The Dongyang sent a flag message, the enemy ships had been found on the Shiliang River, and there was not much time to react, so Lin Jian could only forcibly withdraw the Lin family from the mansion to the boat.

Lin Tingxun drowned for a while, just using good ginseng medicine to hang his life, but Lin Lian couldn't leave him in the Lin family's mansion and ignore him, he couldn't afford to abandon the head of the family at this time. If Lin Tingli handles it properly, it is very likely that he will make up for the lack of the Dongyang prefect, not to mention that there is also Lin Xuwen, the eldest son who served as the Ministry of Industry in Yanjing, Lin Jian will rescue Lin Tingxun even if he snatches out a corpse at this time. The ordinary servants and maids in the Lin family's mansion were dismissed to make them flee, but the third lady, the fourth lady, the fifth lady, the sixth lady and the little boy and others and the personal maids and attendants around them had to be rescued on the boat, and there were many families living nearby in Xiangyong, and their families could be rescued this time, of course, Lin Jian could not stand idly by, in a short period of time, nearly two hundred people gathered in the Lin family's mansion to rescue the Dongyang.

This is still the majority of people living in Shanglin who simply regarded last night's attack as a robbery by rogues, and did not ask to take refuge on the Dongyang together. They thought that as long as they closed their doors and insisted on waiting for the officers and soldiers to come to help, they would be able to drive the rogues away, but they were reluctant to abandon their business and trample on the rogues, and they could not foresee that the tragedy of this military disaster would be far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Today was supposed to be the day when Zhao Hu and his wife returned to the Guo family in the forest, but the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, and it was not even too late to evacuate the Guo family to the forest in time. Zhao Hu's newlywed wife Guo Hongying was crying, but there was no one to pick it up here, so she could only ask someone to send a letter to the past, asking the Guo family to flee in the direction of Jiangning.

Although the time to give them secret preparations is very limited, but they also gave them the elite of the Qin family to gnaw down, they gathered the crowd to go south after a little rest, and it is very likely that they will take a fancy to Shanglinli as a key link between the north and the south, and they are likely to rely on Shanglinli to instigate hundreds of thousands of displaced people stranded on both sides of the Shiliang River to raise things together.

Liu An'er, Wu Shiyi and others cannot simply be regarded as ordinary rogue leaders, once they really intend to unite and instigate the displaced people on both sides of the Shiliang River, it will be a very strategic and far-sighted move, and the military disasters set off are very likely to sweep the land of Jianghuai in a short period of time.

What else could Lin Jian do besides leading the crowd to flee back to Jiangning? I don't know if Lin Tingli can rush to Shiliang County in time, and I don't know what decision Lin Tingli will make in the face of the current situation, Lin Tie just sent someone to ride a fast horse to break through in the direction of Shiliang County, tell Lin Tingli the latest situation, and ask him to do it himself.

Lin Tie stood in the alleyway, frowning and looking at the open area from the shop street to the wharf that was more than two hundred steps wide, which was usually used as a storage yard and an open-air grass market, but at this time it was very deadly, Liu Miaozhen led the cavalry to covet it a little farther away, and the open space provided enough space for Liu Miaozhen's cavalry to charge.

Lin Jian and Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu, Ge Cunxin, Sun Jingtang, Zhao Hu, Lin Jiyuan, Chen Shouyan and others squatted on the ground to discuss, to ensure that the Lin family and everyone in the Lin family smoothly withdrew to the Dongyang, and to avoid Lin Miaozhen leading the cavalry to stay in the upper forest and fight hard with the main force of the Shuizhai that rushed to the forest, it was necessary to immediately organize a defensive formation at the west end of the storage yard and withdraw the people to the Dongyang.

There is a section of the Shiliang River south of Shanglinli that is only more than 40 zhang wide, and in that narrow channel, the Dongyang and a number of fast pulp boats are sure to block the warships of the Shuizhai forces.

If Liu An'er and the other leaders of the water village are smart enough, as long as this side shows a tenacious will to fight, they will also avoid gnawing hard bones. In the water battle at dawn, although the Qin family's fleet was all surrounded and annihilated, and only a few people were rescued by the Dongyang, the victory could not be said to be not brilliant, but the main force of Shuizhai suffered no less than seven or eight hundred casualties, and they naturally would not spend such a big price to bind them behind, but it was not in line with the strategic interests of the Shuizhai forces.

The key is to block Liu Miaozhen's attack, this woman is very fierce, her tactical literacy is also high, and her subordinates have gathered nearly 200 cavalry and have strong combat effectiveness, which is difficult to deal with.

