The cannonballs fired by those two sailors who didn't look strong with a little adjustment caused more damage than any bow and crossbow sword, and also more than any martial arts master, such power made Qiu Yizhi a little frightened, and couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, but he couldn't speak.

Li Shengjie was not surprised, and said with a smile: "Brother, how is it?" As you wish, it just hit the stone monument, and none of the people on the dock died, right? ”

Qiu Yizhi seemed to wake up from a dream, and replied in a somewhat frightened tone: "Not bad, not bad, really powerful......"

Qiu Yizhi said these meaningless words in despair, and then remembered that it was he who proposed to fire this cannon, so he quickly calmed down, pretended to be calm and said to Zhenggui, the king of Lingnan on the dock: "Lord, can you see it?" Just now, this explosion was triggered from this sea ship, the prince might as well think about it, is your body strong? Or is this stele strong? Hurry up and surrender! ”

Lingnan King Zheng Gui has never suffered a loss in his life, except for the failure to compete for the storage position in his early years, how could he agree to Qiu Yizhi's persuasion to surrender, but he was afraid of the power of Fang Cai's explosion, so he only stiffened his neck and did not speak.

Qiu Yizhi's eyes turned, and he said to Li Shengjie again: "It seems that the king of Lingnan is still unwilling to surrender. With such a large fleet of ships, I don't know how many artillery pieces there are, it is better to fire a salvo at once, so that the king of Lingnan will be completely desperate. How is it? ”

Li Shengjie replied: "Brother, artillery is very expensive, don't look at the younger brother who has led such a dozen ships, but my flagship is equipped with ten guns, or do you want to go out and try it all?" ”

The reason why Qiu Yizhi wanted Li Shengjie to fire a salvo of artillery to deter the king of Lingnan was mainly to test how many artillery pieces Li Shengjie had and how powerful these artillery pieces were, so he replied: "You can fight as many as you want, and you are not afraid that the king of Lingnan will not surrender." ”

Li Shengjie nodded when he heard this, and while beckoning the sailors and gunners on the ship to aim and shoot, he complained bitterly: "Brother, it's not that the younger brother is stingy, this thing costs a lot of money, and you can't fight indiscriminately." ”

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Li Shengjie rubbed his hands and replied: "Brother, you can see that the cannonballs fired are about three kinds. One is a solid iron sheet, one is a piece of iron wrapped in a paper shell, and the other is a trigger bomb. The first two are not worth much, but the last one, each shell is worth a hundred taels of silver, and only the English have to buy it and ask for cash, and this salvo will be gone for a thousand taels of silver......"

When Qiu Yizhi heard this, he couldn't help but exclaim: "It's so expensive! This burst of artillery will be fired in the blink of an eye, and the taxes collected by our Shanyin County in a year will be spent, so you can save some of them! ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard the roar of artillery on the deck, and a cloud of smoke and dust rose around the place where the half of the stone monument was located, and the area, height, and concentration of this smoke and dust were several times larger than the smoke and dust caused by the previous bombardment of a single artillery. When the smoke cleared, the remaining half of the stone tablet was blown into powder, leaving a large pit on the ground.

This Yanziji Wharf is not only busy with freight and passenger transportation, but also a place where people gather, the ground is paved with large stones, flat and strong, but under the bombardment of these artillery, it has become as vulnerable as freshly boiled tofu.

Seeing such a scene, Qiu Yizhi was a little lucky, fortunately the cost of using artillery is extremely expensive, not ordinary cats and dogs can afford to use it, and the possibility of falling into the hands of small people who intend to cause chaos and causing a big disaster is much smaller.

So Qiu Yizhi sorted out his state of mind, and said to the king of Lingnan: "Lord Wang, you have also seen the power of artillery, even if there are thousands of men and horses, it is not worth mentioning. The prince should simply surrender quickly. ”

The king of Lingnan looked at Qiu Yiyi's smug expression, and his stomach was angry, but he didn't have a sea ship under his command, and Yin Chengliang and Yin Tai, who were originally responsible for blocking the northern river of Jinling, were now nowhere to be found, and Qiu Yizhi, who was completely on the boat and shouted at him, had no choice.

