PS: I'm very sorry to inform friends, because the pure wolf is going to attend the second annual meeting, and the update will be suspended for a few days after this chapter, and the update will not resume until October 30th. In special circumstances, please check and forgive me. In addition, two days later, friends should be able to see the photos of the pure wolf on the homepage, but the pure wolf should remind all friends to be mentally prepared - because the pure wolf has been sitting on the code word for a long time, and the current figure can be compared with Dong Feifei...... ）

Although the north wind gradually rose in August in Luoma Lake, it was still dominated by the southwest wind, Wu Yuanming and others took the fishing boat converted into a warship Zhang Manfan, and flew on the smooth lake surface with the help of the wind, it only took more than half an hour, Wu Yuanming and others saw the boat that had just left the wharf of Yaoji Town, to meet Cai Dezhong and Gu Yanwu and others, Liu Haozi, who had long been impatient, hurriedly ordered the helmsman to meet it, and jumped onto the opposite boat before the cabin stone was thrown into the water, shouting: "Where is Mr. Gu?" Mr. Huang, where is Mr. Lui? Where is Lord Cai Xiang? Liu Haozi has come to salute you. ”

"Liu Yingying, you are so polite." Behind the boat, Gu Yanwu and Cai Dezhong, the incense master of the Hongshun Hall of the Heaven and Earth Society, and more than a dozen people from the Heaven and Earth Society, including Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi and Lu Liuliang, who were polite and polite, each of them was covered in blood and dust, which showed that they were not smooth sailing on the road, but after a cruel and bloody battle, they were able to escape to this Llama Lake. At this time, the boat where Wu Yuanming and the others were seated had lowered the sails and stopped, Wu Yuanming, Li Xiongfei, Hong Dashan and the Zheng sisters jumped on this boat one after another, the Zheng sisters couldn't help but go to say goodbye to Cai Dezhong and others, and Wu Yuanming and Liu Haozi and others bowed to Gu Yanwu and others together, "The younger generation has seen Mr. Gu, Mr. Huang, and Mr. Lu." ”

"Heroes, please get up." Gu Yanwu and the three of them hurriedly picked up Wu Yuanming and the others in person, and their words were full of emotion. To be honest, although Gu Yanwu and other literary Confucians didn't say it before, they still looked down on water bandits like Liu Haozi in their hearts, but since they were chased and killed by the Qing army, all the so-called famous factions have disappeared, including the Shaolin Temple that is close at hand, and they all pretended not to see it, and none of them were willing to help, but the Luoma Lake bandits, who were looked down upon on the rivers and lakes, took the risk of being targeted by the Qing court to welcome and take them in. So much so that Gu Yanwu had to hold Liu Haozi's hand and ask: "Liu Yingying, Gu Mou has spoken first, we are people who are targeted by the Tartar court, if you take us in, we will be on fire." Liu Yingying, have you thought it through? ”

"Mr. Gu, rest assured, since the day I was eleven years old and followed Uncle Hei Qi to fight tartars, I have never been afraid of Liu Haozi. Come on, Tartars, see if I don't cut off their heads for a night pot! Liu Haozi yelled vulgarly, turned his head and shouted: "Drive the boat, go to Guoba Island!" Liu Haozi turned his head to Gu Yanwu again and said, "Mr. Gu, don't say anything, let's go to the island to drink!" As for those tartars, fuck them! ”

With Liu Haozi, it was difficult for Wu Yuanming and the others to have a chance to speak-because his voice was too loud, and when he finally stopped, Wu Yuanming asked Huang Zongxi: "Mr. Lizhou, you must have suffered a lot when you escaped from the river here." But I remember you were the first to go, so why were you two days behind us? ”

