After the boats behind them caught fire, they fled forward desperately. The flames on the boats quickly ignited other boats around them.
Amidst the shouts of panic, the fleet stretching for several miles immediately fell into chaos.
Many of the bowmen who were controlling the boats waved their flags of surrender, finally gaining a glimmer of hope.
The Jiehu refugees, who had been frightened to death for a long time, had no idea about this. They all grabbed the side of the boat and moved closer to the shore under the guidance of the Jingzhou navy.
However, there were still many Jiehu people on the boats who took the boatmen hostage and tried to let them break through the blockade of the Jingzhou Navy in the hope of escaping.
Wang Dun, who was sitting on the big ship, had already seen all this.
Wang Dun frowned and waved to a tooth general who was delivering the order.
"Send the order, no such stubborn thieves are allowed to stay!"
After hearing this, Yajiang immediately took the order and left.
Subsequently, the warships of the Jingzhou navy began to charge at those boats that refused to surrender.
In the face of the huge collision angle and racket pole, these boats that had been resisting just now were shattered into pieces of wood, and floated down the river together with the people who fell into the water.
Jiehu men and women with almost completely different water characteristics struggled and shouted in the river, trying to attract rescue from the Jingzhou navy.
However, their miserable and desperate appearance only earned them ruthless ridicule from the Jingzhou navy.
"Hahaha, the sky is clear and the air is clear, it's really wonderful to watch Hulu fall into the water!"
Jingzhou Shepherd King Dun clapped his hands and laughed.
All the subordinates and generals nearby also started laughing.
At this time, a subordinate hurriedly came from below and leaned over to report to Wang Dun.
"What, ran away?"
After Wang Dun heard this, his expression immediately turned from sunny to gloomy.
Because the general told him that there was no trace of the Jiehu thief chief Shi Hu and others on the captured boat ahead, and there was no trace of Liu Wei and others who were also with him.
"Ming Gong, I feel that the thieves must have taken the opportunity to get ashore and escape when they first docked!" said a general.
"The general is willing to chase with a thousand soldiers on foot, and he will definitely bring back the head of the thief!" the general then said.
Wang Dun immediately nodded in agreement and followed up.
"I'll give you another three thousand cavalry, and we must catch the thief Hu Shihu, life or death, no matter what!" Wang Dun said loudly.
Just as the general was about to take the order and leave, Wang Dun stopped him again.
"Also, Liu Wei will try his best to bring me the dead ones, not the alive ones!" Wang Dun said fiercely.
"Don't worry, Ming Gong, I will remember it!"
The general quickly disembarked from the boat. When he arrived at the shore, he ordered three thousand soldiers and horses, and pursued him along the position where Shi Hu and others had just been.
At this time, Shi Hu, Liu Wei and others had already arrived at the upstream position.
On the wide river surface, the Jingzhou navy coming down from the upper reaches smashed all the Jiehu boats that refused to surrender. The men, women, and children who fell into the water soon turned into floating corpses.
Shi Hu's heart was already bleeding, these were the foundation for him to settle down and live his life.
Without these tribesmen, Shi Hu would be nothing more than a lowly Jiehu. He would not be rich and prosperous, and even his survival would be a problem.
"Liu Wei, you have made me miserable!" Shi Hu couldn't help but roared angrily when he thought of this, and drew his knife in his hand to kill Liu Wei who had tricked him.
However, when Shi Hu turned around, Liu Wei was nowhere to be seen.
It turned out that when everyone in Shihu was lost in thought looking at the tragic scene on the river, Liu Wei had already sensed the danger and took advantage of the gap to sneak away quietly.
Liu Wei knew that he was not only in danger from the angry Jiehu Shihu, but also that Jingzhou Mu Wang Dun would definitely not let him off easily now that he had betrayed himself and done such a thing.
He'd better find a way to escape quickly.
Only by escaping back to Jiangdong with his life saved can he help Crown Prince Sima Shao find other ways to rise to prominence.
"Where are the people!" Shi Hu looked at the thick grass around him and couldn't help shouting angrily.
Among the dozen or so soldiers and generals who followed him, no one knew where Liu Wei was.
When Shi Hu was about to lead his men to search separately, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the south.
He was shocked.
You must know that almost all the Jiehu people's horses are on the boats behind them, and there is no way they can come to the shore.
The sound of horse hooves coming now is almost 100% from the cavalry of the Jin Army in Jingzhou.
"General, they are the cavalry of the Jin Dynasty, and there are many infantry!" A general with good eyesight shouted in a panic.
"Come with me!" Shihu shouted, and then he burrowed into the grass and woods nearby.
When Shi Hu and others fled into the woods, the Jingzhou infantry who came to pursue them had also discovered their presence.
"Where is the thief!"
"Hurry up and chase!"
"Don't let the thief escape!"
