Chapter 293: Negotiations Under the Muzzle (2)

It is precisely because of the attitude of the King of Chu that he has nothing to do with himself, and the fief to which he belongs is the only one among the four iron hat kings who is located in the relatively stable inland region of Daxia, plus this land of Jingxiang is the same as the country of Sichuan, it is the land of fish and rice, and there are few natural and man-made disasters, so it can also make the king of Chu stay here for so long, so that the green battalion soldiers in his hands may not even be as bloody as the fast hunting in the northwest.

But then again, the king of Chu is still a little different from his father.

He didn't completely abandon the fish and birds, eat and wait for death, and he still managed and managed his fiefdom over the years, including building schools, rebuilding water conservancy, and even expanding Wuchang Port on a large scale, but it also made this land of four wars since ancient times become much more prosperous, so that the people of Jingxiang Land are also full of more good feelings for this originally high-ranking prince.

It is worth mentioning that the king of Chu still has a small-scale water division in his hands.

It's just that it's not so much a sailor, it's better to call them a water anti-theft team according to the name of the people in Jingxiang, after all, the task given to them by the king of Chu at the beginning was to swim on the Yangtze River and arrest water thieves and robbers on the Yangtze River such as Ganning Ganxingba, in order to maintain the livelihood and safety of the fishermen.

Moreover, this fleet of small sail masts, compared with the behemoth of the Yangtze River Sailors, is indeed embarrassed to be called the same sailors.

It's the day

As usual, Liu Zhutou led three or five small boats to patrol the Yangtze River as usual, and suddenly heard someone on the shore shouting:

"Grab something! Grab something! ”

Liu Zhutou raised his small eyes, which were lined with thick eyebrows by two big knives, as if they were deliberately narrowed into a slit, and looked forward, and saw a chase battle staged on the side of the pier.

A man in black running in front of him was holding a cloth bag in his hand, while the woman in a linen dress in the back hurriedly chased after the man in black with the corner of her skirt, shouting as she chased back: "Catch the thief!" Someone is robbing me of something! ”

However, it was obvious that the man in black was more agile in his movements and speed, and rushed to the dock in three or two steps, ready to jump towards a small boat moored by the dock, and there were already two identical men in black waiting on the small boat, presumably accomplices.

Robbing other people's property in broad daylight, is this still worth it?

"Chase!"

Liu Zhutou's beard, which was so thick that almost his entire chin was covered, abruptly listed a hole, and spit out such a stern word from it,

The two little catchers behind him hurriedly raised the small mast, and then one of them sat on the side of the boat and operated the oars, taking advantage of the wind and manpower, so that the small flat boat, which was originally floating like duckweed, suddenly turned into a pair of sharp scissors, tore the water curtain carefully woven on the surface of the Yangtze River, and rushed towards the thief ship.

This group of water cowards who don't know where they came out are not stunned, and if they dare to come to the Wuchang River to make trouble, they naturally have to find out the equipment of this "little sailor" under King Chu first, otherwise wouldn't it be self-inflicted to get a broken boat?

When the black-clothed man holding the cloth bag on the dock rushed to the dock, the accomplice who had already prepared raised the two masts and quickly fled towards the center of the river.

Seeing that Liu Zhutou, who was about to catch up, was pulled away by the man in black at once, because it was obvious that the other people's boats were faster than him.

Liu Zhutou knows that this kind of river pursuit is not as good as taking a shortcut and taking a bend on the road, and on the wide river, if you can't catch up, you can't really catch up, and the distance will only be stretched wider and wider.

But I don't miss this kind of thing when I want to come to Liu Zhutou, I skillfully carried a longbow from under my feet, pulled a full string with a bow and arrows, and the arrow pointed directly at the thief ship in front.

The ship can't outrun you, but the arrow can always outrun you, right?

And what's interesting is that Liu Zhutou didn't pick up an arrow, he actually hung two arrows on a bowstring!

"Whoosh!"

With the sound of a bow, two sharp arrows tore through the river wind above the Yangtze River, whistling towards the heart of the man in black who was standing behind the boat and shaking the oars.

