Chapter 173

The boats sailed through Tuhai River and entered Dongting Lake. Suddenly, there were more boats on the lake.

Big and small wupeng boats, fishing boats, small sailboats, block out the sky and the sun, come from the vast water surface, almost covering the lake.

Su Yun and Erniu stood in the bow of the boat, chattering.

Born and raised in the north, they have never seen thousands of sails cover the sky and block out the sun.

"Eh, why isn't the girl dressed?"

Xiao Si'er's surprised voice sounded, and then there was the sound of pedaling footsteps. Xiao Wu ran into the cabin.

Su Lu asked the mud nearby, "what happened outside? Why is it so busy?"

The mud ran out and came back a moment later, with pale cheeks and a hoarse voice.

"Something's wrong, my Lord."

"On the lake, there are tens of thousands of people fleeing from Xuanfu, bringing their families and families."

Su Lu was stunned. The people who fled?

At the next moment, he understood that the front was advancing to the Yanzhou area of Beiyang. Not to mention the people of Xitun ridge and Beizheng, but the people of Beiyang and Yanzhou must have been thinking of fleeing.

Su Lu put down his book and got up and walked out of the cabin.

A small dark wooden boat was passing by the official ship. There was a family of seven on board.

The man in charge of the house is a black and thin man, who is skilled in boating. His 13-year-old son is helping him paddle. In the cabin, a thin woman holds a thin baby in her arms and a little girl sucking her fingers on her thigh.

The two old couples were depressed and nestled on the side of the cabin. They looked that they had no strength to move again.

The baby was crying. The woman opened her clothes and fed the baby. The baby ate two mouthfuls, didn't eat milk, and continued to cry loudly. The woman looked at the crying baby and was at a loss on her cheeks.

The old man resting by the boat Gang looked dull, and his eyes were full of helplessness and hesitation.

Su Lu took a look at Xiao Si next to him. Xiao Si murmured, reached out and took out a packet of cakes from the side cloth bag, bit his teeth and threw it down in pain.

"Patter"

The cake fell beside the woman, and the paper bag cracked to show the cake inside.

The woman picked up one, smelled it, looked surprised on her cheeks, looked up, and immediately said a few words in a hoarse voice.

The old man, the old woman, the boatman and the young man rowing all raised their heads and looked at the official boat. The child holding the woman's thigh picked up a cake and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Thank you, benefactor."

The old man bowed to the official ship.

The boatman's face moved and he also bowed to the official ship.

When the two ships passed by, Su Lu got up and went back to the cabin. There were many such scenes behind.

The fleeing crowd came by boat from Beiyang. According to the speed of the boat, it will take more than ten days to get here. I'm afraid the rations prepared by the seven members of the family have been consumed.

The mud ran to the other side of the boat and shouted, "my Lord will break Tule's army when he returns to Beiyang. Don't leave your hometown."

Until the boat went to Beiyang, Su Lu never left the cabin again. He sat in the cabin reading and thought about his new cards.

Scout, dagger, sword shield, long Qi ā Ng soldier, these are the four kinds of soldier cards that Su Lu can produce.

Long Qi ā The ng soldiers have the strongest attack and the sword shield soldiers have the strongest defense. The scouts are professional arms. Only the short saber soldiers. Su Lu has always wondered where the most suitable scene for the short saber soldiers is.

The camp was defeated miserably and the morale was low. In the face of the invading Tule army, the first task was to defend the city.

The city wall of Beiyang city is not high and there is almost no moat. It is almost impossible to defend Beiyang.

In the field battle on the plain, the exhausted army has been defeated for a long time. It is basically impossible to fight against the Tule cavalry who are full of staff sergeant spirit.

Su Lu calculated the bonus of the soldier card and array card to the guard city. If it was a level 3 soldier card, even if it had been defeated for a long time, it would be no problem to deal with Tule soldiers. Unfortunately, he had only four level 3 soldier cards.

We still have to defend the city.

Su Lu was thinking that the ship suddenly shook and should have landed.

"Lord Hou, we are in Beiyang."

Su GE's voice sounded outside the cabin. Su Ge, dressed in a lake green captain's robe, stepped in quickly, his cheeks full of excitement.

"Lord Hou, we can have a rest in Beiyang tonight."

Su Lu got up with his book and asked Su Ge as he walked out.

"I remember that your hometown is Shangshan. How do you feel that returning to Beiyang is like returning to your hometown."

Su Ge smiled and narrowed his eyes. His cheeks were full of pride: "I have two hometown. My grandmother's hometown is Shangshan and my grandfather's is Beiyang. When I was a child, I grew up in Beiyang. Later, I lived in Shangshan for many years. Shangshan is my hometown."

The ship had already docked, and the guards were moving cages and cabinets. A fishy smell came to their faces.

Su Lu stepped on the wet lake to the shore and ordered the guards on duty to help move things. Now it's getting dark. If it's delayed a little longer, he'll have to spend the night outside the city today.

"Brother, it's really you."

In the crowd lining up to get on the boat, a young man suddenly ran over and said excitedly.

Su Lu waved to the bodyguard who stood in the way and asked Zhao San, "san'er, why are you leaving Beiyang by boat?"

Zhao San greeted his daughter-in-law in line. His voice was full of loss and said, "elder brother, you don't know. You're not here. Tule people have hit Beiyang city."

"My business is getting worse and worse. I asked Su Ping. Su Ping didn't pay attention, but Li Kun suggested that I go. No, Zhao pangzi entrusted a relationship and helped me arrange a boat."

Su Yun said, "third brother, you'd better go back. My brother is back. Beiyang will not lose."

Zhao Sanming showed some intention. Under the care of Su Lu, his stall in zuihonglou became larger and larger, and now he has put up a shed.

If there is a little way, Zhao San doesn't want to go.

Zhao's third daughter-in-law hesitated to look at Su Lu: "brother, can you really beat back those vicious Tule people? I heard that almost all the people of Zhao pangzi's guard camp died."

"Li Kun is a good at calculation. He didn't end up with only half of the first guard camp. Su Ping was lucky to be punished for guarding the city in Beiyang. However, after the siege these days, Su Ping's men and horses have also lost a lot."

Zhao San stared at his daughter-in-law. He seemed to dislike her for talking too much. He hesitated and said, "brother, what should I do? If you let me go back, I'll go back with you."

Su Lu waved his hand, "take your things and go back to Beiyang with me."

On both sides of the wharf, people with families are crowded. Everyone has received news that there will be more and more wars in Beiyang. These are people who have left their homes and fled.

Everywhere were the cries of women and babies. A four or five-year-old child was crying with his mother's thigh in his arms.

The boatman with completely white hair tried his best to lift his little grandson, carefully put him in the boat, and then went to pick up his wife.

Dongting Lake, a sad scene.