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Chapter 178: Temporarily Retire

Li Ming couldn't help but be shocked. He shouted loudly: "Hide and jump to the boat behind!" As he shouted, he soared into the air and quickly landed on the warship that he had just been intimidated. Then, Lin Long and the personal guards also landed almost at the same time.

With a loud crack, the armored warship suddenly crashed into the warship that Li Ming had just been riding. The huge impact force cut the warship in half and in an instant it sank into the water for more than half.

Li Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, almost hit by the armored warship he designed. This was really ironic. Seeing the armored ship quickly passing through the wreckage of the warship and continuing to attack the next warship, Li Ming knew that he could no longer contact him, and there was no other way except to control the ship in front of him.

"Which unit are you from? Why have I never heard of it before? There are masters like you in our navy?" The officer on this warship was so surprised that he couldn't speak for a long time after seeing Li Ming and others' amazing light skills. Seeing that Li Ming had ignored him, he couldn't help but step forward and ask.

Li Ming turned his head, looked at the officer and smiled, and replied, "We? Don't you know me? My name is Li Ming, the master of Biquan Island." As he said, he shook his body and came to him when the officer didn't react. The sky-breaking knife in his hand then slashed across his neck. With a stream of blood gushing out, Li Ming quickly rushed towards the soldiers standing behind him.

Seeing Li Ming taking action, Lin Long and the guards should not get up, and rushed into the crowd like a tiger going down the mountain, and in a moment they cleaned up the soldiers on the deck.

At this moment, the sailors near the warship had noticed the abnormal movements on the ship and leaned over to see what happened. Several officers could see clearly that the soldiers on their ship even directly ordered the soldiers on their ship to enter the battle preparations, aiming all the bows and arrows and catapults at Li Ming's warship.

Li Ming also saw this reaction, but he had no choice. Who made his armored warship compare himself to a dead end? Otherwise, he would not have made such a bad move. Now it seems that if he really couldn't get away with it, he would have to break through. So, seeing that several soldiers on the ships had already taken bows and arrows, he hurriedly shouted: "Don't pay attention to them, use light skills to follow me, leave this area, and go to those ships that don't understand the truth."

Lin Long and other guards knew what he thought. With their light skills, they quickly stayed away from this place, and then took advantage of the opportunity that other ships did not understand the truth, so they could avoid the enemy's pursuit as much as possible, and then they could find an opportunity to go ashore. So, seeing Li Ming jumping quickly to a warship on the side that was not ready, they followed behind and jumped over.

As ordinary soldiers, they rarely see the opportunity to perform their light skills by martial arts masters. So when they saw Li Ming's team of more than 20 people jumping over a distance of five or six meters one by one, jumping from the ship to the other, and then jumping from the ship to another ship, quickly disappearing from the sight of everyone, they simply didn't believe their eyes. Even though there were a few officers who were calm and able to issue orders to shoot arrows in time, they did not react to the soldiers who carried out the orders.

Li Ming's decision was really correct and timely. After quickly jumping over twenty or thirty ships, the soldiers who saw their soldiers didn't know what Li Ming and the others did. Apart from being dissatisfied with their rash jumping over their heads and being surprised by their elusive reach, no one could care about them. Although their performance was surprising, the soldiers knew that their prince had a large number of martial arts people, one by one, and very capable, so these people should be those masters.

After successfully getting rid of Li Qing's soldiers chasing him, Li Ming began to move towards the shore. Although he still couldn't contact his own people, he would definitely be attacked by his own people if he jumped ashore. However, it was much better than being in the enemy's camp. At worst, he could scream loudly when he went ashore, so that the rangers could notice their existence, which was better than being discovered by the other party at any time here.

So now Li Ming took a straight line and jumped directly from the warships in front. However, when he jumped to a building ship that was closer to the shore, he found that the crossbow on the ship had caused some losses to the shore.

The crossbow on the ship was prepared to attack the opponent's shore targets. Every time he opened a crossbow, at least ten soldiers had to pull it with all his strength. The crossbow's crossbow was as thick as a wine glass and was powerful. Li Ming had a deep understanding of this. So when he saw that the crossbow had nailed several rangers on the shore to the ground, he suddenly rushed over from mid-air, waved the Sky-Cracking Knife to slash the crossbow in half, completely destroying their offensive weapons.

Then, he ignored the soldiers next to the crossbow, jumped up again and continued to jump forward. When he approached the shore, he used his internal strength and shouted loudly: "All the soldiers on Biquan Island have heard, I am Li Ming, now I am about to go ashore. Everyone should not treat me as an enemy while strictly controlling the enemy landing." As he spoke, he had already stepped on the last boat and jumped up to the shore.

The place where Li Ming chose to go ashore was not on the pier. He knew that the pier had now become a coverage of crossbow arrows. If he went ashore from there, it would affect the effect of the rangers' strike against the enemy. Therefore, he chose to settle on an empty grassland about one hundred meters away from the pier.

Fortunately, Li Ming's voice was heard, otherwise he would have become the target of the attack. With Li Ming and Lin Long and others landing, a group of soldiers quickly ran over from the pine forest next to him. Seeing that it was Li Ming, they were overjoyed and hurriedly welcomed Li Ming in and sent someone to notify the Saint Hand King. After asking about the command location where the Saint Hand King was, Li Ming hurriedly led everyone to the dock, and halfway through the Saint Hand King who was rushing to the hurriedly.

Li Ming, who arrived at the dock, finally saw the real situation in this area. The battle on the dock was even more tragic than he thought. Of course, this refers to the other party. I really don’t know what Li Qing thought. He actually made so many people sacrifice here. Judging from the degree of accumulation of corpses on the dock, there were probably three or four thousand people. Under the dense crossbow arrows of the rangers, no one could cross the dock half a step. The dock was not that big, and so many corpses were piled up on it, which had begun to affect the movement of soldiers who continued to get ashore. In some places, the corpses had been piled up for several layers. In this case, if Li Qing still ordered an attack, he would be a little abnormal.

