Li Shengjie didn't have such a thing as Qiu Yizhi, and when he saw that the excitement of the old man had not passed, he heard him ask: "Do you know how I came here?" ”

This question touched Qiu Yizhi's heart, and he immediately said: "Yes, the virtuous brother is like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and the word 'coincidence' is probably not enough to explain, right?" ”

Li Shengjie smiled proudly: "Of course it's not a coincidence, does my brother still remember Yin Tai?" ”

Yin Tai, as well as his father Yin Chengliang, have a common enmity with Qiu Yizhi, of course he remembers these two people.

Li Shengjie saw Qiu Yizhi nodded, so he continued: "The junior brother returned from Japan to Dahan this time, and half of him came to inspect the business here on the orders of the old man. What about the other half—" he deliberately dragged out his voice, "the other half is here to hunt down Yin Tai!" ”

Why did Yin Tai have a grudge against Li Shengjie again?

Qiu Yizhi seemed to have some impressions, but he couldn't remember it, and asked again, "How do you say this?" ”

Li Shengjie replied indignantly: "After returning to Japan, I sent someone to find out, it turned out that the mastermind behind the command of the Japanese to go on the ship to beg for people and send assassins to poison my father was Yin Tai, the bastard. In the past two years, I have inquired about his whereabouts in many ways, but there is no clear news, and only a few months ago did I know that he actually ran back to Dahan and helped the king of Lingnan to make trouble, and even the Mingzhou Mansion was beaten down by him. ”

Li Shengjie took a breath: "Taking Mingzhou Mansion is equivalent to cutting off my Li family's route from Dahan to Japan, and this Yin Tai must be cleaned up." So the younger brother gathered his sixteen elite warships, and immediately crossed the sea to Mingzhou by the east wind. But when I arrived at Mingzhou Port, I saw that the port had been completely damaged, and Yin Tai was nowhere to be found. After asking my comprador who stayed in Mingzhou, I learned that my brother was fighting with the king of Lingnan, and Yin Tai also sailed to Jinling to help in the war. I didn't have anything to say, and when the younger brother heard the news, he immediately went north, entered the mouth of the Yangtze River and drove all the way to Jinling City. ”

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly interjected and asked, "Then have you met Yin Tai?" ”

"Of course I did!" Li Shengjie replied, "Not only did I meet him, but I also fought with him!" ”

Qiu Yizhi saw the smug expression on Li Shengjie's face, and knew that he would inevitably win the battle with Yin Tai, so he didn't rush to inquire about the battle situation.

But this Li Shengjie is a young man, he can't hide things in his stomach, and he said with a happy face: "I went up the Yangtze River upstream, and I only arrived here in Jinling early this morning, and sure enough, I saw several boats with the banner of Yin Tai. Just those few little broken ships can withstand my beating? My lord, just look at these cannons on my ship, which I spent tens of thousands of taels of snowflakes and silver to ask English craftsmen to renovate, and if one cannon does not sink, I will shoot two cannons, and no ship can survive the third cannon. No, Yin Tai's little fishing boat was sunk by me, and the people were also fished up by my little brother......"

"What?" Qiu Yizhi listened a little bit and didn't believe his ears, "Yin Tai was caught by you?" ”

Li Shengjie glared and nodded: "Yes, this kid wanted to die at first, so he grabbed the body of an old man and plunged it into the water." Joke, can I still let him die so lightly? At that time, two sailors were sent to knock him unconscious and fished him up, and now he is thrown in the bottom compartment, probably awake? ”

After listening to him, Qiu Yizhi finally figured out the situation: it turned out that after he burned most of Yin Tai's sea ships in Mingzhou Port, Yin Tai was chased by Li Shengjie all the way to the Yangtze River outside Jinling City, and finally the whole army was wiped out under the sharp blow of Li Shengjie's artillery, and Li Shengjie learned that he was fighting with the King of Lingnan in Jinling City, and rushed to help the battle by the way.

So Qiu Yizhi breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother Xian, you have really made a great contribution." This Yin Tai is an important criminal in the top few in the imperial court, and the old man who died is his father Yin Chengliang, a corrupt official who absconded in fear of crime. These two people, if you capture one and kill the other, not only will the court reward you heavily, but even the foolish brother and I will thank you greatly! ”

When Li Shengjie heard this, his face suddenly turned red, and he said timidly: "Since my brother has talked about it, I just have something to do and want to ask my brother for help......

Qiu Yizhi saw that he was still a little embarrassed, so he smiled and said: "You have made such a great contribution, you can just open your mouth if you can do anything that I can do." Foolish brother might as well boast here, no matter what happens, I can do it for you! ”

Li Shengjie was young in the end, and he was overjoyed on the spot, and asked with a smile: "Brother speaks, but you must count!" ”

Qiu Yizhi listened, pursed his lips and nodded solemnly - Li Shengjie's merit is far more than simply capturing Yin Tai and killing Yin Chengliang, but using his fleet to block the entire army of the Lingnan King south of the Yangtze River, that is, to completely limit the scale of this vigorous Lingnan King rebellion - such a credit, even if he is named a general Zuo in the imperial court, is not completely negotiable.

Qiu Yizhi just said yes, but he heard a rush of footsteps under the side of the ship, and there were more than a thousand people gathered under the boat.

When Qiu Yizhi poked his head out again, he saw that it was Lingnan King Zheng Gui himself, leading more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, standing on the edge of the Yanziji wharf, looking at the boat with his head raised.

