Chapter 13 The First Battle of Qingjiang
It wasn't until noon that Xu Ruyu walked up to the deck of the ship again. The bone-chilling northeast wind blows on the surface of the Qingjiang River in Kuandarish, and the river water surges, setting off a silver sparkling wave all over the river. At this time, it is only more than 50 miles away from the mouth of the Lishui River, and as long as the wind does not weaken, it is completely possible to reach the destination before it sets.
Xu Ruyu had a gloomy face and paced to the back deck without saying a word. Wei Yu, Mi Yusheng, and Wei Yan, who followed him, all vaguely felt Xu Ruyu's strangeness.
As soon as the grain convoy left the realm of Liyang Mansion, a large number of river bandit warships followed behind, which made everyone's hearts tight for a while; Xu Ruyu was indifferent, and he didn't even have the interest to go to the back deck to see the details of the Jiang bandits. Every time he reported to him, several suspicious-looking ships followed him, and he always tried his best to suppress the appearance of the yawn that was about to rise, which made Yasui's heart full of fire.
Among the generals of Xu Ruyu's ship, Wei Yu and Wei Yan knew Xu Ruyu's power as early as in the Puji Army, and naturally knew the beauty of his move. Mi Yusheng only heard about Xu Ruyu's deeds from the public [***] biography, and he had never seen it with his own eyes, and now he can't help but doubt the credibility of the rumors, and even thought that he skillfully resolved the hostility of Liyang Duwei Zhu Tongshan at the mouth of the Qingjiang River a few days ago, but he was just lucky.
Resentment grew in Mi Yusheng's heart, and he thought: You are like this, what is the use of me being nervous in vain. The surname Suo no longer personally went to the tall mast to observe the enemy's situation, and every time he said that he was just hastily cleaning up the formation of the fleet, he was also a lazy look.
After two days, the Jiang bandits who followed behind did not move, and Mi Yusheng gradually saw the mystery. Although the Wulu River bandits had a total of 48 large and small warships, the total strength was as high as more than 3,000 people. In comparison, the available combat strength of the grain convoy was only more than 400 people, of which 125 of the Qingjiang cavalry division had set up a monitoring network on both sides of the strait, and in the event of a real battle, it was impossible to provide assistance for a while. Although there is a Yongyang strong crossbow machine hidden in the hundred warships with a distance of up to 300 paces, on the surface of the Qingjiang River with a width of 800 steps, the Baiyang warships that only rely on wind power to endure cannot compete with those light ships and pointed-bottom square-headed warships. Those light warships can avoid the dead end of the crossbow machine at any time, and approach the hundreds of warships that are seriously underprotected, and deal a fatal blow. Since it is impossible to compete with the enemy on the river, it is better to bluff and make the Jiang bandits jealous. Xu Ruyu implemented the plan of empty ships from the mouth of the Qingjiang River, first Zhu Tongshan was bluffed, and now the river bandits from all walks of life in the Qingjiang River cannot see the reality of the grain warship, and the river bandits belong to five factions, each holding a ghost and containing each other, no one dares to take the initiative to test, so as not to anger the famous Qingfeng General and let others profit.
Mi Yusheng thought through everything, thinking that he was still in a mood because of the first two days, he felt ashamed, and now he always avoided Xu Ruyu and didn't dare to touch his face. Now Xu Ruyu asked people to find him and go to the back deck of the ship to observe the enemy's situation, and Mi Yusheng asked puzzledly: "I didn't notice anything unusual about the enemy ship, does Mr. want to take action against them?" ”
Xu Ruyu said: "There is still half a day, and we will arrive at the mouth of the Lishui River. There are many clever people among the bandits, and it is not difficult for them to guess the destination of our trip. As long as we turn into the Lishui River, we will be able to seal the mouth of the Lishui River, which is only 300 paces wide, with a strong crossbow machine. Wei Yan is now my disciple, and from time to time he wants to weigh me, and those Jiang bandits who lick blood on the knife edge are even more unwilling to be suppressed by my name......"
