What else can Liang Jinzhen say? He was already frightened, his legs were trembling all the time, Chen Zhanwei looked at him contemptuously, a wine bag and rice bag, the imperial court likes such a person to be an official, and he is also in an important position, he is greedy and bends the law, and he is more afraid of death than anyone else, which makes people feel cold.

While the fleet was moving, a sailor suddenly shouted: "Lord Chen, Lord Chen, there are a large number of ships in front of us, heading towards us, heading towards us." ”

Chen Zhanwei hurriedly took out the binoculars to take a closer look, and sure enough, a fleet of ships appeared in the telescope, with dozens of ships, large and small, and quickly rushed towards them. Chen Zhanwei was a little surprised, it was not like a fishing boat, it was a merchant ship that should drive normally along the waterway, and the consequences of such a collision were unimaginable. Hurriedly ordered the Cangshan boat next to him to keep a distance from himself and form a combat state in case of accidents.

It was the people of "Dragon's Village" and "Huashan Heitan" who came to meet him, Wu Dong, Wu Laoba, the owner of "Dragon's Village", and Hu Jiang, the owner of the second village, Cai Yong, the military advisor, and Xu Yi, the "prodigal son of the rivers and lakes", led hundreds of water bandits, Ou Xiaofeng and Dalintai, the owners of "Huashan Heitan", and the three brothers of Darentai and Daritai led all the water bandits and five serial boats, and the number of people reached as many as 1,000. What's more, the two wooden sailing ships at the front were huge and were converted into warships, on which were placed the two Franc machine guns and all the firearms on the Cangshan ship intercepted from Liu Dapeng in Baigou Gorge, all of which were covered with cloth. In addition, there are all kinds of ships, all of which are eager to try the water bandits, and they are all red-eyed in the face of such a huge transport fleet, and they can't wait to rush to kill them immediately.

Ou Xiaofeng put the five main ships in the back, and Chen Zhanwei did not find it although he had a telescope, thinking that the other party was not strongly armed, even if it was a bandit, what could he do, and it was not too late to stop it when he entered the range of artillery. In the blink of an eye, the two fleets were getting closer and closer, and gradually entered the range of artillery, Chen Zhanwei ordered the sailors to shout to stop the other party's advance, while paying attention. The gunners of the Cangshan ship here are also ready for battle. I almost stuffed the shell into the chamber.

Chen Zhanwei made one of the biggest mistakes, he thought that since the other side was unarmed, even if he approached, he would not be able to defeat the naval warship, and it would be unclear if he accidentally injured civilians when he opened fire. Then it reached the emperor's ears was the sin of killing his head, and he couldn't afford this responsibility.

Wu Laoba didn't care about this, and when he entered the range of the artillery, he shouted with a hideous face: "Little ones, remove the cover, aim at the Cangshan ship and prepare to fire." ”

The bandits quickly removed the cover from the Franc cannon, and they had already hit the cannon accurately after training. The firing range of the Franc cannon was more than 2,000 meters, and now the distance between them is more than 1,000 meters, and it was only a short time from reloading to firing. Chen Zhanwei saw it, and the cold sweat on his head also came down, and it was too late to give the order to shoot back, and the other party fired first.

The Cangshan ship is equipped with two thousand catties of Franc machines, and the two ships are four guns, equipped with lead bullets, each weighing 1 catty, with 1 catty of gunpowder. All the cannons and shells were put on two wooden sailing boats by the bandits, and they were fired together to form four cannons. Cannonballs whizzed. The sailors on the Cangshan boat at the front had not yet reacted, and they stupidly watched the shells fall on their own boats, not many, and two missed and fell into the water. The other two hit the bow of the ship, and the other shot into the cabin, and the guns on board were lifted into the air with a huge explosion of "boom". The mangled bodies of sailors flew along. While looking at the Cangshan boat that was shot, it shook a few times and floated on the water, and it had lost its combat effectiveness.

But after all, the Ming Army's naval division is a force that has gone through countless actual battles, and the initial panic has passed. The muzzle of the cannon of the Cangshan boat where Chen Zhanwei was also aimed at the wooden sailing boat, and the second shell whistled out and flew towards the water bandits, which inevitably made mistakes in the hurry, and shot high, grazing the wooden sailboat and flying over, hitting the fishing boat behind, and the fishing boat was blown to pieces in the explosion, and the water bandits above fed the Yangtze River fish.

After the pressure of the Cangshan boat also fired, the cannonball flew straight to the wooden sailboat, Wu Laoba saw the projectile smashed down and screamed desperately to turn the bow of the boat, but still couldn't dodge, a cannonball exploded in the stern, although it was not fatal, but also set off a few water bandits, let them know the power of the water battle, the swords, guns, arrows and halberds in their hands are beyond reach, no one in the panic to control the cannon, Wu Laoba shouted urgently, no one listened to him. Military advisor Cai Yong was hit off by shrapnel and half of his ear was knocked off, his head was full of blood, like a terrible ghost, squatting on the board of the boat and trembling all over.

On another wooden sailing boat, Ou Xiaofeng was not afraid of danger, and calmly ordered the two Franc machine guns to be aimed at the command ship Cangshan Boat in front, and the second cannon sounded to determine the final result of the water battle. The shells blew up the two main guns of the Cangshan ship, and Chen Zhanwei was also injured, his left leg was pierced with a hole, blood was flowing down, and he was surrounded by sailors, who would rather die themselves than defend Chen Zhanwei, making him cry.

