After talking to this extent, Su Hao knew that the other party was determined to go against him. Simply building a new county government would not have the confidence to compete with the army. No matter how low the status of the soldiers was, a seventh-grade government would not dare to
Blatantly challenging a sixth-grade Baihu.
Li Mao dared to insist on searching his ship under such circumstances and claimed to catch the murderer. This shows that he has a strong backer behind him. Analyzing from various signs, this backer can only come from someone other than Yuan Wu.
That is to say, this member Wu is a person with a background. Not only can the county government come forward to find a place for him, but he can also provide the county government with a backer.
Alas, if I had known that the other party had such a powerful background, I would not have provoked him in the first place. Su Hao secretly regretted in his heart. His nature was not to cause trouble, but now that the matter had come to a head, he couldn't help it.
He backed down. If he really surrendered, he would allow the other party to board the ship and arrest people. Not to mention that his own soldiers would never be bullied by others. Even if they didn't capture anyone, just boarding the ship to search, this
You cannot afford to lose face.
At this point, I have no choice but to bite the bullet. If things get serious, maybe the Ministry of War or Mine Supervisor Li Long can help me deal with it, right?
Su Hao thought of this, turned around and ordered Shao Gong: "Sail the boat and get aboard."
Mr. Shao had never seen such a tense scene before, and he was so frightened that his calves were cramping. After hearing Su Hao's order, he did not dare to disobey, and immediately called the sailors to sail the boat.
Under the control of the sailors, the ship slowly approached Li Mao's boat. Li Mao shouted in a high-pitched voice: "Brothers, the gangster is resisting arrest, fuck him quickly, get ready to take action!"
There were more than 30 people with weapons on the boat he was staying on, some of them were county government agents, and some were guards sent by Wu Yuanwai. After hearing Li Mao's order, everyone held their swords and axes firmly and made the next move.
enemy preparation.
Kanyuying's ship approached Li Mao's ship at a speed visible to the naked eye. Before the two ships could connect, Hao Tong had already jumped over with a knife. Several government officials and guards rushed forward, trying to control Hao Tong.
Tong swung the knife left and right a few times, and several opponents rolled to the side. Su Hao could see very clearly from the boat here. Hao Tong's knife was not unsheathed at all. He used the sheath directly.
The one who knocked people down. The knife in Hao Tong's hand was a high-manganese steel knife carefully crafted by Hao Yizong. If it had been unsheathed, the heads of those people just now would have been in different places.
Seeing Hao Tongqing's opening, more than a dozen soldiers from Kanyu Camp also jumped over. Hao Tong directed them to form a combat formation, holding spears flat and pushing towards the government officials over there. The government officials and guards held the
They were all short weapons, and there was no way to attack the spear formation. The soldiers just pushed forward with their spears. If the opponent retreated, the soldiers continued to move forward. If the opponent tried to attack with swords and axes, the soldiers held back.
The spear stabbed, making a small hole in the opponent's body.
The force value of the government officials and guards led by Li Mao was not too bad, but because they were confronting the officers and soldiers, they felt a little guilty, so they did not dare to use all their strength, and could only fight in front of the spears of the Kanyu camp soldiers.
They retreated and finally had to leave the boat. Some of them jumped to another boat, and some jumped into the shallow water and ran to the shore. Li Mao persisted for a while, but was hit by a soldier with a spear.
After a beating, he couldn't bear the pain, so he had to jump into the water from the stern of the boat. Several government officials rushed to rescue him and brought him to the shore.
"Where is Mr. Shao!" Hao Tong stood on the boat and shouted loudly, "move the boat quickly!"
No one agreed. He must have sent Shao Gong away when Li Mao and others put the boat across the middle of the river. Hao Tong walked to the bow and found that the boat was connected to the other boat by an iron chain.
The stern of the boat that was tied together was also fixed to the shore with iron chains. This was obviously to prevent the survey camp from colliding with the boat.
"Su Baihu, these two boats are tied together. There is a huge lock on the iron chain, which is difficult to pry open." Hao Tong returned to his boat and reported to Su Hao.
"Go and shout to Li Mao and ask him to arrange for someone to come and open the lock. Tell him that if you don't open the lock, you will be responsible for the consequences." Su Hao said.
Hao Tong came to the stern of Li Mao's boat, which was facing the shore. Li Mao and others were gathering on the shore, making a lot of noise, neither daring to attack nor willing to leave.
Hao Tong shouted loudly: "My surname is Li, I want you to quickly unlock the ship and let our troops pass. If you don't, you will be responsible for the consequences."
Li Mao stood behind several government officials, thinking that he was far away from Hao Tong and was not in danger. He stiffened his neck and replied: "Yesterday you disturbed the villagers, and today you resisted arrest and beat the officials. You are committing a heinous crime. I have sent someone
Go and report it to the Nanchang Guards, they will send people to suppress them immediately, so just wait and see here."
"Haha, I am a frontier soldier, can Nanchang Guard control us? Li, I say it again, hurry up and unlock the ship, otherwise we will destroy the ship." Hao Tong threatened.
Li Mao was also determined. No matter what Hao Tong said, he just didn't come forward. Hao Tong had no choice but to walk back to the bow of the ship, looked at the big iron chain carefully, pulled out his high manganese steel waist knife, and thought
I really can't bear to cut off the iron chain with a knife. The iron ring on the iron chain is very thick. If I try to cut it with a knife, the knife will most likely curl up or break.
