As soon as Lin Feng coerced Li Congqian's idea of "being a hostage", the rest of the matter happened very reasonably:

That night, Lin Feng secretly found Ma Bin and talked secretly for a while. Early the next morning, Ma Bin claimed to have received an urgent report from the State of Chu, and immediately prepared a generous gift to meet Liu Renzhen and Lin Feng, and asked the two adults to send troops to rescue Langzhou.

The military situation is like fire, Liu Renzhen and Lin Feng naturally agreed generously. Lin Feng ordered his subordinates, threw Li Congqian, who had a handful of snot and tears, to Liu Renzhen, and set off on foot as a whole team.

For a long time, Liu Renzhen coaxed Li Congqian, who was crying, and instructed his two sons to accompany Li Congqian to go around the city of Ezhou again and scatter their hearts.

At noon, the brothers ran back in a panic, and Li Congqian took advantage of none of them to pay attention and slipped away!

Liu Renzhen was furious, tied up the two brothers, threw them in the firewood room, and sent soldiers and horses to search around inside and outside the city.

A day later, a quick letter arrived from the capital. Liu Renzhen beat the brothers with ten lashes each in front of the envoy, and mobilized the whole city to search for His Royal Highness the Ninth in the whole territory of Ezhou.

Naturally, His Royal Highness the Ninth had already mysteriously disappeared at this time, and he could no longer be found.

In fact, at noon on the day of Lin Feng's departure, Li Congqian, who was alone, caught up with Lin Feng and his party at the junction of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Chu State.

Facing Li Congqian, who was crying and shouting "If you don't let you go, you will commit suicide on the spot", Lin Feng could only nod helplessly and agreed, and ordered a soldier from Ezhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty who led the way to see him off to quickly report back to Liu Renzhen. Under the leadership of Ma Bin, a group of people officially stepped into the territory of Chu State.

When Liu Renzhen heard the news and led his troops to find the border, Lin Feng, who was moving quickly, had already rushed to the east bank of Dongting Lake and took an official ship to Langzhou, the westernmost point.

"The August Lake is level, and the connotation is too clear. The steaming cloud Mengze shook Yueyang City. If you want to help without a boat, you will be ashamed and sage. Sitting and watching the anglers, there is nothing to envy the fish. Looking at the vast and vast Dongting Lake in front of him, Ma Bin, who was standing at the bow of the boat, was full of poetry and chanted the former Tang Dynasty Meng Haoran's "Looking at Dongting Lake as a Gift to Prime Minister Zhang".

"Meng Xiangyang is really a good poem. People can't help but think of Liu Mengde's other poem "Looking at Dongting": the lake and autumn moon are in harmony, and the surface of the pond has no wind mirrors and is not polished. Looking at the landscape of Dongting from afar, there is a green snail on the silver plate. It is just in line with the calm, smooth and waveless beauty of the cave in front of you! Li Xing, the Cheng Fang of Langzhou City and County who joined this team in Yuezhou, was originally a literati, and immediately recited the famous poems of Liu Yuxi of the former Tang Dynasty.

Ma Bin turned to Lin Feng, who was looking at him, and bowed his hand: "Lord Lin, you are famous, I wonder if we will be lucky enough to listen to the masterpiece?" ”

Lin Feng looked at the calm water, shook his head with a smile, and said humbly, "I'm really embarrassed." Lin has no intention of composing poetry at the moment, so please take care of yourself two adults. ”

After speaking, Lin Feng threw down the two stunned people, greeted a group of brothers, and walked towards the stern.

"Huzi, you have been practicing water warfare and ship warfare for a long time, let's tell you the key to these two types of warfare!" Lin Feng said to Lin Renzhao. This was originally a project for Lin Feng to lead the special forces to Quarry Rock for intensive training, but Ji Lu couldn't catch up with the changes, and now he could only sharpen his guns on the spot.

Lin Renzhao laughed, stepped out of the ranks, and said loudly: "Since ancient times, water warfare has been mainly divided into contact warfare and ramming and broadside warfare. Contact warfare is dominated by bows and arrows and small trebuchets, and long-range engagements are carried out, and archers are mainly responsible; Collision and broadside combat mainly refers to the close collision of the two ships, the two ships are handover in short combat, life and death fighting, and the sword and shield soldiers are mainly responsible for fighting, at this time, the archers are holding short weapons to fight with the enemy, and are responsible for covering the head of the ship.

