After hearing Gou'er's report, the prefect Wei Guan, who had known the inside story early in the morning, was puzzled.
Your Highness built this building as a straight hook to bluff people. Anyone with a little bit of brains can tell that something is wrong with this building.
He thought he wanted to use himself and a bunch of Suzhou government officials as bait to lure the water bandits to come for a duel.
The bandits who think they have seen through His Highness's plan will then think that the government's reserve warehouse is now leaderless, and it is a good time to attack the food in the warehouse. After all, there is a huge amount of food in the warehouse as a "reassurance pill" for the people. If the reserve warehouse is burned down, Su Song will definitely fall into panic. Such a large amount of food cannot be transferred quietly without anyone noticing.
Then, the bandits will definitely choose to abandon this "straight hook" building and choose to attack the reserve warehouse. Just fell into His Highness's "trick within a trick".
But Wei Guan really didn't expect that someone would actually come to "bite" this "straight hook". Could it be that these remnant bandits are the kind of reckless men who only have muscles in their heads and beat the old master to death with random punches?
No, that's not right... Pishi Street also encountered a battle, and those who came here should only be a small force. It must be that some of the bandits saw their own "trick within a trick" and then "played the trick" and directly attacked this place that appeared to be heavily guarded but was actually empty of defenses.
But in this case, why not gather all the strength to break through this building directly? Although they were at a disadvantage, if they had guessed that there was an ambush in the reserve warehouse, they would have attacked it at all costs...
Wei Guan's mind was spinning with all kinds of thoughts, but before he could figure out the reason, he heard a guard on high alert shouting: "Arrow attack! Be careful to avoid! Be careful to avoid!"
"Protect His Highness!"
"Seize, seize, seize!" Several crossbow arrows flew into the building from the window and hit the pillars on the walls of the building. Although it caused no casualties, it frightened the unsuspecting people in the building half to death.
"It's a thief! It's a thief!"
"It's not a leak, it's a fire set by thieves. Thieves have entered the city!"
The crowd suddenly panicked. Zhu Su, who was guarded by a group of guards, pushed away the crowd in front of him. When he saw a group of people collapsed on the ground in fear, some stood up and wanted to run away. Some of them were even serving officials of Suzhou Prefecture. .
There was chaos in the building.
"Run away! The thieves have broken into the city!"
"Everyone, don't mess up! If you go out, you will definitely become the target of thieves first! The prince is still here..."
"Go away! Do you dare to stop me!"
Amidst the chaos, a businessman who remained calm shouted loudly to his colleagues not to panic, but was kicked aside by an official. Zhu Su's face darkened, and Zheng Guogong Chang Mao, with his beard standing on end, stood up and slapped the table: "Why are you making such a fuss! Didn't you see that His Highness is still here? Everything was as expected by His Highness. Why are you making such a mess?"
Is everything as expected? The crowd suddenly froze and all looked at Zhu Su, who was still sitting upright. Wei Guan also looked surprised. Didn't he say that this was just a "straight hook" to bluff people, and its function was to make the bandits bite the "curved hook" in the reserve warehouse?
Someone came to bite the hook, was it expected by His Highness?
"It's really unintentional..." Zhu Su sighed inwardly. But in front of everyone, he also acted calm and calm.
Seeing the dog watching outside nodded, indicating that there was no longer a threat, Zhu Su stood up. "Everyone, I have prepared an entertainment program for you."
"If you don't want to give up, please follow me to the terrace outside to take a look."
With that said, he moved first and walked to the terrace outside the house.
A group of people looked at each other. They were originally worried that they would be shot by crossbow arrows if they went outside, but Prince Wu's rich body was already on the terrace, so how could they refuse? I hesitantly arrived outside the terrace, feeling the night breeze blowing, and my whole body suddenly felt refreshed. As expected, there was no thief army outside as expected, only a bright moonlight shining on the rushing river in front of the building.
"Oh, I found it, I found it, it's over there."
Zhu Su held a telescope and searched the river with everyone's surprised eyes. Sure enough, he found several figures swimming across the river.
"Let us take a look too!" Chang Mao snatched the telescope over. "Hey, it sure does exist! These turtles swim quite fast when they get into the water!"
No one knew what tricks the two of them were playing. Even Wei Guan, who thought he knew everything, looked at Zhu Su and Chang Mao in bewilderment, who were holding strange props and shouting. Zhu Su said to Chang Mao: "Brother Chang, you can close the net." Chang Mao nodded, took a big flag from the sergeant beside him and danced it underneath.
"Your Highness, are you going to...fish?"
Several fast boats docked in the river suddenly started to move. A huge net was formed between each two boats, and they headed towards the river. I saw His Highness holding the strange prop and mumbling something: "Left, right, a little further to the right..." Chang Guogong waved the flag and gave orders to the clippers below. But after a while, the clippers seemed to have arrived. Everything has returned.
"He is indeed an elite soldier trained by Commander-in-Chief Chang! This skill of maneuvering a boat in the water is truly unparalleled!" Zhu Su praised.
"Hehe. That goes without saying." Chang Mao looked complacent. "Those thieves think they are good at water. But our Chang family's water skills are not bad at all!"
Some people had vaguely guessed something. When the sergeants on the speedboat came ashore, everyone saw many wet "water ghosts" entangled in the fishing nets they were dragging. Everyone was in an uproar.
"Okay, these 'Taihu Water Bandits' have been captured in one fell swoop." Zhu Su said with a smile. The crowd behind was stunned for a moment, and those who reacted quickly knelt down first: "Your Highness is strategizing and winning a thousand miles!"
Everyone realized that tonight's mindless banquet was actually a good show to wipe out the Taihu water bandits.
It's just that they still don't understand why they and His Highness the Prince were eating and drinking in the building, and then His Highness and Duke Chang Guo commanded the sergeants to drag a round of nets in the river, and then took these things that came and went without a trace. The "water bandits" were all caught up.
However, this does not prevent them from using their imagination to tell their friends and relatives the story of tonight's "net fishing for water bandits".
This is exactly what Zhu Su wants. Spreading the news that the Taihu water bandits were wiped out as soon as possible can completely put an end to the so-called "ghosts of King Cheng's army causing chaos" rumors, and quickly stabilize the public sentiment in Suzhou government because of the memory of Zhang Shicheng...
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"Your Highness, what is going on?"
"Did you expect that someone would attack here?"
After sending sentries to ensure that there were no hidden dangers, Zhu Su dismissed the guests who were still confused. Wei Guan, who felt that he was kept in the dark, kept asking Zhu Su, with a hint of blame in his tone:
"Your Highness has a rich body. If he expected that thieves would attack here, how could he put himself in danger here..."
"Master Wei, let's not mention this matter for now..." Fortunately, under Yao Guangxiao's reminder, he still had a hand in reserve. Now, Zhu Su just wanted to torture him as to who instigated these people to carry out the sneak attack. When he saw the characters entangled in the fishing nets surrounded by Chang Mao and his guards, he suddenly felt happy.
Surprisingly, I caught a big fish!
He looked at the slightly petite figure in the fishing net who was protected by a group of people and trying to lower his head.
"Hey, isn't this an old acquaintance of this king? How about it, does it feel good to soak in the river?"
"Sister, human trafficker? Or should I call you: Princess Chen Han, Chen Hui?"
(End of chapter)