The broken Cangshan boat drove over desperately, and now only it is still complete, the leader of the sailors is called Wang Xi, and his eyes are red when he sees Chen Zhanwei's injury, and he desperately fires cannons, trying to make peace with Chen Zhanwei's Cangshan boat. Inflicted considerable losses on the water bandits.

At this time, the river suddenly boiled, and the huge waves swept over, smashing towards the Cangshan boat, and the sailors saw a golden woman standing on the top of the waves, holding a sword like a fairy, and then there was no more, the huge wave covered the boat, and it could not be sunk, but the ammunition was damp, and the artillery lost all its power. The sailors were also driven into the river, and the Grim Reaper began to reap his spoils below.

Without firepower, the Cangshan boat is not as good as a fishing boat, Wu Laoba yelled happily: "Brothers, rush up for me, whoever dares to resist will be killed." ”

Hundreds of small boats rowed over quickly, and the five serial boats also showed their hideous faces, and in an instant Chen Zhanwei's transport fleet was surrounded, and the sailors rushed over one by one, braving the bows and arrows sent by the sailors, and the firearms on the serial boats were also fired continuously, and the Ming sailors were miserable. The boatmen on the 30 wooden sailing boats were already frightened, and all of them lay on the board and did not dare to move. Only the soldiers of Dongchang fought desperately, and the water bandits who climbed onto the boat were mixed together, and the corpses killed were all over the field and rivers of blood.

Liang Jinzin's painting boat was not attacked, and the bandits seemed to disdain it, and Lord Liang, who stayed on the Cangshan boat, regretted it, and he hid in the cabin, surrounded by several family members who were also distraught. Chen Zhanwei sighed when he saw that the general trend had gone, and said to his subordinates: "We have failed, don't make useless resistance, surrender." ”

No one answered, only the earth-shattering shouts of killing and the screams of sailors.

Chen Zhanwei stood up violently, endured the pain and looked at the approaching wooden sailboat, with a flag floating on it with the three big characters of "Turning the River Dragon", which was the water bandit of Chen Yan in the "white strip in the waves", and the Ming army sailor was a mortal enemy. But now the sailors have collapsed, and more people will die if they continue to fight, Chen Zhanwei picked up a white flag and shook it and shouted: "Master Chen, show mercy to your subordinates, we have surrendered." ”

Ou Xiaofeng waited for his words, and immediately replied: "Put down all your weapons, we accept your surrender." ”

The sailors dropped their weapons, the shouting and killing suddenly subsided, although there were still people in Dongchang resisting, but they had suffered heavy losses, and the remaining dozens of people were still struggling to support, the water bandits killed mercilessly, and the last Dongchang soldier fell, and the war was completely over.

Ou Xiaofeng ordered to quickly clean up the battlefield, Chen Zhanwei's sailors lost one-third, all the soldiers of Dongchang were killed, and the shipwright Weng was also killed and wounded. Chen Zhanwei and Liang Jinzhen were captured alive and hung their heads. Ou Xiaofeng looked at Chen Zhanwei and said: "I am Chen Yan, the Ming army and sailors on the sea eliminated more than 5,000 of our brothers and killed my senior brother Chen Zuyi. Today I finally got my revenge. General Chen, I admire your personality, and I don't want to embarrass you, so I'll leave a few fishing boats and take your people away. ”

Chen Zhanwei looked at Ou Lingtian blankly, Ou Lingtian covered his face with a cloth, only showing his two eyes, and asked in disbelief: "Will you really let us go?"

Ou Xiaofeng replied: "If you kill too much, you will be punished." Besides, these 80,000 stone official salt are enough to kill you. I, Chen Yan, have been fasting and reciting Buddha recently, and I don't want to kill innocents indiscriminately. ”

Chen Zhanwei was suspicious, but he still took the rest of the soldiers and left, he remembered Chen Yan, and also remembered the water bandit "turning the river dragon".

Huai'an Patrol Salt Imperial Shi Liang Jinzhen was escorted back to his painting boat, everyone on it was safe and sound, his most concerned concubine Yanping saw him crying, Ou Xiaofeng sat in the cabin and looked at Liang Jinzhen coldly, seeing that his heart was furious, and his whole body trembled.

"Lord Liang, Huai'an Patrol Salt Imperial History, the third grade member of the imperial court, is the biggest official I have caught. Lord Liang must have made a lot of money by participating in the smuggling of official salt, right? Do you calculate how much silver is worth even people and boats?"

Liang Jinzhen couldn't answer.

Ou Xiaofeng said: "I'll do the math for you, it's worth 500,000 taels of silver." I don't want to kill you yet, so tell your family to redeem your life with money. Not one or two less. Got it?"

Liang Jinzhen nodded again and again, he could still get 500,000 taels of silver, and if he didn't have his head, everything would be empty talk.

Unthinkable, Ou Xiaofeng detained the painting boat, and all the official salt on the 30 wooden sailing boats was reduced to pieces and loaded onto the fishing boat and transported away. In the blink of an eye, the river was calm, as if nothing had ever happened. The only difference was that Liu Yunqin, the deputy commander of the East Factory, was found in the cabin of the Liang Jinzinc painting boat, and Ou Xiaofeng said to him in the tone of Chen Yan, "Go back and tell Liu Jing, I am not afraid of anyone except Ou Lingtian, the king of Huashan." Even if Ou Lingtian comes, he won't let him take advantage of much, fight to the death, and lose both. It's something he doesn't want to see. ”

Liu Yunqin also firmly remembered it, which became the best reason for Liu Jing to ask for help from King Huashan. (To be continued......)