The fleet moved happily, gradually moving away from the Chongqing oasis, away from the bustling Chaotianmen Wharf, and began to enter the desolate desert.

The Yangtze River is still galloping happily under the boat, although the Yangtze River in this world has become a sand river, but the width is not bad, the river surface is hundreds of meters wide at any place, the quicksand is like water, galloping endlessly, the momentum is surging, making people feel proud.

On the river, there is not only Yi Yun's merchant fleet, not far from Yi Yun's fleet, there is another fleet slowly advancing, this fleet has a total of seven ships, two more than Yi Yun's fleet, but if you look at one alone, the hull is much smaller than Yi Yun's.

This is a matter of course, Yi Yun is riding on the imperial court's battleship, although he has transformed it to look like a cargo ship, but in fact he has the skeleton of a battleship, which is naturally larger than an ordinary merchant ship. If a random civilian merchant ship is larger than the warship of the imperial court, then what is it?

A day later, the flotilla came to a river channel with a particularly wide surface and a particularly slow flow of sand. Here, the speed of the ship slowed down, and it was not easy to move forward with the help of the quicksand liliang, so the only way to move slowly was to open the sails and send sailors to row.

Yi Yun couldn't help but grab a sailor and asked, "What's going on in this place, why does the quicksand flow so slowly?"

The sailor smiled: "Don't worry, this place is a famous section of the Yangtze River, because the river is particularly wide, so the quicksand is diverted here, and the flow speed becomes very slow, just like a stream, so this section of the river is also called 'Dumb Creek'." ”

Yi Yun was amused in his heart, in fact, the Yangtze River is not just called the Yangtze River, it has different names in different sections, this is not unusual, for example, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River before Yibin, it is called the "Jinsha River" by the locals, between Chongqing and Yichang, it is also called the "Xiajiang", between Hubei Zhicheng and Hunan Lingji, it is called "Jingjiang", and Yangzhou is also called "Yangtze River"...... Then there is a section in the middle called Dumb Creek, which is quite interesting.

Yi Yun was about to instruct the sailors in the bilge to go up to the deck to raise the sails, or use some method to speed up the ship, when suddenly, An Qian, who was standing behind him, said lightly: "Look, the seven merchant ships that we are following behind suddenly began to accelerate." ”

Yi Yun turned his head to look, and sure enough, the seven merchant ships all puffed up their sails, and many long rows stretched out from the slurry holes on the side of the ship, like a centipede stretched out many feet, rowing up in the sand river, the speed of the ship increased sharply, and it rushed forward, and the sharp bow angle cut through the quicksand, knocking the sand into both sides, and the sand and dust floated up, and it was menacing.

"Seeing how well the fleet is prepared, before entering the Dumb Creek, it began to accelerate with all its might. Yi Yun grabbed a sailor and scolded with a slash on his face: "You bastards know how to be lazy, since you know that there is a section of the river here, you should have prepared early." ”

The sailor nodded and said: "Lord Wang, we don't have anything important, and we are not in a state of imminent battle, why do we need to prepare in advance, it is the same to slowly accelerate after entering the Duxi River." ”

"Oh, well, you have a point. Yi Yun is not a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong, threw the sailor aside, and said with a smile: "We are really not in a hurry, anyway, we are not going to fight, panic ......"

He sat down in the rattan chair on the deck, crossed Erlang's legs, and planned to take a nap, but the sailor's words just now suddenly lingered in his mind: "We are not in a state of imminent battle, why do we need to prepare in advance......

That's right, you don't need to prepare for battle, so why are ......the seven merchant ships so well prepared? Who are they fighting with? Except for them, there is only our fleet ......... this stupid stream.

"I'm down!" Yi Yun jumped up from the wicker chair suddenly: "Malegobi, people are going to beat us!"

"Tell all the ships, the girls get out of the bilge, and the sailors go up to deck, ready to meet the enemy!" shouted Ewan.

At the same time, on top of the seven menacing merchant ships, Mr. Luo Lemao, the leader of the Yangtze River bandit Jinzhu Gang, was holding a Western telescope and looking at Yi Yun's fleet. This telescope was purchased by him through the Yangtze River waterway, contacting Spanish businessmen, and buying it at a commercial price. This is not to say that there are no "scouts" in the Golden Bamboo Gang, it's just that Luo Lemao doesn't like to learn about the battlefield through "scouts", he likes to see it with his own eyes.

He saw that Yi Yun's fleet was still slow and did not accelerate after entering Duxi River, and laughed: "These guys don't feel nervous at all, sure enough, Miss An Jia has no experience in running a business." In the lawless desert, caravans can turn into bandits at any time, and it is foolish that we have been following behind the fleet without warning. ”

After a short while, he saw that the bow of the ship on the opposite side finally panicked, and the women of the Meng Niang Brigade who were originally standing on the deck blowing the wind suddenly began to drill into the bilge.

