Nanming Engineer

Chapter 48 Maggots of the Tarsus
The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in Huai'an has different widths and narrows, depending on the terrain. The wide part is more than ten feet, and the narrow part is only less than five feet, but even at the narrowest point, it is more than enough for two ships to go side by side.

A group of more than a thousand cavalry was rushing along the side of the canal, and pedestrians and vehicles on the road looked sideways at the sound and avoided it. It is not uncommon to see such a situation in wartime now. People in the past just stood indifferently on the side of the road Kneeling down, occasionally looking up at the soldiers with braids, I found that they were hurrying forward while looking up the canal.

Su Le and others had been walking fast on the shore for half an hour. On the Jiangnan waterfront in May, the flowers were blooming, the grass was deep, the greenery was abundant, the cypresses were crisscrossed, and the scenery was full of birds singing and flowers fragrant. However, this group of soldiers turned a blind eye to all this and only focused on As they hurried on, every boat on the river was in their eyes. They looked at them again and again, but unfortunately none of them was the boat they were looking for.

The further they walked, the colder their hearts became and the more anxious Su Le and Xu Dingguo became. They had already traveled dozens of miles. Looking at the boundary, they were almost reaching SD, but they hadn't seen those two people yet. The shadow of ten canal boats, the boats on this river can't just disappear, right?
Su Le has been praying in his heart, praying that the group of surrendered troops will not turn their heads, and secretly scuttle the boat in a hidden river, put the gold and silver on the cart and take the dry road. Just hide in any ravine, where can I find it?
Just as he was thinking, he heard sharp-eyed scout cavalry shouting loudly in front: "The boats on the river, hurry up and dock!"

The two of them got excited and quickly looked up the river. In the middle of the river, they saw a group of large ships moving slowly with the waves. They seemed to be carrying a heavy load and a deep draft, even though the sails were already fully swollen. I can't walk very fast even if I'm full.

Xu Dingguo first looked at the hull of the ship, the ship was fat, much wider than a civilian ship, it was undoubtedly a tank ship, and he became a little excited, and then counted the number, there were twenty ships, one was not too many and the other was not, and immediately he stood up from his horse Get up and shout to Su Le loudly: "Master Su, it is this fleet of ships, this fleet of ships!"

Under the excitement, even the sound was out of shape, Su Le had already heard it, and at this moment he patted his horse and galloped to the river, if it wasn't for the horse neighing and refusing to go into the water, he might have jumped into the river.

"Get to the shore, get to the shore! Did the people on the boat hear you? Get to the shore quickly, or we will shoot off!" Xu Dingguo shouted at the top of his lungs.

More than 1000 horses and horses immediately crowded by the river, yelling loudly while picking up arrows with their bows, making a gesture to shoot.

The tank boat was unmoved, and still moved forward slowly. There were people on the boat looking towards the shore, but they didn't seem to care much. A few burly men emerged from the cabin, with colorful tattoos all over their bodies, rushing to the shore. He also shouted a word, and then burst out laughing.

The river here is very wide, which happens to be the widest place on this section of the canal. The boat in the middle of the river is four or five feet away from the shore, but Su Le and Xu Dingguo are standing on the shore, and they can hear clearly. Shouting is: "My son, come if you have the ability!"

The two men were precious and powerful, and they were also iron-blooded generals killed on the battlefield. When had they ever suffered such humiliation, and they were humiliated by a few unknown soldiers who didn't even know their names? He took off the bow and arrow hanging from the saddle and shot. Xu Dingguo was a little more stable, and he moved his hand with a calm face, and shouted: "Fire the arrow!"

These more than 1000 soldiers are all his soldiers who can fight. Everyone can bend their bows and set arrows. As soon as he gave an order, the arrows immediately flew like locusts, and a dense rain of black arrows enveloped the river.

The people on the boat kept laughing, and before the rain of arrows fell, they turned over and jumped into the river one by one. Small eddies were stirred up on the water surface, and the river was so deep that no one could be seen after entering the water.

Only the sound of "bang bang" was heard continuously, like rain hitting plantains, hundreds of spike arrows all shot into the hull of the boat, not even a single human hair was touched.With a grimace on his face, Su Le drew his longbow arrow after arrow, and shot towards the place where the tattooed man fell into the water. His power could split a monument and crack a stone. A hard bow was drawn like a full moon, and the arrows he shot were as fast as lightning. , but the water is heavy, no matter how powerful the arrow is, it will stagnate after entering the water, and it is useless at all.

After two rounds of shooting, the wooden canoe was already like a hedgehog, full of arrows. There was no one on board. Suler vented his anger, stopped, and said to Xu Dingguo: "Send the people who know how to water down. , dock the ship."

When Xu Dingguo gave an order, dozens of soldiers who knew how to swim immediately took off their armor and only wore shorts and pockets, jumped into the water one after another, and swam towards the tank boat.

The canal is not wide, but the water is very deep. Two steps from the shore, there are two people deep. The soldiers who entered the water left only one head on the water, dipped their heads in the water, and swam less than two feet away. With an exclamation, the head sank into the water, and the whole person disappeared. After a while, a stream of blood rose from the original place and filled the surface of the water, followed by a lifeless corpse floating up in the pool of blood. There was a bloody hole on the boss.

When the people behind saw this scene, their faces turned pale with fright. It must be the water ghosts who jumped off the tank boats killing people in the water. Those people in the Xu Dingguo army who can swim can only swim. Fighting for their lives with knives, they are still a few blocks away from the water thieves on Hongze Lake.So he shouted, and everyone turned around and swam back to the shore.

Xu Dingguo touched his neck, was startled for a moment, and then roared angrily: "Let the arrows, let the arrows! Shoot the arrows into the water, and shoot the people in the water to death!"

Needless to say this time, all the soldiers saw that the people on the tank boat did not run away, they hid at the bottom of the water, waiting for someone to go down and wipe their necks. Once again arrows fell like rain, and the sound of "bobo" entering the water was endless, splashing Countless water waves.

After shooting for a while, the ashen-faced Su Le yelled, "Stop!"

Xu Dingguo looked at the river with lingering fear, the river was like ink, and when the arrows stopped, the water surface returned to tranquility, not even a drop of blood floated up, obviously this intensive rain of arrows didn't even touch the human skin under the water.

Suler pointed to the other bank dozens of feet upstream of the river and said in a deep voice: "They are there."

Xu Dingguo and others looked at Su Le's hand, and saw that 50 to [-] people had already got up from the river dripping with water, and while laughing and cursing, while rubbing oil on the soles of their feet, they ran into the woods on the bank and disappeared.

"Ask someone to take 200 people from the upper reaches to find a way to cross the river. We must drive out this group of thieves, or they will not come back!" Su Le said coldly.

Immediately, Mr. Qian agreed, and sent two hundred cavalry to go upstream.

Xu Dingguo only felt upset. The floating corpses of his men were still floating on the water, but his murderous opponent ran away from his hands helplessly. However, there was nothing he could do about it. This feeling was not felt except when he fought against the Manchu flag soldiers. Except, I have never encountered it before.

"Call people into the water again, and bring the boat closer!" Su Le's handsome face slowly recovered a little, and after calming down, he immediately gave orders again.

The soldiers who had just escaped from the water and swam back from the water looked at each other, trembling and not daring to go any further, until Xu Dingguo drew out his knife and lit it up, and the remaining soldiers who took off their clothes took courage and went to stop again. Swim in the tank boat in the middle of the river.

(End of this chapter)