Qian Xiaobo and the others are feeling that those water thieves are ridiculous, jumping into the water to escape, still holding weapons in their hands, and no one wants to fight you in the water.

After a few seconds, they understood. Most of these bandits are outlaws, and they have to find a backing when they die. After jumping into the water, many water thieves did not swim to their own boat to ask for rescue, but swam to Qian Xiaobo's boat with spunlaces, chisels and hammers on their bodies. Qian Xiaobo and the others finally understood at this time that these water thieves wanted to dive under their ship and scuttle the bottom of their boat and leak their boat.

It's crazy! Qian Xiaobo ordered everyone to prepare repeaters and shoot them with crossbows when the water thieves approached. In a few moments, hundreds of thieves who jumped into the water were shot to death, but dozens of people still swam under their boats.

The water thieves who were lucky enough to swim under the boat took out their tools and began to dig the bottom of the boat. "Boom! Boom... Boom! "Oops! How is the bottom of a boat iron-clad? Ah, no, the iron sheet will rust when it gets wet, is it steel? Sky! It would be a waste to nail such an expensive steel skin to the bottom of the boat. ”

Yes, on the waterways in Yangzhou, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, except for the imperial court's transport ship Hailongbang, who did not dare to move, the rest of the waterways were not afraid of Hailongbang. Therefore, for the sake of safety, Zhao Chongyang installed artillery and rockets on his ship on the one hand, and also had sufficient strength to protect himself. On the one hand, a layer of soft steel is riveted on the bottom of the boat, so that there is no fear of water thieves digging the bottom of the ship. At this time, the water thieves were completely out of luck, and after taking a breath at the bow and stern of the ship, they stabbed a fierce man and fled for their lives.

Yu Hailong, who was lucky enough to escape with his life, lost nearly half of his ship after a while, and he was so distressed that he couldn't do it. "It seems that I can't enjoy the good things of Wantong Trading Bank. Cease! Cease! Cease! I confessed to Hailong today. The order, everyone turned back to the dock and returned to the cottage to rest. ”

A battle, over in half an hour. Qian Xiaobo and the others didn't even use the rocket, so Yu Hailong fled away with the people.

If you run away, the monk can't run to the temple. Qian Bo ordered the commander of the second company to take people to clean up the battlefield, and dragged the broken boat in the river to the Changzhou wharf with a rope to find someone to repair it. After cleaning up the battlefield, he took the second company and drove twenty speedboats to protect the merchant group. Qian Xiaobo himself took the remaining speedboats and the big ship that had just participated in the battle, and carried a company of bodyguards to Yu Hailong's lair and destroyed the Hailong State. The commander of the second company asked for a platoon of 50 soldiers to be reinforced to their combat troops, and he himself only needed three platoons of 150 men to protect the merchant fleet as it descended to Changzhou. Qian Xiaobo agreed to his request.

So, Qian Xiaobo asked his subordinates to pick up more than a dozen water thieves from the river and let them lead the way to destroy the cottage. Qian Xiaobo first grabbed a rescued water thief and asked him if he would like to lead the way, and the water thief shook his head and said he was unwilling. Qian Xiaobo killed him and threw his men into the river. Then he pointed to the second water finger and asked, "Will you lead the way?" ”

The water thief hesitated, and Qian Xiaobo killed him with another knife and threw him into the river. The remaining water thieves saw that Qian Xiaobo was more ruthless than them, and all knelt on the deck, claiming that they were willing to take them to attack the cottage.

Under the leadership of the water thief guide, Qian Xiaobo and his boat rushed out of the valley not far away, and sailed into a water fork. Although this fork is a tributary, the water flow is large, and the river is wide enough, Qian Xiaobo and their 200-material boats, there is no problem with three boats in parallel. After traveling more than ten miles along this waterway, I found a simple dock for water thieves to moored their boats. All the boats brought back by Yu Hailong docked here. Qian Xiaobo asked a platoon commander to hold the dock with 30 people to prevent the water thieves from going down the mountain to seize the boat and escape after capturing the cottage. And confessed, after they went ashore, let the platoon commander and the boatman drive the boat to the opposite shore.

