Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Capture of the Ship
In a house in Quanzhou City, Xia Jing was woken up by the noise outside, and the big bed was more than a foot wide, scattered with rags and rags everywhere, and the two men and women were entangled indiscriminately, so you can imagine how fierce the battle was this night.
Xia Jing moved the woman's head on his chest slightly, and the blond-haired orchid turned over with a vague "um", the ravines undulated and curved, thinking that last night not only did the fighting spirit rise again, but the sound that came into the room became louder and louder, and he lowered his head and kissed it fiercely, and then got up and sat down.
"What to do, what to do? Lao Pu, the sky is falling? ”
After stopping the obstruction of his subordinates, Xia Jing ran out of the inner room with his bare feet and a light shirt, not noticing that this was a women's silk shirt, and the anxious Pu Shi could not take care of this, and hurriedly followed up.
"Xia Shuai save me!"
In the middle hall, without waiting for Xia Jing to sit down, Pu Shi held his hand with a pleading face, Xia Jing was not wrong, his sky did fall, if he didn't quickly recapture the dock, once he lost some sea ships, Pu Shi shuddered when he thought of this consequence.
"Don't worry, sit down and talk slowly."
Being woken up from his sleep, Xia Jing's face was still a little unhappy, but for the sake of this person who was the former owner of the woman in the room, he didn't reveal too much. Besides, Pu Shi is in such a hurry, something big will happen at a glance, they are grasshoppers on a rope, and no one can run away if something happens.
Pu's speed of speech was very fast, and he described the situation in a few words, the more Xia Jing listened, the more he frowned, he didn't expect that the person who reported the news before really didn't lie, this team in neighboring states is not simple! Of course, it's not simple, the Great Song Dynasty started from the Beijing Division Lin'an Mansion, and it is rare to have a complete cavalry army, most of them are equipped along the border, and there are not many guards and horses, not to mention the mainland.
Pu's request made him even more embarrassed, the little force in his hand is a lot, and it is okay to use it to defend the city, but if he goes out of the city to fight? I really don't know the bottom in my heart, let alone the cavalry I don't want to meet the most.
"How many people came, did you ever have a quasi-number?"
"A thousand, no, maybe not, at most a thousand."
I have to say that Pu's subordinates still have a bit of kung fu, and they can guess eight or nine just by hearing, and Xia Jing waved his hand again and again when he heard it.
"Lao Pu, it's not that someone Xia doesn't save him when he sees death, you also know the situation in the army, there are only a few people who can fight, you talk about it, how much do you have to take back the dock, the other party is a cavalry army, he doesn't fight with you, what can you do? What's more, the messenger also said that this is just one. ”
"Cocoa"
Pu's face turned pale, he knew that what Xia Jing said was not all a pretext, he had seen the momentum of the coming army with his own eyes, and he still thought about it and fought with his legs, Xia Jing's department was also considered the elite of the Song people, but if he really wanted to fight, he couldn't say what the result would be, if he couldn't fight, the dock was not recaptured, and the state city was lost again, then there was really no place to die.
"Lao Pu, so far, Xia Mou is not lying to you, this Quanzhou City and your fleet, you can only choose one, if you say that we abandon the city, Lao Xia will do his best to help you recapture the dock, and then sail out to sea together. Otherwise, you will rely on the city and wait for the Yuan people to call, how about it, you can make a quick decision. ”
It's not that Pu Shi hasn't thought about this question on weekdays, but when it comes to the end, he just feels that it hurts to choose, but thinking about the huge benefits brought by those sea ships, he suddenly raised his head and met Xia Jing's gaze.
"Guess what, it's the fleet?"
"Xia Shuai, the court has noticed, I don't know how many tricks are waiting for you and me, there is no news about the Yuan people going south, if you take the boat and don't go, there are Xia Shuai's soldiers and horses and a certain fleet, it will be valued by the Yuan people, when the time comes, you and I will kill back, wouldn't it be better than being trapped in a lonely city?"
Xia Jing seemed to know that he would choose this way early on, and the change of situation made him a little uneasy in his heart, but he didn't expect that the court that was slow to react would be so fast, and the trick after trick played everyone, the other party was as if he had already known what they were going to do, and he had the advantage everywhere, and now he was not even sure about the confidence to defend the city, so he proposed two choices.
If you can really get on the ship, with the strength of the Pu family, it is not difficult to break through the sea barrier and go directly to the territory of the Yuan people, with their own soldiers and horses, the Yuan people will not hesitate to reward, it is indeed better than staying in this city, the current problem is how to drive away those cavalry?
"Xia Shuai, if you get help, Pu is willing to give 20% of the fleet as a gift, deliver it immediately, and never break his word."
Seeing that he was silent, Pu thought that he was taking the big, so he put out the conditions that he had thought of a long time ago, anyway, now that the dock has fallen into the hands of the enemy, the key to whether the fleet can get it back is on this person, and it is also the right thing to share a little profit with him, otherwise why should people help you.
