Volume 8 Chapter 54 Asking for Money Kills
Liaodong Zhenjiang is the Dandong of later generations, located near the mouth of the Yalu River, across the river from the Ming Dynasty vassal country Korea, is an important town in the east of the Ming Dynasty, and here is also the place where Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, made his career.
In the first year of the Apocalypse, Mao Wenlong, who was still a guerrilla general at that time, led more than 100 warriors to take advantage of the main force of the Houjin garrison to go to Shuangshan to kill the people who refused to surrender to Houjin, attacked Zhenjiang at night, captured Huang Taiji's uncle Tong Yangzhen's family, and achieved a famous victory in Zhenjiang, thus becoming famous in one fell swoop, and soon climbed to the high position of the general army of Dongjiang Town.
However, due to a series of miraculous operations of the eunuch party, Shenyang, Liaoyang and other places have been lost, and most of Liaodong has fallen into the hands of Houjin, so Houjin has developed and grown, Mao Wenlong is unable to defend Zhenjiang, so he can only retreat to Phi Island, Zhenjiang has fallen into the hands of Houjin again, and it has been nearly 20 years.
At noon the next day after the victory of Jinzhou, at noon, the Xinxing fishing port south of the Zhenjiang River, the fishermen who had been busy for a morning had already packed up their things and went home for dinner.
At this moment, a Cangshan boat suddenly sailed from the west and slowly entered the fishing port.
The Cangshan boat is small in size in a real sea boat, but it is a behemoth compared to a small fishing boat, and such a big guy suddenly appears in a fishing port, which looks naturally abrupt.
However, the foot guards on the dock did not show a shocked look, but seemed excited, because some unscrupulous traders often sailed such Cangshan boats to this side to do business, they generally bring some food and daily necessities, in exchange for wild ginseng and other Korean specialties, come here to do business naturally to please the head snake, the interested traders will give the foot soldiers on duty a few taels of silver, seeing that the guard is about to change but suddenly someone came to send silver, of course they were excited.
This Cangshan ship is not an unscrupulous trader of the Ming Dynasty, but the elite of Wang Er and a small group of special operations battalions, as well as the guide sent by Mao Wenlong to Zhang Bin, Chen Zhong, a guerrilla general who once participated in the victory in Zhenjiang.
At this time, Wang Er was dressed as a vendor, he looked at the approaching dock, maintained a flattering smile on his face, and whispered to Chen Zhong, who was dressed as a bookkeeper on the side: "Wait a minute, is this team of Jiannu on the boat asking for money or waiting for me to stuff the money below?" ”
Chen Zhong said lightly: "They won't come up, you just take the silver and go to the dock." ”
Wang Er nodded slightly, and then said casually to the elite of the special warfare battalion dressed as coolies on the side: "Get ready with hand crossbows, as soon as I get off the boat, you will stand on the side of the ship and kill them with hand crossbows, aim at the point, it is best to kill them with one blow, we don't have so much time to chase people." ”
The Houjin infantry on the dock didn't know that these people were here to kill them, and they all showed greedy smiles as they watched the Cangshan boat approach, and they all showed greedy smiles.
As soon as the Cangshan ship docked on the dock, an elite of the special operations battalion dressed as a sailor jumped down from the side of the ship with a cable, and went straight to the big wooden stake on the dock with the cable, and several coolies worked together to lift the suspension ladder from the deck and put it on the dock.
Everything seemed quite normal, almost all the Houjin foot soldiers were staring at the money bag in Wang Shuang's hand, and some of the Houjin foot soldiers even began to rub their hands, at this moment, those "coolies" suddenly took out their crossbows from behind, and aimed at those foot soldiers "swish" is a shot, and a crossbow arrow appeared on the throat of all the foot soldiers, and they didn't even see what those coolies took out, so they fell on the dock with a "smile".
Wang Er stepped forward to check it carefully, and made sure that these people were all out of breath, so he picked up the corpses of these people, threw them into the sea like garbage, and threw them into the sea three times and two times, and after disposing of the corpses, he clapped his hands casually, and said to the elite of the special operations battalion behind: "Third child, hang the flag, watch the boat, and the others, carry the sack and follow me." “
When the sailors who had just jumped off the ship heard this, they immediately rushed to the deck, and then quickly climbed up the mast and hung an ordinary merchant flag on the top of the mast, while the others put away their crossbows, carried the sacks at their feet, and walked in line under the ship.
Chen Zhong followed behind the elite of the special operations battalion, his face was full of shock, these guys are too terrifying, this speed, this accuracy, killing people is faster than killing chickens!
At this time, on a small island a few miles west of the port, Zhang Bin was holding a telescope and staring at the mast of the Cangshan ship. ”
Behind the island, dense wheels suddenly swarmed out and rushed towards the fishing port.
A distance of a few miles, for the wheel is a tea time thing, soon, the wheel of the forward has entered the port, leaning on the dock, countless Fuguang soldiers jumped down from the wheel like a small dumpling, these wheels and even the cable is not tied to the dock so leaning, the Fuguang army soldiers on the ship are finished, the wheel boat will quickly leave the dock, go back.
At this time, Zhang Bin came to the wharf, he swept the surroundings slightly with a telescope, and then said to Liu Wenxiu, who was waiting on the side: "No need to assemble, just take your men to set off, run to the northwest, go to cut off the road from Zhenjiang to Dingliao Right Guard, don't let them spread the news to Dingliao Right Guard." ”
Liu Wenxiu bowed his hand and obeyed the order, then ran to the port and waved his hand and ran to the northwest with his subordinates.
This time, they did not transport the war horses and chariots, because more than 500 wheels can only carry 50,000 people, their war horses and chariots and even grain and grass baggage have not been brought over, and they have to wait for these wheels to go back to transport it, fortunately, the road from Zhenjiang to Dingliao Youwei is not far from the port, and it is only more than ten miles away, and it will not take much effort for them to run over.
Zhenjiang City is actually not very far from the fishing port, a total of more than ten miles away, at this time, Wang Er has already led the elite of his special operations battalion under the guidance of Chen Zhong to walk towards Zhenjiang.
They walked out of the fishing port less than three miles, and then they ran into the Houjin infantry team who came to change shifts, Wang Er was still smiling with a money bag on his face, as if he was going to stuff them with money, and those foot soldiers who changed shifts also laughed and beat them very much.
Someone gave money halfway through the walk, can they not be happy?
It's a pity that Wang Er didn't come to give them money, but to ask for their lives, and before these people got the silver in the money bag, the elite of the special operations battalion behind Wang Er gave them a crossbow arrow.
After cleaning up the team of foot soldiers and throwing their bodies into the grass on the side of the road, Wang Er took the elite of his special operations battalion and followed Chen Zhong towards Zhenjiang City like a nobody.
The group walked for nearly two quarters of an hour, and finally came to the south gate of Zhenjiang City, at this time the defenders in the city did not know that the Ming army had landed in the fishing port, and the entire Zhenjiang City was as usual, and even the city gate was not closed.
Wang Er took out the money bag again, and walked to the Houjin foot guard with a smile on his face, of course, this time he really stuffed a few taels of silver into each person, instead of asking the elite of the special operations battalion to give them a crossbow arrow each.
These foot guards of the city are also used to collecting extra money, and after receiving Wang Er's money, they waved their hands to let Wang Er and others enter the city, and they didn't even check the things Wang Er and they carried.