Chapter 11: Banditry

"Hundreds of people of the Shu family are waiting for the eldest prince to come to the rescue, the eldest prince is loyal to the luxury family, please save the Shu family!"

Shu Qingqiu and his two sons wept bitterly and kowtowed on the deck, begging bitterly.

Wearing a blue-scaled armor, his hair tied back at will, and the scarlet helmet was held behind him by Sui Hu, he was tall, his eyes were as sharp as lightning, and his beard that had not been taken care of for a whole month covered his chin, making him look heroic.

"Is this forest bound really so tricky? I think you're still too incompetent, and you can't even handle a small levy lang or a big prison! Ignoring Shu Qingqiu, who was lying on the deck and pleading, he turned his face to look at Qin Zitan and asked in a cold voice.

When they withdrew from Anji County, there was a brief engagement with Lin Tie in Meixi Lake, but the two thousand stone boats took advantage of the wind to travel very fast and quickly get rid of the entanglement, they did not know that Qin Zitan, Du Rong and others acted without authorization and were ambushed by Lin Tie, plus they were going to retreat to Taihu Lake to meet the water division of Ninghai Town, so they did not turn around and pursue, but they encountered the remnants of Qin Zitan and Shujiazhai soldiers who were disabled in Zhuxi.

"If this son is not removed, he will be a big trouble for the henchmen of the luxury family one day!" Qin Zitan pressed the arrow wound on his shoulder with his hand and said stiffly.

Qin Zitan is conceited and intelligent, and he has calculated the world, but he has not suffered today's losses. He didn't expect that Lin Tie was not in a hurry to leave Anji County in such a situation, but dared to set up an ambush for them at the mouth of the lake, the battle at the mouth of Meixi Lake, Du Rong was killed, Qin Zitan and Shu Qingqiu fled north, and another ambush boat appeared on the road where they escaped. Fortunately, there were no elites on the second ambush ship, and they escaped from the entanglement after losing more than 30 people, but Qin Zitan was hit by an arrow in the shoulder and was injured a little.

Lin Tie did not retreat to Taihu Lake after the battle at the mouth of Meixi Lake, but continued to fight back towards Anji County, which also surprised Qin Zitan, until he met the Extravagant Flying Bear, and guessed that Lin Tie's return to Anji County was to counterattack Shujiazhai to revenge the Shu family for setting a trap for him.

Qin Zitan reluctantly pulled out the arrow, wrapped it briefly, and went to the boat to see the eldest prince, at this time, to get rid of the forest binding, the only way to use the power in the hands of the eldest prince.

"Hmph, you said it lightly, do you want me to wipe your butts for you?" Extravagant Fei Xiong snorted coldly.

Extravagant Fei Xiong led the crowd to attack Anji County, mainly to lure the naval division warships of Ninghai Town to attack. He retreated to Taihu Lake at this time to meet with the second batch of Donghai Kou elites who attacked Taihu Lake, and then find an opportunity to fight with the Ninghai Town Sailor in Taihu Lake; At this time, he returned to Anji County to pursue Lin Tie, even if he succeeded in killing Lin Tie, but the two groups of Donghai Kou elites missed the opportunity to join forces, and there would be a huge risk of breaking the water division of Ninghai Town.

How could it be possible to give up the set goal and put the whole army in danger in order to kill one person?

Qin Zitan's face was depressed, thinking that Lin Jian must have seen through the joints in this to dare to act so boldly.

Extravagant Fei Xiong remembered that Qin Zitan was also working for the luxury family, reprimanded, his tone slowed down slightly, and said: "I'll give you two boats, and then give you two teams to call, whether you can rescue the Shu family, it's up to you......"

Qin Zitan, Shu Qingqiu, father and son moved to the loach boat, and watched as the extravagant flying bear led his troops towards Taihu Lake.

No matter how small a sea ship is, it is much larger than the boats that travel in inland rivers. The loach hull is narrow and long, nearly eight zhang long before and after, the head and tail are raised high, the mast is six zhang high, and the sail takes advantage of the wind, and its speed is like a loach shuttling between the waves; When the wind direction is unfavorable, there are four large oars for 16 people to operate, and the speed is still fast, and the carrying capacity is about three or four hundred stones.

