"Those baggage ships must be seized as soon as possible!" said a man crawling beside Wu Zhenhan. The man was named Tian Jinfu, who was originally the second platoon and the first squad leader of the front team of the 62nd Battalion of the Anqing New Army. On the night of the uprising, he followed Zhao Bei to rush and kill left and right in the city. Because of his bravery in combat, he was highly valued by Zhao Bei. After Anqing was restored, Zhao Bei asked Xiong Chengji to officially promote him to the captain (battalion commander). This time, Zhao Bei came to instigate Qiu Cao's new army uprising and also brought him over to command the guards.

The supplies ships that Tian Jinfu mentioned were the supply ships brought by Qiu Cao's troops. They are now moored in the port fort outside Huangnigang Town. They are black and stretched downstream for more than ten miles. The long dragon is as spectacular as long as the mule and horse river is shallow, and large ships cannot enter, so they can only be towed by shallow paddle steamers to transport wooden boats to the reverse. Huangnigang is the end of the steamship channel. If you move upwards, you can only rely on wooden boats.

Because of this, Zhao Bei and his team rode more than 20 wooden boats along the Muma River and carefully searched and advanced. When they arrived more than ten miles downstream of Huangni Port, they had to stop and abandon the boat to land so as not to be discovered by Qing army ships moored on this section of the river.

Because Zhu Daniu successfully got the ship, Zhao Bei was able to come here with more than 500 people, but the few ships were too small, and there were not many baggages, but they brought a lot of silver notes. They set off from Anqing at noon yesterday and did not take a boat west until night. Everyone took turns rowing and sailing upstream along the Muma River. It took a day to arrive at Huangni Port. They took off the cannons and baggage from the ship in the middle of the night, and then sank all the ships into the river to prevent the Qing army from descending, so as not to attack Anqing through waterways.

Everyone dragged two light mountain cannons and advanced along the south bank of Muma River under the guidance of the vanguards. In addition to carrying a shell, each person also had to carry a sack, filled with dry food, covers, and bullets, carrying no less than 70 kilograms of weight. They traveled hard all the way, which was very hard. Under the cover of night, they approached Huangnigang Town, occupied the commanding heights on the other side of the river before dawn, and secretly set up artillery positions. Everyone lurked in the valley, just waiting for the moment of action.

Zhao Bei's plan was: find a way to send people to disguise themselves in the military camp of Qiu Cao's troops and instigate them to respond to the uprising. If Qiu Cao's new army cannot be instigated, then bombard the Qing army command center and kill its commanders, causing these new army troops to lose unified command, and then divide and disintegrate. Even if they cannot be pulled together to rebel, at least it can reduce the military pressure in the west of Anqing.

However, now it seems that Zhao Bei's morale for the Qing army was too high before, but the development of the revolutionary situation was too low. Obviously, after more than two hundred years of exploitation, the shoulders of the Chinese people could no longer bear the enslavement of this feudal dynasty, the invasion of the great powers, and the greed of the government were enough to arouse the people's efforts. The soldiers of the new army came from the people, and the social mentality could not have an impact on them. If the Qing Dynasty might have had a little vitality before the Gengzi year, then, after the Eight-Nation Alliance occupied its capital and turned it into a cash machine for foreigners in the Gengzi year, its destiny was already destined. This was not only the will of the people, but also the general trend.

"The baggage ship must be seized first. Even if it cannot be taken, it must be destroyed!" Zhao Bei looked at the baggage ships, put down his telescope, left a few staff officers to continue surveillance on the hills, and sent out some mobile posts to strengthen surveillance of nearby areas. Then he took Wu Zhenhan and Tian Jinfu away from the surveillance point, crossed the ridge, and returned to the lurking point.

"Zhu Daniu!" Zhao Bei shouted in a low voice.

"Come!" Zhu Daniu dropped the pancake in his hand, wiped the corners of his mouth, hurriedly ran over, stood attentively saluting. This military etiquette was learned on the boat, and now he has learned it well. Apart from not wearing military uniforms, he does look a bit like a soldier.

Not only did he not wear military uniforms, but even Zhao Bei did not wear military uniforms. When everyone came, they changed into plainclothes. On the one hand, they hid their whereabouts, and on the other hand, if they encountered patrolling Qing military ships, they could also be perfunctory.

"How is your water quality?" Zhao Bei took a sesame cake that Wu Zhenhan gave him, stuffed it into his mouth and started chewing it. He went ashore last night and has not eaten until now. The sesame cake is also cold, only the boiling water is hot.

"Report to the sir. I could swim with adults on the Yangtze River when I was five years old, and cross the Yangtze River when I was six years old. Speaking of my water nature, there are few boatmen in Anqing City better than me." Zhu Daniu thrust his waist, but he was not humble.

