Sun Yun put away the binoculars, ordered the fleet to start slowing down, beckoned the official sent by Jiang Buqi to assist in crossing the river, and asked, "Where is the ferry?"

"It was still here before, but now it's gone. The unlucky official who had not had time to get off the boat pointed forward, and Sun Yun only saw the river bank where the dogs and teeth were intertwined, and where there was a ferry.

Ji Zheng, Shang Zhu and Li Qing walked out of the cabin and looked out at the other side from the deck with Sun Yun, the long river bank was empty, there were no voices, no birdsong, no beast calls, only the sound of the waves crashing against the shore rocks.

The seven building boats all tilted forty-five degrees to the left and slowly sailed towards the river bank, and for the sake of caution, Sun Yun sent two more claw boats close to the shore to investigate.

Everyone watched as the ten soldiers slowly paddled to the shore, one oar. After landing, six sailors climbed ashore and, after searching along the shore, signaled to the large army that there was no one.

Seeing Sun Yun ordering the fleet to dock, Li Qing said to him with a smile: "Brother, you are too cautious, my Xuanyuan Country is the overlord of the world, and the Southern Barbarian has already been scared away by your name of 50,000 sailors." ”

"Li Qing, Dingguo, Xiangguo and Yuguo have jointly attacked the south bank many times, but they still haven't been able to conquer the small Nanban country, there must be a big problem in this. We don't know anything about our opponents, so it's better to be cautious. After boarding the ship, Sun Yun's performance was simply a different person, not as rude and arrogant as usual, and patiently explained to Li Qing.

The entire fleet was scattered with the command ship as the center, and the command personnel of each ship first sent two soldiers ashore to guard to a distance of 50 zhang, leaving room for the main force on the ship to land quickly.

This was Sun Yun's combat habit, so as to prevent the army from being attacked suddenly when it landed, which would bring heavy losses to the army.

Zhao Ling took the lead and stood at the forefront of the cordon, he saw that there seemed to be a figure shaking in the grove on the shore, and he felt puzzled in his heart, so he took two soldiers and walked over.

Just approaching the grove, suddenly a black shadow flew from the front, and before Zhao Ling could react, this black shadow with a whistling sound spun around his neck, flew not far away and turned around and flew back.

Zhao Lin's head was only detached from his neck at this time, he fell to the ground, rolled on the ground a few times, the incision on his neck was very smooth, and the blood continued to spray out, and the long sword in his hand was only half pulled out at this time, and he kept this posture and fell to the ground softly.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack ......" The two soldiers behind him saw Zhao Ling's death in a terrifying state, but they couldn't even see the figure of the other party, so they were so frightened that they hurriedly ran back, shouting loudly as they ran.

Before he could take a few steps, two other black shadows came from behind at a rapid pace, slashed two heads, and then spun back.

Two more headless corpses lay on the ground, becoming one of the enemy's victories.

Most of the sailors who landed on land heard the warnings of these two companions, and before they could react, they heard the roars of tigers and leopards, and then seven or eight fierce beasts jumped out of the grove, their speed was extremely fast, and they rushed to the middle of the Xuanshui Army in a few clicks, rampage, and instantly scattered the Xuanshui Army.

These beasts are huge, extremely tall, and there are barbarians wearing feathers on their backs, they are condescending, directly ignoring the opponent's swords, guns and shields, everyone is holding a white scimitar, constantly slashing and killing the Xuanshui Army sailors, and every time they swing their weapons, they must bring up a bloody head.

Like a wolf into a flock.

This behemoth has both the strength of a tiger and the agility of a lion, and the speed of a cheetah, and when I saw the barbarians on the saddle harvesting the heads of their colleagues in round after round, the sailors were so frightened that they couldn't even hold their weapons steadily, and there were barbarians in the grove who rode strange beasts in a steady stream.

At this moment, no matter how big the nerves were, they couldn't bear it, and these sailors pushed each other backwards, scrambling to escape from this human Shura field.

Qu Chang, who led the team, took a knife and cut down several fleeing soldiers, and was about to roar his subordinates to stabilize their positions, when a strange beast jumped over from three zhang away and landed in front of Na Qu Chang. The barbarian sitting on the strange beast ignored the other party's incredulous look, his hand raised and fell, a white light flashed, and the head of the song was suddenly different.

