Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 1 Liaodong Shock

Chapter 1 Jiangmen Huzi went to Liaodong

Section 4 Old Boatmen

After half a day of galloping, Liu Yunwei and his group arrived at the west bank of the Liao River at noon. At this time, due to the dry and hot weather, the surface of the Liao River is not very wide, but it has not reached the point where you can cross the river by horse. Everyone looked around: there were no ferries, no boats, and no way to cross the river for a while.

"This hellish weather, it's going to roast people, it's only May. A few years ago, it was still cold at this time. Zhao Kaishan drove for a long time, but he didn't see the boat, he was irritable in his heart, and he scolded and shouted.

"Axe, don't be grinning, let's stop looking for it, rest and take a breath. Everyone rests on the spot and eats something. Liu Yunwei said.

The four generals led their subordinates to settle the war horses, and connected them with reins and surrounded them around the periphery to form a simple "war horse wall" to act as a temporary rejection of horses. After that, a small group of the family took out the forage and began to feed the horses, and most of them took the time to rest and eat dry food.

Liu Yunwei sat with Lu Ying, Wu Xing, and Zhao Kaishan, preparing to eat and rest, but he didn't see Wen Poyu, and he looked around and didn't see anyone, so he asked, "Where did Poyu go?" In the blink of an eye, no one can be found. ”

"Big brother, eat, don't worry about it. I saw the boy preparing his horses, and said he would lead them to find a place to cross the river. Zhao Kaishan said vaguely with dry food in his mouth.

As he was talking, Wen Poyu walked over, chewing something in his mouth. There are also five other family members behind him, ready to go.

Liu Yunwei threw the water bladder in his hand, Wen Poyu took it and poured a big mouthful, wiped the water stains on the corner of his mouth with the corner of his clothes, and said, "Big brother, I still don't worry if I can't find a place to cross the river." If it drags on until the evening, you will have to camp in the open air, and it is not safe to keep it alive now. You rest first, and I'll take a few brothers to look for it. ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said, "Okay, be careful, come back as soon as possible." ”

"Don't worry, big brother."

"Wen big monkey, don't meet the Tartar and lose your life, haha." Zhao Kaishan's broken gong sounded. Wen Poyu is good at riding, his arms are longer than ordinary people, and he opens his arms like an ape, so Zhao Kaishan called Wen Poyu Wen Da Monkey to fight back and call himself Zhao Da Axe.

"Zhao Daaxe, if you die, grandpa can't die." Wen Poyu called.

"Haha." Liu Yunwei and the others laughed when they saw the two bickering.

After the fight, Wen Poyu turned around and got on the horse, and rushed out of the "horse wall" with five family members.

After Wen Poyu left, several people sat down and continued to eat dry food. Liu Yunwei ate all the dry food in his hand in three or two, took the water bladder handed over by Lu Ying, and poured it violently. The cold water was cold into his lungs, and Liu Yunwei suddenly felt a lot refreshed.

"It's damn weather." Liu Yunwei looked at the sun and scolded in his heart.

"Hurry up and rest after eating, everyone will rest for two hours. Lu Ying, you arrange for the brothers to strengthen their vigilance. ”

"Yes, big brother. I'll arrange it, and you can rest too. Lu Ying turned around and arranged.

Liu Yunwei nodded, holding the armor-piercing gun in his arms, leaning on the side of the war horse and closing his eyes to recuperate, and fell asleep after a while.

I don't know how long it took, Wu Xing woke up Liu Yunwei: "Big brother, the captives are back." ”

"What's the news? Did you find the ferry? Liu Yunwei wiped the sweat on his face and asked.

"Found it, there is a ferry port eight or nine miles to the south. Before he could say the details, the eldest brother asked him directly. ”

Saying that, Wen Poyu walked over, the scorching sun made his face very red, and Zhao Kaishan couldn't help but laugh again when he saw it: "Hahaha, Wen Da Monkey, your monkey butt is too red." ”

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you."

Wen Poyu was in a hurry to report the situation to Liu Yunwei, and he didn't have the heart to quarrel with Zhao Kaishan.

"What's going on?" Liu Yunwei asked.

"Big brother, eight or nine miles south from here, there is a ferry. We found a ferry boat and an old boatman at the ferry, and I sent three brothers to guard there. ”

"Okay."

