From Jiangning Mansion to the north of Liangshanbo waterway, last year Ruan Xiaoqi and Bu Qing had gone south with Gu Haotian to Jiankang to ask An Dao full-time, and walked through it, as for the section from Huaiyin to Jeju, during the Jianghuai disaster relief period, they did not know how many times, so they were more familiar with the entire waterway.

After asking Gu Haotian for his consent on Liangshan that day, Shi Wengong and Ruan Xiaoqi, Wei Dingguo, and others selected more than 2,000 good men from the special battalion, the third sailor battalion, and the firearms battalion, and then formed a mixed team to sail south.

Jingxi Road, Huainan East Road and Jiangnan are connected from north to south, the terrain is flat and the river network is dense, the Grand Canal will turn to the northwest Tokyo direction after reaching Huaiyin, if you want to enter Liangshanbo, you have to go north to Surabaya.

It is said that there is a small town called Huize more than ten miles north of Suqian City, where the water from the west flows into Surabaya, so it forms a relatively wide water area, and there are many rivers surrounded by dense reeds. In recent days, there have been a lot of fishing boats and merchant ships suddenly increased in some large and small rivers and wharves around the town, but the local people did not notice anything unusual.

On this day, a huge fleet of ships came from the lower reaches of Surabaya, hundreds of large and small ships filled the bank of the Suqian River to Huaize, and then it was rumored everywhere in the town that this was the imperial army from Jiangning City, and this trip was going north to Jeju to exterminate the grass robbers in Yangsan.

Shi Wengong, Ruan Xiaoqi, Wei Dingguo and others took hundreds of people two days ago, pretending to be fishermen and businessmen, to the surroundings of Huaize. At this moment, in a small teahouse on the dock of the town, three or four people sat around a table in the window, whispering to the dense official ships in the distance.

"Battalion Commander Shi, I just drove the fishing boat back and forth, there are more than 500 large and small boats, and there are quite a few officers and soldiers on the boat, and it is estimated that there are dozens of people in each boat, and there should be 10,000 and 50,000."

Ruan Xiaoqi went over to reconnoiter just now and found that there was no discrepancy between the warship, the navy and the intelligence.

"There are a lot of ships with this manpower, the little seven brothers just looked around, but what good ideas do they have."

Shi Fanggong sat by the window, looking at the ships from afar, itching for a while.

Ruan Xiaoqi already had a plan in his heart, so he replied: "Their fleet is too large, we can't eat one bite, we can only eat piecemeal, we can eat as much as we can, tonight I will take some brothers to attack the more than ten ships at the town wharf." ”

Seeing this, Wei Dingguo hurriedly asked, "The firearms battalion available to the little seven brothers?" ”

"You baby bumps are here for the time being, and they will be used when it matters, and they must not be exposed."

Ruan Xiaoqi hadn't replied yet, but Shi Wengong stopped him with a smile.

Gunpowder is an artifact in Liangshan, and Gu Haotian had a special explanation for it when he went down the mountain, so until the critical moment, Shi Wengong was really reluctant to use it.

At that moment, the three of them carefully agreed on a plan of action, and then went separately. At night, a few fishing boats suddenly came out of the reeds by the dock, and they slowly approached the more than ten official boats docked side by side, and then more than a dozen people came out of the boat and dived into the cold river water silently.

In the early hours of the morning, there was a sudden commotion among more than a dozen official ships on the wharf, and then some people continued to exclaim, "It's in the water," "It's in the water." A moment later, many disheveled officers and men poured out of the cabin, but unexpectedly, the cables that had been tied up were nowhere to be found. Looking at the sinking ship, these people had to jump into the black cold water one by one, but the speed of the sinking ship was very fast, and in the end, only a few people fled to the shore in panic.

The continuous appearance of the official boats on the dock quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding ships, and Liu Menglong also got the news later, but after he arrived, the more than ten boats had all sunk into the water. The next day, thousands of people spent a lot of effort to clear the route

When more than a dozen shipwrecks were salvaged, it was found that a large hole had been dug into the vital point of each ship.

What a man is so bold! Liu Menglong assumed many possibilities in his heart, and finally fixed the suspect on the opponent he was about to conquest. It's not good! He couldn't help but worry about his journey this time.

After two or three days, Liu Menglong ordered his subordinates to take strict precautions and move forward cautiously, and the journey went smoothly, and he did not feel that the fleet had marched to Lulianghong Town. In the afternoon of that day, the weather had changed suddenly, and a great storm came from the north without warning, and the fleet of sailors could not move forward, so they all anchored in a nearby bay.

Shi Wengong and others have been following the vicinity of the officers and men's fleet for recent days. Liu Menglong's vigilance made them unable to start for a while. But the sudden arrival of the gales this afternoon was a godsend for them.

"Brother Dingguo, aren't you talking about using fire every day? Today, there is a sudden gale, and the ships of the officers and men are all crowded in that bay, which is a good opportunity for fire attack, and you will let the firearms battalion strike tonight. ”

In an inconspicuous small merchant ship on the bank of the river, Ruan Xiaoqi said excitedly to Wei Dingguo.

"As long as the wind doesn't stop at night, I'll be able to make this fire burn!"

Wei Dingguo said firmly, he has taken this fire as his first contribution after going to Liangshan, and he does not want to miss it no matter what.

"Don't worry, this limelight will not stop tonight, you should be prepared, and then the sailors and special forces will assist you."

After Shi Wengong finished speaking, several people went ashore and went north against the wind.

In the middle of the night, the howling wind showed no sign of abating, and in the sailors' anchorage in the bay, except for some sergeants who were leaning against the door of the cabin, everyone else shrank into the cabin and fell asleep.

