Chapter 18: Return to the South (5)

Three days later, in the evening.

Jiang Ge and his entourage walked on the rocky beach by the river with difficulty, the towering cliffs blocked the sun, and the canyon was damp and cold, fortunately, they did not meet the scouts of the Qiang people along the way, which also made the three people who were covered in injuries not too anxious to hurry, and the injuries on their bodies were treated quickly under the injury medicine given by the Dao people of Tianmen Peak, but the escape for nearly a month also made Jiang Ge and Fu Bo physically and mentally exhausted to the extreme. And Bai Yu's new injury has just scabbed, and his physical strength and spirit are not very good, and the three-day trip is only barely able to walk with the support of Fu Bo and Jiang Ge.

When the three of them finally walked out of the canyon and saw the river covered with golden brilliance by the setting sun, it seemed that the last strength was about to run out, Bai Yu was the first to fall to the ground in a coma, and Fu Bo, who was supporting Bai Yu, was pulled and fell to the ground by the way, and he had no strength to stand up, just looked at the sky stupidly, panting heavily.

Jiang Ge used his last strength to shout a few times at the soldiers patrolling the riverside ferry, and then squatted on the ground, took off the bamboo tube, drank two sips, and poured the remaining water on his disheveled head.

The ferry port is small, the building is very simple, it looks dilapidated for a long time and has been slightly renovated, and there are two small boats floating on the water, with thumb-thick hemp rope fastened to wooden stakes. Two warships were quietly parked in the river, and a large black and red pottery flag fluttered in the wind on the two warships.

The soldiers who heard the call on the ferry came quickly, and the man who looked like the officer in the lead asked whether he was the young master of the Jiang family, and only after Jiang Ge took out the jade pendant of the Jiang family's disciples did the officer confirm the identity of the three people, and ordered the soldiers to carry Bai Yu and Fu Bo onto a small boat and sail towards the warship in the river. And the officer very politely helped Jiang Ge onto another small boat.

After getting on the boat, the officer saw Jiang Ge's exposed dark upper body and admired: "Childe's journey must be very dangerous, the injury on this body is afraid that others have already seen the king of Hades, and the son can hold on to the riverside, and he still has an old man and a serious injury, really man, I Jiang Liu'er admires." Jiang Liu'er said with a fist after speaking.

Jiang Ge was in better spirits at this time, and said to Jiang Liu'er, who was wearing the armor of a Jin military captain, "The general has spoken, it's really embarrassing, the kid has to thank the general for answering here, this is a great favor, and I will repay it after the kid returns to the south." ”

After speaking, Jiang Ge was about to kneel and clench his fists to salute, but the boat was small, Jiang Ge had never been on a boat a few times since he grew up in the north, this movement made the boat sway from side to side, Jiang Ge hurriedly grabbed the edge of the boat to stabilize his body.

Jiang Liu'er and a few other soldiers supporting the boat didn't react as if they were commonplace, and Jiang Liu'er even got up to hold Jiang Ge's hand as if he was walking on the ground and laughed: "Childe is careful, he doesn't often float on water, this sense of balance is not easy to grasp." Childe quickly sit down and get on the warship immediately, and it will be much better if he gets on the warship, no different from on land. General Tao's Nine Sons have been waiting for you for several days, and the Nine Sons admire you very much, and have asked our general several times before the general agreed. ”

"How many days have you waited?" Jiang Ge asked.

"In addition, today is a full three days, Gongzi may not know, the Hu people can be very cruel, our naval army has lost a lot of brothers in the north of the river, fortunately, the Hu people are not familiar with water, as long as they don't go ashore, they will be fine. Yidu's side fought several bloody battles in order to cover the Han people in Nandu. Our navy is not like those instigating soldiers, the most admired thing by the navy is the hero who dares to raise a knife to kill the Hu people, a man like Gongzi, the navy will be admired by the soldiers and the general Tao will be admired and called a real man, a good son. After listening to Jiang Liu'er, several other sailors who were holding the boat turned their heads and nodded to Jiang Ge.

Jiang Ge looked at everyone's admiration and seemed to touch something in his heart, but the feeling was not very clear, it seemed to be appreciation and encouragement among colleagues, it seemed to be the recognition of relatives, and it seemed to be ordinary trust between brothers.

Jiang Ge waved his hand a little embarrassed: "It's just a coincidence that I earned a life, and I thought about giving up several times, but when I thought of the family members who died for myself, as well as the people who were wantonly slaughtered, I had the strength again, and I escaped death several times, and finally saved my life, and I kept it to kill Hu later." ”

"If Childe can have the heart to kill Hu, he is worthy of being the brother of our navy. In the future, as long as it is a matter of killing Hu, although the son commands, although I Jiang Liu'er is only a small captain, the brothers under the mark are all heroes, and there is no cowardice. It's a pity that our navy is only responsible for guarding the river, and the Hu people don't dare to enter the water, and our brute force is a fucking waste. The northern soldiers who retreated south before looked at it, and they fled faster than anyone else, chirp~" Jiang Liu'er just said energetically, and with a bang, Jiang Ge's boat had already touched the warship parked in the river.

Fu Bo and Bai Yu, who were one step ahead of Jiang Ge's departure, had already been put on by the soldiers who had been put on and dragged on the splint with a big net, and at this time the net pocket had been put down from the boat, Jiang Liuer motioned for Jiang Ge to sit in the net pocket, Jiang Ge, who had recovered some physical strength, looked at the rope ladder thrown from the splint, stretched out his hand and stepped up, about two feet high, Jiang Ge boarded the splint with three or two strokes of his arms. The soldiers on the boat who saw Jiang Ge's movements couldn't help but shout "good".

