Thinking of this, Lin Baiguang deeply regretted that he had tried his best to ask to do the "banyan job". This thing is really too unusual! How can you master this chaotic situation? Wishful thinking played over and over again, but I didn't expect that the change was always faster than Jihua. It doesn't matter if he dies - he has always held the concept of "seeking wealth and danger" and "willing to gamble and lose", but the reputation he left behind is probably a negative example of arrogance! In vain, he was used as a laughing stock by the group of people in Lingao.

But I am not familiar with the terrain, so I can't get out of the camp at all, and even if I can get out, it is in vain to go to the beach without a boat.

I was trying to find someone to inquire about the current situation, but there was chaos outside, and I ran out of the tent recklessly, and I estimated that I would be stabbed before I could open my mouth. Just as he was at a loss, someone suddenly broke in, and when he looked at it, it was Xu Cheng.

"Brother Xu!"

"Don't gossip, come with me." Xu Chengyi dragged him over, "Don't talk on the road, look at my eyes and act." ”

"Okay." Lin Baiguang knew that there was no need to ask more questions at this time, just follow along. He had already packed up all his few things, and the most important thing in the rebellious army was silver, which could buy his life when necessary, followed by dry food and water. I got myself a knife as a protective weapon.

Xu Cheng led him out of the tent. The camp was full of people running around. The soldiers, their families, and their servants were like headless flies, extinguishing fires, looking for people, and wrapping wounds...... Crying and screaming are a mess.

Xu Cheng dragged him all the way until he stopped beside a wall in the camp, where there was a hole in the wall, and there were five or six people guarding it.

"You go out from here, go straight north, and Shi XIV's ship will stop there and wait for you! Let's get on the boat and go. ”

"What about you?" Lin Baiguang was grateful and asked rhetorically.

"I've been working by the side of the great treasurer for thirteen years, and I can't do anything like this to run for my life." Xu Cheng sighed, "There are also seventy or eighty brothers under me, and I can't bear to leave them......

"Let's run for your life with everyone!"

"Run together, the old camp will be over in an instant! There are also the families of the chief treasurer and the heads of the houses. ”

Now that order has become chaotic on the island, they have even begun to kill each other in order to fight for their belongings and fleeing ships. If the old camp collapses, none of the women, children, old and young inside can escape. Lin Baiguang couldn't imagine that this grumbling little leader could be like this at the juncture of Zuihou, and couldn't help but be in awe:

"Brother Xu, you are really brave and loyal......"

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go! When the rebels come over, even you will die! Xu Cheng stomped his feet and shouted, saying that he had lost a package to him.

"This is a little of my savings, if you can escape with your life, help me give it to my family!" The address is right on the package! ”

Suddenly, the powder magazine of a ship exploded on the surface of the sea, and the flames erupted into the sky. Black smoke billowed out. The people around were all colorless. Lin Baiguang nodded: "I will not disgrace my life!" As he spoke, he strapped the package around his body and ran away.

The road has become extremely uneven, with fires lit everywhere and adventures everywhere. Along the road was a chaotic crowd of people, wielding knives and guns, carrying parcels. Running aimlessly, sometimes two groups of people collide together, and start slashing each other for no reason.

Lin Baiguang didn't dare to stay, so he chose a place where no one was around, and hid when he saw a large crowd. I finally ran to the trestle by the sea.

When I looked closely, Shi XIV's ship was still there, and Shi XIV took a few sturdy pirates, armed with bows, arrows and spears, and stood guard at the bow of the ship, and saw that it was an arrow that tried to seize the ship. Even then, the deck of the ship was already stuffed with people.

"Come on!" Shi Shishi's eyes were sharp, and when he saw a short-haired guy rushing over, he looked around, knowing that it was Lin Baiguang, so he hurriedly greeted, and threw down a few ropes while letting his subordinates go down to answer.

Lin Baiguang finally climbed onto Shi Shi's boat, and as soon as he got on the deck, he was paralyzed like mud, panting for breath - this life and death run is really exciting!

"Where's Lao Xu?"

"He refused to come out, saying that there were still families of the leaders of the old camp......

