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One hour ago.

When it was just dawn, Chen Xu, who rushed back to Langya from Laoshan, was standing on the Langya platform on the top of Langya Mountain, observing the shipyard by the sea.

Because when they rushed back, they found that those who had disappeared from Laoshan Bay yesterday gathered on the dock outside the shipyard. There were a total of five large ships. After more than a dozen Motus identified, these ships were docked in the big bay they had been to yesterday for many years.

And from these Motus, we learned that yesterday was the last time for Lu Sheng and his friends to transport coal and iron, and they transported nearly 100,000 kilograms of coal and steel to a deserted island overseas.

More than 100,000 kilograms is not much, only more than 20 tons, but it is a very huge number for the current industrial and mining level of Daqin. Just preparing these officials in Langya County has spent a lot of manpower and material resources. Chen Xu didn't know what Huangshi Gong went to sea to get so much coal and iron.

Five large ships kept moving food and clothing up the dock, and only set sail one after another after the sun rose. Chen Xu used a telescope to watch the direction of the Huangshigong fleet.

But after the three large ships that Huangshigong led the way out were about twenty miles away from the dock, they collided with another large ship coming from the sea, and then several ships chased each other.

The collision was more than ten miles away from the coast. This position had exceeded the limit of the telescope's ability to observe clearly. It could only tell that the blocked ship had begun to sink, and its appearance was dilapidated. The people on it looked blurry and could only see a few figures, and they could not see clearly.

Chen Xu observed for a few minutes in surprise and suspicion, then handed the telescope to Xiao He, Liu Bang, Jiang Chuxing and others.

"Marty, could it be Huang Shi Gong who had an internal strife with those alchemists?" Xiao He said with a strange look on his face after seeing it.

"It's not like, this is a completely dead situation..." Chen Xu looked at the blurry situation almost at the end of his sight, pinched his chin and thought for a while, suddenly his face changed and said, "No, maybe it's Qingrou and Brother Yu, hurry up and go to the shipyard!"

Chen Xu had no time to explain, so he turned over and rushed down the mountain. Xiao He and a group of guards also quickly got on the horse. More than ten minutes later, Chen Xu rushed to the foot of the mountain and ordered a group of young men carrying muskets and monitoring more than ten mob disciples to follow. More than 40 people rushed straight to the shipyard like thunder.

"Who is coming? Go back quickly?" Seeing a group of messy knights riding horses, the soldiers guarding the shipyard at the gate of the shipyard were blocking Chen Xu and others with long swords as if they were facing a great enemy.

"The guards and imperial guards should do their business, get out of the way!" The guard leader reached out and took out an orange-yellow bronze waist card from his waist and shouted.

The soldiers guarding the gate took the sign and looked at it for a moment. They quickly retreated to the side and ordered the soldiers to drag the fence open, and bowed and said, "I wonder if the general is coming, do you need the help of the last general?"

"Call the boatmen to sail to the sea!" Chen Xu said with a cold face.

"Ah?!" Tunchang said in a daze for a moment, "Sir, there is no big ship that can go out to sea at present!"

"Why dare to shirk away? Haven't those new ships been built?" The guard leader was furious.

"General, it's not the last general to refuse. Those big ships have just been built and are still painting..."

"Go and summon the boatman quickly. As long as you can get into the water, I will cut off your dog's head for no reason!" The imperial guard choked and pulled out the long sword from his waist and pushed it against Tunchang's neck.

"Yes, let's do it now!" Tun Chang turned around and left with a pale face, while Chen Xu and others also headed straight for a dock.

Soon, the entire shipyard became busy. The dock gate was opened, and the rolling sea water instantly poured into the dock. Hundreds of ship workers were driven onto the ship by soldiers. Chen Xu and others also left their horses onto the ship. When the ship had already floated, a group of guards had no time to wait for the ship workers to untie the cables. They swung their swords and cut off seven or eight fixed cables, and then scolded the ship workers to take off the dock. With the neat horn sound, the ship quickly sailed out of the dock and headed deep into the sea.

Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the situation more than ten miles away, but you can't see anything at all in the shipyard. Therefore, the military officers and craftsmen in the shipyard were at a loss as they watched the big ship that had not even been dried yet to go out to sea.

"Tuntain Chief, the paint has not yet dried yet, and the ship will be scrapped once it is in the water!" A gray-bearded craftsman stamped his feet and beat his chest in pain.

"Hmph, so what if you are abolished? How dare you stop the guards and imperial guards from doing things?" Tun Chang snorted coldly.

