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Chapter 753 Waterborne

At a section of the riverbank before the Shichuan River merged into the Wei River, Liu Jinsuo was walking and wrapping his wound, cursing non-stop.

"Look, Yang Ben's road last night, Li Zeyi's, and Hu Legen's road must all have made contributions. It's just us, following the county king to block Liu Zheng, and let people escape. It's really bad luck... Speaking of it, Yang Ben's face is stinky, Li Zeyi's mouth is stinky, do you feel that?"

Liu Jinsuo looked back again, and found that his personal guards had suffered heavy casualties, and the few dead and injured who were usually funny, had no one to answer, so he stopped talking.

After a while, he muttered again.

"If I die in battle, don't put on such a dejected face."

After a while, some soldiers brought an old fisherman over.

"Old man, did you see the Mongolian army crossing the border? It was probably before dawn."

"General, the little old man is from the Qiu family village at the back. He is a fisherman. This morning..."

"I didn't ask you this, just said if I saw the Mongolian army."

"That's not true." The old man shook his head, stared, and said, "The little old man came to report the crime. Two thieves robbed the little old man's bamboo raft..."

"A thief?"

"Isn't it? Floating from the upper reaches at dawn, the little old man was startled. One was short and the other was a little taller, but not much taller, as thin as a bamboo pole. The old man took down the bamboo raft, snatched it and fled downstream..."

"Short Zhang? Zhuyuan Zhang?" Liu Jinsuo hurriedly shouted, "Chasing! Keep chasing..."

Before the words fell, there was a letter horse galloping ahead.

"General! General!"

Liu Jinsuo looked up, his heart fluttered, and he thought to himself, then Liu Zheng is so brave, so he won't die again today.

"General! Ai Zhang and Zhu Yuanzhang have made great contributions! Weishui, Weishui is catching the dog thief..."

~~
"Grumbling..."

Liu Gai finally swam to the riverside, exhausted.

He is very good at swimming, but he has been galloping on horseback for the past few days, and he ran for his life and fought all night last night, so he is already sleepy and hungry.

And when he finally got on the merchant ship and was going east, he didn't know who pierced the merchant ship and sank extremely fast.

"Remove the armor! Remove the armor!"

The brave men in Liu Zheng's army were all able to swim, but they couldn't swim while wearing armor, so when they found the boat sinking, the father and son ordered everyone to take off their armor.

That's too late.

Even Liu Gai, who just took off his belly armor when he fell into the water...

After that, he saw those soldiers who were too late to disarm struggling and sinking.

There was blood smearing in the river again, a thin man poked his head out of the river, and another one after that.

The two men held their knives like that, tossing and turning in the Wei River, more nimble than swimming fish, looking for soldiers who could still swim.

Liu Gai didn't dare to stop them.

He really had no strength for a long time, so he could only try his best to swim to the shore...

Just as he grabbed a stone and pulled himself out of the water, he saw several shirtless peasants rushing towards him with hoes.

"Help me." Liu Gai shouted, "My merchant ship..."

Before he finished speaking, he was hit hard on the shoulder.

"Hit the robber!"

"Hit the robbers..."

Liu Gai was furious, and grabbed the hoe as soon as he made a move.

He is proficient in bow and horse, and he really didn't see the other party in his eyes.

However, when he tried to pull it out, the villager was pulled to the ground and refused to let go.

The two looked at each other, only to see that the villager fell to the ground and looked up, with horror in his eyes.

"The robber is beating someone!"

"Oh!"

A group of peasants gathered around and beat them with hoes.

Liu Gai was hit hard again, only to realize that he had no armor or weapon at this time, so he really couldn't beat these many villagers.

Not some.

Soon, he fell to the ground...

~~
On this day, Xizhang Village on the north side of the Weihe River is still lively.

At the beginning, some people said that a merchant ship in the west was robbed, and many people died.

"I can see it clearly from lying in the woods, the boat is covered in blood...Look! It's that boat, going downstream..."

"Quickly report to the officer..."

Later, when someone pointed at the boat on the Wei River and yelled "The boat has sunk", the villagers flocked to the river to watch.

"It's really sinking?"

They all saw two figures swimming back and forth in the middle of the Wei River.

Digging boats, catching thieves... Occasionally, their heads pop up, and then sink, like two free big fish.

In the end, the only old man in the village who failed the Jin Guo Township Examination knew how to praise him, so he clapped his hands and shouted loudly.

"A true hero!"

~~
Gaoling County.

Li Xia counted the battlefield and thought in his heart: "This time, people like Ahema won by luck."

That is to say, he was facing Liu Zheng, and it would obviously be much more difficult to fight if he was replaced by A Shu.

It's not that Liu Zheng's military level is not as good as Ashu's. Liu Zheng is better at water warfare, and may be better at strategy formulation than Ashu. This is why he can be responsible for the main attack on the Yellow River defense line.

