Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

"You don't need to worry, the fleet can't escape our grasp. The ships in front can be manipulated freely, and there are so many armed guards, which shows that they are a merchant ship that costs a lot of money and is used to transport valuables. This is a gift from Sea God Dragon Lord to me from Sea Snake Island." Wang Yuan said confidently.

Sure enough, although the sailors on the merchant fleet managed the ship to escape busily and calmly, there were too many cargoes on board, which affected the speed of the ship, and they were gradually drawn closer by the brisk pirate ship.

When the pirates saw this, they all burst into laughter, pointing at the merchant ship fleeing in embarrassment ahead, laughing at their needless struggle.

There are obviously calm-headed people on the merchant ship ahead.Seeing that the speed of the ship was not as fast as the pirate ship, he immediately directed the sailors to throw the bags of goods on the ship into the sea.With the reduction of cargo, the speed of merchant ships gradually increased.

"Damn it! Grab the helmsman of the fleet ahead, and I will hang him on the bow of my ship and starve to death!" Wang Yuan cursed angrily when he saw the merchant fleet discarding excess cargo into the sea.

In Wang Yuan's view, what the merchant fleet threw into the sea was not the merchant's goods, but his own bags of copper coins!Watching his family's money sink to the bottom of the sea and return to Lord Long, how could Wang Yuan not be furious.

Although the merchant fleet in front discarded a lot of cargo, the speed of the ship was still slower than that of the pirate ship. The two fleets chased one after the other on the sea, gradually closing the distance.

At the stern of the last ship in the merchant fleet, several majestic men stood in a row with bows and arrows in their hands, looking sternly at the approaching pirate ship behind.

These people are none other than Yue Fei, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, and Xu Qing who followed Ximen Qing to practice, and "Faceless" Jiao Ting who accompanied them.

This disguised merchant fleet is the bait sent by Ximen Qing and Xu Wen to lure the pirates into the bait, and is under the command of "Living Flash" Wang Dingliu.What was shipped on the ship was just bags of stones for ballast.

The task Ximenqing gave to Wang Dingliu was to lure the pirates to attack, and then lead the pirates to the sea south of Dengzhou, where they fell into the siege of Ximenqing and Xu Wen.

Ximen Qing originally arranged for Shi Jin and Zhu Wu to lead troops to act together with Wang Dingliu, but Yue Fei and the others were also eager to try.Therefore, Ximenqing asked Yue Fei and others to wear their own special clothes, and then asked them to join Jiao Ting on Wang Dingliu's fleet to participate in the battle to tease the pirates.

Ximenqing's order to Wang Dingliu, Shi Jin, Yue Fei and others was to try every means to arouse the greed and anger of the pirates, and let them pursue them desperately into Ximenqing's ambush circle.

At this moment, Yue Fei and the others were wearing a strange vest-shaped blouse. There were many tightly sewn pockets on the blouse, which were bulging and stuffed with unknown things.

According to senior official Ximen Qing, this strange garment is called a "life jacket". After wearing it, even if it falls into the sea, it will not sink into the sea.This is for Yue Fei and others to participate in the naval battle, Ximen Qing specially asked his wife Pan Jinlian to rush to make it.

"Brother Jiao Ting, the two thieves standing at the bow are Song Jiang, the leader of the bandits at Liangshanbo?" Yue Fei pointed to Wang Yuan and Chai Jin and asked Jiao Ting.

Jiao Ting took a closer look, shook his head, and said, "Those two bird-thieves are tall, not Song Jiang. Song Jiang's bird-man is a black-skinned man with a short stature."

"There's a chunky man on the back boat, but Song Jiang?" Zhang Xian pointed to another pirate ship and called.

"That's right, that black fellow is Song Jiang! Now that he has fallen into the hands of high-ranking officials, there is absolutely no reason to let him escape. Brothers, after the war starts later, we must keep an eye on that birdman Song Jiang!" Jiao Jiao Ting recognized Song Jiang standing side by side with Li Jun.

