Of course, although this situation looks extremely scary, if you are a sharp-eyed person, you can still see the figures of people vaguely exposed below these floating corpses with the help of the firelight emitted by the ignited boats around them.
It was obvious that someone was hiding under these corpses, using these corpses as a barrier to approach several official ships.
After all, Li Huan had previously stood on the big ship, killing them with one arrow after another. In addition, some Jinyi guards were also holding powerful crossbows and shooting. I don't know how many people were shot to death in the water before they even got close to several official ships.
Chen Ke, who was holding the Xiuchun knife in his hand and with a lot of blood on his body, was a little breathless at this time. He also saw the situation around him. When he saw the black corpses all around, he couldn't help but frowned and said: "Sir
, these people really don’t want to give up.”
Li Huan sneered and said: "That's natural. If I arrive in Yangzhou Mansion, and the major things these people have committed are found out, it will be a capital crime of confiscating the family and exterminating the clan. If these people don't fight desperately, they will be killed."
Sir, can they feel at ease?"
Hearing this, Cao Yu couldn't help but said in a sharp voice: "Assaulting and killing the imperial envoy is also a capital crime of robbing a family and exterminating a clan."
Li Huan said calmly: "The people who attacked and killed me were just a group of water thieves. If I am really killed by these people, what can the court do?"
While he was talking, there were more than a dozen small boats approaching vaguely, but there were not that many figures standing on these boats, but these people were holding bows one by one, and some were even holding crossbows.
Whether it is a hard bow or a crossbow, something forbidden by the imperial court, under normal circumstances, some forces in the world would not be able to come up with such things.
However, considering the background and origins of these people, it is only natural that they can bring out these taboo items.
Jing Kui and Ma Qi, who had already boarded a small boat, looked very ugly.
In order to deal with Li Huan, they could be said to have made every preparation. They originally thought that it would not take much effort to kill Li Huan and his party on the canal.
Who knew that Li Huan and his party were obviously prepared? If so, that would be fine. Who could have made them better prepared? The methods of dealing with them were one after another. But even so, the current situation still made Jing Kui
, Ma Qi and the others were extremely frightened and angry.
Seeing the men gathered around him, Jing Kui said angrily: "Shoot them and burn them to death."
Since they had prepared kerosene, it was impossible for Jing Kui and the others not to have prepared rockets. Therefore, the archers on these boats were on the one hand to cooperate with the kerosene ships, and on the other hand, they were to suppress the troops of Jin Yiwei from a distance.
However, Jing Kui had not planned to use fire attack before, so neither the boat loaded with kerosene nor these archers took action immediately.
Following Jing Kui's order, archers on the surrounding boats lit up rockets and fired towards the official ships from a distance.
These official ships were all built under the auspices of the imperial court and were extremely strong. Especially the official ships selected by Li Huan and his royal guards were obviously made by skilled craftsmen and were not afraid of rockets at ordinary times.
It is a joke to rely on rockets to ignite a large ship. It is really as if those skilled craftsmen who built the ship have no awareness of fire prevention.
Even though large armies have been fighting on the water for thousands of years, and many warships have been burned, few ships have been burned by rockets. More often, there are flammable materials on board, which leads to large ships being set on fire by rockets.
Not to mention other things, the fireproof performance of these official ships is extremely good. Even if the archers fire rockets, they will not be able to damage the official ships.
But now these official ships have been doused with kerosene by those desperate desperadoes who are not afraid of death, so when the rockets are fired onto the ships, they quickly ignite the ships.
Even so, the fire on the ship was still under control. After all, after the kerosene was poured on the deck, the Jinyiwei poured bags of sand and soil prepared in advance on the deck to cover the kerosene.
Under this situation, although there were fires on several ships, the fires were not very big, and under the suppression of many Jinyi guards, the fires could not spread at all, and some of them were even extinguished just after they started.
The faces of Jing Kui, Ma Qi and others were full of expectation. As long as a fire burns these official ships to ashes, then nine out of ten of the imperial guards on board will be killed in the fire, even if they are
Some people dive into the water, but once they enter the water, aren't they allowed to be slaughtered by them?
However, the smiles on Jing Kui, Ma Qi's and others' faces suddenly froze before they could spread.
"How is this possible!"
