Chapter Eighty-Four: The Tiger Escapes (15)

Tongyouping is naturally rich in tung oil, although Hou Dagou's four or five hundred soldiers are stationed here, but obviously they don't pay much attention to Ding Yi and others who were led by the people of Danjiaping. Especially after the leaders of these soldiers drank a bowl of wine poured by Wen Fatzi, they said to Wen Fatzi very generously: "This kind of wine, just bring it!" Sell as much as you want! ”

This is the benefit of their group to avoid Hou Dagou's spies as much as possible, because the spies did not find anything abnormal, except for the group that died in an "accident", nothing else was found, this is three or four hundred miles away from Zhaoqing Tongyouping, where would anyone think that this twenty or thirty merchant team, some big and some small, is the judge who asks for his life! After tasting the wine, they were all keen to buy the wine of the fat man, and they didn't even check the large and small boxes piled up on the wheel, but taught the four students who pressed the revolver under their robes, and the seven or eight sergeants who had a grenade ring in their sleeves, and were nervous in vain.

Roughly because of the production of tung oil, so from time to time there are merchants, this tung oil ping has a small inn, Wen Fat Man rented the only small yard, twenty or thirty people settled, but more comfortable than in Danjiaping. It's just that the fat man said to Ding Yi with a bitter face: "Young nephew, this small bottle of alcohol is mixed with ten bottles of wine, except for inviting the villagers to drink the bag in Danjiaping, just now the little one mentioned a bottle to three coins of silver, and has already let me buy eight bottles, how about buying it again?" You can't just make wine out of thin air, can you? ”

Ding Yi smiled disapprerovingly: "What are we doing with so many boxes?" It's not wine, it's swords and armor? "Of course it's not wine. Of course, it was all armor and firearms, but listening to Ding Yi's reminder, Wen Fatzi slapped his thigh. So he ran out, and with those boxes, there was a rhetoric, and he could naturally continue to redeem them.

After distillation, the alcohol with a very high degree is not as good as the industrial alcohol of later generations, but the fat man alone brought two bags of alcohol, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to sell the wine. A wooden barrel was found, washed, and mixed with well water from noon to evening. sold forty or fifty bottles all the way, and even asked Wen Fatzi to collect dozens of taels of silver, which made him so happy.

If it weren't for Li Yuncong whispering on the side: "Dad, have you calculated the cost of this alcohol?" "Wen Fat Man sold out a barrel of wine. I also want to let people go to the yard to redeem it and sell it. This year. The alcohol distilled from rice wine is no more expensive than industrial alcohol, and it is definitely much more than the silver collected by Wen Fatzi.

"Spare the villain!" Wen Fatzi said to the soldiers who were carrying knives and guns and wearing various costumes, "You have to leave some wine and let the villain go to Huaiji to talk to the merchants, if you want to sell it out here, the villain has to go back to Changsha Mansion." I don't know what time it is when I come back, if I can negotiate with the merchants in Huaiji. After receiving the order silver, then take the waterway and transport it by boat, and it won't be so expensive at that time! ”

These soldiers can speak official language, and some of them still have the accent of Yandi, listening to the words of Wen Fatzi, and some soldiers told him that when he goes to Huaiji, he can go to Lotus Village, which is a rich landlord; Another soldier told him that the leader Chai Zhen Ge Chai Daxia, who is currently stationed in Huaiji, is a high roller in the wine, as long as he teaches the leader of Chai to drink happily, the waterway will be much more convenient.

Wen Fat Man laughed, but whoever told him the news stuffed back the money he had originally received, and praised it: "The military master has taught the villain this trick, and he has benefited a lot, this little bad wine is the right thing to honor the military master, where do you dare to collect money?" If the money is collected, how can the villain still have the cheekiness? ”

Those soldiers saw that Wen Fat Man was so good at being a man, and naturally they spoke out again, some people said that their fellow townsman's partner was quite valued by the head of the firewood, and then they could let Wen Fat Man go to the fellow villager to talk; Someone patted his chest and said that Wen Fat Man was righteous and would go to the county seat tomorrow, and he would send Wen Fat Man to cross the bridge, so as not to be embarrassed by the brothers guarding the wooden bridge.

The moonlit sky, the dark dome, it seems that even the stars are about to be suffocated, Ding Yi, Wen Fatzi, and Li Yuncong discussed in a low voice in that courtyard, Li Yuncong thought about what he saw in the afternoon, and slowly said the information he thought was useful: "There are about thirty horses, a dozen sentinels, and they are resting on the north side of Tongyouping, the house at the end of the bridge. ”

"Not four or five hundred, three hundred at most." At this time, Wen Fatzi completely lost his smiling face of peddling drinks, and said in the dark, "There are not camped together, dozens of people are gathered on the southeast side, and there are about 200 people living in the Zhuangzi in the north, it is said that the original owner of the Zhuangzi was killed by them with the imperial court in mind...... There is a small pier by the river, and there are three or five sentinel boats......"

