Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 106
Yang Chao's transportation business has never stopped, and it has even become more and more prosperous. After he is familiar with it, he runs at least two times a day, sometimes even three times.

The freight rate is getting higher and higher. Now that Yang Chao transports more than 1000 loads of goods across the river, he can already receive 15 taels of silver, which is 30 taels for a round trip.

But he had never met Jiang Bandits, and even Yang Chao was a little careless, thinking that the Jiang Bandits on the river were just a legend, an excuse made up by some boatmen for the price increase.

But there were many mountains to walk and finally met a tiger. A few days later, there was heavy fog on the river.

Not long after Yang Chao's big boat sailed out of the pier, suddenly there was a faint shadow floating in front of him.

Bored, Yang Chao was in the cabin, reading with a lamp on, when suddenly a figure staggered down.

"My lord, it's not good, there is a situation!"

The person who came was Li Wuliu. Yang Chao led two teams to rotate every time. Now Li Wuliu is also the captain. He is burly and has strong shoulders. Archery is very suitable for him. In the end, Yang Chao simply selected one person from each team to give him, and he added a total of eight people to form an archer team.

Today is his team, and Wang Pu's team boarded the ship in shifts.

"what's the situation?"

Yang Chao asked, looking forward to it. Could it be that he met a Jiang bandit? After training for such a long time, it's time to pull it out and test it.

"Responding to my lord's words, there is a shadow wandering in front of us, and it has been wandering for a long time. The old man said, I am afraid that I have encountered a Jiang bandit."

Lao Ganzi is the nickname of Zhang Damiao. He is the oldest among all the students. He is 42 years old this year, and his name has the word "mast" in it. Those soldiers who are not polite give him the nickname Lao Ganzi.

As soon as he heard that it was Jiang Bandit, Yang Chao got up immediately, and couldn't even hide his excitement, his body trembled slightly.

But this kind of excitement made Yang Chao feel that his body seemed to be a little out of control, and he walked tremblingly, always unable to exert himself.

Climbing up to the deck with three bumps, all the soldiers gathered around the side of the boat, watching and pointing.

These young people glanced at Yang Chao, nervous and excited, but not afraid, they seemed to have a feeling of ignorance.

Only the mature and prudent Zhang Dawei had a dignified look on his face.

"Old Zhang, are you a Jiang bandit?"

Yang Chao felt that his body was tense, and it was difficult to speak, so he asked immediately.

Zhang Damang, who was steering the helm, said, "I don't know, it has been in that direction, and it has appeared several times. It's not quite right."

Yang Chao looked at the black shadows that appeared and disappeared in the fog in the river, and suddenly pointed: "Old Zhang, drive the boat over!"

Zhang Dawei frowned: "My lord, it's better not to make extra troubles. Maybe after the fog clears, everything will be fine."

Seeing that Zhang Dawei didn't move, Yang Chao said angrily, "Zhang Dawei, have you forgotten your military discipline?"

Zhang Dawei begged for forgiveness: "Forgive me, my lord, but I was confused for a while. Maybe it's not a Jiang bandit, but just an ordinary boat."

Yang Chao snorted, "An ordinary ship?"

Zhang Dawei said: "Maybe it's the same as us, maybe the boat that pulls the goods. It's on the same road, so we bumped into it."

Yang Chao snorted coldly: "Then I have to go and have a look. It has been going on for so long, maybe something happened. If the boat breaks down, we can help. Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. "

Zhang Dawei sighed that there was no excuse, so he could only call for people to turn the rudder and at the same time call for people to lower the sail.

The boat gradually listed to the starboard side, and the bow slowly turned to the northeast.

The black shadow still appeared and disappeared from time to time, and Yang Chao's big boat seemed unable to catch up with it.

After chasing for a quarter of an hour, he almost reached the center of the river. If he continued to chase, he missed his course. Yang Chao decided to give up. Suddenly, the ship appeared, and this time it was heading directly towards Yang Chao's big ship.

Getting closer and closer, I saw that it was also a sailing boat with only one tall mast. It was just a much smaller boat, but such a boat was fast.

He took the boat and drove straight towards Yang Chao's boat. Although the sails were slanted, the speed was extremely fast. Almost in an instant, Yang Chao saw people on the boat, about ten people, and he couldn't see their faces clearly. It can be judged to be a bandit.

Because it is basically impossible for this kind of small boat to pull cargo. It is too small to pull cargo. Even a cargo ship does not need ten people. In order to pull more cargo, this kind of boat may only have three or four drivers, or even only two people. Will suffice.

Yang Chao lay on the side of the boat and watched, feeling that his body was tense, and even slightly hot.

"These people are Jiang bandits and desperadoes. It's only right for me to kill them. If I don't kill them, they will harm others. I am a soldier and he is a thief. It is not only right for me to kill him, but also for meritorious deeds. Standing in justice On the one hand, I have a reason to kill them, on the side of legal principles, I also have a reason to kill them, from a personal point of view, I have even more reason to kill them."

Yang Chao's thoughts were chaotic, but he was actually preparing for the upcoming battle.

Most people need psychological construction when doing something special, especially important things.

The same is true for criminals. Even the most vicious criminals need psychological construction before killing people. The most common thing is to find a suitable reason for themselves.

Suddenly found that he was too nervous, the first battle was inevitable, Yang Chao didn't blame himself, and found that other people were the same, which made Yang Chao suddenly break out in a cold sweat. It's not a sheep entering the tiger's mouth.

Yang Chao yelled immediately: "What are you doing in a daze, get your weapons for me!"

Yang Chao couldn't help swearing, and found that after staying with these soldiers for a long time, direct swearing still worked.

Sure enough, Yang Chao's scolding sounded, and many people found that they were so nervous that they didn't even pick up their weapons, and picked up their own weapons in a hurry.

