After a while, Sui Jian's 'Chun' followed Liu Lianjiang to Liu Taoran's study, and Lao Liu and Boss Chen outside also came in and waited for me outside to arrange. Sui Jian's 'Chun' said: "My lord, why did you come here so late, is there something wrong?" ”

"Yes, everyone sit down, I'll talk about tonight's situation, and arrange the tasks."

"I'll report the situation first, this period of time, we have been topped by others, this Sui Jian's 'spring' also knows, it will be Dongchang who is tracking these people in the future, today Mr. Chen came to inform me, those people may have to act tonight, a total of twelve people, I don't know if the kung fu is good or bad, I don't know who it is. Tonight, we are in charge of the inside, and the father-in-law of the East Factory led by Mr. Chen outside, and after they climb over halfway, we will do it here, holding the fire as a signal, and the father-in-law outside will do it at the same time, and strive not to let one go. After a while, Sui Jian's 'Chun' quietly arranged for fifty people to ambush them at the east wall, and they must not make any noise to alarm them, and they must pick good ones, all bring bows and arrows, and the rest of the people must also be mobilized and be on guard to prevent them from coming in from other places, especially the silver treasury must be on guard. ”

"My lord, these people really have to do it, we don't have enough manpower." Sui Jian 'Chun' asked.

"That's enough, there are twelve of them, we'll do it when six come in, plus Steward Liu, the six of them are no problem, you can arrange your people, pay attention to my requirements now, don't startle the snake."

Sui Jian's 'spring' went out to arrange the soldiers, and Liu Taoran asked, "Lord Lan, what can we do." ”

"You are just like the original, the lights should be on in the house, and the patrols are still patrolling, and there can't be a little abnormal alarm to the other party."

At this time, the three tigers and Chen Boss outside also came to the ya'men', and I 'handed over' them and got ready, and I waited for the arrival of those guys in my study, and when it was almost time, I heard a commotion outside, and then the lantern torches illuminated the entire mansion, and Lao Liu outside came in and said: "Young master, there seems to be a fight outside, do you want to go and see." ”

"Okay, call them along."

The two of us went out of the study, took the three tigers and the Liu family father and son, left Boss Chen to protect Liu Taoran, and came to the east wall, and saw a group of people in the middle of the courtyard wall surrounded by soldiers, and there was also a sound of shouting and killing outside.

When I came to the outside of the encirclement, I saw Sui Jian's 'Chun' with his soldiers, using bows and arrows to face the six people who were still by the wall, these six people were wearing black 'color' night clothes, and the black gauze 'masked' face could not see the appearance, and the weapons of the six people were also five 'flowers' and eight 'gates', two of them were holding knives, and some were holding chain hammers, and three were short guns.

Sui Jian's 'Chun' saw us coming, came over and said, "My lord, these six thieves have been trapped by me, now please ask your lord to instruct whether to 'shoot' arrows or let them surrender." ”

"You first ask them if they surrender, if they don't surrender, 'shoot' arrows, you are in command here, and I will not participate."

Sui Jian'chun shouted according to my order: "Listen, you guys, quickly lay down your arms and surrender, if you don't surrender, we will 'shoot' arrows." ”

Several guys listened to Sui Jian's shout of 'Chun', got together and discussed, and one of the leaders said: "It's okay for us to surrender, but we have to go out and surrender outside the wall." ”

"That's not good, you think the uncle is a child, you go out and surrender, it sounds good, you want to escape, forget it, since you don't surrender, then don't blame the uncle, you're welcome. Brothers, let me shoot arrows and 'shoot' hard. "Sui Jian's 'Chun' knew that these guys were stalling for time, so he directly ordered the soldiers to prepare to release the arrows.

With Sui Jian's 'spring' order, fifty soldiers with bows and arrows to those thieves 'shot', those thieves' kung fu is not low, all of them lie on the ground, all of a sudden the efficiency of the first 'wave' bow and arrow is greatly reduced, although there are a lot of bows and arrows that fall to the thieves, but they are all minor injuries, and now they are wearing thick cotton clothes in winter, so they did not cause great damage to a few thieves.

The thieves killed them with weapons in the interval between the soldiers changing arrows, and more than a dozen soldiers armed with knives and guns fought with them, these thieves had good kung fu, and after a while, they cut down five or six soldiers, and I looked at the old Liu who was following me and said: "Brother Liu, you can go up, don't worry about killing these people." ”

Lao Liu took the three tigers to join the war group, Sui Jian's 'spring' saw that the bow and arrow had lost its effect at this time, and also arranged for the soldiers to put down the bow and arrow and join the war group, for a while, the blood 'flesh' flew sideways, but now those few people no longer have an advantage, Lao Liu They are not one to go to the other party alone, but two people to deal with one person, first concentrate the advantage to knock out part of their strength.

