Less than half of the more than 200 horse thieves under Zhao Neng's command gathered in front of the Lin family's mansion, and the others were scattered everywhere to rob their homes.

Zhao Neng promised to bring them to the forest to burn and kill, and the village Yong in the forest had been defeated, and the Lin family's mansion was difficult to gnaw, but the manpower in the Lin family's mansion was not a threat to them. It is difficult for Zhao Neng to restrain them to attack the Lin family's mansion together, in addition to the Lin family, there are many rich families living in Shanglin, why do they still listen to Zhao Neng's order to gnaw on the hard bone of the Lin family's mansion that will break their teeth?

Listening to the sentry cavalry to report that the Dongyang is only three miles away from this waterway, Zhao Neng hopes to cover up and kill Lin Tie and Hui Xiangyong when they go ashore, he asked people to blow the whistle of gathering troops, but after waiting for a while, no one came to converge, so he handed over more than 100 horse thieves in front of the Lin family's mansion to Liu Miaozhen, a red-jacketed girl, to restrain him to go to the ferry to ambush first, and he took seven or eight escorts to go everywhere to collect other horse thieves. Although these horsemen who did not obey orders and scattered to rob houses and houses were scattered, their combat effectiveness was very strong, after all, most of them were born as horse thieves and mountain bandits, and Zhao Neng also knew the truth of attacking half-crossing, and it would be most effective to launch a surprise attack when half of the people who returned to the hometown to help Yong disembarked and the formation was unstable.

Zhao Neng saw that everyone asked him to go to the ferry to gather immediately, some people were really disobedient, he also ruthlessly whipped him, and sailed on the three-mile waterway, and it was just a stick of incense, leaving him with little time. Hearing that the door of a large family in the east of the village was smashed open, and thirty or forty people went there to "help" and rob, Zhao Neng hurried over.

Zhao Neng thought of being able to kill Lin Tie at the ferry, his hands trembled with excitement, he was a little distracted when riding a horse, and heard two strange wind sounds of "whoosh, whoosh", and subconsciously looked sideways, two sharp arrows were shot head-on, and before he could react, an arrow pierced into his left cheek, and an arrow pierced his neck, he had no idea about killing Lin Tie, and he saw a team of armor soldiers in the alleyway covering the cavalry beside him, and he died before he fell off the horse.

Lin Tie met refugees at the ferry in the lower forest, and learned that it was Zhao Neng who led the horse thieves to attack the upper forest, and he and Zhou Pu, Wu Qi, Lin Jiyuan, and Chen Shou immediately led ten armor-piercing soldiers and two hundred village warriors to go ashore at the lower forest ferry, so that Lin Mengde and Zhao Qingshan and others led more than 100 village warriors to stay on the boat, slow down the speed of the boat and continue to march up the forest to attract the attention of Zhao Neng and the horse thieves.

Fortunately, Cao Ziang and Ge Cunxin also caught up with Lin Tie in time from the fork of the river at the ferry in Xialinli, so that there were more than 30 elite armor-piercing soldiers available to Lin Tie. Lin Jian asked Cao Ziang to stay on the Dongyang to respond, and asked Ge Cunxin to follow them to the forest by land. The trophies from Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin and others fishing in troubled waters were also temporarily tied to the stern of the Dongyang and accompanied them.

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Hongzepu Zhujia Water Village naturally hoped and carefully planned to introduce the Qin family's fleet into the depths of Hongzepu before attacking. In the vast waters of Hongzepu and the shallow water of the lake, it is precisely the place where small and medium-sized boats in the water village can only play their advantages, as long as the building boat that Qin Chengbo is riding is introduced into the shallow water, the water village can manipulate the power of life and death, and the elite of the Qin family can't jump into the water to fight with the people and horses of the water village, right? Even if the Qin family's fleet wants to escape, there are two or three hundred miles of vast lake water before and after, and Hong Zepu Water Village has enough time and space to clean up Qin Chengbo's family, and he is not afraid of government reinforcements coming.

