Min Guang reported back: "Hui Duwei did something. There were about a hundred people in this group, and they were divided into ten bamboo rafts. They actually walked into the side waterway and were discovered by our people. My people took the
Several of their bamboo rafts were overturned, and they even tried to fight us on the water. We killed a few of them, and let them drink some water before fishing them out. We had no casualties."
"Oh!" When Cao Zhi heard Min Guang's briefing, he became even more suspicious of the identity of this group of people, so he turned to Jiang Qin and asked: "Is the branch waterway going to Chaohu Lake?"
Jiang Qin replied without thinking: "No, that's connected to the Yangtze River."
"If they are Zheng Bao's people, why go to Dajiang?" Cao Zhi said to himself.
Cao Zhi asked Min Guang again: "Did these people say anything after they were caught?"
Before Cao Zhi arrived, Min Guang had been secretly proud of having made such a great contribution. He had also heard Cao Zhi's muttering just now, and then he realized, "Yes, the waterway holding them is indeed not
Leading to Chaohu, just now they were only focused on grabbing credit and ignored this point. It is so difficult that they really caught the wrong person!"
Min Guang also realized that there might be something fishy about the matter, so he said without any concealment: "The two thieves yelled at their own people when they were picked up, and we didn't care."
"Oh, go and bring out the two leaders of this group, remove the things from their mouths, and let them speak." Cao Zhi pointed to the two most ferocious people who were struggling and said solemnly.
Min Guang said "Yes!" and ran over in person. Needless to say, these two people were pushed to the forefront of the crowd. Min Guang stretched out his hand to pluck out the rotten blades of grass from the two people's mouths, and then stepped aside.
The two people may have been holding it in for a long time. They gasped and coughed for a long time. They spit several times before cleaning up the residue in their mouths. Before Cao Zhi could ask questions, the thinner man on the left spoke first: "Excuse me, sir."
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When Cao Zhi heard their accents, he was even more sure that these people were not Zheng Bao's subordinates. Cao Zhi looked at them and smiled sinisterly. Before he could speak, Xu Chu had already taken the lead and cursed: "My eldest brother is the same as you."
The thief asked. "As he said this, he stepped forward, grabbed the man's collar, and tried to shake off his ear braces.
Cao Zhi shouted: "Stop, I, the Captain of Yangzhou, hehe! Where are you?"
The two men looked at each other, and their faces suddenly lit up. The thinner man replied: "We are homeless people from the Banchen tribe. We go to Chaohu to seek a living, not thieves."
Cao Zhirao said "Oh!" with interest, and repeated: "Banchen tribe! Vagabonds!" Then he pointed to a pile of weapons captured aside and said: "Bringing so many weapons to earn a living?"
The thin man hurriedly defended: "The world is not good, bandits are rampant, defend yourself, defend yourself." After saying that, the thin man looked flattering on Cao Zhi and nodded with a smile. When he heard that Cao Zhi
The intelligence report was about the name of a Yangzhou official, so I thought that I was meeting a Yangzhou official who set up a card to collect taxes here. I thought: "This will be really lucky. I am waiting for someone to hit me by mistake because I don't know the waterway."
Prisoners, don't expect to encounter Chaohu water bandits who are not Zheng Bao. As long as you use some money, you can get away with it."
Cao Zhi also smiled sinisterly at the man, and turned to look at the burly man who had been silent. His head was covered with sweat, and he was obviously very nervous. Seeing Cao Zhi looking at him, he quickly smiled stiffly.
Cao Zhi looked at the two of them slowly, took two steps away, and muttered: "Self-defense, okay, okay." Suddenly he stopped and said sharply: "The self-defense technique your leader Li Hu taught you? The battle in Wancheng
What's going on? Why don't you wait until you win the battle before leaving? Could it be that you have already lost the battle?"
When the two men heard that Cao Zhi could call their leader by name and knew about the war in Wancheng, their expressions suddenly changed. The thinner man reacted faster and said with a playful smile: "Master, we are from the Banchen tribe."
Soldiers, we just wanted to go to Chaohu to make a living because we couldn't survive in our hometown."
Cao Zhi looked at the man who was speaking coldly, which made him feel terrified, and suddenly shouted: "Xu Chu!"
"At!"
"Throw this nonsense guy into the river."
"Yes!"
As Xu Chu spoke, he took two steps and reached the thin man. He picked him up and walked to the shore.
As soon as the thin man saw Xu Chu coming towards him, he shouted: "What are you doing? What are you going to do? The government is looking down on people's lives and killing people."
He didn't even think about whether this was a place to talk about the king's laws. Could playing tricks be useful to a person like Xu Chu who didn't recognize any of his relatives? He let him scream and struggled, but Xu Chu dragged him to the shore.
Min Guang also let go of his worries at this time. At least he didn't catch the wrong person. Whether it's the Jiangxia barbarians or Zheng Bao's water thieves, they are all enemies of Lujiang. Catching these barbarians is also a first step.
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At this time, Min Guang quickly ran to Xu Chu's side and said diligently: "Xu Sima, let me do this."
As he spoke, he moved the thin man to another place, smiled at Xu Chu and said, "This is deep enough!" Then he asked the man to stand up straight with his back to him, and kicked him with a flying kick.
Enter water.
"Plop!" sounded, and there was a splash of water immediately. The man who had just been thrown in was struggling in the water, and he could still shout "Help!" several times at this time.
Cao Zhi didn't even look at what was happening behind him, and stared coldly at a burly man who could talk.
The man was going crazy with anxiety. He struggled to free himself and roared with splitting eyes, "Let my brother go, what are you going to do? I'm going to kill your whole family."
As he spoke, he struggled to jump up and hit Cao Zhi. Cao Zhi naturally straightened up and took two steps back. The man jumped twice, but in the end he couldn't use his strength because he was tied up, so he couldn't jump to Cao Zhi.
in front of.
At this time, several of Cao Zhi's personal guards had already rushed out. Two of them went straight to the burly man and pinned him down again. The others drew their swords to protect Cao Zhi.
Cao Zhi admired the strength of this Ban clan man. He stepped forward a few steps away from his guards, squatted down, and said to the man eye to eye: "You still have a chance to save him now, as long as you answer a few questions from me."
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The man was pinned to the ground, but he still wanted to break free. From time to time he was still looking at the shore and said urgently: "You have to know what you bastard, he doesn't know how to swim." His words
As soon as he fell, he was immediately hit by a punch from behind by one of the bodyguards. The man said "bastard" and was hit hard on the back of the head, making him roll his eyes.
Cao Zhi didn't care what he was scolding, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. He turned around and saw that the movement of the struggle in the lake was getting smaller and smaller, and it seemed that it was almost over. In fact, he didn't really want to kill the man, he was just extracting a confession.
Cao Zhi said loudly to Min Guang on the shore: "Get him up."
Min Guang was stunned for a moment, but he still waved to the two sailors, jumped into the water and fished out the thinner man.