Chapter 585 Gu Yanwu's intuition

The person who came was Gu Yanwu.

However, he didn't come alone, in addition to a few men from his entourage, they also brought one person with him - Qin Shuban of Jiangdu County.

In other words, where did this Mr. Gu go for most of the day?

It turned out that He Shouxin attacked the city overnight, and asked Gu Yanwu for several men to be guides, but he left him, the main master, on the bank of the Nian Four Rivers, and told the remaining cooking class to protect him.

Listening to the gunshots all over the city, he sat bored, unable to help anything, Gu Yanwu was not depressed.

Fortunately, there was a secretary who accompanied him all the time, and several people sat around the river, listening to the movements, and chatting without saying a word to relieve their boredom, which was somewhat distracted and not too irritable......

“…… This tartar is really vicious, such a big city, this dog thief wants to burn it with a fire! ”

Talking about Ma Jinbao's poisonous plan, the secretary was very angry, "We have fought all the way to the captive army, there have been no less than 100 battles, hundreds of cities have been captured, and we have never encountered a ...... who really dares to burn the city."

"Burning the City ......"

Hearing these two words, Gu Yanwu's brows tightened, and he suddenly thought of something.

Wan Shouqi once said that when he went to the wharf to investigate, he saw that the Tartar fleet was very busy coming in and out, both full of grain out of the city, and also carrying firewood and gunpowder into the city.

"In and out of ......"

It always feels like something is wrong!

However, he couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while......

Before I knew it, the sky was getting brighter, and the gunfire in the city was thinning.

"If nothing else, it's another victory,"

The secretary stood up and looked at the city with a relaxed face, "Lord Gu, you sit patiently, we are going to be busy, we have to hurry up and prepare breakfast for the soldiers......

"Why don't you add a hand with the guys?"

Gu Yanwu then stood up and patted the ash on his buttocks, he was idle anyway, so it was better to do something.

"No, no, no......"

The secretary smiled and shook his hand and refused - these guys, all of them are sturdy men with rough hands and feet, and they don't look like they often do kitchen work, and besides, they also see the army's marching stove.

He was polite, but he saw that ships were coming out of the west gate one after another, and they were coming straight this way.

Everyone hurriedly greeted them, and when they got closer, they saw that the people supporting the boat were all Zheng soldiers, and the boats were full of firewood and clay pots, boat after boat, and there were many.

After asking, it turned out that the entire city had indeed been taken, and they were ordered to transport all kinds of fire-causing things out of the city.

Gu Yanwu hurriedly called on the men to help unload the ship - they couldn't interfere in fighting and cooking, and this kind of pure strength work could still help a little.

However, as more and more ships went out of the city, Gu Yanwu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly figured out Fang Cai's question.

Because he has always paid attention to the movements of the Tartars, he has roughly a number of points for the civilian ships that have been seized and detained in Slender West Lake.

He had noticed that there were about 180 cargo ships suitable for transporting grain, and at most no more than 200.

Ma Jinbao wanted to rush tens of thousands of stone grain out of the city, and at least more than 100 such cargo ships had to be used, and there would be no shortage of soldiers to escort them, and there would always be thousands of people.

He couldn't figure out how many soldiers were missing in the city, but the number of ships was not right—it seemed that there were more than a hundred in front of him, most of them there.

That's weird!

If all the grain was really transported to Yizhen, there would not be so many ships left anyway-how could it be possible to rush back on the same day by sixty or seventy miles of waterway?

"Isn't it ......"

He was suddenly stunned, and his intuition told him that there must be a ghost here!

He subconsciously looked back at the grove behind him where the captives were being held—if only he could find an officer among the captives and interrogate him.

But this could not be done.

There were so many prisoners, only a few cooks guarded, and in case something happened, they were all tied hand and foot, and no one was allowed to approach without the order of the company commander.

Gu Yanwu was so anxious that he rubbed his hands and meditated hard, he finally made up his mind - immediately enter the city and go directly to Company Commander He!

At that moment, he summoned his men, and while the chief was too busy to take care of them, he jumped into an empty ship returning from the shore and hurried into the city......

However, when they entered the city, they found that the smoke of gunfire had not yet dispersed in the city, and the order was still quite chaotic.

Along the way, you can meet soldiers in different costumes at any time, either hurrying past with prisoners or trotting all the way with buckets, all of them nervous and serious.

Smoking houses are still in almost every street, sporadic gunshots are heard, and many street intersections are guarded by sentries who refuse to pass through idlers.

As soon as I inquired, I found out that a large number of reinforcements had come from the Wang Division - the main force going south had arrived.

At this moment, even Gu Yanwu was stunned.

There were unfamiliar faces everywhere, and most of the city turned down, but they didn't find He Shouxin, and they inquired several groups of people in a row, and no one knew where this He Company Commander was.

The group was in a hurry, and Gu Yanwu was worried that if what he was worried about was true and he didn't report it in time, there was a chance that the Tartars' rout would take the lead and burn all the grain that should have been taken......

In desperation, he forced himself to calm down a little, and his first thought was to go back to the store and ask Wang Luo or Wan Shouqi for help.

But when I think about it, these two buddies have their own responsibilities on their shoulders, and at this time, they are also running around, and they are unlikely to sit in the shop......

In a hurry, he suddenly thought of a person - the Qin Shuban of the Yahu House in Jiangdu County.

This is an old acquaintance, in order to take salt before, he spent a lot of silver taels on him, according to Wan Shouqi, the exact news of the Tatar burning plan is leaked out of this person's mouth.

Gu Yanwu felt that if he could find this person, he would definitely be able to ask some truth.

However, when he finally arrived at this man's residence, he found that he had pounced on the empty - this old slippery man, as early as last night, had slipped out of the city among the people and hid in the countryside to avoid trouble.

However, because his mother was old and frail, and was sick in bed all the year round, his mother-in-law could not go with her, so she had to stay at home to take care of the old man - this royal army was strict in discipline, and the reputation of the family had long been spread far and wide.

In a hurry, Gu Yanwu coerced and seduced, and tried all kinds of means, and finally asked her about the whereabouts of this old slippery head - Diao's family temple fifteen miles south of the city, his mother's maiden ......

……

In this way, when they finally found Qin Shuban, they hurried back without interrogation, and when they returned to the city, it was already late afternoon.

Along the way, Qin Shuban was honest and explained some of the facts he knew.

It turned out that Ma Jinbao was still delusional about returning to kill after the fire attack, not only did not transport all the grain to Yizhen, but hid most of it in the stockades of several large households in the west of the city......