Chapter 214: Outwitting Wuluo Island

Fan Chengkun, who was on the flat-bottomed boat, heard the report that a flag had been raised in front of him and told the boat to hurry over, and said to Li Wei: "It seems that today's matter is half over." ”

Li Wei said: "Even if we pass the first gate, it depends on the situation of the two gates." ”

Fan Chengkun said: "As long as they pass the level of Shuizhai, their musketeers can exert their strength, otherwise they can't do anything in the water." ”

Li Wei said: "We should bring the forty people who Li Gongzi left in the kiln gang to be trained, they are all very good in the water and do not panic on the water." ”

Liu Yun said: "We just have too little training on the water, and we have to make up for this when we go back." ”

As he spoke, the punt arrived at the gate of the water village. At this time, the gate of the water village has been opened by Li Jing and the minions who escorted the water village. After the punt entered, the gate was closed. The water bandits said that this village is just this one gate, and if you close it, none of the water bandits will be able to escape.

As soon as the flat-bottomed boat was parked on the dock, suddenly several gunshots rang out in the direction of the gate in front of them. This shocked Li Wei, Fan Chengkun and others, and Fan Chengkun couldn't help but say: "It's broken, the sneak attack failed." ”

Liu Yun watched Li Jing take people back to deal with the matter of the water village, so he took people to escort the second master and went straight to the second gate, he wanted to take down the second and third gates as soon as possible while the water bandits had not found out.

This second gate was built along the mountain pass. The middle of the terrain between two mountains and a ditch is built into a walled gatehouse, and below the walled gatehouse is a walled gate. Liu Yun looked up and couldn't help but sigh: "It's dangerous!" ”

The second master was quite obedient, and when he came to the front of the village, he shouted upstairs at the gate of the village: "Fuck, blind!" Open the door! ”

The minions on the upper floor of the gate hurriedly shouted: "Hey, it's the second master who is back, you wait, we will put down the suspension bridge immediately." ”

After a while, the drawbridge creaked down, and the city gate creaked open.

When Liu Yun and the others came to the city gate, they first controlled the dozen or so minions who opened the door, and then went up to the gate tower and caught and tied up the dozen minions who were standing guard.

Leaving a few people to guard the tower of the second gate, Liu Yun escorted the second master to the city tower of the third gate. The position of these three gates is much higher than that of the second gate, and it is a long walk up the stairs to get to the third gate. The second master was about to call the door, and someone on the city tower shouted: "Is the second brother you?" How did you come back! Did you meet a beautiful woman and didn't want your big brother to see it? ”

It was the big boss on the city tower, this question made the second boss a little moved, I don't know whether he was afraid or deliberately wanted to attract the attention of the big boss, and the second boss replied when he was unfavorable: "Alas! It's big brother! I—I'm coming back late for something. ”

Liu Yun stabbed him with a knife beside him, and he hurriedly said, "Hey, big brother, open the door!" ”

However, the second master's answer had aroused the suspicion of the big master, and he quietly ordered the minions on the gate tower to prepare bows and arrows and throw stones, and at this time he did not forget to use words to stabilize the people in the city: "Second brother, wait a minute, I have gone down to open the door." ”

Liu Yun also felt that something was wrong, and he was ready to shoot. Chenglou Mountain suddenly lit up a lot of torches, and after a while, the torches were thrown under the walled gate. It turned out that it was getting late now, and he couldn't see the situation under the city clearly, and the order of the big boss to throw the torch under the city was still very scheming, he wanted to use the torch to see what was going on under the city.

This trick was still very effective, and the big boss immediately saw that there were many guns pointed at the city. Because Liu Yun didn't expect that the torches would be thrown down in the city, thinking that it was dark and the other party couldn't see the situation under the city clearly.

Seeing this, the big boss knew that the second boss had been kidnapped, and immediately ordered the arrows to be released. If it weren't for the people in the city who were worried about hurting the second boss this time, Liu Yun and they would have suffered a big loss. Despite this, Liu Yun and the others were soon injured. The musketeers also shot at the city with a "bang", and the minions in the city had never seen such a large moving weapon, and they were quickly pressed down. Liu Yun and the others took the opportunity to retreat to the second city gate.

