Zhu Xie looked closely and saw dozens of horizontal ships appearing on the river surface a mile away in front of him, locking them with iron chains and blocking the fleet's way. He felt panic in his heart and looked at both sides of the straits in a hurry.

At this moment, the south bank suddenly sounded loudly, and arrows were scattered in the woods. Zhu Jie's five hundred guards were caught off guard and fell to the ground. A scream sounded from the shore. The guards were in chaos. Thousands of soldiers rushed out of the woods and surrounded the remaining more than 300 people from three directions.

A general with a bronze helmet and iron armor jumped out with a spear in his hand and shouted: "I am Wang Ziwu, the commander of Xiuzhou, and you will kill you if you don't surrender again!"

The ground was surrounded by corpses and heavy troops. More than 300 soldiers were at a loss. They didn't know who put down their weapons first. Then the three hundred guards put down their weapons and knelt down and begged for mercy.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhu Xie shouted: "Change! Turn around quickly!"

At this time, more than one hundred cargo ships were like long snakes. Following the big ship led by the leader, Qing'er, who was hiding on the ship, saw that the fleet began to turn around, she immediately crawled out of the wooden box. Unexpectedly, she met a big man holding a steel knife in his hand. The big man found a black-clothed sword-holder crawled out of the wooden box, and immediately waved his knife and shouted angrily: "Who are you?"

Qing'er took the lead and jumped up. The man and sword merged together. The sword light flashed. The extremely sharp sword had pierced the big man's chest. The big man screamed and fell on the deck. The scream alarmed the shipkeepers on the two ships in front and behind. Three big men rushed over with their swords.

Qing'er didn't have time to fight with them. She turned over and jumped into the water and disappeared without a trace.

In just a moment, Qing'er sneaked behind the head ship. She poked out of the water and saw two thick ropes above her head that tied the ship behind her tightly. Because she set off in a hurry, she didn't have time to use the iron chain buckle, which provided convenience for Qing'er to break the rope.

However, the rope was at least six feet away from the water surface, and the distance between the long sword was not enough. Qing'er looked at both sides and saw a row of iron buckles on the wall of a ship behind. She bit the long sword in her mouth, reached out to climb on the buckle, and used force with her arms, and slowly left the water surface.

The boatman who was lying on the back of a large ship in front suddenly discovered Qing'er. He was stunned and hid behind the side of the ship and stretched out a long bamboo pole to tentatively pole towards Qing'er's back.

At this moment, a wolf-toothed arrow shot towards the boatman's arm, which shot through the bone. The boatman screamed, fell into the water with a long rod, and sat on the deck in pain.

Qing'er realized that she had just been discovered. She quickly looked back and saw that Li Yanqing was looking at him from afar on the north bank, with his bow and arrow in his hand, his eyes full of concern. Qing'er felt excited and cheered up. She waved the sword and cut off the rope twice, and then she jumped into the water and disappeared.

The first ship suddenly separated from the fleet behind. The fleet behind had no motivation and began to slowly move towards the south bank with the current.

In addition to their father and son, Zhu Xie's wife Wang and ten confidant guards were also on the boat, and there were three boatmen. One of the crew members had been shot by arrows and could no longer sail. Zhu Xie was very anxious. At this time, he could no longer care about his wealth. He just wanted to get rid of the pursuers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The other party had no ships, and Zhu Xie's only reliance was this big ship.

Zhu Xie drew his sword and pointed at the two boatmen and said, "Snap the ship and leave immediately, otherwise you will be killed!"

A boatman said with a sad face: "Master, you must raise sails when sailing against the current, but we only have two of us, and we still have to take the helm, it's true..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhu Jie ordered his men to "help them raise their sails!"

Three guards immediately ran over and pulled up the sails under the guidance of a boatman. It was only more than thirty miles away from the sea. The sea breeze was strong, the sails were bulging, and the big ship began to sail through the wind and waves. At this time, Li Yanqing on the shore took out the copper bow and iron arrow. The copper bow and iron arrow was only targeted at important targets and would never be used easily. This was the moment when it exerted its power.

Li Yanqing pulled his bow like a full moon, aimed at the sails a hundred steps away, "Cang!" The iron arrow broke out of the string and shot towards the mast. With a sound of "click!", the main rope at the top of the mast was broken by the iron arrow, and the huge sail fell down with a bang. The big ship immediately lost its power and began to spin on the water. Zhu Jie was so anxious that he yelled, and he began to despair.

