Chapter 7 The main idea

Liu Shaoqing sat comfortably in a big chair in the cabin of a big ship, and there was a beautiful maid on his lap. While laughing with the beautiful maid, he said to a man, "Tell the boatmen to hurry up a little faster. This trip, as long as they work hard, the prince can't treat them badly!" After more than a month, I'm tired of being on the boat! This job is not done by human beings! Don't bother me if you have nothing to do!"

The man under him said flatteringly, "The stew manager said that it was really not easy for us to come down this trip. On the way, we met several thieves who called our fleet on the road. It was not easy to pass Luoyang. When you get to Pinglu County, you should really have a good rest! There is nothing wrong with this journey. I won't bother you! The little one is going to tell the boatmen to speed up!"

Liu Shaoqing waved his hand and drove him out of the cabin, holding the beautiful maidservant and holding her hands and feet.

Speaking of this trip, it's really not easy to travel all the way. There are many bandits along the way, especially after entering Henan, there are all kinds of bandits. There are often some people of unknown origin staring at their more than 30 boats, and they have encountered four or five times on the way. In the raid, many bandits were trying to rob their fleet of tens of thousands of stones of grain.

Fortunately, Liu Shaoqing accompanied a lot of followers this time. Each ship had more than a dozen guards to guard the fleet. There were also all kinds of fire and crossbows on the ship. After a fight, he repelled several waves of bandits who tried to rob the ship in a row, and finally entered the Yellow River.

After arriving in Luoyang, Liu Shaoqing finally relaxed completely, because according to their habits, when shipping goods to Shanxi, generally speaking, as long as you cross the Luoyang River section, there will be no risk on the road for a hundred years. There are many cargo ships coming and going here, and there are many official ships along the way. It can be regarded as within the sphere of influence of their Fuwang Mansion. Ordinary bandits dare not attack the ships of their Fuwang Mansion at all. Even if there are some bandits, they are all petty thieves, which will not be a big deal.

So after Liu Shaoqing arrived in Luoyang, he secretly picked up two beautiful maidservant on the boat and began to enjoy it in the cabin. These two days can be said to be amazing.

This is not Liu Shaoqing's careless care, but over the years, he has been working for King Fu. He has been running back and going on this canal and the Yellow River more than a dozen times. The most dangerous journey mainly focuses on the section of the canal before entering the Yellow River. Generally speaking, as long as you enter the Yellow River, because of the Yellow River in Henan On the river, there are not as many ships as canals, and the river is very wide, and there are few water thieves. Even if there is a water thief who feeds, he can only choose some single merchant ships to do it. Fuwangfu is the leading royal family in Henan. Those water thieves who ask for life on the river will never dare to easily think of their Fuwangfu fleet.

So not only Liu Shaoqing completely relaxed after passing Luoyang, but also the guards who escorted the fleet. By this time, they had already relaxed. It turned out that most of the guards who were waiting for the day had hid in the cabin, slept and drank, although it was okay. The boat is bitter, but compared with taking a dry road, as long as you don't meet a lot of thieves, you still live a comfortable life on the boat.

When it was getting late, Liu Shaoqing came out of the cabin contentedly, stood on the first boat, glanced at the wide river, and asked the boatman, "Where is this?"

The boatman who was driving the boat did not dare to neglect it. He quickly accompanied him with a smiling face and said, "Go back to Master Liu's words! Now it has reached the Yanghu Lake. At the latest, it will be Pinglu the night after tomorrow!"

After Liu Shaoqing stretched out his waist, he glanced at the river with the afterglow of the sunset. During this period, the amount of water in the Yellow River is not large, and the river surface is a little narrower than before. It turns out that some beaches on both sides of the Yellow River have been exposed and grow a lot of lush reeds, except for seeing a few small fishing boats far away on the river. In addition to fishing on the river, there were several merchant ships that went downstream from the river. As soon as they saw their fleet, they quickly made way and behaved respectfully. In addition, he basically didn't see any suspicious situation, so he was relieved and told him not to stop at night and continue to travel overnight. , and the order went down, so that each ship hung a red gasty wind lamp, and then each ship hung a large lantern with the word Shangshufuwang, and let people tell that after dark, the guards on each ship should be more careful. After that, they asked the cook on the ship to cook a few dishes for him and bring them to the cabin for him and the maid to enjoy. .

At this time, on the edge of a reed more than a few miles away from the fleet, there were several fishermen squatting in a boat, but staring at the fleet from afar. When they saw the lanterns rising on the ship, several of them put away their fishing nets, quickly rowed their oars, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. In the weed.

