Fenghou

Chapter 110
At dawn the next day, Chen Qing waited for the passenger boat on the river. He didn't go back to the inn, and got on the boat directly at the pier, but the horses couldn't get on the boat. People come to pick it up.

In the cabin, Chen Qing simply told Hu Yanjia what happened in Wuhu.

"What do you mean by the general, there is an informer over there?" Hu Yanjia glanced at several boatmen.

Chen Qing nodded, "Obviously, the only people who know I'm in Wuhu are you and the boatman. If it wasn't you, then it must be the boatman."

"Of course it can't be us, these bastards, I still trust them so much!"

Hu Yanjia cursed bitterly: "Or kill them all, let's change another batch of boatmen!"

"First of all, we need to find out the informer. Think about it, who will the informer be?"

"Impossible! They have no chance to go ashore alone."

At this time, Hu Yanding whispered next to him: "Could it be Hua Silang? He went to sell horses with us, and we went to Wang's house to collect money, but he didn't follow and stayed in the town alone."

Chen Qing thought for a while and said, "Go find the boss of the boat!"

After a while, the boss of the ship walked into the cabin.

"General, be safe all the way!" The boat boss laughed.

"Thanks to you, I was attacked by five hundred golden soldiers from Jiangbei last night at Wuhu Wharf."

The boss of the boat was shocked, "How do they know that the general is in Wuhu?"

"I'm going to ask you this, brother Huyan, it's impossible, what about you?" Chen Qing stared at him sternly.

The boss of the boat plopped down on his knees, "The villain never betrayed the general!"

"I didn't mention you, where are your men?"

"Only three of my subordinates know that the general is in Wuhu."

"Which three?"

"Zhao Ping, Qiao Dashan and Hua Shiro."

"Which of the three of them has the closest relationship with the fake boatman?"

The boss of the boat thought for a while, "It should be Hua Shiro! By the way, he recently got twenty taels of silver. I asked him where he got it, and he said he won it from gambling. This is nonsense. He has never won gambling on the boat." .”

"How much does he earn a month?"

"He is a small boatman, and he has at most three pennies a month, and he has to support his family. He has to save twenty taels of silver for at least ten years."

Chen Qing sighed, and he could basically conclude that it was Hua Shiro, who was bought by the fake boatman before.

"Go and call him, Hu Yanding, you go with the boss of the boat."

The two went out together, and there was a sound of exclamation in a moment, and someone shouted: "Jumped into the river! Save people."

Chen Qing walked out of the cabin quickly, and saw that everyone was looking at the river and exclaiming. Hu Yanding pointed to one person on the river and said angrily, "That Hua Shiro suddenly jumped off the boat halfway through, which caught me off guard."

Chen Qing quickly went back to the cabin to fetch the bow and arrow. He drew the bow and stringed it, and aimed at the small black spot about dozens of steps away on the river surface. After hesitating for a moment, Chen Qing finally did not shoot the arrow.

"Let him go!" Chen Qing put down his bow and arrow.

The boss of the boat said, "I still have to support the family", which made Chen Qing let him go in the end.

He thought that the danger would be eradicated when he started killing in Wuhu, but after two days, Chen Qing realized that he was wrong, and the other party never let him go.

That night, the passenger ship sailed to Tongling County.

Suddenly, there was a scream from the stern of the ship, and Chen Qing, who was reading a book, suddenly woke up.

Chen Qing grabbed the halberd casually, but saw two Jurchen soldiers rushing in with spears in their hands.

Chen Qing rolled on the deck, and the halberd struck out, 'Crack! After cutting off two feet, two Jurchen soldiers fell down, howling in pain, Chen Qing swung his halberd, and killed three more Jurchen soldiers who rushed in, and ended up with two soldiers with broken feet with his backhand, so he put his bow and arrow on his back Out of the cabin.

On the deck, the Huyan brothers were fighting fiercely with more than a dozen Jurchens, screaming one after another.

Chen Qing didn't rush up, he squatted on the deck, stretched his bow and set his arrows, and shot seven or eight arrows in an instant, seven or eight Jurchen soldiers fell down from the arrows. The Jurchen soldiers retreated steadily and were forced to jump into the river.

wrong!Chen Qing noticed a huge shadow of a boat coming towards them quickly, and someone behind him suddenly shouted: "Jurchen is going to shoot an arrow, follow it!"

As soon as Chen Qing turned his head, he saw a huge shield thrown towards him. He caught it, and just as he raised the shield, arrows from the opposite ship shot at him like a storm. In an instant, his shield was full of arrows. arrow.

"Boom!" With a muffled sound, their ship was hit hard by the big ship behind, and the ship shook violently. Chen Qing took advantage of the situation and rolled over, seeing the person who threw the shield to him.

On a small passenger boat on the river, stood a tall man in black. Chen Qing recognized at a glance that it was the man in black who Wuhu had warned him about. It turned out that he had been following him.

