Nanming Yiming

Chapter 108
As Qian Mo fell to the ground, the street instantly became a mess, and pedestrians scattered in all directions!

Many stalls on the street were knocked over by pedestrians, and all kinds of goods were scattered all over the place!
The soldiers hurriedly surrounded the city to protect Qian Mo, preventing the assassin from mingling with pedestrians and taking the opportunity to assassinate again!
Hong Fugui pointed to the place where the white smoke dissipated in the distance and shouted: "The assassin is in that direction, hurry up and chase him, don't let him escape."

Seeing Qian Mo fell to the ground, Zhang Huangyan was also terrified, for fear that something would happen to Qian Mo.He understood what it would mean to the Ming army if Qian Mo died in Ningbo City at this time?
So he quickly bent down, helped Qian Mo who fell to the ground and shouted: "I don't know, how are you doing?"

Seeing Zhang Huangyan's flustered expression, wrinkled brows, and trembling hands, Qian Mo judged that Zhang Huangyan probably didn't know about it in advance.It seems that this plan was not arranged by Zhang Mingzhen, at least Zhang Huangyan didn't know about it!
So Qian Mo made a face, put his index finger on his mouth, and signaled Zhang Huangyan not to speak.

Zhang Huangyan also understood, and immediately understood Qian Mo's meaning. After all, no one can guarantee whether there are other assassins nearby to give Qian Mo a second attack.

After a while, Hong Fugui scolded angrily: "The assassin must have escaped among the crowd and only found a bird gun. What happened to Governor Qian?"

Only then did Qian Mo stand up slowly and said, "Don't worry, I won't die!"

After seeing Qian Mo standing up, Hong Fugui finally let go of his hanging heart, and said, "Governor Qian, you scared Lao Hong to death. If something really happened, how should I explain to everyone?"

Qian Mo said: "Then you will be less in the limelight in the future. If you know that someone is going to assassinate and go up to block the carriage, it will appear that you are capable?"

Hong Fugui knew that he was negligent this time, so he quickly knelt down and said: "The lowly official left his post without authorization, and fell into the assassin's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain. Please punish the governor."

Seeing Hong Fugui sweating profusely, Qian Mo stopped threatening him and said, "Then punish you to go to the Zhuangyuan Building with me to the banquet!"

Zhang Huangyan also said with guilt on his face: "We can't blame Hong Zongbing for this incident. It's because our guards were improper, which gave the assassin an opportunity. Please forgive me, Governor Qian!"

Seeing Zhang Huangyan's fearful expression, Qian Mo said with a smile: "Brother Cangshui, don't blame yourself, the assassin has no intention of doing calculations, and it's impossible to guard against!"

"He didn't want my life at all, he just wanted to blame others!"

Zhang Huangyan looked at Qian Mo and asked, "How do you say that?"

Qian Mo asked Hong Fugui: "How far is it from here to where you picked up the firecracker?"

Hong Fugui said: "About 40 steps!"

Qian Mo said: "For a distance of 40 steps, if the gunpowder has sufficient charge, it can penetrate the armor. Although I wear cotton armor and chain mail inside, the gun just now did not penetrate the cotton armor. It can be seen that the assassin's outfit The dose of the medicine is limited, and I did not intend to take my life."

In fact, Zhang Huangyan knew in his heart that the assassination is a matter of one hit. The assassin did not load more gunpowder because he was afraid that the shot would miss or explode if he loaded too much gunpowder. It was not intentional to let Qian Mo go, but the assassin might not have thought of Qian Mo. He actually escaped the catastrophe with the double armor inside.

Assassin kills two birds with one stone, it is best to kill Qian Mo, even if he can't kill him, it can cause a gap between the two sides, making Qian Mo think it was his side.

It is obvious that Qian Mo said this on purpose because he saw through the tricks of the assassin.

But through this incident, Zhang Huangyan appreciated Qian Mo even more.In the face of life-and-death matters, Qian Mo can still be so calm, just like a joke. No wonder the Qing army was repeatedly defeated in front of Qian Mo.

Who would have thought that such a cynical young man would be so sophisticated when playing tricks.

To be honest, before Qian Mo incorporated Wang Yi and Yu Guowang, and annexed Xinchang and Sheng County, Zhang Huangyan had some opinions on his character, and felt that Qian Mo was not kind enough.

Although it is common for various Ming armies to do this in order to grab territory.But on the surface, Qian Mo called them brothers and sisters, but behind the scenes he took advantage of the fire to rob them. Zhang Huangyan still felt a little disgusted by this black hand! ,

Now that Qian Mo has released a signal of goodness, Zhang Huangyan must follow his will and said, "Governor Qian is indeed meticulous, and he can see through the assassin's tricks of sowing discord at a glance!"

"However, this incident happened in Ningbo after all, I will definitely investigate and find out the truth, and give Governor Qian an explanation!"