Different from ordinary loach boats, the two ships allocated to Qin Zitan by Luxury Feixiong are reconstructed and reinforced warships, which are the most commonly used ships in the East China Sea. There are iron bars and hook guns in the bow; Thick female wall panels are set around the side side and the war shed, which can avoid knives and guns, and cover the cowhide for fire and oil protection.

If they suddenly met in the early morning, the three ships they were on were all this kind of loach warships, and Qin Zitan would still have the confidence to fight with Lin Tie.

At this time, although Qin Zitan had four ships in his hands, supplemented by nearly 180 elite combat forces of the two teams, plus nearly 300 Shujia soldiers and miscellaneous boatmen, his strength was stronger than before the ambush, but Lin Lian's two ships had also converged into one place, and the strength exceeded their side, the most important thing was that they watched Du Rong and more than 80 elites, village soldiers, and miscellaneous shipwrights on the ship annihilate Lin Lian almost effortlessly, and their morale was seriously shaken.

Except for the three fathers and sons of the Shu family and the soldiers of the Shu family, no one here is willing to return to Anji County to fight to the death with Lin Bin.

Qin Zitan couldn't help but think that if he could give himself twice as many men and ships, he might be more sure.

Qin Zitan looked at Shu Qingqiu and didn't speak.

Shu Qingqiu looked at the direction of Shujiazhai, when the sky was far away, a cluster of fires was also very clear in the daytime, Shujiazhai had already burned a fire, and it should be Lin Tie who attacked Shujiazhai when the time was calculated. Shu Qingqiu's old face was full of vicissitudes and tears, and he said bitterly: "The old man can't harm Mr. Qin for his own selfishness, if this son dares to kill the Shu family, I only hope that Mr. Qin will remember to avenge the Shu family in the future." ”

Qin Zitan breathed a sigh of relief and said: "No matter how bold Lin Jian is, he will not kill the Shu family, he will most likely escort people to Jiangning with the boat to wait for trial; Let's go to Xishan Island and join Cheng Yiqun and the others, only the eldest prince can defeat the Ninghai Town Naval Division's warship, and we will have a chance to intercept Lin Tie in Taihu Lake......"

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Still the original plan, Shu Qingqiu's younger brother and Shu Qingdong, the second master of Shujiazhai, led more than 100 soldiers who stayed behind to escort the Shu family to Taihu Lake after the Donghai Kou withdrew from Anji County, and took advantage of the invading Donghai Kou to attract the main force of Ninghai Town, Jiahang Mansion and Huzhou Mansion garrisons, and seek opportunities to go to sea from the territory of Jiahang Mansion, and then belong to the luxury family.

In addition to the Shu family, there are nearly 300 people in the family of the soldiers, and there are also a large number of cages and packages to be loaded onto the ship, which have been preparing since before dark yesterday, and have not been prepared for the final evacuation until noon today.

Shu Qingdong was worried that officers and soldiers would come to Anji County by land, so he sent people to urge him again and again, and also gave an ultimatum to each house, waiting for at most an hour to set fire to the village and sail on time.

Lin Tie received accurate information from Shujiazhai more than ten miles away from Shujiazhai, like a vicious tiger pounced, with lightning speed, defeated dozens of soldiers near the Shujiazhai dock, controlled the dock and the six large canopy boats parked at the dock to be launched, and immediately made Ao Canghai, Ning Zechen led more than 200 soldiers and homeless people to attack Shujiazhai.

At that time, Shu Qingdong was making the soldiers set fire to the village, and as soon as the fire started, he learned that the dock was attacked, and led the crowd to rescue the village, which caught Ao Canghai by surprise and retreated to the village in a hurry. The fire in the village has been burned and difficult to control, and the village has been closed for half an hour, and people continue to suffocate and fall down to the smoke of the fire, and finally open the gate of the village in embarrassment and abandon the weapon and surrender.

After the Shujia Zhai affair was completed, Lin Jian captured more than 400 Shujia soldiers and the Shu family's family members and the families of the Shu family, and tied the six large canopy sailboats that the Shu family planned to withdraw from the sea to the tail of "Jiyun II" and escorted them to Anji County.

Anji County has been burned to ashes, when Lin Tie entered the city, the city gate building still has smoky ashes with sparks falling down, a street house in the east city gate has been burned down for most of the house, hundreds of corpses lying on the street, mostly for the Donghai Koudang Street killed Anji County knife archers and fast arrest officials, there are also many civilians.