The equipment of the village warrior is relatively simple, the number of armor-piercing people is small, and most of the weapons are carried by short weapons, and the skin wooden shield is also a small waist shield, and there are not many bows and arrows, and most of them are soft bows such as hunting bows, this equipment is quite beneficial to street battles, ships and small-scale bandit warfare, but in the open area and cavalry, especially the cavalry with a strong will to fight, the loss is too great, once the cavalry is killed, behind it are defenseless old and weak women and children, and the consequences are unimaginable.

Lin Jian ordered Sun Jingtang to lead the Xihe congregation to assist, or drive away, and coerce the elderly, weak, women and children to quickly withdraw to the boat, and the faster they moved, the less pressure there was on this side. The Lin family is only allowed to carry a small amount of soft belongings with them, and after the one-time retreat, Lin Jian has already told people that he will never wait for someone to delay.

Lin Tie asked people to tear down the gates of the courtyards everywhere, let three or four villagers carry a solid wooden gate at the same time, and then a small number of more than 60 people with spears and spears were led by Chen Shouyan to form the first line of defense to resist the impact of the cavalry. Zhao Hu was quite familiar with Xiang Yong, and Lin Jian kept him by his side to help him restrain a team of Xiang Yong as a reserve, increasing the depth of the defensive formation. He also made Zhou Pu and Ge Cunxin lead more than 40 armored soldiers to concentrate on the two wings to prepare for the attack on Liu Miaozhen's troops, and also to prevent Liu Miaozhen's troops from outflanking from the two wings. No matter what formation it is, the two wings are always relatively fragile, and Lin Jian also asked Cao Ziang and Lin Mengde to send two fast oars on the Dongyang to the upper reaches of Shanglin Creek to respond.

Everything was properly arranged, Lin Tie first made people drive twenty or thirty mules and horses in the forest house to the mouth of the alley, tied oil-soaked cloth strips to the tail, and drove them to Liu Miaozhen's department, taking advantage of Liu Miaozhen's temporary confusion, and dragged more than ten carts to the west end of the yard to form a simple barricade, and then personally led the village Yong and the armored warriors to go through, formed a defensive formation after the simple barricade, and blocked Liu Miaozhen to the west of the ferry.

Liu Miaozhen dispersed the startled horses, and saw that Lin Lian's side was very well defended, but she did not hesitate to send the remnants of Zhao Neng into two teams to attack the two wings of the Xiangyong formation, and she led more than 50 elite cavalry to directly attack the front of the Xiangyong defensive formation later-she saw that the defensive formation formed by Lin Lian was actually strong on the two wings and weak in the middle.

The water village forces are good at water warfare, but they also secretly cultivated some cavalry infantry, but it has not been a small scale, the imperial court was defeated by Chen Tangyi, Liu An'er fled from Jibei, and there were more than 300 fugitive officers and soldiers who fled back to Hongzepu with him, and this officially formed a cavalry horse. Liu An'er fought bravely and had brains when he was in Jibei, and he was soon promoted to become an officer, and he was very prestigious in the army, before the outbreak of the battle of Chentangyi, he had accumulated merit to be promoted to be the military attache Yun Cavalry Captain of the Seventh Grade, and most of the more than 300 fugitive officers and soldiers were Liu An'er's subordinates, and a small part of them were Haozhou, Huai'an and Dongyang deserters who were collected along the way. There are thousands of miles from Jibei to Hongzepu, Liu An'er restrained more than 300 people to sneak back to Hongzepu thousands of miles away, and it was not a simple matter to bring back hundreds of war horses. Liu An'er led the crowd to flee back to Hongzepu and joined up with his uncle Yang Quan and sister Liu Miaozhen, which immediately increased the power of the Liu family, and also gave Hongzepu a core to the water village and quickly united in the fishermen's anti-donation movement.

