Zhang Wuxiu poured a jar of wine, picked up a sweat towel and wiped his face, then hummed a tune and walked easily to the small village northwest of Zhongshan Mountain.
When passing through a forest, Zhang Wuxiu stopped, turned around and looked at the two men jumping behind him. He narrowed his eyes slightly. The sergeant's intuition told him that these two men were not ordinary farmers.
But the two men didn't pay attention to Zhang Wuxiu. When they passed by, they just smiled honestly and walked away.
Zhang Wuxiu lowered his guard and didn't think much. He heard a woman's cry for help from the woods before walking a mile. Zhang Wuxiu followed the sound and saw a young woman who seemed to be injured and was calling softly.
"Brother, please be kind, a snake just bit me."
When the woman saw someone coming, she shouted quickly.
Zhang Wuxiu stepped forward to check and saw that the woman's arms were somewhat black. He couldn't help but be horrified. How could a venomous snake be so powerful? He just stepped forward and wanted to lift the woman up, but unexpectedly he received a heavy blow on the neck and fainted immediately.
It's quiet at night.
Zhang Wuxiu woke up suddenly and saw the surroundings clearly under the light of the waning moon. This was a dense forest, and he was tied to a tree.
"woke up."
The woman Li Qiu said softly, rubbing the dagger in her hand against the stone.
Zhang Wuxiu wanted to struggle, but found that the rope was very strong, and couldn't help shouting: "Who are you? Let me go back!"
Li Qiu glanced at Zhang Wuxiu and said coldly: "No one will come here at night. It's useless no matter how loud you shout. You transport iron ore for the Second Artillery Bureau, right? I want to ask you something, please cooperate well." You might still be alive."
Zhang Wuxiu became nervous.
Second Artillery Bureau?
She actually wanted to find out about the Second Artillery Bureau!
The Second Artillery Bureau was one of the most secret places in the Ming Dynasty, and no scrap of paper was ever allowed to be spread. Even the craftsmen there lived in areas directly controlled by the imperial army with their families, making it difficult for outsiders to get in touch with the craftsmen.
That was the forbidden area within the forbidden area where questions were not allowed.
"Kill me, I won't say anything."
Zhang Wuxiu gritted his teeth and said.
Li Qiu chuckled, stood up and walked towards Zhang Wuxiu: "You have a lot of backbone, and you are worthy of being a former Beijing Army. But so what, the court doesn't care about you. What a good treatment, but you can't enjoy it, so why bother to sacrifice your life for them."
"What do you know? How can we, the old and weak, strengthen our army?"
Zhang Wuxiu has a good nature and cannot be swayed by this point of provocation.
Seeing that this move didn't work, Li Qiu clapped his hands, and two men came over carrying an old woman and a boy, with their hands tied and their mouths stuffed with rags.
Zhang Wuxiu struggled violently and shouted: "Let them go!"
Li Qiu said seriously: "Whether your wife or your grandson can survive depends on your cooperation. Tell me, how are the buildings in the Second Artillery Bureau distributed, how many checkpoints are there, where is the gunpowder warehouse, and how What password do I need to enter..."
Zhang Wuxiu stared at the woman in front of him in shock. She actually wanted to enter the gunpowder magazine, which was the core area of the Second Artillery Bureau!
"explain!"
Beginning of Autumn threatens.
Zhang Wuxiu looked pale and shook his head and said: "You have to ask clearly about the internal situation of the Second Artillery Bureau. What is the use of arresting me as a deliverer of iron ore? Do you really think that I can understand so many secrets?"
"Tell me everything you know!"
Li Qiu pulled the little boy in front of him with one hand. A sharp dagger was placed across the child's neck, and a stream of blood slowly flowed out.
No matter how hard Zhang Wuxiu struggled, he couldn't break free. The rope cut into the flesh and almost cut it open!
"Let them go, I say!"
Zhang Wuxiu spoke in pain.
Li Qiu shook his head: "I want you to say it now."
Zhang Wuxiu looked at his young grandson, closed his eyes, and gritted his teeth and said: "The entrance to Houhu is the ten-mile long embankment. There are three checkpoints at the entrance of the long embankment. The first checkpoint checks waist badges, and the second checkpoint checks registered people. Please follow the instructions and the third checkpoint will check what you carry with you. Except for clothes, you are not allowed to carry any items, especially flints, fire breakers, etc...."
Li Qiu frowned.
With such a strict inspection, it is probably not easy to bring in private goods, and it is even more impossible to burn down the Second Artillery Bureau.
"anything else?"
Li Qiu asked.
Zhang Wuxiu sighed and continued: "Less than five miles away, you will encounter two more checkpoints. The checkpoints here are also for checking what you carry. After three miles, you will approach Huangceku. There, there are A square where goods are inventoried.”
Li Qiu nodded repeatedly, and just as he was listening with interest, he suddenly became silent, and couldn't help but angrily yelled: "Why didn't you say anything?"
Zhang Wuxiu explained innocently: "Say, that's it. My task is to transport the things to the square, get the signs after inspection, and return along the ten-mile long embankment..."
"Where is it inside the inspection square?"
The beginning of autumn is anxious.
Zhang Wuxiu shook his head: "I really don't know. Not only are sergeants guarding the connection between the square and the interior, but there is also a shadow wall blocking the line of sight. After the goods arrive at the square, they will be delivered by sergeants or craftsmen from the Second Artillery Bureau. , outsiders like us can’t get in at all.”
Li Qiu almost gritted his teeth and worked in a big circle. Are you telling me that you don't know anything?