When Wei Yan heard Xu Ruyu say this, his old face turned red, muttered a few words vaguely, and turned his face to one side.
Xu Ru smiled and ignored it, and continued: "In the next fifty miles of waterway, those who are unwilling to wait among the river bandits will definitely send troops to try to control our reality and reality, and when that happens, we will be passive. ”
After Xu Ruyu's words, the grain transportation fleet was still in a serious crisis. Sixteen hundred warships have a ship and a warship on the right flank each hiding more than a hundred sailors in the boat, which can fight flexibly on the surface of the Qingjiang River, while the ten Yongyang strong crossbow machines are concentrated in the boat, and the rest of the warships are commercial, full of food, and each ship has fifteen boatmen and twenty guards, and the only thing that can be relied on is only a few ordinary crossbows with a firing distance of only one hundred and eighty paces.
Jiang bandit's surname is fierce and cruel, and he has a very good face, so he will definitely not be willing to withdraw his troops and leave without a confrontation, as long as he can't help but send troops to test it, the reality of the grain transportation fleet will naturally be clear. At that time, as long as the Jiang bandits entangled the boat and suppressed the power of the strong crossbow machine, they could easily break the vain array of goose heads.
Thinking of this, Mi Yusheng's face couldn't help but turn pale with horror, and when he saw Xu Ruyu's expression, he realized that he had a plan, and his nervous mood gradually eased.
Xu Ruyu's gaze swept over the three of them, Mi Yusheng's expression was in a hurry when he first knew the crisis, Wei Yu seemed to have already realized the existence of the crisis, his face was the same, and the corners of his mouth slightly showed contempt for Mi Yusheng, although Wei Yan had just realized the existence of the crisis like Mi Yusheng, his performance was diametrically opposite, his eyes were shining, and he was obviously extremely eager for the upcoming fight.
Mi Yusheng also realized his gaffe, and tried his best to slow down his breathing, but he couldn't calm his nervous mood, seeing Xu Ruyu and Wei Yu's peaceful appearance, and Wei Yan was even more expectant, making him feel that he was really useless, and lowered his head, not daring to look at Xu Ruyu's clear eyes.
Xu Ruyu stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said: "When I followed Zhang Zhongdao to the enemy for the first time outside Qichuan City, I held a knife in my hand, but my body couldn't stop swinging, your first time facing the enemy, it is normal to be nervous in your heart, why don't you dare to raise your head?" ”
Wei Yan was surprised and asked, "Sir, do you mean that the six hundred elite horsemen broke the battle of the Baishi Army under Qichuan City?" It turns out that my husband is just like us, and he is an ordinary person. Ami, don't look at Lao Wei now dragging a ball, killing for the first time, hiding and crying for a long time. ”
Wei Yu saw the past when Wei Yan casually shook off his Chen sesame seeds and rotten grains, his brows furrowed slightly, his head twisted to the side, and ignored him.
In the past few days, there have been five groups of Jiang bandits who have followed the grain convoy, three of which are more powerful, and according to the information provided by Yongyang Mansion, they are Qingjiang League, Lichun Society, and Hongjiang Battalion. They seem to have a tacit understanding that they have sent twelve fighting ships, compared to the big wing ships belonging to the Liyang Water Battalion, the fighting ships have been improved to a certain extent, and the tips of the warships are wrapped in angle iron, and the whole ship can be used as a sharp weapon to sprint to the opponent's camp during water battles. Xu Ruyu's hundred tips were naturally not afraid of the other party's collision, but the ordinary grain ship accompanying him could not withstand the brutal collision of the Jiang bandits.
Xu Ruyu led Wei Yu and others to appear on the back deck, which naturally attracted the attention of all the river bandits, and the forty-eight river bandit warships that followed were full of fierce and sturdy warriors, looking at the fierce flames of fighting in their eyes, Xu Ruyu knew that they were all people who were born by devouring blood on the water surface of the Qingjiang River, and his heart was filled with disgust.
