Section 67 Southern Expedition (5)
"Thank you Childe for saving your life."
Ron fell to his knees on the deck in pain. His men also fell to their knees.
Zhao Yue hurriedly helped him up, "General Luo is not busy and polite. It is important to heal the wound. ”
After the military doctor on the ship stepped forward to check skillfully, he praised: "Good skills, none of the key injuries have been injured." ”
Then wash and dress. It didn't take long to complete the rectification.
The military medical officer smiled and said, "Good man, in a few days, I will ensure that you can live again." ”
Then he was busy treating other pirates with other military doctors.
Ron was free for his life, but he refused to rest.
He hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists: "Zhao Gongzi, you saved my life and my brothers, according to the morality of the rivers and lakes, I should swear to death to repay." But I want to tell you, if the prince wants us to surrender to the imperial court, break up and integrate into the Song army, and lead the Song army to attack the pirates, please forgive me for not being able to obey my fate. ”
Gritting his teeth again, "Although we pirates are not engaged in production, they specialize in looting, killing people and endangering places, and are guilty, but most of them are forced to do so." We're not born robbers. ”
As he spoke, he couldn't help but think of what had happened over the years, and thought of the few old brothers in his hometown, and said with tears in his eyes: "I can't turn back and kill the desperate brothers in the past." If the son is unhappy, please take my head to ask for credit. I only ask Gongzi to have the virtue of a good life in heaven, and let my brothers have a way to live. Let them be a sailor and a thug for you, or even a cow and a horse, and I am grateful to you in the underworld. ”
Zhao Yue didn't say anything. Ma Ling smiled first.
"Who cares if Da Song lives or dies? We are also anti-Song, but we are taking a different path. ”
Ron was stunned, and then said, "What are you talking about?" ”
Zhao Yue smiled, "Let's go, let's go to the boat to drink hot tea, and rest and say." ”
When Ma Ling roughly explained the nature of the Cangzhao Group, Ron was not overjoyed, but muttered like sleepwalking, "Is this true?" Aren't I dead, and all I see and hear is unreal? ”
Ma Ling stuffed the teacup into his hand and said with a smile: "What do you say? ”
The tea is hot and slightly hot.
Ron believed that it was not a dream, and immediately burst into tears, and then howled and cried.
"Why didn't you explain it to us earlier? Why did you let us be trapped under Li Heng's hands and suffer all these years? Why didn't we know to go to you? If only it had been"
The tiger-like man has been suppressed for too long, and he is a little stimulated for a while.
Zhao Yue was afraid that he would be injured and mentally traumatized, so he suddenly knocked Ron unconscious with a palm and told him to rest first.
Ma Ling couldn't see this kind of thing, and sighed heavily.
Zhao Yue patted him and said, "Everything will be fine." It's just that we need to speed up the process. ”
Later, he found the leader of Ron's men who was less injured, and asked in detail about Haitan Island and Li Heng.
Zhao Yue found out the general situation of Li Heng's department, and couldn't help but be surprised and happy.
The desolate island of Liuqiu, which used to be isolated overseas, now has a population of 7 or 800,000 people. Among them, there are more than 600,000 Song people. The rest were slaves that Li Hengbu had snatched from Nanhai Zhudao.
Initially, Li Heng fled from the north, somehow found Liuqiu, ecstasy, subdued the natives with a bloody massacre, and occupied it as a permanent foothold, first gradually subdued the South China Sea pirates from near and far, and restored some strength, for the development of Liuqiu, there was sustainable development, and there was a lack of ships and excellent equipment, and after several plundering of the Great Song Dynasty, after losing a small amount due to lack of strength, he turned to the nearby Nanhai Islands.
What resistance does the small savage country on the island have? How can you resist the tough pirates.
Soon tens of thousands of young people were swept in.
Li Heng was not happy for a few days, but he found that these people from the South China Sea Islanders were lazy, gluttonous, tricky, stupid, ruthless, and greedy.
How can such a person be the demographic basis for development?
If the island is full of such people, I am afraid that not only will it not be profitable, but it will be surrounded by danger.
Li Heng was greatly disappointed, turned to looting grain crops and property, and began to use ferocious violence to drive these barbarians to engage in construction and land reclamation and other labor, and killed them if they did not obey at all.
In this way, these barbarians are much more honest and obedient.
Li Heng set his eyes on the busy and prosperous sea trade ships in the South China Sea, and personally went out to plunder frantically. The first to grab the ship; The second is to rob the Han people, especially the sailors and craftsmen, and the third is the goods.
In this way, the fleet was rapidly expanded, and with strength, it waited for an opportunity to rob the wealth of the mainland's population.
Li Heng is a pirate, and his obsession with ships has reached a crazy level.
One of the once thriving key shipbuilding bases of the Great Song Dynasty, the main shipyards along the coast of Fujian were the first to be looted and looted by Li Henglian with equipment. The Fujian shipbuilding base was soon abandoned.