But I heard Qiu Yizhi say loudly again: "I am a junior below, and I also advise the prince not to move, otherwise the artillery fire will be ruthless, although it is not out of the original intention of the younger generation, but if the prince is injured by the golden branches and jade leaves, it is not what the younger generation is willing to see." ”

The king of Lingnan has taken the whole city of Jinling, but he is trapped in the land of a projectile the size of a fart at Yanziji Wharf, and even his face is crooked.

He considered leading the army to quickly withdraw from the Yanziji dock, but only then did he see the fire on the ship flash, and the boundary monument stone plate dozens of steps away was immediately shattered, and no matter how fast his subordinates moved, they could not explode the gunpowder;

He also considered immediately escaping from the houses on both sides of the pier, but Qiu Yizhi was now condescendingly observing the situation from the side of the ship a few feet high, and his every move was under his control, and the houses along the pier were obviously not able to withstand the artillery attack;

He also considered ordering the capable samurai around him to immediately climb onto the side of the ship and directly arrest Qiu Yizhi and the others, but the side of this ship was high, steep and smooth, it was really difficult to climb, even if he could barely board the ship, these people who climbed up may not be Qiu Yizhi's opponents.

Lingnan Wang Zhenggui is struggling, and Shanyin County Ling Qiuyizhi is unwilling to wait any longer.

He knew that the King of Lingnan was by no means a mediocre person, and now the total strength was outnumbered, and if he delayed any longer, the situation could be reversed at any time, and now the only feasible plan was to quickly capture the King of Lingnan alive.

Qiu Yizhi thought about this clearly, and just wanted to ask Li Shengjie to swing the spiral ladder down the side of the ship, so that his elite soldiers could get off the ship to capture the king of Lingnan. But when he saw the more than 1,000 guards around King Lingnan, one of them was tall and tall, and he didn't panic at all when he saw the earth-shattering power of artillery, he knew that it was definitely not easy to deal with, and the more than 200 people under his command might not be able to take advantage of much.

At this moment, Lin Shuhan quietly walked to Qiu Yizhi's side and whispered a few words in his ear.

When Qiu Yizhi heard Lin Shuhan's words, he immediately felt like an enlightenment, and hurriedly called the marksman Meng Hong, and asked him to lead the other brothers to fire crossbow arrows downward, to shoot the guards around the King of Lingnan to death one by one, and the action must be fast, and to complete the battle before the Lingnan army in other parts of Jinling City heard the news and came to reinforce them.

Although Meng Hong didn't know the intention, he could listen to Qiu Yi's order clearly, so he didn't ask too much, immediately beckoned his companions, set up the crossbow on the side of the ship, and shot at the guards around the king of Lingnan when he took aim.

The enemy was less than ten zhang away from these crossbowmen, and they shot from top to bottom, and Meng Hong and others shot at the enemy's face, head, neck, heart, and other vital points, killing fifty or sixty people in one volley, and expanding the enemy's casualties to more than one hundred in another volley.

The Lingnan army on the dock came in a hurry, did not carry bows and crossbows and other weapons, and could not run away if they wanted to, so they could only stand in place and accept this merciless and one-sided massacre.

However, with a cup of tea, there were originally hundreds of elite guards around Lingnan King Zheng Gui, but only more than 100 people were left standing, and most of these more than 100 people were hit by arrows, but they could barely stand.

Qiu Yi saw that the time had come, so he asked Li Shengjie to put down the spiral ladder, and then asked Zhao Chengxiao and Wei Chi Jiming to personally lead the army to lead his soldiers to get off the boat along the spiral ladder and go to capture the king of Lingnan.

