Chapter 110: Suspicious Traces
(The second update, ask for a red ticket)
Before Changshan Island was dammed and surrounded by the lake, there was a grotto at the mouth of the valley, in which Lin Jian had taken refuge with Su Mei and others two years ago. After the dam was built to enclose the lake, the grotto was submerged under the lake.
Build a fortress on the south cliff, dig a well in the barracks, connect with the grottoes, and also communicate with the dam lake, usually just for the convenience of taking water directly in the barracks, but it is also a secret road to borrow the dam lake to camp.
Ning Zechen led the elite infantry soldiers of Feng Li's battalion to fight, attracting the attention of the Kou soldiers; Qin Chengzu sent more than 30 people in the camp to dive into the dam lake, and sneaked to the forest west of the dam lake in the twilight to think that he was a suspicious soldier.
On the entire northern slope, the Flying Tiger had gathered nearly 3,000 troops, and even though he personally led the elite to resist the frontal onslaught of Fengli Jianyong, he still maintained enough troops in the flank.
If the flank and rear forces were enough to roll thirty or fifty people into powder on the frontal battlefield, but at that time, they all attracted the attention of the fierce battle in front of the battalion gate, and they did not expect that there would be ambushes rushing out of the forest.
Like a small stone thrown into the calm water, panic quickly transmitted to the front. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even the extravagant Feihu was also panicked at that time, unable to discern the situation, and no matter how capable Tu Feihu was, he could not avoid the fate of being defeated......
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When Qin Zitan woke up, it was already dawn.
The huge pain from his left elbow made him want to die immediately,—— his consciousness was still a little blurred, he could feel the confused lights in front of him, and he heard someone say on the side: "Mr. Qin woke up......" Qin Zitan's heart was relieved, knowing that he had not fallen into the hands of Jiangdong Zuojun, and his arm was broken, at least he could save his life.
He personally planned the attack on Xisha Island last autumn, and killed more than 2,000 soldiers and civilians on Xisha Island with Cheng Yiqun, and broke the arm of Fu Qinghe, who was very dependent on Lin Tie.
Hearing the sound of hurried footsteps, Qin Zitan struggled to open his eyes and saw Hao Feihu and Cheng Yiqun coming.
He didn't worry about how many casualties this battle would cause, and after being defeated, the soldiers could flee into the dense forest. The forest is not deep, but the Changshan Island soldiers spread out and chase into the forest, and the lethality that can be caused is relatively limited, and Cheng Yiqun can also send warships along the island to accept the rout-Qin Zitan is worried about Hao Feihu and others, and the Changshan Island soldiers will definitely keep an eye on the well-armored and beautiful generals under the circumstances.
Seeing Qin Zitan struggling to speak, Hao Feihu said: "Nearly a thousand soldiers and horses were lost, fortunately, you led people to repair the cape fort in time, so that when we withdrew, we still have a foothold on the southwest beach, so we will not be driven into the sea in a hurry......" Speaking of this, he also sighed luckily, if there was no headland on the southwest beach to stabilize their position, at least seven or eight out of ten soldiers and horses on the island would be lost, and at this time, I regretted that I didn't listen to Qin Zitan's advice at the beginning, so I caused the current defeat.
Seeing Qin Zitan's broken arm, Hao Feihu was also heartbroken, and said, "The sky is about to dawn, in order to prevent the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division from attacking, I plan to defend the southwest beach first." The mouth of the southwest beach bay and the shallows are conducive to the deployment of our boat division. If the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division came before dusk, I would sail south and rush to Daheng Island at night. At that time, I will lead my infantry to land from the East Peninsula and contain the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army on Daheng Island. Do you think that's a good arrangement? ”
Qin Zitan moved his mouth, wanting to speak, but it was very laborious, he was worried that the second son would get into the tip of the horns and come out to fight Chongzhou, and the second son could focus on the overall situation of eastern Zhejiang, which would be great. If the second son fights with the eldest son, he must first keep the luxury family.
