Chapter 203: Bandits attack

Before Zhao Xing could answer, Qin Guan raised his head and replied: "Tomorrow will be a 40% discount, and the last discount is "The West Chamber Date". Come as soon as possible."

Tang Di used all his strength to light his head like a waving hammer: "It must be, it must be! "Waiting for the West Chamber of the Moon", his family was waiting for this day."

Tang Di's "Shufang Xianjingyi" five wives just saw Chen Yiyi's outfit and had inquire about it. At this time, they had already vaguely discovered the truth. In front of Chen Yiyi, the princess of the vassal state, these royal concubines still maintained a certain degree of pride. They saluted Yiyi. Because they didn't know how to call him, they looked for the topic after the salutation.

Chen Yiyi was already soft in Zhao Xing's arms at this time. Her little arm was hooked against Zhao Xing's neck and she was unwilling to get up. She saluted the five ladies. She waved her hand as a reply. However, the gifts handed over by the servant were generous, so the five ladies were not easy to blame. When they put away the gifts, the third lady Xian bowed and said dryly: "Congratulations...well, congratulations..."

Mrs. Xian's greetings opened the floodgates, and the other ladies immediately rushed up, pulled Yi Yi, and whispered to ask about some women's topics. Su Shi was still leaning lazily on the chair. Zhan Qinqin was wearing a costume and walked off the stage to ask Qin Guan's opinions. Su Shi just listened lazily.

According to the distance of the relationship, some of the others said goodbye to Zhao Xing, while others were accompanied by servants, wandering around the garden and enjoying the scenery. After a while, only music to clean up the stage was left in the water pavilion, and only the guests were left with Zhou Bang style, Yangchong and Tang Di.

Yang Chong also brought a wife today. Tang Di's five wives were very respectful to Yang Chong's wife, and respectfully beyond common sense. Seeing the attention of others discussing the "West Chamber", Zhao Xing gently pulled Tang Di, and the two of them avoided the side and whispered.

"Brother Yang is a very low-key person. How could you be so respectful to his husband's family? Brother Tang, what's the secret?" Zhao Xing asked in a gossip.

In fact, Zhao Xing had nothing to say, and he couldn't get in touch with his poems. Those women were talking together and he couldn't get in touch with him. The only thing he could get in touch with him at the scene was Tang Di, a wealthy businessman who didn't like poetry and prose very much. The two had to talk a few times before they seemed to be not neglected.

Tang Di was also very interested in such gossip topics. He said in a high spirit: "Don't you know? Yang Chong's wife is not simple either!"

The word "wife" appeared in the Song Dynasty. At first, it was called a husband in Liangzhe Road. The corresponding word "husband" has only appeared now. It probably evolved from the word "官网". Tang Di used this word to call Yangchong's Hun Family, which seemed very vulgar.

But Tang Di was just a vulgar man, and Zhao Xing did not blame him. He asked back: "How simple is it?"

Tang Di smiled: "Have you ever heard that during the Xining period, two royal women were kidnapped by the Beggars' Sect in Beijing, one royal women were sold to a brothel in Hangzhou, and one royal women were sold to Hangzhou, and they were bought by a wealthy businessman to be a concubine..."

Zhao Xing had heard of this. This happened when Bao Zheng and Bao Longtu were the prefect of Kaifeng. Afterwards, Bao Zheng did not touch the Beggars' Sect during his entire term.

After the Zhao Qiner incident, Zhao Xing tried hard to understand the deeds of the Beggars' Sect, and thus discovered these two scandals. Speaking of which, this is also a symbol of the weakness of the Song Dynasty. The royal woman was kidnapped and abducted, and the royal family actually had to follow the law and strictly follow the legal means. Bao Zhengru was sentenced to the emperor's ruling that he did not massacre Qianli to show his wisdom. It is really sigh.

The history of the Song Dynasty recorded this scandal, but did not mention the experience of the two royal women.

