Chapter 136: A Busy Year

In fact, this is the same as the nomads always choose to enter the customs in winter to loot, because in winter, every household always has some savings and grain, just to grab it, especially near the New Year's Pass, it is the time when the inventory is the richest.

The pirates chose this time to be the right time, originally watching more than 200 people working on the coast, these 20 pirates did not pay any attention to it, whether it was the guard or the people along the coast of Shandong, in their eyes they were like pigs and sheep.

As a result, these people jumped out of the boat with weapons and shouted, according to past experience, women were usually working on the seashore, and after being caught, they could still be happy and happy.

Who would have thought that as soon as they jumped off the boat, the more than 200 "villagers" did not scatter in a hurry, but stared at a few boats, working on the seaside, frostbitten hands and feet, not to mention, the key is that I don't know when this day will end, every day is called like an animal, why do I work hard to be a horse, not to have a comfortable life.

But the Jiaozhou battalion soldiers outside are too capable of fighting, and they are a four-foot wooden shovel in their hands, and if they want to resist, they will be poked to death directly, and they will be frozen to death if they freeze into the sea in the cold, and they can't advance or retreat!

Looking at the boats that came ashore, the people on the boats were only holding swords and other weapons, and the number was very small, and for a while, everyone in the horse captives moved their minds, as long as they took the boats, couldn't they run away in the boats, and the eyes of more than 200 people turned red. The pirates were still wondering, thinking that these "villagers" were not stupid, why didn't they run away?

I don't know who shouted, more than two hundred wolf-like "villagers", waving the wooden shovel in their hands rushed up, to say this situation, the pirates have also encountered, as long as they cut down a few leaders, the rest of the people will disperse, everyone is doing a desperate business, this courage is still there.

The pirates are also not ambiguous, everyone raised their knives and shouted to hedge over, there are many Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty, all of them are ronins who have nowhere to be in Japan, these people have special samurai training, and they dare to fight, and they have always been used as cannon fodder by the pirates of the Ming Dynasty.

There were really a few pirates in the 20 or so pirates who came ashore, these people were armed with long knives, and they jumped and slashed down, and even if the "villagers" raised a wooden shovel to block, they would be cut off by the Japanese knives and even the wooden shovels, and four or five people died in front of them, and the battle should be over at this time, and the "villagers" should have scattered and fled, but it was very different from the understanding of the pirates.

The captives' eyes were red when they looked at the boat, no one was willing to give up, what is the dead man, the key is not to live to suffer, after those Japanese robbers were surrounded in the middle, the long knives in their hands could not exert any power at all, so they cut down a person in front of them, and more than a dozen wooden shovels smashed over their heads and faces, and they were immediately knocked to the ground, and they had to be stepped on countless feet.

Before the two dozen or so pirates who could not figure out the situation could react, they had all been overturned, killing seven or eight of them, and the rest could not get up.

But in the end, these prisoners didn't have time to run by boat, because the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion guarding outside had already heard the movement, and these Xiangma prisoners didn't know how to operate the boat at all, and none of them ran away, and they were all captured.

Eight of the pirates died, and a few of them also breathed when they were carried to the guard, and there were seven living people left, in fact, if these seven prisoners, Zhao Neng who was guarding the town didn't even have to report to Li Meng, but there were quite a few well-informed old military households in the Qianhu station, and they all said that these three small boats were just here to listen to the news from the front station, in this case, there should be a few big ships waiting there outside or in the nearby harbor.

If the location is determined, the big ship will sail over, as soon as he heard this, Zhao Neng led people to torture those pirates, and sure enough, there were at least more than four hundred pirates waiting nearby, these people all heard that the Lingshan Guard had recently become wealthy, and they were ready to come over and make a fortune!

More than 400 pirates went ashore to loot, this is a big deal, although Zhao Neng has 600 people in his hands, but there are still all over the Yantian salt field, some can't take care of it, asking for support and mobilizing soldiers and horses, etc., it is a big deal, Li Meng still has to be in charge of Jiaozhou.

When Li Meng returned to Xuejia Island, from thousands of households to hundreds of households, personnel at all levels were very polite to him, you know, Li Meng is now a real five-grade general, if his own children want to find a background, they really have to take refuge in Li Meng, who is a native of their hometown, and ask for a response, such a relationship, how to be polite.

Ma Yuxing and Zhang Lin all got together to give Li Meng ideas, according to what they said, if these pirates did not return for a few days, I am afraid that the brigade would soon go ashore.

