After another two days, the number of victims reached nearly 2,000, and Dawangzhuang's bearing capacity had reached saturation, and Shangguanyi had only leased more than 30 boats, and even if they were all fully loaded, they could only carry away 1,500 or 6 victims. Helplessly, Gu Haotian had to let the Civil Affairs Office and the Logistics Office choose some of them to go first, as for the escort personnel, it seemed that they had to use Yuan Lang and others, he was about to ask Bian Xiang to call someone, but saw Du Qian hurrying in.

"Little official, great, great, Qingyun, Ma Xun and other brothers have brought people over."

"Where?" Gu Haotian was pleasantly surprised when he heard it.

"We've got off the dock, and we'll be there later."

Several people got up and hurriedly went out, and when they walked outside the gate, they saw that Zhou Qingyun, Ma Xian, Li Kui, and Geng Gong were coming towards them.

"Why are the brothers here now, but the fifth brother has arrived in the mountains."

Gu Haotian was a little puzzled, according to the sailing schedule, when they set off, Ruan Xiaowu should not have arrived in Liangshan yet.

"When I waited out, the little five brothers didn't arrive, but Mr. Wen was afraid that there would be a shortage of manpower here, so I waited to come first, and I met them one by one on the way, and at this moment, Xiao Wu, Sun An, Gu Bo and a few others are afraid that they are already on the way south." Zhou Qingyun replied on behalf of several people.

"But Mr. Wen is thoughtful, you are waiting for the right time, a fleet will set sail today, I don't know who to escort, you are here, I have to work hard for you to go again."

Several people said yes, Gu Haotian was not polite, so he ordered Ma Xun and Li Kui to lead the team, because there were more than 100 people brought by Xiao Jiasui in the fleet, and Lu Cheng was called to go together, and the fleet set off in the afternoon of the same day. Before leaving, Gu Haotian specially instructed that these leased foreign ships could not dock at the wharf in Liangshan, but should disembark at the Lijia Road crossing before making other arrangements.

In the evening, Shangguan Yi and Gu Bai returned, but only brought back more than a dozen boats, and due to the rental of several days, the slightly larger ships around the area had been rented. Gu Haotian estimated that it would take at least four or five days for Ruan Xiaowu's first fleet to return, and at least two groups of victims had to be sent away in the middle. He thought hard about it, so he went to invite Xiao Jiasui, Shangguan Yi and others to come over and discuss together.

"The big ships around Xuyi County, all the ones that can be rented have been rented, if you go too far, this back and forth for a few days, the boat of the little five brothers is afraid that it has also arrived, so it is also a worry in the next." Shangguan Yi has really run all over the surroundings in the past two days.

"I heard that there is a Qing Gang in Hongze Town downstream, which specializes in transporting grain for the imperial court, and there must be many ships in it, I don't know if I can borrow them." Xiao Jiasui thought about it and asked Shangguanyi.

"The Qing Gang in Hongze Town also knows that the gang leader is called Qu Hong, because he injured a hand when he fought with people in his early years, so he is called a one-armed Jiao, and he has excellent skills on land and underwater. I also know it below, but this person is insidious and not easy to deal with, but it is not difficult to introduce it. ”

Shangguanyi is also a person in the rivers and lakes, and he also knows the people in the surrounding circles.

"Then go and see, and act when the time comes." Gu Haotian immediately decided.

Early the next morning, Gu Haotian called Shang Bian Xiang, Zhou Yunqing, Shangguan Yi, Yuan Lang, and invited Xiao Jiasui to take some team members to Hongze Town by boat.

Hongze Town is located on the edge of Hongze (ancient Hongze Lake) in the lower reaches of Huaishui, starting from Dawangzhuang, the fast boat can be reached in half a day. The boat was moving on the lake in the cloudy and rainy weather, and Gu Haotian and a few people were gossiping tea in the cabin, and a few people were talking about speculation, but they saw Bian Xiang, who was on guard outside, coming in to report that he had found several boats fighting in front of him.

As soon as several people got out of the cabin together, they saw three ships with black dragon flags on the water not far ahead, besieging a merchant ship. The merchant ship rushed to the left and right, but it could not break out, and was gradually forced to the shore.

"The one with the black flag is the ship of the Green Gang." Shangguan Yi recognized the origin of the siege of the three ships.

"Come along."

Gu Haotian was very curious, what was going on with this green gang fighting here.

At this time, a man with a red beard and yellow hair standing on the bow of the ship said to a bearded man next to him: "The fourth brother seems to be unable to be good today, so we have to abandon the ship and escape with our lives." ”

"The gang of thieves in the Green Gang is really hateful, they actually designed to frame us, if they have the life to go back this time, they will return to this guy a thousand times in the future."

The four brothers said cruel words but were helpless, and the two brothers commanded the ship to dock, and escorted more than a dozen men to the shore to escape. But before he took a few steps, more than a dozen men in Tsing Yi burst out of the reeds in front of him, each holding a weapon and killing him.

"That guy deliberately forced us to go ashore this time, and he fell for the trick again." The red-bearded man exclaimed.

"Brothers, this green gang is going to leave us here, everyone fights." The fourth brother roared angrily, and took the lead and rushed over.

For a while, the two sides were entangled and fought together, but just when the merchant ship personnel were about to break through, the members of the Green Gang on the first three boats also went ashore to surround and kill, and suddenly they fell into a predicament again.

"Brother, we are all in the rivers and lakes, it seems that this is where we bury our bones, and pull a few more thieves to back our backs, so as not to fall into the name of our brothers."

"That's what the little brother means."

