After being killed, the offensive of the Hai family weakened significantly, and the Min Gang was demoralized and drove all the black-clothed people on the ship off the ship, these three small boats were the patrol ships of the Jiazhou rudder of Emeitang, the Jiazhou rudder received the order of the flying pigeons of the main hall and immediately divided into two roads, intercepting them separately from the water and land routes, the water route was led by the deputy helmsman, but he inadvertently found Li Qingza's boat, the deputy helmsman recognized that the person standing on the bow of the ship was the target of the interception, he was eager to seek merit, and did not wait for the other gangs to come and rashly attacked, and suffered a big loss, and he was also killed by Li Qing, Seeing that the attack was frustrated, the Emeitang gang immediately divided into one boat to report the news, and the other two boats continued to follow, as if two unwilling wolves were staring at their prey tightly.

Getting a chance to breathe, Li Qing immediately cleaned up the injured Min Gang, there were seventy people with him, and now there are more than a dozen dead and wounded, even Yang Duo is dead, he immediately ordered the wounded to be carried to the upper floor, and handed over to Lian'er and Xiaoyu for care.

After arranging the wounded, he rearranged the defense, just now it was really chaotic, more than a dozen people fought each other two or three people in the close place, but the sparse place was one to two, everyone was in their own formation, there was no order at all, in order to improve the combat efficiency, the first thing was to reorganize, Li Qing organized the remaining 50 people into five teams, each team designated two main and deputy teams, and each team was deployed on the upper deck and the gangway to prevent people from rushing up, and the remaining three teams, one team each on the left and right sides, and the last team responded as a mobile response.

Secondly, in order to improve morale, the county magistrate gave another 3,000 guan as a pension and reward for military merits, and those who killed one enemy were rewarded with 50 guan, and those who pushed one person off the boat were rewarded with 20 guan. In this way, the Min Gang advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they were like two people who were in the rabble just now.

After the deployment, he picked up two chairs and used them as shields to probe out, and immediately a dozen hard arrows came and nailed to the wooden chairs. The shock made his arms sore, but at this moment, he also saw the situation below, there were only two of the three small boats left, each with about thirty people, one on the left and one on the left. Fifty paces away, each with a bow and arrows, looking for the person who showed his head.

The boats on the river have long been frightened to extinction, the wind is blowing strongly, Li Qingzuo's boat is going against the current, like a snail crawling, the navigation is extremely difficult, but several small boats are fast and flexible, flickering left and right, containing murderous intentions. At this moment, I suddenly heard a shout on the river, and three small boats rushed diagonally. It was extremely swift, and in a moment it approached the big ship. There is a young man standing on a small boat, dressed in white like snow, his eyes emit blue light, his long hair is shawl, fluttering in the river breeze, as if he can make a demon magic god, he is the deputy hall master of Emei Hall and the helmsman of Jiazhou, and the people of the rivers and lakes send the bandit number: White Demon.

He had been on the shore to intercept him. Seeing the sudden outbreak of war on the river, he immediately led the crowd to come. At this time, the number of people in Emei Hall had exceeded 100 people, and they surrounded Li Qing's big ship from all sides, and just waited for an order, they pounced on the prey, but the white demon turned a blind eye, staring at the sky, as if he was still waiting for something.

The big ship is also murderous, although the number of people in the Min Gang is at a disadvantage, but 'there must be a brave man under the heavy reward', under the stimulation of money, in the desperate situation of the battle against the water, the martial Tang people will be bloody to the fullest, silent, cold eyes, hands tightly hold the cold knife handle, killing heart is accumulating little by little.

"Big brother, let's do it first!"

Haitian brandished the horizontal knife left by the man in white, like a fat one, rubbing his fists, eager to try, but his mouth kept he! Scold! The strange scream, not at peace for a moment, is particularly harsh in the silence of the big ship.

"Shut up!"

Li Qing gave him a slap with his backhand, which made Haitian stumble, he was immediately silent, and he didn't dare to take a breath, at this time, the silence on the big ship was about to break out, and the battle intent had been accumulated to the extreme, suddenly, Li Qing picked up a knife, rushed forward two steps, and stabbed towards the white demon.

The flying knife passed by the white demon, he was slightly stunned, stared at Li Qing viciously, his eyes were angry, I saw him raise his hands to the sky, his mouth purred a few times, the Haijia gang was immediately excited, as if he was under an immortal spell, he suddenly raised the red flag again, shouted loudly, four small boats rushed up, flying claws flew straight towards the boat, and soon hooked the side of the ship, dozens of Haijia gangs rubbed up, like apes in the Black Forest, all of them were vigorous and agile, and the fastest few people jumped on the bow of the boat one by one, suddenly, The Min Gang roared, and dozens of snow-bright knives rolled in, like a mountain torrent erupting, roaring, and swallowing several people who boarded the ship in one bite.

