The beacon fire burning in the direction of Qingyanggang is not so much to transmit a warning signal, but to launch a general attack signal for the Hongzepu water village boats lurking in Luoyang Lake and the waters in front of Luoyang Lake.

Lin Jian stood on the deck of the tail cabin, Hongzepu Water Village really didn't expect to start in Luoyang Lake, most of the current water village ships are in the waters north of Luoyang Lake, but the warning signal has been issued, they have to start in advance, and the water village ships in the north are rowing south like arrows.

The Qin family's fleet and the send-off fleet were also panicked, although they also had nearly 2,000 people on their side, including more than 1,200 armed forces (including 300 horse infantry in Dongyang Prefecture, 300 people in the Shanglinli Township Battalion, 200 Wuwei guards in Wufeng's dart line, and 400 warriors from the Qin family), the warning came too suddenly, the enemy trace also appeared too suddenly, and there were so many enemy ships that suddenly appeared that they couldn't tell how many lake thieves had gathered in Luoyang Lake for a while, and they were attacked at night, so how could they not panic?

The building boat that Qin Chengbo was riding also turned around and retreated immediately.

When you go forward and raise the sail, you can borrow the wind power, and when you retreat back the same way, you can only lower the sail penis or paddle and swing the oar if you can't borrow the wind power. In order to be able to cross Hongzepu, the flat-bottomed boat that is not conducive to breaking the waves but has a shallow draft is deliberately selected, and the speed of retreat is extremely slow. Lin Jian looked at the pursuit speed of the Shuizhai boats, and estimated that the Lou boat would be entangled with the Shuizhai ships when it withdrew to the middle of Luoyang Lake, and saw that there were several boats in the Qin family's fleet to meet and protect the Lou boat in the middle.

Shen Rong, Lin Tingli, Liang Zuoren and others were still on the small boat they were on, and they did not return to the eight fast paddle boats that were escorted. The two Shuizhai thief boats pretending to be fishing boats nearby seemed to recognize the identities of Shen Rong and Lin Tingli, and they didn't care about waiting for the main force to arrive, so they killed the small boat that Shen Rong transferred to. The small boat that Shen Rong transferred to had two guards, and he couldn't kill the two thief ships, Lin Zonghai commanded the fast oars boat to rescue them, and the small boat also fled in the direction of the building boat.

The escorted eight fast paddle boats of the township camp temporarily hired nearly 100 people to act as oarsmen in Shanglindu, and Lin Jian suspected that there might be people from Hongzepu Water Village inside, so he stood on the aft deck and ordered in a deep voice: "Anchor and enter the lake!" ”

He didn't want to save Qin Chengbo, but the river behind it has been blocked by a large number of ships that have dived past Hongzepu Water Village in the past few days, and Hongzepu Water Village will even use fire boats to block the river to prevent Qin Chengbo from escaping, Dongyang has the largest hull, and the leader will attract firepower, the best choice is for Dongyang to anchor and sail into Dongyang Lake, let the lake mouth out, and give the Qin family fleet and township fast oars boats who don't know the back road to block the boats in the water village first.

"Uncle Mengde, please go and call me the leaders of Xiangyong......" Lin Jian talked to Lin Mengde while taking off his official robes, most of the people who came over this time were taken away by Cao Ziang and Ge Cunxin, plus Wu Qi and his spies who rushed back to the ship, the total number of available people was less than twenty, at least ten people had to be divided into ten people to drive the Dongyang, and there were one hundred and eighty people who accompanied the Xiangyong who did not have enough ships to temporarily place on the Dongyang when escorting, if these one hundred and eighty people could be used well, Lin Jian was confident that he would break out of the encirclement alone. Wu Qi has been monitoring the Shuizhai boats entering the Shiliang River, although there are as many as forty or fifty, but most of them are small and thin-walled river boats, as long as they ensure that a large number of lake thieves are not killed on the boat, even if the other party uses a fire boat to block the river, Lin Jian is sure to rush over.

After a while, Lin Mengde brought the four leaders of the township camp to the aft deck to meet Lin Bin.

Lin Tie took off his official robe at this time, changed into fine scale armor with Zhou Pu, stared at the four township leaders, and said: "The situation is critical, I don't need to say more, Shouyan, Qingshan, Jiyuan, I usually regard you as siblings, at this time, when we are in the same boat, there is nothing distrustful of each other, this is ...... "Shanglinli Township Yong is mostly a child of Shanglinli, four township leaders, Lin Tie knows three of them, Zhao Qingshan and Zhao Hu are distant cousins, Lin Jiyuan is a son of the Lin clan, and Lin Jian is a clan brother, The relationship with Lin Mengde is closer, Chen Shouyan is also a child of the same village, among which Zhao Qingshan is the oldest, already thirty years old, the three of them are the same as Zhao Hu before, they are all the backbone of the township camp in the forest that is worthy of dependence, and the last person is named Li Guang, Lin Jian is not unknown, this person is a foreigner promoted by Lin Zonghai to control the township camp, at this time his status in the township camp is higher than Zhao Qingshan, Lin Jiyuan, and Chen Shouyan, and the three teams of township warriors on this boat are under his control.

"Little Li Guang, appreciated by Brother Zonghai, temporarily took the position of deputy commander of the township battalion, and I have seen Lord Lin......"

"Oh," Lin Lian stared at Li Guang and said, "On my ship, everything must be under the command of me and Uncle Mengde, even Lin Zonghai is on this ship, and I will also be under control." If anyone finds this difficult, I will immediately bring them ashore in a ship......"

