The huge explosion and fire illuminated the entire Jinling City for a while. Han Jian looked at the flames that rose into the sky from afar, and he felt that something was wrong.

The direction from which the firelight came was the direction of the west of the city, and it was likely to be the Mighty Marquis Mansion. The night's rescue operation suddenly failed, and Han Jian had not yet figured out the specific situation, but Han Jian knew that with the gunpowder collected by Yi Die, it would not be able to cause such a large-scale explosion.

The impact of the explosion made the entire Jinling City uneasy for a while, and even the soldiers of the river defense battalion were a little frightened and at a loss for what to do in the rickety boat.

"Boating, out of town!" Han Jian snorted at the boatman.

The boatman replied, at this time, the people in the river defense camp didn't have the heart to pay attention to such a smuggling boat, Han Jian knew that if he didn't leave at this time, he wouldn't be able to get out of the city.

The boatman rowed in a hurry, and the boat passed through the opening of the water gate, and came out of the city, and a small boat rocked on the river at night, and after half an hour, the boat also docked.

"Hall Master Li, you've arrived." The boatman shouted to Han Jian.

"I'm tired." Han Jian said, and went ashore with Fa Yi and others, it was already the middle of the night, and the walls of Jinling City were flickering and dark not far away, and the noise could be faintly heard in the city.

Han Jian didn't ask in detail about the details of Fa Ye's rescue that night, and directly looked for the horses and carriages that had been prepared before at the ferry, and the explosion in the city also woke up the residents who lived outside the city for a generation, and some people appeared in the ferry that had calmed down for a while.

Han Jian and the others went ashore, and the people who responded also arrived. Han Jian sent out a code word to answer, and the person who answered took Han Jian and the others into the carriage, Xiaohe, Han Jian and Xiaoxiliu got into the carriage, and Ke Quer and Fa Ye rode horses. Han Jian personally drove the carriage and walked directly to the avenue west of Jinling City.

Because on the front line of Jinling City, the river defense line arranged by the Qi Dynasty was very tight, and it was not easy to cross the river to the north, so Han Jian had planned earlier that he could only go west for more than 100 miles if he wanted to go north. With the road conditions and the speed of the carriage, it was basically difficult to walk a hundred miles a day. At this time, there was such a big movement in Jinling. Han Jian knew that it would be difficult to cross the river again in the morning. It is necessary to cross the river before dawn, and it is only a little more than two hours from this time to dawn, and it is as far as it can go.

On the way, Han Jian inquired in detail about the detailed process of Fa Yi's rescue plan in the city. At this time, Han Jian knew. The reason why the mighty marquis mansion in Jinling City is heavily guarded. It's not because Yang Xi is being detained inside. Rather, it was because it was a secret arsenal of the Qi Dynasty, and Fa also entered it and knew that it was heavily guarded and there were several powder magazines for arms. At that time, she discussed with Yi Die that the military arsenal would be burned directly, and Yi Die was responsible for arranging for people to set fire, and Fa Yi went back to inform Han Jian first and escort Han Jian out of the city.

Han Jian knew it was too late at this time, and he didn't have time to discuss this matter with Yi Die in advance, and the disposition of the two was completely from the position of the Wei Dynasty, which was understandable. Now that such a big thing has happened in the city, if he doesn't leave, he won't be able to stay in the city, as for Yang Xi, he can't take care of it, this time going south is also the end, whether it is the Cao Gang or saving people, he has to wait until he returns to the Wei Dynasty, and then try to contact him to see if he can connect with Nanqi.

Originally, the speed of riding a horse would be faster, but because Xiaohe was weak after all, Han Jian also took a carriage in the plan, and the speed slowed down a lot. Before dawn, there were already chasing soldiers behind him, and Han Jian could only turn around and go directly to the river, because it was not yet a place to prepare a boat to cross the river, so he might not be able to find a boat when he went to the river.

"Master, if we don't reach the river, there will be pursuers coming from behind, we can only take one step at a time, and then see if we can find the boat when we go to the riverbank." Han Jian got out of the carriage and said to Fa Yi, who was still riding on the horse and holding the reins of the horse.

Fa Yi looked at the direction of the road, after all, they were walking on the official road, with her acumen, she could also feel that it was not a way to go on like this, even if there was no pursuer behind her, she would inevitably encounter the official road card in front. If you want to take a small road, because after all, they are not familiar with the land south of the Yangtze River, and they can't find the way.

"Hmm." Fa Ye didn't say much, jumped off the horse, and at this time Ke Qu'er also got off the horse, Han Jian signaled to drive the carriage and horses directly into the grass, and take advantage of the half hour before dawn to get on the boat and cross the river no matter what.

