Chapter 41: Confrontation
In the middle of the moon, the night was deep, and when everyone had fallen asleep, the big tiger and the second tiger came together, each holding a thick wooden stick in his hand.
Wu Zhi took out four bamboo grenades from the rattan box, handed them two each, and after watching them carry the grenades with them, he told Erhu to lie down on the couch and fell asleep, while Dahu lay on the deck on the spot and rested, leaving Erhu alone to stand guard.
On a June day, spending the night on a boat in the middle of the river was breezy and happened to be neither cold nor hot.
Wu Zhi and Dahu needed to recuperate, although they were preoccupied, but soon, the two of them still snored and fell asleep deeply.
At midnight, the sleeping Martial Herb Er Tiger gently woke up. He quickly meditated up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and asked anxiously, "What?" Is there a situation? ”
"Not yet!" Erhu said softly.
"Oh, that's my turn." Wu Zhi came back to his senses, immediately got out of the house, stretched his waist, and then said to Erhu: "Then you can sleep, you can sleep on the couch!" ”
How dare Erhu sleep on the couch, he found an open space, lay down on the deck, and began to rest.
Wu Zhi stood in the cabin for a long time, and then slowly adapted to the discomfort of waking up from a deep sleep, and after quietly doing a few stretching movements, he slowly walked to the cabin window in the moonlight, pulled a stool, sat in front of the window, hid himself, and quietly looked out.
In the dead of night, under the bright moonlight, the waves are sparkling, the eyes are white, and the lights in the distance are like starlight, bright and extinguished, and the shadows are sufficient.
At this moment, a dog bark pierced the sky, and suddenly, more than thirty figures sprang out of the dock, each holding a stick or a knife in his hand, pointing at the river.
These people are the gang members of the Qinglong Gang, and the five people led by them are Li Er, Zhang San and others. Everyone looked at the boats in the river, a little shocked and angry, the good dock did not rely on the boat, but ran to the middle of the river to moor the boat for the night, these two boats are really fucking sick?
Originally, in Li Er's plan, when everyone on the boat was asleep at midnight, they would lead the gang to take advantage of the night to touch the boat, divide three times by five, and kill that son unconsciously, and then quietly take that beautiful girl away, they don't want to make too much trouble. Because they had already found out before dark, plus the captain and the shipwright, there were nearly forty people on these two ships, and if the movement was too loud and caused everyone on board to resist, it would be quite tricky.
Who knows, when they secretly arrived at the dock at midnight, they found that the two boats had moved to the middle of the river, and they were dumbfounded, scolding the boat boss for being cunning!
In desperation, Li Er could only order to withdraw first, board the boat they left in the north of the town, and then come over to act, the boat from the Qinglong Gang from Weishi County stayed at the ferry port in the north of the town, which was the necessary place for Wu Zhi and his party to pass through the boat, and their purpose was to facilitate interception.
Wu Zhi saw the shadowy crowd on the dock, his spirits perked, and he subconsciously touched the dagger and grenade on his waist, and stared silently. These were the same men who followed them in the evening.
After a while, seeing everyone on the dock leaving incognito, Wu Zhi couldn't relax his vigilance, he estimated that these people were likely looking for a boat, and it was estimated that their sneak attack would come soon!
After thinking about it, Wu Zhi immediately turned around and pushed the sleeping big tiger and the second tiger to wake them up.
"What's wrong? Young Lord! When Dahu heard the movement, he quickly sat up, rubbed his eyes, and asked in a low voice. Erhu had just fallen asleep, his brain was dizzy, and he hadn't reacted yet.
"Shhhh If there's a situation, hurry up! Big Tiger, go to the stern of the boat at once, find a place to hide, keep an eye on whether there is a boat coming upstream, and if there is a boat coming at that time, you will immediately send me a message. Erhu went to the boat behind him to keep an eye on the back, and he had to summon me if there was a situation. I'll go to the bow of the ship and star! Wu Zhi whispered word by word.
After the big tiger and the second tiger picked up the sticks and quietly led the order, Wu Zhi also quietly walked out of the hatch, tiptoed to the bow of the boat, hid in a hidden place, sat back, and stared quietly ahead.
The sky is moonlit and the night is cool. More than half an hour later, a black shadow suddenly appeared in Wu Zhi's eyes, as the black shadow got closer and closer, the outline of a big ship became clearer and clearer, as the ship approached, Wu Zhi also gradually saw the figure on the ship, and the figure was crowded. His heart moved, and he quickly cheered up and stared at the incoming ship with all his attention.