"Well, don't mention it." Huang Zongxi was more pessimistic, shook his head with a pale face and sighed: "Originally, the retreat plan arranged for us by Chief Helmsman Chen was perfect, but there were traitors in our team, and they left a secret mark on the way to attract the Tartars, and when they arrived at the Qi River, they suddenly attacked, and the chasing Tartar army wanted to capture us alive, fortunately, Lord Cai Xiang took other heroes of the Heaven and Earth Society to save us and rescued us, so they rescued us on the boat and escaped, but the more than fifty Heaven and Earth Society brothers brought by Lord Cai Xiang were left with these dozen or so. Later, the Tartars were in hot pursuit, and we hid in Tibet, so we did not rush to Llama Lake until now. ”

"Brother Lizhou was also hit by an arrow, and his wounds were purulent, but the Tartar chased him too closely, and we didn't even have a chance to find Lang Chinese medicine for him." Lu Liuliang next to him interjected. Wu Yuanming took a closer look and found that Huang Zongxi's right rib was indeed wrapped with a strip of cloth oozing blood, Wu Yuanming hurriedly asked Li Xiongfei to take out a bottle of Panax notoginseng powder, handed it to Huang Zongxi with both hands and said: "Mr. Lizhou, this is Yunnan's special Panax notoginseng powder, it has a miraculous effect on stopping bleeding and pulling out poison, please take it orally quickly, don't let the injury worse." ”

"This kind of elixir, how can Zong Xi be embarrassed?" Huang Zongxi still wanted to be polite, but Wu Yuanming had already stuffed the medicine in his hand, and Huang Zongxi had to accept it with a thousand thanks. Fortunately, although notoginseng powder is rare in the Central Plains, it is not something that can never be obtained, and everyone did not have suspicion of Wu Yuanming because of this. At this time, the elated Liu Haozi had already ordered to turn around and set sail, and the two boats headed for Guanchang Island, but preparing to go back did not mean that the matter could be over, Li Xiongfei, who had been with Xia Guoxiang for a long time to fight in the north and south, suddenly pulled Hong Dashan, the second master of Luoma Lake, pointed to a small fishing boat behind him and said: "Second master, look at that boat, it has followed us from the beginning, and the fishermen on the boat seem to be strange." ”

Hong Dashan looked at it fixedly, and found that the people on the fishing boat were very raw, although the fishing nets on the boat seemed to be fishing, but the action of shaking and paddling was quite rusty, and when he looked carefully, Hong Dashan suddenly found that the standing posture of the two fishermen on the boat was even more wrong, and he lost his voice: "The standing posture of the army!" The people on the fishing boat are disguised as Tartar troops! ”

"Tartar army?" Gu Yanwu and Cai Dezhong, who had been frightened into frightened birds, were shocked when they heard this, and they all looked around and shouted, the fishing boat over there was very close to this boat, and when they heard the shouting, they immediately turned around and fled back, but unfortunately their opponent was a water bandit from Luoma Lake who was proficient in water and familiar with the boat, Hong Dashan gave an order, Wu Yuanming took the medium-sized fishing boat and immediately turned around, Zhang Fan rushed towards them, although the small fishing boat also wanted Zhang Fan to escape, but their movements were too rusty, and when they finally pulled up half a sail, The medium-sized boat of the Llama Lake bandits had already slammed into the small fishing boat, knocking the boat upside down, and both of them fell into the water. Before they could emerge from the water, seven or eight bandits had already jumped out of the boat, grabbed their feet at the bottom of the water, and after only a few dips, the two of them were choked by the water and fainted, and they were escorted to the fishing boat by the Luoma Lake bandits and tied up.

"Go back to Sekiba Island right away, and interrogate them there!" Wu Yuanming stood up and shouted. Along the way, not only Gu Yanwu and others, who had no martial arts, trembled, but even Wu Yuanming and Liu Haozi, who had always been bold, were also grim-faced, knowing that the war was coming.

