The loud drums and whistles in the upper reaches, and the firelight rising from the sky immediately attracted the attention of the officials who had already cleaned the battlefield downstream and decided to return to Jiangzhou. Everyone turned their heads in surprise and stared at it with terror. All the uneasy emotions quickly spread from the soldiers. Could it be that the water bandits had not been defeated and would they make a comeback?

Seeing Lin Henian with a look of confusion, Sun Tu, beside him, finally spoke: "Don't panic, this is the main force of our village soldiers attacking the nest of the fierce dragon of the water bandits. I believe that after this war, the water bandits who have suffered a lot on the Xunyang River will be completely annihilated."

"What did you say? Isn't the main force of the village soldiers here?" Lin Henian was even more surprised and asked anxiously. He saw Sun Tu lead these 100 rural soldiers back and forth to turn the tide. His combat power is far beyond that of his command. Can't he be called the main force?

"There are only a hundred rural soldiers here, but there are more than 200 rural soldiers who are ready to go there, so that is the main force." Sun Tu gave an explanation calmly, but everyone around him was shocked. He thought that these hundred were the elite soldiers, but he heard that the more than 300 rural soldiers were all elite soldiers!

However, at this time, Lin Dujian was more concerned about the war over there: "How could they find the thief's nest?" As soon as he said that, he suddenly understood: "You just asked me not to rush to pursue me because you were prepared for it. You had someone to ambush in the dark. Is this a trick of playing hard to get?"

After seeing Sun Tu nodding, his doubts in his heart increased instead: "Why did you have this arrangement? You have known that such a result will be there?" As he said that, he was already staring at the other party with his eyes tightly, and his heart was shocked, anger, joy and sorrow... It was really mixed.

Sun Tu did not avoid any reluctance, and looked at him calmly, and said calmly: "I'm not hiding it from the capital magistrate. In fact, it was not until the officials just now that you were sure that you did not collude with the evil dragon, so you didn't tell me the whole plan truthfully before."

"What do you mean?" Lin Henian's heart suddenly tightened, and a terrible idea had emerged from his heart. After all, he was not a fool. Sun Tu said so clearly that he naturally guessed something. Sure enough, Sun Tu said in a stern tone: "In fact, when he knew that my official army had been defeated by the evil dragons several times, the subordinates had already suspected that the people in my government had secretly colluded with them and promptly deployed the official army's troops to them earlier, so that they could make targeted arrangements. The enemy knew me but I didn't know the enemy. This is the key to the Dujian's defeat by the water bandits several times."

"This...how is this possible..." Although Lin Henian said this, his blue face and slightly trembling body all showed that he did agree with Sun Tu's statement.

"Otherwise, Lin Dujian, a thief suppression in March, would have been eliminated by the enemy earlier and turned defeat into victory? You said at the time that the ambush that launched a sneak attack on you from behind was circling underwater, but in my opinion, they had hid behind my official army early in the morning and found the right time to launch a sneak attack. In today's battle, they actually used the same trick. Haven't you seen the problem yet?"

Lin Henian was shocked and was a little confused, but he had to admit in his heart that everything was more reasonable according to what Sun Tu said. The latter continued: "In addition, the arrangement of the bandits today proved that Xiaguan expected it. They set up a net on all sides of the island where the nest. They had known that we would send troops in these two days, and the only ones who could know this were the people in the Jiangzhou government.

"I took advantage of this, and I only brought a hundred people to follow the thieves to suppress the thieves, but secretly let the main force of my village soldiers wait in front of me. As soon as the real nest of the thieves is exposed, it will be the best time for us to attack them unprepared." As Sun Tu finished his words, it seemed to be to confirm the credibility of this statement, and there were already a burst of killing sounds coming from the upstream. It was obvious that the village soldiers there had already started a real confrontation with the thieves.

Looking at Lin Henian who was still in a dull state, Sun Tu suddenly bent down and bowed: "Lin Dujian, now is the best time to eliminate this great harm for our Jiangzhou. Please order us to go to support us and give the thieves a final blow!"

One sentence finally woke Lin Henian up completely. He made a quick decision and turned his head to shout at the messenger beside him who was also dumbfounded by Sun Tu's explanation: "I'm not waiting, and I immediately ordered all ships to turn around and launch an attack on the upstream, and there must be no delay!"

After being stunned, the messenger agreed loudly, and then the drums and flags turned around, and flew straight toward the upstream where there were constant sounds of killing. This was the best self-salvation for this army and the last chance.

