Chapter 60: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada
On the Gaojiayan embankment, hundreds of people are working hard to "contribute but not work", all of them are sweating profusely, but the embankment is basically not moving. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info is responsible for digging the embankment is the Taihu Lake Sanjian people, Hongze Lake several thieves have been digging for five days in a row, today is the sixth day, their turn, Qiu Zhiyuan personally brought a thousand people out to dig the embankment, the rest of the people stayed in Hongze Lake, said that it was Li Zixiu's idea, three thousand people and that big ship is very conspicuous, not to do confidential things, not to mention that a few days ago are one or two hundred people to dig, today to go to a thousand is a lot. But in fact, Jiang Ping and Hua Chong are scheduled to attack Hongze Lake at night tonight!
Qiu Zhiyuan's 1,000 people excavated near Gaojiayan, but in fact, they were just making a show, so that the patrol posts on the mountain could see that they were working under the mountain. On the other hand, Lu Fang had already let the four catchers set off with ten fireboats, and Shang Junyi's three chariots and boats also followed. On the second watch, Jiang Fan walked to the bow of the boat, looked at the gate of Hongze Lake Water Village, and shouted: "Open the door! We are the grain ship of Taihu Lake!"
The little leader guarding the gate of the village has already fallen asleep, and no one dares to come to Hongze Lake to make trouble, and the officials and soldiers dare not, so the night patrol is simply the same. Hearing that it was the grain ship from Taihu Lake that came, the little leader turned over and said in a daze: "Taihu Lake transports grain by itself, and a few days ago said to urge grain, let them come in." Then he fell asleep again.
Jiang Fan smoothly entered the water village, looked at the bamboo walls on both sides, couldn't help but smile slightly, and ordered his ship to move forward quickly. When the boat entered the water village, Jiang Fan ran to the stern of the boat, watched the ten fireboats behind him enter the water village one by one, and took out a letter cannon from his arms and lit it. The letter cannon was lifted into the air, and the minions on the four fireships threw all the torches that had been used for lighting onto the boat, and the boats crashed into the wall of the water wall! The ship was full of things that ignited fire, and the originally strong wall of the water wall was suddenly ablaze!
The other six ships rushed towards the dock where the ship was moored, all the patrol soldiers were blinded, although they were bandits, but they were always the only ones who raided others, this time they were suddenly attacked, and in a hurry they even forgot to fight back, seeing six warships with fire rushing towards them, many of the patrolling ships actually chose to avoid!
The six captains drove straight into the dock to kill, and when the ships collided, the flames flew up, and one ship after another was set on fire, and many of the minions who were still dreaming were killed by the smoke before they could get up. More people jumped into the water, planning to go ashore on the water, but the Taihu Lake thieves on the fire boat had been waiting for them in the water for a long time, the boat was fire, the water was blood, and many of the water thieves who didn't have time to take weapons were killed in the water, and the entire dock was in chaos.
Outside the water village, the three big ships brought by Pang Ji have been waiting for news, and seeing the firelight, Shi Wankui said to Shang Junyi beside him: "I haven't fought for a long time, this is against the Dragon King, hehe, I have to have a good time today!"
Shang Junyi smiled and said: "Today you are in charge of taking the thief, I will take the boat to kill it! You just look forward to Wu Ze escaping from here, or you won't have a chance." ”
Shi Wankui was also helpless, Master Pang's order had already been issued, and he came to help in the war, so he could only be obedient and not leave the news place without permission. Shi Wankui let out a long sigh, got off the big boat, and took a hundred water ghosts, lined up in ten small boats, ready to rob and kill the fish that slipped through the net.
Three big boats came, and the minions who were fighting the fire on the wall of the water village were all taken aback, and this boat was not found anywhere! It must be the official army! Taihu Lake has lured the official army to suppress the bandits!
