Chapter 189: Discovering the Secret of Desheng Lake

The sun hangs high in the horizon, and the summer has faded away. The sun shines softly on the water. With the stern autumn wind, the water surface is sparkling, and the yellowed reeds are reflected on the lake surface. In the lake, the fish swimming around are moving happily.

Suddenly, a small boat appeared from the west. The boat had no mast, only a boatman, rowing at the stern, and the hull was shaking left and right, moving forward on the water.

On the bow of the boat, several pairs of big eyes were watching the surroundings vigilantly. They were wearing ordinary robes, but their fierce appearance was undoubtedly Mongolians.

Killing Port, a name that changed the color of many people. In the past, it was because it was the place where merchant ships died, but now it has become the place where the Tartar cavalry are buried.

In the Battle of Killing Port, the five hundred Taurus cavalry were almost wiped out. This news has been spread quietly in Xinghua. Of course, there are various versions, some say, Tang He from the Red Turus Army, killed all the Taurus cavalry, some say, Zhang Shicheng from the White Horse Salt Field, with a strange weapon, and one person, eliminated all the Taurus cavalry, and then took down the salt field. Some say, seeing a bolt from the sky, killing all the Taurus cavalry, the legend became more and more amazing.

But for the parties involved, this was not good news, especially for Nasuladin. He did not expect that this small murderous port would lose all his face, and even his two sons were buried here.

Soon, he calmed down. This failure was because he did not find that the enemy had such a powerful weapon. He was also very puzzled, where did this weapon come from?

Send someone to investigate the information first!

Baotong volunteered and, with a few clever subordinates, swayed on the water of Desheng Lake every day, observing the movements of the murderous port in the east.

Killing Port and Salt Field are obviously all done by a group of people. Their leader should be Zhang Shicheng from Baiju Salt Field. However, this Tsang Siya stood in the ranks of thieves without hesitation. They must be eliminated.

It is very likely that the province has already known that the salt field in Gaoyou has been defeated by the thieves. As long as all the thieves can be killed and the salt field can be taken back, it can also make atonement for the merits. Otherwise, even the magistrate of Gaoyou would have to be pulled down.

Baotong looked at the lake around him, and suddenly, a boat came into his eyes.

On this Gaoyou Lake, in addition to the merchant ships coming and going, there are fishing boats. The merchant ships walk on the main channel, which is relatively large, full of goods, and have deep drafts. The fishing boats are generally smaller. The nets for fishermen to catch fish are hung on the bow of the boat, and the fishing boats will patrol back and forth on the lake and cast nets in places with many fish.

However, this ship was clearly a merchant ship, several meters tall, and there was a sail hanging. However, this ship did not follow the main channel, but instead plunged into the reed marsh.

Did it go to hide and seek inside? Baotong was immediately full of doubts about the ship.

"Follow up!" Baotong said to the shipman behind.

The shipman stood straight, tilting the thick oar with both hands, as if the duck was rushing to the water, and the bow turned around and followed the big ship far away.

Most of the Desheng Lake is reeds. Here, ordinary boatmen dare not go in. Even if they go in, they only circulate outside and dare not go deeper. There was a boatman who lost his way and walked in for three days before he turned out. During these three days, he relied on eating fish, otherwise he would have to be trapped and starved to death.

The shipman followed the big ship and was in the reed marsh for three turns, but he could no longer find the big ship.

"Sir, do we still want to go in?" asked a soldier.

"We are waiting outside to see where the ship will drive after it comes out." Baotong said.

At the end of the west mountain, the ship, like a ghost, came out of the reed marsh again.

"There must be something wrong with this ship!" said Baotong.

"Let's follow and see where the ship is heading?" asked the person next to him.

"It's either a killer port or a salt field!" Baotong said confidently.

"Our boat is small and we will definitely not be able to keep up with it, and it is easy to be discovered. Why not, let's go ashore and pay attention to the whereabouts of the ship along the shore!" said another soldier.

When I came to the south, there were waterways everywhere. However, as a Mongolian knight, I still like to ride horses. On this swaying boat, seasickness is enough for some soldiers to suffer.

"Yes, let's follow and see what exactly is on the boat?"

"Okay, let's ride a horse." Seeing the boat heading east and entering the river, Baotong made up his mind to chase the boat. It would definitely not work on the lake, but it was not very wide as the river. On the shore, you could see the movements of the boat clearly, and it was not easy to be discovered. After all, riding a horse is much smaller than the goal of riding a boat.

The ship stopped the boat on the shore, and Baotong led his men and horses along the river bank to chase the merchant ship in the river.

The sun was gradually setting, and everything around him could not be seen clearly. Baotong was anxious. At night, he could not see anything, and the ship would slip away from under his eyes.

Suddenly, he stopped the horse, and the ship turned a corner and headed towards the place he had thought about in his heart countless times: Killing Port!

The murder port opposite was a place that drove him crazy. He looked at the back of the ship, his eyes almost burst into flames.

Shi Xin stood at the bow of the boat, with a cool breeze blowing. He faced the autumn wind and looked at the sunset behind the boat, and felt extremely comfortable.

