This time the Songjiang Gang worked hard to avenge their previous shame. First of all, the sailing boats used by those who participated in the armed fight were rented from Chuanshaying (stationed in Nanhui County) of Su Song Navy.
Secondly, among the people participating in the weapon fight, except for Xu Dayong and eight of them, the rest were all sailors from Shandong, and they were all very powerful. In fact, because local farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have many ways to make a living, they regard water transportation as a fearful option. Most of the Caobang sailors in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were recruited from Xuzhou and towns along the Shandong Canal. So these sailors from Xuzhou and Shandong became the main force in the armed fighting.
Before boarding the ship, Wei San had someone buy a lot of wine and meat, and he distributed it after the ship sailed. When everyone saw that there was wine and meat, they cheered immediately, took their share, sat in the cabin and started eating and drinking.
Wei San encouraged everyone in the cabin: "That's not enough! Eat and drink enough, and tomorrow we will defeat those sons of bitches from the Suzhou Gang!"
When the boat left the Songjiang Prefecture, Wei San saw that everyone was full of wine and meat, so he took out the weapons from the bottom cabin and began to distribute them. Xu Dayong took a look and saw that they were all standard swords and guns from the Green Camp. He thought for a moment and asked for a Yanling knife; then Wang Changsheng and the other seven also asked for a knife.
It is said that when fighting with cold weapons, you are not afraid of the opponent using a knife to cut you, but you are afraid of being stabbed with a knife. Generally, three or two knives won't kill someone, and at most they will just leave a big, bloody gash. However, stabbing someone with a knife will be troublesome. The wound won't be big, but it's very likely to kill someone.
The reason why Xu Dayong chose the knife was to cut people and avoid killing people. Moreover, when these people first became pirates, they were also used to using knives. As for the special training camp in Beihai Town, Wang Yuanfang was taught daggers, and they were all one-shot fatal moves.
In winter, the northwest wind blows, and even though the shuttle boat is traveling against the wind, it only takes half a day and one night to reach Suzhou from Songjiang. Dozens of people traveled all night, and by midnight they were already tired and sleepy, so many people huddled in the cabin and fell asleep. Although there aren't many cups, I don't feel cold anymore when there are more people.
When Xu Dayong and Wang Changsheng were chatting with Wei San at night, when they asked about the destination of their trip, Wei San never mentioned the specific location, only that they would know it when they got there. The two had no choice but to go back to the cabin to sleep.
Unexpectedly, in the early morning, heavy fog suddenly appeared on the Wusong River, and the surrounding area was completely white, making it impossible to see clearly from a few steps away. Wei San had no choice but to ask the sailors to slowly pull the ship over and anchor, waiting for the fog to dissipate before leaving.
Xu Dayong had something on his mind and was not sleeping soundly. The sound of the ship anchoring alarmed him, so he got up and quietly walked out of the cabin. All he saw was that the river was completely white. He couldn't even see the people a few steps away, and he couldn't even see the river bank on his side. He walked carefully to the stern of the boat and used a bucket to get some water from the river to wash his face. The cold and biting river water stirred up, and Xu Dayong suddenly felt no sleepiness at all.
He was about to go back to the cabin to find something to eat for the two of them, when suddenly his ears moved and he heard the voices of several people speaking from the river not far away.
"It's no wonder, the weather is crazy! We encountered heavy fog just after we set off."
"Elder brother, what should we do?"
"Stay close to the side and let's wait until the fog clears! Let the stubborn Songjiang Gang be proud for a while, and then kill him without leaving a trace."
"Senior Brother, do we have enough people? Why do I feel so uncertain?"
In the thick fog, there was a sudden "ouch" sound, and the man called "Elder Brother" was heard scolding: "You damn Sect Star has a crow mouth! You say such depressing words so early in the morning, look at me I’ll kick you to death!”
Wei San had just fallen asleep for a while when he suddenly felt someone approaching, so he turned over and sat up. When he saw it was Xu Dayong, he was about to open his mouth to curse, when he saw the other party making a silent gesture towards him.
Xu Dayong leaned into Wei San's ear and said, "Third brother, the Suzhou gang's boat seems to be near us. I heard them talking."
Wei San's eyes suddenly widened and he stared at Xu Dayong.
Xu Dayu then repeated the conversation he just heard.
Wei San whispered: "Tell everyone to get up and speak softly so as not to disturb them."
Xu Dayong nodded and went to wake up Wang Changsheng first, then called the other six people. Just like that one by one, everyone in the Songjiang Gang woke up soon. After everyone whispered to each other and figured out what was going on, Wei San scanned everyone at the hatch and whispered: "The anchor will be lifted quietly in a while, everyone prepares weapons. When our ship collided, everyone jumped in and started to kill them, ruthlessly. Teach these bastards from the Suzhou Gang a lesson! Brothers, after this fight, I will treat you all to a banquet when you get back!"
After everyone in the cabin heard this, the Shandong sailors suddenly beamed with joy. Xu Dayong also smiled lightly just to have fun with them.
In the early morning on the Wusong River, there was a vast white mist (there were no rag pickers.)