There was also a male corpse wearing a green official robe, half of his head had been cut off, white brains, and bright red blood mixed with ashes, which flowed all over the ground and trampled on countless people; According to the rank, only the county governor of Anji County is eligible to wear green official robes.

Seeing that Anji Zhixian was still holding a knife in his hand when he died, facing the direction of the East City Gate that was broken by Donghai Kou, Lin Jian asked someone to find a coffin and put his body in it.

After the withdrawal of the Donghai Kou, no one in the county came forward to maintain order, and the ruffians took advantage of the fire to loot, looting houses, raping and adulterous women, and Lin Jian sent people to arrest more than ten robbers who took advantage of the fire to behead them on the street to show the public, so as to stabilize the order in the city.

Anji County is small, the city only has two gates, the east and west gates, the ring city is less than five miles of road, and the calculated area is only equivalent to the Jinchuan estuary. The main street connects the east and west gates, and the houses along the street have been the most damaged, and there is hardly a single shop or house that has not been looted or set on fire. The county government, the county jail, the official warehouse and other buildings were all set on fire, only the fire in the courtyard of the former ya's signature room was extinguished early, the beams and pillars were not damaged, and Lin Tie was temporarily stationed in the signing room.

Although it was unlikely that the Donghai Kou would kill the horse pistol, Lin Jian still asked Ao Canghai, Ning Zechen and others to set up obstacles such as rejecting horses to block the east and west city gates, strictly control the people entering and leaving the city, and also prevent the Donghai Kou from mixing in with the extravagant family's spies or sending information out.

After the order of the county settled down, the surviving Anji County officials, squires, catchers, and officials led by the lord Bo Li Jiyuan came out of the shelter one after another. Lin Jian handed over the county's public security and endgame to the surviving officials of Anji County headed by Li Jiyuan to clean up, and he only negotiated with Li Jiyuan for a large mansion that had not been burned down to hold the prisoners of Shujiazhai.

When the sky was about to fall into the night, Liu Xingming, who joined the army of Huzhou Mansion, led more than 1,000 horse infantry to enter Anji County by land, and Lin Jian handed over the defense of the county seat to the Huzhou Mansion's horse infantry, and also handed over the Shu family prisoners with conclusive evidence of bandits to the local government.

The Shu family planned to carry it out to sea, and loaded a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, and armor on six large awning boats.

Lin Tie only claimed without authorization to squeeze out 3,000 taels of grain and silver from the grain and silver he raised on this trip in the name of the Inspector and Envoy Department to donate it to Anji to rebuild the county seat, and handed over two large awning boats and some seriously damaged armor to the Huzhou Mansion as evidence of the Shu family's banditry, and the other gold, silver and jewelry converted into more than 20,000 taels of silver, more than 200 pairs of armor and other materials and four large canopy boats were all collected by Lin Tie into his personal pocket.

In the middle of the night, Wu Qi and Zhu Whistle rushed back from the mouth of Zhuxi and brought back the latest situation in the waters of Taihu Lake.

In the afternoon, another group of Haikou came in the western waters of Taihu Lake, the number of people is unknown, but the ships such as the loach boat were fifty percent more than the Donghai Kou who attacked Anji County, and after the two shareholders joined forces, they met and fought in the waters of Taihu Lake outside the mouth of Zhuxi at dusk with the warships of the three battalions of the Navy Division of Ninghai Town, which had rushed to besiege the Donghai Kou. The naval division of Ninghai Town did not have a strong will to fight, and fought and retreated from the beginning of contact, and completely disengaged as soon as it was dark, and took advantage of the wind to evacuate in the direction of Taihu Lake West and Yixing County.

"We can't wait until the Donghai Kou have completely defeated the water camp in Ninghai Town and leave the country before passing through Taihu Lake and returning to Chongzhou," Lin Jian said, looking at the shoddy map on the table, pointing to the northeast corner of Anji County, near the capital of Huzhou, "We will go around Bilang Lake to Zhejiang, and from Zhejiang to the sea back to Xisha Island." ”

(Note: Zhejiang is the Qiantang River, the ancient name is Zhejiang)

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