Qian Xiaobo asked Wu Angui, the commander of the first company, to lead people to bring three small cannons from the boat up the mountain, and at the same time asked all the personnel to bring their equipment: one steel knife per person, two crossbow boxes, and two grenades.

Then, under the guidance of the guide, attack the lair of the water thieves. After climbing the mountain road for nearly half an hour, they came to the bandits' cottage. Qian Xiaobo: They stopped in front of an open field three hundred meters away from the bandits' gate. Because I couldn't move forward, the 300-meter road up was steep, high on both sides, low in the middle, less than four meters wide, and cliffs on both sides. A large number of men and horses attacked, not to mention the thief standing on the wall of the wall condescendingly shooting you with a bow and arrow, just put some big stones and roll them down, it may be all over.

Qian Xiaobo inspected the terrain and asked Wu Angui to lead people to put the gun mount up, put the gun up, load the ammunition, and prepare to ignite and launch. He took out a loudspeaker and began to shout: "Listen to the water thieves in the cottage, if you take the initiative to open the gate of the village and surrender to sincerity, you will only punish a few bandit leaders who have done a lot of evil, and the rest will not be blamed for the past, and let you live." Otherwise, when we capture the cottage, we will severely punish those who resist stubbornly. ”

"Haha, I'm laughing to death. We're just standing here now, you're going to kill us, you're coming" "We're so scared, come, you're flying." If you dare to come up, do you see, there are stones on the wall of my wall, and they will come down from this wall and roll to you without hindrance. No matter how many troops and horses you have, you don't want to rush into the stockade. ”

Qian Xiaobo asked the captive on the side: "Who are the people standing on the wall?" ”

The captive replied: "The two who answered were the second and third leaders of the Hailong State, and the other few people were also the main backbones of the state, but they were not to be seen. ”

After a while, the artillery was ready. Company Commander Wu asked Qian Xiaobo: "Is it possible to open fire?" ”

Qian Xiaobo pointed to the people on the walled wall and said: "Let the cannon be aimed at a few bandit leaders on the wall, and blast them down first, so that they will not be extremely arrogant there." Ignition! Then Qian Xiaobo instructed Company Commander Wu: "As soon as the cannon sounds in a while, don't be busy attacking first." Wait until the second round of artillery blasts open the gate before attacking. ”

After a while, three small cannons blasted out in succession, the first cannon was slightly off, and the other two people who were closer to them were knocked off the wall, and then the second and third cannons hit the target at the same time. The second and third leaders were killed on the spot, and the backbone of the water thieves who stood with them were either killed or injured.

Qian Xiaobo asked the artillerymen to clean up the artillery hall quickly, and the second round of artillery bombarded the walled gate, and fought for two guns to knock down the walled gate.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! The three cannons roared again, and the gate cracked like a bamboo shoot shell and fell to the ground. The people near the gate of the walled wall, seeing that several leaders were all dead, and the gate of the village had also fallen to the ground, they could no longer stop the people of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and they all ran to the back of the village.

So, at the critical moment, where did Yu Hailong go? It turned out that after Yu Hailong fled back with people, he thought that everything was fine, but after a while, a small leader went to the courtyard where he lived to report that the people from the Wantong Chamber of Commerce followed the captives to find the cottage. He went down the mountain today, and although the ship lost nearly half, only one or two hundred people were killed or missing, and it did not hurt his vitality for him, a village of thousands of people. He took people to the wall to take a look, Qian Xiaobo was about to shout with a loudspeaker.

He was already frightened by Qian Xiaobo's cannonballs, and he didn't know how the people in the Wantong Trading House in Jiangzhong had smashed their ship today. I just intuitively felt that the stockade couldn't hold it, so I said to Erdang and Sandang and others: "You take people to guard the gate of the village, and when you see that they are going to rush up, you will stone them to death, I am not comfortable today, and the stockade will be handed over to a few of you." ”

After speaking, he ran towards the back village with two henchmen, and no longer cared about the life or death of his subordinates......

