The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 159 Set Sail, Prince Linyi

Sun Shao was relieved, although there was an error, but the error was not big, and it was still in Rinan County.He immediately ordered that the merchant ship be escorted to Linyi Kingdom by Yuehai, and he led the people northward to Lurong.He sent Ao Lei to take a few pirates from the South China Sea ashore to inquire about the situation, and Ao Lei didn't come back until dawn the next day, still wounded.

There are really Linyi people in Rinan County. They are extremely ruthless. Most of the villages along the way have been bloodbathed, and there are almost no survivors. After walking for more than 20 miles, they found a military camp near Lurong. There are about 500 people. When they were about to sneak in, they were discovered by the barbarians patrolling outside the camp. Thanks to Ao Lei's bravery, those pirates were also people who licked blood on the blades of their knives, so they killed the group of barbarians and retreated unscathed.

"Lin Yiguo has really invaded?" Both Sun Shao and Yu Fan were a little surprised. At first they thought it was just Li Jing's trick to put pressure on Sun Shao and Bu Zhi. It was probably a lie about the military situation, but they didn't expect reality and They didn't expect it to be the same.

"General, it's nothing. Lin Yiguo is a very small country. At best, it's equivalent to a county in Nichinan. How many soldiers can it have? I don't think they can rule out the possibility of colluding with Li Jing." Yu Fan saw that Sun Shao's face was very pale. Ugly, he quickly comforted: "We have nearly ten thousand people now, wouldn't it be easy to rush up and kill them?"

"Exactly, you don't have to worry, general. Please sit down, general. Let me, Cui Qian, go up and kill this group of bandits." Cui Qian stroked the knife, and said with a sullen face, "That old fellow in Qulian used to After moving my subordinates, I think it’s not a day or two to deal with him, and this time is just a good time to exchange his head for some credit.”

"Who is Qulian?"

"District Company?" Cui Qian glanced at Sun Shao in surprise: "The old man is the king of Linyi Kingdom. Linyi Kingdom was not originally a country, it was Xianglin County of my big man, and District Company is the meritorious service officer of Xianglin County. Later, he killed Chief Xiang Lin and became king himself."

Sun Shao was stunned for a moment, thinking that Cui Qian, the king of pirates, was not built, and directly called the king of Linyi Kingdom an old man.

"This old man is similar to Shi Xie, but he is much more arrogant than Shi Xie. The Shi Xie brothers have been rampant in Jiaozhou for 30 years, but they have not dared to be king. This old man in the district company is very courageous. During the Zhongping Rebellion , He raised the banner himself and proclaimed himself king, and the ignorant barbarians nearby thought he was appointed by the court, and they all believed him."

Cui Qian was a little bit aggrieved, he obviously felt that the old man Ou Lian was not as strong as him, yet he became king, which was really displeased.Sun Shao thought it was a little funny, Xin Taoist's sense of happiness was indeed comparable, now Cui Qian was not convinced by Su Chuleg and the others, but he had no choice but to vent his anger on guys like Qu Lian.

If so, then I will fulfill you.Sun Shao immediately ordered that Cui Qian take the headquarters as the forward, and kill the more than 500 people first.Cui Qian was overjoyed, took Cui Wu ashore, and left in a hurry.

Ou Chu sat in the camp with a displeased expression on his face, and sneered at the envoy sent by Li Jing, the prefect of Rinan.He is the eldest son of District Lian, and he is the prince of Lin Yiguo. This time he led more than 500 people to Rinan County to help Li Jing gain momentum.However, he overacted and slaughtered several villages along the way. When Li Jing found out, he was furious and sent someone to reprimand him, demanding that he quit Ri Nan County immediately, otherwise he would be severely punished.Ou Chu originally felt a little embarrassed, after all, he had gone too far first, but since he was born, he grew up under the admiration of everyone. He is a noble prince of the Linyi Kingdom, and he has to obey some rules besides brahmans. Ever been reprimanded like this?What happened to the big man?The big men were in a mess, they were too busy to take care of themselves, and they had no time to take care of such trivial matters as Rinan County.Besides, in his mind, he has no specific concept of the big man at all. He only knows that although Rinan County is a county, it cannot be compared with Lin Yiguo. He subconsciously thinks that the big man is probably similar to Rinan County.

"Your Majesty ordered you to leave Rinan County in three days, otherwise..."

Before the envoy finished speaking, Ou Chu suddenly drew his knife and pounced on him, slashing him on the neck. The severe pain made him hold back all the words in his throat. He looked at Ou Chu who was grinning ferociously, and he couldn't do it anyway. Trusting his own eyes, he looked at the ornately decorated handle, pointed at Ou Chu with a trembling hand, opened his mouth, spewed out a stream of blood, and spat all over Ou Chu.

