The silent night enveloped the seemingly ordinary fishing village, and also concealed the ferocious side of the fishing village that was unknown to outsiders. It looked so peaceful and peaceful, which also concealed the impending murderous intention.
Almost all the young and strong men in Yangtan Water Village were out. Naturally, many people were worried and could not sleep at night. However, ordinary people were reluctant to waste lamp oil and fire wax. Even if they could not sleep, few families in the village lit lamps.
Except for the most luxurious house in the middle of the village, most of it was plunged into darkness.
Only a bonfire was burning in the northwest corner of the circular village wall. The two of them were still holding knives and sat in front of the bonfire and dozed off. The others hid in a woodshed in the west corner of the wall and took a nap.
went.
The stone wall was high and steep, but there were huge gaps. With the help of rope hooks, Han Qian and other twenty-five people climbed up the wall silently. Only then did they realize that there were two steps open on the top of the wall.
I don’t know if it was because the military fortress built by the previous dynasty was abandoned and then occupied by fishermen, or if the fishermen here have been operating it for generations.
Jiangnan West Road was still in chaos in the early years of Tianyou, but it has become slightly more peaceful in the past few years. Currently, the imperial court is under great military pressure in the north and is restricting the local area. For the time being, it is unable to regulate local security. There are dozens of people in Poyang Lake.
With such a solid water stronghold, Han Qian would not be surprised.
At this time, the mountains to the east have already revealed a touch of fish belly white, and the sky will light up if we delay any longer.
At this time, a young and strong man with a cloth wrapped around his head pushed away the woodshed, muttering something, walked to the wall of the village, took out the words from his crotch, and peed happily.
The broken wooden door was blown by the wind and creaked loudly. The dim oil lamp had not yet been extinguished. Han Qian saw eight or nine people sleeping on the floor inside.
When the water thief who had urinated at night returned to the woodshed, Han Qian signaled Lin Zongjing, and Guo Nuer led twenty people to slide down the wall along the rope hook and surrounded the woodshed. He and Zhao Wuji
Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, three people, crouched and touched the two night watch water thieves who were sitting in front of the bonfire and dozing off about a hundred paces away.
Fifty steps apart, Zhao Wuji and Gao Shao drew their long bows, and two arrows shot out, like two sharp winds passing by. The two water thieves on guard turned their heads in surprise, and one of them was shot in front of the door.
The cluster penetrated the back of the skull, and fell with a muffled sound. One person was shot in the chest by an arrow, and fell into the bonfire, screaming and convulsing, causing the firewood to fly down, and ruthlessly tearing the silent night into pieces.
Gao Shao raised his hand and shot the water thief in the chest with an arrow. His archery skills were definitely not bad. Then he added another arrow and killed the water thief who was struggling in the bonfire. However, he did not expect that Zhao Wuji was so young.
He actually had the guts to shoot directly at the vital part of his face without worrying about missing the shot due to nervousness.
The water thieves in the woodshed heard the screams on the wall and knew that something had happened. They picked up their spears and swords and were about to rush out. However, Lin Zongjing and the others had already surrounded the woodshed. They raised their swords and shields and slashed at the water thieves.
Forced into the firewood shed, one cannot break out.
Han Qian picked up a spear on the wall of the village, pierced an old tree root that was burning brightly in the bonfire, and threw it towards the roof of the woodshed.
The woodshed was covered with sun-dried thatch, which could easily catch fire, and smoke would start to appear in a short time.
This group of water thieves soon realized that the firewood shed had been set on fire, and they went out to kill like crazy. Gao Shao and Zhao Wuji stood on the wall of the village, shooting arrows with their bows one after another, reducing the pressure on Lin Zongjing and the others, and blocking the dozens of water thieves.
In the woodshed.
Tian Cheng followed suit at this time, picked up another spear, and directly picked up the firewood from the campfire pile toward the woodshed one after another.
This side is more than thirty steps away from the firewood house. Han Qian used a spear to stab the firewood and threw it with the spear before accurately throwing it onto the roof of the firewood house. But Tian Cheng only used the blade of the spear.
He picked up the firewood and saw that the burning firewood drew an arc in mid-air and landed accurately on the roof of the firewood house.
Tian Cheng kept attacking, and in just a few breaths he was able to fly out a dozen pieces of firewood, completely igniting the thatched roof of the firewood shed. This skill was obviously much more sophisticated than Han Qian's.
At this time, the whole fishing village was boiling.
Even though except for the ten water thieves who stayed here, the village was full of old and weak women and children, at this time there were still thirty or forty strong women, old people and half-grown teenagers, picking up knives and sticks, or even simpler ones with kitchen knives.
Pitchfork the pot lid and rush this way from the alley.
It's a pity that the strong water thieves who stayed behind were surrounded in the woodshed and couldn't break out. They were burned and screamed. Even if someone came out in embarrassment, under the firelight, it was only Zhao Wuji. In Gao Shao's eyes, he was absolutely
Just a good archery target.
Those old, weak, women and children armed with crude weapons were just little monsters giving away experience in front of Lin Zongjing, Guo Nuer and other elite scouts who were well equipped with swords, shields and armor.
Soon, a dozen people were ruthlessly chopped down at the entrance to the alleyway leading to the woodshed, leaving pools of blood. Others no longer dared to rush forward and retreated in fear.
At this time, Han Qian climbed down the wall of the fishing village, took Zhao Wuji, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng, Lin Zongjing and others into a cone-shaped formation, set fire all the way to the most luxurious house in the middle of the fishing village.
Although some people tried to rush over to intercept them along the way, Han Qian killed them all mercilessly.
