Chapter Eighty-Seven: Head to Head

A chase raid that immediately turned into a head-to-head confrontation.

"General, that arrow was shot by General Luo Shen. Liu Qing stepped forward and reported the situation to Wang Baoshan.

Wang Baoshan listened to it and said noncommittally: "I am afraid that he is the only one in the army who has such archery skills." ”

"Whose archery skills are so good?" Chen Chong, who had just been woken up, walked over with his sack on his back at this time.

Liu Qing told him what had just happened.

"Unexpectedly, Brother Luo is of the same grade as me, and his archery skills have reached the point where he must be successful, which is really admirable!" After hearing this, Chen Chong was also full of praise for Luo Ying.

Wang Baoshan didn't pay attention to him, but listened to the movement in the dense fog on the right side of the fleet. The water waves over there were turbulent, and the sound of the water was loud, presumably because the other party couldn't hold his breath and began to attack.

"Attention, everyone, there is a situation on the right side ......"

Yang Zhuoyi was vigilant, and immediately shouted, and the soldiers on the cargo ship on the right immediately became vigilant, prepared their weapons one after another, and waited for the arrival of the enemy.

"Whoa......

"Kill ......"

"Rush forward and recapture the grain ......"

After a while, amid a series of shouts of killing, nine fast boats, carrying seventy or eighty heavily armed guards, divided into three fleets, broke through the layers of fog, and sailed over.

Finally met, and the people on both sides were extremely excited and clenched their weapons one after another.

Less than five paces away from the cargo ship, some of the guards, some of whom were agile, jumped onto the cargo ship. When they got on board, they saw people and cut them down, regardless of what was good.

The soldiers on the cargo ship, not to be outdone, swung their knives and slashed at them one by one.

In the shadow of the sword and arrow, blood splashed indiscriminately, and the sound of killing was everywhere. Those who are not good at martial arts are lying on the deck, or they are seriously wounded, covered in blood, and have lost the ability to move, or they have been injured in the vital parts of the body, and have become a bloody corpse.

In the melee, Luo Ying took a bow and arrow in his hand, shot instantly, and the guards who had not yet approached, like moving targets, in less than a while, seven or eight guards, and were pierced through the heart by an arrow. The other guards, in a hurry, also set up bows and arrows to fight back, with only one target, and they all pointed directly at Luo Ying.

Luo Ying was agile, flashed left and right, and after dodging the incoming arrows, he immediately pulled his bow to counterattack.

The guards were frightened by his superb archery skills, and had no choice but to set up the corpses of their companions in front of them to avoid the arrows of Luo Ying and several other soldiers on the cargo ship.

Wang Baoshan looked at Luo Ying and they suppressed the incoming enemy, and jumped with Chen Chong onto the cargo ship of Yang Zhuoyi and others.

"General Wang, what are you doing, go back quickly......" Yang Zhuoyi hurriedly ran over after repelling a guard.

"I'll come over to help, it's enough to have Liu Qing and the brothers over there. ”

As for Wang Baoshan's force, what level is it, Yang Zhuoyi knows it well, and it is thank God not to add to the chaos, where can he be expected to fight against him. And said: "It's dangerous here, I can't estimate you for the time being, you better go back first." ”

When Wang Baoshan heard this, he also understood what he meant, and staying would only drag him back.

"I said, General Wang, go back quickly, save us from saving you later... Haha......" Li Ziming, who was slashing and killing vigorously on the side, looked at his embarrassed appearance, and did not forget to say cool words.

"Be careful......

Yang Zhuoyi was entangled with two guards, but as soon as Li Ziming finished speaking, a guard's waist knife struck from the back of his head, and he hurriedly reminded him.

As soon as Li Ziming was reminded by him, he immediately jumped forward, turned over and waved his knife to block, which was able to block the guard's knife. But this guard and his cunning, seeing that his waist knife was blocked, raised his leg and kicked out, kicked Li Ziming away, and took advantage of the situation to raise the knife and cut it.

Li Ziming, who was kicked away, didn't expect this guard's martial arts skills, and he was not under him, and it was a little late to think about it now. In a hurry, he wanted to wait for his body to stabilize before dodging and blocking. But he didn't want to, before he could stabilize his figure, the clothes on his back waist had been cut by the opponent's waist knife, and the cold and piercing blade cut through his flesh and stabbed in.

"Bang ......"

A thunderclap rang out, the smoke cleared, and a copper pipe was facing this side.

The waist knife in the hand of the guard was about to be in Li Ziming's body, and when he went further, Chen Chong, who was beside Wang Baoshan, made a preemptive strike, launched the handcuff in his hand, and shot him.

"Take the ......" Chen Chong shot the guard and handed the handcuff to Wang Baoshan, asking him to reload himself.

