Lin Fu and Zhou Pu sat on the oar boat, holding their swords in front of their knees and listening to the movements on the dark river. Two guards guarded their sides, and three other guards helped the boatman row the boat toward the river.
Heading towards the south bank. It was pitch dark on the river and I couldn't see clearly what was going on on the south bank, so I just followed the sound.
The chaotic infection in the dark night is quite terrifying, not to mention that the hundreds of people stationed at the river mouth are all untrained refugees, dragging their families with them, including old, weak, women and children. Lin Fu and the others did not encounter any attacks on the river, and the boat
Near the south bank, the shore was already in chaos. The frightened refugees were running around to escape the attack. They fell down at every turn, bumped into one place, and screamed. They couldn't even tell who the other party was in order to protect themselves.
Friends and foes fought together and killed each other, and there were sounds of shacks collapsing and dishes being knocked over and broken. Occasionally, someone thought of lighting a fire for lighting, but these people became the targets of the camp attackers.
Seeing the shadows of swords and swords in the faint firelight, the camp suddenly fell into frightening darkness. The attackers wanted to cause chaos, beating, smashing and killing people in the dark night. Howling, crying and even the cry of a baby were mixed together.
It is simply difficult to distinguish between reality and reality on the shore.
Lin Fu and the others squatted on the bow of the boat and could barely distinguish the shadows at the end of the river. Their teeth bit into the flesh, but they knew in their hearts that going ashore would not help.
"There are weeds on the west beach..." Zhou Pu said.
"Go west..." Lin Fu ordered.
The most important thing at this time is light. As long as the fire illuminates the distance, they can calm down the panic and organize a counterattack. They can confirm that the number of camp attackers will not be too many. The main reason is that the panic caused by the camp attackers is like a plague in the dark night.
The same infection happened. These refugees traveled thousands of miles to Jiangning. Their mental state was already extremely tense and exhausted. They were able to relax a little tonight, but they were suddenly attacked again.
Lin Fu and the others could barely see the shadows of the rugged rocks on the river beach. The bottom of the boat scraped against the rocks on the river bottom from time to time, and they heard a dull friction sound. The ship suddenly stopped and hit a pointed rock.
, listening to the sound of splintering wood, the bow of the ship has been smashed by the rock.
Seeing the fluffy black shadow in front of them, Lin Fu and Zhou Pu smashed the clay pots containing lamp oil over it. Water began to enter the bow of the boat. Lin Fu went down into the water and stepped on the stone beach at the bottom of the river. Regardless of the cold river water, it soaked into the water.
Waist up, he and Zhou Pu climbed onto the beach one foot at a time, one foot at a time, and touched the fire sickle to light up the oil-soaked beach grass.
The beach grass here is all dry grass that has experienced winter. It has been dry these past few days. I poured lamp oil on it and it ignited at once. The guard soldiers and boatmen held rosin wood in their hands. They retreated to the east while clearing the grass on the beach.
The grass was set on fire. In a moment, the beach below the river was burned to ashes, and the fire quickly burned the shrubs on the wall. When Lin Fu and the others retreated to the mouth of the river, the beach at the mouth of the river was already as bright as day, and the night sky was bright.
Burns red.
A fire broke out on the river beach, and the camp attackers on the shore lit their shacks on fire, and the material stacks began to retreat. When Lin Bing and others climbed up the river embankment, the messy camp was full of panicked refugees, running in all directions or kneeling helpless.
, there is no trace of half of the camp attackers.
"What a thief!" Lin Fu drew out his knife and slashed a crooked poplar tree on the riverbank in two to vent his anger.
The fire started to burn, there was light, and the attackers evacuated. Some people began to spontaneously stand up to stop the chaos, organize people to put out the fire, and rescue people. Lin Fu and Zhou Pu guarded the river embankment and did not dare to act rashly. They were worried that there would be more
The attackers were hiding among the refugees and were standing guard on the river embankment, armed and vigilant, at least to deter the attackers from making any rash moves. Besides, they had no way of verifying the identities of the people at this time. The refugees had all gathered together these days.