At this time, Li Jing, Fan Chengkun, and Li Wei came up with two hundred musketeers carrying mortars.

Liu Yun ordered Li Wei to carry the mortar to the gate tower and erect it. The musketeers left fifty men under the city to meet the enemy, and the others went up to the gate tower.

Liu Yun knew that judging from the reaction of the talented master, this was a brave and resourceful master, and he would definitely take advantage of their large number of people to take advantage of his unstable foothold to recapture the walled gate, otherwise, they would be very passive when they only arrived at the city gate.

Liu Yun and a few of them looked at the city tower, and the torches on the Sandaozhai gatehouse were already lined up one by one, obviously more and more people gathered.

At this time, Liu Yun thought that the more they gathered, the better, otherwise it would be even more difficult to clean up if they were scattered.

The result of Liu Yun's discussion with a few people was that since the sneak attack could not be successful, it was necessary to kill and injure as many water bandits as possible between the second and third gates, so that it would be easy to enter the village.

The specific method is to try to put the water bandits as close as possible and then suddenly block them, so that the water bandits behind can rush out of the three gates as much as possible, kill and injure the water bandits with ** muskets at a close distance, and use mortars to cut off their retreat at a distance, and strive to rush out of one without putting them back.

As expected, the three gates of the village suddenly opened, and under the leadership of a row of torches, a group of water bandits rushed out with swords and guns, and because it was the way down the mountain, they rushed quickly. When they approached the defense line more than 20 meters below the Erdaozhai Gate, Liu Yun ordered: "Fire!" ”

Suddenly, the "bang" muskets rang out, and because the two gates were in the valley, the gunshots were particularly loud in the valley. After a row of muskets, the bandits who rushed to the front fell down one by one, and saw their accomplices fall one after another after a terrible burst of gunfire. The water bandits who rushed in front turned around and ran back, but the water bandits who rushed behind couldn't stop at all, and squeezed together with them, and then threw down a batch of ** from the city gate building, these ** exploded in the middle of the water bandits who were huddled together, and the explosion of "boom" was accompanied by dazzling firelight, and you can see the accomplices who were blown up, one by one, flying to the side, which made the water bandits completely collapse, and they turned around and ran back. But it was too late, and Li Wei commanded the mortars to keep falling on their retreat paths, exploding more violently than **, frightening the water bandits to run back again, and as a result, they collided with the retreating water bandits again. At this time, a batch of cannonballs fell on their heads, and the result was that the stone staircase road between the mountains was full of flesh and blood, and the big boss who watched the battle on the Sandaozhai Gate was distressed and shot directly at the stone battlements on the city gate building.

However, the big boss knows very well in his heart that if he doesn't take advantage of the dark night tonight to recapture the second walled gate, with the power of the opponent's firearms, it will be difficult to defend his own walled gate. So he personally commanded the rest of the bandits and the water bandits who came again, risking death and rushing over again.

In the process of fighting, Li Jing has been looking for any loopholes to exploit and see if he can bypass them, but he is disappointed. It seems that only by defeating the water bandits in front can there be a way to enter the stockade.

The big boss led the water bandits to rush again, and after a lot of casualties, he had no choice but to lead the remnants of the defeated army, retreated to the three gates, and closed the gates. Liu Yun asked Li Wei: "Can you hit the cannonball on the building of the three walled gates?" ”

Li Wei said: "No problem. ”

After a test shot, Li Wei gave the corrected parameters. A salvo of 20 cannons blew up the bandits on the walled gate building into the sky, and the walled gate building also caught fire.

Seeing that the three gates had been closed, Liu Yun ordered Li Wei to take a few people to shoot crossbow lasers at the gates and blow them open.

Under the cover of mortars, Liu Yun commanded the musketeers to move in front of the Sandaozhai Gate. Li Wei's crossbow thunderer aimed at the gate and shot out a row of crossbow mines. The current crossbow mines are all firing fuses, and they explode when they hit the walled gate, and the walled gate is shattered by the crossbow mine. Liu Yun commanded the musketeers to rush into the gate, and at this time, there were not many minions left in the gate, and they were all shot by the musketeers. After entering the three gates, Liu Yun commanded the musketeers to occupy the gates, and the musketeers who rushed up worked together to extinguish the fire. Firmly occupy this third gate. Liu Yun asked where the big boss of the minions who didn't die went, and the soldiers said that the big boss had brought people back to the village.

