In the days that followed, Wu Wenyong was held by the brazen pirates to watch their Marine Corps training, fleet training, and meet his nephew, Wu Xuanyi. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Although Wu Wenyong gritted his teeth with hatred for the shamelessness of those pirates, although he was very reluctant to admit it, and insisted on despising those things of the pirates in his mouth, but after observing these days, Wu Wenyong still had to admit in his heart that these pirates were very capable of fighting, very capable of fighting. In terms of combat effectiveness, it was far from being comparable to the army of the Li Dynasty.

"In fact, as long as you recognize our rights, we don't necessarily have to fight each other, after all, we are only seeking money. In addition, I have been ordered to send you to the Dragon Mansion early tomorrow morning. After a certain visit to the formation of the Marine Corps, Yu Xin said to Wu Wenyong.

"Humph! You think you can scare me with this little skill of carving insects? What wishful thinking! Wu Wenyong scolded.

"General Wu, you misunderstood what I meant." Yu Xin replied politely, "We didn't arrange for you to see this, not to intimidate you or your king. We are only trying to improve understanding between the two sides, and we believe that the root cause of many unnecessary conflicts is actually a miscalculation of the strength of the other side and the determination to use it. We're just trying to eliminate that miscalculation. ”

Wu Wenyong glared at Yu Xin fiercely, but he himself knew that it was useless, so he didn't say anything in the end.

Early the next morning, several Haikou took him and his nephew Wu Xuanyi onto an inland river warship, and then walked upriver along the river for most of the day, and then let them get on another boat. It was a local boat, the kind that could only be used in the Red River. The boat is not very well maintained, but it is no problem to walk around the river. There were also two boatmen on board, and when he saw the thin bodies of the two boatmen, as well as his cowering faces, Wu Wenyong knew that these two boatmen must be from the Great Yue Kingdom, and most of them were captured by those "Australian pirates".

The pirates sent Wu Wenyong onto the ship, and Yu Xin said: "How to go further from here, I think you know very well, general." I have to say goodbye to you for a thousand miles, so I will only send it here. ”

Wu Wenyong snorted and said: "My uncle and nephew are incompetent, the defeated army has lost the land, you send us back, if the king thinks that we deserve to die, it is not wronged to die under the king's axe." If I can trust your blessing and leave this life, as long as I still have a breath of air in the future, I must come back to thank you for your kindness. ”

Yu Xin heard this, and said with a smile: "I'll wait and see." ”

……

A few days later, Thang Long Province.

Zheng Jie, dressed in a python robe, sat on the chair, his face was pale, and Wu Wenyong knelt beside him.

"So can you be sure that these 'Australian pirates' are the people of the Ming Kingdom Zheng clan?" Zheng asked Jie.

"It's true, in fact, those pirates themselves don't seriously hide it." Wu Wenyong replied.

"Then is it true that they colluded with the Ruan family in the south?" Zheng Ji asked again.

"The criminal doesn't know, they claim it like this, but the criminal hasn't seen the evidence, and the criminal thinks that they are probably just using the Ruan family as an excuse." Wu Wenyong replied.

"Hmph, do you still need proof? If the Zheng clan of the Ming Kingdom is willing to collude with them, how can those rebels be unwilling! A minister snorted coldly.

"You said that they showed you martial arts every day in the past few days, trying to scare you?" Zheng Ji asked again.

"Indeed, Your Majesty." Wu Wenyong bowed down and replied.

"What about these pirates?" Zheng asked Jie.

"The elite is the extreme, the brave is the extreme, and it should not be taken lightly." Wu Wenyong replied.

"Hmph, grow the morale of others, and destroy your own prestige!" Another general said angrily. Wu Wenyong recognized this as Chen Zhigang, one of his opponents, the general of the forbidden army.

"Let's talk about how you fought this battle." Zheng Jie said.

"Back to the king, the criminal minister ......" Wu Wenyong told Zheng Jie in detail about the experience of his battle.

"What do you think?" Zheng asked Jie.

"Your Majesty, Wu Wenyong lost his teacher and humiliated the country in this battle, and he really deserved to die. The minister thought that Wu Wenyong had three major sins! As soon as Zheng Jie's voice fell, Chen Zhigang stood up and said loudly.

Zheng Jie was silent, and Chen Zhigang continued: "This first crime is lax management of the army. Wang, in fact, Wu Wenyong's plan to ambush Haikou with ambush soldiers was not wrong, but Haikou obviously saw through his ambush, so he stopped in front of his ambush site and lined up to prepare for battle. Why did the pirates know that there was an ambush ahead? Can they still pinch it? It must have been because Wu Wenyong was not strict in governing the army and his orders were unclear, which made those sergeants move around, and then they were seen by Haikou from afar.

The second is that there is no way to command. After the ambush was seen through, Wu Wenyong lost his ground, his own family was in chaos, and later lost his courage after a slight setback in the battle. The king will be a soldier. Wu Wenyong's own family is panicked, can the soldiers be in chaos?

