In the dead of night, most of the people in the estuary had slept peacefully, except for the people on duty.

The glass lamp of the corner tower emitted a bright light, illuminating the range of three or four hundred steps to the left and right like a full moon night. The corner tower is about four zhang from the ground, and the outer wall of the earthen wall is steep and slippery like a cliff, and it is difficult for people to climb up without borrowing tools.

"Whoosh ......" three strange sounds, three iron arrows from the dark towards the glass cover of the corner tower lights, clang, the first iron cluster arrow smashed the glass cover, spilled from the corner tower. The corner tower looked down, the four walls were ventilated, the lights were exposed to the wind, swayed a few times, and before the secret enemy could make up for another arrow, it was extinguished.

Sun Wenwan was uneasy tonight, she had been sitting in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness, without the slightest tiredness, and when she saw that the lights of the corner tower were suddenly extinguished, she knew that this moment had come, because she couldn't figure out the deployment of the Qu family at all, she didn't dare to act rashly, picked up the silver makeup knife that protected her body, and wanted to find her father.

Sun Jingxuan put on his armor and walked in, shouting loudly for the lights in the courtyard to be turned off, and the nearly 40 congregants who remained at the mouth of the river were evacuated to the courtyard, and improvised weapons such as knives and bamboo guns were issued to block the front and rear courtyard gates, and he took a ladder to climb to the roof to inspect the situation.

"The Qu family's plan is very detailed, so many people have landed from the riverbank wharf, first cut off the passage for the Lin family to retreat into the house," Sun Wenwan also climbed onto the roof, although the lights of the corner tower were extinguished, but there were still scattered lights on the wharf and the north and south long streets, and dozens of ships could be seen flocking to the riverbank wharf, and the dozens of people who landed first to catch up were all holding swords and rushing towards the north and south like tigers, as long as the north and south long streets were blocked more than 300 steps long, the Lin family who lived in the new house on the east side of the north and south long streets could not withdraw to the west side of the surrounding house"There is no boat on the other side of the river embankment wharf, they are trying to force the Lin family to withdraw from the river embankment wharf to Prison Island......"

Sun Jingxuan turned his head to look at the embankment wharf behind him, there were no thief ships landing on the shore, it was pitch black outside the estuary, only a faint light of water, as if the mouth of a giant beast was open, no one knew how many ambushes the Qu family had ambushed at the estuary, he was worried that Fu Qinghe and the Lin family would panic and retreat to Prison Island in a hurry, but they could not withdraw to the close house, the defense of the Lin family's new house and thatched cottage was quite limited, and they would definitely not be able to hold out until dawn.

Trees such as elm poplar are planted along the back street, and a wind lantern is hung every few zhang. The estuary alarm bell rang for a long time, and the rogues had not yet entered the back street, and the back street was still bright.

Sun Jingxuan saw Fu Qinghe, who was wearing green armor, and two military guards on the roof of the grass hall to look at the enemy's situation, and Liu Yue'er, Xiaoman and other female dependents were retreating from the grass hall into the Lin family's new house surrounded by more than a dozen military guards.

Compared with the thatched cottage, the Lin family's new house is more suitable for defense, Sun Jingxuan knows that Fu Qinghe and they will not retreat to Prison Island in a hurry, but how long can they hold on to the Lin family's new house?

"They want to induce the prison guards to leave the island to rescue the estuary," Sun Wenwan saw that the direction of the estuary was unusually quiet, "Whether the estuary is attacked or the prison island is attacked, Lin Jian will also not be able to escape the ending of leaving his post without permission and going to prison for questioning......"

There is an abandoned shack area on the south side of the north and south long streets.

After Lin Jiayong was cut, the remaining Xiangyong, the Lin family specially arranged two large mansions on both sides of the new house as barracks, and the reduced Xiangyong were all assigned to Lin Tie into the military guard. The camp to the west of the surrounding house was not demolished, and some of the refugees were moved in in the past few days, so that the shack area on the south side of Long Street was abandoned, and only a few people remained inside.

The thieves who poured ashore first set fire to the shack, and soon the fire was several times brighter than the lights of the corner towers, and many people were still stranded in this shantytown, and after the shacks were lit, they naturally fled in panic.

"Donghua Gate is burning!"

Sun Wenwan only stared at the estuary, listening to his father's exclamation, and looked up, there was a fire in the direction of Donghua Gate.

The Qu family must prevent Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin from leading the horse infantry of Dongcheng Captain to save the estuary, and set fire to Dongcheng to create chaos, it is inevitable to drag Zhang Yubo, Liu Xilin and others, and even it is possible for Qu Jia to ambush Dongcheng Captain's reinforcements halfway.

For the sake of selfish desires, the powerful and wealthy families are so blatantly and unscrupulously murderous and arson; Sun Wenwan had a fine sweat on her back, and she really didn't know if Xihe would be able to survive in such a world.

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In the mouth of the Quyang River that joins the Jinchuan River in the east of the Jiuurn Bridge on the official road of Donghua Gate, there are three fast paddle boats, like beasts dormant in the night, sniffing the smell of blood in the air.

