There was chaos on the lake. The bandits at the back were unaware of this and were driving small boats to follow the big ship. Huge waves rose up and many small boats were overturned. Some of them crashed into the big ship. The bandit fleet was in complete chaos.
"Captain Er, this is not good. Waterweed... It's all waterweed!" A sailor rolled and crawled to the bow, shouting in despair.
Zhou Xiong's face changed drastically. He leaned over to the bow and looked down. He saw that the water wheel was covered with green seaweeds, which wrapped up the entire water wheel and the axle, making it unable to move at all.
"Liu Qi... He, he actually used water grass?!"
Zhou Xiong's heart sank to the bottom, and he finally understood that what had just fallen from the cabin must be the aquatic plants collected by the officers and soldiers.
The most important thing in the daily maintenance of the Lingjiao boat is to clear the aquatic plants entangled on the axle. If there are too many, it will affect the movement. Liu Qi collected the aquatic plants to deal with the Lingjiao boat, which was really a fatal blow.
Boom boom boom—
At this moment, drums sounded on the warships of the Jingzhou navy, and the officers and soldiers issued an attack order. The tower ships and warships braved the wind and waves and rushed over.
Gan Ning had been waiting on the ship for a long time. When he heard the drum, he raised his sword and shouted, "Kill!"
He commanded the warships to charge towards the enemy ships in the center. In addition, the navy was divided into three small teams, which charged directly into the chaotic enemy army. Huang Zhong and Yang Ling each led an army to board the ships and fight.
The tower ship crashed heavily into the immobile Lingjiao ship. Gan Ning threw out an iron chain to hook the railing, leaped like a monkey, and climbed onto the enemy ship.
At this time, the tower ships of the Jingzhou navy had become giants, charging through the chaotic army. Arrows rained down from the ships, mixed with flaming arrows, and the enemy troops were killed with screams of ghosts and wolves.
Although the pirate army was skilled in boat driving without the protection of the Lingjiao ship, their officers and soldiers were equally strong and well-trained. They were no match for them in a head-on confrontation. The pirate ships fled and collided in all directions, and the people on board fell into the water like dumplings.
Zhou Xiong was so anxious on the boat that he was spinning around, but the Lingjiao boat was also spinning on the lake and could not move at all. He could only watch the soldiers rushing onto the bow, unable to move forward or backward.
Seeing the ships rampaging on the water and many of his men suffering heavy losses, Zhou Xiong shouted, "Kisame, move out and pierce through those ships. Leave no one alive."
The minions immediately raised a flag, and on the small boat in the distance, Kisame saw the signal and jumped into the water. They were all wearing fish-skin water jackets and were as agile as fish in the water. They swam straight to the bottom of the officers' and soldiers' boats.
Gan Ning led his troops to attack the enemy's command ship, took out the double halberds from behind, strode forward, and waved the double halberds. The enemy screamed and fell to the ground, like harvesting straw, and he chopped down seven or eight of them in a blink of an eye.
Seeing how brave Gan Ning was, the thieves on the boat did not dare to step forward to stop him and retreated one after another. Soon they huddled together. Some were frightened and at a loss, so they hid directly in the cabin, while others jumped directly into the water.
Gan Ning was chasing forward when suddenly a spear shot out from the cabin. He quickly dodged to the side and held the iron halberd horizontally. The tip of the spear rubbed against his chest, sending out a string of sparks.
Zhou Xiong rushed out of the cabin, stared at Gan Ning, and sneered, "Jinfan thief Gan Ning, you are so arrogant!"
Gan Ning hated it most when people called him a thief. Upon hearing that, his eyebrows raised, and he shouted loudly, raising his iron halberd to attack.
Zhou Xiong snorted slightly and raised his spear to block, but he did not expect that the spear handle was made of wood and could not block the attack at all, and it broke with a snap.
Zhou Xiong was shocked and quickly hid in the cabin, then pulled out a knife to fight. Gan Ning blocked the door, and the two men fought in the narrow space. All they could see was the flash of cold light and the sound of weapons clashing.
