"Don't be nervous. I'll arrange for people to capture the assassin right now. You'll do whatever I tell you to do later."
"Okay, we'll listen to you."
Zhang Shixun dismounted and immediately called Li Gang and Zhang Shuye together, pretending to be mysterious and said, "The battle formation has just been set up, and the villain has already appeared."
"Is it Shi Qian?" Zhang Shuye's breathing became heavy.
"We can't be sure yet, but what is certain is that they are bad guys."
"Where are they?" Li Gang also became excited.
"It was on a grain ship on the Bian River... about a hundred steps east of the bridge, anchored on the shore. There were about a dozen thieves hiding inside, all armed."
Li Gang and Zhang Shuye were both experienced men. They remained calm and glanced at the Bian River out of the corner of their eyes.
Zhang Shixun said to Zhang Shuye, "If the thieves weren't on the boat, but were hiding among the crowd on shore, it would be difficult for us to take action. Now that they're hiding on the canal, we can strike them right away...Mr. Zhang, you will be the one to organize the capture of the thieves."
Zhang Shuye rubbed his hands together, "No problem, leave it to me. I'll organize some people to catch them right away."
As he spoke, he walked under the bridge.
Li Gang looked at his back and said, "Ji Zhong has been feeling frustrated for a while now. With this achievement, he can give an explanation to the court."
"Um!"
Zhang Shixun mounted his horse again and glanced in the direction of the grain boat.
Zhang Shuye acted quickly, and Song Jiang and others had already moved to the vicinity of the grain boat.
In the crowd, Zhang Shixun unexpectedly saw a familiar figure - Wang Meng.
Haven't seen this guy in a long time.
Seeing that everything was almost ready, Zhang Shixun secretly contacted Li Shishi and said, "Okay, have the boatman row the pleasure boat over here."
"Okay." Li Shishi turned her head and said something to the boatman.
The pleasure boat slowly came towards this side.
"Shishi, Saisai, put the vegetable and meat buns on your shoulders."
As Zhang Shixun spoke, he opened the command system and asked Xiaomei to raise the alert level of the two pet robots to the highest level.
"Sir, why do you put the meat bun on your shoulder?"
Li Shishi's curiosity was overflowing.
Before Zhang Shixun could reply, Ding Du said, "Sister, don't ask anymore. These two little treasures are not ordinary creatures."
"Not mortal, you mean...?"
"Hehe! They were sent by the official to protect us. If Caibao hadn't used his claws to deflect the arrow when I was attacked last time, I would have been dead."
"Really?"
"Of course it's true."
As they talked, they seemed to have forgotten that there was an assassin on the canal boat.
As soon as the pleasure boat moved, several boatmen on the canal boat hurriedly raised their oars and tried to catch up.
As soon as the canal boat started moving, more than a dozen strong men pushed through the crowd on the shore and jumped onto the side of the boat, holding shining weapons in their mouths.
Zhang Shixun could see clearly that the leaders were Song Jiang and Wu Jialiang. They moved quickly and climbed onto the deck quickly.
Several boatmen reacted quickly and swung their oars towards them.
Song Jiang bent down to avoid the oar, rolled forward to the boatman, and with a flash of his knife, he directly cut open the belly of the boatman who was naked from the waist up.
Wu Jialiang was holding two short blades. When he saw the oar coming down, he slightly turned sideways to avoid the oar. At the same time, he raised his right hand and the short blade flew out, piercing the boatman's throat directly.
Compared with the two of them, Wang Meng and others were much more clumsy. By the time they climbed onto the deck, Song Jiang and others were already fighting with the boatman.
Wang Meng roared, swung his sword and joined the battle.
At this time, seven or eight people came out of the cabin, all of them had ferocious faces and held bows, crossbows and other weapons in their hands.
After a few crossbow shots, several constables who had just leaned out of the side of the boat fell into the river with screams.
Zhang Shuye on the shore waved his hand, and the archers who had been prepared behind him shot at the thieves.
After a few screams, those people retreated again.
Countless constables and soldiers swarmed in and climbed onto the canal boat in a chaotic manner.
Zhang Shixun jumped off his horse and leaned over the bridge railing, shouting to the boatman on the pleasure boat below: "Hurry! Go through the bridge hole and come to this side of the bridge."
Suddenly, a small boat appeared from nowhere and sailed towards the pleasure boat at a rapid speed. A thief stood arrogantly at the bow of the boat, holding a bow in his hand, drawing the arrow, and with a "whoosh" shot towards Li Shishi in the pleasure boat.
By the time Zhang Shixun took out the pistol from his arms, it was too late.
The arrow flew towards the pleasure boat like lightning and entered the cabin.
Zhang Shixun was anxious, "Are you two okay?"
Li Shishi replied, "It's okay. Roubao blocked an arrow for me. It seems to be fine."
Zhang Shixun immediately felt relieved, raised his hand, and with a "bang", the big man who was re-loading the arrow on the bow of the boat suddenly froze and fell face down on the deck.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the rower turned over and jumped out of the boat, rowing quickly towards the shore.
The pleasure boat took advantage of this opportunity to pass through the bridge hole and arrived at the other side of the bridge.
Zhang Shixun looked towards the pleasure boat and saw the two girls looking up at it. He waved at them and said, "Hurry up and go home. I'll come find you after I'm done here."
Ding Dusai pouted: "No! We'll just stay here and watch the master."
Li Shishi held the meat bun in her arms and stroked the fur on its back while saying, "We have the vegetable bun and the meat bun. We're fine. Just focus on your own business and don't worry about us."
Zhang Shixun had no choice but to let them do as they pleased.
On the canal boat side, several thieves on the deck had been captured, and the remaining ones were hiding in the cabin, shooting arrows at anyone who tried to break in. Several constables were shot one after another.
Zhang Shuye also climbed onto the deck.
He is a sixty-year-old man and no one knows how he climbed up.
"Shixun, those bandits don't seem like the bandits from Liangshanpo." Li Gang held the railing and squinted his eyes to look over there.
Zhang Shixun nodded, "Of course not, but don't worry, Shi Qian is caught in my net and can't escape. Let's take down these thieves first and then we can deal with him."
"Where do these thieves on the canal boat come from?"
"Don't worry, Li Xiang. Once Zhang Gong captures them, everything will be revealed."
Li Gang glanced at him and asked, "Those two people on the pleasure boat just now were Li Shishi and Ding Dusai, right?"
"Um!"
"It's obvious that this group of people are targeting them."
"It should be."
"Haha! They couldn't deal with you, so they set their sights on their mountain."
"Lee Sang Young Ming."
"Stop patting my horse." Li Gang glared at him. "You just raised your hand, and then there was a bang, and the thief on the boat died. Is this the legendary thunderbolt?"
"Yes." Zhang Shixun took out a pistol and handed it over. "This thing is called a pistol. It is used to strike the thunderbolt."
Li Gang took it and looked at it over and over again, "Can I use it to summon thunder?"
Zhang Shixun shook his head, "No! This thing recognizes its master. No one else can use it except me. If you don't believe me, you can try it."
Li Gang fiddled with it for a long time, then returned the gun to Zhang Shixun, praising it and saying, "This thing is so exquisitely crafted, it's truly not something from this world."
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