Chapter 238: Escape (Part 2)
The huge explosion fire illuminated the entire Jinling City for a moment. The chapter was updated the fastest. Han Jian looked at the fire rising from afar and felt something was different.
The direction of the firelight came, which was the west of the city, and it was probably the Weiwu Hou Mansion. The rescue operation at night suddenly failed. Han Jian had not yet figured out the specific situation, but Han Jian knew that the gunpowder collected by Yi Die could not cause such a large-scale explosion.
The impact of the explosion made the entire Jinling City uneasy for a while. Even the soldiers of the River Defense Battalion were a little frightened and at a loss on the shaking boat.
"Roar, get out of the city!" Han Jian shouted to the boatman.
The boatman stammered and said, "At this time, the people in the River Defense Camp had no intention of paying attention to such a smuggling boat. Han Jian knew that if he didn't leave at this time, he would not be able to leave the city."
The boatman rowed in a hurry, and the boat passed through the gate of the water gate and came out of the city. A small boat swayed on the river at night. After half an hour, the boat also approached the shore.
"Master Li, you're here to the shore." The boatman shouted Han Jian.
"I'm working hard." Han Jian said, and went ashore with Fa Yi and others. It was already midnight, and the walls of Jinling City were light and dark not far away, and the noise could be heard in the city.
Han Jian did not ask about the details of the Fa and rescue that night, and directly looked for the horses and carriages that had been prepared in the ferry. The explosion in the city also woke up the residents of the generation outside the city. Some people appeared in the ferry that had already calmed down for a while.
Han Jian and others came ashore, and the responders also arrived. Han Jian sent out a code to answer, and the responders picked Han Jian and others up on the carriage. Xiao He, Han Jian and Xiao Xiliu entered the carriage, while Ke Qu'er and Fa Yi were riding horses. Han Jian personally drove the carriage and walked directly to the road west of Jinling City.
Because on the front line of Jinling City, Qi Chao arranged the river defense line very tight, and it is not easy to cross the river north. Han Jian had planned earlier that he could only go west for about 100 miles to go north. With the road conditions and the speed of the carriage, it is basically difficult to walk 100 miles a day. At this time, Jinling was making such a big noise. Han Jian knew that it would be difficult to cross the river until dawn. He had to cross the river before dawn. It was only more than two hours from now until dawn, so how far he could go.
On the way, Han Jian asked in detail about the detailed process of Fa Yi's rescue plan in the city. Only then did Han Jian realize that the reason why the Weiwu Hou Mansion in Jinling City was so vigilant was not because Yang Xi was detained. But because there was a secret arsenal of Qi Dynasty. Fa Yi went inside and knew that there were several gunpowder depots with high alert and several arms. At that time, what she discussed with Yi Die was to directly burn the arsenal, and Yi Die was responsible for setting people to set fire. Fa Yi went back first to notify Han Jian and escort Han Jian out of the city.
Han Jian knew it at this time, and Fa Yi and Yi Die had no time to discuss this matter with him in advance. The two of them were completely on the standpoint of the Wei Dynasty, which was understandable. Now that such a big thing happened in the city, he would not be able to stay in the city. As for Yang Xi, he didn't care about it. This time the southward journey was over. Whether it was the Cao Gang or the rescue, they had to wait until they returned to the Wei Dynasty and try to contact him to see if they could join the Southern Qi side.
Originally, the speed of riding a horse would be faster, but because Xiaohe was weak after all, Han Jian was also riding a carriage in the plan, and the speed slowed down a lot. Before dawn, there were already vague pursuit soldiers behind him, so Han Jian could only turn the road and walk directly to the riverside, because he was not yet ready to cross the boat, so he might not be able to find the boat by the river.
"Master, if you don't have to the riverside, there will be pursuers coming from behind. We can only take one step and go to the riverside to see if we can find the boat." Han Jian got off the carriage and said to Fa Yi, who was still riding on the horse and strangling the reins and stopped.
Fa Yi looked at the direction of the road. After all, they were on the official road. With her keenness, she could feel that it was not a solution to continue like this. Even if there were no pursuers behind her, she would inevitably encounter an official road checkpoint when she went ahead. If you want to take a small road, they were not familiar with the Jiangnan land after all, and they could not find the way.
"Yeah." Fa Yi didn't say much and jumped off the horse. At this time, Ke Qu'er also got off the horse. Han Jian signaled to drive the carriage and horses directly into the grass, and took advantage of the half hour before dawn to board the boat and cross the river no matter what.
