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Book 8 Chapter 8 - Brilliant Scheme to Break the Enemy

Kou Zhong was about to move, but Xu Ziling pulled him back. While he was baffled, Xu Ziling pressed his mouth on Kou Zhong's ear and said, "Zhong Shao, you must not forget that we are now contending over the world, not trying to show off our bravery. We need to talk about strategy.”

Kou Zhong was stunned. "What brilliant scheme are you thinking?” he asked.

Xu Ziling replied in low voice, "Do you remember the battleship we took on our way from Jiujiang to Baling? The bow is equipped with pointed iron. If we drive it fast enough, I guarantee we can hit this gigantic and stiff ship squarely in the middle and break it into two.”

Greatly delighted, Kou Zhong said, "You, this kid, are actually more aggressive than I am, yet you normally pretend to be Taoist teacher who don't care about fame and fortune. Hee! Don't you feel that tonight you are so not normal?”

"Cut it out!” Xu Ziling snapped at him.

The two boys woke Bu Tianzhi, who remained on the [Jukun Bang] ship, up. Having understood the situation clearly, he excitedly said, "Let me dispatch someone to notify General Xiang immediately. If we can capture Zhu Mei, it would be like severing one of Zhu Can's arms.”

Kou Zhong hurriedly said, "The enemy is saving their oil by not lighting any lamp, plus they must have set up sentries onshore to send them warning. If you are going out with magnificent army with thousands of men and horses, the enemy would have to be bird-brained if they do not immediately run away. Fu Bangzhu [Deputy Gang Leader] must act according to our plan. You are in charge of driving our ship into theirs, we will be in charge of going underwater to capture the enemy. This is called cooperation and division of work. Do you understand?”

Xu Ziling also asked, "Is Zhu Mei formidable?”

While nodding his head to acknowledge Kou Zhong's instruction, Bu Tianzhi answered Xu Ziling's question, "Zhu Mei is like having Zhu Can's brains but with beauty like flower, and poison like serpent and scorpion. I don't know how many heroes have met their tragic end under her ‘floating cloud' sleeves.”

Kou Zhong laughed and said, "Good thing that under water no floating cloud sleeves can be used; let us see how beautiful and how fierce she really is.”

Bu Tianzhi suddenly sighed and said, "Not only two Gongzi's action is beyond expectation, the method you come up with is even more amazing, like opening up the sky. Tianzhi received benefits from your instruction!”

He summoned his men at once and had them quietly raise the anchor and set sail upstream.

The warship slowly turned around. On the deck stood more than a hundred Jukun Bang warriors, each one skillful in using bow and arrow, ready to meet the enemy head-on. Twelve sets of catapult were also at the ready, poised for action.

Ever since the two boys succeeded in killing Ren Shaoming, the Jukun Bang people honored them as gods. This moment they were serving under the two boys' command, their morale was like rainbow, everybody was in high spirit.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, with bow in their hands, stood on the bridge, giving direction to the target's position. Bu Tianzhi continuously giving instructions, the ship was slowly accelerating.

The river was quiet, the only audible noise was the waves lapping against the shore, a gentle reminder of nature's perpetual motion. The moon already moved away from its zenith in the sky, the river reflected its light, creating patterns of light and darkness.

There were hundreds of ships and boats, big and small, on the river that night, not one was aware of the impending battle.

When they were about two hundred zhang away from their target, the giant ship, which cast its anchor, alone, at the outskirt of the harbor, the warship turned toward the bend on the opposite bank, preparing to increase its momentum.

Kou Zhong said to Xu Ziling, "To contend for hegemony over the world, we must line up talents. Otherwise, even though we have this brilliant scheme, we won't be able to execute it.”

Xu Ziling looked at the fully opened sail, but did not say anything.

Kou Zhong could not help asking, "Xiao Ling, why are you so proactive tonight?”

Xu Ziling turned his gaze toward the giant ship right ahead, he said in heavy voice, "You are my best brother in the world, since I already promised to help you acquire the ‘Duke Yang Treasure', how would it work if I am not being proactive?”

Kou Zhong felt his heart suddenly grew warm; he was unable to speak.

Xu Ziling reached out and put his hand on Kou Zhong's shoulder, he said gently, "It is also for Su Jie's sake. Those people have a mole inside Xiang kid's mansion, naturally they are very clear about Su Jie's relationship with us. If they could not do anything to us, maybe they would try to get Su Jie into their hands. Therefore, we must capture one or two leaders from the opposite party alive, hand them over to Xiang kid, let him force confession by torture, uncover the mole within, and only then will Su Jie's safety be guaranteed.”

The warship picked up speed, fast like a runaway horse it rode the waves straight toward the flank of the giant ship.

Only this moment did the enemy find out something was amiss; alarm went off, human shadows flickered everywhere. But it was too late to change their fate. It was as if the sacred state of tranquility was suddenly shattered.

"Attack!” Bu Tianzhi thundered.

Like thunderstorm huge rocks, arrows and darts rained onto the enemy's warship, battle cry shook the River.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling also shot their arrows. Wood pieces flew, the sail mast broke. Amidst the miserable cry of the enemies hit by the arrows, there was a loud ‘Boom!' as like a mad bull the pointy iron figurehead of Jukun Bang warship rammed into the weakest part on the starboard side of the enemy's ship.

