Inheriting the Song Dynasty

In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...

Chapter 66: Water Margin (Part 2)

Liu Lin sighed, stopped thinking about it, and turned back.

However, at this moment, during the so-called gap in the battlefield, Yue Fei, Liu Lin and many soldiers all noticed a small boat coming from the southwest... There was nothing they could do, the boat was too abrupt, and the shapes of the people on the boat were too weird.

There is never a shortage of small boats on Liangshan Lake. Even when the large army just poured in, many fishermen could be seen hiding in the reeds in panic. After the fight just started, many small boats came and went to observe, and it was not known whether they were watching the excitement or gathering information... The Jin army noticed this early on, but did not take it seriously.

In fact, Liu Lin's mention of Liangshan pirates just now came from this. Because the officers of Wanyan Saili's Central Army generally believed that the Song army should have contacted the Liangshan pirates, but only to plan a retreat, hoping that the pirates would come to support them, but the battlefield was fierce and the Jin army was strong, so they were afraid to go out.

However, unlike the previous small boats that often observed the battle situation from several miles away and then hid in the reeds in a moment, this oddly shaped and light boat actually did not stop. It rowed all the way from the depths of the lake to the so-called Shuotou Beach, only a hundred steps away from the Jin army on the shore, barely within the range of their bows and crossbows.

At this time, many Jin soldiers near the left shore not only did not shoot arrows, but could not help laughing... Because when they got close, everyone noticed the funny thing about the small boat and the people on the boat that came out from the reed marsh on the left.

The so-called small boat was more like a raft, with a very small and broken boat in the middle and a piece of wood with sharpened ends tied to each side of the boat. At first glance, it looked like a raft made of three pieces of wood... extremely simple.

As for people, that's even more interesting.

In early spring, the daytime is hot and the nights are cold, so this person wore a ragged red cotton jacket and his chest was bare. This was fine, but what was even worse was that this person actually pinned a huge red satin flower on his head!

In the Song Dynasty, it was a common tradition to wear flowers in one's hair. Not to mention the number one scholar riding a horse and parading through the streets with flowers, even in ordinary cities, there were one or two vagrants who boasted of their fair complexion and good looks, and often wore flower tattoos to boast about their looks... So much so that in the world, there were often people like "so-and-so, the most beautiful woman in Daming Prefecture", "so-and-so, the most beautiful woman in Jinan Prefecture", and those who were as famous as the Nine-Patterned Dragon and the Eight-Patterned Phoenix.

However, back to the present, this fisherman, who is about thirty years old, has a dark face tanned by the wind and sun, looks to be over forty, has a tuft of black hair on his chest, and is wearing a greasy red cotton-padded jacket. He is personally handling such a shabby boat, and he is wearing a big red flower in his hair. It is ridiculous.

In fact, it was the Jin people who laughed at first, but when they saw this man rowing his boat very quickly and easily turning to the side of the small beach, even the Song soldiers who recognized him couldn't help but laugh.

"Commander Yue!"

Liu Lin looked at it for a long time and wanted to retreat directly, but when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but asked with a smile. "Is this your reinforcement?! What did you rely on to lead our 5,000 Jin Kingdom troops here today?!"

Yue Fei watched Zhang Rong rowing past him two or three hundred steps away, but he calmly raised his head and asked loudly: "Do you look down on him?!"

"I understand. Commander Yue wants to use this person to make the 5,000 soldiers on the beach laugh to death!" Liu Lin shook his head repeatedly, but gave up the idea of ​​communicating and was about to ride away.

However, just as he reined in his horse, he suddenly heard a wolf-like howl from the lake, which frightened him so much that he almost fell off his horse. After he steadied himself, he realized that it was the man with the red flower who was singing a fisherman's song in public. The man's voice was unpleasant, and he couldn't get the right tone at first, but after testing his voice, he got the right tone, and finally got a hint of the underworld flavor, and he could hear the vulgar lyrics clearly.

As the saying goes:

"My grandfather was born in Liangshanpo, and he was born to kill.

There is no righteous man who has killed fire, and there is no righteous man who has killed the Tokyo Bird Official!

The hero can't read poetry or books, he just lives in Liangshanpo.

Although I was born a scoundrel, I kill thieves instead of killing people!"

The song is obviously taken from the tune of an ordinary fishing song, because the word "that" is added in each sentence as a transition, and each section ends with a long call as a conclusion... It is not necessary for the boatman to row the boat.

Yue Fei immediately swam in the gradually clear water in front of the battle formation, and tried to follow the loud singing voice in the noisy battlefield, going around him from afar, from left to right, from near to far, and from far to near, but he never moved.

On the other side, Liu Lin was just slightly startled. After recovering from the shock of the wolf howl, he turned around early to report to Wanyan Seri.

"Not surrendering?"

"No."

"It's as expected." Wanyan Seri sighed. "But I really admire his ability and want to help him."

"Me too..." Liu Lin thought to himself but didn't say it out loud.

"In that case, let's not talk about it any more." Wanyan Saili collected his thoughts and pointed at the man with a flower hairpin who was singing in a boat and came back from the other side of the riverbank and asked seriously:

"What's the matter with this person?"

"It should be that the bandits in the water are a little bit loyal, and a leader came out to give an explanation to the man surnamed Yue." Liu Lin didn't care. "Our previous guess was correct. The Song army must have contacted the bandits in the water, but who are those bandits? How dare they fight against the army? This time they must have been afraid to fight, and they didn't even dare to send the fleet to support them."

Wanyan Seri nodded repeatedly, but as he watched the boat gradually turn back from the right, he felt something was wrong. He couldn't tell what was wrong for a moment, and he stood there in a daze, feeling a little flustered.

At this moment, as they were talking, the boat was approaching with great agility, and the singing could be heard again.

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