A thousand men and horses hurriedly returned to the camp, and Shen Chongming was surrounded by several soldiers in front of the door as soon as he got off his horse. "Lord Shen, I'm offended." The leader hugged his fists and commanded a few soldiers to tie up Shen Chongming.

"Who dare!" This was not what Shen Chongming said, but Ma Erdan who followed behind him. With a loud shout, Ma Erdan angrily blocked in front of Shen Chongming, and asked several sergeants holding ropes in front of him, "Why are you arresting Lord Zhenfu?" ”

Ma Erdan looked at the few people in front of him with anger on his face, and some of the soldiers immediately came forward to surround them, not to mention, in just one month, Shen Chongming's actions saved the hearts of the people, this guy has no shelf, and he also eats and lives with all the soldiers, although there is some taste of show, but the soldiers are still full of him.

"Lord Shen, the lower officials are just acting on orders, you can see ......" The leading general couldn't help but smile bitterly when he looked at the surroundment.

"Everyone retreats, they are all their own brothers, and they won't do anything to their own officials." Shen Chongming smiled and waved his hand, Gonggong Jin's mouth was fast enough, and he would put all the charges on his head in such a short time.

When the soldiers saw Shen Chongming's order, although they were reluctant, they still got out of the way. The generals who came to get people took a look, and they were even more polite, and they didn't tie it up, and directly stretched out their hands and said, "Lord Shen, please." ”

went straight to Cui Yong's big tent of the Chinese army, which was already troubled, except for a few generals who were mostly eunuchs in the army, and Gonggong Jin was among them.

"Ahem, Lord Shen, how did you go on an errand and lose Dan?" Cui Yong asked with a dark face, he didn't live up to his name, and he was so embarrassed that his old man praised him like that.

"Lord Shen, do you know the consequences of those forty boxes of ammunition falling into the hands of the gangsters?" Sitting at the head of Cui Yong is Ji Gonggong, the leader of the group of camp officials in the Shenji Battalion, not to mention the fat, his face is even powdered, which makes people disgusted when he looks at it.

"The lower officials knew, so they asked Gonggong Jin to go back to the camp immediately to report, and asked a few adults to punish him." Shen Chongming said respectfully.

"Huh, punishment? Can you afford to make such a big mistake? Father-in-law Ji's face shook and scolded.

"Father-in-law, the lower officials feel that now is not the time to be held responsible, and when we get the lost ammunition back, the lower officials will kill and scrape!" Shen Chongming also lost his temper, anyway, he knew where the ammunition was, so he could have a!

"Yes, Father-in-law Ji, the most important thing now is to get the lost ammunition back, it's not too late to discuss the punishment in the future, he can't run anyway." Cui Yong proposed. Although he blamed Shen Chongming a little in his heart, after all, he was his own person, and his husband let him take care of him, and now he can't ignore what happened, otherwise he won't be able to explain to his husband.

"Hmph, Master Cui, you have to hold on tightly, if this batch of ammunition really causes something, my father-in-law and you will not have good fruit to eat." Father-in-law Ji put down a sentence, got up and walked out with a group of eunuchs.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Cui Yong glanced at Shen Chongming helplessly, although the matter was reported by Gonggong Jin, he couldn't trust these eunuchs.

"My lord, the lower official has something to say to you, look at ......," Shen Chongming said, looking at several other generals.

"The last will be retired." Everyone is not stupid, they left without waiting for Cui Yong to speak, but the eyes that looked at Shen Chongming were weird, after all, it was a very frustrating thing not to be believed.

Watching everyone withdraw, Cui Yong couldn't help but blame a little: "When are you still so sneaky." Say, what's going on? ”

"Hehe, my lord, that batch of ammunition was not lost." Shen Chong's words were amazing, but Cui Yong was taken aback, and he couldn't believe it: "Didn't lose it? Could it be that you made it yourself? ”

"No, how can the lower official get along with himself, this matter is someone who framed the lower official." Shen Chongming hurriedly explained.

Cui Yong also became interested, waved his hand and called Shen Chongming in front of him, and asked in a low voice, "Don't sell Guanzi, what's going on?" ”

"My lord, the lower official decided that the forty boxes of ammunition were not handed over to the lower officials at all, and the eunuch Liu in the firearms depot gave the lower officials forty empty boxes, and there was no ammunition at all." Shen Chongming said with a smile on his face, not to mention, these old eunuchs are quite good at playing, and they are secretly Chencang.

"Didn't give it to you? Didn't you pick up the ammunition, and can't you find the empty boxes? Cui Yong was a little puzzled.

"The ammunition was collected by the lower officials, but there were a lot of affairs, and the lower officials signed the slip and went to do other things, and the inventory of the ammunition was handed over to Gonggong Jin, which made them take advantage of the gap." Shen Chongming said helplessly, it is difficult to prevent thieves day and night, but he was still put on the spot by this old dog, if it weren't for his rich experience, he would have really succeeded in planting it at this time.

It turned out that Shen Chongming found a problem when he surveyed the scene. The tent where the ammunition was stored was close to the Wenyu River, and the grass from the tent to the riverbed was not decent enough to leave shallow footprints when people walked on it.

And if all the lost forty large boxes are filled with ammunition, the weight is not light, especially those large boxes filled with iron sand, each weighing nearly two hundred pounds, and the footprints left by walking on the grass must be very deep, but I carefully compared, so many footprints are not much different from the depth of the place where I stepped lightly, and then I thought that the lost forty boxes were empty.

