Chapter 387: Woe
Shen Leng led people to bring out the outermost three Wan Jun from the harbor, and then went to pick up the collision ship and the supply ship, which were busy all morning, and some craftsmen were still doing their best to do the last inspection to make sure that nothing happened before leaving.
Shen Leng went to Lian Lu to say goodbye, and Lian Lu told him to ask Shen Leng to hand over the ship to General Zhuang Yong, and his words were sincere.
In the afternoon, after leaving the ship port, more than 1,000 war horses were sent into the transport ship, and the fleet of six ships slowly sailed into the Nanping River.
Shen Leng stood on the bow of a Wanjun boat and looked at the mighty river, and it didn't take long to see Wei Village, where he had lived for a while, and the black mastiff was picked up by him outside Wei Village, as if it was just yesterday.
After half a day of boating, it was already dark, Shen Leng did not order the boat to stop, this waterway has been traveled many times, and the familiar cannot be more familiar, so there is no need to worry too much, mainly because Wan Jun and the transport ship are large enough, and the collision ship is extremely strong, so he is not afraid of anything, and the iron rhino will open the road at night in front, and the other ships will follow behind.
In the second half of the night, it is not far from the mouth of the turning river, the most dangerous thing about this waterway is to turn from the Nanping River to the waters of the Grand Canal, the river is too wide, there are many whirlpools that cannot be seen in the water, and they dare not sail at will during the day, let alone at night, so Shen Leng ordered to stop the boat and rest.
The soldiers traveled for many days, and most of them, except for those who stayed behind on duty, returned to sleep in the cabins.
After Shen Leng made arrangements, he ran around the deck for a while, and then punched again, and only returned to the room with sweat on his body, and carried a bucket of water to rinse.
There are also warehouses in Wanjun, loaded with more food and drink, most of the materials are still on the back transport ship, and there are many official supply docks along the waterway, so there is no need to worry about insufficient supplies.
In the hold, a pile of goods suddenly moved, followed by a short knife piercing the canvas, and several people dressed in craftsman's clothes came out of the pile, one of them quickly reached the hatch of the ship and squatted down to stand guard, and the others turned out the fire oil hidden in the deepest part of the pile.
One of the craftsmen looked around for a while with a fire fold, and then saw a mark in an inconspicuous place, he squatted down and pried it at the mark with a short knife, and a wooden board was pried open, and there was a lot of gray powder flowing out of it, this place was renovated overnight, if you look closely, you will find that something is wrong, but who will stare at the board twice.
"Do it!"
The craftsman at the head gave a low command, and the men under him immediately scattered with drums of fire oil and sprinkled them all around the warehouse, and before long, the wooden walls were all over the place.
The craftsman at the head pointed upwards, and the others quickly withdrew to the cargo hatch, and he threw the fire fold on the gray powder, and with a whirl, the flames immediately burned, followed by a bang, and a hole was blown open on one side of the cabin, where there was only a layer of planks left, and it was not difficult to break it.
In an instant, the water began to pour into the cabin, and the hull of the ship immediately shook.
The craftsmen took off their clothes at the cargo hatch and threw them into the flames, then quickly changed into the uniforms of the sailors, pushed open the cargo hatch and rushed out.
"Something's wrong!"
The sailor soldier on duty shouted loudly, and immediately ran out to find the gong to ring, and several assassins who came up also shouted, chased after the sailor soldier on duty, covered his mouth and cut his throat.
The few of them threw the body into the water and began to make their way to the stern of the boat, running separately and lowering the centipede clipper hanging on either side of the ship.
Shen Leng hadn't slept yet, and when he rushed out, the hull of the ship had been tilted, because Wan Jun was too big, so he couldn't get completely close to the shore, and the speed at which the boat skewed to one side was very fast, but fortunately, they were all well-trained sailors, and they rushed to the deck immediately after waking up, although it was fast, it was not crowded and chaotic.
After Shen Leng went to the deck, he began to shout loudly for the soldiers to jump into the water, there was still some distance from the shore, but none of Shen Leng's soldiers were poor in water, and it was not difficult to swim to the shore, but he was afraid that the whirlpool smashed out when the big ship capsized would roll people in.