Ming Xi and his uncle Fang Wu sent a message to ask for the flag on another warship, and Xu Boying and Xu Zhaorong also discovered the abnormality here.
Xu Ruyu ordered in a deep voice: "The warship turned around, and the two wings converged into a swallowtail formation, with a board distance of twelve to fifteen zhang, pointing directly at the Jiang bandits. The grain ships passed through the left and right sides in two columns to the dovetail formation, and then continued their voyage. The Qingjiang cavalry was gathered to the two wings. ”
Sixteen hundred warships quickly changed formations, converged on Xu Ruyu's ship, and formed a swallowtail boat formation, which was in the center of the river, and the soldiers of the Qingjiang cavalry battalion led by the 12 Jiao Xi Institute to reconnoiter on both sides of the Qingjiang River also heard the order to assemble on both sides, and they all pulled out hard-horned longbows, forming a swallowtail boat formation that spread out on both sides of the river, and coerced the river bandit warships near the shore. Grain merchant ships passed through both sides of the Dovetail Formation and continued to swim upstream.
The Wulu River bandits also reached a tacit understanding within a few days, seeing that the grain convoy changed formations and formed three prismatic ship formations, each prismatic array was composed of twelve fighting ships belonging to one faction, while the remaining two river bandits and eight Mengchong ships laid a horizontal formation behind the three prismatic ship formations.
Xu Ru foolishly saw that the Jiang bandits actually laid down a prismatic attack formation-for-tat, and knew that there were many clever people among the Jiang bandits. It's just that I don't know who can make the three Jiang bandits listen to his dispatch at the same time. If the five river bandits form a defensive formation to prevent the infiltration impact of the dovetail formation, at the junction between the defensive formations, there will inevitably be a fatal weakness due to the inability to cooperate tacitly.
Mi Yusheng said in a low voice: "Jiang bandits want to attack? ”
Xu Ruyu shook his head slightly, his expression slightly sluggish. The breath was transported to his eyes, and his eyes swept over the command ship of the prismatic formation in the middle of the enemy like a torch, and the flag of the Qingjiang League was hoisted high on it. Xu Ruyu thought to himself: The person who is good at water warfare should be in that ship, the Qingjiang League is the most powerful river bandit on the Qingjiang waterway, is there a background of Puji pirates? Gongliang Youqin invaded Yuejun, and the river bandits on the surface of the Qingjiang River secretly colluded with it, which was the most normal thing. That is to say, there are several river bandits directly subordinate to Gongliang Gongqin, which will not be surprising.
On the command seat ship of the Qingjiang League, there were swords and shields wearing half-body rhino skin armor, and the cold light of arrows was exposed between the low female walls. Xu Ruyu's eyes were subtle, and he was slightly surprised when he saw that those crossbow arrows and iron clusters were actually sharp clusters of three-edged convergence. The penetration and lethality of the three-sided arrow cluster are much higher than that of the two-sided iron cluster, and the Yongyang hard-angle longbow is lined with special iron tires on the inside of the bow body and the arrow cluster of the three-edged angle is used to achieve the effective lethality of 200 steps, making the longbow range more than that of ordinary crossbows. The remnants of the First World War in the East China Sea have not been investigated, and the secret of Yongyang's hard-horned longbow has been leaked, and it seems that the secrets of the strong crossbow machine and the long-distance stone-throwing crossbow cannot be kept.
The origin of the Qingjiang League is not simple, and it is very likely to be related to Gongliang Youqin or the remnants of the old Nanping Dynasty. On the boat of the Qingjiang League, the sword and shield hands surrounded the two people, one of them was wearing a dark color and two armor, a dark red scar crossed his cheek, the left nose was mutilated, and the cold light in his eyes was like lightning, which met with Xu Ruyu's clear eyes.
