Chapter 104: Scarlet Footprints
"Well, what's going on?" Li Su's face sank, and he asked in a low voice, It's so late, Zhou Long and Hu Li won't come to him for no reason, they must have found something.
"Your Highness, we found someone under the ship!" Hu Li was full of murderous energy, and while speaking, his right hand pressed the specially lengthened horizontal knife on his waist, and it seemed that he was ready to kill at any time.
Someone under the ship? Li Su was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted, and said with the same murderous aura: "You mean, someone dived under our ship from the water and wanted to scuttle our ship?" ”
"Your Highness is right, our brothers have lived at sea for half their lives, and they sleep at night with one eye and one eye closed, just now a brother heard a movement under the boat, and immediately knew that someone used the old trick of scuttling the boat, and now that a brother has gone into the water, it is estimated that he will be able to catch people after a while!"
As soon as Zhou Long's words fell, he heard a sound on the water under the boat, and Li Su and the three of them looked down and found that on the originally dark river, there were fierce white waves, and in the center of the waves, there were two people fighting fiercely. And before the two of them could decide the winner, with a few 'whooshing' sounds, more than a dozen pairs of people who were fighting surfaced.
Seeing that the people under the ship were forced out, without Zhou Long and Hu Li's orders, dozens of guards on the ship who had already been prepared jumped into the water, these were all old men in the Tiger Head Army, they had seen any strong wind and waves at sea, and the water was also strong, and the number of people was more than the other party, so in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen enemies were subdued, and then thrown onto the deck, and the other guards rushed up and tied up these people, and these people saw that the mission had failed, and simply hung their heads and said nothing.
There were guards with torches next to him, and Li Su walked up to take a look. I found that these people were all strong men. He wears a shark skin water cushion and a tool bag around his waist, revealing tools like chisels and hammers. It seems that they were all special tools used to scuttle ships.
"Raise your head!" Li Yu counted them, and caught a total of fifteen, and all of them lowered their heads and said nothing. He couldn't see who was in charge, so he ordered. However, these people are obviously very tough, and they have no reaction to Li Su's words, it seems that they have accepted their fate, and they have made up their minds that they will not cooperate.
This made Li Su angry, and he just wanted to go up and kick his feet to relieve his anger, but he was stopped by Hu Li, and saw this giant man with a cruel smile on his face: "Your Highness, don't lose your identity for these people." Or hand them over to their subordinates, even if they are iron men, Lao Tzu can make them speak! "Hear Hu Li's words. The guards from the Tiger Head Army around him also cooperated, and they sneered.
"No need. The other party is already here, everyone is ready! "Relative to the tiger power of thick branches and leaves. Zhou Long did not let his guard down, his eyes kept staring at the water around him, and soon found that several black boats were heading towards this side.
"Get on the small boat to meet it, and never let the other party get close to the big boat!" Seeing this situation, Zhou Long immediately ordered, and the well-trained palace guards also immediately took action, jumped on the small boat next to the big boat and rushed up.
Just before Li Su could figure out why, he heard the sound of 'bang~', and suddenly a fire broke out on the bows of the seven or eight ships that rushed over, and by the light of the fire, Li Su saw that there were sharp iron thorns on the bow of the other party, obviously these ships were all arsonist ships, no wonder Zhou Long didn't let these ships get close to the big ships.
The speed of the arson boat is very fast, and it bypasses the ship next to it, and hits Li Su's boat directly, obviously the goal is very clear, fortunately, there is Zhou Long, an amphibious general, who is very experienced, commanding a few larger boats to block the arsonist boat, and the other few fast boats quickly stick to the arson boat, and the fierce guards on it jumped to the opponent's boat, and the people behind the boat are a big kill, and the other party will naturally not be restrained, and they have raised their swords and guns to fight, For a moment, the sound of the collision of the weapons on the ship and the screams of being slashed were connected.
The people on the surrounding ships were also awakened, and they hurriedly took anchor to dodge, but some businessmen who came with Li Su, all with some bodyguards, immediately sent them to help, although it seems that King Qi's guards have the upper hand and don't need to help at all, but at this time, it is also a little bit of his own mind, and if he can use this to make His Royal Highness remember himself, it would be better.
The arsonist ships were all medium-sized ships, and in addition to the fire on the bow, there were dozens of armed men on each boat, and they were not weak, even under the siege of the royal guards, they could still maintain their formation, and defend in several circles back to back on the ship.
"Hmph, only for defense, not for offense, it seems that these arson boats are all bait, Tiger Force is ready, the other party's real killing move is coming!" When Zhou Long saw the situation on the arsonist ship, he snorted coldly and said with great disdain.
I have to say that Zhou Long's judgment of the battlefield is extremely accurate, as soon as his words fell, there were immediately guards at the stern of the ship to report, there were two large sand boats approaching behind, and the deck was full of enemies dressed in black, adding up to nearly a thousand people. Although Li Su's ship had already sent a lot of guards just now, there were still nearly five hundred palace guards, and most of them were proficient in water warfare, so Zhou Long was confident that even if the other party doubled, he was only here to deliver food.
