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Of course, although such a situation seems extremely horrifying, if you are a sharp-eyed person, you can still use the flames from the ignited boats around to see the faint figures exposed under these floating corpses.

Obviously, someone was hiding under these corpses, using these corpses as a barrier to approach several official ships.

After all, Li Huan had stood on top of the big ship before, and shot them with one arrow after another. In addition, some Jin Yiwei also shot with powerful crossbows. I don't know how many people were shot to death in the water before they got close to the official ships.

Holding the Xiuchun Knife in his hand, Chen Ke, whose body was stained with a lot of blood, was a little bit more energetic at this moment. He also saw the situation around him, and he couldn't help frowning when he saw the dark corpses approaching: "My lord , these people really don’t give up.”

Li Huan sneered and said, "That's natural. If I go to the Yangzhou government, once the major crimes committed by these people are found out, it will be a capital crime of ransacking their families. If these people don't try their best to kill them Sir, can they feel at ease?"

Hearing this, Cao Yu couldn't help but screamed: "Assaulting and killing an imperial envoy is also a capital crime of copying one's family and exterminating one's family."

Li Huan said indifferently: "The ones who attacked and killed me were nothing more than a group of water thieves. If I was really killed by these people, what would the court do?"

While he was talking, there were more than a dozen small boats approaching vaguely, but there were not so many figures standing on top of these small boats, but each of these people held hard bows in their hands, and some even held crossbow arrows.

Whether it is a hard bow or a crossbow arrow that is taboo in the imperial court, under normal circumstances, some forces in the rivers and lakes simply cannot produce such things.

But considering the background and origin of these people, it is only normal to be able to come up with these taboo things.

Jing Kui and Ma Qi, who had already boarded a small boat, looked very ugly.

In order to deal with Li Huan, they can be said to have made single-handed preparations. They thought that they would be able to kill Li Huan and his party on the canal without spending much effort.

Who knew that Li Huan and his party were obviously prepared, if so, it would be fine, who made them more prepared, and the way to deal with it is one after another, but even so, the current situation still makes Jing Kui feel uncomfortable. , Ma Qi and the others were terrified and furious.

Seeing those subordinates coming up from all around, Jing Kui said angrily: "Shoot me and burn them to death."

Now that they have prepared kerosene, it is impossible for Jing Kui and the others not to have prepared rockets, so the archers on these small boats are on the one hand to cooperate with the kerosene ship, and on the other hand, they are to suppress the Jinyiwei's troops from a distance.

It's just that Jing Kui didn't intend to use the fire attack before, so neither the boat loaded with kerosene nor the archers made the first move.

Following Jing Kui's order, the archers on the surrounding small boats lit their rockets and shot at the official ships from afar.

These official ships were all built under the auspices of the imperial court, and they were extremely sturdy, especially the official ships selected by Li Huan and his party Jin Yiwei were obviously built by skilled craftsmen, and they were not afraid of rockets when they were idle.

It's a joke to really rely on rockets to ignite a big ship. It's true that those craftsmen who build ships don't have the awareness of fire prevention. …

Even though there have been many warships burned in battles with large armies on the water for thousands of years, few ships were burned by some rockets, and more of them were combustibles on board, which caused the large ships to be ignited by rockets.

Not to mention other things, these official ships have excellent fire performance, and I am afraid that even if those archers shoot with rockets, they will not be able to hurt the official ships.

But now these official ships were thrown on kerosene by those desperadoes who were not afraid of death, so when the rocket hit the ship, it quickly ignited the big ship.

Even so, the fire on the ship was still within a controllable range. After all, after the kerosene was poured on the deck in advance, Jin Yiwei poured bags of sand prepared in advance on the deck to cover the kerosene.

In this case, although the fire broke out on several ships, the fire was not large, and under the suppression of many Jin Yiwei, the fire could not spread at all, and some of them were even extinguished just after the fire broke out.

The faces of Jing Kui and Ma Qi were full of anticipation. As long as a fire burns these official ships to ashes, nine out of ten of these Jin Yiwei on board will die in the fire. Some people dive into the water, but once they enter the water, aren't they allowed to kill them?
However, the smiles on the faces of Jing Kui and Ma Qi froze before they spread.