"It's a pity that the boat is far away, otherwise I would shoot that guy Song Jiang dead with one arrow." Yue Fei said excitedly.

"Brother Yue Fei, could you have shot the two nearest thieves? That man in blue and white hat seems to be the leader of the pirates." Wang Gui pointed to Chai Jin and asked.

"Hehe~ Although the distance between the two boats is more than an arrow, the bow in my hand can't be difficult. Let me shoot and kill that thief!"

Chapter 676 The Enemy Can Spell

What Yue Fei held tightly in his hand was the "Tiger Shooting" bow that Zhou Tong left him. After he finished speaking to Wang Gui and the others, he immediately drew the "Tiger Shooting" bow to full capacity, mounted the Spike Arrow, and aimed at the pirate ship behind. The thief in Tsing Yi.

"Island owner, look at that guy, but he wants to shoot with a bow?" A pirate beside Wang Yuan shouted quickly.

"Hahaha~ I don't know where the idiot came from. The distance between the two ships is so far, how can the bow and arrow reach it? I think those guys are still panicking after all. Little ones, prepare the bow and crossbow, and let them try it later. Taste the taste of my bow and arrow on Sea Snake Island." Seeing that the ship in front of him was out of range, Wang Yuan didn't care about Yue Fei's ridiculous behavior of raising his bow and nodding his arrow.

Today's naval battles are all based on bow and arrow shooting and hand-to-hand combat by jumping off the ship.Pirates are experienced at sea and know when to strike.Therefore, they talked and laughed and huddled in the bow of the boat, wanting to see that the man in front behaved badly.

Amidst the laughter of the pirates, Yue Fei shouted, loosened his right hand when he saw the right moment, and the spike shot out with a "swish".

Wang Yuan, who was mocking Yue Fei, felt a blur in front of his eyes, and a strong wind had passed by, splashing blood on the bow of the boat.

Wang Yuan hurriedly lowered his body, turned his head to look at the bow of the ship in horror, and saw that Chai Jin had an arrow stuck in his shoulder, and fell on the deck with his head up.

No, the opponent has a marksman!

Wang Yuan knew something was wrong, so he dared to show his head, and hurriedly crawled to Chai Jin's side with hands and feet to check his injuries.

At this moment, the wind blew again, and a pirate on the bow who had been too slow to dodge had an arrow in his heart and fell beside Wang Yuan.The rest of the pirates were terrified by Yue Fei's long-range shot, they uttered a cry, and scattered like birds and beasts.

Wang Yuan looked carefully at Chai Jin, and saw a spiked arrow sticking out of his shoulder, which pierced through the bone, causing Chai Jin to faint from pain.

Fortunately, although Chai Jin bled a lot, his life was not in danger for the time being.

"You can't wait to carry the high officials back to the cabin for treatment!" Wang Yuan raised his head and shouted to the pirates hiding in the distance.

The pirates on the ship and Chai Jin's subordinates kept their minds steady, randomly found a few shields to block the front, and hurriedly carried Chai Jin into the cabin to bandage and stop the bleeding.

Wang Yuan also grabbed a shield and got up, looked at the merchant ship ahead, and shouted hysterically: "Little ones, catch up and kill that bird man, and avenge Mr. Chai!"

On the merchant ship in front, Yue Fei saw that the pirates were holding up their shields for tight defense, so he took the "Tiger Shooting" bow and sighed: "Oh, this ship is no different from the land, it shakes a lot, and it failed to hit the vital point of the thief leader."

"Brother Yue Fei, why bother to be too modest, the power of these two arrows just now is enough to make the enemy fearful. You see, the pirates are really enraged, and they are chasing us wildly. Well done! Well done! Hahaha~" Jiao Ting laughed. .

In the pirate fleet, Song Jiang and Li Jun saw Chai Jin fell to the ground with an arrow in the rear, and did not know whether he was alive or dead.

