Late at night, on the Lushui River, the moonlight is long.

Suddenly, ripples appeared on the calm surface of the river, and under the moonlight, a dense black dot suddenly appeared in the river.

If you look closely, you can see that these dense black spots are all fishing boats, which come from all directions, like birds shuttling on the river, faintly converging in one direction!

After the man who supported the boat parked the boat, he rubbed his somewhat sore shoulders, sat on the bow of the boat and looked at the river.

Whoop –

Another boat rowed over, and I saw the person holding the boat swinging the bamboo pole behind the boat, and the hull of the boat slowly leaned sideways on the side of the first boat, and the two boats leaned together neatly, as if they had planned with a ruler.

Whoop –

Then came the third boat, the fourth boat...... Each boat was lined up on the south side of the previous one, and no one spoke except for the sound of bamboo poles paddling the water.

There are many fishing boats on the river, one after another, no one to command, no one to communicate, it is like rehearsing countless times, each boat is placed in the most suitable position, and then quietly moored there.

Boom!

Finally, the bottom of a fishing boat touched the bank of the river on the other side, and further south there was no room for a boat, and at this time there were dozens of idle fishing boats on the river, and they saw this situation, slowly rowed their hulls, and swam on the surface of the river.

As soon as the fishing boat came to the shore, the propeller put the bamboo pole in his hand across the boat, and the bamboo pole more than two zhang long crossed the three fishing boats and landed on the bow of the three fishing boats.

The next moment when the propeller of the first boat crossed the bamboo pole, the propeller of the second fishing boat also put the bamboo pole in his hand across the stern of the three boats

Then the propeller of the third boat ran his rod across the bow of the second, third, and fourth boats, and the following boats did the same......

Building a boat bridge is a long-standing skill on both sides of the Lushui River.

Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the people on both sides of the river fled to here, and were blocked by the Taotao River, so they cut down wood to build boats, lined boats for bridges, and finally crossed the river safely, so every year in autumn, young people on both sides of the river will gather together and build a boat bridge in the river to commemorate the ancestors.

When all the bamboo poles were tied to the hull, the people on board took out a wooden plank the size of a door, which was very strong, and spread it into the hull, just blocking the central part of the cabin.

When all the planks were laid, a boat wandering on the river quickly rowed to the wharf, and asked the boat leaning against the wharf, "Is it paved?" ”

"Are you the son of the old Wu family?" the man who was holding the boat did not answer immediately, but asked with interest.

"Do you know me?" That's right, the person on the boat is Wu San, who has never appeared in the city.

"Hehe, I don't know you, but I know your ship. The man pointed to the sculls on Wu San's boat and said, "Why, didn't Old Wu Tou come?"

"My father is old, but he can't stand the toss!" Wu San replied, "Besides, I was also a good hand at building a boat bridge at the beginning!"

"Yes, filial piety!" the man smiled, and continued, "send the message, the bridge has been built, and it is time for people to step on it." ”

Zhang Shuo was approached by Situ Weiming after dinner, and Situ Weiming only gave him a message at that time, asking him to go to the south of the city after sunset and prepare to withdraw from the county seat.

When Zhang Shuo learned from Wu Pei that the county seat could not be defended, he understood that the people in the city were bound to break through, but why the south of the city? There were indeed no displaced people in the south of the city, but there was a Lushui River blocking it, and unless this era could build a large ship carrying thousands of people at a time, it would be impossible to escape!

Is there a big ship carrying 1,000 people in this era? Zhang Shuo felt that if nothing else, it would take seven or eight hundred years for the people of this era to build such a boat, and as for those fishing boats? Just kidding, if fishing boats were really used, none of them would be able to save the people of the whole city without 70 or 80 trips, and the homeless people would have already surrounded them at that time!

Therefore, Zhang Shuo believes that there should not be many people who "break through" this time, so that they can easily escape through small fishing boats.

At first, Zhang Shuo thought that the news that Situ Weiming passed on to him was top secret, but after he finished eating and went out, he found that the streets were full of people with their families, and they all looked panicked, and the direction of walking was the same as Zhang Shuo's, all in the south of the city.

Zhang Shuo walked all the way, and saw several groups of people one after another, they were carrying luggage, in groups of three or five, although there was some chaos, but there were soldiers patrolling along the way, and there was no big chaos.

At the gate of the city at this time, the county commander Wu Pei was dressed in the official mansion, carrying a long sword at his waist, and led a team of soldiers to walk among the people, arranging the positions of the people in an orderly manner.

Zhang Shuo found that Wu Pei's arrangement had an obvious purpose, and the closest people to the south gate were not the old and weak women and children, but a group of people dressed in splendid clothes and jade rings around their waists, these people were obviously the squires in the city, Zhang Shuo saw the figure of Zhu Jun's family from these people.

Behind this group of "nobles" are the women and children holding their children, followed by the elderly, and most of the young people in the city are still guarding the city, so these should be all the people in the city.

After sunset, Wu Pei ordered all the people not to make noise, and to rest in place and wait for the opportunity.

At this time, the south of the city was crowded with people, some of them stood on the street, some got into the alleys, and some simply went into the surrounding warehouses to chat with the victims of Yiyang County.

Zhang Shuo and Situ Weiming stood in front of the city gate, he now also enjoyed the treatment of a "privileged class", when he asked when he would be able to get out of the city, Situ Weiming just smiled mysteriously, and then said "Wait".

Well, just wait, Zhang Shuo has always been very patient, so he started to stay at the city wall, and this stay stayed until the moon was in the sky, the night was already deep, and the bright moonlight sprinkled down, like a layer of snow on the ground.

At this time, there were already many people who were drowsy, because Wu Pei strictly forbade noise, so the city gate was silent, but suddenly, there was a sound of banging at the city gate, and the soldiers who were originally guarding the city gate suddenly became agitated, only to see more than a dozen soldiers working together to open a gap in the south gate, and a tall figure drilled in through the crack in the door.

By the moonlight, Zhang Shuo vaguely felt that this figure that came in was a little familiar, and after the figure approached, he was finally sure that this person was Wu San!