The crescent moon is in the sky, reflecting a silvery undulating river, the river breeze is coming, a trace of coolness invades the body, Yun Niang wrapped her dirty clothes, and held Aunt Wang in her arms, she looked at the black and miserable scene around her, and she didn't dare to move, the river was like a boundless huge black beast, opening its mouth wide, as if it could swallow this small piece of raft at any time.

The newly built raft sailed smoothly to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Li Dingguo could barely keep the raft out of order with a very jerky rocking method, and he was so tired that he was sweating, and he was more tired than carrying the wood all night last night.

Once it was born and cooked again, an hour passed, and although the raft had only sailed out of the north shore for only half a mile, Li Dingguo had gradually figured out some tricks, at least he no longer spun in place.

The moon is rising higher and higher, it is estimated that it is midnight now, and the firelight on the opposite side is gradually becoming scarce, the three of them have approached the center of the river, and they are moving forward in the dark on such a big river, and there is almost no sense of direction, fortunately, there is a fire on the opposite side to do the guidance, and the general direction will not be wrong, Li Dingguo has not eaten a grain of rice for two days, but he has chewed a few mouthfuls of fresh tender grass in the grass on the north bank, and he is exhausted at this time, but he is still gritting his teeth and shaking desperately, trying to let the raft go towards a place with less firelight.

The other side was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that someone could hear someone floating along the river breeze, Li Dingguo stepped up his movements, and turned his head to look at the two women sitting in the raft, their clothes were wet with splashing river water, and the river wind blew, and the two of them shivered.

Li Dingguo tried not to make too much movement, shook the oars and immediately stopped to observe, he was born in a battalion, and he had some understanding of the strength of the Ming army's river bank defense line, not to mention hitting the artillery, even the wave of fire bubbles could easily overturn this small raft, floating alone on the surface of the river, it was completely a dead target, if it was regarded as a fine work to cross the river at night, there was almost no chance of survival.

Li Dingguo through the hazy moonlight, can vaguely see the environment on the opposite bank, as if there are a few big boats parked there, there are rows of wooden fences standing in front of the fire on the shore, his heart is tight, how to row to the Ming Army Water Village Camp, this time it is broken, he is busy rowing backwards, who knows that the paddle blade at this time does not know what hard things under the water have touched, the oar slipped, Li Dingguo's body staggered, and immediately understood, secretly screaming that it was not good, and touched the broken boat nail under the water.

Generally, sharp wood or long iron sticks will be buried under the water surface outside the water village in advance, the purpose is to pierce the bottom of the opponent's ship when the enemy ship is coming, but I didn't expect Li Dingguo to touch this thing with this oar.

The raft suddenly stepped to the other side with Li Dingguo's foot, and suddenly tilted, and Yun Niang, who was already nervous, turned pale with fright, and instinctively shouted.

"There are people on the river, there are people on the river!" The sentry in the water village is also the tip of the ear, and it can be heard so clearly from a distance of ten feet.

With the shout of the sentry, the water village on the shore immediately boiled, and several large boats on the shore were also full of torches, and some people threw a few torches towards the source of the sound.

"Archers, archers" There were bursts of noisy footsteps on the ship of the Ming army, and this reaction was fast enough, but it was only a moment.

Li Dingguo wanted to row a raft at this time It was no longer possible, he threw the oars, blocked Yun Niang and Wang behind him, knelt on the raft, and shouted, "Brother Ming Jun, don't release arrows, don't release arrows, our own people, we are not spies"

The people on the boat listened to him, in the night, a row of arrows broke through the air, swishing into the water or nailed to the raft, Li Dingguo scolded secretly, Ge Laozi, just finished speaking, a sharp arrow popped into his arm, blood splashed Yun Niang's face, Yun Niang screamed in fright, she seemed to see the blood sprayed from her mother's chest outside Huaining City again, she kept wiping on her face uncontrollably, screaming.

At this time, a voice came from the Ming army ship, "Don't let go of the arrows, I, my mother seems to hear a woman's voice, come on, go over and have a look"

Li Dingguo gritted his teeth, grabbed Yun Niang's arm and said, "Miss Yun Niang, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we can see General Wang."

Mrs. Wang also struggled to get up from the raft, took Yun Niang's hand, and cried, "Girl, it's okay, it's okay, come, come to Auntie"

A few small boats quickly rowed towards Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo saw the familiar military uniform, his heart was afraid and happy, he endured the pain and stood up, put his right hand behind his back, the short sword is at hand, these years, soldiers are no different from bandits.

The small boats of the Ming army quickly surrounded Li Dingguo and them in the middle, and a number of small boats were facing them, and several small boats looked around, believing that this was just a false alarm, so they brought Li Dingguo and the three of them to the big ship.

Li Dingguo was dragged onto the deck of the big ship by two soldiers, and fell heavily on the deck, and when he looked up, there were already torches around him, and more than a dozen soldiers were looking down at him.