"Well, this guy really is." Shi 14 stomped his feet repeatedly. "Lost a small life in vain! The great treasurers can't even take care of themselves! ”

"How?"

"Look!" While Shi 14 was taking care of the sailors to start the boat, he pointed to the waters east of Nanri Island, and Lin Baiguang suddenly gasped - dense sail canopies were constantly appearing from the skyline, pouring here. It was spitting white smoke incessantly. The sea will be shrouded in thick smoke clouds, and the sea breeze will blow again, and the spectacular scene of thousands of sails racing.

In contrast, the fleet of Zhucai old ships arranged along the edge of Nanri Island looked very thin.

Everyone can see that Zhu Cai Lao is bound to lose this time. He set up a formation on the seaside, probably to buy some time for the old battalion to escape.

"This is Zheng Zhilong's fleet?!"

"That's right, it looks like it's a nest."

Zhu Cai's fleet, under the pressure of the other party step by step, kept retreating, and those ships that did not have time to retreat were surrounded and engulfed one after another. The ships on fire collapsed on the surface of the sea, like torches scattered with black smoke.

It turns out that Zheng Zhilong's ship has so many! Lin Baiguang finally understood that the Weishenme Executive Committee was afraid of the enemy of the maritime group in this time and space. Sure enough! Just a ship with a few rifled guns and no engines, the other side is really drowning you.

Shi Shishi said that he was going to go out, Lin Baiguang knew very well that Zheng Zhilong had a bigger opponent Li Kuiqi, and it was impossible for him to bring all the men and ships to the vicinity of Nanri Island, at least he had to leave one-third to one-half of his strength to guard against Li Kuiqi, and he still had ships to buy on trade routes - Zheng Zhilong's strength was really extraordinary.

"Brother, if you don't come again, I'll have to run away." Shi Shishi pointed to the nearby sea area, "Zheng Zhilong's ship is outflanking, and no one will be able to escape in more than an hour." ”

"How many brothers?"

"Hu Fatzi has already run away with the boat first, and Lin Dan also followed the team to fight Min'an, I don't know how he is...... "Most people are now unknown if they live or die because they follow Zhu Cai to fight Min'an." A small number of people have already run away. Shi Shixi's experience was quite thrilling, he attacked Min'an all the way, and Zheng Zhilong and Zhu Cailao's main force fought at the mouth of the Minjiang River. The fleet he led was fighting in the countryside outside Min'an Town.

Xiangyong fought very fiercely because he had the help of officials and firearms, and because he was defending Xiangzi. Shi 14 led people to wade through the water and land several times, but they were all beaten back by Xiang Yong, leaving more than 40 brothers behind before and after, and a big ship ran aground in the chaos and had to be abandoned. Small boats were also burned and three or four were taken.

"It's a big loss this time!" Shi 14 was heartbroken.

Later, he received an order to return to the waters outside the mouth of the Minjiang River to support his team. As soon as he led the ships out of the mouth of the Min River, he saw Zheng Zhilong's fleet coming in an endless stream, and knew that he was definitely not an opponent, so he ran away directly from the battlefield.

"If I run a few steps slower, I won't be able to go back!" Shi Fourteen probably felt that his fate was big.

Lin Baiguang was slightly disappointed, in the current chaotic situation, he could at most say that Shi Fourteen would go to Lingao, and the other leaders didn't even know their whereabouts at the moment, where could they talk about recruitment.

Shi Shishi saw that his face was heavy, and thought that he was worried about this dry friend, and said with relief: "Don't worry, everyone has already made an appointment, if you are separated, you will meet near Dadanyu and try to find a way out." ”

Lin Baiguang nodded, thinking about how to convince these lost pirate leaders to defect to Lingao after arriving at Dadanyu. Just as he was thinking, suddenly the little pirates behind him let out a shout, and then they started to stir nervously.