Qian Mo said: "Brother Cang Shui, I have always been at ease. Let's go to the Zhuangyuan Building quickly, and don't tell Marquis Dingxi to wait!"

Zhang Mingzhen was waiting for Qian Mo to come to the banquet in the private room of the Zhuangyuan building. He didn't want to hear a commotion outside before Qian Mo came.When he heard the news that Qian Mo had been assassinated in the street, he was also taken aback, and hurriedly took people to check the situation!

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time since they parted in Chongming. Although Zhang Mingzhen was very upset by Qian Mo's "poaching" in Shaoxing, Qian Mo was the one who liked Zhang Mingzhen the most among all the warlords under King Lu.

After walking a few steps, he saw that Qian Mo was safe and sound. Zhang Mingzhen said, "I heard that I didn't know that he was assassinated. I'm really scared, brother. Just be fine!"

Qian Mo also said: "Fortunately, the little brother wore the inner armor, and the firecracker did not shoot through it. Brother Lao is worried about it!"

Zhang Huangyan said: "This is not a place to talk, let's go to the Zhuangyuan Building to eat and chat!"

I saw soft-shelled soft-shelled turtles, yellow croakers in pickled vegetable soup, pot-roasted river eels, sea prawns in salt water, shredded eels in Ningbo, yellow croakers wrapped in bean curd skin, drunken chicken with top picks, top cakes with yellow croakers, and yellow croaker soup. A table is full.

Qian Mo said: "I heard that Zhuangyuan Building is most famous for the famous wine 'Zhuangyuanhong'. Qian Mo borrowed flowers to present Buddha, and toast the two elder brothers!"

Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan raised their glasses in response.

Zhang Mingzhen said: "I didn't know about the assassination this time, it's all because of my brother's poor arrangement. I am here to apologize to my brother."

After speaking, he drank the wine in one gulp.

Then he asked Zhang Huangyan: "What happened today, did the assassin catch him?"

Zhang Huangyan said: "Just now when we were walking to the street in front of the Zhuangyuan Building, suddenly a carriage with two frightened horses galloped towards us. When our attention was attracted by the carriage, the assassins lay in ambush on a high place and attacked the unknown with firecrackers. "

"The assassin has already taken advantage of the chaos and fled among the crowd, leaving behind only one gun; I have ordered someone to check it, it is a common bird gun in our army, but the name of the craftsman on the gun has been erased, and the search is still in progress. needs time."

"The other coachman has been captured. According to his confession, someone rented his carriage an hour ago and asked him to wait at the street corner. Then, for some reason, the horse started to run wild in fright."

"We examined the horse's body. In addition to the fatal wound from being stabbed by a spear, there was another wound on the buttocks, which should have been stabbed with a dagger."

"As for the person who hired his carriage, we are still tracking down!"

Zhang Mingzhen said: "It was only an hour before we learned that Buzhi was coming to Ningbo, but the other party was able to find out at the same time as us. Is there something wrong with us?"

Qian Mo said at this time: "It is also possible that the information leaked from Shaoxing, because I did not arrive in Ningbo directly from Shaoxing, but went to Hua'an Mountain on the way, and the road was delayed for some hours."

"In this way, the spies of the Qing army in Shaoxing may also directly send the information to Ningbo in advance, which is about the same time as Dingxi Hou received it."

"The reason why the murderer chose firecrackers instead of bows and arrows is to use the sound of firecrackers to cause riots, so that he can escape!"

Qian Mo said to Zhang Huangyan: "Brother Cangshui, I can make a bet with you that this blunderbuss must have come from my Ningbo Daming barracks; and there is no need to look for this assassin, he will definitely be silenced by them, and then let us go along with the fire." Gun's clues found his body."

"Because only in this way can Xihou assassinate me in Ningbo, so that we can be suspicious of each other and even fight among ourselves."

"It seems that there is also an expert in the Qing army who is plotting against us behind our backs, but I don't know anything about this person at the moment."

When Qian Mo said this, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan were also afraid for a while.If Qian Mo really died in Ningbo Mansion and these clues were learned by Qian Mo's subordinates, then there must be a fight between the two sides.

Zhang Huangyan said: "Thanks to my ignorance and thoughtfulness, and God's blessing to escape, otherwise the current good situation will be ruined."

Zhang Mingzhen also said: "If you don't know how to calculate, you will have no plans. Almost all the prophecies in Chongming were right. It means that Liu Ji is still alive!"

Qian Mo said: "The Marquis of Dingxi praised it absurdly. Qian Mo is no match for that Liu Bowen. Before that, he also missed the Qing army's strategy of suspicious soldiers, which led to the failure to send troops to Shaoxing in time to break the siege of Ningbo."

Zhang Mingzhen asked in surprise: "The Qing army has always been ignorant of calculations, but this is the first time I've heard that someone can be ignorant of calculations. What's going on?"

So Qian Mo talked about the fact that the Qing army pretended to be 15000 troops from Fujian and went north for reinforcements.

