Chapter 102: Victory
"Whoosh Whoosh......" Countless arrows suddenly flew down in the night, spilling on the island, and those thieves were caught off guard, and immediately many people were hit by arrows, wailing and falling into the mud, blood splashing everywhere.
"Enemy attack! The officers and soldiers are coming! Someone finally came to his senses at this time, and saw the ships that appeared around the island, and in a panic waved his sword to protect his body, and screamed loudly.
The sudden change made the thieves on the island immediately stunned, and they didn't know what to do for a while, whether to continue to slash and kill the opponent, or to put down this matter first and deal with the attacking officers and soldiers? Many people have lost their minds.
After Jiang Harrier raised his hand to block a knife that was slashing at him, he scolded: "Bastard, don't stop at this time? The people from the government are here, deal with them first! Damn, you bastards, hurry up and deal with the people in the government first! ”
Wake up the dreamer with a word, although Zhao Baiyu and they want to kill Jiang Harrier, but compared with the government, these resentments between them are internal contradictions, you can put it aside first! At this time, if you continue to slash and kill each other, don't think about it, they will soon be completely finished, and what kind of boss is there to fight for!
So Ping Lao Er and Zhao Baiyu also shouted for their subordinates to stop, and they would deal with the officials and soldiers together first, so the thieves immediately stopped slashing each other and focused on the officials and troops surrounding Cocoon Island.
"There will be moles on the island! Damn, we've been betrayed! Jiang Harrier suddenly realized the problem, because after thinking about this matter a little, he could figure it out, it was too coincidental, but when they were infighting, the officers and soldiers attacked at night, if no one was the internal response, it would not be possible for things to be so coincidental.
But even if he realized it at this time, it would be too late, and where would they have time to find any spies now! Seeing that there were ships all around Cocoon Island, these boats must have been taken by the villagers who had come to surround and suppress them, and at this moment they were raining arrows towards the island, and the thieves on the island immediately became even more panicked.
"Get on board! Hurry up and get on the boat and get out! No one can leave when it's late! Ping Lao Er also understood the taste of coming over at this time, and shouted loudly.
So the thieves immediately rushed to the dock in a panic, wanting to grab the boat out of the island and break out, Ping Lao Er took the lead, rushed to the front, and rushed towards the largest boat on the island.
At this time, Gao Huaiyuan was also holding a hard bow, staring at the thief on the dock from a distance, raised his left arm steadily, and as soon as his arms exerted his strength, he squeaked and pulled out the hard bow, raised his hand and released an arrow, which was not affected by the rocking of the ship at all.
The arrow was like a poisonous snake spitting out the core, breaking through the rain and fog, flying straight to the dock, straight to the front of the Ping Er, Ping Lao Er was running wildly, he didn't expect that he had been targeted, when he felt that something was wrong, he wanted to dodge but it was too late, an arrow pierced through the darkness, and shot head-on to his chest, without waiting for him to react, he went through the chest, shot his huge body and immediately fell backwards and threw the knife, and fell heavily on the pier trestle, Then after struggling for a while, a mouthful of blood spit out from his mouth, his eyes rolled, and he immediately went to Huangquan to report for duty.
"Good archery!" Several people who saw Gao Huaiyuan release the arrow shouted one after another, they rarely saw Gao Huaiyuan release the arrow, this arrow was at such a distance, it hit the enemy chieftain, if ordinary people want to do this, it is basically impossible!
"Don't let them board the ship! Stop them first, we'll take their docks first! Gao Huaiyuan drew an arrow again and put it on the bowstring, and at the same time ordered the fleet.
So the archers in the flotilla lit their torches, and then lit rockets wrapped in tarpaulins, and fired them at the pier, and the rockets immediately rose in the flotilla, and soon landed on the pier, covering the entire pirate ships gathered on the pier, and began to burn on it.
