On the third day of June in the eighth year of Xianchu, in light rain, Chen Hongyi's 2,000 men and horses and 3,000 people arrived on the south bank of Lishui, and the north bank was the rebel barracks with the banner of the word "Hou". Hou Zhao, the rebel striker, shouted through Li Shui: "Old horseman, I'll wait for you to swim over and send you to death, I haven't left you a single log within a hundred miles of this Li Shui River." The river was full of stripped corpses, Chen Hongyi got off his horse and looked at the smoking fire opposite, the fire was mixed with door panels, rafters and pillars, all the houses along the way were demolished, and the people were all killed by the rebels by the river.

Chen Jiajun has seen too many scenes like this, and everyone just tightens the swords in their hands. Chen Hongyi turned over and got on his horse: "Fifty miles back to camp." The front army of the Chen family army was changed to a rear team, and slowly retreated south with a shield.

After settling down the people, Chen Hongyi sent Zhang Sheng to lead a hundred cavalry as scouts to search the surroundings and ask Shen De to count the grain and grass. Shen De and Wang Daniu, the leader of the people, inspected the grain carts one by one and reported to Chen Hongyi: "General Chen, there are only two months of grain and grass left, and if we can't cross the river to defeat the enemy army and enter Lizhou in one month, we will have to retreat", Chen Hongyi stroked his beard: "We finally went north to the south bank of Lishui, if we retreated like this, the rebels went south again, and Jiangnan would become a hell on earth." Now they have burned all the trees and houses, thinking that we will not be able to cross the river. But I had a way to cross the river in a month. It's just Shen De, you have to go back to Huaiyang as soon as possible to bring grain back, this is nearly a thousand miles away, you have to be careful all the way, you take 300 cavalry and 500 foot soldiers and 2,000 people to set off tomorrow", Shen De was shocked: "General Chen, are you only leaving 1,000 people who are not afraid of the rebels coming?" I took most of the people away, how can I be worthy of your old man if something happens? Chen Hongyi smiled faintly: "If the rebels have the courage to cross the river and fight us, they will not set fire, if they really dare to cross the river, I can just grab the boat and fight over." You can rest assured that the rebels will cut off our food routes. And if you take most of the people away, my food here will be able to last for half a month more, so that even if you encounter any forks on the road, you will not miss our army's food and grass."

On the evening of the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the archer Li Xiaofei was among the 500 foot soldiers who carried the grain, and the hats on their heads could not cover the rain at all, and they were soon soaked.

Li Xiaofei and the nine members of the same team all arrived at the bridge and hole into the village, each holding a wooden stick in their mouths, looking at the smoke and rain in the distance. The rain was falling loudly, the sound was getting louder and louder, Li Xiaofei was worried that the river would flood the stone bridge, so he glanced at the others, and the captain waved his hand and signaled to continue guarding the bridge hole.

After nightfall, the rain gradually subsided, and the river was almost at the feet of Li Xiaofei and his team. At this time, they heard the sound of some horses' hooves not far away, everyone tensed their nerves, Li Xiaofei's hands were sweating, and his forehead was also sweating. The captain quietly climbed onto the bridge to observe, and soon returned to the bridge cave, signaled the five knife men to get ready, and pointed to the camp, asking Li Xiaofei to go back and report the news. Li Xiaofei crawled out of the grass, and as soon as he arrived at the camp to see Shen De, he heard a few long neighs of war horses, to be precise, screams, the captain led people to wave their knives by the bridge and cut down the three cavalrymen who rushed to the front, and the remaining three archers fired arrows backwards. When Shen De rushed to the stone bridge with fifty cavalry, the squad had all been killed, the overturned war horses were still struggling, Shen De threw the knife in his hand and stabbed one of the fleeing enemy soldiers, and the other enemy troops fled into the night quickly. Shen De did not continue to chase, dismounted and summoned the people to bury all nine members of the team by the bridge, and moved stone walls and bricks to block the stone bridge.

Li Xiaofei and the others carried out the bodies of their comrades-in-arms on the same team, buried them on the ground, and knelt alone by the bridge for a long time. If the other people sent by the captain before had gone back to report the news, he would now be lying in the loess. He blamed himself and was a little lucky, he looked at his thin arms, and thought that if he could have the skills of Shen De, maybe he and his teammates could kill the enemy's cavalry on the bridge. He remembered what Chen Hongyi had told him these days, and in a daze, he saw the tragically dead clansmen calling out to him.

It was dawn again, and the procession of the grain continued to set off. Li Xiaofei trotted all the way behind Shen De's horse with a bow and arrow, and Shen De turned around and shouted angrily: "You kid hurry up and return to the rear team, now you have no strength to run, and then there will be only a dead end if you fall behind." From today onwards, we have to change to dry food, otherwise we will all starve to death if we don't go to Huaiyang", Li Xiaofei looked up at Shen De and slowly spit out a few words: "I want to learn martial arts from you", Shen De laughed twice: "You return to Huaiyang City alive first, when you can hold my knife with one hand, I will teach you", Li Xiaofei looked at the big knife on Shen De's shoulder, and silently returned to the back of the team. Li Xiaofei often suspected that Shen De used a big knife to shoot the enemy to death, because his knife was too thick to see a blade, it was completely a long and heavy iron plate, but it was such an iron plate that cut off many people's heads.