: Under the Dongtang

The woman did not make a sound and took two steps back. Lu Qi felt something was wrong. She was about to let the two waiting outside send a signal, but she heard two muffled sounds behind her. When she looked back, she saw that the two companions who were still alive just now had already fallen to the ground and struggled. The two boatmen were standing on the side, holding a short knife dripping with blood in their hands.

"Oh no." Although Lu Qi didn't know which family these people were, he also knew that he had been trapped by someone else. He pulled out his sword from his waist and forced him to the stern of the boat, trying to capture the woman alive, thinking that he was hostage and threatening the two of them to escape.

Seeing that the woman had retreated to the rear of the cabin and had no way out, Lu Qi shouted loudly and raised his sword to slash, trying to scare the woman to catch a living mouth, but the woman opposite moved her hand and flew over a ball of black things. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to block it, and felt a sharp pain in his right hand. The sword could not hold it. It fell to the ground with a jingle and claws. When he looked closely, it was a big crab with fangs and claws, the size of two palms. Two thick claws clamped Lu Qi's fingers tightly. However, the woman saw that there was no way out, so she threw the crab in the bamboo basket next to her. After the crab was captured, it was thrown into the bamboo basket. She had been impatient. She finally had a chance to take revenge, so she naturally would not let go.

As the saying goes, "Ten fingers connect the heart", Lu Qi's two fingers were pinched by the crab's big claws, which was naturally a piercing pain. Just when he was about to find a way to get rid of them, he felt his feet shaking. When he looked back, he was the man who came into the cabin, holding a short knife in his hand and full of murderous aura. He was the one who had just killed people on the shore. Lu Qi screamed in secret, and became wise in a hurry. He suddenly hit the side wall of the cabin next to him. The side wall was just made of reed mats. With just a normal sound, Lu Qi fell into the river.

The man and woman watched the boat for a while, but they didn't even have a splash of water. After a few words of discussion, they took a torch and drew three circles in the direction of the river. After a while, a small boat rowed over and jumped down from the boat, and suddenly they touched the hut not far away for the guards to rest.

Lu Qi just fell into the water, and what made him feel a little amused was that he had just pinched the crab that he refused to let go. He let go of the big claws and left. He knew that if he floated into the water now, he would immediately die. He remembered that there was a small bay not far from him falling into the water. As long as he could survive there and then float up to the water, he could escape a road of life. He forced himself to hold his breath and swim slowly over there.

I don't know how much time it took, but Lu Qi felt that he was about to be suffocated. Suddenly he touched a hard object with his palm. He quickly leaned over and took a deep breath before he looked around carefully. He saw that there was a small boat on the shore. Two soldiers were holding weapons and whistling with their weapons. He carefully climbed up the shore, and used the mound of soil on the side to bypass the two people's sights and ran to the residence of their soldiers.

Lu Qili was more than ten feet away from the wooden house, and he heard a scream and a collision of weapons. When he saw closer, his eyes were scattered. It turned out that the besieged soldiers first blocked the door with wooden fences, and then stabbed them into the gaps of the fences with long bamboo poles with iron tips. Although there were more than ten people in the door, the terrain was narrow and could not be used at all. The weapons in his hands could not reach the enemies outside the door, so they could only use them desperately to chop the bamboo poles with the weapons in his hands. Some people kept screaming and being stabbed by the other party and fell down.

Lu Qi stood not far away, and his companions screamed and the enemy's crazy laughter could not be heard in his ears. He felt a stream of passionate blood rushed straight to the gate. With a loud roar, he rushed towards the enemy's back. He hit a man on the ground, snatched the weapons in his hand and slashed around. The soldiers who raided were suddenly knocked out and could not tell how many enemies there were. The people who blocked the gate also threw down the fence and fled everywhere. The guards in the house also took the opportunity to rush out and shouted loudly to chase the enemy soldiers.

At this time, Lu Qi's passion had just passed, so he quickly called the soldiers back. While sending people to the camp on the shore of Dongtang to call the police, he also found out what had happened. It turned out that the sneak attackers had just arrived and wanted to touch the camp secretly. While the guards in the house were still in their dreams, they killed them clean. However, the group of people grew up and urinated and touched them, and used their bodies to hold the door. When the enemy soldiers outside saw that they could not open the door, they used their spears to cross the knife.

The stinging was made through the wooden door. The hut was just a temporary use for the guards to stay. It was extremely simple. The door was just tied with wooden sticks and thorned. After a while, the gangster was hit four or five times, almost turning into a blood gourd. However, it also bought time for the guards inside to carry soldiers in armor. The raided soldiers saw that the door was narrow and could not rush in for a while, so they blocked the door, tied up the iron-sharp bamboo pole used to slaughter fish, and stabbed them randomly.