A group of five people approached from the official road all the way north towards the river bank, but there was a long and wide river defense fortress line. Behind the fortress, there were vague fires, all of which were patrolling soldiers at night.
Han Jian signaled everyone not to make a sound. After all, the five people were not very big, and it was a dark and windy night. It would not be too ostentatious to approach the river bank in such a dark and windy way. Soon, a few people had already reached the core of the river defense line, which was also a small fortress before the surging river water. The sound of the surging river was already very clear. Han Jian knew that less than a hundred steps forward, it was already the surface of the Yangtze River.
"Master, the situation ahead is unclear. If we walk in such a dark way, it is not clear when we will arrive by the river." Han Jian said, "It's better to rob a boat directly from the soldiers of Qi."
Fa Yi said: "Will the movement be very loud if this happens?"
Han Jian said helplessly: "There is no other way. Now there is a boat. The most important thing is to have a ship."
While speaking, a team of patrol soldiers came to this side with torches. Han Jian made a gesture. After all, four of them were good at martial arts. It was not difficult to solve a team of ten patrol teams. After Han Jian made a gesture, Ke Quer and Xiao Xiliu nodded at the same time. They already understood what Han Jian was going to do.
When the patrol team was less than ten steps away from them, Han Jian and four others suddenly rushed out and immediately cut over the two people before. The people behind were alert and did not send a signal at the first time. Instead, they wanted to resist, but were swung by Ke Qu'er and Fa Yi. At that moment, there were only two living people left in the entire team.
"Say! Where can I cross the river?" Han Jian grabbed a living mouth and shouted in a low voice.
"No...I don't know..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man was stabbed into his throat by Han Jian with a long sword, and no sound could be made. At this time, Han Jian looked at another soldier.
The soldier pointed to the direction of the river bank and said, "There are ships there...but there are people guarding..."
Han Jian looked at a place with fire not far away. He probably knew that it should be the place where the soldier said there was a ship. Han Jian directly knocked the soldiers out with the hilt of his sword, and then pulled the little dog, which was so scared that he was gone, and approached the river bank together.
In the grass, the wind blew, and the soldiers on the river bank did not expect that the danger would come from behind. After all, they had been on the river surface over the years, and few of them would pay attention to the direction of the south of the Yangtze River. Han Jian was about to go forward, and Fa Yi signaled that Han Jian and others would stay first, and she was about to go forward first. Ke Qu'er was commanded by Fa Yi, and seemed a little reluctant. Han Jian whispered: "I'd like to ask Miss Ke to come forward and help."
"Yeah." Ke Qu'er responded. Follow Fa Yi to the bank of the river together. Han Jian looked at the direction of the fire from afar, and saw that in the fire, an unlucky soldier was directly blown by Ke Qu'er's hidden weapon. Then Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er came out at the same time to solve all the soldiers of a small team. After that, Fa Yi made a gesture to let Han Jian and others follow, and Fa Yi did not destroy the fire on the bank of the river, because once the fire was put out, it would alert people on other river defense lines.
Han Jian and Xiao Xiliu Xiaohe followed the river bank. At this time, the river was vast and the river was covered with water. There was only a small boat on the surface and there was no boatman. Han Jian knew that he had to cross the river and could only support himself.
"Go on the boat!" This is the darkest moment before dawn. If there is no time for a cup of tea, the sky will appear bright. After dawn, they will want to tear open the opening from the Qi Dynasty's defense line to cross the river, which is basically a fantasy.
But when everyone got on the boat, it still attracted the attention of the Qi people. After all, there would be a patrol team in the Jiangfang patrol soldiers of the Qi Dynasty every time. Han Jian killed a soldier from a patrol team before, and there was no time to hide the body. In this way, the next team would find clues.
Seeing that there was movement on the river bank, Han Jian and others had already left the south bank of the Yangtze River. There was also a large amount of fire in the direction of the official road. Han Jian thought that it should be the arrival of the pursuers.
"Master, help with the boat." Han Jian did not have much experience in rowing and had strength, but the boat was not fast on the river. In this way, once the people of Southern Qi sent ships to chase them, they would soon catch up.
Fa Yi picked up the oar and seemed a little hard to use. At this time, Ke Qu'er said: "I'll do it!"
After Ke Qu'er picked up the oar and rowed a few times, the boat was much better in terms of direction and speed than before. Han Jian then realized that Ke Qu'er could hold a boat.