Unexpectedly, Yu Chi Jiming didn't need a spiral ladder at all, but stepped on the edge of the ship's side and jumped down, landing right next to Lingnan King Zhenggui. After all, Zheng Gui was born in a war with troops, and he still had some kung fu in his hands, so he immediately pulled out his sword and stabbed it towards Yu Chi Jiming.

However, Yu Chi Jiming's martial arts were superb, and when he saw the sword stabbing over, he immediately dodged and dodged, stretched out his hand and grabbed the wrist of the King of Lingnan, and snatched his sword in his hand with a slight twist, and the other hand had pinched Zheng Gui's Adam's apple, and as long as he used a little force, he could take the life of the King of Lingnan.

Qiu Yizhi was afraid that the King of Lingnan would escape from his hands, and he was afraid that he would die in his hands, so he hurriedly told in a loud voice: "Ji Ming is careful, don't hurt the life of the prince!" ”

Wei Chi Jiming's subordinates were a little serious, and after listening to Qiu Yizhi's words, he immediately replied: "Little uncle, don't worry, I know it in my heart!" ”

Qiu Yizhi was a little relieved at this time, and saw that Zhao Chengxiao had led people to kill and capture the remaining hundred or so guards of the King of Lingnan, so he was also relieved to slowly climb down the soft ladder from the soft ladder and re-step on the ground.

At this time, the life of Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, who had taken half of the Han Dynasty, was in the hands of Yu Chi Jiming, a little girl who was less than twenty years old.

Qiu Yi saw that Zheng Gui was strong in his life, but today he fell to such a point, and he only felt a little desolate in his heart, but not a little joy.

"Lord Wang, we have different positions, and there is no way to do it, please don't be surprised." There was a bit of guilt and apology in the tone of his voice.

Zheng Gui didn't seem to care: "What's so strange about this? Battlefield confrontation, you live or die, that's all. The old man made a lot of calculations, but he didn't want the destiny to be on my side, and he still fell short in the end...... Why should the virtuous nephew be merciful, kill the old man and go to repay the merit to the imperial brother! ”

Qiu Yizhi, a victorious person, was frightened by Zheng Gui's momentum and flinched a little: "No, no, no." What kind of person is the prince, how can I be qualified to send you? Your life and death can only be decided by the emperor, except for his old man, the rest of the others are full of tongues, and they are all arrogant ......"

"You're going to send me to see the emperor?" Zheng Gui interrupted Qiu Yizhi's words.

"Lord Wang, this is the proper meaning of the question, your rebellion has failed, shouldn't the emperor decide your life and death?" Qiu Yizhi replied.

"Nope! How could the old man fail? Since the old man started the army in Lingnan, he has fought more than 70 battles, large and small, whether it is field battles, sieges, surprise attacks, or ambushes, he has never failed, not even a draw, how could he have failed? That's impossible! King Lingnan roared hysterically.

Qiu Yizhi sighed: "Lord Wang, you just mentioned the word 'Mandate of Heaven', and I think it is very reasonable. The destiny is not on your side, even if the personnel are exhausted, what can be done? ”

When Zheng Gui heard this, his face was suddenly covered with a dark cloud: "The Mandate of Heaven is ethereal, and it can't be counted." The imperial brother is not a born emperor, why does he have a mandate of heaven if he rebels, and there is no mandate of heaven if I rebel? ”

Qiu Yizhi sighed again: "This matter, the younger generation has discussed with Mr. Lin, in fact, the word 'Mandate of Heaven' is implemented, it is just 'more help for the righteous, and less help for the unjust'." The prince is indeed invincible, but in the Lingnan Road, in addition to your own personal horse, which prince and general are at ease? Do everything yourself, there will always be a day when the ship capsizes. And when the emperor captured the capital Luoyang, it was also the juniors who led the troops into the city with Cui Nan and Wei Hu. Even if the three of us die by accident, the emperor is still sitting outside the city, and the overall situation can't be messed up, but what about you, the prince...... Alas! With that, Qiu Yizhi sighed heavily.