"Which family is Yangchong?" Zhao Xing asked evasively.

Tang Di lowered his voice and added: "It's the one in Hangzhou who only gave birth to one daughter, and she is Yangchong's husband."

Zhao Xing understood.

Although the Zhao Song royal family refused to admit that their daughter was kidnapped, they would definitely be like Zhao Qiner or Tang Di's five wives in the future and compensated her. Therefore, although Yangchong's family did not have a formal identity, the Zhao Song royal family recognized her bloodline.

No wonder Yang Chong has never heard of any talent in poetry, but he can knock on the door of any great poet. Even Zhou Bangshi asked a guest to accompany Zhang Dun, Zhang Dun didn't feel that Yang Chong's identity was worthless.

It turned out that the Song Dynasty was wise, only Zhao Xing was confused and never cared about his identity when making friends. Su Shi dared to grab Teacher Cheng, and Tang Di dared to be brothers.

After talking about Yangchong's topic, Zhao Xing and Tang Di talked about the topic of Yangchong, and then talked about the rare and rare trees. Tang Di was a stubborn master. When talking about this topic, he could be everyone's teacher. He talked about the dishes at night banquets as clearly as he knew, the dishes corresponding to each dish, and what wine to drink for each dish, which made Zhao Xing stunned.

The table etiquettes that Zhao Xing learned in modern times all came from Western etiquette. Through Liao Xiaoxiao, he knew some of the Song Dynasty etiquettes, but Liao Xiaoxiao had not yet learned any details of the etiquette of the rich. Tang Di seemed to have eavesdropped on the chat here just now, and took the initiative to talk about the form of night banquets. He was very excited. While talking, he threatened Zhao Xing with his eyes, hoping that he could get a seat.

"Papapapapapapa", Zhao Xing slapped: "It's so wonderful. It turns out that there are such elegant etiquettes here... Well, you will definitely come at that time. I'll let you see the etiquettes of my house."

Tang Di grabbed Zhao Xing's sleeve and his expression changed slightly. He quickly pretended to be calm and said lightly: "Are you inviting me? Well, my family's inner knowledge is just free. I'll transfer one or two hundred for you and help you with it."

Zhao Xing understood the smile, and Tang Di also smiled, both of them understood the smile.

At this moment, a thunderclap suddenly sounded near the dock, and the thunderclap sounded, and a ball of black smoke and fire swelled into the air. The women in the yard screamed in shock, and Tang Di was so scared that he sat on the ground.

Among the people present, Zhao Xing seemed very calm, Su Dongpo seemed eager to try, while others were stunned. Immediately afterwards, the alarm bell sounded in the dock area, and the people there shouted in unison: "Enemy attack, enemy attack."

Zhao Xing looked at the explosion of smoke and was very puzzled. He looked at Su Shi curiously, then looked at Mao Pang, Hangzhou Fajie, and asked in surprise: "There is this thing... It's a bright world in broad daylight, and there's something wrong? Are you making a mistake?"

Due to excessive surprise, Zhao Xing was a little confused when he spoke.

Su Shi was a little impatient. While urging others to bring him armor, he said disdainfully: "This must be a thief in Caoshi Hedu. Have you heard that Caoshi has not been robbed for three years. Last time I saw Caoshi at your door, I wanted to remind you. Unfortunately, I forgot about it. Sure enough, they came."

The grass market in the Song Dynasty was free trade. Since each market only collected a few chunks of tax every year, local officials were not interested in sending too many people to maintain public order, because there were too many grass markets in the court. If people were sent to station everywhere, the administrative expenses would not be higher.

Because of the free trade state of Caoshi, it became the fat of thieves. Most Caoshi are located at convenient ferries and major roads in townships, which are convenient for robbery and escape. Therefore, basically, Caoshi in the Song Dynasty has not been robbed for three consecutive years.

While explaining to Zhao Xing, Su Shi urged the servants to put on his armor. After Zhao Xing understood the reason, he completely relieved: "How can the teacher do this? It's just a dozen thieves, here I..."

