Chapter Twenty-Nine: Autumn Moon on the River

Lu Xiao looked in the direction pointed by Chen Nian, and sure enough, he saw several ships coming from far away. These ships are all close to the center of the river, and there is no light on the ship, if it weren't for the bright moonlight tonight and the excellent eyesight of the two of them, I am afraid that they would not have been able to find it at all.

Chen Nian said: "This is not an ordinary merchant ship. ”

Lu Xiao was born inland and didn't understand this, so he said strangely: "How can I see it?"

Chen Nian stood up, looked at the ship carefully, and said, "It is very dangerous to sail at night, and these ships refuse to even light a lamp, obviously to cover their whereabouts. She thought for a moment and said to Lu Xiao: "You don't know, the Taixing Navy is on an island in the west of Jiangxin, maybe it's them, I have to go and take a closer look." ”

She said and jumped downstairs, Lu Xiao saw this and hurriedly followed. The two descended from the east side and soon reached the river. It's just that the river is very wide, and although the moonlight is bright, I still can't see the situation in the river. Lu Xiao saw that there was a ferry not far away, and there were a few small fishing boats parked next to it, so he said, "There is a boat over there, let's go to the river to have a look,"

Chen Nian listened, but said with a smile: "As far as you and I are able to operate the boat, we can't let anyone slaughter them when we get to the river, so let's forget it quickly." ”

Lu Xiao couldn't help but remember the situation when the two escaped from Qingzhou that year and crossed the Ziya River by boat, smiled and asked, "Then what should I do, Yiping can have a naval army,"

"Feng Junyang has some in his hands, but the water camp is on the other side." Chen Nian thought about it for a while, and suddenly moved in his heart, and said: "Let's light a fire by the river to see the situation first, first, we can warn the other side, and second, we can warn the boat on the river, if it is really the Taixing Navy, look at the whereabouts of being discovered, it will definitely be more restrained." ”

Lu Xiao nodded, and went with Chen Nian to find dry branches and hay. Fortunately, it was late autumn at this time, but in a few moments, the two of them lit a fire. Chen Nian said: "Be careful of hidden arrows hurting people, let's go and guard elsewhere." ”

The two of them had just found a place to hide from the bright fire, but they heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the west. Chen Nian looked for the sound and vaguely saw dozens of horses galloping from a distance. The speed of the team of knights was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, Lu Xiao dragged Chen Nian back, and heard one of them report: "General, this fire seems to have just been lit, and people should not be far away." ”

The person who was called the general said "um", Chen Nian heard the voice low and familiar, and couldn't help but look again, and saw that the person in charge was really Zheng Lun.

Zheng Lun glanced at the fire and ordered, "Look for it and see who is here." ”

Chen Nian secretly said "It's bad", he has always said that her words and deeds are debauched, if he sees her and Lu Xiao here late at night again, he doesn't know what to scold her again, and then he will really be full of mouths and can't tell clearly. Her mind was spinning very fast, so she hurriedly leaned into Lu Xiao's ear and whispered: "I'll go out, you hide your whereabouts, don't be discovered by them." ”

Although Lu Xiao didn't understand why Chen Nian was like this, he still nodded to indicate that he understood.

Chen Nian smiled at him, then got up and walked out, shouting loudly, "General Zheng,"

Zheng Lun was slightly stunned when he heard her voice, turned his horse's head, and quietly watched Chen Nian come out of the darkness, until she approached, and then asked in a deep voice: "Why are you here?"

Chen Nian glanced at everyone and saw that they were all Zheng Lun's cavalry, so he replied: "I was admiring the moon in Wangjianglou before, and I accidentally saw boats coming upstream, and I saw that those boats were a little strange, so I lit a fire here, wanting to warn the water camp on the other side of the river. ”

Zheng Lun looked at her, raised his eyes to look at her previous hiding place, and asked lightly, "You are alone in Wangjiang Tower to admire the moon,"

Chen Nian nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Zheng Lun didn't believe it, and glanced at the guards next to him lightly. The guard understood his eyes, and quietly went to Chen Nian's hiding place, and saw that there was indeed no one there, so he shook his head slightly at Zheng Lun.

Chen Nian only pretended not to see the small movements of the guard, looked up at the horse, and asked Zheng Lun, "How did General Zheng come here?"

Zheng Lun replied: "I followed those boats all the way, and when I saw a fire here, I came over to take a look." ”

As he spoke, those boats had already sailed upstream, and Chen Nian saw it at a glance, pointed to Jiangzhong and Zheng Lun and said, "Look, those boats are coming." ”

Zheng Lun also turned his head to look, his internal strength was deeper than that of Chen Nian, and he could already see things at night, and said: "These ships and furniture are all quietly sailed out of the Taixing Water Military Barracks, and they are not good at water warfare, but they are mostly used to transport troops. ”

Chen Nian frowned when he heard this, and asked, "The He family is going to carry out a sneak attack, but these few ships are full of people, what can they do?"

Zheng Lun thought for a while and replied: "A few miles further east, not far from the south bank, is where the granary of the prince's troops this time is located. ”

Chen Nian was shocked when he heard this, "The He family is going to sneak attack the granary,"

He Zhen had obviously responded to the retreat, but tonight he came to attack the granary on the south bank, which was obviously extremely inauthentic. But the soldiers are not tired of deceit, she also surrendered to He Ze Xiushu during the day, but went to attack his camp at night. If He Zhen really did this, it would be a tooth for a tooth.

