Chapter Seventy-Eight: Surfacing
"Da Zhuang, hurry up and keep up, you can get to Jinshui River today, and you can go home to accompany your daughter-in-law after the fight."
"I know what's going on, I'll come now!"
As he spoke, the veteran turned his head forward and shouted a few orders, and the others hurriedly formed a team when they heard it.
When one of the recruits heard this, he put out the bonfire with his foot, carried his spear to his shoulder, hurried up a dozen paces, and in a blink of an eye he was in the queue, and it was no longer possible to tell where the people were.
From the unmanned Zhuangzi forward, almost all of them are uninhabited plains and wastelands, and many of the people in the team were once farmers from Liaodong, and they can know how abandoned the land has been, and whether they can still cultivate the land just by smelling and seeing.
On the way, Huang Yang also looked for a Liaodong recruit with great interest and asked, and the recruit said with a smile:
"Sentry, this land is pretty good! In the past, Inspector Sun took us to the land that had been abandoned for more than ten years and could be recultivated. ”
Nodding, Huang Yang laughed, thinking that this was good news, seeing Wang Zheng's sad face in the past few days, it seemed that he should tell Wang Zheng the good news as soon as possible, and it would also make him happy.
Wang Zheng rode on his horse, tried his best to stabilize his body, looked from afar, and finally could see the stretching river in front of him, and the Jinshui River should be about to arrive.
At the wharf in the lower reaches of the Jinshui River, more than a dozen slender men dressed in white were squatting on the boat, laughing and laughing, and it didn't take long for a team of about 200 people to slowly come from a distance.
The group of people who came was dressed in blue shirts, as if he were a businessman.
Behind him were a group of men with several large boxes, and there were also two dozen men with waist knives, and those boxes were carefully covered with canvas, and it was impossible to see what was inside.
A slender man on the dock changed his eyes with the one on his side, and greeted him with a smile.
"Did Liu Dongjia go all the way?"
The man who came arched his hand, patted the dust on his robe, and forced a smile to himself:
"In less than half a year, I didn't expect that this inspection department would develop so fast, even to the point of pervasiveness, it was impossible for Liu to go ashore, and the rest of the people were detained, but fortunately, Liu was replaced with sea salt."
Speaking of this, Liu Bei lightly kicked the plank of the boat, which was the slow boarding, and said hatefully: "If it weren't for the purchase of Wei Qianhu, it would be impossible to come to Jinshui River all the way." ”
The slender man nodded casually and asked, "Well, Wei Qianhu has helped us a lot inside and outside, and the goods of Liu Dong's family along the way...?" ”
Sitting on the boat, Liu Bei naturally knew what these bandits were asking, took a few breaths, smiled at him, and said:
"Relax, Young Master Ke said, if this thing can be done, there will be another heavy reward."
The slender man laughed, walked to the front of the box, glanced at Liu Bei, and asked, "In this case, Liu Dongjia, there is still a reluctant request below, can you lift the canvas and let the brothers take a look at the goods first?" ”
Liu Bei glanced around, and suddenly felt that he was suspicious, at this time, Wang Zheng was afraid that he was busy saving Wuwen River, where could he have the leisure to take care of Jinshui River, so he nodded.
The slender man and a few people changed their looks, and lifted the canvas together, and they couldn't open their eyes with a burst of white light, and all kinds of weapons were packed in the box.
The boxes were full of shiny steel knives, and the slender man picked one out, and compared it to the harpoon on his waist, it was like heaven and earth.
laughed happily and said: "It's still Young Master Ke's boldness, I Jin Shuihu said it a long time ago, this trip is worth it!" ”
Liu Bei smiled and said: "Whether it's worth it or not, it depends on whether the strategy of the King of Baitiao and the Water Tiger brothers works, then Wang Zheng is very angry because of this, but you and I are happy." ”
"Naturally, the host, please come to the mountains to gather!"
Glancing at the stinky bandits around him, Liu Bei was disgusted, but if he wanted to make Wang Zheng feel bad, he really had to rely on them now, and at least he still had to give face.
At that moment, he also smiled to himself, and arched his hand: "Yangma Island has a lot of affairs, and there are many dreams at night, this is not a place to stay for a long time after all, so I will leave." ”
Jin Shuihu, the second leader, did not stay, turned around and shouted: "Old five, take someone to send Liu Dong's house, just walk from the woods in the south, and remember to hang the mountain bell." ”
About a dozen water bandits walked out of the crowd, led by Lao Wu, the fifth in command of Jinshui River, and he led more than a dozen water bandits to lead the way.
Liu Bei couldn't refuse, nodded and thanked him, turned his head and left.
In the woods, everything was quiet, and suddenly a 'clang' sound came from far and near, and a team of about 200 people walked over.
The dense woods on the mountain forest covered the surrounding corpses very well, and the people of the Wendeng camp were quietly lying on both sides, Huang Yang looked at the team passing by in front of him, and was suddenly startled.
"This man... Hey, I think I've seen it somewhere. ”
"I remembered, it was Liu Bei. I had seen it in Chenghaixuan that day, but how did he get to Jinshui River, could it be that there was a mistake at the pass on Niu Pingliang's side? ”
When he was puzzled, a captain beside him touched Huang Yang and asked, "Sentinel, the old way?" ”
On the one hand, Huang Yang nodded and gave an order, and on the other hand, he asked a recruit with sharp legs to inform Wang Zheng in the rear.
......
Lao Wu was walking with the water bandits swaggering, and suddenly felt movement on both sides, and after the sound of frolicking and solosing, more than 20 bandits came out from both ends.
Seeing the bandit at the head, Lao Wu frowned, why hadn't he seen it before?
"What's the matter with you, didn't you hear that we hung up the mountain bell, if you want to break the rules on the road?"
The bandit at the head looked panicked, and waved his hand again and again:
"No, no, the officers and soldiers are calling, and our brothers have suffered heavy casualties, and they are here to ask for help."
"Officers and soldiers?"
Lao Wu glanced at the bandits behind him, and they also looked uncertain, so he said in a deep voice: "Are you sure you read it right, there are officers and soldiers coming here?" ”
"Sure, really..."
The thief took a few steps forward, with horror on his face, and as soon as he said a few words, the panic suddenly turned hideous, and a waist knife suddenly pierced through the chest of the old five spirits.
The other twenty or so bandits also attacked at the same time, and the dozen or so bandits led by Lao Wu didn't have time to react at all, and within a few quarters of an hour, they fell to the ground and convulsed with blood-spurting wounds.
Liu Bei's eyes widened and he retreated tremblingly.
"What are you going to do with you bandits?"
"Bandits? Liu Bei, open your eyes and see who the master is! ”
As the words fell, Huang Yang appeared from both sides with more than two hundred Wendeng Battalion sergeants, and the tips of their guns flashing with cold light were aimed at the caravan in the middle.