Paddling all the way against the southeast wind, it took nearly an hour to return to Guanchang Island, Liu Haozi went to the Zhang Luo wine banquet, Wu Yuanming and others escorted the two captives to the torture room for interrogation, the two captives at first denied that they were Yihe fishermen who strayed into Luoma Lake, but after Wu Yuanming threatened castration with a red-hot iron knife, the two still obediently confessed: "We are the people of the Suqian River Defense Battalion, six days ago, we took the master to receive a six-hundred-mile rush from the Ministry of War, let us prepare three hundred fast boats that can carry more than 20 people in eight days, There are a number of large boats, but they are not allowed to be requisitioned from the area of Llama Lake. And let us take the adults to send people to investigate the situation of the lake, and we sent a total of thirty people to disguise themselves as fishermen and sneak into the lake. Just now we saw that your boat was big, and we guessed that you were the uncle of Guanchang Island in Luoma Lake, so we ventured close to find out about the situation, and the uncles knew about the later things. ”

"Zhou Peigong, it's really amazing!" Wu Yuanming gasped, and said in his heart that Suqian received an urgent order from the military department in the capital six days ago, and the news was from Hejian to Beijing and then to Suqian, according to the distance, Zhou Peigong should have guessed the meeting place of the Heaven and Earth Association at about the same time as himself, or even earlier than himself, and even considered that he would not be allowed to requisition ships from Luoma Lake. Li Xiongfei and Hong Dashan, two veterans of the army who were listening to the trial next to him, were also full of worries, and Li Xiongfei counted with his fingers: "Three hundred small boats carrying twenty people, plus large ships, aside from the ships carrying grain, grass and weapons, I am afraid that the army that will come this time is only about 5,000!" ”

"There are only five hundred and sixty people on our island who can fight, plus the people who meet these days and the people brought by Chief Helmsman Chen, it is estimated that there will not be more than a thousand people, a force of one to five, the disparity in strength is too great, it is difficult." Hong Dashan also frowned, not much optimistic about this battle. Wu Yuanming still had a glimmer of hope and asked Hong Dashan: "Second Brother Hong, with your understanding of Suqian, do you think they can get so many ships in eight days?" ”

"Even if you can't get it, it's not much worse." Hong Dashan frowned and said: "Suqian is located at the intersection of the canal and the Yellow River, and there are a lot of ships coming and going from the four waterways in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and it is not very difficult to requisition these ships. Speaking of this, Hong Dashan slapped the table fiercely, gritted his teeth and said: "What's more troublesome is that Suqian just chokes the waterway for us to retreat to Hongze Lake, and the Tartar army is gathering there, so it's not so easy for us to withdraw." ”

"There's no way, the leading general of the Tartars is too powerful, it's a last resort." Wu Yuanming stood up with a long sigh, tiptoed around in the torture room, and said in his heart that judging from Zhou Peigong's few shots, he is indeed as powerful as the legend, it turns out that Wu Ciyou is simply incomparable with him, and the only one who can match him in this era is probably his old immortal godfather Yao Qisheng. I just don't know how Chen Jinnan is? If he came to command the battle? Is it possible to do more with less?

While pondering, Wu Yuanming saw that Li Xiongfei and Hong Dashan were both sad faces, knowing that they had no confidence, he hurriedly boosted his morale and said: "Don't panic, we still have Chief Chen as the backstage, he used to be the military advisor of Zheng Chenggong, the surname of the country, and with him commanding our battles, we will definitely be able to win more with less and defend the ...... of Luoma Lake." Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming's mind flashed with inspiration, and he subconsciously repeated his thoughts: "Defend Llama Lake? Defending Llama Lake? Defend....... ”

"Defend a dick!" Wu Yuanming suddenly shook his fist and scolded, startling Li Xiongfei and Hong Dashan, and they all looked at Wu Yuanming who was dancing in confusion. Wu Yuanming smiled wildly and admired himself, and hurriedly pulled Li Xiongfei and Hong Dashan to rush out, Hong Dashan hurriedly said: "Brother Wu, what are you doing?" Wu Yuanming smiled proudly: "Hehe, don't worry, when you get to the hall, you will know when you see your big boss." ”

