"Hey, why are you fighting and killing like Zhou Datou?" Chen Yuanhai waved his hand: "I have a better way."
"I know, don't you just want to get Song Gongming's girl? This village will naturally fall into our hands as soon as he kicks it off?" Chen Tong bared his teeth: "But I heard that the girl is a bit strong, and I'm afraid you will tame her. No."
"Hey, when it comes to bed, everything has the same result!" Chen Yuanhai didn't care.
He was about to say something else, but suddenly he heard someone shouting: "Look, look, it's not good, get out of the way!"
"What happened?" The two of them followed the sound and looked to the left, only to see a group of people suddenly appear on the river bank, surrounded by five wooden shelves.
"Catapult!" Chen Tong called out first, and then saw a dark mass being thrown over.
It hit the side of the boat with a bang. Two people nearby fell to the ground, and the other one clutched his stomach and screamed. The wooden crenels were smashed until only a base was left. Then there were shouts from other boats.
"Get out, keep to the right and rush out of this section!" Chen Yuanhai directed each boat to dodge to the right. Unexpectedly, the second boat turned to the right first, but was hit head-on and unable to move.
Chen Tong's expression changed immediately and he shouted: "Father, there may be a shoal on the right and we can't get to it!" Before he finished speaking, another boat had to turn because it was hit by three stone bullets, and it also ran aground. "This is a trick, they are forcing us to dodge to the right!" Chen Tong reminded.
Chen Yuanhai also understood. He looked up and saw that the river in front had opened up, and Santang Fort was already vividly experienced. He gritted his teeth and ordered the boats to speed up and rush through. At the same time, he asked the stranded crew to occupy Nanhu Island first, and then find small boats to cross the river to Santang Town. .
He thought that since there were people living on the sandbank, there must be boats that could cross the river.
With two sand ships lost and eleven ships damaged, Chen Yuanhai rushed to Santang Fort.
More than 300 people transferred to sand ships or boats to go ashore and occupy the pier. The gate of the castle was closed, and only sporadic bows and arrows were used to attack the intruders.
At this time, someone came to report that Zhou Datou was not angry and took his boats ashore to drive away the catapults.
Chen Yuanhai frowned at this guy who took matters into his own hands, and before he was about to say something, he suddenly heard someone shout, "What is that?"
Chen Yuanhai and his son looked forward, and saw two things that looked like boats without sails coming out of the bend of the river, one behind the other, very fast, and rushed towards them.
"Cars and boats!" Chen Yuanhai shouted, but before Chen Tong could understand, he saw several wooden poles on the thing suddenly lifted up. "Trebuchet!" someone shouted.
Before he could finish his words, several stone bullets were thrown down, and there were screams and screams on the ship. However, probably due to the long distance, half of the stone bullets still fell into the water.
"Spread out, spread out quickly!" Chen Yuanhai waved his arms. At this time, without him needing to say anything, everyone understood what had caused the group to disperse, and there were people hurriedly cutting the cables and looking for poles.
However, the trebuchet moved again. This time it seemed that they found that the opponent's ship was larger, so they used oil fire pots instead.
Lighting the straw wrapped in the clay pot, with a "fire" command, the two operators shook the crank forward half a turn. The curved arm was freed from the blockage of the tenon, and the arm suddenly jumped under the action of the heavy object cabin. Raised, the trebuchet throws the clay pot into the air with a "hoo" sound.
I don't know why, but this time it was much more accurate.
Although Chen Yuanhai's boat was too big to dock and stayed in the river, so it was able to leave its original position in time, but there were more than 30 other boats that were piled up and crowded together and had no time to disperse. target.
The oil tank smashed onto the ship, causing multiple fires.
At this time, there was a shout from the Santang Fort and stone bombs were thrown. It turned out that there were also several catapults in the Fort, which smashed the boats parked on the small pier into pieces.
Two of the sandboats took on water almost immediately and soon began to sink.
The horn sounded, and a large fleet appeared upstream. Under the banner of "Raozhou Regiment Lian Shuidu Zhou", they surrounded Chen Yuanhai in boats. "You've fallen into a trap, retreat quickly!" Chen Yuanhai was furious.
At this time, a small boss rushed onto the slipway: "Master, it's not good."
Suddenly, Zhou Datou was ambushed ashore. Ambushes were everywhere. Head Zhou's family broke through and returned to the ship, only to find that their way forward was blocked! "
"What does it mean that the way in is blocked?" Chen Tong asked hurriedly.
"The official ship of Botang Village is sitting sideways and sinking in the river. We can't go back!"
