Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 601 Centering
On the largest three-story riverboat in the center of Shuibo.Shi Liangdong, one of the leaders of the Yunmeng Thieves, was also anxiously waiting for something; because this time, he took great risks and connections to infiltrate the vicinity of Jiangling City to carry out tasks and goals, but he failed to achieve any of them.

For example, the agreed time for a secret meeting with the other two parties has passed; but neither the mysterious behind-the-scenes sponsor nor the representatives from Jiangling City showed up.On the contrary, it was the bad news that the entire city of Jiangling was closed and closed, and the people he sent into the city to investigate were also trapped.

As the largest force active in Yunmeng Daze, there is an existence named 72 Lianlianwu; when it was the most powerful and prosperous in the early years, it used to have tens of thousands of subordinates of various colors, and the peripheral members and relations who have relied on it for a long time And so on, it is as many as several times, ten times more than this.

Shi Liangdong, who is in charge of foreign negotiations and communication, is undoubtedly one of the important members.His great-great-grandfather's generation can even be traced back to the predecessor of 72 Lianhuanwu, who was born as an old Yunmeng thief before being wiped out by the government army; a member who escaped disaster because of selling stolen goods abroad.

So after embezzling the stolen money, he honestly hibernated in the surrounding counties, married a wife and had children and became a good citizen for more than ten years.Then, after the imperial court gradually gave up Yunmeng Daze, a group of township parties and neighbors were re-gathered to go deep into it to rebuild their strongholds, and once again started to make a living illegally.

Therefore, among the founders of 72 Lianlianwu, Shi Shi also seems to occupy a place.When Shi was at his best, he even reached a tacit understanding on behalf of 72 Lianhuanwu and some people in the government through local gossip, in exchange for long-term coexistence.

After all, the so-called 72 Lianlianwu is actually hidden in Yunmeng Daze, collectively referred to as many strongholds where criminals and exiles gathered.Apart from the desire to seek profit through illegal activities, most people no longer had the urge to provoke the imperial court like the previous generations of Yunmeng thieves.

Whether it is the dock masters or the several leaders who have been launched, they basically accept this status quo.Even Shi Liangdong thought that as long as some insignificant exiles were handed over during the regular raids by the government and army, this situation could be maintained forever.

However, just a few years ago, everything suddenly changed dramatically.First, someone found the leaders on the waterway in the south, and secretly promised considerable benefits in exchange for them transporting some prohibited items for a long time.Then Jiang Bandits rushed over one after another.

With the growing strength of the 72 Lianhuanwu, it seems that it can no longer stay dormant; among the several leaders, some people feel that things seem to have changed, and want to stop and stop; but they die unexpectedly.Then, there was a short but intense internal conflict.

In the end, the ranks of the two leaders who died were also replaced by the leaders of the foreign forces.Although Shi Liangdong escaped the turmoil temporarily because he was running outside, he was powerless to change the situation.Instead he was reassigned a new task by the other chiefs.

As a representative of Yunmeng Thief/72 Lianhuanwu, he left his familiar homeland for the first time to go to the Northland to meet a potential collaborator with great interests.However, he didn't know what went wrong. He had been active in the north for several months, but he couldn't see each other.

On the contrary, because his subordinates got drunk in the courtyard, they competed with others and leaked clues; tired of him, he was targeted by the arresters of the Ministry of Punishment.Although other subordinates tried to buy the news and rescued him halfway, they failed unexpectedly; he was almost killed and injured, and he was also imprisoned in the Eastern Capital Prison.

At this time, his identity could no longer be concealed; after being tortured, Shi Liangdong confessed almost everything he knew.But this also seems to be an unexpected turning point for him who is conscious of his own mortality.Anyway, he escaped at last and came back with a message from some nobleman.

However, Shi Liangdong, who returned to Yunmeng Daze, found that the 72nd Lianhuanwu was still the same 72 Lianhuanwu, but the original senior leaders had all "resigned to let the virtuous"; The candidate has been changed; Yunmengze has completely changed.

But unexpectedly, in fact, these outsiders who occupied the dove's nest not only did not attack him; they also appointed him as the fifth leader on the surface, responsible for external communication and inquiring about news.But in front of the opponent's means, he neither dared to refuse, nor dared to take the opportunity to escape,

Because the existence standing behind these people not only has the ability to control and drive demons, but also can transform ordinary humans and animals into short-lived things that are not human, ghosts or ghosts, but extremely fierce.Many who tried to resist them or escaped ended miserably.

After that celestial change, indescribable upheavals continued to occur in Yunmeng Daze; so much so that Chibowu, the secret headquarters, suddenly lost contact.The humans, animals, fish, and birds in several nearby docks also mutated to varying degrees, and some docks were even attacked frequently.