Zhang Huangyan was keenly aware of the tricks in it, and said: "I see that the purpose of the Qing army is to drag the ignorant army to Hangzhou, but it is self-defeating. I didn't expect that ignorance had already penetrated Hangzhou, and broke through the city of Hangzhou in two days. "

Qian Mo said: "Brother Cang Shui really has sharp eyes. I only found out afterwards that the Qing army trapped me in Hangzhou to deal with you."

"This time coincided with the Qing army's instigation of Yang Wenqi's rebellion, and He Tianxiong's attack on Ningbo from north to south."

"It's just that the Qing army didn't expect two accidents. One is that Ma Xin, a figure who turned the tide, came out of Taizhou. He actually won more with less, which completely messed up their plan to attack Ningbo from north to south."

"Secondly, I conquered Hangzhou in only two days. Although I almost lost a day in Yanzhou when I joined the Qing army, I still conquered Shaoxing in time and solved the siege of Ningbo."

At this moment, Zhang Mingzhen raised his wine glass and said, "I am ashamed of my ignorance about Yang Wenqi's matter; I have repeatedly reminded my brother to be careful of Yang Wenqi, and my brother didn't care about it. I still let this traitor get his way."

"Yang Wenqi and Bushi had a 'father-killing vengeance'. Back then, they favored Yang Wenqi as a brother, and let Bushi promise not to pursue him."

"Drink this cup for brother, and apologize to Bushi and Uncle!"

Qian Mo immediately responded with a drink and said, "At that time, my brother also put the overall situation first, so there was nothing wrong with doing so."

Zhang Huangyan also said: "I don't understand the righteousness, I always put the overall situation first, and I don't care about my personal enmity with Yang Wenqi. I am deeply grateful for my brother, and I respect you."

Seeing the two of them like this, Qian Mo also said shamefully: "The two elder brothers have really broken the younger brother. I am going to apologize to the two elder brothers for the Tiantai Mountain volunteer army. I will drink this cup to the full!"

"After breaking Shaoxing City, I indeed recruited Wang Yi; but Yu Guowang and others were not recruited by me, but they themselves asked to join them on the grounds that they could not afford to pay and armaments."

"Although they claim that they are not subordinates of Marquis Dingxi, after all, they have also accepted the appointment of the eldest brother. The younger brother's doing so is indeed suspected of 'digging the wall'."

Then he said to Hong Fugui: "Bring the Lumi gun!"

Zhang Mingzhen is no stranger to the Lumi blunderbuss. This object was equipped with the Ming army very early, but due to the complicated craftsmanship, the cost is expensive, and the rate of fire is also slow.The practicability is not as good as the bird gun, so the Ming army did not equip it on a large scale.

Looking at the Lumi blunderbuss in front of him, Zhang Mingzhen asked, "I've heard that I don't know the sharpness of the firearm in my hand. What's so special about this Lumi blunderbuss?"

Qian Mo said: "This is a Lumi gun newly developed by our army. Although the structure of the gun body has not been greatly improved, the material of the gun barrel and the gunpowder and lead bullets loaded have all been improved."

"It can easily penetrate cotton armor within 80 steps, and the hit is quite stable."

Zhang Mingzhen picked up the Lumi gun and looked at it carefully.The bird guns equipped in his army can penetrate cotton armor at most 50 steps, and they are not stable.Don't underestimate the extra 30 steps. The general effective shooting distance of bows and arrows is 70 steps, and 80 steps can just suppress the range of bows and arrows.

Seeing Zhang Mingzhen's appearance as if he had found a treasure, Qian Mo said: "It is not easy to build this thing, and our department only installed a small amount (Qian Mo will not give Zhang Mingzhen the improved version with a range of more than 90 steps). I apologize and I brought 200 Lumi guns to help Dingxihou regain Taizhou!"

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his weapon; with these 200 Lumi guns, Zhang Mingzhen will be more confident in regaining Taizhou.

In fact, he was not prepared to ask Qian Mo to send troops to help.

One is that it is embarrassing, and the other is that it is easy to ask the gods to give up the gods, and if there is another Yu Guowang, then the gains will not be worth the losses.

Zhang Mingzhen said: "I have sent 3000 troops to the south. Now Ma Xin has recovered Tiantai County, and His Highness Jian Guo sent another 5000 reinforcements from Chongming. As soon as the army arrives, I will go south to retake Linhai myself. Now I don't know how to send this again." Waiting for the magic weapon is even more powerful."

"Thank you for my brother, I don't know!"

Hearing that Zhang Mingzhen transferred troops from Chongming, Qian Mo always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.

At this time, it is not easy for him to spoil Zhang Mingzhen's happiness.

So he said: "There is a saying that 'a thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find'. Dingxi Hou lost Yang Wenqi and got Ma Xin. This is a business that can make money without losing money. I wish the big brother a victory and regain Taizhou in one fell swoop."

After a lot of teasing and changing, the few people also let go of their previous suspicions!
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