Chapter Eighty-Six: Attack on the River

When the table woke up, it was already early in the morning.

He found himself in a dirty ** bag, up and down his body, there was no place that didn't hurt, presumably he was beaten mercilessly when he was unconscious.

Before he fell into a coma, he only remembered that he was in the flower building in Jiangbian Town, and now he got into the sack for no reason, and he had no impression of what happened in it.

At this time, in the sack, Zhang Table tried to break free, but the mouth of the sack was tightly held, no matter how he tried to break free, it was to no avail.

"Big brother, the dog officer is awake!"

At this time, he felt that someone was talking around him.

"Awake, can't let him wake up..."

He was just about to listen to it again, when suddenly he was beaten on the head again, causing him to faint again.

The person who beat him was Lian Fatong, the centurion of the Black Wind Army, and the person standing next to him was Li Jin, the commander of the thousand winds.

At this moment, they were standing on a cargo ship laden with grain, a two-masted sail cargo ship, about thirty zhang long and about ten zhang wide. In the middle is the loading compartment, and at the end of the end are the decks, which can be used for people to stand. Below deck, there is a place for people to rest.

Li came in to the stern, looked at the other cargo ships next to the cargo ship, and said to Lian Fatong: "Fa Tong, you go and inform General Wang, let him always pay attention to the pursuers behind him, and tell them to report in time if there is any situation." ”

"Yes—" Lian Fa took the order, came to the mast of the ship, grabbed a rope, and swung like an ape to the right rear of the cargo ship, about six or seven paces away from another cargo ship.

"General Lian, why are you here?"

Without waiting for Lian Fatong to gain a firm foothold, Wang Baoshan, who was on this cargo ship, hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

"Out of the way, how's it going over here?"

Wang Baoshan said: "The situation is not impressive! Now that the fog is rising again, the people behind have been chasing after each other, and the speed at which their boats are advancing is also fast!"

"General Li, let me come over and talk to you, always pay attention to the pursuing soldiers, and report all the situation in a timely manner. Lian Fatong finished speaking, and returned to the previous cargo ship.

At this time, Liu Qing came over and asked with some puzzlement: "General Wang, why are they still suspicious of us?"

Wang Baoshan looked at Li Jin and said, "Perhaps, they are afraid of us and have robbed them of their credit!"

"But this time, if we hadn't stopped them in advance, we would have almost been screwed up by them!"

What Liu Qing said was true, just after Wang Baoshan disappeared, Yang Zhuoyi led everyone and decided to stay put, waiting for Heifengling's reply. Unfortunately, it had rained heavily the night before, and it was inconvenient to hide in the reeds, so they went to the riverside town to find a place to shelter from the rain.

On the way, I met Li Jin and others, and after talking, I found that they were preparing to take advantage of the rainy night to surprise the Jiangbian Town, wanting to snatch the grain collected by Zhang Table.

Yang Zhuoyi stopped them, and brought Li Jin with Li Jin about the situation he was exploring in the town. Li Jin was disdainful at first, but under the persuasion of Yang Zhuoyi, he had to give up temporarily and go to the town with Yang Zhuoyi and others to find a place to shelter from the rain. It just so happened that Lian Fatong's cousin was from Jiangbian Town, so they hid together in Lian Fatong's cousin's house.

Lian Fatong's cousin, named Jiang Jinshui, is also the number one person in Jiangbian Town, and he takes a group of men all the year round to mingle at the ferry wharf of Guandu Pavilion. Helping passing caravans with coolie labor, or helping them to make a living, or helping them on ships. Occasionally, in order to make a living, he will do some illegal things and rob passing merchant ships halfway.

The arrival of his cousin made Jiang Jinshui very surprised, once he inquired, he didn't know the end of the matter, so he immediately said that he was willing to help Li Jin and them, and through his own ability, he might be able to grab the food smoothly.

In this way, their group discussed again and again, and finally decided to use the strategy of delaying the army to outwit 80 truckloads of grain.

Later, Wang Baoshan and Chen Chong went to the town and found Liu Qing and others. As soon as everyone summed up, they reached a consensus on action, and their respective division of labor and cooperation came to burn down the Guandu Pavilion and took advantage of the chaos to rob five cargo ships full of grain.

There are more than 30 people in charge of driving the boat, and they are all good at making a living on the boat all year round.

It was early in the morning, there was no wind, and the sails of the five cargo ships had been put away. At the stern of each cargo ship, there were five or six strong men with long oars, rowing vigorously in the river under the boat.

