Chapter 258: Defection is actually returning

Zhang Liang can now be said to be truly dead set on Jiang Feng, and the soldiers and officers below look at Jiang Feng with indescribable meanings in their eyes, in other words, this may be where the so-called true loyalty lies.

Dengzhou Mansion City didn't even know that these Jinyi guards had come to Dengzhou, these people came directly to the Dengzhou military camp in Yantai Mountain, and after entering the military camp, there was no news coming out, no one cared, and no one dared to care about this matter.

Things always come together, and without anyone expecting it, a two-masted Western merchant ship sails into the private harbor.

At this time, the private port of Yantai Mountain was already very tense, and there were some lucky ships coming and going here, and the only Western ship was a Spanish brig armed merchant ship that came on its back, and was used as a combat ship and was used as a teaching ship. At the observation deck at the highest point of Yantai Mountain, I was very nervous when I saw the ship suddenly appear on the sea.

The brigs and ships in the private harbor all set sail immediately, and several guns on the harbor were adjusted to aim at the sea, Jiang Feng got the news in the council room, first arranged for his family to prepare, and then led the soldiers into the bunker of the private harbor.

Inside the bunker, it could withstand the artillery fire from the outside, and the situation outside could be observed relatively clearly, but the expected naval artillery battle did not take place, and the ship was not driven away by the gunboat according to the previous ships. But they followed the ships back to the port.

The people in the fortress are very strange, but as long as they enter the port, there is no need to worry about what problems will occur, and there are not only the two three-pounder cannons on the mountainside, but also the craftsmen who cast the cannons in the artisan battalion, although the cannons made now are not considered light.

But it was enough to be used as a fort on the mountain, and the ships entering the harbor were fish and meat placed on the cutting boards, to be slaughtered.

A man ran down from under the improved fortune boat, and shouted at the top of the mountain:

"My lord, my lord, it's Instructor Jie who is back!!"

Jason Hogan? Is that instructor back? Jiang Feng was stunned, he paid a large amount of silver at the beginning to buy horse bones, and now the West always has some unique things and leading technologies, if it can be used by himself, this will definitely give his own power a great boost.

But after Jason Hogan embarked on the journey back to China, there was no news at all, Jiang Feng knew in his heart that the current voyage was actually a gamble, the so-called ten ships went to sea, and it was already God's favor to be able to come back five ships. What will happen to Bao Qi.

And even if he went back to his own country, at that time, the emperor was far away, and he took the silver back to enjoy or what to do, who would know. Whether or not you can recruit people such as craftsmen and officers is completely a matter of luck, Jiang Feng has already instructed Zhao Xiucai to remove the silver when he is making accounts.

But no one expected that a year and a half later, someone over there would really come back, and Jason Hogan himself would come back.

Jiang Feng still had a faint surprise in his heart, and hurriedly walked down the mountain with his subordinates, when Jason left Dengzhou, he was full of red light, his nutrition was very good, and the kind of skin color that he had boiled out at sea had already become pampered.

But Jason, who was now seen on the docks, was already very thin, and his complexion could not be described as a so-called bronze, but dark, and behind him stood more than a hundred people, all of whom looked like Caucasians, and each of them was almost down.

This appearance Jiang Feng looked a little familiar, and only remembered after recalling it, this turned out to be when he came to the Thousand Households in Yantai Mountain, those officers and soldiers who were driven as slaves were all like this, the only difference is that these people are in a good mental state now.

When Jiang Feng walked down the mountain, both sides didn't know what to say, you must know Jason's status in the Yantai Mountain Barracks, but as an instructor, this position is a bit equivalent to a staff member or a guest secretary, and there is no subordination, Jason has been in Yantai Mountain for so long, and he is also a soldier who has trained out the phalanx, and he has a lot of credit. When I came back this time, it seemed that I had obviously suffered a lot in the time I left.

I don't know if Jason Hogan came back and forth this time, whether he wanted to find shelter for a while, or if he was ready to run away, when he was thinking about it, Jason Hogan who was more than a dozen steps forward had already knelt down on his knees, and it was different from the Westerners who were used to kneeling on one knee, this time he bent his knees and lowered his whole body.

Jason's Chinese seems to have not been used for a long time, and it seems extremely stiff, but it pops out word by word, but it is resolute:

"Honorable Lord, I, Jason Hogan, and a hundred of my compatriots, beg you to take me in, and all we can pay is your lifelong allegiance!"