Zheng Lun didn't answer, but stretched out his hand to the guard next to him, and said in a deep voice, "Strong bow." ”

The guard hurriedly took off the strong bow on his back and handed it over, Zheng Lun took it, took the arrow and drew the bow, and was about to shoot it into the river, but he heard Chen Nian suddenly shout: "Wait." ”

Zheng Lun paused when he heard the sound, slowly released the bowstring, and turned his head sideways to look at Chen Nian silently.

Chen Nian simply tore off the corner of his clothes, took off the wine bag hanging on his waist, pulled off the stopper and soaked all the corners of his clothes with strong wine, and then reached out to Zheng Lun to ask for feather arrows, and said, "Give me the arrows." ”

Zheng Lun looked at her twice and handed her the feather arrow in his hand.

Chen Nian saw that his eyes fell on his wine bag, so he smiled and explained: "I stole it in Wangjiang Tower just now, and I wanted to bring it back to the city for your prince to taste." ”

Zheng Lun couldn't tell whether his heart was sour or astringent, so he only lowered his eyes and didn't look at her. Chen Nian didn't care about his expression, only lowered his head and wrapped the piece of cloth tightly on the arrow, returned it to Zheng Lun, and went to the fire to get the fire, and said with a smile: "You try it, so you may shoot on that boat,"

As she finished, she lit the arrow.

Zheng Lun pursed his lips, pulled the strong bow to the maximum, his fingers were slightly loose, and the rocket shot towards the center of the river like a meteor, shooting at the front ship. The ship burst into flames, and several figures rushed out of the cabin to extinguish the fire, and one of them shouted loudly: "Who is so immoral, so he can come to someone else's ship,"

After a while, the lights on those boats were lit, and the boats were suddenly illuminated, and Chen Nian looked at it from a distance, and saw that on the ship, a boy in brocade clothes came out of the cabin, but he Ze didn't want to.

Chen Nian slapped He Ze hard, thinking that even if he couldn't kill him, he would have to lie down for a month, not wanting him to appear here so lively. Chen Nian suddenly felt annoyed in his heart, turned his head and said to Zheng Lun: "But there is a way to go on his boat,"

As soon as she finished asking, she saw that many boats were going upriver from the downstream and stopped the boats in the river, which were the Jiangnan naval army who rushed to hear the news. After a while, a building boat came to the north shore and put a small boat down to pick up Zheng Lun and the others.

Chen Nian didn't know where Lu Xiao was hiding at the moment, so he only glanced back, and then jumped onto the boat with Zheng Lun. When Zheng Lun saw her coming, he didn't stop her, only glanced at her lightly, and asked, "Does the prince know that you are here?"

Chen Nian didn't dare to tell him the truth, so he replied vaguely: "He knows that I came out." ”

Zheng Lun didn't ask again, hesitated for a moment, but took off the cloak on his body and threw it to her, and said in a low voice: "Put it on." ”

Chen Nian has never cared about these subtleties, so when he heard this, he wrapped his cloak around his body. The boat was very small, and there were several people standing, Zheng Lun looked sideways slightly, and saw that Chen Nian was on his side, and although the cloak wrapped her figure, it couldn't cover her head and face. Under the moonlight, I felt that her face was white, her eyebrows were delicate and picturesque, and her eyes reflected the sparkling water waves in the river, which were a few points brighter than the stars in the sky.

Somehow, his heart thumped, and when he realized it, he was a little annoyed, and wanted to take off the helmet for her, but his hand was raised, and he realized that this act was too deliberate, so he dropped his hand again, put it back on the hilt of the sword, and said in a deep voice, "Take off the helmet to her." ”

The guard took off his helmet and handed it to Chennian. Chen Nian didn't know what Zheng Lun was thinking, but he was afraid that he would reveal his identity, so he silently took the helmet and buckled it on his head. Not wanting the guard's head to be much bigger than hers, the helmet leaned forward, covering half of her face. Chen Nian stretched out his hand and pushed the helmet back, but as soon as the hand left, just in time for the boat to shake with the waves, the helmet slid down again. This time, even the bridge of her nose was covered, leaving only a small white tip of her nose outside.

Zheng Lun's eyes took in all her movements, and when he saw her like this, he couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

Chen Nian had no choice but to hold the helmet with his hand and asked Zheng Lun, "Maybe give me a smaller one,"

Zheng Lun tightened his face and replied lightly, "No." ”

While speaking, the small boat was already close to the building boat, and the soft ladder was lowered on the side of the boat for the people in the boat, but Zheng Lun did not use the soft ladder, jumped up from the small boat, and jumped onto the deck of the building ship. Chen Nian could have jumped on the boat like him, but after thinking about it, he was afraid of attracting attention, so he put on the helmet and honestly climbed up the soft ladder.

Zheng Lun was a little surprised to see her like this, and he didn't realize that he looked at her twice, but he didn't say anything. There was a partial general of the navy on the boat on this floor, who stepped forward to greet Zheng Lun and said, "General Zheng, as soon as General Wan received the news, he ordered the junior general to come over, and now he has stopped all the other party's ships." ”

Zheng Lun nodded slowly, and said in a deep voice: "Send someone to quickly return to the military village to inform General Wan, and ask him to send troops to protect the granary on the south bank in case the enemy army sneaks up by land." ”

When the general heard this, he was busy arranging this matter.

Chen Nian thought about it for a while, then he also understood, walked behind Zheng Lun, and asked him in a low voice: "Are you afraid that He Ze deliberately appeared here to confuse us,"

Zheng Lun glanced back at her and replied, "Not bad." ”

As he spoke, the ship on this floor was already close to the ship of the He family's navy. He Ze stood at the bow of the boat, saw Zheng Lun's appearance clearly, and laughed loudly: "I don't want to be General Zheng here." General Zheng, like He Ze, is also here to enjoy the autumn moon on the river,"