Li Chengqian couldn't help but be curious, and hurriedly opened the window and looked outside.
Looking up, I saw a large ship on the river not far away with flames reaching into the sky.
By the light of the fire, one could vaguely see the scattered figures of people on the big ship.
You don't need to listen carefully to hear the loud shouting of killing.
At this time, a sharp sound also sounded on the ship where Li Chengqian was on.
That was the brothers from Qianzi Camp informing others.
Although the Qianzi Camp was a temporary formation, due to the fierce folk customs of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the children of military generals' families, even the children of civil servants and noble families could mount horses and fight.
As the sounding arrows shot up into the sky, shouts were heard from several surrounding ships.
At this time, Li Tingxue walked in from outside. Seeing Li Chengqian's bare feet on the ground, she suddenly said displeased: "Didn't I tell you to stay in bed? Why did you come down?"
"Am I curious?"
Li Chengqian bared his teeth at Li Tingxue and said, "Sister, what's going on outside? Is there a rebellion?"
"rebel?"
"No one in the world dares to rebel against the Tang Dynasty."
Li Tingxue snorted disdainfully and said, "They are just a group of small water thieves. We will go and exterminate them after the brothers below are assembled."
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, because Emperor Taizong emphasized the north and ignored the south, the development of the south was slow, and to a certain extent it was not even as good as the north.
The most significant of these is the use of waterways, which is far less focused than the development of water transport projects during the Song Dynasty.
If not, in subsequent locust plagues, the affected area would not have been so large, and so many people would not have starved to death because they had no food to eat.
After all, the total grain production in the south has been much greater than that in the north since ancient times. With impassable waterways, it is definitely impossible to achieve the purpose of transferring grain from the south to the north by relying on land alone.
Since Taizong did not pay attention to waterways, it is not surprising that there were water thieves causing trouble on the Yangtze River.
Li Tingxue stood on the deck with a ring-headed sword in hand, commanding the entire army, with an impressive heroic spirit.
Li Chengqian is hiding in Behind my sister, I was watching everything, not daring to say anything, and cowering.
Because of the calm weather tonight, many ships stopped at the sheltered spot of Hulukou to rest.
In addition to Li Chengqian's three large ships, there are also many ships belonging to wealthy merchants moored nearby.
This group of thieves was quite smart. They took advantage of the darkness and intercepted and killed several merchant ships in front and behind them, making a lot of money.
Therefore, these people swelled up and continued to intercept and kill. Unexpectedly, a cargo ship later loaded a ship full of tung oil paint.
Seeing that they were no match for the enemy, several of the retinues on the ship simply set fire to the cargo hold.
In this way, not only did they take advantage of the chaos to escape, but it also served as an early warning to others.
Moreover, these people obviously did not expect that among the ships of these wealthy merchants, there was a huge bug hidden in the current prince's cruise ship.
When these three large ships moved toward each other to outflank each other, some water pirates actually fired arrows as a warning.
But after all, they were just a bunch of people, and the sparse arrows fell into the water before they could fly to the boat.
And this also angered Li Tingxue.
There are 800 people in Ganzi camp, and there are more than 200 guards under her banner. This is an elite division composed of a thousand people in total.
This ragtag bunch of people didn't want to surrender when they saw it, but they actually dared to fight back.
Li Tingxue immediately raised the ring-shou knife: "Everyone, put on your bows and arrows, shoot for me, shoot hard for me!"
"Don't, don't, don't..."
Li Chengqian quickly said: "You can't shoot. There are many people in the water now. If you shoot the arrow now, wouldn't it bring unreasonable disaster to those people?"
This makes sense.
Li Tingxue nodded and said with a dark face: "Then don't shoot the arrows. Everyone should hide first to ensure that they are not affected by the opponent's arrows."
"Hou Junji, send someone to tell the following to move forward at full speed and crash into it."
Hit by?
Hou Junji glanced at Li Tingxue and then at Li Chengqian: "Princess Princess, Your Highness is still on the boat."
"he?"
Li Tingxue glanced at Li Chengqian: "He will go through this sooner or later. You don't need to worry about anything else. You only need to follow the instructions of this princess."
Hou Junji glanced at Li Chengqian with a troubled expression.
Li Chengqian waved his hands indiscriminately: "Go ahead and do what my sister said."
Now Li Tingxue has obviously made up his mind. If he doesn't crash into him, what else can he do?
Furthermore, the large ship they were traveling on was covered with iron sheets, and its toughness was not comparable to that of merchant cargo ships.
It can be seen with the naked eye that the speed of the ship is getting faster and faster, and it is getting closer and closer to the burning ship.
Li Tingxue picked up a wooden board and held it in front of her. In an instant, the sound of whizzing arrows through the wind could be heard.
"Mamma Mia, please don't shoot me down. I don't want to live another life and die young at the age of eight..."
Li Chengqian was hiding behind her. Listening to the sound of arrows breaking through the wind, he did not dare to move and could only hold his sister's hand tightly.
It didn't take long before a loud roar was heard and the ship's hull shook violently.
Many soldiers had no time to react and were knocked to the ground by the huge impact.
"Brothers, follow me and kill!"
Following Hou Junji's shout, dozens of people from Qianzi camp swarmed forward and rushed onto the cargo ship.
In an instant, there were shouts of killing and screams that shook the sky.
When Li Tingxue removed the wooden board, Li Chengqian was shocked.
Whether in his previous life or this life, he had never seen such a bloody scene.
Those were all living people, risking their lives to fight in front of his eyes.
Seeing each and every living person with my own eyes Death before your eyes is completely different from what is shown in the TV series.
There is no one against a hundred, and there is no excitement. It is completely a fight between life and death.
Li Chengqian sat on the ground stupidly, looking at everything in front of him, his mind went blank.
Li Tingxue said that he would experience it sooner or later, is this what he experienced...
The soldiers of Qianzi Battalion were indeed brave. After rushing onto the cargo ship, they fought for less than a quarter of an hour before calm was restored.
Dozens of motionless corpses of water thieves were floating on the river.
And among these corpses, there were also many struggling water thieves.
However, their calls for help and struggles did not win mercy, and all they received were the merciless spears from the Qianzi camp.
Even Li Tingxue, a woman, cut off the heads of two water pirate leaders with her own hands.
Her beautiful face, paired with the bright red blood drops, looked so coquettish.
Li Tingxue came to Li Chengqian's side, pulled him up, and pulled him to the fence.
"did you see it?"
"This is what you're going to face in the future."
Li Tingxue looked deeply and said: "No emperor can ignore these things, and you are no exception."
"I...I don't want to be an emperor..."
Li Chengqian swallowed his saliva and almost cried in fear.
"If you don't do it, who will?"
"Do you want those useless brothers of yours?"
Li Tingxue looked at Li Chengqian with raised eyebrows.
Li Chengqian had never seen her like this before, and he choked back the words that came to his lips.
Li Tingxue's eyes softened, and she knelt down and wiped the sweat on Li Chengqian's forehead:
"You have to go through this."
"Only if you experience it, you will know how it happened."
"Only when you see people die do you know how difficult it is to live."