The river thieves on all the warships of the Blackheart Dragon King witnessed the scene of the main ship being blown to pieces, everyone was frightened, many river thieves were shallow in their knowledge, and their minds were dull, they had never seen firearms, and thought that they were struck by thunder, so frightened that they knelt on the deck and kowtowed desperately, begging for mercy from the sky.

Du Yang's eyes were red, and he yelled: "Revenge!" Kill all the enemies for revenge! ”

At that moment, a soldier shouted: "Our camp is on fire!" ”

Everyone turned around, only to see the smoke billowing in the direction of their lair in the distance, the flames were soaring to the sky, all the river thieves had families on the island, they all thought that the officers and soldiers had killed into the island, and suddenly panicked, and began to have warships turn around and flee back to the island, at this time, the Ezhou fleet drummed loudly, and dozens of warships killed the river thieves' ships together.

Du Yang was already red-eyed, gritting his teeth to avenge his father, he didn't care about other warships to escape, and only led a few warships to rush towards the thousand-stone warship that Li Yanqing was riding, he knew that the enemy's main general must be in this ship.

Du Heixin has four sons and two daughters, of which the eldest son and the second son are born to his wife, and they all look very similar to him, especially the second son Du Yang is a copy of Du Heixin, with a big head like a bucket, a face full of meat, and a pair of bull's eyes are particularly hideous, although he is not as ruthless as his brother, and he will not be killed if he robs merchant ships, but he is very short-tempered, and his mind is relatively simple, and he is desperate to achieve the goal.

Du Yang holds a short spear in his right hand, holding a shield in his left hand, he has been instructed by a famous teacher since he was a child, and his martial arts are very strong, when his 500 stone warship is about to approach the main ship of officers and soldiers, the main ship is full of arrows, nearly 100 arrows are shot at him together, Du Yang squatted on the deck, raised his shield to meet him, only a moment, the shield is full of arrows.

Just as the navy was preparing for the second round of shooting, Li Yanqing shouted: "Stop!" ”

All the soldiers stopped shooting and looked at the county monarch together, Li Yanqing took the bronze bow, drew an iron arrow, opened his bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow violently, the iron arrow was like lightning, and it went straight to Du Yang.

Du Yang saw that this arrow was fierce, and hurriedly raised his shield to block, but he only heard a crisp sound, the shield shattered, and the iron arrow shot directly through Du Yang's head.

It was unusually quiet on both sides of the boat, and everyone was stunned, they had never seen such a powerful archery, not only shattering the shield, but also shooting through the head, and a chill arose in everyone's back.

Li Yanqing shouted, "What are you waiting for, kill me!" ”

Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying were the first to react, they roared, jumped on the opponent's warship, and slashed the two of them with one sword, Yang Guang also reacted and shouted: "Rush over with me!" ”

He also jumped on the enemy ship, and dozens of other soldiers also jumped on the enemy ship, but Li Yanqing walked to the bow of the boat, looking at the smoke billowing from the old nest of the river thieves, and the flames soaring to the sky, he had a slight understanding in his heart, and he had vaguely guessed who did it?

At this time, Hu Qing'er got on the big boat and shouted excitedly: "Big brother, I'm back!" ”

As soon as Li Yanqing turned around, he saw Hu Qing'er standing in front of him wet, her hair was messy, sticking to her forehead, her cheeks were ruddy, and her eyes flashed with joy, although she was a little embarrassed, but Li Yanqing felt that she was more beautiful than ever, he was moved in his heart, hugged her tightly, and smiled in her ear in a low voice: "Don't learn embroidery in the future, I like it as much as I practice flying knives." ”

Hu Qing'er Xiafei's cheeks, she lowered her head shyly, feeling the warmth of her sweetheart's embrace, enjoying this happy moment, Li Yanqing slowly let go of her, and said with a smile: "I found that your flying knife is more skilled and natural than flying stones, then you can practice flying knives!" Use the flying stone technique I taught you. ”

Hu Qing'er grinned, "Flying stones and flying knives have to be practiced, and they are used in different situations." ”

Her flying knife worked wonders today, which made her even more determined to practice the flying knife hard, at this time, she turned around and beckoned, "Take it!" ”

One of his subordinates rushed forward, knelt down on one knee, and presented the head of the Black-Hearted Dragon King, Hu Qing'er said triumphantly: "This should be the head of the Black-Hearted Dragon King, he was blown into two pieces by the earth-shattering thunder." ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered left and right, "Bring Pan Sanlang up!" ”

After a moment, Pan Saburo was brought onto the deck and bowed, "See the county king!" ”

Li Yanqing pointed to the head, "Is he the Black-Hearted Dragon King?" ”

Pan Saburo glanced at it and immediately said, "It's him!" He has a big black mole on his eyebrows, and no one else can dress up. ”

Li Yanqing waved his hand, asked the soldiers to take him down, and ordered the heads to be hung on the masts left and right, and the news that the black-hearted dragon king was killed quickly spread throughout the army, and everyone cheered and their morale was greatly boosted.

On the contrary, the news of the killing of the black-hearted dragon king's father and son made the Jiang thieves' hearts collapse, and the old nest was ended, they were worried about the safety of their families, and the warships left the battlefield one after another and fled to the old nest of Junshan.

