Li Chengqian couldn't resist his curiosity, and hurriedly pushed open the window and looked out.

When I looked up, I saw a large ship burning into flames on the river not far away.

By the light of the fire, you can vaguely see the figures on the big ship.

You don't need to listen carefully to hear the earth-shattering shouts of killing.

At this time, a sharp sound also sounded on the ship where Li Chengqian was.

It was the brothers in the camp who were informing the others.

Although the Qianzi battalion is temporarily formed, because of the fierce folk customs of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the children of the military generals' families, even the children of the civil officials and nobles can go to war.

As the arrows rang into the sky, several ships around them rang out with shouts.

At this time, Li Tingxue walked in from outside, looked at Li Chengqian stepping on the ground barefoot, and suddenly said unhappily: "Didn't you stay in bed well, why did you come down?" ”

"I'm curious."

Li Chengqian smiled at Li Tingxue and said, "Sister, what's going on outside, someone is rebelling?" ”

"Rebellion?"

"No one in the world dares to create the Tang Dynasty."

Li Tingxue snorted disdainfully and said, "It's just a group of small water thieves, wait for the brothers below to gather and destroy them." ”

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, because Taizong emphasized the north over the south, the development of the south was slow, and to a certain extent, it was even inferior to the north.

The most notable of these is the use of waterways, which is far less important than the development of water transportation projects as in the Song Dynasty.

If it weren't for that, the area affected by the locust plague would not have been so large, and so many people would not have starved to death because they had no food to eat.

After all, the total grain output of the south has been much greater than that of the north since ancient times, and the waterways are impassable, so it is certainly impossible to rely on land routes alone to achieve the goal of transferring grain from the south to the north.

Since Taizong does not pay attention to waterways, it is not surprising that there are water thieves on the Yangtze River.

Li Tingxue held a ring-headed knife, stood on the deck, commanded the whole army, and was heroic.

Li Chengqian hid behind his sister, watched everything, didn't dare to speak, and coaxed.

Because of the calm and calm of the night tonight, many ships docked at the shelter of this gourd mouth to rest.

In addition to Li Chengqian and his three big ships, there were also many ships of wealthy businessmen moored around.

This group of thieves is also smart, and took advantage of the night to intercept and kill several merchant ships in front and behind, and made a lot of money.

So these people swelled and continued to intercept and kill, but later a cargo ship was loaded with a shipload full of tung oil paint.

Seeing that the enemy was not enough, several of the ship's servants simply set fire to the cargo hold.

In this way, not only did a few of them take advantage of the chaos to escape, but also played an early warning role for others.

And these people obviously didn't expect that among the ships of these businessmen and wealthy households, there was a huge bug hidden in the cruise ship of the prince of the dynasty.

When the three large ships approached each other, some of the water thieves even released arrows to warn.

But after all, they were just a rabble, and the sparse arrows fell into the water before they could reach the ship.

And this also angered Li Tingxue.

There are 800 people in the Qianzi Battalion, and there are more than 200 guards under her command, which is an elite division composed of a total of 1,000 people.

When this rabble saw that they did not surrender, they even dared to return fire on their own side.

Li Tingxue immediately raised the ring-headed knife: "Everyone put on the bow and arrows, shoot me, shoot me hard!" ”

"Don't, don't, don't ......"

Li Chengqian hurriedly spoke: "You can't shoot, now many people are in the water, if you release arrows now, wouldn't it bring unwarranted disasters to those people." ”

It makes sense.

Li Tingxue nodded, and said with a dark face: "Then don't release the arrows, everyone should hide first to ensure that they are not affected by the opponent's arrows." ”

"Hou Junji, send someone to tell the following, go full speed ahead, and crash over."

Bump into it?

Hou Junji glanced at Li Tingxue, and then at Li Chengqian: "County Lord Niangniang, Your Highness is still on the boat." ”

"Him?"

Li Tingxue glanced at Li Chengqian: "He has to go through this sooner or later, you don't need to worry about anything else, just listen to the orders of the county lord." ”

Hou Junji looked at Li Chengqian with embarrassment.

Li Chengqian waved his hand indiscriminately: "Go, go, do what my sister said." ”

Now Li Tingxue has obviously made up her mind, what else can she do if she doesn't crash into it?

Moreover, the big ships they were on were all wrapped in iron sheets, and the toughness was not at all comparable to those merchants' cargo ships.

With the naked eye, the speed of the ship is getting faster and faster, and it is getting closer and closer to the big burning ship.

Li Tingxue picked up a wooden plank and blocked it in front of her, and in an instant, the sound of whizzing arrows breaking through the wind was endless.

"Mamma Mia, don't shoot me down, I don't want to live a new life and die young at the age of eight......"

Li Chengqian hid behind her, listening to the sound of the arrow breaking through the wind, he didn't dare to move, he could only hold his sister's hand tightly.

It didn't take long to hear a loud bang, and the hull of the ship shook violently.

Many of the soldiers had no time to react before they were knocked to the ground by the force of the impact.

"Brothers, kill with me!"

With Hou Junji's shout, dozens of people from the Qianzi battalion rushed up and rushed onto the cargo ship.

In an instant, shouts of killing rang out, and the screams shook the sky.

When Li Tingxue took off the plank, Li Chengqian was stupefied.

In his previous life or in this life, he had never seen such a bloody scene.

It was all a living person, and they were fighting in front of his eyes.

Watching the living people die in front of them is completely different from what they played in the TV series.

There is no one against a hundred, and there is no blood surging, it is completely a fight between life and death.

Li Chengqian sat on the ground in a daze, looking at everything in front of him, his brain was blank.

Li Tingxue said that he would experience it sooner or later, is this what he is going through......

The soldiers of the Qianzi battalion were really heroic, and after rushing to the cargo ship, they fought for only a quarter of an hour, and calm was restored in the field.

On the surface of the river, dozens of corpses of water thieves who did not move floated.

And among these corpses, there are also many water thieves who are still struggling.

But their cries for help and struggles did not win mercy, and they only ushered in the merciless spears of the Qianzi Battalion.

Even Li Tingxue, who is a woman, also cut off the heads of the two water thief leaders with her own hands.

Her beautiful face, with red blood droplets, looked so bewitching.

Li Tingxue came to Li Chengqian's side, pulled him up, and pulled him to the fence.

"See?"

"That's what you're going to face in the future."

Li Tingxue said with a deep gaze: "No emperor can skip these things, and you are no exception." ”

"I ...... I don't want to be an emperor......"

Li Chengqian swallowed his saliva, almost crying in fright.

"If you don't do it, who will?"

"Do you want your unsuccessful brothers?"

Li Tingxue looked at Li Chengqian with raised eyebrows.

Li Chengqian had never seen her like this, and he choked back when the words came to his lips.

Li Tingxue's gaze also softened, and she squatted down and wiped the beads of sweat on Li Chengqian's forehead:

"You've got to go through this."

"You don't know how it all happened until you've experienced it."

"Only when you see people die do you know how difficult it is to live."