On the big ship of the Suzhou Gang, more than fifty sailors were sitting in the cabin eating. These people came out before dawn today, planning to strike first, and when they arrived in Songjiang in the afternoon, they would deal with the Songjiang Gang hard. But he never expected that people from the Songjiang Gang would be right next to him.
For the senior brother of the Suzhou Gang, this waterway is very familiar. He can reach it even with his eyes closed. But sailing in foggy weather is a taboo. You are familiar with the road, but what if someone knocks you over?
Senior Brother Suzhou Gang, who was sitting on the bow of the boat, took two mouthfuls of porridge and ate a pancake. Just when he was about to say, "It's so damn unpalatable," he saw the shadow of a boat approaching him, and it was about to get closer. .
The sailor on the bow of the Suzhou Gang scolded: "You weirdo, don't you know how to sail the ship! We're going to hit you!"
As soon as he finished cursing, he saw the silhouette of the boat getting clearer and clearer. Suddenly the boat's hull swung sideways and hit his own boat sideways.
"Boom!" A dull loud noise came out in the thick fog. The people in Suzhou Gang who were drinking porridge were knocked sideways and most of the breakfast in their hands was knocked over. A sailor standing on the bow of the ship lost his balance and fell into the river with a "plop".
Suzhou helped the senior brother to stand up on the deck and cursed: "It's no good rubbing! You are looking for death."
Before he finished speaking, a loud shout came from the opposite boat: "Kill them!" Immediately afterwards, dozens of strong men with swords jumped over from the opposite boat.
"Songjiang Laoan is here, everyone quickly copy these guys and fight with them!"
"I can kill you Xin'an bastards!"
The Suzhou Gang was unprepared. Many sailors' weapons were still in the cabin. At this moment, their hands were empty and they were stunned.
However, after fighting for a while, everyone found that not only their opponents could not be seen clearly, but they could not even see their own people. People on both sides wore similar clothes, and most of them were recruited from Linqing, Shandong Province. You can't tell them apart just by their clothes and accent. According to Shandong saying, the whole temple has been blown up now!
"You idiot! Chopping his feet on the ground!" (You idiot, squat on the ground and chop his feet!)
"You are a bastard, and I am your brother! Oh, who the hell is going to hit me!"
"Hey! Son of a bitch, you dare to sneak up on me! I'll fucking kick you to death!" (I'll kick you to death!)
"Hurry up! What are you waiting for! Drive them to the middle! Don't fucking push me!" (Hurry up. Drive them to the middle!)
"Stand! Are you considered a man? Don't run!" (You are considered a man)
"Liu Er is kicking the pot!" (Liu Er is dead!)
When Wei Sanyi saw that this was not going to work, he didn't know what to do. Wang Changsheng on the side suddenly shouted: "Songjiang people yell at me, Xin'an people are all bastards."
The senior brother from the Suzhou Gang who was directing the counterattack over there heard it and shouted quickly: "Those from the Suzhou Gang are shouting at me, Lao An's guys are all bastards."
This time, the two sides immediately became clear. As long as they meet each other, they will curse each other first. If they are in confrontation, they will be one of their own, and if they are not in confrontation, they will be stabbed.
Xu Dayong, who had not attacked at first, saw the situation and waved his hand. The eight of them were divided into groups of two, back to back, covering each other and boarded the other party's ship. The one who was covering was responsible for scolding, and the one who was attacking saw the cold blow and slashed at him. Wherever he passed, people suddenly fell on their backs.
In the morning, Xu Dayong had already told his men that they could only chop people, not stab them with a knife. So after a melee, most of the Suzhou Gang who fell to the ground on the deck were chopped down, holding their wounds and cowering on the deck groaning.
As for the senior brother of the Suzhou Gang, he took the remaining thirty or so people and hid in the cabin. Guard the ladder entrance. Some of the Songjiang Gang were desperate, and when they rushed down, they were hacked to the ground by a barrage of knives.
"Third brother, Guisun'er has played some bad tricks. Our people can't charge forward. What should we do?"
Wei San said: "Go and get quicklime."
Several packets of quicklime were spilled from the hatch, and the Suzhou gang members suddenly choked and coughed uncontrollably. Some wanted to go inside to find water to wash their faces. The elder brother was quite smart and shouted with his eyes closed: "Don't wash with water! Bring soybean oil!"
But it's too late to take anything now. Taking advantage of this time, Xu Dayong and others rushed down the ladder, waving their knives wildly, and several Suzhou Gang sailors surrounding the ladder immediately screamed after being stabbed. As more and more people rush down, the end of the Suzhou Gang is coming.
The members of the Songjiang Gang went on a killing spree. The senior brother was stabbed several times and fell into a pool of blood. Other Suzhou Gang sailors also suffered casualties.
Wei San walked down the ladder, came to the senior brother of the Suzhou Gang, and cursed fiercely: "You bastard! How dare you rob my grain ship!" After saying that, he leaned down and cut off the right foot of the senior brother of the Suzhou Gang with a knife. Muscles. The elder brother groaned and twitched on the ground in pain.
"Chop off their hamstrings!" Wei San said to his subordinates viciously after standing up.
