"...hehehe, I forgot, I forgot..." Bo Jiao made Hong Tao stunned, blinked his eyes and thought for several seconds before turning around the circle, smiling awkwardly.

The map matter passed like this. After dinner, the people who had been traveling around for a day got into the sleeping bag early, and Hong Tao was no exception, but he slept on the recliner. As the Prime Minister and the envoy, the guards would carry his recliner on the back wherever he went. This was a lazy person. He would never stand if he could sit, and never sit if he could sit.

I don’t know how long I slept, but Hong Tao suddenly jumped up from the recliner. At the same time, two guards in his tent also came out of his sleeping bag. There was gunshots, although they were far away, but they could not hear it wrong, it must be gunshots.

"... Turn off the light at the door! Call our people up and go with me to see!" Hong Tao did not delay for even a second, and got off the ground while putting clothes on, and at the same time gave orders to the guards.

Hong Tao had no sleep on land, and now he was even less at ease. His tent was the highest and largest, so he didn't dare to stay here for a long time. Without waiting for the guards to gather, he took dozens of people to touch the stable. No matter what the gun was fired, it would be no mistake to prepare the escape tools first. Although the Imperial Army's combat effectiveness is fine, I'm afraid of everything.

"Sir God's Envoy, it sounds like the east side. Could it be that our ship was attacked?" Hong Tao's guard captain directed his subordinates to prepare the horses while listening with his ears. These Indians have been hunters since childhood, with sharp eyes and sharp ears, and soon gave a general answer.

"Are you sure? How far is it? Is the gunshots dense?" Hong Tao's own ears are actually good, but as he gets older, it is not as useful as before.

"It's about one kilometer. When you first left the tent, you heard more than a dozen times connected, but now it's basically stopped." The guard captain put his hand on his ear and listened carefully.

"You send someone here to stare first, don't unload the saddle, I'll take people back to the tent." Since there is still one kilometer away and the gunfire is not dense, Hong Tao feels that there is no need to make such a fuss. Moreover, there are already car lights flashing on the east side of the military camp. I guess Bo Jiao and Kong Pei also know it, so it's better to wait for their news.

"Pirate hijacking ship!? Where did pirates come from here?" In less than half an hour, Bo Jiao rode a horse to deliver the letter, but the news he brought made Hong Tao even more confused. This place is at least 150 kilometers away from the sea, so how could there be pirates?

"That's the river pirates! They are all rowing boats. Now it's okay, most of them have been caught, and a small number have been beaten to death. I have sent someone to send an order, so don't bring them back and execute them on the spot. It just happens to clean up the bandits for you, and there is no one left." Bo Jiao thought about it, and it was right. The ones in the sea were called pirates, and the ones in the river were naturally pirates. No matter what they were called, he didn't think it was important. This matter was not worth worrying about. He dared to rob the Imperial Army's transport ships. It was really a death.

"I've killed them all! At least you have to ask me, the master, whether to kill them or not? We are not going to rob other countries, this is your uncle and my country!" Hong Tao began to stare at him again when he heard Bo Jiao's words.

"...Yes, I forgot again, what do you mean?" Bo Jiao slapped his head and finally remembered that he was not following Hong Tao to fight in the east, but to help his uncle govern the country. Now the people who are killed are all the uncle's people, and this order should not be given by himself. Whether to kill or not will eventually be followed by Hong Tao.

"Hurry and send someone to inform them not to kill them first. Come with me and see! Why did Lao Kong do?" Hong Tao actually didn't take these bandits seriously. He just wanted to remind Bo Jiao to change his mind quickly. Since he had said this, he had to go over and take a look.

"You, hurry to the canal as quickly as possible and inform them not to do it first. Lao Kong went to patrol the guard post in the north, and he was afraid that more than one of these bandits would be there." Bo Jiao said as he followed Hong Tao out of the tent and walked towards the stable.

"Uncle, you're even ready for the saddle. Did you know in advance that you were going to see the prisoners?" Seeing that Hong Tao and the guards' horses were already neatly saddles, Bo Jiao couldn't help but say strange things again.

"What if I say I'm ready to leave you and run away at any time?" What does it mean to be shameless? Hong Tao plans to let Bo Jiao see.

"Then you have to ask me to run with Lao Kong. We are from the navy, and it is not our battlefield on land. There is an army in war, Lao Kong and I don't know how to command the army. They have their own commanders to let them cut off the rear!" Bo Jiao didn't think anything was wrong about Hong Tao. If you can't beat him, just run away. Moreover, he also found a very reasonable reason for himself, his talent and expertise were wrong.