Rushing all the way to the main hall of Luoma Lake Water Village, Liu Haozi was having a banquet with Gu Yanwu and the others - of course, because of the current moment of the great enemy, the atmosphere was far less than as happy as the day Wu Yuanming first arrived at Luoma Lake. Wu Yuanming was not polite, and dragged Hong Dashan and Li Xiongfei directly to the middle of the hall, and said loudly: "Brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society and Luoma Lake, as well as three gentlemen, there is a big news for you, just now we interrogated the prisoners and learned that the Tartar court is ready to use more than 5,000 troops to attack Luoma Lake, and they have gathered a large number of ships in the Suqian area, just waiting for the Tartar army to arrive, they will enter Luoma Lake and start a war with us!" And they are massing their troops at the southern mouth of Lake Llama, which has blocked the waterway for our retreat! ”

"Five thousand troops!" As soon as Wu Yuanming's words came out, the hall was shocked, Lu Liuliang's wine glass simply fell directly to the ground, although the others were better than him, but their faces were pale, and even Liu Haozi, who had always been bold, was taken aback, and asked repeatedly: "Five thousand troops?" The first few times there were only one or two thousand people, but this time there are so many? Definitely? Hong Dashan bowed his head and replied: "Big boss, according to the confession of the captive, this number is only a little. ”

"Don't panic, everyone, it's not like we don't have a chance to win." Wu Yuanming looked around the hall and said confidently: "As long as you act according to my plan, you will definitely be able to reverse the situation!" ”

"What plan? Brother Wu, say it quickly. Liu Haozi couldn't wait to ask. Through these days of contact, Liu Haozi has admired Wu Yuanming's shameless methods, and he has great confidence in Wu Yuanming. Zheng Xin, who was sitting next to Cai Dezhong and also knew Wu Yuanming very well, also breathed a sigh of relief and urged: "Brother Wu, say it quickly, don't sell it." ”

"Don't panic, everyone, listen to me slowly." Wu Yuanming said: "According to the confession in the appendix we caught, the Tartar court gave the Suqian River Defense Battalion eight days to collect boats, and now it is the sixth day, that is, the Tartar army will assemble in Suqian in two days!" If we take advantage of the time difference between these two days, we will concentrate the team of Luoma Lake and raid the Suqian River Defense Battalion! A fire to burn down the ships there! No matter how many Tartar troops there are, there are no ships available or there are not enough ships, will such an army still be our opponent when it comes to the water? ”

After Wu Yuanming finished speaking, there was silence in the hall at first, then Zheng Xin cheered, and then the hall was boiling, including Li Xiongfei, Hong Dashan and Cai Dezhong, who had rich battlefield experience, and others pondered carefully, and found that although this move was risky, it was a trick to turn defeat into victory, so they also nodded and praised. Among the cheers, Liu Haozi's voice was the loudest, "Okay, just use this trick, the second master, quickly send someone to investigate the situation of the Suqian River Defense Camp, and we will start a surprise attack tomorrow night." ”

"No!" Wu Yuanming shook his head and said: "We can't wait for tomorrow night, we caught two tongues, which is likely to arouse the vigilance of the Suqian River Defense Battalion, and if we are prepared in advance, we will be late tomorrow." The soldiers are fast, we will act tonight, immediately gather men and horses, and raid Suqian! ”

"Wouldn't it be too risky?" Hong Dashan was a little worried, and asked: "Although we still know the rivers and terrain around Suqian, if the army has begun to gather over there, we may not be able to succeed even if we make a surprise attack." ”

"Fighting a war is an adventure." Wu Yuanming said in a deep voice: "Put to death and then live, if tonight's raid is not successful, it will be difficult for us to have a chance to succeed." ”