Because they asked Mu Hong and their group for less than half an hour, it was still too late to catch up, plus Liu Junmao and Wang Haiqi felt that they could take advantage of it, so Jing Zhe's three hundred people plus the two hundred people brought over by Liu and Wang, a total of more than five hundred people, the Cao Gang naturally had its own merchant ships, and Jing Zhe specially dispatched five ships from all over the place urgently, exactly one ship with one hundred people, and after all the arrangements were made, they set sail with it.

Now whether it is Jing Zhe, Liu Junmao and Wang Haiqi, everyone is very confident, why, because on the Yangtze River, Mu Hong and others have no way to avoid it, if they have five boats and five hundred people to surround Mu Hong and Yun Qing and others, then the other party is really no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground.

Moreover, it can be said that there is no way to avoid on the river, and you can only go straight and hard, so there is no terrain convenience, so it can best reflect the advantage of numbers.

Several advantages were combined, plus Wang Haiqi, Liu Junmao and Jing Zhe all chose to take advantage of the situation to attack, the three of them each brought a hundred guards to sit in the back, and the two unmanned ships in front drove in the front as the vanguard.

When the five ships sailed out from Xicheng Wharf, Yun Qing and the others had already sailed a long way, but unfortunately the sky was not beautiful, because the wind was blowing from west to east today, and Yun Qing and the others' merchant ships were just like going against the wind, so they could only raise the effective arc sails and follow the zigzag route, and the relative speed was even slower.

The merchant ships that followed the Cao Gang because the crew members were all long-term travel, so whether it was experience or crew configuration, they were much better than Zhou Xiaofu's merchant ships, if you look down in the sky, you can see the layout of one in front, two in the middle, and three in the back. Moreover, the last five ships are still a certain distance from the one that Mu Hong Yunqing and they are on now, but the distance between them is getting closer and closer.

At this time, Yun Qing, Liu Baiqing, Mu Hong, Lei Laohu, Li Sanliang and others all gathered on the deck. Whether it is the Taibai Secret Guard or the Taibai Secret Guard, they all silently took out a stack of small wooden sticks similar to chopsticks, if Cao Yi was here, he would say that these are the same as the modern drum stick mallets in later generations.

Mu Hong, Lei Laohu, Li Sanliang and the others also looked at these people blankly, not knowing what they were going to do, and then the actions of the Taibai secret guard and the secret guard made them figure out what these people were going to do.

Everyone was making a simple crossbow arrow, a crossbow arrow with only one sharpened end and no tail feathers.

"What is this?" Mu Hong asked suspiciously, thinking in his heart that they were with so many crossbows? That's more than 60 people.

"If Jingzhe and them come, our crossbow arrows can consume at least hundreds of people, but now we only have 20 crossbow arrows for each of the sixty-two people, which is far from enough, so we can only make this kind of simple crossbow arrows." Liu Baiqing explained lightly, and the movements in his hands were not delayed at all while speaking.

Mu Hong and Lei Laohu swallowed a mouthful of saliva at the same time, this is too terrifying, are they just ordinary guards or soldiers.

Although crossbow arrows are not regulated like bows and arrows, they are not equipped with such weapons by ordinary guards. Fortunately, each of the sixty-two people was equipped with one. And on the premise that there are already twenty crossbow arrows per person, they also make more by themselves.

Among them, Lei Laohu, who has been a soldier, knows how terrifying it is to have a crossbow in his hand, because crossbow arrows are not as difficult to operate as bows and arrows. Nor does it require the exaggerated arm strength and eyesight of archers.

As long as the hand holding the crossbow is stable enough. And it is extremely easy to use, compared to the bow and arrow, the bow is to bend the bow and shoot far, and the crossbow arrow is to press the wrench on the target at a closer distance. And the close-range lethality is also strong enough.

Sixty-two people, twenty crossbow arrows each, plus the crossbow arrows now made, if you count twenty arrows per person, a total of forty. If one crossbow arrow can injure the person who shoots it, and two or three crossbow arrows can make the opponent ineffective or die, then the sixty-two people can lose three or four hundred combatants in an instant with the shot of the crossbow arrows.

