Chapter 1245: Ma Shiying's Death (Fourth Watch)
In the evening.
On the Minjiang River in the north of Changle County, more than a dozen large and small ships drove over. Flying on the ship was the flag of the Zheng family army and the naval flag set by the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
The bow of the ship was covered with soldiers of the Zheng family's army, all of whom were armed with knives and guns, as well as a few arquebuses, and two tiger cannons were also erected on one of the large ships.
These dozen ships went down the river and had already entered the territory of Changle County in front of them.
Ma Shiying stood on the bow of the boat, and when he saw that there were no pursuers behind, he put down.
It has been more than an hour since he fled Kaifu by boat.
In front of him was Mawei Port, where there were more than 1,000 horses and horses he had prepared in advance, and twenty or thirty miles out of Mawei Port was to the sea, and then they were completely safe.
Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty brought a flock of landlubbers, who were certainly not familiar with water warfare. When he arrived at sea, it was the world of Zheng Jiajun, and he was no longer fearless.
From Changle to Quanzhou, it is only three or four hundred miles, and in a few days he will be able to reach Shangjing and meet Emperor Yongli.
Ma Shiying was thinking wildly at the moment.
At this time, the sky is said to be dark and not yet dark, and the sun has set before it is dark.
Suddenly, Ma Shiying felt that there was something unusual about the river.
Because they didn't encounter a single fishing boat along the way, there was not a single figure on either side of the shore. This is not surprising, because there is a war going on in Fuzhou, and it is only a hundred miles away from Fuzhou.
Of course, the common people have long since fled the war.
It's just that Mawei Harbor is so peaceful, shouldn't his more than 1,000 soldiers and horses come out to greet him? Why is there no movement?
Just when Ma Shiying was puzzled, countless warships suddenly rushed out of Mawei Harbor. Ma Shiying was not surprised, but felt that it was expected, because he had already prepared more than 1,000 sailors here, and this should be his own people to meet them.
But when she got closer, Ma Shiying couldn't help but be surprised.
Because these people suddenly changed their banners and replaced them with the banner of the Ming Dynasty.
The general headed by the Ming army is Liu Wenxiu, the commander of the Ming army's sailors, Liu Wenxiu has already been ambushed here, and under the banner of the Zheng family, of course, it is to confuse Ma Shiying, and he only showed his true face when he got closer.
Liu Wenxiu shouted on the river: "Haha, Ma Yaocao, I have been waiting here for a long time after serving the will of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty!"
Ma Shiying was so frightened that she almost fell off the bow of the ship, "Withdraw, retreat!"
His soldiers hurriedly ordered the sailors to drop anchor and turn around.
The rebels on these dozen ships also knew that they were fooled at this time, so they were busy. But now that they are going down the river, it is not easy to turn around.
At this time, Liu Wenxiu commanded the naval warships on both sides to block the river. When it got dark, the soldiers on the battleship lit countless torches, and the torches were like fiery dragons.
"Fire!"
At the sound of the order, the guns on the ship roared.
Knock knock, boom......
The cannon hit the water column into the sky, and a cannonball fell on the ship on Ma Shiying's side, and with a boom, the fireball soared into the sky, the smoke rolled out, the mast was blown off, and the big ship lost its direction and went down the river.
There was also a medium-sized warship, which was hit by a cannonball, and several rebels flew into the sky on the spot, and the warship caught fire, and the rest of the rebels were shaken into the water, like dumplings, and the warship lost control, and the fire began to burn, and the flames flew and the smoke rose to the sky, illuminating the river and dyeing the sky red.
"Chase!"
Liu Wenxiu saw Ma Shiying and they ran away, jumped into a small boat, and 20 sailors, desperately rowed the boat and began to go upstream, chasing Ma Shiying's warship.
The large ships of the Ming army also followed, but the large ships were not as agile as the small ones.
"Quick!" Ma Shiying desperately ran away, urging the sailors to open the boat.
Liu Wenxiu's boat is approaching.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Firearms are pretty much used. Within range of the bow and arrow, the two sides began to fire at each other's bows.
The arrows whistled and rained like arrows.
There are a lot of arrows in the night sky
The arrow, shot into the water, made a special sound. Some shot on the boat, crackling.
From time to time, the Ming and rebels were shot by arrows, and their bodies rolled in the cabin, and some fell into the water, screaming endlessly.
As time dragged on, the distance between the two sides was still approaching.
When the two sides were still forty or fifty meters away, they saw Liu Wenxiu flying up from the small boat, treading the water and treading the waves as if flying on the water, and in the blink of an eye, he approached Ma Shiying's warship.
These rebels are a little dumbfounded, how can this person fly on water?
"Shoot the arrows! Stop him......"
The archers of the rebels shot at Liu Wenxiu in the air.
Liu Wenxiu clicked the water, the sword in his hand flashed white in the firelight, dialed the carving feather, and then turned his head in the air and fell on Ma Shiying's ship.
At this time, there were many soldiers on Ma Shiying's ship, and there were hundreds of people, because this was a large ship, and countless torches lit it like day.
But as soon as Liu Wenxiu jumped up, the soldiers on the ship panicked, and then shouted and pounced on Liu Wenxiu.
They relied on the strength of the crowd to besiege Liu Wenxiu.
Liu Wenxiu danced the sword in his hand like flying, even though this is not the realm of praising horses and swords, but Liu Wenxiu took his steps to the extreme.
He is on the horse, if he has a big knife in his hand, he is a military general on the 8th floor of the day after tomorrow, this is the king of Funan under Zhang Xianzhong.
Now although there is no war horse, no broadsword, only a sword, his strength is greatly reduced, but he can also exert the strength of the 6th layer of the day after tomorrow.
The rebels who surrounded him were slashed by him, and their dead bodies tumbled and fell into the river.
At this time, Ma Shiying was protected by his soldiers and jumped onto a small boat. Because he saw that there were more and more warships chasing by the Ming army, it was not Liu Wenxiu who was fighting alone, and Liu Wenxiu was very brave at this time, so many generals couldn't stop him.
Now he had no choice but to abandon the big boat and get on the small boat to flee for his life.
But as soon as he got on the boat, Liu Wenxiu flew down from the big boat and jumped onto the boat.
After all, the number of rebels in the boat is limited, and there are only a dozen people to protect Ma Shiying.
Liu Wenxiu killed four or five in a circle of his sword, and the rest of them saw that Liu Wenxiu was so brave, and they jumped into the river to flee for their lives, regardless of Ma Shiying.
Ma Shiying was really distressed when he saw it.
Wouldn't this be self-defeating, I knew that it would be better to stay on a big ship.
But now it's only desperate. Ma Shiying drew his sword to fight Liu Wenxiu.
It's just that he is the opponent of Liu Wenxiu? After a few moves, he was caught in Liu Wenxiu's sword and kicked into the cabin.
Ma Shiying saw that the general trend had gone, fell into the hands of Liu Wenxiu, and in the future fell into the hands of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, but there was no good result.
Gritting his teeth, he killed himself by slashing his neck in the cabin. Liu Wenxiu jumped into the cabin, and Ma Shiying had an extra blood mark on his neck, cutting his throat, and blood flowed.
Liu Wenxiu clicked a sword and cut off his head......