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  Yang Wenguang and Pang Xi quietly moved forward a bit with those thirty or so people who were physically fit and dared to fight to the death.

  On the raft, people's shadows were faintly visible, all of them crouching on the raft. These people probably didn't think that Chen Yuan and others had already made long-range bow and arrow weapons, and they didn't even use wooden shields to protect themselves. The outer guards held steel knives, while the inner ones drew their bows and waited for the bamboo raft to reach the shore before making a strong charge.

  Yang Wenguang and others remained silent, allowing the enemy to approach from afar. Five zhang, four zhang, three zhang...

  The first raft landed on the shore, and hundreds of Ma's bandits immediately jumped onto the beachhead, but they did not rush to attack. Instead, they tightly guarded this place and waited for the bamboo rafts to pick up the second batch of people.

  Before long, the bamboo raft picked up the second batch of people in the middle of the river. At the same time, a fierce fighting sound suddenly came from upstream, and it seemed that Hu Jing had already met his opponent.

  Yang Wenguang saw the opportunity had arrived and immediately shouted loudly: "Kill!"

  In an instant, the flying rocks in the forest hit the wooden raft in the middle of the river.

  The accuracy of this simple catapult was not very high, but it could also cause damage to such a simple wooden raft. A dozen stones flew into the river, smashing two rafts to pieces, causing the bandits who were crossing the river to panic.

  The hundred or so men who had crossed the river saw that things were not going in their favor, and in order to allow their comrades behind them to catch up, they immediately launched an attack, yelling as they charged into the forest.

  Chen Yuan suddenly felt fearless at this time, and he didn't know when he wasn't afraid. He just saw that the opponent's wooden raft had capsized, and he immediately knew that he should implement his second plan.

  Suddenly, the forest was filled with shouts of killing, and torches were lit up, illuminating half of the sky. This made the horse bandits who were rushing towards here suddenly panic, not knowing what kind of trap their opponents had set up, and their momentum was immediately halted.

  Chen Yuan knew it was time, and with a single order, those simple crossbows shot out immediately.

  It turns out that the lethality of these simple crossbows is indeed limited, but even so, it still hurts a lot when shot!

  The bandits were thrown into confusion at once.

  Yang Wenguang seized the opportunity and led thirty companions, shouting in unison, to charge at the already chaotic bandit army.

  In such a melee, Pang Xi was a monster, only to see him jump high and leap into the opponent's circle.

  Those bandits raised their knives and hacked at him, but the knife hacking on Pang Xi's body felt about the same as hacking a piece of iron!

  The already panicked enemy now thought they had encountered a devil.

  The enemy standing on the raft and holding a long pole let out a heart-rending scream as he was struck by a thirty-catty stone and fell into the river, leaving behind only his brains splattered on the raft.

  The horse thieves above panicked, and just as they didn't know whether to advance or retreat, another stone flew over, smashing the wooden raft in half, and more than a dozen people rolled into the river water.

  It was those enemies who were still on the other side, surprised but not panicked. Although they couldn't see the situation clearly on this side, their strong arrows shot blindly towards this side, intending to suppress the formation.

  They didn't know that among the hundred of them in the chaotic battle, only thirty were their comrades. This directly resulted in most of the arrows they shot hitting their own brothers.

  "Ah!"

  Another burst of miserable cries arose, and with the emergence of another huge stone in the river, a more than one-zhang high splash was stirred up. The people on the raft were tumbling about and flying sideways, falling into the water.

  Those first batch of horse bandits saw the situation was unfavorable, some people turned around and ran back. As soon as they ran, Yang Wenguang immediately knew that victory was coming!

  He led the charge with a long spear, followed by his companions, while Ah Mu Da made a gesture to those behind him. Ah Mu Da immediately led more than 50 people to shout and kill as well!

  If there were still a few bandits who had the courage to fight because Yang Wenguang and his men were outnumbered, their courage disappeared as soon as Amu Da led his troops in a charge.

  In their view, there may be many more of the enemy in the forest opposite, where the cries of killing are rising.

  But the companions and horsemen were greatly invigorated at this time, and one by one couldn't help but think that the guys who had been chasing them for a day and night were nothing to be afraid of! Just in time to let out a burst of pent-up energy.

  Including Chen Yuan, they all had an impulse to rush out and kill a few rounds.

  The battlefield was like this, when the soldiers were defeated and fleeing in disarray, even Sun Wu's rebirth couldn't save them. When the bandits on this side of the river realized they had no way to escape, they jumped into the water one after another and swam towards the opposite bank. The two remaining wooden rafts of the bandits, seeing that things were not going well, hastily pulled aside, but unexpectedly the two rafts did not coordinate well, one drifted to the left and the other to the right, the upstream raft couldn't hold its momentum; it violently collided with another raft beside it, and instantly more people fell into the water, while the people on the raft were tumbling about.

  Those bandits who had jumped into the river grabbed hold of the raft, hoping to save some energy, but it was chaotic both on top and below.

  The companions and grooms who chased to the river bank used simple bows and arrows, or directly picked up stones from the ground and smashed them into the water.

  Arrows fell like rain, and with the bandits already exhausted, their morale was low. Many people were actually beaten to death in the river water.

  The river was only three or four zhang wide, and the two rafts blocked the way of those who were swimming. The cries of panic rose, and one of the horsemen in the water shouted: "Capsize the rafts!"

  This sentence immediately got a lot of response, after all many people were in the water. The raft flipped over and the people on it fell down, only then did the bandits clear the way and swim to the other shore.

  In the river water, only two empty rafts were left, and a dozen or so corpses of Ma's bandits floated downstream.

  Yang Wenguang didn't dare to cross the river to fight, and instead led his men to attack Hu Jing's position again. The horse thieves there had been disturbed by the noise from downstream and were somewhat at a loss, their offensive not as strong as it was initially. Hu Jing led over 50 people in tightly defending a relatively narrow area, and they didn't suffer any losses. After Yang Wenguang arrived with his men and stable hands who were full of momentum, they quickly drove the horse thieves into the river without much effort.

  Chen Yuanqing tallied up the results of the battle, his side had 31 wounded and 7 dead. As for the bandits, not counting those who were crushed to death in the water, there were already 83 corpses on the shore. It's likely that the number of deaths was over a hundred.

  Even if we don't count the number of bandits injured, this battle was still a great victory.

  Chen Yuan suddenly thought of a problem that he had never thought of before. Since coming to the Song Dynasty, no matter what happened, things didn't go as smoothly as he had hoped, and troubles kept coming one after another. In comparison, life in the 21st century was much more comfortable.

  But why did the memories of the 21st century gradually fade away in his mind, while Chen Shimei's memories became clearer and clearer, and he could even feel Chen Shimei's nostalgia for his hometown and family.

  Why is it like this? Chen Yuan had thought about them before, but that was just out of a sense of responsibility or fear of facing Bao Zheng's guillotine. But now he feels a deep-seated attachment, why is that?

  Having defeated the bandits, their lives were finally secured. Chen Yuan couldn't help but say, "This time when we go back, we must bring them over."

  As soon as the words came out, Chen Yuan was stunned. Was this said by Chen Shimei or himself? There was also a more frightening idea that made him feel afraid - who was he now, Chen Yuan or Chen Shimei?

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