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The seven or eight rounds of rocket launching have completely stumbled into the raging fire of the small fishing village, but Yang Zhi did not dare to slack off at all. He still ordered all soldiers to be on guard, just wait for the enemy to escape before giving a head-on attack: "Everyone is angry with me. As long as the thief shows up, hello me with arrows. The shield hands are also ready. The thief may use bows and arrows to open the way, so don't let them disrupt our defense line!"

With a loud roar, all the soldiers performed their duties, and none of them dared to relax. Seeing this scene, the Zhang brothers on the boat and a slender man with a strong body with a long body, rust on their arms and faces all showed admiration: "This is what the official army should look like, but it is much stronger than the previous soldiers."

"Brother Li, we must not lose our momentum after the Jiang Jiao and the others come out later, and we must not give them a chance to escape." Zhang Heng, who had a fat face and a short figure, raised a long sword with a high height of himself, said with murderous intent.

"This is natural. Since the Fenjiang Jiao and his group came to Xunyang River, they have robbed my business. Naturally, they will not let them have a good time." Li Jun, who is a local called Hunjianglong, said as he suddenly narrowed his eyes and stared at the river water below and whispered: "They are here!"

As a good player in the water warfare who had been hanging out in the river for many years, Li Jun had judged the enemy's movements only through the subtle changes in the river. While speaking, a short spear was raised to his chest by him. The Zhang brothers and other companions also raised their weapons and put on a fighting posture.

At this moment, a roar suddenly came from the entrance of the fishing village: "Kill, kill all the minions of the government!" Then, with a loud bang, many buildings suddenly fell down and hit the water heavily. While stirring up many waves, several ships rushed out of the village with this force and rushed straight to the defense line of the government troops outside the village.

This assault was really beyond the expectations of the soldiers from outside the village. Taking advantage of their moment of being stunned, the thieves who rushed out quickly had already splashed arrows at the official army.

Yang Zhi was the one who reacted the fastest. When he saw the arrow shooting, he shouted loudly: "Rise the shield!" While shouting, he had already snatched a wooden shield from a obviously stunned village soldier beside him. He curled up and blocked the shield in front of him.

Until the arrow came, several soldiers in front of him fell into the water. Others woke up as if they were dreaming, and they raised their shields to protect themselves, blocking the rest of the arrows outside.

But this was enough to create an opportunity for the ferocious dragons and bandits behind him. Jiang Shihu shouted loudly and ordered the other ten ships to rush forward at full speed. While shooting arrows to block the official army's encirclement, he also looked for a gap and prepared to go to the middle of the river with one go.

But this time they were no longer facing the Jiangzhou Xiang Army, whose morale was low and collapsed, but after months of training, the village soldiers who had already regarded obeying orders as the top priority. Seeing the enemy rushing towards them, they did not flee in a hurry, but continued to stick to their posts in Yang Zhi's voices, and accompanied by his roar, shooting arrows in their hands towards the enemy ship.

After only fifty steps away, more than ten water bandits without shields had been caught in the water, which made their forward speed slow down suddenly. Yang Zhi also seized this opportunity and ordered loudly again: "Enter the siege and wipe out the thieves today!"

As he shouted, the ship under his seat had already taken the lead in flying towards the enemy ship. When the two ships were less than seven or eight feet away, he had already stepped on the bow of the ship, leap up with force, and rushed straight towards the pirate ship that was rushing in the front.

Seeing this, the water bandits on the boat had no time to shoot arrows, so they quickly raised their swords and guns and called him, but they were easily blocked by Yang Zhi with the knife in his hand and pressed them backwards repeatedly. Their force was far above any participant.

"It's really a good martial arts!" Li Jun and others, who were located behind the team, couldn't help but shout, and then looked at each other: "It's time for us to show our skills!"

Although they said so, they did not rush towards the enemy like an official army. Instead, they turned around and jumped into the river with a light leap. In a moment, all of these men disappeared.

Yang Zhi's heroic performance also quickly inspired other rural soldiers, allowing them to completely get out of the tension of the first battle. He shouted loudly and rushed forward. After blocking the thieves' way out of escape, he shouted and waved his weapons to attack.

Suddenly, on the river in front of this small fishing village, hundreds of people and dozens of ships on both sides of the officials and thieves were all mixed up. While blocking all the roads, it was difficult to distinguish between us.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Shihu, who deliberately landed behind at the last moment, turned pale. Looking at his brother who was still in a coma on the same boat, he knew that this was the most severe test for his brother and the evil dragon...

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