The team rested on the side of the Grand Canal for a day, and the county commander of Ningwu County rushed over, how could they not be nervous about such a big thing under their rule, so many soldiers were killed, this is the first time since the founding of Daning, and everyone knows very well what the news will be when it reaches His Majesty's ears.

Shen Leng sat by the river and looked at the people in the distance when they greeted each other, and their faces were all white, and they couldn't help but shake their heads slightly.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ran asked him.

"Ningwu County is up and down, I'm afraid I'm going to be masturbated all over again."

"Blame the poor thing."

"No pity."

Shen Leng shook his head: "Can they not know the location of Lianyun Village?" Can you not know that these water bandits are evil? I know everything, but I just think that the cost of exterminating Lianyunzhai will be a little big, they are reluctant to fight the soldiers of the county, and they are afraid that if they lose the battle, they will lose face, this is a small matter, and the official position is not guaranteed, so they simply pretend to turn a blind eye, which is a tacit understanding between the county government and the water bandits, one tries not to come out during the day, and the other tries to whitewash the peace. ”

Chen Ran didn't think so deeply, and stretched his arms: "But it's finally a harm to the locality." ”

Shen Leng looked up violently and saw a black shadow under the tree on the other side of the Grand Canal flickering away.

Nie Yuan quickly retreated into the woods on the shore, leaning against the trees and closing his eyes...... Shen Leng, this feud is no longer just for you and Mu Xiaofeng, and you will definitely not have good luck next time.

He swept out of his feet and soon disappeared into the woods.

Chen Ran followed Shen Leng's gaze to the other side but didn't see anything: "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing."

Shen Leng shook his head.

Li Tuming ran to Shen Leng with the five taels of silver in both hands, his face was full of excitement: "Tuan rate, look, silver!" ”

Chen Ran pouted: "Look at your little family." ”

Li Tuming sat down and carefully wiped the silver ingot with his sleeve: "What do you know, this is the first time I have received a silver reward, and the reward for the battle of the last time we exterminated the water tiger Zhao Dengke has not yet been issued, so this is the first serious time, my father and mother will be very happy when they know it, and I am also a qualified soldier." ”

Chen Ran said with a smile: "In the future, if you follow the group rate, can you still get less military merits?" ”

Li Tuming nodded vigorously, and then suddenly changed from sitting to kneeling down to support the ground with two hands: "Tuanrate, I solemnly apologize to you, I deliberately targeted you at the beginning, and I promise to follow Tuanlu hard in the future!" ”

Shen Leng hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him up: "If you kneel and let me lose my life, I will deduct your military merits." ”

Li Tuming smiled embarrassedly: "The regimental rate is different from those people, they all say that there is no military merit that is equally divided like our regiment, and the regimental rate is more, but the regimental rate is to take care of everyone, and we really accept it." ”

Chen Ran said: "Five taels of silver will make you happy like this, how will you be the Marquis of Wanhu in the future?" ”

Li Tuming shook his head again and again: "I don't dare to think that I can be a good soldier with the regiment, and I will be very happy to let my father and mother raise their eyebrows in the village, Wanhu Hou...... Too far away. ”

Shen Leng said: "Don't be in a hurry to deny yourself, what if you really succeed." ”

Li Tuming smiled: "That's right, if I become the Marquis of Wanhu, then I am the most awesome person in our village." ”

Chen Ran: "Your village ......"

Li Tuming wiped the silver clean, and then held it in both hands and handed it to Shen Leng: "Tuanrate, give!" ”

Shen Leng frowned slightly: "What do you mean." ”

Li Tuming said: "No...... It's nothing, I just don't know how to thank you, after thinking about it, I gave the first reward to the group, yes...... It's the most expensive gift. ”

Shen Leng said: "Take it back to your father and mother when you go on vacation, and invite me to drink when I go to your house in the future." ”

Li Tuming became excited: "You can't lie to me, you must go!" ”

Shen Leng snorted: "I will definitely go." ”

At this time, the horn of the assembly sounded, the team began to converge, and it didn't take long for the formation to be completed on the shore, Cen Zheng glanced at Bai Xiu, and said a few words in a low voice, Bai Xiu immediately walked towards the team, and Cen Zheng went directly back to a Xiongniu warship.

Bai Xiu walked in front of the soldiers and stopped, and after a while of silence, he said: "Today's battle has played the prestige of the sailors, but it has also exposed a lot of shortcomings in the team, don't be too proud, remember that it is just a group of rabble, in the future your battlefield is the sea, when the battle flag of Daning is planted outside the sea area, carry all the supplies on the ship, everyone return to the ship to rest, no one can get off the ship casually without a military order, scatter!" ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers agreed neatly, and under the leadership of the lieutenant and the regimental leader, the supplies were loaded onto the ship, and soon the dock was calm.

When Bai Xiu returned to the boat, he saw Cen Zheng in a daze, he walked over and asked, "What else is the general thinking?" ”

"There's something wrong with this."