His style of play should have been to occupy the Heyang camp, and send these horse-probing red troops to harass him from time to time, dragging down the defense line of the entire Guanzhong bit by bit.

It's a pity that Liu Zheng couldn't make the decision in his strategy and was forced to enter Guanzhong ahead of schedule.

He was the first to be launched to test the strength of Guanzhong.

But Ah Shu has the real independent commanding power, is better at interspersed with surprise attacks, and has a more treacherous marching route.

If A Shu had been in command of the three horse-hunting Red Army last night, they would have exploded with completely different combat power.

Therefore, Li Xia was not complacent, but felt as if he was facing an abyss...

Even so, when Yang Ben, Hu Legen, and Li Zeyi came to report back, he still praised them a few words.

Last night, Yang Ben ambushed his troops in Fenglin Town, blocked a Mongolian army of 400 men into the river bend, fought all night, and finally captured almost [-] people, and his men also suffered a lot of casualties.

Hu Legen and Li Zeyi ambushed their troops in Qinghe Town and persuaded more than [-] people to surrender.

In the dark night, it is actually quite difficult to control these enemy soldiers from running around.

Instead, it was Hekou Town, where Li Xia was sitting in person, who left Liu Zheng and burned an entire wheat field.

Therefore, after checking the battlefield with the generals, Li Xia will immediately meet with the magistrate of Gaoling County and the elders of several towns to discuss disaster relief.

Only when all the discussants arrived, another letter arrived.

"The king of the county, the father and son of the Liu family have been captured. Liu Jinsuo has two soldiers under his command. Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui chased him all the way to the Weihe River... Liu suffered many injuries all night, and the wound was soaked by the river. The doctor said it was difficult. rule……"

"Well, it's important to treat the soldiers first."

"Yes, does the king of the county want to see Liu Zheng? People have already escorted him here."

"Let's talk about it when we're busy."

At this point in Li Xia's words, he remembered the information from Lin Zi about Liu Yu's death and cutting off his ears.

He also understood the state of mind of Liu's father and son, so he confessed again.

"If Liu Zheng wants to kill himself, allow."

~~
With a sound of "Dang", a dagger was thrown to the ground.

"If you want to kill yourself, agree."

From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Shun hated Liu Zheng for bringing the barbarians into the country to burn, kill and plunder. He wanted to scold Liu Zheng in front of him a lot, but he didn't bother to scold Liu Zheng because he knew what Liu Zheng did before his death.

In Liu Jinsuo's words, "This kind of old bastard who doesn't listen to people's persuasion has nothing to do with him. It's good intentions to scold him, and he looks stupid for no reason."

Zhang Shun felt that it made sense, so he took two steps back to prevent the blood from splashing all over his body again, and stood side by side with Zhang Gui and the others, looking at Liu Zheng coldly.

Liu Zong glanced at them coldly, but didn't look at them at all.

But looking at the dagger, his expression gradually became sad.

He could be defeated. Before entering Guanzhong, he had already had a premonition that he would lose.

If it is captured in the hands of Li Xia... there is no shame.The incidents of Liu Heima and Lian Xixian will not damage the reputation of the world.

But, just in front of these two dark and short unknown people, countrymen?

It would be too reconciled.

……

Zhang Shun waited for a while, seeing that Liu Zheng hadn't slayed himself, he suddenly remembered that there was still a word he didn't say, and said, "Don't worry, if you slayed yourself, we will say that you did it. General Liu said it has nothing to do with yours." The posthumous name has a lot to do with it.”

Liu Zheng finally picked up the dagger.

At this moment, I also thought of the past...

When he was young, he joined Zhao Fang, the famous general of Song Dynasty from the Kingdom of Jin, and belonged to the enemy camp under Zhao Fang's command.

The camps that conquered the enemy were all soldiers from the Kingdom of Jin, and they were also the source of elites under his command later on.

After Zhao Fang died, his second son, Zhao Fan, guarded Xiangyang.Zhao Fan is also a famous general, but he was greedy for drinking and drinking. The Mongols bought off the enemy army, opened the city gate while Zhao Fan was drunk, and captured Xiangyang, so Zhao Fan was dismissed from office.

In the year when Xiangyang fell, all the seven prefectures in Beijing and Lake fell, and Song State was in danger of being destroyed.

It's him, follow Meng Gong to turn the tide and turn the tide of battle!

After that, he followed Li Zengbo to recover Xiangyang and made many military exploits.

But the experience of conquering the enemy camp and the background of the Beigui people are destined not to be trusted by Song Ting...

"Hahaha!"

Looking back at this point, Liu Zheng looked up to the sky and laughed.

"Li Xia wants me to die? He dare not use me? 'Liu Zheng is talented, you can't use it, you should kill him, don't leave it as a future trouble!' Zhao Fang is like this, Li Xia also knows that he is incompetent, and dare not use it Me! Haha..."

