On the ninth day of the tenth month, at the hour of Hai, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and you can't see your five fingers when you reach out.

In Xinhui West City, a long table was filled with seventeen bowls of strong wine. Seventeen warriors who were about to leave the city to attack the Guangdong Navy at night picked up big bowls from the table, and then drank them all in one mouthful of "gudonggudong".

"Brothers, come with me!"

With a "bang", Chen Mo threw the big bowl in his hand to the ground, clasped his fists at Zhou Shixiang, Song Xianggong and others, turned around and grabbed the long rope and climbed down the city.

"Please give a thousand households a good news!"

Qi Hao said nothing, and clasped his fists and followed him down from the city. After a while, seventeen people got off the city one after another and disappeared into the night in an instant.

Looking at Qi Hao and his party who had disappeared, Zhou Shi was murmured in a low voice: "The wind was whispering and the water was cold, and the hero was gone forever!"

"The people in front are on guard, and the people behind are following!"

In the dark reed marsh, Qi Hao and Chen Mo were exploring carefully. This night attack was related to whether the Qing army in Guangdong could be restrained from the westward advance of the west, and it was also a major event for everyone's life and death. Therefore, although the two of them had put life and death aside, their inner tension and anxiety did not decrease at all.

Four people in the team were carrying waterproof bags made of cowhide on their backs. The four bags contained a total of 130 kilograms of medicine, of which 60 kilograms were the only pelleted gunpowder left in the camp. If the night attack was not successful, it would mean that the Taiping Army had no gunpowder except the remaining medicine for artillery.

In addition to the four people carrying gunpowder, six people each carried a bundle of dried bamboos. The Taiping Army did not have a navy, and the navy that wanted to attack the Qing army must have a ship. These dried bamboos were used to build bamboo rafts. Because the bamboos they carried were not light in size and were long, if there were bumps, there would be a slight collision between the bamboos, causing a sound. Therefore, these bamboos were tightly tied with cloth strips, and all of them were filled with cloth strips, so that there would be no sound on the way.

Just like Qi Hao went out of the city to buy salt, the Qing army still did not pay attention to the mudflats on the west side of the city. Except for the occasional patrol team, basically no Qing army appeared.

The riverside is muddy. In order to facilitate the progress, everyone is out of the city barefoot, so that it can be easier to move on the mud flats by the river, but it also makes these men suffer because not only are the mud under their feet, but there are also many firewood tips that are missing, and they can be ripped off by accident. But until they touch the riverside, no one of these men screamed in pain, but they were just groping forward silently and enduring the pain under their feet.

After taking a piece of mud and blocking the bleeding wound under his feet, Chen Mo whispered to Qi Hao: "It's almost time, people should be here, right?"

"It should be coming soon."

Qi Hao leaned forward and looked at the river, but there was no way to see anything in the darkness on the river. As Wang De was about to come, he didn't want to sit on the ground and wait.

After exploring and carrying so many things along the way, everyone was a little tired. They sat on the ground to rest in order to restore their strength.

After a while, someone in front of him whispered: "Here you come!"

Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly stood up from the ground, Qi Hao and his three subordinates walked forward, while Chen Mo led the rest of the people to hide quietly in the reed marsh.

There was a faint light on Tanjiang ahead slowly approaching. After the light approached, everyone saw clearly that it was a small boat. There was a lantern hanging on the bow.

"Qi Laosi, have you brought enough money?"

The familiar voice from Wang De came from the boat. Qi Hao looked at the boat docking quietly, and then said in a deep voice: "The old rules are enough for goods and money."

"Don't worry, brother, I'm the most trustworthy man in business. You can't get enough shortage of goods."

Wang De jumped off the boat with a smile, and according to the previous practice, he wanted to get the silver bag placed in front of Qi Hao. But this time, there was nothing in front of Qi Hao. Wang De, who noticed something was wrong, suddenly changed his face. Subconsciously, he took three or four steps back and said sternly: "Qi Laosi, where is the silver?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the movement from the ship behind him. He turned around to see the whole person was shocked, but at some point several people had already boarded the ship. The three accomplices on the ship were controlled before they could even pull the knife. They were pressed tightly on the ship and could not move.

Wang De, who knew something was wrong, had a cold air surged on his back and instinctively ran away. But before he could move, his neck was cold. He looked down and saw a long knife was already on his neck.

The blade was already a little fleshy, and Wang De's soul was scattered when he felt the pain in his neck. He said tremblingly: "Fourth Brother Qi, Fourth Brother, I have something to say and something to say. If you have something that you can't do, please ask the fourth brother to be Hehan. If you turn back, you will make up for the fourth brother. You also ask the fourth brother to move the knife. It's all a bit of a knife. Why bother to make up for it? If the fourth brother is tight, this transaction is considered a brother. Brother will let someone bring salt up, and then move it."

Qi Hao interrupted him coldly and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense. I don't want your life or your salt. I just borrow your boat for use. You'd better be smarter and dare to scream, so don't blame me for not recognizing anyone!"

"Yes, yes, brothers don't call me, don't call me borrowing a boat?"

Realizing that Qi Hao had no intention of killing him, Wang De calmed down a little, but when he heard that the other party was borrowing a boat, he suddenly turned his mind, his eyes rolled, and he laughed dryly, saying, "Why, the Taiping Army in Xinhui City can't hold on anymore, and the Fourth Brother wants to borrow a way out from my brother?"

"You don't have to worry about what I want to do, you can continue this," Qi Hao said, and threw a bag of things over. Wang De grabbed the bag of things and looked suspiciously.

"You will borrow fifty taels of gold from you, and you will not lose money when you buy or sell it."

"Fifty taels of gold?"

Wang Dexin suddenly broke out. This bag of things was very large, and there must be fifty taels. Gold is much more valuable than silver these days. If you take the fifty taels of gold, you will make a lot of money by making a fortune in this business. But what did the other party borrow a boat? Could it be that Qi Laosi really wanted to run from the river?

"Stop talking nonsense, get on the boat!"

When Wang De was suspicious, Qi Hao's hand holding the knife moved slightly, and the blade suddenly penetrated into the flesh, which scared Wang De quickly walked towards the boat as he said.

Seeing that Qi Hao had controlled Wang De, Chen Mo hurriedly called the rest of the people out. Everyone put the bamboo together and tied it into a bamboo raft in a short while. He tied the bamboo raft firmly behind the boat with a rope, and then moved the salt in the boat warehouse ashore and carefully moved the medicine up.

After everything was ready, Qi Hao nodded to Chen Mo, who drew his sword and slashed at the navy's battalion next to him without saying a word.

The three unlucky guys from the navy groaned, and were chopped off the boat without even making a scream, and sank into the river in an instant. The boat gang was splashed with blood.

"What are you doing?!"
Chapter completed!