At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Zhu Can looked at the ten corpses of soldiers placed on the pier with an extremely gloomy expression. Obviously, these soldiers were all shot to death by arrows. Among them, the four archers all sealed their throats with one arrow, which seemed to be from the same person. It can be seen that the opponent's archery skills are very good.

"You bastards, what are you still doing in a daze? Let me attack you, and bring everyone back to me." Zhu Can snarled, furious, and his eyes were full of savagery.

Zhu Can had a navy under his command, about a thousand people, and it was Li Yu who was in charge of leading the navy. He immediately led his troops to board the boat and headed upstream in a murderous spirit.

Zhu Can jumped on his horse cursing, with a ferocious expression on his face, and swore to the sky: "Gao Changqing, if I let you run away this time, I, Zhu Can, will chop up the bird, please!"

Zhu Can lashed out with a whip, and the horse under his crotch galloped out. He led nearly a hundred cavalry to chase upstream along the river, and thousands of infantry followed behind in a swarm.

Let's talk about that Li Yu, who led hundreds of warships to go up the river in a murderous spirit. After about half an hour, he finally saw the boat abandoned by Gao Bufan and others on the bank of Jiangbei, so he immediately ordered to surround it, only to find that people had already left the boat empty.

"His grandma, what kind of shit is King Qi, who runs faster than a rabbit." Li Yu cursed and ordered the boat to dock.

This river bank is relatively flat, covered with dense grass, nearly half the height of a person. At this time, a large area has fallen down, forming a road leading to the distance, which is obviously newly stepped on not long ago.

Seeing this, Li Yu couldn't help but sneered and said: "It's not easy to run away. Brothers, go ashore and chase after him. This person is most likely the King of Qi, Gao Changqing. If you catch him, you will be promoted to four ranks, and you will be rewarded with 500 taels and four beauties." bit."

As soon as this remark came out, all the soldiers would jump ashore scrambling to grab their weapons as if they had been spayed with chicken blood.

However, when these soldiers were fantasizing about getting promoted and getting rich, they didn't know that in the grass about 50 meters away from them, there was a young man in black clothes squatting halfway holding a horn bow. The heroic spirit is bursting out, and it is Gao Bufan.

It turned out that Gao Bufan didn't go far after landing, but kept hiding in the grass not far from the anchorage point. I saw him holding a grass stalk in his mouth, calmly looking at the enemy troops who were landing.

Gao Bufan waited patiently for a while. Seeing that the enemy ships had almost landed, he ignited the tarpaulin on the arrow, raised his hand and shot the arrow, but saw that the rocket drew a beautiful streak in the air. The parabola accurately landed on the big ship he was on before.

There was a bang, and the big ship quickly ignited a raging fire, and soon set the other ships nearby on fire, and the flames shot up into the sky in an instant.

It turned out that Gao Bufan specially asked Xiao Yu to prepare a few large barrels of tung oil on each bow ship before departure from Berkshire, and when he docked and abandoned the ship, Gao Bufan asked everyone to pour all the tung oil on the hull. , immediately burned.

Because the fire ignited so fast, many warships under Li Yu's command were also ignited. He was scared out of his wits on the spot. You must know that these warships are all Zhu Can's property. If they are destroyed by the fire, Zhu Can will pick him up His skin pulled out his bones. …

So Li Yu didn't care about chasing and killing Gao Bufan and the others. He shouted hoarsely, trying to get the soldiers to put out the fire, and at the same time drive away the warships that were not burning. However, at this moment, those burning ships suddenly There was a violent explosion, bang bang bang...

Ganqing Gao Bufan not only poured kerosene on the boat, but also hid black gunpowder at the bottom of the boat. At this time, it exploded suddenly, tsk tsk, the power was really earth-shattering. People were turned on their backs, countless casualties were lost, and at least half of the warships with nearly a hundred bows were damaged.

After a series of violent explosions, black smoke billowed straight up, the river was in a mess, broken ship planks were everywhere, some were still burning, mutilated human bodies floated on the water, and the blood stained the whole area. One piece, some wounded soldiers who survived were howling and struggling in the water, like a purgatory on earth.

Li Yu was so frightened that he felt his ears buzzing, and he couldn't recover for a long time. He took a few steps staggeringly, but was tripped, and it was a bloody thigh that tripped him. The master collapsed a few meters away from him, his intestines were pouring out, he was belching blood, and he was still breathing.

