Qiu Darui muttered a few words in his throat, and then fell on the recliner and closed his eyes to recuperate, while the shopkeeper Lu still watched the movement attentively.

After about an hour of incense, the shopkeeper Lu reported: "The messenger has come out!" ”

Qiu Daguan didn't hear it, and the shopkeeper Lu didn't dare to disturb, and only watched the messenger stride out of the Gongle Building with a clairvoyant mirror.

Feng Mi still had a worried and angry look on his face, and the old gods of several state army officers who accompanied him were there, as if they didn't care. This is also the common mentality of Guangnan people, here the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, in their eyes, except for the emperor Lao'er, the prime minister, the Zhizhou lord, and the city boss, there are no big officials. For ordinary people, the detention of the Metropolitan Governor of the South China Sea Navy is not even as dangerous as a Haikou invasion. The shopkeeper Lu secretly said stupidly and boldly, and watched the envoy get on the boat of the Governor of the Navy without looking back. After a few moments, the ship lifted anchor and hoisted its sails, left the berth, and sailed out to the open sea, where it joined the fleet of sailors that had been moored in the open sea.

"The messenger of the sailor has returned!"

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"The state army escorted the sedan chair out of Gongle Building, looking at the direction, it was going to Zicheng."

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"The warships at the dock have lifted anchor and left the port!"

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"The ships of the sailors laid down many small boats and went to the governor's boat, as if they were gathering the officers to discuss countermeasures."

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"The officers of the naval division came down from the governor's boat and went back in small boats."

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"A string of flags was hoisted on the governor's ship, and the other warships began to raise their flags...... Someone gestured with a flag on the ship's floor. ”

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"The sailor warship has moved and passed towards the port!"

Qiu Daguan has been pretending to sleep, the sun of Guangnan is shining on his face, and the shopkeeper Lu has reported before, his face has not even risen and fallen, and he breathes evenly, as if he is really asleep, however, with this sound of "the sailor warship passed towards the port", Qiu Darui's eyes suddenly opened, and he was more round than his gaze.

"The sailor is heading towards Guangzhou?" Qiu Daguan asked sharply.

"Yes, towards Western Australia." The shopkeeper Lu said, while observing the situation, he reported, "The sailor has stopped again,......, alas, no, the sailor has stripped all the armor of the iron barrel cannon, the sailors are busy filling the iron barrel cannon with medicine bags, and some people are carrying iron bullets from under the deck, and the patrol boat has also been released, alas, the state army at the head of the city has also begun to fill the iron barrel cannon with ammunition, not good, the boiling oil pot is also burning, these days the evil star, do you want to come to the real?" ”

"What did the Guangzhou Mansion do to annoy the sailors all of a sudden and want to meet each other?"

Qiu Darui was lying on the chair, talking to himself, suddenly, "boom-" cannon sound like thunder, he sat up from the chair suddenly, jumped to the window in one step, looked out, only to see the South China Sea Navy warships lined up in two horizontal lines on the sea, the back of the warships was facing the gap left by the front of the warships, the whole team of warships opened all the cannon windows, the muzzles of the black hole were spitting flames in turn, "boom" "boom Qiu Darui is also a person who crawled out of the battlefield where hundreds of thousands of troops fought bloodily, but it was the first time he had seen such a fierce artillery fire.

The sky was filled with gunsmoke, and the entire southern part of Guangzhou seemed to be filled with a choking smell

"Crazy!" Qiu Darui's face was gloomy, and he muttered: "Isn't it possible that these people are crazy? ”

"What a madman!" Shopkeeper Lu also said, "Could it be that the officer, army, and sailors are reversed?" ”

"Who are the officers and soldiers and who are the thieves?" Qiu Darui shook his head and sighed, "That's hard to say, it's just that they really dare!" ”

At this time, the iron barrel cannon at the head of the city of Guangzhou also "roared" and fired back, but the intensity of the artillery fire was far lower than that of the naval warship, not a single shell hit the naval division's warship, a few stirred up a large column of water on the sea, and most of the shells could only fall on the beach near the shore. Suddenly, he thought of something and said loudly: "The empty artillery they fired, the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division did not only put medicine packs, not artillery shells!" ”

"Hmm." Qiu Darui nodded, and he could also see that this round of shelling by the sailor was just a warning.

But what about after the warning? The naval warships temporarily stopped firing artillery, and the officers and troops at the head of Guangzhou did not dare to return fire. However, the shopkeeper saw the gunners on the ship scrubbing the barrels, and then filled the medicine bag and round iron bullets one by one, and then waited quietly. The entire sea of Guangzhou is quiet, dead and silent, and the situation is like a tense bow, which seems to be quiet, but it is tense to the extreme.

............ The sea is like a crystal clear sapphire, and the red shark reef is like a little black imperfection in the gem.

