At dusk, which is equivalent to 7 o'clock in the afternoon of modern time, the drizzle in the sky around Llama Lake is getting denser and heavier, but the lake around Guanba Island is still quiet, and there is no shadow of the Qing army's fleet. In this situation, everyone on Guanchang Island, who had everything in place, was anxious, and Wu Yuanming was even more anxious and afraid-because Zheng Xue ignored Chen Jinnan's strict orders and pointed Xueliang's sword at Wu Yuanming's throat.

"The surname is Wu, the time is only a moment away, why hasn't the Tartar fleet come yet? Why hasn't my sister come back yet? Zheng Xue's pretty face was colder than ice, and the sword was slightly forced, and the sharp blade pierced into the skin of Wu Yuanming's throat, and two drops of dirty and smelly blood immediately oozed out from under the skin of Wu Yuanming's throat. The people next to him were in a hurry, and they came over to persuade them: "Miss Zheng, don't mess around!" If you have something to say, don't use knives and guns. ”

"Don't pull me any one, or I'll stab this thief to death with a sword!" Zheng Xue's eyes began to redden, showing signs of madness, and everyone was afraid that her impulsiveness would really result in Wu Yuanming's dog life, so they hurriedly stopped together and persuaded loudly. Wu Yuanming also said profusely: "Miss Zheng, isn't there still a quarter of an hour before the time?" Please wait, if the Tartar fleet hasn't come yet, it's not too late for you to kill me again. ”

"Hmph, then let you live another quarter of an hour." Zheng Xue snorted coldly, and the sword was no longer forced, but the sword was still pointing at Wu Yuanming's throat and not moving. Wu Yuanming said with a sad face: "Miss Zheng, this is very dangerous, can you take the sword away first?" I promise I won't run ....... Wu Yuanming's plea was exchanged for Zheng Xue's murderous glance, which frightened Wu Yuanming to shut up quickly.

The time of the hour is that one hour is equal to four quarters, one hour is equal to three tea times, and one tea is equal to two pillars of incense time - that is to say, in the time of six pillars of incense, if the Qing army's fleet does not appear near Guanchang Island, then Wu Yuanming's sinful life will be declared over. But as time passed, there was still no movement on the lake, and the reconnaissance ship that went to investigate the movement of the Qing army fleet did not return, and the cold sweat on Wu Yuanming's head flowed faster and faster, but Zheng Xue's arm did not tremble in the slightest, and still pointed tightly at Wu Yuanming's throat.

"Miss, it's only time for a cup of tea!" A member of the Heaven and Earth Congregation who was watching the copper kettle dripping from the cabin poked its head out and reported loudly to Zheng Xue—by the way, he glanced angrily at the culprit Wu Yuanming. Zheng Xue's face was like frost, and she shouted: "Each pillar of incense is reported, and when the time comes, tell me immediately." ”

"Miss Zheng, listen to me, you don't have to worry too much." At this point, Wu Yuanming didn't dare to have much hope for his plan, so he hurriedly gave Zheng Xue a precautionary shot: "Your sister has a special identity, even if the plan is revealed, the Tartars will not dare to do anything with her, and they will definitely be escorted to the capital and handed over to the Tartar Emperor." If the time comes, and the Tartar fleet hasn't come yet, I'll find a way to rescue your sister. ”

"No, it's enough for me to save my sister - as for you, I'll have someone prepare a coffin for you." Zheng Xue replied coldly. The cold and murderous voice made Wu Yuanming feel like an ice cave, and at the same time, he was terrified. At this time, Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan quietly forced over, but before they took two steps, Zheng Xue shouted angrily: "If you take one step closer, I will kill this prostitute immediately!" ”

"Brother Liu, go and ask Chief Chen to take the helm." Wu Yuanming, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, had no choice but to go to Chen Jinnan to save his life in order not to die tragically under Zheng Xue's sword. Who knew that Zheng Xue sneered: "Don't expect my master to come and save you, before you returned to Guanchang Island, the poison in his old man's house attacked again, and he has been unconscious until now." Besides, if my master knew that you were taking my sister to take such a risk, the master would kill you first! ”