And in the reeds on the bank of the river, two heads suddenly came out of the north boat, and after a few gesticulations, they climbed to the front and rear decks. After a while they crept into the second boat next to them, and so on until the fifth, they withdrew to the boat at the head of the north, and then one stayed in the boat, and the other dived back into the water. In a short time, a small boat approached gently, and an unidentified object was sent to the deck, and then several people scattered it on five boats.

Just after midnight, several ships at the northern head of the sailor's fleet suddenly burst into flames at the same time, and the fire was extremely fierce. Driven by a strong northerly wind, the flames quickly spread to the neighboring ships, but between the teas, the fleet on the banks of the river had become a sea of fire.

At this time, on the riverbank dozens of feet away, more than a dozen men were excitedly discussing in front of the fire.

Wu Yanguang participated in the battle for the first time after joining the special battalion, just now he and Ruan Xiaoqi packed up the sentries of five boats in a row, and at this time he was still not satisfied, I saw him say to Ruan Xiaoqi:

"Little Seventh Battalion Commander, it's too easy to deal with this officer and soldier, find an opportunity to play it again tomorrow night, and this sailor will almost burn it."

"You think they're all pigs! This Liu Menglong is not an idle person, I don't have such a cheap thing anymore. ”

Shi Wengong stood in front of him and said lightly, after the previous ambush in Huize Town, he felt that this person was careful, and it seemed that there would be a new plan next time. was thinking about it, but heard Ruan Xiaoqi sigh:

"It's a pity that these good ships, if they are captured, they will be handed over to Brother Meng Kang for renovation at that time, and they will all be good ships."

"I still feel sorry for those special gunpowders, I knew that it was better to use sulfur oil directly than to use them like this, and I wasted a lot of treasures in vain."

Wei Dingguo was heartbroken with those refined gunpowder, these things were used to make "thunder", when he first came into contact with it, it was really rare

, but tonight it was dismantled as a fire-burning thing, and it was indeed a tyrannical thing.

Grab the ship! Dynamite! Shi Wengong listened to the discussion between the two, and his heart was suddenly touched, and he couldn't help but have a bold idea, and immediately called everyone and rushed back.

A fire burned for more than an hour, Liu Menglong decisively abandoned the north of the continuous ships, in advance in the middle of the clearing of a blank water, this can be able to keep most of the ships, but the fire caused by the loss has been very heavy, more than 50 boats, more than 1,000 sailors died in the fire, the army is still on the way to the tenth of the ten.

Liu Menglong was furious about this, and he strictly ordered on the spot that all suspicious ships should be strictly searched from now on, whether on the way or at the anchorage.

However, what he didn't expect was that those thieves who hated him to the bone would blatantly appear in front of the fleet from the next day, constantly provoking and harassing the officers and soldiers along the way. Liu Menglong sent boats to arrest him several times, but often when he chased into the reeds of the river, he never saw the boats come out again, and later the sailors no longer dared to send a single boat to chase, but the small river channel could not carry a large fleet, so he could only watch them do evil under their noses.

Under such grievances, the fleet sailed to Yutai, where the Surabaya-Bianshui meets. Perhaps it was the arrogance of many days that fueled the courage of those thieves, and those thieves actually gathered dozens of large and small ships at the entrance of Bianshui to carry out unscrupulous attacks.

Liu Menglong looked at the mighty water, depressed for many days, and his mood instantly became cheerful.

Straight sissy thief! After all, it's some ignorant grass coars, do you think Bianshui is also a small ditch and a small river! He scolded coldly, and immediately ordered a tooth general next to him to lead a fleet to chase and kill.

When those thieves saw a large fleet of officers and soldiers chasing after them, they immediately repeated their old tricks and turned around and ran, but they seemed to forget that the river behind them was a big river, and they could walk as officers and soldiers as they could.

Half an hour, seeing the sailor's ship getting closer and closer, the thieves seemed to be desperate, and suddenly they struggled to rush the boat to the shore, and abandoned the ship and fled for their lives.

"Go ashore and destroy all these grass robbers, and avenge the brothers who died a few days ago."

The tooth general saw how he refused to let go of the prey in his hand, and immediately ordered the fleet to dock, and hundreds of officers and soldiers each wielded swords and guns to viciously chase and kill them.

Behind a low hill dozens of zhang away, Xie Bao held a steel fork and stood quietly in front of a team, he seemed to smell the smell of prey as if he had been hunting all year round, and his eyes were staring at the mountain pass on the side extremely sharp.

After a while, only a chaotic footstep was heard, and hundreds of officers and soldiers hurried by, Xie Bao waited until the last officer and soldier went, and then coldly shouted, "Attack!" At this time, an interception team also came out in front of the officers and soldiers, but it was Lei Jiong's manpower.

Subsequently, under the siege of the two teams of special forces of Lei Jiong and Xie Bao, hundreds of officers and soldiers were captured in less than half a pillar of incense.

And at the same time, the sailor fleet on the shore also found dozens of boats downstream upstream, and the tooth general didn't care at first, until those ships surrounded him from behind, he felt that something was wrong, and then he couldn't care about his subordinates on the shore, and immediately ordered to untie the cable and turn around and break through. But when the two ships just came into contact, they saw a smoking iron can thrown from the other party's ship, and a boatload of people didn't know what it was, and they stood in a daze, but then there was a bang, which blew up a group of people, including the tooth general, and the rest were stunned by the sudden change, and no one dared to resist, so a fleet of more than 50 ships became trophies unscathed.

At this time, Liu Menglong was by the river in Yutai, waiting for the good news of his subordinates' triumph with peace of mind.

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