When Yang Su proposed a strategy to attack Jiangnan, the Sui Dynasty greatly strengthened the construction of the naval army, and the "Yellow Dragon" warship that Li Yin is riding now was built by Yang Su in Yong'an (now Fengjiedong, Sichuan) at that time.

Li Yin also heard that there were several warships called "Wuya" in the naval division, with five floors, which were built in imitation of the auction ships of the Southern Dynasties, and six stone throwers were set up in the front and rear of the ships, and the whole ship could accommodate 800 soldiers.

Li Yin was at the bow of the ship at this time, looking at the vast ocean, and a thousand feelings of pride gradually rose in his heart.

"Look, isn't this the brigade commander of the 'Shrunken Turtle Brigade'?" Another "Yellow Dragon" class warship came quickly from elsewhere, and a man wearing the clothes of a brigade commander on the bow of the ship was looking at Li Yin with disdain, and the other soldiers on the ship were also sneering.

That brigade commander is also from a big family, named Lu Ping, but his current position is slowly promoted from the deputy of the team, so after hearing about Li Yin's origin, he is very uneasy about him.

It turned out that three days had passed since they went to sea at this time, and in these three days, other brigades had attacked one after another, pulling out many strongholds on Goryeo Island, but only Li Yin's brigade still did not make a move, so it was ridiculed as the "shrinking turtle brigade".

"Don't dare to fight, just go home early to tease the child, what are you making do here? I don't know how the upper authorities would let you cowards act with us! ”

"That's it, a bunch of cowards, I'm ashamed of you!"

"You must be out of eggs!"

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Those people chattered loudly and said some extremely ugly things, which made Zhou An, who had always been honest, angry.

Li Yin stopped everyone who wanted to fight, and said to Zhou An with a flat face: "Brothers, are you resting?" ”

Zhou An nodded and said, "It's all rested, just wait for the brigade commander to give the order!" ”

Li Yin looked at the north and said, "Then let's act!" ”

Out of the Donglai Haikou all the way to the north of the sea, there are many large and small islands, in later generations called the Miaodao Islands, in the northernmost part of the Miaodao Islands, there is a big island, called Scorpion Island, after the Scorpion Island, the sea area will go to the Liaodong Peninsula to have a larger island.

Therefore, the strategic position of Scorpion Island is very important, as long as the Sui army occupies this place, it will basically cut off the connection between the islands south of it and Goryeo, so that they can no longer get supplies, and the consequences can be imagined.

Li Yin and the others are now going to attack this Scorpion Island.

However, this is obviously not an easy task, Goryeo also knows the importance of this Scorpion Island, with this island as the center, combined with the other small islands around, to build a strict defense system, coupled with the strong fortress on the island, and sufficient food, I am afraid that Laihou'er personally led the army to attack, and it will also feel a headache.

But the reason why Li Yin didn't attack other small islands in the past three days was to prepare for the attack on Scorpion Island, and at this time, he was confident enough to take this island.

Li Yin had already led the fleet to the vicinity of Scorpion Island at this time, and if he continued to move forward, he would encounter several well-guarded small islands, which would inevitably confront them head-on, and the losses would be too great, and Li Yin did not intend to attack directly from here.

He commanded the fleet to turn westward, and after a long time, he turned northeast, made a big circle, and came to the sea north of Scorpion Island.

After three days of patient exploration, Li Yin found that the relatively weak defense of this Scorpion Island was to the north. Because there are only a few islands and reefs in the sea to the north, there are no other paths suitable for building fortifications.

However, the Koreans laid a lot of stakes and iron cables, hooks and sickles, and if the ships wanted to pass through it, they would not even think about it.

At dusk, Li Yin parked the warship next to an island and reef, and asked twenty soldiers to stay behind to watch the ship, and the rest of the people, under his personal leadership, entered the sea with a reed pipe in their mouths, and swam straight to Scorpion Island.

Although there are a lot of wooden stakes and iron cables, hooks and sickles are arranged vertically and horizontally, they are aimed at warships, and naturally they can't fill all such a large sea area, so as long as they find out the approximate location of the obstacles and have enough physical strength, people can swim over.

On a lookout tower on Scorpion Island, two Goryeo soldiers are secretly shaking their dice, and one of them is trying to pee into the sea after losing a handful in a row to get rid of bad luck.

At this moment, he saw a lot of reed pipes, which were drifting to the shore one after another.

"How can there be so many reeds in this sea area all of a sudden?" The Goryeo soldier looked down with suspicion, and found that there were two more teams of unfamiliar footprints on the beach.

"Yes...... There is an enemy attack! The Goryeo soldier shouted tremblingly.

When the other person heard this, he was shocked at first, but then laughed and scolded: "I think you are crazy, there is no movement in the south, where is the enemy?" ”

As soon as he had finished saying this, he suddenly felt a chill in his neck, blood gushed out, and he fell to the ground with his companion and died.

It was Li Yin and Zhou An who killed these two sentinels. The two of them then quickly descended the watchtower, and after whistling lightly, figures appeared one by one in the sea.

By this time it was getting dark, and after resting for a while, they lowered themselves and headed for the fortified fortress in the island.

As the name suggests, it is to avoid the enemy's main force and directly kill the enemy's commander, so that the enemy army will be directly paralyzed, so that they will be broken by each one.

On Scorpion Island, there are many scorpions.

The fact that so many scorpions thrive is closely related to the island's special natural environment.

The forests here are luxuriant, the flowers and plants are thick, the dead leaves are piled up, and the stubborn stones are all over the place, which provides very favorable conditions for the survival and reproduction of scorpions.

In addition, before the Goryeo people occupied the island, the island was sparsely populated and no one hunted scorpions, so scorpions were able to multiply in large numbers on this island.

Scorpions like to live in groups, at least in groups of three or five, and most of them gather in a suitable and hidden place.

In some stone piles, if you look closely, you can sometimes find hundreds of scorpions of different sizes hugging each other, forming a peculiar "scorpion ball".

Some of these scorpions are not poisonous, but many of them are highly poisonous, so Li Yin and the others marched at this time, and they were all in good spirits, so as not to be bitten by the scorpions.