Liu Haozi, Hong Dashan and others also nodded, indicating that what Zheng Xue said was true, Wu Yuanming secretly complained, so he had to take the opportunity to smear oil on the soles of his feet, and said with a forced smile: "Miss Zheng, otherwise, let's go to your sister in two boats, maybe we will have time to save her." Zheng Xue was furious, put her sword on again, and said angrily: "Shut up!" Wu Yuanming had another stinging pain in his throat, so he had to obediently close his mouth. At this time, the congregation of the Heaven and Earth Society, which was staring at the water for a quarter of an hour, poked their heads out again and shouted, "There is only one pillar of incense left until the end of the day." ”

"You can still live a pillar of incense." Zheng Xuemei's eyes were like ice, and she stared at Wu Yuanming coldly. Wu Yuanming no longer dared to look at her gaze that was colder than ice, and turned his gaze to the lake in fear, and prayed to the gods and Buddhas of the heavens and Buddhas in his heart, and prayed to the gods and Buddhas of the heavens and Buddhas, begging them to bless the Qing army fleet to be lured to Guanchang Island on time, and to bless their sinful little lives by the way. It's a pity that the heavens should really look at Wu Yuanming unpleasantly, the lake is still quiet, except for the wind and rain, only the waves are light, so there is the shadow of the Qing army's fleet?

Time passed minute by minute, and for Wu Yuanming, this time was like flying past, and crawling slowly like a snail, and the air on the wharf of Luoma Lake was so solemn that it seemed to freeze. Suddenly, there was a tumult on the deck of the Llama Lake flagship, which was filled with a copper kettle dripping, and the congregation ran to the side of the ship and shouted, "Miss, the time has come!" ”

"It's ...... time." Zheng Xue's body shook for a while, and two crystal tears suddenly flowed out of her beautiful eyes, and she shouted: "Little sister, sister has avenged you!" With that, Zheng Xue handed over the sword in his hand and stabbed Wu Yuanming, who was almost paralyzed, into the throat......

"Slow!" Seeing that the tip of the sword was about to pierce Wu Yuanming's throat, Hong Dashan, who had the best eyesight, suddenly pointed to the lake and shouted, "Boat!" Let's go to scout the enemy's boat back! Zheng Xue and the others looked at it, and sure enough, they saw a small black spot on the lake in the distance, which was the boat from Luoma Lake that went to reconnoiter the movements of the Qing army's fleet......

"It's coming! Here it comes! When the boat was still far away from the dock, the sailors on the ship were already shouting frantically, "Brother Wu, Brother Liu, the fleet of Tartars is all here!" It is only fifteen miles away from Guaba Island at most, and the course is exactly Guaba Island! ”

"The Tartar fleet is coming!" There was silence on the pier of Gukiba Island, and then an earth-shattering cheer, "It's done!" The Tartar flotilla is coming! The most excited in the cheering crowd was naturally Wu Yuanming, who almost lost his life for this, and under the excitement and surprise of escaping death, Wu Yuanming actually hugged Zheng Xue, hugged Zheng Xue's soft delicate body and shouted: "Li Xiongfei has succeeded!" Tartars are fooled! We did it! ”

"Let go of me." Zheng Xue pushed Wu Yuanming away with a flushed face, turned her back and said in a low voice: "Although Tartar is here, I don't know what my sister's situation is now, if she has any accidents, I will still kill you!" Speaking of this, Zheng Xue raised her voice again and said: "Since the Tartar fleet is here, then you go and arrange to meet the enemy, whether you can defeat the Tartars depends on whether your strategy is useful." ”

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At the same time, on the flagship of the Qing army fleet that was going all out to kill Guanchang Island, Li Xiongfei, who had already gained the trust of the Qing army, was drinking and having fun with Chani and other Qing army generals, Zheng Xin was tied to the pillar of the main cabin of the flagship, and Chani, who was fascinated by the banquet, repeatedly asked Li Xiongfei for Zheng Xin, a prisoner, but Li Xiongfei politely refused, Chani was extremely bad at drinking, and his anger gradually rose after being rejected, and he patted the table and said to Li Xiongfei: "General Li, a fixed price, twenty women plus three thousand taels of silver, You give this little beauty to Lao Tzu! How about you taking advantage of this deal? ”

