Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 85 First Battle - Water ([-])

Yuncheng County Military Camp.

Teams of sergeants were ready to go, and the irregularly lined up teams pulled out of the camp one after another, and embarked on the road of suppressing bandits under the scolding of the general.

"Is the magistrate of Yuncheng County crazy? If you have to set off at Si time, wouldn't it be safer to go for a surprise attack in the early morning?" Liu Yuan said to Pan Zhong in a low voice with a livid face in the queue.

Pan Zhong looked up and looked around, and said in a low voice, "Brother Liu, keep your voice down, they are all here."

Taking a sneak peek at everyone's attention: "I heard that the county magistrate is a bit arrogant, saying that the grass bandits in Liangshan are building cottages during the day, no one will notice that I am waiting to send troops, and at this time I can kill them all by surprise. "

Liu Yuan spat, but still lowered his voice: "Is there no one in Yuncheng County who knows how to stop him?"

Pan Zhong sneered: "When did there ever be a big turban in the hall who heard what I waited for the warrior?"

Liu Yuan kept silent and just followed the team with an ugly face. The army of more than two hundred people began to become scattered and uneven as the march distance increased. It was hung on the chest, dragging and pulling up a lot of dust.

Seeing these, Liu Yuan closed his eyes in despair: "With such a military appearance, how can we wipe out those bandits in Liangshan?"

Pan Zhong patted his arm, comforted Liu Yuan and said, "Brother Liu, don't be discouraged, Zhemo Liang Mountain bandit soldiers are even worse than that."

"I hope so." Liu Yuan sighed heavily, thinking to himself that a group of rogues could not compare to the well-equipped government.

The spring breeze blew, and the raised military flags fluttered, and a group of troops that looked like bandits outnumbered sergeants marched into Shijie Village after Sichu.

Perhaps it was due to the lack of strict military discipline, or maybe it was the indulgence of the superiors. This group of sergeants on the marching road became like wolves when they entered the village, broke into the village by breaking open the door lock and kicking open the door.

"Master, you can't take it, this is the old man's rations for today and tomorrow."

"The officers and soldiers are robbing money!"

"Straight mother thief! The conquest of our ship is also recognized, even the money and food are robbed, who is the bandit!"

"The head of the house - stop beating, and kill people again!"

The villagers in Shijie Village cursed one after another, and tried desperately to protect their property. The impatient people directly punched them, but they were surrounded by sergeants, who almost smashed them with scabbards and gun handles. Died on the spot.

"Grandpa is here to help you get rid of the bandits, what's the matter with getting something?"

"Go away! Can Zhe Mo rebel?"

"You idiot who doesn't know how to die, don't force grandpa to draw his sword."

The sergeant who snatched the things cursed and walked away with the things, leaving the villagers in a mess and looking desperate. Some acquaintances came over to help their friends, and limped to the side to sit down. He looked at the group of sergeants with hatred in his eyes.

Zhu Ting couldn't bear to watch the soldiers looting, so he restrained his dozens of subordinates and persuaded Zhao De who was on the side: "Zhao Dutou, does this disturb the people too much?"

Zhao De glanced at Zhu Dian disapprovingly: "Zhu Dutou is kind-hearted, but now we all have to risk our lives to fight the grass bandits in the puddle, how can we make them contribute if we don't feed them enough?"

Liu Yuan and Pan Zhong, who were following behind, saw that people were getting nasty, and immediately took a step behind, as if they suddenly realized that the weather was different today, they all raised their heads to wait and see.

"Then you want to take the things of the common people?" Lei Heng didn't care about it, but he had a fight with Zhu Dian and others yesterday, so he couldn't help but have a bias in his heart.

The corner of Zhao De's mouth twitched, and he walked forward, pointing to Zhao Neng and others who were guarding the fishing boat: "My Dalang and others have been guarding here all night, and we have to give some rewards to the guarding brothers, otherwise how can we motivate them?" He waits to kill a thief? Relying on one mouth will not let the people below work for you."

Zhu Ting's face turned pale when he heard the words, he snorted coldly and rushed forward, Lei Heng beside him didn't hesitate, and walked forward together behind him.

