Zhang Wentai didn't expect that his casual remark would cause such a huge reaction from the commander, and he looked at Feng Jian in shock.

Waiting for Feng Jian to pause, Zhang Wentai hurriedly said: "Commander, many of the officers and soldiers of the original 500 sailors under his command are quite related to the warden of the Haiphong Dao Yamen, and the subordinates will send them to find people to find out the personal entourage of the Haiphong Dao Master, and they will definitely get the exact news from the governor's office." ”

Feng Jian looked anxious, waved his hand and said, "Wentai hurried to make arrangements, and immediately came to report when he got the news." ”

Zhuang Yingchang led Niu Liang and the other three Dengzhou sailors to the door of Feng's cabin, and suddenly saw Zhang Wentai walking out in a hurry.

"Wentai, what are you doing in a hurry?" Zhuang Yingchang asked.

Zhang Wentai grabbed Zhuang Yingchang and walked aside, the two muttered a few words in a low voice, and then Zhang Wentai greeted Niu Liang and the three of them a little, and left in a hurry.

Zhuang Yingchang's face became a little nervous, obviously there was a major change in the cabin, Niu Liang and the three of them were all old and sophisticated, so they could naturally see it.

Zhuang Yingchang turned his head to the three of them: "Don't hide it from the three generals, the guards in the cabin have important matters to deal with, please go to the side cabin to rest first, and I will be with you for a while." ”

Niu Liang and the three of them glanced at each other, and Niu Liang said: "Lao Zhuang, although you are busy with you, the three of us have nothing important, and the three of us will come to visit the commander another day when we are free tomorrow!" ”

Zhuang Yingchang hurriedly apologized and said: "It's okay, let the three brothers run for nothing, but the three of them can rest assured, the garrison lord promised, as long as according to the agreement between the two of us, whether the matter is successful or not, the three of you can get the remaining silver taels." ”

The three of them were overjoyed. said in unison: "Then thank you Lord Garrison, please Lao Zhuang tell Lord Garrison." We are all people who keep our word, and what we promise will be kept strictly confidential and carried out conscientiously. I'll wait for the three of us to visit another day! ”

Sending the three of them off the ship, Zhuang Yingchang walked quickly to the cabin where Feng Jian was, and as soon as he entered Feng Jian's warehouse, he heard Cheng Yousheng reporting: "The most direct way is to bribe the officials of the governor's yamen, and his subordinates have sent a few nimble brothers to Dengzhou City......"

Feng Jian waved his hand to interrupt Cheng Yousheng and said: "I don't want to hear the specific arrangement, I just need to understand as quickly as possible how the governor of Dengzhou City will arrange the arrangement." ”

Feng Jian raised his eyes and saw Zhuang Yingchang coming in, and said casually: "Why did Lao Zhuang come in alone?" What about the other three? ”

Zhuang Yingchang hurriedly said: "Niu Liang and the others said that they would come to visit the commander another day, and they have already disembarked from the ship. ”

Feng Jian nodded and said, "That's fine, these three people are quite knowledgeable about current affairs." Another day, we can communicate more. ”

Feng Jian said and frowned tightly into the word "Sichuan", "Lao Zhuang, you said that after the four gates of Dengzhou City were closed for an hour, they suddenly opened it, what is the mystery in this?" ”

Zhuang Yingchang had already heard Zhang Wentai say a few words just now, so he said: "My subordinates feel that Dengzhou City suddenly opened the closed city gate and allowed ordinary people to enter and exit. It can only be said that the major events that happened in Dengzhou City have been resolved, or that the governor's yamen has recognized that the major events that happened have nothing to do with Dengzhou City. ”

Cheng Yousheng interjected: "I think that on today's Chinese New Year's Eve, the sudden departure of the enemy hunting brigade out of the city will definitely attract attention, and the inspector Yamen only needs to send someone to inquire about the situation in and out of the city, and the abnormality can be discovered." Governor Sun must have noticed that the foreigner craftsmen had left the city! ”