In the early spring morning, the coolness hits the people, and the dew is damp. The Yellow River was already covered with white fog and hazy, and it was impossible to see the specific things fifty steps away.

Wang Baoshan stood at the stern of the boat, always staring at the back of the boat, but found nothing. It stands to reason that the pursuers' clippers were smaller, advancing much faster than their cargo ships, but after a few hours, there was no movement behind them.

"Let the brothers, be on alert, our fleet, and keep the zigzag forward. ”

On the boat next to him, Li Jin was shouting.

Wang Baoshan listened, responded, and asked Liu Qing to go and call the soldiers who were resting below the deck, and change the six men who rowed the boat to rest.

"General, go and rest too! After Liu Qing finished arranging, he came to Wang Baoshan's side.

"It's okay, what about the Chen Chong brothers?" Wang Baoshan had no intention of resting, and now that the enemy situation is unknown, where can he sleep.

"He's still sleeping. ”

"Okay! Lu Yun, he's okay!"

"Brother Lu, since that day, he has been in bad spirits, and he has been talking nonsense for the past two days. ”

When Wang Baoshan heard him say this, he couldn't help but have a headache, and thought to himself, Lu Yun, this kid, is usually very arrogant, and he used to steal chickens and touch dogs, why is he so timid, isn't it just a big python, and it scares him enough.

"You watch here, I'll go see him, the situation is critical now, I can't leave him alone. ”

After he finished speaking, he came to the bow of the ship, entered the cabin located below the bow deck, and found Lu Yun inside.

"Brother Lu, are you okay?"

Lu Yun was sitting in the innermost part of the cabin at the moment, and when he saw Wang Baoshan coming over, he was so frightened that he hurriedly leaned back, stuck to the bulkhead, and kept retreating.

"You are like this, it is also because of me, what should I do?" Wang Baoshan looked at his appearance, sighed, and thought about how to heal him, maybe he could only wait until he returned to Heifengling, and asked Jin Ling'er to help see if she had a way.

"General..."

Just as he was thinking about how to treat Lu Yun, Liu Qing shouted.

Out of the cabin, Wang Baoshan found that the fog on the Yellow River at this time was much thicker than just now, and now he could only see things thirty steps away.

Seeing Liu Qing looking for him, Wang Baoshan asked him, "What's the situation?"

"General, Mr. Zhao has already replied, saying that he has found a hidden waterway in a topographic map, which can go directly to the Black Wind Ridge, and has attached a road map. General Li ordered us, and General Luo's boat, to open the way first and find the waterway, and they were responsible for cutting it off. ”

"That's fine, just General Li's job. Wang Baoshan listened to it and was very happy, everyone has been busy in the past few days, and finally has a clue.

Five cargo ships, regrouped, Wang Baoshan and Luo Ying's two, walked in front to explore the way. In the middle are the two ships where Yang Zhuoyi and Li Jin's son Li Ziming are located, and Li Jin leaves the cargo ship he is on at the end to guard against the chasing guards.

Due to the fog on the Yellow River, in order to prevent accidents, they were not far away, less than five steps away from the two boats. In this way, even if someone raids, the five cargo ships can quickly help each other.

I don't know how long it took to advance, and the sound of a fight came from behind, Wang Baoshan hurriedly asked Liu Qing to pay attention to the surrounding situation.

"Don't panic......

Li Jin's shouts sounded in the rear, and it seemed that the fight was getting more and more intense.

"General Li, do you need support?"

Yang Zhuoyi's voice also rang out.

"No, you guys are optimistic about the ship and pay attention to the surrounding situation..."Li Jin's voice was intermittent, obviously he was fighting with it.

After another while, the sound of fighting gradually subsided.

Due to the heavy fog, Yang Zhuoyi, who was on the cargo ship in the middle, couldn't see the situation behind clearly, thought something was wrong, and asked at the back: "General Li, how is the situation?"

"It's okay, it's just a few cowards, and they've been beaten away. ”

After hearing Li Jin's reply, Yang Zhuoyi was relieved.

Their conversation, which was also heard by the rest of the people, was a little excited, and finally they had to fight the enemy, and they easily beat off the attacking enemy.

On the right side of Wang Baoshan's cargo ship, on another cargo ship side by side, Luo Ying was unusually calm and shouted loudly: "Everyone pay attention to the fog around them, they may rush over from the fog to attack." ”

At this moment, before his words fell, there was a buzzing sound in the fog on the left side of the fleet, and countless sharp arrows were shooting at them densely.

