Having said this, Su Hao knew that the other party was determined to go against him. Simply a new county yamen, there should be no confidence to compete with the army, no matter how low the status of the army is, a seven-grade yamen does not dare to blatantly challenge a six-grade hundred households.

Li Mao dared to insist on searching his ship under such circumstances, claiming to arrest the murderer, which shows that he has a very hard backer behind him. From the analysis of various signs, this backer can only come from Wu Yuanwai, that is to say, this Wu Yuanwai has a background, which can not only let the county government come forward to find a place for him, but also provide a backer for the county government.

Alas, I knew that the other party had such a big background, and I wouldn't have provoked him in the first place, Su Hao secretly regretted in his heart. His nature is not willing to cause trouble, but now that the matter has been provoked, he can't help but back down. If you really give in, you have to allow the other party to come on board to catch it. Not to mention that their own soldiers are absolutely not allowed to be bullied, even if none of them are arrested, just getting on the boat to search for it, this face is not something they can afford to lose.

So far, the only way to do it is to bite the bullet, if the matter gets bigger, maybe the military department or the mine supervisor Li Long can help him maneuver, right?

Su Hao thought of this, turned back to Gong and ordered: "Drive the boat and stick it up." ”

Where has Zi Gong seen such a tense scene, he has already been so frightened that his legs and stomach are cramping. Hearing Su Hao's order, he didn't dare to disobey, and immediately beckoned the sailors to start the boat.

The boat slowly approached the boat that Li Mao was riding under the control of the sailors' white spoons, and Li Mao shouted at the top of his voice: "Brothers, resist arrest, the guys, get ready to do it!" ”

There were more than 30 armed men on the boat he stayed on, some of them were catchers from the county government, and some were guards sent by Wu Yuan. Hearing Li Mao's order, everyone held their swords and axes together and prepared to engage the enemy.

The boat of the survey camp approached Li Mao's boat at a speed visible to the naked eye, and before the two boats could catch up, Hao Tong had already jumped over with a knife. Several officials and guards pounced on him, trying to control Hao Tong, Hao Tong swung his knife left and right a few times, and several opponents rolled to the side. Su Hao saw very clearly on this side of the boat, Hao Tong's knife was not unsheathed at all, he directly used the scabbard to knock it down. The knife in Hao Tong's hand was a high-manganese steel knife carefully made by Hao Yizong, if it was out of the sheath, the few people just now would have been in a different place at this time.

Seeing Hao Tong clear the field, more than a dozen soldiers from the survey battalion also jumped over, and Hao Tong commanded them to line up in battle formation, holding spears flat, and forced the officials over there. The officials and guards were all short weapons in their hands, and they had no way to start in the face of the spear array. The soldiers simply advanced with their spears, and if the opponent retreated, the soldiers continued to advance. If the other party tried to strike with a knife and axe, the soldiers would raise their spears and stab each other, making a small opening in the opponent's body.

The force value of the officials and guards led by Li Mao was not too bad, but because they were fighting against the officers and soldiers, they were a little worried in their hearts, so they did not dare to use all their strength, so they could only retreat in front of the spears of the soldiers of the Kanyu Battalion, and finally had to leave from this boat. Some of them jumped into another boat, some jumped into the shallow water, and **ran to the shore. Li Mao had the intention to hold on for a while, but was whipped by a soldier with a spear, he couldn't bear the pain, so he had to jump into the water from the stern of the boat, and several officials hurriedly came to the rescue and rescued him ashore.

"Where is the Gong!" Hao Tong stood on the boat and shouted loudly, "Move the boat away!" ”

Wu Jin agreed, presumably when Li Mao waited for the boat to cross the river center, he had already sent the prince away. Hao Tong walked to the bow of the boat and found that the boat and the other boat were chained together, and the stern was also fixed to the shore with iron chains, apparently to prevent the survey camp from colliding with the ship.

"Su Baihu, these two boats are tied together, and there are huge locks on the iron chains, which are difficult to pry open." Hao Tong returned to his boat and reported to Su Hao.

"You go and shout to that Li Mao, and ask him to arrange to come in and unlock the lock. You tell him that if you don't open the lock, you do it at your own risk. Su Hao said.

Hao Tong came to the stern of Li Mao's boat, which was facing the shore, and Li Mao and the others were gathered on the shore, shouting and shouting, neither daring to attack nor leaving.

Hao Tong shouted loudly: "The surname is Li, my family of 100 households ordered you to come and open the lock of the ship quickly and let our army pass." If you don't, you do so at your own risk. ”

Li Mao stood behind several officials, thinking that he was far away from Hao Tong and that there was no danger, so he stiffened his neck and replied: "You harassed the villagers yesterday, resisted arrest today, and beat up officials, which is a great crime. I have already sent in to report to Nanchang Wei, and Nanchang Wei will be sent in immediately, so you can wait and see. ”

"Hehe, Lao Tzu is a border army, Nanchang Wei can control us? The surname is Li, I repeat, hurry over and unlock the ship, or we will wreck the ship. Hao Tong threatened.

Li Mao is also iron-hearted, no matter what Hao Tong says, he just doesn't step forward. Hao Tong was helpless, he walked back to the bow of the boat, looked at the big iron chain carefully, and took out his high-manganese steel waist knife, wanting to use the knife to cut the iron chain, but he was really reluctant. The iron ring on this iron chain is very thick, if you use a knife to cut, there is a chance that the knife will be curled or broken.