"how can that be!"

Ma Qi opened his mouth wide and looked at the extinguished fire in astonishment, his face full of disbelief.

On the contrary, Jing Kui seems to have become much stronger after being hit again and again, and it doesn't seem so exaggerated at the moment, but 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 make such thorough preparations."

Ma Qi looked at Li Huan who was standing on the bow of the boat and swung a knife to chop off one of his subordinates who were trying to climb onto the boat, and said with a little panic in his eyes: "My lord, what should I do? If you can’t board the ship, no matter how brave you are, it’s useless.”

Looking at the corpses floating on the water, even though it was Ma Qi who killed people like hemp and was used to seeing dead people, but this time he was a little flustered.

Ma Qi is not stupid, he can still see the situation in front of him, if it goes on like this, I am afraid that all of them will die, and at most it will bring some troubles to Li Huan and his group. Li Huan and his party cannot be killed.

Jing Kui was very calm at this time, frowning and looking ahead, he said: "Didn't someone go to dig the boat? Why hasn't there been any movement yet?"

Ma Qi was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that she also showed doubts on her face.

That's right, the first thing they sent out was a group of water ghosts with excellent water skills, and their idea was to carve through several official ships from underwater.

Although many people were found dead, Ma Qi didn't believe that all of his subordinates were dead.

Normally, after such a short period of time, with the ability of those subordinates, they should have pierced through these ships, but why there is still no movement at all.

Ma Qi hesitated for a moment, and Dang Li let out a whistle, which was quite eye-catching above the water surface, and soon saw a figure swimming quickly in the water, it was a Cao Cao dressed in black work. …

Panting, the water worker stopped in front of the boat, lying on the bow of the boat, water drops slipped from his face and looked at Jing Kui and Ma Qi.

Ma Qi glanced at the man, seemed to recognize the other party's identity, frowned and said, "Feng Xiaoliu, didn't you tell me to bring people to scuttle these ships one by one for me? Why hasn't there been any movement yet? "

Hearing this, Feng Xiaoliu couldn't help showing a look of grievance on his face, and immediately said to Ma Qi: "Brother Seven, it's not that the brothers are careless, it's just that these fucking boats are too strong, and in a short while, the brothers are not at all. It can’t be pierced.”

Ma Qi couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Fuck your mother, you can't scuttle through any ship. Over the years on this big river, you have sunk [-] if not [-] big ships. Tell me now. So many of you can’t pierce these ships of mine, do you think I’m easy to bully?”

Feng Xiaoliu said with a mournful face: "Seventh brother, it is really impenetrable, the bottoms of these boats are actually made of the best hardwood, in such a short time, they cannot be pierced at all. .”

Ma Qi couldn't help kicking it, only kicked Feng Xiaoliu into the river and cursed angrily: "Waste, all his mother's waste."

Jing Kui on the side frowned and said to Ma Qi: "Okay, with Li Huan's status and Jin Yiwei's ability, it is not difficult for them to find a few well-built and sturdy ships."

Hearing the words, Ma Qi turned to Jing Kui with a worried face and said: "But if we can't scuttle the ship, my lord, there is no way to go on like this."

Jing Kui took a deep breath and said, "I thought this matter could be handled by myself alone, but now it seems that I still need to ask for help."

Hearing Jing Kui's words, Ma Qi couldn't help showing astonishment and astonishment, and said almost instinctively: "What? Your lord means that we have other helpers, why don't the subordinates know..."

It's just that Jing Kui didn't pay attention to Ma Qi, but gave Ma Qi a cold look, which immediately made Ma Qi tremble all over, and subconsciously lowered her head, knowing that she had said something that she shouldn't have said.

At the same time, there was a place by the canal, shadowy in the darkness, but an unknown number of people had gathered.The leader is none other than Xu Wei, the general judge of the Yangzhou government.

Needless to say, the dark group of people who followed Xu Wei were the dead servants kept by the Xu family. It was because of these people that Xu Wei led people to forcibly destroy the Yangzhou Jinyiwei Thousand Households.

