The moon on the 15th day is 16 rounds. A bright moon hangs in the night sky tonight, illuminating the Loujiang River particularly brightly. Xu Zizhen and He Liangliang are lying in the grass on the bank, waiting for the target to appear.
In front of Xu Zizhen, there is a long string with a faint black light. This is his homemade fuse, mixed with gunpowder and lamp oil to prevent the river from getting wet. The other end of the string leads to the river, unless it is specially made.
If you look closely, you will never see dozens of gourds floating on the river.
These gourds are his home-made mines. After loading the gunpowder and tamping it, burying the fuse, and filling it with a piece of loess, half of the space can be reserved so that the gourd can half float on the water. The mouth of the gourd is the fuse.
At the exit, dozens of gourds are connected by a general fuse. As long as Xu Zizhen lights up the fire, these gourds will explode together in a very short period of time.
Xu Zizhen had never learned blasting, but when he was a child, he was naughty and used to take apart firecrackers and make "earth bombs" for fun. The length of the fuse and the explosion time were also carefully calculated. These things looked more and more like his in He Liangliang's eyes.
It's amazing, because he has never seen those Arabic numerals drawn by Xu Zizhen on the paper, and has no idea what these ghostly symbols mean.
He Liangliang was a little impatient after waiting, and couldn't help but ask again: "Brother, can these gourds really explode?"
Xu Zizhen was unsure and hesitated for a moment: "It can probably be fried. If it doesn't work out later, I'll go over and order it myself."
Today it was said that Xu Zizhen was alone, but He Liangliang was also there, as well as the Li family's father and daughter. They didn't know the nature of water, so they could only lie on the shore and guard. Xu Zizhen's plan was to wait for the ship to arrive and detonate the mine first.
Then the ship will be forced to stop. If the hull breaks open and floods, it will definitely dock. That is the time for them to take action. You must know that although Li Sheng is not a master, a big sword is also quite powerful, and it is very dangerous on the battlefield.
The taste of a warrior.
Liuli had already found a former subordinate of Mr. Hua to report the news quickly. The ship was ready to set sail. Xu Zizhen was all ready. He stared at the river and gritted his teeth and cursed secretly: "Hu Sihai, old thief Wang Fu, you guys
Give me your fucking life!"
The bright moon gradually rose to the middle of the night sky, and the river wind made the reeds on the shore rustle. Around midnight, Xu Zizhen finally saw a flat-bottomed merchant ship in the distance coming through the waves with the power of the northwest wind, its bow inserted into the waves.
Holding a flag, it rustled in the night wind, and when stretched out, the three characters "Changxing Ji" written on it were revealed.
"Here we come!" Xu Zizhen became energetic and threw off his clothes. He was naked except for a pair of shorts with a steel knife on his waist, waiting for the ship to approach.
Soon the ship entered his blasting range, and Xu Zizhen shouted: "Two liang, light the fire!"
He Liangliang had already prepared the fire medium in his hand. When he opened the lid, a flame lit up. He moved closer to the fuse and burned it. Suddenly, a dazzling flame appeared, accompanied by pungent smoke that spread rapidly to the middle of the river.
boom!
An earth-shattering explosion suddenly sounded. The calm river surface was stirred up by the explosive force with several meters of water. The explosion point was exactly at the bow of the ship. From a distance, the bow of the ship was like
It was as if someone had lifted it up from the bottom of the boat. It was tilted up high, and then it fell back to the water. This time it created many waves again, soaking the entire boat.
Xu Zizhen took a deep breath, squatted half-crouched and jumped forward, using the force of his forward motion to jump into the river like a sharp arrow, drawing a beautiful arc, and jumped into the water with a soft hiss.
He Liangliang followed closely behind, with a dozen gourd bombs hanging on his body, and he also jumped into the river.
The boat was already in chaos, and Xu Zizhen could hear a voice yelling angrily from a distance: "What happened? Why don't you go down quickly to check?"
This voice was so familiar to Xu Zizhen that he would recognize it even if it was burned to ashes. It was Hu Sihai.
Xu Zizhen sneered secretly and swam towards the side of the boat at a faster speed. However, he knew very well how skilled Hu Sihai was, so he chose to swim towards the stern. Everyone on the boat gathered at the bow to look out, but they all ignored the stern.
, so he climbed onto the boat without any risk and was not discovered.
There was a mess on the deck. The sudden explosion had cracked the cabin in many places. The river water pouring in made the boat wet, but the hull seemed not to be greatly affected and there was no leakage.
Xu Zizhen winked at He Liangliang, who was following behind him, and asked him to go into the cabin to search for the kidnapped woman. He picked a few gourds, hung them around his waist, and slowly moved forward through the various bunkers on the ship.
"One, two, three... five!" Xu Zizhen hid in the dark and counted. Besides Hu Sihai, there were five other well-dressed men on the deck. Looking at their costumes and the knives in their hands, they were obviously the same as those who had been killed by him before.
The twelve people caught were in a group. These people were looking towards the river and the shore on the boat, looking for targets to attack them. Hu Sihai, with his hands folded across his chest, looked at them coldly, calmly and unflustered.
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The river surface has returned to calm. The gourds have been shattered after the explosion, leaving no big fragments. The shore is also quiet at a glance. It is impossible to tell whether anyone is hiding. The few people looked around for a long time and then came back to gather on the deck.
He went up and said: "Brother Hu, there is no one in the river, nor on the bank."
Hu Sihai frowned slightly: "Could it be a water bandit? But the Taihu Water Village has been under Master Kong's surveillance for a long time. It is impossible for a fish to sneak in here, and it is even less possible for that little thief Xu Zizhen..."
Suddenly a loud laugh came from the darkness: "Haha! Haven't you heard a sentence? Everything is possible!"
Hu Sihai's expression changed drastically. He pulled out the steel knife with a flick of his wrist and shouted: "Who is it?"
Before he finished speaking, he saw a black thing flying from far away, very fast and with sparks coming out of its head, which looked particularly dazzling in the night.
Hu Sihai shuddered subconsciously and stepped back quickly in shock. Although the five men were also startled, they did not have time to react and watched the thing fly to the front and land on the deck.
, then I saw clearly that it was a gourd that was smoking and flashing fire.
boom!
There was a loud noise, and the gourd suddenly exploded. The dazzling flames blinded several people completely, and then several people screamed in unison.
"ah!"
Xu Zizhen overestimated the gunpowder of this era. According to his imagination, he thought it could sink the ship and kill several people. However, he was disappointed. The power of the gunpowder only blew up a small hole on the deck.
There were quite a few holes and a large area of burnt blackness, and the screams of those people were just because they couldn't dodge and were stabbed in the face by gourd fragments.
Hu Sihai fled away the moment before the explosion. He glanced at the deck in shock and saw the five people already writhing in pain with their faces covered in blood, but no one died.
"Xu Zizhen!" He almost said the name through gritted teeth and turned to look behind him.
Under the moonlight, a figure stood quietly on the deck, naked and barefoot, holding a sharp steel knife in his hand, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. It was Xu Zizhen who had escaped from him several times.