Zhao Xing said halfway and shut up quickly. He originally wanted to say, "I built this place according to a military fortress. If you dare to come to me to rob, wouldn't you seek death?" But this was too taboo. He said halfway, pretending to cough, and swallowed the second half of the sentence back.

The castle has begun to evacuate. Except for the fort gate leading to the pier that has not been closed, the other gates have been closed. Those noisy and frightened people have been taken to the place by servants one by one. Zhao Xing's students led a group of servants to the guards. Chen Yiyi pulled the five ladies and ran to the castle happily, shouting as she walked: "Go to the roof... I looked far away, let's go to the roof to watch the show."

At the entrance of the staircase of the Blue Tile Platform, Cheng Azhu appeared with a hunting bow. While she was directing the women into the castle, she gestured to Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing waved to her. Two students raised Su Shi and called the elderly and young women from Su Shi's family to walk into the castle. Six or seven Japanese women trotted and brought Zhao Xing's bow, arrow armor and weapons. Two Japanese horses led two hanging war horses and trotted toward here.

When the incident happened, Tang Di was talking to Zhao Xing, so no one pulled him away. Tang Di looked pale, but his voice was not trembling. He pointed to the gate of the dock area and urged: "Brother Zhao, why don't you close that door?"

As soon as he finished speaking, each of the ten servants showed up at the castle gate with six or seven strong dogs. The Israeli men in the castle also stood guard at the gate of the castle with swords. Tang Di closed his mouth when he saw this scene.

Jin Buer, the Xiao brothers and their father Xiao Shan, the black Tyson and two black women also put on armor, ran to Zhao Xing, and stood on the left and right of Zhao Xing. At this time, the Japanese girl was busy tying the last strap on Zhao Xing's armor.

After the strap was tied, a Japanese woman slapped the parts on the armor one by one to check the firmness of the armor. After the dense slaps, the Japanese women knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Zhao Xing, and said, "Changmen Palace, I wish the martial arts fortune will last for a long time and the flag will be victorious!"

On August 15, 1089, the seventh day of the seventh month of the year of the snake in the lunar calendar, the fifth year of Da'an in Liao (Yelu Hongji) and the fourth year of Yuanyou in Song Zhezong (Zhao Xu), the fourth year of Yuanyou in China, the day of Renshen month and Yihai in the year of Jisi, China, on Wednesday, the bandits in Hangzhou were besieged by bandits.

Zhao Xing walked towards the castle gate near the pier. As he was walking, the people in the castle came and went, busy evacuating nervously and orderly. The door of the Japanese girl's house was also opened, and the brothers Huang Dahuang Erhuang Sansan trotted to the city gate with a small box. At the same time, at the entrance of the city gate, two groups were pushing two huge cabinets from the small room at the door. They pushed the cabinet to the gate, leaving only a small gap for people to pass through.

There were sporadic explosions on the waterside pier from time to time, but compared to the loud noise just now, the explosion sounded much lighter and seemed very messy. However, the smoke was rolling, as if burning something.

Bai Qiao, a Israelite, came up with a group of Yici Leye people carrying crossbows. Zhao Xing took the crossbow from Bai Qiao's hand and smiled relaxedly and said, "Mr. Bai, I can't bear to let your precious heads command your hands to fight. Your strength lies in your brain, so go back."

Bai Qiao smiled and spread his hands. Before he could answer, a voice sounded next to him: "I was in Haizhou in Xinnian. I had a crossbow machine through the ground. The scale was engraved on the mountain, which was very long. The side of the mountain was a small rule, like a ruler. Oh, there was also a mountain on this crossbow, which was a pity to lose its accuracy."

Zhao Xing flashed a moment, and he looked at the place where he spoke and found Shen Kuo dressed in a scholar. He stared at the crossbow in Zhao Xing's hand with the focused gaze of a patient with depression, and said to himself: "I have set three classics and three latitudes to make arrows with a slight dialing point. So, the more refined the scale of this mountain, the better."

