Chapter 60 Hijacking
Sleeping on a undulating boat, I feel like I am sitting on a rocking bed. Many soldiers and their families are not used to it, and Li Xiao is the same.
Until late at night, Fang fell asleep in the cabin arranged by Hou Dao, but it was difficult to sleep deeply. When the biological clock reached the middle of the Mao hour, Li Xiao naturally woke up.
Li Xiao got up and went to the deck alone. The sky was still pitch black, and only the dim light reflected a silence. From a distance, there was nowhere to be seen.
Only a few sailors on duty in the first cabin and the tail rudder room were still busy. Li Xiao couldn't help but sigh that the boating life on the sea was indeed hard.
It took an entire hour to light up, but the sky was still cloudy, with a light red look slightly, and it looked like it was about to snow again.
"Look! There is a boat coming over there!"
When the whole army had breakfast, Li Xiao suddenly heard a soldier screaming.
Li Xiao was surprised to see that three ships with the Ming army's sun and moon flags were all hanging high, forming a semi-encircled battle formation, surrounding his blessed ship.
These three ships are Shen Zhixiang's navy fleet, who followed Li Xiao's ship overnight and now finally revealed his fangs.
Deputy General Shen Zhixiang looked at the blessed ship walking slowly in front of him, and his mouth almost flowed down. His eyes were filled with greed, as if he had seen the ship full of gold, silver and wealth waving to him.
A man who looked like a servant beside him carefully reminded: "Sir, in order to prevent fraud, it is better to try to hit it first."
As soon as the servant's voice fell, he slapped him violently and violently. The servant cried and covered his cheeks and spit out two bloody teeth.
"Bah, you stupid! I'm just about to replenish the fleet. If you attack this gun, how much money will I have to spend to repair it!" Shen Zhixiang rubbed his painful hands and spat hard at the fallen servants.
"That's right, Lord Shen has great martial arts skills, and we have three boats and so many brothers, so it's not easy to deal with such a merchant ship." Another person who followed him said to Shen Zhixiang flatteringly.
Shen Zhixiang looked proud, Wang Tingrui and Yuan Anbang next to him looked at each other in complex eyes, and said nothing.
Li Xiao suddenly discovered that after the three ships appeared, Hou Dao's face changed drastically. In such a cold weather, cold sweat seemed to be bursting out.
He turned around and said to Li Xiao hurriedly: "Sir, this is the ship of the Ming Navy. They are chasing us."
Li Xiao frowned and asked, "Could it be that the navy is coming to board the boat for inspection?"
Hou Daowishi said, "I think so too. Strangely, when the Ming army navy saw the signs on my ship, they basically ignored me and asked us to pass by themselves, but for some reason, today they were going to check my ship."
Li Xiao's face was gloomy and he stopped talking to Hou Dao. Then he turned around and walked out of the cabin and issued an order to prepare for war to all the soldiers.
All the soldiers acted quickly, put on their armor, picked up their weapons, and then waited quietly in the cabin. Li Xiao ordered that after he issued a battle order, all the personnel rushed to the deck and fought together.
"Li Xiao, what's going on? Is there an enemy ship going to attack us?" Zu Wan'er asked him with a serious look on the side.
"I think the person is not good, so be prepared for the battle first. Don't be afraid, I will handle the matter well." Li Xiao's face tightened and he comforted her softly.
Three Ming army ships rushed in quickly, seeing that they were only a few hundred steps away, Hou Dao, who looked pale, shouted to the cabin, "Stop all the oarsmen and let them get on the boat to check, otherwise these navy fired or hit the corners and our army would be finished. Anyway, we have paid the protection fee to the navy and bought the peace talisman, so they should not make things difficult for us."
Seeing the deputy ship owner's order, the No. 2 lucky ship stopped in accordance with the requirements.
Three aggressive naval ships immediately surrounded the No. 2 Fu Ship. The No. 1 Fu Ship was around and headed in front of Li Xiaofu Ship, blocking the way. The other two Naval ships clamped the Fu Ship in the center, one left and one right, in order to prevent them from escaping from the side.
Then, a long plating board was extended from the No. 1 Fu Ship to connect the two ships. As the buckle was tightened, the Navy's No. 1 Fu Ship was firmly integrated with Li Xiaojun's No. 2 Fu Ship.
Seeing that the merchant ship he was about to intercept, he stopped so obediently to let him check, Shen Zhixiang felt quite comfortable. He led Wang Tingrui and Yuan Anbang, and a large group of strong Ming army soldiers, and jumped into Hou Dao's merchant ship by placing the gangway.
When Li Xiao, who had been watching these soldiers on board, was wearing casual clothes, was relieved when he was watching coldly.
In his heart, he was actually most afraid that these always arrogant Ming navy soldiers would hit two cannons without asking the reason as soon as they came. In this way, the lucky ship with no defense ability would be over.
