The three fast sentry boats were sailing quickly on the Lianjiang River, and on the leading boat, Li Shi stepped on the bow of the boat, and his mind was tumbling.

There is no lower limit to people, and they can do anything. Like him, a wealthy businessman in Hunan and Jiangxi gathered together and hoarded rice in Taipingguan. But the approach of the two parties is very different, Li Shi is acting together with the merchants through the Guanhui, while the other side is relying on the position of power, directly stopping the rice boat and forcibly buying it at a parity, for which the Shaozhou prefect, the Taiping Pass superintendent, and even the Shaozhou general Bai Daolong all went into battle together, and used countless tricks. It's no wonder that Bai Daolong's contact with him has cooled down recently, and his mind is all on this.

The eight immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers, Li Xianben didn't have any idea about the officials and businessmen in the north, as long as the more than 100,000 stone rice on his side could arrive in time, the two governors who were being anxious by the price of rice would not let the local rice merchants eat in and continue to make trouble, the price of rice in Guangzhou City should be able to be suppressed, this is like a stock, with this wave of trends, the local rice merchants and rice hoarders should also follow up, at that time, he can step into the fairy land of Guangzhou City with his head held high, and those guys in the north will suffer a lot.

But he still underestimated the ferocity of those people, and actually directly blocked the river and banned rice...... Not long after, I saw two big sand boats stationed on the riverside, which were the ships that Li Shi had sent to Guangzhou to explore the rice market first, carrying 6,000 stone of rice on board, and the escort was Yu Hanyi.

"You said it's a warship marked by Shaozhou Town?"

Yu Hanyi got on the sentry boat, and Li Shi asked.

"The boat is the town mark of Shaozhou, but the person should not, with a Hunan accent!"

Yu Hanyi's face was pale, thinking that he was embarrassed by the other party.

"Hunan ......" [1]

The sentinel boat continued to move forward, entered the Lianjiang estuary, turned to the south, Li Xi looked into the distance, there was a big sandbar in the south of the river mouth, Zhao Tuo had built a city here to resist the Han army in the Han Dynasty. At this time, there are also fishermen and boatmen who use the sandbar as their home and gather a small village. But Li Shi didn't see all the sandbanks at this glance, and two strings of fast sentry boats pulled out two lines, strictly blocking the river, leaving only a section of waterway in the middle.

Li Xi asked: "They didn't come up with any documents to seal the river?" ”

Yu Hanyi shook his head: "No, those people just shouted that they were ordered to close the river, and all boats carrying rice were not allowed to pass, and they didn't say anything else." Whoever wants to approach, the people on the ship still draw their bows and raise their guns, and do not give people a chance to speak. ”

He said in an indignant tone, there were also guards on these two ships, and if it weren't for the officers and soldiers but the water pirates, they would have already passed with a row of guns.

Li Shi secretly scolded Bai Daolong, is his brain burnt and confused, and he dares to do this kind of thing blatantly? Aren't you afraid that Zhao Hongcan will kill him?

"I'll take a look."

The more he thought about it, the more strange it became, Hunan ...... Could it be that Chunhuitang is playing ghosts? Chunhuitang had persuaded other businessmen to transfer rice to Yuxian Bridge before, but after no effect, he began to do something to Li Zhuang, wanting to find out the truth of his Li Banxian, could it be that Li Xu behind their owner was suspicious of him Li Xian, a small person?

Looking at the banner of "Yingde Lian Yongjiang Patrol" hanging high behind him, Li Xian thought to himself, if this banner is not used, then it is no wonder that he is ruthless.

"Li Shi, the general manager of the Yingde Lianyong Association, asked, and the one who took the lead responded!"

The sentinel boat approached the blockade along the river, and Li asked in a loud voice.

The fast sentry ship was used more in the green camp than the rushing boat, the larger one could carry twenty or thirty people, had a mast, a sail and two large oars, and there were guards and small gun emplacements at the back of the ship, which were generally used to interrogate bandits. Not only are the three ships led by Li Shi a fast sentry, but the other party is also a sentry boat used to seal the river, except for the two large sentry boats at the left and right ends.