But I heard the king of Lingnan say loudly: "Virtuous nephew, now the whole city of Jinling is under my control, Jiangnan Province has also been taken by the old man, and most of the money, grain, and rice supply of the court have been pinched by the old man, and the court is now in a general trend." The so-called 'those who know the times are Junjie', it is useless for the virtuous nephew to hide on this broken ship, and he still doesn't get off the ship and surrender? What the old man said before, every word counts. ”

Qiu Yizhi saw that Lingnan Wang Zhenggui was disgraced by the smoke and dust from the cannonballs fired by Li Shengjie's ship, and he was still gushing to persuade him to surrender, he felt a little funny, and said: "I'm afraid that the prince is mistaken, right?" I think it's better for you old man to lay down his arms, dismiss the army, and surrender immediately, okay? Otherwise, it would not be good to bury the lives of these soldiers in vain. ”

"Hard mouth!" Lingnan King Zheng Gui angrily reprimanded, "It's not a bad thing for young people to be arrogant, but we also have to look at the situation around them. Take a closer look, the three gates of Jinling City have been broken by the old man, and the defenders in the city will either die or surrender. Except for the old man in Shanyin County, who disdained to embarrass the Jiangnan Province outside the city, the rest of the places are already under my control. Among the rest of the provinces, Lingnan, Yungui, and Bashu have all been captured, Huguang and I also account for half, and Zheng Xin of Shanxi Road can only retreat to the north of Qinling. Martial arts are so strong, but you told me to surrender? Wasn't Mo beaten by the old man and dazed? ”

Qiu Yizhi sneered and said, "Didn't the prince rely on the dynamite that Sect Leader Wen Honghui sent you that day to capture Jinling City?" Speaking of martial arts, I'm afraid it's not just the prince's ability, right? ”

"The ancients said: 'A gentleman is born different, and he is good at faking things', the old man has achieved great things, and he is naturally not informal, Wen Honghui is just a pawn on my chessboard, and the old man can use it as he wants." Zheng Gui said.

"Okay, Lingnan Wang is both civil and military, eclectic, and really a rare hero in the world!" Qiu Yizhi said confidently, "But when it comes to explosives, the younger generation is not without such sharp weapons, but they don't want to hurt the innocent, so they use it cautiously, I don't know if the prince believes it or not?" ”

Zheng Gui had heard from Wen Honghui that in the "Battle of Rebellion" that year, the reason why Zheng Rong, who was still the king of Youyan, was able to conquer countless fortified cities one after another was not the so-called divine power from the sky, but the explosives from the Western Regions. Since the emperor has such a weapon to attack the city, it is not something unimaginable for his henchman Qiu Yizhi to know this thing, not to mention that when Zheng Miao escaped from the base in the hinterland of Lingnan Province, he had already seen the power of explosives......

But he also knew that it was very inconvenient to make and store such things as explosives, and in just a blink of an eye, this Qiu Yizhi had great ability, and he had no time to make these things; Even if he had explosives, he would have used them a long time ago when the battle was so tense and tragic, so why should he wait until he was forced to the point where he had no foothold now?

So Zheng Gui was sure that Qiu Yizhi was just bluffing, so he laughed loudly: "Virtuous nephew, you have to hold your chin when you speak, be careful to flash your tongue when you say big things!" ”

Qiu Yizhi had already guessed that the King of Lingnan didn't believe it, so he said in Li Shengjie's ear: "Brother Xian, have you seen the stone plaque on the road?" ”

At this moment, the smoke and dust raised by the explosion had dissipated and landed, Li Shengjie looked at it, and sure enough, he saw a stone tablet more than half a person high standing on the potholed ground, but he couldn't see what was written on it, and asked: "Of course I saw it, what does my brother mean?" ”

Qiu Yizhi smiled slyly: "Let me ask you, is there a way to accurately hit that stone tablet?" ”

Li Shengjie replied without thinking about it: "What's so difficult about this? This stele is only five or six hundred steps away from here, and it is guaranteed to be smashed with a single shot. ”

Qiu Yizhi was happy to hear this, and suddenly thought of something again, so he asked again: "This cannonball cannonball can't be too powerful, can't it shock these people under the boat to death." ”

Li Shengjie wondered: "What's the big deal with these people?" It's not a pity to die against your brother, and it's ...... to die."

Qiu Yizhi immediately interrupted: "Brother Xian, look at the old man in the golden armor and red robe below, it is the King of Lingnan himself. Although he rebelled against the imperial court, he was also the emperor's younger brother in the end, an authentic relative of the emperor, and the emperor had to decide whether he was dead or alive. If he is blown up now, he will be shattered and dead, and it will be difficult for the emperor to explain in front of him. ”

Li Shengjie listened halfway, and muttered impatiently: "Just fight, and it's so exquisite." Since my brother said so, then I'll pay attention. ”

As he spoke, Li Shengjie stretched out his hand to beckon the two sailors on the ship—one of whom was red-haired and blue-eyed, and did not seem to be a Han or a Japanese—and whispered in their ears.

The two men nodded hurriedly, and then hurried to the front of an iron cannon on the deck, and fiddled with it in an orderly manner.

Only then did Qiu Yizhi realize that the iron cannon was not fixed, but was mounted on a rotatable base. I saw that the two gunners carefully examined the position of the stone plaque, carefully rotated the base properly, fixed the base with two wooden bolts, and then used a scale to take some of the powder scales that were obviously gunpowder, stuffed them into the barrel, plugged the shells, and lit the fuses.

But in the blink of an eye, the street where the stele had originally stood was shrouded in smoke and dust after a loud noise, and as the smoke and dust dissipated, the upper part of the stele, which was extremely thick and strong from half a man, had been blown into powder, leaving only half of the broken stele at the root still in the ground.