His characteristics are so obvious that Xu Ruyu had already learned from the information transmitted by Yongyang that he was Cheng Jing, the great leader of the Qingjiang League. Xu Ruyu felt a murderous aura in his gaze, and thought: There is no reason why they will see through our reality and reality. Then his eyes fell on the middle-aged Confucian scholar beside Cheng Jing. The man's gaze fell elsewhere, obviously deliberately not letting Xu Ruyu see his reality. The middle-aged Confucian was wearing a white robe made of trumps, and the river breeze blew from behind, but he couldn't lift the soft corners of the robe, showing that this person's cultivation was high.
I want to see your depth, Xu Ruyu snorted lightly, dispelled the excess feelings, and ordered in a cold voice: "The whole team sprinted towards the Qingjiang Alliance ship formation, and the two wings continued to converge into a semi-fusiform corner formation during the sprint. ”
Xu Ruyu's boat took the lead, dropped the sail and rushed down the river, the two sides slowly continued to converge to the middle, and sixteen hundred warships formed a huge triangle on the surface of the Qingjiang River. The semi-fusiform angle formation is a change of formation between the dovetail formation and the fusiform formation, and fifty sailmen were recruited from the Hanshui Taoyuan relocation, with extremely high quality.
Xu Ruyu asked ten strong crossbow machines to be pushed onto the deck, twisted strings and loaded arrows, and the front end of the crossbow machine poked out slightly from between the female walls, pointing directly at the Qingjiang Alliance ship.
Xu Ruyu saw that the sword and shield hand on the Qingjiang Alliance Boat invariably raised the round shield in his left hand, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and his eyes were still staring at the middle-aged Confucian scholar.
The two armies were only 800 steps apart, and the fleet led by Xu Ruyu rushed towards the Jiang bandit ship formation. The Jiang bandits who formed three prismatic formations either rushed up against the current or changed their formations to defend, otherwise the boat formation of the Qingjiang League in the middle would not be able to escape Xu Ruyu's fierce attack, at least on the surface.
The middle-aged Confucian finally couldn't resist the domineering momentum of the sixteen warships led by Xu Ruyu, and whispered urgently in Cheng Jing's ear, and the anxious look on his face was unavoidable. Immediately, the ends of the prismatic ship formations of the Lichun Hui and the Hongjiang Battalion on both sides swirled towards the prismatic formation of the Qingjiang Alliance, and the three prismatic formations quickly formed a three-wing formation, but the gap between the three wings was huge enough to show that they were still guarding each other.
Xu Ruyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, ordered the ship formation to stop advancing, hovered on the water, stood one step forward, and shouted: "You are enthusiastic about sending each other more than 400 miles, Xu Thank you very much, please go back now." If he doesn't follow him anymore, I will only assume that he has malicious intentions. After that, he drew his knife and swung it on the surface of the river, and with a clear sound of "snort", a faint blue brilliance came out of the blade and quickly sank into the river. Everyone knew that Xu Ruyu was a first-grade martial arts master, but they didn't expect that he would show the omen of the great success of the Dan Breath Technique, and everyone's eyes fell on the river surface of the Dan Jin's false attack, waiting for the amazing effect of the earth-shattering blow.
As the time passed, there was nothing unusual about the river. Wei Yan patted his chest, squeezed his eyes at Wei Yu with a side face and said, "Mr. has leaked the bottom this time, it turns out that he has been bluffing." Seeing Wei Yu look dumbfounded, he hurriedly looked at the river, only to see a turbid yellow line floating on the clear river. Ah", Wei Yan exclaimed, only then did he know that Xu Ruyu's blow full of strength actually penetrated the bottom of the river for more than ten zhang and stirred up the sediment deposited at the bottom of the river.
