The days when I was an obstetrician and gynecologist in Chang'an

After nightfall, taking advantage of the east wind that blew in the evening, the speed of Li Dalang's boat was two minutes faster than before.

The boatman looked at Li Dalang who was standing on the bow of the boat looking at the Shen family's boat, and quickly walked over with a lantern.

"Master, it's cold at night, so don't let the wind blow outside."

Li Dalang did not answer the boatman's question. Instead, he looked motionless at the rising moon illuminating the sparkling water and asked, "Boatman, when can we reach the Taipu River tonight?"

The boatman stood behind Li Dalang with a lantern. Although he was doubtful, after all, Li Dalang was the owner of the money. So the boatman replied honestly: "With this east wind, it should be here around the second watch."

After Li Dalang nodded, he stopped talking.

When the boatman saw this, he didn't want to give any more advice. When he wanted to hang the lantern on the pole on the bow, Wang DaDa and Gao Haiping came over.

Gao Haiping thanked the lantern hung by the boatman and saw the boatman shook his head and went to the side of the boat three or four steps away from the three of them to guard.

The boatman has been making a living on the water for more than ten years. Along the way, the boatman naturally noticed the weirdness of Li Dalang and his group.

But again, Li Dalang is the boss and the one who provides the money. If the boatman wants to make this money, it is natural that he should be more obedient than less.

Gao Haiping and Wang DaLang imitated Li Dalang's example and looked at the three-story Shen Jiafu boat ahead. Wang DaDang approached Li Dalang and whispered in a low voice: "Boss?"

Li Dalang then turned around and looked at Wang Dadan and Gao Haiping's eyes and said one word: "Wait."

The wait really lasted until after the second watch (21:00-23:00). Looking at the increasingly wider river, Li Dalang suddenly blew a breath at the lantern on the pole.

The lights were out, and although there was still clear moonlight to see, it was still a lot darker.

At this moment, the boatman who was guarding the side of the ship had long passed away in a daze, wrapped in thick clothes. The boatman's son at the stern watched strangely as all the people who were in the cabin ran out one by one.

As Li Dalang said in the middle of the afternoon, these dozen people have now all changed into all-black clothes, and even the long knives and other weapons that were hidden in the wooden boxes earlier are hung on their waists and taken out. In hand.

"Boss, brothers are ready."

Li Dalang was still standing on the bow of the boat looking forward. He only nodded when he heard the sound and did not respond.

With a "squeak" sound, the bright red letter flowers in the southeast sky lit up!

When they heard the sound, everyone in Li Dalang's group put their hands on their weapons. The one who was impatient directly pulled out the scabbard and already had the knife across his chest.

The movement of the letter flowers also shocked the confused boatman. The boatman who opened his eyes and the man who ran from the stern looked at Li Dalang and the others in surprise.

You can only see it roughly in the moonlight, but the blade that makes people feel very cold even in the moonlight is unmistakable.

The boatman had been sailing on this river for more than ten years. He faced the soldiers who subconsciously looked at him with murderous eyes and knelt down without saying a word.

The boatman's son also knelt down immediately. The boatman touched his head to the deck and closed his eyes to bravely say: "I don't know what noble people are doing, but you guys are blind tonight. You can't see anything and you can't remember anything."

Where does Li Dalang have time to take care of the boatman and his son?
At this moment, the Du family's army, which had been hidden in the grassy hut in the distance earlier, had already launched an attack on the Shen family's three-story fortune ship and the boats on both sides.

Li Dalang and the others were not too close. If a martial artist listened carefully, he could still hear the "swish" of arrows being shot in the wind.

The shouts of killing followed the trend, adding a lot of color to the sparkling river.Li Dalang stood at the bow of the boat and raised his right arm to signal to the brothers behind him. Immediately, the dozen or so people dispersed, a few people went to the stern, and people stood on both sides of the boat. Wang Dadan and Gao Haiping He was holding a knife and guarding Li Dalang's side.

In fact, according to the original arrangement from above, Wang Dalang and Gao Haiping were Li Dalang's deputies and had the responsibility to protect Li Dalang.

Gao Haiping looked at the boatman who was still kneeling on the ground and shouted: "You three go into the cabin and hide. Your swords have no eyes, so be careful."

The boatman and his son then crawled towards the cabin and closed the cabin door with a "snap".

With the east wind, the ship floated towards the Shen family's merchant ship. The closer it got, the louder the shouts of killing and the sound of weapons clashing, and the smell of blood also drifted over.

Just when Li Dalang was thinking about whether to board Shen Jiafu's boat through the side of the ship, a small boat rowed over from the southeast. The people on the small boat held lanterns and shouted to Li Dalang: "But brother surnamed Li?"

After a distance of five or six feet, the people in the boat stopped. Only then did they hear Li Dalang say: "I want to ride the east wind and go east."

"one two three four five six seven.

Haha, let's go, let's help Du Jiajun. "

The people in the small boat used the pole to push into the river and flew onto the Shen family's lucky boat from the side. Li Dalang got the correct code word and confirmed that the people in the small boat were the bad guys' spies. The brothers said: "Fifteen and sixteen will stay to guard the boat, and the rest will follow me on the lucky boat."

The soldiers who could be brought out by Li Dalang to go on missions were all good hands. Li Dalang flew directly onto the ship through the side of the ship, while the others also used their special skills.

There are some who use flying skills, some who rely on the rope hanging from the boat, and some who use the help of stepping on their brothers' shoulders to fly onto the lucky ship.

A harvest of human lives began without any warning.

On the Shen Jiafu ship, Li Dalang, Wang DaDaLang and Gao Haiping, who were back to back and had horns with each other, each wielded their long swords and competed with the rebels on the Shen family's merchant ship.

Thanks to Shen Jiafu who was willing to light the lamp on the boat, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see clearly whether he was an enemy or a friend on the other side.

There was a big fight for a while, and just after midnight, there was gradually no sign of resistance on Shen Jiafu's boat.

Shaking off the blood beads on the tip of the knife, Li Dalang was also thinking about everything he saw after boarding the Shen Jiafu boat.

Although during the surveillance, Li Dalang and the others had already discovered that at Shiliu Bay, there were many people with obviously thin skin and tender flesh but wearing linen clothes carrying wooden boxes onto the Shen Jiafu ship. At that time, Li Dalang felt that Just guessing, these people are probably direct descendants of the Shen family disguised as laborers.

And they are preparing to shed their golden cicada shells and go directly down the river to Fujian. They will probably leave the Tang Dynasty from Fujian and go to the south.

This is the Shen family's way of escaping from the Tang Dynasty!

Li Dalang also presented the news to the bad guy's contact point, but it was not until he returned to the ship and read the contents of the letter with the sealing wax that Li Dalang dared to confirm his guess.

At the same time, Li Dalang also understood in his heart that this group of people were people on the surface, and some bad people secretly discovered this matter, so he made arrangements in advance.

However, when Li Dalang looked at the corpses of those obviously privately raised soldiers lying on the deck, he still couldn't figure out when did these private soldiers get on the ship?
You know, they followed the Shen family's caravan from Shule to Chang'an, and then from Chang'an to Jiangnan East Road.

When did these private soldiers board the ship?

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