The courtyard walls of the mansion are high and thick, and the doors are tightly closed, but this is not an obstacle at all to Han Qian and the others.
Han Qian sent Lin Zongjing, Guo Nuer and others to knock on the door in front. He, Zhao Wuji, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng and others took rope hooks from the backyard to climb in, chopped down two old men with knives, and rushed to the front yard.
At this time, Lin Zongjing, Guo Nuer and the others broke open the door to the front yard and rushed in. They were taking a pretty-looking knife-wielding woman, a child about ten years old, and a five or six-year-old girl.
Surrounded in the corner of the yard, there were three armored women on the ground who were chopped down in a pool of blood, and several short bows fell to the ground.
"I don't ask what kind of heroes you are. As long as you bypass the cows, Ruier's lives, and the property in the house, and let you take it away, my shopkeeper will never pursue what happened today when he comes back."
Holding a sharp ox-slaying knife, he hurriedly put on half-body leather armor. At this time, he protected the boy and the little girl by his side, staring at Han Qian and said.
Han Qian looked at the woman and smacked his lips with regret. If he had faced such a sudden change for more than half a year, he might have been scared to death, but this woman still had the courage to negotiate terms with them.
It's really not simple.
"There are two paddle boats in the branch of the river west of the village. Sir, we can definitely kidnap these three people!" Tian Cheng saw the murderous look in Han Qian's eyes, so he came over and lowered his voice to persuade.
If they continue to wade back through the water along the same route, these three people will be a complete burden and cannot survive. They just waded through the water, and it took them an hour to cover the six or seven miles. They can't walk through the water any faster, let alone
They also have to take the prisoners away.
Han Qian glanced at Tian Cheng, thought for a while, then stared at the woman and said:
"If you want to live, don't struggle, and then obediently show us where the property is hidden! You masters are so greedy that you don't want your life. You were tricked by us into sneaking up on that old dog Han Daoxun. Seeing this
With the flames soaring into the sky, it takes two or three hours to get back..."
Guo Nuer stepped forward and snatched the knife from the woman's hand. Han Qian walked over, stretched out his hand to hold the woman's smooth and tender chin, stared into her beautiful and shocked eyes, and said sadly,
"If you deliberately delay and play tricks with us, I will stab your son and daughter with a knife every time we have a cup of tea to see who can outplay whom?"
Tian Cheng and Gao Shao looked at each other. They knew that they were going to pretend to be Fang Si's secret room to attack the camp and break the trust between Ji Kun and the water thieves. However, they heard Han Qianhun casually say that his father was an old man.
Dog, it still feels weird.
The woman wanted to save her children's lives. Under her guidance, Han Qian and the others quickly found a set of keys and opened the warehouse in the northwest corner of the house.
This warehouse is probably the strongest one in the house, with stone walls plastered with glutinous rice paste, a large iron-clad wooden door, and a very strong iron lock. Without a key, it would take a while to break it open with an axe.
However, when he opened the warehouse and saw that there was too much food but too little money, Han Qian was somewhat disappointed.
Stacks of sacks filled the warehouse, as many as a thousand large sacks, and there were probably 200,000 to 300,000 kilograms of unhulled rice.
In a small fishing village, the fishermen not only save money and food for themselves, but also make a living by fishing. The leader of the thieves actually hoards so much rice in his house, which makes people suspect that this group of water thieves is planning to rebel.
It seems that the leader of this group of water thieves is still a water thieves with quite ideals and pursuits, not a salty fish!
At this time, people kept trying to approach, but Zhao Wuji and Gao Shao shot arrows to stop them and hid in the alley.
Han Qian ordered Guo Nuer and others to set fire to all the houses in the village. Through the fire, the villagers who looked old and weak but still showed a strong appearance were driven to the outside.
Han Qian took a ladder and climbed up to the roof. He could see that there were many young men of twelve or thirteen years old, holding kitchen knives and wooden spears nestled in the dark, ready to kill out at any time like poisonous snakes.
It’s really a den of thieves who have been bandits for generations.
In addition, there were more than two hundred spears, a dozen pairs of armor, twenty strong bows, three large sacks of copper coins, fifty or sixty loaves of gold, cinnabar, cloth and other goods robbed from unknown sources in the warehouse.
After sweeping away three large bags of copper coins, gold and silver and other precious metals, as well as bows and armor and other fine weapons, Han Qian ordered firewood to be brought into the warehouse, and two barrels of lamp oil were poured in, intending to light the warehouse together.
In addition to some spears and bolts of silk and cloth that cannot be moved away, there are also two to three hundred thousand kilograms of grain stored in the warehouse, which is enough for the men, women, and children of this fishing village to eat for two or three years without doing anything.
Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others were infected with the epidemic or their families and suffered from hunger all day long during the years when they were forced to be homeless. They were full of special feelings for food. Even if they could not take away the food and cloth, they were not willing to set it on fire and burn it to ashes.
"If it was really Ji Kun's men who lured the thieves out of their caves and attacked their nests, would they burn them or not?" Han Qian stared at the hesitant Tian Cheng and others and asked in a low voice.
Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others were silent, thinking that if Ji Kun's men really attacked the stronghold, even if they did not slaughter all the men, women, old and young in the stronghold, they would still have to consider the possibility of a counterattack after the water thieves returned to the stronghold; they would even be more ruthless,
When all the water thieves return to the stronghold and then lead the officers and soldiers to attack them, how can we give them the possibility of forming a stronghold and holding on to it?
"..." Han Qian glanced at Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others, took the torch from Guo Nuer, threw it on the firewood poured with lamp oil, and watched the flames quickly rise.