"I know it, I know it! It's not good for the Song family to be left behind. He, he did it on purpose!" Chen Yuanhai turned pale with anger: "He just wants to see my joke. Go back and suppress it. It must be suppressed!" "
"Dad, now is not the time to get angry, let's go out via the East Waterway quickly!"
"Yes, yes, there is also Dongshui Road, ha! If they can't kill me, they are waiting for me to go back and kill his whole family named Song!" Chen Yuanhai shouted hoarsely, and his eyes were bloodshot.
He could see clearly from a high place and saw that his fleet was being attacked and was in pieces, and he felt anxious and resentful.
"The sailors from the regiment are surrounding us!" There were screams from all around. The Chen family father and son didn't care about others and hurriedly turned the boat around. In the panic, they even knocked over two of their own boats, but they couldn't care less.
The navy led by Zhou Qin behind him had already begun to join forces, and the sounds of clashing weapons and shouts of killing could be heard all the time.
Chen Yuanhai rushed into the East Water Channel in a panic and unexpectedly found that there were not many traces of battle here. "Hey, that's not right." Chen Tong also noticed something strange: "Where have the white geese and the others gone? Why is it so quiet on the river and no one is seen on the bank?"
"Cars and boats, cars and boats again!" the lookout shouted until his voice almost broke.
The two two-masted boats without sails in front were waiting quietly on the waterway, like two crocodiles waiting for prey, which made everyone shudder.
Chen Yuanhai turned around to see if he could go back. Only then did he realize that dozens of his own ships were following behind him, and the waterway was crowded in the blink of an eye.
"That's not right!" After Chen Yuanhai finished speaking, he turned and looked towards the shore of Santang Town. He happened to see groups of militiamen pushing out catapults. His eyes immediately widened: "You damn girl, how many of these things have they made?"
After he cursed, a black spot quickly enlarged in his eyes from far to near.
"careful!"
"boom!"
After the loud noise, several cronies hurriedly ran up to check the situation and saw Chen Tong lying on the ground. There was a sharp piece of wood in the gap between his left shoulder armor and blood flowing all over the floor. Someone immediately came over to help him, pull out the pieces of wood and bandage his wounds.
Amidst the chaos, a small leader discovered Chen Yuanhai's body. Half of his body was flattened. After the stone bullet knocked him down, a hole was made in the cabin roof. Chen Yuanhai was lying next to the hole, and blood dripped from his body into the cabin.
"The boss is dead!" This news immediately caused great panic among everyone. Under the subsequent catapult attack, the morale of the people on the boat finally couldn't support it anymore, and everyone jumped into the water or jumped on the boat to escape.
Seeing that the captain's boat was attacked by catapults, the crew members fled one after another, and the boats behind them also roughly guessed what happened.
However, Zhou Qin pursued him without letting up, forcing everyone to take risks and rush forward. With the idea of trying to get through, they fled downstream despite the attack of the trebuchet. The entire fleet has lost its command and is in chaos.
Let’s talk about Nanhuzhou later.
The terrain of Nanhuzhou is high in the north and low in the south. There are two teams ambushed here, namely Yang Yi and Liu Qi. At the beginning, both of them were hidden in fields that were already ripe and had not yet had time to be harvested.
Later, two boats ran aground on the West Waterway. The people on the boats got off and went to various farmers' houses to see if they could find boats to cross the river. Once they dispersed, their opportunity came.
Liu Qi finally couldn't help it and rushed out first. The lake bandits were startled when they saw it, and then they attacked back with all their teeth and claws. Although there were many people, Liu Qi was a little panicked because he had only been trained for a short time.
No matter how loud he yelled, the brothers just surrounded each other and no one dared to step forward. Wherever the lake bandits rushed, they immediately stepped back. Three hundred people surrounded dozens of lake bandits, but they didn't let the other party shed a drop of blood.
Liu Qi was so anxious that he even shouted out that if he killed one person, he would be rewarded twice, and if he captured a prisoner, he would be rewarded the same price, but the effect was very little.
Fortunately, after a few days of training
These people knew that it would be more advantageous to form a formation and deal with one by one. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable. Liu Qi was now sweating on his forehead.
Suddenly there was a burst of cheers in the team. It turned out that Yang Yi arrived with some people and formed a crescent-shaped formation behind the enemy.
The lake bandits panicked again, because the men led by Yang Yi were obviously better equipped, with mid-length waistcoat-style cotton armor and rattan helmets, and the weapons were not bamboo guns but real weapons.
But when they saw that the other party was just forming a formation and not launching an attack, they laughed.
"Brothers, don't panic, let's take care of them one by one!" A small leader shouted and ordered everyone to divide into two groups. .