Many sailors fought and retreated, scrambling to jump into the river, swimming back to the boat, and some sailors just got off the boat, so you bumped into me, crowded into a piece, trampled and injured countless deaths.

Sun Yun didn't expect that the combat power of these barbarian warriors was so strong, obviously there were only a dozen or so people on the other side, but they killed most of the sailors who landed on the shore, and urgently ordered the archers on the ship to shoot these barbarians, but these strange beasts were too fast for the archers to aim and hunt, and almost all the bows and arrows shot out missed, and some even shot their own soldiers by mistake.

"Send the Water Dragon Battalion to support. Sun Yun yelled at the herald.

Shang Zhu watched these barbarians riding strange beasts to kill in all directions, and there were no soldiers under his command who could block a round, and then heard that Sun Yun was going to send troops to the field, what is the difference between this and letting them die in vain, and hurriedly went to persuade him: "Sun Yun, if you don't go offshore, these barbarians will rush to the boat." ”

"I can't leave my soldiers alone. Sun Yun has been crisscrossing the waters of Kyushu for more than 30 years, and he has never suffered such a defeat, how can he swallow this depressed breath, and was about to lead the team to counterattack with a sword, but he saw Ji Zhengyi draw the long sword on his waist: "General, let's fight side by side together." ”

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, by all means. Sun Yun admired Ji Zheng's courage, but at the same time felt that this person was very stupid: You yourself need Li Qing's personal protection all the time, and you can fight side by side.

"General, as a crown prince, I can't watch my subordinates die for me and be indifferent. Ji Zhengzheng was speaking and raised his long sword.

Sun Yun sighed helplessly, and ordered to retreat, those boatmen and slaves had long wanted to flee from the shore, but when they got the order, they all used their strength to eat, quack, and retracted the drawbridge faster than before, so that they could paddle away from the river bank with all their strength.

Sun Yun sent out to meet the sailors who jumped into the river.

After cutting down all the soldiers who were still on the riverbank, these barbarian warriors looked at the fleets that were gradually moving away, waved their knives in their arms, roared rhythmically, and chattered in their mouths, saying barbarian words that the Kyushu people could not understand, and looking at their excitement, they must have been very satisfied with the results of this battle.

"Archers ready, targets, barbarians on the shore. "Just a short distance from the shore, Sun Yun gave an order to the bow and arrow battalion.

As soon as the fleet landed, it lost one-third of its troops for no apparent reason, but the other side was not damaged at all, and no one could swallow this breath.

Sun Yun was bent on finding the field, but those barbarian warriors were very uncooperative, and ordered the strange beast to retreat, easily dodging the rain of arrows.

Seeing Sun Yun so arrogant, they were also unhappy in their hearts, and rode strange beasts all the way to follow the fleet.

Sun Yun never expected that things would turn out like this, not only did he find the field, but he also provoked the enemy to follow, and this time, it was impossible for the fleet to land.

Sometimes, good news comes alone, and bad news comes in quick succession.

In any case, it was impossible to land on the south bank, and Sun Yun was about to give the order to return to the north bank, but he saw the herald report in a panic: "Report, the water finless porpoise has come to attack the fleet again." ”

"Damn, it's endless. Rao is no matter how good-tempered Sun Yun is, he really can't stand it, so he left Sun Sanchuan to accompany Ji Zheng, and he took a group of subordinates to expel the finless porpoise.

Sun Sanchuan saw that Ji Zheng seemed to be very worried about Sun Yun, so he comforted him and said: "Don't worry, the general's water nature is very good, even the mermaids can't match it, and it is easy to deal with the little finless porpoise." ”

Well. Ji Zheng nodded.

He was worried about more than that, there were wild and cruel southern barbarians on the south bank, and Xiang Gong on the north bank who had become an enemy, in the middle of the Qingjiang River, and was attacked by finless porpoises. Looking around, the rivers are white, and a strong sense of loneliness suddenly comes to my heart, only to feel that the world is so big that there is no place for myself.

But now is not the time to sigh, Ji Zheng retracted this distant thought, and humbly asked for help: "Taibu, what should we do next?"

