A warship sailed out of the early morning mist, and Zhai Qing, the general of the Chu army, stood on the bow of the ship, his eyes fixed on the ship in front of him, which was slowly enlarged in his pupils, it was a smuggling ship.

In the past two years, the trade with the Han Dynasty has been expanding, especially silk, in the Chu State because of the strong control of the Fan Zhuo family, the low price was collected, and then sold at a high price to the Han State for huge profits, while grabbing a lot of wealth, it also destroyed the recklessness of countless smugglers, a boat of silk from the Chu State to the Han State, enough to make a person who has nothing, in the second half of the Chu State in the life of worry-free, such a high profit, naturally make countless people moved, even if the Chu State is constantly increasing the intensity of the crackdown every year, but the smugglers are still unable to stop.

The main way for smugglers is through the waterway, the land route is basically impassable, large-scale smuggling from the land, in the Chu State is basically a dead end, but walking is different, a boat of silk, as long as it avoids the inspection of the sailor, it can go directly to the Han State, and in the Han State, whether you smuggle it or a formal channel, as long as you pay the tax, then you can sell it generously in the Han State. In order to curb this situation, the sailors of the Chu State continued to expand their scale and vigorously cracked down on smuggling by water.

On paper, the Chu State Naval Division is now very powerful, with hundreds of large and small ships and tens of thousands of soldiers. The state of Chu is located in the south and has many rivers, but there is no shortage of sailors.

Although large-scale smuggling has disappeared, sporadic smuggling still occurs from time to time. However, these smugglers have now become a shortcut for the officers and men of the navy to get rich, and if they catch one, they can privately divide the wealth of this full ship.

Zhai Qing lost a lot of money in gambling a few days ago, and now he owes a lot of money, in order to pay off this account, he can only hit the idea on the smuggler, regardless of the hard work, he personally took a warship. Patrolling on the river, waiting for the rabbit, never returning to Hong Kong even at night, smuggling away is a bad guy, mostly sailing at night, and returning to the camp, the one who forced the debt came to the door immediately.

God was pitiful, and he really ran into a smuggling ship, and when the lights on the warship were lit, and the ship was still sailing on the black-lit river, it was being inspected. This boat actually ran away.

Now that the traces were revealed, the smuggling ship was also lit up, and it fled with all its might, and was caught by the Chu army's sailors, but it was not as simple as confiscating the property, they also wanted money, life, and the goods were confiscated on the spot. The person was beheaded on the spot.

What annoyed Zhai Qing was that the sailors on this smuggling ship were obviously veterans, not only were they extremely familiar with the waterway, but they were also extremely skilled in handling the ship. If it weren't for the fact that the performance of his naval division battleship was better than that of a smuggling ship, and the other party was heavily loaded, today's trip would have been in vain. But even so, I chased it down in the middle of the night. It's just closing the distance a little bit, damn it's always been tailwind, while helping yourself. I'm also helping with smuggling boats.

When the day was about to dawn, the transfer finally began, the wind direction changed, both sides were headwinds, and they showed their advantage, the ship was full of young and strong soldiers, and the other party was heavily loaded, and the distance between the two sides was finally greatly reduced. However, the person on the smuggling boat was also ruthless, while escaping, he actually threw the silk on the boat off the boat one by one, seeing that Zhai Qing was on fire with his eyes and blood dripping from his heart, it was all his money! If you catch the other party, you must cut these smugglers who killed a thousand knives.

"Work harder, catch up with me, and catch up with each person for ten taels of silver." Zhai Qing roared angrily.

Under the heavy reward, the sailors were all full of strength, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, Zhai Qing estimated the distance, and probably at the bend in front, he would be able to catch up with this damn smuggling boat.

The sailors on the ship also cheered, chased for a little half of the night, and finally came to an end, although it was a tailwind before, but the sailors on the ship were also exhausted at the moment, and finally they were able to catch up with these smugglers, and there was a large amount of silver in the account, and everyone was smiling.

"Can't run, can you? Haha, I want to slip out of my palm, don't even think about it! Zhai Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief, sat down, and commanded the warship to chase for half the night, and his legs were sore.

The smuggling boat in front of them seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, or they had used all their strength to clean their bodies, and at this time, they were drifting on the surface of the river, letting the current slowly carry the boat forward.

Finally arrived at the bend, the river in front of him suddenly showed his eyes, but at this moment, Zhai Qing jumped up like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, and he finally understood why the smuggling ship in front of him didn't run, not because they couldn't run, but because on the side of the bend, the battleship that covered the sky and the sun was blowing full sails and sailing towards his side. On the top of the mast, the yellow dragon flag fluttering in the morning breeze is showing its fierceness in the wind.