"Big brother, there's even better."

"What's the good news?" Liu Yunwei asked, and everyone also looked at Wen Poyu.

Wen Poyu said with a smile: "Big brother, according to the old boatman, there is a village not far from Hedong, called Hujia Village, and the old boatman is from Hujia Village. We are tired of hurrying here, and when we cross the river, it should be too late. Let's just go to Hujia Village to camp, and the brothers can have a hot meal tonight and get a good night's sleep. ”

"Good!"

"Great!"

"I don't have to eat dry food now."

Liu Yunwei waved his hand, and everyone quieted down.

Liu Yunwei patted Wen Poyu's shoulder, "Good job." After speaking, he ordered a few people: "Pass the order, set off immediately, and rush to the ferry." ”

"Yes!" The four generals responded in unison.

In the evening, Liu Yunwei and others rushed to the ferry. Liu Yunwei looked at the not very big ferry, which could send more than ten people over at a time, and it would take four or five round-trips to complete the crossing.

"Big brother, this ferry is the only one that can cross the river within a radius of dozens of miles nearby, and the boat is a little smaller, but there is no way." Wen Poyu said on the side.

Liu Yunwei nodded, "I understand." After speaking, he said to Wu Xing: "You take a boatload of brothers to cross the river first and guard the opposite bank." ”

"Yes."

"The others rest in place." Liu Yunwei said to Lu Ying, Zhao Kaishan, and Wen Poyu: "When the boat comes back, each of the three of you will take a team of brothers and cross the river in batches." I pressed back. ”

"Yes." The three of them answered.

As the sun set, Liu Yunwei and Zhao Kaishan took the last group of family members to row to the east coast by boat.

Liu Yunwei saw that the old boatman was so old, and it was not easy to ferry back and forth several times, so he asked, "Uncle, are you old?" ”

"Hehe, General Hui, Gao Shou doesn't dare to be it. Eight out of fifty. ”

"It's not easy to be ferrying at such an age."

"It's a bit hard, but I usually go home in the afternoon, and I can't work long in a day."

"Then I'll delay your old age home today."

"Hehe, don't delay, don't delay, it's a pity that I can't eat with my family." The old boatman said with a look of regret.

Liu Yunwei saw it in his eyes, so he asked Zhao Kaishan to take out five coins of silver and give it to the old boatman.

"Uncle, this is given by my general, take it."

The old boatman was very excited to receive the silver, and he was busy from evening to night, which was already very hard. Seeing the sky, I didn't have time to eat dinner with my family, and I felt a little uncomfortable. But in the face of the wolf-like generals, they didn't dare to say anything. originally thought that it would be good not to be bullied when I met this group of soldiers, but I didn't point to being able to give money, so I thought I was unlucky and made some effort. I didn't expect to give five dollars of silver, and I can't earn so much in a month!

The old boatman put away the silver, and while rocking the oar, he thanked him: "Thank you, General!" Thank you general, may the general wait for a hundred generations! "Look at the posture, if the old boatman hadn't been rocking the oar in his hand, he would have knelt down and kowtowed at this moment.

"The elderly don't have to be like this." Seeing this, Liu Yunwei stopped and persuaded again and again.

"I heard that my husband is from Hujia Village?" Liu Yunwei had nothing to do on the boat, so he continued to talk with the old boatman.

"General Hui, the old man is from Hujia Village."

"Who else is in my husband's family? How is the livelihood? ”

"Back to the general's words, there are still old women in the old family, sons and daughters-in-law are also filial, and they are very sensible when they give birth to a little grandson. Life is barely sustainable. Speaking of his grandson, the corners of the old boatman's mouth couldn't help but rise.

Liu Yunwei nodded, the old boatman's words reminded him of his grandfather and father, who had not seen him for a few years, and he didn't know how his grandfather and father were now. Looking at the dark river around him, Liu Yunwei fell into memory.

"Uncle, have you heard that there are Tartars nearby?" Zhao Kaishan couldn't bear the loneliness and also talked.

"Master Huijun, yes, why not." When the old boatman heard the word "Tartar", he seemed to have a stirring spirit, and said: "Further north of our Hujia Village, there is a village called Xu Jiawu. Not long ago, the village was gone. ”

"Gone? What's going on? Zhao Kaishan was taken aback and asked.