Ou Chu was furious, and cut the messenger's neck with a slash of the long knife. The messenger held his neck, stepped back a few steps, and fell on his back with a plop.Ou Chu sneered, wiped off the blood on the envoy's twitching body, and shouted: "Send someone to send the head to Li Jing, and he will hand it over to Rinan County within three days, otherwise, don't blame me for killing him into the city , chickens and dogs will not stay."

The envoy's entourage was trembling and did not dare to say more, so they turned around and hurried out of the tent.

"Prince, this...isn't that good?" Ou Liang, the staff officer accompanying the army, turned pale and his thin lips trembled, "Once the prefect gets angry and leads troops to attack our Linyi Kingdom, we will be in danger of subjugation."

"What are you afraid of?" Ou Chuwai shouted dryly: "If he has this strength, why should he borrow troops from us?"

Ou Liang secretly complained.Ou Chu didn't know the severity, but he knew the power of it.Lin Yiguo seems to be very powerful, but after all, it was only a county in Nichinan County in the past—although it was a relatively large county in Nichinan.The reason why Li Jing didn't attack Linyi was not because he didn't have the strength, but because the independence of Linyi country was not in his hands. He didn't need to mobilize troops to mobilize the whole county for the sake of Linyi country. He is still alive, and has been giving gifts to Li Jing, Li Jing just turned a blind eye, now that Ou Chu killed his envoy, can he let them go?

"Prince, let's retreat. Once the prefect gets angry, he will have more than 2000 people in his hands. We are no match at all." Ou Liang carefully advised: "Return to Lin Yiguo and send someone to explain, maybe This thing will pass.”

"More than 2000 people?" Ou Chu panicked when he heard that.Lin Yiguo claims to have strong soldiers and strong horses, but in fact there are less than 500 soldiers. He now has only 2000 men under his command. If he is up against [-] men, he is not sure that he will be able to retreat unscathed.

"Of course, Rinan County now has four counties with more than 8 people. If all mobilized, it can reach 5000 people. It is not something we can deal with." Ou Liang saw that Ou Chu was afraid, and quickly added fire , hoping to persuade Ou Chu to go back.Ou Chu was a little hesitant. He wanted to do meritorious service this time. He was scared away just after seeing some benefits. What will he do as a prince in the future?He hesitated for a moment: "Does Li Jing have elephant soldiers?"

Ou Liang shook his head.

"Then don't be afraid." Ou Chu half comforted Ou Liang, half comforted himself. "We have elephant soldiers, even if Li Jing has 2000 people, it may not be able to do anything to us. Just wait, when I defeat him, occupy Rinan, and expand the territory of Linyi Kingdom, then you will also have credit. "

Ou Liang tried hard to persuade, but Ou Chu refused to listen, and insisted on fighting Li Jing before leaving.In the end, Ou Chu backed away half a step, he said, don't rush to retreat now, let's see Li Jing's attitude.If Li Jing sent troops, they would retreat. If Li Jing didn't send troops, but just sent someone to ask, then they would send someone to explain, reasoning that the envoy's attitude was not good, and let the matter be fooled.

Although Ou Liang didn't know what happened in Jiaozhou, since Li Jing wanted to borrow troops, he must have encountered a difficult situation. At this time, Li Jing might not turn his face just because they robbed a few villages, Ou Chu This method is not a proper method, and it should be accepted immediately.

Ou Chu waited all night in anxiety, and at dawn in the morning, just as he woke up, Ou Liang came in a hurry, with a rather bad expression on his face.Ou Chu's heart tightened, she stood up abruptly, subconsciously clenched the knife, and asked in a hoarse voice:

"How about it?"

"Last night, a group of soldiers patrolling the camp did not come back. I sent someone to check, only to find that they were killed two miles outside the camp."

"Who did it? Is it from Li Jing?" Ou Chu's heart was beating wildly, and his teeth were chattering.He regretted it a little now, maybe he had listened to Ou Liang from the beginning, and it would be better to leave earlier.Li Jing was really on fire, and brought 2000 troops to kill him, even if he had elephant soldiers, he couldn't stand it.

"No." Ou Liang shook his head, a little puzzled: "I wonder if it's a villager who took revenge."

"Revenge villagers?" Ou Chu heaved a sigh of relief, his expression relaxed.If it is a villager, there is nothing to be afraid of.