A round of red sun jumped from the tip of the mountain in the distance, the dazzling sunlight reflected Zhai Qing's eyes, at that moment, he almost thought he was dazzled, rubbed his eyes, and the next moment, he screamed: "Han army sailors, turn the rudder, raise the sails, run away!" ”

Although they are both sailors, but the gap between the two is huge, Cui Qing is very clear, both sides are on this river, the Han army sailors are very domineering, often cross the border to the territory of Chu, the two sides have not had conflicts, but after several confrontations, the Chu army sailors no longer dare to provoke each other, the other party's ship is basically larger than the Chu army's sailors, and the weapons on the ship are even more amazing, the Han army's sailors, the bow of the ship is equipped with ramming angles, and the boat gang is hung with steel plates, even if you don't use those weapons, just by impact, also let the boat of the Chu army sailor sink into the river to feed the shrimp and turtles.

What's more, now the other party is a large group, and he only has one. Don't say that the other party is a wolf, you are a sheep, even if the other party is just a group of sheep and you are a bad wolf, you can scratch yourself to death today.

The Han sailors are attacking in a big way, which means that the Han people are going to war with the Chu State, no matter how stupid Zhai Qing is, he now knows that the big thing is not good. "Run, run, if you still want to live." He roared.

The officers and soldiers of the Chu Army's naval division, who were originally exhausted, also understood their own situation, and used all their strength to feed, and the warship drew an arc on the river, turning the corner extremely lightly, at this moment, I am afraid that the usual drills countless times will not be able to achieve today's level, because the sails that were lowered against the wind before rose at an alarming speed at this moment, and one by one the sailors burst out of their own small universe, far beyond the usual level, frantically fleeing to and fro on the road.

And the smuggling ship floated on the river, and the smugglers on board stood on the deck one by one, staring dumbfoundedly at the endless black pressure of the warship.

"There's going to be a war, there's going to be a war. The Han people called! The smuggler muttered.

"Boss, hurry up and find a way, otherwise we will all sink into the river to feed the fish!" A big-shouldered, red-armed man screamed wildly, and his cry finally woke up the smuggler, "Raise the white flag, no, no, no, play the flag, play the common flag, we are not enemies, we are just ordinary people, ordinary people." ”

The smuggler screamed.

In order to maintain the suddenness of the attack, Li Quan chose to sail at night, in the past few years, the inland river division under his command has clearly felt the hydrological situation on this river, and even several times, he disguised himself and walked through this channel in person, and now even if he closes his eyes, he can clearly know that there are dangerous shoals and reefs on this channel.

Everything went smoothly, in the dark night, the danger of such a large formation sailing was quite great, but fortunately, Li Quan had been planning this attack since a few years ago, and all the dangerous situations that might be encountered had been carefully planned, and there was no danger along the way.

It's just that I didn't expect that when I was about to approach the target, I actually ran into the Chu army's naval division battleship.

"Commander, the one ahead should be a smuggling ship, what to do with them?" The adjutant next to him asked.

Li Quan waved his hand and said, "Send the flag, don't worry about this smuggling boat, Team A divided into two clippers to speed up and chase after it, and destroyed the Chu State Sailor who escaped." ”

Zhai Qing was horrified to find that in the fleet of the Han army sailors behind him, two warships were coming out of the crowd and chasing him quickly.

"Quick, faster, faster, faster!" Zhai Qing shouted in panic.

The two sides chased and fled, the officers and soldiers of the Chu Army Naval Division burst out with amazing potential, although the distance was narrowing, but the time of a pillar of incense passed, the other party still failed to catch up with them, it seemed that the other party had lost patience, with a loud bang, Zhai Qing saw that the Han warship in the right rear suddenly fell backwards, accompanied by a puff of smoke, a black thing rushed towards his warship.

"Flash, left, left!" The Chu warship turned to the left, and above their original channel, a huge column of water rose into the sky. Zhai Qing, who had just escaped a catastrophe, didn't have time to come back to his senses, and the Han warship in the left rear was also rising in smoke, this time he finally had no good luck, the black guy hit his boat gang, with a huge roaring sound, Zhai Qing shook the hull left and right, and saw that the solid boat gang was knocked out of a big hole, and in the underwater cabin, there was a terrible scream.

The boat, out of control, suddenly crossed the river.

"Raise the white flag, I, I surrender!" Zhai Qing shouted. (To be continued.) )