The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in Huai'an, the width is different, with the terrain is not fixed, the width is more than ten zhang, the narrow place is only less than five zhang, but even the narrowest place, it is more than enough to accommodate two ships in parallel.

A group of more than 1,000 cavalry, on the side of the canal roared forward, the pedestrians and vehicles on the road have heard the sound of sideways, avoided, now in the wartime, such a situation is not uncommon, people in the past just on the side of the road indifferently bowed their heads and knelt, occasionally looked up to sneak a peek at the pigtailed soldiers, found that they hurried forward, while not stopping to look towards the canal.

Su Le and the others have been walking on the shore for half an hour, and the banks of the south of the Yangtze River in May are full of flowers and grass, full of greenery, and the scenery of birds and flowers is everywhere, but this group of soldiers is familiar with all this, and only cares about the hurried hurry, and the boats on the river, each one of them are included in their eyes, and look and see, but unfortunately none of them are the boats they are looking for.

The further they go, the cooler Su Le and Xu Dingguo's hearts become, and the more anxious their emotions become, they have run out for dozens of miles, look at the land boundary, they are about to reach SD forward, but they haven't seen the shadow of the twenty boats, the boats on the river, can't they just be gone?

Su Le has been praying in his heart, praying that the gang of surrendered troops will not turn their minds, and in a secret river, secretly scuttle the boat, get the gold and silver into the cart and take the dry road, the south is so big, hide in any ravine and ravine, where can you find it?

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the sharp-eyed scout cavalry shouting in front of him: "The ships on the river, come to the shore quickly!" ”

The two of them had a hot brain, and hurriedly looked towards the river, but saw that in the heart of the river, there was a large group of boats slowly moving with the waves, not in a hurry or slowly, it seemed that the load on the boat was very large, and the draft was very deep, even if the sails were already full, they could not go very fast.

Xu Dingguo looked at the hull of the ship first, the ship was fat, much wider than the civilian ship, there was no doubt that it was a boat, and he was a little excited in his heart, and then counted the number, a full twenty, one no more and one no less, and suddenly the person stood up from the horse and shouted at Su Le: "Master Su, it is this ship, it is this ship!" ”

In the excitement, even the sound was out of shape, and Sule had already heard it, and at this time he slapped the horse to the river, and if it wasn't for the neighing of the horse and refusing to go into the water, he was afraid that he would have jumped into the river.

"Dock, dock! Did the people on board hear me? Hurry up and get ashore, or we'll let go of the arrows!" Xu Dingguo shouted at the top of his voice.

More than 1,000 horses suddenly crowded around the river, shouting loudly and drawing arrows with their bows and arrows, making a gesture to shoot.

The boat was unmoved, still moving forward slowly, some people on the boat looked towards the shore, but they didn't seem to care, a few burly men came out of the cabin, with colorful tattoos all over their bodies, and shouted a word at the shore, and then laughed.

The river here is very wide, and it happens to be the widest part of this canal, and the boat in the middle of the river is four or five feet away from the shore, but Su Le and Xu Dingguo are standing on the bank, and they can hear it clearly, and the people on the boat shout: "My son, come if you have the ability!" ”

The two of them are noble and powerful, and they are also iron-blooded generals who were killed on the battlefield, when did they suffer this kind of humiliation, and they were humiliated by a few nobodies who didn't even know their names, their faces changed instantly, Su Le didn't say a word, and directly took off the bow and arrow hanging on the saddle and shot it, Xu Dingguo was a little steady, made a move with a calm face, and roared in his mouth: "Release the arrow!" ”

These more than 1,000 soldiers are all his capable soldiers, everyone can bend their bows and arrows, and as soon as he gave the order, the arrows were like flying locusts, and a dense rain of black arrows shrouded towards the river.

But the people on the boat laughed incessantly, and without waiting for the rain of arrows to fall, they turned over and plunged into the river, and a small whirlpool was stirred up on the surface of the water, and the river was so deep that even the human figure could not be seen after entering the water.

I only heard the sound of "Bangbang" endlessly, like rain hitting plantains, hundreds of wolf's teeth and arrows all shot into the hull of the ship, and not even a single human hair was stained. Su Le hated his face, and drew the longbow with one arrow after another, shooting towards the place where the tattooed man fell into the water, his strength can open the stele and crack the stone, a hard bow is drawn like a full moon, and the arrow shot is as fast as lightning, but the water is heavy, no matter how powerful the arrow is, it will be stagnant after entering the water, and it is useless at all.

After shooting two rounds, the wooden boat was already like a hedgehog, full of feathered arrows, and there was no longer a single figure on the boat. ”

As soon as Xu Dingguo gave an order, dozens of soldiers who knew how to swim immediately took off their clothes and armor, only wore short clothes and trousers, jumped into the water one after another, and swam towards the boat.

The canal is not wide, but the water is very deep, there are two people deep two steps from the shore, the soldiers who go into the water only leave one head on the water, scoop the water and swim with their heads, swim out less than two zhang away, the first few people exclaimed, the head sank into the water, the whole person disappeared, a breath, a stream of blood water rose from the place, permeated the water, a lifeless corpse followed by floating in the pool of blood, the boss on the neck of a bloody wound.

When the people behind saw this scene, they were so frightened that their faces were colorless, it must be the water ghost who jumped off the boat to kill people in the water, these people who know how to swim in the Xu Dingguo army are just able to swim, compared to fighting with knives in the water, they are still a few streets away from the water thieves on Hongze Lake. So there was a shout, and everyone turned around and swam back to the shore.

Xu Dingguo touched his neck, was stunned, and then roared angrily: "Release the arrow, release the arrow!" Shoot arrows into the water and shoot the people in the water! ”

This time there was no need for him to say it, all the soldiers saw it, the people on the boat did not run, they hid under the water, waiting for people to go down and wipe their necks, and once again arrows rained down, and the sound of "Bo Bo" entering the water was endless, splashing countless water waves.

After ejaculating for a while, the iron-faced Suller shouted, "Stop!" ”

Xu Dingguo looked at the river with palpitations, the river was like ink, as soon as the arrows stopped, the water surface returned to tranquility as before, and even the slightest blood flower did not float, obviously this dense arrow rain did not even touch the human skin under the water.

Souler pointed to the opposite bank dozens of feet upstream of the river and said in a deep voice: "They are there. ”

Xu Dingguo and the others followed Su Le's hand and looked, only to see that forty or fifty people had already gotten up from the river in water, laughing and scolding, while smearing oil on the soles of their feet, and ran into the woods on the shore and disappeared.

"Tell someone to take two hundred people to find a way to cross the river from upstream, and we must kill all these thieves, otherwise they will not come back!" Souler said coldly.

Immediately, the commander agreed and divided two hundred cavalry and went upstream.

Xu Dingguo only felt upset, the floating corpses under his hands on the water were still floating there, but the murderous opponent ran away from his hands, but he was helpless, this feeling, except for when he was against the Manchu Qing bannermen, he had never encountered it.

"Tell someone to go into the water again and bring the boat over!" Su Le's handsome face slowly regained a little color, and after calming down, he immediately gave orders again.

The soldiers who had just escaped from the water and swam back looked at each other, trembling and not daring to go any further, until Xu Dingguo pulled out his knife and lit up, and the remaining undressed soldiers were brave enough to swim to the boat parked in the middle of the river again.