"Lord Jinglu, why do you want to give up the siege?" A subordinate general asked.

Hong Chengchou pointed to the map of Qiongzhou and the battle report: "The thieves are strong and clear, and there is not even a person outside the city!" Obviously, they are ready to drag us in Qiongzhou. The purpose of our trip to Qiongzhou is to take down the thief's lair. Since the siege of the city cannot be stopped, burning other small cities, destroying the docks and iron mines of the thieves, destroying their cultivated fields, this is also the way to destroy their lair! We don't necessarily have to attack cities and land to fight, the most important thing is to achieve the goal! If we can achieve the goal of destroying the thieves' lair, we will win this battle! It will take time for the thieves to recover, which will create an opportunity for the Ao adults in Jiangnan to fight back! ”

The general said unwillingly: "But my lord, we have worked hard to dispatch troops from the five provinces, but in the end we gave up halfway, haven't our previous efforts been wasted?" ”

"No, our efforts have not been in vain!" Hong Chengchou's eyes shone brightly, "Our army is only temporarily withdrawing to Leizhou, this official has already sent someone to negotiate with the red-haired ghost, and we have proposed the condition of ceding Dongfan Island to the red-haired ghost, and let them send a fleet to help us!" As long as the red-haired ghost is willing to make a move, we can eliminate the Qiongzhou thief sailor! Once the thief sailor is destroyed, won't we come and go freely in this Qiongzhou Strait? ”

"Your Excellency is clever!" The generals and guards bragged one after another.

The Qing court, which had always had a tradition of betrayal, did not care about a small island at all, and they would rather cede Taiwan than use the hands of the Dutch to destroy the Ming army. That's what they did in real history.

"In addition, in the past few days, there are many strangers who have entered Xu Wen, so you must pay attention to the thieves who are meticulous to attack the warehouse!" Hong Chengchou explained again.

"Wow!" Several guards bowed.

As the sun set, the dark night gradually shrouded the entire city of Xuwen County.

Since it is a military town, a strict curfew is enforced every night. After nightfall, only the sound of watchmen banging on the bangs and the sound of patrols walking back and forth can be heard on the streets, and the whole night is unusually quiet.

After the sound of the third watch, in the courtyard in a small alley. Cai Jiuyi, Wu Tiancheng, Fang Huicheng and others changed into black night clothes and checked the weapons and equipment on their bodies. In addition to carrying their own cold weapons, each member of the team also carried a Thunderbolt handgun, four ring grenades, and a pair of plum sleeve arrows. This compound was originally rented by a tobacco merchant, but since Xu Wen's Qing army went to Qiongzhou in batches, business has been poor, and the merchant returned to Guangzhou, and this courtyard was empty there, becoming a temporary shelter for Cai Jiuyi and them.

Cai Jiuyi took out a pocket watch from her arms, glanced at the time in the candlelight, and waved her hand: "The time has come." Let's go! ”

More than thirty black shadows streamed out of the house and into the courtyard. However, instead of opening the main gate of the compound, they climbed the wall and walked through the rooftops to avoid the patrols in the streets.

It was the second day of the lunar month, there was no moonlight in the sky, and the city of Xu Wen, which was blinded by black lights, was pitch black, and he couldn't see his five fingers, only the occasional watchman and patrol soldier on the street carried lanterns. Bring a touch of light.

Cai Jiuyi and others, who belong to the special operations system of the Qiongzhou Army, pay attention to preventing night blindness on weekdays, except that Cai Jiuyi is a senior monk and cannot eat meat, but can only eat more apples, fungus and carrots. In addition to the treatment of drugs such as wolfberry, the rest of the team members eat more liver food and seafood on weekdays, which makes their eyes see the target clearly at night.

Passing through the rooftops of a large block, the crowd landed lightly from the rooftops. crossed the street and went straight to Xu Wenqing's warehouse.

Getting closer and closer to the warehouse, Yang Baoyou suddenly had an inexplicable bad feeling: "It's not right." Why is it so quiet outside the Tartar warehouse? No movement at all? ”

When he was about to approach the wall of the Qing army's warehouse, Yang Pingyou suddenly quickened his pace and walked in front of Cai Jiuyi to stop him: "My lord, I feel that something is wrong here!" This Tartar's warehouse should be heavily guarded, why is there no light in the wall, and there is no sound of people moving? ”

was reminded by Yang Pingyou, Cai Jiuyi also felt that something was wrong: "Not bad! It's strange that there's no movement inside the front wall! Could it be that the Tartars have set up an ambush inside, just waiting for us to get in? ”

"Let's go back first and then think about it in the long run!" After thinking about it for a long time, Cai Jiuyi reluctantly gave the order to give up.

The people returned along the long road and returned to the courtyard where they had set out.

