Even if Niu Da Niu Er exerted his strength to eat, how could he compare to those speedboats that were specially used to carry out beaching and landing? In a moment, Niu Er saw two more boats on his left and right sides. The heavily armed soldiers on the ship grinned at him.

With a loud shout, Niu Er let go of the handle of the oar, grabbed a harpoon from the fish cabin, and just raised the harpoon, he saw several crossbows aimed at him on the opposite side, and the arrows shone faintly in the sunlight.

Niu Dayi hugged Niu Er, pressed him to squat, and then hugged his head with both hands.

Niu Erleng hesitated for a moment, then threw away his harpoon in frustration, and squatted in the cabin with his head in his hands.

"Get up and paddle to the shore!" A voice in half-baked Lingnan dialect rang in my ears.

Niu Zhanzhan looked up at the other party tremblingly, and saw that the other party had made a few more gestures, and then carefully held the oar and slid towards the shore.

Dozens of small boats shuttled between land and large warships, constantly transporting heavily armed soldiers, and after half an hour some a thousand men had gathered on the beach, and they were quickly moving off into the distance.

Niu Da Niu Er and several other surviving fishermen were taken to the beach, and their boats were towed.

"The harvest is very good!" An officer took a look at the cabin, and Zhu Er hoped that he would not find the big yellow croaker that had pinned the hopes of the two brothers, but it backfired, the officer's eyes were very poisonous, and the next moment he lifted the lid of the barrel.

"Aha, big yellow croaker, good thing, you guys are lucky, you actually hit such a big yellow croaker!" The officer laughed, stretched out his hand to summon a soldier, and said, "Send this big yellow croaker to General Pan, some time ago, I listened to him read it!" ”

"You can't take it!" I don't know where the courage came from, Niu Er jumped up all of a sudden, "We are going to sell him to pay taxes, you take him, we have no money to pay taxes, and the government will take our house." ”

The officer paused for a moment, but ignored Niu Er, and in Niu Er's murderous eyes, handed the big yellow croaker and the bucket to the soldier, and the soldier quickly got into the boat, and then headed in the direction of the battleship.

Zhu Er glared at the officer, his face flushed, his chest fell together, and his two fists clenched with a kaba caba sound. Niu Dalian, who was squatting on the ground, pulled him a few times, but Niu Er still didn't move.

The officer walked over, stared at Niu Er for a moment, and suddenly reached out and hammered Niu Er on his bare chest a few times, and nodded: "Not bad, not bad, good courage, the size is okay, the strength must not be small." How water-based? ”

Niu Er said viciously: "In the water, I can easily kill you." ”

As soon as these words came out, the Northern Tang soldiers who were watching them around laughed.

The officer looked at Niu Er playfully for a long time, and then said: "Then why don't we make a bet, let's go underwater and try it, you have to win, that big yellow croaker, oh, the big yellow croaker must not be able to give it to you, but I can give you money, how much can you sell this big yellow croaker?" ”

"Fifteen taels of silver, at least!" Niu Erdao.

The officer touched it in his arms, but only took out seven or eight silver dollars, glanced at the soldiers around him, stretched out his hand, and those soldiers all smiled and took out silver dollars from their arms, and in the blink of an eye, they made up fifteen silver dollars.

"Do you recognize this? One is worth a tael of silver! The officer said. If you win me, they will be yours. ”

The officer threw a handful of silver dollars on the beach.

"You're going to lose?"

Niu Er looked at those silver dollars, his eyes flashed with scorching light, ignoring Niu Da desperately pulling his calves, and said loudly: "I'm going to lose, this life is yours." Kill or chop, whatever you want! ”

"Okay, happy!" The officer laughed. "Let's go, let me see how you're doing."

Niu Er did not hesitate at all, and followed the officer towards a small boat.

The two got into the boat, the officer picked up an oar, motioned Niu Er to take another oar, and the two rowed the boat towards the deep water area.

Niu Da stood up nervously and looked at the boat in the distance.

Those soldiers didn't care, and said with a grin: "This man's courage is commendable, and he actually dares to compete with the martial arts captain in underwater skills." ”

"This is called fearlessness of the ignorant."

"How long do you think it will take?"

"I bet ten breaths is enough."

Amid the laughter of the soldiers, on top of the boat in the deep water, the officer stood up and said with a smile: "I'll wait for you!" ”

Then, under the gaze of Niu Er, an upside-down green onion was poured into the water.

Niu Er took a deep breath, and as soon as he helped the boat gang, he also jumped down.

Above the sea, strings of water bubbles bubbled.

Time passed little by little, and the blisters kept rising, but the two of them never came out.

