At dawn the next day, Chen Qing waited for the passenger ship on the river. He did not go back to the inn, but boarded the ship directly at the pier. However, the war horse could not get on the ship. Chen Qing had to store the horse at a mule and horse shop on the pier and send it out later.
Someone comes and gets it.
In the cabin, Chen Qing briefly told Hu Yanjia what happened in Wuhu.
"What do you mean, general, is there someone snitching over there?" Hu Yanjia glanced at the boatmen.
Chen Qing nodded, "Obviously, the only people who know that I am in Wuhu are you and the boatman. If not you, then it must be the boatman."
"Of course it can't be us, these idiots, and I still trust them so much!"
Hu Yanjia cursed bitterly: "Otherwise, we will kill them all, and we will replace them with another group of boatmen!"
"First we have to find the informer. Think about it, who could the informer be?"
"Impossible! They have no chance of landing alone."
At this time, Hu Yanding whispered from the side: "Could it be Hua Silang? He went to sell horses with us. We went to Wang's house to collect the money, but he didn't follow us and stayed alone in the town."
Chen Qing thought for a while and said: "Go find the boss of the ship!"
After a while, the boss of the ship walked into the cabin.
"General, have a safe journey!" the captain laughed.
"Thanks to you, I was attacked by five hundred gold soldiers from Jiangbei last night at Wuhu Pier."
The captain of the ship was shocked, "How did they know the general was in Wuhu?"
"I'm going to ask you this. It's impossible for Brother Huyan. What about you?" Chen Qing stared at him with a stern look.
The captain of the ship knelt down and said, "The villain never betrayed the general!"
"I didn't tell you, where are your men?"
"Only three of my men know that the general is in Wuhu."
"Which three people?"
"Zhao Ping, Qiao Dashan and Hua Shilang."
"Which of the three of them has the closest relationship with the fake boatman from before?"
The boss of the ship thought for a while, "It must be Hanashiro! By the way, he recently got twenty taels of silver. I asked him where he got it, and he said he won it by gambling. This is nonsense. He has never won anything gambling on the ship.
."
"How much does he earn per month?"
"He is a small boatman. He earns at most three taels of silver a month. He also has to support his family. He has to save twenty taels of silver for at least ten years."
Chen Qing sighed, and he could basically conclude that it was Hanashiro, who had been bribed by the previous fake boatman.
"Go and fetch him, Hu Yanding, you and the boss of the ship go together."
The two went out together, and for a moment there was a cry of exclamation. Someone shouted: "Jumped into the river! Save people quickly."
Chen Qing walked out of the cabin quickly and saw everyone looking at the river and exclaiming. Hu Yanding pointed at a person on the river and said angrily: "That Huashiro suddenly jumped off the boat when he was halfway there, which caught me off guard."
Chen Qing quickly returned to the cabin to get a bow and arrow. He stringed the bow and aimed at a small black spot on the river about dozens of steps away. After hesitating for a moment, Chen Qing did not shoot the arrow in the end.
"Let him go!" Chen Qing put down his bow and arrow.
The captain's words, "I still have to support my family," made Chen Qing let him go in the end.
...........
He originally thought that he had gone on a killing spree in Wuhu and the danger had been eliminated. However, two days later, Chen Qing realized that he was wrong and the other party never let him go.
That night, the passenger ship sailed to Tongling County.
Suddenly, a scream came from the stern of the ship. Chen Qing, who was reading a book, was suddenly awakened. It was the voice of the boss of the ship, and then Hu Yanjia shouted: "General Chen, there is enemy sentiment!"
Chen Qing grabbed the halberd casually, but saw two Jurchen soldiers rushing in with spears in hand.
Chen Qing rolled on the deck, his halberd struck out, and "Crack!" cut off two feet. Two Jurchen soldiers fell down, howling in pain. Chen Qing waved his halberd, killing three more who rushed in.
The Jurchens killed two soldiers with broken legs with a backhand, then took their bows and arrows and rushed out of the cabin.
On the deck, the Huyan brothers were fighting fiercely with more than a dozen Jurchens, and screams could be heard one after another.
Chen Qing did not rush forward in a hurry. He squatted on the deck, opened his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot seven or eight arrows in an instant. Seven or eight Jurchen soldiers were hit by the arrows and fell down. The pressure on the Huyan brothers was greatly reduced. The more they fought, the more brave they were, and several of them were killed.
The Jurchen soldiers retreated steadily and were forced to jump into the river.
No! Chen Qing found a huge boat approaching them quickly. Someone behind him suddenly shouted: "The Jurchens are going to shoot arrows, hurry up!"
As soon as Chen Qing turned around, he saw a huge shield thrown towards him. He caught it and just raised the shield, arrows from the ship on the opposite side came towards him like a storm. In an instant, his shield was filled with arrows.
arrow.
"Boom!" With a muffled sound, their ship was hit hard by the big ship behind. The ship shook violently. Chen Qing rolled over and saw the person who threw the shield to him.
On a small passenger boat on the river, stood a tall man in black. Chen Qing recognized it at a glance. It was the man in black who warned him from Wuhu. It turned out that he had been following him.
"General Chen, get on the boat quickly!" the man in black shouted urgently.
