On the Qingshui River, the blue waves are rippling. One boat is flying like an arrow, and seven or eight boats behind it are chasing it like rockets.
Naturally, the one in front was Yan Baihu, who was running away all the way, and behind was Zhu Kui and his group who were constantly chasing. The water bandits in Gaojiazhai were obviously better at boating than the white tiger bandits in front, and finally blocked the river exit.
Yan Baihu.
The two sides were only ten feet away from each other. Zhou Tai snatched the knife from the hand of a Gao family water bandit next to him and threw it at him. This move was very similar to Zhu Kui's. Zhou Tai had seen that move to throw a dagger once, and he actually found it.
Applying what he learned now, he stabbed the white tiger thief who was holding the boat to death with a flying knife.
Eight walking boats passed by at once and surrounded Yan Baihu's walking boat.
Then Zhou Tai took the lead and jumped onto the other side's boat, and the other Gao family water bandits followed up one by one. At this moment, only Yan Baihu's brother-in-law, Zhou Lin, and the four White Tiger guards were left. Although Zhou Lin had broken off his hand,
But he was very good at escaping and followed his brother-in-law closely.
Unfortunately, his good luck came to an end. Zhu Kui followed Zhou Tai on the boat and was the first to find him. He saw the dragon scale dagger in Zhu Kui's hand dancing up and down, which dazzled Zhou Lin.
, a muffled sound came out, Zhu Kui stabbed with his front hand, and pierced his chest with a slap of his back hand.
Zhou Lin's screams made Yan Baihu's heart suddenly sink. With his martial arts skills, he didn't have to be afraid of people like Zhu Kui. But he had just fought with Kaohsiung and the others, and his mind was exhausted, and he was already restless.
He didn't want to be entangled, so he couldn't use his martial arts.
At this time, an accident happened. Unexpectedly, one of Yan Baihu's confidants suddenly took advantage of Shu Shu'er's fight with another water bandit and suddenly took action to restrain Shu Shu'er. He put a knife against her neck and shouted: "
Stop it all, or I'll kill her."
Shu Shu'er was held hostage, Zhu Kui, Zhou Tai and others couldn't help but stop and confront Yan Baihu.
"Save a boat, zoom in, and go home, quickly!"
"Okay, we promise you, but please be careful. If you hurt Miss Gao, I will kill you two."
Zhu Kui and Zhou Tai looked at each other, made a gesture, and gave way to a boat without saying a word. This white tiger thief was loyal to Yan Baihu. After letting Yan Baihu board the boat and leave, he still wanted to stay alone.
To buy him time, Yan Baihu looked at Zhu Kui and the others with hatred, remembered all their appearances, and left with the rocker.
When Zhu Ge was a hundred miles away, Zhu Kui shouted loudly, and Zhou Tai also approached.
"I won't let him go yet."
Seeing the crowd approaching, the white tiger thief's eyes narrowed and he was filled with the will to die. He slashed at Shu Shu'er with his knife. He obviously wanted to hold her back even if he died. Zhu Kui had already expected that this person had the will to die, but he didn't
Will compromise.
The knife was fast, and he, Zhu Kui, was even faster. He jumped in front of Shu Shu'er in an instant, grabbed the falling knife with his left hand, and stuck it with a "plop" sound.
Blood flowed down his arm. Zhu Kui endured the pain from his left hand, and without giving the other party a chance to react, he slashed the dragon scale dagger with his right hand. A red line seeped out between the neck of the confidant, and he fell to the ground dead.
"How are you doing?"
As soon as she got out of trouble, Shu Shu'er tightly grasped Zhu Kui's palm and opened it to see the two-inch long knife mark. It made her burst into tears and she tore off a section of her sleeve to gently bandage it.
stand up.
"Miss, don't be busy bandaging it yet, give me the crossbow."
Shu Shu'er didn't know what she wanted to do with the crossbow. She nodded, pressed the wound with one hand, and took out the crossbow with the other. Zhu Kui took it and handed it to Zhou Tai.