"In this case, let's go and do it separately, you go and gather the boatmen, as soon as Xia occupies the dock, start the boat immediately, to be honest, I don't know how long I can stop those people."
Xia Jing didn't care about Pu's conditions, it was too early to say this, he was all about how to fight, Quanzhou was very prosperous, from the city to the wharf, there were many shops, the houses were full, and there was no room for cavalry, if the other party made up his mind not to fight him, it would be a goal.
This decision was very hasty, what they wanted to abandon was not only the family wealth that they couldn't take away, but also those who followed, Xia Jing walked out of the lobby with him, ready to change into his clothes and rush to the barracks, just about to go down the stairs, the two of them invariably found something strange in the sky, a black pillar of smoke rose into the air, standing there brightly, and the faces of the two changed suddenly.
"It's the harbor."
"You go first, and so-and-so will come later."
Pu Shi knew at a glance that this was the beacon responsible for monitoring the open sea, which was lit, what did it mean that he knew very well, it was originally set up to prevent pirates from sneaking attacks, and now which pirate on the sea does not sell his face? That means that it is not a pirate who is coming, a possibility that is simply unimaginable is formed in his mind, and if it is so, everything is over.
"Listen, everyone, spread out with a certain boat as the center, cruise the sea, all the clippers are rushed in by Lao Tzu, control the waterway, the whole army follows in a small boat, get on the boat when you see it, don't scramble, have it all, start moving."
Yang Fei used the public channel to issue instructions to the whole army, which caused a lot of laughter, because it sounded like pirates, and they were the Great Song Water Army.
This is already the inner bay of Quanzhou, the narrowest point is only 30 miles, more than 100 large ships will cruise back and forth to ensure that no one escapes, and the smaller patrol ships will rush directly into the harbor, responsible for deterring the enemy, and will resort to force if necessary. And the people who were really responsible for robbing the ship were the tens of thousands of sailors and soldiers on board, who stayed in the cabin as passengers all the way from Qingyuan Mansion until this moment before they could play their role.
"Brighter the move, don't see the boat, don't die, pick the biggest and best to bring back to Lao Tzu, do you understand?"
"Commander, these are ours?"
"What yours and ours belong to the imperial court, if they commit a crime, they will naturally be confiscated and put into storage, not only these ships, but the entire Quanzhou City, haha, hurry up and give Lao Tzu to go down, see how fast people move."
It's no wonder that his subordinates were surprised, it was Yang Fei himself, why wasn't he startled, the comparison between a number and the real scene in front of him was naturally more shocking now. The whole inner bay, looking from him, was densely packed with masts, and the large and small ships seemed to be stacked together, and the harbor behind them could not be seen at all.
One by one, the boats were untied, each carrying no more than twenty men, and when they were full, they rowed after the patrol ships towards the inner harbor, which were originally brought for the purpose of landing on the beach and transporting supplies, and were used here just right.
It was already daylight, and in a short time the boats disembarking from more than a hundred large boats filled the entire waterway, and perhaps it was the first time that they had done such a thing, and the sergeants suppressed their excitement until suddenly there was a burst of cheers.
Yang Fei looked at that place with a clairvoyant mirror, and couldn't help laughing, it was a three-masted Dafu ship, at least more than five hundred materials, the sergeants who controlled the hull were preparing to raise the sails, and a flag sail was raised on the mainmast, which was why they cheered.
"Haiji, these guys, they got it so quickly."
Hao Lao Er on the side couldn't see the situation clearly, but when he heard the voice, he understood what was going on, he didn't expect to enter the ranks of the official army, and the first thing he did was to grab things, but in terms of professionalism, there was no one here who could compare to him.
"Ship owner, the people in the harbor have already believed it, look, it's the wolf smoke of the police."
Yang Fei followed his finger and looked over, sure enough, on the top of a mountain on the right, a puff of black smoke was rising into the air, probably people also regarded them as pirates, Yang Fei made an indifferent expression, still staring intently at the port, in case something unexpected happened.
"Command, news on land, Jiang beckoned them to arrive."
In fact, Jiang Cai arrived earlier than them, but the dock was blazing, and there was no time to contact him, the two reported their respective situations through the walkie-talkie, and Jiang Cai's instructions to him were to speed up the action, and he didn't know how long he could last, because the infantry behind had not yet arrived.
However, grabbing a ship is a technical job, it is slow in the water, and it is necessary to raise the sails and anchor to be familiar with the operation, so many ships need time to leave the port together, Yang Fei can only hope that the reaction in the city will not be so fast, and can leave them a little more time.
"Contact the rear team immediately, and say that so-and-so has taken control of the bay, and ask them to come quickly."
After thinking about it, he instructed the sergeant below that this was the front army he led, and that more than half of the ships were left behind, and that the words of appeasement reminded him that the pressure on land was much greater than his, and he had to guard against it.