Outside the back wall of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, twenty carriages lined up, almost occupying most of the street, more than a dozen coolies continued to carry bags of grain from the Xiaoxiang Pavilion and loaded them into the carriages, each carriage was only loaded with a bottom, obviously Zhou Furong was very cautious, and ordered the loading of the carts after completing the task assigned by Hu Yifei. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's just that those coolies look quite familiar, it turns out that He Chong's movements are faster, and when Zhou Furong's mind is on poisoning, he replaced all the coolies with the brothers in the barracks.

"Why doesn't the government just ask?" asked Yu Piaoling curiously.

"They all sweep the snow in front of their own doors, don't care about the frost on others, no one wants to meddle in things, not to mention reporting to the government, they are backed by authority. ”

Chang Wei explained while fiddling with the waist card that Yan Ruyu found from Hu and Lai, that the waist card was made of cooked copper, with a round head, tied with red silk strips, and a tiger head on the front, which was wonderful and beautiful.

Under the tiger's head is the word 'guard' in the seal text, and the back is the surname of the two people, although the waist card is exquisite, but it can't see any doorway, but Guan Wei can recognize it at a glance, obviously it has a great origin, but unfortunately Chang Wei and He Chong are not officials in Zhejiang Province, so they have to talk about it in the future.

While thinking about it, He Chong turned to Chang Wei and complained: "Young Master, why are you so slow, everyone is waiting for the result from your side!"

I don't know how Yu Piaoling and Qingluan Fang said it to He Chong, thinking that there is nothing good to say, Chang Wei couldn't help glaring at the second daughter, Yu Piaoling spit out her tongue mischievously, but Qingluan's eyes were quite pleading, as if she was unwilling to make the poisoning public.

"The martial arts of this guy are stronger than you think!" Chang Wei always wanted to explain, and then ordered: "Arrest Zhou Furong!"

Zhou Furong was much more difficult than he imagined, but fortunately, He Chong was a master of the criminal master, and his ability to capture the psychological activities of the prisoner was breathtaking, and finally used his concubine to break through his mental defense, not only confessed the location of the confrontation with the Japanese Kou, but also the whereabouts of Song Tingzhi.

"Dinghai...... Zhaobao Town, it's here!" He Chong searched for a long time before finding the delivery location from the map: "It's about fifty or sixty miles away from Ningbo Mansion, the carriage runs quickly, and it will arrive in two hours, just in time for the joint." Fu Xijue, where are they now?"

"Here, Guanhaiwei, is about one hundred and twenty miles away from Zhaobao Town, and the two hours of the rapid march are almost here. ”

Chang Wei pointed to the map, looked at it carefully, and shook his head again: "There is no official road between these two places, and I'm afraid it will take a long time." ”

"In this way, plus the time to deliver the letter to him, no matter how fast Fu Xijue moves, he will be four hours later than us. He Chong groaned: "Zhou Furong said that last time to transport grain, Okita sent more than 100 Japanese soldiers to meet for safety. ”

"If you are in the barracks, I will treat you for the crime of shaking the morale of the army first!"

Chang Wei glared at He Chong: "I am unprepared, unprepared, unprepared, thirty against a hundred, and our nine masters, and we can't beat the Japanese and simply jump into the sea." ”

"What's more, although the Japanese are aggressive, they dare not stay in one place for a long time, and when they get on and off the ship, there will be a gap for me to ride. I'm worried that if Okita breaks his wrist and abandons one part to avoid entanglement with us, the extermination of the Japanese camp will be in vain. ”

It was midnight when the carriage departed, and with Guan Wei's care, it went out of the city smoothly. The coachmen naturally replaced the baggage soldiers, and in the army they were best at transporting grain and grass, and at this time they were very handy in their old trade, although it was dark, but the carriage still ran fast and steady.

Chang Wei pretended to be the main task of the trip, Lao He changed into coolie clothes, and Yan Ruyu, Yu Piaoling, and Qingluan hid in the grain stacks on the carriage - no matter how much they put on makeup, they were too far from the handlebar-style image.

Because he was afraid that Zhou Furong would be in the battle against the water and cause a big event, he and a few of his comrades were knocked unconscious and locked in his residence in Xiaoxiang Pavilion, although he might be discovered as soon as it was dawn, but at that time it was himself and Guan Wei who had a headache.