"Thank you, Lord Commander, for your kindness, but ......." Li Xiongfei still wanted to refuse, but in order to please Chani, his lieutenant Gele said in a non-yin manner: "General Li, you had better not refuse the kindness of the chief soldier." To put it mildly, the general and your servants have all been killed at the hands of the water thieves, if our general will ...... you too Even the king of Pingxi could not know where the general went. ”

"Oops, these bastards want to kill people." Li Xiongfei had been in contact with generals at all levels of the Qing army for a long time, and he had long known the vicious and brutal character of these generals, and he immediately panicked in his heart. Seeing the murderous look on Chani's ugly face again, Li Xiongfei was nervous and anxious, and smiled at Chani: "Since the general likes it, Li Xiongfei doesn't dare to ask for the general's silver and women, this little beauty is even if Li Xiongfei is filial to the general." Chani was overjoyed and was about to thank him, but Li Xiongfei said again: "But the young general has one condition, I hope the general will agree." ”

"What conditions do you want, want to be promoted? Lao Tzu can recommend you to the imperial court. Chani said nonchalantly. Li Xiongfei shook his head, pointed at Zheng Xin and said with a lewd smile: "Lord General Soldier, I can't hide it, the last general also likes this beautiful little beauty very much, and also wants to take her into the back room, so the last general repeatedly refused." But now the general insists on wanting it, and the last general does not dare to refuse, just hoping to get her first night, and hoping that the general will agree. ”

"Li Xiongfei, you dog thief, I'm going to kill you." Zheng Xin, who believed it to be true, was distracted by Li Xiongfei's words, and struggled to scream. Chani is a Manchurian, so he doesn't care if Zheng Xin is a virgin or not, not to mention Zheng Xin's special status, no matter how much Chani likes her, she can only secretly play for a period of time before she is handed over to the court, and she doesn't have the courage to directly accept her as a wife and concubine, so Chani slapped the table and said, "Okay!" Deal! Sleep all night tonight and give it to me tomorrow! ”

"Thank you, General." Li Xiongfei achieved the plan of delaying the army, and hurriedly thanked Chani and continued to smile lewdly: "I'm afraid that the general won't be able to look down on this little beauty tomorrow, because her sister is much more beautiful and moving than her...... Haha, hahaha....... ”

"No, as early as when I was in Yangzhou, I liked my sisters the most." Chani imagined the scene of the Zheng family sisters in bed together, and couldn't help laughing wildly. And Zheng Xin was already so frightened that his whole body trembled, but his pale little face was even more attractive, and Li Xiongfei was a little moved. At this time, a herald suddenly rushed from outside the boat, knelt down on one knee and clenched his fists and said: "Report to the general, our fleet has arrived less than ten miles south of Guanchang Island, the lair of the thieves in Luoma Lake, and more than ten pirate warships appeared in Luoma Lake three miles ahead. ”

"Hahaha, the water thieves are really retreating, and in order to buy time, even the ships are not well prepared." Chani was a veteran in the army, and of course he knew that the enemy's uneven formation was due to lack of preparation, so he hurriedly laughed and ordered: "The big ship is forward, and the small boat is fast to protect the wings, rush up!" ”

"Piercing!" The herald hurriedly left, and Chani ordered the generals who accompanied the drinking generals to return to their posts, and put on their armor and helmets to prepare for battle, Li Xiongfei was very fine, and he was afraid that Chani would force him to go into battle together, so he took advance as a retreat and said: "Lord Commander, the last general is also the general of the army, please lead a boat of 100 people to fight the water thieves with the general." As Li Xiongfei expected, he took the initiative to ask Zhan Chani to be suspicious, and Chani refused after thinking about it: "No need, although you are my general of the Qing Dynasty, you are not familiar with the flag and password of my fleet, and it is not good to command the warship." Speaking of this, Chani smiled and said, "You still stay in the main cabin of this flagship, give me a good look at this little beauty, and don't let those bunnies take the opportunity to steal food." ”

"The last will obey." Li Xiongfei hung his head and agreed. Chani touched Zheng Xin's delicate little face again, and then strode out of the cabin, but Chani was also quite fine, and arranged ten guards to stay in the main cabin called protection, but in fact to monitor Li Xiongfei and Zheng Xin, Li Xiongfei was not afraid at all, just sat in place and drank and ate meat, and laughed with Chani's personal soldiers.