Regarding this matter, I have discussed with Lord Lin, we went to Chu this time, because there are many lakes in Chu, water warfare is indispensable, and we have fewer troops, and we are not accustomed to water warfare, what we can participate in is very likely to be a broadside battle, I will mainly tell you the key to gang fighting. ”

Lin Renzhao walked to the side of the ship, grabbed the boat gang tightly with his left hand, held the knife in his right hand, his feet were differentiated, and his burly body stood like a mountain, and said loudly: "In the broadside battle, the first is to prevent collisions, and it is necessary to grasp the fixed parts of the ship before the two ships collide, and at the same time, pay attention to all kinds of debris that are knocked in the air, and do not lose balance or be injured by mistake."

Second, maintain a stable body at all times. After the collision of the two ships, the water is agitated, the shaking of the hull is intensified, and it is necessary to keep it stable at all times, and you can even use the shaking of the boat to increase the lethality after getting used to it.

Third, make the most of everything on board. As Lord Lin said, the battle is based on killing the enemy, as long as you can kill the enemy, you can use it. The ship's side, the cables, the scattered logs, everything can be used, like now-"

Speaking of this, Lin Renzhao exerted his left hand violently, and actually grabbed a large piece of the boat gang, raised his hand, and sprinkled the debris to the crowd who were listening attentively, and with a tiger roar, he drew his knife and pounced on the crowd who were hurriedly dodging in panic.

"Dangdangdang-" Several knives caught Lin Renzhao's knife in time, but they were all swept away by the powerful big knife, and a big gap was encircled around Lin Renzhao.

Lin Feng drew his knife in his hand, and took the lead in slashing at Lin Renzhao, while shouting: "A group of four, take turns to attack!" The soldiers who came back to their senses shouted and immediately surrounded Lin Renzhao.

Listening to the constant clanging sound and the shouts of the shouting soldiers from the stern, Ma Bin on the bow of the ship lost the mood to enjoy the scenery at all, and his mind turned to the fight at the stern, and his eyes were already a little frightened.

This Lin Feng and his group of subordinates are not fond of money, not greedy for sex, train so hard, act so self-disciplined, but are so competitive and aggressive, I really don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing to introduce these tiger and wolf gangsters into the Chu State.

The boat traveled for a day and a night, and near noon, it finally arrived at the city of Langzhou, which is located on the north shore.

Langzhou, located at the foot of Wuling Mountain in the northwest of Hunan, is located in the lower reaches of the Yuan River and Lishui, Dongting in the east, Qianchuan in the west, Yiyang in the south, Jingxiang in the north, and the ancient name is "the throat of Qianchuan, the gateway of Yunnan and Guizhou", and the geographical location is very important. In the sixteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui (596 AD), Emperor Wen of Sui changed Songzhou to Langzhou, and ruled in Wuling County (now Changde City, Hunan Province).

Ma Bin returned to his own land, and immediately got busy as the master, first asked Langzhou City and County Cheng Fang Li Xing to get off the boat first, and rushed to Langzhou to stab Shi Ma Xicao, and he would order his entourage to guide the Southern Tang soldiers to get off the boat, and he stepped forward to respectfully ask Lin Feng to get off the boat.

Lin Feng glanced at it, and the brothers who were already standing in full gear also straightened up the black Yunlu General military uniform that they had just changed on, and walked towards the lower part of the army with a wide pedal.

Before the group had walked a few steps, they saw two teams of wolf-like soldiers rushing over and driving the vendors and pedestrians on the dock. Lin Feng immediately waved his hand, causing everyone to stop.

The soldiers in full armor cleared the field until they reached Lin Feng and his party, quickly lined up in two neat columns on both sides of the road, and then shouted loudly: "Chu Guo Langzhou Thorn Shi Ma Xicao greets Lord Lin, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty." ”

At the end of the team, several people in brocade clothes walked quickly, and the first person shouted with his fists from afar: "Langzhou Ma Xicao greets Lord Lin!" ”

Lin Feng took two quick steps and greeted Ma Xixu.

At first glance, Lin Feng directly matched Ma Xicao's impression with the standard gentleman in his heart.

Ma Xicao looks like he is in his thirties, with a fat head and a big face, a fair complexion, no beard under the chin, and puffy muscles squeezing a pair of small eyes into a line; The colorful brocade clothes on his body are embroidered with a dragon-shaped pattern, and his footsteps are floating and weak, and it is obvious that he has been immersed in the wine-colored wealth world for a long time, and his body is at most a sub-health.

"Lord Lin, I have admired my name for a long time. I was waiting at the city gate early this morning, and you made me wait so hard! Ma Xicao came up and grabbed Lin Feng's hand, and a pair of fat and greasy hands immediately made Lin Feng's heart a little crooked.