Jin Feng looked at the river in front of him, with no sadness or joy on his face.
After a few days on the road, he had completely calmed down.
There are cliffs on both sides of this section of the river. It is easy to attack from above. Just throw stones.
And if you want to attack the top from below, it will be difficult to hit it with a heavy crossbow or a catapult.
"This place is indeed suitable for an ambush. Why don't you send someone up to investigate before passing through?"
Jin Feng turned around and asked.
"Sorry sir, my intelligence work was not done well."
Yuan Caiwei lowered her head and answered.
She was the person in charge of Jiangnan of the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce. After Tang Xiaobei arrived in Jiangnan, he felt that Lao Cai, the person in charge of the Zhongming Group, had limited abilities, so he gave the position of the person in charge of the Zhongming Group to Yuan Caiwei temporarily.
Yuan Caiwei's ability is indeed very good. After taking over the Zhong Ming team, she and Tang Xiaobei cooperated quite well.
Tang Xiaobei even considered whether to suggest to Jin Feng that she should continue to serve as the leader of the Jiangnan Zhongming Group.
In the end, who would have known that such a big accident would happen before Tang Xiaobei returned to Xihewan to meet Jin Feng.
After Yuan Caiwei learned the news, she rushed from other places as soon as possible. While sending people to search and rescue Tang Xiaobei, she also investigated the identity of the ambusher.
Today I learned that Jin Feng had arrived in person, so I quickly brought people on board.
Yuan Caiwei was one of the first batch of female shopkeepers recruited by Tang Xiaobei. She had received training from Jin Feng in Guangyuan and was familiar with Jin Feng. She knew very well that Jin Feng hated quibbles.
If you make a mistake and admit it proactively, Jin Feng may give you a chance to correct it, but if you make excuses to make excuses, then you really have no chance at all.
So even when Tang Xiaobei was attacked, Yuan Caiwei was in another city hundreds of miles away, but she still did not shirk responsibility and took the initiative to admit her mistake.
In fact, now that the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau has also gained a reputation in Jiangnan, ordinary water bandits basically no longer dare to intercept the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce's fleet.
Not to mention the huge fleet composed of more than a dozen large and small ships led by Tang Xiaobei himself.
This was obviously a premeditated and planned ambush against Tang Xiaobei.
Moreover, the opponent was not an ordinary water bandit, but a large bandit with more than a thousand people.
It is impossible for such a big operation to go without any disturbance.
Yuan Caiwei, as the leader of the Zhongming Group, did not find out any information in advance, and she indeed had an unshirkable responsibility.
"The most important thing now is to find Xiaobei first. We'll talk about your responsibility later!"
Jin Feng said: "I am not holding you accountable now, but I want to know what happened at that time?"
"yes!"
Yuan Caiwei quickly said: "At that time, a ship hit the cliff in front, and the cargo was floating everywhere. The river was relatively congested, and the fleet behind them all sent people to urge them. The brother in charge of escorting the fleet wanted to pass as soon as possible, so...
There was no exploration.”
"Then our fleet was ambushed when it passed by, right?" Jin Feng asked.
"Yes." Yuan Caiwei nodded.
"I understand." Jin Feng nodded slightly.
If we want to send people up the mountain to investigate, the fleet must anchor and stop.
The cliffs on both sides are high and steep, and it takes a long time to climb up.
At that time, the river was already very congested. If the fleet led by Tang Xiaobei stopped again, it would be equivalent to blocking the river.
It is normal for the ships behind to urge you.
If the leading escort is feeling lucky, he may choose to pass quickly.
Then he fell into the trap carefully prepared by the enemy.
"Sir, some of the surviving escorts saw Mrs. Xiaobei taking off the... life-saving bag on the boat before she fell into the water. Alan was also with her. Mrs. Xiaobei will be fine."
Yuan Caiwei comforted her with a somewhat guilty conscience.
The so-called survival bag is an inflated pig urine bubble.
When Jin Feng heard what Yuan Caiwei said, he felt slightly relieved.
He knew that Tang Xiaobei couldn't swim, so taking the pig urine soak greatly increased his chance of survival.
"Are there many brothers from the Escort Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce who were killed?" Jin Feng asked.
"Quite a few," Yuan Caiwei's tone became deeper: "Forty percent of the brothers from the escort agency were killed, more than half of the chamber of commerce, and more than a dozen ships of food were all sunk to the bottom of the river."
Hearing this, Jin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly: "Have you found out who did it?"
"It was found out that the leader was a group of water bandits operating near the Mangdang River. He also recruited three groups of small water bandits, totaling about 2,000 people in total."
"Mangdang River bandit?" Jin Feng frowned and asked, "What's the origin? Who is behind it?"
The water bandits in the south of the Yangtze River are equivalent to the bandits in Sichuan and Sichuan. Behind almost every large-scale water bandit there is the support of local gentry, otherwise they will soon be surrounded and suppressed by the government soldiers.
"Behind the Mangdang River water bandits is a large local family named Liu," Yuan Caiwei said: "But I think this matter may have nothing to do with the Liu family."
"Why?" Jin Feng asked.
"After the Mangdang River water bandits did this, the first thing they did was to kill everyone in the Liu family, and then ran away by boat, not even leaving their old nest."
Yuan Caiwei explained: "There should be a bigger conspiracy behind this incident, but I haven't found out who specifically instigated the water bandits."
"Run away?" Jin Feng asked, "Where did he go?"
"After the incident happened, I sent people to chase them, but they didn't catch up to them until they were out of the sea."
Yuan Caiwei said: "It looks like he escaped to the sea to become a pirate."
"Continue to investigate, even if we chase them to the end of the world, I will catch them!"
Jin Feng narrowed his eyes and said.
In a head-on confrontation, Jin Feng, who has established the Zhenyuan Army, is not afraid of anyone.
The enemies hiding in the dark are the most annoying.
No one knows when he will come out and give you a break.
This time it’s Tang Xiaobei, next time it might be Guan Xiaorou, or it might be Tang Dongdong.
You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but you cannot guard against a thief for a thousand days.
So even if he chases them to the ends of the earth, Jin Feng still has to find the Mangdang River water bandits and find out who is the mastermind behind them.
"Yes!" Yuan Caiwei nodded.
"In addition, we must seize the time to search for Xiaobei's whereabouts."
"I have mobilized people from all over the country and are now searching along the river bank."
Yuan Caiwei said: "Mrs. Xiaobei is auspicious and will be fine."
As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp whistling sound was heard from the shore.
Jin Feng turned his head and looked around, and found an escort underneath the sounding arrow waving frantically on the shore.
Without Jin Feng's orders, Da Liu quickly sent a small boat to pick up the people.
"Sir, good news!"
As soon as the escort uploaded it, he shouted: "There is news about Mrs. Xiaobei."
Although Jin Feng's face was calm, he was still very worried about Tang Xiaobei.
He grabbed the escort's arm and asked anxiously: "Is Xiaobei okay?"
"Mrs. Xiaobei and Miss Alan are both fine. They were rescued. They are rushing here now. They will arrive in another hour."
The escort said excitedly: "I got the news and came over to report it first."
"Very good!"
Jin Feng couldn't help clenching his fists.
This is indeed the best news in recent days.
[The author has something to say]
I returned to the city from my hometown today, and there are guests at home. There are many things to do, so the update is late. Please forgive me for the late update. The next plot is more important, and I am a little confused today, so I won’t write anymore.