Only a few months later, Deng Keshan, the "literary courage" of Dengzhou, who had already traveled several places, had to embark on the road of escape again, but this time there were very few people around him.

The destruction of Dengzhou Town, for the Northern Dynasty of Luodu, was not only a powerful chronic disease and a bone trouble that entered the hinterland of the Central Plains, but also greatly alleviated the contradictions and hidden dangers accumulated by the Northern Dynasty on the eastern and southern fronts of the war.

For the remnants of Dengzhou, it was some kind of bad news and blows that followed.

These survivors, after Deng Keshan used the last bit of prestige and appeal to accumulate one after another.

He found out that he was hidden behind the power and dignity of the congenital insufficiency, he was just a decent mastermind under the rule of the two heads of Dengzhou, a small circle that could get close to the center of power, but because of his origin and pertinence as an old man.

On weekdays, he picks up and fills in the gaps for the superiors, and admonishes the gains and losses, which may be the law, but when it really comes time for him to make independent ideas and make decisions, he will be indecisive and confused.

So after the Great Escape, the first reunion of these survivors of Dengzhou Town on the outer islands eventually turned into a farce and a nightmare.

This was also the last time they got together, because at this rally, several of the powerful factions who had escaped each had a group of followers, and they fought endlessly for differences in their future and whereabouts, and even foamed at the mouth, spoke ill of each other, and even turned into a big fight.

Some people advocate going to Andong, some people want to go to Yizhou, some people plan to take advantage of the chaos to occupy a piece of territory in Fuso, and some have simply taken refuge in a certain sea domain on Ezo Oshima Island and want to pull the rest of the people over.

There are also people who are staring at the bookbooks and goods that Deng Keshan brought out from Dengzhou Shuicheng and the goods used as funds for revival, all kinds of soft and hard temptations or grandiose coercion and temptation.

These people who used to be in Dengzhou, and were quite famous, official and prestigious, now have their own calculations and selfishness, but no one has ever thought of doing something for those old colleagues and old subordinates who are still lost in Dengzhou.

As the convener, Deng Keshan was helpless about this, lacking the strength and prestige of the town, no matter how hard he tried to mediate, or swayed from side to side, he was not pleased.

Then the accident immediately happened, and the spies and assassins of the Northern Dynasty lurking in it took the opportunity to stir up the incident, and pretended to be angry and impulsive, and stabbed one of the leaders to death.

As a result, these remnants of Dengzhou, who were originally dissident or half-hearted, and were as tense as frightened birds, rose up like a fierce fire that added fuel to the fire, turning the venue into a bloody and undying Shura field.

Deng Keshan, as the convener, almost failed to escape, and after this incident, the remnants of Dengzhou Town, even if the real people's hearts were scattered, were out of control.

Then there were the Assassins on the island, and the raids on these remnants, coupled with the bounties offered by the Northern Dynasty, turned the relationships and peripheral forces that had been established in the heyday of Dengzhou Town into some kind of most dangerous existence.

Whether it was for a high bounty, or for themselves to be able to clear up their involvement in the new pattern after the disappearance of Dengzhou Town, they had countless reasons to erase and bury these remnants of Dengzhou who had dealings with each other.

In this trend, it is difficult for a truly faithful and trustworthy person to be good, betrayal and betrayal are the main themes in most cases, and the people around him, those familiar faces, die one by one under the knives and daggers and poison sent behind their backs.

After experiencing disheartened loss and self-abandonment despair, he decided to change his name to Keshan Dream to commemorate his Dengzhou career that disappeared like waking up from a dream.

is like the story of the characters described in the widely circulated forbidden book [Water Margin Haojie Zhiwei], he also had a day when he was forced to go to Liangshan, and only Liangshan relied on these 800 miles of water and grass to still openly confront the officials and soldiers. can become a physically and mentally exhausted Keshan dream, let go of the past, and a temporary resting place incognito.

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On the way home, there was an inexplicable naval battle.