Liu Yun led people to escort the second master and quickly rushed towards the bandits' lair gathering hall. When I came to the bandits' hall, it didn't look like a bandits' hall at all, but it looked like a yamen, the gate of the courtyard was closed, and when Liu Yun and they approached, they shot a few bows and arrows from the wall. Liu Yunming ordered Li Wei to blow the gate open, and Li Wei commanded people to fire two crossbow mines to blow the gate open. The musketeers swarmed up and rushed in, and with the unhurried sound of muskets, the resisting minions were killed.

Liu Yun asked everyone to find torches, and after going around the bandits' gathering hall, he ordered the second boss to shout into the room.

The second boss was trembling and reluctant to shout, Liu Yun said: "This is your last chance to make meritorious contributions, if you don't shout, cut off your head immediately." ”

There was no way, the second boss had to shout inside: "Big brother! Come out and come down! They are from Yaogang, and Li Zicheng's people can't beat them. You just come out! ”

shouted for a long time, but there was no movement inside. There was no way, Liu Yun had to order everyone to rush in.

When everyone rushed into the bandits' hall, they found that there was no one inside.

Liu Yun discussed with everyone and decided to put the courtyard around first and wait for dawn. As long as those three doors are in our hands, it is estimated that the big boss will not be able to escape.

Everyone didn't dare to relax all night, and waited until dawn. Interrogated the minions here, and the minions said that the big boss must be here, and no one saw him go out. As a result, after another search, on the beam of the Juyi Hall, the big boss was caught.

Liu Yun ordered the second boss to come forward and shout around in the stockade, telling the fleeing bandits that they all came out and surrendered. At the same time, a flat-bottomed boat was sent out of the island to pick up Zhang Zhimu and others.

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He were of course very happy to hear the news of the successful capture of Wuluo Island, and they came to the island by flat-bottomed boat. After passing through the three gates all the way, Zhang Zhimu secretly said in his heart: "If you don't outwit it, if you attack hard, I don't know how much effort it will take to conquer it." ”

Ouyang He said to Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng: "This is a piece of treasure land sent by God, we can camp troops here to cultivate, and wait for the world to change." ”

After coming to the island, Zhang Zhimu felt that these bandits were different from other places, they seemed to be an independent kingdom, and there were thousands of residents on the island. All the fish and rice produced are purchased by them, and the commodities they need are also purchased from outside, and no one is allowed to trade with the outside without permission. There are also shops and restaurants in the village, but these are all business opened by bandits, and others are not allowed to operate them.

Zhang Zhimu decided to personally ask the people here about the situation, but after walking a few households, no one dared to pay attention to them at all. Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to do it.

Liu Yun told Zhang Zhimu a little worriedly. The bandit's den searched everywhere, but he couldn't find a place where they hid their gold and silver treasures. interrogated the big boss, the big boss would rather die than say, he put forward a condition, let him and his son out, and he told where the treasures were hidden.

This made Liu Yun and the others very angry, but this big boss is really a tough guy, and he won't say anything about killing him. Liu Yun, Li Wei, and Li Jing used all the methods, but the big boss just didn't say it, because he knew very well that this was his only talisman, and he definitely couldn't say it.

Chen Yufeng said: "Then don't embarrass him, I don't believe it, I can't find such a big place." Everyone has to dig three feet into the ground to find out. ”

As a result, everyone was mobilized to find it, but they didn't find it for a day. There was no way to interrogate the second master, and the second master said: "The treasure house must be in this courtyard, and only one of the big masters knows where it is." ”

However, the second master said: "The third family manages the business inside and outside the village, and he should have a little gold and silver in his hands." ”

Liu Yun asked the three masters, and the three masters quickly beckoned and said: "Heroes spare their lives, I am also a local on the island, and I have never done anything that hurts the heavens and reason." I am in charge of the business inside and outside the island, and I have some silver with me. But the big head will be handed over to the big boss. The big boss doesn't trust anyone, and only he knows where the money is hidden. ”

Liu Yun led him to take out some silver and copper coins.