One group was mostly armed with swords and shields, and was defending against Liu Qi and the others. The other group had spears and spears in front, and short soldiers behind them. They were divided into three groups in the shape of a pin, and forced towards Yang Yi.
Yang Yi didn't move, just holding his sword from behind and looking at the situation on the battlefield coldly. He knew that a battle was taking place behind him. The main force was clearing out other enemies who came ashore and trying to capture the two ships.
The spears of both sides began to test each other. Yang Yi saw that the enemy hedgehogs were gathering more densely, and then he said two words: "Fire arrows!"
More than twenty crossbows and almost the same number of bows appeared next to him. This was the secret weapon of his camp, just waiting to be used at this time.
Arrows shot out of the air, and the people in front of the lake bandits were immediately shot. The others shrank back in fear, and then heard a sharp bamboo flute.
Yang Yibu roared and rushed forward, stabbing all the enemies in the front row to the ground in a blink of an eye. The sword and shield man behind raised his sword and slashed at the moaning enemies on the ground. The two wings quickly gathered around and blocked the enemy troops who wanted to flee.
At this time Liu Qi shouted: "The enemy is defeated!" Everyone also roared. Seeing Yang Yibu knocking down the opponents one by one, he immediately gained courage. Whoever took the lead rushed over and entangled with the blocking enemy sword and shield wielders, and the situation on the battlefield was instantly reversed.
The east and west waterways were defeated, and Nanhuzhou was not occupied. In addition, Chen Yuanhai died and Chen Tong was seriously injured. The lake bandits were leaderless and fell into fighting on their own.
People's hearts were originally divided, but now it was even more difficult to deal with it, and it looked like defeat was certain. Bai Yan, who had fled far away, turned around and saw black smoke and shouts of death in the north, but she didn't speak for a long time.
Taoist priest Wei muttered beside him: "I don't know what the situation is. Who wins and who loses?"
Both of them understood that if Chen Yuanhai and his son won, then he knew that today's situation would lead to crazy revenge on Jinxi Lake. But... can the team training side definitely be able to beat the Chen family?
"Taoist Master, don't worry, look." Bai Yan pointed to the river, and saw the river water carrying the body down from above. A leader immediately asked someone to use a scratching hook to pick them up and take a look, and found that most of them were people from Shinao Village.
After hearing the loud responses from her subordinates, Bai Yan gradually felt relieved. He looked at the people around him and said loudly: "Fortunately, I have seen through the enemy's plan, otherwise you might be like these dead people, already floating in the water!"
Everyone fell to their knees one after another, saying that the leader was wise. Bai Yan smiled, stroking her beard and winking at Daoist Master Wei, and said softly: "I owe Ren Er a big favor this time, but I wonder if they have withdrawn? Is it safe?"
But soon they no longer worried. The brothers in Botang Village obviously escaped earlier and were less mentally burdened. Bai Yan's fleet almost caught up with them when they arrived at Guashan, and they felt comfortable during both meetings.
They temporarily camped here and sent their confidants each with a hundred people to both sides of the river to investigate the whereabouts of Chen Yuanhai and his son. At the same time, they sent envoys to the end of the lake as agreed.
From the beginning to the end, Yang Dayi was watching with a telescope on Chigang at the end of the lake. He even watched Bai Yan and others retreat to Guashan under his nose, and he had known that they would send someone to contact them.
But he did not receive the envoy immediately. Instead, he waited for reports from various places to come in. When he saw that victory was certain, he called for the envoy.
His big tent was set up on the flat land between two woods, with several guards standing around. The messenger is Bai Yan's housekeeper named Bai Pu. He is in his fifties and his beard and hair are all gray.
Seeing that the other party was an officer dressed as a member of the army, the old housekeeper was stunned and quickly bowed down: "Old man of the Bai family, Bai Pu, has met your lord."
"Butler Bai, no courtesy, please sit down!" Yang Dayi was about to
He summarized the situation on his own form. When he finished writing it, he put down his pen and asked with a smile: "Why, the housekeeper is so old and still wants to go out with the army?"
"I can't help it. The Bai family's ancestors and father have great trust, and I dare not neglect it at all. Besides, I'm used to it. I go wherever he goes, and I'll get upset if I don't see him for a while." Bai Pu smiled bitterly. .
"He is a loyal one. In this case, there is no reason for you to stand and talk. Old man, please sit down." Yang Dayi watched him sit down, and then asked: "But the boss sent you here? He seems to be quite pretty. Are you concerned about Chen Yuanhai and his son?"
"It's not about caring, it's just that...it would be good for both of us if we knew whether he was alive or dead as soon as possible, right?" Bai Pu replied with a wry smile.