These two arrows were not shot out in three directions like Jin Mingyin's three-arrow short crossbow, but at the moment when Liu Zhutou took off his hand, they were strangely arranged in a straight line in the air!

If you look at it from the front, you will think it is an arrow, but when you look at it from the side, you will know that it is a continuous cannon that is connected from end to end.

The person who was rocking the oars didn't see it, but the man in black who was standing behind the boat and had been staring at the movement in Liu Zhutou's hand saw it clearly, and the moment the arrow was shot, the voice of warning to his companion blurted out,

"Be careful! There are arrows! ”

Of course, the agile companion is also unambiguous, and as soon as the oar in his hand is thrown away, the steel knife sitting under the ass is volleyed towards his front door.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The arrow struck the equally hard blade, and after two or three sparks, it derailed and nailed deep into the somewhat rotten mast.

"This old thing is pretty good at archery...... Burst! ”

The man in black had just grinned and stared at Liu Zhutou in the distance, and before he finished speaking, he was shocked by the arrow on his chest that had barely had time to feel the pain and had already entered the rain of arrows.

Isn't it already ...... Is it open?

"Bang dang!"

Until the steel knife in his hand and his body fell limply on the boat, his eyes staring at the arrows stuck in the mast were still full of dissatisfaction and unwillingness.

"Fuck! Old mourning star! ”

The black-clothed man holding the child looked at his companion who fell to the ground, he scolded Liu Zhutou, threw the flower cloth bag in his hand to the boat at will, and didn't care that the colorful gold and silver jewelry in it was scattered all of a sudden, and sat down in the position of the rocking oar just now, and began to continue to maintain the power of the boat under the seat to escape.

Liu Zhutou was not ambiguous, and after winning an arrow, he pulled up two branches again, and there was another bowstring sound according to the gourd.

"Whoosh!"

Just ask yourself this pair of arrows, who is the opponent on the Yangtze River?

Whenever people are full of self-confidence and ambition to win, they are always prone to accidents.

"Boom!"

However, this accident really surprised Liu Zhutou and the two behind him to shake the oars desperately, and they almost stared at the scene in front of them with wide eyes.

After the two arrows had been fired, there was a loud bang on the side of the two-masted galleon in front of it, and a huge wave was raised three or five feet higher than the mast, and the sailboat, which had just had a considerable speed advantage compared to them, was suddenly swept up by the huge wave like a broken leaf.

Even the side side on the left side was swept open by the trend, and it didn't take long for it to turn over, and it sank down with bubbles, leaving only two black-clothed men who were like chickens in soup, fluttering in the water.

Before Liu Zhutou, who still looked very small despite his wide-eyed eyes, came to his senses, the next scene made the three of them unable to close their mouths.

On the surface of the river, which was still shrouded in some fog in the distance, a behemoth that was a few feet higher than the gate tower of Wuchang City slowly sailed out, dividing the entire Yangtze River into two with the momentum of Mount Tai, covering the sky and the sun and shrouding their small boat in shadows.

No, it's not just this one, it's followed by two, three, and so many!

This...... This is......

Of course, this is the Yangtze River sailor who came from Xiakou comfortably, and the temperament that stood at the bow of the boat in a brocade robe and was swept by the hunting river wind was brilliant and elegant, and it was the Jingyuan Bo Anyi.

An Yi put down the telescope that was erected in front of him, and weighed it in his hand very fondly, "Good thing, this thing is really a good thing." ”

As a native of Sichuan and Shu, he really hadn't seen this rare object, so he turned his head and ordered the sailors around him: "Give me a few more of these telescopes on your ship, and I have to let them see this rare thing when I have time." ”

"Yes!"

"And ......"

Looking for fun and having fun, he hasn't forgotten the ease of business, he took the telescope and pointed into the distance, "That's it, don't stop the artillery towards the river, call me, and say hello to his Chu prince." ”

"Yes!"

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The artillery on the ship of the naval division was originally much more powerful than the general cannon used by the Xia army to attack the city, and it was bombarded by the artillery battle in the river as if it was comfortably, and it must have been the king of Chu in the banquet tower who felt that the soles of his feet were unstable.