Of course, Lin Jian knew that entering the depths of Hongzepu and the water village forces would have an absolute advantage, and there was no chance for him to fish in troubled waters. The use of fake beacon fire to induce a water war in Luoyang Lake in advance is the key to Lin Lian's troubled waters, one is that the water village forces are not well arranged in Luoyang Lake, and the other is that the Qin family's fleet is convenient to transfer in Luoyang Lake, so that the water village forces and the Qin family's fleet are slightly evenly matched. Only when the two sides are evenly matched will the weaker third party be given the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

It was only when the main combat power of Shuizhai was always attracted to the building boat that Qin Chengbo was riding, that Cao Ziang and Ge Cunxin led the four Hongzepu fishing boats in camouflage with their men to mix in with the reserve ships of the Shuizhai forces, and then confiscate the booty from the Qin family's ships that set fire to them. The surroundings of Hongzepu have always been in a tense situation, even if the Shuizhai forces are united, it is difficult to have a strict organization, this is certain, and the sky is as dark as ink, the lights on the Shuizhai ships cannot be sufficient, and the loot will be transported on the boat, even if Zhushuizhai will send people to the boat to monitor, Cao Ziang and they want to kill one or two Shuizhai supervisors, and then take advantage of the dark night to sail the boat into the river to escape, naturally it is not a difficult thing. The booty that the four fishing boats found in the troubled waters was naturally the loot that bound them.

Cao Ziang and the others rushed over in time to converge and firmly tied a loach boat to the stern of the Dongyang, and others never imagined that this loach boat contained part of the trophies that were originally part of the Hongzepu Water Village.

Lin Jian said that he wanted to escort Qin Chengbo on a ride, why did Shen Rong take the risk to accompany him knowing that there were signs of unity in the water village of Hongzepu? This is Shen Rong is too smart and confident. Shen Rong also judged that the Hongzepu Water Village forces would do everything possible to introduce the Qin family's fleet into Hongzepu and then take action. Luoyang Lake North Mouth is the boundary of Dongyang Mansion, and then north is Huai'an Mansion Border, Shen Rong escorted Qin Chengbo to Luoyang Lake North Mouth is already very polite, Luoyang Lake is the Nanjing of Hongzepu, the north mouth of Luoyang Lake is considered to enter the Hongzepu two or three miles of waterway, from the center of Hongzepu there are two or three hundred miles of waterway. In Shen Rong's opinion, Luoyang Lake is still quite safe, even if there is danger, he can take a fast paddle boat to quickly pass through the old river of Shiliang River to Shiliang County.

Shen Rong is too clever to calculate, most of Hongzepu is in Huai'an Mansion and Haozhou Mansion, and the water village forces are mainly distributed in the western border of Huai'an Mansion and Haozhou Mansion, Qin Chengbo was robbed and killed in Hongzepu, and Dongyang Mansion has little to do with it, but can give him the opportunity to quell the rebellion and make great contributions, the only thing he didn't expect was that Lin Jian would be bold to this point and induce the water war to break out in Luoyang Lake in advance.

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Shanglinli Xiangyong stationed in the camp to succeed in the sneak attack, the real casualties of Xiangyong were not particularly high, and more people fled in rout. Since no one gathered these villagers, Shanglindu was occupied by horse thieves, and the villagers who escaped naturally fled to their respective homes at night. There were dozens of people who fled to the north bank, and nearly 30 people who were gathered along the road.

Lin Jian learned more detailed information from the fleeing Xiang Yong, the combat power of more than two hundred horse thieves is really not weak, the key is that they have horses, and they come and go like the wind, which is a headache.

Although the Zhujia Water Village fought fiercely at Luoyang Lake all night and suffered heavy casualties, it is very likely that they will rush to the forest after a little repair.

Of course, the forces of Hongzepu Water Village may be more eager to occupy Sizhou City on the west side of Hongzepu. The terrain of Sizhou City is dangerous, in fact, the terrain of mountains and lakes to the west of Sizhou City is staggered, which can be said to be connected with the terrain of Hongzepu, and some people call that piece of Xipu Hongzepu, occupying Sizhou City will give the Shuizhai forces a relatively stable and solid core rear. However, the occupation of Shanglinli is also of great benefit to the forces of Hongzepu Water Village, and the key is to contact and instigate the hundreds of thousands of displaced people stranded north of Chaotiandang and along the Shiliang River, making this move even more noisy.