Li Ziming escaped death, frightened, and hurriedly went to check on the guard who attacked him, and found that there was a blood hole the size of a peanut on his forehead, and the person was dead.

Looking at Wang Baoshan's side again, Li Ziming saw the handcuff in his hand and seemed to understand something, thinking that Wang Baoshan used a hidden weapon to save his life. As soon as this idea came out, he was a little incredulous, and said in his heart what kind of secret weapon it was, which could kill people in an instant.

And Li Jin in the back is extremely powerful at this time. He held a big knife and wielded it vigorously, almost fatally, killing several guards on the boat to crying father and mother, and they were cut down and killed by him.

On the side of the ship on the right side of the cargo ship, on the small boat, more than a dozen guards who were about to climb the cargo ship saw Li Jin's unstoppable bravery, and they all retreated in fright, and the idea of attacking in their hearts was also extinguished in an instant by the tragic killing.

"The one who takes the man's head will be rewarded with ten taels of silver..."Not far away, Li Zhi, who was lying on a small boat, saw that the guards did not dare to step forward, and immediately shouted.

At the end, he shouted again: "Whoever takes back the grain will be rewarded with ten taels of money, and everyone will have a share ......."

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. The defenders, who had just retreated, turned around one after another and rejoined the battle.

Faced with the temptation of the bounty, the defenders, who had not gone all out, immediately went crazy, fought harder, and did not work harder.

Wang Baoshan and others, who had just won the victory, felt pressured under the crazy impact of the guards, and for a while, the process of fighting became more and more tragic.

Wang Baoshan had been pulled back to his cargo ship by Chen Chong, where Chen Chong had taken out a long-pole firearm that could shoot from a distance. He didn't set off a gun, and asked Wang Baoshan to help him load his ammunition. In this way, the two of them coordinated with each other to fight, Chen Chong aimed and shot, and Wang Baoshan was responsible for loading ammunition.

Liu Qing and the others on the ship had already gone to other ships to support, and now only the two of them were left.

Chen Chonggang shot and killed one of the guards, stopping him from trying to jump onto the cargo ship of Yang Zhuoyi and others. While waiting for Wang Baoshan to load him with ammunition, he said, "Brother Wang, I'll help you kill that dog officer!"

"Okay!" Wang Baoshan was sweating profusely, and he didn't think much about it, so he agreed.

Chen Chong waited for him to load his ammunition, and climbed onto the mast of the cargo ship with a long-pole firearm on his back.

He aimed and shot, almost in one go, and after a "bang", an iron pellet the size of a soybean, with a small flame, passed through the fighting crowd, and through the layers of mist, directly into Li Zhi's head, and then, shot out from the back of his head, bringing out a large cloud of black blood.

After Li Zhi was shot, the whole person froze, and he still maintained the angry expression just now, motionless, as if he had suddenly turned into a statue. Until the guards next to him, when they went to shake him, found that he was dead.

"Lady Lee......"

"Brothers, retreat! Master Li is already dead......

Several other guards on the same ship found that Li Zhi had died suddenly, saw that the general trend had gone, and began to fight unintentionally. And when they saw that their companions were dead and wounded, and that there was now only one left, they could not bear it, and they cried out.

The other guards who were fighting with Li Jin and the others, seeing that the leading guard leader Li Zhi was dead, looked at the corpses of their companions around them, they also stopped their hands one after another, and immediately withdrew to the boat.

Li Zhi died suddenly, and the bounty he said before was naturally invalidated, and the guards were all family members, not outlaws, so there was no need to make fearless sacrifices.

They came and went as fast as they came, but when they came, there were seventy or eighty people, and now there are less than twenty people who have returned alive.

Li Jin asked the soldiers to throw the corpses of the guards into the Yellow River, gathered the bodies of the soldiers of the Black Wind Army together, and planned to clean up the battlefield and count the casualties.

Yang Zhuoyi looked at the corpses of the guards one by one, who were thrown off the cargo ship, a little unbearable, and shouted to the guards who were about to leave: "You take their corpses back for burial! They fed fish and shrimp in the Yellow River, but they really shouldn't have it, and their families don't want it to ......be like this."

Among the guards who went away, several of them had been following Li Zhi's side, and they had some encounters with Yang Zhuoyi, who was a street patrol guard at that time, in the Nancheng neighborhood of Guanping City, and now they were a little touched when they heard him do so. Today, if other companions die or die themselves, if they die at this time, will others collect their own bodies?

"Thank you, Brother Yang......"

One of the guards thanked Yang Zhuoyi, and then organized the other guards to use the small boat that originally carried them to salvage the bodies of their companions.

Li Jin compared, did not stop, just asked Lian Fatong to clean up the scene as soon as possible, arrange manpower, and row away.

