The Shuizhai ships swarmed up, trying to separate the Dongyang from the Lou ship that Qin Chengbo was riding, so as to prevent the two large ships from uniting and supporting each other. Lin Jian saw that the Shuizhai ships were stacked on top of each other, and he did not let the Dongyang forcibly grab the road, and let the building ship that Qin Chengbo was riding on attract more firepower.

After the Lou ship withdrew to Luoyang Lake South Kouzi, many water-village ships were attracted to the narrow waters of Nankouzi, and the pressure on the Dongyang also increased sharply. Fortunately, the two Xiangyong fast paddle boats led by Lin Zonghai and the two Dongyang Fu horse infantry fast paddle boats did not dare to stay away from the Dongyang alone to receive the reinforcement ship, and fought and retreated with the Dongyang, in fact, they took on the peripheral pressure for the Dongyang, and Lin Jian only had to be careful of the arrows shot from a distance on the deck.

Lin Jian stood on the deck and watched the battle, while Zhou Pu and two guards were close to him, beware of stray arrows. Lin Jian watched Qin Chengbo, Shen Rong and others ride from the building boat at this time finally sailed into the mouth of the river with difficulty, but the only four Mengchong warships in Hongzepu Zhujia Water Village firmly bit the Lou boat with a nail rod, and the four Mengchong warships and the Lou boat were closely connected together, and hundreds of lake thieves in Hongzepu Water Village used the four Mengchong warships as a bridge to attack the Lou boat continuously. The lake thieves were poorly prepared, almost no one wore armor, barefoot and shirtless, holding a knife and desperately killing the building boat, very brave, and many loach boats were interspersed from the gap, throwing nail ropes, lime, arrows, stones, torches, oil cans and other things to help the battle; Smelling the smell of feces in the air, the lake thieves did everything to capture the boat, and seemed to splash feces and other filthy things on the boat. If it is to be replaced by an ordinary government army or town army, it would have collapsed and collapsed under such a fierce offensive of Shuizhai, but it is a pity that the hundreds of elites on the building ship are either Qin Chengbo's private follow-up force, or the martial guards of Wu Feng's dart line, and the will to fight is very strong, and the equipment and training are not comparable to ordinary lake pirates. Besides, in the water battle at night, everyone can only regard the building boat as the last dependence, and there is nowhere to escape in the middle of the river, only to resist to the death. On the other hand, Qin Chengbo also offered a large reward, as long as he broke out of the encirclement, each person would be rewarded with an additional 100 taels of silver, which also stimulated the Wuwei and Suihu forces to fight more bravely; At present, the casualties of the lake pirates are far higher than those of the building and ship defenses, but the lake pirates are numerous, and there is still no sign of their strength at this time.

"It's good to enter the Shiliang River, you can't kill these thieves!" Shiliang County Instructor Lu Dongyang knew a little about military affairs, he saw that the slow-moving Lou boat finally entered the Shiliang River, and the narrow river channel could restrict the large-scale maneuver of the Shuizhai boats, but it could allow the Lou boat to regain some disadvantages, "Lord Lin, there is a good opportunity, we should rush over and follow the general of the auxiliary country and break out of the encirclement, wait until the forest is slightly repaired, and then kill the horse gun, we must give this chaotic thief a hard ......lesson."

"What Lord Lu said is very true!" If it weren't for the fact that Lin Tie had already known that there were a large number of Shuizhai boats hidden in the dark night ahead, Lu Dongyang's suggestion was somewhat reasonable, Lin Tie asked people to talk to Lin Zonghai, asking them to prepare to break through in the direction of Hexiazi first, and at the same time send a light signal to the Lou boat, asking them to pay attention to the ambush enemy in front.

The battle here is so fierce, but the Shuizhai boat lurking in the Shiliang River has always been standing still and patiently waiting for the Qincheng Bolou boat to take the initiative to get into the trap, Lin Jian also secretly felt that the leader of the Hongzepu Zhujia Shuizhai forces is not simple, but the Dongyang has not encountered the main force of the lake pirates, so there is no chance to face the leader of the Shuizhai.

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Qin Chengbo, Shen Rong, Lin Tingli, Liang Zuoren and many staff members of the Qin Mansion were all in the "Feilu" on the second floor of the building, and they couldn't understand the light signal from the Dongyang, so naturally someone explained it to them.

"What, there may be an enemy in the river ahead?" Liang Zuoren's face suddenly became ugly, and he just thought that the situation had taken a turn for the better when he rushed into the Shiliang River, but he didn't expect that there might be an ambush ahead. He looked at Qin Chengbo in disbelief, waiting for the auxiliary general Qin Chengbo to take the idea.