"Li Shi!?"

Hearing this greeting, more than a dozen soldiers on the boat here poked their heads to watch, and some people shouted like this, and the tone was quite weird, very ...... The excitement of hitting the rabbit with the grass.

Not so good...... Li Xi was pondering, but saw that on the boat twenty or thirty paces away on the opposite side, more than ten soldiers suddenly poured out, all of them holding guns and drawing bows, and the people at the bow of the boat also moved.

"That's him! Do it! ”

It was like the officer of the leader rushing out of the cabin and poked his finger at Li Shi, and the small cannon in the bow and stern of the ship also turned in this direction.

"Get down!"

Li Xian's heart was cold, and he flew down.

Whoosh...... Fluffy...... Arrows and bullets poured in, splashing clumps of wood chips and fine dust on the fast sentry ship.

Boom...... Then there were two loud bangs, like a bitter storm with ice slag blowing by, the cabin, the ship's plank, and even the mast all shook and shook, bringing the entire hull of the ship to a deviation, and the sawdust and debris mixed with smoke and dust suddenly blurred Li Shi's vision, and the whirring sound of lead breaking through the air swept overhead, causing his temples to suddenly cool. Pan Shiyu's body, which was pressing on him, trembled, and the muffled sound was like a thread, pulling out several screams from far and near, and the clear sound of a human body falling into the water sounded.

Good...... Good...... Li Shi's lungs almost exploded, so daring! For more than a year, he has always been the one who has the upper hand to rectify people, how could he have become the target of others' sneak attacks like today!? It seems that even if you are ruthless, you will suffer when you encounter a mad dog.

"Don't stop, archers! Gunners reload! Gotta crush that kid to scraps! Dare to do it to our Changsha soldiers, this is the end! ”

On the boat, the leader shouted happily in a loud voice.

It's not that you don't report it, the time has not yet come...... Li Shi finally knew the origin of these guys, and it seemed that Bai Daolong was also cunning, and he only went out of the boat without people. These people were the soldiers of the Hunan Fubiao Battalion who shot at the Hun Pass a few years ago, and they were shocked by the guns and cannons with his guards at that time. Now they are still doing things for Chunhui Hall, and when they saw their pair of heads sent to the door, they took chicken feathers as arrows, and wanted to directly solve themselves.

"Lao Tzu has been holding back for more than a year, and all he thinks about is killing the Qing soldiers, you have sent it to the door yourself......"

Li Shi pushed away the panshi jade, but it was hot and humid in his hand, and the young man of the Yao family was injured, and he muttered while panting: "General Division...... You okay? ”

Told him not to move, turned his head to look, the boat seemed to be silent, Li Xian's heart was hot and hot, and he shouted in a round voice: "Kill——! ”

Before he could exit, the two sentinel ships behind him had already made an move.

The middle one was led by Jia Hao, and when he heard the sound of gunfire, he asked the boatman to turn the rudder and turn out, and there were already people on the other side of the river who were making noise, and several sentry boats began to rock and approach this side.

The last one was Wu Ya, he made the boatman stunned and accelerated into the two ships between Li Xi and Jia Hao, even if Li Shi's ship turned, and the stern of the ship was about to touch his bow, he didn't care at all.

Rumble...... A cloud of white smoke rose from both Jia and Wu's ships at the same time, and the two divine arm cannons spoke, and the boat was suddenly covered with shotguns, as if it had been sprayed by a swarm of wasps, and the dust, smoke, and sawdust splashed with clouds of blood, and at least four or five soldiers with full-mounted slingshots and bows fell into the river.

Before these Changsha soldiers had time to exclaim, two more than 20 soldiers wearing brave uniforms stood up on the two sentry boats, and the "shotgun" was flat, and with an order, the bang explosion was short and dense, and the white smoke from the muzzle of the gun was also connected into two neat lines on the side of the ship.

Several more soldiers exploded with blood on their bodies, fell to the ground, fell into the water, and at this time, the Changsha soldiers on the boat finally squeezed their shouts out of their throats, and one by one they all lay on the plank, and the arrows covering Li Xi's ship suddenly stopped.

