The sky was bright in autumn and moon, illuminating the Baishui River ferry as bright as day, Lin Jian looked at the two Hans who got on the boat at dusk to listen to the music and hijacked Zhao Neng and the boatman with a knife, and his heart was shocked, and a thought flashed subconsciously: The water bandits robbed the boat! But there are doubts in my heart, what is the good fortune of his Wupeng ship?

The cable of the Wupeng boat has been untied, and it is slowly leaving the shore, Lin Jian saw through the crack in the door that the fishing boat on the opposite side has also untied the cable and floated towards the middle of the Baishui River, and by the moonlight, he saw five or six dark shadows squatting on the bow of the grain boat, and he couldn't see who was the boat owner and who was the robber.

The door in the cabin was closed, the moonlight was bright outside, but the cabin was pitch black, Lin Jian remembered that the sword was hanging on the opposite wall, carefully tied his clothes tightly, silently calculated the distance to the window, and his mind was thinking about how to get the sword in his hand as quickly as possible in the darkness and jump through the wooden window into the river...... However, from the crack in the door, I couldn't see the situation of Su Mei's painting boat, and I didn't know how many water bandits robbed the boat this time, Lin Jian stood patiently behind the door, thinking: Maybe it is the best choice to jump into the water while there is chaos.

Lin Jian still wanted to wait for the opportunity, but the two men at the bow didn't want to give him this time, and the man who forced Zhao Neng with a knife had a scar on his face that ran through his nose, and he asked another person: "Did you say that soft-footed shrimp woke up, why didn't you make a sound at all?" "Between the words, I am not afraid that Lin Jian will wake up.

Lin Jian was secretly shocked when he heard this: Zhao Neng reprimanded him at dusk, he shouldn't chew his tongue in front of outsiders, these two people seem to be quite familiar with him before?

"The soft-footed shrimp is infatuated with that girl, it's really unpredictable to start crazy, it's better to be careful......" Another man had a thin face, squinting at the riverbank - at this time, the bank was not far enough, and nearly 100 sword archers from Baisha County were stationed on the edge of the Mosquito Head Mountain Disaster Relief Camp - after Dong Yuan served as the prefect of Weiyang, he attached great importance to the training of sword archers and other security forces in Weiyang County, and even intended to train a good local army - the lean man was quite jealous of the sword archers in Baisha County. Besides, Dong Yuan is known for his prestige, and the others are in Baisha County, if he is disturbed now, tonight's things may not be possible, thinking of this, he gave Scar Face a look.

Lin Lian, who was hiding in the cabin, was shocked when he heard them say these words, and said in his heart: They mean Sumei?

The bearded man laughed knowingly, his arm bent around Zhao Neng's neck, and threatened in a deep voice: "If you want not to die, don't scream when you eat and stop the pain!" If you scream, the master will chop you with a knife! The handle of the knife was reversed and hit Zhao Neng's temple hard, Zhao Neng only let out a muffled snort, and his body fell softly. Seeing that the beard stretched the knife into the crack of the door and wanted to pick the door latch open, Lin Jian took a half step back, and when the door latch was about to be opened, he grabbed the back of the knife tip, kicked it away, and kicked the knife off at the crack of the door, and the man outside was caught off guard, and took a broken knife in his hand and fell in.

The man suddenly entered the dark environment, and his eyes were black; Lin Jian adapted to the light in the dark, grabbed the wrist of the bearded man with the broken knife, and stabbed his eyes with two fingers.

The scarred face was also good, the eye was poked, and he screamed like a pig in pain, but his wrist struggled away from Lin Lian's hand, and he jumped into the corner of the cabin, his eyes were bloody, and the broken knife in his hand was still there, dancing to prevent Lin Jian from forcing in, and shouted outside the cabin: "Old Biao, the idea is hard, my eyes are blind, come in and save me." ”

"Tell your mother to be careful, making such a big fuss startled the painting boat, Boss Zhao has to do it in advance...... "The thin man outside shouted in a deep voice.