Li Dingguo sat up with difficulty, grinning in pain and squeezing out a smile, "Brothers, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I am ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was kicked heavily in the back of the neck, which caused him to roll on the ground several times, and the arrow on his arm was also broken in the rolling, and a heart-rending pain spread throughout his body.

"Who the hell, mom is your brother, did Lao Tzu ask you? Say, who are you, and what are you doing across the river in the middle of the night? Is it a spy sent by a thief?" A man with a general flag and waist card on his waist stepped forward, stepped on the chest of Li Dingguo, who was about to get up, and said viciously.

Li Dingguo coughed a few times, he has been in the barracks for many years, and he knows that pretending to be a grandson in this barracks is the most invisible, and even the brothers around you are not willing to take care of you, the reason is very simple, the gods and Bodhisattvas can't be counted on on the battlefield, the only one who can save your life is the brother around you, if you are a timid person who is afraid of death, can you expect him to save your life when you are in danger?

Li Dingguo struggled several times but couldn't get up, panting and said, "This master, I'm not a spy, I'm a person from the Fengzi Battalion of the defenders of Huaining City in Jiangbei, after Huaining fell, I was separated from General Wang, and I had to end up here."

When the chief flag officer heard this, he shouted, and then laughed, "I didn't see it, Fengzi Battalion, and General Wang, what the hell are you bluffing?"

Li Dingguo saw that he didn't believe it, and said busily, "Really, really, I am really the Fengzi Battalion, our general is Wang Lanping, Wang Zhuangyuan, the deputy chief military officer of Anqing Mansion, have you heard of it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, all the Ming troops around them, including the chief flag officer, burst into laughter.

"Oh, I've heard, of course I've heard it, I'll tell you the truth, your trick is not good, there are no less than twenty people who have pretended to be Dingnanhou's own soldiers from Lao Tzu before and after, he, mother, there is a person who doesn't want to die and cheated away twenty taels of silver from Lao Tzu, this tone Lao Tzu has no place to come out now" This month, a lot of deserters have come from Jiangbei one after another, many people have gone home in order to beg for some entanglement, I heard that now the reputation of the Fengzi camp is big, as a result, a few Fengzi camps can come every few days, and it works at first, How to say that the Fengzi Battalion is now the personal soldier of the Marquis of Dingnan, the Emperor's Praetorian Guard, and every little soldier who came out is the master, but as more and more people come over, this trick has been discovered, and since then, anyone who says that it is the Fengzi Battalion has been thrown into the river to feed the fish.

Li Dingguo was confused, "Dingnanhou? Who is the Marquis of Dingnan, no, no, I mean Wang Lanping Wang Zhuangyuan, I don't know what the Marquis of Dingnan"

The chief flag officer stepped on it again, "Hey, it's not good to make up nonsense, so you dare to pretend to be Hou Ye's personal soldier and say, who are you?" ”

Li Dingguo didn't know that Wang Lanping was named the Marquis of Dingnan a month ago, and now in addition to Ma Shiying and Shi Kefa in the court, he is famous, and the Ming army generals in the south of the Yangtze River worship him as a god, and he is a marquis in his twenties, which is something that many people dare not think of.

Li Dingguo said, "I am really Wang Zhuangyuan's soldier, this master, do you know where Wang Zhuangyuan is, or if you send me to him, I guarantee that he will be grateful to you, really."

At this time, Yun Niang and Mrs. Wang were also pushed and shoved to the deck, and a few soldiers salivated when they saw Yun Niang's face washed clean by the river, and they couldn't pull out their eyes when they stared at them, revealing their greedy faces.

The chief flag officer pointed to Yun Niang and asked Li Dingguo, "Don't tell me that one of them is the princess of the champion, and the other is the mother of the princess."

Li Dingguo was overjoyed, and he finally got the right number, "Yes, yes, that's it, the master has good eyesight"

The chief flag officer was stunned for a moment, and after a long time, he suddenly kicked again, "Hey, this is a liar's nest, you kid don't take urine to wash your face, see if Hou Ye recognizes you, come, tie him to me strongly, throw him into the river to feed the fish, and the old woman also threw it down, why didn't she pretend to be the queen mother, and take this little girl to the grandfather's cabin, and I want to try again."

Li Dingguo is completely blinded, what's going on, where did a Dingnan Marquis come from, could it be that Wang Zhuangyuan has entered the Marquis of Dingnan, is it really fake? But at the moment, I can't make sense with this group of soldiers, what to do, what to do, seeing the way the chief flag officer stared at Miss Yun Niang, he must have no good intentions, and he had no choice but to fight.

Li Dingguo took advantage of being set up by several soldiers, suddenly screamed, and threw himself behind the general flag that was about to leave, and the short sword behind his back had already been touched in his hand and put up in front of his neck.