There was a stabbing sound, and Li Shi's boat ran aground on the beach, and it was able to stop, and Li Shi shouted: "Yu Hanyi!" Alive!? ”

Yu Hanyi's voice sounded: "Why can't you die under these eight lambs!" ”

It sounded a little weak, but it was not a big deal, Li Xi breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and beckoned: "It's okay to cover Wu Ya!" Look, that kid is going to rush the boat, don't let the ship's cannon go off again! If you are injured, get off the boat and save yourself! ”

As soon as he gave the order, several people shouted that they were not injured and that they could shoot.

At this time, Li Xi had no choice but to continue to be a nanny, so he could only let them suppress his inner anxiety and watch the battle situation ahead.

As he expected, with a cannon and a row of guns to suppress the other party, Wu Ya's boat rushed up in a daze, and hit the middle of the hull of the boat with a bang, and before the two ships recovered from the shock, several figures jumped up.

"Damn it!"

Li Xi slapped on the side of the ship that was mottled and shattered, and when one of the figures pounced in the air, he was poked into the water by a shuttle marker, I don't know who it is, and I don't know if it is life or death, Li Xi only feels that this shuttle mark seems to have poked at himself.

"Drink!"

One of the people who jumped over was holding a gun and drinking, Li Xian heard that it was Fang Tangheng, and saw the musket with the bayonet in his hand turning, pumping, smashing, stabbing, several actions in one go, and the three soldiers fell out one after another, smashing the ship's planks with a bang, and he really deserved to be the proud disciple of Yan Sanniang.

Fluffy...... Yu Hanyi and the guards on the boat here fired, thirty or forty paces away, the boat ran aground again, the hit rate was leveraged, and there were a few soldiers in the bow and stern of the boat who were spinning small cannons, wanting to shoot at Wu Ya's boat, this burst of bullets passed, and most of them were immediately planted, and the survivors were either frightened to the ground, or fell directly into the water.

More and more guards jumped on the boat, and they heard a miserable scream, almost all the bayonets on the guns of the guards were dyed red, and Yan Sanniang's previous teaching of spear stabbing skills finally paid off.

"That's the guy......"

Li Xi didn't think about leaving anything alive, took out the moon thunder short gun on his waist, and aimed at the officer on the boat who was wielding a waist knife and splitting the guard's bayonet forty or fifty steps away.

Disheveled...... The gunshots rang out, the figure froze, and the officer slowly fell on his back.

Li Xi was about to be happy, took a closer look, and secretly wiped a cold sweat...... That guy was stabbed to death by Fang Tangheng with a bayonet, and his own shot almost hit Fang Tangheng, so frightened that the bayonet master also threw himself on the ground, looking around at the unknown "enemy".

Inserting the Moon Thunder Short Gun back into his waist, Li Shi secretly sighed that the group of boys under his command had gradually grown up, and the opportunity for him to go into battle to kill the enemy in person was estimated to be sliding towards the bottom of the curve.

There were about 30 Hunan soldiers on the boat, and there were about 20 people on each of the fast sentry boats on Li Xi's side.

The tacit understanding between Wu Ya and Jia Hao, the two generals, finally appeared, Wu Ya rushed straight up, not only shielding Li Xi's ship with his own hull, but also smashing directly in front of the opponent's formation, with guns and cannons in distant battles and bayonets in close combat. If the Changsha soldiers, who were actually security guards, could still defeat them, Li Xi would have to replan his blueprint for rebellion.

Wu Ya is the spear, and Jia Hao is the shield. Wu Ya's side is neatly finished, and Jia Hao's side is lively. The roar of guns and cannons was incessant, and a fast sentry ship, a divine arm cannon, and twenty muskets with a rate of fire more than twice that of the other side relied on these, and the four or five sentry boats on the other side of the river did not dare to approach within 100 paces, so they fired their guns from a distance, and the vixen-like combat style of the Qing army had been revealed, and it seemed that they felt that they could scare away the enemy if they had a loud voice.

(To be continued)