Chapter 236: Acting for Heaven?
Seeing that the bandit was about to stop Liu Rushi from being hostage, he heard a gun sound. The thief felt his back numb and his body lost all his strength. Then he had a severe pain in his chest. The knife in his hand could not be held firmly and fell on the board. The thief turned his head and saw the two most beautiful little maids holding a short gun in their hands. One of the little maids had a burst of white smoke.
The consciousness in the bandit's mind quickly disappeared, his legs became weak, and his body, which had lost his life, fell forward and just rushed to Liu Rushi's footsteps.
"Ah!" Seeing a corpse with blood bubbles constantly lying at his feet, Liu Rushi screamed again, his face pale and his whole body trembled.
The hand-to-hand combat outside the cabin was over. When Li Guodong heard the sound of guns in the cabin, he walked in with a knife to see if the female members in the cabin were injured.
"Young master, it's okay. With our sisters here, there are no fear of four or five bandits coming in." Hexiang patted the short gun and sword on her waist, and looked at Li Guodong confidently and smiled.
Seeing Liu Rushi huddled in a corner of the cabin, Li Guodong ignored her and walked out of the cabin again: this little girl was covered in armor, He Xiang and Mo Zhu were both Jianjiazi, so don’t worry.
The water bandits outside already understood that they had encountered a tough guy, gave up the attack, and were retreating.
"Take out the stones in the cabin, let's chase them?" Li Guodong picked up the telescope and looked at it. He found that the bandits' ship was running downstream, so he turned to ask Zheng Zhifeng.
"Don't throw away the stones, sail along the water. The heavier the boat, the faster it will be." Zheng Zhifeng said.
At first glance, Li Guodong seemed to think that Zheng Zhifeng's words made sense, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that something was wrong? Gravity acceleration has nothing to do with the weight of the object. If you go along with the water flow, you also have a boat that is actually going downhill. Even if you don't hang sails and don't need to paddle, the boat speed will still exceed the water flow speed.
The Zheng family navy had only ten ships, plus the soldiers sent by Li Guodong to assist the war, and there were less than 300 people. They actually defeated hundreds of ships and thousands of water bandits in panic. This battle allowed Li Guodong to see the level of the Zheng family navy.
Ten warships raised sails, and the sailors stretched out their oars and used them together. Under the combined action of water flow, wind and manpower, the ten boats galloped on the river like flying. From time to time, the small sampans of water bandits were caught up by them. With a bombing of the Folang machine, they shot out a few feather arrows and shot out a few bird guns. The bandits on the small sampans were swept away.
The water bandits discovered that the so-called merchant ship they had originally planned to hijack were actually sailing warships! It was too late. The Zheng family's fast warships were extremely fast. They followed the small sampan of the water bandits to fire arrows and fire guns, killing and injured the water bandits. The river surface was filled with broken boat boards, and blood stained the river water.
Some small water bandit boats hid in the reed marsh, and the large ships of the Zheng family's navy were unable to enter.
Just when the Zheng family's big ship was at a loss for the small boats of the bandits hiding in the reed marsh, the fishermen from the Touhu Village came in time with a boat. A fisherman named Zhao Shuisheng, who had joined Wang Quan's Dadewang Guard, was the seed of the future navy general. This time, the Zheng family army assisted in the suppression of bandits, so he brought a group of fishermen out for exercise.
After the small fleet of Tawau Village arrived, Zheng Zhibao made an allocation, allowing some naval officers and soldiers to take small boats, leading the way by fishermen familiar with the terrain of the local waterways, and breaking into the reed marsh to suppress the thieves.
Zhao Shuisheng and a group of local fishermen grew up in the Hongze Lake area. They are familiar with the local water network terrain and are proficient in water nature. They are familiar with the reed marsh in small boats. The officers and soldiers of the Zheng family army who are on small boats are also a group of old pirates. Even if they ride in small boats, they are the king of the water. Pirates are good at catching up with the gang and fighting hand-to-hand combat. They are like walking on flat ground on bumpy boats, and jumping into the water is as flexible as fish.
Although the water bandits are also proficient in water quality, their combat effectiveness is not at the same level as that of the Zheng family army.
The small boat that the Zheng family navy took to catch up with the pirate ship, and in the distance, they used javelins, harpoons, and flying axes to shoot the thieves. After getting closer, they jumped onto the enemy ship, waved the machete and axe to kill the thieves. Some people even chased them directly into the water and used short swords and daggers in their hands to kill the thieves who were diving and escaping.
Seeing the Zheng family navy rushing into the reed marsh and constantly killing the water bandits, Li Guodong couldn't admire the Zheng family navy. He himself could be aquatic, but he just could swim. In terms of the ability to fight water, he was far from the Zheng family army.
"General Zheng, your navy is really powerful! From throwing spears, harpoons, flying axes, to jumping to slashing people, all kinds of movements are done in one go, and there is no chance to give the water bandits a chance to breathe, it is really amazing." Li Guodong praised. As for why the officers and soldiers of the Zheng family army did not use bows and arrows when riding on small sampans, he understood that the small boats and boats were low, and the water was easily splashed into the cabin, and the bowstrings were wet and could not be used, not to mention that these navy soldiers had to jump into the water to fight at any time.
The water bandits hiding in the reed marsh were almost wiped out. Li Guodong and the Zheng family army beheaded more than 500 levels, more than 600 other bandits surrendered, and more than 100 bandit boats were seized. Their own side only paid the price of seven casualties. Among them, two fishermen in Wang Quanchengzhai were killed, three injured, and only two were slightly injured!
"Brother, how to deal with the captured thieves?" Wang Quan, who came up from behind, asked.
"Take it back first. If there is a blood debt in your hand, you will be killed. If there is no blood debt, you will stay. We will be inconvenient to operate in the Hewang area, without a navy." Li Guodong said.
Wang Quan and others took the captives and took the captured boat to return to their Toutu City Village first. Liu Rushi, Hexiang, Mo Zhu and the four girls were also taken back to the city village by them. Li Guodong, Zheng's army, and more than 500 fishermen recruited by Wang Quan went straight to the thief's village.
Eliminate all evil things, otherwise there will be endless troubles.
The Zheng family sailors threw the stones and soil in the cabin of the large ship into the river, reducing the burden. Under the guidance of local fishermen, they headed straight to Wutong Lake.
A total of ten large warships and more than one hundred small sampans entered Wutong Lake in a mighty manner and rowed towards Wutong Mountain Village where the thieves were.
When he approached Wutong Mountain Village, Li Guodong picked up his telescope to observe the thief's village. He found that this village was really similar to the water-poured Liangshan he saw on TV in his previous life. It was surrounded by a vast lake and an island in the middle of the lake. The thief lived in the hamlet on the island in the middle of the lake.
The island in the middle of the lake is flying the banners of "Persisting the Way for Heaven", "Robing the Rich to Help the Poor", and "Eliminating Violence and Safeguarding the Good", which is exactly the same as the heroes of Liangshan in "Water Margin".
"What do they do on weekdays? Robbing passers-by, occupying one side, and robbing the people! We are bullied by them a lot on weekdays! We have to pay tribute to them all the fish we beat, otherwise we will not be able to keep our heads." Zhao Shuisheng said angrily.
At this moment, a sailor sent by Zheng Zhibao to sneak into the water to explore the way in front of him came back: "General, the thief set up underwater stakes under the water in front of him, and our big ship could not pass."
Chapter completed!