Even the most fierce water bandits, in the case of being slaughtered by others, will be frightened, so when the Happiness went around several pursuing ships a few times, the group of people with more than 100 casualties were all frightened, and they also understood how terrible the strange-looking ship of the Happiness was.

"Ready, get the crossbow ready, lean on their flagship, let's give them a thief to capture the king first, and if anyone who finds a hand raised, they will all be shot."

Xi Junmai gave an order, and the guards abandoned the bed crossbow one after another, took off the crossbow hanging from their waists, and put on the crossbow arrows, and after a while, the distance between the Happiness and the flagship that few people dared to shoot was only a few meters.

"Grab the swing rope and swing it in pairs."

Xi Junmai said, he grabbed a swinging rope on the main mast first, these ropes are usually used to raise sails, and when fighting, they have become a tool for long-distance landing or grabbing ships, because the mast is more than ten meters high, so people can swing far away.

"Bang."

The leather with the footrest stomped heavily on the splint, Xi Junmai's body sank down, unloaded his strength, and immediately stood up straight, holding a repeater in his left hand, and quickly pulling out his waist knife with his right hand.

"If you don't want to die, throw down your weapons and crawl out."

"Hmph, just a few dozen people, I just want us thousands of people to surrender, dreaming, everyone guys, rush out."

The bearded man shouted, and many fierce men rushed out with him with weapons.

"Form a battle formation and shoot intensively."

"Click······"

The sound of the iron frame colliding sounded on the splint, and the dozen or so guards who boarded the ship suddenly leaned together with Xi Junmai as the center, and more than a dozen crossbows were divided into three ranks, upper, middle and lower, and at the same time pulled the trigger on the crowd that rushed out.

"Poof..."

"Ah~~~"

The sound of the arrow's screaming suddenly sounded, although the bearded man was wearing cowhide armor when he hid in the cabin just now, but at such a close distance of a few meters, he was still penetrated by the crossbow arrow in several places, although the flesh was not deep, but it almost made him lose the ability to fight, and the thigh was pierced by the crossbow arrow, so that his ability to move was temporarily lost, and the arrows of the escort team, there was no one who was not made of fine iron, and all of them were Mitsubishi arrows, which were so extravagant that Li Shimin couldn't afford to play, so, If a person is shot, the blood on his body will be lost very quickly.

"Put aside your weapons, kneel and don't kill."

Xi Junmai's loud shouts sounded, and the bandits behind who saw that they were shot as hedgehogs in front of them suddenly didn't dare to move.

The bearded man who fell to the ground shouted angrily, "Their crossbow arrows can be shot with a single blow, and they can be killed by rushing together." ”

When the bandits heard this, Xi Junmai snorted coldly, "Then leave you alive and let you see how sharp the crossbow in your master's hand is." All of them, assaults, those who do not abandon their weapons and kneel on the ground, shoot them all. ”

After that, Xi Junmai took the lead and went into the cabin, and a bandit who was hiding behind the door and preparing to sneak attack him was kicked by him and flew backwards two or three meters, followed by a series of desperate triggers, and in the cabin, the sound of sharp weapons entering the flesh made the bearded man crack his liver and gall.

"Stop, stop, stop, you, what are you, the officers and soldiers don't have such strong equipment as you······"

In less than five breaths, the battle in the cabin ended, and more than a dozen people were killed, and the rest all knelt on the ground and held their heads, not daring to move.

Xi Junmai slipped out of the cabin with a bundle of knives, guns and weapons, walked in front of the bearded man and said, "The general of the defeated army has no right to ask questions, he can only answer questions honestly, who are you and who are you instructed to ambush us here." ”

"Take people's money and eliminate disasters with people, although a certain family is defeated today, it will not do anything to sell its employer, if you want to kill it, please please!" Although the bearded man had a few arrows stuck in his body, the pain was incomparable, but he still stiffened his neck.

Hearing this, Xi Junmai sneered, "Okay, okay, everyone, throw all the people on the boat into the sea to feed the fish, hurry up and finish it and go to the next ship." ”

Saying that, Xi Junmai raised his foot, and the body of a bandit who had been shot dead before was kicked out by him, and fell into the sea with a pop.

"You, you can't do this, I, I say ······" Seeing Xi Junmai acting so neatly, the bearded man was really scared, and stopped again.

"Then I'll listen, if it feels fake, pay attention, as long as it feels like it's a lie, I'll continue to kill people, and, let you watch them being eaten by the sea fish."

As soon as Xi Jun, who had a cold face, said this, the bearded man felt that his evil deeds over the years were nothing, and the person in front of him was the real big demon, so he didn't dare to hesitate for too long, so he replied, "A certain name is Shen Tuyong, who was originally a brigade commander under General Kan Ling, and after the general was executed by Li Xiaogong's dog thief, he escaped from the barracks with his subordinates and family members, and fell into the grass off the coast of Hangzhou to do some business of taking goods and hijacking ships. A few days ago, someone spent a lot of money asking me to come here to ambush your strange ship, but I didn't expect us to be a step too late and pounced, and yesterday someone sent a message asking me to wait here to ambush ······"

"Name the person behind the scenes, or I'll continue to throw people into the sea." Xi Junmai asked again after figuring out what had happened.

He didn't know about Du Fuwei and the Kan Ling incident three years ago, so he didn't have a good impression of this person, and continued to ask.