Wei Yan asked himself if he tried his best to attack with a sword, Dan Jin would be sucked up by the soft river water in a single zhang, not to mention the turbulent river water with an undercurrent of more than ten zhang. Wei Yan quietly pulled Wei Yu's sleeve and asked with a depressed expression: "If this is the standard of a first-grade master, when will you and I reach it." ”
Wei Yu didn't think that he would care about this at this time, so he glanced sideways and ignored him, although the shock in his heart was not weaker than Wei Yan. The river is turbulent, and the mud line is still straight from the bottom of the river to the surface of the river, doesn't it show that the river is stagnant during the few breaths of Xu Ruyu's false attack?
Xu Ruyu looked coldly at the Jiang bandits who stopped in the lower ranks, without a trace of emotion in his eyes, Liang Bao must be able to think of the situation in the first battle of Yongyang Jingyangmen.
Cheng Jing and the middle-aged Confucian scholars beside him tried their best to be calm, but their fleeting rush still did not escape the eyes of those who had a heart. Meng Yi stood on the right bank and saw Xu Ruyu use this trick to draw a knife to cut off the water, without hesitation to draw the string and take the arrow, a sharp sound, the long arrow stabbed the clouds obliquely, everyone was guessing what he meant by this arrow, the arrow through the clouds suddenly drilled out, and the "sonorous" sound nailed to the main mast of the Qingjiang Alliance ship, and the "buzzing" continued to make a trill.
Meng Yiyuan was on the embankment five hundred paces away, and even with his profound Dan Breath technique, a direct shot from the hard-angled longbow could only hit three hundred paces away, and it was useful to shoot at the Qingjiang Alliance ships five hundred paces away. But no one has ever seen such a high degree of archery with such a high degree of accuracy.
Seeing that he had achieved the goal of seizing the precedent, Xu Ru ordered a warship on each wing to bring back the soldiers of the Twelve Sects and the Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion who were still on both sides of the river, and prepared to continue sailing against the current.
The hundred warships slowly turned around, re-formed the first formation of geese, and were about to hang up the sails and sail away, when they suddenly saw the Qingjiang League warship spinning to starboard, Xu Ruyu's brows were twisted, and the Qingjiang League's move was undoubtedly to forcibly exceed and seize the favorable terrain upstream. If they occupy the upstream water potential, they will have their own good looks. Xu Ruyu shouted: "Out of the bright wheel, the car water spun to starboard for three minutes, and engaged it." ”
There were dozens of noises, and the side of Xu Ruyuza's boat opened thirty-six holes, each stretching out a huge wheel, and the sound of "rolling" track friction was as harsh as a fingernail scratching a hard object.
Only then did everyone know that Xu Ruyu's ship was a flywheel warship, not an ordinary car-and-roll warship. The paddle wheel was speeding through the water, and Xu Ruyu's boat quickly approached the right flank. One wing of the first formation of geese hovered in place, but he turned the bow of the ship, and pointed obliquely at the four-way river bandit ship formation behind him, and one wing and Xu Ruyu's ship were linked into an arc formation, forcing towards the warships of the Qingjiang League.
The twelve warships of the Qingjiang League were spreading out in a linear shape, wanting to exceed from the flanks, but they did not expect that Xu Ruyu's ship was the fastest flywheel ship on the water, and when the Qingjiang League warship was about to turn off, it was bitten by the eight warships led by Xu Ruyu. Xu Ruyu's ship rushed to the port side of the Jiangmeng boat, and there was a loud "click", and then the "gurgle" of the broken gunwales continued to sound. The fighting ship is known as an ironclad ship, but only the bow is covered with angle iron, and the side is still the most vulnerable part. Without waiting for Xu Ruyu's order, the crossbow machine shot a rain of arrows like locusts, covering the Qingjiang League's ship. A puff of blood shot out.