Lin Jian jumped over and bolted the hatch, hoping to stop the lean man outside for a moment; As soon as he took off the sword in his hand, he heard a miserable scream, thinking that the boatman's life was in danger, and Lin Jian didn't care about anything else, and swung the sword as a knife and slashed at the man in the corner of the cabin.

The man's eyes were bleeding, and he couldn't see the length of the knife in his hand, so he raised his hand to parry when he heard the wind, blocked the air, and slashed the steel sword into his eyebrow bone. The sword was stuck in the bones, Lin Jian didn't have enough strength to pull the sword, listening to the sound of hitting the door behind him, without the slightest hesitation, he picked up the broken knife and jumped out of the window, plunged into the water, and dived under the wooden oar at the stern before surfacing for ventilation.

At this time, several boats on the ferry, together with the painted boats, were seventy or eighty meters away from the embankment, and suddenly there was a great chaos, and two boats were still on fire, and in the blink of an eye, the river was burned red and bright at night. People kept being cut down and fell into the water, a harrier boat had two archers with arrows and bows to look at the water, Lin Jian hid behind the wooden oars and did not dare to come out, and after a while I heard someone jump on the Wupeng boat and ask: "Chen Biao, what's the matter?" ”

"Huzi lost his hand, and the soft-footed shrimp jumped into the water......" It sounded like a thin man's voice.

"Damn, how could Huzi miss?"

"When the tiger entered the cabin to kill people, he was attacked by a sneak attack, I went in to see, he was struck by an iron sword on his eyebrows, the window was open, and the person was gone...... Do you want to send two people into the water to chase after you? ”

"The soft-footed shrimp is a weigher in the water, and it dies faster, so ignore him...... Hurry up and get on the boat, don't let the boat dock. ”

Lin Lian's body from the tip of his nose was immersed in water at this time, where did he look like he was falling into the water?

The movement here also disturbed the shore, and the disaster relief battalion on the grave hill lit many torches at the ferry, and dozens of black shadows could be seen running towards the ferry, seeing that they were all holding weapons in their hands, which were the sword and archers stationed on the mountain; The victims who woke up also shouted all over the mountains: "Dong Envoy Jun is here, the water bandits dare to come and send him to death!" "Dong envoy Jun said, kill the thief and reward the silver. Regardless of the officials and the people, kill a thief and reward ten taels of silver. "There were also brave people who followed the sword archers to the ferry.

"This evil star is in Baisha County, which is more tricky; You come with me, this ship has been set on fire, and you must not let the ship dock. ”

Lin Jian listened to the sound of the bow of the Wupeng boat, and thought to himself, could it be that the robbers had lingering feelings about Dong Yuan, the prefect of Weiyang? Then I saw the two men on the bow of the boat abandon the Wupeng boat and jump on a three-masted sand boat that is about the same height as the painting boat, and the sand boat stretched out a number of long poles with iron hooks and hooked on the painting boat, and the two boats quickly leaned together, and dozens of robbers gathered at the bow of the boat with blades and prepared to rush to the painting boat.

Seeing this, Lin Jian was convinced that the robbers had come to Sumei and had planned carefully, and sent people to sneak into the other boats at the ferry from the shore in the name of listening to music at night, so that they could be coerced away from the river bank when they suddenly started, so that these boats would not become a means of transport to support the painting boats on the shore. The three-sailed ship is probably the main warship of the bandits this time, it looks like a sea ship, and I don't know when it will sneak in and stop at the ferry, but it didn't arouse the alarm of others, and there are obviously a lot of elite bandits hidden in the boat, which came in handy at this time.

The seven or eight boats parked at the ferry were all small and medium-sized merchant and passenger ships and fishing boats, which were small and unguarded, and fell quietly.

In addition to the three guards of Fu Qinghe's master and apprentice, more than ten boatmen and oarsmen were also hired from the River Gang in Jiangning, and there was no defense at all. For the time being, no thieves have mixed up with the painting boat, Fu Qinghe is standing at the bow of the boat, he is holding a round shield in his left hand and a halberd in his right hand, and he is forcing a thief who is trying to get on the boat into the water. Lin Jian was slightly surprised, he thought that Fu Qinghe was just a broken ordinary martial artist - who would use a halberd as a portable weapon? Those hired boatmen and paddlers have been wandering in the rivers, lakes and seas for many years, and it is not the first time they have encountered water thieves and lake bandits.

