On the peach blossom night in March, as long as you stand on the bank of the Huangshui, you can clearly hear the sound of the river flowing. Every year at the beginning of spring, the amount of water in Huangshui will increase greatly, making the already wide water surface even more vast.

This night, Huazhou City has some unusual movements, the original practice of never opening the door at night was broken in this night, the city gate quietly opened a crack in the door, and a person flashed out of the black and swarthy inside, this person looked at the opposite bank outside the city for a while, and then waved his hand towards the city, and soon more people came out of the city one after another, and in the end there were more than 20 people.

Although it was already March, the night was still quite cold, and all of them were shirtless, but their bodies were covered with a small coat, and all of them were barefoot. Under the leadership of the leader, everyone began to bend their waists towards Huangshui.

At this time, there were also two black shadows haunting not far from Huazhou City, but the two of them were different from those barefoot and shirtless men, they were still dressed as normal Liang people.

"Master Shen, I'm really sorry to ask you to come out so late, there are so many people in this daytime, it will inevitably be inconvenient for us to do things, so we can only choose the evening."

It was Jiang Weizhen who spoke, and he went to the Fat Kui Pavilion to find Du Shaoyin just so that he could ask Shen Ming to help. This is all the way from the capital to Huazhou, the road is not tiring, but once close to the boundary of Huazhou, the investigation has become much stricter, in order not to reveal his identity, Jiang Weizhen did not carry the official documents, both of them entered Huazhou as ordinary people.

During the day, they could only shelter in a small inn, and what Jiang Weizhen wanted to explore was the water potential of this Huangshui, so there was no need for him to enter Huazhou City. And he never went out during the day, only at night, he always wanted to explain this, but Shen Ming never asked.

Jiang Weizhen thought that he had already explained clearly, and Shen Ming had to say something, but he still didn't say a word and just walked with him on the bank of Huangshui. Jiang Weizhen didn't take this matter to heart, he planned to do the right thing first, and just turned his head to look at Huangshui, Shen Ming suddenly pulled him under the nearby mound.

What's the situation? Jiang Weizhen wanted to ask, but Shen Ming directly made a silent gesture, he could only sneak out his head to look around, but Shen Ming pointed directly towards the Huazhou City Gate.

What the two of them saw was the scene that happened before, these men secretly walked towards the Huangshui, because the water surface was open enough, they didn't have to walk too far to reach the shore of the Huangshui, and then in the surprised eyes of the two, these men jumped into the Huangshui one after another.

"What are these people going to do? Could it be that he is looking for death? Jiang Weizhen was shocked.

Shen Ming seemed much calmer, and said, "Just go over and take a look." ”

These men floated and fell in the Huangshui, and in the thick of the night, they had merged with the Huangshui, and they could not be found even if they stood at the head of the city. Their behavior seemed grotesque at first, but as time went on, their purpose began to be revealed, and they headed for the ships of the Lower Tang that were anchored on the shore.

The man at the head has a good water nature, and he is ahead of the others from the beginning, so naturally he is also the first to arrive at the ship's position. The cold river water had already made his lips purple, and the breath condensed into a thin white mist, and his body exuded a healthy luster peculiar to a young man through the night after being drenched by the water, and his facial features gradually became clear under the moonlight.

Thick eyebrows and big eyes, short nose and thick lips, a kind of farmer's simplicity greeted him, this person was Huo Qing, and behind him were all soldiers with good water qualities selected from the Divine Killing Cavalry, their task tonight was to completely destroy these ships, as for the blade, it was very simple to be a chisel, and each hand was pinned to the waist, so as not to cause too much burden to their swimming.

Huo Qing waved his arms anxiously, and when these brothers gathered around him, he ordered these people with gestures: in groups of three, go underwater and dig the bottom of the ship, and the size of the hole should be free to enter and exit one arm. After receiving the order, everyone immediately went their separate ways.

Huo Qing took the two of them to puff up their breath and then dived under the water and came to the bottom of a ship closest to the gate of Bingzhou. The reason why this ship is so close to the city gate is that this ship is the command ship of this group of fleets, that is, the ship that no one can ride. In terms of size, this ship is also the largest, and it will take the longest.