After a few days of preparation, in order to destroy the material warehouse of the Qing army, it was a little unwilling to give up halfway. So Fang Huicheng put forward a new plan: "Since the Tartars have arranged heavy troops in the warehouse to ambush us, then Hong Chengchou's old thief's residence must not be so heavily guarded, why don't we take this opportunity to find Hong Chengchou's account?" ”

As soon as this suggestion was put forward, everyone expressed their approval. The place where Hong Chengchou lives is heavily guarded on weekdays, and the masters around him are like clouds, and how many righteous people have tried to assassinate Hong Chengchou have failed, and no one can succeed. Now is a great opportunity, as long as you are a bloody man, you will not let go of this great opportunity.

"We killed Hong Chengchou, how do we get out of the city next? Assassinating Hong Chengchou is not like burning a warehouse. If there is a fire in the warehouse, the first thing the Tartars have to do is to put out the fire, they don't have many troops in Xuwen, and if they are transferred to fight the fire, there will be fewer people guarding the city gate, and we can take advantage of the chaos to escape. But if we go to assassinate Hong Chengchou, the Tartars will inevitably block the city gate as soon as possible! Zhang Jingzhi raised a question.

"Why don't we divide our troops into two ways, one to assassinate Hong Chengchou, and the other to attack the defenders of the South City Gate? After the assassination of Hong Chengchou is successful, the city gate is also under our control, and we can take the opportunity to escape! Wu Tiancheng proposed.

"Even if there are few people around Hong Laojiao, there are still a few masters. The people around this old thief are definitely not bad at martial arts, but I'm afraid we may not be able to succeed. Zhang Jingzhi is still very worried.

Wu Tiancheng patted the thunderbolt on his waist: "What are you afraid of!" We've got this thing! No matter how high the martial arts of the old thief Hong are, can he stop the bullets? ”

The Thunderbolt is indeed a good thing, and can fire six rounds in a row. Although the power of the bullet is not very strong, and it may not be able to kill them with one shot, any master is guaranteed to lose his combat effectiveness after two or three bullets, and it will be much easier to kill them again when the time comes. As long as Hong Chengchou is killed, it will be a great credit.

"That's right! Kill the old thief Hong! Avenge the people of Jiangnan! Avenge the people of the Southwest! Cai Jiuyi finally made a decision.

The action team all changed into the uniforms of the Qing army, and then the soldiers were divided into two routes, one led by Cai Jiuyi and Zhang Jingzhi. The target is the South Gate of Xu Wen, which opens up the retreat of the action team. The other route was led by Wu Tiancheng, Fang Huicheng and Yang Pingyou, and the target was Hong Chengchou's mansion.

The action team led by Cai Jiuyi and Zhang Jingzhi was small, with only ten people. Taking advantage of the cover of night, ten black shadows sneaked under the gate of Xu Wennan, and lurked in a small house that had been rented by them in advance and waited. They were not in a hurry to make a move, and they would not attack the city gate until about half an hour, after another team started to move on Hong Chengchou's side.

Wu Tiancheng, Fang Huicheng, Yang Pingyou and others quietly touched the outside of Hong Chengchou's compound with twenty members of the action team. After all, this is the best building in Xuwen County, and the fence is very high. It was five feet high. Outside the fence, the members of the operation could clearly hear the footsteps of patrol officers inside, as well as the sound of talking.

When the footsteps of the patrol officers inside were far away, Wu Tiancheng slowly pulled out the dagger and said softly: "Start doing it!" Then he performed the trick of flying eaves and walls, climbed the wall, floated like a leaf to a large tree in the compound, and hid in the middle of the canopy to observe the movement inside. Hong Chengchou's guards, who had just walked a few dozen steps and walked into another courtyard, were completely unaware.

In the dark, there is a hidden sentry hiding behind a rockery. But this secret sentry did not find Wu Tiancheng who broke in.

After a while, Wu Tiancheng discovered the secret whistle. He fell from the tree, dodged and sprinted, and approached the rockery silently. The secret sentinel hiding behind the rockery has just sensed the danger behind it. Before he could even turn back, a sharp dagger severed his throat and the major artery in his neck.

More than ten steps away, there is also a hidden sentry. Although his hiding position was quite good, he couldn't escape Wu Tiancheng's eyes. It takes less than a minute. The secret whistle was twisted by Wu Tiancheng, who came out from behind.

"It's safe inside!" Wu Tiancheng climbed the wall again and issued a secret signal to the outside.

Fang Huicheng and Yang Pingyou, two masters, performed the kung fu of flying eaves and walking on the wall, and climbed the high wall silently with their hands and feet. Gently, it fell silently in the garden like a leaf falling rapidly.

Although the twenty masters outside do not have the skills of Wu Tiancheng and them, they are not idle people. They threw their hooks, flew up the wall, grabbed the rope and climbed up, then put away their hooks, jumped lightly, and jumped silently into the courtyard.