In a moment, the war drums on the Qing warship beat in unison, "Knock knock knock......!" In the sound of war drums, more than 200 flagships of the Qing army set up an arrow array, with four large boats that could carry 100 people side by side as the tip of the arrows, and only inserted a Llama Lake interception array with only more than ten small and medium-sized boats. Although the number of Luoma Lake fleets is small, they do not flee in a hurry, but they sway and paddle straight up, and when they are about to meet the Qing fleet, the Luoma Lake flagship in the rear is on the torch, and the Luoma Lake Clipper in front of them immediately dispersed, avoiding the impact of the Qing army's big ships, and turning into pieces to wear the ** Qing army fleet. The Qing army here was not to be outdone, and the big ships condescended to release arrows to control the enemy, but the Llama Lake clippers were extremely flexible, and the sailors quickly rushed into the Qing fast fleet while blocking the arrows with shields, and mixed with the Qing fast boats, forcing the Qing big ships to stop firing arrows so as not to injure themselves by mistake.

"Kill ——!" The clippers of Luoma Lake and the small boats of the Qing army broke out at the same time, the Qing army clippers surrounded the Luoma Lake clippers with a large number of them, and the Luoma Lake clippers were quickly interspersed, not giving the Qing army the opportunity to launch hand-to-hand combat, while indiscriminately firing arrows to kill the enemy, the Qing army did not dare to release arrows because of their own boats, and because they were not accustomed to water warfare and moved slowly, the lineup between the pursuit was disturbed by the Luoma Lake, not to mention, there were sailors on the boat from time to time with arrows falling into the water. Chani was furious when he saw it on the flagship, and shouted: "Send the flag, order the Clippers to retract, and surround the water thieves in close combat." ”

"Huhuhu." On the lookout, the Qing standard-bearer quickly waved his torch to send a signal, but the Luoma Lake Clippers soon discovered the Qing army's attempt to surround them, and rushed to intersperse detours together before the Qing army encircled, and actually used the advantage of the ship's speed to break out of the Qing army's encirclement and fled back to the front, only one small boat was knocked over by the Qing army, and more than ten sailors on board were all killed. But during the period when the Luoma Lake fleet was in and out, how many did they kill and injure Qing sailors? Angry, Chani was furious, and shouted frantically: "The whole army is advancing at full speed and fighting a decisive battle with the water thieves!" ”

"Knock knock!" The war drums on the Qing warships beat together, and more than 200 large and small warships charged over like crucians crossing the river, and there was a tendency to devour the Luoma Lake fleet with a total number of less than 30 alive, but the flag flashed on the Luoma Lake fleet, and the whole team turned the rudder to the right together and outflanked the left flank of the Qing army fleet in a counterclockwise direction. Chani had no choice but to order 50 clippers to get out of the brigade to save the grain boats, but not long after the Qing army clippers left the brigade, the Luoma Lake fleet gave up the Qing army grain ships that were about to be able to fight, and attacked the right flank of the Qing army again, not only luring the Qing fast boats to continue to chase, but also forcing the right flank of the Qing army to also run out of the clippers to intercept, and the neat formation was greatly scattered.

"Damn, the speed can't keep up with them." By this time it was already completely dark. On the flagship, Ni vaguely saw that the Llama Lake fleet was fleeing to the right of his own fleet, but his own speed was far inferior to theirs, and the pursuers were quickly thrown away, and his heart could not help but be even more angry. But Chani also understood that sailors could not be trained in a day or two, and did not scold his subordinates too much, but his lieutenant Gele saw that something was wrong, and said to Chani: "General, the situation seems to be wrong, the water thieves first rushed into our ranks to provoke us, and then took advantage of the open surface of the lake to weave around us in a roundabout way, refusing to engage us head-on. Could it be that they are tempting the enemy? Or are you stalling for time? ”

