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The fire in Ji'an County didn't stop all night long. Not only did the fire in Ji'an County, but also the bandits raided many wealthy gentry families near the county.
Ji'an County's sword archers and the warriors from various hometowns were weak in combat and had no unified command and dispatch. They hurriedly attacked the elite Donghai bandits who had internal intelligence to lead the way. They were defeated and fled. The fighting broke out overnight in Zhuxi, Onumaxi, and Meixi.
The rivers and lakes stretch along the coast. Just looking at this situation, one does not know how many bandit soldiers invaded Anji County.
Qin Zitan and Du Rong took advantage of the darkness and led more than a hundred elites and Shujiazhai soldiers in three ships to set off from Anji Shujiazhai to Taihu Lake to pursue Lin Fu and his party who might have withdrawn into Taihu Lake before them.
After dawn, the sky turns green.
Qin Zitan took off his clothes and rested for a while in the cabin. At this time, he woke up and saw the faint morning light filtering through the cracks in the ship's planks. He thought it was almost dawn. Hearing Du Rong and Shu Qingqiu talking outside the cabin, he sat up.
I rubbed my face and walked out of the cabin. Just as I was about to ask where the ship was, I heard the man standing watch on the roof of the ship shout in surprise: "What's over there?"
Qin Zitan looked around. Ahead was a bend at the entrance to Meixi Lake. A long embankment stretched out across his eyes. Past it was Zhuxi River. There were dense forests on the embankment. At this time, the sky was dim, and the forest looked at
It looks blurry and thin, like a paper cut, green and gritty, but there are a few tree crowns sticking out abruptly from behind the forest.
The sky is not bright enough yet, and at first glance, those tall trees look like faint shadows floating on the forest tops, and it is easy to ignore them.
Qin Zitan was startled: Where is that tall tree? It's obviously a ship's mast disguised as a tree crown. But there is a dense forest between them, and they are looking up. If the boatman on the roof hadn't discovered it in time, they might have suddenly
Let the confusion pass.
At this time, in Meixi Lake, only the two boats Lin Fu was riding had such high masts. Qin Zitan could use his toes to figure out who was lurking in the inlet behind the forest.
"Fucking thief!" Du Rong also saw that it was a ship mast and was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. They were going to go out to Taihu Lake to join Taihu Lake to rob and kill Lin Fu, but Lin Fu actually set up an ambush at the entrance of Meixi Lake to intercept and kill them.
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Seeing that the masts of the ship behind the forest were removed to pretend to raise the sails, Du Rong tried to test the wind direction, but was very unlucky. They were in the leeward direction of the ambushed ship.
Du Rong knew how fast a compound schooner like the Dongyang could sail in the wind. The three awning sailboats they were traveling on were full of people. They wanted to escape back to Anji County before Lin Fu could catch up with them and join the bandits led by the eldest son.
Absolutely impossible. What's more, there is only one ambushing boat in the water bay ahead, and they don't know yet whether the other ambushing boat has missed and blocked their retreat to Anji County.
There were 400 people accompanying Lin Fu on this trip to raise food. Du Rong found out the details through several previous raids: Lin Fu personally led the elite Jiyun Military Guard, which only had more than a hundred people. In addition, they were all victims of the disaster.
The selected civilian warriors, boatmen, sailors, and handymen were divided into two ships. Each ship had only fifty elites and more than a hundred miscellaneous soldiers.
There are three paths before Du Rong, Qin Zitan and Shu Qingqiu.
Their three boats are elite, with more than 250 soldiers and boatmen and oarsmen. With the strength of their numbers, they can forcefully rush through the mouth of Meixi Lake. As long as they can occupy the windward direction, they can operate the oars.
Taking advantage of the current to travel against the wind, the speed is much faster than that of a large sailing ship, so it takes the initiative. However, in a water battle, when the strength of the troops is similar, the advantage of the warship will be extremely obvious. The small people on their side of the ship are crowded, and a
There are eighty or ninety people in the ship. Only by being able to successfully dock the ship can we take advantage of the large number of people. If it is violently hit before docking, there is a danger of capsizing. Lin Fu has people who are proficient in water warfare, Du Rong and Qin Zi.