When Liu Yunwei heard it, he was also shocked, and looked at the old boatman waiting for the following.

"Nowadays, small bands of Tartars often plunder. Not long ago, a group of Tartar soldiers ransacked Xu's housework. I heard that young men and women were taken captive as domestic slaves, and children and old people were killed directly. Many young women were ruined on the spot, and some were directly ruined to death, which was too miserable. A village in the good end was wiped out overnight. "The old boatman is like a nightmare. I don't know if it was cold or scared, the old boatman couldn't stop shivering.

"Into the fucking dog Tartar!" Zhao Kaishan scolded after hearing this. The family members on the ship all scolded angrily.

Liu Yunwei's face was pale, and the hand holding the waist knife was clenched tightly, clicking.

The old boatman seemed reluctant to talk about the Tartars anymore, fearing that he would evoke horrible memories, so he concentrated on holding the ship and said no more. Only the angry scolding of Zhao Kaishan and the family members was left on the boat. And Liu Yunwei was thinking about something.

Soon the ferry docked.

Liu Yunwei saw that the sky was dark, and thought: I'm afraid I'm going to have to go at night, so he asked Wen Poyu: "Poyu, how far is Hujia Village?" ”

Wen Poyu replied: "It's not far, it's only three or four miles away." ”

When the old boatman saw that this group of military masters was going to Hujia Village, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "This general, the old man is familiar with the road, and the old man can show you the way." ”

"Then there's Lao Lao." Liu Yunwei said, "Ready to go." ”

It was the first time for the old shipwright to see such a polite officer and soldier, and he was grateful. So he ran to the front, ready to lead the way.

"Can you ride a horse?" Seeing that the old boatman was actually preparing to lead the way on foot, Wen Poyu hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"Go back to the military master, the old man will ride."

"Come on, lead a horse to my father-in-law." Wen Poyu said to the old boatman again: "Old man, please get on the horse, let's hurry." ”

"That's what the military master said."

The group rushed to Hujia Village.

On the way, Lu Ying and the others saw that Liu Yunwei's face was not good, he didn't say a word, and he didn't know what was going on, so they asked Zhao Kaishan, who was in the same boat with Liu Yunwei.

"Damn it, these sluts, Jiannu dogs." Zhao Kaishan scolded first, and then told the story of Xu's housework again.

When they heard this, they were all angry. For a while, the angry scolding was endless, and the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Jiannu Tartars, relatives and friends, and women in the family were all greeted several times.

"Quiet!"

Liu Yunwei shouted angrily, and the team fell silent for a moment.

"Save your strength, there is a chance for you to vent along the way!"

Four powerful generals and sixty soldiers held up the anger in their hearts. They knew that if they encountered Jiannu, the anger in their hearts would tear apart and burn the inferior and barbaric Jiannu through the weapons in their hands!

At night, everyone rushed to Hujia Village, but the scene in front of them made everyone stunned, and the anger in their hearts could no longer be suppressed.

At this time, the entire Hujia Village was in ruins, the village was full of corpses, none of which were intact, and a few naked women's corpses, apparently tortured before they died. In a burned-out room, several bodies that had been burned beyond recognition were huddled together. There are still more than a dozen children hanging from the old trees in the village, their thin bodies swaying in the wind like wind chimes.

"Jiannu! Yes! Liu Yunwei roared, roared, and went crazy. At this moment, he can't wait to exterminate the Jiannu clan, and behead, skin, and scatter all the Jiannu. The four generals and the family members also roared, and everyone rushed into the village to try to find the survivors, but the village seemed to be hell and lifeless.

"Oh my God!" When the old boatman saw that the burned house was his home, he ran over and crawled over, and from the remnants of his clothes, he recognized his wife and son, who had been burned beyond recognition; The daughter-in-law fell in a pool of blood outside the house, naked and dead, with a wooden stick stuck in her lower body, miserable. Suddenly, the old boatman seemed to think of something, and hurried around to look for it.

"Huzi! Toilet! Where are you? Where is it?" cried the old boatman, and when he found the old tree, he saw a dozen children hanging from the tree, and on the top of the tree hung his beloved grandson.

"Tartar! It's hard to die! ”