Liu Ximing heard that there was only one boat in the county, and his heart was relaxed, but he was still a little wary, and it was better to be careful in everything.

"Don't take it lightly, tell all of our people to come to the cabin, and let the ship's owner deal with it himself."

After a while, the passenger ship came to a noticeable pause, and it should have been the county ship that came up.

The boatman's voice immediately sounded in the bow of the boat, accompanied by the voice of a middle-aged man, Liu Ximing listened carefully, and found that the person in the county asked about some normal things, and after a while, a footstep came towards Liu Ximing and the others in this cabin.

Liu Ximing hurriedly motioned to Li Biao and the others to put away the swords, and the next second, the curtain in the cabin was lifted all of a sudden, and a middle-aged official dressed in a cyan official costume and wearing a scarf walked in, followed by a person who looked like a fast catcher.

As soon as the official opened the curtain and saw more than a dozen people sitting inside, he was a little surprised, but he immediately asked calmly: "Where are you all and where are you going?" ”

Liu Ximing looked at him with some vigilance: "Doesn't the county only collect some boat taxes, how can you care where others go?" ”

"Hehe, a few thieves have escaped from the county recently, and we are visiting everywhere, have you seen a few of you?"

After the official finished speaking, he took out a few portraits, Liu Ximing looked at them in a flash, and saw that he and others were not painted on them, his vigilance was slightly lowered, and he replied: "I am from Shunqing Mansion, and I have passed by here when I go home, but I have not seen these thieves, if I meet them on the road, I must report to Guixian." ”

The clerk slowly folded the portrait and put it away, nodding unexpectedly, "I don't think it's so easy to catch, so I won't bother you." ”

After saying that, he turned his head and walked out of the cabin with the catcher, Liu Ximing was afraid that they would be cheating, so he hurriedly took Li Biao and a few others to follow, pretending to be a send-off.

However, there was really no other movement outside the cabin, and the two officials went straight to the small boat in the county, and at the end they turned their heads and arched their hands in this direction, and then got together with the catcher to discuss something.

Liu Ximing squinted his eyes and watched them go away, and immediately instructed the boatman: "The boatman, row the boat quickly, the family is still waiting to go back." ”

"Holo"

Li Biao leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Second brother, but what's the situation?" ”

Liu Ximing shook his head: "I don't know, this person is acting in accordance with common sense, I don't see anything abnormal, but for the sake of safety, I should leave here quickly." ”

After such a stubble incident, Liu Ximing didn't have the heart to sleep, anyway, the weather had turned cold, so he simply sat on the deck on the second floor and read a book.

After walking upstreams for about two hours, Wu Demeng, who was lying on the fence on the side, suddenly shouted: "Second brother, the two boats over there seem to be approaching us." ”

"Don't make a fuss, it's normal for boats to come and go on the river, it's almost to Nanchong County, and nothing should happen."

Liu Ximing saw the place of rise, and said a word without looking back.

"No, it's really coming towards us, and there are a lot of people up there." Wu Demeng's tone was a little anxious.

Liu Ximing was finally moved by his words, stood up and walked to the side of the boat to look back, and sure enough, two two-masted clippers were rowing towards this side.

"Boatman, do you recognize these two ships?" Liu Ximing hurriedly called the bow of the ship over.

Unexpectedly, the bow of the ship looked at the two boats, and immediately his face changed greatly, and he hissed with a dead face: "Quick, row, these people are water bandits." ”

Everyone on the boat was alarmed by his shouting, and when several of the shipwrights in charge heard this, they were frightened and began to row the boat with all their might, but they did not know what the situation of the two boats approaching, and there was a tendency to gradually get closer.

Liu Ximing's mood continued to sink, and it would be a ghost to say that this matter had nothing to do with them, so he grabbed the bow of the boat with a panicked face, and roared angrily: "Are you guys planning to harm me?" ”

"Ouch, sir, if it was really us who did it, and we were still scared to do something, these people are the most murderous without blinking, and we can only ask for more blessings now."

The bow of the boat almost begged, and as soon as his legs were weak and he was about to fall to the ground, Liu Ximing dragged him up with his hand, kicked him on the leg and said, "I'm afraid that it will be useless, so don't row the boat quickly." ”

Liu Ximing didn't care about him after speaking, threw the bow of the ship to the side, and yelled at Li Biao and the others: "Enter the cabin and change weapons." ”

To be honest, Liu Ximing was also a little flustered at this time, after all, it was on the river, and he and Li Biao and others had no experience in fighting on the water, so they didn't know what it would be like to fight.