Although Liu Miaozhen's more than 50 cavalry is limited in number, it has complete armor, except for a few children of the Liu family, most of them are Liu An'er's loyal and brave subordinates, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of Zhao Neng's remnants. Under the leadership of Liu Miaozhen, these more than 50 horsemen formed a shuttle-like direct impact within a distance of three or four hundred steps, hitting the middle section of Shangxiangyong's defensive formation. On horseback, the horseman swung his sword to open the spear that stabbed him, and the horse continued to move. The horse's hooves stepped like a thousand hammers, three or four Xiangyong back against the wooden door panel to Liu Miaozhen's department with nearly 500 pounds of horsemen at high speed impact, suddenly the wooden crack door shattered, the door panel Xiangyong hit the ground and vomited blood, there are two spears behind the door board to make up the stab, the spearhead pierced from the bottom of the horse's neck, the spear handle against the ground, stabbed the horse's neck bone, the spear handle clicked into an arc and snapped. The war horse fell down with a wail, smashed into countless dust, the horseman on the back of the horse rolled off the horse, he was just about to throw the long soldier to draw the waist knife to resist, Xiang Yong's movement was not slow, there was already a spear and a short knife to kill, he rolled to the ground to dodge but trampled on the hooves of his colleagues who sprinted later. Xiang Yong's side also followed three or four people carrying a big wooden door to stop the impact of the enemy cavalry, only the enemy cavalry was delayed, the second line of hunting bows, short weapons, waist cards of the Xiang Yong can rush up to play a role.

Lin Jian pinched a handful of sweat in his hands, if he couldn't delay the impact of the enemy cavalry in front, even if he still had two teams of reserve combat strength at hand, it would be difficult to guarantee that he would not give three or five enemy cavalry to rush through and directly impact the family team, and it was likely that the entire formation would collapse at that time.

Liu Miaozhen saw that she couldn't break through the defense of Xiangyong, and when she stepped off the mount and was about to hit the door panel, Tiler reins, the war horse brushed the spearhead stabbed from the middle, and the hind hooves kicked on the wooden door panel like a hammer, Liu Miaozhen backhanded, and cut off the two spears that stabbed with spears and hands, and the two horses behind her even rushed in to the gap where Liu Miaozhen struck out and slashed and killed two Xiangyong, and then swept in front of the Xiangyong defense formation. Liu Miaozhen put away the knife and took the bow, turned around on the horseback and "swished" to shoot the arrow, and immediately two people shot at her, and the village Yong shot back with an arrow, but she wore a layered leather armor and was not afraid of ordinary hunting bows.

The remnants of Zhao Neng could only follow Liu Miaozhen after Zhao Neng's death, but it was impossible for Liu Miaozhen to completely incorporate them in such a short period of time. They had the idea of riding on the wall and watching, and they had no determination to fight to the death. The armored warriors on both wings of the Xiangyong defense array are very brave, the arrows they shoot are fast and heavy, these horse-thief-born horsemen look at the Mo knives held by the armored warriors are as high as the neck of the war horse, the cold light is shining, the north wing is the first to rush to the front of the battle horse The neck of the war horse is cut off by Zhou Pu from the side, the horse's head and the horse's body are instantly separated from the flesh and blood, and the severed horse neck bone is also visible to Bai Sensen, the knight on the horseback can't help but fly out, and in mid-air to the two people behind Zhou Pu with a Mo knife to break the armor and kill, the others are naturally cold and dare not impact the array of the armored warriors, Sticking to the front, they all reined in and dodged sideways.

The cavalry on both wings dodged, and Zhou Pu and Ge Cunxin immediately decided to lead the armor soldiers to attack Liu Miaozhen's troops from both flanks, and at this time, Lin Jian and they both understood that the more than 50 elite cavalry led by Liu Miaozhen himself was the biggest threat. The Xiangyong hunting bow is not enough to pose a threat to Liu Miaozhen's department, but the foot bows that Lin Tie equipped the men on the Dongyang are all strong bows with more than eight bucket bow strength, although there are only a dozen bows, but they can shoot through the leather armor in the range of forty or fifty steps, Liu Miaozhen's department swept away from the front of the formation and retreated to a safe distance, although it was only a few breaths of time, but it was enough for Zhou Pu and them to shoot two rounds of arrows, so that the last five or six horsemen of Liu Miaozhen's department were full of arrows on their backs and shoulders.

Although the time was short, four people were killed and eight or nine were injured on the side of Xiang Yong, and Liu Miaozhen also had eight or nine casualties. Lin Jian immediately asked the organization to carry the bodies of the dead and the wounded onto the boat, and the formation continued to wait, he saw the performance of Liu Miaozhen in a red jacket just now, she can really be called a female warrior, Liu An'er can become the general leader of the Shuizhai forces, and the support of his uncle and sister is inseparable. Although Liu Miaozhen gathered his subordinates in the distance and had no intention of charging again, Lin Jian did not dare to be sloppy, and it was not until everyone in the Lin family withdrew from the boat that he slowly collected his troops and got on the fast oars boat first.

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