At this moment, everyone wished that the people on the river would immediately float to this side, not to be swept away by the river, and not to be shot to death by the Jurchens on the other side. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The riders on the opposite bank also noticed the change in the river, and the cavalry made noise again, and they rushed towards the river with their bows and arrows, and a few of the riders were probably angry at the shouting and scolding on the other side of the river, and rode their horses into the water, and did not feel wrong until they reached the belly of the horse, and quickly retreated back.

Most of the riders stopped at the river, their hooves submerged in the water, and shot at the river that was only thirty or forty paces wide, and most of them used light arrows, aiming at them by means of flat shooting, even if they shot very accurately, the arrows kept flying around the wood floating in the middle of the river, and the riders could see that the wood was floating down from the upstream, and it was constantly drifting to the other bank, and if these people succeeded in escaping, they would be too embarrassed.

Several arrows were shot through the wood, and they were very powerful, and they hit the water fiercely.

The fugitives on the shore let out exclamations, they had just seen many people killed by light arrows, bows and arrows were almost lethal to heavily armored soldiers, and to civilians wearing only thin robes, a single arrow could be almost fatal.

Amid the exclamations of the people, there was a sudden sound of tuk-tuk.

Li Fang saw the earliest, several people lying on the log originally held small round shields in their hands, and they ignored the light arrows when they missed them, once the arrows could be threatened, these people held the round shield to shoot the arrows away, or used the shield to block the arrows, and the sound of tuk tuk was the sound of the arrows hitting the round shield......

"I don't know if it's someone from the 12th Regiment, or someone from the Military Intelligence Department, or someone from Dongjiang Town?"

Compared with the level of spies, although Hutchison's military intelligence department is now more professional and comes from behind, Dongjiang Town is really better than the large number of people, and half of them are an army composed of Liaodong fugitives who have a deep blood feud with Dongyu, whether they sneak over to kill people and set fire to the well or poison the well, they do these things without a little psychological burden, and they are not afraid of death and injury, although they have done a lot of things in the past two years, but there are also a lot of people who died on the side of Houjin, at this point, the purpose of the military intelligence department is first of all not to show their traces, not to expose themselves and the organization as the first principle, and then the meritorious service, so Dongjiang Town lost 100 people, and the Military Intelligence Department may not lose one. Most of the personnel sent by the 12th Regiment were transferred to the Military Intelligence Department, after all, they were more proficient than soldiers in combat effectiveness, and they were more expert in military intelligence than sneaking into enemy territory.

Li was brought out by the people of the Military Intelligence Agency, but the people of the Military Intelligence Bureau died in the river quite unexpectedly, but he survived.

In everyone's eyes, the people on the log raised their shields to block the arrows, and at the same time struggled to paddle with their arms, this side was originally the middle stream, not as turbulent as the upstream current, these people should have floated all the way, while paddling the water, and finally had a chance to paddle on the west bank......

"Okay, you guys go with me to save people."

Seeing that the log floated to the river, Li Fang was sure in his heart, a hundred steps apart, the other party had to change heavy arrows to shoot over, and he had to be more accurate, and there was no chance to hurt people.

At that moment, he picked five or six fugitive men who were quite sturdy, looked at the direction of the log drift, and ran all the way over......

When he got closer, he saw the clothes and shouted, "Is it a brother of the 12th regiment?" I am a sergeant of the fifth company of the fifth battalion, and now I am out in the field, my name is Li Fang......"

"Password?"

The five men were already standing in the shallow water, and strangely enough, they did not immediately go ashore, but stood knee-deep in the icy water, as if they were recovering their strength in the water.

"The password is a giant tree." Only then did Li Fang remember that this was still the edge of the enemy territory, and according to the rules, they had to give each other orders.

"Returning to the heavy ship." The interrogator was a middle-aged man, in his thirties, of medium height, with broad shoulders, a dark complexion, slightly protruding cheekbones, and small eyes, but they were bright.

"My name is Chen Badger." The middle-aged man said to Li Fang: "You guys came just in time, come and help." ”

Li Fang only saw at this time that these people were not only wearing shields, but also wearing leather supports, wearing this thing can walk in the water, not afraid of silt and water cold, it is really a good object to float in the water, no wonder they can float all the way down from the upstream, if they are wearing ordinary robes like Li Fang and others, I am afraid that they will be frozen and unable to move, let alone raise a shield to block arrows and paddle.

"You're ashore." Li Fang said with some confusion: "I don't know if there is anything else to ask us to help?" ”

At this time, Li Fang has already seen that these people must be people from the Military Intelligence Department, I heard that people over there will not report their real names to people, they generally use nicknames, at most add a surname, this Chen Badger must be a pseudonym, from the perspective of age, articulate and temperament, this Chen Badger must be an old man of the Military Intelligence Department, and the general pure soldiers don't like to deal with them very much, not that they look down on military intelligence personnel, but they feel that military intelligence personnel are inherently sneaky, although it is a professional reason, it is still a little difficult to deal with people. The officers who had stayed in Li Zhuang before would have some misunderstandings about the military intelligence personnel, and later realized that the two divisions of military law and internal service were dealing with their own people, and the military intelligence was specialized in the outside world, which had raised the image of the military intelligence department a lot of points, and Wen Zhongfa and the bald man were both from military intelligence, and many people in the 12th regiment knew that otherwise, the cooperation between the military side and the military intelligence department would not be as smooth as it is now.