As Li Ming expected, after paying the price of nearly 8,000 people and more than 300 warships, the enemy finally withdrew his troops. Looking at the warships gradually moving away from the shore, the soldiers defending on the shore couldn't help but cheer.

However, Li Qing's first attack still caused great losses to Li Ming. At least, except for the two iron-armored warships, all ships docked at the dock or swaying on the shore were sunk by Li Qing. Except for a small number of ships fleeing back to the shore, most of them died with the enemy in the water battle. It can be said that Li Qing's fleet has completely eliminated Li Ming's conventional fleet. After all, the warships on both sides are too different. More than a thousand warships are better than trampling on a few ants to death.

Seeing that the enemy would not attack again in a short period of time, Li Ming and the Saint Hand King returned to the commander-in-chief and asked him to tell the story in detail.

It turned out that when Li Ming destroyed Yuwen Xuan and was selecting officials in Mocheng, Li Qing's fleet suddenly appeared around Biquan Island. Under the leadership of two armored warships, the navy troops of Biquan Island began to face up to the enemy nervously and prepared to eliminate the enemy. However, when they discovered the real strength of the enemy, everything was too late. A battle thirty miles outside Biquan Island caused Li Ming to lose more than 60 warships of all sizes. At the same time, they also left the other side with more than 400 wreckage ships in the Mid-mountain Lake. Although there were two armored warships, they still could not protect those ordinary warships.

Although the armored warship is powerful, its fuel is limited after all, so after sank more than 300 warships on the other side, it has to return. The enemy fleet took the opportunity to clean up the remains and surround Biquan Island in the middle.

However, Li Ming's troops did a lot of training for the enemy to land on the island, so after being surrounded by the enemy, the soldiers on the island were not very scared. They strictly followed their actions and key points during training, and under the unified command of the command headquarters, the enemy blocked the dock outside the dock, and insisted on using long-range strikes, and persisted in the enemy's retreat.

After listening to the story of the Saint Hand King, Li Ming was really pleased. Most of these troops on the island were recruits. The ability to maintain such a high level under the attack of such a huge enemy fully demonstrated their usual training efficiency. It seems that after this battle, he has added a group of elite soldiers who are good at fighting.

"Where is Wang Dong? Come here, I have something important to ask him." Since the Saint King could not guess how Li Qing came to Biquan Island without knowing it, he had to ask Wang Dong. I believe that with his familiarity with Mid-Shan Lake, he should be able to guess the answer.

Wang Dong was already the captain of another armored warship. When he heard Li Ming's summons, he hurriedly rode his horse from the new wharf. When he saw Li Ming, he hurriedly bowed and fell down.

Hearing Li Ming's question, Wang Dong hesitated for a moment, then looked at the Saint Hand King and explained: "Actually, I am not sure about this matter. After all, the Mid-Shan Lake is too big. Even if all our ships observe and guard the lake all day, they may not necessarily find each other. As for the same sentence, the Mid-Shan Lake is too big. Even if the enemy's huge fleet today is just a drop in the Mid-Shan Lake. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that our patrol troops did not find them."

"But then again, such a large fleet in the Mid-Shan Lake is nothing, but when he enters the Mid-Shan Lake, it is considered to be a huge momentum. According to the base of the Second Prince, if they want to enter Mid-Shan Lake, they must go to Songjiang, so that our intelligence personnel will not be able to find them. Therefore, if we do not get any information in advance, they must have walked on another waterway."

"In fact, the establishment of the route is entirely determined by the route of the ship. Therefore, those waterways that cannot be sailed or are too difficult during the sailing process cannot be called a waterway. Without a ship passing by, this waterway will gradually become unknown. In the Mid-mountain Lake, in addition to the main waterways, there are actually many rivers connected to the mountain and lake. Therefore, this time Li Qing is probably walking on this waterway that is not a waterway, but a waterway that can lead to Li Qing's fiefdom and can use a large ship, which can only be Huchazizi."

When Wang Dong heard Wang Dong talk about this, the Saint Hand King hurriedly took out the map of the Fenshui Island and put it on the table. Wang Dong observed for a while, then pointed to a place in the southeast corner of the lake and said, "It should be here. This map is not marked. I had explored there back then. The waterway was turbulent, the river channel was winding, and there was a need to cross Taohua Mountain in the middle. So the danger of sailing can be imagined. I guess the second prince should have come from there in order to increase the concealment of his actions."

Li Ming gasped, and couldn't help but be moved by Li Qing's persistence and perseverance. Although both sides are enemies now, this did not affect Li Ming's appreciation for Li Qing.

"But I don't understand one thing. The second prince sent out this time is about 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, and the warships are about 2,000. Such a large number of warships and troops may be his entire family. Haven't you ever talked about it during class? Each of these princes may mobilize so many troops. It seems that the second prince has made all his efforts. So, why is it for him to fight so much to seize our Biquan Island?" Wang Dong seemed to be addicted to speaking, and asked a few more questions after the topic ended.

Li Ming smiled slightly, looked out the window and smiled leisurely, and said, "Actually it's very simple. Li Qing once came to the island. At that time, he tried to explore the island, but I rejected it with a strategy. However, before leaving, he still squeezed nearly 50,000 sets of various weapons from me. I believe he is very interested in our steel and weapons. In this extraordinary period, whoever masters better weapons will be able to take the initiative. Therefore, Li Qing was determined to obtain Biquan Island this time. If he had advanced weapons, I am afraid that the world would be in his pocket sooner or later."
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