"His Royal Highness the Prince, let's go back to the north shore and ask Jiang Buqi for justice. Damn, they didn't give us any information about the other side, and we lost so much. Li Qing clenched his fists.

"What does Your Highness mean?" Shang Zhu asked Ji Zheng rhetorically.

"This barbarian is really barbaric, just cut and kill, we don't know their language, we can't negotiate, Xiao Wang thinks that going back to the north shore and talking to the public, maybe there is room to turn. ”

"I'm afraid it won't be what we wanted. Shang Zhu shook his head slightly, Jiang Buqi had already expressed his attitude just now, he would definitely not allow the Xuanshui Army to land and replenish supplies, and if he was ruthless, he was not even allowed to approach the river bank.

"Where should we go?" Ji Zheng was stunned.

"Now the north and south banks can't get close, so we can only go up the river, enter Jianmu Lake, and land in Tongbai Country at Jianmu Lake. Shang Zhu said.

"Jianmu Lake is the territory of the mermaids, and if we rush in, we will anger them. ”

"With General Sun Yun here, it's not a big problem. ”

"Taibu, I don't think I'm in a hurry to make a decision in advance, and we'll discuss it together after General Sun Yun returns. Ji Zheng shook his head, rejecting the suggestion.

Streams of blood tumbled upward, and the vicious fight in the water lasted for a long time, before Sun Yun was soaked and climbed up from the water.

At this time, it was winter, and the other sailors were all red from the cold, but Sun Yun's bronzed skin did not change much, and there was already a personal soldier beside him who was holding a towel to help him wipe his hair and body, and another personal soldier holding his armor.

Sun Yun peeled off all the armor with blood and water, stripped naked, and said to Ji Zheng while wearing armor: "Your Highness, these finless porpoises should be bred in captivity by the Great Xia Kingdom and not by the mermaids. ”

Ji Zheng turned his face away and didn't look at him: "How could it be the Great Xia Kingdom?" He didn't understand why the Great Xia Kingdom was attacking them, but the two sides didn't have any troubles.

The dagger tied to their snouts was engraved with the words "Made by the Great Xia Kingdom". Sun Yun told everyone his speculation, "I guess the Great Xia Kingdom has been notified by the Holy Lord that they want to capture you, so they will take the initiative to attack." ”

"They couldn't have gotten the news so quickly. "Ji Zheng faintly felt that something was wrong, Jiang Ding, the king of the Great Xia Kingdom, pretended to be high, how could he obey the orders of the Xuanyuan Dynasty?

"Hehe, that's even more intriguing. Sun Yun didn't say what he said, and most of the people present could understand it.

Xiang Guo has already given his position, there is no need to do this, and the few countries that still border Qingjiang will definitely not welcome them since they have sent finless porpoise troops to attack the Xuanshui Army.

"Then where should we go?" Li Qing asked.

"It's definitely not okay to fall down the river, the north bank is the territory of the Yu Kingdom, the Great Xia Kingdom, and the Lin Kingdom, and the south bank is now all occupied by barbarians, and further down is the Yuren Country, these countries are definitely unwilling to take us in now. At the end of the Qingjiang River is the South China Sea, out of the sea, there is no possibility of supply, and our food can barely last a day. ”

This is still Sun Yun's precaution, for fear that the natives on the south bank will not let them land, and it will take a lot of time to negotiate or land on the beach, so he specially ordered people to prepare more food, otherwise who would prepare so much food in order to cross the Qingjiang River for dozens of miles.

"Does that mean we ......," Ji Zheng hesitated.

"This means that we can only drive against the river, west into Jianmu Lake, and along the shore of the lake into Tongbai Country. Sun Yun's thoughts coincide with Shang Zhu's statement.

"Isn't Jianmu Lake a gathering place for sharks, will they let us in?" Ji Zheng was still a little worried.

"Walk close to the lake, so that you can keep a certain distance from the barbarians, and you won't disturb the merman. Sun Yun had already put on his armor at this time, "Anyway, let's leave Qingjiang first, stay here for a moment longer, and the danger will be more." ”

Sun Yun abandoned the boats with large holes in the bottom, and gathered all the sailors and slaves into the four ships that were still intact, and with more slaves joining the oars, the speed of the boat was greatly increased.