Although it is not clear about the situation of Daheng Island, since the Jiangdong Left Army is attacking at night, the warships will definitely be damaged a lot when they seize the beach, and there is no loss to the warships here, even if they meet the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army's boat division at sea, it is not a little bit, but Qin Zitan figured out a long-standing doubt, and also expected that Lin Tie would not press the strength of the boat division in his hand and fight with them at sea.
"Send someone to Jiyang and ask Xiao Taoyuan if he knows about the Chongzhou boy case, which can be said to be a luxury family!" Qin Zitan's lips squirmed, and when he said this with difficulty, he felt that the strength of his body was exhausted, and he fainted again.
"Xiao Taoyuan? Chongzhou boy case? Cheng Yiqun was surprised, he didn't know why Qin Zitan woke up and said such a sentence inexplicably, he didn't even know the details of the Baisha County robbery, how could he understand the meaning of Qin Zitan's words.
However, Qin Zitan gave Yu Feihu enough reminders, not to mention that at dusk, the meaning of what Qin Zitan said was that he suspected that the gang of people on Changshan Island had colluded with Lin Jian long before he became famous.
Extravagant Feihu frowned, he only considered this possibility at this time.
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At that time, Du Rong persuaded Tushan Island to scatter Zhao Laomo secretly, and Lu Feihu designed Du Rong to invite Su Mei to Baisha County, and made Zhao Laomo lead his troops to sneak to rob him, as Zhao Laomo's name, which was the beginning of the robbery in Baisha County.
With the assistance of Du Rong, Zhao Laomo was successfully robbed, but afterwards Zhao Laomo and his subordinates disappeared for no reason, and Su Mei and Lin Lian, Fu Qinghe and others involved in it returned to Jiangning one after another, and Lu Feihu, Du Rong, Qin Zitan and others have never understood what went wrong. No matter how strong Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe are, it is impossible for them to lurk on the boat and quietly kill Zhao Laomo and dozens of subordinates who lick blood and beg for a living, right?
After the autumn of last year, Lin Jian lightly focused on Jiangning and Chongzhou, and made frequent moves on Xisha Island.
At least before the Guangjiao Temple was uprooted by Lin Tie, the Luxury Feihu was clear about Chongzhou's movements, so they knew that the local forces in Chongzhou that were the first to belong to Lin Tie were not outsiders, but the brothers Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng, who lost their sons and nephews in the Chongzhou Tongzi case, and investigated the background of the Chongzhou Tongzi case by the way.
According to public information, a few days before the robbery in Baisha County, Chongzhou County gave a group of pirates a raid, and the county schoolboy was robbed and asked for 30,000 yuan in silver.
Strangely, no one in the East China Sea knows who did the crime.
Although the Donghai Kou, which was not controlled by the luxury family before, is very scattered and has many forces, there are also some rules: after receiving the ransom silver, there is no reason to tear up the ticket again - if any family dares to do this, it will provoke other Donghai Kou to attack it.
Qin Zitan suspected that Xiao Tao had a ghost at that time.
Xiao Tao is greedy and ruthless, as a military attache of the imperial court, he personally led more than 100 henchmen to intercept a handful of pirates, what good intentions can he have?
Qin Zitan suspected that the pirates who committed the robbery had actually been annihilated by Xiao Taoyuan on Xisha Island, and then it was only Xiao Taoyuan's cronies who escaped by luck, and the ransom silver was finally taken away by Xiao Taoyuan secretly, of course he would not leave those living mouths again. The slain boys may have been thrown into the sea or on some desert island.
Because the brothers Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng are not well-known figures, the Hu family can only be regarded as a small clan in Chongzhou, and Qin Zitan and they did not conduct an in-depth investigation into the Chongzhou boy case. Even if they suspect that Xiao Tao has a ghost, they are just suspicious, and without evidence in hand, they can't coerce such a character.
After guessing that Lin Tie might have colluded with the gang of Changshan Island at the beginning of the rise of Jiangning, Qin Zitan suddenly linked the Baisha County robbery case with the Chongzhou boy case, and thought that the Chongzhou boy case was likely to be Zhao Laomo and his subordinates went to Baisha County to do private work when they passed through Chongzhou, so that many doubts and coincidences could be explained clearly, and the time was also right.