Zhao De curled his lips in disdain, and greeted Zhao Neng who was walking towards him and others: "Brother."

"Second brother is here." Zhao Neng came over and patted Zhao De on the shoulder: "How did Zhu Dutou and Lei Dutou go away, what did you say to them?"

Zhao De sneered: "Some people have a bodhisattva heart, and they don't want children to get rich."

"Hey." Zhao Neng patted Zhao De, supported the handle of the knife with one hand and said, "Zhu Dutou's family is well off, how can he know the suffering of the son below? Don't bother with him."

Looking up at the two people behind them who looked up at the sky, they asked, "Who are these two?"

Zhao De slapped his thigh, and quickly extended his hand to recommend: "Look at me confused, these two are two Jinghu righteous men who voluntarily joined the bandit suppression team. This is Liu Yuan, the god of wealth knife, and Pan Zhong, the iron centipede. He is a hero of Shezhe, he even injured that winged tiger before."

Liu Yuan and Pan Zhong hurriedly clasped their fists in salute: "The villain in the mountains has seen Zhao Dutou."

Zhao Neng laughed: "It's a blessing for Yuncheng County to have the help of the two of you, and come with me, and I'll just ask you two to come with me later."

"Dutou, the horse I'm waiting for..." Pan Zhong turned to look at the horse behind him.

Zhao Neng smiled: "Just find two boats and take them with you."

"Thank you, Dutou." Pan Zhongliuyuan quickly thanked, and followed Er Zhao towards the boat.

At that moment, all the sergeants in Yuncheng County had assembled and got on the boat amidst the general's scolding.

Not long after, boats rowed out from Shijie Village and headed towards Liangshan in two directions.

……

As the spring breeze blew, the green reeds bowed their heads to welcome the original guests. The sound of rushing water echoed between the sky and the earth with the paddling of the oars, and the whispering sound never stopped.

"It's really a dangerous place." Lei Heng closed his eyes slightly, rubbing his needle-like beard, and said loudly to Zhu Nian on the boat next to him.

"It's really dangerous. This water pond is simply a natural moat." Zhu Ting nodded in agreement: "Plus, the reeds cover the water surface. If people who are not familiar with waterways come here, they will really get lost here."

Lei Heng sat on the boat and smashed the side of the boat: "The two surnamed Zhao are going to divide their troops. In such a dangerous place, we will work together and think that there are few people. If we divide our troops, we will be asking for our own death."

Zhu Tong lightly stroked his usual long spear, and after a long while, a pair of red phoenix eyes lit up with a cold light and said: "The matter has come to this point, it's useless to say, you and I just stand together and fight."

Lei Heng was silent when he heard this, he lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Hero Hey~ That won't be~ Hey

How can a hero not read poetry and books~
I only live in that Liangshanbo~
......"

Suddenly, a strange singing sounded, and Zhu Tun and Lei Heng hurriedly raised their weapons, straightened their bodies and knelt on the boat with one leg and looked forward.

I saw three small boats propping out slowly from the reeds. There were five men on each boat, four of them were shaking double oars, and one was standing at the bow. guest.

It was Ruan's Sanxiong who had just gone up the mountain.

"Who is here?" Zhu Dian shouted, but stretched out a hand behind his back to signal repeatedly.

Someone behind him understood and quickly took the bow and arrow and handed it to him.

"My baby is lost, so I came here to look for it." Ruan Xiaoer stepped on the bow of the boat, leaning forward and shouting.

On the side, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi grinned, and said in unison: "My baby is also lost, come and look for it."

Looking at the ruffian attitude of him waiting, Zhu Tong felt an evil fire rise to his forehead: "Didn't you wait to entertain me?"

"My son! Why didn't he recognize his father after seeing him?"

On the boat on the left, Ruan Xiaoqi gave a strange cry, and everyone burst into laughter.

Zhu Tie's face turned purple with anger, he stood up and drew his bow, nodding his arrow, let go of his hand, the boat swayed on the water, and the arrow shot towards an unknown direction.

"My eldest son, let's chase after your father!"