"The thief is powerful, please go back to the cabin ship and wait first, so as not to be accidentally injured by the thief!" Although he is confident, but in the chaos of the army, anything can happen, for the sake of Li Su's safety, Zhou Long naturally wanted to let Li Su enter the cabin to hide.
"No, no matter how dangerous it is, the battlefield of Goguryeo can be compared to it? This king is standing here today, watching you and kill the enemy! Li Su said with a resolute face. Jokes, he naturally can't hide in the cabin, don't say anything else, he can't explain it in front of Wen Xin and them, he can't say that there is an enemy outside, come and hide for his husband first, and then go out after the enemy is repulsed? That's a shame!
Zhou Long saw that Li Su refused to enter the cabin, so he had to leave more than a dozen elite guards to protect him, and he and Hu Li rushed to the back of the ship with the guards, at this time the two sand boats were no more than 100 meters away from the big ship, and the people on the boat began to fire arrows to this side under the command of a bearded man. However, judging from the posture and frequency of the opponent's archery, these people are not regular troops, and the arrows are sparse and intermittent, and they cannot form an effective threat at all.
In the face of this situation, Zhou Long and Hu Li were even more calm in their hearts, and at the same time, the disdain on their faces was even heavier, although there were many people on the other side, they were just a rabble, if they were placed on land, not to mention that they had five hundred guards under them, even if they were only one hundred, they could easily kill the other party.
Disdain, after all, the battle on the ship is different from that on land, the overall cooperation requirements are not so high, but the requirements for personal quality and small group cooperation are extremely high, and the advantage of numbers is also more obvious, which invisibly reduces the strength of the five hundred palace guards, so Zhou Long still regards the other party as an opponent.
"Shoot the arrows!" Taking advantage of the fact that the other party was still some distance away from the big ship, Zhou Long immediately ordered to return fire with bows and arrows, although there were only five hundred people, but a rain of arrows shot out, as if there were thousands of troops and horses. Although there are a large number of people on the sand boat opposite, but after all, they have not received formal military training, seeing the palace guards shooting arrows, raising their shields to defend in a chaotic manner, but unfortunately there are loopholes everywhere, and they can't take care of their heads and feet for a while, many people have been hit by arrows, and the screams and angry scolding are endless.
The two sand boats had already been full of strength, and the distance of 100 meters was only a few breaths away, but this had already caused Zhou Long and them to shoot several rounds of arrow rain, causing more than 100 casualties to the other party, and shouting 'wow-wow' from the other party's leading bearded man.
"Phew! Bang! With two dull collisions, the two sand boats of the other side hit Li Su's big boat almost at the same time, and as soon as the strings were connected, the bearded man immediately led his subordinates to jump over, waving the scimitar in his hand to kill Zhou Long, it seemed that he wanted to solve Zhou Long, the main general, first.
For this kind of brave man, Zhou Long sneered, without his command, the tiger roared wildly, pulled out his longer and thicker horizontal knife and rushed out, facing the other party is a fierce attack. The bearded man suddenly saw such a tall and burly figure as Hu Li, and he was also startled, knowing that he was not capable of the enemy, he dodged left and right and tried not to resist head-on, planning to consume Hu Li's strength first, and then counterattack.
At this time, the palace guards fought with this group of attacking black-clothed people, the other party was obviously also begging for a living on the water all the year round, and was very familiar with the string occupation, and they were in groups of three or five, and their tactics were very skilled, but this kind of proficiency was far from enough compared to the palace guards from the Tiger Head Army.
If you are more careful, you will find that the palace guards on the battlefield almost never face the enemy alone, and the battle groups cooperate closely with each other, often two war groups besiege the enemy, although the men in black also want to rush up, but they are limited by the terrain on the ship, and there are their own people in front of them, so they can't rush up at all.
Whether it is personal quality or tactics, the attacking black-clothed men are very different from the royal guards, so as soon as the two parties come into contact, they will bring great casualties to the attacking black-clothed people, and the first batch of black-clothed people who rushed to the deck were killed and wounded almost in the blink of an eye. However, the gang seemed to be crazy, and they were not afraid to rush to the deck, but in the end, all they left behind was a lifeless corpse, either piled up on the deck like garbage, or unintentionally kicked into the river.
Soon, the blood on the deck gathered into streams and flowed down from the drainage, because Wen Xin was happy, so the deck was deliberately painted white by Li Su, but now it was washed out of the blood red, and there was even a blood stream, along the gap in the deck, all the way to Li Su's feet.
Feeling that the scarlet blood stained his shoes, Li Su frowned and moved his feet a few steps away, but he helplessly found that on the originally white deck, he stepped on a few dazzling blood-colored footprints!