Li Xiaofei and his party walked less than ten miles, and a cavalry chased after them: "Stop, go to the riverside."

While everyone turned around and walked back, the cavalry commander breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly: "Someone on the river rowed a small boat to report that it was fifty miles downstream, and the rebels' building ships were chasing several cargo ships, and Gongzi Xie asked everyone to go back and take a warship from the dock to pick them up."

Chen Jiajun's soldiers were accustomed to changing the order of the day, so they rushed to the dock in a row. Li Xiaofei and several elderly sergeants fell behind the group.

Li Xiaofei was not physically exhausted, mainly because he had seen Huaiyang's warship when he went out of the city, not so much a warship, but a big fishing boat with a battle flag on it. And the other party is a building ship, although Li Xiaofei has never seen a building boat, but there is still a concept of a building, and the building ship must be bigger than Huaiyang's warship.

Li Xiaofei thought like this in his heart, and followed the team to the riverside, Xie Gongzi was wearing a suit of armor at this time, standing on the top of the cargo box on the dock and waving his sword: "One step forward if the water is good, three steps back if the water is poor", Li Xiaofei subconsciously took a step forward, just wanted to retreat but found that everyone was staring at him, and it was embarrassing to retreat at this time.

Xie Gongzi had already put his sword in front of him at this time: "Don't worry, everyone, we are upstream, the boat is going fast, and now the wind is southeast again, and we are smaller than them when we receive people."

Originally, everyone was still suspicious, but Gongzi Xie took the lead and analyzed the head of the way, so they all followed and got on the boat. Shen De also rushed to the riverside, and Gongzi Xie waved at him on the boat: "General Shen, you have to sit in the city to prevent the rebel vanguard from sneaking up on the official road."

Shen De suddenly had a familiar feeling, he was worried about himself for most of the month, Chen Hongyi had arranged for him to implement it before, but now with Xie Gongzi's arrangement, he was also idle, and he didn't need to spend his brainpower.

Xie Rui led thirty warboats and fishing boats carrying three hundred people down the river. After only one hour of running, they encountered the rebel building ship and three cargo ships that were on fire. From a distance, I saw that the ship brought a bed crossbow and trebuchet, and the sergeant did not stop the arrows. Some of the people on the cargo ship were lying on the ground, some had been shot dead, and there were not many people alive.

Huaiyang's "water army" was timid at this time, and they all looked at the boat where Xie Gongzi was, but Xie Gongzi did not hurry to draw his sword and pointed ahead: "The rebel ship turned around, we scattered twenty boats to both sides, went around to the back of the rebels, climbed upstairs and grabbed the boat, and the remaining ten ships went to the cargo ship to save people and left."

The Huaiyang "water army" then dispersed in three ways and continued to advance. The rebels on the boat also noticed the boats, and one of the rebels pointed a gun with a golden helmet and a yellow robe at the boat directly in front of them: "Trebuchet, sink them all for me." The ants on both sides let them see the power of the bed crossbow."

After saying that, a rain of stones and arrows rushed towards the small boat of Huaiyang's "water army", and was immediately overturned and shot through six or seven small boats. Fortunately, the people on the small boat were all good in the water, and they jumped into the river early to swim to the cargo ship.

Li Xiaofei was lucky, although his fishing boat was hit by a few stones, the boat swayed back and forth for a long time, but did not capsize, but was the first to approach the front cargo ship because of the turbulent water flow of the stones that fell behind.

Li Xiaofei and the other nine people on the same boat got on the boat upstairs and shouted: "Is there anyone alive, if there are any, come with us", as soon as the words fell, a voice came out of the sackcloth pile in the center of the boat: "All alive, come here, they can't shoot here", Li Xiaofei and others rushed over when they heard the sound, and the people in the sackcloth pile were lying inside: "The prince is okay", the people in the sackcloth pile looked at each other: "The prince? Our ship is full of merchants from Jinling, selling cloth", "What about the two boats next to us?" "Alas, they are all cargo ships, a shipload of medicinal materials, a shipload of porcelain, so the cloth we loaded ran in front, and the porcelain loaded fell behind", Li Xiaofei was disappointed: "The prince is not on the ship, why are the rebels chasing you?" "Hey, isn't it just for the gold and silver treasures that the rebels have entered Jinling City? I heard that they even scraped off the gold paint on the pillars in the palace, they just wanted to grab money", Li Xiaofei was dumbfounded, it seems that Gongzi Xie overestimated the rebels, this is a group of robbers.

Xie Gongzi went smoothly, and soon went around to the back of the boat and climbed up, and the enemy general in the golden helmet and yellow robe saw this and made people shoot rockets, and at this time, regardless of his own life or death, he first landed on the shore and distanced himself from the boat, and then used a trebuchet and a bed crossbow to fight. When Gongzi Xie saw that the enemy was about to do this, he beckoned everyone to release arrows together.

After all, there were many building ships, and Xie Gongzi and they only managed five of them, disrupting the enemy's formation. Seeing that the enemy was about to leave the center of the river, he ordered everyone to retreat upstream.

Li Xiaofei and the others were about to take the people on the cargo ship down to the boat, but these people did not leave, and they had to drive the cargo ship away.

When Gongzi Xie saw that the cargo ships were on fire, he prepared to ask the sergeant to forcibly abandon the ship and return to Huaiyang with everyone.

At this time, dark clouds rolled out, and thunder sounded in the sky, and suddenly the wind was fierce, lightning and thunder roared. Before Gongzi Xie could abandon the ship, it was already pouring down in a violent storm. Gongzi Xie looked at the direction of the wind, and then ordered everyone to raise their sails and march towards Huaiyang.

When the rebels saw that everyone was moving forward with the cargo ship in the rain, they also turned the bow of the ship and followed, but neither side could get out of the cabin, so they had to let the wind and rain play in the river.