Then he repeated it in his native language, and behind him the withered people knelt down one after another, and their mouths were all speaking the same words.

Jiang Feng was in a trance for a while, thinking that he really had the so-called transcendent aura, and these foreigners were also wholeheartedly loyal when they saw him, but then he thought that if his subordinates hadn't killed Jinyiwei this time, I am afraid they would not have been so desperate.

Not to mention these foreigners, but with more than 100 people in their hands, it is good after all. I was just about to order the people behind me to go over and take him in, but I remembered something, and hurriedly ordered:

"Let them take off all their clothes and burn them on the port, and now take down the wooden barrels from the mountain and change them into our clothes."

Dengzhou's own sailors understood these things as soon as they heard this, and immediately they were busy, and some people brought quicklime on the ship, sprinkled the dilapidated brig with lime, and then used it to take back the ship from all kinds of places that could come into contact with the land.

This was also to prevent the epidemic and the inexplicable dirt that it brought, Jiang Feng followed the orders of his subordinates and returned to the mountain.

After killing thirty Jinyi guards in the Dengzhou camp, the surroundings seemed to calm down all of a sudden, and there were no peeping manpower in the Aoshan Salt Field and Linjia Island, and there was no abnormal scene. Although Jiang Feng's meticulous work in Dengzhou Mansion was very close, there was nothing unusual about it.

The 'Dutch people' (that is, Jason's men) at the foot of the mountain, according to the advice of Monk Lee's old sailors and Agaya, these people should stay in a quarantine area near the harbor for a while before they can go up the mountain, or settle in front of the large camp in front of the mountain, so they will not be able to reach it for a while.

There is a very interesting thing this time, that is, Jiang Feng has always thought that he is the captain of the Rooster Agaya, which is the Spaniard, or more precisely, it should be the Portuguese.

At this time, in the translation of the Ming Dynasty, both Spain and Portugal were commonly known as the Franco. However, more than ten years later, Portugal was about to be annexed by Spain, and at this time, the economic and military exchanges between the two countries were very large, and it was difficult to distinguish between the Ming Dynasty, which had little contact with Europe.

The Rooster's owner was a native Spaniard, and the captain Achaia and the rest of the crew were Portuguese and French.

However, it is precisely because of this situation that Jason, who Jiang Feng was quite worried about, was originally against Spain, but at this time, he saw the Spaniards, would there be any contradictions, and unconsciously, Jiang Feng had already regarded the brig and the sailors on board as his own private property.

Having said that, it seems that Ajaya and his crew and sailors have also regarded themselves as members of the Dengzhou Naval Army.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was no Suez Canal or Panama Canal in this era, and the speed of sailing ships at sea was about a little more than three knots per hour, which was converted into units that we can understand, about six kilometers per hour, sailing from the sea of Europe along the coastline of Africa around the Cape of Good Hope, and then sailing to the east, such a journey, it takes about a year for sailing ships to arrive.

But it took Jason Hogan and his more than 100 men nearly two years to get here from Holland, and the reason is not complicated, Jason and his team, when they left the Netherlands, gathered a lot of people from the independence movement who were being hunted, and by the way, when Jason was still on the surface of the Atlantic, he had a dozen ships and nearly 2,000 men.

Perhaps in order to shock the tiger, the king of Spain punished the independence movement in the Netherlands, especially the 'Jason guerrillas', which had the most momentum in the independence movement, and the prime minister and the military issued hunt warrants and bounties for Jason to various armies and colonies.

The earth is huge, but now Spain's power is also the largest, they not only have an invincible armada, but also colonies in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Jason's team grew smaller and smaller, evading the fleet, the colonial army, and the pirates.

More than a dozen ships became one, two or three thousand people were left with more than a hundred people, and they went through a lot of hardships to get to the sea of China, but fortunately, although the Spanish colony in Luzon received the news of the bounty, they didn't care about it, and although Jason's brig was in tatters, the pirates and private traders were very face-saving, because there were two possibilities, one could be the merchant ship of the Franco, so the firepower must be very strong, and it would be better to touch less.

The other may not be an armed merchant ship of the Franc machine, only Jiang Feng has this type of ship in this sea area, so it is better not to touch it.