Luo Leg Mao smiled again: "They finally reacted, but how to drill into the bilge? should hurry up and set sail, paddle, and try to escape, drill into the cabin, wouldn't we catch the turtle in the urn and catch them all? The hairy child leader is inexperienced, haha." ”

He chuckled dryly, and the seven armed merchant ships rushed forward a little closer and began to disperse, with the two fastest ships blocking the front of the Iyun fleet, two at the back, and the other three at the waist. Now you don't need a telescope to see the other side clearly.

Luo Leg Mao stretched out a hairy foot full of leg hair, stepped on the side of the ship with one foot, and said loudly with a show of martial arts: "This is the Golden Bamboo Gang Luo Leg Hair, and the people on the opposite boat are the people of the An family, right? Surrender obediently and deliver the goods, I see the face of your An family, as long as the goods, no human life." If you dare to resist, you will kill them all!"

After he finished shouting, he saw that the merchant ship on the opposite side seemed to be a little wrong, after the girls got into the bilge, the decks of the five big ships were empty, and suddenly, a person jumped out of a ship on the opposite side of the ship, this person jumped out of the bilge, it was a man, and he was wearing a cloth armor that was most commonly worn by officers and soldiers of the Great Meng Country, and he was actually an officer and soldier......

"Officers and soldiers?" Luo Leg Mao was startled. There are no thieves who are not afraid of soldiers in this world, and the appearance of officers and soldiers made Luo's legs tremble.

But then there was something more ridiculous, I saw that the decks of the five big ships were all whizzing out, and in a short time, the decks of the opposite ships were full of officers and men, and a rough count showed that there were at least fifty people on one ship, and the total number of five ships was two hundred and five......

Luo Lemao's cultural level is not high, and his head is not very fast, so he took a pinch and said strangely: "The bilge of the ship can turn women into officers and soldiers?"

"Helper...... It's not that women become officers and soldiers, it's that there are officers and soldiers hidden in the cabin!" said a gang of great sweaters.

"Helper, what should we do? We've hijacked the ships of the officers and soldiers, oh my God!" one of the gang cried.

Luo Lemao's head was smoking, and he sweated profusely: "Then what are you waiting for?

He was about to give the order and retreat quickly, when he suddenly heard the young man on the bow of the opposite boat laughing loudly: "This is Zhu Yun, the prince of Jiashan, and on the opposite boat is the Luo leg hair of the Jinzhu Gang, right? Your name is very good, I remember it! Surrender obediently, for the sake of you as a fellow countryman, I only need your head, not your body, hands and feet." ”

As soon as Luo Lemao heard this, a pimple suddenly broke out in his head...... Oh my God, this guy...... It was Zhu Yun, an evil young man in Chongqing! Just now I reported my name and was heard by him, even if I ran away, I would be issued a sea arrest warrant by the prince of Chongqing...... Why can't I keep my mouth shut? ...,

Luo Leg Mao wants to cry without tears.

"Helper, what should I do?" said the little gang with sad faces.

"What else can I do?" Luo Leg Mao was vicious, and waved his hand domineeringly: "Let's come out to be thieves, since we have bumped into the officers and soldiers, then we have to fight to the end, damn, Lao Tzu killed all the people in these five boats, and no one will know that it was my Luo Leg Hair who did it." ”

He took out a huge hammer from his back, this hammer weighed at least 100 catties, made of fine pig iron, and held it in his hand, setting off his black leg hair, majestic and murderous. He swung the sledgehammer sharply and said loudly: "Attack according to the original plan, the warship maneuveres, keep a distance of 150 meters from the enemy ship, and the 'archers' prepare rockets and officers and soldiers to do it!"

The armed merchant ships of the seven bandits began to maneuver, the distance was excellently controlled, and they rotated on the wide river. The deck of the ship was full of bandits, at least 300 of them, most of them had occupations, of which about 100 were first-order "militiamen", and there were 60 or 70 "soldiers", and there were very few "guards", only twenty or thirty, and the others were all "archers", counting more than 100 "archers", which was quite good.

This number of officers and soldiers is also a force to fight, no wonder Luo Legmao dares to shout that he wants to kill people. The number of "archers" in the water bandits is more than that of the "soldiers" and "guards", and the ability of close combat is weaker than that of long-range combat, which is also the common sense of water bandits. Therefore, Luo Legmao chose to fight a long-distance battle with the officers and soldiers, keeping his ships at a distance of 150 meters, and using rockets against Yiyun's fleet.

Yi Yun stood on the bow of his ship, and saw that the other party took out a large number of bows and arrows, wrapped oilcloth and other things on the arrows, soaked them in oil, and lit the arrows, which was obviously to play with rockets.

He turned to the sailors beside him and asked, "How many 'archers' are there here?"

"Report to the prince, since our mission is to escort you and protect your safety, most of the people selected to join the escort team are 'escorts'. There were less than fifty people whose profession was 'archers'. The sailor reported respectfully.

"Shenma?" Yi Yun was furious: "I'm rubbing, are you insane? The water battle is obviously the 'archers' are stronger, why do you send 'guards' to protect me? Which stupid bird made the arrangement?"

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