As a result, the 72 serial docks were in a panic, and a large number of docks fled.That's all there is to it, but even more than a dozen of them, big and small, have joined forces in private, trying to escape from Yunmeng Daze with their families, and secretly contacted people in the government to seek safety.

However, as the saying goes, there are many people who do not keep secrets, and soon some people leaked the news, which also touched the bottom line of those new leaders; as a result, Yunmengze also broke out again, compared with the previous situation where the power of the upper class changed. Process, more brutal, bloody cleansing and intense civil strife.

Then, in order to prevent these fleeing Wuzhong, it led to initial conflicts and chaotic battles with the officials and troops in the outskirts of counties.As a result, it was discovered that the local officers and soldiers were so slack and unprepared that several county towns were knocked down in one go, and things got out of hand.

As a result, several routes of officers and soldiers headed by the Jiangling Mansion were ushered in to suppress, and the officers and soldiers who were later lured into the Yunmeng Daze suffered a disastrous defeat; at least hundreds of warships were abandoned along the way, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers Bury in the water, or be captured and become the blood food that feeds and transforms those aliens.

But what surprised Shi Liangdong even more was that with this unexpected victory, Yunmeng Daze also appeared one after another, with more food, supplies, ordnance, and even groups of people who came to join him. Freshmen from all walks of life.Although they are all under the banner of Shanpeng or Jiang Pirates or Traveling Bandits.

But at this critical juncture, Shi Liangdong, who had been gradually marginalized, was once again assigned an important task.It is to conduct secret negotiations and negotiations with some people in the Jiangling Mansion who have just lost their masters, and seek possible recruitment and compromise conditions.

This is really unbelievable. You must know that the imperial court's officers and soldiers have successively lost 3 to [-] people. How can anyone imagine that they can use this to calm things down and suppress this incident?Therefore, Shi Liangdong is actually quite pessimistic about this mission.

In his private thoughts, maybe even himself, are the pawns that those people who now occupy Jiuchao Yunmengze are pushing to confuse and deceive the government, thinking that they will gain time and gather strength.But Shi Liangdong had to bite the bullet and do this, because the opponent's methods made him irresistible.

Otherwise, he would have left behind those wives, concubines and children who stayed in Yunmeng Lake, managed to escape to other places with the channels and money he had mastered, and started anew with a facelift like his ancestors.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at the guards beside him, who were also the actual monitors.

"No?" Seeing the other party dressed in black, with an expressionless face and precious words like gold, he suddenly said, "I can't feel the movement of the pig dragon in the water." Shi Liangdong said indifferently: "Could it be that he went out to look for food again? After all, he is a beast that lacks intelligence..."

"The smell of blood!" However, the black-clothed guard just glared at him, and suddenly his face changed drastically: "There is a surprise attack...be careful."The next moment, a few soft thuds were heard, and the armed guards on guard outside suddenly burst into shrill shouts and fierce strikes.

Then, one after another, they returned to silence. "Come back and guard this place with all your strength!" The black-clothed guard immediately stopped those companions in the cabin who were grabbing knives and swords and wanted to rush out; Go to the cabinet against the outer window.

However, in the next moment, the top of their heads shattered; debris and sawdust splashed down and hit these unsuspecting armed guards; Shouting and rolling to the ground.But there are also people who stick to the wall and escape the splash range.

Then, stepping on the mess all over the ground, they jumped up one after another, brandishing double knives, iron whips and water stingers, and pounced on the cabin roof hole that appeared above; , broken hands and feet, and crooked neck like a mass of rotten meat, fell and rolled in the leaky top cabin.

Followed by a red and black figure, it suddenly fell down; the fierce shock at the moment of landing, once again blown away the injured guards who fell to the ground, even the furnishings that fell to the ground and slammed into the sides, spitting out A mouthful of blood came; just as the dust and debris were flying, a crystal flash suddenly appeared.

It was the only black-clothed leader who was at leisure, the curved-edged dagger that quietly stabbed out like a poisonous snake; it easily penetrated the red and black figure's horizontal arm, and penetrated an inch into his chest.However, the opponent was unmoved and had no effect, and hit the half of his face that he was desperately dodging with a punch.

In an instant, the sound of blood splattering and eyeballs bursting sounded, and the black-clothed leader who was waiting for a sneak attack smashed against the wall and passed out on the spot.In the end, there was only Shi Liangdong who was hiding in the corner, trembling all over, secretly moving his feet, trying to escape into the inner room...

Only a moment later, Jiang Tian regained his thoughts, and said to the summoned subordinates: "Put your boats to the reeds a few miles to the west, take over the several riverboats hidden in them, and Take down the people on board, I have left you a guide."

(End of this chapter)