In the end, Wu Wenyong was shameless, in order to humiliate the country, he changed to a micro-minister, and he must have died on the battlefield, where would he be a prisoner? Where else is there a face to come back and boast about the enemy army? The minister asked the king to punish this thief in order to thank the world! ”

Zheng Jie listened, remained silent, and asked after a while: "Wu Wenyong, what do you have to defend yourself?" ”

"What General Chen said is true, the criminal does not dare to refute it, but the criminal minister has been in the Haikou army for a few days, and he has seen something more or less, and the criminal minister begs the king to allow the criminal minister to tell what he has seen, and then the criminal minister will be punished canonically, so as to thank the world." Wu Wenyong kowtowed.

Zheng Jie stood up and turned around a few times, and then said, "Get up and tell me, what did you see in Haikou's camp?" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wu Wenyong kowtowed heavily on the ground, then stood up and talked about what he had seen and heard in the Haikou army.

"According to what you say, can Haikou become a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general?" Before Wu Wenyong could finish speaking, Chen Zhigang shouted angrily.

"Chen Qing, listen to him." Zheng Ji frowned slightly.

"Your Majesty, it's your subordinate Meng Lang." Chen Zhigang hurriedly said.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the Haikou are elite, and it is also a matter of course." A Wenchen said suddenly.

"Oh, what does Hu Qing think?" Zheng asked Jie.

"Does the king know about the wars between the Ming Zheng clan and the Dutch, as well as the Spaniards?" The minister surnamed Hu said.

"I've heard a little." Zheng said.

"General Chen, some time ago, the Royal Forest Army was equipped with Dutch artillery, and Dutch soldiers were invited to teach. I wonder how well this Dutch soldier is trained? The level of the gunners of our army is comparable to that of the Dutch? The minister, surnamed Hu, turned his head to Chen Zhigang and asked.

Chen Zhigang thought for a while and replied: "The Dutch soldiers are indeed well-trained. The training time of our gunners is still limited, and they can catch up with others so quickly. He knew that if he answered like this, it would most likely reduce Wu Wenyong's crime, but not long ago, he had praised the Dutch soldiers to Zheng Jie, and now if he denied it, he was afraid that he would lose Zheng Jie's trust. And if he loses Zheng Jie's trust, then his attack on Wu Wenyong will most likely become a help to exonerate him.

"Your Majesty, the Ming Kingdom Zheng and the Dutch have been fighting a war for several years, and they have won the war at that time, and I have heard that they have fought another battle with the Spaniards recently, and I have heard that they have not invested more troops than the Spaniards, and the result is also a great victory. It can be seen that these pirates are indeed not simple, and they cannot be regarded as ordinary bandits. ”

Zheng Jie listened, nodded and said, "Expect the enemy to be lenient." The last time we suffered a loss, it may not be because we were too light on the enemy. Well, Wu Wenyong, you go on. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Your Majesty, the equipment of these pirates is also different. The infantry of these pirates had very fine armor, very similar to the iron armor they sold us, except that they had no armor on their arms or legs, just a sleeveless half-body armor covered with a green overcoat. This armor king has seen it, although the hands and feet are missing, but the body part is well protected, and the sword is difficult to hurt. The pirates' infantry were all armoured, so that even if they were damaged in battle, most of them would not be fatal, and they could return to the team after a period of recuperation. As a result, there are many veterans of the pirates who have been on the battlefield. And there are few people who die, so they are naturally extraordinarily brave. Wu Wenyong said.

Zheng Jie nodded, he was quite familiar with the iron armor sold by the Zheng family of the Ming Kingdom, (that thing was actually a European-style full-body armor) He had his own set, and the captain of his personal guard, as well as some generals surnamed Zheng, were rewarded with such a set of armor. The defense of something is indeed very good, and when you put it on, you can ignore almost any other cold weapon except for the warhammer. If the infantry of the pirates has such armor, even if they are half-sleeveless, then in hand-to-hand combat, it is simply cheating. If more than 300 Haikou were wearing such armor, then it would not be very difficult to understand that they could defeat more than 2,000 soldiers of the Li Dynasty who were not fully armored, and even many of them were unarmoured.

"In addition, their guns are different from ours, they have no arquebuses on them, and when they use muskets, they have to line more densely, and they can be equipped with a very long three-edged short sword for use as a short spear. So they can shoot both from a distance and in hand-to-hand combat. The criminal commander miscommanded, and when he charged, he let the armored soldiers rush ahead, and as a result, most of the armored soldiers were killed by them with muskets, and then they broke the unarmored soldiers led by the criminal in hand-to-hand combat...... The pirates are now building a city at the mouth of the river, and if all his cities are built, and in conjunction with the gunboats on the sea, it will be very difficult to expel them. Whether it is war or peace, the guilty minister implores the king to make a decision as soon as possible......"