These water thieves understood what was going on, and they scattered and fled one after another. Just when the thieves were fleeing, two cannons on the Taihu Lake car and ship rang out, the huge Shuizhai gate was knocked down, and three official ships rushed in. Li Zixiu, who was on the boat, looked at Xia Yuqi beside him and chuckled: "Third brother, it's time to do something big!"
Xia Yuqi nodded and said, "Don't let others take the lead!" and then ordered: "All ships will not move, the ships of the officers and soldiers will not attack us, you cooperate with the officers and soldiers to arrest the bandits!"
Some of the small leaders agreed, and they went back to fight with their troops. And Li Zixiu and Xia Yuqi got off the big boat, took a hundred and ten skilled minions, and went straight to the Juyi Hall in Xixu Mountain to kill! Their goal was the Dragon King Order! This token, which can command the water thieves in the world, is the biggest motivation for the Taihu Three Swords to agree to help.
The two of them knew that the battle in front of them was together, behind Xixu Mountain, Xu Qing would lead the officers and soldiers to outflank, and when the time came, there would be chaos on the mountain, as long as they took advantage of the chaos to hold Wu Ze, the Dragon King Order would be a thing of Taihu Lake!
On Xixu Mountain, Wu Ze was awakened by the sound of cannons in his dream, and the unusually chaotic outside made Wu Ze lose his sleep, and hurriedly ran out of the room, meeting his younger brother Wu Yuan head-on. Wu Ze hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his brother: "What's wrong?"
"The officers and soldiers are here!"
"Why did the officers and soldiers come?" Wu Ze suddenly changed his mind, the sound of cannons he heard just now! It must have been Taihu Lake that made an internal response! There were two cannons on the vehicles and ships of Taihu Lake, and the water village must have been sacrificed by them!
"Is it a ghost made by the three swords of Taihu Lake?" Wu Ze hurriedly grabbed Wu Yuan, Wu Yuan also went to sleep, and there was a big chaos outside, only to hear people shouting that there were officers and soldiers killing, so he hurriedly came to find the eldest brother, where did he think that it was the three swords of Taihu Lake who made a ghost, when he saw that his brother was so anxious, he hesitated: "I don't know this either." ”
"Dazhai master!" A shout came, and the brothers hurriedly looked at it, it was Li Zixiu and Xia Yuqi who were running towards them with more than a hundred people. Wu Yuan took a look: "Big brother, aren't they here to help us?"
"Hurry up! They are not good people!" Su Zhenjiang, the sea dragon of Mamian Town, ran from the other side, shouting as he ran: "The water village is in chaos, they must have a plan when they run to the shore!"
Wu Ze also found that there was something wrong with these people, and hurriedly said to the two: "Hurry up! Go to the back mountain!"
The three of them turned around and ran, and when Li Zixiu saw this, he said to Xia Yuqi: "Chase quickly, you can't let them go!"
Wu Ze and the others used the nocturnal technique and rushed away, Li Zixiu and Xia Yuqi chased after them, and after a while, they threw off those minions and soldiers.
Next to a dense forest in the back mountain, a white-clothed scribe who gently shook a folding fan smiled and said to the tall warrior in a strong suit beside him: "I knew they were here, you Wen Hou is not as good as my Zhuge in the end." ”
The warrior in the strong suit was Xiao Wenhou Xu Chang, and it was naturally Xiao Zhuge Shen Zhongyuan who spoke. Xu Chang saw Shen Zhongyuan smiling and snorted coldly: "Your ability to calculate people is not comparable to others." ”
Wu Ze also saw the two of them, and his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly shouted: "Help me, two of you!"
Shen Zhongyuan smiled at Xu Chang, and the two walked out of the dense forest and said, "Why should the master of the big village be alarmed?"
Wu Ze and the three of them stood up and gasped: "Li Zixiu and they have brought more than a hundred people, if they don't run, they will be entangled by the two of them, and they will not be able to leave for a while." ”
Shen Zhongyuan said: "I'm afraid that there are 10,000 people from all walks of life in your village, why are you afraid of them?"