"Brother Zhou, Yan Baihu can't let him escape, otherwise there will be endless troubles. The walking boat can't go more than a hundred miles away, but if you really want to chase it, you can still catch up. Go there yourself. That guy is very skilled in martial arts. To prevent him from jumping over the wall in a hurry,
You must kill him with this crossbow."
After speaking, Zhu Kui told him the operation and secrets of the crossbow one by one...
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By the lake, Qin Shan fled to the shore under the protection of his confidants, but did not go ashore. He stared blankly at the fire scene in the distance, watching the ships passed down by his grandfather and the brothers were sunk or burned to death one by one. He was fat.
The flesh beats non-stop, and the mouth keeps shouting.
"Shan is ashamed of his grandfather, he is ashamed of his father, and the Qin family has declined on its own. Anyway, it is all because our Qin family has burned, killed, looted, and spared no lives over the years. This is retribution."
"I only hope that Brother Chen can bring Feng'er and Lan'er back to the mountains and forests in peace and safety, and that the Qin family can put an end to the sins they have committed over the years."
After chanting, Qin Shan pulled out the crossbow arrow from his left chest, grunted, and stabbed it into the center of his heart again. His confidants on one side had no time to stop him. Suddenly, a green figure seemed to fall from the sky and crossed nearly three feet from the shore.
He came and knocked down the crossbow arrow with one palm.
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The battle did not end until late at night. Kaohsiung and others set up camp by the lake, set up a bonfire, and looked at the gradually extinguished fire, marking their victory over the combined forces of Baihu Village and Qinjiazhai during the day.
That Ma Jun was also quite skilled in medicine. He crushed several kinds of nearby weeds and applied them on the palm of Zhu Kui's hand. A cool and numb feeling went straight to the back of his head, and the wound quickly began to suppurate. Zhu Kui was very confused: "What is this person doing?"
He has learned so much about sword dancing, strategy, crafting, medical skills, etc. Is such a person really a water bandit strategist?"
Naturally, he had his subordinates to handle the chores of collecting the corpses. Zhu Kui suggested to Kaohsiung that he hoped that all the corpses could be cremated together and then buried, including the corpses of the Qin family and the Yan family.
Zhengdao, cremation is a kind of punishment. Zhu Kui had to explain the connection between corpses and plague, but most people still disagreed. Ma Jun shook his head repeatedly and told him a lot of ways to worship ghosts and gods. He was forced to do so.
They had to give up the idea of cremation and dug a deep pit to bury them together.
During the Battle of Shijiu Lake, two-thirds of the Gao family were killed in the lake. Now all the family members in the village are crying to heaven and earth. They buried the bodies together, covered them with soil, and burned plant ashes on the soil. According to Ma Jun's explanation, they died from the dust.
Dust means returning earth to earth.
The strange thing is that Ma Jun respects ghosts and gods, but does not believe in the theory of afterlife and the meaning of reincarnation.
Not long after Zhu Kui came back, Zhou Tai also returned from chasing Yan Baihu and returned the crossbow to him. He chased Yan Baihu for nearly two hundred miles and finally caught Yan Baihu again. After another fight, unfortunately it was Yan Baihu again.
He jumped into the water and ran away, but Zhou Tai said that he shot two crossbows, one missed the target, and the other hit Yan Baihu's crotch."
"It's not good. Although the tiger's offspring have been eliminated, if the tiger is not killed, it will suffer backlash." Ma Jun touched a wisp of his beard and said worriedly, thinking that he and Zhu Kui would go together.
"What Military Advisor Ma said is that most of the casualties today are people from Qinjiazhai. The foundation of Baihuzhai has not yet been established. Yan Baihu will recover from his injuries one day and will definitely bring 10,000 White Tiger thieves back here to avenge this hatred. Gaojiazhai has already
My vitality has been greatly damaged and is no longer what it used to be, and I can’t resist it at all.”
Zhu Kui told the truth. Originally, Gan Ning was feeling happy about Yan Baihu's annihilation of his descendants, but suddenly his face turned pale. Zhou Tai even punched the tree trunk and frowned, blaming himself for his incompetence for not killing Yan Baihu.
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Kaohsiung has lived for decades and has seen many strong winds and waves, so it will not be knocked down by these pressures.
"Does the military advisor have any clever ideas to solve the current predicament?"
