Chapter 140: The Decisive Battle on the Water

When the fleet sailed into the river, about two or three miles from the mouth of the Yangtze River, the vast river could be seen with the naked eye. Several boats and boats of different shapes surrounded them, and in the middle, there was a large naval warship in the middle that pressed straight from the side, and the warship raised the military flag to show its identity as a member of the imperial court.

At this time, not only Jiang Cheng noticed that something was wrong, but Song Minghua, who was hiding in the back boat and was joking and having fun with beautiful women, was also notified by his subordinates and hurriedly went out of the cabin to watch.

"What's the matter, this is not the warship of the Yangzhou Navy Army, could someone pretend to be the Imperial Court Navy Army?" Song Minghua frowned.

The sailor next to him shouted loudly and in a panic, and he kept going into a mess.

Song Minghua walked to the bow of the boat, kicked away a few panicked sailors on the way, and shouted loudly, so that everyone temporarily settled down.

In the sixty or seventy years since the Tang Xing, the political situation was stable, the people were prosperous, and few thieves openly rebelled and plundered places, at least Song Minghua had not seen anyone looting ships in Yangzhou for many years.

"The ship in front stopped for inspection, we are the imperial court's personal guards and thousands of horses, and we were ordered by the governor of Jiangnan to arrest the demons of the Heavenly Witch Sect on the orders of Di Renjie Di Gong." The heavily armed soldiers on the ship shouted.

"Di Renjie's people?" Jiang Cheng looked at the coming boat and said.

Since Di Renjie chose to do it at this time, he sent a warship, as well as several boats and boats to accompany him, obviously colluding with other forces in the city to rob his own fleet, which was ill-intentioned.

"Order all ships to break through immediately!" Jiang Cheng said sharply to Xing Ziqi.

Li Rong took a small boat to meet the waves and sailed towards Jiang Cheng's big boat.

Jiang Cheng looked at the boat coming from the side of the boat, and the young man in brocade standing at the bow of the boat was the person next to the water gate, knowing that it was the arrival of the great enemy, he grinned, took out the copper kettle, and drank a sip of French wine, revealing a monstrous war intent in his chest.

"Whoever comes, report your name!" Jiang Cheng said.

"Thousand Riders Li Rong!" Li Rong said.

The sound was not loud, but it was clearly audible to everyone on the boat near the river.

"It's you!" Li Rong said.

After Zhou Xuan'er fought with Li Rong, she once passed the news to the Heavenly Witch Sect. After Jiang Baiqing read it, he informed Jiang Cheng of the matter.

Jiang Cheng suddenly jumped to the surface of the river, and when he was about to fall into the water, his limbs spread rapidly, turning into a nimble civet cat, his belly almost touching the surface of the water, his hands were also inserted into the water, and his hands and feet were paddling through the water to crawl forward, rushing like a cheetah.

The distance of about ten zhang was about to come, and Li Rong was not surprised to see it, he also jumped to the surface of the water, tread the water, and the dragon sword came out of the sheath and rushed straight over.

Li Rong has fought with the "Dark Leopard" Ande, and has seen Ande use his limbs on the left side, and knows that it is the secret method of the Tianwu Sect.

Jiang Chengcheng rushed to Li Rong a foot away, stopped his body in an instant, kicked his legs, splashed white waves on the water, his body bowed, his claws from the bottom up, as if grasping the abdomen and heart, and grabbed Li Rong's chest and abdomen.

From Jiang Cheng to the water, it took less than five breaths to crawl, run, stand upright, and claw strike, and the speed was not much worse than running on land, ready to hit Li Rong by surprise.

Li Rong's face did not change color, and the dragon yin knife turned obliquely to draw a half-arc, bringing up a crystal water curtain, containing amazing energy, like soft and rigid, meeting Jiang Cheng's sharp claws.

"Bang", the water curtain burst out, and the scattered water droplets exploded and flew in all directions.

Jiang Cheng's claws cut through the water curtain, his ten fingers moved rapidly, his blue and white nails were like blades with invisible aura, one claw was on the Long Yin knife, and the other claw was directly grasping Li Rong's throat.

The blade of the dragon sword was like a lightning strike, and the raindrop-like aura hit the blade, making the agile dragon blade lose all its changes, like a fish entering a net and stopping its movement for a moment.

Even if the dragon yin knife was still for a breath, the invisible true qi penetrated into Li Rong's body through the blade, and at the same time, the five fingers into a claw suddenly stretched half a foot in the middle, and the five claw winds spun in the air, shaped like a drill bit, piercing through the air, whining, and drilling towards Li Rong between the electric light and flint.

"Dangerous," Li Rong didn't dare to resist Jiang Cheng's claw attack with his body protection true qi.

This kind of spiral attack that specializes in breaking the body-protecting qigong, no one dares to use the body-protecting true qi to hard-connect, it is definitely an act of looking for death, even if Li Rong's "Tiger Roaring Golden Bell Jar" is a first-class body-protecting exercise.

In the face of Jiang Cheng's claw attack, Li Rong was really angry, and forced back the attacking qi through the dragon yin knife, his feet slipped, his body seemed to be stepping on a surfboard, and he slid horizontally three or four feet away along the current, avoiding Jiang Cheng's attack.