Ma Qi opened her mouth wide and looked at the extinguished fire with a look of disbelief on her face.
On the contrary, Jing Kui seemed to have become much stronger after being hit again and again. Now he didn't seem so exaggerated. Instead, he said with a bit of solemnity in his expression: "It seems that I have underestimated you."
This imperial envoy, I didn’t expect him to be so fully prepared.”
Ma Qi looked at Li Huan who was standing on the bow of the ship and wielding a knife to fly away one of his men who tried to climb onto the ship. He said with a bit of panic in his eyes: "Sir, what should we do? Brothers, there is no way
If you can't board the ship, no matter how brave you are, it's useless."
Looking at the corpses floating on the water, Ma Qi felt a little panicked this time even though he was a murderer and was used to seeing dead people.
Ma Qi is not stupid, he can still see the situation in front of him. If this continues, I am afraid that all of them will die, and at most it will cause some trouble to Li Huan and his party.
Li Huan and his party cannot be killed.
Jing Kui was very calm at this time. He frowned and looked ahead and said, "Didn't someone send someone to dig the ship? Why hasn't there been any movement yet?"
Ma Qi was stunned for a moment, then reacted, with the same puzzled look on his face.
Yes, the first ones they sent out were a group of water ghosts with excellent water skills, and their intention was to drill through several official ships underwater.
Although many people were found dead, Ma Qi didn't believe that all of his men were dead.
Normally, after such a while, with the ability of those men, they should be able to penetrate these ships, but why is there still no movement at all?
Ma Qi hesitated for a moment, and then a whistle came out from his mouth. The whistle was quite eye-catching above the water. Soon he saw a figure swimming over quickly in the water. It was a man dressed in black.
work.
Panting, the plowman stopped in front of the boat and lay down on the bow. Water drops fell from his face and he looked at Jing Kui and Ma Qi.
Ma Qi glanced at the man and seemed to recognize his identity. He frowned and said, "Feng Xiaoliu, didn't I ask you to lead people to scuttle these ships one by one? Why hasn't there been any movement yet?"
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Hearing this, Feng Xiaoliu couldn't help showing a look of grievance on his face, and immediately said to Ma Qi: "Brother Qi, it's not that the brothers are careless, it's just that these ships are too damn strong. In a short while, the brothers simply couldn't
It can’t be penetrated.”
Ma Qi couldn't help but was stunned for a moment, and said subconsciously: "What the hell, you can't scuttle any ship. In the past few years on this river, you have scuttled eighty ships if not a hundred. Now tell me
You guys can't break through these ships of mine, do you think I'm easy to bully?"
Feng Xiaoliu said with a mournful face: "Brother Qi, it's really impossible to dig through the Ming Dynasty. The bottoms of these ships are actually made of the finest hardwood. It's impossible to dig through them in such a short time."
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Ma Qi couldn't help but kicked Feng Xiaoliu into the river and cursed angrily: "Trash, all fucking trash."
Jing Kui on the side frowned and said to Ma Qi: "Okay, with Li Huan's status and the ability of Jin Yiwei, it is not difficult for them to find a few well-built and strong ships."
Hearing this, Ma Qi turned to Jing Kui with a worried look on his face: "But sir, if we can't scuttle the ship, there is no way to go on like this."
Jing Kui took a deep breath and said, "I originally thought that I could handle this matter by myself, but now it seems that I still need to ask for help."
After listening to Jing Kui's words, Ma Qi couldn't help showing a look of astonishment and surprise, and said almost instinctively: "What? Sir, do you mean that we have other helpers? Why don't my subordinates know..."
But Jing Kui didn't pay attention to Ma Qi. Instead, he gave Ma Qi a cold look, which immediately made Ma Qi shiver all over. He lowered his head subconsciously, knowing that he had said something he shouldn't have said.
At the same time, at a place by the canal, an unknown number of people gathered in the darkness. The leader was none other than Xu Wei, the general magistrate of Yangzhou Prefecture.
Needless to say, the dark group of people following Xu Wei were the dead servants kept by the Xu family. It was with these people that Xu Wei led his men to wipe out the Yangzhou Jinyiwei Thousand Households.
Although the casualties were not small, with the financial resources and foundation of the Xu family, they had already selected manpower to supplement them during this period. Instead of reducing the number of people, they actually increased a lot.