"Go and see, what's going on out there? Why is it so shaking! ”

The king of Chu, Gao Youxian, dropped the bamboo slips in his hand that he was teaching to a group of beautiful scholars below, and asked the guards outside the door with a frown.

After a while, the guards outside the door hurriedly ran in, knelt down, and said to Gao Youji: "Lord Wang, there are suddenly many heavily armed huge ships on the river outside the city, and the loud noise and vibration here are caused by them bombarding the river with artillery!" ”

"Giant ship?"

King Chu's brows tightened, "What about Liu Zijian, let him take the fleet to ask, who is so bold and came to my Wuchang Mansion to act recklessly." ”

"Liu Zhutou's fleet hasn't come up yet...... It's already ...... It has been overturned on the surface of the river. The guard paused, then said, "But the man is fine, as if the other party did not mean to hurt anyone." ”

"I don't mean to hurt anyone, that's to demonstrate against the king?"

The King of Chu waved his robe sleeves angrily, "Prepare the horse and go outside the city to have a look." ”

When the king of Chu took a group of his own soldiers out of the gate of Wuchang City and went straight to the river, the comfortable shelling had stopped, and more than a dozen huge ships were quietly leaning on the shore.

Liu Zhutou and his subordinates don't recognize it, but Gao Youji does, such a big lucky boat, with the firepower of a landslide and a ground crack, except for the Yangtze River Sailor, no one in this world can handle it.

Zheng Yuan? What is he doing in my Wuchang Mansion?

Gao Ciyi and Anyi, who had already disembarked and were waiting on the shore, quickly clarified to the King of Chu that this matter was not the work of Zheng Yuan, who had become a ghost under the knife, as he thought.

"Nephew see Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang has always been good?"

Gao Ciyi, who was standing in front, saw the king of Chu coming over on horseback, bowed very respectfully, and made a salute first.

However, when the king of Chu saw Gao Ciyi, whom he hadn't met for a long time, he didn't have a good face, he didn't even get off the horse with a big face, and pointed to the giant ship on the river with a horsewhip, "I haven't seen you for many days, when did my nephew become that water thief and start this business of robbing houses and houses?" ”

Gao Ciyi smiled and responded: "If anyone's water thieves have this posture, then they must first ask me if the Yangtze River sailor agrees." ”

"Since you are not a water thief, then the king has to ask, why did you bombard my Wuchang River, destroy my official ships, and surprise my people? If you don't give me an explanation today, you will blame this king for teaching his nephew etiquette with the respect of his uncle! ”

Although Gao Ciyi's appearance obviously gave the King of Chu a signal, and now the Yangtze River Sailor is probably already under his control, but the King of Chu is not a hairy boy who was bluffed by him like this, he didn't believe that Gao Ciyi really dared to risk the world's condemnation and ordered the bombardment of Wuchang City,

So even though he was put a cannon on his head, the King of Chu didn't have any fear, which was one of the reasons why King De and King Zhao had nothing to do with Gao Youxian.

That's right! In terms of military strength, the king of Chu is weak, but if he does it, isn't that not only a loss of etiquette, but also a loss of popularity?

"The prince misunderstood, His Royal Highness King Huai and I came this time to discuss with the prince, but because the prince's sailors did not let us dock, they were not allowed to open artillery to defend themselves. The artillery range of the Yangtze River Naval Division is enough to cover the entire Wuchang City, but His Royal Highness King Huai only ordered the shelling of the river, isn't this enough to give the prince an explanation? ”

King Chu looked at the brocade-robed young man who answered behind Gao Ciyi, and asked with a gloomy face, "Who is this?" ”

"It's a nobody, and it's not enough for the prince to remember."

"Threaten me?"

The King of Chu glanced at Gao Ciyi coldly again, and then waved his big hand to the soldiers behind him, "Get out of the way for me, I will open my eyes today, and let the subjects of Great Xia open their eyes, see how you, a noble nobleman, attacked the people of Great Xia, come!" Let's shoot! ”

"This ......"

Gao Ciyi was dumbfounded by the actions of the King of Chu in front of him, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he couldn't shoot in front of everyone, right? That's a complete loss of myself.

For a moment, the atmosphere froze like this......