The autumn moon in the sky was bright, illuminating the Baishui River ferry as bright as day. Lin Fu watched the two men who boarded the boat at dusk and used a place to listen to music to hold Zhao Neng and the boatman hostage with knives. He was shocked and a thought flashed across his mind subconsciously: Water
The bandit robbed the ship! But he still had doubts in his heart, what was so good about his black-peng ship?
The Wupeng boat's moorings had been untied and it was slowly leaving the shore. Lin Fu saw through the crack in the door that the fishing boat on the opposite side had also untied its moorings and floated toward the middle of the Baishui River. Under the moonlight, he saw the grain boat.
There were five or six shadows squatting on the bow of the boat, and it was unclear who was the boatman and who was the robber.
The door in the cabin was closed, the moonlight was bright outside, but the cabin was pitch dark. Lin Fu remembered that the sword was hanging on the opposite wall, and he carefully tied his clothes tightly, silently calculating the distance to the window, thinking about the darkness in his mind.
How can we get the sword as quickly as possible and then jump from the wooden window into the river... However, we can't see Su Mei's boat from the crack in the door, and we don't know how many water bandits robbed the boat this time.
, Lin Fu stood patiently behind the door, thinking: Maybe jumping into the water while taking advantage of the chaos is the best choice.
Lin Fu still wanted to wait for the opportunity, but the two men on the bow didn't want to give him this time. The man who held Zhao Neng with a knife had a scar on his face that penetrated his nose. He asked the other man: "What do you mean about that soft-footed man?"
Have you woken up yet? Why is there no sound at all?" He was not afraid of Lin Fu waking up as he spoke.
Lin Fu was shocked after hearing this: Zhao Neng had scolded him at dusk and he should not talk nonsense in front of outsiders. These two people seemed to be quite familiar with him before?
"The soft-footed shrimp is infatuated with that girl. It's hard to predict when he will go crazy. It's better to be careful..." Another man had a lean face and squinted his eyes towards the river bank - the bank was not far enough at this time, and the Mosquito Head Mountain Relief Camp
Nearly a hundred sword archers from Baisha County are stationed nearby - after Dong Yuan became the prefect of Weiyang, he attached great importance to the training of sword archers and other security forces in Weiyang counties, and even intended to train an excellent local army - Lean Man Dialogue
The sword archers in Sha County were quite afraid. Besides, Dong Yuan had always had a reputation and he was in Baisha County. If he was disturbed now, things might not be possible tonight. Thinking of this, he gave Scarface a wink.
Lin Fu, who was hiding in the cabin, was shocked when he heard what they said and thought to himself: Are they interested in Su Mei?
The bearded man smiled knowingly, strangled Zhao Neng's neck with his arms, and threatened in a deep voice: "If you want to survive, don't scream because of the pain! If you scream, I will chop you alive with a knife!" He turned the handle of the knife and struck you.
He hit Zhao Neng hard on the temple. Zhao Neng only let out a muffled groan and fell down softly. Seeing Bearded Man insert the knife into the crack of the door to open the door latch, Lin Fu took half a step back and waited.
When the door latch was about to open, he grabbed the back of the knife and kicked it, breaking the knife to the seam of the door. The man outside was caught off guard and fell in with a broken knife in his hand.
The man suddenly entered the dark environment, and his eyes went dark. Lin Fu adapted to the light in the dark, grabbed the bearded wrist holding the broken knife, and stabbed his eyes with the two-fingered halberd.
The scarred face was also amazing. He was stabbed in the eye and screamed in pain like a slaughtered pig. However, his wrist struggled away from Lin Fu's hand and he jumped into the corner of the cabin. Blood flowed from his eye sockets and his hands
The broken knife inside was still there, dancing wildly to prevent Lin Fu from entering, and shouted outside the cabin: "Old Biao, you have a tough idea, my eyes are blinded, come in and save me."
"Tell your mother to be careful. If you make such a big noise and startle the boat, Boss Zhao will take action in advance..." The lean man outside shouted in a deep voice.
Lin Fu jumped over and bolted the cabin door, hoping to block the lean man outside for a moment. As soon as he took the sword out of his hand, he heard a scream. Thinking that the boatman's life was in danger, Lin Fu didn't care about anything else and swung his sword.