There was no hanging light on the boat, and on the fast paddle boat in front, Quyang Town Inspection Division, Qu Wuming, the second master of the Qu family, was neatly dressed and armored, holding his saber tightly and staring at the direction of the estuary, where several fires had been burned, but no one came to report that the Lin family's new house had been captured.

It was only about twelve miles from the Jiuurn Bridge to the mouth of the river, and he could arrive in half an hour by boat, and Qu Wuyang first had to confirm that the soldiers and horses of the Dongcheng Captain could not get out of the city.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Dongcheng Weima infantry is very poor, Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin are Gu Wuchen's cronies, and they will not sit idly by and ignore the attack at the mouth of the river, and it is still a big trouble for them to forcibly lead the Dongcheng Weima infantry to come to help; It's best to delay them out of the city.

Behind Qu Wuming, more than 100 knife archers of the Inspection Division all held single knives, and more than 100 private soldiers of the Qu family wore the uniforms of the Inspection Division, holding sharp weapons such as Mo knives, big ring knives, and foot bows. They can't be dispatched yet, it's not good for the Qu family's own people to appear too early, at least until the Qu family sends people from all over the country to invite the people to break the Lin family's new house or lure the prison guards out of the island to kill them, they can swagger over to the past to "rescue".

Although the attack on the estuary or prison island can make Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen unable to wipe their buttocks, it is better to collect conclusive evidence that Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen bent the law and martyred for personal gain.

In any case, let them taste the consequences of offending the Qu family in Jiangning. Even if someone may point the finger at the Qu family afterwards, but this kind of verbal war, with Chen Xiyan here, Qu Wuming doesn't feel that there is anything to worry about.

Anyway, there will be no evidence in the hands of others, and the Qu family sent to invite the Zhukou to attack the estuary and the Jiyun Society's fleet are cronies who can definitely be trusted.

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Cold sweat flowed down the back of the Extravagant Flying Tiger, and the three sharp arrows stuck in the wall panel behind his back seemed to be still buzzing, and it was easy for Lin Lian to kill him just now.

Du Rong, Song Jia, and the young strategist Qin Zitan were all stunned for a moment, Qin Zitan could guess that Lin Jian might have sneaked back to Jiangning, but he never expected that Lin Jian could still use so many elite combat power to calculate the composer.

Seeing that the six oars in front of them were all armed armorers, afraid of no less than four or five hundred people, Du Rong, Song Jia and Qin Zitan were all in a cold sweat, and they thought in a blink of an eye that these people were Gu Wuchen's guards.

Gu Wuchen went to Dongyang to supervise the battle, and there were as many as 400 escorts behind him.

The Jiyun Society fleet was stranded at the mouth of the Yuxi River with two hundred combat strength, and Lin Jian had four or five hundred people around him at this time, so it could only be Gu Wuchen's escort team who transferred him back.

At that time, the reconnaissance ability of any force in the world was limited, who would have thought that Gu Wuchen would transfer his guards to Lin Jian to set up a plan for the composer?

Du Rong attaches great importance to the safety of the extravagant flying tigers, but there are only more than 60 elite guards on their ship, and more than 100 elites are hidden in the sky, but Lin Jian really wants to do something against them, and the more than 100 elites can't be rescued.

"Lord Lin is really surprising," Song Jia was not worried that Lin Jian would be unfavorable to them, and said with a smile, "The concubine body is still worried that the Qu family is not good for Lord Lin, it turns out that Lord Lin has been calculating the Qu family for a long time, and it is really worrying about the concubine." ”

At this time, a wind lantern was picked up on the fast paddle boat, and the dim and flickering lights reflected Lin Tie's body.

Lin Jian was wearing scale armor, holding the saber on his waist with his hand, and said in a cold voice: "Thank you for your concern, tonight's events are dangerous and unprovoked, and the scene is very chaotic, so there is no need for the young marquis and the young lady to be in danger, the young marquis and the young lady please go back." ”

When he saw the bearded man who had assassinated him twice, wearing a red helmet and wearing green armor and holding a double halberd, he was openly standing behind Lin Tie, his teeth squeaked, thinking to himself that Lin Tie was a character, half a year ago he could be pinched to death effortlessly as an ant, but today he was threatened by him, so how could he bear it in his heart?

Song Jia quietly grabbed her husband's hand, she knew that Lin Jian didn't want to keep them, but Lin Lian's primary target tonight was the Qu family, and they would not fight here to delay time and make the Qu family vigilant, but they really didn't need to provoke Lin Jian at this time, and instructed Du Rong: "Since there is nothing to see, let's go back, we are all trapped and dead, and there are many mosquitoes on the river." ”

The boat on which the Luxury Feihu was riding began to retreat, and Lin Jian did not delay, directing the oarsmen to row the fast oars boat towards the mouth of the river.

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After the glass lamps of the corner tower at the wharf near the mouth of the river were smashed and blown out, although the shanty town on the south side of the long street and several houses on the south side of the north and south streets were set on fire by the thieves who came ashore, the water surface between the prison island and the estuary was hidden in darkness, and only a faint shadow could be seen on the river surface.

