"The one Sir asked me to shoot the arrows to kill the bandits?"
The bandits I saw on the ship had set fire too many times recently. Tie Zhui thought for a while before he remembered which one Jin Feng was talking about.
Before reaching the last checkpoint, they passed by a river bend and there was a house on the bank. When they passed by, most of the thatched house had been burned, and there were several bandits dragging a girl to the river to bully.
Now that the war was going on everywhere, Jin Feng knew that he couldn't control that much for the time being, but since he saw it, he let Iron Hammer kill one of the bandits with a heavy crossbow, and the remaining bandits were also frightened away.
"Oh, I fought for a few days, but the more I fought, the more I went back."
Iron Hammer sighed.
But he also knew that this was the best way.
That place is a river bend. Even if the enemy pours oil upstream, it will be difficult for it to flow in. This is the best way to avoid enemy fire attacks.
It is difficult to go upstream, but it is very fast to go downstream.
After Jin Feng and others broke through the card, they walked for several days and only covered dozens of miles, but they arrived at the bend of the river in less than an hour following the river.
The captain directed the sailors and escorts to use oars to row the cargo ship into the river bend.
This river bay is not big, and usually only two fishermen's fishing boats dock there. When Jin Feng and others came over, a little girl was fetching water from the river. When she saw the cargo ship, she was so frightened that she threw her bucket and ran away.
After running a few steps, he turned around and went back to pick up the bucket.
"Why do people still live here?"
Tang Xiaobei looked at the little girl who ran away curiously.
There were only two families in this bend of the river. Now the thatched houses of both families had been burned down and had just been looted by bandits. She didn't expect anyone to still live here.
After parking the cargo ship, Iron Hammer was about to arrange for the bodyguards to go ashore to guard the ship, when he saw the little girl running out with three people.
In addition to the little girl, there is also an older girl, an old man and an old lady.
Everyone was carrying wooden forks, wooden sticks and other homemade weapons in their hands, and they had a desperate look on their faces.
But when she rushed to the shore and saw the cargo ship, the eldest girl quickly threw down the wooden stick and danced while pointing at the wooden ship and saying something.
Then Jin Feng saw several people kneeling down and kowtowing to the cargo ship.
Jin Feng knew that they were thanking the hammer for saving them last time.
"Tie Hammer, go up and ask them about the situation around them?" Jin Feng said, "Bring some food up there."
"Okay!" Iron Hammer nodded and led the people to jump on the lifeboat.
A few people talked on the shore for a while, and then the hammer came back.
I also asked about the situation of the family above.
This family has always lived near Hebend. A few years ago, their son was captured and died in the border area. The old couple, their daughter and granddaughter managed to survive by fishing.
A few days ago, soldiers from the government came to requisition their fishing boats. They refused to pay and asked someone from the fisherman's family to row the boats.
The old man refused, so the soldiers burned down their house, beat the old man, and prepared to bully the girls.
Later, Jin Feng passed by and shot one of the soldiers. The other soldiers were scared away.
"You mean those people at that time were government soldiers?"
Tang Xiaobei asked in surprise: "Then why are they dressed like bandits?"
"They are miscellaneous soldiers in the government army."
"What is a soldier?"
"They are just casual soldiers with the title of government soldiers, but no salary. They specialize in helping the government soldiers with chores such as catching young men and collecting taxes." Tie Zhui explained.
Jin Feng understood when Tie Zhui said this.
It's just a temporary job.
They do the dirty work, and they take the blame when something goes wrong.
The miscellaneous soldiers have no wages. Only when they complete the tasks, they will receive some rewards similar to commissions.
Although they are called soldiers, they are actually a group of rogues, and their methods are sometimes more brutal than bandits.
Therefore, in order to complete the task, the soldiers did everything they could, without any discipline at all.
The people also hated the miscellaneous soldiers, so many places did not have this organization. Only in some extremely poor areas where the county government could not afford too many government soldiers would there be miscellaneous soldiers.
The county where Hewan is located did not have one before, but because of the war with the King of Chu, the King of Wu re-established a miscellaneous army in order to plunder the people as quickly as possible.
And this family on the shore is the victim.
Their house was burned down by the soldiers, and a small fishing boat they depended on for survival was also robbed by the soldiers.
If Jin Feng hadn't happened to be passing by, their daughter might have been bullied by the soldiers.
"They are also a bunch of poor people," Tang Xiaobei sighed: "Now that you have met Tie Shui, go and ask them. If you are willing, come with us."
Nowadays, Jinchuan is developing rapidly and there is a shortage of manpower everywhere.
This family has no way to survive. I heard that Tang Xiaobei was willing to take them with him. How could he not agree?
From that day on, the cargo ship docked at Xiaohewan.
Jin Feng thought that King Wu would soon send troops to fight, but he was on alert for several days, but there was no movement from the opponent.
If the scouts hadn't discovered that the other party's spies had been wandering around, Jin Feng would have doubted whether King Wu had forgotten them.
It's not that King Wu forgot about them, but that King Wu was still negotiating with King Chu.
In fact, the King of Wu and the King of Chu had already had a negotiation.
As the "Prime Minister" expected, when the King of Chu heard that Jin Feng was still alive, he was as frightened as the King of Wu. He immediately called for the counselor who was in charge of the East China Sea, and at the same time sent people who had seen Jin Feng to investigate on the river.
After confirming that it was indeed Jin Feng, the King of Chu immediately made a truce with the King of Wu and chose to join forces to kill Jin Feng first.
The fleet that King Wu assembled failed to make a sneak attack that night and drifted downstream, unable to return to the upstream in a short time.
In order to kill Jin Feng as soon as possible, the King of Chu agreed to the proposal of the King of Wu. The King of Chu would provide ships and the King of Wu would provide fire oil for a fire attack.
As a result, the fire attack plan failed. Instead of burning Jin Feng, Jin Feng burned 70% to 80% of his own fishing boats.
These fishing boats were all forced by the King of Chu from the people with great difficulty, and were burned by Jin Feng.
But it made King Chu feel very sad.
The King of Wu sent people again to discuss joint operations, but the King of Chu was unwilling to agree.
"Anyway, King Wu is down there. If Jin Feng wants to fight, he will hit him first. When they are both injured, I will take action again."
With this idea in mind, the King of Chu directly sent people to expel the envoys of the King of Wu.
The King of Wu was so angry that he directly left Jin Feng alone and asked him to go to the King of Chu's territory.
But who knew that Jin Feng would stop the boat at a small river bend and not leave.
When King Chu heard the news, he laughed so hard that tears came out.
He was preparing to watch a play with the idea of sitting on a mountain and watching a tiger fight, but a letter came back from the spy, which made the King of Chu completely unable to sit still.
Upstream from King Chu was King Xiang. After the melee between the kings began, friction between the two sides continued, and each side sent many spies to infiltrate each other's territory.
The spy who sent the message was from King Xiang's territory. The spy said in the letter that Xihewan sent a fleet to kill Jinchuan. It had already broken through more than a dozen checkpoints and merged into the main stream of the Yangtze River. I'm afraid they would be able to reach it soon.
The territory of King Chu, I hope King Chu will make plans early!