Feng Jian nodded and said: "I also have this concern, since Governor Sun knows that the foreign craftsmen have been abducted and taken outside the city, he will definitely find ways to send people to chase after him." Don't forget, there are 20,000 troops stationed outside Dengzhou. Once Governor Sun orders the military camp outside the city to send troops to chase after him, the enemy hunting division will be in danger! ”

Zhuang Yingchang vaguely knew that Shen Xiaoshan and the Enemy Hunting Division had gone to Dengzhou City for the purpose of bringing more than 20 foreign craftsmen out of Dengzhou City. Prevent these foreign craftsmen from surrendering with the rebels in the future.

It seems that the tension in Dengzhou City today is related to the Enemy Hunting Division, as the commander said. Once the military camp outside the city sends troops to chase down the enemy hunting division, things will be really troublesome!

Zhuang Yingchang usually has little interaction with the enemy hunting division. Originally, I didn't care much about the soldiers of the Hunting Enemy Division not having an accident, but at this time, I was facing a conspiracy to ship in the water city, and once the soldiers of the Hunting Enemy Division had an accident, which would affect the next action, it would be worth the loss! Thinking of this, Zhuang Yingchang suddenly felt a little worried.

Jiang Yu, who was standing beside Feng Jian, kept his brows tightly locked, and after Feng Jian's words were finished, he bowed directly to Feng Jian and said: "Dengzhou City sent an order to the camp outside the city, and the camp outside the city sent troops to chase after me to hunt the enemy brothers, there will be a delay in between, please don't wait for the outside to bring back the news, but should immediately give an order, and send people to warn the two enemy hunting divisions and ask them to arrange a countermeasure!" ”

Cheng Yousheng had been by Feng Jian's side for a long time, and he knew that the commander was weighing the pros and cons in his heart at this time, so he consciously closed his mouth and didn't dare to disturb Feng Jian's thoughts.

After Jiang Yu finished speaking, he saw that Feng Jian was noncommittal about his suggestion, but frowned tightly, and the five fingers of his right hand were rhythmically tapping on the table, obviously not very calm in his heart. He waited expectantly for the commander's decision.

The cabin fell into a brief period of dullness, and suddenly Feng Jian slammed his right hand on the table to look at a few people in the cabin, and turned his gaze to Jiang Yu: "Your suggestion, this commander has heard it, now it is impossible to remove the danger by warning them alone, the only way is to fight against the pursuing officers and soldiers and kill them back, so as to ensure the safety of the enemy hunting division." ”

Zhuang Yingchang asked with concern: "There are few soldiers in the Enemy Hunting Division, but there will be no fewer chasing soldiers, and it is not appropriate to fight with the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion!" ”

Feng Jian said simply: "Who said that I want to hunt the enemy division and fight against the pursuers!" Feng Jian didn't have time to pay attention to Zhuang Yingchang's stunned expression, and continued: "Cheng Zi immediately went to give an order to the Bird Gun Soldiers Ma Shan and Yang Eighty Two, so that the Bird Gun soldiers would change back into civilian clothes and be fully armed to go to the rescue of the Hunting Division. ”

Zhuang Yingchang was anxious when he heard this, forgetting the reprimand he had suffered for questioning Feng Jian's decision a few days ago, and he said: "The commander is not in this proper matter, the sudden departure of six hundred heavily armed bird soldiers from the city will definitely attract the vigilance of the Shuicheng government, thus preventing the bird soldiers from leaving the city, and I am afraid that it will affect our overall plan if we investigate it carefully." In addition, all the Bird Gun Soldiers are gone, who will make the gunpowder packs, and who will guard the Bird Gun Soldiers' station? ”

Feng Jian's face sank, ignored Zhuang Yingchang's reminder, and said to Cheng Yousheng: "The bird guns are led by Ma Shan and Yang Eighty to each lead a hundred bird guns, with Jiang Yu as a guide, and set off to the two official roads out of the city in the east and west of Dengzhou City. ”