"It's such a cold day, do you dare to go into the water to swim?" Zhao Bei asked again.

"I haven't tried it. We are on the water, and we don't get stuck in the river when autumn begins, otherwise we will get cold legs when we are old."

"The revolution requires you to go into the water to swim. Do you dare to go?" Zhao Bei glanced sharply.

Zhu Daniu was not vague and said, "The commander gave me the order! I signed up to join the army just to kill the dog officials of the Qing Dynasty just to revolutionize! Not to mention asking me to go into the water or to go to the sea of ​​fire and to go to the sword mountain, I didn't blink!"

"Very good, you are very revolutionary." Zhao Bei patted the batter in his hand, took the enamel jar, drank half a tank of hot water in one breath, smacked his lips, and said, "Zhu Daniu, you will select fifty people with good water and revolutionary nature from the newly recruited boatmen and sailors, form a commando and prepare for action."

"What are you doing?" Zhu Daniu realized that the young "pioneer" was not having sex with him.

"You will know in the evening. Now, you go and select volunteers, then hurry up and rest and keep your energy. In the afternoon, the whole team gathers, and let the gun officer guide you to practice how to use the gun." Zhao Bei glanced at Tian Jinfu behind him and said, "Tian Jinfu, gather our sabers and bayonets, choose some handy ones and give them to the commando. In addition, bring up the soju that we brought, and the commando may be able to use it."

"Wu Zhenhan!" Zhao Bei glanced at Wu Zhenhan who was squatting on the side to eat sesame cakes.

"Come!" Wu Zhenhan stood up.

"The person who grabbed the tongue hasn't come back yet?" Zhao Bei asked.

Wu Zhenhan pointed to the east ridge and said, "Here we are back! They are back."

Zhao Bei looked at the ridge and saw several people walking down the ridge with their waists. Behind him were a few people tied up, wearing military uniforms, which were the "tongue" he was caught.

The people walked to the valley, and the leader saluted Zhao Bei and said, "Report to the chief. Chen Tieshan, the chief minister, was lucky to have failed to humiliate his fate and he was caught with his tongue."

"Inquiry one by one!" Zhao Bei sat down on a cannonball box, crossed his legs, and commanded the command to take the others aside first, leaving the youngest prisoner.

Wu Zhenhan pulled off the rope from the captain's mouth and ordered him to kneel down. The captain was obedient, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, shouting: "Good man, good man, good man!"

"I'm not a green forest hero." Zhao Bei looked at the other party's dirty military uniform and gently knocked the command knife in his hand. "I ask you, you must answer honestly and not lie, otherwise, if you say a pair of confessions, don't blame my knife for being rude!"

"A good man asks, and the villain knows everything!"

"What town are you from? What exactly do you do?" Zhao Bei asked.

"The villain is a breeder in the ninth town of Jiangsu New Army, and he specializes in raising horses. He just came out to release horses for the superiors, but he was caught by the hero's subordinates."

"How is the morale of your ninth town now? Who is the commander?"

"The ninth town is Xu Shaozhen (named Guqing), and he is in charge now. However, since the rumors were heard the day before yesterday, the morale of the army has been in chaos. Lord Xu could not suppress it. Some people in the camp were talking nonsense, saying that Jiangning had been occupied by the rebels, and everyone was also clamoring to kill the officials and rebel together, and kill back to Jiangsu."

"It's true!" Zhao Bei glanced at Wu Zhenhan and saw that he was giving his thumbs up at him. It seemed that the revolutionaries in Qiu Cao's new army had already begun to act. So he smiled faintly and asked the prisoner again: "Is there a revolutionary party in your ninth town? Is it the 'disruption party' in the mouth of the government?"

"This... the villain doesn't know. I only know that there was a 'daily notice' in the new army in Hubei a few years ago, but later it was circulated by the government and many people were also removed from the camp. It is said that they are all suspicion of the rebellion, but they cannot grasp the evidence and can only drive out of the military camp. This is what I heard from the Huotou Army in the Eighth Town, Hubei. Whether it is true or false, the villain really doesn't know."

Zhao Bei nodded with satisfaction and said, "I'm sorry for you first, stay here for a while. Come on! Take off his military uniform."

Several guards came up, untied the ropes on the captain's hands, stripped them of their military uniforms, tied them up, and took them down. After a while, another person was escorted, but the man was tough and refused to kneel down.

"Who are you? You dare to frame the official army?" the captain asked.

"Who do you think we look like?" Zhao Bei stood up.

"Not the Green Forest." The captive glanced a few times, and his eyes were on Zhao Bei's command knife. "Your people behave in a regular manner, walk and stand, and every move is stern, just like a new army soldier. The ones who captured me are even more skillful. They use military capture techniques. Your saber looks very familiar. Could it be that you came from Anqing?"
Chapter completed!