Luo Sinan used the golden cicada's plan to escape from Wen County's interception, and it was smooth sailing all the way down. They happened to encounter a westerly wind again. They pulled up the sails and sailed at full speed. At noon on the third day, the large ship carrying Iron Fire Thunder entered Yongzhou from Liyang County.
Jiqu.
Luo Siman is worthy of being Li Wujun's strategist. He is very aware of the risks of taking the Yongji Canal to go north. Although the Yongji Canal can eventually reach Xindu, they still have to pass through Tian Yue's hometown, Weizhou Yuancheng.
The warrior commander Zhang Qian suggested: "Military advisor, we might as well escape the golden cicada's shell again. On the surface we go north by water, but in fact we go north by land and use a few mule carts to transport goods north."
Luo Sinan used a fake iron fire thunder to break through Wen County, which made Zhang Qian admire the military advisor. He knew that the military advisor must have planned a way to go north.
Luo Sinan nodded and said: "It is true that the golden silkworm can be reused after shelling, but there is no need to go overland. We enter the Anyang River in Xiangzhou, then transfer to Zhangshui in Ye County, and go north along the Zhangshui. The only thing left is to use gold
Silver has cleared the way."
“But…..where do we look for ship replacement?”
Luo Siman smiled faintly, "I have already arranged a pick-up boat at the mouth of the Anyang River. It is a local fishing boat that is hidden from others. Wei's checkpoints only check merchant ships, never fishing boats."
Zhang Qian was stunned for a moment, then he immediately gave a thumbs up, "High! It's really high!"
Luo Siman smiled proudly. Although Guo Song was powerful, he was still a bit young in his eyes. As for Tian Yue, unless he also knew what he was escorting, his checkpoints would become meaningless under the silver bullet offensive.
At this time, Yuancheng had been alerted, and Wei's intelligence point in Chang'an used an urgent method to notify Tian Yue of the news that Li Wujun had smuggled twenty iron fire thunders.
This news shocked Tian Yue, and he was also extremely excited. He had been looking forward to Iron Fire Thunder for a long time, but he didn't know where to start. Now that Li Wujun had actually delivered it to his door, how could he not accept it?
He immediately mobilized 30,000 troops, set up checkpoints on all northbound roads and rivers, and impounded all northbound caravans and ships. He personally led more than a hundred warships south along the Yongji Canal to intercept Li Wujun's
vessel.
Although Tian Yue is a brave man, he has experts around him. His three military advisors, Wang You, Hu E and Xu Shize, are all powerful characters, especially Wang You, who is very resourceful and cannot be underestimated.
Luo Siman had a good idea and used one more move to get rid of Tian Yue and head north. However, military advisor Wang You asked Tian Yue to fully deploy his defenses. Even if you can escape the first grade of junior high school, you can't escape the fifteenth grade.
In the afternoon, the leading patrol ship sent by Tian Yue discovered a suspicious thousand-stone cargo ship on the Yongji Canal River in Huanshui County. Thousand-stone ships rarely appeared in inland rivers. They usually came from the Yellow River. The patrol ship immediately followed it.
Live this big ship.
More than a dozen sentinel ships gathered around it, and the soldiers climbed aboard the ship, only to find unexpectedly that the ship was an empty ship, with many dense mules and horses hoofprints on the shore.
The soldiers immediately went north to report to Tian Yue. Soon, Tian Yue got the news. He frowned. Did the other party go ashore and go north by land?
Wang You laughed next to him, "Your Highness, please don't fall for their trick. Taking the land route is a dead end. It's not that they don't know, they must still take the water route. If I guessed correctly, they changed boats and entered the Anyang River, and then left from Ye County
If you want to enter Zhangshui again, you must want to go north from Zhangshui."
Tian Yue immediately said: "Then let's catch up now."
Wang You stroked his beard and smiled and said: "Of course your Highness can catch up, but I have laid an ambush in Ye County. I hope they can't escape!"
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At two o'clock in the morning, a large fishing boat of 300 stone was slowly sailing towards the checkpoint in Ye County a few miles away. This is the first checkpoint where Anyang Water enters Zhangshui. As long as you pass this checkpoint, there will basically be no water ahead.
If there was any interrogation, after all, a large section of Zhangshui was within the territory of Mingzhou. The Jin army did not set up checkpoints, and Tian Yue did not dare to go to Mingzhou to set up checkpoints.
Luo Siman was very shrewd in his calculations. As long as he passed the Ye County checkpoint, he would be successful.
At this time, we were still two miles away from the Ye County checkpoint, and the lights of the checkpoint were faintly visible in the distance.
Luo Siman stood at the bow of the ship, his expression solemn, his eyes full of uneasiness. He felt an indescribable strangeness in the air, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.
"Commander, there is a ship behind us!" a warrior suddenly shouted.
Luo Siman was shocked. He turned around and took a closer look, only to see the outlines of ships faintly appearing behind him in the darkness. There seemed to be quite a lot of them.
"There's a boat ahead too!"
Another warrior pointed forward and shouted. Hundreds of steps ahead, countless boats blocked the river.
"Oops!"
Luo Siman groaned secretly in his heart, he knew that he had fallen into a trap, and the other party had already taken the lead and laid an ambush.
"What should I do?" Luo Siman was extremely anxious.