"Cut your neck with a move, let your soldiers retreat, quickly" The short blade in Li Dingguo's hand was tightly pressed against the chief flag officer's trachea, and the skin was broken with blood, as long as he had more strength, he would have to die on the spot.

The chief flag officer was completely defenseless, and he was also a person who had seen blood, knowing that life and death were in an instant, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move, he waved his hands lightly, and said in shock, "Brothers, retreat, all retreat, this, this brother, pay attention, be careful, you have something to say, you have to go, you can leave at any time"

Li Dingguo didn't believe him, "let your people let them go"

Where did Yun Niang and the old lady suffer this kind of fright, and returned behind Li Dingguo with trepidation.

Li Dingguo glanced around, not to mention that there were twenty or thirty people, and hard work was definitely not the way.

"Tell me" Li Dingguo tightened his hand and said, "Where did the Fengzi Camp go?" Where is Wang Zhuangyuan? Who is that Dingnanhou you are talking about? ”

The chief flag officer understands now, it seems that this group of people has a good relationship with the Hou Ye, it is really blind, he squeezed out a smile and said, "Brother, I have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, Wang Zhuangyuan has entered the position of Dingnan Hou, commanding the fifteenth battalion of Liudu, and the Fengzi battalion has also entered the palace and become the emperor's mission, brother, you let me go, I will order my subordinates to put down a banquet, give Mrs. Tai and, and this young lady to catch the wind, oh yes, and brother, what are you still doing in a daze, don't you kneel down and kowtow to Mrs. Tai, a bunch of waste" The chief flag officer pointed to his subordinates around him and scolded.

Li Dingguo didn't believe him anymore, who knew if they were going to arrange other tricks to deal with him, so he hurriedly shouted, "Don't move, don't move anyone, give me a fast boat, prepare dry food, hurry"

Li Dingguo's knife edge went deeper again, and the blood dripped down the cold light and Sensen's knife face on the armor of the chief flag officer.

"Okay, this is it, just do it, brother, your subordinates pay attention" The chief flag officer's face turned pale.

It didn't take long for everything to be ready, Li Dingguo escorted the chief flag officer down the gangplank and walked off the big boat to change to the clipper, Yun Niang and the old lady also followed, and Li Dingguo asked him to tie a small boat after the clipper.

"Row! Please give us a ride" Li Dingguo pointed at the Adam's apple of the chief flag officer with a short blade and motioned for him to pick up the oars.

Who knew that the chief flag officer suddenly knelt down, crying and mourning, and said, "Brother, Mrs. Tai, you can't go, the Hou Ye will ask in the future, the villain can't afford this responsibility, Mrs. Tai, you can say something."

The Wang family didn't have any ideas, they didn't understand the dangers that might happen here, and they were kind-hearted, and when they saw the chief flag officer crying like this, he said, "Ah Guo, or ...... it."

Li Dingguo said, "Mrs. Tai, you can't trust others, in case this kid is lying to us, on this Yangtze River, we will die without a place to bury, you, get up, row, and when we are safe, we will naturally let you go, let your people not follow, row quickly"

The chief flag officer can also see that this is called Li Dingguo's iron heart, hey, who called his life bad, picked up a gold ingot and lost it.

Taking advantage of the night, the chief flag officer had rowed the fast boat out in the direction of Nanjing for several miles, Li Dingguo looked at the road, it was pitch black, as if no one was following up, so he let him taste a few bites of the dry food on the boat, and after being sure that the food was not poisonous, he let him take the back and drag the boat, and threw the oars on the boat, so that he could only float back with the wind if he wanted to run back to find someone.

Li Dingguo was about to shake the paddles, Wang asked him if Ping'er had really become the Marquis of Dingnan, Li Dingguo was not sure, who knew if that kid was making up blindly to save his life, and when he went ashore at dawn to find a yamen to inquire, he would know.

Wang's physical illness was soaked in the river, which frightened the Ming army again, and after eating a few mouthfuls of dry food, the man had already fainted.

In order to prevent the general flag from chasing, Li Dingguo went ashore not long after, this side is safe, and he should find a hospital to see Mrs. Tai before leaving.

At dawn, the people of the Ming Army Water Village finally found the chief flag officer who had already repented of his intestines on the boat.

"Quick, hurry up and start the boat, chase it" The chief flag officer got on the big boat, and was so anxious that he jumped like thunder.

"Yes, drive the boat, slaughter them, even our master dares to tie them up"

"Fart, Lao Tzu slaughtered you, go pick up Mrs. Tai back, why am I so stupid, I have lost all the wealth in my hands, and I am still fucking stunned? Sail the boat."

"Do you want to report to Master Qian?"

"Report to you, mom, can you let others know about this? Tell you, when you receive Mrs. Tai, you all have to give me as an ancestor, and the lord will personally escort Mrs. Tai to Nanjing, and send my mother thousands of miles, and the lord will not give me a reward for an official and a half position."