The second-floor cabin threw the oil-filled clay pot and torch to the lake thief and burned it several times, Qin Chengbo's eyebrows and military robes were burned in half, and there were several wounds on his body, and the corners of his eyebrows were also broken by the gravel and oozing blood, and his face was very ugly. At the beginning of the water war, there were nearly 500 guards on the ship, and only half of them could still use weapons to defend against the enemy at this time, and the Qin family fleet had a total of 22 ships, and at this time only one boat was left to break through to the Shiliang River, and the servants and guards who could stand on the boat were less than 40 people. When the Qin family's fleet set off from Jiangning, there were more than 1,300 people including family members and servants, retinues and hired guards, and at this time, the servants and family members on other ships either fell into the river and drowned, or were killed, or captured by lake thieves, and there were less than 600 people left on these two ships, so how could Qin Chengbo have a good face?

Qin Chengbo stared at the Dongyang in the distance, there were not many wind lights lit on the Dongyang, and from a distance, he could only see the outline of the ship, and he couldn't see who was Lin Tie in the faint shadow, he took a sip, spit bloody phlegm on the ship's board, and scolded hatefully: "This son is definitely not good, if I escape this catastrophe, I will never spare him lightly - his words can only be believed in three points, and we can only break through to the south now......"

Although Qin Chengbo said that he was greedy for money and lustful, he could not be regarded as an incompetent person, and he had several times asked people to signal Lin to lead the Dongyang to converge, but the Dongyang never managed to break into the range of the building ship within 200 steps and forced the Shuizhai ship to retreat.

Qin Chengbo knew that if Lin Jian could make the Dongyang break through and join the Lou boat, he would be able to share a lot of pressure for him, there were two large ships with absolute superiority in Luoyang Lake to support each other, and there were several fast paddle boats shuttling back and forth, the key Dongyang and the four fast paddle boats and more than 400 new forces could be put into battle, and the troops were united, Qin Chengbo was even confident that the Shuizhai warship array would be reversed and then break out of the encirclement.

Qin Chengbo had a calm face, he held a knife in his right hand and a card in his left hand, sitting in the middle of the cabin, the wooden doors and windows on the four walls of the cabin that were easy to ignite had been removed, and more than a dozen armored soldiers were guarding around him. His eyes were staring at the direction of the Dongyang, he was also worried that there was an ambush in front of him, if the Dongyang was going all out to join him at this time, he was willing to give half of the gold and silver in this ship to Lin Lian, but since the outbreak of the chaotic war, the Dongyang has always been far away from the center of the entire battlefield except for receiving four fast paddle boats, and there is no meaning of rushing to meet and support the death battle.

In Qin Chengbo's view, Lin Tie was completely opportunistic, and he completely forgot about the humiliation of Lin Tie's small role when he went to Lin Du at this time, and only looked forward to Lin Tie coming over to converge and help each other to break through. In addition to lighting the fire signal, Qin Chengbo even asked people to sneak to the Dongyang to negotiate with Lin Tie and promise a heavy reward, as long as they can cooperate with each other to highlight the encirclement, not only sponsor Lin Tie to be promoted to the third level, but also promise countless beauties with gold and silver treasures. It's just that Lin Jian didn't respond at all, the Dongyang was always on the periphery, without the Dongyang as a dependent, and the other four fast paddle boats couldn't rush over, but the Shuizhai forces took the capture of the building ship as the core goal, and tactically only blocked the Dongyang from the center of the battlefield. Qin Chengbo was so anxious that he couldn't wait to chop Lin Jian into meat sauce with a knife? If it weren't for the fierce fight between the Dongyang and the Shuizhai ship, Qin Chengbo even suspected that Lin Jian and the Hongzepu Shuizhai forces had already colluded.

For Lin Lian's practice of protecting himself and preserving his strength on the battlefield, Qin Chengbo had nothing to do even if he hated it, not to mention that Lin Lian had no duty and obligation to escort him at all, and Qin Chengbo had no way to directly investigate his guilt afterwards.

Qin Chengbo didn't dare to stop the boat rashly and go ashore, there was still more than an hour before dawn, it was the darkest time in the sky, at this time he abandoned the ship and landed, maybe he had no problem running for his life alone, but his boat full of wives and concubines, beautiful maids, and children and grandchildren could have a few people alive, but it was difficult to say.