Just as they didn't know that Zhao Laomo led his subordinates through Chongzhou to rob boys, Xiao Tao was far from knowing that Zhao Laomo's troops who annihilated him on Xisha Island robbed Su Mei and the little barbarian master and servant in Baisha County - Fu Qinghe took the boat in Baisha County, and Lin Jian also killed people in Baisha County, but they quietly hid on the boat at that time, and then waited for the opportunity to rescue Su Mei and the little barbarian master and servant, and it was not impossible for them to use their skills.
Extravagant Feihu suddenly realized that he was as stupid as a pig, and with the relationship between Lin Jian and Su Mei who suddenly became close after returning to Jiangning, he should have guessed this, this is simply certain.
When Xiao Taoyuan led his troops to surround and beat Zhao Laome, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe, who were hiding on the boat, should be able to take advantage of the chaos to save Su Mei and the little barbarian master and servant.
With Lin Bin's wisdom, it should not be difficult to see through Xiao Taoyuan's intentions at that time, but there were not many enemies at that time, so the four of them could only continue to hide on the boat and follow out to sea. After going to sea, he will kill Xiao Taoyuan's subordinates who are sent to pretend to be pirates and rescue the robbed boy - as long as Xiao Taoyuan personally leads a large number of subordinates to follow him to sea, with the skills of Fu Qinghe and Lin Tie, it is not difficult to secretly kill several of Xiao Taoyuan's henchmen after going to sea.
This also explains why Fu Qinghe delayed his return to Jiangning for a long time, and also explains why Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng brothers took the risk of breaking with the local government before Lin Tie had no power in Chongzhou.
Perhaps at that time, Lin Tie and Fu Qinghe colluded with the gang of people who had just arrived on Changshan Island to gain a foothold, and Fu Qinghe took the robbed Chongzhou boy to temporarily live on Changshan Island, and Lin Tie returned to Jiangning to secretly respond - this also explains that when Lin Tie rose in Jiangning, Jiyun Society did merchant shipping affairs at the beginning, and it also explains that this gang opened up wasteland and built dams and forts at the beginning of the occupation of Changshan Island two years ago.
Without Lin Lian's support in Jiangning, and without Lin Lian's natural talent, how could ordinary pirates manage a small desert island in two years?
This also explains why Changshan Island will take refuge in Lin Tie, which is fundamentally supported by Lin Tie to develop.
This can also explain why Xiao Taoyuan paid extra attention to the situation in Chongzhou after the Chongzhou boy case, and even set up an army to garrison the cottage - he was simply in case of someone suddenly exposing the Chongzhou boy case one day.
After the First Battle of Jiyang, Gu Wuchen intended to rein in Xiao Taoyuan, and Xiao Taoyuan also became close to Gu Wuchen, but Lin Tie and Xiao Taoyuan vowed not to stand, forcing Xiao Taoyuan to join Yue Lengqiu - this can also explain why Lin Tie did everything possible to force the forces of the water camp in Ninghai Town out of Chongzhou.
The most fundamental point is that Xuan Feihu and Qin Zitan began to wonder why Lin Tie gave up the great opportunity to attack them with the ambush troops on Changshan Island, and took the risk to attack Daheng Island, and even did not hesitate to put the base camp Chongzhou in a dangerous place where there were no soldiers to defend - Lin Tie was simply afraid that the battle at sea would cause too much damage to the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division, and he was unable to deal with Xiao Taoyuan's rebellion.
In other words, once the secret chess of Changshan Island surfaced, Xiao Taoyuan should be able to guess everything.
It is also impossible to see through this, so they will fall into Lin Bin's suspicious plan, and yesterday they defeated the ambush soldiers on Changshan Island.
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Extravagant Feihu clenched his fists, and it didn't feel good to let others play with it. Although everything was still his and Qin Zitan's speculation, it was very simple to confirm, just send someone across the sea to see Xiao Taoyuan immediately. If the guess is true, Xiao Taoyuan will definitely betray him.