After just ten rounds, Zhou Xiong was defeated by Gan Ning. He had no power to fight back and had to squat in the low cabin to fight back.
Gan Ning held the halberd in his right hand, clamped its blade, and suddenly kicked it, hitting Zhou Xiong in the heart. Zhou Xiong fell to the ground with a howl, and the knife flew out of his hand.
Just as he held his stomach and prepared to beg for mercy, before he could take a breath, Gan Ning had already turned around and stabbed him with a knife. There was a flash of cold light, and the blade pierced his chest. He let out a miserable howl and died.
By the time Gan Ning came out of the cabin, his subordinates had already killed the bandits so badly that they fled in panic and jumped off the boat to escape, taking complete control of the Lingjiao ship.
At this time, Huang Zhong and Yang Ling also led their troops onto the big ship. The officers and soldiers killed anyone they saw. Yang Ling had also been defeated by the Dongting bandits. This time he wanted to take revenge and was merciless. He killed the panicked bandits with one sword.
The Jingzhou army had suffered from the ridicule of the Dongting bandits for many years and was full of anger. Now they boarded the ship to kill the enemy with high morale. They killed the bandits so badly that they fled in panic and jumped into the water to escape.
Liu Qi was watching the whole situation from the command ship in the distance. The Lingjiao ship was trapped on the lake and could not move. The bandit army had lost its greatest support. The bandit army was no match for the officers and soldiers and victory was already in their grasp.
At this moment, the ship began to vibrate again, and muffled noises were heard from underwater. Liu Xian said angrily, "This thief is so bold. He was not able to deal with the tower ship in front, but he dared to attack the main ship."
Liu Qi laughed and said, "The thief has been rampant in Dongting for many years, but he has never made any progress. He has repeatedly used the same old tricks. How can we let him succeed?"
During the past few days, he ordered his people to salvage the water plants and load them into the small boats, waiting for the Lingjiao ship to come and chase them. Then they threw the water plants into the water to entangle the water wheel, and the big ship would be completely disabled and could not move even with the sails hoisted.
In addition, they also cut down bamboo, split it into bamboo strips and wrapped them around the bottom of the tower ship. This enhanced the defensive capabilities of the tower ship and the Lingjiao ship. If thieves wanted to damage the ship, they would need to spend four or five times the effort.
But at the same time, Liu Qi also prepared a fishing net chain with iron hooks hung on it, which were similar to fish hooks but of different sizes. He would just wait for Guisame to reach the bottom of the boat and then immediately throw down the iron chain and fishing net.
At this time, the tower ships were moving between the enemy ships, and iron hooks were moving everywhere. Once the thieves were caught by the iron hooks, they would have no chance of escaping. No matter if the water rafts were torn or they were injured, they would lose their ability to move.
Hearing the sound from the bottom of the boat, Liu Qi smiled coldly and ordered, "Move!"
As flags were raised on the watchtowers on the side of the ships, all the fleets began to move out and surrounded the enemy army in a mighty force. Two other naval forces bypassed the lake and headed straight for the port of Wangyue Island.
The bandit army came in a swagger, and the Lingjiao ship, which they had always been proud of, was paralyzed and fell into complete panic. In addition, Zhou Xiong was killed, and there was no one to command, so everyone drove their boats to escape.
As expected, there was chaos on the lake at this time. The bandits were all fleeing for their lives, but the ghost sharks were still confused and were showing their magical powers under the water, swimming towards the bottom of the boat with water-dividing spikes and chisels.
On the ship, the helmsman felt the vibration of the bottom of the ship, and immediately threw the fishing net and long rope full of iron hooks into the water, and steered the boat back and forth.
At this time, Kisame was trying hard to dig out the bottom of the boat, but found that the bottom of the boat was wrapped in bamboo strips, and the effect was very limited. Just as several people were working together, suddenly countless fishing nets and iron chains and ropes fell from all around.
Before they could figure out what was going on, as the boat started moving, some people were caught in fishing nets and chains. They then discovered that the nets were covered with iron hooks, just like catching fish. The thieves were immediately startled and quickly scattered in all directions.