In order to avoid further conflict, they each housed the wounded and their dead companions, and after spending time with each other without disturbing each other, they left separately.

In the post-war cleanup, five soldiers in Wang Baoshan's battalion were unfortunately killed in battle, and more than a dozen suffered stab wounds of varying degrees. In contrast, the number of dead in the Lianfa battalion was higher, 14, and the number of wounded was quite high, about 20. Among the brothers under Jiang Jin's sailors, except for the few rowing brothers, who were unfortunately killed by random arrows, most of the rest only suffered some skin injuries.

Although most of the enemy was killed in this battle, the casualties of their own side were not small, and it was a miserable victory.

In the process of fighting, fortunately, the people on both sides were very restrained and did not cause too much damage to the cargo ship, and the grain on the five cargo ships was safe and sound.

When everyone packed up their mood and marched west along the river on the right side again, the fog on the Yellow River gradually subsided, and the sky sun broke through the clouds and sprinkled warm sunshine.

Wang Baoshan took some river water, washed the blood stains and stains on the bodies of the three dead soldiers, and placed their bodies under the deck of the bow of the ship, planning to wait until they returned to Heifengling, and then dig graves for them to bury, so that their dead souls could have a home.

After disposing of the bodies of the three men, he visited the wounded soldiers, comforted them well, and went to the deck.

"General, eat something!"

Liu Qing saw that he was done, and took the dry food and water he had prepared before to satisfy his hunger.

"Have you all eaten?" Wang Baoshan took it and ate it.

"General, we've all eaten. ”

"Okay, go get some rest!"

"No, General, you haven't rested all night, I'll wait for you for a while after eating. ”

"I'm fine, you still have injuries on your body, go to sleep!"

Wang Baoshan glanced at Liu Qing's arm injury, and knew that he was slashed by a guard because he was saving a soldier, and the wound was not deep, and now he has done a simple bandage.

Liu Qing insisted on not resting, and Wang Baoshan had no choice but to let him.

"Brother Wang, when you're done, come over and sit for a meeting!" At this time, Chen Chong, who was sitting idly on the side of the boat, beckoned him to come over and bask in the sun together.

Wang Baoshan went over to sit down with him and asked him, "Have you eaten?"

Chen Chong said: "I can't eat it. ”

Wang Baoshan listened, a little strange, and asked again: "How... Don't have an appetite?"

"No, it's just a little uncomfortable. ”

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Chong said uncomfortable, but Wang Baoshan was surprised.

Chen Chong didn't answer, but asked him, "Have you ever killed someone?"

Wang Baoshan thought about it, he really couldn't answer this question. After all, although he has not directly killed anyone so far, in the real sense, many people's deaths are indirectly related to him. Not to mention, just take what happened just now, Chen Chong used the fire gun to shoot the enemy, and was responsible for loading ammunition for Chen Chong, he can be regarded as an accomplice.

"Why do you ask this?" Wang Baoshan didn't answer him, wondering why Chen Chong asked this.

"If you don't kill others, others will come and kill you. Liu Qing next to him listened to their conversation and came over to interject.

"I've killed a lot of people, and on the way to escape, my people, and some people I don't know... I killed them all... But I'm only fifteen years old!" Chen Chong said this, looking at the river uncomfortably, and was silent in thought.

Wang Baoshan looked at his appearance and asked him, "Does their death make you feel uncomfortable?"

"Well, I've always wanted to find a quiet place, away from the killing, but ......"

"Then you don't plan to avenge your father's revenge?" Regarding Chen Chong's matter, Liu Qing knew something about Wang Baoshan, so he said so.

After hearing this, Chen Chong did not answer, and quietly looked at the long river and was distracted, as if he was immersed in his own thoughts.

Liu Qing looked at him like this, a little inexplicable, and said: "Brother Chen, I am not much different from you, and I have killed a lot of people, but I have never felt bad, do you know why?"

Chen Chong didn't speak, Wang Baoshan looked at Liu Qing, who usually didn't talk much, and suddenly said this, he couldn't help but be curious, so he asked, "Why?"

"Because, I want revenge!"

"Is it worth it for you to kill so many people for revenge?" Chen Chong heard Liu Qing say that it was for revenge, and opened his mouth.

"If you don't kill people, how can you get the capital for revenge......"

Liu Qing kept killing people in order to get revenge, but Chen Chong was forced to kill in order to escape for his life. The difference between the two seems to be different, but in essence, they are actually the same to kill, but they can't jump out of the strange circle that I don't kill, and people will kill me, so they can only struggle in it.

For these, Liu Qing has his own understanding and opinions, Chen Chong can't figure it out for a while, but Wang Baoshan is ignorant and unconscious, and he hasn't thought about this aspect at all.