"The head of the village, the glue has not been completely dry yet, I am afraid that it will leak if it cannot go far..." Another craftsman said with a trembling face.

"What are you waiting for? Instruct the fishermen to row boats and follow them quickly. If the big boat leaks, save people quickly!" The head of the town changed drastically. The entire shipyard was in chaos again. Many fishermen who were working in the shipyard also boarded the small boats to pick up the oars, and followed Chen Xu and others to go out to sea.

"Tell the boatman to speed up..."

"Prepare the giant crossbow..."

"Check the installation of ammunition by the musket..."

"Taoyi divine thunder you carried..."

After Chen Xu got on the boat, he yelled in a series of roars. The twenty teenagers who accompanied him quickly opened the linen bag that had been eating and sleeping, took out the musket that was about the same height as his body, took out the gunpowder and started to load it. The two grenades each carried were all concentrated and placed on the deck.

A group of guards naturally knew who Chen Xu said Qingrou and Brother Yu were, so they were naturally anxious. After seven or eight guards got on the boat, they rushed into the bottom cabin and forced hundreds of ship workers to paddle hard with swords.

The remaining guards also began to install crossbow strings and check the crossbow arrows on the deck of the large ship.

On the calm sea, a large ship was in front, dozens of small fishing boats two or three feet long were behind, facing the rising sun and heading straight to the depths of the sea.

"There is no good thing for me. There is a new ship heading towards us in the direction of the shipyard!"

Mo Tu, who was blocking the broken ship of Yu Wuya and others on the sea and fighting, found a new ship coming quickly, and someone couldn't help but yell.

Huangshi Gong, who was rushing towards Gai Nie on the shaking ship, was suddenly startled and turned around and saw a big ship several miles away riding on the wind and waves.

"Puff~~"

Taking advantage of the moment when Huang Shi Gong was stunned, the big sword in Gai Nie's hand flew past Huang Shi Gong's heart with the shock of torn air. With a sudden appearance of blood, Huang Shi Gong groaned and retreated quickly.

"Haha, Huang Tingjing, I will die with you today, so that you can become a god earlier!" Gai Nie laughed and pounced on him again.

"Gai Nie, since you are seeking death, I will help you!" Huang Shi Gong was furious. He grabbed his skinny hand with a thin hand and tightened the air around him. A cold and bone-thorough breath covered several feet in the radius. Gai Nie's body paused slightly in the air, and the speed of the sword was obviously slowed down.

"Bang~~"

At that time, Huang Shigong had not finished speaking, his palm slashed Gai Nie's chest hard. A few cracks of bones, Gai Nie flew out with a muffled groan, and blood spurted into the sea in the air.

"Qiong'er, don't want to fight, capture all those women!" Huang Shi Gong slashed Gai Nie with a palm and then flew out a few steps, his body was like a afterimage on the deck and fell behind Yu Wuya.

"Bang~~" Yu Wuya had no time to resist at all, and was also hit on the back with a palm. He screamed and flew out in the air and hit the railing nearly three meters away, and turned over and fell into the sea.

"Don't hurt my husband~" With a sound of Qingzha, a woman in green swung her sword at Huangshi Gong.

"I'm sending you to Huangquan to reunite!" Huang Shi Gong's chest was blood-stained and opened his angrily, like a roaring lion, without any intention of avoiding. He turned around and approached the woman in blue. His thin big hand passed by a shadow in the air and grabbed the woman's wrist and shook it gently. The woman's long sword fell to the ground. Then Huang Shi Gong slapped the woman's shoulder with a palm, and the woman screamed and fell into the sea.

"Senior brother~, Zijin~"

Shui Qingrou exclaimed and rushed towards the side of the ship, but only heard the rapid sound of breaking through the air behind her. When she turned around, she saw a white and gray old man who had fallen beside her and quickly slapped her neck with a heavy palm.

Huangshi Gong's few times of rabbits rising and falling storks were extremely fast, and Yu Wuya and others had almost no ability to resist.

"Abandon the boat, go!" Huang Shigong lifted the unconscious water with one hand and gently turned around and left. He took a few steps and then crossed the boat like a goshawk and landed on his own ship.

Almost at the same time, Huang Tianqiong and several Mo disciples also brought Gongsun Beiyan and Xiang Jing back to the ship.

"Go away~~" With a few roars, the three big ships began to turn around quickly. Amid the sound of horns, the oars on both sides of the big ship rose and fell like centipedes, laying open the turbid sea with blood gushing and heading towards the depths of the sea in the east.