Chen Qing hesitated and rushed to the side of the ship. Hu Yanding was hit by two arrows and was lying on the deck. Hu Yanjia was bandaging him.
"How about the third child?"
"Fortunately, it's not a serious injury!"
"There is a small boat behind you. Hurry up and get him on board. Go quickly!"
Dozens of Jurchen soldiers jumped from the big ship and rushed towards Chen Qing. Chen Qing was the person named by the Emperor of Jin to be arrested. Wan Yanchang was bound to win. The five hundred Qi army was just one of the intercepting troops. This ship
A three-thousand-stone ship full of Jurchen soldiers had been following them since Jiankang. They took action when their defenses were relaxed, but Huyanjia was the first to discover it.
Hu Yanjia picked up his brothers and ran to the boat behind him. Chen Qing held a bow and arrows in his hand and shot them in succession. The arrows hit the vital points and more than a dozen Jurchen soldiers fell down.
Seven or eight water ghosts suddenly jumped up from the side of the ship on both sides. A tall water ghost jumped out from behind and slashed at the back of Chen Qing's head with a knife. "Woo!" The sharp sword brought a gust of wind. This knife came too suddenly, killing him.
Chen Qing was caught off guard. He dodged and avoided the fatal knife. Unexpectedly, the body of the water ghost also pressed forward and knocked Chen Qing down. Without the threat of bows and arrows, more than twenty Jurchens screamed and swung their swords from three directions.
Rush towards Chen Qing.
At the critical moment, a wolf-toothed arrow shot through the back of the water ghost's neck. The water ghost screamed and died immediately. Chen Qing threw his body off the boat and grabbed the halberd with one arm.
Sweeping away, the three nearest Jurchen soldiers were knocked over.
Chen Qing put his bow on his back and retreated while fighting, but there were more and more Jurchen soldiers. The man in black shouted: "General Chen, jump quickly!"
Chen Qing ran a few steps and jumped towards the boat. The man in black was very skilled in archery and shot eight arrows in a row, knocking down all the eight Jurchen soldiers who were chasing Chen Qing desperately.
Although it is a small boat, it is also a passenger ship of 500 stone. Hu Yanjia and two men in black patrol the side of the ship with short spears in their hands. Once the water ghost appears, they will be stabbed to death by their spears.
"The enemy is about to shoot arrows, shield and defend!" the man in black shouted.
They all raised their shields and squatted down. Chen Qing also raised a large shield. The military crossbows on the 3,000-stone ship fired in unison, and 300 powerful crossbow bolts were fired at the small boat.
Amid the dense crossbow arrows from the Jurchens, the two boatmen rowed desperately, and the passenger ship gradually left and sailed toward the shore, with the big ship chasing after it.
The boat docked, and everyone came ashore. One of the men in black came up with five or six horses. Chen Qing accidentally discovered that the horses he had stored in Wuhu were among them. He became even more curious about the identity of the man in black.
, he asked twice on the boat, but the man in black smiled and did not answer.
However, it was too late to ask any more questions at this time. The Jurchens' large ship was chasing behind them, only a few dozen steps away from them. Perhaps because the archery was ineffective, the Jurchens had stopped shooting. Three hundred Jurchen soldiers were standing on the side of the ship, holding weapons in their hands.
Spear, always ready to wash ashore.
Chen Qing got on his horse, and everyone got on the horse one after another. Hu Yanjia helped his brother onto the horse, and the two of them rode together. Chen Qing saw that the two of them were on the horse, and urged the horse to gallop away to the west, with everyone following closely behind.
, and soon disappeared into the darkness.
The Jurchen captain on the big ship didn't expect that the other party actually had war horses waiting for them. He was so angry that he punched the ship hard. They had no horses, so they really couldn't catch up now.
"After dawn, send an eagle message to spies along the way and continue to look for their traces!"
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The crowd ran twenty miles in one breath and stopped in a small town. There was a medical clinic in the town. Everyone entered the medical clinic and the doctor treated Huyanding's injuries.
The tall man in black clothes just pulled off the scarf on his face. He was also a young man, in his mid-twenties, with thick eyebrows and a square face. He had a very heroic appearance and a pair of leopard-like eyes that were extremely sharp and lively.
"I seem to have seen you somewhere?" Chen Qing saw that this young man looked vaguely familiar.
The young man smiled slightly and said: "General Chen, have you forgotten? We met in Sui'an County, Muzhou!"
You are Yang Zaixing!" Chen Qing suddenly remembered.
"Exactly down there!"
Chen Qing was overjoyed, "How...how do you know about my situation?"
"I went to my hometown. I felt that there was no future in fighting the Jin there, so I returned to Lin'an and wanted to defect to General Chen. Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived in Lin'an, I encountered hundreds of thousands of people marching on the streets, demanding the release of General Chen. I found that someone wanted to assassinate him.
General Chen, so I followed him all the way to the shore with my men. I also witnessed General Chen single-handedly kill eleven elite Jurchen cavalry. It was so awesome that I am ashamed of myself!" Yang Zaixing couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
"You followed me all the way to Wuhu?" Chen Qing understood a little bit.
Yang Zaixing smiled and nodded.
"Then what? How do you know that Jin Bing will attack tonight?" Chen Qing was still a little confused.