The sound of the ship splitting and the wood snapping rang continuously, the enemy's ship leaned toward the opposite side and spun around.

Their own warship also shook suddenly and leaned sideways. After a burst of ear-piercing grinding noise, the warship rubbed itself along the bow of the enemy's ship. The warship was pushed outward and thus recovered its balance.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling soared into the air, traversing the empty space between the two ships, toward a large gaping hole on the hull of the enemy's ship, which, by this time, was still spinning slowly around.

The enemy was thrown into chaos; the lantern lost its light, nobody knew how many people were thrown into the water that night.

Other people on the ships and boats all around were awakened by the noise, so that there were commotions everywhere.

By the time Kou Zhong landed onto the other side's bridge, the giant ship already started to tilt and sink down. The enemy simply did not have any heart to fight, one after another they slipped down into the water to escape. The pandemonium was like the coming of the doomsday.

In this extreme confusion, he saw two graceful figures breaking out of the window and cast themselves into the river. Their movement was agile, fast and nimble.

Kou Zhong laughed aloud and ran after them.

On the other side, Xu Ziling landed on the bow. Like a tiger entering a flock of sheep he attacked like crazy, those who tried to block him were completely routed.

By this time, due to the hull was tilting sideways, the deck has also sloped down, so that whoever got hit were rolling down the slope, straight into the river below, battered and completely exhausted.

Suddenly there was a loud shout behind him, coming from above going down, coupled with a gust of wind.

Xu Ziling was in the height of the fighting spirit; without even looking, after throwing down an enemy, his palm struck backhandedly.

‘Bang!'

Xu Ziling was jolted by the impact that he nearly fell down the slope, but the enemy was also severely shaken that he staggered back and nearly fell down.

Taking advantage of this slight intermission, the rest of the enemies scrambled away to run for their lives.

This moment Bu Tianzhi's warship already made a U-turn and rained down arrows onto the enemies still floating on the river.

After taking a sharp intake of a mouthful of true qi, Xu Ziling turned around to see the enemy face-to-face. With astonishment he found out that it was none other than the Second Chief of the Dajiang Hui, the ‘Tiger Lord' Pei Yan, with whom he has had a predestined affinity to meet once.

Pei Yan's pair of vicious eyes flickered continuously; apparently because he had tested Xu Ziling's extremely strong power, fear was starting to creep into his heart, and so he continuously withdrew toward the top of the slope.

The giant ship has sunken down more than half. Other than they, there was no other enemy on the deck.

Xu Ziling slowly pressed forward, using the edge of his palms like sabers, he sent out his true power by hacking from a distance, putting the opponent under his control. Laughing calmly, he said, "Er Dangjia, you want to run away too?”

Pei Yan swung his broadsword. "Pei!” he spat while halted his step, and then shouted harshly, "It won't be too late to leave after killing you, this kid.”

Lightning fast Xu Ziling slid sideways, and sent out a punch over the empty air. Pei Yan roared and nearly tumbled down.

What happened was that because Xu Ziling suddenly changed position, plus his punch came from an unbelievably ingenious angle, it immediately hit Pei Yan's right shoulder. Not only the pain penetrated his bones and marrows, he even nearly lost his grip on his saber. Actually, he was not this useless, it's just that he was not in the mood to fight, and was already intimidated by Xu Ziling, and thus Xu Ziling was able to exploit this weakness.

At this moment his desire to escape was growing, but while he was about to slip backward, like a ghost or demon Xu Ziling suddenly came to his right side. Helplessly he roared while turning the saber into his left hand, and then he counterattacked with everything he had.

Xu Ziling chose to take a ‘floating' tactic; no matter how Pei Yan dodged, he was always able to force him to block with all his strength, jolting his left hand that it turned numb, and was incapable of carrying out even fifty percent of his usual strength.

Under this constant barrage, before long Pei Yan's left arm was hit by Xu Ziling's finger, his broadsword fell off.

Scared out of his wits, Pei Yan unleashed his ‘pressing down on the box/chest's bottom', he deliberately rolled down the slope, while his legs swept swiftly; it was extremely vicious.

Xu Ziling let out a long laugh, his fists punched together. When he was about to subdue the enemy in one stroke, a burst of an extremely sharp wind shot from his left side.

By the time Xu Ziling realized suddenly that the enemy has been hiding behind the cabin door, the enemy's sword has already enveloped the space to his left, the sword qi pervaded the air.

In that split second, Xu Ziling already determined that the attacker's power was at least two notches above Pei Yan's. If he did not go all-out to deal with him, most likely he would suffer a heavy loss. Therefore, without any choice he abandoned Pei Yan, turned around and waved his hand to parry the enemy's sword.

‘Bang!'

Palm and sword collided.

Xu Ziling was shaken that his blood and qi bubbled up within him, and he was forced to slide two steps sideways to neutralize it.

The attacker borrowed the reaction force from the impact to fly away, and landed on the tilting sail mast.

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