Today, the island has shipyards that are even more advanced than those of the Great Song Dynasty. There are cement plants, salt works
Troops?
Because Li Heng plundered mainly young and strong men and women, the island implemented a strict system of continuous protection, and one person who escaped was killed and even protected, and all the people were soldiers. If there is a war on the mainland, hundreds of thousands of troops can be organized.
The backbone of the army has 70,000 or 80,000 troops, all of which are capable of fighting both land and water. Thousands of large and small warships.
Haitan Island alone has more than 100 large and small warships and more than 8,000 personnel, including more than 5,000 water thieves. The rest are young and strong slaves captured from the islands of South Asia, responsible for farming and other work, and can be used as soldiers in times of crisis.
Li Jiu's subordinates originally had four or five thousand men, women, and children, but now there are only more than a thousand left, but they are all elites. The others went to Liuqiu and settled down and became common people.
Interestingly, Li Heng engaged in a heavenly and earthly mode.
However, Li Heng may have felt that Tiangang was not majestic enough, or not suitable for pirates, and preferred to use another name.
Most of the thirty-six backbone leaders under him were bandits who started with him in the north, and now they have changed their surname to Li, with the serial number as their name, and they are called the 36 King Kong of the Henghai Sea.
There are also seventy-two demon generals in Zhenhai below.
These were the warriors he had been forced to join the population of pirates and captives he had come south to subdue.
King Kong is invincible. The demon will go to heaven and earth, and the water and land are strong.
There are these subordinates called Li Heng's identity as the Demon King of the Henghai.
Zhao Yue felt that he had made a plan a little lightly.
Ask Li Heng how powerful his skills are.
The pirates' faces changed color, and they only said that they were not human.
Not human?
Why isn't it human law?
Does it mean that Li Heng is fierce and strong, or does it mean that his martial arts skills are incredibly strong?
At present, when he wants to deal with Haitan Island, Zhao Yue didn't ask much about Li Heng.
Ron had a good night's sleep, and when he woke up, he was less agitated and his sanity was back to normal.
When he came out to inspect the brothers, and saw that Li 21, including the surrenderer, had also been treated, he told the pirates that the good days were coming, and they all obeyed honestly, and thanked Zhao Yue again.
Immediately, he blushed and begged Zhao Yue to help him take down Haishan Island and rescue Li Jiu and other brothers.
His betrayal, although no one can escape and report the news, but Li Jiu, who is even more lonely, will be poisoned sooner or later. Ron has a breath of air, and he will not allow his brother to suffer.
He obviously hadn't figured out the purpose of Zhao Yue's trip, and he thought that the fleet was only going south for sea trade.
Ma Ling laughed and said, "Brother, we are going to exterminate the island water thieves."
Only then did Ron know that Li Heng's good days were over, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Enthusiasm was high, and he drew a rough map of the island, indicating the layout of the island's troops.
"Second son, this place is called Thirty-six Foot Lake, the lake water is clear and sweet, and the fish and shrimp in the lake are delicious. At that moment, the three thieves of Jin, Shen Rong, and Qinghong and the two thousand people of the department were stationed by the lake.
I led the way, raided here with the main force, and wiped out the three thieves and cronies in one fell swoop. Without a leader, most of the others are Song Min who was forced to join, and with a clear road, it is not difficult to subdue. The remaining Li Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five, who were stationed in the two places on the northern periphery, were not to worry, and Brother Jiu and I could easily clean it up. ”
Zhao Yue nodded: "How can the sneak attack succeed is the key." Please teach me Brother Luo. ”
There is no shelter on the sea, how can the warship pass without being discovered?
Even if it doesn't go by at night.
Zhao Yue vaguely remembered that in his previous life, the area around Haitan Island seemed to be called the Wanjiao Islands, and there were many light and dark reefs around the island. Without lights, with only the hazy moonlight, even if you are familiar with the waterway, it is difficult for the boat to get on.
Ron said he didn't dare to preach.
"Childe may not know. There is a special scene in the area of Haishan Island, which is called Donglai Lanqi by the locals, and is considered to be auspicious and wishful. Whenever the air comes, the island area is filled with it, and the vision is unclear, like a fairyland. There are now. It does not affect the approach in broad daylight. I am familiar with waterways, often sail in the air, and dare to guarantee that I will quietly arrive with a large army in a warship of less than 3,000 materials. ”
Zhao Yue smiled happily and said, "Yue can trust Brother Luo." ”
Xu Guanzhong was immediately ordered to anchor in the sea off the eastern part of the island to guard over Li 21's pirates and to guard against foreign enemies. The Sam Nguyen Department was responsible for capturing the port, robbing the pirate ships, and taking over and cutting off the pirates' retreat. He personally led Zhang Shun's troops, and Ron and a few cronies led the way to attack the pirate command center.