Chapter 13 Crossing the River
The boat that Ma Dapeng found was a cargo ship that usually traveled between the Yangtze River waterways, saying that it was a cargo ship, but it was actually rebuilt from a fishing boat, so Tangcheng and their carriage could not get on the boat, Han Shanhu had to follow Tangcheng's arrangement, left the carriage on the shore, and only drove the horses pulling the cart onto the boat, and crossed the river to the other side, these two horses can at least carry things and children.
This is the first time that Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi have taken a boat, and the boat that is hidden in the night and sails on the opposite bank on the river rises and falls with the changes in the river, not to mention that Liu Shishi's face has changed, and even the old Northeast who is not afraid of the sky and the earth can't help but hold the cable on the boat. "If you two can't stand it anymore, go to the cabin and stay with the children, you're already a bear, and you're pretending to be heroes." The moist smell of the river reminded Tang Cheng of the Bund wharf in Shanghai, but seeing that Liu Shishi and Lao Dongbei were already about to vomit, Tang Cheng kindly persuaded them to stay in the cabin.
"Bullshit, I don't know how good it is, the cabin is where women and children stay, what do Lao Tzu and a man do when they go in, and Lao Tzu stays outside." Lao Northeast muttered a little bluff, and Liu Shishi, who wanted to lie in the cabin, couldn't help but have a bitter face, and scolded Lao Northeast in his heart for being troublesome. Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi didn't know that their pale faces and shaking legs had already betrayed them, and seeing that Lao Dongbei rejected his kindness, Tang Cheng just laughed a little, and stopped paying attention to these two fools.
In fact, it's okay not to enter the cabin, this is a cargo ship, although the cabin is not small, but the family who is waiting in it is a little breathless, and a guy like Lao Northeast will definitely not be able to stay. Tang Cheng looked ahead, while paying attention to Ma Dapeng and the boat boss, this is on the water, Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi are obviously seasick, Han Laotou is old and frail, and the only one who can come in handy on his side is Han Shanhu, if he is not careful, maybe these boatmen on the boat and Ma Dapeng can join forces to throw their own group of people into the river.
"Old horse, the box cannon in this kid's hand is not a joke, I still have to think about the brothers on the ship, I think it's better to forget it, sending them to the other side early is also a trouble." The old man of the boat talked to Ma Dapeng in a loud voice, and he did not agree with Ma Dapeng's design on the river to attack Tangcheng and them. Ever since Tang Cheng's group got on the ship, the boat boss had been keeping an eye on Tang Cheng, and this young man obviously had the aura of the army on him. The people don't fight with the officials, this is an old saying that has been passed down in China for thousands of years, if these people who are really from the national army provoke them, the end will not be good.
"Are you so afraid, we just eat this bowl of rice on the river, when you split the money in the past, have you ever been afraid, but this time alone, you are afraid?" Glancing cautiously at Tang Cheng's side, Ma Dapeng glared at the boat boss with extreme dissatisfaction. "They sold ten long fires and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to the Li family on the shore, and I watched Li Fugui personally give them a bag of oceans, not to mention 200 fast oceans. You don't know what year it is now, 200 oceans is enough for Lao Tzu to kill a few boats of people, do it or not, you give a happy word. ”
was forced by Ma Dapeng, the boat boss had to grit his teeth and agree to Ma Dapeng, if he knew that Ma Dapeng was trampled on the ground by Lao Dongbei and pretended to be a dead dog, the boat boss would not agree to Ma Dapeng. The whispers of Ma Dapeng and the boat boss, Tang Cheng had long been secretly paying attention to them, although he couldn't hear what they said, but Tang Cheng knew that the people on this boat were not good people. "Brother Han, in a while, you will take a short gun with stones and go to the cabin to protect your sister-in-law and children, no matter who it is, as long as you find something wrong, you can just shoot, and leave the rest to me."
The two short guns captured from the Japanese army were left by Tang Cheng, and one was drawn out and given to Han Shanhu, Tang Cheng pulled the shell gun in his hand and pulled away the hammer, although it was now night and he could not see the situation on the river clearly, but Tang Cheng had already noticed that the ship seemed to have deviated from the course of departure. Tang Cheng is not a person who likes to kill, rather than facing the Chinese, but if the people on this ship want to use black hands to their disadvantage, Tang Cheng's hand carrying a short gun will not be soft.
Under the arrangement of the boat boss, the two boatmen slowly approached the old northeast with the sundries on the ship, and there were 8 shipwrights on the ship that Ma Dapeng found, counting the ship boss and Ma Dapeng himself, they had ten people. Ma Dapeng's idea is to kill the fierce-looking old Northeast and Liu Shishi with the money first, even if Tang Cheng finds out and crosses fire, as long as they get the ocean on Liu Shishi's body, they can abandon the boat and ignore the diving, Ma Dapeng doesn't believe that Tang Cheng can still drive the boat across the river by himself.