"General!"
Several soldiers shouted, "Get on the boat." ”
Shen Leng frowned slightly, and just as he was about to speak, he saw that another Wanjun not far away was also gradually tilted, and when he saw that it was turning to the side, the soldiers were already diving, and some people were running to a high place.
"Who are you?"
Shen Leng asked the people.
In the chaos, a soldier suddenly stopped when he ran past Shen Leng, and the short knife in his hand stabbed towards Shen Leng's lower back.
Shen Leng instinctively turned to one side to avoid it, and the knife grazed his body, he grabbed the soldier's wrist and pulled it back, and the short knife immediately stabbed into the soldier's own chest.
At this time, the boat was in chaos, the soldiers were all diving, and no one noticed that someone was shooting at Shen Leng in the stern position that was gradually raised high.
Shen Leng killed a person, and suddenly two soldiers threw down a fishing net from the top of his head, this fishing net was tough and large, Shen Leng wanted to avoid it was too late, when the fishing net fell on him, he drew his knife and slashed twice, before a hole was broken, several assassins came over and threw the rope over each other, they obviously went through a very careful drill design, and the cooperation was extremely tacit.
Several people changed the rope back and forth in their hands twice, Shen Leng was already tied, they struggled to pull out, the rope was straight, Shen Leng's arms were pulled back, and they could only cling to their bodies.
The assassin at the head rushed over from a distance, holding a wooden stick in his hand, one end of the stick had been sharpened, Ben had hidden in a pile of wooden sticks that was almost the same, only this stick was pointed at the end, the man's movements were fast and steady, and the wooden spear stabbed at Shen Leng's chest.
These people are not masters alone, but their cooperation is too tacit, there is no gap, it seems that every action has been practiced countless times, even what kind of reaction Shen Leng will have, they seem to be able to predict in advance.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be so easy to tie up Shen Leng?
The spear stabbed straight at Shen Leng's chest, Shen Leng screamed, his shoulder turned to the side, and the spear scraped a hole in the clothes on his chest, if he was a little slower, this shot could poke into Shen Leng's heart.
Shen Leng first rushed forward, and the two people behind him hurriedly pulled the rope with all their might, and at this moment, Shen Leng suddenly withdrew backwards, and the two ropes behind him immediately loosened.
Shen Leng took the opportunity to lift his arms up to break free of the rope, squatted down and broke off the rope noose, he cut the fishing net with a knife, and when he rushed out, the leader of the assassins on the opposite side had already thrown the spear over, Shen Leng swung the spear away with a knife, and his body rushed towards the assassin like electricity.
If the assassins had a few more people, they would have been able to free their hands, and when Shen Leng was tied up, there was a burst of crossbow fire, I was afraid that Shen Leng would be injured even if he had chain mail on his body, but they were limited in number, and they all held the rope with both hands, only the assassin leader could make a move, and they were wearing craftsman's clothes when they mixed into the cabin, and it was impossible to bring larger weapons and repeaters on the ship.
Shen Leng slashed at the leader of the assassins, but the man didn't accept the call at all but turned around and ran, and jumped directly into the river after running a few steps along the tilted boat, Shen Leng turned around, and several other assassins had already taken the opportunity to jump off the boat.
At this time, the night was as dark as ink, although the firelight could illuminate the surroundings a little, it was impossible for those assassins to find their traces after falling into the river, they were still wearing the clothes of the sailor soldiers, many soldiers were still in the river, they mixed in and could not tell the difference, these people were far from the assassins they had encountered before, they could not kill Shen Leng with one blow and left immediately, without dragging the mud and water at all, and every step was obviously carefully calculated.
And they didn't attack a single ship, the whole fleet was in chaos.
Shen Leng jumped into the water, guarding everyone who approached him, all of the people who swam in the water lowered their heads and couldn't see their faces, and they couldn't tell which one was an assassin just by looking at their clothes.
At this moment, Shen Leng suddenly felt that his ankles tightened, and then a force pulled him down, he couldn't control it in the water, his body directly submerged into the river, and his vision blurred all of a sudden.