"Watch out for the ...... arrows"

I don't know who shouted, and everyone on the boat reacted and looked for something to resist the arrows.

The arrows came very suddenly, although some people reminded them, but there were still a few people, who were caught off guard and were shot by sharp arrows, and the heavy ones were killed on the spot, and the light ones were also seriously injured.

Wang Baoshan was rescued by Liu Qing at a critical moment, and most of the arrows that flew towards him were picked off by Liu Qing with the spear in his hand, without causing him much substantial damage.

Fortunately, after that rain of arrows, the enemy in the fog stopped shooting.

Wang Baoshan forcibly suppressed his panicked mood, and when he checked the situation on the boat, he found that three of the six men in charge of rowing at the stern of the boat were seriously injured, and one unfortunately hit the throat, and the person was already dead. Their boat, temporarily unpaddled, was forced to stop.

The other people on the ship, because they were prepared in advance, resisted the impact when the sharp arrows flew, and only a few people were affected by the arrows and suffered some skin injuries.

Looking at the other four cargo ships, the situation is similar, this time they can come out to grab food, whether it is the leader of the team or the soldiers, they are all brave people, they have been in the wind and rain, they can still withstand this arrow.

"Which general's subordinate are you waiting for?"

At this moment, shouts rang out in the thick fog.

When Wang Baoshan heard this, he didn't understand the meaning, now the occasion is different, and it is not his turn to answer the other party.

"How do you say this?" Li Jin is still sophisticated, and he seems to hear something from the other party's words.

"If you were ordinary bandits and bandits, you wouldn't have robbed the grain so boldly, this is the military rations sent to the front line, and if you rob it back, the consequences will be very serious......"

After Li Jin heard this, he was not only not afraid, but also full of pride, and laughed: "Haha...... They are not anyone's subordinates, but Lao Tzu's subordinates... The mountains are high and the waters are long, Lao Tzu is robbing the military rations, and he is afraid of him!"

"Since they call Your Excellency General Li, I don't know where Your Excellency is guarding?"

"Lao Tzu and the others, and they are the iron generals who guard the mountains and forests... DID YOU KNOW?"

The iron general guarding the mountains and forests, this is a set of rhetoric that the bandits who occupy the mountains as kings often hang on their lips, and people who are generally deep will understand it when they hear it.

"Who is Your Excellency, who is so trusted?" Obviously, the people hidden in the fog understood the identity of their bandits and bandits from Li Jin's mouth, but they were still sure which side of the people they were.

"Li Zhi, Lao Tzu's name, you dog official don't deserve to know. ”

"You... Ahh

Before the man in the fog could continue, a quick arrow, lightning bolted into the direction where he was, as if it had hit the man, causing him to scream.

Then, in the fog over there, there was a lot of noise, and there was a lot of noise.

"Master Lee... Master Lee......"

"Lady Lee......"

"Come here, guard Lord Li..."

"What's the situation, what's wrong with him, my lord?"

"My lord, he was attacked by someone, and he was hit by an arrow in the shoulder......"

Looking for the sound past, in the fog, eight or nine small boats, on the surging river, slowly approached, surrounding a small boat in the middle.

They were the guards who had come all the way, seventy or eighty in all.

Li Zhi, the chief guard of the Xicheng Guard's Mansion in Guanping City, was lying on the small boat in the middle with a painful expression, with a sharp arrow stuck in his right shoulder, and the wound was very deep and bleeding. Several guards on the same boat were hurriedly bandaging his wounds.

When Li Zhi listened to the conversation of the other party's people before, what generals, what generals, and what generals thought they were which army, so frightened that he hurriedly asked the guards to stop shooting arrows and ask the other party about the details. Who knew that the other party was just some bandits, and he was also hit by an arrow in the way of others.

At this moment, the pain was so intense that it seemed to stimulate the limit of his patience, and a resentful anger burned him almost violently.

"This time the grain was robbed, if we can't take it back, the consequences will be unimaginable, brothers, it's up to you, we must take back the grain. ”

"Yes..."

The guards around him, seeing that his commander was injured, had all kinds of worries, but this was not the time to worry about those.

"Rush forward and take back the grain..."

"Yes, all rush forward and recapture the grain ......"

The guards were filled with righteous indignation, and the crowd was so angry that one by one they drew their swords, prepared their bows and arrows, and began to prepare for an attack.

Li Zhi stayed in the rear and commanded in formation. In order to prevent the other ships of the other party from escaping in chaos, he divided his seventy or eighty guards and nine clippers into three fleets, and approached Wang Baoshan and their cargo ships together.