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"Hey, hey......"

More than a dozen people kept paddling the sampan, and the shouts of "the owner is on the boat" on the river covered it for a while, and on the dock, the sound of gunshots like bursting beans rang out from time to time, and it was the musket team of the Taiping Army shooting at the river.

Firelight!

At this time, the entire city of Hankou was full of fire, and the houses that had been ignited by the shells were burning. Looking at the night sky that was reflected red, Zhu Yifeng, who had lived for the rest of his life, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"You are?"

Turning to look at Xue Hailong, Zhu Yifeng asked with some confusion.

"Back to the east, the villain's surname is Xue, his name is Hailong, he is originally from Hankou, and like the villagers, he doesn't want to rob the bandits, so please ask the owner to be gracious and save my life!"

Just as Xue Hailong was speaking, he only heard a burst of cannons nearby, and with the sound of cannons, there were bursts of miserable cries on the river.

"Quick, slide to the left......"

Almost at the moment when the "Express" lowered its muzzle and fired a grape-bomb at the approaching sampan, Zhu Yifeng, who knew that the people on the ship might think they were Taiping Army, hurriedly shouted loudly, he didn't want to escape from the tiger's mouth over there, and he was knocked down on this ship by his own people......

"Everyone shouts with me, shouting Shen Ming......"

When the sampan turned its course, Zhu Yifeng commanded the people on the boat again, and at the same time kept urging the people on the sampan to slide faster.

"The surname Shen, the owner, the owner may be on those ships......"

Seeing that those approaching boats were constantly sinking, Li Ziyuan shouted loudly.

"In case the owner ......"

"The proprietor is definitely not on these ships!"

Facing the questioning of others, Shen Ming replied in a deep voice.

"There must be someone who wants to fish in troubled waters, and the owner will never ...... on these boats"

Is it really not there?

Shen Ming didn't know, but he knew what he should do as the captain of a boat.

"The surname Shen, now that the owner is not here, I will be the master of the owner, and I order you not to fire at these people......"

For Li Ziyuan, who already regarded Zhu Yifeng as the proprietor, he naturally didn't allow Shen Ming to be so indiscriminate and bombard the rowing boat, in case he hurt the owner, it would be all over.

"Mr. Li, I am the captain of a ship, don't say it's you, it's the owner here, and it's my decision on the "Express", if these ships are the Taiping Army, all of you and I will have to die here! So listen, take your gun, but whoever comes near the ship will be killed! ”

Just as Shen Ming stubbornly insisted on his decision, there was a faint shout from the port side.

"Shen Ming, Shen Ming......"

As soon as he heard the shouts coming from the river, Shen Ming hurriedly rushed to the port side, looked into the distance, and saw a sampan rowing towards this side at a rapid speed, and on the boat, there was a white flag waving continuously.

“…… It's the owner, and only the owner knows my name! It's definitely the owner! ”

Of course, maybe only the owner knows the meaning of the white flag, and most of the current Chinese people don't know the meaning of the white flag, but Shen Ming knows what the constantly shaking white flag means.

Under Shen Ming's command, the sailors on the port side did not attack the fast-approaching sampan, but it was only a moment, and with the help of the cannon flames that reflected the river from time to time, Li Ziyuan and the others finally saw the people on the sampan clearly.

"The owner, the owner is back......"

The owner is back, listening to the news, Lin Yuqing and Yu Xiaobao on the ship are all relieved, unlike the other sailors on the ship, for them, the owner is their only support.

"The owner!"

Almost as soon as Zhu Yifeng returned to the boat, Li Ziyuan hurriedly walked over, only to see that the owner's face was full of smoke, but he didn't seem to be injured.

"You're back, I, I'm ......"

However, his words were interrupted by a series of gunshots, and the gunshots in his ears made Zhu Yifeng hurriedly look over, only to see more than a dozen sailors shooting under the ship along the side of the ship.

"It's so far from the shore here, it's useless to fight......"

"The owner, it's the people on the river boat!"

Without waiting for Li Ziyuan to finish speaking, Xue Hailong, who had just stepped on the net and landed on the big boat, hurriedly shouted loudly.

"The owner, the owner, the boat is all our own people, all like villains, yes, good people who have been forcibly kidnapped by bandits! If it weren't for them, we, we wouldn't have had a chance to fish in troubled waters and escape to the boat! ”

When Xue Hailong said this, he was just doing his best, whether the other party saved those was all up to the owner's thoughts, even so, he was also quite skillful in speaking, first pointing out the identities of those people, and even more clarifying that without the help of those people, they would not be able to escape.