Jiang Ge, who was standing on the deck, clenched his fists and arched his hands in response to the surroundings. A few steps in front of Jiang Ge stood a group of people, led by a white-looking and handsome young man, behind the young man there were two tall and powerful-looking men, wearing the armor of the captain of the navy, majestic and majestic.

Jiang Ge saw the three of them and hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "Thank you to this son, the two generals and the soldiers of the navy waiting for the boy here, and I will report after saving my life." ”

The handsome young man hurriedly clasped his fists like Jiang Ge and saluted, and then looked left and right very curiously, a pair of clear eyes stared at Jiang Ge's upper body moving back and forth, and there were words in his mouth, one hand didn't know what he was pinching, just like the movements of those charlatans that Jiang Ge had seen in Chang'an City, it was exactly the same.

Jiang Ge saw that the young man was surrounding him, and he was chanting and calculating, and he didn't say a word for a long time, making him chatter. Jiang Ge, who was really tired, had no choice but to clench his fists and ask, "Did Mr. Tao see anything unusual?" ”

Asked by Jiang Ge, the handsome young man came back to his senses, and said with a slightly embarrassed fist: "Brother Jiang, don't blame, little brother Tao Fan, the word Hu Nu, is not a fugitive, it means that Hu Nu will run for his life when he sees me, my father has no knowledge and likes to fiddle around, so he gave the little brother such a very misunderstood name." Every time I meet someone, I waste a lot of saliva just to introduce myself. But when I met Brother Jiang, the younger brother always had to explain clearly. Otherwise, Brother Jiang will really be wronged if he doesn't take his little brother to play in the future because of his little brother's name. ”

Jiang Ge listened to the inexplicable self-introduction of the young man in front of him, he was a little confused, and when he had just organized the language and prepared to be polite, the young man said: "Brother Jiang has died for a lifetime, and now he can finally rest, and all the affairs have been prepared in the cabin, Brother Jiang will take a bath and rest well, and then tell the little brother about the experience along the way after Brother Jiang has eaten and slept enough to nourish his spirits, so that the little brother can increase his knowledge, lest my cheap father say that I am idle for a day without doing my job,"

"Come on, take Brother Jiang to the cabin to bathe and rest." The handsome young man commanded to the side and made a gesture of invitation, with a soldier leading the way.

Jiang Ge didn't bother to dwell too much, he was really a little exhausted, he was sleepy, and the scabbed wounds on his body were also very itchy, so he needed to rest for a night. Jiang Ge simply stopped greeting politely, and after thanking him, he followed the soldiers in front of him into the cabin.

After Jiang Ge left, the young man leaned on the edge of the boat and looked at the deep canyon where Jiang Ge and the three of them were traveling and said softly: "I just counted carefully, there are three knives in the chest, six knives in the back, there are arrow wounds on the left arm, there are knife wounds on the right arm, and there are several minor injuries on each leg. And the old and the new are different, the latest one is the blood groove on the left arm, which should be a bow and arrow abrasion. The oldest scar is intact, but the marks are still visible. If you count them all, there are nearly 100 large and small injuries. What a man, but also a fierce general, before I came, I heard my father say that the head of the Jiang family and my father talked about Jiang Ge's encounter with Jiang Ge from Chang'an to the south, at first I didn't believe it, but now I really believe it, and I admire the five bodies to the ground. ”

The young man rubbed his forehead and asked the general of the navy beside him: "Captain Li is the champion of the three armies, and he has also fought with the Hu people on land, let's talk about it." ”

"The Hu people are fierce, the Huns are fierce, the number of cavalry in our dynasty is small, the breed of war horses is not as good as the horses outside the Saiwai, the infantry has a very small chance of winning against the cavalry, some time ago in Yidu I tried the Huns. The Qiang people are nimble and good at mountain and jungle warfare, and our scouts basically have no return after entering the mountains and forests. The siege battle is even more cruel and tragic, Jiang Gongzi has not yet reached the crown, and it can be said that he is full of courage to defend the city with the body of a young man, and it is even more commendable to be able to hold on for three days and three nights. After Lu saw injustice, he killed more than 30 enemies with two fists, and I have to say that Jiang Gongzi's martial arts are extremely outstanding. Then chased by the Hun rangers, the previous several squads were all slaughtered, this is not a matter of the level of force, after the Qiang scouts one after another sneak attack, can still kill the enemy. Finally, an old man, a person who was injured all over his body, was brought here, and he was able to face the Ninth Prince calmly. The future must be a promising person, thoughtful, strong, perseverance and patience are rare and calm. Li thinks that he is not as good as two or three out of ten, he is ashamed, he is really a young hero, Li admires. The tall man with a resolute face said seriously.

"Tut-tut, General Li Bin Li, who bravely crowned the three armies, is really like the water of this rolling river. There are not many people in the army who can get into your eyes. If these words are transmitted back to the naval camp, it will turn the sky upside down, and my brother Jiang will suffer. Tao Fan, who was a little gloating, rubbed his hands and said a little cheaply: "I have to let my brothers who have no one in their eyes suffer, my brother Jiang has to rest well, and the face I lost before depends on you." ”

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Jiang Ge lay in a wooden barrel filled with hot water and moaned comfortably, and his body and spirit, which had been tense, finally relaxed.

Jiang Ge, who was in a daze, had a dream, dreaming of his father, the four clan elders, and the person in the portrait hanging in his father's study......