"Procrastinating?" A flash of inspiration flashed in Chani's mind, and he suddenly understood, and shouted, "That's right, they are buying time for the family of the water thieves in the nest of Sekiba Island to escape. Calling this, Chanima commanded: "The whole ship shrinks, the grain ship is in the middle, and it goes straight to Guam Island!" The flag was swaggering, and the Qing army immediately turned the bow of the ship and ordered the grain ships to crowd in the middle and kill Guaba Island. The Luoma Lake fleet over there also found that it was useless to lure the enemy, so they also hurried back and rushed to the front of the Qing fleet with their boats. Chani expected that the Llama Lake fleet would go back to meet his family, but he was not in a hurry to catch up, but ordered the whole team to advance carefully, especially to raise the water-bottom reef, and as for the most effective fire attack against the wooden boats, Chani did not care—although the wind was blowing in the sky, it was still raining.

Half an hour later, the low peaks on Sekiba Island were already in sight, the night rain was much lighter at this time, but the night wind was getting stronger and stronger, Chani saw the torches on the shore of Sekiba Island in the dark night, guessed that the inhabitants of the island had not had time to retreat, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "The whole ship is beating drums, strive to move forward, don't give them a chance to get on the boat." The flag was raised, and more than 200 war drums on the Qing warships shook the sky, and the torches on Guanchang Island became more and more chaotic, and at the same time, the sound of men and women crying was heard. The Qing army was ahead of the momentum before the battle, and the morale of the whole army could not help but be greatly boosted, and the march against the wind and rain was faster.

"Here comes the Tartars! Run! When the Qing army was still a mile or two away from Guanchang Island, there were already shouts on the wharf of Guaba Island, and the large and small ships moored on the shore of the wharf did not care about loading their companions who had not had time to board the ship, and they shook their oars and fled in embarrassment, leaving a large number of family members and companions on the island for the Qing army to massacre. Chani was overjoyed when he saw this, and while sending a clipper to intercept the fleeing boat, he ordered the big ship to dock and "kill the island, grab money, food, and women!" Lao Tzu only needs that beauty in Taiwan, other women, whoever grabs it will belong to whom! ”

"Grab the money! Grab the food! Rob a woman! The Qing warships were full of joy, scrambling to dock the boats, and brave the rain to tread water to kill the land. The residents of Llama Lake on the shore were in chaos, and they left their bags and luggage and fled to the mountain peaks on the island, and many people even tore their throats and shouted, "Chief Helmsman Chen, eldest lady, the Tartars are coming, go up the mountain, go up the mountain, go up the mountain——! Chani couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this shout on the flagship, and laughed and said: "It turns out that Chen Jinnan and the beauty haven't had time to escape, and the whole army has gone to the island, and they must be captured alive!" ”

"General, you must leave people to guard the ship, and the thief must turn his head and kill back." Geller reminded loudly. Chani laughed and said: "Okay, you take a thousand people to guard the boat, this time Lao Tzu will help you grab a few more women, Lao Tzu only needs that chick in Taiwan!" With that, Chaniti jumped off the dock quickly, personally led the army to the land, and chased after the people of Llama Lake who fled to the peak. But the Qing army has won the battle at the moment, many Qing troops have taken advantage of the chaos to go to the island to grab money, food and women, if it is not for Ge Le's strict stop, I am afraid that all the Qing troops will go ashore to grab money, food and women, Rao is so, the Qing army who stayed at the dock to guard the ship is still only five or six hundred people, which is almost half less than the number of guards ordered by Chani.

The topography of Guaba Island is like this, there is a stone mountain on the island that is only more than 400 meters high, the east, west and north are all cliffs, only the south can stop the boat and land on the shore, and the courtyard of the house where the water thieves of Llama Lake stay are all in the half of the south of the stone mountain, the trees on the island are quite dense, but there is no grass on the half waist of the stone mountain, and the mountain road is steep and rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so all the families of Llama Lake have fled directly to the stone mountain through the cottage houses. The Qing army chased after it, passing through the Luoma Lake cottage, many Qing soldiers kicked the door and smashed the window and rushed into the room to rob it, although Liu Haozi often robbed the merchant ships and official ships was quite rich, and there were a lot of valuable things such as quilts and brocade and silk in the room, but they couldn't stand three or four thousand Qing troops, and the Qing army who didn't grab things saw that their companions grabbed the money, or they asked for it or robbed it hard, and the original owner of the property naturally did not allow it, and resisted, and the cottage was in chaos when it was neutral - of course, this is also a common problem of the Qing army, you know, during the Yangzhou massacre, In order to compete for property and women, the Qing army killed many of their own people by killing each other.

