Zhang Jin hesitated, but there was still some safety for the clansmen on the stone heart boat.

Zhang Miao didn't wait for him to decide, pulled out a feather arrow from the quiver, raised his hand and was an arrow, the feather arrow flew over a dozen zhang space, and hit the head of a thief, and the thief immediately fell into the water.

Zhang Jin sighed, no longer hesitated, and also took out his bow and arrows and began to shoot.

Ten years ago, Zhang Jin was still a soldier of the shooting battalion of the Luoyang Northern Army, and the princes from all walks of life crusaded against Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo forced Luoyang officials and hundreds of thousands of people to move the capital to Chang'an, Zhang Jin took the opportunity to escape from the army and fled back to his hometown.

The archery skills of the teenagers in the village were taught by Zhang Jin, among which Zhang Miao and Zhang Jin's eldest son Zhang Ji had the best archery skills. This time they went to Xiangyang to prevent accidents, and they brought three pairs of bows and arrows.

Three feather arrows shot out one after another, directly shooting the three thieves on the opposite boat into the river, and the other thieves immediately panicked. Some thieves shouted, some thieves desperately rowed their oars to try to escape, there were not as many people on their boats as there were here, let alone bows and arrows on this side.

Zhang Ping and Zhang Chuang forced the boatman and rowed hard to chase after him, while Zhang Miao and Zhang Jin, father and son, kept pulling their bows and arrows, shooting the thieves on the boat in front of them one by one.

The small space on the boat was impossible to hide, and the remaining thieves jumped into the river in despair. However, many people obviously don't know much about water, and they quickly sink into the water after struggling with their hands.

easily solved a thief ship, which greatly increased the morale of the people, and even the boatman was a little bolder, and the boat rowed forward at a faster speed, getting closer and closer to Deng Tu's big ship.

On the big boat, Deng Tu was holding a machete and roaring repeatedly, already in a predicament.

Five thief ships surrounded them, each with one or twenty men. There were also forty or fifty people on the ship, but more than half of them were women, children, old and weak. Among them, in addition to Deng Tu and Deng Lihua's father and daughter, there are only four or five accompanying heroes, and as for the more than ten male subordinates, they have already weakened their legs.

Five boats came from five directions, and the thieves jumped on the big boat one after another, although Deng Tu bravely killed several thieves in a row, but he could only block one thief boat on the right.

On the left side of the big boat, Deng Lihua held a sharp knife in each hand, her body suddenly advanced and retreated, and stabbed to death several thieves who had just climbed on the boat one after another.

However, the performance of the others was much worse, and the combined efforts of the few accompanying rangers were able to block the attack of a small boat, but there were still two thief ships on the big ship, and the thieves broke through the male subordinates' obstruction and rushed onto the big boat.

Seeing that the thieves were about to rush into the cabin, Deng Tu had no choice but to give up intercepting the small boat in front of him, and retreated to block the hatch, which contained his wife and mother, and two young sons.

As a result, more and more thieves rushed onto the big ship, and the male subordinates who didn't know martial arts were quickly killed by the thieves, and more than half of the rangers were killed or wounded, leaving only Deng Tu's father and daughter to support them.

At this moment, Zhang Miao's boat rushed to the vicinity of the big ship.

On the thief ship, the rest of the thieves were shocked, and they only cared about attacking the big ships and plundering, leaving only one or two people in each small boat to watch the boat.

"A rabble!" Zhang Miao sneered, raised his hand and shot a thief to death with an arrow, and the thief boat immediately crossed the river.

"Brother Deng Tu, we rescued you!" Zhang Jin shouted at the big boat.

Deng Tu, who was fighting, took the time to take a look at the river, and was immediately overjoyed: "Brother Zhang Jin, for saving your life, Deng Tu will be rewarded!" ”

"Du Bao, they didn't stop the boat?" At the bow of the big ship, Gong Du, the leader of the thieves, looked at Zhang Miao's boat in dismay.

Gong Du was one of the leaders of the Yellow Turban thieves nearby, and a few days ago, after hearing from Deng Yi's inner line, Deng Tu, a wealthy family in Deng Yi, was going to Xiangyang with his family, Gong Du decided to take people to intercept him in the river.

Deng Tu and Gong inquired about how many people he was with, and he thought that he was able to make this deal with his subordinates of No. 100. Gong didn't care about Zhang Miao's boat, because he knew very well that this boat and Deng Tu were not in the same group, so he only sent a boat to intercept it, but he didn't expect the people on this small boat to be so fierce.

"The second master, what should I do?" Seeing the feathered arrows flying from the boat, the thieves around him fell to the ground from time to time, and the subordinates around Gong Du panicked.

"I already knew that I would ask Boss Zhou to transfer more than a dozen archers." Gong Du said hatefully.

"Deal with the people on the big boat first, and then deal with this small boat!"

Perhaps because they understood that the situation was not good, the thieves went crazy and launched a fierce attack on Deng Tu's father and daughter.

Deng Tu roared angrily, wielding the machete without retreating, and blocked the hatch deadly.

Deng Lihua gritted her silver teeth, with two sharp knives in her hands, stabbed two thieves to death one after another, protecting her father's right side.