Lu Qi looked at the boss who had just scolded him not to drink and misunderstand the matter, lying on the ground covered in blood, and couldn't help but feel ashamed. Suddenly, he heard the sound of "Wen" outside, and then he felt a chill on his head. When he looked up, he saw that the roof had been missing half of it. Most of the crossbow arrows as thick as forearms were sank into the opposite wall, revealing only two feet long and shaking.

"Eight Cow Crossbow!" This thought suddenly flashed in Lu Qi's mind. Judging from the power of this sound, it was probably a large bed crossbow used in the army to attack the city. The arrows were all made of pig iron. Legend has it that eight cows were used to siege it, so it was named after this. When siege, even if the enemy's city wall was high and thick, the crossbow arrows could not be destroyed, and they could also be deeply immersed in the wall. The soldiers of the siege could climb up from the tail end of the exposed wall, which showed its power.

The defenders in the house had not yet calmed down from the shock brought by the power of the powerful crossbow, and only a sound of whizzing arrows was heard, followed by a series of screams of arrows being shot through their armor, tearing their muscles apart, and even nailing them to the ground. In the eyes of the dying Lu Fang, huge warships appeared, and raindrop-like arrows were shooting from the ship. On the flagship head, a huge "An" word embroidered on the floating flag.

The shrill sound of golden dou echoed over the Huainan Navy camp. The brigade of dishevelled soldiers ran around like headless flies. On the water, the Runzhou Navy easily sank one warship after another. Since there were no enemy naval forces worth mentioning on the river surface of hundreds of miles, there were not many sailors in the Huainan warships moored in Dongtang, and they could not effectively control the warships to anchor and sail. These warships with inconvenient mobility became excellent targets for the opponent. Runzhou warships either used the bow to hit the opponent's weak side or used fire bombs to attack. The Greek fire Xin obtained from Lu Fang was amazing. They could ignite almost everything they touched, and could not extinguish them with water. After discovering this, the remaining Huainan soldiers on the ship also jumped into the water in despair and escaped on the shore.

"Okay, okay, okay, I didn't expect the Greek fire to be so powerful." On the bow, An Renyi looked at the critical troubles of the Huainan Navy, hundreds of warships of all sizes and sizes burning in the fire, and couldn't help laughing wildly. But in just a moment, he turned to sigh and said, "What a pity, if I got this thing in the morning, I would be able to annihilate all the Huainan Navy. At that time, the river would be hundreds of miles long and would be my An Renyi's world. Even if I could not cross the river, I could still control the south of the Yangtze River and be invincible."

Behind him was a Confucian scholar, who was Su Zhanshu: "The envoy should not worry. Although half of the navy troops were safe and sound in Li Shenfu, he led tens of thousands of troops to attack Du Hong in Wuchang. The victory or defeat was unknown. That is, he received the order of Yang Xingmi, and there was a strong enemy in front of him. How could he easily lead his troops to retreat? Maybe he would disobey the orders of the generals and the kings outside.

"That won't be." An Renyi shook his head and said, "Li Shenfu is very loyal to Yang Xingmi. Du Hong is just a thief who defends himself. There are strong enemies around him. If he pursues a small soldier, it will be useless. If he uses a large soldier, he is afraid that his nest will not be protected. Li Shenfu will definitely return to the rescue. However, Wuchang and Guangling are far apart, and it will take at least several months to travel back and forth. As long as we first take the states on the south bank and guard Jingkou and Guazhou ferry crossings, even if Yang Xingmi has a hundred thousand troops, what can he do to me?"

At the end, An Renyi slapped the shipyard suddenly, his tone full of confidence.

At this time, the moored Huainan warship had been damaged by six or seventy percent, and most of the soldiers on the ship had fled. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, An Renyi was afraid that reinforcements would arrive in Guangling and block the exit of Dongtang, which was not beautiful. He ordered the boat troops to take the local warships intact, and leave Dongtang together, and head to Runzhou on the other side.

Although Yang Xingmi, in Guangling, in the first rank of the Wu Palace, he was a high-ranking official, his daily life was still very simple, and he was not as extravagant as other warlords at that time. He often rested early when he was drinking for a long night. Over the past few years, he grew older and had an old injury, and he had to rest early. On that day, as soon as he got into bed, he heard a burst of rapid footsteps outside, and then he heard the voice of Secretary Gao Chong: "King, I have important things to report to you."

Yang Xingmi snorted coldly and said, "Come in."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Gao Chong crashing in, his face full of panic, and said anxiously: "King, the Runzhou Navy raided Dongtang, the Huainan Navy has been destroyed, and An Renyi has rebelled."

Yang Xingmi was not panicked and shouted in a low voice: "What are you panic? A real man must be calm when he is in trouble and sit down and talk first."

Gao Chong quickly sat down, sucked himself for a few breaths, calming his mood. Seeing him like this, Yang Xingmi nodded and asked, "Since this is the case, do you think it's better to deal with it."
Chapter completed!