The eldest brother was so busy that he didn't remember until the day before yesterday that he had been busy recruiting troops to prevent the opponent from counterattacking, but he forgot that the base's coarse salt must have been produced, and there was still salt in stock in the salt field. Zhang Yang immediately ordered Shixin to take a few reliable people to transport the salt back to the base, and then transport the weapons made by Li Bosheng out, especially the grenades and Tianque guns.

Shixin took the people to transport the coarse salt back to the base. Sure enough, he found that the coarse salt purification assembly line had already stopped. However, his third brother did not rest, but trained all the people on the production line to use spears, which opened Shixin's eyes. It seemed that the third brother was also thinking of getting something big to go out.

After all the grenades and Tianque guns made by Li Bosheng were brought onto the ship, they were almost fully loaded, so they had to load a small number of spears. Some of them had no place to put them on the deck and simply covered them with reed poles.

The reed marsh that drove out of the base became dark, so Shixin had to drive the boat to the killing port first, and then continue to rush forward after dawn the next day.

However, Shi Xin did not expect that the mantis stalked the cicada, and the oriole was behind, and there was a tail behind. After the tail was lucky, he actually discovered that there was a secret base of his opponent in Desheng Lake!

What's more coincidental is that in this base, the current time of defense is at its weakest. Zhang Yang only cares about defending the salt field, training the army, and preventing the counterattack of the Tartars. However, he did not expect that a fire would occur in his backyard.

The night gradually darkened, and Baotong was hesitating for a long time about a problem. What exactly was the other party’s boat loaded?

The best way is to swim to the other side, quietly get on the other side's boat, check it out, and he found that after the other side stopped the boat at the killing port, he was very relieved to get on the shore. The nearest sentry was also hundreds of steps away from the boat. Their defense focus was also in the north where cavalry attacked, and on the waterway, there was no need to pay much attention.

This is also a common sense for everyone: nomadic peoples who grew up in the north can't ride horses, but there are no one or two of them among a thousand people. And in the south of the Yangtze River, which grows in the south with water networks everywhere, almost every man can swim.

Therefore, Tang He focused his defense on land, and he never thought that the Tartars would come from here for the water surface.

Therefore, although the base's defensive power was very weak, Zhang Yang did not take it seriously, because it was impossible to let the Tartars attack from the water.

The personal soldiers brought by Baotong were just sitting on the boat without seasickness, and swimming were all landslides.

What should I do? The opportunity now is to take advantage of the night to slowly touch the water and quietly get on the boat to see if the ship is loaded with weapons. If so, it proves that there is an opponent's weapon manufacturing point in Desheng Lake. Then, you must lead a team to sweep Desheng Lake and take down the opponent's nest. The loss you suffer must be compensated by the opponent a hundred times!

Only those with excellent water quality can complete this task. Baotong looked at the stars in the sky and his head was getting bigger. He led his troops to fight and fought bravely. This was absolutely unambiguous. However, such a task in front of him was extremely difficult.

Suddenly, under the bleak moonlight, he saw something floating on the lake.

He didn't dare to light the turret, so he opened his eyes wide, looked at it for a long time, and finally saw clearly: it was a piece of log, which seemed to be floating upstream. The water flow was not very fast, and the wood floated very slowly.

A shudder flashed through my mind: Just sit on the wood, can you pass it?

"Quick! Snap up that piece of wood!" Baotong shouted.

Several subordinates immediately ran to the shore. The wood was already very close to the shore. A soldier waded into the water, grabbed the wood, and pulled it towards the shore with great force.

The water was a little cold, and he was so cold that he wanted to tremble.

Baotong was already full of enthusiasm at this moment. He sat on the log, immersed his legs in the water, sat firmly, and used the back of the knife as a paddle, and started to row.

Sketch left and right, and the log actually moved towards the opposite shore with his stroke!

Baotong was in a good mood. He didn't care about the cold river water and quietly approached his target under the night.

The dark clouds covered the moon, and everything seemed even more full of lust.

The soldiers behind wanted to follow Baotong, but after waiting for a long time, they could not see the floating wood. They had no choice but to watch Baotong go away.

Baotong didn't think so much, he just wanted to see what was loaded on the other party's boat?

The river surface was not wide, only a few hundred feet. However, for Baotong, who was paddling with wood, this distance was not far away, but it was not like riding a horse. He was about to whip it for a few whips and his arms were about to hurt. After looking again, he walked to the middle of the river.

What made Baotong feel relieved was that the night was getting darker and darker, so it would be beneficial to his concealment. Even if he approached the Killing Port, he would not be discovered by the other party's sentry. The last time the sound of the musket was indeed scared of him. If he heard this sound again, he would probably have to explain it here.

The night was so dark that Baotong suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing. He looked up at the sky, and suddenly, there was a cold war.

The moon is gone, the stars are gone, and the sky is pitch black. "Crack!" A thunder struck down and illuminated the river surface.

It's going to rain!

Baotong looked at his distance. It was not far from the ship, but if it started to rain, how could he go back?

