Fisherman's Song Dynasty

On the fifteenth day, the moon is sixteen round. There is a bright moon hanging in the night sky tonight, which illuminates the Lou River very brightly. Xu Zizhen and He two are lying in the grass on the bank, waiting for the target to appear.

In front of Xu Zizhen was a long thin rope, with some faint black light. It was a fuze he made himself, with gunpowder mixed with lamp oil to prevent the river from getting wet. Look, otherwise you will never see dozens of gourds floating on the river.

These gourds are his own homemade water mines. The gunpowder is put in and tamped, the fuse is buried, and then a piece of loess is poured, so that half of the space can be reserved so that the gourd can half float on the water surface. The mouth of the gourd is the fuze. Dozens of gourds are connected by a general fuze at the place where it passes out. As long as Xu Zizhen ignites at the other end, these gourds will explode together in a very short time.

Xu Zizhen has never learned blasting, but when he was a child, he often disassembled firecrackers and made "earth bombs" to play with. The length of the fuze and the time of explosion were also carefully calculated. These are more and more obvious to He Liangliang. It's amazing, because he has never seen those Arabic numerals drawn by Xu Zizhen on paper, and he doesn't know what these ghostly symbols mean.

He Liangliang got a little impatient waiting, and couldn't help asking again: "Brother, can these gourds really be fried?"

Xu Zizhen didn't know what to do, so he hesitated for a moment: "Probably it can be blown up. If it doesn't work later, I'll just go over and order it myself."

Today it is said that Xu Zizhen is alone, but He Erliang is also there, as well as the Li family father and daughter. They don't understand water skills, so they can only lie on the shore and watch. Xu Zizhen's plan is to detonate the mine first when the ship arrives. Then the boat will be forced to stop. If the hull of the boat breaks and enters the water, it will definitely dock. It is time for them to make a move. You must know that although Li Sheng is not a master, a big knife is quite powerful, and it is quite a battlefield. The taste of warriors.

Liuli had already found a former subordinate of Master Hua to quickly report the news that the ship was ready to set sail, and Xu Zizhen was all ready, his eyes were fixed on the river, and he gritted his teeth and cursed secretly: "Hu Sihai, old thief Wang Wei, you I'm going to take my mother's life!"

The bright moon gradually rose to the middle of the night sky, and the river wind blew the reeds on the bank to rattle. At about midnight, Xu Zizhen finally saw a flat-bottomed merchant ship in the distance coming through the waves with the power of the northwest wind. Holding a flag, it fluttered in the night wind, and the three big characters of Changxing Ji written on it were exposed.

"Here we come!" Xu Zizhen was so energetic that he threw off the clothes on his body, leaving only a pair of shorts with a small nose and a steel knife pinned to his waist, waiting for the ship to approach.

Soon the ship entered the range of his blasting, Xu Zizhen shouted in a low voice: "Two liang, light it!"

He Liangliang had already prepared the fire medium in his hands, and a flame lit up as soon as he opened the lid. When he approached the lead wire to burn, a dazzling flame burst out, and quickly spread into the river with the pungent smoke.

boom!

An earth-shattering explosion sounded suddenly, and the calm river surface was splashed several meters high by this explosive force. The explosion point was right at the bow of the ship. From a distance, the bow of the ship looked like As if being lifted by someone from the bottom of the boat, it was raised high, and then fell heavily back to the surface of the water. This time, many waves were made again, and the whole boat was soaked.

Xu Zizhen took a deep breath, squatted down and jumped forward fiercely, using the force of the forward rush, he jumped into the river like a sharp arrow, drew a beautiful arc, and jumped into the water with a soft hissing sound. He Liangliang followed closely behind, and with more than a dozen gourd bombs hanging on his body, he also jumped into the river.

The boat was already in chaos, and Xu Zizhen could hear a voice yelling angrily from a distance: "What happened? Why don't you go down and check?"

This voice was so familiar to Xu Zizhen, even if it was burned to ashes, he would recognize it. It was Hu Sihai.

Xu Zizhen secretly sneered, and speeded up to swim towards the side of the boat, but he was very aware of how skilled Hu Sihai was, so he chose to swim towards the stern, and all the people on the boat gathered at the bow to look out, but they all ignored the stern , so he climbed onto the boat without any risk and was not noticed.

There was a mess on the deck, the sudden explosion shattered the cabin in many places, and the river water pouring in made the boat wet, but the hull didn't seem to be affected much, and there was no water leakage.

Xu Zizhen winked at He Liangliang, who was following behind him, and let him advance to the cabin to search for the kidnapped woman. He picked up a few gourds and hung them around his waist, and slowly advanced through the various bunkers on the ship.

"One, two, three...five!" Xu Zizhen hid in the dark and counted. Apart from Hu Sihai, there were five well-dressed men on the deck. Judging by their attire and the knife in their hands, it was obvious that they were the same as those who had been captured by him before. The twelve captured were in a group. These people were looking at the river and the shore from the boat, looking for targets to attack them, while Hu Sihai watched coldly with his arms folded, calm and not flustered. .

The surface of the river has returned to calm. The gourds have been shattered after the explosion, leaving no large fragments. The shore is also clear and quiet. It is impossible to see if anyone is hiding. Those people looked around for a long time, and then gathered on the deck He went up and said, "Brother Hu, there are no people in the river, nor on the shore."

Hu Sihai frowned slightly: "Could it be a water bandit? But the Taihu Water Village has long been under the watchful eye of Mr. Kong, it is impossible for a leaked fish to sneak here, and it is even more impossible for that little thief Xu Zizhen..."

Suddenly a loud laugh came from the darkness: "Haha! Haven't you heard a word? Everything is possible!"

Hu Sihai's complexion changed drastically, he pulled out the steel knife with a flick of his wrist, and shouted, "Who is it?"

Before the words were finished, a black object was flying towards it from a distance, extremely fast and sparks were flying from its end, which was particularly dazzling in the night.

Hu Sihai shuddered subconsciously, and quickly backed away in shock. Although the five men were also taken aback, they didn't have time to react, and watched the thing fly to the front and land on the deck. , Only then did I see that it was a gourd smoking and shining with fire.

boom!

With a loud noise, the gourd exploded suddenly, and the dazzling flame blinded the eyes of several people, and then they let out a scream in unison.

"what!"

Xu Zizhen overestimated the gunpowder of this era. According to his imagination, he thought that he could sink the ship, kill and blow up a few people, but he was disappointed in the result. Not a small hole, and a large area of ​​scorched black, and the screams of those people were just pierced by gourd fragments because they couldn't dodge in time.

Hu Sihai avoided the moment before the explosion. He glanced at the deck in shock, and saw that the five people were already writhing in pain with blood on their faces, but none of them died.

"Xu Zizhen!" He almost gritted his teeth and called out the name word by word, and turned his head to look behind him.

Under the moonlight, a figure stood quietly on the deck, naked and barefoot, holding a shiny steel knife in his hand, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, it was Xu Zizhen who had escaped from him several times.