Where Peng Ze is located, it is the core of Jiangzhou, the water network in the region is densely woven, the flow paste is accumulated, and the fish and rice are prosperous, which is not inferior to Wuzhong. Haozong travels to eat, half of which is here.

The spring breeze is like a pen, and the mountains are green. As the winter is gone, everything sprouts, and the surroundings of Pengze gradually become busy. The difference compared to previous years is that the number of boats sailing on the waterway has increased significantly, and each carrying merchant goods has flowed from small streams to large streams, and large streams have poured into the big rivers.

A fully loaded cargo ship sailed out of a manor house with hundreds of houses in the middle of the waterway, and because the draft was too deep, it had to be dragged by slender men on both sides of the waterway to drain the water. When they reach the confluence of several waterways, the current gradually becomes abundant, and the river is several times wider, so that cargo ships can sail freely.

The porters on both sides of the waterway gathered on the spot and returned to the manor, and the people on board waved goodbye to the shore before the cargo ship headed for the river to the north. The boatmen performed their duties, up and down busy, and several stewards let people set up small cases of wine and food at the bow of the boat, embracing the warm spring breeze, looking at the beautiful scenery on both sides of the strait, and laughing and talking about wine, which was very interesting.

"This time, a shipload of goods will arrive in the capital, it should be busy in the city, and the price must be very high!"

A steward drank a glass of wine, twisted a few preserved fruits and threw them into his mouth, chewed slowly, and said with a smile.

The other person sighed: "It's a pity that after all, it is still one step behind the raccoon dogs in Wuzhong, and they have taken advantage of the first place, and the goods are not used well and are sold directly into the capital, and they must first enter the market through their hands. ”

"Don't say much, if you say it well, you will lose your words after entering the capital, and you will be provoked and delayed for a few days to enter the market, and you will miss the prosperous season, be careful that the master will pull out the root of your tongue!"

"Right now, you and I are gossiping, those raccoon dogs are not heard, what are they afraid of!"

Having said that, this topic is not good to talk about after all, so everyone turned to the many changes in Jiangdong.

After half a day of boat travel, approaching the city, the waterway in front of it suddenly became congested, and many boats slowed down. Further along, however, several warships were anchored, connected to each other by iron cables, blocking the waterway.

"What's going on up ahead?"

Seeing this, the stewards did not dare to slack off, put down the sampan boat and let people go to the left to inquire, and after a while, the news came back: "The state government has set up a ferry supervisor here, and those who do not have a ferry customs order cannot be released!" ”

When several stewards heard this, their faces changed, they had already been accustomed to this waterway, but they had never heard of this rule! So two more stewards disembarked from the ship, wanting to inquire more deeply about the hidden secrets, but when they came back, their faces were full of depression.

"The irrelevant order is not allowed to pass, but the customs order can only be handled by going to the Zhenzhi Assassin Mansion! Taking advantage of the fact that the journey is not far away, it is better to hurry back to the master's house. ”

"What is this going to do? In previous years, the main family has always been a regular send, but now it is necessary to set up a card to exploit! ”

There is no use complaining about such an accident. A checkpoint was suddenly set up here, and all but a few families were stopped here.

As a result, many boats could only dock and wait for their families to send back letters.

After waiting for a whole day, a letter came from the master's house: there was a rebellion in the north of the Assassin's Mansion, and in order to prevent harm to the people and avoid freight financing bandits, the waterway should be blocked.

The words are high-sounding, but in fact, there is an additional payment, and a customs order costs tens of thousands of dollars, and it is only a one-way trip. The main family is still trying to find a way to dredge, but the freight cannot be delayed, let them find a way to solve it on the spot, don't delay the trip.

So several stewards went their separate ways, either begging for a good friend of the left, or trying to buy off the guards, but to no avail. However, it is not without other ways, I heard that there is another slightly narrower waterway that can lead directly to the river after a dozen miles back, and there is no time to set up a checkpoint blockade there.

So the stewards went to observe it themselves, and found that boats had indeed passed through the waterway. In order to prevent this road from being blocked again, they did not dare to delay, and immediately returned to let people divert their course.

This waterway is more remote than the old road originally taken, and there are not many boats and boats to pass, and there are many mountains and dense forests along the way, and there are few people. The crowd was also worried, put down the boat and explored the way ahead, ready to return as soon as they found something wrong. Fortunately, halfway through the boat, there were no accidents.

