Chapter 21 Undercover

A small boat carrying the remnants of the family rushed across the side of the three overwhelmed warships and came directly to the vicinity of the grain ships. Because they came with the wind, they were so fast that they hit the boats of those grain boats like this. These boats are also like other boats, with many sharp nails in front of their heads. Once they hit the target, they are closely connected with them.

Now, I panicked when I saw the soldiers who had just finished the first three warships. You should know that the ship here is full of burnable food. Once it is really ignited, is it okay? Therefore, many of the soldiers have begun to think about how to jump off the ship. The food is only a problem for the imperial court, but if there is a fire here, they are doomed.

But these boats did not burn up after hitting the big ship, because the people on the ship did not want the food to be burned. Their purpose was only to seize the food, and then use it as a bargaining chip to force the court to release people. When the two ships collided and the officers and soldiers on it were in a mess and could not be defended for the time being, the people in the boat climbed up at a surprising speed.

Once they got on the boat from the bottom, these people immediately took a fierce hand and cut the windy knife straight at any soldier beside them. Obviously, the soldiers were not ready to fight, but they fought separately. After hurriedly resisting a few times, they were cut down on the deck one by one. Blood then spread in the boat and flowed into the muddy river.

However, the attackers did not even blink their eyes. After dealing with the enemies on one ship as quickly as possible, they jumped from the side of the ship and jumped to another adjacent ship. They are all good at martial arts, and their opponents have fallen into chaos, so the killing is very smooth. In a short period of time, they have captured five grain ships in a row, and hundreds of officers and soldiers have been killed by them.

It was not until this time that the generals among the officers and soldiers were relieved: "They don't want to burn food. Let's form a line of defense quickly and prevent them from approaching!"

After they said this, the ships on the river changed again. Someone suddenly heard the pounding sound of the ship below. When the soldiers followed the sound, they were surprised to see that holes had appeared on the floor of the cabin below. At the same time, the turbid river is rising from the hole, and several inches of water has entered the cabin in a blink of an eye, and the hole has begun to slowly expand!

This is the people of the Cao Gang who began to cooperate. Many of them are proficient in water. As early as the two sides, they took the opportunity to go into the water and then opened a mouth under the grain boat with a chisel. At this time, the officers and soldiers were even more panicked. Although they were sailors, once there were no ships, it would be too difficult to fight with the enemy. And the ship is full of food. Once the ship sinks, there will be nothing left.

So the sergeants went all the way to prevent the ship from leaking and sinking, and the others were difficult to exert their normal combat effectiveness as usual because of this concern in their hearts. However, in just over half an hour, several grain ships were seized by the remnants of the family. By this time, the casualties of the officers and soldiers had risen to 500.

Sun Qianling and other main members of the Cao Gang were looking at what happened in front of them on another ship, and their hearts were also full of doubts: "Why do the officers and soldiers look completely unprepared? They already know that we will grab food here. Why don't they prepare? Do they really want the food to be taken away?

And Ye Chao and others who were fighting in front of them were very excited. If they continued, they could successfully seize the food, and then they could use it as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the court. Such an idea makes their hands more energetic. With every knife cut, they can cut off the officers and soldiers all out. It can be said that the war has completely fallen into their hands.

But what no one knows is that on the shore a few miles away from the surface of the battle, several pairs of eyes are looking at the battle on the water. These people are the important figures of Xu Jinghong, Lao Gou, Xiong Geng, Mao Shun and other national security departments.

Since he already has such a bold and crazy idea, Xu Jinghong must have his own firm supporters. Sun Zaiyuan is one, and for the others, he gave priority to Xiong Geng and the old dog. Both of them came out of the mine in the southwest with him. They had no good impression on the court, and the relationship between the three was so close that it was naturally easy to get their recognition. After all, life is only a few decades, and if they can do such a big thing in their lifetime, it is also quite powerful for them.

And Mao Shun came over by himself, because he accidentally heard the conversation between Xu Jinghong and the old dog. As a sergeant who had seen too many court's unfair practices towards generals and soldiers, Mao Shun also quickly stood on Xu Jinghong's side. Because he believes that Xu Jinghong, who was born in the army, will not treat the army badly after he gains power, and his tough style can also make Song more proactive in foreign wars, rather than being passively beaten as before.

Except for the three most trusted people around him, Xu Jinghong did not risk to attract others. Because he knows very well that there are too many people in the world who see the rudder. Once he really has that strength, many people will naturally gather under his command, otherwise these people will only defect. So you don't need to trust too many people. It's good to have these three or five people.