"The general has an order. Anyone who catches a thief will be rewarded with one hundred thousand gold, regardless of life or death!"
Stimulated by strict orders and generous rewards, these three thousand Jingzhou soldiers and horses immediately chased the thieves in the direction of their escape like a big net.
Although Jingzhou lacks horses, as Wang Dun's elite troops, there are still hundreds of excellent horses.
Under the leadership of these cavalry, the Jingzhou soldiers quickly pursued them in an encircling manner.
Shi Hu and others were driven from left to right by the Jingzhou cavalry, and there was no possibility of escaping.
Facing the Jingzhou soldiers who surrounded them like wolves, Shi Hu and others had completely fallen into despair.
Shi Hu saw greed and cruelty in the eyes of those Jingzhou soldiers, just like the expressions he often showed before.
However, Shi Hu's own hunters at the time faced the common people and soldiers of the Jin people as prey.
At this time, Shihu himself was the prey.
It feels really bad to be watched closely by a hunter!
In fact, Shi Hu regretted it a little, maybe he should have followed Wang Zhang's advice.
If they enter Guanzhong together, even if they face the Qingzhou Han Kingdom in the future, they will have a slight chance of survival.
How can it be as embarrassing as today?
I know nothing about this water battle, so I fell into such a simple trap.
"Kill the thief Hu and get a reward of one hundred thousand gold!"
With another shout, the courage of the Jingzhou soldiers burst out again.
Facing these Jingzhou soldiers who were about to rush up to end his life, Shi Hu couldn't help shouting tremblingly.
"I am the governor of Huainan in the Jin Dynasty. This place has a seal and ribbon given by the emperor. You can't mess around!"
As Shi Hu spoke, he took out a seal ribbon from his arms and raised it high above his head.
In the end, he tried to use the name of the Emperor of Jin Dynasty to deter these Jingzhou soldiers.
"Hahaha, the emperor's order must be fake!"
The leading Jingzhou general laughed indifferently.
"Without the permission of the general, everything is a mess!"
"Come on, come on!"
After the general said this, he waved his hand, and the dense Jingzhou soldiers immediately swarmed forward.
When Shi Hu saw this, he couldn't help but became fierce and threw the Huainan Prefect's seal in his hand to the ground.
"Old Sima, you are a waste!"
Suddenly, the entire dense forest was filled with the shouts of swordsmen and soldiers.
. . . . . .
Jingzhou, outside Jingling City.
Outside Jingzhou Mu Wangdun's tent, the general in charge of the pursuit was holding a tray with the head of a Hulu with thick beard and blue eyes.
It was Shi Hu's head.
"Fortunately, the last general has lived up to his command. The thief Hu Shihu has been beheaded. Please check it out!" the general said loudly.
Wang Dun walked forward with great interest and looked at it carefully.
Finally, he said with a somewhat puzzled expression.
"What's strange, what's strange!" Wang Dun said as he looked at it more carefully.
"Ming Gong, why are you so weird?" Qian Feng, a confidant who joined the army next to him, came up and asked.
Wang Dun frowned and said, "From what I see, this thief must be a very evil person who is destined to cause disaster for a long time. Why did he die here today?"
Wang Dun's Langya County can be said to be a new place for Taoism in the world. In addition to all kinds of mystical discussions about Taoism, various prophecies and fortune-telling are also popular.
He himself firmly believed in this idea. Now that he saw Shi Hu's head, he couldn't help but secretly examine it.
When Wang Dun said this, he shouted sharply at the subordinates below.
"This thief is very strange. Could it be that you pretended to be a thief chieftain under the guise of a thief?"
Faced with Wang Dun's suspicion, the general was shocked and quickly kowtowed to explain.
"I hope Ming Gong will investigate carefully. The general will never dare to deceive. He has already identified the prisoner Jie Hu. This person is none other than the thief chieftain Shi Hu!"
Later, the general explained how he surrounded and killed Shi Hu.
Wang Dun was finally convinced that the head of Shi Hu in front of him was the real person.
"Ming Gong, based on my guess, there must be another reason!" Qian Feng, who joined the army, blinked and thought for a moment before saying.
"Why?" Wang Dun asked immediately.
Both of them like the theory of celestial phenomena and prophecies, and they both believe deeply in these mysteries.
"Looking at the face of this thief, it is indeed the fate of the evil leader. However, the reason why he died here today should actually be God's will!" Qian Feng, who joined the army, said.
"How do you say God's will?" Wang Dun was very curious.
"It's because of Ming Gong!" Qian Feng, who joined the army, suddenly lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by others around him.
"Because of me?" Wang Dun immediately became even more confused.
Afterwards, Qian Feng, who joined the army, started talking non-stop.
"Although this thief is destined to be lucky, he will meet Mr. Ming!"
"Ming Gong wants to take his life. Even if he has his own destiny, he has to give his head to this!"