In a moment, the incoming ship stopped in front of Wu Zhi, and he couldn't enter.
The robbery or murder is finally here!
Wu Zhi didn't intend to startle the snake, stared at the incoming ship quietly, quietly took out the dagger on his waist, and prepared for battle.
After the boat stopped, the two people on the boat immediately stretched out two bamboo poles, and gently hooked the side of Wu Zhi's boat with the hook on the bamboo pole, and then forcefully, slowly narrowed the distance between the two boats, and when there were still five steps away, the boat quietly anchored and stopped the ship, and after gently erecting the wooden plank between the two boats, the six men stepped on the plank, carefully touched it one after the other, and the steel knife in their hands flashed in the moonlight.
When the two men stepped lightly on the board of the boat and were about to find a direction to move forward, they said that it was too late and that it was too fast, Wu Zhi suddenly got up and rushed towards the two of them.
"Mom!" The two men suddenly saw a figure rise up like a ghost and lunge towards them, and they were so frightened that they didn't know what to do.
"Whew!" Without waiting for the two of them to react, Wu Zhi quickly approached them, and the dagger in his hand opened the bow left and right, instantly cutting the wrists of the two people holding the knife.
"Ahh Yes! Two exclamations, the two of them fell to the ground with the steel knives in their hands and fell on the board.
Seeing that the two of them were in pain, after the steel knife left his hand, Wu Zhi leaned against the mountain, hit the bandit on the right with his right elbow, and knocked him into the water with a "poof", and then ran to the left, kicked the bandit on the left to the ground, and then hit him on the head with a heavy punch, knocking him unconscious at once.
Solved these two people, Wu Zhi looked forward, the two bandits behind were able to walk to the side of the boat, and were about to jump off the board, Wu Zhi hurriedly picked up the steel knife at his feet, as fast as a leopard, a knife on the left, by a knife, "poof" twice, the two bandits were also split into the water by him, Wu Zhi didn't care whether the two of them were dead or alive.
At this time, the people who came to the ship finally reacted, knowing that the other party was already on guard, so they shouted and rushed to the plank, ready to rush over more people.
Wu Zhi gave them this opportunity, after the two bandits fell into the water, he hurriedly grabbed the plank, lifted it hard, and suddenly lifted the two bandits who were still on the plank at this time into the water together with the plank, and the people who came to the boat were dumbfounded, holding steel knives and silently demonstrating.
"Young master, I'll help you!" At this time, Dahu had already heard the movement, and with a stick in his hand, he rushed to Wu Zhi's side, raised the stick, and was on full alert.
At this time, I saw that the bandits who had come to the ship turned back to the cabin, and after a moment came out with a spear-like object, the pointed head shining in the moonlight. Wu Zhi felt a sigh in his heart, realized that the situation was not good, and hurriedly pulled the big tiger beside him, quickly turned around and retreated, the two of them just retreated to the side of the cabin, looked back, only heard the sound of "poof" and "bang" sounded one after another, more than 20 spears were densely inserted in the front and back of the place where Wu Zhi and the big tiger were standing just now, and some spears were thrown farther, which were obliquely inserted into the wooden wall of the cabin, and two or three spears were rushing towards Wu Zhi and the big tiger, Wu Zhi hurriedly used the steel knife in his hand to block left and right, One by one, the spears were shot down. The big tiger beside him was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.
Wu Zhi was suddenly furious, and his heart knew that these people were completely rushing to take people's lives, and they didn't look like improvised thieves at all, they were obviously premeditated and organized bandits!
The fire in his heart rose, Wu Zhi decided not to show mercy to his subordinates, without thinking, immediately dropped the steel knife in his hand, and immediately pulled out the bamboo grenade from his waist with his right hand, and took out the fire fold from his waist pocket with his left hand, and after blowing it away, while the bandits were busy, he rushed to the side of the ship, calmly lit the grenade in his hand, and threw it at the boat with a little force after the sound of "sizzling".
The bandits saw that there was a thing flying over with sparks, and they didn't care about attacking, they subconsciously dodged back, and the grenade slipped under their feet, and they just saw clearly that it was just a bamboo tube with smoke and fire and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when there was a loud "bang", and the huge sound blew up five or six bandits nearby, and at the same time smashed the bandits next to them to the ground, and the wails came one after another, and a big hole was blown out of the board of the incoming ship, and the wooden board stained with Mars suddenly slowly burned.
