In order to find out how fierce the bandits were, Han Xiufeng found a guide, and took the first class of his own soldiers around the city to a family about a mile south of Changchun Bridge, and asked Ji Er to stay by the canal and wait for Liang Liu, Liang Jiu, Wu Wenming, Yu Qinghuai and others.

The master knew that the thieves were coming and ran early, everyone turned around the back of the house, and found a towering elm tree, the big head didn't know where to find a ladder, Han Xiufeng climbed the branch like this, across the river behind the house ten zhang wide, with Xu Laogui's "clairvoyance" to look at the officers and soldiers fortified at the Changchun Bridge and the villagers.

It is too far away, and there is a small forest in the east of the bridge, and even if there is a "clairvoyant", you can only vaguely see the flags and the figures of officers and soldiers.

Datou was worried that the bandits would divide their troops to come along the waterway, so he asked Ji Da to take the guide to the west to guard, and then asked Wang Zhuzi to cross the river and drag all the nearby boats leaning on the north bank to the south bank, so he ran out of breath and ran under the elm tree, raised his head and asked, "Fourth brother, can you see it?" ”

"You can see it in the west, but there are too many trees in the east to see it."

"The bandits are coming from the west, so if they can see the west." The big head had never touched the "clairvoyance", and he felt itchy to see it, so he didn't even need a ladder to climb up with the trunk of the tree and sat on the branch on the left.

Han Xiufeng's eyes were a little glazed, and as soon as he put down the "clairvoyance", he saw him looking at himself, so he simply handed it over: "You can also take a look, but you have to be careful, you can't fall for me." ”

"I won't fall, fourth brother, I know this thing is expensive."

"It's good to know."

The big head grinned, and learned from Han Xiufeng to raise the "clairvoyance" just now to look in the direction of Changchun Bridge, but when his eyes came up, he only saw a patch of green, and couldn't help asking: "Fourth brother, I can't see anything, is this thing only available to scholars, and is it the same as the Taoist priest's magic weapon?" ”

"Anyone can see it, and they don't have to say any incantations."

"Then why can't I see anything?"

"Don't worry, look slowly, if you can't see clearly, twist the front, that is, where the twist is thick."

"Oh, I'll try."

The big head touched nearly half of the pillar of incense, and finally saw the Changchun Bridge, and then slowly turned the camera to the bridgehead, only to see that the bridgehead was crowded with fleeing people, and the officers and soldiers guarding the bridgehead waved knives to drive the fleeing people back, but there were too many people to rush away, and the officers and soldiers guarding the bridge were in a hurry, and they picked up a sledgehammer and began to destroy the bridge......

"Fourth brother, are those people melon babies, they know that the bandits are coming to Yangzhou, they are still running east, and they still want to enter the city!"

"They may think that Yangzhou can be defended, or they may plan to go to Taizhou, just passing through the Changchun Bridge."

"Even if you want to go to Taizhou, you can take a detour." The big head muttered a sentence and returned the "clairvoyance" to Han Xiufeng.

"Maybe I don't know how to live and don't know what to do. Even if they knew what to do, they had already arrived at Changchun Bridge, surrounded by either rivers or lakes, and there were no boats for them to go around. Han Xiufeng sighed lightly, thought about it and said: "Zhu Zhanao and Zhang Yiguo don't let those people live, after all, who knows if there are any thieves and bandits among those people." ”

The big head didn't know what to say, and Han Xiufeng suddenly found through the "clairvoyance" that the people crowded at the bridge suddenly ran back, and the ones behind couldn't run away and jumped into the river.

Moving the camera further west, I saw a cloud of dust in the west.

Han Xiufeng looked up at the treetops, confirmed that the wind was not strong, raised the "clairvoyant" again, and kept focusing on the dust in the west, until a flag faintly appeared in the "clairvoyant", and then said solemnly: "Big head, the bandits are coming, hurry down and talk to Jida and them, let them cheer up and pay attention to the movement in the west." ”

"Coming?"

"It's coming!"

"Oh, I'll go down now."

The big head didn't want to be dumplings made by the bandits, so he hurriedly hugged the trunk and slid down.

Han Xiufeng raised the "clairvoyance" again, and as soon as he moved the camera to the bridgehead, he saw a white smoke rising from the bridgehead, and then, there was a burst of gunfire from the north!

Bang...... Bang......!