From the beginning to the end, what we do is not to attract the enemy to our favorable environment, and then use the means and methods that we are good at to defeat them.

Although this battle was won, it was somewhat due to a certain kind of coincidences and luck that were difficult to replicate, and it could only be regarded as a rare experience of fighting at sea, but it could not be promoted and popularized as a normal state of naval combat.

But there are also some ideas and inspirations, such as the applicability of firecrackers in naval battles, and so on, and you can write a bunch of after-the-fact summaries and gains and losses.

Then it was time to count the loot and harvest, and there were almost no prisoners, because these armed men who were suspected of being pirates, if they were still alive, all jumped into the water.

In addition to using their struggling backs as targets, I stopped further pursuit, and joked that most of my men were landlubbers, and it would be a joy and sorrow if there were unplanned casualties in the sea.

From the mouths of the only few "wounded" who hid in the corner and were knocked out and failed to escape, the information obtained was also very limited, only that they belonged to a pirate leader called "Scar Wolf", who came from another sea area to do business.

It's just that this scarred wolf seems to have become one of the many indistinguishable rotten flesh on that big ship, so he can't get anything more valuable. In order to get a confession, the prisoners also turned from wounded into complete corpses.

Get rid of the armed clippers that have fallen silent and fled.

Although the large, two, and three pirate ships that were left behind, although they were almost completely destroyed above deck, and the sails were no longer usable, and they could not continue sailing, they could only float on anchors and drift on the crooked sea, but surprisingly, the cargo in the cabin, or the stolen goods of these pirates, did not suffer much damage.

Someone was sent to repair it a little to prevent these wrecks from slowly sinking by the lapping and infiltration of the waves, and stepping on the bloody mud under their feet, they were carried out one by one and put on the deck to count and count.

The main ones are some expensive goods that are more valuable and do not take up space, such as the unknown incense medicine that is in a basket, the rough processing of jewelry, the Persian flannel and camel hair fabrics with the star pattern, the silverware and statues of the Tianzhu style, the shiny fur, and so on.

There were also more than a dozen large gray stone-like things, cracked to reveal some kind of green vein, but they were the original embryos of jadeite.

It was moved over to serve as ballast, and the rest was set on fire, and on one of the larger thief ships, I personally found the dark plate hidden behind the Nine-Headed Dragon Shrine in the leader's cabin, which was full of some nouveau riche bad taste.

After forcibly breaking it with a knife and axe, silver and gold coins flowed all over the place, most of them were treasure coins of good color, mixed with some coins from various countries outside the Fanbang.

Except for a small amount of gold coins, which I put away, I pressed the heads and distributed them to the soldiers and sailors who participated in the battle, and suddenly the deck was full of joy and praise.

Then my attention began to turn to the victims of the Cantonese ship, the so-called Cantonese ship, which is actually the most widely spread, the most cost-effective style in terms of design and construction costs.

For example, three-masted and four-sail, pig-mouth bow and ingot-style water surface buildings, etc., common characteristics of sea vessels.

Therefore, its origin is not limited to Quang Nam alone, but is spread throughout the two seas, and according to the characteristics of different production areas and raw materials, it is relatively easy to distinguish the similarities and differences between some parts of the guò hull.

Judging by the bow of the ship, this ship is a product of Annan Jiaozhou, as a ship made in other states, it is mediocre in other aspects, and even some shrinkage, and the only advantage is that it uses a certain local specialty oak, which carries more important than the Guangzhou ships in other regions, and is larger.

While we're busy, they've defeated and cleared out the pirates who climbed onto the ship, lost their support, and simply repaired the ship's broken hull.

Then, under the command, he slowly approached us, put down a small boat, and sent a middle-aged man in a robe over.

"The owner of the Qualcomm Shipping Agency, thank you for saving your life"

Looking at my cat's paw flag, he was a little puzzled and a little surprised, and then asked cautiously.

"Your unit is a god army, or a navy"

"We are the one who has nothing to do with you, just passing by and happening to meet it"

Li Lizheng, who was beside me, reprimanded loudly when he heard the words.