"Well, the place where these people were killed was not to the north, but to the south, not far from the village yesterday. I wonder if Qing Zhuang, who went out to fish, came back and found out what we did, and chased after him for revenge." District Liang smiled wryly, "I've already arranged for someone to inquire, and I think we'll have news by noon."

"That's a fart, it looks like you're nervous." Ou Chu gave Ou Liang a contemptuous look, and sat down again.

"I'm not nervous about the villagers, I'm nervous about whether there will be people from the Funan Kingdom in that village." Ou Liang explained: "Among the dead, I found two skulls that were crushed to death. Knee blows are commonly used by the warriors of Funan Kingdom when killing people."

"A warrior from Funan Kingdom?" Ou Chu was also a little uneasy.Lin Yiguo is a vassal state of Funan, and his father Qulian also respects Funan three points. If he provokes the warriors of Funan, it will be more terrifying than provoking Li Jing. "How did they appear in Nichinan?"

Ou Liang shook his head again and again, but he couldn't figure it out.

At noon, the scouts sent by Ou Liang returned to the camp. They all ran sweating profusely, with frightened expressions on their faces, as if they had been greatly frightened.Ou Chu and Ou Liang glanced at it, and immediately raised their hearts to their throats.

"There are... many... many ships on the sea."

"Sea?" Ou Chu and Ou Liang looked at each other, completely confused.If they were from Funan, they should have come from the mountains in the west. How could they have come from the sea?Only merchant ships passed by in large numbers, but if they were merchant ships, why were the scouts so nervous? They should be pleasantly surprised.

"It's...a warship...a ​​warship."

"Warship?" Ou Chu jumped up all of a sudden, and asked anxiously, "How many? Whose battleship is it?"

"There are so many, I don't know whose ship it is."

Ou Chu was furious and kicked the scout over.Ou Liang was careful, and quickly pulled the scout aside to ask in detail.The scout gathered himself together, and then told the situation he had found out.Hundreds of warships came to the sea, all of them big ships, not only the rare warships in Linyi Kingdom, but also larger than the warships, ships as big as the palace where the king lived.

As soon as Ou Liang heard it, he understood that it was a building boat, a building boat unique to the Jiaozhou Navy.

"Jiaozhou Navy? How... how could they suddenly appear to the south of us?" Ou Chu was shocked.

Ou Liang also couldn't figure it out, logically speaking, if the Jiaozhou navy came, they should have come from the north, and they shouldn't have quietly appeared behind them.There was no way to see on the sea, so many ships passed by near the sea, it was impossible to hide from the eyes of the scouts.

Before they could figure it out, the second bad news came.More than 2000 people got off the boat and were running towards this side. It seemed that they had bad intentions.Before Ou Chucong recovered from the shock, there was another worse news: it was Zhu Ya's pirate king Cui Qian's subordinates who came, and judging by the banner, it should be Cui Qian himself.

Cui Qian himself is here?How to save face?Ou Liang was taken aback, without saying a word, he immediately urged Ou Chu to order the camp to escape.If facing Rinan prefect Li Jing he still had a little thought of trying, then facing Cui Qian, he didn't even have the courage to fight.Ou Chu was not the case. Although he often heard that Cui Qian was the king of pirates in the South China Sea, he always felt that no matter how powerful a pirate was, he was still a pirate. How could he compare with the elite of Lin Yiguo?He immediately ordered to go out to fight against the famous king of pirates.

When Cui Qian and Cui Wu arrived, they saw five hundred barbarians waiting in full force.Seeing those "elites" of Lin Yiguo holding wooden shields, Cui Wu almost laughed out loud. Damn it, it was right to invite the battle this time.He didn't say anything, and with one stroke of the knife, he was about to order to charge, but was grabbed by Cui Qian.

"Why?" Cui Wu broke away from Cui Qian impatiently.

"There are elephant soldiers." Cui Qian pouted, motioning to look at the back of the barbarian formation.Cui Wu looked carefully, but saw two elephants behind the barbarian formation. There was a frame on the elephant's back, and there were several soldiers in the frame.

"Hey——" Cui Wu gasped, his old face was a little red, he hadn't been in battle for a long time, and he even forgot the basic principle of watching the enemy's formation.He has never fought against elephant soldiers, but he has heard that elephant soldiers are powerful. He said that they cannot be resisted by manpower when they charge, and most of the arrows and spears used by the men on the elephant's back are coated with poison. Arrows are basically a dead end.

"What about this?"

"What's the matter?" Cui Qian sneered: "There are elephant soldiers in battle, which means that the leader of these 500 people is a big shot in Lin Yiguo. If you can win him and give it to General Fubo as a meeting gift, maybe you can change to General Zhonglang." Do it."

