Nanming Engineer

Chapter 29 Foreshadowing
Li Tingyu stroked his beard disapprovingly and said, "Don't come here. Tell me what your plan is. Let me tell you first, those water thieves are not easy to deal with. I have been mentioned by others before that the water in this lake There are tens of thousands of thieves, most of them are fishermen and common people in the vicinity. All of them are men with excellent water skills. They gather as bandits and disperse as civilians. There are three leaders. The big leader is Langli Bailong, whose surname is Wang Mingtao. He is a wealthy man, a rich man, but unfortunately he was targeted by the government because of the downfall of the Chongzhen government for ten years. He was afraid of being murdered and robbed, so he simply went into the water and became a thieves. The other two or three masters were all recruited from the rivers and lakes. The fleeing army in Liaodong has some military skills. It has trained a group of water thieves to look good. They have been entrenched on the lake for several years. Therefore, the government and army have encircled and suppressed them several times, but they have returned without success. It is not so easy for us to get their ideas .”

Wang Huan listened very carefully and didn't miss a single word, especially when he heard the part about the leader of the water thief. As soon as Li Tingyu finished speaking, he immediately asked, "That is to say, the water thief was actually recruited by the second The head and the third head practice mastery, and the head of the house, Wang Tao, is actually just a wealthy businessman who fell into a bandit because he was afraid of his family property being taken away by the government?"

"Yeah, these days, are there not many such things? Every rich and wealthy businessman has the shadow of a big boss in the court. If the big boss falls, even if you have a wealth of ten thousand, it will be fat in the eyes of others." That's all, the light ones' family property is taken away, and the serious ones perish." Li Tingyu said with emotion.

Wang Huan raised his brows, and said with Shu Yan: "In this way, this is really a good time, we can do this, but please invite Ma Quan here first."

Li Tingyu was startled for a moment, then understood, shook his head and said with a smile: "So that's what you had in mind. I called you Xiao Zhuge, and you were right."

He tilted his head and called out loudly, and Ma Quan, who was standing at the stern, came over, and the three formed a circle, Wang Huan whispered for a while, and Li Tingyu and Ma Quan could not stop nodding their heads, making repeated noises.

"That's the plan." After saying that, Wang Huan straightened up and let out a long breath: "As long as the water thief shows up and acts like this, we will win a complete victory."

Li Tingyu and Ma Quan looked at each other, and smiled in unison: "Is there any reason to be invincible? To discuss this plan, not to mention the white dragon Wang Tao in the waves, even if Hong Hengjiu, the governor of the five provinces, is here, I am afraid that he will be fooled."

The three of them burst into laughter. Their laughter was indescribably weird and treacherous, and echoed on the lake.

After laughing, Li Tingyu asked Ma Quan slowly: "Do you have any objections to what the councilor said? If so, please speak out earlier, and I will consider it."

When he said this, Li Tingyu was not embarrassed to look at Ma Quan, but looked up at the sky. He really felt that his conscience could not bear it.

When he left Yangzhou, he vowed that he would return to Sichuan with all his subordinates, and he didn't go far. He wanted to let Ma Quan stay in this non-kinship Hongze Lake. Working hard for that illusory future adventure, even having to bear the burden of humiliation, such a thing is indeed not very authentic.He knew that Ma Quan's family also had parents, wives and children, and they also looked forward to the return of their relatives at home. Although he was a Shangguan, he was always as close as a brother. He had no choice but to force Ma Quan to stay, but he really couldn't bear it.

So he coughed twice, took a peek at Wang Huan who was standing beside him with a poker face, and said slowly, "I really don't want to stay, so you can just say it, we'll change the candidate."

"No!" Before Ma Quan could speak, Wang Huan spoke. He said decisively: "If this matter is replaced by someone else, it will be a big disaster! If you want to survive in this place where tigers and wolves look around, you have to develop and grow. You have to be brave." People who are scheming, resolute and resolute are not up to the job, and in my opinion, all the generals under your lord, except for lord Ma Quan, will not be able to do it!"

