In a cabin, Jiang De, Xu Guanzhong, and Sun Li sat on the left and right, and Jiang De let people serve tea and said, "The ship is simple, and Sun Du is not strange." ”

Sun Li's face was full of incomprehension and bitterness, and he asked, "Why is Xiao Langjun playing so well?" If it wasn't as expected, Lu Yuanwai was already resting on the ship at this time, right? ”

"That's true, but to be precise, it's not resting, it's recuperating from injuries, then Qiu Yun from Shamen Island took our bribe, and actually beat my senior brother to kill the stick, although it's not a big problem, but it's okay to rest for a while." When Jiang De said this, there was still some anger in his heart.

Sun Li smiled bitterly and said, "Then Qiu Yun is just a reckless man, Xiao Langjun only needs a note to take his life... Why... What kind of Liangshan thief do you want to pretend? ”

"Sun Dujian, my father-in-law didn't play tricks on you, but my father-in-law is Jiang Xinzhi, the owner of Liangshanzhai." Xu Guanzhong said lightly.

"What?" Sun Li thought that Jiang De was pretending to be the person of Liangshan, but he didn't expect that he was actually the real owner of Liangshan, his mind couldn't turn a little, this good son is not appropriate, being a thief, why bother?

"Sun Dujian, my lord has worked so hard this time to invite you to go up the mountain and gather righteousness!!" Xu Guanzhong continued: "My father-in-law is sincere, and I also ask Sun Dujian to think about it. ”

"Yes, Sun Dujian, I know that you are talented, so this is the case, where it is rude, I can't accompany you here." Jiang De got up and bowed to Sun Li, Sun Li also quickly got up and dodged, and then sighed, "As the old saying goes, a good minister chooses the lord and does things, Xiao Langjun values me so much, there is nothing to say in the future, please Xiao Langjun command." ”

Sun Li actually had no choice, not to mention that he didn't know if he could return to the shore safely if he said no, just said that he led people to attack Shamen Island and stabbed Qiu Yun, as long as it was exposed, it would be a big crime to kill his head, and he couldn't think of any other way except to take refuge in Jiang De.

Jiang De hurriedly helped Sun Li up, asked him to sit down, and said, "That's fine, since it's my own person, I'll tell you some things directly." ”

Then, Jiang De told him about the preparation of sending Liangshan soldiers and horses to fight overseas, Sun Li never thought that Liangshan, who thought he was a bandit, had actually expanded his territory overseas, which suddenly made his heart hot, although he didn't know what the dry leaf island was, but in any case, Liangshan's road didn't look like a dead end, maybe he could assist Jiang De to open a dynasty overseas.

With hope, there is also the enthusiasm to do things, Sun Li knew that Jiang De was worried about the Dengzhou Navy stationed on Dangji Island, so he said, "The owner of the village, if you want to say that this Dengzhou Navy, it is indeed the first naval army in the north, unlike other camps, the Dangji Island's naval army is almost all real, there are few empty salaries, hundreds of large and small ships, and thousands of soldiers." ”

"Didn't eat empty wages? It shouldn't be... Why is that? Jiang De asked curiously.

Empty pay is already a very common situation in the army at this time, on the one hand, the income of the sergeant is low, so that the method of eating empty pay can only be used to ensure that the real sergeant gets enough money, and the more important reason is that the officer is a military general, there is no benefit such as the contribution of the civilian official, and the sergeant can only work for himself and eat empty pay to earn benefits, except for the Western Army is slightly better, in other places, there are 10,000 in the account, and it is actually four or five thousand to be good, and more actual soldiers are only two or three percent on the account, just in these two or three percent, There are also many old and weak.

Such an army naturally doesn't matter much on weekdays, but once it comes to a real big war, it will be completely revealed, and even the Jin soldiers who later went south are very puzzled, doesn't it mean that there are many Song troops? Why are these people the only ones who are at war with us?

Sun Li said a little embarrassedly, "You also know the owner of the village, this empty salary is a common practice in our army, mainly due to the greed of the chief officer and the flight of the soldiers, but this Dengzhou naval army is different, first of all, they will go to sea on weekdays, if they catch smuggling ships, they will often swallow the goods privately, even if they are serious businessmen, they will also ask for some benefits, which makes them full of oil and water, and naturally they do not have to rely on any empty salary to live."

