Wang Qinian felt that he was too hungry now, and if it weren't for the Qingzhou soldiers who were the main force of the Tartars, it would be really hard to provoke, and he wanted to go to Qi Province to find some grain and grass to fill the stomachs of his brothers.

Of course, Wang Qinian is a horse thief, not a fool, he wants to find supplies but does not want to throw his life into it.

If he can't find any prey in the past two days, Wang Qinian plans to take his brothers north, and there are some Han army marquis in the north of Jin and Shaanxi provinces who have taken refuge in the Mengwu Tartars, and they should be able to get some grass valley out of them.

Although it is also very dangerous, Wang Qinian feels that this is much stronger than the Qingzhou trench that is sighed by the Jurchen Tartars.

Wait, for the next two days, they will leave if they can't find a suitable prey. ’

Wang Qinian thought:

'The world is so great that you can always find a place for these hundred and ten. ’

"Big brother!"

Lao Wu, a horse thief who went to the east to reconnoiter along the canal, rode a newly arrived Liaodong war horse and quickly ran over.

"What's wrong?" Wang Qinian asked expectantly.

"There are boats! There are boats on the canal! ”

"Boat!" Wang Qinian grinned.

Canal boats have always been a favorite target for horse thieves, and there is no one.

Because the defense of these ships is usually not very good, but the amount of supplies on board is amazing.

In the past, canal boats could still count on the canal dock fort to provide relay cover, but since the Qingzhou army swept through the canal dock fort in Qi Province, this hope no longer exists.

Because those canal forts that were not in Qi Province and were not implicated also began to shrink their spheres of influence, so as not to attract attacks from the Qingzhou army.

This leaves many unprotected windows on the long Grand Canal that can calmly attack the boats.

Of course, there are problems for the horse thieves, the biggest of which is that the canal is cut off and there are few boats.

In fact, since the Heqin fleet was stopped by Xu Shiyang, until today, this is the first time Wang Qinian has seen a boat on the canal.

Since you see it, you can't let it go.

"Brothers! Cheer up! Make a deal! ”

"Whew!!"

Dozens of riders cheered loudly together.

……

Half an hour later, Wang Qinian looked at the fleet not far away with a pale face, and hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to step forward.

In front of him, hundreds of large and small ships were slowly squirming forward, and there were countless slender men on the bank of the canal who were pulling fibers.

If I'm not mistaken, the flotilla on the other side was 3,000 people.

And Wang Qinian can't even get together a hundred people.

"Boss, what should I do?" A horse thief asked, "There are too many people!" ”

"What to do?" Wang Qinian gritted his back molars and said, "Anyway, you can't let it go easily!" ”

But you can't rush up like this directly, the number one hundred and ten, if you are scared to cross the opponent, it's okay, if the other party resists desperately, it's simply a food delivery.

So Wang Qinian decided to make some small moves.

Dozens of horsemen each cut down some dead branches, hung them behind the tails of their horses, and ran back and forth on the desolate land, creating a large amount of smoke and dust, as if there were hundreds of cavalry on their side.

This is a trick learned from the drama, and it is actually useless to deal with a determined regular army, but Wang Qinian knows that it will be very useful to deal with a group of rabble with little combat experience.

Sure enough, when a "large number" of cavalry appeared, the slender men on both sides of the river bank gradually fell into panic, and Wang Qinian could even hear some panicked cries.

Soon, however, some of the leaders or leaders shouted for the Slender Men to gather in small groups and prepare to retreat to the Dock Fort not far away.

Most of these porters came from the dock forts on both sides of the canal, and after the canal was cut off, they never left the dock fort too far to ensure that they could quickly retreat behind the relatively safe dock forts in the case of the present dangerous situation.

This practice seems to have been rehearsed, so that in the face of a possible raid, the porters did not collapse, although they were somewhat confused.

The side with the absolute superiority in numbers, if it does not break down, is almost completely unstoppable.

Wang Qinian's eyelids jumped, but fortunately, the fleet that had lost the cover of the slender man stayed in the canal, looking difficult to move.

These ships are Wang Qinian's target - there is no point in attacking the slender man, because the thieves never take prisoners, and Wang Qinian does not carry cannon fodder.

They have always grabbed a wave as soon as possible and left, killing as little as they could, and they didn't even catch meat tickets.

Avoid anything extras that affect mobility as much as possible.

Mobility is the greatest skill that the horse thief can still exist in the Central Plains for so many years.

Another important point in maintaining mobility is to avoid casualties as much as possible.

So, if you can't fight, don't really fight.

Wang Qinian, with twenty riders, swaggered towards the edge of the canal.

The other horse thieves behind him hid as much as they could from the other side's sight, and continued to create dust and fog to put pressure on the fleet.

As he got closer, Wang Qinian was pleased to find that the fleet on the opposite side seemed to be a little more panicked than the slender men.

It's nice that these pampered guys are like that, like fat pigs, rich but timid.

As long as you put a little pressure, you should be able to get some benefits.

Wang Qinian grabbed the belly of the horse, suddenly accelerated, threw off his companions on both sides, and rode towards the opposite fleet alone.

He rushed to the shore, about 60 or 70 paces from the flotilla, rose from the saddle in stirrups, drew his bow and arrows, and shot three arrows at the sails of a ship in a swift run.

Doo do, all three arrows hit, lined up from top to bottom, firmly rooted on the mast.

There was another exclamation on board.

"We are the big boss of the horse thief, Wang Qinian!"

After showing off his skills, Wang Qinian rode on his horse and shouted to the distant fleet:

"Leave 10,000 stones of food and 10,000 stones, and we will let you go! Otherwise, I'm going to kill you chickens and dogs! ”

Calling yourself a thief was quite irritating at first.

But later, Wang Qinian found that the name of the horse thief was actually quite good, and if the other party was afraid, he would generally give him a suitable price as the money to buy the road.

Of course, the so-called 10,000 stone grain, 10,000 yuan is just a bargain, and bargaining is allowed - even if the other party really gives it, his dozens of people can't move away.

A guy who seemed to be a young official stood at the bow of the ship and replied loudly, "This is the fleet of the Great Zhou Imperial Court!" The thief is not going to get out of here! ”

Wang Qinian sneered: "It's you court lackeys who are beaten!" ”

More than ten years ago, Wang Qinian's father and brother once took the horse thieves as the core and gathered a large number of rebels to fight against the Tartars.

At that time, everyone thought that if they could repel the Tartars a few times, the imperial court would send reinforcements to reinforce them.

Then they can take advantage of the situation, clear their thief name, and earn an official body.

But the result is .......

The Tartars had no way to take the more and more rebels gathered for a while, but the imperial reinforcements never arrived—the officers and soldiers could only flee, leaving the volunteers to fight to the death with the Tartars to buy time for themselves.

As a result, there were more and more Tartars, until finally, the rebels were completely defeated by the Jurchen cavalry.......

Therefore, if you really want to talk about it, Wang Qinian actually has an enmity with the Great Zhou court.

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