Li Yu was about to go crazy, he stood up in panic and drew his sword and looked around, until now he still didn't understand what happened, when suddenly, he finally saw the straight figure tens of meters away, this person was wearing black strong suit, Holding a horn bow in his hand, and a blade of grass in his mouth, he is unruly and unhurried, and there is a sense of power in his gaze.

"King Qi—Gao Changqing?" These five words came out of Li Yu's mind involuntarily, and he couldn't stop trembling.

In the cold winter, most of the weeds on the riverside were withered and yellow, and the sparks from the explosion of the ship flew to the shore, instantly igniting the dead grass, and soon the flames rose into the air, burning into a sea of ​​flames. Forced by the scorching fire to jump to the surface of the river, the lucky ones snatched unsinkable ships, while the unlucky ones were drowned in the river. More than half of the sailors with more than a thousand people disappeared like this.

Gao Bufan put away his horn bow, turned around and left without turning his head, as if he had done an insignificant thing, when he passed by Miao Yu and Zhong Laoliu, he said calmly, "Let's go."

Miao Yu and Zhong Laoliu hadn't recovered yet. It wasn't until Gao Bufan passed by that Zhong Laoliu woke up and asked hurriedly, "His Royal Highness, do you want to continue setting fire?"

"Whatever!" Gao Bufan continued walking without looking back.

Miao Yu and Zhong Laoliu looked at each other, and finally decided to ignite the surrounding weeds. Soon, hundreds of meters around the river were ignited, and the rising flames could be seen five or six kilometers away. arrive.

Let's talk about the man-eating thief Zhu Can, leading hundreds of cavalry galloping all the way, when he got nearby, he suddenly heard a series of loud noises, stopped his horse in surprise, and asked loudly, "What happened?"

"Look, general, it seems to be on fire over there!" A soldier suddenly pointed to the distant river and shouted.

Zhu Can looked around, and sure enough, he saw flames rising and thick smoke billowing into the sky, his complexion changed slightly, and he felt something bad in his heart, so he sent several soldiers to check it out. …

Zhu Can's soldiers rode their horses to the river, but found that they couldn't get through, because the area was on fire for several miles, and the heat was overwhelming. There are few ships, and I don't know what happened.

Just as the soldiers were about to go back to report, a burning man rushed out of the burning grass, startled them, and hurriedly drew his knife in his hand to be on guard, and at the same time warned sharply: "Stop!"

However, the Burning Man didn't seem to hear it, and instead continued to rush towards this side. A soldier swung his knife and slashed the Burning Man to the ground. Qin Dao suddenly said in surprise: "Wait a minute...it seems to be General Li's voice."

The soldier who killed the man was stunned for a moment, quickly put away the knife and took a closer look, and then shuddered cleverly. It turned out that the burning man lying in the pool of blood was not someone else, but really Li Yu, the general in charge of leading the navy. .

The soldiers were taken aback, and hurriedly got off their horses to rescue the unlucky General Li, who was already burnt to pieces, and was slashed on the side of the neck with a knife. Blood gushed out like money, and his whole body was red and black , more air has been released, and less air has been taken in.

"General Li, General Li, what happened?" Several of Zhu Can's soldiers were in a hurry, trying to stop Li Yu's bleeding while asking loudly.

"Gao-chang-qing!" Li Yu opened his mouth, and finally spit out only three words, then tilted his neck and swallowed his breath completely.

Several soldiers looked at each other in horror, and had no choice but to carry Li Yu's body back to report to Zhu Can. I didn't see it, but I lost a general, no, my navy!
Zhu Can's complexion changed suddenly, and only then did he wake up that Li Yu was in charge of leading the navy, and even if he died, then his own navy might be in danger.

Zhu Can was so anxious that he hurriedly rode his horse and rushed towards the river. This navy was his foundation and his retreat. If there was any trouble in the future, it would be up to this navy to get away. If the navy disappeared, It's like killing half of his life.

Withered grass is flammable, and it is easy to burn out. At this time, the weeds along the river have been burned in sevens and eights, and the fire has also weakened. In many places, only large patches of black plant ash are left.

Zhu Can rode his horse closer and looked at the river, his heart suddenly became cold, and an invisible fear rushed into his heart!

The soldiers behind Zhu Can were also dumbfounded. They saw floating corpses and broken wood everywhere on the river, and twenty or thirty remaining warships floating scatteredly on the wide river, looking lonely.

hiss...

Almost everyone gasped in unison!