What's more, the most important thing about these oil and water is to ask people to patrol the sea to catch, so the source of the Dengzhou Navy not only has no empty salary, but also a lot of seconded van troops and archers, saying that there are 2,000 people, but there are actually three or four thousand, and the ships are also replenished from time to time, and they never slack off. ”

"It's strange, the Song army still has such an army, who came up with such a approach? Who will be its master? What about the capabilities? Jiang De listened to it and found it interesting, this approach is a bit similar to the later Yuejiajun and other troops, an important reason why Yuejiajun has strong combat effectiveness is that Yue Fei's business was good when he governed the army in Jingxiang, so that Yuejiajun has always had money to recruit troops and buy horses, to put it bluntly, you may not be able to build a strong army if you have money, but you still want to train a strong army if you don't have money, you really think you have Shu Wei's love BUFF!

Sun Li smiled and said, "The owner of the village, as long as there are benefits, there are not many people who can come up with a way, not to mention others, the Western Army is the strongest for our Song Army, is there no credit for Qingyan?" ”

"Sun Dujian is a person who understands." Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said with a smile, green salt is a specialty of Western Xia, and under the blockade of the Song army, only a small amount of smuggling can be done, but since it is blocked by the army, where can ordinary people smuggle, who is behind those smuggling merchants, many people from the northwest to Bianjing know in their hearts.

"I want to explore Dangji Island, does Sun Dujian have a way?" Jiang De made his own request.

Sun Li rubbed his hands and said, "This is not difficult, there is no food on Dangji Island, so we often have to transport supplies to Dangji Island, and when the time comes, we will take the owner of the village to go up." ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "I just have to wait for you to say this, okay, it's decided, this boat must leave as soon as possible, and we will take a small boat to leave, Mr. Xu, let Sun Xin and a few of them come in." ”

After a while, Sun Xin and the others walked in, and Jiang De said, "The boat will leave later, a few of you have a few choices, you can listen to it."

One is to go overseas with Lu Yuanwai this time, this time, on the battlefield, the sword has no eyes, and no one knows whether it is life or death.

The other is to lurk in Dengzhou, Dengzhou is a secondary important place, in the future, I Liangshan must be captured, then you can secretly communicate the news, help Sun Dujian to seize the city together, you think about how to choose. ”

Sun Li only knew at this time that Jiang De said that he wanted him to go up the mountain, but he was not ready to let him go, but asked him to continue to be the prisoner of the soldiers and horses, and he would choose the opportunity to dedicate the city in the future.

Le He was the first to bow his hand and said, "The kid has great respect for Lu Yuanwai, and he is willing to fight overseas with him!" ”

Xie Zhen and Xie Bao also stepped forward and said, "My brothers are also willing to go together!" ”

Sun Xin looked at Sun Li, scratched his head and said, "I'll be lurking in Dengzhou, otherwise as soon as I disappear, my brother will probably be suspected." ”

The uncle and nephew of the Zou family discussed it and said, "The two of us are also willing to go overseas to make meritorious contributions!" ”

Jiang De clapped his hands and smiled, "Okay, then it's decided, when Sun Xin and his wife and Sun Dujian and I go back together, this ship will go overseas first." ”

When the sky turned white, Jiang De and the others had already returned to Sun Xin's hotel outside the city, and Jiang De asked Sun Li, "Eunuch, how long will it take to investigate the matter of Dangji Island?" ”

Sun Li thought for a while and said, "There will be a fleet going the day after tomorrow, how about the day after tomorrow?" ”

Jiang De nodded, indicating no objection.

- Dangji Island

The news of the pirate attack on Salmon Island was reported to Dengzhou Mansion by the military who escaped the catastrophe the next morning, Li Hao learned the news, only felt that his teeth hurt, how many repeat offenders on Shamen Island, God knows if there were a few escapes, so he could only send more people to Shamen Island to stabilize the situation, while reporting to Bianliang to know, and also participated in a book of sailors who neglected their duties, so that the pirates went to the island.

As an important town guarding the gateway to Dengzhou, Dangji Island actually let the pirates go around to Salmon Island, no matter what, it is unreasonable, if nothing else, the punishment from Bianjing is the lightest, and now the commander will have to be replaced.

Therefore, in order to make up for the merits, the Dengzhou Navy looked around like crazy for the traces of the so-called pirates, and there were not many sailors stationed on Dangji Island.

"Sun Dujian, did you come this time to see your brother's joke?" A bearded general came to the dock and said to Sun Li.

