Nanming Engineer

Chapter 49 Sule's Response

The swimming soldiers swam slowly, and no one wanted to swim to the front. The bodies of the few who swam the fastest just now were still floating there. Who knew if there were any water ghosts under the water in front of them? I'm waiting for the brothers to go down and wipe their necks.

Xu Dingguo saw veins popping out of his forehead, and cursed loudly, and the soldiers in the river managed to pluck up their courage and speed up a little, but it was still very slow.The water surface was less than ten feet away, and he was swam out for a long time, guessing that all the cavalry upstream had found the bridge, and the first one finally touched the side of the boat, and he climbed into the boat carefully, He drew his knife and looked around, walked on the boat once, and then rushed to the shore with peace of mind and shouted: "There is no one on board, they all ran away."

The soldiers in the river climbed onto the boats one after another and searched them one by one. They found that every boat was empty. The gang of thieves had indeed run away, leaving no one behind.The soldiers held up the long wormwood and slowly moved the ship towards the shore.

"Master Su Le, it seems that the thieves were afraid of the might of the Qing soldiers, so they left the cargo on the boat and ran away." Xu Dingguo looked at the tank boat slowly approaching the bank on the river, his heart settled down in his heart, and his expression relaxed. Su Le said happily: "Master Su Le returned the goods to Zhao in full condition, congratulations."

Su Le snorted, shook his head noncommittally, and said nothing.

Xu Dingguo was looking for fun, and his attempt to have a friendly relationship with this young Jianzhou officer with a low official position but an inexplicably prominent status was cut off ruthlessly. His face was full of embarrassment, but he didn't know why Su Le was talking so coldly to him. He could only turn his head dully and watch his men dock the ship, and shut his mouth.

In fact, Su Le was feeling uneasy. When the gang of water thieves left, there was no trace of fear. They ran swaggeringly, without paying attention to the more than 1000 people on the other side. Very, they didn't care about the heavy cargo on the ship. If the two million taels of gold and silver were really loaded on the ship, would they be so pissed?
For the sake of confidentiality, Su Le didn't tell Xu Dingguo that the gold and silver stolen by Li Tingyu's gang were only imperial goods, so Xu Dingguo felt relieved when he saw the tank boats taking them back, while Su Le became even more panicked. .

Full of suspicion, before the boat docked, Su Le couldn't wait to jump off his horse, stepped a few steps to the water's edge, stepped on his feet, and jumped up into the air, like a big Kunpeng bird, flying over the water surface with a width of more than one zhang. Landed lightly on the nearest boat.

Xu Dingguo followed behind and looked at Su Lelu's hand. He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He couldn't help but secretly applaud. This kind of good skill cannot be faked. This old man is young but has deep hesitation. It seems that the prince's appreciation is not based on his ability to be a master rabbit, but on his actual military exploits in hundreds of battles on the battlefield.

Xu Dingguo thought about it, and felt that he might not have the ability, so he had to wait for the boat to be firmly on the shore before going along the gangway to the bow.But he saw that Su Le had already lifted off the tarpaulin in the cabin, and was staring at the things inside in a daze.

Glancing under the thatch, Xu Dingguo was also stunned. The cargo in the cabin that pressed the huge tank almost to the side of the ship turned out to be a mess of big rocks!

How is this going?Does the Qing court want to transport stones from the south to the north?I heard that the BJ Imperial City was burned to rubble by Li Zicheng. Do we need to rely on these stones to rebuild it?No way. Are there no stones near the capital?
Xu Dingguo took a sneak peek at Su Le, and saw that this lord had a variety of expressions on his face, his face turned blue and white for a while, his teeth were clenched tightly, his eyes were so red that they were about to bleed, and his heart immediately became clear: something is wrong with this ship, these stones It must not be what Su Le is looking for. The real goods have been stolen and transported to some unknown place. These twenty ships are the bait for others to confuse him. Both Su Le and himself have been fooled!

"What the hell did they lose? Don't tell me, it seems that the Manchus don't trust me very much." Xu Dingguo's heart skipped a beat, and he became a little resentful: "When is this, and you haven't told me the truth, well, I don't want to join in. , as you like, you can do whatever you want me to do, but don’t think that I will put all my strength on you.”