Yang Kunshan stood on a larger fishing boat in the reeds, looking at the river from time to time through the reeds in front of him. What made him proud was that he also hung a thousand miles of eyes on his waist. It turned out that in order to ensure his success of this boat hijacking, Xiao Tianjian even his baby's monocular. It was also temporarily lent to Yang Kunshan for use. At present, even Yan Chongxi hasn't mixed up with this thing, but it is actually hanging on the waist of Yang Kunshan, which makes Yang Kunshan beautiful.

Through this small thousand-mile eye, Yang Kunshan quickly saw a small fishing boat coming from the downstream, and plunged into the reeds, so he immediately squatted down. Soon the boat sailed to his side. A capable descendant said to Yang Kunshan, "Fuwang's fleet is coming!" When will you do it?"

Yang Kunshan immediately asked, "How long will it take for them to get here?"

The latter replied immediately, "It will take two quarters of an hour at most!"

Yang Kunshan frowned and thought silently, "Grandma, these bastards actually sailed overnight, a little earlier than expected!" It seems that the plan needs to be changed! You can't do it now. Otherwise, if you do it so early, the guards on the ship haven't slept yet. I guess it's not a big deal! Tell the brothers immediately not to worry! Let them go over. We will decorate them in the back. It's not too late to go to the old camp above in the middle of the night!"

The posterior nodded and immediately raised his head to learn a few calls of wild ducks. After a while, the sound of wild ducks came from everywhere in the reeds, rising and falling one after another, and it has been coming from afar...

Sure enough, after two quarters of an hour, the fleet slowly approached the reeds from the night. The reeds were quiet inside, but many eyes were staring at the fleet. With the help of the lanterns in the fleet, you can see that every ship of the fleet has One or two guards walked back and forth on the ship. After nightfall, the guards on the Fuwang Grain ship were still on guard.

More than a dozen boats in the reeds did not light the lights, so they hid in the dark reeds and watched the fleet slowly pass in front of them.

After watching the fleet gradually go away, more than a dozen small boats came out of the reeds one after another, and they were still all black. In the night, a group of capable young people gently rowed the oars, pushed the boat, and slowly placed behind the fleet of the big ship, and the eye-catching lanterns on the big boat became Their best target instructions are that they don't have to worry about losing it in such a night.

The reason why Yang Kunshan chose to do it at night is that his strength is still slightly weaker. According to the news, there are at least more than 200 guards on these 30 grain ships, and there are several to more than a dozen guards on each ship. With the boatman, it is estimated that there can be nearly 400 people in more than 30 ships. If If he takes people to attack during the day, not only will he not be the opponent of the ship's guards, but it is also easy to disturb the government on the shore. Once the government mobilized a large number of people to rescue, their operation this time is likely to fail.

So after thinking about it over and over again, Yang Kunshan made the decision to attack at night. Fortunately, the selected guys were all very fierce, and there was no night blindness. Otherwise, he would not dare to pat his chest to guarantee that the sneak attack would be successful.

The guards on the Fuwang grain fleet can be said to know nothing about the boats that follow them in the darkness behind them. The darkness has become the best cover for Yang Kunshan. Because the ships are relatively large, the grain fleet must hang lanterns at night, so as to provide the best instructions for the Yang Kunshan group. Don't worry about losing them.

The grain boats are all large canopy boats with more than a thousand stones. In addition, they go up against the current and drive very slowly on the river. Two hours after nightfall, the guards on the ship also relaxed again. The whole river is very calm, and only the call of some water birds on the river can be heard from afar, so there is nothing The guards yawned one by one, and slowly some people returned to the cabin, and those who did not whistle at this time in the cabin had already snored loudly.

The wind on the river at night was still a little cold, which made some guards have to shrink their necks and wrap their clothes. In the middle of the night, most people finally couldn't hold on and got into the cabin to sleep secretly! Anyway, it was about to arrive in Pinglu County, and this trip was basically the end. Seeing that Liu Shaoqing, who was nervous all the way, no longer came out to check the post, these guards were not in the mood to stick to their posts.

But at this time, more boats began to dock behind the fleet and began to slowly accelerate, accelerating beyond the fleet from the darkness away from the fleet, and gradually gathered in front of the fleet.

A few wild duck calls sounded again. The strong descendants put a single knife on their backs, poured a few mouthfuls of spirits one after another, took off their clothes and exposed their bronze skin. One by one, they slid silently into the early spring like loach. And in the cold water, he quickly dived towards the oncoming ships.