"All this shows that Ming Gong's destiny can be changed against the will of heaven!"
"As long as Ming Gong wishes it, such an ordinary fate cannot be stopped at all!"
After hearing Qian Feng's words, Wang Dun was immediately overjoyed, but he still didn't dare to believe it easily.
He also lowered his voice and said to Qian Feng who joined the army.
"But, I think the fate of Shi Hu, a thief, should be to be king from the south!"
"Could it be that I can replace such a kingly spirit?"
After Qian Feng, who joined the army, heard this, he nodded seriously.
"If it's God's will, what does the king of the south mean?"
"A real man should take his place!"
After hearing Qian Feng's words, Wang Dun did not comment again, but fell into a brief contemplation.
In the end, Wang Dun finally suppressed the restlessness in his heart.
"Someone, send this thief's head, together with Wang Zhang's head, to Jiankang!"
After hearing Wang Dun's words, a general immediately stepped forward and took away the bloody stone tiger's head.
After hearing this, Qian Feng, who was joining the army next to him, had a somewhat unwilling expression on his face.
However, there were many people at this time, and he was unwilling to persuade Wang Dun anymore.
However, Qian Feng thought deep in her heart that Ming Gong was ambitious but short of breath, and he really lacked some of the spirit of a true hero!
At this time, a general from Wang Dun was standing by asking for instructions.
"Ming Gong, what should we do with those captured refugees and Jiehu!"
"How many people are there in each?" Wang Dun asked.
"There are about 10,000 refugees in Zhongzhou, and there are about 20,000 Jiehu men and women!" said the general.
After hearing so many people, Wang Dun couldn't help but frowned.
Logically speaking, the more people under his rule, the better. However, Wang Dun has suffered from internal refugee unrest in the past two years.
Now there are tens of thousands of refugees from the north. Their bravery and ferocity are probably even more powerful than the refugees in Yizhou and Guanzhong. If there is turmoil, I don't know how to deal with it.
What's more, those Jiehu people who were more numerous were not amenable to education and were all beasts. Wang Dun had no patience to educate them.
"The refugees from the counties in the Central Plains must first identify the evil and the good. Those who do evil will be killed. The remaining ones will be rewarded by the troops!" Wang Dun said immediately.
"As for the Jiehu people, they are untamable beasts and cannot be tolerated. Keep the women who can wash clothes and rinse them, and kill the rest to pay homage to those who died in Yongjia that year!"
Wang Dun said loudly.
The general who asked for the order immediately followed the order and left. Later, on the bank of Mianshui River outside Jingling City, tens of thousands of Jiehu's remaining troops who had been captured were all beheaded. In addition to leaving their heads and setting up altars to commemorate them, All the remaining corpses were thrown into the water.
Yangzhou, Jingkou.
Liu Wei, who joined the army in tattered clothes, finally returned to Jingkou and met the crown prince Sima Shao.
"Your Highness, Wang Dun has engaged in reckless warfare and disrespected the emperor. He is already a true disobedient. If this thief is not eliminated, the country will not be at peace!"
Liu Wei said almost crying.
After he escaped outside Jingling City, he hid in the woods for more than a day and finally escaped by boat in disguise.
When passing Jiankang, Liu Wei saw the carriages and horses of the Wang family of Langya passing by on the bank. He was immediately frightened and did not dare to enter Jiankang City, and rushed directly to Jingkou.
After hearing the bloody and tearful accusations of Liu Wei who joined the army, the young crown prince Sima Shao had a serious look on his face.
He spoke slowly.
"I heard that Wang Dun killed tens of thousands of Jiehu people in Mianshui River. The river was covered with blood, and the headless corpses floated for dozens of miles, so that people in Jiangzhou saw the floating corpses."
"Such a vicious person must be a traitor!" Liu Wei immediately raised his head and said.
"The great traitor of the country will be attacked by everyone in anger!"
After hearing Liu Wei's words, Crown Prince Sima Shao shook his head.
"Sir, you are wrong!" Sima Shao said.
"Wrong? Where did I go wrong?" Liu Wei was puzzled.
"Wang Dun killed Jie Hu in Mianshui. Not only was there no criticism, but the whole Jiangdong was praised and praised. Some even compared Wang Dun to Duke Huan of Qi!" Sima Shao said.
"Qi Huangong? How can he be worthy?" Liu Wei was so angry that he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.
"Without him, respect the king and fight against the barbarians!" Sima Shao said with a sigh.
Thanks to the conductor ghost brother standing on the coffin for the reward, thank you for your support! By the way, your name is so sharp. . .
Recommend a book called Seedlings. I want to make the emperor’s five-pot meal, brothers and sisters respect each other, and follow the Jingnan School of Heaven! Good books require everyone to loosen the soil, weed, and dig out walls.
