Nanming Engineer

Chapter 25
Li Wancai saw the surprised expressions on the faces of Li Tingyu and others, and thought that his painstaking efforts had finally been rewarded. Zuo Ling, Prince Yu's confidant, really looked at him differently when he saw the braids on the back of his head, and couldn't help but feel even more proud, and immediately uttered flattering words, Eloquently flattered me wantonly.

Li Tingyu felt nauseous when he heard it, veins appeared on his forehead, and he was about to run away and jump up, but he felt the corner of his clothes being pulled lightly, and when he turned his head, it was Wang Huan.

Wang Huan leaned close to Li Tingyu's ear and whispered, "This man is of great use. Hold on first before getting on the boat."

Li Wancai was standing beside him, and it was difficult to say too much. Wang Huan just nodded, then moved away and stood aside.Li Tingyu is also a smart person, so he understood the meaning of Wang Huan's words immediately: this kind of treacherous and evil person, his head is a first-class gift to anyone, even if no one wants it, grab it Being a hostage is also great, this is a great gift, don't let him get away!

So Li Tingyu resisted the idea of ​​beating up the boastful old man in front of him, clenched his clenched fist tightly, opened his tightly tensed mouth, and interrupted Li Wancai: "Well, Mr. Li, gossip Let’s talk about it when we’re free, it’s important to get down to business first.”

Li Wancai was speechless, but when Li Tingyu interrupted him, he quickly responded: "Yes, yes, Mr. Tu is right, let's do the business first."

He checked Tu Hai's confession document beforehand and confirmed his identity. Tu Hai's general appearance was written on the confession, but with a few words, it could only be written like a person, and it was impossible for others to figure out his identity through the confession. Like, so Li Wancai just looked carefully at the authenticity of the confession, of course the confession was true, and Li Wancai confirmed it without a doubt.After confirming his identity, Li Wancai hurriedly said: "The twenty tank boats brought by the lower officials are all grain boats on the canal. The boats are wide and can definitely carry the goods escorted by Mr. Tu."

While speaking, the tank boats were leaning against the pier one after another, close together, and the boats were connected by cables, which was very stable.

With a wave of Li Tingyu's hand, the soldiers behind him pushed out the silver carts from the reeds one after another. A group of several people lifted the heavy wooden boxes from the carts and carefully transported them to the boat.

Nearly 300 silver carts, a total of more than 500 large and small wooden boxes, were slowly carried onto the ship like ants moving house, and placed in the cargo warehouse of the water tanker. This kind of tanker is a cargo ship with a deep draft and a strong load capacity. Well, if that's the case, after all the wooden boxes are on board, plus more than [-] people, each ship is fully loaded, the hull is pushed down very low, and the lake water almost rushes to the deck.

It took a lot of time to carry it out. Looking at the sun, it was already past noon. During the process of boarding the wooden box, Li Tingyu and Li Wancai sat in the shade of a tree and watched the soldiers carry it. , hoping to impress Tuhai deeply, and even brazenly ask what Doduo likes. Even though Li Tingyu babbled nonsense for a long time, he didn't know what to say.Fortunately, seeing that the moving was over at this time, I quickly stood up and jumped on the boat.

Li Wancai hurriedly followed onto the boat, while Wang Huan explained a few words to the leading generals on each boat, sent everyone on board, and followed.

Li Tingyu looked at the way he came and saw no signs of pursuers coming up. He felt reassured, smiled and patted Li Wancai on the shoulder and said, "Master Li, let's sail the boat."

When Li Wancai was slapped like this, his body lightened and his brows bristled with joy.Immediately, he felt that his trip was not in vain. The one who patted him was Prince Yu's cronies. This has become a buddy who patted his shoulders. Doesn't it indicate that he has reached this line?Flying to the top in the future is just around the corner!
Thinking about the position of Governor of Water Transport, I am not a bannerman, so I may not have that blessing, but it is not a big problem to be a deputy envoy of Water Transport. Hehe, that position is hard to buy. Backing the mountain, I can only look at it and drool. In the Qing Dynasty, as long as Prince Yu Duoduo gently pushes him like this, can he still fail to be the one?

Thinking of this, Li Wancai's spirit was lifted, and he bowed to Li Tingyu, then straightened his waist in a grand manner, stood at the bow of the boat, and shouted loudly to the sailors on the twenty boats: "Let's go!"

The boatmen immediately shouted, and countless stalks of wormwood stood up and plunged into the water. With the sound of trumpets, the tank boats left the shore one by one and slowly slid into the lake.

Li Tingyu and Wang Huan stood side by side on the bow of the boat, looking at the farther and farther shore of the lake, feeling relieved for a while, entering Hongze Lake, there are thousands of soldiers behind, unless they can run horses on the water, they will never chase Come up.

The clear water is rippling, the wooden boat cuts through the waves, and sails straight to the lake. There is a breeze on the lake. The boatmen raise the sails, and the white sails meet the wind, pushing the heavy-loaded tanker faster and faster. Gradually, from the shore , turning into small black dots one after another.

An hour after the fleet left the shore, on the way Wang Huan and others came, there was a large cloud of smoke and dust. On the not spacious dirt road, the sound of horseshoes and cries rumbled, gradually like thunder, like a gust of wind, In an instant, he came to the small pier where the tank boat was docked.

The few scouting knights in the front walked around the pier, and easily found the empty ox cart discarded in the reeds. Grass, drinking water, staring at pairs of big watery eyes, watching groups of cavalry rushing from a distance like crazy.