A group of five people approached from the official road all the way north to the direction of the river bank, but it was a long and wide river defense fortress line. Behind the fortress, there was a faint glow of fire, all of which were patrolled by soldiers at night.

Han Jian motioned to everyone not to make a sound, after all, the goal of the five people was not very big, and it was a dark and windy night, so it would not be too ostentatious to approach the river bank in the night. In a short time, a few people had already arrived at the core of the river defense line, which was also a small fortress, and the sound of the river was already very clear, and Han Jian knew that less than a hundred steps further was already the surface of the Yangtze River.

"Master, the situation ahead is unknown, if we walk in the dark like this, it is not clear when we will get to the river." Han Jian said, "Now it's better to grab a boat directly from the Qi people's soldiers." ”

Fa Yi said: "In this way, will there be a lot of movement? ”

Han Jian said helplessly: "There is no way, now having a ship is the most important thing." ”

As he spoke, a group of patrol soldiers came over with torches, and Han Jian gestured, after all, four of the five of them were good at martial arts. It is not difficult to solve a patrol squad of ten people. After Han Jian made a gesture, Ke Qu'er and Xiao Xiliu nodded at the same time, they already understood what Han Jian was going to do.

When the patrol team was less than ten steps away from them, Han Jian and the other four suddenly rushed out and immediately cut down the previous two. The people behind were alert and did not send a signal at the first time, but wanted to resist, but were swung up by Ke Qu'er and Fa Yi, and there were only two people left in the entire team when they landed.

"Say! Where are the boats crossing the river? Han Jian grabbed a live mouth and shouted in a low voice.

"No...... I don't know ......."

As soon as the words fell, this person was directly stabbed into his throat by Han Jian with a long sword, and he couldn't make any sound. At this time, Han Jian looked at the other soldier.

The soldier trembled and pointed in the direction of the riverbank, and said, "There are boats there...... Still, someone guarded ......"

Han Jian looked at a place with a fire not far away. I probably knew that it was the place where the soldier said there was a ship. Han Jian directly knocked the soldiers unconscious with the hilt of his sword, and then went to pull the frightened little lotus who had lost the three souls and seven spirits, and then approached the river bank together.

In the grass, the wind blew and rattled, and the soldiers on the river bank did not expect the danger to come from behind, after all, all they had been guarding against all these years was the river surface, and they rarely paid attention to the direction of the south of the Yangtze River. Han Jian wanted to go forward, and Fa also signaled to let Han Jian and the others stay first, and she was ready to go forward first. Ke Qu'er was commanded by Fa Yi, and seemed to be a little reluctant. Han Jian said in a low voice, "Miss Lao Ke stepped forward to help." ”

"Hmm." Ke Qu'er responded. He also went to the bank of the river with the law. Han Jian looked at the direction of the firelight from a distance, and saw that in the firelight, an unlucky soldier was directly overturned by Ke Qu'er's secret weapon, and then Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er killed at the same time. Defeat all of the soldiers in a squad. Afterwards. Dharma also made gestures. Let Han Jian and the others follow, and Fa Ye did not extinguish the fire on the riverbank, because once the fire was extinguished. It will alert the people of the other river defense lines.

Han Jian and Xiaoxiliu Xiaohe then arrived at the river bank, at this time the river was mighty below, and there was only a small boat on the river, and there was no boatman, Han Jian knew that he could only cross the river by himself.

"Get on board!" At this time, it is the darkest hour before dawn, and if there is no need for a light of tea, the sky will be bright, and after dawn, they want to tear the river through the river defense line of the Qi Dynasty, it is basically a fantasy.

But when everyone got on the boat, it still attracted the attention of Qi people. After all, the Jiang Defense patrol soldiers of the Qi Dynasty would have a patrol squad every once in a while, and Han Jian had killed a patrol squad soldier before, and he didn't have time to hide the corpse, so the next squad would find out when he came over.

Seeing that there was movement on the riverbank, Han Jian and the others had already left the south bank of the river at this time, and there was a large amount of fire faintly in the direction of the official road, Han Jian expected that it should be the arrival of the pursuers.

"Master, help hold the boat." Han Jian didn't have much experience in rowing, and he had the strength, but the boat was on the river, and the speed was not fast. In this way, once the Nanqi people sent ships to chase after them, they would soon catch up.

Fa Yi picked up the oars, and he seemed a little energetic, and then Ke Qu'er said, "I'll come!" ”

When Ke Qu'er picked up the oar and rowed a few times, the boat was much better than the original in terms of direction and speed. Only then did Han Jian know that Ke Qu'er was able to hold the boat.