However, this weather obviously affected the effect of the fire attack, and the thief ship was wet, and it was difficult to cause a fire for a while, but the dense rain of arrows still caused many casualties to the thieves on the trestle, and the thieves jumped off the trestle, jumped into the icy lake, and swam towards the boat.
"Speed up and lean in for melee combat!" After Gao Huaiyuan shot another thief with an arrow, he ordered again.
The boat bosses on each boat immediately controlled the boat, headed towards the dock, and surrounded the entire dock, Gao Huaiyuan saw that his boat was close to the thief's big ship, and saw that some thieves had climbed onto the boat, and untied the cable, and wanted to hold the boat offshore, immediately dropped the hard bow, pulled out the scimitar on his waist and yelled: "Follow me!" ”
Then he stomped his feet on the bow deck and leaped out, leaping several meters into the air, tiptoe on the side of the thief ship, and flew to the ship.
As soon as some thieves saw someone jumping onto their ship, they screamed and swung their knives at Gao Huaiyuan, trying to drive Gao Huaiyuan off the ship, but how could they be Gao Huaiyuan's opponents! I saw Gao Huaiyuan holding a knife in both hands and slashing Huashan in one move, and the first thief was immediately split into two pieces by him, and the blood was splashed everywhere, so the momentum suddenly startled the other thieves, and they retreated to dodge, not daring to come forward to besiege Gao Huaiyuan again.
After Gao Huaiyuan made a move, he broke into the thieves like a fierce tiger out of the gate, and the snowy scimitar in his hand danced like a ball of light, and instantly killed several thieves at the bow of the ship, and fell on the boat one after another, forcing the two frightened guys to have no choice but to rush out of the boat and jump into the lake.
At this time, the boats of the villagers finally landed on the trestle bridge of the cocoon island wharf, and the villagers with knives and guns immediately boarded the trestle, and grabbed the thief ship, and the thieves fought together, at this time the villagers can be said to be imposing, plus they occupy an absolute numerical advantage, often several people at the same time to deal with a thief, even if the thief is fierce, it is not their opponent, long and short weapons together, not long and short will be slashed and killed on the spot.
Some of the thieves tried to escape by jumping into the water, but soon some small fishing boats rushed over, and the villagers on board stabbed the thieves in the water with long iron hooks or spears, and dragged the thieves onto the boat and captured them alive.
Soon, under Gao Huaiyuan's first step, the thieves' dock was controlled, so that the thieves could not play their strengths, and there was no time to board the ship to break through or have a duel with the villagers on the water, successfully avoiding the risk of water war.
At this time, the ships of the other two fleets also docked one after another, and under the leadership of Zhou Hao, Guo Liang, Xing Zhutou and other leaders, they began to land on the island, and immediately organized themselves to form an array and march towards the center of the island.
Cocoon Island was surrounded by dozens of fishing boats of all kinds, surrounded by water, shouting and killing on the island, and everywhere there were villagers chasing and killing thieves.
Jiang Harrier was dizzy to death at this moment, the last thing he wanted to see happened in the end, originally with their ability, it was not a problem at all to deal with these villagers in the lake, but he never expected that in the end, the problem would actually lie within them, and the people of the government launched an offensive against them when it was the most impossible to attack, and they were defeated in the chaos, and it was impossible to turn over.
Jiang Harrier took three or four close cronies, scurrying around on the island, trying to seize the boat and escape, but there were wolf-like Xiangyong in all directions, no matter where he rushed, he would be blocked back by a large number of Xiangyong, unable to seize the boat and launch the water, and at this time wanted to jump into the water and swim to escape, not to mention the problem of distance and proximity, the temperature of the water alone could kill them, not to mention that he had been injured in many places, and diving at this time was simply suicide, in desperation, he had to fight and retreat, and was forced back into the Juyi Hall.
The funny thing is that when he retreated to the Justice Hall, he was running into Zhao Baiyu who was like a frightened bird, Zhao Baiyu was already so frightened that he had no idea at this time, gathered a few of his subordinates, and also retreated into the Justice Hall in advance, and was panicking like a lost dog and didn't know what to do.