Cen Zheng looked back at Bai Xiu: "Even the water bandits in Yunzhai have never dared to be so blatant, they don't even dare to enter the canal during the day, how can they suddenly dare to attack the official dock, don't they know that if they do this, they will definitely die?" I think it's necessary to continue investigating, and since I've done it, I'm going to cut the roots...... You tell me. ”

Bai Xiu said: "The general just orders, I'll arrange it." ”

Cen Zheng: "I want people to lead a team to Lianyunzhai to see, it seems that the vast majority of the water bandits are annihilated in terms of the number of water bandits, but it is impossible for the water bandits not to stay in the water village, while they have not yet got the news, choose a team of people to directly pounce and uproot Lianyun Village, and the water village will also be burned, otherwise it will inevitably be used by other people with bad intentions." ”

Bai Xiu: "I'll go and arrange, choose a person from the standard camp?" ”

"It doesn't take that many people...... Assign two more flying fish to Shen Leng, let him take his people to Lianyun Village on four flying fish, be sure to arrive before dark, clean up overnight, and rush back to join the fleet before noon tomorrow. ”

"Is it cold?"

Bai Xiu looked at Cen Zheng's eyes flickering, and then nodded: "It's okay." ”

He asked Cen Zheng: "Doesn't the general dislike this person?" ”

Cen Zheng said with a calm face: "Don't you forget, the most taboo thing for a person who leads the army is to be emotional, I don't like him, but it is undeniable that he is very capable...... Go ahead, I'm going to rest for a while, it's too tiring to deal with those magistrates in Ningwu County. ”

Bai Xiu sighed: "I'll go now." ”

After a stick of incense, Shen Leng's team had already gathered, and four flying fish docked on the shore.

Bai Xiu smiled and said to Shen Leng: "I told you before, the general is a fair and serious person, he doesn't really want to blame you, but has greater expectations for you than for others, go, take the team and come back as soon as possible, we have to rush to southern Xinjiang." ”

Shen Leng took the order, looking at Bai Xiu's smiling face, his heart gradually chilled, there was nothing wrong with Cen Zheng's order, and no one could find fault, but this did not mean that there was no problem.

The four flying fish left the official dock and entered the branch of the Grand Canal, the red Daning battle flag fluttered on the mast, and the soldiers were very excited and relaxed, this seemed to be a very easy task, and they could bring back some military merits casually.

There was talk and laughter on the Flying Fish boat, but Shen Leng stood at the bow of the boat but fell into deep thought.

Dewey Ming walked up to Shen Leng and stood up and said in a low voice, "Are you suspicious of General Cen?" ”

Shen Leng shook his head slightly: "I can't say that I doubt him, but something must be wrong, Cen Zheng has no reason to take care of us so much, in the previous battle at the official dock, our regiment took all the military merits, and others waited to destroy Lianyunzhai, so it was also a credit, Cen Zheng gave us the errand again...... Doesn't make sense. ”

Dewey snorted: "But it is expected that even Yunzhai will not have any trouble, a total of five or six hundred water bandits have almost all been killed by us, and even if there are few people left." ”

"Be careful."

Shen Leng pondered for a while and said: "After you arrive at the place, you will bring a team of four tens to support, and I will take Chen Ran and Wang Kuohai to the sea, and in addition, I will not enter the water bandit camp tonight, just block the waterway in and out, and then attack after the sun rises early tomorrow morning." ”

Dewey famously said: "But if this is the case, it will inevitably delay the time to join the team, and Cen Zheng may find you trouble." ”

Shen Leng said: "That's not important, the life and death of the brothers are important." ”

Dewey's heart warmed: "Otherwise, let Wang Kuohai bring someone to support, and I will bring someone up with you." ”

Shen Leng: "You are more active than Wang Kuohai, it is more suitable for you to stay." ”

Dewey didn't fight for his name again, Shen Leng said that he was more active than Wang Kuohai, and he was a little happy in his heart, and it seemed very encouraging to be recognized by Shen Leng...... However, thinking of Zhuang Yong's explanation, Dewey Ming felt guilty again, and he always felt sorry for Shen Leng.

"Group rate!"

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

"I ...... Nothing more. ”

Dewey didn't dare to say it after all, turned around and walked to the other side and stopped, holding the handle of the knife in his hand, and the back of his hand was tenseled with green tendons.

Shen Leng glanced back at Dewey, smiled, and didn't say anything more.

Shen Leng did not approach Lianyunzhai during the day for safety reasons, and it was inevitable that there would be Lianyunzhai's eyeliner in the nearby villages and towns, so he waited until it was dark before leading the team to the vicinity of Lianyunzhai, parked the boat and docked, kept an eye on the waterway in and out, and then arranged for people to take turns on duty at night.

Dewey Ming and Li Tuming took the first batch of people to be on duty at night, and the others rested, Shen Leng knew that Li Tuming was a little lazy in nature, so he explained a few more words, Dewey Ming smiled and said that there would be no accident if I looked at him, and then took people and left.

Shen Leng repeatedly explained that no one was allowed to leave the camp, returned to his tent and took out the map, and looked carefully at it in the faint light, the map was an extremely precious thing, not to mention that the map in his hand was not a map of one county, but a map of half of Daning, from Jiangnan Road to the south to Haijiang.

Although the map is not necessarily detailed, but the general topography is not wrong, from the founding of Daning, the Ministry of Industry has dispatched a large number of people to survey and map, now it has been hundreds of years, and it is still being improved.

At the same time, several black-clothed people came out from the direction of Lianyunzhai, led by Nie Yuan, who guessed that the people of the water master would attack Lianyunzhai overnight, went back and looted the silver, and let the remaining dozens of people in Lianyunzhai set a trap and left.

The accumulated experience made him sense the danger in advance, and he took people to hide in the woods and observe for a while, and found the mast on the river.

"The people of the water master are really going to kill them all."

A man in black said in a low voice.

Nie Yuan sneered: "A few brothers are in the hands of the water master, let's teach them a lesson before leaving, see who the leader is, find him and kill him." ”