"Lin Xiucai has the highest official position and the greatest prestige, so we naturally listen to Lin Xiucai." Lin Jiyuan, Zhao Qingshan, and Chen Shouyan all complained that Lin Zonghai had the greed to control the township camp, and let a foreigner ride on their heads, at this time, Lin Lian and Lin Mengde stood up to temporarily take over the command, of course, they supported it, and before the head of the family was seriously ill, Lin Mengde's status in the clan was not lower than Lin Zonghai, and Lin Lian at this time was even more famous.

Li Guang stared at Lin Tie, his heart was weak, seeing that he was a civil official at this time, he actually changed into a thin scale armor, holding a saber, and a murderous awe, and Zhou Pu behind him was also wearing a thin scale armor, holding a Da Mo knife, and carrying a bow on his back, with a quiver tied around his waist, and his momentum was even greater. Besides, in the winter of last year, Lin Tie put a knife on the neck of the second son and forced him to kneel, he also witnessed with his own eyes, Lin Tie wanted to take over the command of Xiang Yong, what could he say? Although he is the deputy commander of the township camp and sent to Lin Zonghai to lead these three teams of township warriors, Lin Mengde, Lin Lian, and Lin Jiyuan are all children of the Lin clan, Zhao Qingshan and Chen Shouyan will definitely listen to the three of them, and most of the nearly two hundred township warriors on the deck below will also listen to the orders of the villagers, Li Guang's face was blue and red for a while, and he stammered: "Listen to Lord Lin's orders." ”

"Okay, you just stay with me, Qingshan, Jiyuan, and Shouyan will all lead the men of each department to prepare for the battle," Lin Jian kept Li Guang by his side to restrain him, took a set of armor and an ambulance coat and handed it to Lin Mengde, "Uncle Mengde, this armor is not heavy, you can barely put it on, just follow us, be careful of the arrows and stones......"

Almost no one can carry dozens of catties of armor across the water for dozens of miles, and Lin Jian specially made a simple ambulance suit. Although they are accustomed to using pigs and cows to provide buoyancy and ventilation in the water, there are many inconveniences. Xiqin produces a kind of cork, very light but buoyant, local fishermen often use this cork as the float of fishing nets, the size of the loach master they also use this kind of cork in the Nanru River fishing nets, Lin Tie sewed this cork into a vest vest to make a simple ambulance clothing. With ambulance suits that provide sufficient buoyancy in the water, long-distance armed crossings are possible.

Lin Tie was ready to abandon the boat and flee ashore when he saw that the opportunity was wrong, for fear that he would not be able to take care of Lin Mengde in a hurry, so Lin Tie simply asked him to put on a rescue suit now, and others only thought that he was wearing a wooden armor.

Dongyang anchored to Luoyang Lake for more than 100 steps before lowering the sail and stopped, the depth of the water in this area, Lin Tie they carefully measured, it is a safe water, do not worry about the shallow, to this side will lower the sail. The ship is equipped with a long bamboo penny, the water of Luoyang Lake is shallow, you can support the penny, there are four large oars on the two sides of the Dongyang, each oar needs to be controlled by four people, as long as there are enough manpower, the Dongyang will not be particularly slow even if it is against the wind. Now that there are enough manpower, Lin Jian has drawn another 30 people to cooperate with the boat and be responsible for preventing and extinguishing the fire, so that Zhao Qingshan, Lin Jiyuan, and Chen Shouyan will each lead 50 Xiangyong to defend in sections, and keep more than 10 people such as Zhou Pu and Wu Qi by his side to reserve maneuvers.

There were many wind lanterns hanging on the two walls of the Qin family's boat, which were as bright as stars and moons in the dark night, as if they were afraid that the lake thieves would not know which ship to rob? The most effective way for the Hongzepu Shuizhai ships to deal with the Qin family fleet was to throw torches and set fires, and the Qin family fleet had very little prediction of this situation, and the ship did not prepare enough sand and wet quilts and buckets for extinguishing fires, and several ships were set on fire at once.

For the Hongzepu Water Village forces, they are not afraid of burning the bottom of the boat and sinking a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry to the bottom of the lake.

Dongyang lights out and hidden, for the time being, has not joined the battle, Qin Chengbo's building boat to the ant attached to the water village ship entangled, although while resisting the lake pirates jumped ship while retreating to the south, but the speed is extremely slow, almost waiting for the north of the water village ships are chased into Luoma Lake, the building boat to the south of Luoyang Lake near the south entrance of the lake did not go out.

At this time, Lin Jian also clearly saw Qin Chengbo sitting in armor in the cabin on the second floor, with a waist knife in his lap, commanding the Qin family to resist with the warriors, Shen Rong, Lin Tingli, and Liang Zuoren were forced to return to the building boat, and failed to return to the fast oars to lead the counterattack. The eight fast oars boats also caught up with the Shuizhai boats, and the two fast oars boats full of officials and gentry had no resistance at all, and they were rescued by diving after catching up, holding their heads to save Rao, and more importantly, killing the Shuizhai Lake thieves who jumped on the boats, and the nearby waters had begun to dye red. The other six fast oars boats, all laden with elite warriors, fought and retreated. Lin Jian really saw it, although the Dongyang Mansion horse infantry said that they could be called elite after going ashore, but they fought on an unfamiliar ship, and the combat output they could exert was greatly reduced, and there were even people who stood unsteadily on the boat and drove them down to the lake. For the armor-piercing soldiers, it is too inconvenient to pierce the armor underwater, if the armor cannot be taken off in the water, it is more likely to drown, and the surface is also to kill the people and horses of the water village attached to the nearby ants.

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PS: Ask for a red ticket.