It had only been five or six days. In the past few days, they had traveled from Jiangbei to Moling County, and from Moling County to the mouth of Jinchuan River. They had not had time to fully get to know each other.
Oil-cloth was used to temporarily cover the rain-proof granary, piles of straw mats, piles of purlins and other supplies piled up in the camp, and the attackers took advantage of the chaos and set them on fire before retreating. Human lives were despicable, and the refugees were not the first to rescue them.
Instead of the injured, he went to put out the fire in the granary. Looking at the fire, most of the supplies prepared in these days would be lost. Lin Fu didn't feel bad about this. He was shocked by the injured who were scattered all over the ground. Many people were lying on the ground motionless.
It looked like he had died.
"Go to the island quickly to fetch the medical officer and bring all the medicine..." Lin Fu ordered the guard soldiers to return to the island to fetch the prison doctor. He did not see Lin Jingzhong, Qian Xiaowu, Cao Ziang and others.
Maybe he evacuated in time after the chaos. Lin Fu didn't bother to wait for Lin Jingzhong and the others to turn back. He looked at someone organizing fire extinguishing over there. Seeing that the person's face looked like he had seen him before nightfall, he called him over and said: "Food
If you burn, you will burn. Life is at stake. Organize a rescue first, boil hot water, and prepare clean cloths. Do not rush to lift the injured. Try to keep the large wound facing upwards, and cover the wound with a clean cloth... except for those gathered by name.
Everyone else, please sit where you are and don’t move around.”
Lin Fu didn't bother to change out of his wet clothes and handed the knife that was blocking his waist to the guard soldier Chen Hualian. He squatted down to inspect the injuries of the attacked refugees. Almost all of them were stabbed or stabbed with sharp weapons. He was sad and sad.
It was small and deep. The first refugee who was stabbed was almost lifeless. It was difficult to save the injured whose wounds were still bleeding profusely under such conditions. Lin Fu could only do his best to obey fate and give life as quickly as possible.
These injured people bandaged their wounds to stop the bleeding.
"I'm sorry for you. I'm really useless. I panicked at that time and didn't know what to do. Master Cao shouldn't have saved me. It would be more comfortable to let me die here..." Lin Jingzhong walked away one step at a time.
When he came over, his face and body were covered with bruises. The mess in the camp and the sadness all over the place made him depressed and desperate. He stumbled over and felt that he could not live up to Lin Fu's trust in him.
When Lin Fu saw that Lin Jingzhong, Qian Xiaowu, and Cao Ziang were back safe and sound, he felt relieved. He put his hand on Lin Jingzhong's shoulder and comforted him and said: "It's none of your business. I never thought that anyone would be so cruel.
When it comes to mistakes, I also make mistakes. Who owes us this debt, I will definitely find out and get it back." Lin Jingzhong has no experience in handling this kind of situation, so how can you blame him?
Lin Fu asked Qian Xiaowu to organize manpower to cooperate with the prison doctor to continue rescuing the injured, and asked Cao Ziang: "Have you found any clues?"
"The camp was suddenly attacked, and it immediately fell into chaos. We couldn't distinguish ourselves from the enemy for a while, so we had to withdraw from the camp to avoid chaos. The situation was critical at that time, and we only had time to take Manager Lin and Qian Xiaowu out," Cao Ziang
He explained the situation of the attack to Lin Fu in detail, "The crow judged that someone must be hiding in the dark to take command, so we dispersed and found three people outside the poplar forest in the southwest corner, and tied them up, fearing that someone else was secretly watching.
They went around and hid in the ditch in the southeast corner. Big Loach and Little Loach also hid in the ditch with their brothers. When the attackers retreated to the poplar forest, there were almost forty people, and Crow took one with him.
