Li Er and Wang Shichong in front of Songzhou City a big battle has not passed many years, this military fortress-type city still has some traces of war, but as long as it is a city along the Grand Canal, it will not be desolate to go there, Songzhou Thorn History is Geng Huan who was born in the army, from Li Er's arrangement of Luoyang and Songzhou, it can be seen that his strategic layout of the entire Tang Dynasty is one link after another, if there is a rebellion in the Central Plains, it will definitely be stuck in a very limited range by his arrangement.

Same as Bianzhou, Yanglin refused the banquet of the magistrate, but instead invited them to get on the boat and eat a beautiful meal of Chang'an, Geng Huan was Li Er's guard in his early years, and he was still familiar with Li Chengqian's brothers. Li Tai seemed particularly enthusiastic, and Yang Lin thought that this guy would not see Biandu and had no hope, so he hit the idea to Songzhou again! This is also a water fortress, if there can be an army from this place, go south to divide Jiangnan, and go north to Henan and Hebei, it is also a good place to start an incident.

Just when Yanglin's spiritual thoughts were at a fork, a running panting soldier ran over to report that there were many floating corpses floating down the upper reaches of the canal, please go and check on Lord Assassin Shi, Geng Huan drank a few glasses of white wine and looked a little red, his face suddenly sank, and there was such a thing on his head, so that a pure soldier like him immediately scolded his mother, and without waiting for him to go to check, the floating corpses had floated from the back of the fleet to the side of the big ship of the art troupe drinking and feasting, intermittently, there were really a lot.

"Come on, block the canal, hook up the corpse and take a look." Yang Lin decisively gave an order, and after a while, the guards of the fleet picked up the big hook on the ship and hooked the floating corpse from the water's edge and dragged it to the shore.

Even with strict precautions, Yang Lin didn't dare to approach the hooked corpses at will, and didn't dare to take a closer look until he confirmed that these people were not dying of the epidemic.

"Huh. The wound from the musket cut open the wound of the dead body for me. Yang Lin had a bad premonition in his heart, the musketeer and his escort were unique, and the cargo ships diverted to Chenliu and Yongqiu were afraid that they would be attacked by robbers.

Sure enough, Qi Zuo took out the steel ball bullet of the musket from the wound, and Yang Lin hurriedly asked, "How long have these people been dead?" ”

He pressed the swollen corpse that had already been blistered and replied, "About two days." ”

Yang Lin, who got the answer, turned around and left, with the current speed of the water flow in the canal, I am afraid that it will not be more than one or two hundred miles in two days, and Yang Lin must send a warship against the current to find out the situation. Not to mention that the lives of those crew members are very important, the value of the cargo and the power system of the hydroship is super huge, and now there are no cargo ships downstream, which proves that the ship is still upstream.

"Big brother, no, I'm afraid that the fleet we divided out has encountered robbers, most of these corpses were killed by muskets, and we have to send ships upstream to find the fleet now." As soon as he heard that there were bandits, Li Chengqian came to the spirit, and Geng Huan was even more angry. Immediately counted the three hundred soldiers of Songzhou to go together, Yang Lin looked at the warships in Songzhou, and touched his nose embarrassedly, this thing is in the canal where the spring water is surging. Yang Lin had to borrow two cargo ships for them, and at the same time, Yang Lin, who had planned to go in person, dispelled the idea of going. Although the guards of a dozen cargo ships were only a few dozen people, muskets and clippers were not something that ordinary sailors could deal with, judging from the hundreds of corpses that floated down. It seems that the robbers are more likely to lose.

"It's okay to have a big brother, I'd better stay here and continue to preside over the commodity fair!" Yanglin made a gesture of goodbye and said, Li Chengqian also thought that it should be like this, the Breaking Waves he was in charge of in the first battle of Weishui killed many more enemies than Yanglin's Chengfeng, and he could take this opportunity to open the eyes of the soldiers of Songzhou.

"Whoa."

Li Chengqian's self-appointed Chengqian fell sail, and at the same time there were two large cargo ships carrying 300 government soldiers, Li Tai boarded the Chengqian despite Yanglin's dissuasion, he really wanted to experience for himself what the eldest brother had been boasting about in the water war, Yanglin and a cadre of Songzhou officials also had to appease the onlookers and the fleet, he was not worried about the battle without any suspense, but the matter of water bandits has always been a place that Yanglin has not considered, and even the bustling Bianzhou and Songzhou canals have appeared water bandits, What would the intricate Hongze Lake look like?

Li Er once told Yanglin that the Tang Dynasty Navy had very low control over the major lakes in the south, and could only barely guarantee Cao Yun, and now it seems that if they want to ensure the safety of the merchant ships that go to Chang'an to purchase goods from various states, the fleet of the governor of southern Xinjiang may have to take on the task of suppressing bandits.