Sun Li laughed and said, "I said Brother Du, what are you talking about, I was afraid that you would be in a bad mood, so I specially brought you the wine of Qionglou, but you want to blame me!" ”

The person who came was Du Youzhong, the commander of the navy, Du Youzhong touched his beard and asked with a smile, "Is this true?" ”

"It's absolutely true, you know as soon as you drink it, if it weren't for good wine, I would swim back to Dengzhou by myself!" Sun Li patted his chest and smiled, Du Youzhong no longer suspected him, stepped forward and patted Sun Li on the shoulder and said, "I didn't expect you to be the most righteous at the end, I don't have to say it, when this gust of wind passes, I will go to the shore and invite you to drink!" ”

Sun Li was in the same situation as Du Youzhong, and Jiang De, who was pretending to be Sun Li's personal soldier, smelled the sea breeze with a fishy smell and looked around at the fortress of the first naval army in the north.

I saw that there are wooden fences standing everywhere in this water village, the big boat is like a city outside, the small boat is in the traffic everywhere, the land village on the island is hunting with flags, the spears are heavy, the guard towers are standing in all directions, and the feast of vigilance is prepared, so that Jiang De nodded secretly, and Xu Guanzhong next to him said in a low voice, "Lord, it seems that the Dengzhou Navy Division is very good at the water army." ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "This is normal, the Dengzhou Navy has been in the army for so many years, and there should be some doorways, and when we get closer, we will know what its strength is." ”

Over there, Sun Li talked for a while, looked around and said, "Brother Du, I rarely come to you, what fun do you have here?" ”

Du Youzhong said with a sigh, "This is a desert island, where is there anything fun, if you want to play, you can only play warships." ”

Sun Li shook his hand and said, "Don't dare to trouble your army, don't dare I have always been fighting immediately, but I really don't know the mystery of your sailors, Brother Du might as well introduce it, and I will have some conversations with others in the future." ”

Du Youzhong thought for a while and said, "It's okay, then let's go." ”

A group of people sat in a small boat, Du Youzhong continued to introduce various ship types and their combat methods, Jiang De listened while looking at those sailors, and found that most of them were scattered, laughing and playing, and understood in his heart that although this navy is tangible, it has no essence of the navy, and it is okay to deal with the Liao army or the Jin army.

Although it is not so much a navy as a smuggling team, the quality of the soldiers of the anti-smuggling team is not very good, but the ships of the Dengzhou Navy are a little greedy for Jiang De, especially those warships with trebuchets installed, which makes Jiang De once again sigh that the imagination of the ancients is not bad at all, and also makes Jiang De dispel the idea of eating the Dengzhou Navy in a short time.

Sun Li and Du Youzhong ate and drank, and then took a boat back to Dengzhou, while Jiang De and Xu Guanzhong changed to a legal merchant ship non-stop, took the guards, and chased Lu Junyi and others who had already left first.

- Twenty days later

"Gross!" Xie Zhen walked quickly to the railing of the boat and vomited at the sea, while Xu Guanzhong was already lying on the bed.

There are many people who do not get motion sickness, but there are very few people who do not get seasick, the bumps on the sea are definitely not something that outsiders can imagine, when the real wind and waves come, the hull is not only rocking left and right, rocking back and forth, but also rocking up and down, making people unable to sleep, making people extremely uncomfortable.

"It's here! It's here!! He hurriedly got up and looked, only to see a sand boat with the Yellow Sky Sun and Moon Flag in front of him, and in the distance, it was a port that looked extremely quiet, several fishing boats were casting nets to fish, a water village was clearly visible, and the Liangshan flags were all over the place, which made people feel at ease.

"It's finally here!" Lu Junyi took a breath and said, "Senior brother, is this the Dead Leaf Island?" It's really big, and it took us days to get from south to north. ”

Lu Junyi's injury was almost healed, he looked at the land not far away, and only felt that a fire was burning in his heart, this was the place where he had made great achievements.

Jiang De also took a breath, it was not September at this time, he was already going to wear thick clothes here, he couldn't imagine how terrifying it would be here when it was really cold, fortunately he came with him, this was Jiang De's only thought, otherwise, he would rely on these materials brought with the ship, and I don't know how many non-combat attrition there will be at that time.

Jiang De is not worried about Lu Junyi's conquest on Dry Leaf Island, he is most worried about the cold winter of Dry Leaf Island, it is not difficult to lay down Dry Leaf Island, but if you want to really master Dry Leaf Island, how to survive in winter, and live well, is the most difficult.

Li Zhen looked at the fleet that was getting closer and closer, and his heart was a little complicated, the Song people had increased again, and the Dry Leaf Island would probably never be the Dry Leaf Island of the Duhu Technique, the only thing that was reassuring was that these Song people and the Duhu Technique Department were friends, and the Gu Wei people who had been threatening the Duhu Technique had been driven to the other side of the mountain, and when these new Song people came, they might be driven farther away.