Lin Jian looked at the painting boat less than thirty zhang away from the shore, the painting boat is an oars boat, there are six wooden oars on each side of the boat, everyone can dock in a moment with oars, and the county sword archers on the shore can also shoot arrows, if the water bandits can't attack the painting boat in time, let the painting boat come ashore and meet the sword archers in Baisha County, but let the painting boat become a fast war ship for the knife archers to pursue the robbers.

The bandits had expected this for a long time, and except for the three boats with their bows full of bandits, all the boats that had been dragged to the middle of the river were set on fire; After the water bandits on the three-masted sea boat hooked the painting boat with an iron hook, they quickly opened their sails, dragged the painting boat to the outside of the river, and Lin Tie hid his body in the water, looking at all this, thinking that they were really well planned.

The fire on the Wupeng boat also got bigger, and Lin Tie's body was hidden under the water for the time being, but he didn't dare to act rashly, people were panicked, who knew if he would be killed by mistake if he swam to the shore?

Swimming to the boat? Fu Qinghe is guarding against water bandits stealing boats from the water, and it is more likely that he will be killed by mistake; Besides, seventy or eighty sturdy water bandits surrounded the painting boat, and there were less than 20 people on the painting boat, including the paddlers and boatmen, and if the Baisha County sword and archers on the shore could not find a boat to come to the rescue in time, their fate could be imagined.

At this time, although Lin Jian also had the intention of pity for the flowers and jade, and still remembered the benefits of Su Mei's treatment of him, he was not a fool who ran to his death on impulse.

The bandits did not delay any longer, and the three-masted bow gathered a dozen bows and shot them together, and some people threw something like a clay pot at the bow of the painting boat, and sprinkled the shattered but full of lime in the sky. Taking advantage of the fact that the bow of the boat was overturned, dozens of sailors jumped from the three-masted ship and three other hijacked merchant ships and rushed onto the boat......

The boat was dragged almost 200 meters away from the river bank, and only the archers on the shore rushed to the ferry to shoot arrows, but the whip was out of reach, and no one jumped into the river to swim to help. Lin Jian knew that the general trend of the painting boat had gone, no matter how high Fu Qinghe's personal martial arts were, it would be difficult to play much of a role in the chaotic battle, at most kill a few water bandits to vent his hatred, if he didn't know the opportunity to abandon the boat and jump into the water, he would inevitably die.

Listening to the crackling sound of the Wupeng boat burning through the fire, Lin Jian was worried that the hull of the ship would soon be burned apart, and waited for a while, when most of the water bandits jumped on the painting boat, the attention of the crowd was not on the water, he looked in the direction, and a fierce man plunged into the water and dived towards the painting boat. He estimated that the bandits would not burn down easily after seizing the boat, and that it would be safer to attach it to the bottom of the boat and swim a distance downstream before going ashore.

Surfing the surface for ventilation, the bottom of the boat covered with black and cyan moss was in front of him, and Lin Jian took a broken knife and stabbed it into the crack of the boat so that there was a support point for him to breathe. At this time, a black shadow fell from in front of him, and the splash made Lin Jian choke violently, it was a person who fell, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

Lin Jian pulled out the broken knife in his hand, hesitating whether to wait for the person who fell into the water to surface and immediately stepped forward to make up for it, when he heard someone shouting above his head: "Fu Qinghe is dead, go down to the cabin to kill the pulpher!" ”

Is it Fu Qinghe who fell into the water? Lin Jian was taken aback, he knew that martial arts students could play a limited role in the chaotic war, but he didn't expect Fu Qinghe to be so useless? A fierce man plunged into the water, and by the faint light of the fire that penetrated into the river, he watched the black shadow under the water and did not move, and before he could surface on the water, Lin Jian dragged Fu Qinghe to dive elsewhere.

The place where Fu Qinghe fell into the water would attract the attention of the water bandits, Lin Lian didn't think that he could cleverly dodge the strong bow in the water, and he held Fu Qinghe's body without knowing whether he was alive or dead, and dived to the rocking oars at the stern of the painting boat before he surfaced.