"Zhao Baiyu! It's all your doing! I have to kill you today! Jiang Harrier arrived at this time, and he didn't care about what to defend against the enemy, as soon as he saw Zhao Baiyu, he was angry, even if he died, he had to chop this goods with his own hands, and he swung the single knife full of gaps in his hand, and immediately rushed towards Zhao Baiyu.
Zhao Baiyu knew at this time that he had been fooled and was put on a beating, and he also thought of who the problem was, but he had a hard time, seeing that Jiang Harrier pounced like a mad dog, so he had to raise his knife to parry, and shouted in his mouth: "Big boss, I fell for someone else's fool, don't do it, let's find a way to kill it together!" ”
"Whew! Fuck you! Let's kill it out! Do you still think you can kill it? Go to hell! Jiang Harrier had lost his mind at this moment, and the strength of the wine coupled with the pain and fear made him unable to think, and he only thought about killing Zhao Baiyu first.
Where is Zhao Baiyu Jiang Harrier's opponent, after two knives, he was killed by Jiang Harrier and had to retreat to dodge, seeing that he was not Jiang Harrier's opponent, he couldn't care so much, he bowed his head and rushed out of the Gathering Hall, and saw a group of villagers rushing over, he shouted in fear: "I surrender!" I surrender! As he spoke, he shook off the knife in his hand and ran towards the village, seeking refuge.
But Jiang Harrier didn't let him run away, followed by him, raised his hand and threw the knife in his hand, and the single knife caught the sound of the wind, and slammed into Zhao Baiyu's back, hitting Zhao Baiyu's back and piercing him through a pair.
Zhao Baiyu was fleeing to Xiangyong, his heart suddenly hurt, he looked down and saw a bloody knife tip, piercing out of his chest, and a large stream of blood gushed out, so he screamed, his legs were weak, he covered his chest, grabbed the blade of the knife, and fell to the ground, seeing that he couldn't live.
"Archers release arrows!" Zhou Jun, who rushed to the Juyi Hall, immediately shouted to the villagers behind him, he didn't bother to go up and fight with such a trapped thief, so he ordered the archers to release arrows to solve it.
More than a dozen archers who followed Zhou Jun immediately stepped forward, took aim with arrows, and the bare-handed Jiang Harrier stood in front of the Juyi Hall covered in blood, and said with a crazy smile: "Zhao Baiyu, Zhao Baiyu!" Didn't you still die at the hands of Lao Tzu in the end? ”
"Put!" Zhou Jun ordered with a wave of the single knife in his hand.
More than a dozen archers immediately released arrows at the same time, but Jiang Harrier didn't even dodge, he was immediately shot like a hedgehog, staggered back a few steps, and finally fell softly in front of the door of the Juyi Hall.
It took nearly an hour for this battle to end, all the thieves on the island were annihilated, only a few thieves saw that there was no hope of escape, abandoned their weapons and surrendered and survived, and the rest were almost all dead on the spot, becoming lonely ghosts in Niangzi Lake.
Fishing boats on the surface of the water cruising back and forth, constantly searching on the nearby water, searching for thieves who jumped into the water to escape, and most of the villagers searched on the island to clean up the battlefield.
After Gao Huaiyuan wiped the blood stains on the waist knife with a cloth, he returned the knife to the sheath, stood on the island and looked around to check the results of the battle, and soon a villager tied a person and escorted him to Gao Huaiyuan.
"Lord County Lieutenant, we caught a man in a cellar, and he said that it was our own, so we brought him over and asked the County Captain to deal with it!" A club leader reported to Gao Huaiyuan.
Gao Huaiyuan immediately stepped forward to loosen the rope of this person, and said with a smile: "Yes, this is indeed our person!" Ma San! You have contributed a lot to this battle, and when you return to Daye County with me, this official will definitely reward you! Never break your word and get fat! ”
Ma San was finally relieved at this time, he had been busy for so long, in order to be able to wash his name and become a new person, but when he saw the corpses lying everywhere, he felt quite uncomfortable in his heart at this time, after all, these people were all people who got along with him day and night, but because of his betrayal, they have now become corpses, and his heart is full of mixed feelings, I don't know whether to be happy or sad.