This thunderous explosion instantly frightened the bandits who came to the ship, as if they had been punished by God, and the two trembled, and their souls were scattered!
This thunderous explosion instantly attracted bursts of wild dog barking, which instantly broke the silence, and also woke up most of the people in Zhuxian Town, Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Ma Lao Er and Ma Lao San and others, and the oil lights on the two ships were lit up together, and everyone rushed out of the cabin to see what was going on. The oil lights of the town's homes were lit up, and the townspeople were out of the house to see what was going on through the doors and windows.
Before everyone could see what was going on, a second explosion followed, deafening, and the people in the town and on the ship were startled, trembling, trembling, and then a burst of barking dogs.
This explosion, but it was the movement caused by the grenade dropped by the big tiger! He followed Wu Zhi to the side of the ship, and after seeing Wu Zhi throw a grenade and injure the bandits, he did the same, took out the bamboo grenade on his body, lit it with fire, and threw it on the bandits' ship, this time it was thrown directly to the side of the cabin of the incoming ship, and blew up the people who were hiding by the cabin, and this time it overturned more than a dozen bandits in an instant, and blew up a cabin to the point of sawdust, and the board of the ship was blown out of a big hole, and the flames were everywhere, and the wails were endless! Under the explosion of two grenades, more than half of the people who came to the boat had already fallen, and the rest of the people were already frightened and panicked, jumped out of the boat one after another, and fled towards the river with their lives. Then, some of the bandits, who were only slightly injured or were still able to move after being blown up, also struggled to grit their teeth and jump into the river, swimming desperately to the shore. Some of them swam and lost their strength, so they slowly submerged in the water and reported to the dragon king in the water. came to the ship and left a dozen corpses.
Wu Zhi looked at all this coldly, and at the same time stopped the big tiger, on a whim, he had already pulled out the second grenade, but before he could ignite the fire, he was stopped by Wu Zhi. Because the invading enemy has already fled, there is no need to waste grenades.
"What's wrong? It's so big? Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Ma Lao Er and Ma Lao San and others on the boat faced the firelight, ran towards the bow of the boat, and when they got closer, they saw Wu Zhi and Da Hu standing on the side of the boat, Ma Lao Er hurriedly asked.
"There were bandits who came to hijack the ship, and we drove them away!" Wu Zhi stretched out his finger and pointed to the boat that had already ignited a raging fire on the opposite side, and said with a blank face.
"Ahh Bandits? Bandit?! When they heard this, they were startled, and when they saw the spears that were densely inserted in front of them on the plank, they were even more frightened; As far as they could, they all fixed their eyes on the burning bandit ship opposite, and when they saw that there were exactly a dozen corpses lying quietly on the board of the opposite ship in the swaying firelight, everyone became even more frightened.
"Mom!" In the face of such a tragic situation, some people suddenly exclaimed in surprise and sat down on the boat, covering their eyes and unable to bear to look directly. Xiao'e was also so frightened that she leaned closely to Feng Niang's side, not daring to look directly. Jin Lian and Liu Yue hugged each other, trembling. Except for a few brave people who were able to stand on their feet, everyone else was so frightened that their legs went limp, and their faces turned pale.
Seeing that everyone was frightened, Wu Zhi hurriedly ordered Dahu to join him in pulling out the spears that were obliquely inserted on the board of the boat one by one, putting them together and throwing them on the side of the ship.
"Where did the bandits come from?" Wu Xiu forced his composure, swallowed his saliva, and asked towards Wu Zhi.
"Whoa! He'll tell us! Wu Zhi pointed to the figure on the port side and said to Wu Xiu and the others. This is the little minion who was knocked unconscious by him, and he hasn't woken up yet. This little minion should not die, and when he was knocked unconscious by Wu Zhi, he fortunately lay on the side of the ship and dodged the spear.
Everyone looked in the direction of Wu Zhi's finger, only to see that there was another person lying on the board of the boat, motionless.
"Dead?" Ma Lao Er hurriedly asked.
"I was knocked unconscious, there shouldn't be!" Wu Zhi responded, and then commanded Erhu: "Erhu, you go find a rope, tie him, and take him to my cabin!" ”
The second tiger immediately took the order and left.