Haishan Port.

Zhao Yue smiled and said to Li Jiu, who saw him off: "The base here is for the general and the brothers." ”

Li Jiu knelt on one knee, clenched his fists and said: "The last general will do his best until he dies." ”

The former pirate generals bowed down and shouted: "Faithfully until death." ”

I said this sincerely.

If you haven't despaired, you won't know how to cherish it.

Zhao Yue brought a bright future and occupied this place, leaving only a dozen military training and propaganda management personnel, not taking away a single soldier on this island, and almost completely handing over the management of Li Jiu and other town guards.

The pirate generals are fighting to survive in the brutality with righteousness, how can they not be moved by such trust.

The new voters repeatedly insisted on leading their subordinates to follow to exterminate Li Heng, but Zhao Yue denied it.

The island's strategic location will make it an important shipping supply and transit point in the future, as well as a bridgehead for the transfer of populations.

Li Jiu retreated to the next best thing, and he must show his loyalty even if he could not participate in the war.

The sworn brothers Yang Jigang and Li Qiu were able to pilot the need and bring their relatives to participate in the war with the army.

Li Meng was still young, and Zhao Yue was not allowed to participate in the war.

Ron is injured and needs to help Li Jiu, so he can only stay.

The southern expeditionary fleet set sail again after replenishing fresh water and vegetables.

Unexpectedly got a talent like Li Jiu, Zhao Yue had more confidence and expectations for the Southern Expedition.

Kinmen Island hangs alone in the east of Xiamen, covers an area of about 150 square kilometers, is the nearest island on the mainland, only about two kilometers apart, but chokes the throat of Xiamen Port, barrier Fujian and Guangdong, generally east-west, resembles a butterfly with wings, the middle part is narrow, the east and west ends are broad, and the area of the east wing is greater than that of the west wing.

At this time, Kinmen was called Canghu, Huzhou, Xianzhou, belonged to Tong'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, and lived in Su, Chen, Wu, Lü, Yan, Cai, Xu, Weng, Li, Zhang, Huang, Wang, Lü, Liu, Hong, Lin, Xiao and other surnames Hanmin, it was an important salt field of the Song Dynasty in the south, and the business was prosperous, but now it was Li Heng's subordinates King Kong Wu 13, Yuan 14, Li 26 to 30; The pirates led by Xiao Twelve and other five demon generals were entrenched.

There were 2,000 pirates, and nearly 5,000 slaves and defenders from Canan Asia, whose main task was to plunder the population of the Great Song Dynasty and sell smuggled salt.

The salt works on the island became an important source of wealth for Li Heng.

The Song Naval Division was strong with the Yangtze River and Huai River armies, but they had to guard the two Huaijiang and Zhejiang, the most prosperous and wealthy places in the Great Song Dynasty, and strictly resisted the thieves, and could not leave lightly, and they had also left lightly, but they were defeated by the pirates of Haitan Island, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang were also harassed, and they did not dare to go south easily, in case the pirates took advantage of the situation.

The multi-way navy in the south is unbearable.

Not to mention the combat quality of the soldiers, the equipment alone cannot be compared with the increasingly powerful pirates.

Seventy percent of the military expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty is spent on the Western Army every year. The rest were to be supplied to the Northern Army first, and the rest were distributed to other armies.

Because the Great Song Dynasty did not have a major threat from the sea, the navy was even more raised.

(Li Heng was arrogant, but Da Song only thought he was a rural earth dragon (earthworm) and didn't take it seriously.) In fact, Li Hengbu could only play prestige in the naval battle, and really went ashore to invade the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, only for fear that the soldiers who were captured and forced to serve as soldiers fled immediately, leaving only the pirates he annexed and some people who tasted the sweetness and were willing to follow. Twisted melons are not sweet. Li Heng blindly used force and was cruel and unpopular. ）

In addition, Zhao Ji increasingly pursued pleasure, and the ministers had nowhere to save money, so they continued to cut the military spending of the navy.

The vast majority of the warships in service have not been replaced for many years, they are old and dilapidated, and they are still suitable for posing in the river.

The sailors just have something to eat, make do with life, and live to support their families, and they are already forcibly abiding by military discipline if they don't sell their swords and guns for money, who has the time and heart to fight for the imperial court?

