Chapter 279: The General of the Defeated Army
The fog on the river was like ice in the air, so cold and chilling that people sitting on boats felt like their heads were buried in the sand, and they had to use all their strength to breathe a little air.
Now the officers and soldiers sitting on the ship are from Shouchun's bloody battle, escaped from death, as the saying goes, if you don't die in a disaster, there will be a blessing, but these soldiers are like ashes, huddled on the boat in twos and threes without moving, as if people are dead,
The boat could only barely pull down these people, if it weren't for the sudden north wind before, now this boat might have been caught up by the thieves, but the thieves obviously have no intention of going deep into the downstream of the thin water, although they can also sail down the wind, but they still stopped behind,
The long night in Shouchun City has finally passed, and the passengers on this boat are all lucky people who escaped, and the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Lan Ziyi after crossing the river to the north are now the only lucky ones left in this boat.
As soon as Lan Ziyi thought of this, he felt a tingling pain in his heart, which was no longer bloodless,
Now Lan Ziyi is half-lying on the deck, his empty eyes are staring at the sky, the depth generated by the lack of soul can almost dent the sky and suck the stars away, but anyone who sees Lan Ziyi's gaze now will be frightened away by the despair that extends to the end of the world, because as long as people with a little normal mind will be afraid that they will be eroded by that despair and eventually turn into a pool of loose sand.
Lying next to Lan Ziyi was Li Guangzhong, Li Guangzhong was lying unconscious at this time, his whole body was covered with wounds, and the battle robes on his body had been soaked in blood, but fortunately, Li Guangzhong was breathing steadily, and he was not worried about his life, but he fainted from excessive blood loss,
Lan Ziyi's eyes only regained some brightness when he rescued Li Guangzhong, when the north wind was exhausted, and the lonely boat was floating alone on the river, and the blood stains condensed in the fog, it was even more difficult for people to breathe than later.
The soldiers finally relaxed and sat down on the boat when they saw that there were no more pursuers behind, and everyone thought that they were going to drift all the way like this, but the sound of horses' hooves came from the shore behind them, and under the full bowstrings and cold gaze of the soldiers, a thin horse stepped out of the fog from the north along the river embankment,
The horse's mouth was panting so much that he almost couldn't breathe, and he could see a vague figure lying on the horse's back, judging from the shape of the armor, it was an officer.
After seeing the boats on the river, the war horse seemed to have collapsed after completing its mission, fell to its knees on its front legs, rolled down the riverbed from the embankment with foaming at the mouth, and the people on horseback also rolled down.
Tao Zhutu immediately ordered the boat to dock and rescued the man who was covered in blood, and that person was Li Guangzhong, presumably he led the team to break through after a bloody battle, thanks to his war horse he was able to survive, but now the war horse is no longer saved.
When he learned that it was Li Guangzhong who was rescued, Lan Ziyi, who was originally lying on the boat like a corpse, jumped up suddenly, hugged Li Guangzhong and cried bitterly, without saying a word, and couldn't persuade him.
The boat slowly drifted south along the thin water, and the people on the boat looked at the blurred scenery on the shore through the mist, and they all had a feeling of floating in the underworld, and now they were alive or dead? The only thing that is still active on the boat is the boatman who originally came with the boat, they either draw prizes, or hold the sails, no one dares to talk much, just now these sergeants killed each other in order to board the boat The scene is vivid, these boatmen are so frightened that they pee their pants, they are afraid that they will annoy these soldiers by saying the wrong word, and then they will be poked into a few transparent holes and thrown into the river,
Tao Zhutu sat on the other side of the boat, the depressing atmosphere made Tao Zhutu feel aggrieved than the fog on the river, he was most worried about Lan Ziyi now, today Tao Zhutu felt that something was wrong after seeing Lan Ziyi, the heroic young master since he was a child was like losing his soul, this is too unusual.
Finally couldn't bear it anymore, Tao Zhutu got up and stepped over the other people on the boat, next to Lan Ziyi, he took off the water bladder hanging from his waist, and asked Lan Ziyi:
"Young master, get up and drink some water."
But the only thing that responded to Tao Zhutu was Lan Ziyi's silence and his empty eyes, Tao Zhutu couldn't bear to look at Lan Ziyi anymore, so he had to twist his head to the side,
Then the boatman lowered his voice and said:
"There's a ship coming!"
The soldiers sitting on the deck all woke up from their dead bodies when they heard this, and they lifted up their men like birds of attack to look in the direction pointed by the boatmen, and they did not shout, but the tense muscles of their bodies and the feeling of imminent collapse that they exuded were more devastating than the screams of exhaustion.
At this time, Qiu Xiaozhi came out of the cabin, and he scolded and said to everyone:
"The boat is downstream to the south, there is Luzhou, there can be no thieves, even if it is not your own people, it is a fishing boat, what are you panicking about?"
