On a mound of earth beside the river, several soldiers of the Chen army were grilling fish.

Located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the good port of Jiangjin is the place where the soldiers must fight, during which there is a Jiangjin garrison, this time Chen Guo is the first sneak attack to take the Jiangjin garrison to control Jiangjin, and then mobilize the army to land and attack Jiangling.

"There's movement on the other side of the river?" One of the soldiers who was eating fish looked up at the river, and the others looked to the river, only to see the river gurgling in the twilight, and there was no suspicious figure in the wilderness on the other side.

"What the hell are you blindfolded and suspicious!" Another soldier laughed and cursed, and when he saw that he was still looking around, he reached out to grab the grilled fish in his hand, and the two of them got into a fight.

"I've been feeding mosquitoes by this river for more than ten days, but I can't even see a single figure, where do those wastes in Liang Guo still have the courage to come and sneak attack!"

After a period of frolic and no one cared if there was anything really wrong with the river, for the sentries were miserable with mosquito bites everywhere, and they were stared at all day long, and they still had the heart to do their duty.

There are many reeds growing on the side of the long river, densely packed like a curtain, Zhang Yukou is lying quietly in the reeds, looking at the group of Chen soldiers more than 20 steps away, seeing that the other party's vigilance is lax, he beckoned gently behind him, only to see a little black shadow on the water surface submerged into the water.

The black shadows floated erratically, like a big fish in the river, Zhang Yu waited for all the black shadows to swim here, and then looked at the large ocean not far from the upper reaches of the river, took a deep breath, dived into the water, and swam forward.

There is summer water in the south of Jiangjin, which is called Canglang water in ancient times, and the water of the river flows out of the east through Jianli County and then turns to the northeast into the Han River. The ancient canal dug by the Chu State to communicate Hanjin and Jiangjin is to enter the Yangtze River in the summer water in the south of Jiangjin, and the ancient canal passes through the Changhu Lake in the northeast direction of Jiangling halfway, and can directly reach Jiangling and the vicinity of Yingdu (Jinan City) of Chu State through the east end of Changhu Lake to the west.

A cool breeze falls into the night. The water of the great river is mighty and rushes eastward, and countless lights are lit up on the shore of the ship mooring place on the Jiangjin side, like a sky full of stars falling on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and many black spots suddenly appear on the river surface dozens of steps away from the Jiangjin wharf.

"Xiao Yu'er, I thought you had forgotten all your skills in the water after you left Xiangyang for more than a year." A man swam beside Zhang Yu and whispered, and the two of them, along with dozens of people around them, slowly moved closer to the bank of the river.

"Brother Liu, I can swim in my dreams."

"Little fish, is this thing really powerful?" The man asked. One hand gently rubbed a small jar hanging from his chest.

"Brother Liu, if you pull the rope, you won't even be able to extinguish the water that will turn into a fireman." Zhang Yu was able to speak with the sharp knife in his mouth that had been inserted into his belt, he looked back at a dark shadow around him and added: "You can be careful for a while, whether this success or not is up to us!" If you burn Chen Jun's grain and grass, it will be the first priority! ”

"Xiao Yu'er followed Yuwen Tong to see the army. It's a set of words. Another person said that these people were quite familiar with Zhang Yu between words, because they were all soldiers of the Xiangyang Navy Army, and they had just escaped several Chen Army posts from Xia Shui upstream from the summer water and sneaked into the Yangtze River.

Zhang Yu was picked up by the old Zhang Tou, a veteran of the Xiangyang Navy Army, from the riverside, and grew up eating hundreds of meals and wearing hundreds of clothes in the water village, so everyone recognizes him. After the old Zhang Tou died in battle, Zhang Yu and Team Li were living as a family. A year ago, Team Li was killed in battle, and when Xiangyang City was broken, Zhang Yu cut down the heads of the officials who forced the army to go south to send them to death, and all the rewards were handed over to Team Li's widow to raise his young son, and he himself was put under the command of Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County.

"Everyone rest by the river first, take a breath and then go over." Zhang Yu whispered to his comrades to swim to the river, where the bank of the Yangtze River is steep, they climbed the stone wall to rest in the water, this way upstream, during which several dives consumed a lot of physical strength.

Taking advantage of a moment of rest, a man asked Zhang Yu a little embarrassedly: "Xiao Yu'er, I heard that under the account of Yuwen Tongjun, not only is he full, but he also has a consistent amount of money every month?" ”

"That is, the more you can do, the more you get. Lord Lang will go to Bazhou by the Yangtze River to do the assassination history in a few months, and he will definitely have to recruit people to train the navy at that time. "Zhang Yu's appearance is mysterious. Later, he added: "Don't spread this word to the outside world!" ”

"I know, I won't wait for the spread of it." Listening to Zhang Yu's words, many people's eyes lit up, the Xiangyang Navy had less to withhold military salaries under the rectification of Yuwen Envoy, and the treatment had improved, but it was still much worse than being a soldier under Yuwen Command.

Yuwen Commander, Yuwen Envoy Jun, and Yuwen Commander are the most straightforward names for ordinary soldiers for Yuwen Liang, Yu Wenming, and Yuwen Wen, the father and son.

This time, the army that followed Yuwen's army to the south heard that the treatment of the other party's soldiers was unbelievably good: they were full, each person had an average monthly payment, and there was a pension of 12 yuan for the dead.