At this moment, a black shadow flew from the shore like a big bird. He used his toes to gain strength on a piece of wood in the river and jumped onto the boat. His long sword was so sharp that it pierced the man standing on the bow of the boat like lightning.
Luo Siman.
Luo Siman was unprepared and his throat was pierced by a sword. He held his throat and took two steps back before falling into the water with a 'pop!'
Two golden cicadas escaped from their shells, and seven of the fifteen warriors were diverted away. Only eight warriors were left on the ship. The man in black came too fast, and his sword skills were terrifying. Four of the eight warriors were killed in an instant, and all of them were killed.
A sword pierced the throat.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the remaining four people turned around to run away. The man in black flicked his hand, and four golden needles shot out, hitting the back of the four people's necks. The four people ran for a few steps and fell down.
The three boatmen were so frightened that they jumped into the river.
The person coming was none other than Ying Caihe. She had been following the Qianshi ship. She was almost fooled when Luo Sinan escaped from his shell for the second time. After chasing him for twenty miles, she realized something was wrong. She immediately turned around and chased along the Anyang River. Finally, she caught up at the last moment.
After getting on the big fishing boat, she saw Luo Sinan standing on the bow and finally confirmed that she had finally found her target.
The boats at the front and rear heard the noise and began to approach slowly. With no time left, Ying Caihe waved her hand to the shore, and a sharp ax weighing twenty kilograms rolled over and flew over. Her apprentice Jingyue was on the shore.
Ying Caihe Lingkong grabbed the ax handle and jumped out of the cabin. There were twenty large wooden boxes neatly placed in the bottom cabin.
Although she could use the method of ignition, the soldiers from the firearms battalion told her in Jiangnan that igniting will only explode one iron fire mine, and other iron fire mines will only be blown away and cannot be destroyed. The best way is to use water.
It will be ineffective as long as water enters.
‘Crack!’
Ying Caihe struck the wall of the boat with his axe. This was an ordinary folk fishing boat. The boat wall was very thin and could not withstand wind and waves, so it could only sail in inland rivers.
The ship's plank broke, and a river water rushed in. Ying Caihe struck five more axes in succession, opening five large holes, and the river water surged in.
Ying Caihe threw the ax on the deck casually, and she jumped on the deck. She heard the sound of a large number of horse hooves on the east bank of the river getting closer and closer. Dozens of cavalry led by them had already rushed out of the woods. They could not retreat from the east bank.
.
Ying Cai took off his belt and yelled, "Jump over here!"
Jingyue took a few steps back, ran a few steps, jumped suddenly, and flew into the air. She was still a foot away from the ship. She had already exhausted her strength, but the belt appeared in front of her eyes. She grabbed the belt, and Ying Caihe threw it with all her strength.
, pull the apprentice onto the boat.
At this time, the ship had begun to sink rapidly, and the ship behind them was less than fifty steps away from them. There were soldiers on the ship with their bows and arrows fired, and the arrows came like raindrops. The situation was very critical.
Ying Caihe and his apprentice used long swords to shoot the arrows. Ying Caihe rolled over, picked up the ax on the deck, swung the axe, and struck the mast with a fierce blow.
‘Crack!’ The mast broke and fell to the west.
"Let's go!" Ying Caihe threw away his axe, jumped onto the mast across the river, ran a few steps, jumped onto the shore, and rolled in the ditch on the bank.
At this time, there were also cavalry coming from the west. Ying Caihe gently pulled his disciple, and the two of them ran westward along the ditch. Suddenly, they squatted down, and a dozen cavalry came over them like a gust of wind.
I flew by and didn't find them.
After the cavalry had gone away, the two jumped out of the ditch and ran towards a forest several miles away...
Nearly two hundred sentry boats and six thousand cavalry surrounded the river. The soldiers held torches and illuminated the surroundings like daylight. Tian Yue also arrived, and saw hundreds of soldiers struggling to use long ropes to lift the sunken ship into the river.
Pull it out little by little.
"Military advisor, are there any problems?" Tian Yue asked nervously.
Wang You shook his head, "I have never seen the real thing of Iron Fire Thunder. I only heard that it is a big black jar. I don't know what it is exactly."
At this time, the soldiers first fished out the corpses from the river and laid them side by side on the grass on the bank. Tian Yue recognized one of the middle-aged scribes at a glance, and it was Luo Sinan, Li Wujun's military advisor.
"wrong!"
Wang You frowned and said: "They were not killed by arrows, they were assassinated. Who did it?"
At this time, three boatmen were brought up. The first boatman said tremblingly: "Someone jumped on the boat to kill people. Their sword skills were so powerful that they assassinated several people at once."
"General Lin, is this the person you sent?" Tian Yue asked the navy general next to him.
General Lin Yunfeng shook his head, "They are not sent by low-ranking officials."
"Did anyone escape?" Wang You asked.
"I heard from the soldiers that... two people ran away."
Tian Yue suddenly became furious and slapped him hard, "Asshole, why didn't you tell me earlier!"
Lin Yunfeng covered his face and lowered his head, not daring to say a word. He thought it was the Tongquetai warrior sent by his lord.
Wang You advised: "Your Majesty, let's look at things first! If we chase him now, we probably won't be able to catch up for a while."
Tian Yue had to suppress his anger. After all, he was chasing Tie Huolei, not chasing people. As long as Tie Huolei was still there, people didn't matter.
Under the shouts of the soldiers, the boat filled with water gradually emerged from the water.