"Wang Hao." Shen Tuyong swallowed his saliva and said with some struggle.

"Wang Hao? Not Wang Lin? Xi Junmai looked at him with some surprise.

"Wang Lin's power is mainly in Guanzhong, this Wang Hao is the ruler of the Taiyuan Wang clan in the south, and Wang Xu in the north, the three of them are the sons of the Taiyuan Wang clan, and each holds one-third of the power." Now that he has said it, Shen Tuyong can't care so much, if he lets the blood on his body flow again, it won't be long before he dies, and when the time comes, I'm afraid he will only be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

"So, after you fell into the grass in Huainan, you have been Wang Hao's lackeys! What else did he have planned? ”

"Maybe, but I don't know that the order I received is to hijack the ship here and then transport grain to Hongzhou."

Seeing Shen Tuyong's answer without hesitation, Xi Junmai could basically conclude that he was telling the truth, nodded and said, "Well, if you want your subordinates to live, I advise you to persuade them to lay down their arms and surrender, otherwise, you know the consequences, even you thousands of people, under our attack, you can't withstand it for half an hour." ”

With bed crossbows and crossbows in hand that were more sophisticated than the most elite troops of the Tang Army, it was of course a one-sided slaughter against these water bandits under Shen Tuyong, who were not even as good as the standard equipment of the ordinary Tang Army, and Shen Tuyong had no doubts about this.

"I promise you, but you also have to promise me that you can't hurt them." Shen Tu's gasping sound became louder and louder, Xi Junmai nodded when he saw this situation, and took down the thief's head, thus ending the whole battle, which was the least costly, he didn't want any accidents and lose manpower.

After greeting those surrendered water bandits to help Shen Tuyong take arrows and bandage them, a series of flags also went out of Shen Tuyong's boat, and suddenly, the few boats that tried to get close to the boarding ship but had been suppressed by the bed crossbow on the Happiness stopped.

Not long after, Shen Tuyong, who had stopped the bleeding, sent flags to the remaining ships, and half an hour later, the escort collected all their weapons from each ship, and the control of the entire fleet was in the hands of Xi Junmai, and the seriously injured Shen Tuyong was also taken by Xi Junmai to the Happiness for treatment.

"This ship ······"

When he arrived on the Happiness, Shen Tuyong's mouth was never closed, don't look at the size of the Happiness is similar to those big ships, but the internal space is not smaller than those big ships, and the design is very exquisite, when has he ever seen such a delicate ship, and this boat is not rowed by manpower at all, but by animals pulling the wheel, after thinking about it, Shen Tuyong knew that people couldn't escape there, and they were too confident to eat themselves, so they deliberately slowed down.

"Captain Xi, the flag bearer who gave the order has been arranged on our ship, and their ship can pass on news to us."

Zhao Gang cleaned up the battlefield, returned to the Happiness, and reported to Xi Junmai.

"Well, have the bed crossbow arrows and even the crossbow arrows been washed and recovered?" Xi Junmai nodded.

"After taking it back, more than ninety percent of it can still be used, in addition, all those corpses have been thrown into the sea, and now the weather is too hot, and it may stink in half a day." Zhao Gang replied.

"Well, let's set sail then, let's hang the sails in front and let them follow behind." Xi Junmai nodded again and commanded.

"Then how do we take these ships back and settle them?" Zhao Gang asked puzzled.

"This is easy to do, when we get to Hangzhou, we will scatter all the manpower out to buy medicine, and we will just wait on the dock." There are too many patients in Lingnan, and I don't think there is enough medicinal herbs in one boatload, so let's fill their boats and bring them back. Xi Junmai smiled when he heard this.

"Well, that's good." Zhao Gang agreed.

Sun Xiangfu naturally didn't know what happened in Hangzhou Bay, and now in addition to helping Feng Ang carry out the health management of the patient camp, he is waiting for Feng Zhidai's comprehensive success.

The twelve states of Lingnan, thousands of miles longitudinal, many tribes are still scattered in the mountains, it takes a long time to completely stabilize them, just run these places again, ten days and a half months have passed, so, some Feng Zhidai has not yet run to the place, Fangren, Yi people Some tribes still have conflicts with the Han people, especially near the border boundary of Hongzhou, Changsha and Quanzhou, local officials are quick to report to Chang'an, suddenly, the atmosphere in Chang'an is also tense.

In the imperial study of Taiji Palace, Li Shimin convened several confidants and ministers to discuss the matter of sending troops, and also called Wei Zheng, because Wei Zheng has been very good with him recently, and he has not agreed to send troops.

Militarily, Li Shimin has never been a passive person, since it has been rumored that Feng Ang has anti-intentions, and now, the tribe under his rule has attacked the Han city, so it must be fought, anyway, now the Turks can't fight for the time being, and Chang'an has the spare strength to mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

But Wei Zheng still admonished, it is not appropriate to move troops at this time, and persuaded Li Shimin to appease the main, after everyone quarreled in the court, they came to the imperial study to quarrel, at this time, an unexpected person came, interrupting their quarrel.

The person who came was Yuan Tiangang, he received a letter from Li Chunfeng, asking him to find Sun Simiao in Chang'an, asking him to go to Lingnan to cure the cold and heat of the people of Lingnan, from this letter, Yuan Tiangang saw Feng An's true attitude, and when the court was upside down for whether to fight Lingnan, he felt that he should tell the emperor the true situation in Lingnan.