Gao Huaiyuan saw Ma San's thoughts, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "Don't think about it, they ended up like this, it can be said that they are to blame, they can't complain about you or anything, this matter is over!" Don't think about it anymore, you just need to remember that you are doing harm to the people, and there is nothing to lose! ”
Ma San nodded slightly, didn't say much, followed Dong Qiang to rest below, Gao Huaiyuan continued to check the situation on the island, this battle, they also rescued more than a dozen women on the island, these women are all good family women captured by thieves outside on weekdays, including women captured by Zhao Baiyu from Jinjia Village, on the island for them to vent their animal desires, this time they were also rescued.
And they also seized a large number of thieves from the island, gold, silver, jewelry, copper coins and other things have been very rich, it can be seen that these thieves have been operating on the lake for several years, and they have done a lot of murder and goods, otherwise it is impossible to accumulate so many valuables, but I don't know how many people have become the ghosts of this Niangzi Lake, so this time to exterminate the lake bandits, for the local area, it is also a merit.
After dawn, Gao Huaiyuan immediately sent Xing Zhutou, Guo Liang and others to take people out of Cocoon Island, rushed to several places, and picked up the stolen goods again, these thieves are cunning rabbit three holes, not only take Cocoon Island as their nest, but also hide property in several places on Niangzi Lake, and are ready to avoid at any time, if it is not for their careful planning this time, the vast majority of thieves will be wiped out, it is really not easy to solve them.
Even so, after some searching, in several other places where the thieves hid the stolen goods, there were still a few thieves who fled when they heard the news, and took away some of the stolen goods, so that they could not do their best, but Gao Huaiyuan was not dead-eyed, and for the few thieves who escaped, there was no large-scale pursuit of the public, after all, after this blow, the thieves wanted to make a comeback in Niangzi Lake, I am afraid it was impossible, and these few that slipped through the net were all small fish and shrimp, and they couldn't make a big effort to find them, let them go!
After solving the gang of lake bandits of Niangzi Lake Jiang Harrier, Gao Huaiyuan secretly took out part of the thieves and distributed them to the township warriors and fishermen who helped the war as a salary and bounty, and also took out some money to compensate Jinjia Village and the women rescued from the island, and returned them to their hometowns, and then dismissed the township warriors of each township, mainly county archers and trappers, escorting a large number of thieves and thieves back to Daye County.
Niangzi Lake suppressed the bandits, the news quickly spread back to Daye County, Liu Zhixian was overjoyed when he heard it, and personally led the county officials out of the city to greet him, and took him out of the county five miles away, and greeted Gao Huaiyuan and his party.
Everyone had to congratulate Gao Huaiyuan again, they originally thought that Gao Huaiyuan would definitely not do anything in Niangzi Lake this time, thinking that the government sent a naval army to suppress the bandits, but they were not able to wipe out the water thieves, and in the end, it was over, this time Gao Huaiyuan only relied on the courage of the townships and towns in Daye, and he wanted to exterminate the lake thieves, in their opinion, he was a little arrogant, so everyone was basically not optimistic about Gao Huaiyuan, but what he didn't expect was that Gao Huaiyuan actually won a big victory and wiped out the lake bandits in one fell swoop. In their opinion, when Gao Huaiyuan first solved the tragedy of destroying the door, he was somewhat lucky, but now he has exterminated the lake thieves, which shows that he does have some ability.
Moreover, after Gao Huaiyuan took office, the local public security situation in Daye County has improved significantly, and this is all a matter on the bright side, so no one in the government looks down on Gao Huaiyuan anymore, and when he came out to receive Gao Huaiyuan, they all stepped forward to congratulate Gao Huaiyuan on making new contributions.