The battle immediately began, the Min gang used the removed deck as a shield, one person held the shield, one person raised the knife, and cooperated tacitly, only to see the knife flash, click, one by one the rope connections were cut off, the black-clothed people fell into the river one after another, the white demon was furious when he saw this, and shouted twice, the four boats suddenly separated, boarding the ship from four different directions, Li Qing also shouted again and again to command, the four squads also split up to fight, the battle line was gradually pulled apart, more and more enemies boarded the ship, and people kept boarding the ship, but they were immediately cut down.

Everyone's eyes were blood-red, and there was only one word in their minds, "Kill!" Kill! Kill! The two of them were quick with their hands and feet, and kept bandaging the wounded who were rolling and screaming all over the ground with strips of cloth, and comforted them softly, and then beckoned people to carry the wounded to the upper floor, although there was a lack of medical treatment, but this spiritual comfort was better than medicine, so that the injured were grateful, and they were already offered as living bodhisattvas.

Li Qing stood on the gangway and shouted hoarsely, as if he had done accounts in his previous life, demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, dispatched a group of mobile teams to be exhausted, scolded in his heart, but helpless, in the end, although the number of the Min gang was reduced by half, but because of the county commander's leadership, generous moves, and condescending defensive position, it was able to withstand the Hai family's tidal offensive.

At this time, the white demon saw that he couldn't fight for a long time, and he was worried that the Min Gang Brigade would come to help, and his heart became frizzy, he ordered the boat to sail to the other side, and half of Li Qing's body immediately appeared in front of him, the white demon smiled coldly, grabbed a crossbow in his hand, and aimed at Li Qing's back, but at this time, the curtain just ran down from the gangway, and saw Li Qingdi's danger at a glance, she screamed in shock, and jumped down desperately, throwing Li Qing to the ground, in an instant, an arrow. Whoosh past, nailed straight to the gangway, the tail of the arrow trembled, Li Qing escaped death, and when he turned around, he saw that the white demon was staring at him viciously.

Li Qing's face was gloomy, first lifted the curtain and sent it back to the upper floor, and then quickly ran back, at this time, the white demon was standing at the bow of the boat and casting cold arrows, he was good at archery, almost every arrow must, and then the Min Gang did not dare to approach the side of the ship, and the situation gradually began to reverse, and the Min Gang was already a little unable to support it.

"If it goes on like this, sooner or later it will be breached!"

Li Qing's mind was thinking hard about countermeasures, "If only there were rolling logs and stones." ”

He searched left and right, almost all the heavy guys had already left the river, only some tables, chairs and benches were left, and it was not painful to smash them, suddenly, his eyes were raised, his gaze fell on the towering mast, and he glanced at the arrogant white demon again, and couldn't help but hey! Hey! He sneered.

"You guys, follow me!"

There are three masts, Li Qing chose the last one, first raised the sail, the cold wind, the sail puffed up, the boat immediately retreated, the white demon boat rushed to the side for a point, let the big boat, brush the ground, the two ships rubbed each other, Li Qing was waiting for this opportunity, five broad-bladed knives cut off the mast in three or two strokes, everyone helped the direction, the mast' Squeak and quack' like a huge fan fell down, the people below let out a shout, they dodged away, the mast with a huge sail slapped on the side of the ship, and rolled over, fell down the wall of the boat to the river, smashed straight to the white demon's boat, because the elevation angle was too high, the people in the boat only heard shouts and loud noises, but did not see the mast fall, when the giant-like mast and sail appeared in front of them, it was too late to avoid, the boat let out a frightened cry, 'Boom! The waves splashed, and the boat was torn apart by the sturdy sails, and the big boat suddenly became jubilant, and everyone picked up the tables and chairs and fell down to the well, relieving the hatred in their hearts.

At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Look! Our Min Gang's boat. ”

I saw three big boats lined up on the river, speeding down the river, the black flag of the Min gang was planted on the top of the boat, the hunting was waving in the wind, and there was a person clustered on the bow of the boat, and it looked like a bear from a distance. It is the leader of the Min Gang, Wang Bing.

After receiving the news that the Haijia smuggling ship was caught in Yibin, Wang Bing personally led the gang south to meet Li Qing, they took the land route, half a beat faster than the Emeitang who was out at the same time, and just arrived at the Jiazhou wharf, he heard that there was a gang fire on the river. immediately guessed that Li Qing must have been intercepted, and they forcibly requisitioned three boats to rush to respond, but they happened to see Li Qing overturning the Haijia boat with a mast.