What’s the value of this peripheral nonsense?
We want to get inside the Second Artillery Bureau, inside!
"How dare you lie to me!"
Li Qiu picked up the dagger and stabbed it into the child's shoulder. The child's mouth was blocked and he was whining in pain.
Zhang Wuxiu begged: "You are telling the truth. If you want to kill me, just kill me and let them go! If you don't believe me, you can ask other people. There are more than five hundred people like me who contribute to the Security Bureau. We Everyone can only know so much!”
Li Qiu looked at a tree and whispered: "Frost, what do you think?"
From behind the tree, a man with a machete in his arms came out. A black veil covered his face, revealing only one eye.
"What he said must be true."
Frost said in a slow voice.
Li Qiu frowned: "Then what should we do?"
Shuangjiang looked at Zhang Wuxiu and said grimly: "Use his skin to go in and have a look, and then look for opportunities to sneak into the gunpowder magazine."
Zhang Wuxiu shivered.
Li Qiu held the dagger behind his back and nodded heavily: "It seems that if you want to destroy the Second Artillery Bureau, you must take the risk and take a look. I will peel off this skin. As for this woman and child..."
Shuangjiang looked at the two men standing with hands hanging down: "Take them away and bury them."
"Take orders."
The two men each lifted one, like carrying a weak chicken, and left the place vigorously.
Zhang Wuxiu still wanted to shout, but Li Qiu had stuffed a piece of rag into his clothes, and lightly scratched the clothes with the dagger. He said solemnly: "This peeling is an art. I think back then, Emperor Hongwu often skinned officials and pulled out the grass. This is the first knife. Ah, we should start from here..."
The cold dagger was swimming around, and Zhang Wuxiu was terrified. She felt the blade of the knife stopped at her navel, and wanted to beg for mercy, but this crazy woman seemed not to give herself a chance to beg for mercy.
"Picking skins and pulling grass has been abolished during the Jianwen Dynasty. What's more, if the people of the Ming Dynasty made mistakes, they would be dealt with by the court. This girl abused lynching, isn't it appropriate?"
Li Qiu was suddenly startled and looked sideways.
I saw a person standing on the rock five steps away. He was hidden in the dark and overlapped with the shadows. It was difficult to spot him without looking carefully.
Shuangjiang stared at it, secretly surprised, and took a step forward: "When did you come?"
Suo Jing stretched and walked out of the darkness: "He was there when the girl tied the rope to him."
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"impossible!"
Li Qiu couldn't believe it.
The sun had just set when I tied up Zhang Wuxiu, and my vision was relatively clear at that time. I checked around and found no one at all. Besides, if someone exists at such a close distance, how could I not know about it!
Suo Jing smiled slightly, looked at Zhang Wuxiu, and said to Li Qiu and Shuangjiang: "You want to go to the Second Artillery Bureau. There is no need to kidnap these people. What do they know? People who can't even enter the seventh checkpoint. If you want to go to the Second Artillery Bureau, The bureau can contact me. I know the place very well, including the location of the gunpowder depot and who is responsible for gunpowder research and development. You know Tao Zengguang and Hu Yuancheng, do you want me to introduce them to you?"
"Are you from the Security Bureau?"
Li Qiu gritted his teeth and said, holding the dagger tighter, full of vigilance.
Suo Jing shook his head: "I'm not from the Security Bureau. Liu Changge has no brains. Xue Xia has no brains. Tang Buping is a bit powerful but also a brainless person..."
"No matter who you are, you have to die!"
The beginning of autumn looks towards Shuangsheng.
Shuang Jiang became serious, pulled out his knife, and walked towards Suo Jing with Li Qiu.
Suo Jing looked at the two people approaching and took two steps back: "You two, can you not take action? I can give you the map of the Second Artillery Bureau, or the map of the Security Bureau?"
"When we catch you, we will all get it!"
Li Qiu smiled ferociously.
Frost sneered.
Suo Jing had no choice but lowered his hands, then raised them and aimed them at the lower bodies of the two men!
Phew!
Six short iron arrows shot out from one hand. At such a close distance, such a sudden attack, coupled with the harmless begging of humans and animals for mercy, and the poor light at night, Liqiu and Shuangsheng didn't even react, and the two of them were instantly hit on the thighs. Some arrows!
Suo Jing took out the plum-blossom sleeve arrow, looked at the two people who fell to the ground, calmly took out the iron arrow and stuffed it in. After putting on the compression spring, he shook it and said: "This thing is a new thing in the war, the plum-blossom sleeve arrow. I forgot to mention that the arrow is coated with anesthetic, so you might not be able to move for a while."
Liqiu and Shuangjiang didn't expect to feel so aggrieved. Before they could take action, they were plotted against them.
Suo Jing walked towards Li Qiu. Li Qiu raised his hand and was about to stab him, but he didn't expect that the opponent was too fast. His wrist hurt and the dagger was already out of his hand. Suo Jing grabbed the dagger, then threw it away. The dagger pierced Shuang Sheng's wrist and the knife fell instantly.
"I'll leave the rest to you."
Suo Jing shouted towards the woods, and didn't care about the beginning of autumn or frost, he took a few steps and disappeared.
Just when Li Qiu and Shuang Jiang were puzzled and wanted to escape, Yue Sihai's face appeared in front of them. He took the portrait and looked at it carefully under the moonlight. He grinned and said, "We caught two little bosses this time." , I finally gained something, you want to go to the Second Artillery Bureau, do you need me to lead you?"