Although the casualties were not small, but with the financial resources and background of the Xu family, they had already selected manpower to supplement them during this period of time. The number of people has not decreased, but has increased a lot.

Such local rich families as the Chen family and the Xu family, especially the rich families involved in smuggling and smuggling of salt, it is almost normal for the family to raise dead servants and servants.

Even the local government is well aware of it, but they turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. As long as these local wealthy families do not rebel against the government, beyond a certain limit, the local government generally ignores it.

Originally, although it was normal for a powerful man like Xu to keep some family members and dead soldiers, the number of people would still be controlled. Otherwise, even the local government would not really sit idly by. …

However, because the Xu family helped the Yangzhou government to destroy the Jinyiwei Yamen in the past and suffered heavy casualties, it is said that the officials of the Yangzhou government turned a blind eye to the Xu family's crazy expansion of the number of dead servants these days. arrive.

At this time, Xu Weiyao was looking at the flames on the Lixu Kaiwai Grand Canal, and he could even vaguely hear the sound of killing.

It's just that because the distance is a bit far away, the sound of killing seems to be there, and it is not real enough to hear.

A big man who looked like an iron tower was standing next to Xu Wei with a spear in his hand. Who was Xu Meng who was not one of Xu's most powerful men?

When the Jinyiwei yamen was attacked and killed, it was Xu Meng who killed Chen Yao and others who went south with Lin Pingzhi.

Xu Meng has a strong body and looks at the realm of first-class players. He is also counted as a strong player. It can be said that it is one of the cards that the Xu family can hold.

Now Xu Meng's eyes were faintly filled with excitement, looking at the fire in the distance, he clenched the spear in his hand from time to time and then slowly loosened it.Seeming to be a little impatient with waiting, Xu Meng couldn't help but said to Xu Wei, "Brother Wei, are we just watching like this?" Xu Wei said lightly, "Of course we are watching. Could it be that his subordinate Erlang will work hard for Jing Kui and the others?" Xu Meng said with a bit of disdain, "Jing Kui and the others are probably not the opponents of Jin Yiwei."

Xu Wei said with a bit of solemnity on his face: "Don't underestimate Jing Kui and the others. Apart from other things, Jing Kui can easily pull out thousands of desperadoes with just manpower. If you really work hard, Even if the people of Jinyiwei 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.

The reason why he brought people here was that Xu Lin, the magistrate of Yangzhou, was a little worried, so he was asked to be a backup, in case someone escaped the attack of Jing Kui and others.

Xu Wei also didn't intend to compete with Jing Kui, after all, Jin Yiwei suffered a big loss, so as an imperial envoy, Li Huan would definitely be on guard if he was not stupid.

Under such circumstances, if they really confronted Jin Yiwei, Xu Wei felt that the Xu family didn't know what price they would have to pay.It's better to sit here and watch the tigers fight.

This is also the reason why there is such a good knife in the Xu family in Yangzhou Prefecture that they don't use it, so they wrote to Jing Kui and others to let Jing Kui and others do it.

After all, Xu Wei also has to think about his own family, so if these people under him are killed or injured, their family doesn't need to pay any price.

You must know that the reason why these desperadoes are desperate for their Xu family is not because their Xu family fed them with a lot of gold and silver.

It is just because of the extermination of the Jinyiwei Qianhu Office and Lin Pingzhi and others, the dead soldiers and servants that their Xu family has raised over the years can be said to have suffered heavy casualties, and tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver have been spilled for this.

The dead and injured servants were settled.

This time Li Huan and the others were obviously on guard. In this case, they really matched up. I don't know how many more people will be killed or injured. Anyway, their Xu family will not make such a move.

Of course, Xu Wei also clearly distinguishes the importance and knows when to be fussy and when to focus on the overall situation.

Just at this moment, a bright firework suddenly exploded in the air. The firework is like a flower blooming, which obviously has a certain meaning.

Seeing this scene, Xu Wei's face changed slightly and he couldn't help cursing angrily: "He did the math without thinking, so many people were mobilized, and he even asked for help. What a bunch of trash, I don't know how Jing Kui won such a big prize on weekdays title."
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