It's like setting off firecrackers, but it's only for a short while, and then there's no movement.

After waiting for a while, the smoke on the bridge gradually dissipated, and the scene in front of him almost exploded Han Xiufeng's lungs, and the officers and soldiers who should have hurriedly filled the shotguns and guns with gunpowder and lead were all gone. The camera moved further east, until it moved to the woods in front of the Peach Blossom Nunnery, and it was vaguely seen that the officers and soldiers and villagers were fleeing for their lives in a hurry, and several officials brandished knives to stop them, but they couldn't stop them.

"Fourth brother, what's the matter, there's a gunshot over there, did you do it?" The big head ran back and asked eagerly.

"Shout Jida to come back, let's go!"

"Master Zhu and Master Zhang, they can't hold it?"

"I can't hold it."

"I know, I'm going to call Jida." Running for his life was more important than anything else, and Datou did not dare to delay for a moment, and ran along the embankment to the west.

Han Xiufeng raised his "clairvoyance" again, aimed the camera at the bridge closer and closer, and looked at the bandits who were getting clearer and clearer, only to see dozens of bandits wearing red turbans running to the bridge, raising shotguns and aiming at the remaining 100 officers and soldiers and village warriors on the other side of the bridge.

Another puff of white smoke, followed by another burst of gunshots!

However, the bandits' guns were placed in unison with the officers and soldiers, and before the "clairvoyant" could be moved over to see if the bandits' row of guns had injured the officers and soldiers, more than a dozen bandits rushed to the bridge, aiming at the bridge and there was another row of guns!

Bang......!

Although it was not close, the gunshots were clearly audible, but the bridgehead was all shrouded in white smoke, and the movement of the bridgehead could no longer be seen. Han Xiufeng moved the camera to the west, he didn't know if he didn't look at it, he was startled when he saw it, it was densely packed with people wearing red turbans, they came prepared, and dozens of people carried small boats in two ways, from the north and south sides of the newly destroyed Changchun Bridge with their own boats.

I just saw the group of thieves who rushed to the forefront put the small wooden boat down the river, and there was another volley of guns!

Although Han Xiufeng had never fought and did not understand the art of war, he could also see that the bandits kept releasing their guns to cover those who forced them to cross, and he could clearly see that they not only attacked in an orderly manner, but also did not panic, and the ongoing assault was as simple as farming for them.

They are really not afraid of death, and they can see that they are all battle-hardened. The more Han Xiufeng looked at it, the more cold he felt in his heart, and when he climbed down the ladder to put away the "clairvoyance", he found that he was shocked into a cold sweat.

"Master Han, have the thieves crossed the river?" Ji Da, who hurried back, asked anxiously.

"Crossed the river."

"They crossed the river before they had a stick of incense?" Wang Zhuzi asked reluctantly.

Han Xiufeng followed the guide to run in the direction of Anjiangmen (the south gate of Yangzhou City), and said hatefully: "Those green battalion soldiers and townsmen are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they all ran away after firing a shot. ”

"Master Zhu and Master Zhang estimate that they are more than lucky?" Ji Da asked apprehensively.

"Without diamonds, what kind of porcelain work is there, this is what they asked for!" Han Xiufeng felt distressed when he thought of the shotguns and guns that the green battalion soldiers threw away, scolded angrily, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Jida, how far can the shotgun hit?" ”

"It depends on what kind of shotgun, the foreigner's firebird gun can shoot far, can hit two hundred steps. The shotguns of the Green Battalion are not good, and they can only shoot twenty or thirty paces. ”

"Where's the gun?"

"You can shoot two hundred steps with a gun, but you can't get a head out of one hundred and fifty steps."

Thinking of everything he had just seen, Han Xiufeng hated iron and said with hatred: "I really don't know how Zhu Zhanao's deputy general is a master, I really don't know how he and Zhang Yiguo are trained soldiers, the bandits are still two or three hundred steps away from the bridge, and those green battalion soldiers and Xiangyong under their command are busy putting their guns away, so far, can they fight?" ”

"Definitely not going to fight,"

"So when we encounter bandits in the future, we must not panic, and the bandits are not allowed to let go of their guns without twenty steps in front of them."

"Yes!"

At this time, the gunfire became more and more rare, and it was conceivable that the bandits had captured the Peach Blossom Temple.

