Lu Ming

Chapter 404 Mage and Knight

Just when it was getting dark, the port authority compound closed the gate on time as usual.

Due to the frequent parking of many vehicles, the courtyard of the Port Authority occupies a large area, almost half the size of a football field.

And at the first moment when the gate was closed, many guards rushed out of the stone building where there seemed to be few people before, and began to make pre-war arrangements.

They first cleaned up the debris in the courtyard, and then lifted out many bundles of special obstacles from the basement, and after opening them, they formed two concentric circles around the stone building.In this way, no matter from which angle the robber climbs over the wall and enters the courtyard, he will be blocked by obstacles within ten steps and become a living target.

Before this, with the help of binoculars, night vision goggles and walkie-talkies, the spies sent by the hostile parties had already been monitored by Xiongdao, and the other party was still ignorant and unaware.

What the shopkeepers from Taihu Lake don’t know is that the several 10 taels of snowflake ingots they have been thinking about are actually being transferred on the night of storage.

After the silver was moved to the small fishing boats in the port, it was sent to Hangzhou one after another in the past few days, and it is now lying in the basement of Tangzhuang.

Instead, there are obstacles brought by fishing boats from Tangzhuang.These things have been spread in the yard now, just waiting for the shopkeepers to come and make a fuss.

While the guards were preparing, the sky had completely darkened.Tonight, the moonlight is bright, the breeze is blowing, and the sky is full of stars, reflecting all the roads around the port. It is a good day for murder and arson.

With the sound of leather shoes rattling, the owner of the port, Xiong Dao, was also wearing a special police uniform at this time, with an AK hanging on his shoulder, and led the reinforcements to the top of the building.

How could the Hangzhou station ignore such a big move?So following closely behind Xiong Dao was Lu Cheng, the head of the Jiangnan Intelligence Station.

The chubby Lu Cheng was also fully clothed at the moment, and behind him was a group of action players who had been reinforced from Hangzhou.

Of course, the reinforcements are more than that.The water system from Taihu Lake to the port extends in all directions, and there are also thousands of waterways from Hangzhou to the port. Therefore, the 150 action members brought by Lu Cheng actually sneaked into the port late at night the day before yesterday.

These players were divided into two parts.Most of them were lurking in the warehouses that had been evacuated, and a small number of them sneaked into the port office until tonight.

At this moment, on the roof of the stone building, the team members have built sandbags along the outer edge.The roof paved with reinforced concrete not only has sufficient structural strength, but also the flat terrain and observation advantages are also very suitable for setting up firepower points.

In addition to the twenty breech-loading guns on the roof, the two AKs are the real firepower.These two town houses are used by two intelligence agents, Liu Qingyun and Gu Tianle, who are relatively high in status.

"It seems that Comrade 'Test Tube''s information is very accurate. The Lake Bandits are going to attack tonight, and their fleet has already moved this way just now." After hearing the surveillance post report from the walkie-talkie in his hand, Xiong Dao turned his head to face Lu Cheng said.

At this time, Lu Cheng watched the team members on the roof busy, and replied with a smile: "Hehe, the innate identity of the 'test tube' is there, so the information is of course accurate."

"Well, since it's effective, we can consider letting the 'test tube' hold high the banner of anti-Qi, gather reactionary gentry, and continue to pretend for a long time."

"There's no need to pretend, just perform in your true colors!"

When Lu Cheng said this, the two laughed tacitly.

At this moment, Liu Wang, who was wearing a training uniform with a short-brimmed hat and an AK on his back, was standing straight beside the two stationmasters. You can kill those masters who eat people and don't spit out their bones secretly, so why bother to mobilize so many people?"

"Haha, yes, the most important thing for young people is to learn to think!"

Lu Cheng patted the shoulder of the apprentice he had single-handedly brought out with relief, and then set up a dragon gate formation for him: "Assassination is just a tactic, not a strategy. In a large-scale confrontation between two groups, two camps, and two countries Among them, large-scale assassinations are pointless."

"You have also been studying culture for a long time, and your grades are not bad. So throughout the ages, Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, have you ever seen any power that won the world by assassinating its opponents?"

"Assassinate Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang will come out to inherit the family business. Even if you assassinate Mr. Zhang's family, there will still be people from all walks of life who will jump out and become new gentry—as long as this model of making a fortune by sucking blood from the land still exists, Then Lord Jishen will be produced continuously."

When Lu Cheng said this, Xiong Dao laughed and interjected: "Boy, if you assassinated a large number of hostile gentry, wouldn't that be a clear murder? What's the difference between this and open rebellion? Look at us now. Can a few guns raise the anti-flag?"

"The idea is a bit simple. You have to know that assassination will only make the people fear you and hate you, and will not make the people truly submit to you." Lu Cheng continued: "To seize the power of Daming's scale, you must let When everyone sees your positive strength, you have to convince everyone."

At this time, Xiong Dao smiled strangely and inserted a slang word that young people could not understand: "Mages are fearful, knights are awesome!"