I saw the two of them laugh for a long time, and they went forward regardless of it. At this desperate juncture, I suddenly saw a panic among the green gangs around me, and instead abandoned them and scattered around. Seeing that the pressure around them was light, the two looked up in surprise, only to see that a group of people were killing from all around at some point.

The leader in the south was a handsome man with a spear, and I saw that he was full of guns and guns, and there was no enemy; On both sides of the east and west, there were two strong men, one holding a pair of steel Laos and the other holding a steel knife, rampage but like killing chickens and cutting vegetables; And guarding the lake is two scholars look like people, the older one carries a long sword, the younger one holds a long knife, some of the gang feel that the two scholars are weak and easy to bully, and they have rushed to this side, who knows that these two people are not like weak scholars, but like urging the king of Hades, I saw that their hands rose and fell, as if they were writing poems and paintings, and cut down the people one by one to the ground lightly.

In the midst of the two brothers' stunned eyes, dozens of Green Gang members were killed. Looking at the young scholar strolling in front of them, the two brothers realized that they seemed to have been saved.

"Taihu Fei Bao and Di Cheng worship Xie Langjun's life-saving grace." The two brothers threw themselves and knelt before the young scholar.

Let's say that Gu Haotian's ship has always followed behind the Qingban boat, and the people of the Qingban are also trusted, thinking that who would dare to take him in his own territory, and even thought about packing up the few people at hand and then eating them together. Gu Haotian listened to Shangguanyi's introduction, and had no good impression of the Qing Gang, and saw that the two men of the merchant ship were so heroic, so he suddenly cherished his talents, and took everyone ashore to rescue. Zhou Qingyun in the south, Yuan Lang and Bian Xiang in the east and west, he and Xiao Jiasui guarded the lake, and Shangguanyi took the opportunity to clean up the personnel left on the boat.

This will listen to the two of them calling themselves Taihu Fei Bao and Di Cheng, and immediately think of the four heroes of Taihu Lake in the Water Margin, which are also a group of good men who do not envy the powerful and are happy to enmity and hatred. Thinking that this time I made a mistake, I am afraid that I will earn it again, and now there are many masters of Liangshan infantry cavalry, but the leader of the sailors is only the three brothers of the Ruan family, and they are often overstretched when they are used, and this person in front of him must not be missed, so he secretly made up his mind.

"Two brothers, please get up quickly, this kind of evil deed, anyone who sees it will take action, we just happened to encounter it, now it is important to hurry up and treat the injured brother." Gu Haotian stretched out his hand to help the two of them up.

The two also knew that this was not the time to behave, so they treated their subordinates with the help of Gu Haotian's personnel, and after some cleaning, they found that in addition to their two brothers, eight people died, and the remaining seven people were all injured.

"Brother Fei Bao, I think that if these people are not treated in time, their lives will be in danger, it is better to be escorted to Dawangzhuang, there is a doctor's medicine there, maybe you can save one or two."

Gu Haotian saw that some of the wounded were seriously injured, and the wounds had to be sutured.

"Dawangzhuang! Lang Jun is the jade-faced Meng Wei petty official. ”

When Fei Bao heard Gu Haotian talk about Dawangzhuang, he suddenly remembered a person who recently released grain in Dawangzhuang and praised Jianghuai in the name of benevolence and righteousness.

"Down there is Gu Haotian."

"I didn't expect Engong to be a jade-faced Meng Wei petty official, my brother really doesn't know Mount Tai!" Fei Bao and Di Cheng had to kneel down and salute again.

"Don't be polite, it's important to save people without delay." Gu Haotian stretched out his hand to stop them.

Fei Bao and Di Cheng no longer hesitated, and immediately carried the wounded onto the merchant ship, Gu Haotian called Zhou Qingyun and asked him to take the merchant ship and the three boats of the Qing Gang back to Dawangzhuang first, and then instructed the others to prepare to bury the body.

"Why should the petty officials bother so much, these thieves are innocent of death, stripped of their clothes and sunk into Daze, and it only takes a few days to enter the belly of the fish and shrimp, and then they don't know where they are. If it is buried here, the people of the Green Gang will definitely find it at that time, and if they find it, it will not be beautiful. ”

Fei Bao saw that Gu Haotian wanted to bury the corpse, so he suggested that the corpse be sunk underwater.

Gu Haotian thought about it, and there was no time to delay, so he carried Fei Bao's subordinates onto the merchant ship for another burial, and the deceased of the Qinggang instructed the following to do so.

"Brother Fei Bao is far away in Taihu Lake, how can he have a deep grudge with the Qing Gang." Gu Haotian asked while everyone was busy.

"It's really annoying, I and Qu Hong's house and the canal are begging for a living, I have long been acquainted, in the past, I sold smuggled salt and he sold black grain, and I often made some transactions in private, but this time I was at his request to transport a boatload of smuggled salt, who knew that this guy actually did such a thing, if it weren't for Engong, I would have died a long time ago."

It turned out that the two sides had already had contacts, Gu Haotian thought, so if Fei Bao and others should also know something about the Qing Gang.

"How much does Brother Fei know about the Green Gang?"

"I know a little bit about it, but I haven't been very deep, maybe it's a small official who is useful in the next place, just say it."

Fei Bao saw that Gu Haotian was investigating the Qing Gang, and he also guessed a thing or two about his intentions.

"There is really a place to borrow Brother Fei, I wonder if my brother can go to Hongze Town with me."

"Why not." Fei Bao responded happily, and only got on Gu Haotian's boat.

Then the boats were divided into two sides, and each went to one side.