However, it was not completely hopeless, Liu Ximing had more than a dozen Longxiang muskets in his space, as well as a few flintlock short spears from Julius and others.

In addition, when he was in Chongqing, he also bought a lot of weapons and equipment from Hou Liangzhu's camp, and the most important thing was that there were 5,000 catties of gunpowder and a few bombs, so he should have the strength to fight.

Sixteen men put on waist-length scale armor and put on the army's standard small pointed winged helmets, each with a waist knife hanging from his waist, a small shield in one hand, and an arquebus on his shoulder on the other.

Several shipwrights on the ship looked through the hatch on the ground floor and saw them coming down from the second floor, and their eyes were glazed when they saw them.

"Army, military master? How many of you are military masters? The expression on the bow of the boat changed from disbelief to ecstatic, could this be an ambush set up by the officials and soldiers, just to capture this gang of river bandits?

In a panic, he forgot to wonder where the gang had come up with all this equipment.

Liu Ximing didn't dare to wear the general's armor, he was also wearing a blue waist-length armor at this time, he wanted to reprimand the bow of the ship directly, but when he saw the expression on the bow of the ship, he thought about it, it would be good to call them out, so as not to turn around and make any moths.

"That's right, I will be ordered by the commander of Sichuan, Hou Liangzhu, to exterminate this gang of Jiang bandits, as long as we resist for a while, there will be a large group of officers and soldiers to rescue, you just have to row the boat."

When the shipwright heard that there were reinforcements behind him, a wave of hope immediately burst out in his already desperate heart, and the speed of the ship was a little faster.

"Straight sitch thief, how can these people draw faster and faster? Second, what should I do? ”

On the two boats that chased after him, a sturdy man raised the knife in his hand and scolded viciously.

The man with a scar on his cheek next to him glanced at him and said, "What's the panic, they only have such a few people, and they won't have the strength to row for long, and it's not up to us to deal with it when the time comes." ”

"Hey, hey, that's it, little ones, work hard."

Liu Ximing stood at the stern of the boat, watching the distance between several ships go from near to far, and then slowly approaching, and finally the distance between the ship on the right and the passenger ship was only a few dozen meters, and he could even see the faces of the other boat.

He couldn't help but take out the tin megaphone, took a step towards the stern of the boat, so that the people on the boat behind him could see what he was wearing, and shouted loudly at the two ships: "The officers and soldiers are doing business, and those who don't want to die should dodge." ”

However, the leaders standing on the boat behind didn't move, and Liu Ximing had no choice but to continue shouting: "Hou Dudu's army is following behind, all the leaders of the river, don't make a mistake about yourself, it's too late to turn around and run away now." ”

"Hahaha", the second master laughed wildly when he saw this, turned his head and smiled at the people on both sides and said: "This guy really thinks that we can't rob the road by the way, and Hou Liangzhu, even if the emperor Lao'er comes, he can't protect him, Zhao Si, you shoot him with an arrow, see if you can shoot it." ”

Liu Ximing stood at the stern of the boat and vaguely heard the conversation between these people, and saw that the sturdy man took out a bow, so frightened that he immediately fell on the boat, "There are bows and arrows."

"Do"

A feathered arrow was nailed to the outer wall of the cabin at once, and the tail of the arrow kept shaking and buzzing.

"Bastard, everyone pay attention to concealment."

Combined with the conversation on the enemy ship just now, Liu Ximing knew that he couldn't be good today, so he also let it go and directly took out the only rifled gun in the space.

Since the last time he killed the tiger in the mountain with one shot, Liu Ximing has paid more and more attention to this gun, this thing is really a treasure to play sniper, and he has not practiced less these days.

At that moment, he loaded the ammunition with a quick movement, quietly set up the gun along the edge of the ship, and constantly adjusted the posture of his body in order to slowly adapt to the ups and downs of the passenger ship.

He already has a space bonus, and his various senses are becoming more and more sensitive, coupled with the hard training during this period, he actually slowly found the sniper feeling of the day.

When the passenger boat was lifted by the river again, the leader-like person on the boat behind him also happened to enter his shooting range.

"Bang"

A flash of fire lit up at the muzzle of Liu Ximing's gun, and the fireworks illuminated his cheeks, and then a burst of white smoke rushed towards his face.

And this bullet crossed the barrier of the river and swished to the boat behind.