Chapter 217: Friends and foes are indistinguishable;
After carefully weighing the current situation, Ji Yinzhu made a decision quickly.
My aunt has been extremely intelligent since she was a child, and her decisive and decisive character has always endeared her to the emperor's grandfather.
It's a pity that she is a woman. No matter how much the emperor's grandfather likes her, he can't leave the country in her hands.
In order to appease his aunt, the emperor's grandfather even gave her a fiefdom in the very wealthy Nanjun County, and let her make her own decisions about marriages.
However, her ambition is too great, how can she live peacefully with her consort?
Over the past twenty years, my aunt has been fomenting discord everywhere, tearing apart the imperial brothers who were already scheming with each other, and making the imperial grandfather extremely disappointed in her.
But she still refused to stop, not only ruining the life of the consort, she even ended up in the hands of Lord Chunyu.
After hearing the news, although everyone couldn't gloat about it, they all felt relieved.
At least I will never be tricked by my aunt again.
But who could have imagined that after decades of doing this and being hated by her father and brother for decades, she would still be the emperor's grandfather's pet peeve in the end.
The old man even said that he would give a huge reward to anyone who could rescue his aunt.
For the children of the royal family, apart from the throne, what kind of reward in the world can be called "great"?
He also worked hard to seize the opportunity to propose marriage to City Lord Chunyu.
Of course he wanted to be the city lord's son-in-law, and he even wanted to use this relationship to rescue his aunt.
Unexpectedly, Shangguan Nanxiao appeared on the way and cooked the rice!
Things had reached an irreversible point, and he could only fight to the death and forcefully snatch his aunt out of Ruoshui City.
Although Ji Yinzhu was ready for a bloody battle, he did not intend to die.
If something goes wrong, it must be a monster. If he can get close to his aunt so easily, it won't be his turn to make meritorious deeds.
The throne is important, but if your life is gone, why do you need it?
Ji Yinzhu said to the general: "Gather all the ships and we will return to the Kingdom of Jin immediately."
The general was slightly startled. Is the prince planning to perform meritorious service?
He did not dare to delay and immediately ordered someone to go down and deliver the message.
In order to facilitate concealment, they did not take a warship this time, but hired a group of merchant ships.
There were no other ships at the branch of the river, so they quickly turned around and headed towards Jinguo.
The river is getting wider and wider, and the boat is moving faster and faster. Ji Yinzhu, who is sitting in the cabin, feels a little melancholy.
In recent years, the situation in Jinguo has become increasingly unstable.
The west and south sides were occupied by Ji Fengzhuo's rebels, and water bandits were also rampant in the east.
As the imperial grandfather's health grew weaker, the struggle within the royal family became more intense.
In order to strengthen the power of the eldest prince's palace, Ji Yinfeng used himself as a bargaining chip to make marriages.
For this reason, my father made it clear more than once that he could also use this method.
He originally looked down on such an approach, but now it seems that he may have to...
Just as I was thinking about it, the speed of the passenger ship became slower and slower, and finally stopped.
Ji Yinzhu raised his voice and said, "What's going on?"
A guard came in and replied: "Your Majesty, dozens of warships suddenly appeared in front of us, blocking our way."
Ji Yinzhu was furious: "This is already the waters of our Kingdom of Jin. Who is so bold?"
The guard said cautiously: "Back to the Master, this is still the waters of Ruoshui City. We need to go two or three miles further."
Ji Yinzhu's breathing became louder.
You're such a good Lord Chunyu, you're so polite on the surface, but you're playing tricks on him secretly!
He didn't take the initiative to provoke him, but he didn't want to let him go at all.
The guard said: "Your Majesty, I understand that Ruoshui City does not dare to offend Jin Guo easily, it is nothing more than a bluff.
We might as well send someone to negotiate with them..."
Before he finished speaking, shouts of death suddenly came from outside the cabin.
"That's unreasonable!" Ji Yinzhu picked up a sword and walked outside in a few steps.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the cabin door, dense arrows were shot at him.
Ji Yinzhu quickly stepped back and slammed the cabin door shut.
Puff puff……
There were more than ten sounds in a row, and the arrow pierced the hatch.
"Your Majesty, let's retreat quickly!" The guard urged hurriedly: "In my opinion, the opponent is not using ordinary bows and arrows, but Wanlun rockets unique to Ruoshui City.
Fortunately, they took the prince's identity into consideration, so they didn't have that many arrows and didn't light them on fire, otherwise we would have been in trouble today."
Ji Yinzhu's eyes were red with anger, and he said loudly: "If we retreat at this time, wouldn't we be playing into the enemy's hands? Pass the order of my prince and break out to the southwest!"
"Yes!" The guard opened the window and jumped out.
Ji Yinzhu rubbed his face randomly.
From here to the east and south lies the Kingdom of Jin, to the north is Ruoshui City, to the southwest is the Kingdom of Li, and to the northeast is the Kingdom of Wei.
The road to Jin State is blocked, and Ruoshui City cannot go back. The only ones that can go are Li State and Wei State.
There is no one to respond in the direction of Wei State. If you accidentally cross the border, it will be more serious than offending Ruoshui City.
So they could only break out to the southwest.
Zhuge Lin also brought a lot of people with him, and he had some friendship with me.
If we can rendezvous with the ships leaving the country, the pursuers will definitely have some scruples and will not dare to pursue them again.
The merchant ships quickly evacuated to the southwest, and the warships from Weishui City gave up after pursuing them for about four or five miles.
The tranquility gradually returned to the river surface. Ji Yinzhu took a long breath and sat down heavily.
"Come here!" he shouted, raising his voice.
A guard quickly pushed open the door and entered, but it was no longer the same one who jumped out of the window before.
Ji Yinzhu asked: "How many of our ships have been withdrawn and what are the casualties?"
"Back to Master Shizi, 70% of the ships have been evacuated. Twenty-three people were killed, forty-eight were seriously injured, and minor injuries cannot be counted in detail at the moment..."
Ji Yinzhu's teeth clenched loudly.
Ruoshui City is going to be turned upside down!
A place the size of a bullet actually dared to snipe and kill the navy of Jin Kingdom!
Sooner or later, he will definitely...
"Your Majesty—" Another guard broke in.
"What happened again?" Ji Yinzhu said angrily.
"A group of passenger ships appeared in front, and my subordinates looked like they were sailing from the country."
"Follow me to have a look." Ji Yinzhu stood up and strode out of the cabin.
The two guards quickly followed.
It was already dark by this time, but the lights on the passenger ship opposite were bright.
Ji Yinzhu squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, and saw Zhuge Lin waving to him on the deck of the largest passenger ship.
"Brother Yinzhu, come quickly to my little brother's side——"
Ji Yinzhu was overjoyed and was about to order his ship to approach.
However, as soon as he said a word, his suspicion arose again.
Shouldn't Zhuge Lin still be in Fenghuayuan?
Even if he left the table as early as he did, why was he waiting here?
The warships of Ruoshui City attacked him, why not attack him?
Chapter completed!