Qian Xiaobo saw that there was no more water thief on the wall, and knew that they had given up the former village and were ready to go their separate ways. So he left a platoon of ten people to guard the prisoners and artillery, and he and the company commander Wu Angui rushed up with people. While rushing, he gave orders: when he saw the thieves shouting and ordered them to lay down their arms and surrender, those who did not listen to the greetings were greeted with repeaters, and they were bombarded with grenades in piles. Don't rush up and fight them stupidly, they still have seven or eight hundred people, and they will be tired of you. ”

As they spoke, they attacked the front village of the water thieves. Qian Xiaobo asked everyone to divide into shifts to capture the prisoners. He and Wu Angui each led a squad to rush to the front.

They rushed into the back village and saw hundreds of thieves in a mess: some ran out of their houses with their savings and valuables, and a few actually fought for gold and silver. At this time, I saw an independent courtyard gate in the distance, and several water thieves were moving the east side of the big bag and small bag out. Qian Xiaobo asked the captives beside him: "Is that Yu Hailong's residence?" The captive replied yes.

Qian Xiaobo asked Company Commander Wu to take someone to solve Yu Hailong and the others, and confiscate all those things. He himself asked a company of soldiers to surround the place, so that everyone put down what they were in their hands and squatted on the ground to surrender unconditionally. When the water thieves saw that the people of the Chamber of Commerce were about to surround them, they remembered that they only thought about escaping just now, and many of them did not even bring weapons, so they thought about going back to the barracks to get weapons. Qian Xiaobo shouted loudly: "Stop for me, don't run around, squat on the ground, and put the things in your hand on the ground." As long as everyone is obedient, we will not hurt your lives, otherwise, they will do. ”

At this moment, he saw seven or eight unpleasant fellows, who were walking towards the barracks while glancing at them with their eyes. Qian Xiaobo waved his hand, and several bodyguards around him held a repeating crossbow is a rain of arrows, without any symptoms, many people were hit by four or five arrows and died on the spot, only one was very lucky, only one arrow was not critical, so only he was alive. He didn't care about the pain of the arrow wound, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Qian Xiaobo, begging to spare his life.

Qian Xiaobo pointed a crossbow at his throat with an arrow: "I hate those who don't listen to the greetings the most, since you choose to be disobedient, then there is only death!" When he said the word dead, there was a thick murderous aura in his eyes.

Seeing that Qian Xiaobo was decisive, the water thieves didn't dare to take his words as a joke, and they put down their weapons and things in their hands one after another......

More than half an hour later, Company Commander Wu Angui had already led people to complete the search of the cottage, and each water thief also handed over all the money hidden on his body, otherwise once someone reported it, half of the money found would be rewarded to the informant, and the person who hid the money would be executed on the spot. Of course, you can't complain, and if you accuse it, you will be punished as well. After a while, after the statistical results came out, Qian Xiaobo took a look, and this time he copied Hailong's nest, and the harvest was really not small:

More than 820 water thieves were captured, and a large amount of grain and cloth was obtained. He obtained 12,000 taels of silver, more than 20,000 copper coins, and 130 good horses. In short, Yu Hailong has accumulated many years of belongings, and all the cheap money Xiaobo them. The income from this battle can be compared with Wang Dakuan's harvest from the Black Dragon Village.

After cleaning the battlefield and counting the belongings, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Before everyone went up the mountain, they just hurriedly ate some dry food that they had brought with them, and they were already hungry at this time. So Qian Xiaobo asked the more than 20 women in charge of cooking in the village to raise the fire to cook, and then sent some captives to do chores for them. After the meal was cooked, all the personnel ate the meal, and everyone took the captives to transport the materials of the cottage down the mountain, and it took two shipments to finish.

