Fierce battle erupted in the mountains and forests, and the fire continued to fly from both sides to the dragon boat.
The dragon boat was built with fire-proof materials, and it was covered with rags soaked in oil on the deck. The flames caused were quickly extinguished, and only thick choking smoke continued to rise.
Many of Yang Guang’s close ministers had been on the battlefield, had used or had witnessed fire attacks, which prevented Yang Guang from hiding in the cabin, so as not to be overwhelmed by the smoke.
Dragon boats are now the most conspicuous target. They let the dragon boat dock and wanted to escape and get off the boat.
At this time, the boatman threw away the rope in his hand, some fled immediately, and some fumbled on the shore and took out sticks, swords and guns, and rushed towards the officials along the coast and the Sui army.
Yu Wenji protected Yang Guang, and his voice trembled: “The thief is mixed in the boatman!”
Yang Guang was so scared that his legs were weak, his lips were pale, and he could not even hear Yu Wenji’s exclamation.
Another small boat rowed from the downstream, and when it was about to hit the dragon boat, it ignited the flames, and the fireboat crashed into the dragon boat.
Pei Shiju and others directed the dragon boat to hang down the boat and asked someone to escort Yang Guang off the boat.
Yang Guang looked at the fireboats on the Grand Canal and the traitors on both sides of the river, and did not dare to get off the boat.
The Grand Canal was cleaned up in advance by the Sui army, and there were not many fireboats that could hide. There are very few chaotic wifes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and most of the boatmen just run away. The dragon boat is very big, leaving little space for the Grand Canal. Going ashore is indeed the safest choice.
But Yang Guang was scared and refused to go ashore when he saw the traitor.
If the emperor doesn’t get on the boat, which courtier on the boat dares to get on the boat?
They covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves and tried hard to persuade Yang Guang.
Yu Wenhua and his heart were almost cursing: “Your Majesty! If we don’t go ashore, we will burn it to death on the boat!”
Yang Guang said: “We are on the river, and some of them are put out the fire, how can we burn it to death!”
Yang Guang insisted on not getting off the boat and ordered the palace servants and ministers to lift water to put out the fire.
Seeing this, Pei Shiju thought of a compromise method and put the escape boat at the front of the dragon boat. While resisting the fireboat upstream, he also extinguished the fire at the front of the dragon boat.
Without a fire boat, the flames ignited by the flint thrown by the trencher are easily extinguished, but they are a little choking.
After the flames were slightly extinguished, Pei Shiju put down the boat and asked Yang Guang to escape to the ship behind.
But it seemed that there was a spike along the coast. The flint thrown by Yang Guang to the boat would hit the boat.
However, the large ship in the middle did not attack the fireboat, and it was very difficult for the catapult to temporarily adjust the ballistics, so there were only sporadic flames on the large ship, which were quickly extinguished, and there was not much smoke.
Yang Guang and the other court officials breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Xuanba saw this scene on the tree and lowered his head to Xue Shou and said, “Let Wang Bo only stare at the dragon boat led by the leader burn, don’t care where Yang Guang is. The purpose of this attack is to scare Yang Guang, and it is impossible to hurt Yang Guang. Burning the dragon boat that Yang Guang was riding will put more psychological pressure on Yang Guang.”
Xue Shou took a piece of venison in his mouth and personally rode a horse to notify Wang Bo.
The place where they hid was very close to where Wang Bo was. Li Shimin and Li Xuanba are pretending to be Xue Shou’s servants and hide here.
Wang Bo followed Xue Shou’s advice and re-targeted the dragon boat, which was the only palace servants left.
After learning that Yang Guang had left the leading dragon boat, Yu Wenhua and others who blocked the fire boat had already returned to the second large ship, and Wang Bo did not risk sending the fire boat.
Now he decided to turn his target from Yang Guang’s love ship, so he sent a fire ship again.
This time, the people on the fire boat did not dive into the water and escape, but climbed on the dragon boat and then lit the fire directly on the dragon boat.
The palace people fled when the emperor and ministers fled. A small number of people hid in the cabin and shivered, and most of them jumped into the water and swam to both sides of the strait. Few rebels climbed onto the ship, but none of them stopped them from setting fires.