The knife struck at the man in the corner of the cabin.
The man's eyes were bleeding from the poke, and he couldn't see the length of the knife in his hand. Hearing the wind, he raised his hand to parry, blocking the way, and the steel sword slashed hard into his eyebrow bone. The sword was stuck in the bone, and Lin Fu had no strength.
It was not strong enough to draw the sword, so when I heard the sound of the door slamming behind me, without any hesitation, I picked up the broken knife and jumped out of the window. I plunged into the water and dived under the wooden stern at the stern of the boat before surfacing for air.
At this time, several boats on the ferry and the boat were seventy or eighty meters away from the river embankment. Suddenly, chaos broke out. Two boats even caught fire. In the blink of an eye, the river water turned red and bright at night. People were constantly being killed.
After being chopped over and fell into the water, two archers on a kite boat were watching the water with their arrows and bows. Lin Fu hid behind the wooden oars and did not dare to come forward. After a while, he heard someone jumping on the black boat to ask: "Chen Biao, what's going on?"
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"The tiger lost his hand, and the soft-footed shrimp jumped into the water..." It sounded like the voice of a lean man.
"Damn, how could Huzi miss?"
"Huzi entered the cabin to kill someone, and was attacked by surprise. I went in to see, and he was hit on the eyebrow with an iron sword. The window was open, and the man was gone... Should I send two people into the water to chase him?"
"The soft-footed shrimp is like a weight in the water. It will die faster. Don't pay attention to it... Get on the boat quickly. Don't let the boat dock."
At this time, Lin Fu's body from the tip of his nose was immersed in the water. How could he look like he had fallen into the water and weighed the weight?
The movement here also disturbed the shore. The relief camp on Fentou Mountain went to the ferry and lit many torches. Dozens of black figures could be seen running towards the ferry. They all had weapons in their hands. They were stationed on the mountain.
The saber archers; the awakened victims also shouted in support of the mountains and plains: "Dong Shijun is here, how dare the water bandits come to die!" "Dong Shijun said, kill the thieves and reward them with silver. Regardless of the officials and the people, if you kill a thief, you will be rewarded with ten pieces of silver."
Two." There were also brave victims who followed the sword archers and ran towards the ferry.
"This evil star is in Baisha County, so it's more difficult. You go there with me. This boat is set on fire. You must not let the boat dock."
Lin Fu listened to the voices on the bow of the Wupeng boat and wondered whether the robbers had lingering fears about Dong Yuan, the prefect of Weiyang. Then he saw two people on the bow abandon the Wupeng boat and jump onto a three-masted sand boat that was about the same height as a painted boat.
Many long poles with iron hooks were stretched out from the big boat and hooked up to the boat. The two boats quickly came together. Dozens of robbers gathered at the bow of the boat, holding weapons and preparing to rush to the boat.
When Lin Fu saw this, he was convinced that the robbers were coming to Suzhou-Maekong, and they had a well-planned plan. In the name of listening to music at night, they sent people to sneak into other boats at the ferry from the shore, just to threaten these boats in case of sudden movement.
Wrapped up and away from the river bank, these boats were not used as means of transportation to support the boat on the shore. The three-sailed boat was probably the main warship of the water bandits this time. It looked like a sea-going ship. I don’t know when it sneaked in and stopped at the ferry.
It didn't even alert others. There were obviously many elite water bandits hidden in the boat, and they all came in handy at this time.
The seven or eight ships parked by the ferry were all small and medium-sized merchant ships and fishing boats. There were few people on board and they were unguarded, so they sank quietly.
There is no need to worry about the cooks, servants, and maids on Su Mei's boat. In addition to the three guards of Fu Qinghe and his disciples, they also hired boatmen and more than ten oarsmen from the river gangs in Jiangning. It is not that they have no defensive power at all.
No thieves have gotten into the boat yet. Fu Qinghe stood at the bow of the boat. He held a round shield in his left hand and a short halberd in his right hand. He was forcing a water thief who was trying to get on the boat into the water. Lin Fu was slightly surprised when he saw it. He thought he would do it before.
Fu Qinghe is just a run-down ordinary martial artist - who among the ordinary martial artists would use a short halberd as a portable weapon? Those hired boatmen and oarsmen have been wandering around the rivers and lakes for many years, and this is not the first time they have encountered water thieves and lake bandits.
