In the middle of the night, the sea is calm, and the starry sky and moonlight are shy to hide in the dark clouds, appearing and disappearing.

Zhao Bufan stood on the boat and looked at it from afar, but he could only see a pitch black like ink, and it was difficult to find something a hundred meters away!

This is exactly the situation he longs for, since he can't see the distance clearly, it means that the Liao people on the nameless island can't see them, and it's a good time to land on the island.

Earlier, he learned from Xue Ling that the Song delegation was in danger, and immediately rushed to the army, and invited his subordinates to discuss the rescue.

As a last resort, Zhao Bufan had to leave Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen and others to sit in Sikou Pass, and called the big sword Guan Sheng, the thunderbolt fire Qin Ming, the double whip Hu Yanzhuo, the double spear general Dong Ping, the feather arrow Zhang Qing, Xiao Li Guanghuarong, the golden gunner Xu Ning, the iron rod Luan Tingyu, the urgent pioneer Suo Chao, the desperate knife Su Ding and the beautiful bearded man Zhu Tong These eleven people walked with him, plus himself, a total of twelve people rushed to Cangzhou.

This group of people are all fierce generals under his command, and the overall strength is naturally needless to say, but how to board the nameless island is a problem, there are ships on the Yun Navy side of Dongxian Harbor, but now it is spring, and you don't need to think about it to know that the big ships over there must have already shipped goods out to sea. In order to successfully land on the island, Zhao Bufan went to Qingchi County, the seat of Cangzhou, as soon as possible, intending to discuss rescue methods with Zhu Xiaozhang, who had just been transferred to be the governor.

At this time, Zhu Xiaozhang didn't know it, and suddenly heard that Zhu Bocai was trapped on an unknown island, so he was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, and immediately gathered people to follow Zhao Bufan to save people. Although there was no sailor in Cangzhou, and the nearest Pinghai division was also in Dengzhou, Zhu Xiaozhang followed Zhao Bufan's suggestion and urgently requisitioned many large fishing boats, and according to the information he had already had, he asked the fishermen about the approximate location of the nameless island.

At this time, the only problem left was how to rely on fishing boats to land, after all, it was impossible for fishing boats to collide with Liao's warships, and once they were discovered by Liao's warships, they would inevitably be wiped out. After careful consideration, Zhao Bufan and Zhu Xiaozhang came up with a way to sneak ashore under the cover of night, and in order to prevent more than a dozen fishing boats from being in danger or getting lost in the dark, they even connected all the ships with iron cables, and then set sail slowly.

At this moment, Zhao Bufan was on the largest fishing boat, and the worried Zhu Xiaozhang was also not far from him, and he was studying the compass, Sinan, and sea map and other objects with the old fishermen who led the way, trying to confirm the location of the nameless island as soon as possible.

The old fisherman has a lot of experience, and he is very familiar with this sea area by fishing in this generation all the year round, and the two of them have not been tinkering with it for a long time, so he said with certainty: "Lord Zhu, the island you said should be near here, and I have been here a few times, so there should be no mistake!"

"But it's so dark, and we don't dare to light torches to explore the way, how can we find the island?" Zhu Xiaozhang asked worriedly.

The old fisherman laughed, his face full of deep furrows. "Lord Zhu, you see that this sea seems to be very calm, but it is actually turbulent, there are tides in the morning and evening, when the tide hits the shore, the sound is not small, you can rely on the sound to slowly distinguish. ”

"No need!" Zhao Bufan next to him suddenly spoke, staring at the little light in the darkness in the distance without blinking.

Zhu Xiaozhang looked back, and immediately slapped his forehead: "Oh, I'm really confused, how can I forget that the warships of the Liao people will have lights!"

Dong Ping, who was behind the guard, looked at the lights looming in the distance, and the battle intent in his eyes soared, and he immediately took off a pair of short guns on his back.

"Shall we kill it at night now?"

"I said that as soon as Dong hits, don't talk if you don't know, you know how many arrows and artillery can you block in Liao?" Hu Yanzhuo stepped forward with a pair of male and female steel whips, and interjected angrily: "General Zhao, Lord Zhu, we don't have a warship, we just secretly landed under the cover of night, the main purpose is to fight after going ashore, then it is better to avoid the Liao warship and go around to a place that is not easy to be found and land, so as to take the initiative!"

"General Huyan is right!" Zhu Xiaozhang nodded in agreement, turned to look at the old fisherman and said, "Uncle, you have been to this island, do you know which places are suitable for landing?"

