At dawn, Montenegro woke up in the cold sea breeze, and the slightly salty air was mixed with a faint smell of blood. The early risers were surprised to find that none of the pirates who had been powerful were gone, and were replaced by a group of strange and strong men.

There are people with lively brains, sneaking to the docks, wanting to go to sea to escape for a few days, but find that the docks are also tightly controlled. The most worried are the families of those pirates, and it is always these people who are most injured in every fire and conflict on the island.

After a sleepless night, people from all walks of life gathered in the castle at dawn. Last night, five squads attacked, twenty pirates who slipped through the net, eliminated and captured eighteen prisoners, and only two people did not know their whereabouts.

The search in the castle also yielded results, and among the people seized, there were some women and children, and there were no important people, and they were all caught at the celebration banquet. The enchantment of the treasury inventory was unexpected, he thought that there was a large amount of income, but unexpectedly, there were only 70,000 or 80,000 pieces of silver, a lot of jewelry and hand ornaments, and as for other materials, Gu Haotian saw seven or eight large sea ships on the dock.

After Qiu Feng's explanation, everyone understood that the wealth of Montenegro Island would be transported to Dengzhou every time there was a certain accumulation.

All the captives, after being screened by Xiao Jiasui and others, left thirty-five people who were relatively responsible and knew how to sail, and the rest were all tied up and taken away. Gu Haotian also asked Ma Xian, Teng Huan and others to lead the manpower, led by the captives, to search the bandits' family area on the island. One is to eliminate the people who have slipped through the net, and the other is also to cut off the back road of these bandits. Unexpectedly, this hopeless move actually found the last two bandits who slipped through the net.

By noon, everything on the island had finally been sorted out. Gu Haotian ordered martial law on the whole island, and all personnel and ships could only enter and exit, and at the same time organized people to carry the seized materials to the ship.

And in the castle at this moment, Gu Haotian and Xiao Jiasui were sitting opposite each other, discussing a very tangled issue.

"Black Mountain Island is not suitable to occupy now, after this incident, Dengzhou officials will definitely send troops to search; The two are too far away from Liangshan, and once something happens, we can't reach it; Third, we do not have many sailors, and dividing our troops in many places will weaken our strength. ”

Xiao Jiasui has a clear opposition to whether to occupy Montenegrin Island. The reason why Gu Haotian was entangled was mainly due to two considerations, one was to lay a springboard for going north to Liaodong and other places in the future, and the other was to find a base for the Liangshan Water Army to train troops at sea.

"It's not hard." After Xiao Jiasui knew Gu Haotian's thoughts, he continued, "In the future, it is indispensable to go north to buy horses, so let the sailors take turns to escort the caravan, not only to ensure the safety of the caravan, but also to achieve the purpose of training, but it is a win-win situation." As for the springboard, regardless of how long it will be in the future, if we want to find such a place, here are islands, when we can't start. ”

"Just listen to Mr. Xiao, the coming day is long, but I am too anxious."

Gu Haotian saw that Xiao Jiasui was reasonable, so he gave up after thinking about it.

In the afternoon of the same day, after Gu Haotian arranged the guards, he ordered all the other personnel to rest fully, recuperate, and prepare for tomorrow night's battle.

In the evening, the fleet of Black Mountain Island set sail again, and out of Black Mountain Island, it joined the four ships escorted by Ruan Xiaoqi and others, and the fleet grew from the original two to fourteen.

All the belongings of the Montenegrin bandits were taken away. Thirty-five surrendered pirates and their families were taken with them, as well as more than 40 families of fishermen who volunteered to come because of the abundant wages, and these people were placed separately on each boat to serve as sailors.

Gu Haotian and the others were still on Li Bao's warship, and Second Master Mao, Qiu Feng, Hao Yongnian, and Cheng Daring, who had broken his arms, were all on this boat.

In the cabin, Gu Haotian and Xiao Jiasui were working together on the plan of action of the Four Seas Commercial Bank tomorrow night.

"Sometimes they are moved in the Four Seas Commercial Bank, it should not be difficult to get in and out, I am wary of the Dengzhou City Gate, where the door is to be closed at night, how do we get out then."

Gu Haotian had thought about using a strong attack, but he always felt that it was not very appropriate.

"It's better to call Li Bao over to discuss, he has been in the water division for many years, and he may have some acquaintances." Xiao Jiasui proposed.

Li Bao was in the back cabin, and he arrived in a moment, but after he heard it, he said that the matter was easy. It turned out that the Four Seas Merchant House did that unsightly business every day, and often transported goods from the north gate at night to the port of the sailor to load the ship, as long as they controlled Hao Yongnian, there was no difficulty.

Gu and Xiao saw that the biggest problem had been solved, and their hearts were suddenly relieved, and they were about to find Hao Yongnian to verify some information, when they saw a team member come in to report, saying that several people in the cabin were scolding each other and arguing abnormally, so the three of them went to see together.

In the dim cabin, after the three of them entered, it took a while to get used to the light, only to see Li Bao after making a round, but suddenly pointed at the second master Mao, and shouted in surprise: "Mao Zhongxin, the leader of the bandits who dare to love Montenegro is actually you, no wonder you have not been seen for several years." ”

"Li Bao, why are you-you-here too?" That Mao Zhongxin was also surprised when he saw Li Bao.

Li Bao ignored the guy, turned around and said to Gu Haotian:

"Little official, this guy was originally a tenth general of the sailor, and he suddenly disappeared two years ago, but he didn't expect to be a bandit."

He glanced at him with disdain, and then saw Hao Yongnian on the side, and thought of something for a while, and said:

"Yes, this guy has a brother-in-law, Wang Kongmu in the Benli Mansion, that Wang Kongmu and the Four Seas Commerce were originally in a group, and now I think that even this bandit and them are also a family."