Ding nodded, and said to the fat man: "Li Yuncong, they won't move for the time being, if they move the firearms, Huaiji will hear the movement, and you will make a plan for action." What won't? What would be the time to say something like that? The first division of the Ming Dynasty was built, and you were the chief staff sergeant at the regimental level, and you wanted to give advice to the generals who led thousands of people, otherwise do you think that I really have itchy hands and take you out to kill people? Or do you want to be a hard detective for the rest of your life? ”

Wen Fatzi naturally didn't want to be a hard detective for the rest of his life, or he would just be mixed with the border army, and he wouldn't have to run to Ding Yi's hand. At this time, listening to Ding Yi's words, a pair of squinted eyes on his fat face could light up, and after a while, he spoke: "Young Master Nephew, you want the fat man to say, you are driving the duck to the shelf...... Cheng, Cheng, no nonsense! According to our opinion, those sentry ships have to be dealt with first, and then the dozen or so cavalrymen will be killed, and let Li Yuncong take people to set up an ambush in the houses of those cavalrymen...... If we leak too many people, we don't care about any sound, and go directly to the firearms, then even if Huaiji County listens to the movement, forgive him for not daring to send troops over in the night, let's kill this side, grab the horse and go back......"

Carefully arranged, Wen Fatzi also has some regulations, after all, he has seen bloody characters on the battlefield, and he has led people to do hard exploration work, so he will not arrange it indiscriminately and act with blood. It was Li Yuncong, who Ding Yi said not to move, and he also used it as much as possible.

Ding Yi did not deny or agree with Wen Fatzi's charter, but asked Li Yuncong: "Tell me what you think." ”

"First deal with the sentry boats, then deal with the cavalry, and then shoot all the dogs along the way with crossbows, directly on the road, use grenades to set trip mines, first solve the enemy in the Zhuangzi in the north, and then solve the enemy in the Zhuangzi in the southeast depending on the situation." Li Yuncong also has his own ideas, and directly uses tripping roads to guard the road, so that everyone can devote themselves to the action.

"Where are the soldiers who came to buy wine in the afternoon?" Ding Yi asked at Fat Wen.

"Most of the Zhuangzi in the north."

"I'll take Li Yuncong to deal with the sentry ship, Wen Fatzi will leave me a crossbow, and the others will first eliminate dozens of enemies in the southeast, and grenades or other firearms are not allowed until the last moment."

There is no night patrol team in Tongyouping, although there are still officials and soldiers of the imperial court in Wuzhou, but they have long been frightened, where do they dare to go out of the city? It's those who don't have the courage to go out of the city, and the spies on this road are not vegetarians, and the hundreds of miles of travel are not so easy to cover up these years.

The long withered yellow grass by the river was gently swaying in the wind, and Ding Yi said to Li Yuncong in a low voice: "If someone comes out, just kill it, if I succeed, I will naturally send out a secret signal." Li Yuncong trembled slightly, because this time, he was no longer shooting at the enemy in the trenches side by side with his classmates, and when Ding Yi set off, he was the only one, facing the possible enemy alone, facing all the darkness.

But he gritted his teeth and nodded.

He knew that this was the purpose of Ding Yi taking them out.

If they could, few people would like to sleep on the boat, especially in this very cold early spring, when the river is even cooler at night, not to mention that the place on the boat is not very spacious to stretch out and turn over. Therefore, the men who had been on duty on the sentry ship ran ashore in the middle of the night, and although they did not dare to go into the thatched hut to sleep for fear of being scolded by the chief, they also made a fire outside the house, and it was much more comfortable to sit by the fire and lean against the wall and doze off than on the ship.

The two men who guarded the boat waited that night, and in the middle of the night one of them was awakened by urine, got up and went to the river to soak in urine, and returned to the fire, but suddenly found that something was wrong, he could not say anything wrong, in short, he only felt that there seemed to be something bad in the dark, only in the secret invasion.

He was suspicious, but he took another half step to the fire, as if the burning bonfire could bring him some kind of inexplicable sense of security. Gradually, he twitched his nose and finally found the source of his panic, the smell of blood! In that house, there was a smell of blood!

So he tried to wake up his companion next to the fire, but when he tried to bend down, he felt a sharp pain in his left eye, and then he fell to the ground and lost consciousness. The sound of him falling to the ground woke his companion awake, but before he could reach out and rub his eyes, the earthen wall behind him did not know when there was a hole in the tunnel, the hand holding the knife poked out of the hole, and the blade cut accurately into his neck, this intense pain made him want to scream, but he was cut off his trachea and vocal cords, he really couldn't make a sound, he reached out to cover the wound that kept spurting blood, but the blood still couldn't stop leaking from between his fingers, until it took away his last trace of vitality.

Ding Yi, who was in that room, withdrew the tactical straight knife from the hole, but frowned, Li Yuncong was too nervous, although this crossbow shot extremely accurately because it was only less than ten steps away, there was no doubt that the timing was not good.

"Killing people is not the first thing." Standing between the dozen or so corpses of the sailors who were killed silently in their sleep, Ding Yi said to Li Yuncong, "Whether or not you can complete the purpose of the battle is the first thing." This made it a little difficult for Li Yuncong to understand, especially looking at the corpses in one place. (To be continued......)