"Whoa", Jiang Cheng followed him like a shadow, his limbs were inserted into the water again, his body arched, chasing Li Rong, and he ran to the front in a few steps, with one paw horizontally, and one claw covering Li Rong's head and face.

Jiang Cheng's attack method is full of wildness, like a fierce beast hunting, seemingly primitive and ugly, but in fact it has great lethality, especially on the water.

"Hmph", Li Rong snorted, his body sank, the river water did not enter his knees, avoiding Jiang Cheng's right claw, the dragon yin knife reversed and pulled out, the knife qi carried the water flow, condensed into a substantial water knife, about one foot wide, the knife stretched out three feet, enveloping Jiang Cheng's claw wind, and slashed it violently.

"Boom", the water knife and the claw wind collided, and the two of them each flew back with their strength, ending the first round of temptation.

There is no master of the same level who can suppress Li Rong like this, like A Sili and Li Yuanfang can take advantage of Li Rong's promotion to the sixth rank to gain the upper hand, and others can only eat in Li Rong's hands. Ma Jiayun, Ande, Wang Kun, Xiang Yunfei and others did not cause much trouble to Li Rong, and obviously Jiang Cheng was an exception.

Compared with Jiang Chenglai, Ande and Xiang Yunfei's "Seven Kills of Breaking the Army" are like lifeless dead things, at most they are proficient in moves, they are really old and spicy, and they lack the agility that changes with time and place, which is far inferior to Jiang Cheng. It is no wonder that Jiang Cheng can be ranked among the two masters of Jiangzuo, and even Liu Xuan and others praise him.

Among the young masters that Li Rong saw, only Li Yuanfang's Dream Shattering Knife, Yang Sixuan's short sword had this kind of spirituality, Asli's scimitar was slightly worse, and others like Yu Chi Xiu's spear, Adani's Bright Blade, Yang Zhiyi's and Wang Kun's swords were at the same level. This kind of spirituality comes from personal martial arts talent, it is an indescribable feeling, the same move has spirituality and the power is multiplied, like today, Jiang Cheng can force Li Rong to retreat without even using the "Seven Kills of Breaking the Army", but at the beginning, Ande and Xiang Yunfei were still defeated by Li Rong's knife despite their stunts, this is the gap.

The battle between Li Rong and Chiang Cheng did not affect the struggle between the ships on the river.

The big ships belonging to the Tianwu Sect are all merchant ships and are used to transport goods, and Li Rong's side has a naval warship, and the other ships are also smaller, fast and flexible, and suitable for river battles.

Not all the big ships collected by Deng Ziyuan were his own, most of them were borrowed from other merchants, and these people dared to compete with the government and the army. When the sailors and shipwrights on the ship saw the flags on the warship, they were so frightened that many people stopped and wanted to tie their hands, so angry that the disciples of the Heavenly Witch Sect were very angry, but they didn't know how to resist, there were no bows and crossbows and other weapons on them, and some short soldiers were useless, so they could only urge the sailors to paddle hard and flee from here.

"Dark Leopard Ande, Qinglong Xiangyunfei is not as good as you," Li Rong said in a raised voice, "I also hope to understand the true power of the Seven Kills of the Broken Army." ”

"You're not bad, my sect's holy daughter praised you," Jiang Cheng said, "But thank you very much for killing Xiang Yunfei, I'm very happy, I can't get used to him for a long time, and I was forced to do it because of my peers." ”

"Qinglong" Xiang Yunfei is very old, and his seniority is still above the Holy Lord Jiang Baiqing, although his martial arts are not as good as Jiang Cheng, but his means are slick, and he has attracted most of the altar masters and deacons of the Tianwu Sect, and he likes to go against Jiang Cheng, which makes Jiang Cheng very dissatisfied. Of course, there are profound reasons why the two continue to conflict.

"Heavenly Wolf" Jiang Cheng is young and vigorous, advocating that the Heavenly Witch Sect should cultivate force, promote brave warriors, and restrict the arrogance and indulgence of the middle and high-level of the sect, this kind of proposition suddenly poked the hornet's nest and touched the interests of the middle and high-level leaders of the sect headed by Xiang Yunfei, and the relationship between the two became extremely poor.

For the purpose of controlling power, the Holy Lord Jiang Baiqing indulged in the fight between the two and suppressed the arrogant Jiang Cheng, which made Jiang Cheng quite depressed. Now that Li Rong has killed Xiang Yunfei, it has undoubtedly paved the way for Jiang Cheng to control the Heavenly Witch Sect.

"Brother Jiang is one of the opponents that Li Rongnan is preparing to challenge when he comes to Jianghuai, I will use what I have learned to defeat you to prove my martial arts." Li Rong said solemnly.

"I heard the saint say that Brother Li actually practiced the long-standing legend of my Wumen's 'Water Book', and even practiced the true qi of soft water, and I also want to confirm it with Brother Li," Jiang Cheng said.

"Water Letter" has long been circulated in Wumen, and it can be called the source of all martial arts in Wumen, but few people practice it. Now that the Witch Gate has long since disappeared, only the Heavenly Witch Sect that takes refuge in the Demon Gate remains, and there are very few people who can know the true qi of Roushui, but Jiang Cheng knows.

Jiang Cheng's martial arts talent is no worse than that of the Holy Lord Jiang Baiqing, his hard work and hard work are still above Jiang Baiqing, and he has the ambition to reach the peak of martial arts.