Xu Dayong also looked at this person nervously, although he had survived now, but after all, there were other people, but he was soft-spoken, and did not speak, as for the other coolies, they stood there timidly, for fear that others would throw him into the water, as for the young man, he looked at the people on the boat curiously-especially those foreigners.

"Hmmm......"

After pondering for a moment, looking at the people on the boat, then at the desperate faces on the sampans, and at the Taiping army on the dock who kept shooting at the boat on the river with foreign guns, finally, Zhu Yifeng gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Get them on the boat and take them with you!"

After receiving this order, the gunners on the ship immediately turned their guns and continued to bombard the shore, but just as they were shelling the area around the Hankou wharf, Zhu Yifeng's brows tightened again, and he saw that those coolies who were rowing small sampans trying to escape from the wharf were constantly killed by the Taiping army.

"Boss, what's going on?"

Li Ziyuan tried to ask, the previous business was obviously almost done, but who would have thought that all the silver was loaded on the ship but this variable was born.

"What's the matter, the black eyes can't see the silver in the white money, and the eyes of the surname Yang are red!"

It's not red-eyed, it's millions of taels of silver, for those old hats of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver may not be in their eyes, but millions of taels of silver, they prefer to use a more direct way to "pay the bill", pay the bill with a knife.

I almost gave my life here...... Just as this thought came to me, suddenly, a huge sound came from the hull of the ship, and the stern of the ship was hit.

"Boss, let's hurry up, although the Taiping Army's artillery is inaccurate and the power is still small, but if the ship is damaged, it will be troublesome at that time!"

While Li Ziyuan was speaking, dozens of coolies had already escaped onto the boat, and they all looked at the people on the boat nervously, their eyes full of gratitude.

Walk?

Since he has already decided to save people, how can he only save half of them and run away.

"Shen Ming, bombard the dock for me, and blow up all the arms we sold to the Taiping Army, since they are unwilling to pay the money, those guns and cannons are all destroyed, and they can't be left to them!"

Sneering, Zhu Yifeng shouted at Shen Ming and ordered.

"Blow up those arms and leave a lesson for the surnamed Yang!"

At least let the man surnamed Yang understand that this business is not his business.

When a violent explosion came from the dock, even in the city, Yang Xiuqing could see the sky-rushing flames - a huge fireball rolled in the direction of the dock and rose into the air, and with the sound of the explosion, Yang Xiuqing could even feel the earth trembling slightly.

Is that......

"Yes, it's the dock!"

Suddenly, Yang Xiuqing's heart swelled with a sense of foreboding, could it be that something happened on the dock!

"Quick, prepare the sedan chair, this king is going to the dock! Hurry up ......"

Yang Xiuqing shouted as he strode towards the outside of the hall, and when he walked out of the hall, the river breeze had already sent a strong smell of gunpowder, which was extremely choking.

"Why, this, how good is this......"

Zhao Lishan, who got up from the ground, looked at the soldiers around him who were frightened by the violent explosion, his eyes were staring at the dock, his eyes were full of fear, this, what is going on?

Almost subconsciously, he thought that it was the gunpowder on the dock that exploded, and when those foreign gunpowder exploded, those foreign guns ...... Foreign guns!

Thinking of the importance that Dongwang attaches to foreign guns, Zhao Lishan is instantly absent from the three souls, he knows that once those foreign guns are gone, his little life will be difficult to protect!

"The king's foreign gun is there!"

Standing on the wharf that was blown into ruins, the angry Yang Xiuqing's face turned pale, in the ruins, he looked at a blown up foreign gun on the ground, and kicked at Zhao Lishan, who was kneeling on the ground and constantly kowtowing.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?"

"Hui, back to the East King nine thousand years old, this, this ......"

Zhao Lishan, who kowtowed, faced the questioning and hurriedly excused himself.

"That, the surname Zhu must be, it must be the Qing Demon's intermittent detail, he, as soon as he returned to the boat, he fired the cannon, yes, he kept firing the cannon, small, small There is no way! Please spare your life for 9,000 years old......"

"I can't help you! You dog slave, you can't even do this little thing, what use do you want?"

Without waiting for Zhao Lishan to beg for mercy again, Yang Xiuqing pulled the Taiping knife from the waist of the guards beside him, and stabbed at Zhao Lishan's head.

"The surname is Zhu! Don't let Lao Tzu see you again......"