However, these people did not know that as early as when they turned around, they were easily attached to several light boats, and then followed them by winding waterways and the cover of the surrounding dense forests!

After two days of day and night, seeing that they were about to leave this wilderness and turn into a densely populated place on the plains in the middle of the night, everyone's hearts gradually relaxed.

"The master instructed that there is no need to rush back to the township with the proceeds of this shipment, and you can go to Liyang to have a look first. Later, the main family Ah Lang will also go over in person, and there are many people in the county who have already bought property there, if there is no invasion of military disasters and can take care of each other, you might as well try it there......"

In the middle of the night, several people were sleepily leaning on the side of the boat and chatting, when suddenly one of them pointed to the water behind him and said in a trembling voice: "That, what is that......"

The people followed the voice, and saw a raging fire flowing from the water to their place!

"Drums, drums! Drain the grate and don't let them come close......"

Several people are also accustomed to waterways, and although they are panicked, they still remember what to do. The rapid sound of drums sounded on the deck, and the guards and boatmen, who had been sleeping soundly, got up one after another, each took out their swords, guns, and blades, and the sharp water grates piled up on the deck were connected by ropes and thrown off the boat, carrying and floating in the waves, and whether people or ships wanted to get closer, they would be pierced by the spikes!

At this time, the fire was getting closer and closer, and there were faint figures moving behind the firelight, and at the same time, there were shouts and the sound of gold and iron clashing to tear through the night!

"Accelerate, accelerate! Get rid of these scoundrels! ”

Before he could finish speaking, there was a sudden thud on the water, and then the entire hull of the ship was shaken, and several guards who were rushing on the deck were caught off guard and fell on the deck. A few torches were thrown down, only to see that there was no lack of huge driftwood half-exposed on the water surface in front of me, which seemed to be connected by iron cables, and with the collision of the cargo ship, it was entangled in the bow position and could not be shaken off!

The cargo ship was already carrying a large capacity, and it was entangled in driftwood, and the resistance was inevitably greater, and it almost stopped.

"Swing the crossbow, wind it!"

Seeing that they could not get rid of it, the stewards also gave up their efforts in vain and ordered the guards to prepare to meet the enemy. Fortunately, after this accident, the main family has people to support, even including a master of the Lang Jun, the boatman and the guards are more than a hundred people, if it is a small group of water cowards, there is no need to be afraid at all.

The fire was extinguished a mile from the cargo ship, and it was already clear that it was a large bamboo raft full of firewood, the upper layer burned out, and the lower layer was soaked by the river, and now scattered on the surface of the river, like floating corpses!

The fires were extinguished, and the torches burning on the freighter became the only source of light in the silent night, and then they were extinguished in the hasty shouts of the stewards. Heaven and earth returned to darkness again, and people with pale faces pointed their bows and arrows in the direction where the commotion in the night came.

The darkness did not last long, and suddenly the fire was lit again on one side of the river, which was originally just a little bit of stars, and suddenly connected into a piece, and in the firelight, a large number of ragged people roared and rushed out from between the mountains and dense forests, as if the evil spirits gushing out of the yellow spring pounced on the simple bamboo rafts, sampans that seemed to have been prepared long ago on the shore, or wooden boards, or long poles, or hand and foot together, and the crows and crows rushed towards the cargo ship, looking at the scale, at least there were more than a thousand people!

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

In the midst of the panicked shouts, the ship's messy arrows were hurled at the impactors, and a series of screams were heard in the night, and there was a splash on the water, but there was an even more violent roar, and it rushed towards the cargo ship without fear of death!

Soon, the bamboo raft that rushed to the front hit the water fence lowered around the cargo ship, and then the sound of bamboo breaking or running through the body sounded. Those pierced by the spikes were momentarily breathless, and struggled violently on the surface of the water, like hooked fish, and even pulled the half-wood, half-iron water grates, so that the ropes connecting the grates to the side of the ship were tense and trembling!

The night covered up the tragic picture, and those bandits were also fearless of death, going forward and one after another, hitting the water fence on one side one after another, and the people behind stepped on the bamboo rafts, stepping on the bodies of their companions who were still struggling through their bodies, facing the headless and brainless projectiles, and rushing towards the waves!