Yang Lin called the Song Governor Shi Pang Yisheng after disposing of the more than 200 corpses floating downstream, Li Er appointed a military general to assassinate the history of a state and generally assigned him a very high level of Wenchen to assist, Pang Yisheng is really not a straw bag, all the questions Yang Lin asked him can basically be answered fluently, but he is very worried about the number of soldiers brought out by Lord Assassin Shi to suppress bandits, this city with a total of only 100,000 inhabitants actually has 3,000 standing troops, and they are about to catch up with Luoyangwei, and Geng Huan only brought out 300, what if the bandits are invincible.

"Pang Changshi doesn't have to worry, the prince's ship is not something that the bandits can overcome, Geng Tingshi's cargo ships will follow far behind to collect the spoils, now I probably have some understanding of the people's livelihood in Songzhou City, let's talk about the scale of this supermarket" Yanglin's calmness directly affected the officials of Songzhou City, and the major case of more than 200 deaths and injuries must be reported to His Majesty for decision, they just need to follow orders, and the most important thing at the moment is indeed the matter of the commodity fair.

Wang Musheng's luck is very bad, his furniture factory in Chang'an when the sales are not good, this time down the south of the Yangtze River he brought the goods also occupy the most space, so I want to go more than a few cities to sell more goods, who wants to just arrive in Yongqiu on the rain, into the summer rainstorm will always be from time to time next a while, but fortunately is a running rainstorm, when the sky clears I don't know where a group of people come from, wearing a small boat on the coat to rush to the side of the cargo ship, because Yanglin has been enforcing military law in the fleet, it is not allowed, No foreign ship is allowed to approach the big ship, especially this kind of cargo ship equipped with a hydrowheel power plant system, and after repeatedly giving orders to no avail, Wang Musheng ordered to shoot.

"Bang, bang, bang"

The roar of muskets echoed over the small county town on the edge of the canal, this scene was not small, when the Yongqiu County Commander rushed to the edge of the canal with three classes of officials, there were already two or three hundred dead and wounded, most of the dead were the bandits who did not know where they came out, the fleet only folded a dozen guys who had not undergone emergency training under the escort team, and the arrival of hundreds of officials made the water bandits choose to temporarily retreat, However, Wang Musheng, who was equipped with a glass monocular, found that they were still wandering in the downstream waterway, so now he did not dare to go downstream.

After waiting for two days at Yongqiu Wharf, several other cargo ships that Chen Liu's side had sold goods for two days also arrived in Yongqiu County, Wang Musheng was about to gather people and horses to go downstream to see the situation, but he didn't want the ship to start yet, he had already seen the figure of the prince sitting on the ship on the downstream river.

After the two boats met, Li Chengqian asked about Wang Musheng's situation and summoned Chen Zhi, the commander of Yongqiu County, who had already been frightened and half dead, and after the county's investigation in the past two days, there was no missing person in Yongqiu County, and this was the only place he could explain to Li Chengqian.

"The robbers of a few hundred people are not from your county?" Li Chengqian lost interest in Chen Zhi after some interrogation, because he saw a male corpse with the characteristics of the Japanese people from the corpse of the robbers placed by the river, it seems that the Japanese wanted to buy the power system of the hydroship from the Tang Dynasty without success, and then started to rob the idea, fortunately, the escort team arranged by Yanglin on the ship was well-equipped, in addition to the silk kraft paper armor, there was also a revolver musket that could be fired continuously, and more than 30 people were stunned to repel the attack of three or four hundred people.

"The whereabouts of our fleet are being monitored, once the ships are separated, these guys will organize robberies, Chen County ordered, ordered your people to strictly check the ships passing on the canal." Li Chengqian gave Chen Zhi an order and drove him off the ship, and Wang Musheng had no intention of continuing to delay time here, and asked to quickly keep up with the large fleet in front and downstream, and Li Chengqian agreed.

Geng Huan's subordinates were sent by Li Chengqian to a large cargo ship that was completely vacated, and the cargo ship full of goods went downstream under the leadership of Wang Musheng, according to what he said before leaving, the remnants of the robbers should be hiding in the downstream waters, that is, the section from Yongqiu County to Songzhou City, and the young and vigorous Li Chengqian felt that it would damage his prince's prestige if he did not completely exterminate these unscrupulous robbers, so he began to search on both sides of the canal with the Chengqian number equipped with all firearms and Geng Huan's 300 Songzhou soldiers.

How dare the robbers, who didn't even dare to touch a dozen cargo ships, provoke him, a pure battleship armed to the teeth, if Yang Lin was in this place, he would definitely not do such a boring thing, but it was not all boring, at least there was Geng Huan, who was used to marching and fighting, and Chu Suiliang, who was extremely intelligent, followed Li Chengqian.

At night, Geng Huan got all his men and horses ashore, he had not seen the power of Shenwei cannons and muskets, so he didn't know much about what kind of power the one hundred and ten people on Li Chengqian's big ship could burst out, and the robbers' hideout would definitely not be on the bare river, so Geng Huan, who was experienced in suppressing bandits, set his sights on the mountainous area, and Chu Suiliang found that Geng Huan had left and thought of a plan to lure the snake out of the hole. (To be continued......)