With such a military mentality, even if Kinmen Island is close at hand, the government will not be able to recapture it.

The pirates thwarted the encirclement and suppression of the government, and the whole army was wiped out again and again, and since then no one has come to intrude, and they are confident and arrogant, feeling that no one can deal with them, and their vigilance and guards are becoming more and more loose.

When twenty or thirty familiar warships sailed to both ends of the island, the sentry on the island was only their own people, and they didn't care, and when they got closer and saw that the ship was waving the banner of King Kong, they thought that it was Haitan Island's accomplices who went to sea to visit their own leader.

A big war broke out suddenly.

The lazy slave defenders were crushed by the Cangzhao army before they could react, and they scattered and fled.

Li 28, 29 and 30 who were out with the boat had been killed. Xiao Twelve and several other demon generals who were traveling with him were all capable children of old families on the island, and they held a grudge against Li Heng and his gang for destroying their happy paradise, and usually just pretended to work actively for the Bao family, but at this time they had surrendered and became the leading party.

The bandits Li Twenty-six and Li Twenty-seven, who were sitting on the periphery of the defense, died under the random arrows.

Wu and Yuan Er King Kong were shocked to hear that the enemy's situation was unknown, so they couldn't wait for their subordinates to gather, and hurriedly led their cronies out to kill them.

Where does this tough army come from?

Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty deliberately formed an army of prisoners trained to deal with pirates?

Isn't that right?

They don't have tattoos on their faces.

The two pirate old birds can survive until now in a highly dangerous pirate career, they can fight and escape, and when they see that the limelight is not right, they take advantage of the fact that people are not paying attention, and even leave their personal guards behind, burrow into the bushes, and flee.

As long as you flee to the sea, as long as no one notices, even if you don't have a boat, it doesn't matter. With our underwater skills, we can swim to the mainland two kilometers away and hide for a while.

There have been farther and more sinister experiences before. It's really nothing this time. It's just not good to explain to the king. It is said that the king has become more and more brutal and fierce in recent years. It's not as righteous as it used to be.

The two escaped stealthily and quickly, away from the battlefield, but they were caught in the cold by someone with a net.

Xiao Twelve, who has changed back to his original name Xiao Haining, sneered, and the demon general brother Lu Zhong and his cronies pounced, stabbed into the net with a gun, stabbed several shots in a row to finish off the two King Kongs, cut off the heads of the two, and scolded: "Thief, you also have today." The revenge of the villagers who died was finally partially avenged. ”

The battle is over.

Zhao Yue roughly checked the results of the battle.

More than 20 large ships and hundreds of small and medium-sized boats were seized. Nearly 500,000 yuan of gold, silver, treasures, and copper coins, most of which were obtained from the sale of salt in the past few months, and the nearly 1,000 young and strong people who had been taken captive were not transported to the market for a while.

Two thousand pirates were killed and wounded, five or six hundred, and all the living fell.

South Asian slaves ran all over the island, blockaded the west of the island, and if they couldn't escape to the mainland, they couldn't escape, and they could all be captured. You don't need to catch it, you don't have to eat, you don't kill it, and you'll come back.

It's so close to the mainland. If you have a good level, you will have to make a log, you don't even need anything, you can reach the mainland just by swimming, and you have to deal with private salt traders frequently.

In order to avoid revealing the truth, Zhao Yue only left Xiao Haining and Lu Zhong behind, and the rest of the pirates, including the wounded, were all sent into the rear army, and the remaining three demons would cooperate with Xu Guanzhong to arrange reorganization or treatment.

Naturally, the captive population could not be put back, and it was easy to stabilize people's hearts and minds with the name of mercy of Cangzhao, and the women who were snatched and enjoyed by the rescued pirates were also handed over to the rear army to manage.

Collected the weapons of the slave army, transferred 1,000 people from the rear army, and temporarily led by Xiao Jiasui and his veteran generals Sheng Ben, Cao Hong and Xiao Lu, with sharp weapons, only defended the island, deterred and managed South Asian slaves who specialized in salt production and cultivation to work enough, and continued to sell salt under the banner of Li Heng.

After resting for the night, the army immediately set sail and went straight to the Penghu Islands.

It's not far off to meet the terrifying Yokokai Demon King.