Ma Jun, who has always been Gaojiazhai's think tank, sighed slightly at this time and said: "Jun is incompetent and doesn't have any clever ideas. There are only two suggestions for the leader. One is to move the village north. The journey will definitely be tiring, and the village will be exhausted."
Most of the people there may become unaccustomed to the climate, and most of them will die of illness; the second is to try to inflict serious damage on Yan Baihu again, so that we can breathe and buy some time to urgently build some boats and escape into the river, then we will no longer be afraid of Yan Baihu.”….
Kaohsiung crossed his hands and shook his head: "We just don't have time. Now we only have walking boats and some fighting ships. With so many people, the craftsmen raised in private are not enough to build building ships in a short period of time. We need to restore it to
The heyday will last at least half a year to a year, and it will definitely cost a lot of financial resources to be able to get into the water all at once."
Kaohsiung has always been generous to his enemies, and will share all the spoils every time. Therefore, if he spends money to build a ship, he will not have enough money.
In fact, this is the difference between the government and the bandits. The government can recruit craftsmen from one county to another to complete the work, but few craftsmen are willing to serve the bandits.
"Young Master is not an outsider either, so you might as well ask him if he has any suggestions."
After Ma Jun finished speaking, everyone looked at him. He had made two consecutive suggestions earlier, and both had miraculous results.
Zhu Kui was leaning against the tree trunk, letting Shu Shu'er gently massage her left palm. Thinking about his sudden intervention in today's affairs, he learned that Yan Baihu's next target would be Moling County.
"Yan Baihu has seen my appearance. It is very easy to find out myself. With his ferocious character, he will definitely become more angry or massacre Moling County to vent his anger. Hey, where should I and my family go?"
Hearing Kaohsiung ask himself, an idea suddenly popped up in his mind. After clearing his thoughts, he said: "I agree with the second suggestion of Master Ma, which is to fight Yan Baihu." After saying that, he straightened his back.
"In fact, you can propose to the imperial court to bring peace and pacify the famous Qin family village in the east of the Yangtze River. This is a big achievement for the county magistrate and even the prefect, so there is no reason to accept it. For example, Moling County is a good choice. I am familiar with the county captain
, I can ask him to submit the recruitment documents. Besides, Mr. Lu and I are good friends, so he can come forward to pay homage to the governor and say a few nice words, and spend money to smooth things over. In fact, the soldiers and thieves are just changing clothes. When the time comes,
If we stay in the city and defend it, the White Tiger will not dare to move lightly, and we can also secure a future for our brothers."
"As long as we can turn Gaojiazhai from black to white, we can also contact people from the four major families to cooperate in suppressing bandits. I guess they are still very interested in destroying Baihu Village."
These are just rough ideas that Zhu Kui came up with out of heed, or it could be said that he had selfish motives and wanted to use Gaojiazhai to defend Moling County together. More time will be needed to figure out how to implement it.
Recruitment and changing from water bandits to officers and soldiers was something they had never considered in Kaohsiung. After thinking about it, in addition to following me for a living, I should also consider their future for them. Who wants to bear the name of water bandits for the rest of their lives?
, let his descendants be called the sons and daughters of a certain thief. Zhu Kui's suggestion spoke to his heart.
After a period of silence, Kaohsiung made a decisive decision. Zhu Kui and Ma Jun, the only eloquent military advisor in Gaojiazhai, would go to Moling County to communicate with each other and try to recruit troops.
When leaving, Shu Shu'er clutched her sleeves tightly and kept telling Zhu Kui to be more careful, with reluctance overflowing on her face.
"Is it true that I can't go with you?"
This is the sixth time she has asked the same question. Zhu Kui has always dismissed it on the grounds that the matter is unclear, the danger is unknown, and the fewer people there, the better.
Watching Zhu Kui and Zhu Kui in the distance in the woods when they were young, Shu Shu'er was holding on to the tree trunk with one hand. At this time, Gao Tian's rough big hand was pressing on the girl's shoulder, and said comfortingly: "Speak of loyalty, I am so righteous."
How can we compare to him? If anything happens to him, who among the young heroes in the world can surpass him?"