"Do it" With Ma Dapeng's shout, several boatmen on the ship made a move, and the two boatmen who were close to Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi threw the sundries in their arms to Lao Dongbei and them, and the boatmen who were hidden in the dark at the bow immediately rushed to Tangcheng with short weapons. Although he had already prepared for the worst, Tang Cheng was still a little surprised by the other party's sudden move, "pop" "pop" With the two gunshots, two balls of gunfire bloomed on the river in the night, and the two boatmen who threw the debris at Liu Shi and Lao Northeast were shot and fell to the ground, although the listing was not fatal, but it was enough for them to lie down.
The gunshots and the screams of the boatmen rang out on the boat one after the other, and the face of the boss of the ship who controlled the ship changed, and before he could turn his head to look at Ma Dapeng beside him, he heard several consecutive gunshots again. The boat boss knew that he was in a position to do this time, his men were all cold weapons, and the only ones who shot could only be the group of people who got on the boat and crossed the river, and when he thought of Tang Cheng's dark and deep eyes, the boat boss couldn't help but shudder.
"Uncle Ma, you are an old connoisseur of rice on the river, you can see if our course is off, we are still in a hurry to cross the river, it is not good to deviate from the course." The boat boss and Ma Dapeng were still in a daze, Tang Cheng's voice suddenly appeared behind them, and the frightened Ma Dapeng fell directly on the deck with weak legs. Tang Cheng's body had a good smell of gunpowder, which was the smell left after the shooting at close range just now, but the boat boss who asked about the smell of gunpowder had already been scared and trembled like chaff, for fear that this young master would also reward himself with a bullet.
"We just want to cross the river, as long as you send us to the other side of the river, you can go home alive, your work is still alive, but if it drags on for a long time, maybe you can bleed and die." Gently tapped the back of the boat boss with the barge gun in his hand, the latter was not only startled by Tang Cheng's full mouth of rivers and lakes, the barge gun that Tang Cheng used to hit his back was more like a lifeline in the hands of impermanence, which made the boat boss frightened.
Enduring the dizziness of vomiting, Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi carried short guns and cleared the boatmen who were not needed on the ship into the cabin, and the few injured boatmen just bandaged them casually, whether they died or not was their own business, and Lao Dongbei and the others didn't bother to care about these things. After shocking the ship boss and Ma Dapeng, the ship returned to its previous course, and Tang Cheng simply sat on the side of the ship, keeping an eye on the ship boss and Ma Dapeng.
The surface course is not comparable to the land march, Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi, who have vomited twice, have fallen asleep, and only Tang Cheng and Han Shanhu on the deck are still energetically monitoring the people on the ship, after what happened just now, the people on the ship are obviously much more honest. I don't know if God has appeared, or Ma Dapeng's prayer to God and worship Buddha has played a role, the Japanese motorboat that appears on the river from time to time has disappeared tonight, except for Ma Dapeng's design to sneak attack Tangcheng and their affairs, the whole voyage is unusually smooth.
Ma Dapeng and the others are all people who have been begging for a living on the river for a long time, and there are several private places on the opposite bank where they get on and off their goods, and the boat boss who was pointed at a gun by Tang Cheng did not need to be instructed, so he directly docked the boat on the outer edge of one of the shoals. "Uncle Ma, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that we don't know how to sail a boat, and we have to trouble you and this boat boss to personally drive us ashore on a sampan, as long as we go ashore, your errand will be considered alive." Ma Dapeng and the boss of the ship were pointed at the head by Tang Cheng with a gun, and they dared not agree, so they hurriedly commanded the shipwrights to put down the sampan, and the two personally drove the sampan to send Tang Cheng and them ashore.
It took a lot of effort for the two horses to get down from the boat to the sampan, and they finally tossed Tang Cheng and them to the shore, and the sky was already white and about to light up. "Stone, bring me a short gun." All went ashore, Tang Cheng took a short gun from Liu Shishi's hand and handed it to Ma Dapeng, "Uncle Ma, I said that I would give you a long gun when the good thing is done, but you are not authentic, so now the long gun has been replaced by a short gun, and the bullet is in your cabin, go back and look for it carefully." ”
Ma Dapeng still dared to deal with Tang Cheng about this, took the short gun, and rowed back to the big boat with the sampan head between the sampans and the boat boss in a hurry. "We're all ashore, what are you going to do with his guns, those two bastards wanted to throw us all into the water to feed the fish when they were on the boat." Lao Dongbei, who was still a little in good spirits, was quite puzzled by Tang Cheng's actions, his side had obviously taken the initiative, and besides, he didn't need Ma Dapeng when he went ashore, so why did he give him a short gun.
Tang Cheng glanced at Old Northeast, but he didn't explain, and only Old Man Han, who had never spoken, knew Tang Cheng's intentions. The Ma family took it with him, but Ma Dapeng first contacted the people of the Li family to buy and sell their rifles in Tang City, and later saw that the Li family had changed their minds, so he set his sights on the ocean where they sold guns in Tang City. If according to common sense, it is not an exaggeration for Tang Cheng to kill Ma Dapeng on the river, but Ma Dapeng is his old friend after all, Tang Cheng will inevitably make himself feel a gap in his heart, Tang Cheng gave Ma Dapeng a short gun, which is completely to see his own face.