Walk through the dark back garden to the front courtyard wall. Wu Tiancheng saw that the lights in the courtyard were shining directly into the sky, so he quietly climbed up the wall and took a look inside, but saw that it was full of lanterns, and the lights were brilliant, illuminating the courtyard as if it were daytime. In some relatively hidden corners, there are obviously hidden outposts of the Qing army.

The study room with the lights on is probably Hong Chengchou's study, and I don't know how many masters there are in this compound full of murderous machines.

"Good fellows! The old thief had laid an ambush in the warehouse, and his own house was still heavily guarded! Wu Tiancheng gasped.

Isn't this nonsense? Hong Chengchou, such a life-saving old guy, cherishes his life very much, how can he relax his guard? Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Zhao Liangdong, Wang Jinbao and other famous Qing court generals with strong martial arts are all Hong Chengchou's personal guards! From this point, it can be seen how many masters there are around Hong Chengchou!

But now that you're here, you have to do it tonight! As the saying goes, the arrow is on the string, and it is not sent! Two dark sentinels have already been killed, and it is estimated that there is no need to wait until dawn, and when the shift change comes, they will find that their companions have been killed, and at that time, Hong Chengchou will definitely order the city gate to be blocked. Instead of passively waiting until it is exposed and then trying to escape, it is better to strike preemptively and do it before Hong Chengchou finds out.

"Do it!" Wu Tiancheng waved his big hand lightly.

Twenty members of the action team quickly climbed up the wall, accompanied by a slight whistling sound, dense clusters of arrows were fired, and Hong Chengchou's guards in the compound were hit one after another, and each person who was hit by the arrow was a poisonous arrow that pierced the throat with blood. They tried to scream, but found their throats blocked. The poisoned arrow that pierced the throat damaged the vocal cords, making them unable to scream. These Qing army guards who were hit by arrows struggled a few times and slowly fell.

The plum blossom sleeve arrow equipped by the action team members, with a range of 30 steps, can fire six poison arrows in a row, and the arrow of the sleeve arrow is coated with poison arrow wood that seals the throat with blood, which is a very powerful hidden weapon.

Even the sentry hiding in the shadows was not spared, Wu Tiancheng and Yang Pingyou used their crossbows and shot two poisoned arrows, which accurately hit the sentry hiding in the shadows, causing them to stop breathing in a few seconds and turn into cold corpses.

"There are attackers! Protect the Lord! "Although it is very likely that the operatives shot and killed the Qing soldiers, they still missed a lot of people. There are so many guards in the big yard that it is impossible to clean them all up in a second.

Several masters moved very quickly, and soon after the operatives shot their hidden arrows and crossbow arrows, they took out their bows and arrows to fight back.

"Whoosh" one by one feathered arrows shot up the wall, Wu Tiancheng and others dodged the opponent's counterattack, but there was still an action team member who couldn't dodge and was hit by an arrow in his left shoulder.

"Die!" Wu Tiancheng roared, took out a grenade, pulled off the pull ring, and threw it hard, the grenade fell in the crowd of Qing archers and exploded, the fire flashed, and the explosion exploded, and the two archers were covered with ceramic pieces and iron beads, and they fell down unwillingly with wide eyes.

The action team members had already rushed into the courtyard, and without any hesitation, several grenades emitting blue smoke flew into the crowd of Qing soldiers, blowing up the Qing soldiers to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the team members shot at close range with their sleeve arrows, wiped out all the poisoned arrows in the plum blossom sleeve arrow arrow, and pulled out the thunderbolt handcuff from their waists, and shot at the Qing army guards from all directions one by one at close range.

"Bang bang bang" gunshots continued, although these Hong Chengchou's guards were all masters, they were useless in front of the handcuffs that could shoot continuously. The guards who rushed out were shot one after another, and blood mist erupted from their bodies. However, the bullet power of the Thunderbolt Bracelet is indeed a little smaller, and it is difficult to kill with one shot. But the wounded guards also lost their combat effectiveness, after all, the power of bullets is much greater than that of cold weapons, and when they are hit by projectiles, the tissues in their bodies are destroyed, and people will lose their strength.

The action team members inserted the thunderbolt handcuff back into their waists, and showed off short weapons such as ring knives, simple knives, swords, plate axes, meridian mandarin ducks, and golden hooks, and slashed and killed those Qing soldiers who had fallen in a pool of blood and had not yet died.

Wu Tiancheng kicked open the door of the "Bang Dang" study.

Hong Chengchou turned his head and looked at Wu Tiancheng who broke into the study with a pair of resentful eyes.

Just as Wu Tiancheng was about to slash with a knife, a guard suddenly jumped out from behind the door and slashed at Wu Tiancheng viciously. (To be continued.) )