Lin Baiguang was taken aback. Looking up, I saw that in the chaos, three three-masted galleons with a full 200 tons rushed directly from the oblique thorns. Seeing that it was about to crash into Shi XIV's fleet. They were all hung with full sails, and they were in a hurry, and the ships that rushed on them finally dodged in time, and managed to pass by without being hit. But despite this, Shi Shixi's subordinates were already frightened and shouted: "Where is the bastard, how to drive the boat!" "X, your mother! ”……

The corners of Shi Shishi's mouth showed a look of contempt: "This guy is running very fast!" ”

"Who is it?"

"He Xin's goods all the way." Shi 14 said that this is a so-called fellow sect of Zhucai Lao, called Zhu Ting. I don't know how I have to give him a joint sect that goes around and eight turns. In a Chinese-style family group. The most important thing is blood relationship, even if it is fake, so this newly baked Tongzong soon rose step by step in the group, and he became a leader in the old camp, and the ship was also a big ship. It's a confidant.

The three boats did not shout at them, and the full sails of the three boats flashed before everyone's eyes, and went straight to the open sea.

Suddenly, a sailor shouted, "These boats are strange! ”

"What's wrong?"

"It's very heavy, so it's loaded with some cargo......"

Zhucai Lao has been crisscrossing Fujian and Guangdong for more than ten years, accumulating countless treasures, gold and silver. In addition to the ones that were transported back to their hometowns, the old battalion that accompanied the army alone heard that there were hundreds of iron boxes, which, according to Xu Cheng, were full of gold, silver and jewelry.

Zhu Ting's ship is very likely to contain these treasures.

Once the old order collapses, everyone will become unscrupulous in an instant. People like Zhu Ting, in the past, Shi Shishi despised and despised, and he was still extremely polite on the surface. Now this "royal relative" has no identity, and he may bring treasures, just a big fat sheep!

However, Shi 14 was unmoved, and only cared about playing the flag, telling the ships to drive directly to Dadanyu and not to stop - he still knew which was more important than money or small life. Catching up and fighting Zhu Ting is a win, but the time spent will not be recovered, and when the time comes, how many treasures Zheng Zhilong grabbed by himself will not be empty!

The way to escape was still dangerous, the fleets of various units, the scattered ships scattered and fled, and in the next few hours, they encountered such a panicked road several times in a row, and some of the ships that fled in a hurry were just like the fleets of Zhu Ting just now, silent, only concerned about fleeing for their lives; But some of them were clearly frightened, and as soon as they found that a ship was in front of them, they ignored the 3721, and fired rockets and cannons, killing several of the brothers on Shi 14's ship. Shi Shishi was so angry that he scolded, and he also set fire guns indiscriminately.

Lin Baiguang sat in the safest place in the stern and saw the chaos that had collapsed. I don't feel sorry in my heart.

The battle in the waters of Nanri Island was coming to an end, Zheng Zhilong's fleet broke through the cover of Zhucai Lao on both wings, bypassed the bay, and began to block Nanri Island and the nearby sea areas. The ships that had been fighting began to turn around and flee one after another.

At dusk, the old Zhucai group, which had been prosperous since the end of Wanli, was completely wiped out. He and the main leaders were all killed in battle.

The news of the demise of Zhucai Lao Zuihou was the first to reach Lingao from Zhang Dascar. Zhang Dascara saw that Zhu Cai Lao was defeated from Min'an, and after releasing the pigeons, he hurried to the area of Zheng Zhilong's lair. Within a few days, I saw the sea around the center and left. Sure enough, I heard that Zhu Cai Lao had been killed on Nanri Island, and the whole army was wiped out. His ships and men either fled or were recruited by Zheng Zhilong.

Zhang Da Scara knew that this news was extremely important to the Australians, and did not dare to slack off, so he hurriedly hired a clipper boat to return to Guangzhou to report the news in the starry night.

"Lin Baiguang, this fool! Gave away a life in vain! Ran Yao saw the urgent call from Guangzhou Station and slapped the table fiercely. I couldn't help but feel a little sad in my heart. In the end, he is also a comrade. He walked around the office a few times, although Lin Baiguang was dead, he still had to carry out the Jihua who recruited pirates to expand the navy.