Xu Ruyu glanced sideways, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Meng Yi leading the five teachers on the left bank to tread the water, and shouted, "Uncle Yi, the boat will be handed over to you." He bowed his head and shouted to Mi Yusheng and Wei Yu: "You two stay in command of the boat and suppress other bandit ships." Then he shouted to Wei Yan, "Lead the men with me." With that, the scabbard shot out of his hand, piercing into the chest of a warrior of the Qingjiang League, Xu Ruyu's eyes were cold, and he suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the foredeck of the Qingjiang League's ship.
Xu Ruyu knew that in addition to his own ship, there were only two warships that had just picked up fifty Qingjiang cavalry soldiers. However, in the arc of the right flank, there was only his own boat and the warship carrying fifty Qingjiang cavalry soldiers at the end of the formation, and each of the six ships in the middle had a few ordinary crossbows and twenty guards. If the Qingjiang League is allowed to slow down, it will fall into a place where it will never recover, not to mention that there are thirty-six river bandit warships from other families waiting behind.
Xu Ruyu went to the sky above the Qingjiang Alliance, and when his body was about to sink, he took a step forward with his breath, waved his knife and struck backwards, and hit out of the blade with great strength, and he was shocked by the hand, knowing that this blow was in the mainmast of the commander, and he picked up a sail rope with his hand, only to hear a loud "click" behind him, and the wind was blowing on his back, and he knew that the mainmast was smashing towards him without looking. Xu Ruyu shook his hand, his body staggered slightly, his feet were full of Dan breath, and he struck on the mainmast. The waist-thick mast fell and Xu Ruyu's stomp and smashed the deck.
The Qingjiang Alliance ship was at a loss for a while, allowing Xu Ruyu's flywheel warship to crash into the side side, and the sword and shield hands on the ship were suddenly shocked to the point that people turned over on their backs, followed by a rain of locusts and arrows, and half a hundred warriors on the port side were almost killed and wounded in a moment. Before everyone could recover their senses, the giant mast suddenly attacked, and the five people could not dodge and died.
Wei Yan led fifty guards of the Qingjiang Water Battalion, and in a few breaths, he rushed to the foredeck and dealt a cruel blow to those unprepared sword and shield men. The sword light is scattered, and the blood splashes are splashed, showing the extremely strong combat effectiveness of the soldiers from the Puji Biaofeng Battalion.
Xu Ruyu knew that it was more than enough for the ordinary sword and shield men on the ship to be handed over to Wei Yan, and his eyes locked on Cheng Jing and the middle-aged Confucian scholar, and saw that they were withdrawing to starboard to dodge, and with a sudden whistle, he threw himself at them, leaving several afterimages behind him.
Cheng Jing and the middle-aged Confucian saw that there was no way to avoid it, so they invariably lowered their palms and blocked the attack, and took Xu Ruyu's knife full of strength. Xu Ruyu forcibly suppressed the Echo Shock Danxi, replaced the sword with a sword, and the Tianma meteor unfolded the starry sky fragrance swordsmanship, and suddenly a silver sword light appeared, sealing the two of them in their own sword path. After a few moves, Xu Ruyu knew the depth of the two people, and knew that it was difficult to quickly solve the two at the same time, and if other river bandit warships rushed over to rescue, his side would be dangerous. Although he knew that the identity of the middle-aged Confucian was more important than Cheng Jing, as long as he killed Cheng Jing, he could temporarily paralyze the command system of the Qingjiang League. made up his mind in his heart, and the offensive in his hand fell on Cheng Jing together. The middle-aged Confucian seemed to know what Xu Ruyu was thinking, not only did he not take the opportunity to run away, but instead desperately cut into Xu Ruyu's fierce offensive and shared the pressure on Cheng Jing.
The Jiang bandit ship was rapidly approaching, and Wei Yu commanded eight warships to block the river road with crossbow arrows, but only the strong crossbow function on one ship could penetrate the shield of the Jiang bandit sword and shield man, giving fatal damage.
The other four river bandits seemed to sense something and were changing their formations.