The soldiers knew that they would soon have a tough battle, so they consciously took turns to rest, Chang Wei forced the three girls to sleep, and he also took a nap with He Chong. There was nothing to do all the way, and by the time the day dawned, the convoy was less than a mile away from the agreed junction location - a three-way intersection outside Zhaobao Town.

"Old Sun, go and find out what's going on in front of you. ”

Chang Wei gave an order, and a man left. Whenever he arrived, scouts must be sent first, and after staying in the army for a long time, this good habit Chang Wei has always maintained, although there are large paddy fields and no sheltered places, he still sends people out as usual, but the convoy does not stop, only slows down.

After a while, Lao Sun took the two of them back together, one of them looked at everyone, and then walked straight to Chang Wei, and opened his mouth in a very fluent official dialect: "Why didn't Zhou Dongzhu come?"

Chang Wei explained that Zhou Furong had a miscarriage in the room and took care of the woman at home, while looking at the visitor, he walked solidly and steadily, his arms and wrists were thick, and his hands were calloused, obviously he was a powerful knife master.

The man said 'oh' and said no more. After handing the voucher to Chang Wei, he came to the carriage, counted the quantity, and tied a few tubes of rice with a bamboo tube to check it, and said: "The old rule, you drive the carriage to the three-way crossing, and you can make a difference." ”

The Japanese did not trust Zhou Furong, and the grain was only delivered to the three forks, so they had to hand over the cart to the Japanese Kou, leaving only one carriage for the coachman to return, and no one knew where the big ship stopped.

However, it became extremely unrealistic to attack Okita, because even if it was still dark, it would be difficult to track down the enemy on this almost endless plain, let alone surprise attack.

Therefore, when the convoy arrived at the fork, the man wrote a receipt, saying that he wanted to leave the carriage of food, Chang Wei was immediately surprised: "Ah? The carriage should also be left? Don't laugh, without the carriage, what will we rely on to eat in the future!"

Everyone clamored according to the plan, and the man was also taken aback: "Didn't Zhou Dongzhu tell you okay? The silver for the carriage has already been given to him." ”

"But you didn't give it to us!" everyone shouted, Chang Wei also explained that Zhou Furong only said that the grain would be delivered, and did not mention the carriage: "None of us know anyone, everyone is happy that the silver and goods are clear, either you give me the silver and I sell the car, or unload the grain here, and we will rush back." As for how to calculate the account between you and Boss Zhou, anyway, you are old friends, and it is just a matter of one sentence, or I will also give you a note?"

When the dozen or so widows who came to pick up the car heard the quarrel, they all slowly gathered around, although they all changed into peasant clothes, but they wore long knives around their waists, and several people even held the handle of the knife, looking impatient to do it.

The man hurriedly glanced at his companion, glanced at Zhaobao Town in the distance, and said after a while: "It's okay, so that the proprietor of my family and the proprietor of Zhou can settle the account, but we don't have any silver with us, you wait here first, and I'll go get the silver." ”

"This thief's vigilance is really high!" Chang Wei was secretly anxious in his heart, and a person came up behind the man and whispered a few words in his ear, but it was a whisper. Others can't hear it, but Chang Wei can hear it clearly.

The words "sun", "time", and "kill" were emphasized, as if to remind the person in charge that it was almost dawn, and time might be too late, so he simply killed Chang Wei and the others.

The man really frowned, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "We are in a hurry, and we are afraid that we will make a mistake, so why don't you send the grain to the ground and take the silver by the way?"

"It turned out that I wanted to avoid this traffic artery and kill people again, hehe, I don't know who killed whom!" secretly happy in his heart, but he was bargaining: "It's good to be in a hurry, but it's not far away?"

"I won't lose your wages. The man turned and walked towards the carriage at the front, leaving a very low voice in the morning breeze, and his tone was full of disgust and contempt.

"Han ......"

"Thief!"

Chang Wei's heart suddenly rose with anger, and he scolded secretly: "Boy, count your fate, young master, I will pick you to sacrifice a new knife!"

Twenty carriages meander eastward like a long dragon. The breeze blows, sending bursts of rice flowers, but also sending a faint smell of the sea, although I have never seen the sea, but I also know that the convoy is not far from the sea.

Chang Wei sat with the thief, leaving the task of leaving marks along the way to He Chong. The thief was very talkative, and without a trace spied on the information of Ningbo Prefecture, the geographical and local characters, there was no one he was not interested in, and even asked about the price of rice in the city and the value of meat, and the interesting thing was that he even hinted that he was a member of the military.