Qian Xiaobo and the last group of people were about to set fire to the cottage and evacuate down the mountain. Company Commander Wu Angui came to Qian Xiaobo with a woman and child and said to the woman: "This is our battalion commander Qian, and also the deputy head of our business group, if you have anything to say, just say it to Camp Commander Qian." ”

The woman pulled her three-year-old son and knelt in front of Qian Xiaobo and said, "If Camp Commander Qian leaves a way for our mother and son to live, I will tell you two secrets." ”

"Oh, if you have any secrets, I promise not to hurt your mother and son."

"The first secret is that this child is not Yu Hailong's son, but my late husband Wu Xiucai Wood King's son. A month after I got married to my late husband, I was seen by Yu Hailong and his gang on the way back to my mother's house, and when they saw that the slave family was beautiful, they killed my first husband and his entourage and snatched me up the mountain. At that time, the slave family was pregnant. The second secret is that Yu Hailong is still quietly hiding a batch of gold and silver under the water tank in the courtyard where we live. This time, I didn't take it out. Of course, it is possible that he wants to keep it as the capital for a comeback. ”

Qian Xiaobo said: "If what you say is true, I will not only let your mother and son go, but also ask Zhao Gongzi to leave a living allowance for your mother and son." ”

Qian Xiaobo immediately took people to the independent courtyard where Yu Hailong lived, and asked people to move the water tank, planing the soil and stone slabs on it, and sure enough, he saw a cellar and found eight thousand taels of silver and one thousand taels of gold in the kiln. What a bonus!

When Qian Xiaobo and others moved the last batch of treasures to the dock, Liu Yubo and the second company commander came with a group of boats to pick them up.

Qian Xiaobo is worried that there may be fewer ships and there may not be people if there are fewer goods, and this is enough to get off the ship.

When Qian Xiaobo and the others arrived at the Changzhou wharf with a large number of supplies and prisoners, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, and when everyone unloaded the supplies and settled the prisoners, it was already midnight.

When the person in charge of Changzhou learned the news that Qian Xiaobo and they were going to attack Yu Hailong's lair, and heard that Zhao Gongzi and they had gone to Maoshan to play, he gave Liu Yuhua a suggestion and sent a fast horse to inform Zhao Gongzi and let him come to deal with some aftermath.

Zhao Chongyang was notified in the evening of the same day, and set off on horseback with the people early the next morning, leaving Wang Dapingqi to continue to visit Maoshan Mountain.

Zhao Chongyang went to Changzhou for lunch, and listened to Qian Xiaobo and others talk about the story of the cottage.

After hearing this, Zhao Chongyang said: "It's really a coincidence, when Wang Dakuan led the army battalion out for the first time, he defeated Dazhai Black Tiger Village, and there were no casualties. Senior Brother Qian led the water battalion out for the first time, and encountered the giant Kou Yu Hailong on the water, and also destroyed him, and there were no casualties, it seems that the training results of our navy and army battalion are still good. Of course, it also shows that although the two senior brothers are young, they do have the ability to lead the troops in battle. ”

"The old rule, you give Senior Brother Wang the same, command well, reward 80 times, the first and second company commanders each award 60 times, each platoon leader and deputy platoon leader awards 40 times, the squad leader each 20 times, and the soldiers 15 times. It was spent on the money seized. In addition, Yu Hailong's wife provided a place to hide silver, leaving 1,000 yuan for the mother and son to maintain their lives, and brought them back to the Nanjing headquarters for good living. ”

At this time, Qian Xiaobo reacted: "Wu Angui, the commander of the first company, is very concerned about Hailong's wife Lin Jilan, and sees if he can match the two." ”

Zhao Chongyang said with a smile: "This is a good thing, besides, Company Commander Wu has the same surname as Lin Jilan's ex-husband, and his son follows Company Commander Wu's surname, which can be regarded as recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors." Senior Brother Qian will ask Company Commander Wu in a while, and I will ask Liao Peixiang to ask Lin Jilan, Company Commander Wu is 31 years old this year, he used to earn little money as a dart master, and he was afraid that he would not be able to support his family, but now he can earn 10 yuan a month in the bodyguard team, except for bonuses and dividends, which is enough to support his family. If you want, let them kiss after you go back, and let the headquarters and the bodyguard team handle it for them at that time.