"What, can't you help it?" Su Hao also got on the boat at some point, stood behind Hao Tong, and asked with a smile.

Hao Tong shook his head and said, "No, the other party is too tightly locked, and you can only break it if you find a blacksmith to smash it." ”

Su Hao looked back at the river, only to see that on the river on both sides, there had been a backlog of boats. Fortunately, because it was close to the end of the year, there were not many boats on the river. Otherwise, in terms of the usual navigation volume of the Ganjiang River, Li Mao cut off the route like this, and I don't know how many ships would be delayed.

"Well, since they are obsessed, then we have to teach them a lesson." Su Hao said.

"What is Su Baihu going to do?" Hao Tong asked.

Su Hao took out a two- or three-inch square oilpaper bag, handed it to Hao Tong, and said, "Don't be polite to them, just blow it up." ”

Wrapped in this oil-paper bag was the yellow explosives developed by Chen Guanyu and Luo Yuqing. The detonator in the explosives pack is made of black powder, and the principle of detonation is to use the fuse index to explode the black powder, and then detonate the yellow explosive through the explosion of the black powder. After this explosive package was developed, Su Hao once took Hao Tong and Deng Kui to find a barren mountain to conduct an experiment, so Hao Tong knew its usage and power.

On this trip, the survey camp brought some explosives bags made of yellow explosives and lighter grenades, in order to cope with all kinds of contingencies. Su Hao decided to use an explosive bag here, on the one hand, out of helplessness, and on the other hand, also because of the intention of declaring force to Li Mao.

Several soldiers from the Kanyu battalion jumped onto another boat, and also cleared the field with spears, forcing all the men on that boat to shore. Subsequently, the soldiers of the Kanyu Battalion also left the two boats in Xinjian County and returned to their own boats, leaving only one soldier with excellent water resistance to prepare for detonation.

The three boats of the survey camp slowly retreated, a few hundred steps away from the two boats in Xinjian County, quietly waiting for the scene of stone breaking.

The soldiers who remained on the two boats in Xinjian County fastened the explosives to the iron chains at the junction of the two ships, and then lit the long fuse with fire sickles. Seeing that the fuse began to simmer, he jumped down the river without delay and swam to his boat with all his might.

He had swam less than a hundred paces away when he heard a loud noise behind him, and Irito on the boat and on the shore watched in amazement as a large ball of fire rushed up, the chains were torn off like noodles, and the bows of the two boats holding the river were gone, and the broken wood even splashed all the way to the shore. The two boats, which had lost their restraints, were suddenly swept away by the river and drifted to the banks of the river on both sides like two doors opened.

"What's going on!" Frightened by the sound of the explosion, Li Mao sat on the ground and got up in embarrassment and asked the officials on the left and right.

"Back to the county, this is the use of firearms by officers and soldiers. Xiao Jin heard that the border army has a kind of gunpowder made of 10,000 enemies, which can blow up 10,000 people. This is how our White Spoon ship must have been bombed. A servant replied.

"What a thousand enemies! How can ten thousand enemies have such power? Li Mao has some insight, he knows that the gunpowder back then was actually very limited, unless it was piled up with hundreds of catties, it was impossible to have such a big explosion. Could it be that the other party can spare no effort to blow up the two ships?

"Quick, go and report that they have blown the locks open and are about to escape." Li Mao commanded his subordinates.

On the river, the huge waves caused by the explosion have gradually subsided, and the soldier in charge of the detonation has also been rescued on the boat, but fortunately he was not injured by the flying debris. Chen Dao heard the sound and came out of the cabin again, and he asked in a daze, "What is the movement of Shicai?" ”

Su Hao said: "The thieves locked the boat with iron chains and prevented us from passing. I just let in the gunpowder and blew up the chains. ”

Chen Daodao: "What kind of gunpowder, the power is terrifying? ”

Su Hao disguised: "That is, ordinary gunpowder in the army, but we grind it more finely, so it is more powerful." We brought it out, originally to deal with the large group of thieves, but I didn't expect it to be used here. ”

Chen Dao naturally wouldn't believe Su Hao's nonsense, as the head of the military department, he still didn't know what was going on with black powder, which was not comparable to the power of the yellow explosives used by Su Hao. The explosion he had just heard was definitely caused by a new type of gunpowder.

At this time, it was impossible for him to pester Su Hao to ask for a question, he just shook his head and said: "Change, you are really a temper tantrum, you can't say anything well, how can you blow up the ship that entered the house?" ”

Su Hao shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is what they brought on themselves, and I have already warned them." You see, they blocked the river, how many boats were pressed on the river, and I blew up their white spoon boats, which is a matter for the benefit of the people. ”

Chen Dao sighed: "Alas, this river is dredged, but our grievances with Xinjian County are even greater. Well, while they can't react, let's leave quickly, and when I return to the military headquarters, I will ask for an order to resolve the matter. ”

"Then please leave it to Master Chen." Su Hao arched his hand, he turned around and shouted to Gong Shao: "Gong Gong, let's start the boat, today we must pass through Wucheng Station and enter Poyang Lake." ”

With a sound of agreement, he pulled up the penny and set sail, and the fleet sailed downstream along the river.