"Team Zheng, do you think those traitors can really succeed in taking down the food this time?" The old dog looked at the firelight in the distance and asked. Obviously, he doesn't have a score in his heart, and he doesn't think this manpower can succeed.

"Nineteen out of ten can succeed." Xu Jinghong also looked at the battlefield in the distance, with a sastic smile in his mouth: "You should know that the food in the hands of the family was also destroyed in this way."

"But the situation at that time was different from now." Mao Shun also said uncertainly, "At that time, there were people who killed movies, and at that time it was mainly destroyed, but today it is completely taken down!" There are some things that may be able to hide the truth or the ordinary people at that time, but they are not too difficult to explain to those who really want to find out. Moreover, the National Security Department was mainly collecting intelligence, so the truth of what happened on the canal that day could not be hidden from them.

"Destroy and robbery are actually almost the same. As long as the people who guard the food in front of them are killed, it will belong to them. As for the people of Shadow Killing Hall... If it is more than assassination or fighting on land, the people of the Cao Gang can't compare. But now it is on the water. As long as the Cao Gang has a series of preparations, its combat effectiveness will be far better than that of Yingying Hall. After all, this kind of large-scale battle is not comparable to those fighting alone.

Now, the two people who questioned each other's ability stopped talking, because they knew that what Xu Jinghong said was indeed reasonable, and the battle was doomed to its end from the beginning. The only thing that can change the result is that they will take action, but for their own sake, they will never take action to save it.

Everything has also developed as Xu Jinghong hoped and expected. The battle lengthen with time, which was not reversed, but was even more unfavorable to the officers and soldiers. Because I don't know how it happened, two of the grain boats were flooded over the warning line and finally sank to the bottom with the boat full of grain.

In this way, the sergeants became even more nervous, and their fight with the enemy became more flustered. Some people fell into a pool of blood, and some people secretly jumped off the boat and swam quickly to the shore.

Seeing that nothing could be done, Yang Jizhou, the general who escorted the grain, let out a desperate sigh and fled to the other side in a small boat under the protection of several soldiers. He is also a clever person. He knows that no matter how hard he is, he will die. Why do he have to fight with his life? As for the fault of the court, he has planned to take his family and run away, which is better than the family being convicted and killed by the court in the end.

With the escape of the general, the remaining soldiers did not have the courage to fight, and soon drove small boats or swam in the water, leaving only dozens of large ships full of food there and taken away by the Cao Gang.

Seeing that everything was developing so smoothly, Ye Chao was relieved, and at the same time, he also had a new idea: "It turns out that the people of the court are so incompetent, so why should I be as frightened as before and hide in Tibet?"

And the people of the Cao Gang over there are confused, because they really don't understand what the court means. Why can people take away food after knowing the other party's intentions?

"Is it..." Che Jiao had an idea in his heart that was difficult for him to believe: "The people of Guoan did not report the matter at all. But what are the benefits of doing this for them? Originally, they came here to rob grain as a good opportunity to catch them all, but how did they end up like this?

It is impossible to have a clear answer to his idea, because next they should help the remnants of the family transport food and find a place to hide it. Looking at the food he got, Cao Gang felt bitter in his heart. In this way, he really became an accomplice to the other party, and he didn't know what the court would do with himself and others.

"It's over!" With his extraordinary knowledge, Xu Jinghong can see the situation on the river more clearly than others: "They have taken all the grain boats, and now they think it is necessary to drive away and hide them."

"Hey, their hands and feet are really sharp. If we had had such efficiency in the battle against the Hu people and the barbarians before, we in the Song Dynasty would have been worry-free long ago. Looking at the still dark sky, Xiong Geng complained.

"This is the style of our Song people and even the Han people. The more they fight, the more their abilities can be fully exerted, and once they want to fight with people outside, they are all exhausted. That's why we have been disturbed by foreigners. Xu Jinghong sighed, which reminded him of the humiliation of a hundred years in that period of history. Because of this inferiority, Chinese people will be bullied by those small countries for a hundred years, and they will still suffer deeply until later generations.

But now it's not the time to sigh for all this. Xu Jinghong took a last look at the situation on the water and took everyone back to the city. He came out this time just in case. If those people really can't take away the food, they have to help do something if they can't wait. Now it seems that there is no need to do this.