Pirates generally do not specialize in robbing a place, but in turns, naturally, these people will not know what Li Erlang of the Jiaozhou battalion, these old military households are a little worried, because the pirates go ashore to burn and loot, compared to the Xiangma bandits, the bandits on the road may have the scruples of the villagers, the pirates are chickens and dogs do not stay, do not leave a back hand at all, anyway, drifting on the sea, do not worry about seeing each other in the future.

And the combat power of the pirates is much stronger than the ordinary grass robbers, although Li Meng can defeat hundreds of horse bandits, but these old guys are Li Meng's lack of confidence in defeating these pirates, and they have suggested that more soldiers stationed in Jiaozhou should be transferred over.

Li Meng was also a little crying and laughing, thinking to himself why bother, there were 1,500 people stationed in Hefeng Meng Town led by Zhao Neng, so many people couldn't beat the pirates.

The seven pirates were also slightly injured and were locked in a stone house, calculating that this day was already the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, when Li Meng was about to lead people to interrogate, but saw that the thousands of households on Xuejiadao were busy, not busy for the holidays, but as if they were busy moving.

Li Meng wondered in his heart, and called a military household, and now in the thousands of households, almost all the young and strong people have been given to Li Meng as soldiers, and the rest are all old people, they naturally know Li Meng, and quickly stopped to salute, Li Meng asked bluntly:

"What is the reason for the commotion of these thousand households?"

"Back to Lord Li's words, isn't this a large group of pirates coming, let's all hide inland, and talk about it after this limelight."

"Didn't Qianhu say that the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion were going to come here to garrison, wouldn't it be better for you to spend the New Year at home."

Li Meng said this, but the old soldier was full of embarrassment and panic, he didn't know what to say, Zhao Neng on the side dragged Li Meng a few times, although Li Meng didn't know what was going on, he still smiled, waved his hand and let the man go.

The two of them took a few steps forward, and Zhao Nengcai smiled bitterly and whispered:

"Lord Li, we folks, don't believe in the ability of our Jiaozhou camp at all, don't tell them, even my mother has to move to the Li family manor to hide?"

Hearing this, Li Meng's eyes widened, thinking that my Jiaozhou battalion is so capable of fighting, and there is such a great record here, how can no one in his township believe it, the two of them walked towards the place where the pirates were kept, and whispered the reason, these military households in the Lingshan Guard are very familiar with the inside story of the Ming army, and they all know that even the so-called battalion head soldiers can't pull out anything that can be fought at all.

The only soldier who can fight is the pro-soldier family around the main general, and these people in the Lingshan Guard have always believed that the more than 100 salt dings that Li Meng pulled out in Qianhu on Xuejia Island at that time should be the pro-soldier camp, and they are the most capable troops, as for the others, they just follow the chaos to make up the number.

Although winning the battle between the Qiu family and the Peng family is a good record, everyone generally thinks that it is mixed with a lot of water, and if you mess with thieves in Henan and Shaanxi, you can report victory by beheading more than a dozen, and you will behead more than 100 in a battle, who believes it!

There is no room for pirates to be confused, and those who can't fight have already been cleaned up by their own people, and the pirates who can fight hundreds of people can deal with these more than 100 family soldiers, it seems that the victory and defeat have long been clear, so let's move quickly, although the New Year is important, but this life is better than the rest of the year!

After Li Meng heard this, he had no other expression except a wry smile, he was also uncomfortable, and finally had a New Year, things came one after another, and he couldn't live in peace, and when he walked to the door of the house, Li Meng remembered one thing, turned around and asked a guard and said:

"Miss Zhou is over there these days, won't she still be watching the sea at the beach, right?"

At this time, you can't let this Zhu Yunyao run around, this girl is really crazy, and she has the intention of having fun in Kaifeng City a few years ago, all in this time.

"Miss Zhou has been in the Li family manor for the past two days, following Master Guo's mother-in-law to handle the New Year's goods?"

Li Meng nodded, a chair had already been set up for him in the courtyard, Li Meng sat down with a golden sword, nodded, and several soldiers directly dragged up the pirate prisoners who were locked in the cellar.

These people were stuffed for two days, and when they saw the sunshine at first glance, they immediately became excited, and when they saw a person sitting on the chair in front of them, they knew that this was the leader of the matter, and to Li Meng's expectation, these seven or eight people did not beg for mercy, but scolded loudly, without the slightest fear:

"Hurry up and release grandpa, otherwise our big leader will come over and slaughter your guard, and the chickens and dogs will not be left."

"Are you blind, you know that grandpa is a centaur over there, and you are so bold!"

"Yaga! ……..”