Fu Qinghe and the leader of the group held their weapons to prevent the water bandits from jumping off the ship.
Lin Fu saw that the boat was less than thirty feet away from the shore. The boat was also a paddle boat. There were six wooden oars on each side of the boat. Everyone could reach the shore in a short time by rowing. Besides, the county yamen archers on the shore could also shoot arrows.
In support, if the water bandits cannot attack Huafang in time and allow Huafang to go ashore to join the sword archers in Baisha County, it will instead make Huafang a fast warship for the sword archers to pursue the robbers.
The water bandits had already anticipated this situation. Except for the three awning boats whose bows were full of water bandits, the other boats that were towed to the middle of the river were set on fire. The water bandits on the three-masted sea boats used iron hooks
After hooking the boat, he quickly opened the sail and dragged the boat to the outside of the river. Lin Fu hid in the water, watching all this, thinking that they had a well-planned plan.
The fire on the Wu Peng boat also became stronger. Lin Fu was safe for the time being while hiding under the water, but he did not dare to act rashly. People were in a panic. Who knew if he would be accidentally killed if he swam to the shore?
Swimming to the painted boat? Fu Qinghe was guarding against water bandits stealing the boat from the water, so he was more likely to be killed by mistake; besides, seventy or eighty strong water bandits surrounded the painted boat, and with the oarsmen on the painted boat, there were less than twenty boatmen. If
The Baisha County swordsmen on the shore could not find a boat to come over for rescue in time, so their fate can be imagined.
At this time, although Lin Fu also felt pity for the flowers and cherished the jade, and still thought about the benefits of Su Mei's treatment of him, he was not a fool who rushed to his own death out of passion.
The water bandits no longer delayed, and more than a dozen bows gathered on the bow of the three-masted boat and fired furiously. Some people threw things like clay pots towards the bow of the painting boat. When they were smashed, lime was scattered all over the sky. While the boat was being painted,
The people on the bow of the boat were overturned, and dozens of water bandits jumped from the three-masted ship and three other hijacked merchant ships and rushed onto the boat...
The painting boat was dragged nearly 200 meters away from the river bank. Archers on the bank rushed to the ferry to shoot arrows to support it. It was beyond the reach of the whip, and no one jumped down from the river to swim to help. Lin Fu knew that the painting boat was in danger. No matter how good Fu Qinghe's personal martial arts skills were, he could not help.
It can't be of much use in a chaotic battle. At most, it can kill a few water bandits to vent its hatred. If you don't know the opportunity and abandon the ship and jump into the water, you will inevitably die.
Listening to the crackling sound of the black-topped boat being burned by the fire, Lin Fu was worried that the hull would soon burn to pieces. He waited for a while, and when most of the water bandits jumped onto the boat, and the bandits' attention was not on the water, he took a closer look.
Direction, he plunged into the water and dived toward the boat. He estimated that the water bandits would not burn it easily after taking over the boat. It would be safer to cling to the bottom of the boat and swim downstream for a while before landing.
He came to the surface to take a breath, and the bottom of the boat covered with black and green sphagnum moss was right in front of him. Lin Fu stabbed the broken knife into the seam of the boat plank so that he could have a support point to rest. At this time, a black shadow fell from in front of his eyes.
, the splash of water made Lin Fu choke. He fell down, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
Lin Fu pulled out the broken knife in his hand, hesitating whether to wait for the drowned person to surface and then immediately step forward to make up for it. He heard someone shouting above his head: "Fu Qinghe is dead, go down and kill him."
Executioner!"
Was it Fu Qinghe who fell into the water? Lin Fu was surprised. He knew that martial arts students could only play a limited role in a chaotic battle, but he didn't expect that Fu Qinghe would be so useless.
The weak firelight entering the river looked at a black shadow under the water that was motionless. Before he could surface, Lin Fu pulled Fu Qinghe and dived elsewhere.
The place where Fu Qinghe fell into the water would attract the attention of the water bandits. Lin Fu didn't think that he could dodge the strong bow in the water. With Fu Qinghe's lifeless body between his arms, he dived under the oar at the stern of the painted boat before emerging.
