Not to mention that Liu De was recuperating from his injuries in the small county town, Long Zhanying, who was escorted by several guards, hid in the reeds in order to avoid Lu Junyi's pursuit, although it was winter now, but the Huai River was not frozen because it was located at the junction of the north and south, and the reeds were also in danger.

Not to mention, because the direction of the night is unknown, the silt swamp under their feet alone is enough to make them tremble.

And Long Zhanying was seriously injured and cold at night, but he suddenly developed a high fever, and the guards had no choice but to take over Long Zhanying's back and march in the reeds with difficulty.

At noon the next day, the people who had been in the reeds all night finally escaped from it, but in addition to Long Zhanying, there were originally five guards left, but now there were only three left, one of whom was traumatized and the cold of the night, so he took a nap, but he never woke up.

The other person accidentally fell into the mud because Long Zhanying was too heavy on his back, and everyone only snatched Long Zhanying out, but he fell into the mud alive and died.

Everyone grieved for a while, but they also cheered up, and finally escaped from the reeds at noon.

I don't know if it's because I'm in good health or because I shouldn't die, Long Zhanying, who had been drowsy all night, woke up, and even the high fever went down.

The guards were overjoyed by this, the little guard took the helmet to the water, took a helmet and handed it to Long Zhanying's mouth, looking at Long Zhanying's eyes, but muttered a little, "Lord, you can only use the helmet to catch the water, and I hope the lord will forgive the sins..."

Long Zhanying suddenly laughed, took the helmet, and drank all the water in the helmet, the coolness of the water made Long Zhanying's chaotic head more and more clear.

Suddenly full of pride and ambition to the three of them: "You have a life-saving grace for a certain person, how can you forget it, and when you return to Lingzhou, you will have a heavy thanks, and you will be a marquis and a general, a shadow of your descendants, and a glorious ancestor." ”

The three of them were immediately overjoyed, and bowed to Long Zhanying: "Thank you, lord!" ”

After resting for a while, Long Zhanying looked at the surrounding environment, but said: "It seems that we should go and find a small boat to cross this Huaishui, but I am afraid that there are Han thieves patrolling around and searching for us." ”

The oldest guard advised: "There is nothing we can do to stay here, we have little dry food left, it is better to look along the river, maybe we can find a fishing boat." ”

Long Zhanying nodded and said, "That's fine, that's the only way." ”

Immediately, everyone walked downstream along the Huaishui bank.

"There's a fishing boat!"

The little guard pointed to the distance and said loudly.

Everyone followed the little guard's finger and saw that there was indeed a fishing boat, and they could even vaguely see the fisherman on the boat pulling nets to fish.

When the old guard got Long Zhanying's signal, he stepped forward and shouted, "Hey! The fisherman! Please come along! ”

The fishing boat paused for a moment, but it still came slowly.

When he landed on the shore, the old guard took a cautious look at the fisherman, and only when he confirmed that the fisherman was indeed an ordinary fisherman, did he relax his heart.

"The fisherman is from Huaizhou?"

The old guard asked in the local dialect of Huaizhou.

The fisherman was already a little afraid, but when he heard the local dialect of Huaizhou, he breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "Xiao Lao'er is indeed a native of Fangliang, Huaizhou, and he makes a living by fishing here. ”

The old guard arched his hand and said: "We are also from Huaizhou, and now that we are defeated, we want to return to our hometown, I wonder if the fisherman can let us cross the river by boat?" We will be rewarded! ”

"Since you are from your hometown, of course you can!"

The fisherman replied.

Immediately, everyone helped Long Zhanying into the cabin, and when the fishing boat began to slowly row to the other side of the river, the old guard settled Long Zhanying, and then knocked on the side of the old fisherman to inquire about the information on the opposite side, or rather, to ask if there was a Han army on the other side.

The old fisherman may have lived in such a remote place that he had never even heard of the name of the Han army, and the old guard explained for a long time, and the old fisherman understood a little, and said, "I haven't seen a soldier wearing a different armor than you." ”

The old guards and the others put their minds at ease, waited for the Huai River, looked for one or two horses, and returned to Lingzhou in less than a month, and there was no need to be afraid when they returned to Lingzhou.

After less than two hours, the small fishing boat finally arrived on the south bank, and the guards helped Long Zhanying off the boat, Long Zhanying opened his tiger eyes, a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes, and motioned to the old guard to kill the old fisherman.

The old guard was a little reluctant, but looking at Long Zhanying's fierce eyes, he also knew that this old fisherman was the only one who knew their whereabouts, and if the Han army crossed the river to find them, it would be easy to find their whereabouts.

So in desperation, the old guard came to the old fisherman with his knife, and before he could speak, a shout suddenly came from a distance, which frightened the old guard and almost threw his waist knife on the ground.

Everyone turned their heads to look, but it was a man with an ugly face who was less than five feet tall and was greeting the old fisherman with a flat pole.

"Dalang! This is just out of the pancakes! ”

The old fisherman replied with a smile.

The old guard turned his head and glanced at Long Zhanying, but Long Zhanying signaled to the old guard as soon as possible, and the old guard had to step forward.

Before they got closer, the old guard heard the two of them talking about themselves and the others.

But it was the big man who sold the cooking cakes who asked curiously, "Who are these armorers?" ”

The old fisherman replied: "It is the children of my hometown who lost the battle in the north and fled back, and this is not the Huai River that I just took them across." ”

"Oooh!"

Da Lang just asked curiously, and didn't think much about it, and then Da Lang squatted down, took out a paper bag from the bamboo basket, bowed his head and said: "This is the leftover pancakes sold today, my lady specially let me..."

didn't wait for Da Lang to finish speaking, but he felt a little warm and wet on his face, and when he wiped it with his hand, it was a bright red...

"Old fisherman..."

Da Lang raised his head, but saw only a headless corpse, which was obviously dressed as an old fisherman who was still talking to him.

Without waiting for Da Lang to ask anything, the old guard relentlessly and slashed this three-inch Ding who was less than five feet in stone on the spot.

Warm and damp blood was sprinkled all over the bamboo basket, and the paper bag in Dalang's hand was also sprinkled all over the ground, stained with dust and blood.

The old guard didn't care about cleaning up the scene, and immediately helped Long Zhanying and left with the other two guards.

In the dark night, the south bank of the Huai River was brightly lit, and a group of officials held torches to surround a strong man with a dignified appearance and a height of eight feet, but the strong man held the big man who sold cooking cakes in his arms, his eyes were red, and a trace of murderous aura overflowed, but it caused the surrounding officials to feel chills and chills.

"Did you find it?"

The strong man's voice was like thunder, and he asked in a low voice.

A servant cautiously stepped forward and said, "Dutou, investigate on the road, a group of armored routs are the most suspicious!" ”

"They killed a certain brother and broke them into thousands of pieces, but they can't solve the hatred in someone's heart!"

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