Ruan Xiaowu laughed out loud when he saw his shot miss, and immediately the three boats whistled and returned together.

"Damn it! Hurry up and catch up with me." Seeing that the archery on the boat was not like land, Zhu Dian slapped the bow hard on the cabin, and turned his head to tell the sergeant to speed up.

More than [-] boats and boats in the surrounding area exerted their strength together, chasing the three ships together, and under the command of the general, some archers picked up bows and arrows and shot forward, but most of them missed, and a few were lucky and accurate. was blocked by the shields of the people on the boat ahead.

Zhu Tie stared at the three people on the boat, and before the boat with officers and soldiers could approach, he saw the three men standing on the boat in front shouted in unison and jumped into the lake.

What is this for?

Zhu Ting frowned, it was unreasonable for the thief to throw himself into the river before catching up with him.

But soon he didn't have to think about it.

"Someone chiseled the boat!"

A ship's sergeant exclaimed.

"There are also people digging boats here!"

"Here too!"

Zhu Tong suddenly turned around, stared and shouted: "Quickly, take a spear and poke it into the water, don't let the thief continue!"

Lei Heng stood up first, grabbed a long spear and plunged it into the water, stabbing it non-stop, and shouted: "Pikemen, move quickly, if the boat gets flooded, just jump on another boat."

All the sergeants shouted and acted according to the orders of the two captains. They raised their spears and pierced into the water from both sides to guard against the water ghosts at the bottom.

The sergeants on the three boats jumped onto the other boats nearby, but unexpectedly, the three of the Ruan family saw that the other boats were pierced by several spears and could not dig the boats, so they went back to the three boats and wanted to expand the hole first.

The three of them saw the shaking of the ship and saw someone jumping above them in the water, they couldn't help but feel murderous.

The sergeants of the three boats were also panicked, thinking that the boat was pierced, and the underwater ghost must be looking for other boats, so they stood beside the boat and wanted to jump out.

It might as well be that Sanruan was accurate in spying below, and suddenly jumped out of the water, grabbed the side of the boat and pressed hard on himself like this, and pushed again along the buoyancy of the water.

The sergeants on board were no more than ordinary people, how could they be prepared for this, not only fell into the water one after another.

"help me!"

"I don't... cough cough... I can't drink water..."

Those who fell into the water shouted one after another, and those who were close to other boats, the sergeants on the boat saw that their comrades had entered the water, and stretched out their hands to pull them onto the boat.

Fang stretched out his arm, and a thick arm stretched out under the water, grabbing him violently.

"what!"

puff-

"Water ghosts kill people underwater!"

Seeing bloodstains emerging from the water, and then corpses floating to the surface, some soldiers couldn't help shouting loudly.

Zhu Ting and Lei Heng were in a hurry when they heard the words, they knew it was not a solution but they still shouted: "Take a bow and arrow and shoot, and save the living ones."

All the sergeants couldn't help being busy for a while, some drew their bows and arrows but were completely inaccurate, and some stretched out their guns to pull people. Seeing that, Zhu Ting was anxious: "Pikemen continue to guard against the water."

However, he did not expect that at this time Sanruan's targets were all those who fell into the water. He watched helplessly as a few soldiers who fell into the water suddenly sank into the water, and then a burst of blood surfaced with the corpses.

"Liang Bandit! I will kill you!"

Zhu Tong's eyes were wide open, with bloodshot eyes all over his pupils, and his face was frighteningly red.

"Go, hurry to Liangshan, they want to hold us back." Lei Heng shouted.

Zhu Tong suddenly came to his senses, gritted his teeth for a long time, and said loudly: "Don't worry about other things, go to Liangshan quickly, and the spearmen guard the bottom of the ship!"

At that moment, all the soldiers obeyed the order, and they rowed with all their strength, completely ignoring the people who were killed in the water one after another.

The three members of the Ruan family floated up from the water, with only one head exposed to watch the officers and soldiers rushing away in a hurry, they plunged down and disappeared immediately.

Not long after, all the soldiers on board breathed a sigh of relief, and the golden beach was just around the corner.

(End of this chapter)