Chapter 488
: Lucky Success
Just as a group of strong Xingtian troops slid into the surging Yellow River, and at this time, the people on the Fuwang fleet had not yet fallen asleep, the guards on the boat had basically gone to play chess with Mr. Zhou. In their opinion, what else could they encounter when sailing in such a night? So no one saw their heads floating down the river, and soon they were stuck on each boat.
After these black shadows climbed over the hull, they quickly climbed onto the big ship from the dark shadows that were not visible to the lanterns, and turned around and disappeared in the darkness.
Liu Shaoqing was lying on a small bed in the cabin, hugging a naked beautiful maid. He didn't hear the cabin door slowly being pulled open from outside. It was not until a cool breeze blew on him and woke him up. He opened his eyes in a daze. But before he could see the matter clearly, he felt his neck suddenly cool, and then a sharp pain came. He realized that something was wrong and wanted to turn over and jump up and scream, but at this time, there was a puff sound of air leakage from his neck, and a blood arrow was gushing out fiercely from the wound on his neck. The last image left in front of him was a black shadow with a naked back stabbing a knife into the chest of the beautiful maid beside him.
On the quiet river surface shrouded by the night, a shrill scream suddenly came from a ship among the fleet that was slowly flowing upstream like a long dragon, and then someone shouted in horror: "Someone hijacked the ship..."
However, the man's screams were only halfway through, and then more people shouted on the boat, and screams and fighting sounds began to be heard on each boat.
Under the illumination of the lanterns on each ship, many black shadows began to appear on each ship, cursing, screaming, and screams. At the same time, the sound of swords and swords intertwined, and the entire fleet immediately became a mess.
The battle lasted for half an hour before it gradually became quiet. Several ships in the fleet on the river surface even caught fire, and several ships left the fleet and began to go downstream and turn to speed towards Luoyang. There were shouts of call from each ship.
Yang Kunshan stood on the head boat with a ferocious expression on his face, covered in blood. There was a knife on his bare chest, which made his skin turn open and bleeding constantly, but he seemed to have not seen it, and did not care about the knife wound on his chest at all, and shouted loudly: "Don't worry about the fire and the escaped ships! Turn around quickly! Take the boat back!"
At this time, the remaining ships had basically been controlled by Yang Kunshan's subordinates, and the fighting basically stopped. The shirtless Xingtian army members, one by one, were sharp single swords, forcing the boatmen to turn around and shout loudly to turn the boat. Under the pressure of these men, the boatmen could only obediently obediently and obediently turned the boat towards the direction of the ancient town. Only a few fired ships were quickly abandoned on the surface of the river, igniting a raging fire, illuminating the entire river.
After a raid, the troops of the more than 100 Xingtian Army basically controlled about twenty grain ships. The remaining only a few ships failed and were unable to be successfully controlled by them. As a result, the guards on the ship killed the troops who were on board and seized the ship and fled. However, this result was already good for Yang Kunshan. He did not dare to delay, for fear of attracting other rescue ships. He immediately directed the fleet to turn around on the river surface, and also sailed down the river towards the ancient town.
This battle was not very successful for Yang Kunshan and others, but fortunately their actions were too sudden, which made the people in the Fu King fleet not expect in advance, and they took advantage of loopholes. If it weren't for this, with their preparation, even if it was a sneak attack, it would be difficult to intercept so many ships. All this does not mean that they are so smart, it can only be considered a lucky draw!
However, this was enough for Xiao Tianjian. Although he did not snatch all the ships as he wished, Yang Kunshan snatched back most of the ships, and the 30,000 stones of grain was already quite rich for them. That night, Xiao Tianjian almost didn't sleep all night and stood on the bank of the Yellow River and watched the river. It was not until the early morning that he saw a small boat rushing back to the ancient town quickly and informed Xiao Tianjian and the others that he had succeeded, and the fleet of the large ships was rushing towards the ancient town.
So Xiao Tianjian felt relieved and returned to the dock in person to wait for the return of the fleet. It was not until dawn that Yang Kunshan led the fleet back to Gucheng Town. However, by this time, the Yellow River had basically been on the ground. After hearing the news, the two counties of Mianchi Xin'an on the south bank of the river where the accident happened, they heard that it was King Fu's fleet that had been robbed, so they quickly summoned soldiers and found ships to search for the hijacked grain ship along the river. However, at this time, the grain ship had already returned to Gucheng Town Wharf.
Looking at the ships of rice loaded with rice, Xiao Tianjian felt completely in his stomach. With nearly 30,000 stones of grain, his current food crisis could basically be handled.
Unfortunately, the more than 160 water soldiers who fought this time were not experienced and lost a lot. More than 160 people went out, but less than 100 people came back. The rest were either killed on the ship on the spot or injured and fell into the water. Most of the people who came back were injured. Even Yang Kunshan himself was killed on the ship. He almost split his chest, which showed the great loss.
However, Xiao Tianjian has long been used to this kind of thing. Since he does this, he must have the awareness of death. It is quite cost-effective for him to get so much food at the price of 70 people. So after the fleet returned, Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered the soldiers who had not been able to come back. At the same time, he ordered to summon a large number of people from Yanqu County to transfer a large number of cars and horses, unload the food on the ship on the ship and start transporting it to Lishan Town. Xiao Tianjian did not kill the boat workers on the ship and took them back to Yangcheng County to settle. As for those ships, they were pulled upstream along the River and Haoqing River and hidden for future use.
It was only a few days later that King Fu received the news that the grain fleet was robbed. After hearing this news, King Fu was furious on the spot, his body was full of fat and trembled with anger. He scolded Liu Shaoqing, who was sent out to do business this time, for being incompetent. He lost his income of more than 100,000 taels of silver, and almost pulled Liu Shaoqing's whole family out to bury him alive. If the people in the mansion had not persuaded him that doing so would make the people in the mansion feel heartbroken, he would have really done such a thing.
But after suffering such a great loss, King Fu was willing to give up. He immediately sent people to Mianchi and Xin'an County to order the local magistrate to find the culprit. This matter was not difficult to investigate. Two grain ships that fled back to Luoyang captured two Xingtian troops. After torture, they learned who planned the ship hijacking incident.
Chapter completed!