Cheng Yousheng asked: "The commander should not instruct Ma Shan and Yang Eighty-one in person. ”

Feng Jian shook his head and said: "The matter is urgent, I want them to set off immediately after they are assembled, and ask them to go out of the city from the east gate of Shuicheng, so that they can shorten the rendezvous with the soldiers of the Enemy Hunting Division led by Liu Rongsheng." The guards at the gate of the city stuffed them with more silver taels, and they didn't think they would deliberately make things difficult. ”

Feng Jian instructed Jiang Yu again: "You lead the bird soldiers all the way to chase Shen Xiaoshan and his party as soon as possible, it is best to find a way to avoid the pursuit of the Dengzhou battalion, and if you can't avoid it, you must find a way to reduce your own casualties." After the incident, the Bird Soldier returned to Hulu Rock with the Enemy Hunter Division. ”

Jiang Yu said loudly: "My subordinates will take care of it!" He turned around and followed Cheng Yousheng towards the outside of the cabin.

Zhuang Yingchang has a stubborn temperament, this kind of character is the easiest to offend people, and he and Zhang Wentai were expelled from Dengzhou Sailor is probably also related to his character.

Seeing that Feng Jian ignored him, he waited for Cheng Yousheng and Jiang Yu to leave, and bowed to Feng Jian and continued to argue.

Feng Jian was anxious in his heart, waved his hand at him slightly, and said patiently: "Lao Zhuang, you may not know, the foreign craftsmen who rescued Dengzhou City from the Enemy Hunting Division are craftsmen who specialize in making Dengzhou Hongyi cannons, these people stay in Dengzhou City in the future can only cheap Kong Youde's rebels, and the Enemy Hunting Division will do its best to rescue these people from Dengzhou City, if I Feng Jian's inaction, the Enemy Hunting Division will suffer casualties, and the foreign craftsmen will be recaptured by the Dengzhou Battalion again, which I will never allow!" ”

"But ......"

Feng Jian immediately stopped: "Lao Zhuang, don't be too persistent in everything, the departure of the Bird Soldier will have a limited impact on our overall plan, but it is very important for the Enemy Hunting Division, with the help of the Bird Soldier, the Enemy Hunting Division may escape, but on the contrary, it may fall into a desperate situation." ”

……

Shen Xiaoshan and his entourage of more than 40 horses and five carriages walked along the official road from Dengzhou to Zhaoyuan, the snowflakes gradually stopped, at this time there were at least two inches of snow on the ground of the official road, and there was no big problem walking on the official road on horseback, but the carriage was a little reluctant to walk on the road.

Therefore, it is impossible to speed up the movement even if you want to. The speed of the carriage was not even as good as walking on foot.

Shen Xiaoshan and Guo Tai were in a hurry, but they couldn't think of a way to speed up their march for a while.

At this time, Niu Er came up again and said to Shen Xiaoshan: "There is a foreigner craftsman who claims to be "Lu Ruohan" who repeatedly talks about what conditions he wants to talk to Shen Touer, and he hopes that Shen Touer will give him a chance!" ”

Shen Xiaoshan sighed: "I should explain a few words to these foreigners, inform them of the situation they are facing, and try to restore them to normal." ”

Guo Tai said: "It's easy to meet these people, but how to convince them to cooperate is a big problem, Brother Shen has figured out how to deal with it?" ”

Shen Xiaoshan scratched his head and said, "Lao Guo, do you have a strategy to make these foreigners obedient?" ”

Guo Taitou shook his head, and continued: "It's nothing more than threats and temptations, beating and pulling." As long as these foreign craftsmen can be obedient along the way, cooperate with us all the way back to Huluyan, and complete the important task entrusted by the commander. ”

At this time, it was almost noon, almost two hours had passed since Shen Xiaoshan and his party left Dengzhou City, Shen Xiaoshan and they traveled south along the official road for almost ten miles, and in front of them was Mishen Mountain. (To be continued......)