Wu Ze stomped his feet and said: "These guys have colluded with the officials and soldiers, the gate of my water village has been opened, and the dock has also been burned!
I saw Li Zixiu and Xia Yuqi rushing over, and Shen Zhongyuan said to Wu Ze: "The master of the village doesn't need to panic, the four of us are here, are we still afraid of them?"
Wu Ze was stunned, and Wu Yuan didn't understand: "Aren't we five people?"
Shen Zhongyuan frowned: "Five, isn't it exactly four of me and Xu Chang plus Li Zixiu and Xia Yuqi?"
Wu Ze was shocked: "You ......"
Shen Zhongyuan shook his head and sighed: "With your brain, it's a pity that the Dragon King Order was given to you. ”
Wu Ze said in a trembling voice: "You dare to turn your back on the prince! The county lord can't spare you!"
Shen Zhongyuan looked at Xu Chang and smiled: "You say he's stupid!"
"Silly!"
Shen Zhongyuan stared at Wu Ze as if he was looking at an idiot, "Don't you still understand? It's his precious daughter who wants to turn his back on the prince!"
Wu Ze took out a pair of water-splitting knives from his waist, put his knives across his chest and shouted angrily: "Tricks hurt people!
Xu Chang raised his eyebrows on the side, picked up the bright silver plate dragon halberd inserted on the ground with both hands, and said coldly: "This is the posture of a dragon king!"
Li Zixiu also had enough breath at this time, and separated from Xia Yuqi left and right, drawing the scene. Su Zhenjiang was carrying a ghost-headed knife, and Wu Yuan pulled out a pair of three-edged elbow stabs, and he was also ready to shoot at any time.
Wu Ze was about to step forward, but Shen Zhongyuan blocked Xu Chang sideways, and said slowly: "You don't want the Dragon King Order, what are you going to do? Li Erye must be chasing and killing Wu Ze for this Dragon King Order, you can't come nonsense." ”
Li Zixiu's face was cold, and he said in his heart that this guy is too vicious! Wu Ze is a brainless person, as soon as he heard this, he really turned around and came to Li Zixiu, his face was hideous, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Li Zixiu! You destroy my Hongze Lake, I will kill you!"
The two knives came out with the voice, the left-handed knife blocked the waist and slashed, the right-hand knife was the head force, the cross-handed knife was really majestic, Li Zixiu suddenly unsheathed a pair of short swords, blocking the double knives respectively, the sword touched, sparks shot everywhere, and the figures of the two people were separated with a touch, Li Zixiu only felt that his arms were numb, and he secretly said: "I have too much strength in this guy, and I am afraid that I will suffer a loss if I fight hard!" Looking at Shen Zhongyuan's posture, he shouldn't be able to help, so he can only fight with him, and wait for the minions to kill and kill them together!"
Thinking of a good idea, Li Zixiu swung his sword forward, guerrilla Wu Ze's flank, Wu Ze waved the knife in his left hand, and cut Li Zixiu with a knife in his right hand, and the two fought together. Li Zixiu's strength is not as good as Wu Ze's, he relies on his body to travel back and forth, hand-to-hand fighting or guerrilla fighting, after a long time, his physical strength has also decreased very much, more than 30 years have passed, Li Zixiu has been defeated, and he has worked hard, but those minions seem to be lost, and they don't know where they went.
Xia Yuqi was also very anxious, looking back from time to time, and suddenly a group of black shadows appeared in his field of vision, Xia Yuqi was overjoyed, and hurriedly beckoned to the group of people. After a while, the group came to him, and Xia Yuqi was surprised: "Why are you?"
The person who came carried a broad-bladed sword laughed and said, "I can't imagine it, you praying mantis catching cicadas, but I am behind the yellow finch!"
The person who spoke was none other than Sima Zhang, the swordsman of Lei Gong, the owner of Chaohu Village!