Mao Zhongxin's brother-in-law is Wang Kongmu! Gu Haotian suddenly thought in his heart when he heard this, isn't that Mao Zhongxin the other son of Mao Taigong of Maojiazhuang, so he had an idea in his heart.

There was nothing to say all night, and in the afternoon of the next day, the ship arrived off the coast of Dengzhou, Gu Haotian left Xiao Jiasui with Ruan Xiaoqi, Duan Jingzhu, Aliqi, Zou Jia's uncle and nephew, Li Fu and others to guard the fleet in the open sea, and agreed to act together at night, and he and Li Bao still took two naval warships and returned to the port.

The time soon came to evening, and in an inn in the north of Dengzhou City, fifty or sixty guests stayed in succession. These guests behaved misbehaps, spoke rudely, and especially after drinking, they were full of ugliness and wild words. Many of the guys in the lobby heard their gibberish.

"The Four Seas Merchant is not authentic, destroy it tonight."

"We are heroes who are rampant in the sea, how can we let Hao Yongliang's birdman oppression."

……

One of them drank too much wine and even stammered: "Old man black - mountain island ......"

It's just that as soon as the words came out, he was slapped back by a man who looked like a leader on the side, but the words happened to be heard clearly by the guy who served the food.

At the end of the night, the side door of the Four Seas Trading House was silently opened, and in the darkness, a team of masked men quietly sneaked in, and then they divided into several roads, and under the leadership of the answering personnel, they rushed to various targets.

Zhengzhong went all the way to the backyard, and the thin man who took the lead was Shi Qian, followed by Gu Haotian and others. These days, Shi Qian has brought intelligence officers to reconnoiter the Four Seas Commercial Bank in many ways, and tonight it finally came in handy. I saw that he was familiar with the door, and after a while, he came to a courtyard gate, Bian Xiang stepped forward and stabbed, the door bolt was broken in response, and then everyone rushed in.

"The master is a good man on Black Mountain Island, and he is not allowed to move."

Under the dazzling blade, the people who had just woken up were silent. At this moment, I saw a middle-aged man coming out of the back room.

"You can't wait on Montenegro, what ...... you do here"

"The master is here to take your head."

Immediately, a cold light flashed, and the man was already in two places.

"Lang Jun!"

At this moment, a mournful female voice could be heard behind her, but it immediately stopped with a knocking sound.

At the behest of the times, the dark room behind the interior wall of the bedroom was opened, revealing a large storeroom. Gu Haotian went in to take a look, and couldn't help but gasp, "His grandmother's, this is too exaggerated", he couldn't help but spit out a sentence of scolding in the future, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he immediately moved it, but fortunately, the most important thing in the Four Seas Commercial Bank is the carriage.

After more than half an hour, a long convoy came to the north gate of Dengzhou, Hao Yongnian and two men got down from the front of the car and entered the guard room on the side, and then a soldier came out to open the city gate, so more than ten carriages came out, and it was only a while before it fell into darkness.

"Straight lady thief, these four sea trading houses do this black-hearted business all day long, and sooner or later it will not be rewarded."

"Brother Hugh has to that idleness, as long as we have oil and water to dip, don't care about his black heart and white heart."

"That's right."

Let's say that the two soldiers guarding the city gate, while gossiping, went to close the city gate, at this moment, I saw more than ten men in strong clothes suddenly killed outside the gate, and suddenly the city gate screamed again and again, and it took more than a quarter of an hour to return to calm.

In the early morning of the next day, the whole city of Dengzhou City was boiling, the four seas trading houses were looted, the defenders of the north gate were all wiped out, and the most tragic accident in Dengzhou City since the Zhou Dynasty was nothing more than this.

Wang Kongmu ran into the prefect's public house in despair: "Your Excellency, hurry up and let Sun Tizhi lead the troops to investigate, the murderer committed the crime in the early morning, and he will not go far with a large amount of supplies." ”

The prefect seemed to have an epiphany, and immediately ordered the master to go out and give orders.

"I'm afraid I can't!" The master hesitated and replied.

"Verma! He dared not listen to the order. The prefect suddenly became angry.

"No, the day before yesterday, Sun Tizhi came to report it, saying that he was going to Dengyun Mountain to suppress bandits, sir, you are the first to agree."

"Ahh

The prefect just remembered this matter, and was speechless for a moment.

In the north city of Dengzhou, with the deepening of the investigation of the official mission and the convergence of folk rumors, the suspects of this murder gradually surfaced, and the testimony of the innkeepers, the testimony of the people in the trading house, and the testimony of the people around the city gate all pointed to the Black Mountain bandits. The most important thing is that the corpses by the city gate, after countless people who have been plagued by the bandits, they are all confirmed to be the Black Mountain bandits, and some people even recognized the body of Wang Kongmu's wife and brother, but they were immediately carried away by the officials in the name of autopsy.

The news of the uneven dividends between the Black Mountain bandits and the Four Seas Commercial Banks and the mutual competition quickly spread throughout Dengzhou City. There are even rumors that Wang Kongmu's wife and brother are the leaders of the bandits, and people have discussed it, saying that it is no wonder that Wang Kongmu has been so close to the merchants of the four seas in recent years.

The prefect's yamen, the prefect and Wang Kongmu were relatively speechless, what was the truth about the robbery of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, they didn't know it for a while, but they knew very well that it was definitely not an internal strife or a fight.

"I was plotted by someone, and I can't guarantee that I want to come to Montenegro. It's just that for now, I can only let the Black Mountain side take the black pot first, and then check the rest of the matter slowly. The prefect gritted his teeth but was helpless.

And that Wang Kongmu is like a mournful woman, like a wooden chicken.