Hou Dao, with a hard smile on his face, held a piece of vermilion kraft paper in his hand, and quickly ran towards Shen Zhixiang, who was looking at the lucky ship.
"Sir, welcome to board the boat. We are all businessmen. We have already purchased your peace talisman. Here, here, please check it out." Hou Dao smiled respectfully.
Shen Zhixiang tilted his head and glanced at him coldly, took the peace talisman that Hou Dao respectfully handed over, looked at it in a pretentious manner, then sneered and sniffed the peace talisman into two halves and threw it on the ground.
"Ah! Sir, you, you are..." Hou Dao was panicked, and beads of sweat as big as beans slid off his face.
"Hmph, you are the ship owner, listen. I am Shen Zhixiang, the deputy general of Dongjiang Town. Today, I have set new rules. I have no choice but to count the safety talismans in the past. Today, if you leave this merchant ship to me, it will be considered as a toll. When I am happy, I may save you a little life. Otherwise, I will definitely kill you all over the ship!" Shen Zhixiang said with a grim smile.
Hou Dao knelt down and begged: "Mr. Shen, you can't do this! This merchant ship is the foundation of a small life! The little man who bought this peace fu not long ago and never dared to delay it. You are merciful, sir. There is still some silver in the little man's boat, you can take it, you must not..."
"Stop!" Shen Zhixiang's face suddenly became ferocious and terrifying: "You shit master, don't toast or not eat and punish you! I'm going to settle for your boat. If you dare to say a word, I will chop you up." Shen Zhixiang said scoundrelly and fiercely. He pulled out a feather knife from his waist and placed it horizontally on Hou Dao's thin neck. The thick feather knife with cold light was slightly pressed down. The blood on Hou Dao's neck suddenly crawled out like a small snake.
Shen Zhixiang suddenly frowned, his nose twitched a few times, and suddenly, a pungent smell of human excrement came to his nose.
"You coward, you were so scared that you pulled your pants. Damn, don't be embarrassed here. I'll send you to the West now." Shen Zhixiang sneered, raised his feather knife, drew a pale cold light, and slashed straight at Hou Dao's neck.
It was said that it was late, that was fast. A little cold light came like a meteor rushing to the moon. With a crisp sound, it knocked Shen Zhixiang's powerful downward feather knife to open!
Shen Zhixiang was shocked, and the knife in his hand was almost knocked away. He was so shocked that he took a few steps back to stop. He looked at the deck and saw a short and concise knife suddenly appeared in front of him.
Before Shen Zhixiang could even swear words, a tall blue figure came quickly with a sharp sword light.
Shen Zhixiang's ears were heard as the sharp blade whistling through the air became clearer and clearer. He quickly raised the knife to greet him. With a loud "ding" sound, a sharp steel tiger sword slashed hard on his feather knife. Shen Zhixiang's mouth suddenly shattered, and blood flowed out, causing him to roar.
A handsome and fierce face quickly appeared in front of Shen Zhixiang. This face was slightly distorted due to anger. In his thick eyebrows and eyes, two angry flames could almost burn him.
The feathered sword in Shen Zhixiang's hand could no longer withstand the force of this person falling down. The moment he gritted his teeth and rushed to death, Shen Zhixiang's lungs were almost suffocating.
He could no longer bear it, and he flashed back. Unexpectedly, the tiger sword was unyielding and chasing him. The sharp blade tip scratched Shen Zhixiang's chest without mercy. The thick cotton armor was cut, and a deep scar was cut from the strong and black-haired chest muscles, and blood was immediately gushing out.
Shen Zhixiang shouted bitterly and fell back to the ground. The tip of the tiger sword that was dripping blood was already pointing ruthlessly at his throat, less than two fingers wide.
"Stop it quickly! Don't hurt Lord Shen!" Everything happened in front of you too quickly, which made Wang Tingrui and Yuan Anbang wake up at this time, immediately pulled out the sword and shouted in the same hurry.
The servants and soldiers around Shen Zhixiang seemed to have reacted at this time, and they pulled out their knives, and the tips of each knife surrounded in a round shape were pointed straight and fiercely at Li Xiao.
At the same time, the Ming army on the other two naval ships, saw that there was something unusual on the ship, hurriedly put on the side boards and prepared to enter Li Xiao's No. 2 lucky ship.
Li Xiao had already seen it clearly. A contemptuous sneer flashed across his face, and then he shouted: "All the soldiers left the cabin to fight!"
Soon, with the sound of footsteps coming from bottom to top, a large number of war soldiers wearing cotton armor or mandarin duck battle jackets, holding large shields or spears quickly rushed to the deck, and then skillfully set up the gun shield battle formation.
On the deck of the ship, it seemed that it suddenly fell into silence. But the air was so nervous that it seemed to explode.
"If you have the ability, please come forward and look at me, Li Xiao. Killing this guy will be ruthless!" Li Xiao looked fierce and shouted coldly at Wang Tingrui and Yuan Anbang.