Now I heard Zhang Yu say that this Yuwen Tongjun is going to Bazhou to do assassination, that is, he has also become Yuwen Envoy, and he also intends to train the water army, everyone thinks that anyway, Yuwen Envoy Jun and Yuwen Tongjun are brothers, and they don't say two words, and they don't want to sell their lives to anyone, so they have the idea of going to Bazhou to join the army.

As the saying goes, there are blessings and hardships, and when they feel that the comrades in the navy are so familiar with each other, they are all people in the same boat, and they say to their own people, then it is not a rumor.

Now is the time for performance! Before leaving, Yuwen Tongjun said that if he died in battle, he would also have a pension of twelve yuan, and this alone was worth his life.

After resting, they swam upstream along the riverbank, where there were trees on the steep terrain and bushes on the riverside, and under the cover of the black shadows on the riverside water, they moved forward without a trace.

The water of the Yangtze River is turbulent but the bank of the river has eased a lot, and swimming against the water is not a problem for them who are from the Xiangyang Navy, and a group of people are slowly approaching the shore of Jiangjin like a carp crossing the river.

There were many warships moored on the shore in front of them, but they were floating in the water and did not rush closer, and after carefully observing the surroundings to make sure that there were no secret sentinels, they cautiously swam forward, these warships were the target.

"Divide into several teams as promised, everyone be more careful, and set these boats on fire!" Zhang Yu said in a low voice.

Someone looked around and found that several large ships had a deep draft, and after discussing for a while, they judged that it might be a grain ship that had not yet been unloaded, and Zhang Yu decided that his team would be in charge.

"It's a pity, if all the brothers had come, they would have come forward and set fire to them!" He looked at the sandbar in the middle of the river not far away, muttering regretfully to himself, and the sandbar was lined with masts, and there were many warships gathered.

The main warships of Chen's navy were not anchored in Jiangjin on the north bank of the Yangtze River, but on the sandbar in the middle of the river, on which there was a walled city, called Fengcheng, which was an important place to guard the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The northeast of the sandbank is Jiangjin on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the southwest of the sandbank is the Matouan on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

"Be careful, do it!"

There are not many soldiers on night duty on the warships tied to the Jiangjin side, and the naval army of Chen State has repeatedly defeated the naval army of Liang State and Zhou State, and now it has dominated the Yangtze River.

Zhang Yu and several comrades shuttled in the water like loaches and came to a big boat, and after confirming that there was no movement on the boat, they climbed up with their bare hands like geckos, because they had to swim in the water for a long time, Zhang Yu and the others were all naked, with a bulging waist bag around their waists, and in addition, only a crotch cloth covered them.

Ordinary people will make more or less noises when climbing boats from the water, the most unavoidable of which is the various water sounds when leaving the water, but these problems are nothing to these veterans in the Xiangyang Navy Army, and then the river water slapping against the hull of the boat provoked a burst of regular water sounds, and they smoothly boarded the deck.

As soon as a soldier of the Chen Army on duty in the cabin came back to his senses, he touched the neck of Zhang Yu, who was the first to rush in, and this unlucky guy fell to the ground with his throat clutched and died before he could scream.

Touching the boat, this is a common deed of the navy on both sides, they go to touch the boat and are not carefully poked to death and deserve it, and when they doze off while guarding the boat, they touch the boat and cut off their heads, which is also called deserved.

Cleanly dealt with the soldiers on duty, Zhang Yu and the others took out the arsonist wrapped in oiled paper from their belts and set the sails on fire, seeing the flames glowing, they grabbed the mast and rope and swung over another warship next to them.

The wooden boat floating on the water is slightly undulating with the river, a little swaying, but this is no different in front of Zhang Yu and others, they have been begging for life on the water since childhood, even if they walk on the rocking plank.

"What are you doing? Not. The soldiers on duty on the ship were shocked when they saw someone appear on the deck, but before they finished speaking, they were wiped on the neck with a knife, Zhang Yu and others did not delay, and immediately drew a gourd and lit the sails.

The rest of the boats lit up one after another, and the sails that were lit burned like torches, and the soldiers of the Chen Army stationed on the shore boiled when they saw this: "Go out of the water, go out of the water, which bastard is making fire on the boat!" ”

The gong sounded, and many soldiers rushed to the river in a panic with wooden barrels, trying to extinguish the fire, although this was not the main warship of the naval army, but it was really going to be burned by a fire, and no one could afford to eat the military law.

"Someone, someone on board is setting fire, it's an enemy attack! Report to the General! In a panic, someone finally realized that the situation was not right, and shouted hoarsely.

Zhang Yu stood on a warship that had already burned, looked at the crowded shore in front of him and sneered, looking around, more than half of the boats moored on the shore of Jiangjin had burned up, and the spread was becoming more and more obvious.

"Then you can't dock." Zhang Yu looked back at the sandbar in the river, and by the light of the fire, he saw that there was a lot of people, and it seemed that several warships had begun to untie their cables.

But the excitement is not limited to here, on the shore of Jiangjin, the north of the army suddenly broke out, mixed with the neighing of men and horses, as if a cavalry rushed into the camp.

"Lord Lang, this fire must burn the thief clean!" Zhang Yu looked at the north and muttered to himself, and jumped into the river and disappeared under the urging of his comrades who entered the water first. (To be continued.) )