Lu Cheng laughed, and continued to say to his disciples: "You see, isn't that what the Tartars in the north are doing? From the time when thirteen sets of armor set out to break up the spirit of Daming through bloody battles, now the Tartars are in Rumors have gradually spread in the Ming Dynasty that they are 'invincible'."

"What does this mean? It means that Daming's backbone has been broken! The entire upper class is losing confidence in resisting the Tartars. Hehe, if we hadn't appeared, the Tartars would definitely be able to rule the world in the future. This is the right way to seize the country."

Lu Cheng felt that he had given too much indoctrination to this native apprentice today, so he began the final summary: "You have to remember, there is no fighting on the battlefield, no continuous bloody battles, and no bottom-up changes that completely detonate old contradictions. unstable."

At the end, after rewarding Liu Wang with a "washing hair", Lu Cheng assigned homework to his apprentice, "After returning home, read the history of Jin and Sui Dynasty carefully, and then write the reading notes for me!"

While some people were talking loudly, the Lake Bandits fleet started from more than 20 miles away and was driving steadily in the river.The bright moonlight and stars tonight provided the best marching conditions for the lake bandits who were good at sailing at night, so the silent fleet did not encounter any twists and turns along the way. After sailing slowly for more than four hours, the fleet Finally arrived at the destination: the river pier in the outer business district of the port.

Due to the large amount of work before this, the idea of ​​widening and dredging the inland river connecting the port to form a river-river transport can only stay on paper for the time being.

In this way, the goods unloaded from the Yangtze River Estuary to Shanghai Port must go through a transit before being dispersed to the current river wharf, and then transported to various places in the south of the Yangtze River by countless inland river boats.

The fleet of lake bandits is now quietly parked at the original Zhangsu beach, outside the current business district.

Before this, because the port had sold out its inventory, and the port authority had intentionally or unintentionally used some excuses such as "renovation and overhaul", the business district had gradually emptied out in the past few days, leaving only an empty city.

Objectively, this action is tantamount to helping the Lake Bandits: the fleet can anchor directly at the river wharf, and after disembarking a large force, they can pass through the commercial area and pounce on the Port Authority without having to worry about reporting the news. up.

And that's exactly what the Lake Bandits did.

After the fleet docked, several shopkeepers and cronies carrying knives and axes jumped off the ship first.At this time, the spies from the commercial area also came to report: "Everyone, there is no one in the store, and there is no oil and water. The merchants have gone back to sell their goods."

"Okay! Let the brothers disembark, don't say anything!" The commander-in-chief Qiao Shiqi nodded in satisfaction at this time, beckoning to help everyone disembark.

The lake bandits selected to participate in the operation this time are all elites from various gangs.So when it was time to take action, these old gangsters immediately showed their professionalism: after 800 people turned over from the side of the ship, they did not make any noise, but maintained their formation. A long black and gray dragon formed on the gravel road.

"I don't want to talk too much, if you don't follow the regulations, someone will settle the score with him after you go back!" Qiao Shiqi gave a last word to the shopkeepers around him, and then said: "Let's go! "Then he took the lead and took more than 100 people in his family to be the vanguard.

After that, all the shopkeepers also brought their cronies back to their families, and the long queue composed of sections immediately set off.

The brigade of lake bandits, who had been repeatedly informed of the port's specific situation on the road, quickly passed through the commercial area and storage area without dividing their troops-they knew that these were empty, and the fat was only in the port authority compound.

When the footsteps of "cracking" came from far and near in the moonlit night, and finally came to the main road in the port area, only a sentinel on the wide road finally saw a large number of black figures on the other side of the road. In the bright Under the moonlight, it is impossible not to see it.

Then a sharp scream finally broke the silence, and spread far away in the cold wind on the river bank: "No, there are thieves, wake up the guards!"

After hearing this terrified shout, the three shopkeepers standing in front of the Lake Bandit team suddenly laughed grinningly: The sneak attack was successful, Huhuhuhu.

The next moment, according to the plan, Qiao Shiqi led his brothers slowly across the smooth concrete avenue; while the teams on his left and right sides, led by the other two shopkeepers, went around to the back of the compound.

According to the plan, since it was going to be rushed over, the brigade would enter from all sides of the courtyard wall at the same time, so as to bring the best panic effect to the enemy.

So Qiao Shiqi, who had maxed out his house-robbing skills, led his brothers to pause in front of the courtyard wall.At this time, he listened to the panic shouting and sporadic gunfire in the courtyard, while waiting for the signal to charge.

Not long after, about a minute and a half later, a burst of red flag flowers suddenly burst into the night sky.

The next moment, Qiao Shiqi brandished the steel knife and roared: "Give me the water, those who fool around are not brothers, don't blame my brother for being vicious!"

On the night of November 1629, 11, on the tenth night when Xiong Dao sent Yamen to buy land in Xu's house, the Jiangnan reactionary gentry group formally started the action of forcefully seizing the fruits of the labor of the crossing people.

(End of this chapter)