"Senior brother (master), are you really going to kill me?" Several close subordinates asked hesitantly. If these sailors break their hamstrings, they will be useless in the future and will no longer be able to work as caoding.
"Idiot! Do you want to wait for them to recover and fight to Songjiang?!" Wei San grabbed one of his men by the collar and cursed.
A few subordinates heard the same truth. Just as he was about to invite everyone to take action together, he heard Xu Dayong say: "Our brothers will do this for you."
Wei San took a look and saw that Xu Dayong, Wang Changsheng and other eight people had already started to take action. He walked up to each Suzhou Gang sailor who fell to the ground, leaned over, grabbed his ankle and stabbed him with a knife. After Yitong finished his work, the cabin and the deck outside were filled with the smell of blood, and Xu Dayong and others were also splattered with a lot of blood.
At this time, the heavy fog on the river had gradually dispersed. Originally, it was impossible to see the opponent's face clearly from a few steps away, but now he could see the scene more than a dozen steps away.
"Retreat!" Wei San raised his sword to signal, and a group of Songjiang Gang members carried their injured comrades and quickly retreated to the boat. Several sailors at the bow and stern of the ship quickly untied the ropes tied to the other side's boat, held up the bamboo leaves away from the other side's boat, and then began to raise the sail. The boat followed the original path, taking advantage of the west wind, and soon disappeared on the river.
At this time, everyone in the Songjiang Gang was busy taking care of the injured in the cabin, applying medicine and bandaging; or because the excitement caused by adrenal gland secretion had not dissipated, they were chatting with each other about the fighting scene just now. But none of these people dared to talk to Xu Dayong and others, and they all looked at the seven of them with a hint of fear.
The helper brought in by Brother Wei is too cruel! Just do it as long as you want to break someone's hamstring. But if it hadn't been for the cleverness of Brother Wei's younger brother just now, I don't know what kind of mess it would have been today!
On the deck, Wei San patted Wang Changsheng on the shoulder and said, "Junior brother, it's all thanks to you this time. If you hadn't shouted just now, brother, I don't know what I would have done."
"Senior brother, what you said was out of context. No one expected that there would be heavy fog on the river today. Fortunately, God blessed us and allowed us to block the Xinan gang."
Wei San nodded and said: "If it weren't for Brother Xu's sharp ears, we almost missed him. If our house was ransacked by those people from Suzhou, I would be very embarrassed, senior brother!" He saw Wang Changsheng's clothes. With blood stains on his clothes, he continued: "I will go back to Songjiang Mansion in a while. I will go find some clothes. You can change them first. Then, senior brother, I will be the host and treat everyone to a drink."
After a gang fight, Wei San had a great impression of Wang Changsheng and others. After returning to Songjiang Mansion, Wei San specially took fifty taels of silver at the banquet as a reward, but Xu Dayong refused. He said that since the price had been agreed before, he would just go with that price. After Wei San heard this, he felt that Xu Dayong and others could be handed over, so he collected the fifty taels and took another twenty taels and gave them to Xu Dayong. Let me tell you that in the future, you can come to him whenever there is a problem on the South Canal.
As for the Xinan faction of the Suzhou Gang, their vitality was severely damaged after this battle and they were no longer able to provoke the Songjiang Gang. Within two years, the Songjiang Gang annexed the Suzhou Gang.
After Wang Changsheng and Xu Dayong left Songjiang Mansion, they took a boat directly to Chongming County. Xu Dayong found his former policeman friend and spent twenty ounces of money to re-register the eight of them.
The eight people stayed in Chongming for ten days and felt that it was almost done, so they returned to Shanghai County one after another. Wang Changsheng continued to stay in Shanghai and established relationships with Luo Jiao and Wei San. Xu Dayong and his five men purchased a batch of southern goods in Shanghai. They pretended to be traveling merchants and took a boat from the canal all the way north. When they approached Xuzhou, they sold the southern goods in their hands. Immediately afterwards, he bought a few walking mules and some groceries locally, and prepared to head west to Shangqiu, Henan.
After leaving Xuzhou, Xu Dayong was surprised to find that there were already a small number of victims fleeing famine from Henan along the way. When he inquired about information from the victims, he learned that since the spring and summer of this year, nearly 20 counties in Henan, including Weihui, Huaiqing, Zhangde, Kaifeng, and Guide, have suffered from scarce rain and severe drought. Shangqiu, Ningling, Suizhou and other places were hit by floods again. The summer grain harvest was very small that year, and the autumn grain harvest was poor.
Xu Dayong and the others went westward, and more and more victims came to Jiangsu to seek shelter and food. When they arrived in Shangqiu in mid-December, they found that there were scenes of people placing bids and selling money everywhere outside the city. It didn't look like the New Year at all. According to local information from Shangqiu, there has not been a single snowfall in Henan this winter.
By this time, Xu Dayong had no doubts about Zhao Xin's prediction. After staying in Shangqiu for three days, he rushed back to Xuzhou with his men. Seeing that the New Year's Day was coming, Xu Dayong rushed to Yangzhou as hard as he could, because there were only a few days left until the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.
(End of chapter)