At this time, Zhu Xie's father Zhu Chong was so anxious that he stomped his crutches and shouted to Zhu Xie: "Back to the south bank, surrender to Prince Wu quickly!"

"Why?" Zhu Xie yelled at his father with blood-red eyes.

"Prince Wu is Tong Guan's man. We still have a chance to survive when we fall into his hands. If the people on the North Bank were sent by Cai Jing, we will die."

Zhu Xie suddenly realized that Cai Jing had too many handles in his hands, and he would definitely kill him to silence him. Tong Guan was still in the north at this time and might not know what happened in Bian Jing. He had always had a friendship with him. Even if Wang Ziwu dared not let him go, he would at least save his life.

Thinking of this, he immediately shouted to the boatman: "Look at the south shore!"

The ship slowly leaned towards the south bank. As soon as it got ashore, a large group of soldiers immediately rushed onto the ship and tied up Zhu Jie and his son. Li Yanqing stood on the north bank. Although he had every chance to shoot Zhu Jie with an arrow, after thinking about it, he felt that it would be best if King Jia took action to openly execute Zhu Jie in the downtown Suzhou, and Zhao Kai's public support would suddenly soar.

Qing'er came ashore wet from the water. Li Yanqing hurriedly wrapped her with a big cloak. Qing'er's teeth trembled up and down because of coldness. He asked, "Little official... Why don't you... shoot Zhu Xie to death directly?"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "We cannot decide why Zhu Xie dies. This is the matter of the court and has nothing to do with us!"

At this time, Wang Ziwu took a boat to the north shore and smiled heartily at Li Yanqing and said, "Little official, we are meeting again!"

Li Yanqing was stunned, "Have I met the general?"

"Last year, I was lucky enough to see the magic arrow of the little official in the camp outside Tangyin City. Of course, the little official may not have seen me, there were too many people at that time."

Li Yanqing thought to himself that this person turned out to be Tong Guan's person. He quickly smiled and said, "When will the general come back?"

"We went north to Zhending Prefecture, and later we found that the Liao army had no intention of invading the south. Taiwei Tong continued to stay in Hebei, and some of the troops retreated. I was transferred to the southeast to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Fang La. I didn't expect to meet a small official here. Did the small official go south with His Highness Jia?" Although Wang Ziwu had a smile on his face, there was already a trace of doubt in his eyes.

Li Yanqing secretly complained that something was wrong. Meeting this person means that Tong Guan knew about his relationship with Zhao Kai, which was a bit troublesome, but fortunately, Tong Guan has not returned in Hebei and there is still room for ease.

Li Yanqing smiled faintly and said, "His Highness Jia is now in Wujin County. Please ask General Wang to escort Zhu Xie and all the materials to Your Highness. In addition, Zhu Xie's son led two thousand people to Mingzhou. I wonder if there is any news about them?"

Wang Ziwu sneered and said, "I received news from General Cai, Hangzhou at noon today. Zhu Xie's two thousand troops wanted to bypass Hangzhou, but they were surrounded and ambushed by Fang La's rebels in Qingxi. The entire army was destroyed. There was no news about Zhu Xie's son, so it was probably in danger."

"This is also God's will. Will General Wang go to see His Highness Jia?"

Prince Wu shook his head, "Although Your Highness Jia has a gold medal in sending troops, there is no tiger talisman to dispatch troops. I can only move in Xiuzhou and cannot cross the border. I will detain a group of criminals and seized materials in Jiaxing and wait for Your Highness to come and deal with it."

Wang Ziwu bowed Li Yanqing with his fists and said, "We'll take a step first."

Li Yanqing silently watched the army escorting Zhu Xie and the ship away. Only then did he realize that Zhao Ji did not believe in his son, and only gave him gold medals but not tiger talismans. Of course, this is also a common problem for all emperors. Even his son would keep his hands, especially when it comes to the army.

"Li Shaojun, are we going back now?" asked several guards next to him.

"You guys go back first! I'll wait for Your Highness to arrive in Jiaxing."

Several guards bowed to Li Yanqing and turned north.

At this time, Qing'er asked, "Little official, are we going to Jiaxing now?"

Li Yanqing smelled the sea breeze in the air and said with a smile: "Since you have already arrived at the beach, of course you have to go and see the sea."
Chapter completed!