Han Xiufeng didn't dare to speak anymore, so he ran with the guide to rest, took a breath and ran again, until he ran to the canal to see Ji Er, who was guarding the boat, and breathed a sigh of relief, his leg was almost broken, and he was about to sit down to take a breath, and by the way, he drank a few sips of water, but Liang Jiu didn't know where he came from.

"Master Han, the little one is back, the little one was going to go to Changchun Bridge to investigate, but he met someone in the thirty miles west of the city, he said that he knew you, Master Han, and said that he had something important to do with you, so he had to let the little one take him to Wanfu Bridge to see you first, but he didn't expect to meet Ji Er here." The errand was not done, Liang Jiu felt very uncomfortable, and said with a bitter face after thinking about it: "That person said that he has a nose and eyes, and the little one is afraid that he will miss your big event, so he brought him first." ”

"Who, man?" Han Xiufeng sat down and asked.

"Brother Han, it's me!" Zhou Xingyuan climbed ashore from the bow of the boat and said from afar: "Brother Han, I didn't expect it to be me, I'm not afraid of my brother's jokes, brother, I really thought I wouldn't see you in my life." Fortunately, God has eyes, and despite all the hardships, I finally arrived here and finally met my brother! ”

Suddenly seeing Zhou Xingyuan, Han Xiufeng was startled, and secretly thought that Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, was dead, how could he still be alive, was he a human or a ghost?

"Brother Han, Brother Han ......"

"Oh, it turned out to be Brother Zhou, you ...... How are you ...... How to ......"

"It's hard to say a word, it's hard to say a word, if you really talk about it, you can't finish it for three days and three nights." Zhou Xingyuan sat down in front of Han Xiufeng and said with tears in his eyes: "In short, God bless, my Zhou Xingyuan's life should not be extinguished." ”

Han Xiufeng didn't want to affect the morale of his subordinates, so he hurriedly said: "Brother Zhou, you will not die in this great disaster, and you will have a blessing in the future." ”

"I'm not afraid of my brother's jokes, I don't dare to think about whether there is a future or not, I just beg my brother to take him in, and beg my brother to give Zhou a bite to eat in the past."

"Brother Zhou, what are you talking about, what kind of friendship do you and I have, when you come to me, I can ignore you."

"I know that my brother will not die without help." Zhou Xingyuan looked up at the big head and the others, and stopped talking.

Han Xiufeng realized that he had something to say, so he simply got up and said, "Brother Zhou, the shore is not the place to talk, let's get on the boat first." ”

"Brother Han, please."

"When is it time, and you are still so polite." Han Xiufeng motioned for everyone to stay on the shore, and then went downhill with Zhou Xingyuan to get on the boat.

Zhou Xingyuan was not polite, leaned over and got into the cabin, took out a flower cloth package, and gently put it in Han Xiufeng's hand, I didn't know if I took it, but I found that it was quite heavy, Han Xiufeng asked puzzledly: "Brother Zhou, what is this?" ”

"The Great Seal of the Land Guard!"

Han Xiufeng was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Why is the defense of the land station in your hands?" ”

Zhou Xingyuan sighed and said with a bitter face: "On the day the city was broken, the friends and servants of the governor's yamen ran away as soon as they heard that Lu Zhitai was martyred, and even those family members of Lu Zhitai disappeared in a blink of an eye. I thought that the landing system had already been martyred, and the Great Seal of Customs Defense could no longer fall into the hands of bandits, so I went to the signing room to find the Great Seal, and took advantage of the chaos to get out of the city. ”

"Lu Zhitai has been martyred, what's the use of asking him for the Great Seal of Customs?"

"It's better than falling into the hands of thieves," Zhou Xingyuan took a deep breath and said meaningfully: "It's useless to me, but it's of great use to you, brother, as long as you find an opportunity to hand it in, this is a great achievement!" ”

"Hand it in?" Han Xiufeng looked at the Great Seal and asked with a wry smile: "Brother Zhou, this matter is not as simple as you think, Lu Zhitai was martyred in Jiangning, why do you want me to explain to Shangguan where this Great Seal came from?" ”

"Let's just say that the bandits were brought out of Jiangning, you killed the bandits and snatched back the seal of the governor of Liangjiang!"

"This is too far-fetched, will people believe it when you say it?"

"The thief who brought out the big seal is dead, and there is no proof of death, and Shangguan has to believe it if he doesn't believe it!"