Zhang Shun was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhang Gui, both of them didn't know how to answer, thinking that the Liu family father and son don't want to talk to us?
Seeing that Liu Zheng had already thrown the dagger on the ground, staring over with his red eyes, he said of course, "I want to see Li Xia."

"The king is still busy."

Zhang Shun answered impatiently, seeing that the wound on the fifty-year-old man's body was soaked by the river water, he looked a little pitiful, so he kindly reminded him.

"You want to live? General Liu said, it's not necessarily better for you to live than to kill yourself."

Liu Zheng didn't care which General Liu was talking nonsense at all, and said to himself: "Li Xia has no confidence, no tolerance, no guts, as expected!"

Zhang Shun was annoyed when he heard it, and felt that Liu Zheng was really annoying, so he picked up the dagger on the ground and said, "Then you wait."

Liu Zheng seemed to have seized the opportunity, sneered twice, and the arrogance returned to his face.

But one day passed and another night passed, and he never saw Li Xia at all.

The mood gradually changed...

~~
The next day.

By the canal in Hekou Town.

Ashes floated from a distance, and it was unclear whether it was the ashes left in the wheat field or the ashes of the paper money burned in the town to sacrifice to the victims.

Li Xia, dressed in ordinary clothes, was talking with several old farmers pointing to the burned wheat field.

"Young Lord, I don't know. Didn't the little old man tell you whether the government's handling of it is appropriate or not, and that the little old man feels distressed, distressed!"

"Don't worry, old man, I know it. It's a pity to burn it, but we still have to plant it again. The captives will stay in Gaoling County first, and the old man will watch them work as cows and horses, and dig the canal to the Sanchuan River in the north. ..."

The farmers around were all frowning and shy, not daring to speak much.

There was only an old farmer who had studied, with a sad face, talking non-stop with Li Xia, and pounding his chest fiercely from time to time.

"From last winter to June this year, the wheat is about to ripen. How much effort has been made?!"

"..."

"Sigh, little old man, looking at Mr. Xiaolang's demeanor, he must be from a wealthy family. The harvest of the more than [-] mu of land may not be eye-catching. Sigh, I am not a little old man at all, but my heart hurts."

"How can it not be eye-catching? Who doesn't love food? Every grain is hard work..."

~~
When Liu Zheng was escorted over, what he saw was this noisy scene.

Li Xia must be very busy, because there is someone leading the horse not far away, with an anxious face, and he should wait for Li Xia to rush to another place.

And those peasants obviously don't know how to flatter, they just don't recognize Li Xia who is out on tour in micro-clothes, and they don't even know how to measure.

After a long while, Li Xia finally turned around and received the captured Liu Zheng.

Right on the edge of this field.

"If they know that you brought the foreign bandits to kill people and burn the fields, they should beat you to death with hoe after hoe."

Liu Zheng was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect this to be the first sentence when they met.

Responding hastily, he also answered very strangely.

"Oh, do you still have to pay for it? I can afford it."

Li Xia didn't seem to hear it, and said to himself: "But the people in this land are still the kindest. They didn't beat your son to death in the end, and escorted Liu Gai to see the official."

Liu Zhengdao: "My eldest son is leading seven thousand elite soldiers to attack Tongguan from the west."

"so what?"

"You dare not use me?"

"Do you know your injury?"

"I can still suffer." Liu Zheng didn't look down at his festering injuries, and said, "I'm not afraid of death, but I want to give the soldiers I brought along a home a home."

He seems to want to surrender.

Whether it's sincere or not, it seems to have this intention.

But Li Xia's attitude made people feel embarrassed.

So Liu Zheng raised his head and said: "Although I don't want to surrender you, I must protect the soldiers. You don't have to make excuses for your incompetence. Since you want to kill me, why pretend to let me kill myself?"

"Do you hate Jia Sidao?" Li Xia asked suddenly.

Liu Zheng was stunned again, and unconsciously leaned his neck forward, cursing: "Jia Sidao is narrow-minded, so he is abominable!"

"Well, his words are mean, but your attitude is arrogant. You never thought that you can get along with people badly wherever you go. Is it because of your own problems?"

Li Xia also knew such an arrogant person, Qin Jiushao.

If it was Qin Jiushao, he would definitely say "I don't need to get along with the mediocre people in the world" at this time.

Liu Zheng is different, his arrogance is not superficial like Qin Jiushao's, he is more profound, and his arrogance is carved into his bones.

He was already annoying, and he was also suspected by all countries. He knew this himself, so he seemed particularly lonely.

After being silent for a while, Liu Zhengcai said: "I'm in your hands, there's nothing to say. Since you think you can't surrender me, kill me if you want, then my son..."

"Don't try falsely, I won't use you because you don't have faith."

"I didn't intend to serve you, and you didn't dare to..."

Li Xia turned her head and interrupted Liu Zheng's words with her eyes.

"Answer me a question." He seemed to want to have a serious discussion with Liu Zheng, and asked, "Do you think there is no 'country' in the world, okay?"

(End of this chapter)