But at the moment when he sank into the water, Shen Leng forcibly turned around, and the person holding his ankle could only let go, he swung the knife out without seeing anything clearly, and his body rotated in the water for a circle, and the knife also rotated for a circle.
The knife was already heavy, and it was more laborious to swing in the water, but Shen Leng's arm strength was strong, and this knife didn't seem to be hindered in the water, and the knife turned around, drawing a large half circle in the water, and the other half circle was outside the water surface.
Before the knife came out of the water, it was water, and after the knife came out of the water, there were still a few drops of blood spilled on the tip of the knife.
The river around Shen Leng immediately changed color, as if ink had been poured into the water.
Shen Leng clearly felt that he had slashed at the approaching assassin, took a breath of air out of the water, then held his breath and retracted back into the water, and saw a corpse slowly floating up, and farther away, a black shadow had quickly swam away, as fast as a swimming fish.
Shen Leng came out of the water again and swam towards the shore with all his strength.
When he reached the shore, a soldier saw him and stretched out his hand to pull him up.
"Blow the horn and gather the team, everyone will see if the people around them know each other!"
Shen Leng roared, his eyes slightly red.
All three ships were sunk, and I still don't know how my men have lost, although the soldiers are well-trained and have good water skills, but there will inevitably be accidents.
The soldiers around recognized each other, and then gathered at the place where the horn sounded, and it took about two sticks of incense before the team gathered, mainly because it was dark and chaotic, and the environment by the river was completely unclear.
The team assembled and counted the number of people and found at least two dozen people missing.
Shen Leng held the hand, and the back of the hand was full of green tendons.
"General, someone has snuck in."
Dewey rushed over from another ship, which had an accident, and he saw several suspicious people, but did not catch up.
These three expensive warships all sank, and they couldn't be saved if they wanted to, and the three Wanjun must have been manipulated before, otherwise the cabin would not be so easy to break, and Wanjun was so strong, even if it collided with the battleship of the Qiuliren, it would not sink so quickly.
"I know, how is the boat ahead."
"Those three ships are fine."
Shen Leng turned around: "Count the number of people on one side again." ”
In the night, the soaking wet men searched hard, expecting, the comrades who did not appear in front of them just now suddenly appeared, how good it would be, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, the number of missing people not only did not decrease, but after the second count, it was found that there were two fewer people.
"There were still people in our crowd when we counted just now."
Shen Leng's eyes were slightly cold: "Go forward, there is a big road by the river, stop and rectify on the road." ”
The soldiers walked along the grass by the river, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and about 100 meters away from the riverside is the official road, and there are roads on both sides of the river, they naturally know, after all, they have been training on the Nanping River for so long.
When they arrived on the main road, everyone felt a little more at ease, but most of them still didn't know what was going on.
"Let the transport ship find a suitable place to dock and put the horse down!"
Shen Leng shouted loudly.
About an hour later, the boat in front found a place that could be slightly closer to that side, the soldiers drove the war horses off the boat and landed, Shen Leng asked Dewey to take the three ships back to the Anyang dock after dawn, he jumped on the back of the big black horse: "Follow me!" ”
The soldiers rode forward and rushed back in the direction of the Anyang dockyard after the big black horse.
In the grass farther away, more than a dozen people crawling there slowly raised their heads, the horse team had already roared away, they looked at each other, they were all a little afraid, although they didn't have much loss, only one person died, but in this case they failed to kill Shen Leng, they were already defeated.
"What shall we do?"
Several people looked at the leader of the man, and the man looked around and lowered his voice: "Go to the front official dock." ”
Shen Leng led people to run wildly all night, and only returned to the Anyang dock at noon the next day, and when he rushed into the dock, the defenders in the dock were frightened.
Shen Leng kicked the door open, but there was no one inside.
"Where's Lianlu?"
Shen Leng asked loudly.
"Lord Servant said last night that he had something important to leave, and he hasn't come back yet."
Shen Leng sat down on the chair, only to feel that a fire could not be released.
About a hundred miles away from the Anyang dock, Lian Lu snorted coldly after looking back, no matter whether he can kill Shen Leng or not, how can it be so easy to catch him?
Check it out.
He's not a linker.