The old fisherman closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and said hoarsely: "Yes, the south and north shores of this island are stretching cliffs, only the east and west sides can dock, but there are many reefs in the west, these warships should be docked on the east side, and we will go to the west." ”

"But what about the reef?" Zhao Bufan frowned.

The old fisherman smiled and said: "General Zhao, don't worry, since Xiaomin said so, there is naturally a way to avoid the reef, although it is a little dangerous, but as long as you are careful, there will be no accident, but the ships can no longer be connected like this, and the chains must be cut down, so that other ships can follow our ship and slowly approach the island." ”

"Okay! Thank you so much for your trouble, go back this time, and I'll reward you with an extra two hundred yuan!" Zhao Bufan made a decisive decision immediately, and he was also generous, of course, this is to make the old fisherman more cautious, after all, only by letting everyone live, he can get more, and he will naturally be more careful.

The old fisherman was also smiling, and even said thank you, he had already received 200 yuan of settling-in allowance when he set off earlier, and if he returned smoothly from this trip, he would be able to get 200 yuan, and there would be 400 yuan before and after, that is, 400,000 yuan, which was already a huge fortune for his small family, and he could go to the town or county seat to buy some property.

Soon, the old fisherman was doing his best, carefully directing the boats around the west side of the island, and then avoiding the reef and slowly landing on the rocky beach.

Seeing the Cangzhou soldiers quickly landing on the shore, Zhao Bufan, Zhu Xiaozhang and the generals of the Liangshan Army also gathered together to discuss the next action.

Zhu Xiaozhang is Zhu Bocai's biological son, so he is also the most anxious person on the scene, as soon as the generals got together, he couldn't wait to be the first to say: "Extraordinary, this time limited by the scale of the fishing boat, I can only bring more than two hundred soldiers, although they are all elite, but they do not have the paper armor used by the water army, they are all cloth clothes, and they definitely do not have the ability to attack the fortifications head-on, you are more powerful in the war, it is better for you to unify the command, and see how to fight this battle with the Liao State!"

Zhao Bufan rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Second brother, didn't you say it just now, everyone has no naval armor, and they are wearing cloth clothes, how dare they face the elite of the Liao State head-on?

"Then what do you mean by asking me to bring so many people?" Zhu Xiaozhang looked puzzled.

Zhao Bufan thought about it and shook his head lightly: "They are here to strengthen their momentum, the main purpose is to intimidate the Liao soldiers, so that they can not attack our mission with all their strength, it is a containment force, not the main battle force, tonight we must let them find a high point nearby to camp, arrange simple fences and rolling logs, just have a little defensive power, you must also stay in person to sit in the town." As for the fighting, it is up to us Liangshan Army and these people to do it, with the martial arts of our people, the impact of having a battle armor is not particularly great, and there should be a fighting force!"

"There are only twelve of you in total, even if your martial arts are very high, but there are many masters on the Liao side, how can you fight? No, no, this is too dangerous, don't make your father not rescue, but throw your life into it, what will I use to face my little sister at that time?" Zhu Xiaozhang shook his head again and again, rejecting his proposal.

Zhao Bufan frowned, and said urgently: "Second brother, we are not fighting them head-on, it's not so scary, the twelve of us come and go like the wind, and finding an opportunity to lure away their strength is the goal." There are only six or seven warships in Liao, and the number of people is no more than eight or nine hundred, and they want to keep people to guard the warships to avoid being attacked by your side, which will disperse some of the troops, and then we will harass them, and we can disperse some people, so that the trapped two national missions can greatly reduce the pressure. ”

Zhu Xiaozhang somewhat understood: "You mean, we didn't rush over to rescue, but to delay?"

"Of course, is it hard to touch without delay?" Zhao Bufan threw out such a sentence, his eyes flashing. "According to the information I have learned, the mission has been trapped for seven or eight days now, and now they have not been destroyed by the Liao State, which shows that they still have the ability to resist, but they cannot threaten the warships docked at the sea by the Liao State, which also shows that the strength is very insufficient. Our current overall combat strength is definitely not as strong as the original two countries' missions, so we will inevitably not be able to defeat the Liao soldiers head-on. Therefore, the main purpose is to drag, and cooperate with the masters of the two countries' missions to drag together, and drag the Yunhai division to Dengzhou to rush over. ”

These words made Zhu Xiaozhang full of worries, and said anxiously: "According to what you said, you only sent someone to Dengzhou to report the news after you got the secret report from the spies, and it has only been about three days so far, and it is roughly estimated that it will take at least ten days from the time the Pinghai division gets the news to the time when the fleet is mobilized to rush here, which means that we have to drag it out for seven days to go, can the mission last so long?"