"What, there's nothing we can do?" Su Hao also got on the boat at some point, standing behind Hao Tong, and asked with a smile.
Hao Tong shook his head and said: "No, the other party's lock is too strong. Only a blacksmith can break it open."
Su Hao turned back and looked at the river, and saw that on both sides of the river, a number of ships had been backlogged. Fortunately, because it was close to Niangen, there were not many ships on the river. Otherwise, based on the normal navigation volume of the Ganjiang River,
, Li Mao cut off the route like this, and he didn’t know how many ships would be delayed.
"Well, since they are stubborn, we have to teach them a lesson." Su Hao said.
"What does Su Baihu plan to do?" Hao Tong asked.
Su Hao took out a two- to three-inch square oil paper bag, handed it to Hao Tong, and said, "If you're not polite to them, just blow it up."
Wrapped in this oil paper bag is the yellow gunpowder developed by Chen Guanyu and Luo Yuqing. The detonator in the bag is made of black gunpowder. The detonation principle is to use a fuse to explode the black gunpowder.
Then the yellow gunpowder is detonated through the explosion of black powder. After this gunpowder bag was developed, Su Hao took Hao Tong and Deng Kui to a barren mountain to conduct experiments, so Hao Tong knew its usage and power.
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On this trip to the survey camp, he brought some bomb bags made of yellow gunpowder and lighter grenades, in order to cope with various emergencies. Su Hao decided to use a bomb bag here. On the one hand, it was out of helplessness.
On the other hand, it also meant to declare force to Li Mao.
Several soldiers from the Kanyu Camp jumped to another boat and also used spears to clear the area, forcing all the people on that boat to the shore. Then, the soldiers from the Kanyu Camp also left the two boats in Xinjian County
, returned to his ship, leaving only one soldier with excellent water skills who was ready to detonate.
The three ships of the survey camp slowly retreated, a few hundred steps away from the two ships of Xinjian County, quietly waiting for the earth-shattering scene.
The soldiers who stayed on the two ships in Xinjian County fixed the gun bags to the iron chains connecting the two ships, and then used the fire sickle to light the long fuse. Watching the fuse begin to burn, he did not notice.
Without delay, he jumped into the river and swam hard to his boat.
He had just swam less than a hundred steps away when he heard a loud noise behind him. People on the boat and on the shore were stunned to see a large ball of fire rising into the sky, and the iron chain was torn like noodles.
The bows of the boats blocking the river disappeared, and splinters of wood even splashed onto the shore. The two boats, which had lost their restraints, were immediately washed away by the river, and drifted to the river banks on both sides, like two doors opening.
"What's going on!" Li Mao, who was frightened by the explosion and sat on the ground, got up in embarrassment and asked the government officials on his left and right.
"Back to the county magistrate, this is the use of firearms by the officers and soldiers. I heard that the border army has a gunpowder-made weapon that can blow up ten thousand people. Our ship must have been blown up like this." A government officer replied.
"What an enemy of ten thousand people! How can an enemy of ten thousand people have such power?" Li Mao had some experience. He knew that the power of gunpowder back then was actually very limited. Unless it was piled up several hundred kilograms, there would be no such loud explosion.
Could it be that the other party was willing to go to such lengths to blow up the two ships?
"Hurry, go and report that they have blown open the iron locks and are about to escape." Li Mao ordered his subordinates.
On the river, the huge explosion caused by the explosion has gradually subsided, and the survey battalion soldier responsible for the detonation has also been rescued on the boat. Fortunately, he was not injured by the flying debris. Chen Dao got out of the cabin again after hearing the sound.
He asked in confusion: "What happened just now?"
Su Hao said: "The thieves locked the ship with iron chains and refused to let us pass. I just had people use gunpowder to blow up the iron chains."
Chen Daodao: "What kind of gunpowder is it, so powerful?"
Su Hao concealed it: "It's just ordinary military gunpowder, but we grind it finer, so it's more powerful. We brought it out originally to deal with large groups of thieves, but we didn't expect it to be used here."
Naturally, Chen Dao would not believe Su Hao's lies. As a head of the Ministry of War, how could he not know what black gunpowder was? Its power was incomparable to the yellow gunpowder used by Su Hao. He had just heard
The explosion was definitely caused by a new type of gunpowder.
At this time, it was impossible for him to pester Su Hao to find out what was going on. He just shook his head and said, "In other words, you are such a hot-tempered person. If you can't talk about things properly, how can you blow up someone else's ship?
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Su Hao shrugged and said: "They asked for this. I have warned them. You see, they blocked the river and how many ships were on the river. I blew up their ships. This is for the benefit of the people."
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Chen Dao sighed: "Alas, the river has been dredged, but our grudges with Xinjian County are even greater. Anyway, leave quickly before they can react. After I return to the military headquarters, I will ask for orders to resolve this issue. thing."
"Then I'll leave it to Master Chen." Su Hao cupped his hands. He turned around and shouted to Mr. Shao: "Mr. Shao, let's sail the boat. Today we must pass through Wucheng Station and enter Poyang Lake."
Shao Gong agreed, picked up his pennants and set sail, and the fleet sailed downstream along the river. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)