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Jiazhou is today's Leshan, where the Dadu River and the Minjiang River meet, and is the third largest port on the Minjiang River after Chengdu and Nanxi County, where the river port is extremely deep. Many huge ships of thousands of stones docked here, and many cargo ships from Chengdu also changed to large ships here, transporting Jiannan's Shu brocade, tea, porcelain, paper and other specialties to various places, and even going to Japan and Goryeo.

Commerce is prosperous here, and it also feeds a lot of small gangs, but none of them are in the climate, but Emeitang took the lead and squeezed out the power of the Min Gang, so the Min Gang has no foundation here.

Because Emeitang has already poured out the nest. On the way to Jiazhou, Wang Bing did not dare to be careless. Immediately escorted Li Qing and others on the road, and the group had just left the city. When he reached a forest, Li Qing stopped his horse.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"

After Wang Bing saw Li Qing, he found that he had been silent and worried.

"Big brother, come here, I have something to say to you."

Li Qing pulled Wang Bing to a secluded place, and was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Big brother." I want to go on my own. ”

From the moment the river was intercepted, Li Qing knew that the Hai family had jumped over the wall in a hurry. The interceptors were all small boats, obviously not from Chengdu, and Emeitang's brigade must have been on the way, with the strength of Haijiadi, how could he not know that Wang Bing had gone south, and he would inevitably guess that he would take the dry road to Chengdu, thinking that Emeitang was already waiting in front, and after a vicious fight, the outcome was unpredictable, even so, how could he Li Qing risk doing something that he was not sure of.

Wang Bing looked at Li Qing for a long time, and suddenly smiled and said, "Brother, are you afraid that my strength is not good and I can't beat Emeitang?" ”

"It's not that I don't believe in the eldest brother, it's just that I killed three thousand enemies and lost eight hundred, if the eldest brother doesn't have a complete victory, I still think it should be outwitted."

"Is my brother trying to make it happen?"

Li Qing casually picked up a wooden stick and broke it into two pieces, handed one to Wang Bing and said with a smile: "You are still escorting Li Qing, but I will take the waterway." ”

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Soon, the curtain and Xiaoyu wearing bamboo hats walked out of the woods and got into the carriage, Li Qing also got into the carriage, Wang Bing shouted loudly, a large group of people and horses escorted the carriage, and drove north, after a while, Li Qing, who had been disguised, walked out of the woods with the curtain and Xiaoyu, who had also changed men's clothes, and walked in the opposite direction.

The sun had already set, the afterglow reflected the sky purple, the ground was already gray fog, and a little warmth in the air had been washed away by the cold wind as night fell, becoming dry and astringent, and bitterly cold.

A horse-drawn carriage drove on the official road and headed for Jiazhou City.

The curtain took a sip of heating in his hand, rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Is this trick called 'golden cicada out of the body'?" ”

Li Qing nodded, and said in a low voice: "We must not underestimate the Hai family, the Hai family has been in business for a hundred years, I detained its ship the night before yesterday, and it was intercepted today, the news of the Hai family is fast, and the action is so fast, it can be seen that its strength is strong, if I guess correctly, Brother Wang has already been targeted in the south, it is related to the fate of his Hai family, how can they not use all their strength, Brother Wang will have a fierce battle when he goes, if you go with him, I am dangerous, and you are even more dangerous!" ”

The curtain was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Then why didn't the prince find an army escort?" In this way, no matter how powerful the Hai family is, it will never dare to provoke the army! ”

"If it's just a Hai family, it's feasible to find an army, but it involves Li Daofu, I don't dare!"

Li Qing looked up at a cold crescent moon, but his heart was a little bitter, he originally wanted to surrender a horse, but after riding it, he found that it was a tiger, and now he can't get down, if he doesn't get Zhang Qiu and Qiongdi protection quickly, I'm afraid this tiger will eat him as soon as he turns around. Speaking of which, I was still careless, and I couldn't think about the heat, if this Hai family didn't have an extremely hard backstage to protect it, would it dare to smuggle contraband on such a large scale?

At this time, Xiaoyu noticed that the carriage seemed to be taking the wrong route, so she asked in surprise, "Gong, aren't we going to the dock?" ”

Li Qing smiled, "What are you doing at the dock?" ”

"Gong, don't you want to go back by water?" The curtain also looked confused.

"The Hai family found out that they were fooled, and they will inevitably go to the waterway to intercept us, so I won't take the waterway, tomorrow morning, I will still walk from the dry road, and tonight we will go to Jiazhou to have a good night's rest."

Li Qing lay down between the two of them, and was so comfortable, he hugged one in one hand, and said with a smile: "For the sake of safety, we must sleep in a room tonight!" ”