Red Shark Reef is surrounded by reefs, is small and prone to typhoons, so there are no residents on the island, and fishermen are reluctant to go near the area unless they are forced to do so. On the southeast coast, there are thousands of miles of oceans and countless islands, and there are so many uninhabited islands like this that they are as hard to find as a grain of sand on the beach. As the maritime trade routes prospered, so did the pirates who plundered merchant ships and fishing boats, and this uninhabited desert island became an excellent hiding place for pirates.

Since the appearance of the Great Eater Haikou, they have invaded the state and plundered the county, unscrupulously. Under the guidance of some coastal bandits, they colluded with the seafarers, and in collusion and collusion, they also coerced many unemployed poor people along the coast and sailors who plundered merchant ships, and the power of the pirates swelled dramatically and their arrogance became more and more arrogant. At this time, in the sea area of the Red Shark Reef, there were hundreds of large and small ships moored, the big water eater with the green crescent flag was moored in the middle of the reef, the boat of Zheng Heiqi, the largest local bandit with the black flag, and the bandit ships with the red flag and the yellow flag, and the number of peripheral ships far exceeded the big water eater himself.

The ship swayed, and the Fleet Commander Fatoumah's eye sockets were sunken deeper than they had been a few months ago.

The fleet plundered more than twenty times the fortune of the ordinary merchant fleet, and Fatoumah was convinced that if the fleet returned safely, he would become a hero of Baghdad. However, desire is the devil, and the mountains of wealth not only do not satisfy people, but stimulate his ambition even more, and the middle-aged Song man standing in front of him is more like the devil's messenger, and he is trying to convince Fatuma that it is only necessary to send another detachment to escort and transport the plundered wealth, and leaving the main force of the fleet to continue to operate this new territory of silk and porcelain, which is most in line with the etiquette of the Roma Turkic Empire, and what Fatumah will receive is not just a one-time reward, Rather, they became the princes of this new territory.

"Qiu Dongjia said, this is a rare opportunity?" Famaitu asked, and the general translated his question to the messenger.

"Yes." Mo Tianbao bowed and said, "The so-called heaven and don't take it, but take the blame, I hope the king will think about it more." ”

"Let's talk about it first, and tell him to go down first." Famaitu waved his hand, "Once you have a decision, I will ask him to pass the word to Qiu Dong's family." ”

Famaitu doesn't speak Chinese yet, and the pronunciation of "Qiu Dongjia" is rather stiff, but that doesn't prevent him from having a hint of caution in his tone, or rather, attention. This "Qiu Dongjia", the pirates all call him "Qiu Daguanren". After the Battle of Huating, when the Great Eater lost its troops and lost its morale, Qiu Darui got into a relationship with the Great Eater Fleet through Pu Abin, but the relationship between Pu Abin and Qiu Darui was more intimate than fearful. Famaitu soon discovered that the ability of the "Qiu Dong family" to deal with the Great Food Fleet was much higher than that of a big food merchant like Pu Abin, and in the Song Kingdom, there was almost no news that the "Qiu Dong Family" could not get. From then on, the big water eater plundered along the coast, and the "Qiu Dongjia" found out all the news in advance, and then took over all the stolen goods.

"Qiu Dongjia" also contacted a large number of Song bandits, from the coast of Fujian Road to Guangdong South Road, the number of these bandits is getting bigger and bigger, even exceeding the big water eater several times. If it weren't for the fact that these pirates were clearly a rabble, Famaitu would have almost doubted his intentions. When Famaitu revealed that he was going to return to the Great Eclipse in winter, the "Qiu Dongjia" tried his best to keep it, and he persuaded Famaitu that if he could loot Guangzhou, the harvest would exceed all the previous looting, and if the Great Eclipse Fleet could stay in this sea area for a long time, Famaitu would not only be a brave general under the command of the Sultan, but would be the real king of this rich sea.

After the envoy of the Qiu Dong family left, Famaitu looked at the generals and asked, "What do you think?" ”

He was answered by silence. Compared to the time of the expedition, less than half of the sailors were alive, however, the captains of the fleet also died in battle. However, there are a few people who dare to give their lives to the sea who are not daring, not to mention the wealth of the city of Guangzhou, they have heard about it for a long time. From the very beginning, the Great Food Fleet had targeted the city of Guangzhou, and under the persuasion of Pu Abin, a great food merchant living in the Song Kingdom, it was changed to coastal raids, and in this way, the harvest far exceeded their imagination. People are like this, the more they get, the more they want, Famaitu wants to be the king of the eastern seas, why don't the generals want to have a territory of their own, especially, the people of this land are as tame as lambs. Of course, fear and hesitation are not for nothing.

Adjutant Yasin frowned and said, "Your Excellency, this may be a trap. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Commander Saifudin let out a loud laugh.

Yassin turned his face away and glared at him angrily, but Saifuddin was not there, put his hand on the scimitar, and sneered: "What about traps, the biggest effect of traps is to cause panic in the army, so traps can only deal with cowards, barbarians, and heretics who are not firm in their beliefs. Just because these lamb-like Song people are also worthy of being a trap for the warriors of the Great Khan? ”

"Hahahaha." Saifaldin al-Din's words caused a chorus of laughter.