Wang Tingrui and Yuan Anbang looked nervous and angry, holding the sword in their hands tightly, but did not dare to move. The Ming soldiers beside them also looked at each other.
"You just said, are you Li Xiao?" Shen Zhixiang on the ground gasped, his face full of disbelief.
"Yes, Li Xiao, the chief of the thousand households of the Jinzhou Forefront Camp of the Ming Dynasty." Li Xiao pondered for a moment and answered coldly and clearly.
"You, are you the Li Xiao who wiped out the Tatar Whistle Cavalry and defeated the Tartar general Ashan?" Shen Zhixiang's voice trembled, and he had no ferocity just now, mixed with a strong sense of suspicion and fear.
"It's just me. It seems that Li's reputation has spread far and even you Dongjiang Town knows it." Li Xiao sneered teasingly.
"But, where are you heading south on this merchant ship?" Shen Zhixiang asked in confusion.
"Hmph, our army is going to Shandong to do business, which is a secret matter. Why do you need to ask more questions?" Li Xiao said lightly.
Shen Zhixiang sighed, his head drooped, but his eyes turned cleverly, and he quickly said with a ridicule: "Oh, I'm talking. Everyone is the Ming Dynasty's official army. Today's affairs are really the flood that has washed away the Dragon King Temple. The whole family refuses to recognize the whole family."
Li Xiao spat in disgust: "Bah, you bastard who snatches ships and wants to kill people and kill people, you are also embarrassed to call yourself the Ming Dynasty official army, and you don't urinate and look like you like this! I, Li Xiao, are really ashamed to be with you!"
Shen Zhixiang's face suddenly turned red. He smiled embarrassedly, but he didn't know how to take the conversation.
Yuan Anbang, who was standing aside, quickly took over and said, "General Li, Lord Shen did this in order to increase my naval ships, so he could do this plan. In view of everyone serving the Ming Dynasty, please let Lord Li go of Deputy General Shen."
"Oh, what if I don't let it go?" Li Xiao sneered.
"Li Xiao, you and I have no grudges recently, and there are no grudges in the past, so why bother with each other like this? Why not end today's matter, and I apologize to the army to apologize." Seeing Li Xiao's words of badness, Shen Zhixiang looked sad and interrupted quickly.
Seeing Shen Zhixiang's cowardly look, Li Xiao felt an inexplicable disgust.
The history of the Ming Dynasty he had read in his previous life knew that Shen Zhixiang was the nephew of Shen Shikui, the general of Dongjiang Town. After Shen Shikui, the general of Dongjiang Town of the Ming Dynasty, was captured and killed by the Qing soldiers in the tenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. This man gathered defeated troops on Shicheng Island without obtaining the seal of Shen Shikui and was not appointed by the court.
Shen Zhixiang's boldness made Emperor Chongzhen angry, so he sent troops to fight against Shen Zhixiang. Shen Zhixiang was defeated by the Ming army's offensive, so in February of the third year of Chongde, he sent his general Wu Chaozuo and Jin Guangyu to the Qing Dynasty to request surrender. Those who followed Shen Zhixiang to surrender were nine deputy generals, eight joined the army, eight guerrillas, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty ones, thirty
After that, Shen Zhixiang loyally served the Qing Dynasty, joined the army from generation to generation, and made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty's entry into the pass and seizing the world. His grandson Shen Rui became the general of the Qing army's Chaozhou, and was once powerful. As a result, he was captured by the Ming Zheng army and taken to Taiwan and killed him. This was also a belated retribution for this traitor with his hands stained with blood from the Han people.
Li Xiao thought to himself that he was still a fugitive now, but there was no need to completely offend Dongjiang Town because of this incident. This hateful Shen Zhixiang would keep him a life for the time being.
"Shen Zhixiang, because everyone is the Ming official army, Li will spare you today." Li Xiao snorted coldly, and Shen Zhixiang showed joy on his face, but Li Xiao continued to say: "However, Li really believes that you are just like you. If you let you go back and attack again, wouldn't our army take its own harm?"
Shen Zhixiang was shocked and confessed repeatedly: "President Li, you are too worried. I will never make any more troubles with your army when I go there. I hope that President Li will let us go."
"Hmph, how can you trust this?" Li Xiao sneered: "Deputy General Chen, in order to ensure that you and others will not cheat, Li dared to follow the matter of Guan Yunchang taking Lu Su to return to Jingzhou that day, and asked Deputy General Chen to accompany Li to Shandong together."
"ah?"
Shen Zhixiang on the ground, Wang Tingrui Yuan Anbang and others were stunned.
Li Xiao didn't care about that much. He took a step forward, took Shen Zhixiang and headed towards the cabin.
"I have been to Shandong for more than a week, but I will not miss Deputy General Chen's major event. Now our army has the naval guard of Deputy General Chen, and no one dares to harass Li's trip to Shandong." Li Xiao's face showed a happy and sarcastic smile.
Chapter completed!