For the sake of speed, Ke Qu'er was responsible for determining the direction and strength at the stern of the boat, and Han Jian was also rowing quickly to speed up to the north bank of the river. When he reached the middle of the river, it was already dawn, and Han Jian could see that there were ships chasing out on the south bank of the river, which was obviously higher than them.
"This won't work." Ke Qu'er said, "They are all sailboats, and it's impossible for us to dock before them."
Han Jian was a little impatient. Now is not the time to be depressed first, but there is no better way at the moment.
At this time, I saw something with fire coming from the river. Han Jian carefully identified it and it should be a ship.
"How could there be a ship?" Ke Qu'er also looked upstream and was a little surprised. The ships were also very fast. They didn't look like ships on the defense line of the Nanqi River, but they seemed to be merchant ships coming from the upper reaches of the river.
"No matter! It's important to cross the river first!"
Now we cannot tell whether the ship is an enemy or a friend, and Han Jian dare not take the risk to get close to these ships. But these ships are obviously directed at them, and the direction they come is also facing their small boat.
"What should I do?" Ke Qu'er finally looked at Han Jian, as if she thought the person who came was an enemy, not a friend.
Han Jian said in a deep voice: "At worst, you can fight to the death. Maybe the boat will come over, which will be beneficial to us."
Han Jian looked at the people on the ship. Needless to say, Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er's martial arts can be used as one for ten, and he and Xiao Xiliu could barely deal with a few people. No matter how many people there are on a ship, the place is small, and those soldiers cannot go together, so it is not difficult to kill a piece of armor without leaving any remaining.
The sky became brighter, and the ships coming upstream were still lit with fire. Han Jian could probably see clearly. A heroic man seemed to be standing on the board. Looking from a distance, Han Jian felt that the figure looked familiar. Then, Han Jian could already tell that this person was clearly Zhu Tongjing, the eunuch of Southern Qi. This time, Zhu Tongjing was able to come from the upstream and brought a lot of ships. Han Jian felt that he could not fly even if he had wings.
But when Zhu Tongjing's ship approached, Han Jian felt that Zhu Tongjing didn't seem to be here to take the blame and capture him back.
Zhu Tongjing's main ship was very big, and the ships next to him were all military ships. The direction of the military ships coming was not to Han Jian, but to intercept the pursuers on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Zhu Tongjing's main ship was approaching Han Jian, and there were no large number of soldiers waiting on the way. Everything looked very friendly, as if Han Jian could get close to the past smoothly.
However, Han Jian didn't want to get too close to these enemies. Although Xie Rumo was going to kill him, Zhu Tongjing was also very scheming, so he naturally knew that it would be better to take him as a hostage than to put him back.
Han Jian wanted to continue to sail to the north shore, but he was not far from the north shore, but their speed was not as fast as a sailboat. Zhu Tongjing's main ship was too big. If he could rush over so straight, just hitting him can knock their boat over.
"Don't come to the East!" Following the Jiang Feng, Zhu Tongjing's voice came. At this time, Zhu Tongjing's ship was less than twenty steps away from Han Jian's boat.
Han Jian knew that there was no way to avoid it, so he could only stop what he was doing and let Zhu Tongjing's ship approach it little by little.
"Master Zhu, don't be fine!" Han Jian looked at Zhu Tongjing on the boat with a smile on his face, and sneered, "Master Zhu got up so early, is he here to travel to the river?"
At this time, the warships sent by Zhu Tongjing had already stopped the chasing ships behind the river. Han Jian didn't know what Zhu Tongjing's move meant. He felt that Zhu Tongjing did not have much malice, but at best he was arresting him.
"The East King is not necessary to worry about it." Zhu Tongjing was still standing on the board and smiled, "I am here to come down today to send the letter of the East Kingdom. I will send the East King to the north."
"credentials?"
Han Jianzheng replied in a low voice, a little puzzled. Zhu Tongjing had already taken out a scroll in his arms and threw it directly at Han Jian's small boat.
"Be careful!" Fa Yi said, thinking that this was a hidden weapon or something. But the hidden weapon would never be thrown over so slowly.
Ke Qu'er took it and handed the scroll to Han Jian. It was indeed a letter of nationality, with some friendly terms on it and signed by the Southern Qi people, which was Zhu Tongjing's notes.
"The King of the East is going well! After all, the King of the East is not very satisfied with this mission, but I hope that the diplomatic relations between the two countries will not be suspended due to today's affairs!"
Zhu Tongjing said that their ship was also moving away from Han Jian's ship step by step. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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