The brothers were guarding in secret, but I didn’t dare to force them to stay... I couldn’t stop the chaos from spreading, I’m sorry to you, Mr. Lin.”
Lin Fu shook his head slightly. In order to avoid being exposed by carrying weapons, Cao Ziang and the Ge brothers, who were more than thirty people, hid a few daggers around them. How to stop the attackers from causing chaos? These attackers were all
He was quite experienced and well-founded in his advance and retreat. It was the right choice for Cao Ziang to lead Lin Jingzhong, Qian Xiaowu and others out of the camp in time to avoid being hit.
If there is anything wrong with Cao Ziang, it is that when they withdraw, they should first set fire to the shacks and granaries, which can effectively prevent the attackers from causing greater chaos and panic. However, Cao Ziang cannot be blamed. Who would give it up?
Burning thousands of kilograms of food and the shelter they worked so hard to build for one night? Perhaps Cao Ziang and the others did not expect that the attackers would be so sophisticated and cooperative before they withdrew.
"Dad, dad, mom, she's dying..." A young man half-stained with blood stumbled over and cried to Cao Zi'ang in panic.
Cao Zi'ang's face turned bad after hearing this, and before he had time to blame himself, he pulled the young man and ran to the west.
Only then did Lin Fu know that when Cao Ziang and the others withdrew, they only took Lin Jingzhong, Qian Xiaowu and others away, but did not even take care of his wife and children. He cursed: "This bastard!" and Zhou Pusa followed Cao Ziang and his son.
I ran over and in front of a shack that was burned to ashes with only the remains of a fire left, I saw Cao Ziang's wife lying limply on the ground wearing burlap clothes, with a large pool of blood bleeding on the ground.
When Lin Fu saw the light of the fire, Cao's wife was still holding her eyes open and had not suffered from hemorrhagic shock. He quickly pulled the two women next to him away and said to Zhou Pu: "Call the prison doctor, we can still save him!"
After driving away the miscellaneous people, Cao Ziang knelt down and treated his wife's wounds himself.
Cao Ziang's son, Cao Wenlong, was crying beside him and told how he and his mother lay down and hid in the field during the attack on the camp, but when the attackers withdrew, he was still young and angry and wanted to make a sneak attack with a short knife in his hand and fell behind.
The camp attacker was discovered when he attacked, but was chased and killed. His mother entangled the enemy for him and received several stabs. Fortunately, the camp attacker was eager to evacuate and left without further entanglement.
The refugees were of low fate. The injured were both men and women. They did not know the identity of Cao's wife. The prison medical officer naturally treated the male injured first. Lin Fu called him over. He naturally used the best medicine to treat Cao's wife's wounds and also treated the injured ones.
He cut two pieces of old ginseng and stuffed them into Cao's wife's mouth.
Lin Fu knew that it was nonsense for Lao Shen to hang his life, but he kept observing Cao's wife for a while. When he saw that Cao's wife's injury had stabilized, he breathed a sigh of relief. It's good that he didn't suffer from hemorrhagic shock. Otherwise, he would have died.
Under today's sanitary conditions, transfusing honey and salt water is extremely dangerous. Using a goose quill tube to transfuse blood using gravity is even more risky.
When the sky was shrouded in the misty morning light, some order was restored in the camp. There were more than a hundred injured, and as many as 36 refugees were stabbed to death on the spot and died of blood loss due to failure to rescue. Three of the camp attackers were robbed by Cao Ziang.
, Lin Fu couldn't take care of it for the moment, and asked the Ge brothers to lead their men to hide the people on the boat, and asked them to be careful not to disturb anyone. The fire here late at night will definitely alarm Moling County and Jiangning City. At dawn, the city gate will be opened.
, Jiangning Prefecture's Military and Horse Division and Moling County will definitely send people to check. Lin Fu is not leaving his enemies to Jiangning Prefecture or Moling County to deal with.
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