"Report ——!"

With a shout, a merchant and water army herald hurriedly rushed into the front office of the county government of Yangxia County, bowed to Zhao Hongrun, who was standing on the hall with his hands behind his back and pondered, and said in a deep voice: "King Qiyu Su, General Wuma (Jiao) was attacked by a chaotic party on the street when he was searching the castle in the city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Zhao Hongrun calmly turned his head and asked calmly, "General Wuma wants to ask for help?" ”

"Uh...... Never. The general just called the little one to come and report to His Royal Highness King Su. The herald was stunned for a moment, but then said truthfully.

In other words, there are not many thieves who attack Wu Majiao, and he can solve it himself, just send someone to inform me......

Zhao Hongrun nodded secretly and said, "This king knows, you can go down." ”

"Yes!"

The heralds retreated.

Watching the herald walk out of the lobby of the front office, Zhao Hongrun lowered his head and pondered, his face was not very good-looking.

Because within a stick of incense, he had received several reports one after another, and the reason was that the many hidden thieves and those rangers in the city attacked the garrisons, arsenals, and money and grain depots in the city that had been taken over by the merchant army at this moment.

In particular, according to the soldiers who came to summon the armory, there were hundreds of thieves who gathered to attack the armory, and the vast majority of them were many rangers in the city judging by their clothing.

But it's no wonder, after all, Zhao Hongrun ordered Wu Majiao and others to collect the weapons collected in the many warrior halls in the city, and they were temporarily stacked in the arsenal.

Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that the rangers mainly attacked the armory in order to regain their confiscated weapons.

The problem is that the rangers who attacked the arsenal were all armed with weapons.

This phenomenon is very interesting.

No matter how you think about it, it is inseparable from the hidden thief forces in the city: either the hidden thief forces in the city bewitch those rangers who have not yet been confiscated, and instigate them to attack the arsenal guarded by the merchant army; Either that, or the thieves gave the extra weapons to the rangers who had been confiscated, and instigated the latter to gather a crowd to reclaim their weapons.

In other words, after he Zhao Hongrun took the lead in tearing his face with Yangxia and the other hidden thieves, the latter also quickly began to fight back, and as for the strength of the counterattack, it was not very fierce for the time being.

As the main force of the counterattack, it was still those rangers, a group of rabble that seemed to the Shang Shui army to collapse at the touch of a button, and when they died a little in the first confrontation, they immediately retreated back to the alley where they appeared, and almost did not have any impact on the Shang Shui soldiers stationed in various parts of the city.

Of course, although it seems that it cannot shake the defense of the Shang Water Army, Zhao Hongrun still does not dare to underestimate the hidden thief forces in Yangxia County, after all, he can also see that the people who are coming out to attack the Shang Water Army are nothing more than outlaws such as rangers, those hidden thieves who are good at assassination and assassination, and they have not taken action so far.

What does this mean, Zhao Hongrun naturally understands: Yangxia and the hidden thief forces are warning him, or showing force.

If nothing goes wrong, if Zhao Hongrun continues to insist on taking back Yangxia on behalf of the imperial court and makes a move to eradicate the hidden thief forces in Yangxia City, then those hidden thief forces in Yangxia City will officially attack him and the merchant army he led.

In response to the words of Huang Yu, the county magistrate of Yuxian County: It is simply a kingless law!

Zhao Hongrun clenched his fists hatefully.

But then again, he was somewhat worried about the threat of Yangxia's hidden thieves.

He originally thought that after the 4,000 merchant water army entered Yangxia, those hidden thieves would not dare to make trouble even if they had great courage, but he didn't expect that those people still had such courage to instigate the rangers in the city to attack the Shang water army.

What does this mean?

This shows that the other party is not afraid of the 4,000 merchant army.

To put it bluntly, the other party thought that he could gain the upper hand in the subsequent conflict with the 4,000 merchant army.

Could it be that the power of the Yangxia Hidden Thief is not only what I guessed?

Zhao Hongrun paced back and forth in the hall.

Most of his knowledge of the hidden thieves in Yangxia comes from the accounts of Huang Yu, the county commander of Yuxian County, and Zou Liang, the commander of Wuwei, but if you think about it carefully, the latter two may not be able to accurately grasp the power of the hidden thief in Yangxia.

It is very likely that Huang Yu and Zou Liang's understanding of the Yangxia Hidden Thief is only limited to the little power exposed by the Yangxia Hidden Thief.

That's not good......

Zhao Hongrun stopped, frowning and thinking.

It is undeniable that he also understands that he is too impulsive this time, otherwise, as long as he waits for a month or so, when the main forces of the Yan Ling Army and the Shang Shui Army return, the Langyang Xia hidden thief will not be able to make any tricks.

But it's too late to say this now, after all, he has already ordered the Shang Shui Army to enter Yangxia, is it possible that he can withdraw from the city again?

In this way, wouldn't he, the king of Su, lose face?

What's more, the loss of face is small, and it is a big bad thing to boost the arrogance of the hidden thief in Yangxia.

What to do?

Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself.

Suddenly, I saw a little surprise on his face, clapped his hands, and said as if annoyed: "I'm stupid! …… I didn't think of that. ”

At this moment, Zhao Hongrun was shocked to realize that he had stepped into a misunderstanding.

It is true that the main force of the Shangshui Army led by Wu Ji should still be in the suburbs of Daliang at this moment, carrying out post-war reorganization and accepting the reward of the imperial court, and it is also true that the main force of the Shangshui Army needs about a little more than a little more from Daliang to return to the Shangshui area.