Before that, though, he had to do one more thing. He hung up the phone and went to the shop: "Lao Di?" Do it. ”

He Xin was arrested in the suite of the merchant house, and then he was escorted out of the secret passage with a hood on his head. He was held in a secret location, and Ren Fu was immediately escorted away from the place where Bopu was placed under house arrest to be with He Xin. As for the sailors, they were called to the shore under the guise of "watching the Japanese films", and then all of them were sent to the quarantine camp without the use of any force.

The Executive Committee and the Navy did not have much expectations for Lin Baiguang's plan to recruit and surrender, and had already formulated a Jihua to "recruit exiles" after the fall of Zhucai Lao. It is planned to send some ships disguised as merchant ships or fishing boats to the waters of Fujian and Guangdong to surrender.

Shi Shi's fleet finally ran to Dadanyu without danger. Dadanyu is just a small bare rocky island with no permanent population. However, there is fresh water to use on the island, and there is a harbor sheltered from the wind, so temporary anchorage is not a problem. Shi 14's subordinates, even big boats and small boats, only eight ran out. The loss was almost two-thirds. The gold and silver he had accumulated over the years also sank with the ship. scolded Shi Shishi in distress.

Here in Dadanyu, Hu Fatzi has arrived with his five boats. Because he saw the opportunity early, he was the first to run away, unscathed, and there were no casualties.

Then some more ships came one after another, and Lin Dan also came. He had only four boats left, and he wept at the sight of Shi XIV - all of his brothers had been killed in the naval battle. As for the dependents, they are trapped on Nanri Island, not knowing life and death. As soon as he arrived on Shi 14's ship, he came to ask if there was any news?

"Did the old camp zuihou run out?"

"Probably not." Shi 14 said, "When I left, the old camp's boat was still on the shore, and the big shopkeeper led people to resist desperately on the shore, probably so that the old camp could go—Zheng Zhilong's boat had already surrounded me." I almost didn't run away myself. ”

Lin Dan's face turned gloomy after hearing this, and he didn't even have any interest in speaking.

Half of the dozen or so leaders who drank and gambled with Lin Baiguang at the beginning either died on the battlefield or their whereabouts are unknown, but the rest of the people and other ships that sporadically went to Dadanyu to rest and recuperate actually gathered more than 100 ships.

But Dadanyu is a desert island and there is no food. The ships fled in a hurry, and even if there was some food on board, it could not last a few days. There were more than 100 ships, and there were almost 1,000 men, women, and children. Squeezing into square inches is not a long-term solution. All stocks are thinking about what to do next.

At the moment, their choice is nothing more than to defect to a certain sea shili: such as Zheng Zhilong, Li Kuiqi, and Liu Xiang, or burn the ship ashore and temporarily hide.

Everyone has different opinions on who they should go to, and no one can convince anyone for a while. However, most people are reluctant to take this road, and after this great war, they will lose their troops and generals -- they will not be taken seriously if they defect to the past, and they will be killed as cannon fodder when the time comes.

As for the idea of starting by yourself, it's not that no one has thought about it, but there are few ships here, there are many leaders, and no one has enough prestige, so everyone can't recommend a leader to grasp the overall situation.

After the defeat, there was no source of food and salary, and although each family brought out some accumulated property, it was a drop in the bucket for regrouping.

Lin Baiguang has not been silent, rather than being met with endless doubts and opposition when he proposes it now, it is better to wait for them to be exhausted and desperate before speaking. It's often the final word.

They deliberated like this for two days, but nothing came of it. Dadanyu has nothing but limited fresh water, and there is not even enough firewood, and if the discussion continues, everyone will have to run out of food. That night, Hu Fatzi finally couldn't bear it anymore and announced that he was going ashore.

"Lao Tzu doesn't do this to buy it, wash your feet and go ashore! In the past ten years, I have been frightened, and I have made these tens of thousands of silver, eating, drinking, and mixing with a rich man and waiting for death. ”

This resonated with many people. Some of the people who only had one or two boats left were playing with the idea. Almost all of them have accumulated a different amount of property, and when they were prosperous in the past, it was not a problem for them to buy a lot of properties in their hometowns, and it was not a problem to go back to collect rent and live as a rich man.

After the defeat, the hearts of the people are often discouraged, and the desire to retreat prevails.

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