Hearing this, Li Tingyu slandered in his heart: "Then you can stay." But he knew very well that Wang Huan stayed, and he didn't want to leave. After leaving Wang Huan, the remaining thousands of miles of escape would be lost in minutes. Being surrounded and suppressed, Wang Huan had to go with him.So I can only complain secretly in my stomach, and dare not say it.

The two looked at Ma Quan together, Wang Huan looked expectantly, Li Tingyu looked at Ma Quan fixedly, waiting for his reaction.

This middle-aged officer was of medium build and fair-faced. He was not as aggressive as Li Tingyu, but he was equally calm and decisive, with a pair of big eyes showing a determination that surpassed ordinary people.At this time, facing the eyes of the two, he clasped his fists and said: "Ma Quan dare not obey orders to participate in the military order! I just bid for the young and old in the family, and please take care of them. If there is a big event in the future, there will be wine to thank you! "

Li Tingyu's eyes were hot, he took Ma Quan's hands, nodded heavily and said: "Good brother! Don't worry, the youngest in your family is the youngest in my family, Li Laosan. If I have a bite to eat, they will not suffer." Hungry, if I have a piece of clothing to wear, they won't let them freeze! Including the families of your soldiers, they will not be wronged in the slightest. If not, teach me, Li Lao San, to die a good death!"

Ma Quan hastily knelt down on one knee, and said in a panic, "Your Excellency, you don't have to swear such a heavy oath. I will bid you all the brothers on your behalf. Thank you for your kindness!"

The dialogue between the two made Wang Huan on the other side sigh. When the white soldiers can be so loyal to him, it will be perfect.

At this time, the fleet was already approaching Mudun Island, and the scenery on the island was clearly visible, but it was so quiet that there was not even a single person. The reeds on the shore, as tall as a person, swayed gently against the breeze, and everything on the island all hidden in it.

Wang Huan and the others had stopped laughing and chatting. They stood at the bow of the boat with their eyes wide open, looking at the silent shore, trying to distinguish if there were any figures shaking among the shadows of trees and grass.

"There's no one." Li Tingyu looked back for a while and said, "Could it be that we were really scared away by our tartar costume?"

Before Wang Huan spoke, he heard a loud bang high up on the island. The sound of cannons was almost deafening in the quiet environment. Green smoke was rising. It was obviously a trumpet.

Accompanied by the sound of cannons, the reeds that were swaying in the wind just now swayed violently, shouting and killing, and countless small boats and fishing boats came out of it, swarming in, like countless ants and locusts, surrounded by fans in an instant. When they came up, twenty tank boats, like twenty big caterpillars, were surrounded by countless small boats. The densely packed small boats filled the water surface with a radius of two miles. On each boat, there were three or four people standing in the sun. A dark-haired man with a weapon in his hand was clamoring and shouting.

At the same time, countless human heads popped out of the water by magic tricks, as if they had drilled out of the ground, filling the water bank, everyone holding long and short weapons, the blades gleaming in the sun, full of murderous aura.A large flag was erected on a high place on the island, waving in the wind, and wrote a letter: "Walk the way for the sky, and Wang Tao stays in the water."

Under the big flag, a group of people stood in front of two people hugging each other, looking coldly at the boat fleet in the lake. From the appearance, it should be the leader of the water thief.

The scene was extremely chaotic for a while, the water fleet was firmly surrounded in the middle, unable to advance or retreat, Wang Huan's heart tightened, this was the first time he had experienced such a face-to-face confrontation with cold weapons, he was inevitably a little nervous, and he couldn't help holding his hand. He tightened the dagger in his hand.

Wang Huan licked his lips and looked at Li Tingyu and Ma Quan beside him, only to find that they showed no fear at all, and their expressions did not change. They looked indifferent, as if they didn't care about the scene caused by the water thief at all. , just staring at the group of people under the banner on the shore.

"Oh, I still have too little experience. We must strengthen our response in this area in the future." Wang Huan felt ashamed and sighed in his heart. If he wants to make a difference in this era, he must practice more in such a battle. , Otherwise, you will panic when you see blood, how can you achieve your goal.

(End of this chapter)