While Shen Kuo was speaking, several Cheng tribe men had already touched him quietly, but Shen Kuo was not aware of it at all. He was trotting and chasing Zhao Xing while staring at the crossbow.

Zhao Xing had a gloomy face and used his eyes to urge the men of Cheng to speed up his pace. However, after hearing Shen Kuo's words, he waved his hand suddenly. The men of Cheng clan stopped. Zhao Xing stretched out his hand to Shen Kuo, held his hand and asked gently: "Why is Mr. Mengxi here?"

Shen Kuo was still looking at the crossbow in Zhao Xing's hand, and replied without raising his eyes: "I heard that Li Ren was singing a big show here. I happened to meet Mrs. Zixia, so I asked her to take me into the yard. Only in this way can I watch this grand ceremony."

Zixia is the character Chaoyun. This character was taken by Su Shi for Chaoyun. Except for those who are close to the Su family, others do not know about it. The only exception is Shen Kuo.

Shen Kuo said that after hearing about this long-planned drama performance, he waited for Chaoyun on the roadside and begged her to take him into the yard.

Originally, the gatekeeper had been ordered to stop Shen Kuo's visit, but because Chaoyun brought it in, the gatekeeper was difficult to stop him. Zhao Xing also figured out why he appeared here. Chen Yiyi Ni was by his side just now. At the same time, the servants moved and took care of the performances, and no one had any spare time, so the news was not notified to him in time. Shen Kuo and Chaoyun were inseparable, which made the servants unable to drive them away.

After the explosion, the yard was even more chaotic. The servants guarded the officials and retreated into the Blue House and left Shen Kuo. He had nowhere to go and stuck to Zhao Xing.

"Look, how is this crossbow better than the crossbow in your home?" Shen Kuo said that he also made a crossbow in his home for on-site inspection. Zhao Xing saw that he stared at the crossbow in his hand and handed it to Shen Kuo.

Zhao Xing's crossbow was a steel-arm crossbow. He modified the Song Dynasty crossbow according to the appearance of the crossbow in his memory. He installed ratchets on the winding and a set of pulleys to reduce the power used when pulling the bow. Shen Kuo was a person who liked to study. After losing his official position, his main pleasure lies in this. Seeing the crossbow that was obviously different from Middle Earth in the hands of the Israelites, his eyes were tightly sucked, so that when he walked to the gate, he forgot that this was the battlefield.

The person guarding the door was Cheng Wang. When Zhao Xing arrived, Cheng Shuang was leading a group of people carrying two big boxes. When he saw Shen Kuo, he asked Zhao Xing what he meant with his eyes. Zhao Xing nodded slightly. Cheng Shuang immediately opened the lid of the box, revealing gunpowder arrows full of the boxes, and then stuffed them into the holes like honeycombs on the two big trucks.

The gatekeeper of the Shuimen side was Jin Buer. He led several apprentices to welcome Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing asked, "What's going on?"

Zhao Xing's question alarmed Shen Kuo. He raised his eyes and found the new thing in front of him. He quickly pointed to the beehive car that blocked the door and asked: "What is this? Shouldn't the one blocking the city gate be a knife chariot?"

Zhao Xing secretly raised his thumbs up. After passing through the war with Xixia, Shen Kuo knew a little military and knew about the door-sticking chariot, but the thing in front of him was not the door-sticking chariot, because Zhao Xing did not need to block the door.

Jin Buer bowed and replied: "Six ships came from the upstream, about thirty people. Without a flag, they had to force the dock. The people on the dock stopped them and suddenly ignited the boat. The boat immediately exploded, as if it was an explosion of gunpowder. Then the people began to attack the fort gate, and three people shot arrows in the tower. Now they were hiding behind the tackles and stalemate with us."

"They floated upstream. These people were filled with lead in their brains. How could they escape after the robbery? They were wandering upstream? They even blew their own ships, right? It's incredible?"