Li Yanqing issued an order to pursue the whole army, the Ezhou naval army chased with all their might, and constantly caught up with the enemy ships, they did not accept surrender, and killed all the river thieves in the boat, half an hour later, the bandits abandoned the boat and fled to Junshan, and the naval army also followed the landing, at this time Li Yanqing issued a killing order, "Order the army, do not accept the surrender of the river thieves, all the men on the island regardless of old and young will be killed, and the head will be punished, and it is strictly forbidden to plunder, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" ”

Hundreds of sailors rushed to Junshan Island and killed the thieves' lair, and Li Yanqing ordered Mai Shi to lead dozens of small boats to patrol the periphery to intercept the river thieves who tried to escape.

At this time, Zhang Shun led his subordinates to say goodbye, he stood on the boat and hugged his fists and said: "Today I witnessed the power of Li County Jun, Zhang Shunfang knows that there is a sky outside the sky, Zhang Shun promises that he will no longer be a river thief, and will go north to the Central Plains, hide in the rivers and lakes, kill the evil and help the poor, and do something happy." ”

Li Yanqing said to him sincerely: "The Jin soldiers are about to invade the Song Dynasty on a large scale and destroy my compatriots, why doesn't Zhang Zhuangshi follow me Li Yanqing to resist the Jin and kill the enemy and save thousands of Li people?" ”

Zhang Shun bowed and said: "If there is really that day, Zhang Shun will definitely come to serve the county monarch and serve the county monarch!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Then I look forward to Zhang Zhuangshi's arrival as soon as possible!" ”

"I wish the county gentleman a smooth journey, Zhang Shun has resigned!"

Zhang Shun immediately led more than a dozen of his men out of the battlefield and drove towards the distance of Dongting Lake, Hu Qing'er looked at his background and sighed: "This person is extremely good at water kung fu, why doesn't the eldest brother persuade him to stay?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Everyone has their own dreams, as long as he no longer endangers the Yangtze River, I will no longer stop him, but I believe that sooner or later he will come to follow me!" ”

Speaking of this, Li Yanqing took off his sword again, handed it to Hu Qing'er and said: "Be a supervisor for me, inspect the whole island, and find that those who violate discipline and looter are warned and arrested, and anyone who dares to ** a woman will be beheaded immediately!" ”

"Qing'er obeys!"

Hu Qing'er took the sword, turned back to Yang Guang and the four subordinates, and said, "You come with me!" ”

The five of them followed Hu Qing'er to the shore, and Li Yanqing said to Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying: "You go with her and remind her not to be too aggressive!" ”

The two nodded, and also followed Hu Qing'er to the island, and Li Yanqing took a few personal soldiers to the island.

Li Yanqing's purpose is to eliminate the evil, so many years of the Yangtze River thieves have been continuous, the biggest reason is that the river thieves have never cut the grass and eradicated the roots, Du Heixin has done a lot of evil, but he also invisibly did a right thing, the Yangtze River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River have been incorporated or eradicated, so as long as the black-hearted dragon king and his men are completely exterminated, the Yangtze River will be peaceful for many years.

Even if there are river thieves in the future, they will be thieves who run a single gang, and the fast arrest of one county is enough to deal with, not to mention the Ezhou Navy and Township Soldiers, there will be no more thieves in at least ten years, but Li Yanqing also knows that in another ten years, Dongting Lake will rise again, and a large-scale peasant uprising will break out in Dongting Lake again.

At dusk, the clean-up of the whole island finally ended, killing more than 700 people, the men on the island were all eradicated, only more than 400 women remained, and more than a dozen sailor soldiers were beaten with 50 military sticks in public for looting property, and three soldiers ** women were killed on the spot.

When the women were brought to Li Yanqing, they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, Li Yanqing said coldly to more than 400 women: "You should know in your hearts that your father, brother, husband, and son have plagued the Yangtze River for many years, and their crimes are monstrous, and death is not enough to atone for their sins, but I don't want to kill them all, so I spare you women, and I will return part of your wealth to you, go to relatives and friends!" ”

All the women thanked them with tears, Li Yanqing asked them to take them down, and after dawn they returned their belongings to send them away, at this time, Zhang Hu pointed to dozens of other young women and said: "This is the woman who was captured by the river thieves on the island, forced to fall into the Qinglou, they have no money, the county gentleman, how to settle them?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, and instructed left and right: "Give each of them one hundred taels of silver, and send them home tomorrow." ”

The women cried bitterly, knelt down together and thanked them, Li Yanqing comforted them a few words, and then asked the soldiers to send them back to rest for a while, at this time, Hu Qing'er hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "We have rummaged through all the corpses, but we have not found any trace of Yan Qing." ”

"Then forget it, I guess he has already left first." Li Yanqing sighed secretly, it seemed that Yan Qing still couldn't untie the knot, so he could only wait patiently.

This time the black-hearted dragon king was extremely rich, only the grain seized 60,000 stones, as well as hundreds of thousands of yuan and tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver, all kinds of jewelry and jewelry are countless, and there are more than 500 large and small ships, the black-hearted dragon king has been a disaster on the Yangtze River for more than ten years, accumulated a lot of wealth, and finally became the trophy of the officers and soldiers.

Three days later, the whole island was cleared, and more than 30 river thieves hiding in the woods and caves were killed, and at the same time, Li Yanqing led his men to pack all the grain wealth onto the ship, and burned Du Heixin's warehouse and other buildings, and the fleet left Junshan Island and sailed towards Jiayu County.