"You'd better shut up. It's so embarrassing to let your and my soldiers hear it." Hong Tao looked at Bo Jiao with a slanted eye. This child is no longer the child of the past. He not only learned a sea skills from himself, but also learned his own outlook on life. He also had signs of the waves in the Yangtze River pushing the waves in the front. Compared with him, he might not be able to win.

The two of them took the guards on their horses and walked east through the camp. The rain was already very light at this time, but it had not stopped. What was coming towards them was not raindrops, but a kind of water vapor-like thing that fell on their faces and hands, and it was cold. The winter here was really not good. Hong Tao hadn't tasted this taste for many years. He spent most of his life wandering around the tropical areas. It seemed that this was the first time he came to the north of winter with his feet on earth. To be precise, this place was not the north.

The total number of river bandits Bo Jiao mentioned is less than one hundred, and there are still sixty or seventy people who can open their eyes. The rest are all lying in mud and water. More than a dozen soldiers from the Imperial Army were digging pits near the river bank with shovels, intending to bury these killed bandits. This is also the standard process for the Imperial Army to clean the battlefield during wartime, and it was stipulated by Hong Tao when he established the Imperial Army. This pit was not to bury people, but to burn people. Pour oil on it and divide the corpse into two parts of the enemy and us and burn them all to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. The enemy's ashes naturally served as fertilizer for the earth and put their own ashes back.

"Are these their weapons?" At this time, the sixty or seventy prisoners knelt in the mud with their heads in their hands, surrounded by half a circle of soldiers from the Imperial Army holding guns. Not far from them, there were a bunch of wooden forks, wooden sticks, iron hooks and other debris. Hong Tao rode his horse and looked closer. His most powerful weapons were a few sickles and a bow, which were still broken and reinforced with bamboo pieces.

"It should be... who is responsible here?" Bo Jiao also felt that the armed bandits were a little miserable. He didn't know the specific situation, so he could only ask the officer responsible for guarding the transport ship.

According to an Imperial Army lieutenant, these people tried to approach the transport ship from the water in the middle of the night, but were discovered by the watchtower on the ship. They probably didn't expect that the army set up a guard post on the mast in the middle of the night in the rain. At the same time as the alarm sounded, the steam lights on the ship also lit up, illuminating the canal, and the small boats on the river surface were also revealed.

If it were an ordinary army of the Song Dynasty, it would be useless to deal with these people. Their boats were rowing fast on the water, and it would be useless to deal with them with bows and arrows on rainy nights. If they encountered the Song Dynasty New Army, these people would not suffer much loss. The Song Dynasty New Army's flintlock rifle was still smooth-bore and the shooting distance was insufficient.

Unfortunately, they found the wrong target of robbery and encountered the Imperial Army equipped with rifled rifles and bullets. More than 200 rifles were powerful at a distance of less than 100 meters, and they were a big blood hole when hitting anyone. Faced with this situation, even the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty had no choice. After two rounds of shooting, the people who were not killed had to surrender. This is also the wisest choice, otherwise there would be only a few left in the hundred people. If they ran again, the bullets would not fly over behind them, but land war gun shotguns mounted on the transport ship.

"Where are you from?" Hong Tao got off the horse, walked to the kneeling crowd, and found an old river bandit who looked about the same age as him.

"..." Even the old man and the people nearby were all looking up at Hong Tao, but no one said anything.

"Look at my banner clearly. This is sent by the New Army of the Song Dynasty and the imperial court!" Hong Tao felt that the other party did not know his origin, so he should speak if he knew.

"... Jun Tao, we are not bandits. We really can't survive anymore, so we came here to find some food and ask Jun Tao to spare our lives." Sure enough, these people looked up at the flags held by Hong Tao's guards, and immediately spoke, still crying and lying on the ground.

"Bang!" Hong Tao reached out to pass the rifle of an Imperial Army soldier beside him and fired a shot in the sky. So many people cried together, how could they chat?

"If you say it is a bandit, I have to judge whether it is a bandit. First, tell me where your village is. When the rain stops, take me to see it. If there are indeed villages, farming, fishing and hunting, I will spare you all. If you lied to me and were just a bandit nest, I can warn you that I will throw you alive and burn it like them!" Hong Tao couldn't tell whether these people were bandits. If this is in another country, then I would rather believe it. Is it a bandit? As long as you dare to touch my things, it will be completely broken. But this time it won't work. This is your own country, so it can't be too simple to deal with it. You have to ask and investigate.

"Prepare some hot food for them first. Even if they die, they have to be a full-fed ghost and cannot leave hungry." As soon as they turned around, Hong Tao remembered another thing. These people looked like starving ghosts. Even if they were bandits, they were forced by life. Unlike habitual bandits who did many evil things, they still had the possibility of salvation.
Chapter completed!