", something with no ambition." Chani didn't think he was angry about the wanton robbery of his subordinates, and he didn't come forward to stop it, because Chani knew that the most valuable gold and silver of the people were carrying with them when they fled, and the real big fat sheep and beautiful women were still on the top of the stone mountain. Therefore, Chani only led the army to chase up the mountain, but he did not notice that there were one or two large or small wooden barrels and clay pots hidden on the roof of the beams of almost every room in the Luoma Lake cottage......

"Grab the money! Grab the food! Rob a woman! A large number of Qing troops chanted the same slogan, through the Luoma Lake cottage straight up the mountain, but when they reached the top of the stone mountain, the Qing army encountered the most fierce resistance after they marched into the Luoma Lake - the big stones and logs on the stone mountain were like rain, rolling down from the mountain like raindrops, smashing the Qing army's ghosts and howling wolves, avoiding it, and there was only one road to the top of the stone mountain, and the Qing army wanted to attack from this road with a big stone log, which was tantamount to climbing to the sky.

"Pause forward, pause forward." Although the enemy on the top of the mountain has no way to retreat, and the Qing army, which is good at land warfare, has won a steady victory, but Chani has doubts in his heart - the self-army has advanced too smoothly on the island, and the residents of Sekiba Island have retreated too quickly and neatly, and almost no one has retreated directly to the top alone, which looks like a hasty escape? Clearly an organized retreat!

"Not good! Dock! Chani suddenly understood something, and was about to give the order to rush back to the dock, but a row of rockets appeared on the top of the stone mountain, and cotton drenched with tung oil was tied to the arrows and ignited, and the flames burned in the wind and rain, almost like a neat row of stars. Without waiting for Chani to understand the enemy's intentions, there was already a loud gong on the top of the mountain, and the arrows were fired in a parabola, falling on the roofs of the houses in the middle of the mountain, and those on the roofs within the firing range did not know how many cans of tung oil were hidden, the oil was light and heavy, and the rainwater sank into the tank and the tung oil at the bottom of the tank naturally floated, and the fire was immediately ignited, and the flames on the roof were immediately blazing, and more than 20 people of the rivers and lakes who were ambushed in the house and cellar in advance received the signal, and immediately set fire to the fuse hidden in the dark, and the fuse ignited the ignition materials such as gunpowder and sulfur that had been collected in advance. Either an explosion or a fire, the fire broke out in the middle of the cottage of Nuoda. At the same time, the woods on both sides of the road leading to the wharf were also in flames, and it turned out that there were also 30 heroes in ambush in these woods, either kicking over the tung oil barrels, or splashing tung oil on the trees and igniting them, and the smoke and flames blocked the escape road of the Qing army in an instant.

The fire borrowed the wind, but also borrowed the tung oil fire oil hidden in advance to spread, only a moment, the whole wooden structure of the cottage houses were blazing, only burned in the cottage to rob the property of the Qing army crying dad and shouting mother, hugging the head of the rat, but also burned the Qing army cut off the back road, the head and tail can not be taken care of, and the fire is upward, the Qing army that has attacked the stone mountain half of the waist is roasted by the fire, and by the thick smoke, miserable. However, the rivers and lakes led by Cai Dezhong on the top of the mountain are not only not affected by the fireworks because of the long distance, but also firmly block the way for the Qing army to escape the flames, and can be put into a counteroffensive at any time......

"Kill!" Just when the Qing army was trapped by the fire on the mountain, the sound of killing on the dark lake was everywhere, and the Luoma Lake fleet that had escaped turned back and killed, all the way full of fire boats full of thatch and sulfur, to burn the Qing army ships moored on the dock, all the way directly to the shore, directly to the island, to kill the Qing army trapped by the flames......