The heavy rain made Dong Ping feel as sad as death.
With the support of the soldiers, he mechanically fled northward.
I don’t know how long I ran, but the defeated troops in front suddenly started making a loud noise.
Dong Ping's soldiers shouted in horror: "Sir, the way forward is blocked and there are water bandits blocking us!"
"ah?"
Dong Ping woke up from a dream, and finally came to his senses amidst the shouts of his soldiers.
"Don't panic, take my two guns, bring me the war horse, and follow me to kill him!"
"this……"
All the soldiers looked at each other in confusion. They were armed with two spears and a war horse. We only have a few knives now. Can you lead them to kill us?
Dong Ping quickly realized the current dilemma.
My intestines turned green with regret.
If I hadn't been in a daze just now, got a war horse, and found a handy weapon, I wouldn't be so passive now!
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world.
"Come on, follow me, let's jump into the lake!"
"ah?"
A group of soldiers almost turned around and ran away.
If you can't think about it, don't hold us back.
We haven't lived enough yet. Even if we are caught by bandits, we may not die!
Seeing the eyes of the soldiers, Dong Ping almost ran out of breath and vomited blood: "Look at your unlucky looks. I didn't commit suicide by jumping into the lake. I swam behind the intercepted bandits and then came ashore. Do you understand?"
"Ming...I understand!"
"But, I can't swim?"
Dong Ping didn't care about that at all. He took a few soldiers who could swim and jumped into the South Lake. He was so angry that the soldiers who couldn't swim jumped on the shore and cursed.
Suddenly, there were a few more thumps.
Dong Ping thought he was a soldier who couldn't swim and jumped down. Just when he was about to be moved, he heard someone behind him say: "Sir, we can swim, so let us protect you!"
Well, he's not one of his own soldiers. His voice is wrong?
It was dark and raining heavily, so Dong Ping couldn't see clearly who jumped down with him.
Just at this moment, a thunderbolt pierced the sky, and Dong Ping used the light of lightning to see clearly the faces of several people.
"Is it you?"
Dong Ping had a good memory and recognized it at a glance. The people who jumped into the water with him and said they wanted to protect him were actually not people from the Dongping Army or the Qilu Trading Company escort team, but a few guides from the Qingyang Camp!
Even though he was in danger, Dong Ping was still inexplicably moved.
The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the rough waves know the sincere minister.
The more crisis comes, the more you can see a person's character and know who is loyal to you!
He jumped into a lake to escape in the heavy rain, but so many soldiers did not jump down with him, but several guides from the Qingyang Camp did not hesitate to protect him. Such subordinates are really rare!
For a moment, Dong Ping even envied his idiot cousin who he never looked up to. I really don't know what kind of bad luck that guy Dong Chuan had, to find such a loyal subordinate!
"Okay, I commend you for your loyalty. As long as you can protect me, I will definitely reward you heavily after you return!"
"Thank you, sir. Please come with us. We know where it is safer!"
"Okay, lead the way!"
Dong Ping's water skills were average. Fortunately, several guides from Qingyang Camp had good water skills and surrounded him and swam into a reed marsh.
Half an hour later, Dong Ping's eyes lit up, and he actually saw the waves of light reflected on the water!
They have emerged from the reeds.
Look up at the sky.
I don't know when the heavy rain stopped.
The dark clouds dispersed and the moon returned to the sky.
To Dong Ping's joy, the noisy people shouting "horse neigh" have been left behind.
Even if you think about it with your buttocks, you can tell that they have bypassed the intercepting water bandits!
"Sir, follow us closely. Let's go ashore from the front. It's more hidden there and not easy to be discovered!"
"Okay, okay!"
Although Dong Ping was exhausted, he still said nothing.
He does not fully trust the guides in Qingyang Camp now. Who knows what the consequences will be if he shows signs of fatigue.
Dong Ping's worries were not unnecessary. After swimming so far and crossing the reed swamp, only two of his soldiers could follow him.
The rest were lost or exhausted and drowned.
Finally, Dong Ping's feet touched land.
His two personal soldiers and several guides from the Qingyang Camp were also very tired. They ignored the mud on the ground and lay by the water for a long time, panting, before they could barely get up.
"Sir, come with us, this way!"
The crowd carried Dong Ping, who had lost all strength, and walked on the muddy path for who knows how long.
"stop!"
With a loud shout, a group of bandits jumped out from the reeds nearby and blocked the way.
"Haha, the boss is really wise, he caught another group!"
Dong Ping let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground.
He really couldn't run anymore. Now his hands were empty and he was blocked by a group of vicious bandits. He didn't have the strength to resist even if he wanted to.
Dong Ping's two soldiers did the same thing. They collapsed to the ground and gave up resistance.
Several guides from Qingyang Camp did not accept their fate, especially one of them, a guy with big eyes, who leaned over.
"All you heroes, we are all suffering from the Qingyang camp. For the sake of us being locals, I would like to ask you to be noble and give us a break..."
"Um?"
All the bandits stared: "What's the matter, you come to fight us, and we want to let you go, how can there be such a reason in the world? You can ask us to let you go, just follow the rules!"
"this……"
The big-eyed guide had a troubled expression on his face: "You good guys, it's not like you don't know that we people in Qingyang Camp are all paupers. We don't even have enough to eat, and we don't have the money to honor you!"
"Hmph, you're just talking nonsense when you don't have money, kill him!"
The big-eyed guide immediately cried, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The younger one is the only son in the family. He has an eighty-year-old mother and a three-month-old baby. If he is killed by the heroic grandfather, my whole family will starve to death. Please, my dear grandpa, please let us go!"
Several other guides from Qingyang camp also knelt down, begging for mercy and kowtowing desperately.
"snort!"
The leading bandit snorted coldly:
"Go, go, go, I'm annoyed when I see you paupers from Qingyang Camp, get out of here, don't stop me from catching the Dongping Army!"
"Yes, yes, thank you all good guys, let's get out now, get out now!"
With that said, several Qingyang camp guides dragged Dong Ping away.
"Wait!"
As soon as they opened their legs, several spears were pointed at them.
"You are all from the Qingyang Camp, not the Dongping Army?"
"No, absolutely not!"
"real or fake?"
"Really, really, more real than real gold!"
"Okay then, each of you, curse, whoever is from the Dongping Army is a fucking bastard!"
Dong Ping: "..."
