As expected, as Li Guodong expected, after dark, the Taihu water bandits of the country treasure really came. "Enemally attacked! Enemy attack!" A guard who was on guard pulled the trigger of the bird gun, and a shrill sound of the gun pierced the quiet night sky.

The water bandits all came quietly in the dark. These Taihu water bandits are actually half-people and half-bandits. On weekdays, they are fishermen who fish on the shores of Taihu Lake and occasionally come out to rob their families. In fact, they also colluded with some Donglin gentry, such as looting merchant ships from commercial competitors, helping some gentry do some dirty work, killing some disobedient ordinary people or opponents, and then the county government gave a conclusion that the bandits destroyed the family.

A big family like the Chen family in Liyang should not have any connection with the bandits. With Chen Mingxia's strength in the Donglin Party and the Fushe Society, she did not need to collude with bandits to do dirty work, and she could completely defeat her opponent openly. Didn't this be forced by Zhang Shuheng and Wang Chengen?

Anyway, it is already a serious crime to destroy the Nine Clans, so I don’t care about the crime of colluding with bandits and attacking the Jinyiwei.

Most of the water bandits were fishermen. The night blindness that was common in military and civilians back then did not exist for them. They ate more fish. According to modern medical views, their daily foods are high in vitamin A, so they will not have night blindness. However, the people and ordinary soldiers at that time did not have any food rich in vitamin A? Therefore, night blindness is very common, and even ordinary Jinyiwei and Lishi cannot have big fish and meat every day. Many people also have night blindness.

So Tu Guobao seized this point and took advantage of his Taihu water bandits' advantage of not having night blindness to launch a night attack and attacked the Jinyiwei camp.

Who knew that most of these Jinyiwei were Li Guodong's personal guards agents. Li Guodong treated his agents very well. The agents worked with their heads every day, and I don't know if they could see the sun tomorrow morning tonight. Most of them had no family members, so they got the money. In addition to visiting brothels, most of them were used for food and drink, and they ate whatever they were good, so as to enjoy life as much as possible, so as not to die one day and not spend the money.

This is the reason why most of the agents did not marry a wife. If they marry a wife and have a son, one day they die. The wife becomes someone else's, and the money becomes someone else's. If they are sleeping in their own wife and beating their own son, it will be uncomfortable to think about it.

Tu Guobao is very unfortunate, and he encountered such an Jinyiwei.

The Jinyiwei found that there was movement in the darkness and decisively fired a gun and issued an alarm signal.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" There were shouts in the camp. The East Factory Fanzi and the Jinyiwei emerged from the tent and carried various weapons to the village wall.

Torches were originally inserted into the village wall. After climbing the village wall, the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang men immediately ignited the rockets.

"Let me go!" Zhang Shuheng roared.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" rockets roared out, landing on the haystack fifty steps away like a meteor of fire. A raging fire suddenly ignited, illuminating the open space in the direction of the water bandits' attack, like daylight. The water bandits who were touching the factory guard camp were immediately exposed to the light.

"Boundman, bird gunman, let it go!" Zhang Shuheng ordered.

Countless crossbowmen appeared on the wall of the village, and the Jinyiwei crossbowmen pressed down their hanging swords one after another. Countless crossbow arrows woven into a large net in the air and landed on the heads of the water bandits. The bird gunman stretched out a bird gun from behind the shooting hole, aimed at the crowd exposed to the light and pulled the trigger. The sound of the guns roared, and the white smoke filled the village wall.

The dense crowd of bandits blew up, screaming and a large area fell down immediately.

The archer pulled the bowstring, and a round of arrows flew out, and a light arrow crossed the sky and landed among the water bandits. These water bandits had no armor protection at all. They were shot by random arrows, and the arrows reached the flesh, and they were killed and injured immediately. The archer's speed of fire was much faster than that of the crossbowman and the bird gunman. After shooting one round, another round of arrows flew out.

"Go away quickly, the hawk is ready!" Tu Guobao pointed back with a knife and shouted to retreat.

The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang Manzi repelled the attack of the water bandits. Zhang Shuheng and Wang Chengen checked the losses and found that there were no casualties on their side. The Jinyiwei who went out to check the bodies came back and reported that they had killed and killed 106 water bandits. The water bandits who fell to the ground and were seriously injured and not dead were all cut off their heads by the Jinyiwei. Most of the slightly injured water bandits ran away. Except for a few who were injured in the legs, they were caught by the Jinyiwei and captured a total of three prisoners.

After interrogation, I only knew that the bandit leader was called Tu Guobao. But these minions knew about the rest of the situation. However, they still interrogated that Tu Guobao had colluded with some people in the Donglin Party, and those gentry colluded with water bandits, killed their opponents, and robbed their opponents merchant ships.

"You know without asking. They must have been instructed by the Chen family! They dared to attack the factory guards. Isn't that too bold?" Wang Chengen said angrily.

"Attacking the factory guards is just a crime for the three tribes of Yi. Chen Ni had already destroyed the nine tribes, so he didn't care about adding one more tribe of Yi." Zhang Shuheng sneered.

Wang Chengen was furious: "Our family will report to His Majesty and kill the ten tribes of the Chen family!"

The punishment of the ten clans was so horrifying. I guess Chongzhen would not dare to criticize Wang Chengen's memorial. The so-called punishment of the ten clans was to punish all the friends, students, and teachers' families. Only Fang Xiaoru could enjoy this treatment.

Zhang Shuheng said: "Chen Ni colluded with water bandits. If we don't destroy these groups of water bandits, how can we handle the case with peace of mind? And Chen Ni from Haining, maybe he colluded with water bandits."

"It's a pity that we don't have a navy. How can we wipe out the water bandits? Otherwise, we will let the local garrisons dispatch the navy to wipe out the water bandits?" Wang Chengen asked.

"If the local military office naval division has a way, can these water bandits be rampant? This can only be written to Marquis Jinghai, and let Marquis Jinghai dispatch the naval division to eliminate the water bandits." Zhang Shuheng sighed.

Wang Chengen hurriedly said, "Why do you need the help of Jinghai? Jinghai and his Zheng family's navy have returned to Fujian. This time, it is impossible to go back and forth without three or four months. The Duke of Chu also has a navy, so he can write a letter to the Duke of Chu and ask his navy to help."

"Okay, then according to the king's father, I will write a letter to Duke Chu and ask him to send a navy to help the war." In fact, Zhang Shuheng also knew that Li Guodong also had a navy? But he couldn't mention this matter, so as not to arouse Wang Cheng'en's suspicion and thus arouse Chongzhen's suspicion. Therefore, it is best for Wang Cheng'en to say this matter himself.

The next morning, Zhang Shuheng sent a messenger to take Wang Chengen's letter, rode a fast horse to the riverside, crossed the river to Yangzhou, and delivered the letter to Yangzhou.

The fast horse and the Clippers were delivered to Li Guodong in just one day.

"Give General Shi the order to send a navy into Taihu Lake, and be sure to catch all Tu Guobao in one go!" Li Guodong made a quick decision to ask his personal soldiers to give orders to Shi Lang. He knew that Tu Guobao was a traitor who became a fake Jiangning governor from Taihu Lake bandits, and was also one of the murderers who killed Chen Zilong and Xia Wanchun. He had to eliminate the thief.

Shi Lang received the order from Li Guodong and immediately led the Inner River Navy, led by a Jinyiwei who served as a guide, and passed through the crisscrossing river network in the south of the Yangtze River and entered Taihu Lake.
Chapter completed!