As soon as Qiu Xiaozhi said this, the sergeants on the boat finally turned around in their heads, and the boat coming downstream was unlikely to threaten their own safety, but these sergeants did not put down their weapons because of this, they still looked at the opposite side with high vigilance.
The two brothers looked side by side at the blurred shadows in the mist, and there were two boats on the opposite side, which were not small, the lights on the boats were bright, and the pedestrians were coming and going in an orderly manner, and the action was not like a civilian ship, even if the ship was not a warship, the people on it were also warriors.
The people on the other side of the boat mountain also seemed to see the small boat that appeared in the fog, but they were not on guard, but asked loudly:
"Who's on the other side?"
Peach and Peach exchanged glances, and then Peach Tiger asked the other side:
"Who are you?"
Tao Zhuhu asked about the identity of the other party without reporting his name, which was a suspicious action, but after a night of bloody fighting, Tao Zhuhu was really a little scared, he didn't dare to relax, so he had to test it first.
Unexpectedly, the boat on the other side didn't feel how offensive this was, and when he heard Tao Zhuhu's question, he said with a big grin:
"Lao Tzu is the Jingying army that came with King De to pay the fee, and was sent here tonight to patrol the night, if you have a long eye, report your name and then what should you do, don't disturb Lao Tzu's Yaxing."
After hearing that it was his own people, Tao Zhuhu could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and the soldiers on the ship were also relieved to put the guy down, and some people even cried with joy after hearing the news that they were their own people on the other side, and cried.
However, in addition to being happy, Tao Zhuhu heard that there seemed to be drunkenness in the tone of the person talking on the other side, and then looked at Tao Zhulu on the side, and after getting the affirmative look of Tao Zhulu, Tao Zhuhu determined his thoughts,
On the other side of the ship, he didn't notice the change in the fog at all, and after the man had finished speaking, someone said:
"What are you shouting about? Look at the boat is so small, it must be the people who came out to fish around, what is the need to be more serious, we were finally sent out, we got so much wine, take advantage of the dawn to drink to the fullest, if you wait to go back and give King De a cow and horse, then there is still a chance to drink? ”
As soon as these words were finished, there was a commotion on the two boats, and the peach and tiger and the peach and the deer on the small boat trembled angrily when they heard this, and the upper Shouchun City had been killed into a sea of blood, and this group of Beijing troops actually neglected their duties here, and they were drunk and drunk, and they wanted to let this little boat go without asking.
Tao Zhuhu pointed to the opposite boat and scolded:
"You bastards, let you go out to patrol the night, but you are drinking on the boat, if the thieves come, do you want to let them go down the river and drink the horses?"
The people on the two boats were not happy to hear this, and a group of people shouted in a messy voice:
"What are you, talker? Dare to come here and disturb grandpa drinking? Come here, see if Grandpa doesn't cut your tongue! ”
Hearing this, Tao Zhuhu scolded:
"I see that you don't want to live anymore, I am a peach chasing a tiger in Beizhen, and now Qi Hou and Wei Hou are sitting on this boat, you should come and cut my tongue to see!"
As soon as Tao Zhuhu's words came out, the people on the two boats were speechless in an instant,
With the dialogue between the two sides, the peach and tiger and their little boat have also drifted down the river to the two boats, and the sergeant who lit the lantern on the big boat and stripped naked and drank and had fun watched the small boat float by, looking at the blood stains floating along the small boat and the scarred and colorless soldiers on the boat, he was so frightened that all the alcohol was dissipated.
Although Qi Rongxun also had no master because of the defeat of the six gods, he was still a little better than Lan Ziyi, and now seeing the friendly army, Qi Rongxun barely stood up from the ship, and said weakly to the soldiers of the Beijing army on the big ship:
"Pull me up."
The soldiers of the Beijing army came back to their senses when they heard this, and hurriedly threw ropes with their hands and feet, set up helpers, and pulled the people on the small boat up from the boat one by one, and the soldiers just closed their mouths and silently pulled people from under the water, without asking a word, seeing the scene of the people in front of them, these Beijing soldiers naturally understood what was happening, this look, this tiredness, and the blood stains on their bodies were telling others that these were people who had escaped death.
Everyone on the boat was pulled onto the boat, and even the original boatman did not want to stay in the boat, which in their eyes was nothing but death.
The people on the big ship had already woken up from shock, and after pulling them all up, a man who looked like an officer asked in a small way:
"How many of you are left?"
The people who were pulled aboard the boat did not answer the question, they pretended not to hear the question just to hide the shame and sadness in their hearts, and they did not have the face to say that they were able to escape because they were the result of getting on the boat first and killing their allies with the killers.
Seeing that no one answered, the Jing army on the big ship didn't dare to ask again, and after a while, Tao Zhuhu asked:
"How far is it from Luzhou?"
The sergeant replied:
"It'll be there in the morning."
Hearing this, Tao Zhuhu urged:
"Then take us there."
After a pause, Tao Zhuhu said:
"Shouchun, it's already lost."
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