"Is it possible that you still want to spy on the army?"

"Yes, yes, yes"

He seemed to be taken aback, and nodded his head like a peck of rice.

"It's my mouth that has lost my words, and I have no other intentions."

Then, at his signal, the besieged ship also brought out from the cabin a few hundred horses of precious silk and a box of other valuable goods, as a reward for our voluntary help, which was roughly estimated to be worth two or three thousand.

In the process, I snorted noncommittally, but ordered the two ships to anchor at a very close distance, and after a gentle collision and vibration, set up the pedals.

"Official"

Looking at the hordes of heavily armed soldiers stepping onto the board of the opposing ship, he showed an expression that he didn't know what to do.

"You guys this is"

"Compared to these things"

I'm understated

"I'm more interested in what you guys have on board"

My left and right sides were also quite cooperative, and some kind of eager expression, just waiting for my order.

If we want to kill people and swallow all the benefits, as long as we throw it into the sea, it will be the best place for me to destroy my corpses.

Xin Jiaxuan's face couldn't help but change slightly, and he looked at my eyes again and again, but he still endured it.

In the face of the people on the deck who were approaching, their faces changed drastically, but under the deterrence of rows of guns and muzzles, they did not dare to resist, they had already seen the power, and reluctantly dropped their weapons and tools in their hands, and obediently crouched on the deck, giving us a way.

Then the people in the cabin, also shouted by name one by one, dropped their weapons and gathered on one side of the deck, and then as the soldiers entered the cabin, suddenly burst into some kind of rapid shouting, the sound of crashing and fighting, mixed with the sound of sporadic banging.

Then they dragged out a dozen bloody corpses, and reported to me that the underboard of the cabin had been cleared, and then more things were brought out, first just some ordinary goods that were not much different from our gifts, and then some crossbows and other weapons that had not had time to assemble, but as the more common contraband on the ship, they were nothing.

Then I saw the real contraband taken out of the chamber, such as: some precision mechanical components, military standard spearheads, well-made armor, and the number of the origin and craftsman on it, but it was not suitable for naval combat, so it was not used.

and dozens of people who are imprisoned in the bottom warehouse, with yellow faces and thin skin, ragged clothes, who need to be supported to move around, who cry bitterly at the sight of the sky, or who are greedy like animals breathing in the fresh air.

Obviously, these people who were besieged were not necessarily good people, and judging from what they found on their ships, it was at most some kind of industry competition that was black and black.

"You're wondering where you have all the flaws."

I glanced at the middle-aged shipowner who had been pressed to the ground by two long knives by the neck.

"I don't want to sue you either, I'd better be a dead ghost"

In fact, the problem was that there were a number of crudely cast silver ingots in the box of expensive goods he had brought over, and I recognized them almost at a glance, and I had seen a large number of them in the secret vault of the Huiyuan.

Of course, I was suspicious at first, but what I found later, including some papers and letters that I didn't have time to burn, convinced me.

These people are actually the head of a well-known smuggler group, the subordinates of the thirteen departments of the South China Sea, where do they not meet in their lives, the old account of burning the Huiyuan is not counted.

"Spare my life, my lord, I'm only the leader in name"

"I really haven't done anything evil."

"I am familiar with ships and sea routes, it will be useful to you"

"I still know a lot of inside information, I can give it to adults"

"I can identify them as a contribution"

He was unscrupulous in his own life, but he kept a cold voice

"Old crab, you dare"

A person in the crowd suddenly couldn't help but shout, and then was hit in the chest with several bangs, and stepped back heavily, staring at him and dying on the spot.

Then a throwing knife, blocked by his hand, clanged down on the deck, and seemed to further strengthen his faith, and he shouted hoarsely

"There's a place near me where they hide their goods"

Old crabs? Look at this middle-aged man who is hunched over, trying to make a wrinkled flattering and humble expression.

I pinched my chin and sneered slightly, it's really a rabbit, killing two birds with one stone, and it can be regarded as compensating for some back, as