With this clue and thinking about it carefully, there are even more flaws. If the ten boxes of ammunition were loaded on the carriage, the horses would definitely be very difficult, but from what I saw at the time, the horses did not look like they were carrying heavy loads, and the speed was not slow.

Extrapolating in this way, Shen Chongming concluded that the forty boxes had been empty all along, and the ammunition and firearms depot he wanted had only prepared ten boxes, that is, the amount used on the first day, so now it seems that the lost ammunition is still in the Daying firearms depot.

Hearing this Shen Chongming tell him about his discovery, Cui Yong couldn't help but give a thumbs up, it seems that he is different, how can the old man's eyesight be wrong.

"Lord Shen, it seems that you are still a master of handling cases." Cui Yong praised with a smile on his face, "Hehe, my lord has a good reputation, I handled a case when I was in the household department, and I still have some experience." ”

"Well, if what you said is true, then this matter is the conspiracy between Eunuch Liu of the firearms depot and the Eunuch Jin of your left post, these two dogs are just tired of it." Saying that, Cui Yong immediately lost his temper and got up to take someone.

"Adults and slow, the matter is just speculation, we don't have evidence, and it's not too late for the officials to arrest them when the evidence of the crime is conclusive." Shen Chongming stretched out his hand to stop him, he was too impulsive, the firearms warehouse was so big, and there was a lot of ammunition stored, where could he find out in a moment and a half, hiding forty boxes of ammunition on someone's territory was like playing.

"Well, that's right. So what do you think we're going to do next? "Cui Yong has a set of leading troops to fight, and this calculation is not good, but from this matter, it seems that Shen Chongming in front of him is definitely a good hand.

"Quietly, secretly visiting." Seeing that Cui Yong was a little puzzled, Shen Chongming had no choice but to explain in detail: "My lord, you can first escort the lower officials and then send someone to find the lost ammunition." When they think that their treacherous plan has succeeded, they will definitely relax their guard, and it is impossible for Gonggong Liu to not leave the firearms depot without an inch, and when he is gone, you can send trustworthy people into the firearms depot to verify, as long as there are forty more boxes of ammunition, then they can be punished! ”

The words were divided into two ends, and as soon as he heard that Hou was monitoring the guards outside Cui Yong's big tent in the Chinese army, Shen Chongming was tied up and guarded tightly, and Gonggong Jin knew that his plan had succeeded.

As long as it is a person, whether it is a eunuch or not, he likes to share the joy of his success with others, but this matter is confidential after all, so he can only find his accomplice Liu Gonggong to go proudly.

"Lao Liu, even if Shen Chongming can't lose his life this time, this official can't think about it. If we do this, Grandpa Feng will definitely reward us well. Jin Gonggong said with a yearning face, it is best to transfer back to Dongchang, stay in this barracks where birds don't all day, and they are about to suffocate to death.

"Hehe, Shen Chongming has today's disaster, thanks to Brother Jin, your clever plan, no matter what kind of case-handling expert Ren is, it is impossible to find out the slightest flaw." Gonggong Li complimented. This is very useful, Father-in-law Jin breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Hehe, let him dare to be arrogant, now that Gao Gong has returned to his hometown, see who else can keep him!" ”

Just when the two were discussing with great interest, Wei Daqing and others, who were tracking down along the river, rushed back to the barracks with 38 empty wooden boxes in secret. Jin Gonggong was full of flaws in this matter, and he originally thought that if he threw the big wooden box into the river, it would disappear with the current, but he forgot that there was still a group of poor people at this time.

The wooden box filled with gunpowder is well sealed, and in addition to slowly seeping into the water, it is simply impermeable, although it floats along the river all night, but in the early morning it is still seen by the fishermen who went down to the river to collect the nets, and originally thought that there was something in the box, but it was empty when it was salvaged.

But it's nothing, almost fishermen put it directly on the shore to dry, this thing looks good workmanship, and it is still very good to hold some chores in the future.

So chasing all the way, Wei Daqing found these things without much effort, and quietly loaded a few cars and transported them back in line with the situation that Shen Chongming later sent someone to order.

"It's empty, it doesn't even smell of gunpowder, it looks like it's some empty empty boxes." Looking at the empty box in front of him, Cui Yong sneered.

"Hehe, what my lord said is, otherwise, there is no reason why the more than fifty soldiers who patrolled the barracks last night would not be able to find out if there were really ships rushing to carry them, which is also a flaw left by Eunuch Jin." Shen Chongming, who was standing behind Cui Yong's death, said with a smile.

"Hehe, you guy is a goblin, it seems that the person surnamed Jin is unlucky when he touches you." Cui Yong praised Shen Chongming very twistedly, and then frowned and asked, "Then who did you say helped the surnamed Jin move out of these boxes?" ”

"It's Zhou Sen and the others who are guarding the ammunition storage tent, the lower officials have already sent Cao Ji to secretly investigate, and it was eleven of them who carried ammunition from the firearms depot at that time, and these things have not been handled by others, so they have not been discovered." Shen Chongming's face was full of obscenity, all the links were cleared, and he only had to go to the firearms warehouse to check the forty boxes of ammunition, as long as the quantity was clear, it would be the day when Jin Gonggong was punished.