“Accelerating~~”

Chen Xu, who was standing at the bow of the boat and looking at him with a telescope, was so anxious that his face turned pale and kept roaring loudly.

Although the collision was only three or four miles away, and the naked eye could see someone falling from the big ship constantly, the melee had come to an end, and three of them had begun to flee.

Three miles...two miles...one mile...one mile...

Two minutes later, Chen Xu's ship arrived at the position of the collision, but only the mess and chaos left in front of him.

The bows of the two large ships had already collided. One of the hulls had broken and began to sink. When Chen Xu arrived, most of the sank had been sank. Only the cabin of the large ship was still exposed on the sea. Although the other large ship had not sunk, it had already begun to tilt beyond recognition. The sea was covered with wooden boards and corpses, and more were ship workers and Momen floating on the sea and struggling and shouting for help. There were two or three hundred people, and the situation was chaotic.

"Let the fishing boat behind save people and chase after them!" Chen Xu's face turned pale. He had a premonition that Shui Qingrou might have been taken away by the big ship in front.

"Speed ​​up the pursuit!" A group of guards rushed into the cabin and pulled out their swords and roared, forcing a group of boatmen who had already begun to be weak and continued to paddle desperately.

The king is worried about his ministers and is exhausted, and the king is humiliated and dies.

Although a group of guards still had the status of an imperial guard, they had no title of an imperial guard. From the day the emperor assigned to Chen Xu, they became Chen Xu's retainers and had almost no relationship with the imperial guards and the emperor.

Moreover, after following Chen Xu, he was the highest standard for eating, drinking, defecating, living and living in the Marquis' Mansion. Although Chen Xu was the head of the family and the Marquis, he had never treated them badly. All food, drinking, and accommodation were not much different from Chen Xu himself. This was unique in this era. Their treatment made Xuanwu Guard envious.

Although Xuanwu Guard was a loyal believer of the emperor, the emperor had to raise too many people, and it was not as rich as Chen Xu when he broke a chunk of money. Every month alone was hundreds of dollars, which was enough to support everyone to eat and drink without worries. Therefore, the guards of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion were all loyal to Chen Xu, and even kept introducing the imperial guards to a certain job in the Qinghe Marquis Mansion.

Under Chen Xu's pursuit, the three large ships in front fled as if they were chased by dogs. The boatmen on both sides spared no effort to row the boat desperately. The four large ships were only two or three miles apart, and they were moving further and further into the depths of the East China Sea, and soon chased them twenty miles away.

"The Marquis is not good, the cabin begins to leak!" The guard leader ran out of the cabin with a pale face and reported.

"Mr. Marquis, you can't continue chasing. Even if the Marquis is on the big ship in front, I will not have the chance to return once the big ship sank!"

"Mr. Marquis, return to the shipyard temporarily and wait for the interrogation of the Motu and the boatmen who fell into the water will definitely be able to find out the island where Huang Shigong and others are stationed overseas, and then summon the soldiers from Langya County to capture them all."

Xiao He and others also pale in an instant, and they persuaded Chen Xu together.

Looking at the horrified and panic expressions of a circle of people, Chen Xu finally could only sigh and ordered to turn around and return, and then watched the three large ships of Huangshigong sail farther and slowly disappear into the vast sea at the junction of the sea and sky.

Half an hour later, the big ship passed by the collision position again.

One of the ships had completely sunk, and the other was also in a skewed manner. Dozens of fishing boats on the sea were running back and forth to rescue them, but there were too many people who fell into the water, and many people were still floating on the sea with wooden boards in their arms. Some of them had floated several miles away as the waves pushed.

Although the big ship was in water, Chen Xu was concerned about the safety of the water and Yu Wuya, so he still stopped and ordered the big ship to stop and throw down the ropes and let the Motu and the boatmen rescued from the fishing boat be transferred to the big ship, and at the same time, he asked someone to carefully search for the people who fell into the water.

It was soon half an hour passed, but no sign of Shui Qingrou and Yu Wuya were found. The water accumulated in the bottom cabin of the big ship was more than a foot deep, and the drainage could no longer keep up with the speed of incoming water. Chen Xu could only order Qixing to return to the shipyard.

"I ordered the fishing boats to continue searching and rescue, and take back the bodies of casualties. At the same time, I quickly went to the shipyard to summon more fishing boats to search and rescue..."

Chen Xu left a few guards to follow the fishing boat and continued to search for Yu Wuya and Shui Qingrou, and ordered the boat to be opened with a blue face.
Chapter completed!