Ouyang He said: "Their outside business is actually their eyeliner, so why don't we take it over and hand it over to Li Zhi." ”

Zhang Zhimu said with a smile: "Send someone to take Li Zhi over tomorrow, and he will know what to do after talking to the third master?" We'd better break through as soon as possible, so that we can go back, we can't be here for too long. ”

Ouyang He smiled and said, "It seems that I have to do this bad guy." Didn't he want to let him and his son go? This shows that he cares about his son very much. ”

Liu Yun didn't say anything after hearing anything: "I turned around and went out." ”

After Liu Yun went out, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He went out again. Ouyang He said: "This was originally a town, but it was later occupied by water bandits. If my estimate is correct, the wall of this stockade is probably built by the original town to prevent banditry. Such a stockade will definitely not be built in a short period of time, and after we get rid of the water bandits, the people here will be able to speak. ”

When Zhang Zhimu and the others returned to the righteous hall, Liu Yun said with a smile on his face: "Or Mr. Ouyang has a way, we brought his child and let him take a look, he drooped his head and put forward a condition, that is, to let his women and children leave the island, I promised him." He has already given the location of the vault. I'd like to wait until you get back. ”

Ouyang He asked, "Who knows the location of the vault?" ”

Liu Yun said: "I know that I can't let people know about this. So except for Li Jing and Li Wei and Fan Chengkun, no one knows about it. ”

Chen Yufeng said very dissatisfied: "Look at you, who has not grown, there are already many people who know." ”

Liu Yun knew that he was still careless, because if this vault would be used in the future, the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Then you can take someone to open the vault!" ”

Liu Yun agreed.

Chen Yufeng said: "This vault will be used as a gold and silver storage location for all shops in the south in the future, and if anything changes, it can also be used as a backup base." ”

Ouyang He said: "I see that these more than 200 musketeers will stay here, organize those surrendered water bandits, form a force, garrison here in peacetime, and can send troops in wartime." The key is to leave a reliable person here. ”

After Liu Yun came back, Zhang Zhimu saw that he had gained a lot. Liu Yun said: "Mr. Zhang, go over and have a look." We've made another fortune. ”

No one thought that the entrance to the vault was under the bed of the big boss, and the reason why it was not found was that under the bed, the big boss made a double-layer hole and made a treasure room on it, and the bottom was the real entrance to the vault. Ordinary people find a treasure trove and take out the contents of it, and it's over, and few search for it. Besides, the entrance to the second floor is also very unexpected, and if you use the method of tapping inside, you can't hear the sound of a hollow. Open the entrance to the cave, if the stone door inside is not opened by the big boss himself, if others want to enter, they must blow the stone door open before they can enter. And the stone gate is not a one, so even if the vault is found in a hurry, outsiders can't get in.

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He entered the vault, and when they saw it by candlelight, it was really golden. You can imagine the mood of the big boss after he told the treasure house.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Lu Chengxiang will come over tomorrow, let me take someone to count." ”

Ouyang He smiled and picked up an account book and said, "What to pay off, I remember it all here clearly." ”

Zhang Zhimu and the others took the account book, came up, and slowly closed the vault in order.

When he arrived at the top, Zhang Zhimu saw that there were 8,200 taels of gold, 50,000 taels of silver, and 35,000 copper coins recorded in the account book. In addition to calligraphy, painting, antique jewelry, there are many pearls. This made Zhang Zhimu wonder if pearls were produced here. He asked Liu Yun to ask the big boss if these pearls were locally made. As Zhang Zhimu expected, there are places here that are especially suitable for the growth of pearl oysters, and good pearls can often be found.

At this time, Liu Yun suddenly asked a question: "Mr. Zhang, the second boss has several lives on his body, and he has also raped many women. But we promised him that if he was obedient, we would let him go. What do you think to do? ”

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Calculus formulas, tables of chemical elements; Conquer Japan in the east and attack Mayi in the south; Penicillin, syringe. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".