Kai Fu Han

Chapter 40 Raid on the Jurchen Warship 2
"Then what do you want?" Guo Zhizhou finally asked.

After hearing Guo Zhizhou's question, Liu Xinqi didn't reply naively, but first said something upright and awe-inspiring.

"Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. As a citizen of Zhao State, I am here now and see this Jurchen showing off his power here. I have the ability to destroy him, so of course it is my duty to do so."

"I'm just a commoner. If I capture this Jurchen's warship, I don't want the credit or the head. I only want the ship and the things on it." Liu Xinqi said.

"Okay, I'll lend you a small boat. If you really capture this warship, the boat and everything on it will be yours." Guo Zhizhou listened to Liu Xinqi's request and agreed without much thought, and directly told Luo Cheng said: "Go and prepare the boat."

"Thank you Zhizhou for your support. I'll go down and make preparations. When the boat arrives, I'll set off immediately." Liu Xinqi was very happy to see that his thoughts had been half-constructed. After thanking Zhizhou, he bowed and walked away, turning towards The soldiers walked away.

When he came to the soldiers, Liu Xinqi once again arranged the plan in detail. When he heard that Liu Xinqi also planned to go, Zhou Xinyuan immediately stopped him.

Faced with Zhou Xinyuan's stop, Liu Xinqi did not agree and said to Zhou Xinyuan: "Teacher, I understand your worries, but now is not the time to relax. I must take the lead. Not to mention that Liu Zhizhou over there is watching, just say that our The soldiers have not yet grown up, and this is the first time for a naval battle."

"Is this the first time for you?" Zhou Xinyuan retorted.

"That's why I want to go. I must be familiar with naval warfare so that I can make appropriate tactical arrangements in the future. There is only one ship today, so it's a rare opportunity." Liu Xinqi said.

Seeing Liu Xinqi's persistence, I knew that he had grown into an independent person in the past month, and it would be useless to talk more.Zhou Xinyuan said helplessly: "Since you insist, then go ahead. But you have to take care of yourself and step back in time if things don't work out."

Liu Xinqi agreed without telling Zhou Xinyuan that he had issued a military order.

Half an hour later, the prepared boat was in place. It was a four-foot-long inner harbor boat with no sails and needed oars to provide power.

There were some sacks piled up on the boat. Looking from above, it was impossible to tell what was inside.Liu Xinqi led eighteen soldiers to the boat and arranged for the soldiers to board the boat one by one to replace the original boatmen on the boat.

Then they each stuffed the short spears and swords they carried under the sacks to cover them.

"Most of these sacks are filled with soil or straw. I made some adjustments. The waterline of the ship looks like it is filled with grain. I put two bags of grain in the front of the ship, which is the front. The corners of the bags are bombed with lime. Those two bags of a short white thread." Luo Cheng, who was standing on the shore and sent the boat over, said.

Liu Xinqi looked over and found that at the front of the cabin, there were two sacks with white lines on the corner bullets, which were very short and light, and could not be seen from a distance.

"Uncle is interested, and my nephew is very grateful." No matter what the purpose of Luo Cheng is, but today, he really helped Liu Xinqi a lot, and he was careful and thoughtful when preparing the boat.

"I wish you success in advance." Luo Cheng said.

Liu Xinqi nodded, turned around and got on the boat. The soldiers left Liu Xinqi's position in the middle of the boat, and Li Cang was at the front of the boat.

Li Cang directed the soldiers to paddle, sail the boat away from the shore, turn around, and sail towards the Jurchen warship outside the port.

Since the distance was not far, Liu Xinqi could see the people on the boat. When he noticed that a boat came out of the port, there were a few more people on the side of the boat facing the boat, pointing in this direction.

Liu Xin inspired Liu Gang, who was next to him, to raise the white flag that was prepared before, and the boat slowly approached the warship, but there was no movement on the warship.

When they were about half a mile away from the warship, someone on the ship shouted in Chinese: "Stop and explain your intention, otherwise bows and arrows will be at your service."

"Stop and explain why you are here, otherwise the bow and arrow will serve you."

……

He yelled three times in a row.