Xu Ruyu's mind was clear, and suddenly, the details of the battlefield were all presented in Knowledge, knowing that the situation was extremely critical at this time, if the Jiang bandit fighting ship was approached, Cheng Jing and the middle-aged Confucian would be helped, and all efforts would be wasted, and his own side would be in danger.
In a moment of anxiety, the Knowledge of the Five Senses saw that a little ink was imprinted on his back, and that blow was full of strong and domineering fighting intent, which made Xu Ruyu feel cold all over his body. Xu Ruyu was not surprised, and when the blow hit him, he flew up, and a giant ink Changge suddenly appeared under his body, sticking to Xu Ruyu's clothes and stabbing at Cheng Jing and the others.
When Meng Yi first made this move, the strong and domineering battle intent was directed at Xu Ruyu, and his body was completely blocked by Xu Ruyu, Cheng Jing and the middle-aged Confucian were completely unaware of Meng Yi's existence, and when Xu Ruyu stood up, he was shocked to find that Meng Yi's thrilling blow, and he didn't have time to react.
Xu Ruyu spread his body in the air, and Meng Yi didn't think about it, and slammed his palm on the soles of his feet. Xu Ruyu used the power of this palm to embellished Cheng Jing who flew out, and stabbed the saber into his heart when he entered the water.
A figure flew out of the Qingjiang League fighting ship that first came over, caught the middle-aged Confucian scholar, and before falling into the water, he stretched out his palm and pressed the water surface, only to see that the water surface sank slightly, and the man had taken the middle-aged Confucian in his arms and turned around and swept towards the fighting boat.
The corners of Xu Ruyu's mouth twitched, and the narrow standard saber took off his hand, and the blade that focused on Dan Jin cut a waterline on the water surface, but quietly sank into the back of the middle-aged Confucian scholar.
The man looked down at the side of the ship, and realized that the person who had been brought back had become a dead body.
Xu Ruyu stirred up the water, and used his strength to lift his body and return to the Qingjiang Alliance warship that had become a Shura field. Wei Yan and the others cleared the Jiang bandits on the boat and stood behind Xu Ruyu. Mon had also returned to his ship to strengthen the defenses there.
The fierce light in the man's eyes did not decrease, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Why did you suddenly attack my Qingjiang League's ship? ”
Xu Ruyu snorted coldly and said, "Cheng Jing insisted on going his own way, and didn't take my warning to heart at all. It's just that he is to blame, and he can't complain about my bitter hands. The cold and ruthless voice floated above the water, and the Jiang bandits who were sitting and watching in the distance could also hear it clearly, and they couldn't help but feel a piercing chill in their hearts. The warship under Xu Ruyu's feet kept making a muffled sound of "clicking", and the keel of the warship could not withstand the water pressure and began to break.
The man led the remaining eight Qingjiang Alliance warships to slowly retreat and retreat into the formation of the other four Jiang bandits. Xu Ruyu and Wei Yan led the fifty guards back to the boat, this battle completely caught the enemy by surprise, only more than a dozen of the fifty Qingjiang water camp guards were slightly injured, Wei Yan fought too suddenly, and the three-inch long mouth that was cut under the right rib was considered a serious injury.
Ya Yusheng was not used to such a bloody scene, his face was a little pale, but his eyes were much firmer than before the war. In less than a moment, Xu Ruyu used the collision of the flywheel warship, the powerful shooting of the crossbow machine, the fifty tiger and wolf soldiers, and his own supernatural martial arts to kill more than 100 river bandits on the Qingjiang River. Such a thunderous method made the Zhulu Jiang bandits who were watching the battle stunned and frightened.