At this time, the boat was very close, the distance was no more than a hundred steps, and the people on it could almost see clearly.

All of them wore short jackets, like ordinary fishermen.

But all of them were armed, laughing and laughing in different poses, looking at Yang Chao's big boat like looking at a fat sheep.

This is not Jiang Bandit, what else can it be.

As the boat continued to approach, Yang Chao drew out his waist knife, a lot of saliva secreted from his mouth, and he swallowed hard.

It was very quiet at this time, and no one on board spoke.

The small boat sailed about thirty paces and stopped and suddenly lowered its sails. The anchored boat obviously sank for a moment, and then stopped.

At this moment one of the captains of the boat began to speak.

"The old men are heroes in Langli Baitiao who specialize in business without capital. Grandpa is nicknamed Qianjianglong. He is a man of knowledge, and the goods are left for others to go."

It really was a Jiang bandit.

Yang Chao took a deep breath and shouted loudly, "What if I don't agree?"

The gangster who called himself Qianjianglong laughed loudly: "If you agree, you have to keep the goods, and you live. If you don't agree, you have to keep the goods, and you die!"

Yang Chao laughed and responded: "What if I don't want to keep the goods and people don't want to die?"

Qianjianglong hummed: "Interesting and interesting, I changed my mind, keep the goods, others can leave, you can't either."

Yang Chao deliberately said: "Then why?"

Qian Jianglong said: "Keep you, if you have nothing to do, please relieve your boredom for grandpa!"

It wasn't for no reason that Yang Chao was chatting with the Jiang bandits, while constantly giving Li Wuliu winks.

At this time, Li Wuliu was leading seven archers, all hiding under the side of the boat without showing their heads.

But at this time, several people held the bows in their hands but trembled nervously. After trying several times, they found that they couldn't draw the bows at all.

"Li Wuliu! Shoot him."

Yang Chao couldn't wait any longer, so he simply ordered.

Li Wuliu shouted loudly, stood up suddenly, pulled the bow away in one breath, and then shot out with an arrow.

But the arrow didn't have any accuracy, it was too far away, and it flew over the Jiang bandit boat, which was higher than the mast.

He didn't hit the opponent, but disturbed the opponent.

Qianjianglong immediately shouted angrily: "Boy, you are going to die! Believe it or not, I will get on your boat and kill everyone!"

Yang Chao glared at Li Wuliu, this kid usually shoots the target without a single miss within a hundred steps, but today he shot a gangster who was thirty steps away, and missed so much.

This made Yang Chao feel very bad. These recruits seemed to be in a bad state.

But Yang Chao did not show weakness: "Come up if you have the ability, believe it or not, I will let you come and go."

Qianjianglong laughed loudly: "Boy, just wait."

Then Yang Chao saw that Qianjianglong took out a crossbow and shot an arrow at his side. Qianjianglong's crossbow arrow was more accurate and flew over Yang Chao's head. If Yang Chao hadn't seen the opportunity He had to bury his head in the side of the boat early, and this arrow would kill him.

Then the crossbow arrow flew over and stuck on the side of the boat on the other side, making a beeping sound, and the shaft of the arrow trembled a few times.

Yang Chao still had lingering fears in his heart, and he was very dangerous.

Taking a few deep breaths, he ventured to look up again. This time he didn't see Qianjianglong shooting an arrow, but saw Qianjianglong's boat moving again, this time heading directly towards the big ship.

The opponent is going to attack by force.

All the soldiers were still huddled under the side of the boat, not only Yang Chao was frightened by the crossbow arrows, everyone was startled by the crossbow arrows at this time.

"Get up, get up, take up your weapons!"

Yang Chao immediately shouted and cursed, and the soldiers stood up tremblingly, holding guns in their hands but felt their arms stiffen.

"Li Wuliu, fuck him!"

"Wang Pu, didn't you say that you are not a coward when you see a thief? Greet your soldiers!"

Looking at Qianjianglong, Yang Chao lowered his head nervously when he saw him aiming with a crossbow arrow again.

The crossbow arrow flew again, this time it deviated slightly, and flew away from a very high place, the other party had already sailed, the boat was not stable at first, but now it was moving even more, it would be strange if it could be accurate.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao couldn't help becoming more courageous.

Li Wuliu seemed to have finally recovered, and soldiers in twos and threes began to fight back with bows and arrows.

Qianjianglong finally didn't dare to make a big show. None of them took out a shield, so that they would not be afraid of arrows, but they couldn't shoot arrows anymore, but they still persistently sailed towards them.

At ten steps away, several flying claws finally flew over, and some of them grabbed the side of the boat.

One is not too far from Yang Chao.

Yang Chao immediately cut the rope with a knife and watched the rope fall into the water.

"Cut the rope, don't let them come up. Li Wuliu keep shooting, don't let them get close to the boat."

Yang Chao continued to shout, as if he forgot to be nervous at this moment, and his mind was not so flustered.

The opponent kept throwing the flying claws, but Yang Chao kept cutting them off, or picked up the flying claws and threw them away, always trying his best to stop the opponent.

The other party was not in a hurry, as if he was sure that he was going to use the flying claws to board the ship, and the two sides had such a strange confrontation for a quarter of an hour.

Suddenly there were three sounds from behind, followed by a loud laugh: "Boys, you need money!"

It turned out that three big men came up to the back of the boat while Yang Chao and the others were not paying attention.

Qian Jianglong and others who threw the flying claws in front turned out to be a cover, and Yang Chao was played by the Jiang bandits.

Yang Chao couldn't help cursing "Damn" bitterly, then smiled and said to the Jiang bandits who got on the boat: "We are dying!"

(End of this chapter)