Tan was unsure of how to rush through the narrow mouth of the lake, which was less than 200 feet wide.
If you can't rush forward, then retreat.
It was not possible to retreat. They retreated. It was a tailwind for Fu Chuan to pursue, and the wind was not strong. They would catch up before they could even wait for them to retreat to Shujiazhai. Besides, there was another Fu Chuan blocking the road.
on their way back.
If you can't rush forward or retreat, you can only go ashore nearby. The ambush boat has a large hull and a deep draft, so it cannot get close to the shore. If you want to pursue it, you can only use an assault boat to go ashore. As long as they go ashore, Du Rong and Qin Zitan will not be afraid.
Lin Fu chased after him, but he didn't have the advantage of a warship. Although Lin Fu had 400 men under his command, his advantage was actually very limited.
"Abandon the ship and go ashore?" Du Rong asked Qin Zitan.
"Will there be an ambush on the shore?" Qin Zitan asked, "We don't know where Lin Fu's other ship is hiding, but we can always imagine that the other ship cannot be hidden on the shore. We are afraid of the enemy's advantage.
"Abandoning ship and landing may be the only right choice, but how can we know whether Lin Fu wants us to make such a choice?"
"..." Du Rong never expected that Lin Fu would set up an ambush for him. He was frustrated for a moment and no longer had the confidence he had before. He looked up at the dense forests on both sides of the bank, which looked like they were hiding an ambush.
"Instead of running away in a hurry, we should prepare ourselves to fight. Me, you and Master Shu will take three ships in three ships. Even if we can't join the fight smoothly, there is a high chance that the two ships can escape..." Qin Zi
Tan said.
"Okay..." Du Rong didn't want his courage to be taken away by Lin Fu's Shuzi. They obviously had a large number of people, but they were so scared that they fled in Lin Fu's boat. He would definitely be the laughing stock of others in the future.
Qin Zitan asked someone to bring him a pair of armor. He seemed to have forgotten the fact that he had no power to bind a chicken, and wanted to lead the army like scholar Lin Fu. Du Rong didn't want to do anything else, so he and Shu Qingqiu jumped on the other two ships respectively.
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Seeing that the three enemy ships did not retreat or dock, but instead lowered their sails and paddled downstream to welcome them, Lin Fu took off his saber from his waist and ordered those around him: "Get ready to fight!"
The two sides were getting closer to each other, and the sky was getting brighter. Lin Fu could already see Du Rong's face clearly. He pointed his knife at Du Rong, smiled and said to Ao Canghai next to him: "When I first entered Jiangning last winter, I met Du Rong.
People claim that they are incompatible with this son, and we will see if it is possible to bury his body in this lake today..."
The winding capstans of the three-bow bed crossbows on both sides clicked, and the iron arrows of the giant crossbows as thick as spears shone with a cold light. The crossbowmen also sat down in an orderly manner and used their feet to open and wind the crossbows...
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When he saw the three-bow crossbow on the ambushes, the crossbows, and the long bows and arrows pointing towards him, Du Rong suddenly understood that he had been deceived by Qin Zitan. He, Qin Zitan, and Shu Qingqiu rode separately.
Three ships, if Lin Fu could only intercept one ship, who else could it be but him?
Du Rong was too late to realize at this time. Three of the four iron arrows from a huge crossbow as thick as spears were shot into the air, causing waves to the left and right. One arrow passed diagonally through the air and shot into the canopy of the boat. Only several miserable screams were heard.
I don’t know how many people were shot through by the giant arrow...
In short, within the effective range of the three-bow bed crossbow, thick shields and armors are just decorations.
When he saw Lin Fu deploying his only four three-bow crossbows on the ambushes, Du Rong also understood. Lin Fu also accurately expected that they would force a breakout. Lin Fu deployed the combat power on this ambushes.
Even if they can successfully connect and fight, it will be difficult to defeat them, but Du Rong has no other choice but to fight desperately.