After a while, Lao Liu and they killed two, and the remaining four were under siege around them, which seemed to be barely supported, Lao Liu and they joined the encirclement and suppression of the remaining four, and after a while, the four people were all killed to the ground, and they were all knocked to the ground, and the soldiers helped the two who were not dead, and the four were completely dead, one was cut off by Lao Liu, and the remaining three were poked into a sieve by the soldiers' guns.

I said to Sui Jian's 'Chun': "Give me these two injured ones, let's go outside the wall to see how is going on with Manager Chen, and keep some people to continue to be vigilant, and we can't relax our vigilance and be careful of them and their accomplices." ”

Sui Jian's 'Chun' here arranged a guard to clean up the battlefield, a few soldiers and Lao Liu they escorted the two wounded thieves, we went out of the ya' door 'door' to the east wall, here Chen Jiu has also ended the battle, the battle on his side is easier, there are six corpses lying on the ground, the eunuchs of Dongchang have kung fu unlike the soldiers on our side, there is no kung fu, so the casualties are not small.

I walked over according to Chen Jiu's side, and Chen Jiu also saw me coming over and asked, "Lord Lan, how are you inside?" ”

"It's okay, four dead and two caught, that is, the soldiers were killed and wounded, and now I don't know how many died and how many were injured, what about your side."

"These guys are desperately resisting, and we have all killed them, just because I am worried that there is no life, I don't know the origin of these people, now it's okay, I'll take these two back and interrogate them well, see where they are, and who asked them to rob the royal silver."

"Okay, I'll hand it over to you, what should Mr. Chen do now, should we go back or continue here."

"Now that the thieves have been caught by us, everyone can go back to sleep with peace of mind."

We handed over the two wounded ones to the eunuchs of Dongchang, and I took them back to Xiao Cai's mansion, and Sui Jian's 'Chun' side had also been cleaned up, and several dead soldiers and wounded were arranged, and everyone came to Liu Taoran's study.

Liu Taoran asked, "How did Lord Lan solve it?" ”

"It's all right, now everyone can go and rest, but there are still some soldiers to guard, there must be open posts and secret posts, and there are patrols, we won't go back today, it's so late now, Lord Liu, you let people arrange for a few of them to rest, and I will go down in the study."

Liu Taoran arranged a few of them to rest in the back, and then returned to the study, came to my side and sat down, Lao Liu did not go with them to rest, just waited for me in the study, saw Liu Taoran come in, busy going out to find water, make tea for us, fortunately there are stoves in winter, hot water is ready-made, and after a while, Lao Liu brought the tea.

Liu Taoran and I drank tea and chatted, and Liu Taoran said first: "Lord Lan, you said that someone would beat our idea." ”

"Lord Liu, we all know that we have a lot of silver here, and we will definitely attract thieves, these people may be some Jiangyang thieves, who want to make a fortune together, or they may be some bandits from the cottage, we don't know now, and we will know after the interrogation of Manager Chen tomorrow."

"Lord Lan, these people are so bold, just how much silver can they bring when they come in, and one person can't take away a thousand taels, isn't this a 'waste' fee?"

As soon as Liu Taoran said this, I suddenly thought, these people will not be so stupid, for such a little silver to run in, there is also the danger of dying, is it for the silver ticket, if it is for the silver ticket, it will not come in from the east, the place where the silver ticket is printed is under the west wall, why would they come in from the east wall, don't they know where our silver ticket is, thinking of this, I asked: "Lord Liu, do you say that these thieves will come for the silver ticket, they can't take the silver, they can bring the silver ticket, Now our silver ticket has been unimpeded in the capital, and the silver ticket is the same as silver, which is easy to carry, but also practical and convenient. ”

"Lord Lan, it's also possible that you say so, or they won't be able to bring the silver with them when they come in, it's just that why do they come down from the east wall, isn't it closer and more convenient to come down from the west wall."

"There are two possibilities, the first is that these thieves don't know where we printed the silver tickets, so they came in through the east wall. The second possibility is that they are striking from the east and drawing our attention to the east, and they are starting from the west. ”

"It's not good, Lao Liu, you hurry up and call a few of them up, go to the silver ticket printing workshop, I feel that something will definitely happen over there."

Lao Liu hadn't left yet, Liu Taoran stopped Lao Liu and said: "Don't worry, Lord Lan, there is no silver ticket in the printing workshop now, since you said that we found someone outside, we changed our minds, and all the semi-finished products that were printed every day were received into the silver vault, and now they will be fine, so Steward Liu should not be in a hurry." ”

"Lord Liu, is our silver ticket printing plate in the printing workshop?"

"Yes, those things are usually placed there, and there are two vigils there at night, do you think that Lord Lan is here for the printing board?"