And the misunderstanding is that more than a month is the date required for Wu Ji's Shangshui army to return to Shangshui from Daliang by land, but what if it is by water?

The transport ship of the Xiacang Department of the Department of the Department of Temporary Levy of the User Department called the merchant army to take a boat along the Cai River and the Vortex River to the boundary of Yangxia County, but it was only a few days.

It is undeniable that the transport ships of the warehouse department cannot transport all the 16,000 or so soldiers under Wu Ji to Yangxia at one time, and that kind of ship can only transport about 200 people per ship, but the problem is that now the ships of the warehouse department go back and forth between Xiangfu Port and Shangshui County, not to mention dozens or hundreds?

In other words, as long as you make a few trips back and forth, you can transport all of Wu Ji's 16,000 or so merchant soldiers to Yangxia.

"Hehehehehe......"

Under the stunned gaze of Zong Wei Chief Shen Yu, Zhao Hongrun suddenly laughed.

Threaten me? Good! We'll see!

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun ordered the guards to find pen, ink and paper, and wrote four letters in a few moments.

Of these four letters, the first one was handed over to Zhao Yuanyan, the uncle of the six kings, and Zhao Hongrun wanted to ask the latter about something.

After all, before he left Daliang, his sixth uncle went to Suwang's Mansion in person and asked him who else he had offended besides the elder Zong, and Zhao Hongrun said no at that time, but as a result, he was assassinated as soon as he left Daliang.

If you want to say that there is no relationship between the two, Zhao Hongrun doesn't believe it, because it's not too much of a coincidence.

And the second letter was handed over to Li Liang, the head of the household department, after all, Zhao Hongrun wanted to temporarily recruit the transport ships of the Ministry of Users, so he naturally had to write a letter by himself, which was a courtesy, and he couldn't just ask someone to pass on a message, after all, Li Liang was also the head of the household department of the imperial court, and he was not the object of his free call.

As for the third one, it was handed over to the Bureau of Smelting and Manufacturing Bureau Cheng Wang Fu, after all, the enemy of the Shangshui Army this time is an agile hidden thief, and the individual strength is very strong, and the hand-to-hand combat at close range, the Shangshui soldier may not be the opponent of this group of hidden thieves, unless it is with the help of a crossbow.

But the problem is, the non-commissioned officers of the merchant army can't everyone run around with a crossbow in their hands, right? You must know that the hand crossbow also needs to be operated with both hands.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun hoped that the Smelting Bureau could create a special weapon to deal with the hidden thieves in Yangxia.

A weapon that is much less powerful than a hand crossbow, but it is lighter and can be operated with one hand, a Hidden Arrow.

As for the last letter, it was naturally for Wu Ji.

After writing these four letters, Zhao Hongrun summoned Zongwei Zhu Gui and He Miao, and asked them to take two hundred Shangshui soldiers and soldiers to Shangshui immediately.

After all, Shangshui County has a transport ship from the Cangbu, and if you go to Daliang by boat, even if you go up the river, the speed is much faster than riding a horse, and by the way, it can also be conveyed to Su Wangwei who is in Shangshui County at the moment, so that they can rush to Yangxia County.

If it is not a coincidence, the merchant ships of the warehouse have already left the merchant water and returned to Daliang, it will not matter, because even if there is no ship of the warehouse, isn't there still a ship under the name of Chu Ping Yujun Xiong Hu? Relying on the relationship that the two sides are secretly maintaining at the moment, requisition a Chu ship, and the generals under the command of Xiong Hu, the Pingyu Monarch, on the Chu ship, will not say anything.

After arranging all this, the only thing Zhao Hongrun has to do now is to stabilize the hidden thief forces in Yangxia County.

"Shen Yu, pass on my order and let the soldiers stationed in the arsenal put some water."

"Drain the water?" Shen Yujiu was by Zhao Hongrun's side, how could he not know the meaning of releasing water, and asked in surprise when he heard this: "Your Highness, in the arsenal, there are stacks of weapons collected by General Wuma and others, if they are taken away, won't the sword ban become empty talk?" ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said lightly: "Only in this way can we stabilize that group of hidden thieves." …… For the time being, let those people be proud for a while. ”

Shen Yu frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly realized, and praised sincerely: "Your Highness is wise! ”

"By the way, send another order to Wu Majiao, so that he doesn't have to collect weapons in these two days, but the city defense will be guarded by this king!"

"Humble duty understands!"

That night, the arsenal was captured by the unstoppable thieves and the many rangers, and when the rangers who had been confiscated regained their weapons, they cheered heartily, and the civilians in the nearby houses looked through the cracks in the doors in disbelief.

And when this news reached the ears of Ying Kang, the leader of the Yiqiu people, Jin Gou, the leader of the Fuqiu people, and You Ma, the leader of the Youma people, the bigwigs of these Yangxia hidden thieves couldn't help but show surprise on their faces.

They couldn't believe that the arsenal guarded by the merchant army would be lost so easily.

You must know that among the hidden thieves in Yangxia, such as Yiqiuzhong, Fuqiuzhong, Youma, Black Spider, Mourning Crow, Duanlou and other relatively large hidden thief organizations, they have not yet begun to deal with the Shang Shui Army, but the Shang Shui Army has been taken away by several weak hidden thief forces?

Could it be that the merchant water army is just in vain?

You Ma and the others really couldn't figure it out. (To be continued.) )