While hiding in the cabin, Song Jiang shouted with grief: "Master Chai, Mr. Chai, why have you been murdered by a thief? I, Song Jiang, vow to avenge you!"

Under the leadership of the leader, the pirates and the Liangshan army clamored loudly, chasing Yue Fei and the others closely.The impatient young men of the Liangshan Army had already shot forward with bows and arrows, but unfortunately all the arrows fell into the sea water.

In the merchant fleet, Wang Dingliu, the "living flash woman", looked at an island that appeared in the sky, and said in his mouth, "Little ones, fire the horns and light the smoke. Heisha Island has arrived."

"Boom~" a loud noise came from the merchant fleet, followed by a puff of smoke straight into the sky.

Accompanied by the sound of the trumpets and the wolf smoke, the sailors on the merchant fleet pushed all the stones on the ship into the sea again in unison.Without excess load, these merchant ships hoisted more sails.It was even faster than the pirate ship behind him, and gradually distanced itself from the pirate ship.

At the same time, on the sea in the southeast and southwest directions, there were heavy sail shadows, and two fleets appeared, quickly approaching the pirate ship.

"Island owner, there is an ambush! This is a trap set by the officers and soldiers! There is an ambush among us!" On Wang Yuan's ship, a pirate rushed into the cabin and shouted at Wang Yuan who was guarding Chai Jin.

"What? Which birdman who is tired of living dares to challenge me to Sea Snake Island in the East China Sea after eating the bear's heart and leopard's guts?" Wang Yuan grabbed the ghost-headed sword and followed the men out of the cabin.

Standing at the bow of the ship, Wang Yuan looked around and saw twenty armed merchant ships to the northeast, more than ten warships to the southeast, and a dozen warships to the southwest behind him.On those warships, the flag of the Dasong Dengzhou Ping Navy was flying.

Now surrounded on three sides, as long as there are no ships in the northwest.However, not far to the northwest is the coastline of Dengzhou.

As a pirate, Wang Yuan certainly would not easily abandon the ship and go ashore.Who knows if there are officers and soldiers ambushing on the shore?Pirates are best at naval warfare.

"Heisha Island? It seems to be a trap set by the bird man in the prefect Wang Shizhong of Dengzhou Prefecture. Little ones, get ready to fight! Send the order down, turn the rudder to the right, and kill and disperse the officers and soldiers in the southeast first!" Wang Yuan's eyes flashed fiercely, An attack order was issued.

Although there were more officers and ships, Wang Yuan had no fear.In his opinion, the naval forces in Ludeng, Lai, Mi, and Weizhou states in East Jingdong are weak in skills and low in morale, and they are far from his opponents.

Wang Yuan was able to occupy Sea Snake Island and plunder the maritime merchants entering and leaving Banqiao Port in Jiaozhou Bay.However, there has never been a time when the army and navy were defeated and fled after being killed by Wang Yuan.

Hu Yanqing of Dengzhou Ping Navy is also Wang Yuan's old opponent, and has fought many times at sea.Although Hu Yanqing was brave, but the soldiers under his command were greedy for life and afraid of death, and retreated before the battle, so they were always defeated by the pirates.

Only when Wang Yuan attacked and plundered Dengzhou City was he defeated on land by the army led by Sun Li, the commander of the army.Since then, Wang Yuan has always led his men across the sea, and never led troops ashore to attack counties.

In the past few years, Wang Yuan, the "big crocodile whale", has not had a peaceful naval confrontation at sea for a long time.From Wang Yuan's point of view, one of his subordinates was equal to ten against Shangguan's army, and with a single charge, he could kill those thieves' troops and throw off their helmets and armor, and all sink to the bottom of the sea to feed bastards.

When Li Jun, Xiang Chong, Li Yan and others saw the official flag, they did not take their opponents seriously just like the pirates.They turned their bows one after another, trying to kill the dozen or so warships heading to the southeast.

At this moment, the pirates saw a strange sight. On the bow of an official warship in the southeast, there was a Taoist priest wielding a sword!