Lin Tingli knew a little about Lin Xuzong's temperament since Lin Lian pulled out a knife to Lin Xuzong last year, of course he knew that Lin Lian was not a good stubble, let alone a good person, seeing Qin Chengbo's anxious appearance, he sighed lightly in his heart: I knew today, why bother in the beginning? If Qin Chengbo paid a little attention to Lin Tie, and let him accompany him on this building ship when escorting, at this time, Lin Tie was here, would he still be worried that the Dongyang would not come to the rescue with all his might? I despised him very much at the time, and at this time I couldn't wait for someone to save my life.

Shen Rong didn't doubt that Lin Lian had anything to do with the forces of Hongzepu Water Village, but his hatred for Lin Lian was not much less than that of Qin Chengbo, if it weren't for Lin Lian's insistence on saying that he would escort Qin Chengbo out of Dongyang Mansion, he should have sent troops in Shiliang County to save Qin Chengbo in the future, instead of being in the enemy formation with Qin Chengbo.

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There was a Mengchong warship parked near the shore on the left side of the lake, Wu Shiyi, the head of the Fuling Lake Water Village, stood at the bow of the boat, and the bearded man who appeared in the Savage Crossing a few days ago was also there, they stood on the side of a thirty-three or four-year-old young man, nervously looking at the direction of the Lou Boat and the Dongyang, this young man was Liu An'er, the big boss of the 21st Alliance of Hongzepu Water Village.

Liu An'er's original name was Liu Jingguo, a native of Liu Town, Sizhou, who sold saddles and bridles for a living in his early years, and was known as Liu An'er, and later called himself Liu An'er. Many years ago, he gathered several people in Hongzepu to raise incidents, although he was suppressed and confiscated into Jibei, he also made many military exploits and became an officer. In the battle of Chentangyi, the officers and soldiers were defeated by the Donghu people, Liu An'er led the crowd to flee back to Hongzepu, with the help of his uncle Yang Quan, secretly formed a village in Liujiabao, Sizhou to strengthen his power, at the end of last year, Huai'an Mansion raised money for the anti-theft camp and greatly increased Hongzepu's fishing tax and fishing donations, inducing a large-scale anti-donation movement, Liu An'er took the opportunity to unite with the Hongzepu water village forces to plan to gather people to revolt again.

"This Lin Xiucai doesn't look simple, but he can see that we have ambush soldiers in the Shiliang River...... "Wu Shiyi was a boatman for several years at the Huai'an Mansion River Anchor when he was young, and he knows a little about the light transmission, and knows what the signal transmission between the Dongyang and the building ship represents.

"Even if they knew that we had an ambush ahead, would they still retreat to Luoyang Lake?" Liu An'er said, his expression was not relaxed, he didn't expect that the boat that Qin Chengbo took would be so difficult, causing them to suffer such heavy casualties, and he really had to prepare a few big ships in the future, and said, "It's time for us to play next......

"Big boss, let's just go up to the top in the last battle, and you have to preside over many things." Wu Shiyi persuaded.

"There's enough blood shed tonight, and so many brothers rush to fight without even a good knife, so how can I hide behind and enjoy it?" Liu An'er asked the left and right to help him put on his armor, picked up the Mo knife, waved his hand and ordered the last reserved Mengchong warship to rush towards the Qincheng Bolou ship.

It can be guessed that Qin Chengbo will hide most of the gold and silver treasures in the building boat he is on, and then all the officials such as Shen Rong, Lin Tingli, and Liang Zuoren will be intercepted or captured, at least Dongyang Mansion can not organize an effective counterattack and encirclement and suppression within a month, and win time for the recruitment of troops and horses in the water village, and the building ship is bound to conquer.

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Regardless of Lin Lian's warning signal, the building boat has broken through into the Shiliang River, and there is no reason to go back to Luoyang Lake to besiege the Shuizhai boats, so he can only rush forward. The Shiliang River was hidden in the dark and dark night, only the reflection of the faint water waves, and the bank and the river surface were indistinguishable a little farther away, and Qin Chengbo did not have any extra ships to sentry first, so he could not explore the reality in the depths of the dark night ahead, and only took one step at a time.

After all, the fighting here has not slowed down at all, even if there are ambushes, it is useless to see how useful it is, Qin Chengbo and others will inevitably think that Lin Tie is worrying about the sky in the boat.

This side finally cut off the hook rods of the two Mengchong warships to grab the annex ship, and threw off the two Mengchong ships, feeling the wind, Qin Chengbo stretched out his hand and raised it, it turned out to be a wind from the northeast, he laughed excitedly: "The sky will not kill me!" Heaven will not kill me! "The building boat was trapped in Luoyang Lake for so long because the wind direction was wrong, and it was impossible to use the wind to sail back, and at this time there was a northeast wind, even if it was still caught by the two Mengchong warships, Qin Chengbo was also confident that with the help of the huge sails, the two Mengchong warships would be dragged out of the battle line of the Shuizhai ship and killed alone.