"Maybe it won't take seven days, the mission also sent people to break through earlier, my spies got the news from the dying mission guards, if other guards successfully escaped the pursuit and reported the news, then the time for the Pinghai division to get the news for the first time should be three or four days earlier!" Zhao Bufan concealed Xue Ling's matter, didn't say a word, and quickly said: "Okay, those don't matter, no matter how long it takes to delay, always try your best to do it, and then adapt to the situation!"

Zhu Xiaozhang thought for a while, and said helplessly: "It's okay, then I'll personally take people to find a place to camp nearby, and then you bring people over!"

"Second brother and slow, everything here can only be done by you, my brothers and I must go to investigate the situation now, the situation on this island is completely unclear at the moment, we can be described as blind, we must find the location of the mission personnel as soon as possible, understand their current situation, if the side can no longer hold on, we have to change the plan!"

"Okay, then you have to be careful, I don't want my sister to be widowed at a young age!"

"Second brother, don't curse me, it's not so easy to think of me dying!"

Zhao Bufan smiled, didn't say anything more to him, turned around and quickly disappeared on the rocky beach with the people of Liangshan Army.

After entering the dense forest, Zhao Bufan divided the twelve people into three teams, he led a team to explore the central part of the island, Guan Sheng led a team to investigate the northern part of the island, and Hu Yanzhuo led a team to investigate the southern part of the island, and agreed to rush back to the rocky beach before dawn to converge.

Because most of the islands are high in the middle and low on all sides, Zhao Bufan expected that the envoys of the Great Song and Jin Kingdom would definitely be stationed in the middle of the island, so the main force of the Liao State would naturally be in this area, so he led the team with the most people, Dong Ping, Qin Ming, Luan Tingyu, Su Ding, and Hua Rong all followed him all the way.

"Dong Ping, have we deviated from the direction now?" Zhao Bufan tossed with unknown weeds taller than people, looking left and right and asked.

Dong Ping took out a small compass from his arms, let Hua Rong light the fire, looked at it for a moment by the faint light of the fire, and said with certainty: "We have not deviated from the direction, we have landed from the west, and we are currently walking in the direction of the east and north, it will definitely not be wrong, and the surrounding terrain is getting higher and higher, and if you go to the heights, you will definitely be able to find the mission personnel of the two countries." ”

When the words fell, Hua Rong extinguished the fire, and several people moved forward in the dark again.

Because this nameless island is inaccessible all year round, and the vegetation is very dense, there is no clear road at all, so they can only use the compass to identify the direction while walking, and what is even more uncomfortable is that the sky is too dark, and the line of sight is not far at all, so they can only try to find the way forward.

After about two or three hours, the distance suddenly became bright, and Qin Ming, who had long felt breathless, jumped up on the big tree and immediately smiled.

"There are many bonfires on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain over there, they should be the mission personnel and the Liao generals!"

His loud voice suddenly made everyone's faces change, and Su Ding hurriedly said: "General Qin, be quieter, the voice in this mountain field is far away!"

Qin Ming's laughter stopped, and he hurriedly came down from the tree, and when he saw Zhao Bufan's reproachful eyes, his expression was a little embarrassed: "I haven't lurked like this for a long time, and I'm not used to it for a while!"

Zhao Bufan didn't accuse too much, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, just pay attention to restraint, let's go over and see the situation now." ”

When the words fell, several people were silent, and they all urged to rush to the light work, because with the light of the fire as a guide, they only needed to pay attention to the cliff, so the speed was greatly accelerated, and it didn't take long to come to the west side of the simple camp of the Liao State.

After secretly observing, Zhao Bufan considered that there were many masters of the Liao Kingdom, and immediately let Dong Ping, Qin Ming, Su Ding, Hua Rong, and Luan Tingyu all disperse around to explore the terrain, while he himself quietly lurked into the camp.

Zhao Bufan has two proud skills, one is archery, the other is light skills, but both skills are rarely shown in public, so not many people know, and the Liao camp in front is extremely simple, and the garrison is not tight, of course he can't stop him, under the cover of the night, his figure is like a ghost, sometimes east and west, hiding and hiding near the tent in the center of the camp.

After looking around, he saw that there were no patrols around, so he crawled into the grass and listened......