Seeing that the father and daughter were brave, Gong Du ordered to withdraw the thieves with short knives and sent spearmen.

More than a dozen thieves poked at Zheng Tu's father and daughter with spears, and the form suddenly became critical.

Deng Lihua screamed, tripped over a thief's corpse as she retreated, and just stood up when a wooden spear poked her thigh.

Seeing that his daughter was in danger, Deng Tu roared angrily, took a step across, and slashed the thief to death with a knife, and the other thief saw the opportunity and poked a spear in Deng Tu's back.

Deng Tu screamed in pain, pulled out his spear with his backhand and pulled the thief in front of him, raised his hand and slashed his head, his bravery frightened the other thieves to stop.

"Father!" Deng Lihua screamed and tried to stand up, but her thighs were bleeding but she couldn't stand up at all.

Looking at the thieves who gathered not far away, and then looking at the injured daughter, Deng Tu knew that he might not be able to wait for the people from Sanshui Village to get on the boat. Gritting his teeth, Deng Tu grabbed his daughter, shook his hand and threw it out of the boat.

"Brother Zhang Jin, I saved my daughter, and Deng Tu Jiuquan also accepts your affection!" Deng Tu shouted, grabbed a spear in one hand and a machete in the other, and killed the thief.

Seeing that the thief had no intention of facing his own side, but cowered on the big boat, Zhang Miao knew that there was some trouble.

With Deng Tu's manpower, I am afraid that he is not the opponent of the thief, and if he kills the big ship and fights the thief, his own people will inevitably suffer heavy losses, which Zhang Miao is unwilling.

Saving Deng Tu is just a convenient thing, if you take your own life because of this, you still don't want it. Deng Tu is not really his father-in-law!

However, seeing Deng Tu's father and daughter killed by thieves, Zhang Miao couldn't do it, and after a little consideration, Zhang Miao said: "Capture the thief and capture the king first, if you can shoot the leader of the thief to death, the thief will definitely be defeated." ”

"But I can't see which one is the leader of the thieves!" Zhang Ji was embarrassed.

Zhang Miao sneered: "The leader of the thieves must have hid on the other side of the big ship when he saw that our bows and arrows were powerful. Ah Ji, if you take the boatman to row this small boat and go around to the big boat, you will definitely be able to see the leader of the thieves. ”

Zhang Jin said: "I'll go too, two bows are safer." ”

The boatman was very reluctant, but under the coercion of Zhang Chuang, he jumped onto the captured thief ship, carrying Zhang Jin and Zhang Ji seven or eight people to the other side of the big ship.

Zhang Miao continued to shoot at the big boat with a bow and arrow, and as soon as he shot a thief to death, he heard Deng Tu shout, and then with a pop, Deng Lihua was thrown into the water.

"Get her up." Looking at Deng Lihua, who was struggling in the water a few feet away, Zhang Miao hurriedly said.

Zhang Ping and the others glanced at each other, and Zhang Ping smiled: "Here Ah Miao, you have good water nature, so let's go down." ”

Zhang Miao said angrily: "Who did I go to shoot the thief?" ”

Zhang Ping snatched the bow and arrow in Zhang Miao's hand, and said with a smile: "Although I am not as good as you in archery, I have also practiced, your daughter-in-law, you can save it, don't bother others." ”

Zhang Miao was helpless, so she could only jump into the water, and then almost screamed, the river water in late autumn was already very cold. Only then did I understand that Zhang Ping's bastards were obviously afraid of the cold!

As soon as she entered the water, Zhang Miao found that her water was unusually good, and she was no longer the landlubber in another time and space, so she couldn't help but increase her confidence, swam forward with her hands and feet, and soon swam to the struggling Deng Lihua.

Zhang Miao was not in a hurry to save people, he knew that people who couldn't water would be very frightened after falling into the water, and grabbing anything would be used as a life-saving straw, and the rescuer would be dragged into the water after struggling, so he swam behind Deng Lihua and hugged her body from behind.

Well, it's soft.

When Zhang Miao was rescuing people, Zhang Jin and Zhang's step-father's boat had already circled to the other side of the big boat, and sure enough, he saw Gong Du who was shouting and commanding, and both father and son drew bows and arrows and shot them.

Gong Du was forcing his subordinates to attack Deng Tu, who was crazy, when suddenly his body was in severe pain, and Yang Tian fell to the ground.

The thieves on the big ship suddenly became in chaos!

The leader Gong was killed, and he was shot with bows and arrows from both sides, and Deng Tu hacked several thieves to death one after another like a mad tiger, and the other thieves suddenly panicked, and their morale had collapsed.

"Sima Zhang Miao of the Xiangyang Army is here, and the thieves will surrender quickly!"

"Captain Niu, you take five hundred soldiers and horses to attack from the left side of Bishui, Captain Ma, you take the soldiers and horses of your headquarters to outflank from the right side, and you must wipe out the Yellow Turban Thieves!"

Zhang Miao had already rescued Deng Lihua on the boat, and she didn't care about getting wet, so she raised her voice and shouted at the big boat.

Where did the Xiangyang officers and soldiers come from? When Zhang Ping and the others looked at each other, the thieves on the big ship had already fled from the big ship one after another.