Qin Chengbo immediately drove the lake thieves out of the boat, and raised the giant sail of the mainmast at the stern, fighting for so long, it is a miracle that the sail was not set on fire, but when everyone thought that they were about to get out of trouble, more than a dozen river boats quietly sailed in the dark depths ahead.

"Ambush!" Qin Chengbo and the others instantly realized that the ambush soldiers who had been hidden for a long time in the Shuizhai force had finally appeared, these dozen or so river boats were very short, and most of the wind lights of the building boat were extinguished in the fierce battle, and the lights that the building boat could shine out were very weak, they looked down at the river boats, only to see that there were only five or six people on each boat holding a penny to support the boat, and there was no one else on the boat. Since the arrows of the building boat have been shot, there is no way to stop the river boat from approaching, so they can only wait for them to come up and fight. The river boat approached, Qin Chengbo covered his field of vision, and couldn't see what the river boat was doing under the boat, so he heard the sound of a knife and axe, Qin Chengbo was puzzled, and only ordered to raise the sail and go quickly, knocking these river boats away, and after a long time, he saw the fire rising on the bow and the left and right sides of the boat, Qin Chengbo knew that these river boats were loaded with oil hay, and four or five river boats with iron hooks attached to the belly of the boat were set on fire, and another ten river boats were ignited in front to form a fire barrier, The fire illuminated the night sky far and near, and twenty or thirty loach boats were waiting behind the fire barrier, blocking the river tightly. At this time, there was another Mengchong warship behind the Lou ship with a hook and a rod to catch and attach the Lou boat, and the Hongzepu Shuizhai forces were going to launch the final general attack of the front and rear soldiers.

Qin Chengbo's face was depressed, and he said to Shen Rong, Lin Tingli and the others: "Everyone, please wait for Qin to personally kill these thieves. The words are indescribably tragic, he can't hope that Lin Tie will drive the boat to rescue, and he is reluctant to leave his wife and concubines and descendants, so he can only put on armor and fight in person.

"Waiting for the return of the auxiliary general." Shen Rong, Lin Tingli, Liang Zuoren and others can only say this at this time, they prefer that the building boat can dock and let everyone abandon the ship and flee for their lives, which is better than staying on the ship.

When Qin Chengbo went down to the cabin, Shen Rong grabbed Lin Tingli's sleeve, pulled him to the side and asked in a low voice: "If we all fall into the water, will Lin Lian be rescued!" ”

"General Fuguo died in Luoyang Lake, someone must take responsibility for this......" Lin Tingli sighed slightly, at this time, his fate was hanging by a thread, and he didn't fight with Shen Rong, he also felt that even if he jumped into the river to escape and rescue Lin Lian on the boat, Lin Lian was not because of the love of the same clan and clan, but he also needed someone to bear the responsibility for the robbery and killing of General Fuguo in Luoyang Lake and the chaos in Hongzepu. In this way, Lin Lian, the little nine-rank Confucian Lin Lang, only had great merit and no fault in this incident.

Shen Rong thought very highly of himself, but he didn't expect Lin Tie to be so scheming, so that the boatload of civil and military generals ate his footwashing water. Shen Rong knew that the final fierce battle that broke out here was the best opportunity for the Dongyang and the four fast paddle boats to break out of the encirclement, and Lin Lian would not miss it. They chose this time to jump into the river, if Lin Jian came to the rescue, there would be some hope of survival; Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult for a few of them powerless civil officials to escape from the siege.

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Lin Jian looked at the battle situation in front of him, knowing that the time had come to break through, he stood on the deck and said to Lin Zonghai on the fast oars boat in front: "The auxiliary general is difficult to rescue, and we have done our best, presumably the auxiliary general will not blame us under Jiuquan." Sadness is useless, highlighting the encirclement and returning to the horse to avenge the blood hatred of the auxiliary generals is what we should do, can we break through in this move, Uncle Zong Hai did not hesitate, looked at the pillar of lights and lights played by the Dongyang, and rushed forward is ......"

Lin Zonghai won't save Uncle Qin Cheng, no matter how much credit he has, he has to have his life to enjoy, but he doesn't know what Lin Lian means by the pillar of light? While he was hesitating, the lighthouse on the aft deck of the Dongyang was silent all night, and at this time, it finally lit up, and at the mouth of the river seemed to be a round of dawn, and several people manipulated the concave bronze mirror to project the light to the front, and the water surface three hundred steps away was as bright as day, illuminating the route of the breakthrough.