Soon, the first man climbed the side of the boat and rushed onto the boat, his wet hair hanging down on his face, his ragged clothes clinging to his bony body, the water ghost roared fiercely, and in his hand he held a ridiculously simple wooden thorn, and he was about to pounce on his opponent in front of him with his teeth and claws!

However, what greeted him was a sharp and dull long knife, and the wind fell suddenly, and a blood line suddenly appeared from the corner of the forehead from the left ribs! The forward rush paused abruptly, and then the whole body was thrown backwards suddenly, and fell heavily into the water, making a dark splash!

"Kill, kill!"

The terrible roar was still piercing in such a noisy environment, and although one of the bandits was cut down, more heads appeared behind him, and even the hull of the ship sank to this side.

Rushed onto the ship by the thieves, the longbow and crossbow were useless, and the guards on the cargo ship had to throw them away and rush forward with their guns and knives! Fortunately, although these thieves are fierce, the weapons are really hardly elite, and the lethality of the simple bamboo guns and wooden stabs is too small, and in the fierce fighting, the corpses quickly fill the side of the ship!

The entire deck suddenly became slippery, and the smell of fish permeated the entire ship, and it was impossible to tell whether it was the smell of blood or the mud at the bottom of the river. Although the night restricts the line of sight, it also makes people focused, and they only need to let the knives and guns fly to protect the few feet in front of them, and the rest don't have to pay attention.

Suddenly, one of the guards slipped under his feet and swooped forward uncontrollably, his spear seemingly piercing an object, and the resistance neutralized his momentum. The guard couldn't help but be happy in his heart, he took a wrong step under his feet, and Fang Yi stood steady, but he saw a rickety figure standing in front of him with a distorted demeanor to the extreme, with his spear pierced in his chest, and more than half of it had penetrated!

"Dog Thief ......"

The guard roared under his breath, and the barrel of the gun was pumped back but not withdrawn, but the fishy wind blew in his ears, and the body hanging on the barrel of the gun actually pounced on him, and then the whole person was thrown on the deck, and the fingers like withered branches and chicken claws tightly choked his throat!

No matter how tragic the fight is, there will always be an end. As dawn broke in the east, the fighting around the cargo ship finally subsided. In the faint morning light, the draught of the big ship full of goods was deeper, because in addition to the original goods, there were still ships full of corpses!

More than a dozen horsemen appeared on the shore, and behind them were hundreds of neatly arranged soldiers. At the front of the team stood a burly middle-aged man, with a slightly gloomy face under his head, which was Guo Mo, who was serving under Wang Shu.

"Alas, these wandering thieves are exhausted, and there are thousands of them, but they just intercepted a cargo ship, and they actually lost more than half of them, what a waste of rice and grain a few days ago! It is really embarrassing for me to recruit you food into an army! ”

Guo Mo dismounted, pointed to the cargo ship that had been towed to the shore and sighed.

"In exchange for a full ship of money, these slave lives can be regarded as exhaustive. Based on this, a strong army under the command of the lord in the future can be expected. ”

Hearing the emotion of the main general, the leader of the guards stepped forward and bowed his head and said.

After Guo Mo heard this, his face turned complicated, and he sighed suddenly: "The king is sent by order, but he is not worthy of a pawn, it is clear that he still has no faith in me, but he has to use it." Nowadays, I am also scattered by many people, so I can only lean over and be willing to do the work of cattle and horses! The assets of this ship must not be tampered with, and the inventory is completed and sent to Yuzhang Town. ”

At this moment, suddenly a bloody palm poked out of the corpse of the boat, and then a bloody man poked his head out from under the corpse and said in a trembling voice: "Help, save me...... I, I'm Nam Nan Luo, Luo Ding......"

Seeing this scene, a personal soldier rushed to the deck, took the man out and soaked it by the river, washed away the blood plasma all over his body, and showed a trembling face with white lips, and then carried it to Guo Mo.

"Guo, Guo Hou, I've seen you...... I, I am,"

Guo Mo bent down and glanced at this person with interest, and then said with a smile: "Who you are, I don't care." Since you are not dead, then clearly explain how your family colluded with thieves and caused chaos in the countryside! ”