Li Cang stood up at the bow of the boat and raised his hand to signal everyone to stop paddling. However, although the oars stopped, the boat continued to float towards the warship according to its inertia.Li Cang shouted to the warship: "Dear Jurchen masters, the officials at the port asked us to send some food for the laborers and want to talk to you."

The speed of the boat was getting lower and lower, but it still drifted firmly towards the warship. Liu Xin'ang at the stern quietly inserted the oars into the water, and slightly adjusted the direction of the boat to ensure that the boat did not go astray.

"Open the bag and let me see."

As we got closer, the words on the warship were already very clear.

Li Cang turned around when he heard this request, a little at a loss.Seeing this situation, Liu Xinqi whispered to Li Cang: "The one with the white line on it is next to your left leg."

After Li Cang heard this, he lowered his head and saw that there were white lines on the two bags. His right hand formed a palm knife and he thrust it hard towards the sack. He inserted half of his palm into the sack. Then he inserted his left hand along the crack, and the two With one hand, he tore hard to both sides, and saw that the sack was torn directly into two halves. The white rice flew out and scattered on the sack on the bow of the boat, which was very conspicuous.

After doing this, Li Cang turned around and faced the warship and said, "Look, it's all food."

At this time, the boat was less than twenty feet away from the warship.However, the ship's speed also became very slow and basically stagnated. The original plan of relying on inertia to stick up failed.

The people on the warship saw that it was really food, and the boat also stopped. The people on the ship were unarmed, and they were all within the attack range of their own bows and arrows. There was no doubt that he was there, and they thought they were really here to deliver food.

A man dressed as a military attache said: "Come closer, be careful and move closer slowly."

"Okay, okay." Li Cang responded quickly, and the soldiers on the boat quickly started rowing without giving any instructions.

The military officer on the warship looked at the people on the small boat and always felt that something was wrong. He frowned and thought about it. When the small boat approached the warship less than ten feet away, he finally discovered the problem.He quickly shouted: "Stop! Stop now!"

While shouting, he directed the Jurchens on the boat: "Get ready to fight! Get ready to fight!"

It turned out that as the two ships approached, the military attache finally found that the people on board were all burly and tall, so they couldn't possibly be sailors rowing.

Seeing that he had been exposed, Liu Xinqi immediately shouted: "Pull quickly, row with all your strength!"

After speaking, Liu Xinqi took out the crossbow arrows hidden behind him, aimed at the officer shouting on the warship, and shot both crossbow arrows.

I originally thought about shooting arrows on the ship, but I was not sure about the accuracy. Both arrows were aimed at one person. Unexpectedly, I was lucky. One of the two arrows hit the back of the officer's heart and the other hit his head.The military attache was shot directly and fell towards the deck of the ship, making Liu Xinqi unable to see his figure on the boat.

As soon as he finished shooting the arrow, he heard Li Cang shout: "Hold on, charge!"

Liu Xinqi quickly dropped the crossbow that had no arrows in his hand and held on to the side of the boat with both hands.

As soon as I grabbed the side of the boat, I only heard a loud "bang", followed by the sound of wood breaking and rubbing, which was very ear-piercing.

The tip of the boat penetrated directly into the side of the warship.

Following the collision, Liu Xinqi thrust forward and quickly regained his balance.Looking up and looking forward, I saw several Jurchens standing close to the side of the warship. They were knocked off the ship and fell into the sea.

Looking back, I saw the eight warriors behind. They had already taken out their crossbows and shot at the Jurchens who could be seen on the boat who were still standing. Sixteen arrows shot down about ten people, and the boat was basically in the air. The deck of the warship.

Then I heard Li Cang shouting: "Draw the knife, jump up, and fight at close range." As soon as he finished shouting, he took out the sword from under the sack, jumped on the spot, and jumped directly to the battle knife at a height of one person from the deck of the boat. On the deck of the ship, he slashed at the surrounding Jurchen sailors with his sword.

The nine warriors in front of the boat also drew their swords and jumped onto the opposite warship, forming a half circle with Li Cang to meet the enemy.

(End of this chapter)