Xu Dingguo was thinking wildly, but Su Le slowly recovered after a brief moment of fright, his face changed back to a cold look, and after kicking a stone under his feet into the river as if venting his anger, he turned around and stared at Xu Dingguo. Said: "Mr. Xu, please immediately mobilize the water transport ships, and let's go into Hongze Lake!"

Xu Dingguo is not an idiot, he understood after a little thought, since the bait is going north, the real target must be going in the opposite direction, and the south of Hongze Lake is the Huaihe River, the rebels will not wait for the army to come, It must have gone to the Huaihe River.He understood Su Le's orders as soon as he heard them, and after thinking for a while, he immediately gave orders to the soldiers around him, and then said to Su Le in a deep voice: "Master Su, it's easy to adjust the boat, but it's more particular about entering the lake. The water thieves on the lake The situation is great, and the Ming Dynasty failed to suppress the bandits for ten years, I am afraid that the general's troops are not enough to deal with it, should we send troops from Xuzhou or Nanjing to cooperate?"

Su Le looked at Xu Dingguo contemptuously, Xu Dingguo rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and quickly explained: "It's not that the general is shrinking, it's because there are only more than 2000 people under him, and Prince Yu went south and took away most of Huai'an's troops. There is more than enough heart but not enough strength.”

"Xu Zongbing don't have to worry, I'm not going to the lake to suppress the bandits." Su Le sighed, "I just want to make a gesture to make the bandits think that we are going to enter the lake in a big way, forcing them not to stay on the lake for a long time. "

Xu Dingguo was suddenly enlightened, patted his head and said: "Oh, it turns out that your lord wants to match the truth with the truth, and clearly entered the lake to suppress the bandits, but you are just waiting for the rabbit, brilliant!"

While speaking, Xu Dingguo looked at Su Le with admiration and fascination, as if Zhou Yu was standing in front of him instead of Su Le.

Su Le was unmoved, and still said coldly: "Then please trouble General Xu. As long as there is enough momentum on the lake, the gang of thieves will be flustered and panicked. Set up a card to block them, so as to block them on the river."

Xu Dingguo said solemnly: "Master Su, please rest assured, Mr. Xu will definitely lead the whole army of Erlang under his command to dispatch with great fanfare, risking his life, he must act according to orders, and live up to his trust!"

He spoke in a dignified tone, but he didn't mention how to do it, let alone what to do with the water thief. He said in his heart: "You little tartar, there is no way to ask me to take the place of the dead ghost! It's fine to make a show. Let me fight those gangsters on the water, but it won't work."

Su Le continued: "That batch of imperial goods is priceless and extremely heavy. It is very difficult for the thieves to escape with them. Maybe they will find a place to hide on the spot. Xu Zongbing should be more careful on the lake. As long as he finds the batch Goods, official titles and titles are just a matter of time."

Xu Dingguo said: "In this case, Xu Dingguo must be very careful. Even if we use an oar to measure the thousands of miles of Hongze Lake, we still have to find every inch. Please rest assured, Mr. Su." But he said in his heart: "Okay, let's take it again. They lied to me and wanted me to kill the bandits. Do you think I, Xu Dingguo, have been living in vain all these years? Isn’t the reason why those rebels rebelled just for those goods? Although I don’t know what it is, how can they stay on the lake? , Those water thieves are the masters of killing people and stealing goods when they see money. If there are really such valuable things, they would have robbed them all long ago."

During the conversation between the two, it was clear that Su Le didn't delay too much. He was very anxious in his heart. After landing, he brought his hundreds of Jianzhou cavalry and left in a sudden rush. After a while, he disappeared. trace.

Xu Dingguo stood on the side of the road, looking at Su Le who disappeared into the loess sky. He spat on the ground with a "Bah!", snorted, leisurely mounted his horse, and led a group of Huai'an soldiers and horses to the water transport terminal to transfer the boat to the lake. Go, he thought clearly, brought all the warships to the lake, marched on the lake with arms for a few days, intimidated the water thieves, everyone tacitly avoided each other, and then settled the matter.

After all, the theater troupe in the backyard is still waiting for me, that Huadan, that figure, hehe, Xu Dingguo is riding on the horse, his eyes are shining, and the corners of his mouth are drooling.

(End of this chapter)