"General Chen, get on board!" the man in black shouted anxiously.

Chen Qing hesitated, and rushed to the side of the ship. Hu Yanding was shot by two arrows and lay on the deck, while Hu Yanjia was bandaging him.

"How about the third child?"

"Fortunately, it's not a serious problem!"

"There is a small boat behind, hurry up and carry him on board, go!"

Dozens of Jurchen soldiers jumped off the big ship and rushed towards Chen Qing. Chen Qing was the one the Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin named to arrest him. Wan Yanchang was bound to win. The five hundred Qi army was just one of the intercepting troops. This ship The three-thousand-stone ship full of Jurchen soldiers had been following them since Jiankang, and attacked when their defenses were relaxed, but Hu Yanjia was the first to discover it.

Hu Yanjia picked up his brother and ran to the back of the boat. Chen Qing held a bow and arrow, and shot them in succession.

Suddenly, seven or eight water ghosts jumped up from the ship's sides on both sides, and a tall water ghost sprang out from behind, swiping a knife and slashing at the back of Chen Qing's head, "Woo! The sharp saber brought a gust of wind, the knife came too suddenly, and Chen Qing was caught off guard, he dodged and dodged the deadly knife, but the water ghost's body also pressed up, throwing Chen Qing down, without the threat of bows and arrows, Twenty or so Jurchens screamed and rushed towards Chen Qing with their knives from three directions.

At the critical moment, a mace's arrow 'whoosh! The ground shot, an arrow pierced the back of the water ghost, the water ghost screamed, and died immediately, Chen Qing threw his body off the boat, grabbed the halberd and swept away with one arm, the three nearest Jurchen soldiers were killed Split over.

Chen Qing put his bow on his back and retreated while fighting, but there were more and more Jurchen soldiers. The man in black shouted: "General Chen, jump!"

Chen Qing ran a few steps and jumped towards the boat. The man in black was very skilled in archery and shot eight consecutive arrows, shooting down all the eight Jurchen soldiers who were desperately chasing after Chen Qing.

Although it was a small boat, it was still a five hundred stone passenger boat. Hu Yanjia and two men in black were patrolling the side of the boat with short spears in their hands.

"The enemy army is about to shoot arrows, shield defense!" The man in black shouted.

They raised their shields and squatted down one after another. Chen Qing also raised a large shield. The three thousand stone ship fired all the crossbows, and three hundred powerful crossbow bolts fired at the small boat.

Amid the Jurchen's dense crossbow arrows, the two boatmen tried their best to row the oars, and the passenger boat gradually left and headed for the shore, while the big boat behind them chased after them.

The boat docked, and everyone went ashore one after another. One of the men in black led five or six horses to meet them. Chen Qing unexpectedly found that the horses he had stored in Wuhu were among them. He became more curious about the identity of the man in black. , he asked twice on the boat, but the man in black just laughed and didn't answer.

But at this time it was too late to ask, the Jurchens' big boat was chasing after them, only a few dozen steps away from them, perhaps because the archery was ineffective, the Jurchens had stopped shooting, and three hundred Jurchens soldiers were standing on the side of the boat, holding Spears, ready to wash ashore.

Chen Qing got on his horse, and everyone got on their horses one after another. Hu Yanjia helped his brother onto the horse, and they rode together. Seeing that they were already on the horse, Chen Qing urged the horse to gallop westward, and everyone followed closely behind. , and soon disappeared into the night.

The Jurchen captain on the big ship didn't expect that the other party had horses waiting, so he punched the ship hard. They didn't have horses, so they really couldn't catch up now.

"Send an eagle letter to the spies along the way after dawn, and continue to search for their traces!"

They ran for twenty miles in one breath, and stopped in a small town. There was a medical clinic in the small town. Everyone entered the medical clinic, and the doctor treated Hu Yanding's injuries.

The tall and tall man in black just tore off the face scarf. He was also a young man in his mid-twenties, with thick eyebrows and a square face.

"I seem to have seen your Excellency somewhere?" Chen Qing saw that this young man was vaguely familiar.

The young man smiled slightly and said, "Has General Chen forgotten? We met once in Suian County, Muzhou!"

You are Yang Zaixing! "Chen Qing suddenly remembered.

"It's down!"

Chen Qing was overjoyed, "How do you know about my situation?"

"I went to my hometown and felt that there was no future in fighting against the gold. I returned to Lin'an and wanted to join General Chen. Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived in Lin'an, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand the release of General Chen. I found out that someone was going to assassinate him. General Chen, so I followed along the shore with my men, and I witnessed General Chen beheading eleven Jurchen elite cavalry single-handedly, it’s too powerful, the villain is ashamed of himself!" Yang Zaixing couldn't help giving a thumbs up.

"You followed me to Wuhu?" Chen Qing understood a little bit.

Yang Zaixing nodded with a smile.

"And then? How did you know that Jin Bing would sneak attack tonight?" Chen Qing was still a little puzzled.

(End of this chapter)