noisy sound, but generally maintained their formation, forming a long black and gray dragon on the gravel road next to the pier.

"It's so much that Lao Tzu doesn't say much, there are people who don't act according to the charter, and someone will settle accounts with him when he goes back!" After Qiao Qiqi gave a final word of advice to the shopkeepers around him, he said, "Get up!" Then he took the lead and took more than 100 of his own people to be the vanguard.

After that, the shopkeepers also returned to their own family horses with their cronies, and the long queue composed of truncated segments set off immediately.

On the way, the brigade of lake bandits, who had been repeatedly informed of the specific situation of the port, quickly passed through the commercial and storage areas in the next moment, and did not divide their troops - they knew that these were empty, and the fat was only in the compound of the port authority.

When a "bang-la-la" footsteps came from far and near in the moonlit night, and finally came to the main road of the port area, the sentinel, who was only separated by a wide road, finally saw a large number of black figures on the opposite side of the road in the bright moonlight, and it was really impossible to say if they didn't see it.

So a sharp exclamation finally broke the silence, and it spread far away in the cold wind on the riverbank, "It's not good, there are thieves, wake up the nursing home!" ”

After hearing this shout full of panic, the three shopkeepers standing in front of the lake bandit team suddenly laughed and successfully attacked the tiger.

The next moment, according to the plan, Qiao XVII led the brothers to slowly rush across the smooth cement avenue; The teams on his left and right were led by the other two big shopkeepers to the back of the compound.

According to the plan, since it was to pass through in a wave of recklessness, the brigade could turn in from all sides of the courtyard wall at the same time to bring the best hectic effect to the enemy.

Therefore, Qiao Seventeen, who had already achieved ax skills in robbing houses, took the brothers to pause slightly on the front of the courtyard wall. At this time, he listened intently to the panicked shouts and scattered muskets in the courtyard, while waiting for the signal to charge.

Not long after, about a minute and a half later, a stream of red flag flowers suddenly burst into the night sky.

The next moment, Qiao Qiqi brandished a steel knife and yelled, "Pour it into Lao Tzu, it's not a brother who messes around, don't blame my brother for being vicious!" ”

On the night of November 28, 1629, on the night of the tenth day when Xiong Dao sent people to buy land at Xu's house, the reactionary gentry group in Jiangnan officially began the action of seizing the fruits of the labor of the people by force.