While looking at the honeycomb car curiously, Shen Kuo replied absent-mindedly: "The ones coming upstream must be Huqian Mountain thieves. Fuyang Huqian Mountain: The mountains are deep, overlapping and dangerously far, and there are constant disturbances at every turn, and people are escaping here... It is said that there has been a drought recently, and many people gathered as thieves to avoid the service and taxes, and gathered in Huqian Mountain."

Shen Kuo muttered to himself while wandering around the beehive car. During this period, his movements repeatedly hindered Cheng Shuang's work. Cheng Shuang's face looked ugly, but because Zhao Xing was kind to him, he did not scold him.

The pier in Zhaoxing is equal to a private pier. Only those who have business dealing with him can use this pier. Of course, the loading and unloading fee must be collected.

Each ship that is allowed to berth has a signal flag specially sent by Zhao Xing. When entering the port, the ship must hang a signal flag and then dock on the berth according to the guidance. Ships without signal flags will be warned when approaching the dock. If they forcefully rush to the shore, it is not impossible. However, the dock area at the u-shaped mouth is itself a trap. Once you enter this area, you will be attacked by firepower on three sides.

After Jin Buer's introduction, after the thieves forcibly rushed into the dock, they were warned by the tower and lit the gunpowder on the ship first. The explosion of gunpowder seriously damaged the ships anchored on the dock. Seeing that they could not rush into the castle, these people set up interception positions in the dock area and began to salvage the wrecked ships on the dock...

"Explosion, gunpowder, how could they have gunpowder?" Zhao Xing saw that Cheng Shuang was about to finish the work, waved his hand and ordered everyone to prepare for leaving the city, and picked up a shield and stood it in front of him.

Shen Kuo's eyes were still on the honeycomb car, and he continued to murmur to himself: "There is a nitride cave in Huli Mountain. Local people will boil medicine to make medicine and hair puppets. It is not surprising that they have gunpowder. What kind of car is this?"

Zhao Xing winked, several Cheng tribe members held shields in front of Shen Kuo, and others began to push the crossbow cart toward the city gate. Cheng Shuang lit the torch with a candle, and four or five people hid behind the beehive cart with a torch, and rushed forward step by step.

After leaving the city cave and arrived at the dock area, Shen Kuo was still asking: "Brother Zhao, what kind of car is this? I have guessed a little bit. Can you ask Brother Zhao to solve my doubts?"

Zhao Xing nodded, observed the front through the gap of the honeycomb truck, and explained to Shen Kuo: "This is a fire crossbow truck developed based on the principle of medicine-launched puppets. Each truck loads one hundred gunpowder arrows. Once the medicine line is lit, it is like this..."

Amid the hissing sound of the gunpowder line, Zhao Xing added: "It will launch rockets in groups, so it can also be called "a swarm of bees" or "a hundred tigers run together."

As soon as Zhao Xing finished speaking, the first rocket broke out of the fire crossbow, and rushed towards the bandits by the dock with loud and strange screams and long tail flames. Then, a shrill sound of roar like a ghost scream came out one after another. The rocket broke out one after another, and the sharp cones pierced the wooden boxes used by the bandits as bunkers. Then, explosions rang one after another. The strong smell of gunpowder made people itchy throats.

The fire crossbow cart is a suppressive weapon. When the first rocket rushed out with flames, Cheng Shuang directed his brothers to push the fire crossbow cart away to both sides, revealing the avenue in the middle. At the same time, the rocket continued to run out, and then exploded with fire. The sound of the bandits on the dock came into view. During the continuous explosions, some bandits were injured and were covering their wounds and screaming. The uninjured people turned around and rushed towards the dock, trying to board the ship and leave.

Shen Kuo took a deep breath, and the thick smoke seemed to have no effect on him. He said in a hoarse voice: "There are more than thirty thirty thieves, and there are thirty bandits."
Chapter completed!