The key is that the bottom of one side of this ship is already next to the shore, and if you want to dig a hole, you need good enough water to hold your breath for a long time.

Huo Qing looked up at the ship, from his position to the top, the ship looked extraordinarily large, the width of the ship was ten zhang to say the least, it would take twice as long just to swim over, plus the time spent on digging was too much, once the breath was not enough, he had to swim back to rest and then go, so repeated was obviously not a good way.

The other two soldiers had already set their sights on Huo Qing, and he knew that he could not hesitate at this time, so he simply kept this most difficult one to himself. He took a hard breath and dived to the bottom of the innermost boat, and after finding a position, he took out the chisel and began to strike, and the force under the water was not as strong as on land, and each impact took a lot of strength.

Huo Qing asked himself that the water nature was good, he had the best water nature in Qingshan Academy, but this task was really not easy at the moment, and after just a few beats, he had already begun to feel suffocation in his chest, so he had to go back.

Yes! Huo Qing exhaled fiercely, enjoyed the precious breath for a while, and then dived down again and began to dig, so back and forth about ten times, when Huo Qing leaned out of the water again, he was already exhausted. So Huo Qing held the hull of the ship with his hand and wanted to rest, and at this moment the other two soldiers came to his side, and they gestured, meaning that we have all finished, what about you?

Huo Qing gasped and responded with gestures: I haven't yet, I have only dug less than five holes. The quality of this command ship is better than that of the other ships, and you can see from the hardness of the bottom of this ship, the sharp chisel tossed back and forth for a dozen rounds to grind a small gap, and it has to continue to expand until it meets the requirement of being able to pass through the arm.

At this stall, more soldiers swam over to ask for instructions, looking at these people's respect and obedience to him, Huo Qing's heart swelled with a sense of satisfaction for a while, this is the power of power, which can make everyone bow down to him, although he is now just a military attache of the sixth grade. If you have these helpers, why do you have to do it yourself? After thinking about this clearly, Huo Qing ordered the soldiers who still had good physical strength to complete the rest of the tasks.

While waiting, Huo Qing deliberately swam to the closest position of the fleet to the shore, and with the help of the command ship's blocking, he secretly looked towards Bingzhou City. There is nothing special about the city defense of Bingzhou, and it is just some defenders patrolling back and forth at the head of the city at night, Huo Qing can't help but raise the corners of his mouth: When you get up tomorrow, you will find out the big gift we gave you!

There was an irregular and unstable change of water at the bottom of the water, and Huo Qing knew that the task must have been completed, so he immediately ordered everyone to retreat immediately. These men withdrew from the fleet as silently as they had come, and then crossed the Huangshui again and returned to the shore of Huazhou. It took five hours to go back and forth, and it was already late at night.

Huo Qing and the others have a task on their bodies, but Jiang Weizhen and Shen Ming are not, they originally came to explore the water potential of Huangshui, it is naturally a good thing to be able to find some clues, even if they can't find it, they don't need to explain it to anyone, but the two of them just waited on the shore for five hours. During this process, they were drowsy several times, and they all relied on Shen Ming to stick to their thighs with a dagger.

Their persistence was still useful in the end, and when these men came ashore, Shen Ming quickly recognized Huo Qing, who was the leader, in the faint morning light. It was indeed a little embarrassing for senior brothers and junior brothers to meet under such circumstances, Huo Qing looked very tired, and what they wanted to do was to hurry back to the city.

Shen Ming looked back at the Lower Tang ships outside the city of Bingzhou in the distance, and the outermost ones had obviously begun to sink. So they're here to do it! Shen Ming understood everything, it was difficult for him to agree with this approach, and naturally he would not oppose it, but this kind of thing was obviously very risky, and Huo Qing was really risky to do this.

"They're all in town!" Jiang Weizhen reminded.

"Let's go back first!" Shen Ming didn't care whether Jiang Weizhen wanted it or not, he pulled him back and rushed back, when the two of them returned to the small inn, it was already morning, and many people began to eat breakfast, but what they wanted most was to sleep.