The smiles on the faces of the soldiers gradually disappeared, and one by one they were unconsciously walking towards the water's edge, and Niu Da also stood up nervously.

He hoped that Niu Er would win.

But if they did win, wouldn't that officer be annoyed and slaughter them?

If Niu Er killed that officer, I'm afraid that none of them would survive.

You shouldn't have gambled with this officer at all.

If you win, you'll die.

After a few moments, there were already soldiers nervously climbing into the boat, ready to row the boat to the place where the two were fighting to rescue, and at this time, they were no longer sure that their commander would win.

Just as the boat was rowing, the sea churned, and a head popped up, and the soldiers suddenly burst into thunderous cheers, and the man who came out was their commander, the captain surnamed Fang.

The officer reached out and wiped the water from his face, and then dived into the water again, but this time, he held a man in both hands, pushed the man to the boat, and then pressed his hands on the side of the boat, and jumped into the boat.

The guy lying motionless on the boat is naturally Niu Er.

The boat slowly approached the shore, and the officer jumped out of the boat and pointed behind him: "Drag that kid down and remove the water." ”

Several soldiers giggled and dragged a puddle of muddy Niu Er off the boat, and several people worked together to lift Niu Er upside down and keep shaking.

A big gulp of seawater gushed out of Niu Er's mouth and nose, and he saw that it was almost over, so he threw Niu Er on the beach.

After a while, Niu Er finally came to his senses in a bit of confusion, looked at the smiling officer opposite, and suddenly reflected again.

"You've lost!" The officer smiled: "But this kid is very good, I almost lost." ”

"Where is this kid your opponent, are you playing with him?" There are soldiers who pat on the back.

"No, no, no, this kid's water nature is really better than mine!" The officer shook his head and said very seriously: "However, the kung fu of fighting is too poor." What is your name? ”

Niu Er hung his head.

"Niu Er! I've lost, and if I want to kill or chop whatever I want. ”

"Remember, your life is mine, and from now on, you will be my soldier." The officer laughed.

"I can't be your soldier, I'm going to be your soldier, and my family can't live." Niu Er shook his head and said.

The officer smiled and looked up into the distance.

In the distance, streaks of black smoke rose into the sky.

Niu Da exclaimed, "That's our village. ”

"Now, that village is gone." The officer spread his hands, looked at them, and said, "So, your home is gone." ”

As he spoke, the soldier and civilian walked to the side of Niu Da Niu Er's boat, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, a soldier immediately took out a fierce fire oil bomb from his arms, lit it, and threw it on the boat.

Several people quickly stepped back.

Before long, there was a bang, and the fire was blazing.

"Now, your ship is gone!" The officer looked at Niu Da Niu Er and said, "What should you do now?" ”

"I'll fight with you!" Niu Er jumped up and pounced on the officer, the officer sneered, where did the weak Niu Er need him to spend any strength now, and let Niu Er lie on the ground with one kick.

Zhu Da looked at the thickening black smoke in the distance and burst into tears.

"His name is Niu Er, you can't call Niu Da, right?" The officer didn't bother to pay attention to Niu Er, and walked to Niu Da's side.

"Your village has now been reduced to ashes, but as for the people in the village, as long as they don't attack our soldiers, they won't have to worry about their lives!" The officer said: "Now I will give you a choice, we have an island in the sea, there is fertile land on the island, you can farm, of course, you can also fish, where there is also a ship repair yard, you can go to work." If you don't want to be exploited by the government here, just follow us. ”

Niu Da looked at the officer and said in a trembling voice: "You mean, you didn't kill the people in the village?" ”

"Not necessarily?" The officer said: "If they don't resist, naturally there will be no problem, but if they resist, death is inevitable." Now, you can go back to the village and tell those people, do you want to follow us, or do you want to wander? I can tell you that you will not be able to survive this coast in the future. ”

"I'll go, I'll go!" The cow said loudly.

The officer shook his head, and two soldiers stepped forward and led Niu Da towards the place where the black smoke was filled.

Niu Er covered his stomach and got up and wanted to follow, but was kicked to the ground by the officer again: "Your life is mine, where do you want to go?" ”

When it was dark, about hundreds of villagers, driven by soldiers, staggered from a distance. Then they boarded small boats and were transported to large warships in the distance.

Then the ship set sail and headed out for the deep sea.

Niu Er stood on the bow of the boat, and at this moment, he was already wearing the uniform of a Northern Tang Dynasty sailor. With tears in his eyes, he looked in the distance in the direction where the fire still shone brightly, where it used to be his home.

The only fortunate thing is that now his family is still alive, and they can still get together, although they are running in an unknown direction, but the family can still be together, and they are always lucky.