And Chang Wei is making up nonsense, barely one of the ten sentences is true, presumably because the sea ban has made him sad during this period of time, and he has set the target of the invasion in the rich Ningbo.

After walking for half an hour, the terrain gradually rose and fell, climbed a hillside, the ground suddenly widened in front of me, the endless sea waves were magnificent, the sea and the sky intersected, a round of red sun was erupting, the golden light of ten thousand clouds was reflected brilliantly, and even the white sails on the big ship not far from the shore were like fire.

The west side of the hillside should be the remnants of Jiaomen Mountain, the highest mountain in Ningbo, and the other side is the bay, there are five sampans moored on the shore, and there is no one on the sampan, rippling with the waves.

The big ship 100 paces offshore is very familiar, and it is the one that meets Okita in Jinshanwei Heishi Village, and there are many people on board. On the opposite hillside, more than 100 horses are grazing, and forty or fifty widows next to them form a big circle and drink and have fun, in the middle of the circle, a thin monkey-like thief is bare-chested and bare-chested, dancing a strange dance, he saw the carriage, and waved while dancing, and many people turned their heads when they saw this, and followed the strange scream.

"What's the ghost called!" Chang Wei cursed in his heart, shook the silk reins, and shouted loudly, "You have to drive!", and drove the carriage down the hill.

Fifty zhang, forty zhang, thirty zhang, the face of the enemy on the opposite side became clearer and clearer, and even the dancer Chang Wei recognized that it was the Okita group who had a battle in the naval battle, and he was even more excited: "Get closer, get closer! Rabbit cub, dare to play in my Ming land, I really don't know whether to live or die, I want to be reincarnated as soon as possible, Lao Tzu will send you to see the king of Hades today!"

It would not take long to annihilate the unsuspecting enemy in front of him, and even the horses could be slaughtered before Okita could come to his aid from the sea, which would greatly weaken the enemy's combat power and deal a heavy blow to the morale of the enemy, who valued mobility. In the face of such a once-in-a-lifetime heaven-sent opportunity, Chang Wei's heart was full of war.

In the corner of his eye, he saw that the hand of the widow beside him quietly touched the handle of the knife, and Chang Wei sneered in his heart: "You want to kill me, the best chance is when I count the silver, you uncivilized barbarian really can't hold your breath! But, twenty zhang, this distance is almost the same, it's time to send you to the western sky!"

With his mind moving, the short sword Rachel had already roared out from his waist, drawing a bright arc of Aomori in the morning glow!

"Brothers, break your fast!"

"Kill!"

At the same time as Chang Wei shouted the secret signal, the widow beside him also roared, and a blue beam flew up from his waist and met Rachel like lightning. The two of them started almost at the same time, and he was only half a beat slower, and the speed of the knife was amazing.

The two knives collided with each other without any fancy fancy, and even the man with the knife was knocked out at once, and the castration of the knife was faster than the momentum, and the "poof" slashed on the shoulder of the guy, and cut off one of the arms whole, along with the body of its master. The bones rolled down the hill.

"This guy is Susukita Hayato!"

Chang Wei had an epiphany about his identity, such an excellent knife drawing technique, naturally he was the fifth person in the Okita group, known as the 'Windward Slash' Bo Tian, who hit Okita's right-hand man hard, Chang Wei couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then listened to the continuous screams behind him, almost all of them were Japanese words, and the corpses that flew over Chang Wei's head were also the corpses of the Japanese Kou, knowing that the soldiers had completely controlled the situation with the help of He Chong and the three women, so they concentrated all their energy on the enemy on the opposite hillside.

The incident happened suddenly, and the Japanese were so stunned that they forgot to hurry up and get on their horses to prepare for the battle, and even Kondo stood dumbfounded and motionless.

The convoy blinked to the bottom of the slope like a rushing stream, and then passed through the narrow flat land of less than five feet, and the enemy on the opposite side was the fish on the chopping board to be slaughtered by itself, and the fruits of victory were already within reach.

But just as Chang Wei's carriage drove on the flat ground, a sudden change occurred, Kondo Gobei smiled strangely, and suddenly shouted in Japanese language, and the Japanese on the hillside seemed to come to life all at once, and quickly lined up in two rows, the front row was half squatting, the back row was upright, and more than 40 Japanese guns were aimed at Chang Wei and the convoy in unison.