For local wealthy families such as the Chen family and the Xu family, especially those involved in private salt sales and smuggling, it is almost normal for the family to have dead servants and servants.
Even the local officials are well aware of this, but they turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. As long as these local wealthy families do not attack the government and rebel, and exceed a certain limit, the local officials generally ignore it.
Originally, although it was normal for a powerful person like the Xu family to keep some servants and dead soldiers, the number would still be controlled. Otherwise, even the local government would not really sit idly by.
However, because the Xu family helped Yangzhou Prefecture destroy the Jinyiwei Yamen and suffered heavy casualties, the officials of the Yangzhou Prefecture turned a blind eye to the Xu family's crazy expansion of the number of dead servants and servants these days and pretended not to notice.
arrive.
At this time, Xu Weiyuan looked at the fire above the Grand Canal outside Lixukai, and could even hear faint shouts of killing.
It's just that because of the distance, the shouting of killing seemed to be absent, so it was not clear enough.
A big man who looks like an iron tower is standing next to Xu Wei with a spear in his hand. Who is Xu Meng if he is not a strong man that the Xu family can count.
When the Jinyiwei Yamen was attacked and killed, it was Xu Meng who personally killed Chen Yao and others who went south with Lin Pingzhi.
Xu Meng's cultivation is so strong that he is one of the best in the realm of first-class players. It can be said that he is one of the cards that the Xu family can use.
Now Xu Meng's eyes were filled with excitement. He looked at the fire in the distance. From time to time, he clenched the spear in his hand and then slowly released it. It seemed that he was getting impatient with the waiting. Xu Meng couldn't help but said to Xu Weidao.
"Brother Wei, are we just going to watch like this?" Xu Wei said calmly, "Of course we are watching. Is it possible that I can let my son-in-law fight for Jing Kui and the others?" Xu Meng said with a bit of disdain, "Just because of Jing Kui and the others,
I’m afraid he’s no match for Jin Yiwei.”
Xu Wei said with a somewhat solemn look on his face: "Don't underestimate Jing Kui and the others. Not to mention other things, Jing Kui can easily pull out thousands of desperadoes with his manpower alone. If he really fights,
Even if the Jinyiwei people are on guard, I'm afraid they will have to pay a heavy price."
Because he knew the strength of Jing Kui and others, Xu Wei did not underestimate Jing Kui and others like Xu Meng did.
The reason why he brought people here was because Xu Lin, the governor of Yangzhou, was a little worried, so he asked him to be a backup in case someone escaped the attack by Jing Kui and others.
Xu Wei had no intention of competing with Jing Kui for credit. After all, Jinyiwei had suffered a big loss. As an imperial envoy, Li Huan would have been prepared to come here if he was not stupid.
Under this situation, if he really had a head-on confrontation with Jin Yiwei, Xu Wei felt that the Xu family didn't know what kind of price they would have to pay. It would be better to sit here and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.
This is also the reason why Yangzhou Prefecture had such a good knife as the Xu family and didn’t need it, but instead sent a letter to Jing Kui and others, asking Jing Kui and others to take action.
After all, Xu Wei also had to think about his own family. He really thought that his family would not have to pay any price if his men were killed or injured.
You must know that the reason why these desperadoes fought for the Xu family was not because the Xu family fed them with lots of gold and silver.
Just in order to destroy the Jinyi Guard Qianhusuo and Lin Pingzhi and others, the Xu family's servants who had been raised over the years could be said to have suffered heavy casualties. For this reason, tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver were spent.
Arranged the dead and injured servants.
Li Huan and others were obviously on guard this time. In this case, if they really faced off, I don't know how many more people would be killed or injured. Anyway, the Xu family would not make such a mistake.
Of course, Xu Wei also clearly distinguishes the importance and knows when to worry about things and when to focus on the overall situation.
At this moment, a bright firework suddenly exploded in the sky. The firework was like a flower blooming, which obviously had a certain meaning.
Seeing this scene, Xu Wei's expression changed slightly and he couldn't help but cursed angrily: "Having calculated without any intention, he sent out so many people and even asked for help. What a bunch of rubbish. I don't know how Jing Kui can win such a big win on weekdays."