For the sake of speed, Ke Qu'er was responsible for setting the direction and strength at the stern of the boat, while Han Jian was also hurriedly rowing beside him, speeding up and heading towards the north bank of the river. When he arrived at the center of the river, the sky was already dark, and Han Jian could see that there were already ships chasing after them on the south bank of the river, and the speed was obviously higher than them.

"That's not going to work." "They are all ships with sails, and we can't get to shore before them." ”

Han Jian was a little impatient, now was not the time to be discouraged, but there was no better way right now.

At this time, he saw some things with fire coming from the river, Han Jian carefully identified it, it should also be a boat.

"How can there be a ship?" Ke Qu'er also looked in the direction of the upstream, a little surprised, these ships were also very fast, not like the ships of the Nanqi River defense line, but like the merchant ships coming from the river.

"No matter! It's important to cross the river first! ”

Now it was impossible to tell whether the incoming ships were friend or foe, and Han Jian did not dare to venture close to these ships. But these boats were clearly coming towards them, and the direction they were coming in the direction of their small boat.

"What should I do?" Ke Qu'er finally looked at Han Jian, as if she felt that the person who came was friend or foe.

Han Jian said in a deep voice: "It's a big deal to fight to the death, maybe the boat will come over, and it will be beneficial to us." ”

Han Jian looked at the people on the boat, needless to say, the martial arts of Fa Yi and Ke Qu'er can be used as ten, and he and Xiao Xiliu can barely cope with a few, no matter how many people there are on a boat, after all, the place is small, and those soldiers can't go on together, so it's not difficult to kill a piece of armor without leaving it.

The sky was further brighter, and the ships swimming over at this time were still hanging with firelight, and Han Jian could probably see clearly, a heroic person seemed to be standing on the ship's board, and when he looked at it from a distance, Han Jian felt that this figure was a little familiar. Closer again, Han Jian could already distinguish that this person was clearly Zhu Tongjing, the great eunuch of the Southern Qi Dynasty, this time Zhu Tongjing was able to come from the upstream, and he came with a lot of ships, Han Jian had a feeling that it was difficult to fly with wings.

But when Zhu Tongjing's ship approached, Han Jian felt that Zhu Tongjing didn't feel like he was here to fall into the well and arrest him back.

Zhu Tongjing's main ship is very large, and the boats next to him are also warships. The direction in which those warships came was not to Han Jian's side, but to intercept the pursuers on the south bank of the river. Zhu Tongjing's main ship approached Han Jian's side, and there were not a large number of soldiers waiting on it, and all of them looked friendly, as if Han Jian could get closer to him.

However, Han Jian didn't want to get too close to these enemies. Although it was Xie Rumo who wanted to kill him, Zhu Tongjing was also a scheming man, so he naturally knew that it was better to put him back than to take him as a hostage.

Han Jian wanted to continue to hold the boat and go to the north shore, which was already not far from the north shore, but their speed was not as fast as the sailboat after all. And Zhu Tongjing's main boat was too big, if it was so straight and upright, just hitting it could knock their boat overturned.

"Don't come to the East King unharmed!" Along the river breeze, Zhu Tongjing's voice came, and at this time, Zhu Tongjing's boat was less than twenty steps away from Han Jian's boat.

Han Jian knew that there was no way to avoid it, so he could only stop what he was doing for the time being, and let Zhu Tongjing's boat get closer little by little.

"Master Zhu, don't come unharmed!" Han Jian looked coldly at Zhu Tongjing, who was looking at them with a smile on the boat, and sneered, "Master Zhu got up so early, is he here to swim in the river?" ”

At this time, the soldiers sent by Zhu Tongjing had been stopped by the chasing boats behind the river, and Han Jian didn't know what Zhu Tongjing's move meant. It feels like Zhu Tongjing doesn't have much malice, but at best, he came to arrest him.

"The king of the east doesn't need to worry." Zhu Tongjing was still standing on the board of the boat and said with a smile, "I came down today to deliver the book of the Eastern Kingdom." and sent the king of the east north. ”

"National Letters?"

Han Jianzheng replied in a low voice, a little puzzled. Zhu Tongjing had already taken out a scroll in his arms and threw it directly towards Han Jian's boat.

"Be careful!" Fa also drank a sentence, thinking that this was a secret weapon or something. But the hidden weapon would never be thrown so slowly.

Ke Qu'er took it and handed the scroll to Han Jian to see, and sure enough, it was a letter of state, on which were some friendly terms between the two countries, and there were also signatures of the people of Nanqi, and it was Zhu Tongjing's notes.

"Dongwang goes all the way! After all, the king of the east is not very happy, but I hope that in the future, the diplomatic relations between the two countries will not be suspended because of today's events! ”

Zhu Tongjing said, and their boat was also moving away from Han Jian's boat step by step. (To be continued......)