Four armed vehicles and boats with long heads and slender bodies streamed out of the aquatic bushes at the eastern end of Prison Island, and the four Taihu wing boats that were ambushed in the reeds near the east coast of Prison Island seemed to see that their prey was finally lured out, and they wanted to scream excitedly.

The middle-aged man standing on the bow of the Taihu Lake wing boat is also dressed as a Taihu Lake thief, but his real identity is the steward of the Qu family.

Quyang Town is the most important rice market outside the eastern city of Jiangning, and in order to monopolize the rice and grain trade transported to Jiangning by the Taihu Prefectures, the Qu family has secretly colluded with the Taihu pirates for decades. Under normal circumstances, the Qu family would not directly invite the Taihu pirates to Jiangning to do business, but this time the matter is particularly special and important, and the Qu family cannot directly send private soldiers to leave a handle for others, so they can only take out a lot of money to invite Taihu pirates and other forces to come to Jiangning to do this vote. In addition to the Qu family taking out 100,000 taels of silver to the families, how much the families robbed at the mouth of the river was all in the pockets of each family, and the Qu family never stretched out their hands.

The estuary's defenses are limited, and the most taboo is the prison guards on Prison Island. Lin Tie led the Dongyang to get out safely in the water battle of Luoyang Lake, and the combat power of the prison guards on Prison Island should not be underestimated, at least it should be much stronger than the rogues in Taihu Lake.

Seeing that the prison guards were luring the island with four boats, the middle-aged man waved his hand, so that the four Taihu wing boats also quietly sailed out of the reeds. They didn't go directly to intercept the vehicles and ships; The speed of the vehicle and the ship is very fast, and although the Taihu wing boat is also fast, it is difficult to pursue the vehicle and ship in a short distance. They expected that the vehicles and boats would come ashore from the embankment pier to help the estuary, so they went directly to the estuary.

Zhao Hu, who was squatting on the bow of the armed car and boat, also saw four Taihu wing boats following from behind at this time, and secretly said in his heart: The Qu family really has a secret collusion with the Taihu Lake bandits.

The Taihu Lake wing boat is not the ordinary wing boat, its boat shape is different from the ordinary wooden boat, the sides of the ship are stretched like wings, it is very convenient for the side battle, it is the unique warship of the water village forces in the Taihu Lake Basin, and the Qu family really spent money to deal with the estuary.

Zhao Hu didn't care about the four Taihu wing boats that went to the mouth of the river to intercept them, but ordered four vehicles and boats carrying 180 newly formed military soldiers to rush straight to the riverbank wharf.

The Qu family invited the Kou to attack the estuary, and disregarded the embankment wharf, which was more convenient for small and medium-sized boats to berth, and all landed at the riverbank wharf, where about seventy or eighty thief ships were crowded.

The berths on the riverbank wharf are limited, and at most four or five ships can be docked at the same time, and more of the boats are parked directly on the river beach, and many ant-attached bandits jump off the boat with a knife in their mouths, and flow from the shallow water that does not reach their chests to the river beach, but the river bank here is steep, and it is still necessary to climb ashore from the stone steps of the wharf.

The Lin family's 400,000 taels of silver at the mouth of the river made people's hearts boil, and some people advocated that all families unite to go to Jiangning to do this vote, but almost no one objected, thinking in their hearts: After the defeat, even the boat and people went to Hongzepu to join Liu An'er, and they could still ask a general to do it.

It was this kind of idea that made the Taihu Lake Bandits and Poyang Lake Bandits, who were usually quite peaceful, more and more unscrupulous, and the bandits who had secretly gathered in the sky in the past few days exceeded 1,000 people.

At this time, there were four or five hundred people who landed from the dock, and most of the ships gathered in front of the dock waiting to go ashore, and at this time they also saw Zhao Hu leading four vehicles and ships to attack. Although all the gangsters were temporarily united, there were also people in the middle of the dispatch, and eight ships were immediately assigned here to intercept them, so as not to copy the back roads of the vehicles and ships.

At this time, the gongs and drums on the chariot ship were loud, and the thief ship was about to charge when the chariot and ship were carrying the soldiers, and four more ships were sent to intercept it.

Unexpectedly, four pillars of light suddenly projected from Prison Island and the shore, illuminating the water surface outside the wharf on the river bank as bright as day. They all thought that by breaking the glass lamp of the corner tower closest to the wharf on the river bank, they would be able to hide the ships in the dark, but they thought that there were four glazed lanterns at the mouth of the river, and there was also a larger glazed lantern on the side of the prison island. The most frightening thing was that six fast-oared warships rowed from the dark water on the west side, and on the suddenly bright water, these six warships were all black-pressed armor soldiers, and the front of the longbow they raised their hands to fill, hundreds of arrows flashed with a cold cold light, and at the moment when the lights were on, they shot out of the strings.

It instantly dawned on Zhukou that they were the prey.

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PS: Ask for a red ticket.