The boat finally left the range of the arrow rain. No one spoke for a long time, only Han Qiaoer's soft cry could be heard.
Nie Zhongyou seemed to have lost his soul, sitting there stupidly looking at the lake.
Gao Changshou looked at Baicangshan and Erzi's bodies, his eyes filled with sadness.
Li Xia patted his shoulder and sighed: "Put them into the lake."
Hearing this sentence, Liu Jinsuo couldn't help crying.
This burly man with a ferocious appearance started crying and yelling like a child.
Seeing Li Xia leaning over to move Erzi's body, Gao Changshou stretched out his hand. Gao Mingyue pulled him and said softly: "Second brother, please treat the injury first..."
Li Xia then put the Erzi into Long Lake and turned to Baicang Mountain.
"I come!"
Liu Jinsuo had already rushed forward, holding the body and slowly putting it into Longhu, crying harder and harder...
Seeing that everyone was treating their injuries, Han Chengxu signaled to Han Qiao'er, took up the oars and rowed silently until he was farther away from the shore, then looked at Nie Zhongyou, then turned to Li Xia, and asked: "Where should we row?"
This question was asked in a low voice. Han Chengxu still shrank his neck when he spoke, looking even more humble.
His remaining resemblance to a famous family was also gone, as if he felt that he was a drag on them as an old man, so he had no confidence.
Li Xia was thinking deeply about something. Hearing this, he turned around and looked around.
"There are some small islands on this lake. Would you like to take a rest?" Lin Zi asked.
"No." Li Xia said: "The longer we delay, the denser they will surround us. Soon ships and enemies with good water skills will catch up. We must break out of the encirclement immediately."
"Break through immediately?" Lin Zi said, "But everyone was injured, and we even lost our horses."
He just felt that if he wanted to break out of the encirclement immediately, it would be better not to get on the boat and break out on horseback from the beginning.
Li Xia said: "Because of this, the enemy did not expect us to break through. This time we attacked them. Only by taking the initiative can we choose their weakest point."
"Okay." Gao Changshou asked directly: "Where to go?"
Li Xia stretched out his hand, dipped it in blood, and drew on the ship's board.
That is the word "田".
"Longhu is like the word "Tian", divided into four waters. We are now in East Lake." He pointed to the upper right corner of the word "Tian".
"If they want to surround us, they don't have to surround the entire Long Lake. They don't have that many manpower. They only need to surround East Lake. The north and east of East Lake have the largest number of troops."
"right."
Li Xia pointed at the middle of the word "Tian" again and said: "Where are the few troops? Here, the causeway between East Lake and Liuhu Lake; here, the causeway between East Lake and Nantai Lake."
"The causeway is narrow, so they will not deploy too many manpower. Let's rush over?" Gao Changshou said, "Which way to go? West or south?"
"West, Liu Lake. They were chasing us from the north. They subconsciously thought that we wanted to escape south, so like this... they chased the men from the north around the east side of the lake, and then surrounded the causeway on the south.
.And the west side is the weakest point."
"Okay, let's jump to Liuhu Lake, then escape westward, and try to get rid of them."
Liu Jinsuo looked over and asked: "What about the boat? There is no boat in Liuhu..."
"Move over there."
"oh."
Everyone fell silent again.
They were all injured and exhausted, and they began to think about the feasibility of this plan.
"But even if we disembark from Liuhu Lake, there will be no horses..."
"At least we escaped the siege..."
"..."
Li Xia closed his eyes and recalled his old coach.
He opened his mouth and spoke slowly.
"Countless enemies are chasing us. I know that everyone is injured, and I also know that this plan is very risky. We can indeed find a small island to rest, and it may be safe for a day or two. But temporary safety,
It will only put us in a more dangerous situation. My purpose is...not to shrink back in the face of adversity, but to raise our head and face it with all our strength."
His tone was very calm, as if this was a very simple matter... It was very simple for a few old, weak, sick and disabled people to fight their way out of a tight siege.
After Nie Zhongyou heard this, his hands suddenly shook and he turned to look at Li Xia with complicated eyes.
"Brother, fight out. The worst possible outcome is death." Liu Jinsuo said.
"good."
Several people discussed the specific details, and the boat circled on the lake and rowed to the west.
…
"Brother, where else are you injured?" Lin Zi wrapped up the hole in Nie Zhongyou's back and asked again.