Li Fang has no prejudice against military intelligence personnel, but he also has a task to do, and if he is entangled with these people in front of him, it will only delay his own affairs, and he has already retreated.

"We have to carry this wood ashore...... Chen Badger looked helpless, and said with a wry smile: "Try to carry some distance inside, there are still some dangers here......

As he spoke, heavy arrows had already struck, and a few of them landed in the water not far away, and a few landed in the wetland at the edge of the reeds.

"What's this good thing about wood?" A Liaodong man said strangely: "Do you still have to carry it away?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Li Fang immediately leaned forward and said to everyone: "If you want to eat well, you have to work hard first, let's do it." ”

This big wood is five or six people to hold, it is difficult to get started, fortunately there is a rope tied, and there is a wooden carry can be forced, even so, more than a dozen strong men to carry it is also very difficult, in the sound of heavy arrows, each person used the strength to eat, and finally carried this thousand pounds of heavy wood away from the reeds, until walking to the campfire dozens of steps away.

There was angry shouting and swearing from the other side, apparently the Jurchens who thought they had been humiliated...... The Han Chinese not only escaped the river, but also carried a huge log...... In a place like Liaodong, it is pointless to walk with a log on your shoulders, there are giant trees everywhere, and in the understanding of the Jurchens, this is complete, uncompromising humiliation.

If it weren't for the lack of means to cross the river, I'm afraid these people would have killed them immediately.

Li Fang and the others were so tired that they could barely breathe, the wood was soaked in water, and everyone was soaked in the water to exert their strength, this big wood was fortunately tied to the rope to make the force, otherwise the wood was soaked in water, and several people couldn't hold it, it was extremely heavy and powerful, and there was nowhere to make it, more than a dozen people were quite difficult to lift, and when the wood was put down, everyone was half lying on the edge of the giant tree panting, no one wanted to speak, they were all tired.

Chen Badger and several people are the same, but they show good training, they are trying to control their breathing, the more they don't indulge themselves, the faster they recover, Li Fang should actually be the same as them, but Li Fang is a recruit who has only been in the army for half a year after all, compared with Chen Badger, these veterans, the details are still a little worse.

Fortunately, Li Fang learned quickly, and seeing the performance of Chen Badger, Li Fang also began to work hard to control his breathing, and make his breathing more symmetrical as much as possible.

Sure enough, after the control, I felt that the hot feeling in my chest was reduced a lot, and at this time, Chen Badger and the others had already stood up, and they were looking left and right, obviously to prevent a sneak attack from being attacked, although there were not many cases of Dongyu crossing the border, but after all, it was not completely nothing.

It wasn't until after dark, after it was confirmed that it was safe, Chen Badger and the others walked to the bonfire, took off their skins, baked their dry robes and changed into dry clothes.

"With such a big piece of wood, does Brother Chen need our help?" Li Fang walked to the fire beside Chen Badger, sat down cross-legged, and the sparks burst out in front of him, but everyone was as close to the fire as possible, the night in March in Liaodong was still below zero, and the sky was full of stars today, and it would snow if it didn't work.

"It doesn't have to be." Chen Badger said in a relaxed tone: "The plough climbing team will come over tomorrow morning." ”

Although the snow melts on the flat ground, but most of the passage between the mountains is still a wheelbarrow and a horse climbing plow, the ice period of the mountain road is at least half a year, often in winter even the "road eye" is also buried by the snow, if you want to transport a small amount of materials in the near distance, you can use a trolley, but it is also difficult to push, more than a few miles away, generally use dogs, climbing plows, and the road is far away and build the mountain road, use horses to climb the plow.

Li Fang looked at the wood and said, "I'm afraid I have to use a lot of horses." ”

"Eight horses at least." Chen Badger completed the task, his mentality was relatively relaxed, and he said with a smile: "This is the second one we pulled, and there are fewer horses used last time, and we have to push the plow all the way, but he is so tired that he didn't straighten up for three days when he went back." ”

Li Fangtou was in a pit and didn't dare to inquire further.

Of course, he was curious about what he wanted these pieces of wood to be used for, but it might involve military secrets, and the consequences of inquiring could be very serious.

"You'll find out when you go back." Chen Badger was half-lying on the ground, he was on duty an hour later, and at this time he still took a break, and they could fall asleep in a few breaths, which was also the result of training. Before falling asleep, he said to Li Fang: "You probably don't know the most important task of the military division this year, but I can get to know you in advance." ”

Chen Badger crooked his mouth, Li Fang was taken aback, and said in a low voice: "Is this wood?" ”

This time Chen Badger did not answer, he had already snored lightly and fell into a deep sleep.