Lin Jian didn't know what choice the Hongzepu Water Village forces would make, and he had to prepare for the worst. Two or three hundred horse thieves are entrenched in the forest, in case the ships of the water village go south again, Lin Jian only has three or four hundred people in his hands to use, and he is afraid that he can win this battle only if God helps him.

Lin Jian knew that there was not much time left for him, and he had to drive the horse thieves out of the upper forest in one go before the Shuizhai ships went south, and pick up Yingchong, Zhao Hu, Sun Jingtang and others. The upper forest is very large, and between the upper forest and the lower forest is a large area of plum forest, and the houses south of the plum forest are also dense, providing favorable terrain conditions for them to sneak into the upper forest.

Taking advantage of the Meilin in the north of Shanglinli, Zhao Neng and Liu Miaozhen had limited troops, and they could not send sentry horses farther away when the troops were scattered in the countryside.

Lin Tie intended to go ashore and Dongyang soldiers and horses, so he wanted to use the Dongyang to attract Zhao Neng and the horse thieves to the ferry to set up an ambush, and Lin Tie attacked these horse thieves from behind, so that he could take advantage of the terrain surrounded by water on both sides of the ferry and the buildings to limit the mobility of the horse thieves as much as possible, and give full play to their advantages of being outnumbered. Zhao Neng also deserved to be unlucky, Lin Tie and everyone walked through the alley, he led the escort to collect the horse thieves who robbed the rich at the east end of the village, and passed in front of Lin Tie's eyes and noses. Lin Jian knew that it was impossible to hide his traces at this time, so he immediately decided to shoot Zhao Neng and his escorts, one of the two arrows that killed Zhao Neng was shot by Zhou Pu, and the other was shot by Ge Cunxin, but Zhao Neng's eight escorts escaped with the help of horses and the twists and turns of the laneway.

Lin Jian did not hesitate at the moment, and went directly to the ferry to kill.

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Liu Miaozhen heard that there was a loud sentry in the alley of the village, and instantly thought that Lin Lian divided his troops to kill from the shore, she got the information of Luoyang Lake, and knew that Lin Lian only had 400 people on hand, and she was not afraid of how many people Lin Lian could divide from the shore, so she immediately ordered all the cavalry to gallop to the west clearing to avoid the unfavorable terrain of the ferry. Seeing that there were arrows shooting in the alley, Liu Miaozhen got off the horse and took a shield to block the arrows, protected herself and the war horse, calculated the distance and the remaining strength of the arrow to hit the shield, and saw that there were several strong bows on the side of Lin Bin, she immediately turned over and took one hundred and sixty horsemen to continue to detour to the east. The bow on horseback is short, and the bow power is far less than that of a strong step bow, and they have a strong bow, and in the alley that is not conducive to the impact of the cavalry, Liu Miaozhen led the cavalry to outflank it is the best policy. After all, there are still many brave and warlike horse thieves scattered in the streets, and many troops on Lin Lian's side are contained.

After a few contacts, Liu Miaozhen led all the horsemen to disperse at the touch of a few times, and only after a few attempts did they make a little serious impact, and just avoided the armored warriors led by Lin Tie, and sought opportunities to bite the tail of Xiang Yong from other places, but fortunately Xiang Yong was familiar with the terrain and did not suffer any big losses.

Lin Jian was really a headache, he didn't have much time to spend in Shanglindu, and at worst, he had to withdraw everyone to the ship first, and see if there were any reinforcements sent over in Shiliang County to make plans.

Lin tied them to capture a horse thief, after interrogation only to know that this black-faced young woman was actually a red-jacketed girl Liu Miaozhen, Cao Ziang mixed in the water village boat last night also knew that the Hongzepu water village forces were united, a total of 29 masters, Liu An'er, who was arrested in Hongzepu in the early years to fill the army, was the big boss, Liu Miaozhen is Liu An'er's sister, ranked seventeenth.

The Dongyang is close to the ferry, the main mast of the Dongyang is ten zhang high, so that people climb the main mast, the sentry can be several miles away, for the time being, there is no worry about the enemy's attack, Lin Jian led the people to the Lin family's mansion first, and watched how to transfer everyone to the ship in a short time.

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PS: Ask for a red ticket.