Nie Zhongyou looked down and saw a broken spear tip stuck in his abdomen, and blood was still flowing.
Because he was covered in blood, Lin Zi only saw the injury at this moment. He panicked and asked, "Did the injury...injure the internal organs?"
"No, let's find an opportunity to treat it again."
"Okay." Lin Zi said in a trembling voice, "If I dial it, it will be bad if the bleeding cannot be stopped..."
Nie Zhongyou ignored him, reached into his arms, took out a small package stained with blood, and handed it to Li Xia.
"What is this?" Li Xia asked.
"Documents, messages." Nie Zhongyou said: "If I die, you can take these people back and let Lin Zi take you to see the right minister. The right minister will give you the position you want."
"good."
For Li Xia, there is nothing to shirk. As a champion, he intends to live seriously. Nie Zhongyou is just an ordinary person, and it is normal for him to die in front of him.
And he could see that Nie Zhongyou's injury was much more serious than it appeared.
Lin Zi was about to cry and said again: "Brother..."
"Shut up, just in case."
Li Xia opened the package, looked at it, and asked: "The news about our arrival in Wanqiu and our false identities have been leaked. Who betrayed it?"
Nie Zhongyou murmured: "It might be Tian Kui... But I don't understand why he would betray us after serving the country for fifteen years? Maybe he was caught, maybe the news accidentally leaked."
"What kind of person is Tian Kui?"
"I don't know the details, but he secretly conveyed important information to me in the Song Dynasty many times. What I only know is that in the sixth, tenth, and twelfth years of Chunyou, he had found out information about the Mongolian army and passed it on to Yu Dushuai.
.Although he is unknown, his hard work and great achievements..."
Li Xia looked at the document in his hand for a while, then suddenly asked: "Do you trust Cheng Fengtai...oh, Cheng Yuanfeng's character?"
Nie Zhongyou frowned, feeling deeply displeased that he called the right minister by his first name.
"The right Prime Minister is a man of integrity and must not be slandered."
"You can have good character..." Li Xia murmured, and then asked: "Are you trustworthy?"
Nie Zhongyou frowned, really angry.
His face became increasingly pale.
Li Xia said: "What should we do specifically about Kaifeng?"
"What?"
"If you die, how will I finish the matter in Kaifeng? If I bring the information back, can Cheng Yuanfeng fulfill his promise to me?"
On the side, everyone listening to their conversation was stunned and turned to look at Li Xia.
In this situation...do you still want to go to Kaifeng?
Crazy?
Lin Zi opened his mouth and murmured: "But, we were sold..."
He thought of the dead Liu Chun, but the remaining words in his mouth could not come out, and his heart was full of resentment and sadness.
But Li Xia just said "Oh" with a nonchalant attitude, as if he was watching someone else's couple quarreling.
"I only care whether Cheng Yuanfeng keeps his word or not?"
Nie Zhongyou seemed to be pleasantly surprised, and his already sluggish spirit was revived, and he said: "You are promised a huge sum of money by your right minister. If you can accomplish this, you can even be the deputy commander..."
"I don't want deputy commander." Li Xia interrupted without hesitation, and said stubbornly: "As I said, a local general who can lead the army alone."
He raised his voice a bit.
After hearing this, Han Chengxu turned his head and took a deep look at Li Xia, then lowered his head and pondered something.
Gao Changshou looked at the setting sun on the horizon, which was in the direction of his hometown Dali, and sighed invisibly.
"There is absolutely no problem. I guarantee it with the lives of my whole family." Nie Zhongyou had sworn to the sky, with a look of absolute despair in his eyes, and said to Li Xia: "For the Kaifeng matter, you..."
Li Xia raised his hand to stop him and said: "If you die, I will take care of things. But if you are not dead, you will listen to me in the future. How about it?"
"good."
Nie Zhongyou was a man who was struggling on the edge of life and death. His speech was unambiguous and he could speak every word clearly.
"Okay." Li Xia negotiated a deal reluctantly.
He glanced at everyone again and said, "Do you all listen to me?"
"good."
"Just listen to Brother Li!"
"It's up to you to assign it first."
"good!"
Finally, Han Qiaoer added in a soft voice, "I always listen to Brother Li the most."
After seeing everyone's reaction, Li Xia nodded and said to Nie Zhongyou: "Tell me..."