Xu Ruyu ordered the sixteen ships to re-form a swallowtail formation, and slowly marched to the front of the Zhulu Jiang bandits. The cold gaze slowly swept over the river bandits standing at the bow of the ship, and said word by word: "The Qingjiang League ignored my warning and wanted to attack my grain fleet, but now I have killed him. Cheng Jing is dead, and I demand that the Qingjiang League be disbanded within a month, otherwise he will send troops to suppress him. ”
The man who picked up the middle-aged Confucian shouted: "What are you doing, you actually asked our Qingjiang League to dissolve with one word, and I, Li Yin, were the first to refuse." ”
Xu Ruyu's eyes shot directly at Li Yin, the second leader of the Qingjiang League, and the scorching eyes disappeared, returning to a clear and moon-like indifference, pointing to the saber inserted in the back of the middle-aged Confucian and said, "Please help me pull out the knife and return it to me." ”
Li Yin was stunned for a moment, and at a loss, he pulled out the saber inserted in the back of the middle-aged Confucian scholar, and said, "Do you know who he is?" ”
"I don't care who he is, he provoked the Qingjiang League to attack the grain merchant ship, and the crime deserves death. Gongliang Youqin also died under my hands and returned, why should I be afraid of the people of Nanping? ”
Li Yin didn't expect him to tell the origin of the middle-aged Confucian in one word, and he didn't know what to say for a while. handed over the standard saber to a person beside him, and let the person sail to Xu Ruyu's boat in a small boat, and handed the saber back to Xu Ruyu.
Wei Yan handed over the scabbard that was still stained with blood, Xu Ruyu returned the knife into the sheath, a faint smell of blood wafted into his nose, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said to Li Yinlang: "Thank you for returning the knife, the situation that you deliberately delayed not coming to rescue Cheng Jing just now has fallen into the eyes of everyone, I am afraid that the takeover of the Qingjiang League will not go well, I advise you to dissolve the Qingjiang League." ”
Li Yin saw that Xu Ruyu was slandering himself, his face turned pale with anger, and he was about to argue and defend himself, but he saw that everyone around him was wary of him, and he knew that Xu Ruyu was doing the opposite, but he had nothing to do. In the first battle, the Great River Alliance lost four warships, although there was no big loss in strength, but the big boss Cheng Jing was killed on the spot, even if some people understand that Xu Ruyu is talking nonsense, but those who have a heart will definitely take advantage of this to seize the throne with themselves. Even if the Great River Alliance is not swallowed up by other forces, it will be torn apart due to internal problems.
Li Yin glanced at Sun Meng, the third master beside him, and saw that his face was full of flesh, and his eyes were uncertain, and he really couldn't guess what he was thinking.
Li Yin was bored for a while, shouted, slightly reduced the depression in his heart, and shouted to Xu Ruyu: "General Qingfeng is famous all over the world, but now he has resorted to three indiscriminate countermeasures, not afraid of the world's shame?" ”
Xu Ruyu secretly thought: What is it if you can make the world laugh without blood? Snorted coldly, he no longer paid attention to Li Yin, his eyes swept over the leaders of the river bandits from left to right, and then glanced from right to left, and said: "Everyone, you cross the Qingjiang waterway, please let Xu Ruyu a narrow channel to transport goods, okay?" ”
Shi Jiu, the head of the Lichun Society, and Zhang Erti, the head of the Hongjiang River, looked at each other across the river surface of dozens of zhang, and they did not dare to categorically refuse Xu Ruyu, nor did they want to accept it. If they retreat now and let Xu Ruyu lose the Qingjiang League, it will be their turn next.
The faint sound of horses' hooves, Xu Ruyu saw Li Yin, Shi Jiu, and Zhang Erti have surprised expressions on their faces at the same time, knowing that they have nothing to do with Jiang bandits, and their hearts are a little relieved. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of brave knights poured out of the embankment on the east bank of the Qingjiang River, and Xu Jingcheng Hao Ran was in it. It turned out that Xu Jingcheng brought the soldiers and horses of the Xiangfan Society into Yue County first to respond.
Xu Ruyu knew that the overall situation had been decided, and there was no need to fight with these Jiang bandits anymore, so he secretly sighed, hugged his fists to Xu Jingcheng on the shore and said, "Brother Jingcheng, it's long gone." ”
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