Qin Zitan and Shu Qingqiu missed him from both sides in two boats. After taking the upper wind position, they did not turn around and raise the sails to surround Lin Fu with Du Rong, but continued to escape downstream.
The tip of Du Rong's gun had just reached the crest of the ambushed ship, and had already received four rounds of fire from Lin Fu. He was accompanied by ninety elite soldiers, Shujiazhai soldiers and boatmen. In addition to those who were afraid of death and escaped by diving, there were also
There were less than forty people standing up, and they were attacked by a long stabbing spear that was more than ten feet long...
When more than a thousand elite bandits from the East China Sea were plundering Anji County, Lin Fu had the guts to set up an ambush at the mouth of Meixi Lake and wait for them to be trapped. Du Rong knew at that time that they had been completely defeated. At this time, he stood on the bow of the boat and could not even see
When he reached the man's face behind the side of the ambush ship, he was forced to retreat by two bamboo spears from the left and right. One spear was stabbed in the chest. The elites of the She family behind him who planned to fight to the death were also shot down by the bamboo spears.
Water, the sound of bow strings breaking at close range was more like the sound of a life-threatening piano. Du Rong's eyesight went dark, and his mind felt like he was slipping into an endless abyss of darkness, and he fell down.
Ao Canghai ordered people to use hook guns to hook the enemies who fell into the water or were injured or dead.
Most of the armor-piercers were elites of the She family. Ao Canghai had nothing to say to these people. Those who still had some breath left casually took off their armor and threw their bodies into the water again. Only the Shu family soldiers were alive.
Yes, they had someone tie him up with a large five-flowered hemp rope and throw him into the bottom cabin and lock him up.
Lin Fu didn't care what Ao Canghai did. He stood on the bow and looked into the distance. The other two ships had already fled away. The "Jiyun One" had to take advantage of the wind to move faster. Its body was so huge that it would take a long bamboo pole to support it.
At the bottom of the lake, walking with a pole was very slow, and it was impossible to catch up with the two boats. I thought that the big loach master Ge Cunxin led the "Jiyun II" to ambush at the mouth of the Zhuxi river branch, and it was probably difficult to keep them there.
Come down, after all, the powerful bed crossbows and Zhang Zhang crossbows are all concentrated on this ship.
"Du Rong is still alive." Ao Canghai walked over with a knife that was still dripping blood and said.
"You're not going to kill him?" Lin Fu looked at Ao Canghai in surprise and said, "There's no use keeping him alive at this time, so let's imprison him first; just treat him as dead, maybe in the future.
It’s useful, but it’s a hot potato at this time.”
Could these little tricks that the She family was doing behind the scenes really be hidden from the eyes of Li Zhuo and some big shots in the court?
Lin Fu knew in his heart that the situation in Hongzepu was uncertain, and the Donghai bandits were gradually becoming a serious problem. The court's situation was already critical enough, especially after the elites from Eastern Fujian were transferred to the northern front one after another, the court would probably not want the She family to raise troops to rebel again.
At this time, catching Du Rong alive was a hot potato. It was hot in his hand, but he was reluctant to throw it away. After much deliberation, Lin Fu decided to secretly imprison Du Rong first, and forget about it if he died.
In short, Lin Fu didn't want to get any secrets out of Du Rong's mouth now.
The battlefield here has been cleaned, and the big loach master Ge Cunxin rides "Jiyun II" to join them from behind.
The elite armored soldiers, bed crossbows, kicking crossbows and other sharp weapons were mainly concentrated on Lin Fu's ship. Most of the refugees on Ge Cunxin's ship were brave, and Lin Fu also ordered that scorpion crossbows be used as much as possible. Although they intercepted them from behind
The two ships that Qin Zitan and Shu Qingchun were on killed dozens of people, but they did not achieve the record of annihilating a single ship. The wind was against them and it was not convenient to pursue them, so they came to join Lin Fu.
The more than a thousand elite East China Sea bandits roaming Anji County are their real threat and should not be taken lightly.
"If we go to Shujiazhai at this time, there should be no more ambushes!" Lin Fu said, waving his knife and pointing in the direction of Shujiazhai ahead, "Let's go there!"