Lin Jian was about to untie his belt and tie Fu Qinghe's body to the rocking oar, only to feel that the body in his hand moved, his head turned out, dodging Fu Qinghe's punch that he didn't have much strength, and turned his head to see Fu Qinghe looking at him in surprise, probably unable to believe that he was not dead, and saved him easily.

Yes, there is no need to explain, Lin Jian asked in a low voice: "Master Fu, where are you injured......" Just now in the water, I only saw blood oozing out of his back blade, and it didn't hurt the vital point, at this time, I saw that his right arm was cut through two deep holes, and after soaking in the water for a while, the flesh turned over was like a white lip, and the blood in the left shoulder socket continued to seep out, which was not serious, I don't know if he was seriously injured elsewhere.

"The water thief lifted the bumper wood onto the boat, hit him in the chest, and fell into the water with his breath closed." Fu Qinghe hooked the rocking oar with one hand, and weakly explained the reason for falling into the water.

Lin Jian had never seen anything that hit the wood, but he could imagine that the two sides of the painting boat were long and narrow, and if Fu Qinghe wanted to resist there, the water bandits could force him into the water by lifting a big log and hitting him straight over.

Su Mei's cabin was at the bow of the boat, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe were hiding in the stern, they couldn't hear the changes ahead, they only listened to the movement on the boat getting smaller, thinking that the bandits had already controlled the situation. After a while, corpses kept being thrown from above, counting the sound of water, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe looked at each other, except for Su Mei and her maid Xiaoman, there was not a single living mouth left.

After the Baishui River rose, the water surface was two or three miles wide, and the painting boat was dragged to the middle of the river, and it was tied to the bandit boat, and the remaining three merchant ships were also set on fire to the bandits. By the light of the fire, I saw a few people riding tall horses on the riverbank, and I didn't know if Dong Yuan and Dong Fujun, who were fighting against the rebellion of the luxury family in the southeast and were known as prestigious, were not inside.

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"the thief." Dong Yuan looked at several burning merchant ships in the Baishui River and the pirate three-masted sand boat that was escaping in the direction of the Baishui River estuary and the flower boat tied to the back, and beat his palms hatefully, this pirate actually robbed people in his nose, how to make him not annoyed.

"It looks like a sea ship, it may be a pirate in the East Sea, I'm afraid that I won't be able to catch up along the shore, do you want to quickly inform Huining Navy Town to send a water battalion?" Under the reflection of the torches, Ding Zhiru, the magistrate of Baisha County, turned a little pale, and his body was chilled by the wind, causing pirates to wreak havoc in the territory.

"Counting on those bales?" Dong Yuan snorted disdainfully, "Three days ago, Chongzhou County School was raided, and there were more than 100 Ninghai town troops in Chongzhou County, didn't they kill people and suppress horses for thirty or fifty pirates?" ”

Gao Zongting knew that Dong Yuan hated these East Sea pirates very much, but if someone was robbed in the realm of Weiyang Mansion and rescued by Ning Haijun Town, what face did Dong Yuan have? He said: "It's just a singer, and it's not worth it for the prince to work for her in the starry night, and it's not too late to send the documents tomorrow." ”

Dong Yuan snorted coldly, didn't say anything more, just looked at the black shadow in the heart of the river through the bright moonlight.

Ding Zhiru only then knew that Dong Yuan was also resentful of being rejected at dusk, if it was not bad, the thieves should be a part of the East China pirates, and at this time, he sent someone to quickly inform Ninghai Town, and he should have time to intercept the pirate ship before it went to sea. Of course, Ding Zhiru will not forget the contradiction between Dong Yuan and Ninghai Town, and besides, Dong Yuan is the main official who strongly advocates the formation of a local new army outside the town army system, so he no longer said anything, even if it was for show, he asked the county lieutenant to lead the sword archers to continue to chase along the coast; I vaguely saw that there were still people in the river who were not dead, thinking that they were boat owners who had escaped the catastrophe and fell into the water and did not die, so they hurriedly organized people to go into the water to save people.