It was already dawn when they came to the capital. Xu Jinghong all wore ordinary clothes and looked no different from ordinary people, so they sneaked into the gate of the city and waited for the people to open the city.

It took more than half an hour before the opening of the city arrived. With a sour creak, the huge suspension bridge slowly fell, and then the wide gate slowly opened. Hundreds of people entered Daliang City in such a crowd, and Xu Jinghong and the four of them could not see anything strange.

But after stepping into Daliang City, Xu Jinghong suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart. He instinctively looked at one place and happened to see a familiar back walking into the alley not far away. This made Xu Jinghong feel uneasy: "If this person sees us coming in from the outside again, I'm afraid it's not good for me." Thinking of this, he winped at the other three and ran to the alley.

Once the emperor knows that he went out last night, and then he relates to yesterday's food robbery, Xu Jinghong will be very suspicious. This is not what Xu Jinghong wants to see, so he hurried to catch up and see if this person is him or not!

The alley is very deep and has several more bends, which makes Xu Jinghong stop from time to time in case someone suddenly attacks him at the corner. After such a turn, he noticed the familiar figure, and obviously the other party was also waiting for him to come over. Now he can be sure that this person is indeed him - Tian Dahu! This is a rough man in the army who was suspected by Xu Jinghong from the beginning and has been constantly confirmed to have another identity.

"Big Tiger..." Xu Jinghong shouted, and his body, which was still moving forward, was stagnant, and then paused and slowly turned his head: "The team is..."

"Are you following me?" Xu Jinghong narrowed his eyes and asked in an emotionless voice.

"I can't help it..." Without making any distinction, Tian Dahu admitted this: "The team must have doubted me a long time ago, right? So if there is anything important later, you won't send me anymore.

"Yes." Xu Jinghong had no cover and nodded and said, "Do you remember the big army on that day? In that comparison, you showed that you were far better than before, and I have begun to doubt you from this point on. Moreover, you also had a lot of flaws after that. After I returned to the capital this time, you also left everyone secretly, didn't you? Why do you work?

"In fact, as long as the team is loyal to the court, nothing will happen." Tian Dahu's face showed pain: "But recently, I have found that what you have done has begun to deviate from the past value. On the one hand, you said that you would not participate in the struggle of the court, but on the other hand, you have been secretly contacting King Jing, which is very different from what your majesty wants to see.

"You must have reported these, right?"

"Yes, but I have been pleading with Your Majesty for your team, hoping that he can see all the contributions he has made before you and give you another chance. But now, I know I'm wrong. It turns out that you can do such a thing..."

Xu Jinghong stared into his eyes: "Have you already known about my connection with those people in the Cao Gang?"

"Yes, although you keep this matter very secret, I'm staring at you, so you can't hide this from me." Tian Dahu answered happily this time: "It's really disappointing for you to see the food robbed without helping. Team Zheng, if you are willing to break the credit and help the court regain the grain, I think your majesty can still forgive you.

Xu Jinghong laughed and then asked slowly, "There is one thing I'm curious about. At the beginning, I was just a low-status military squadron. Why did the emperor send you to my side? This is really unreasonable."

"Because your real identity is too special." Tian Dahu smiled bitterly: "You are not only a member of the Xu family, but also related to the Feng family that was destroyed at the beginning. When your majesty knows this, he will naturally focus on taking care of you. Especially when you do such a big thing in the southwest, Your Majesty hopes to cultivate you into a new wind and become the patron saint of the Song Dynasty. But the final decision you made really disappointed us!"

Xu Jinghong smiled and said, "You want me to be a knife in your hand to help you eradicate the enemy. And when the enemy is eliminated, the knife can be broken. I think that's what you want, right? Unfortunately, I, Xu Jinghong, am not such a person who is willing to risk my future and life for you!"

"The team is... turn around, or I will..."

"Are you sure you can deal with me? In fact, you have made a big mistake in making this decision. If you don't show up this time, maybe I really can't do anything to you. But now, there is no one here. What do you think I will do?

"Team Zheng, you are really good at martial arts, but I'm still sure to take you down!" Speaking of this, Tian Dahu has pulled out a two-finger-wide, four-foot-long soft sword from his waist and made a clear sound.

"On the surface, you are just a reckless warrior, but now it seems that most of your skills are still hidden." Xu Jinghong looked at the unusual weapons in his hand and laughed: "But this is not difficult for me. Besides, do you think I'm alone?"

As soon as the words fell, three figures also appeared from the other two ends of the alley. It was the old dogs!