He looked back again, then forward at the ship, gritted his teeth, accelerated his tired arm, and then paddled forward.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the river water below seemed to be affected, and the flow rate became faster. He accidentally wanted to spin the wood in the water.

Quickly paddling, quick paddling, he opened his bow left and right, getting closer and closer to the ship, fifty steps, thirty steps, ten steps...

"Crack!" Another thunder struck, and then, "Crash!" Heavy rain came unexpectedly.

In an instant, Baotong's whole body was penetrated by the rain. Now, he had touched the side of the boat, but in such heavy rain, he could not climb up from the side of the bare boat.

He has no experience. He galloped across the grassland. Even two horses galloping rapidly, he could climb back and forth between the two horses, slung under the belly, and leaned sideways beside the horse, as if walking on flat ground. However, on this water surface, he was not familiar with anything. The boat was several feet high and the bare boat gang. If no one pulled it, how could he get up?

If it were a pirate, he would not be worried at all. He bit the knife with his teeth and climbed up from the anchor rope, but Baotong would not.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Baotong's heart became colder. After struggling for the middle of the night, he found nothing!

Suddenly, a sound came from the shore.

"Hurry up and see if the things on the boat are wet." Several people wearing straw raincoats ran onto the boat from the port.

In this late night with heavy rain, they had no intention of looking at the water. Besides, they could not see anything. They could not see clearly after two steps.

"It's all my fault. Why did you choose to transport weapons at such a time? If the gunpowder is wet, the musket will not be able to fire. Look at the cabin, is there any water in the water?"

"There are spears on the deck, will they rust?"

"No need to worry, someone will polish them up. Let's look at our muskets first. That's my brother's treasure. If I had known, I would have lived in the base tonight and I would have left Desheng Lake tomorrow."

Hard work pays off! Baotong felt that he had not been in vain for this night. Sure enough, in Desheng Lake, there was a weapon manufacturing base of their weapons, and the muskets and other things were transported from there. As long as the base is destroyed, let’s see what Zhang Shicheng uses to fight against him!

Baotong suddenly felt a little thankful to God. If it weren't for this heavy rain, he would have been worried under this boat! Since he came to the south, he felt that he was restrained everywhere, so it would be better to be on the grassland. The sky was vast and the wilderness was vast, and the endless fields were running, and he was bent to shoot eagles. That feeling was the feeling of a child on the grassland.

What's good about this south?

"Crack!" Another lightning struck, and the surroundings suddenly lit up. Baotong opened his mouth wide, and the river water pouring down from the upstream suddenly grew several feet tall! The tall waves could not wait to rush towards him.

What is that? Why did the river water suddenly become higher? Is it the river god who got angry?

The strong wind suddenly rose without realizing it. The heavy rain mixed with the strong wind came towards Baotong.

The poor baby boy, before he could react, he swallowed him up with a huge wave.

In recent years, there have been droughts and rarely rains in the south of the Yangtze River. Baotong, who was born and raised in the north, had no idea that after the heavy rain, the river water would rise sharply, forming floods. Floods were even more terrifying than the white disasters he encountered on the grassland. The flood opened its huge mouth and washed away everything that passed by.

The boat was also shaking. Shi Xin was holding a can of gunpowder hard on the shaking boat, afraid that he would be wet by the rain poured in. This is the lifeblood of the elder brother, especially the war is imminent. After the previous battles, the black gunpowder has been almost consumed. If these are wet, the elder brother will definitely be furious.

Shi Xin should be grateful that he did not make any lazy things when he came to Killing Port. He threw both anchors and tied them firmly with a few ropes to the stakes on the shore. He had never been so serious in normal times. Today, he seemed to know that it was going to rain heavily.

Unfortunately, I wonder if the land duck in the water is so lucky.

There was cold river water all around him, and his whole body had been wet by the rain and stuck to his body. The knife used to paddled water had fallen into the water when the waves hit him. The raindrops hit him like a whip slapped on his body. It hurts very much. This is Tianwei. In this kind of weather, whether a person can survive depends on whether God gives him face. Baotong felt as if he had used all his strength. He only knew that his life-saving talisman was this piece of broken wood. He held the wood tightly with both hands, as if he had hugged a woman on the bed for the first time and refused to let go.

The wind is still blowing, and the rain is still falling.

It was not just Baotong who was struggling, but the few soldiers he brought were even more terrified.

They watched God’s anger, first thunder, then heavy rain, then violent storm, and the river water surged. In front of this heavenly power, a person’s power was simply too small. What they worried about the most was Lord Baotong sitting on a piece of broken wood and sliding towards the opposite shore.

The last time he attacked the Killing Port, Hailuding and Xishan Du had already sacrificed their lives for the country. This time, if Lord Baotong also went there, Lord Nasuladin's three sons were all destroyed in the Killing Port. This Killing Port is really the nemesis of the Lord. However, if something happened to Lord Baotong this time, they would not be able to escape. If Lord Nasuladin went back, Lord Nasuladin would never let him go.
Chapter completed!