On the water surface, this place under the stern of the ship is deeply recessed and covered by a sculling oar. Firelight cannot come in, so it is much more hidden than other places.
Lin Fu was about to take off his belt and tie Fu Qinghe's body to the oar when he felt the body in his hands move. He turned his head outward to avoid Fu Qinghe's weak punch, and turned around to see Fu Qinghe surprised.
Looking at himself, he probably couldn't believe that he was not dead and had saved him.
Yes, there is no need to explain, Lin Fu asked in a low voice: "Master Fu, where are you injured..." Just now in the water, I only saw blood seeping out of his back blade, but no vital parts were injured. Now I saw his right arm
Two deep cuts were made and he was immersed in the water for a while. The opened flesh looked like white lips, and there was blood seeping out from the left shoulder socket. It was not serious. I don’t know if he was seriously injured elsewhere.
"The water thief carried the log onto the boat and was hit on the chest. He held his breath and fell into the water." Fu Qinghe hooked the oar with one hand and weakly explained the reason why he fell into the water.
Lin Fu had never seen what a wooden log was, but he could imagine that the sides of the boat were long and narrow. If Fu Qinghe wanted to resist there, the water bandits would lift a big log and hit it directly to force him into the water.
Su Mei's cabin was at the bow of the ship, while Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe were hiding at the stern. They could not hear what was going on in the front. They could only hear the movement on the ship getting smaller and smaller. It seemed that the water bandits had taken control of the situation. After a while, corpses kept coming from above.
After throwing it down and counting the sound of water, Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe looked at each other. Except for Su Mei and her maid Xiaoman, no one was left alive.
After the Baishui River swelled, the water surface was two or three miles wide. The boat was dragged to the middle of the river and tied to the bandit ship. The remaining three merchant ships were also set on fire by the water bandits. Although there were swordsmen and archers on the bank.
They were running on the embankment, trying to rescue them, but they were helpless. By the light of the fire, they could see several people riding tall horses on the river bank in the distance. They wondered if Dong Yuan and Mr. Dong Mansion, who were famous for resisting the rebellion of the She family in the southeast, were among them.
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"Fuck you thief." Dong Yuan looked at several blazing merchant ships in the Baishui River and the pirate three-masted sand barge escaping toward the mouth of the Baishui River with the boat tied behind it. He beat his palms bitterly. This group of pirates
He was robbing someone right in front of his nose, how could he not be annoyed?
"It looks like a sea ship. It may be a pirate traitor from the East. I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up along the coast. Do you want to hurry up and notify Ning Haijun to send water camp?" Under the light of the torch, Ding Zhiru, the magistrate of Baisha County, looked a little pale and his body was shaking.
The wind was blowing cold, and pirates were wreaking havoc in the territory. As the chief official of Baisha County, he had some responsibilities that he could not escape.
"You expect those idiots?" Dong Yuan snorted disdainfully, "Three days ago, Chongzhou County was raided. There were more than a hundred Ninghai Town troops in Chongzhou County. They were killed by thirty to fifty pirates.
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Gao Zongting knew that Dong Yuan hated these Eastern pirates very much, but if someone was kidnapped in Weiyang Mansion, but rescued by Ning Haijun Town, what face would Dong Yuan have? He said: "A mere singer is not worth the prince.
We will work hard all night for her, and it won’t be too late to write the paperwork tomorrow.”
Dong Yuan snorted coldly and said nothing more. He just looked at the dark shadow in the middle of the river that was getting further away under the bright moonlight.
Only then did Ding Zhiru find out that Dong Yuan was also resenting being rejected at dusk. If his prediction was correct, the thieves should be part of the Eastern pirates. At this time, he sent someone to hurry up and write a letter to inform Ninghai Town. They should have time to intercept the pirate ship before it goes to sea.
Of course, Ding Zhiru would not forget the conflict between Dong Yuan and Ninghai Town. Besides, Dong Yuan was the main official who strongly advocated the establishment of a new local army outside the town army system. He stopped saying anything, even if it was just a show. He let
The county lieutenant led the sword archers to continue chasing along the bank; he vaguely saw that there were still people in the river who were still alive. They thought they were boat owners who had escaped the disaster and fell into the water, so they hurriedly organized people to go into the water to rescue the people.