"But... how to deal with them?"

"Isn't that simple?" Cui Qian pouted: "They all use the simplest bamboo or wooden bows, with a range of up to eighty steps, and the range of the accurate head is about fifty or sixty steps. We use all bows. It is a standard bow with a range of 200 steps and a maximum distance of [-] steps. This distance of [-] steps is enough to win." He whispered a few words in Cui Wu's ear, and Cui Wu immediately led more than [-] people ran along the way.

"Sure enough, they are pirates. As soon as they saw my elephant soldiers, they ran away." Sitting on the back of the elephant, Ou Chu pouted triumphantly, and ordered to charge.The barbarians were a little timid when they first saw Cui Qian and others, but before they fought, they saw Cui Wu leading hundreds of people and ran away, while Cui Qian led the others and stood still, attacking a little bit. He didn't have any thoughts, and his courage grew again.Encouraged by the sound of the drum, he rushed towards Cui Qian and the others who were on standby with strange screams.

"Shoot the arrows and block them layer by layer!" Cui Qian gave the order calmly. More than 100 archers stepped forward, drew the bows and arrows in their hands, and shot the first batch of arrows at the running barbarians. They shot three rounds of arrows in succession, and turned around and ran away regardless of the hit rate.

Scattered long arrows flew towards the barbarians. The barbarians screamed strangely, and raised the wooden shields in their hands. The long arrows were nailed to the wooden shield, making a sound of "duk tuk". Some long arrows also hit the barbarians and exposed them. Outside the body, a dozen or so barbarians screamed and fell to the ground, but these did not cause the other barbarians to panic. When they saw that the people on the opposite side started to run away, they became more excited, and regardless of the formation, they swarmed after them.

Cui Qian drew the two stone bows in his hands, and the long arrow roared out, killing the barbarian who shouted the loudest, and then shot through the thigh of the barbarian who was rushing forward with another arrow, and then turned around in a hurry retreat.

"Is that a reminder?" Ou Chu saw Cui Qian in bright armor on the back of the elephant, and also saw the effect of his two arrows, one dead and one wounded, so he slapped the railing angrily and shouted: "Chase, catch him."

Ou Liang also relaxed. Although Cui Qian thought about his name, he was a pirate after all. Some of Ou Chu's men were soldiers from Linyi County.Pirates are stronger than officers and soldiers because of their ferocious aura, but now Cui Qian will collapse at the first touch, it can be seen that they were indeed intimidated by the elephant soldiers, maybe they can really make a great contribution this time.

"Chasing!" Ou Liang echoed Ou Chu's order and ordered the royal hand to control the elephant and start chasing it.The beating of drums inspired Lin Yiguo's elites to chase forward. Consciously or unconsciously, they forgot that they were in front of the great pirate Cui Qian who was rampant in the South China Sea, and regarded them as a group of ordinary pirates who were inferior to them.

In Ou Chu's mind, he even despises him, the king of the South China Sea is nothing more than that.

Cui Qian led his men to fight and retreat. Every 100 steps or so, a group of archers would shoot a hundred arrows, then turn around and run, directly passing through the companions who had already prepared the blocking formation, and ran to the next hundred steps. Prepare outside.After several rotations, the casualties of the barbarians had increased to seventy or eighty, while only a dozen of Cui Qian's men were injured by the arrows.

As for the elephant soldiers following behind, so far they have not had a chance to play other than running behind.Cui Qian always stays 150 steps away, not giving Ou Chu a chance to play.Ou Chu was furious, he ordered the soldiers in front to get out of the way, urged the elephants to rush to the front, and must show Cui Qian a little bit.

The two elephants roared, and with four thick elephant legs, they passed through the chaotic formation, and rushed towards Cui Qian at the head of the horse.When Cui Qian saw it, he raised his hand and shot an arrow at Ou Chu on the back of the elephant, turned around and ran, shouting while running, the pirates shot a round of arrows, and then ran away, with a more embarrassed look.

The long arrow roared towards Ou Chu's chest, and the two guards raised their shields to block Ou Chu's front.The long arrow pierced through the first shield with a "flutter", killing the guard.Ou Chu looked at the bodyguard who turned over and fell off the elephant's back, screamed angrily, ordered the imperial hand to speed up, and would not stop until he caught up with Cui Qian.

The elephant quickly rushed up to the soldiers who were hit by arrows and couldn't run. Under their heavy trampling, those soldiers were crushed to pieces on the spot and screamed horribly. These screams made Ou Chu even more excited. He stared at the background of Cui Qian who was fleeing in front of him, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Chasing, chasing, stepping on the death sign!"

(End of this chapter)