Hundreds of cavalrymen were clattering with iron armor, full of murderous aura, all of them drew their knives out of their sheaths and drew their bows, as if they were facing an enemy. The leading knight held a long knife and galloped wildly. The scout roared, "Where are the people? Where's the silver car? Where did they all go?"

The scouts knelt down on one leg, pointed to the cattle among the bushes and said, "Lord Su Le, we are one step late. Nanban has already abandoned the car and boarded the boat, heading towards the lake."

This group of cavalry who rushed over was Su Le and others under Tu Hai's command. The horse-drawn carriage ran for dozens of miles overnight, and came to a village near Huai'an City to take shelter. At dawn, he changed into a Qing military uniform and waited by the official road. Unexpectedly, he waited left and right. When the brigade arrived, they felt something was wrong, so they left more than 100 people to guard the looted property, and ran back to Tiger Roaring Valley with the rest of them, but saw a camp full of dead people, as well as the decapitated corpse of Tu Hai.

The situation was quickly clarified. Li Tingyu, a general of the Ming army who was regarded as a coolie, drugged the wine and food, killed the entire battalion of Qing soldiers who stayed behind, stole all the silver carts in the dark, and left Tiger Roaring Valley without a sound. , gone without a trace.

Su Le broke out in a cold sweat at that time, his mind went blank, and he was almost unable to stand still: guarding and stealing, losing a huge amount of silver car, leaving his post without authorization, being killed by a superior officer but living well, any one of them is a capital crime, let alone With so many, it would not be enough to have my own head chopped off eight times.

Gritting his teeth and holding his head, he thought about it, but he came up with a clever plan. He simply didn't do anything, and pushed all the troubles on Li Tingyu and the Jiangjun. Colluding with horse thieves, intending to rob the camp, Tu Hai sensed something was wrong, and sent himself to lead the army to go out to investigate, but unexpectedly, the horse thieves and the surrendered army took the opportunity to enter and killed the remaining Qing army, Tu Hai also fought hard to death, and the surrendered army robbed the silver car, The horse thief robbed the property and fled together.

Su Le thought about it over and over again, and felt that there was no loophole in this explanation, so he called several generals and analyzed the pros and cons of the situation to them one by one. Several officers were also panicked and didn't know what to do. As soon as this clever plan was mentioned, I immediately felt as if the clouds were opening and the sun was rising, and I understood it as if I was enlightened.

So everyone swore a poisonous oath together, kept secrets together, and lived and died together.The next thing was simple. While sending people to report the news to the Duduo army, they selected two obedient commanders from the supply camp and taught them how to lie. The remaining commanders all had their heads chopped off to avoid Reveal the true cause of death of Tuhai and others.

After arranging everything in the baggage camp, it was already past noon. Suler took up his hands, gritted his teeth and led the cavalry to pursue him along the ruts on the official road. This group of surrender troops with silver chariots could not move fast, although they passed by. It took several hours, but as long as the cavalry chased them, they would surely catch up.

The whole journey was so fast, Su Le wished he could grow wings, fly to those damned descendants, cut off their heads, and let them know the fate of betrayal, oh, no, it's just that beheading is too cheap for them, and they must be executed in a hurry , Yes, Ling Chi executed!

After chasing halfway, the rut changed direction and turned onto a small road. Su Le felt something was wrong. When he asked the natives, Su Le almost went crazy when he learned that this road led to Hongze Lake. !If I could find the Yinche back and cooperate with that set of rhetoric, maybe I could get rid of the responsibility, but once the Yinche entered Hongze Lake, thousands of miles of waves would roll in, where would I find it?

In the end, he was afraid of something, and as soon as the scouts spoke, Su Le's body swayed a few times on the horse, and he fell headfirst.

Fortunately, the scouts who were kneeling on the ground moved quickly and caught Su Le, so that he didn't get hurt.At this moment, the generals regarded him as the backbone. Seeing that he was unconscious, they all surrounded him, slapped his back, pinched some of them, and were in a hurry. He didn't catch his breath, passed out, lay down and patted his vest for a while, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and came back slowly.

As soon as he woke up, Su Le jumped up, pushed the crowd away, ran to the shore in a few steps, and saw that there were still obvious traces of ships docking on the small pier, and it was obvious that a big ship was here to pick them up After seeing the group of descendants, I was startled and thought.

A few commanders also stood up and understood what was going on at a glance, and one commander frowned and said, "It's strange, those surrendered troops are trapped in the army, how can there be a fleet to meet them?"

After hearing this, Su Le raised his head, the expression of exasperation was gone from his face just now, his brows relaxed, and he said in a deep voice: "It's not easy for this group of troops to descend, everyone, just look at their steps, and they are going to be in a hurry." Interlocking, from the attack to the escape, could it be that after careful consideration, even the boat on the water has been fully prepared, and it is a dangerous move, but it is absolutely safe to move."

The speaker thought for a while, and couldn't help but said in surprise: "Yes, they launched a rebellion last night, taking advantage of our departure, and the timing was very appropriate."

Su Le glanced at him, and said silently: "It's not the right time, even if we are in the camp, they will still be able to move, but it will take more effort."

After hearing this, the general manager suddenly felt a sense of fear, remembering the tragic death of Tu Hai and others in the military camp, and touched his neck at the same time.

(End of this chapter)