Of course, this number is ideal.,In fact, when you really fight, others don't say that you just stand like this and let you shoot.,Won't say that everyone is assigned so well.,One person only shoots one target.,In fact, in reality, it's still repeated.,Or someone with a sword and something like that.。

However, even if these two thousand four hundred crossbow arrows only have an effective hit rate of thirty percent, they can consume at least three hundred people. That's why Lei Laohu and Mu Hong were so surprised and even terrifying. But after thinking about it, in this way, even if Jing Zhe, Liu Junmao, and Wang Haiqi all chased after them, just the salvo of crossbow arrows would be enough for them to eat a pot.

And now they are watching these people silently making this crossbow arrow at close range, revealing the breath of killing in the dullness, and they don't need to test it, they feel that these people are the kind of people who are very strong in combat, with Mu Hong's understanding of his Cao gang members, as well as the cognition of those Liao people, in fact, their combat ability will never be comparable to these people.

Mu Hong and Lei Laohu glanced at each other, the shock in their eyes had not yet dissipated, I really didn't know how these people trained! He looks so young, but it's so terrifying......

"That'...... Cloud Commander, is there anything we can do to help? Mu Hong asked.

Yun Qing raised his head and glanced at Lei Laohu, except for Lei Laohu, Mu Hong, and Li San, the two and three of them looked pretty good at the moment, everyone else was trembling and a little frightened.

"Okay, do you all have daggers or knives? If you have one, help us cut it together! ”

"Yes! Yes! We bought a dagger for each of us on the way! Lei Laohu quickly replied, and then nine people also joined in the work of making simple crossbow arrows.

"Shepherd Gang Master, Thunder Tiger, who among you knows how to wield crossbow arrows?" Liu Baiqing suddenly asked.

"I've played!" "I will!" The ones who spoke were Mu Hong and Lei Laohu. As the leader of the Cao Gang, he naturally played with crossbow arrows, and Lei Laohu turned out to be the head of the local Xiang Army, so he would naturally do this.

The rest of the people looked at each other, they were all the lowest gangsters of the Cao Gang before, and the weapons they used were mostly small wooden sticks, small daggers, and even iron rods and swords had never been used again, not to mention crossbow arrows, which were long-range killing weapons.

"I can learn!" Li Sanliang looked at Liu Baiqing with firm eyes, and the remaining few people glanced at Li Sanliang and shouted, "I can also learn!" "We can all learn!"

They have been firmly on the side of the gang leader Mu Hong from the beginning, and they have also decided to stay in the Cao Gang and wait for the gang leader Mu Hong to make a comeback, so they have long been ready to fight, and they also know that now is the most critical moment. If they successfully reach Yangzhou, then they will be safe, if they are caught up by Jing Zhe and them on the way to the ship, they will definitely not be able to avoid a bloody battle, and in the end it will depend on who can survive in the end.

"Good!" Yun Qing looked at Li Sanliang with an appreciative face, he was the first person to say "I can learn", if you have this kind of mentality, you still worry about not being able to do anything well.

"We still have about twenty pairs of crossbow arrows on our side, you go and practice now, remember not to shoot at people, just shoot at the plank or wooden wall, shoot casually, and we will pay for all the damage." Yun Qing said to them. There are also nearly ten people here, even if there are two or three salvos at that time, how can they let the casualties be about ten people at a long distance.

"Helian Qishan, Thunder Tiger, you two go and teach these people how to use crossbow arrows!" Yun Qing turned his head to look at Helian Qishan and said solemnly.

"Yes!" Helian Qishan stood up and saluted and responded loudly, which startled Mu Hong and the others.

Mu Hong watched Helian Qishan and Lei Laohu lead people to the back of the merchant ship to practice crossbow arrows, and was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Commander Yun, how do you know that they will definitely catch up?" ”

Yun Qing showed a different smile on her face, and asked softly, "Sect Master, if you and Jing Zhe's identities are swapped now, will you catch up and kill us forever?" ”

Mu Hong was stunned again and didn't answer, because he knew the answer in his heart for the first time, and if it was him, he would definitely chase after him, kill all the other party on the way, and not give the other party a chance to let the tiger return to the mountain.

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