CHAPTER XLIII
The ten guards of the Ming Kingdom launched three waves of suicidal attacks with their lives, buying time for the thirteen comrades-in-arms and Duan Susu to re-board the ship and go offshore, and when the assassins rushed again under the approach of Gao Zhiping, the Ming ship was already five feet from the shore.
Gao Zhiping saw that he couldn't catch up, so he ordered his guards to shout loudly and ordered the assassins on the three sampans in the river to intercept the Ming ship, and ordered the assassins around him to search for the ship in all directions, so as to achieve a situation of flanking back and forth.
On each of the three sampans were twelve crossbowmen and eight boatmen.
With such a comparison of the number of people, there is no doubt that it is difficult for the Ming State ship to forcibly break through.
However, the people on the sampan were apprehensive because of the life-threatening fight against the first two Ming guards, and although they followed Gao Zhiping's orders to block the attack, they were only limited to bow and crossbow shooting, and the ship did not dare to take a step further even if it was killed.
The guards of the Ming Kingdom knew that the last moment had come, and if they waited until the enemy on the shore found a boat to catch up, then the thirteen people could only be annihilated under the combined attack of the enemies in front and behind.
Therefore, fighting with all your might has become the only way.
Except for one of the thirteen Ming guards to take care of Duan Susu, the remaining twelve people all lay on the side of the boat, temporarily acting as sailors and starting to row, and the direction of the boat was three sampans.
The speed of the Ming ship was very fast, and when it was almost on the shore, Gao Zhiping's crossbowman had just opened his bow and was ready to shoot, and the boat was already close to the center of the river, only a zhang away from the three sampans.
The Ming ship was attacked by arrows from both the front and back, and the clusters of arrows inserted on the surface of the ship made the ship look like a hedgehog.
Fortunately, the Ming guards were all rowing on the side of the boat. This effectively reduces the chance of being hit by arrows, but even so, the dense two-sided arrows still take a toll on the guards.
Seven people were wounded by arrows. But none of them were fatal wounds, and the arrows were either in the arm or leg, and some were shot in the buttocks.
This greatly affected the speed at which the Ming ships broke through.
But a distance of one foot from the sampan, even with the inertia in front, approaching is only a blink of an eye.
The crossbowmen on the shore fired arrows relentlessly, and although the Ming ship was still in range, it was getting closer and closer to the sampan as the Ming ship got closer. The crossbowmen on the shore hesitated, as the arrows were likely to hit their own men on the sampan.
Gao Zhiping gave the order not to stop shooting at this time.
In Gao Zhiping's heart, except for himself. All can be sacrificed.
Although the assassins on the shore were indignant, they were finally deterred by Gao Zhiping's obscenity, and the shooting continued as before, or even more intensively.
In fact, Gao Zhiping's decision is theoretically correct. In the case of such a front and rear outflank. With three sampans as a fatality, relying on the crossbowmen of fifty people on the shore as knives, it is enough to chop the meat of the Ming ship.
But Gao Zhiping forgot to consider one thing after all, that is, human nature.
The assassins on the three sampans had long been intimidated by the bloody nature of the Ming guards, and they only used arrows to stop the Ming ships from approaching them.
And the effect is really good, at least seven people have been shot.
But this could not stop the Ming ship from constantly approaching the sampan according to inertia.
No matter how flexible the sampan is, once the Ming ship gets close to a distance of one zhang, it wants to turn around and avoid it. It's too late in a short period of time.
In this case, the assassins on the three sampans saw that there were few people in the Ming Kingdom. Ben has already mustered up the courage to fight to the death with the people of the Ming Kingdom.
However, at this time, the denser arrows on the shore covered me indiscriminately, and the consequence was that the Ming guards who were lying on their stomachs were not shot, and the assassins who were standing ready to fight the Ming people to the death fell in large numbers.
As a result, the courage that the assassin on the sampan had just mustered was instantly discharged, and seeing that he could not stop the Ming ship from colliding with him, the assassin on the sampan was afraid that the Ming people would throw grenades again, so the survivors jumped into the river and swam for their lives.
The three sampans that Gao Zhiping relied on as a sampan fell apart in the blink of an eye.
But at this time, the assassin on the shore had already snatched a large wooden boat, and when Gao Zhiping saw this, he immediately ordered the assassination ship to board the ship and pursue it.
And he himself naturally stayed on the shore to watch the battle.
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, this is the jade rule that a smart person like Gao Zhiping remembers the most.
There were only six uninjured guards on the Ming ship.
The Ming boat was larger than the sampan, but the speed was not as fast as the sampan, and with the reduction of rowing sailors, the speed was not as fast as the big wooden boat chasing from the shore.
Seeing this, the wounded guards gradually began to gather towards the stern.
They began to smile at the six uninjured teammates as a silent goodbye.
If no one stops the break, I'm afraid everyone won't be able to escape.
In that case, why not exchange the lives of seven for the lives of six plus the "princess".
It's an account that anyone can figure out.
But this account is so cruel.
Duan Susu has no tears, after this short day, she has shed too many tears, she swears that she will never shed tears again in this life, because she has dried all the tears in this life at one time today.
She silently crawled to the stern of the boat and hugged the seven injured guards one after another, this was the only thing she could do for these guards, in Duan Susu's heart, she felt that she owed them too much, but she couldn't repay them.
Duan Susu's actions caused the eyes of the seven guards who were originally "hard-hearted" to moisten, they were not originally working for Duan Susu, but at this moment, Duan Susu's silent hug made them feel that it was worth it.
Without saying a word, the six uninjured guards quickly dragged Duan Susu to the bow of the ship and boarded a sampan abandoned by the assassins.
and threw a grenade at each of the remaining two sampans, destroying the two ships that could be a scourge of the enemy.
The six people were placed on the two sides of the sampan and began to row, for the sake of speed, even Duan Susu also clumsily joined the rowing procession, the six men and one woman did not communicate a word, but how their hearts were close and connected at this moment.
After Duan Susu and the seven people left the Ming ship, the seven injured guards began to collect the grenades on their bodies, in fact, after the use of this day, there were not many grenades on the guards, and after the seven people added up, there were only eleven.
The guards tied the grenades together and tied the fuses together, and the seven began to gather in a pile, the guard in the center holding onto the rope.
The seven looked at each other calmly, waiting for the final moment to come.
The small sampan that Duan Susu and the seven people were riding quickly headed north under everyone's efforts, and it was about a pillar of incense, and there was a loud sound that shook the world behind him.
No one looked back, and even Duan Susu understood what was going on behind the scenes. (To be continued......)