Chapter 158: The Fire Reflecting the Red Sky!
"Young master, come and see, then the eldest young master of the Zheng family is here." Ahead, a Liang family pirate who had already rushed to the city wall excitedly greeted this side.
By the time Liang Pengfei climbed the city wall, which had become a broken wall, Zheng Wenxian had already reached the point of reflecting the light. After he saw Liang Pengfei, the eyes that were a little dry because of the near death seemed to have regained some vitality, Liang Pengfei glanced around lightly: "Do what you should do, hurry up, we don't have time to continue grinding here." ”
"Young master, I'll stay." Monk Chen's eyes didn't dare to relax at all, staring at Zheng Wenxian's trembling and pale hands.
Liang Pengfei said without raising his head: "I said, no need." The voice was soft, but the tone of non-questioning was definitely not a negotiation but an order.
Hearing Liang Pengfei's words, everyone went to their own business with interest, even Monk Chen and Bai Shusheng, who usually did not leave the left and right, could only retreat to the side and wait.
"You're dying, in fact, you shouldn't have died, but unfortunately, you met me, you know? If you hadn't messed with me, you wouldn't have ended up where you are today. Liang Pengfei looked at Zheng Wenxian, who was staring at Zheng Wenxian with round eyes persistently, and talked softly like an old friend.
"Okay, borrow your head for a purpose, and make me a common thing for promotion and wealth. Another thing I want to tell you is that, in fact, I hate the Qing dog and the Manchu court more than you, and everything I do now is just to prepare for the future to be able to overthrow it. And you're just a praying mantis that accidentally sprang out and tried to stop my wheels with your arm. Liang Pengfei saw Zheng Wenxian's suddenly narrowed pupils, and it seemed that he had countless doubts and troubles in his heart, but now, Liang Pengfei had no time left for him. He pulled out the knife at his waist and stabbed him with great precision, stabbing between his two ribs with incredible precision.
"......" Zheng Wenxian could only stare at the eyes whose godless pupils had begun to dilate, his mouth was open, and the dark red blood that overflowed from the corners of his mouth from time to time represented that his life was passing rapidly, and his body, which had almost lost all the blood, twitched slightly a few times, and there was no movement.
Liang Pengfei looked at Zheng Wenxian silently, in another time and space, this Zheng Wenxian will become a maritime hegemon and dominate the two worlds, but now, his historical mission has been wiped out under his own knife, and his fate has been changed. Liang Pengfei didn't know how this history would change. But when he thought of the history books of later generations, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but spit fiercely. "There is no worst in the history of the past three hundred years, only worse, is it not as good as those Manchu moths who forcibly cling to the back of the Chinese nation and knock on the marrow and suck blood?"
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When Liang Pengfei thought that he needed to experience a very difficult street battle in order to achieve the final victory, he saw that his subordinates actually rushed into the castle as if they were running in a race, and only sporadic gunshots were signaling to Liang Pengfei, it seemed that in this war, the opponent's resistance was so weak that it did not look like a power-level confrontation.
Maybe it was the short soldiers outside the city who wanted to take over their confidence, and Liang Pengfei's unconscionable artillery attack arranged to the extreme destroyed their last trace of courage to resist, after a quarter of an hour, Liang Pengfei had already received the good news brought by his subordinates who came to report the news, the battle for the castle was nearing the end, on his side, about seven or eight people were injured in the firefight with the Zheng family's recalcitrant resistors, except for two who died on the spot, the remaining few people were not in danger of life.
There was no decent resistance at all, but in front of the Zheng family's old mansion, there were nearly a hundred dead soldiers of the Zheng family firmly guarding the gate, and they originally wanted to attack, but they were afraid of accidentally injuring the important people who needed to be captured alive, so they asked Liang Pengfei to ask for instructions.
"Who's in there?" Liang Pengfei took a telescope to observe the situation in the fortress, and on all the commanding heights, the figures of the Liang family pirates had already appeared, and this castle was not too big, so eight hundred people were scattered into it, which was barely enough.
"Zheng Lianchang's uncle Zheng Xinwei's family is young, as well as his wife and seven-room concubine, and three minor sons." The pirate who reported the news immediately gave Liang Pengfei the answer he wanted to know out loud.
"This guy is quite capable of giving birth, so let's let Wu Qianjin tell the people in the Zheng family's old mansion that I will give them a pillar of incense, within a pillar of incense, if it doesn't fall, I will use a cannon to raze the old mansion to the ground." Remember, there is only one pillar of incense" Liang Pengfei thought for a moment and gave an order to that subordinate.
"Young Master, what about these people?" Bai Shusheng pointed to the injured of the Zheng family who were still struggling on the line of death, there were definitely a lot of these wounded, just those who escaped just now, and those who were injured after being bombarded by artillery fire, there were more than a thousand people, and then they were all dragged and pushed by the pirates of the Liang family to a dead corner under the city wall.
Seeing the remnants of the Zheng family who were under the strict guard of the Liang family's pirates, bandaging and supporting each other, Liang Pengfei said lightly. "Since they are all still alive, let's let them live, we don't need to waste our ammunition for these people anymore, when Zheng Lianchang comes back, let him take care of these people."
"No, young master, do you really want to keep them?" Bai Shusheng couldn't help but be stunned, he really didn't know why the young master did this.
Liang Pengfei smiled: "Do I still have to raise them for nothing?" These people are all descendants of the Zheng family, and their loyalty to the Zheng family is definitely not something that we can make them obey me in a short period of time, and there is another point, Zheng Lianchang will definitely not be able to bring much grain and grass with him when he goes to war this time, and leaving these people to them is equivalent to giving them more than a thousand more mouths to eat......
Bai Shusheng looked at his young master with admiration, vicious, the young master's idea was really vicious to the extreme. "Lantau Island is a good place, but now is not the time for me to eat it." Liang Pengfei continued. This Lantau Island is indeed an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, but now, although the Zheng family's lair has been copied by Liang Pengfei, the problem is that their strength has not suffered much loss, at least Liang Pengfei is not optimistic about what huge casualties the naval division of the court can cause to the Zheng family's fleet, otherwise, how can the Zheng family be free and easy in the Liangguang Sea for so many years?
All Liang Pengfei needs to do is to accumulate his own merits, not to fight the Zheng family. Besides, with the troops he has at his disposal, it is simply wishful thinking to defend Lantau Island, and it is better to continue to manage King Crab Island and the Central Luzon Islands well.
In less than a pillar of incense, the Zheng family in the Zheng family's old mansion finally descended. And when Zheng Lianchang's uncle, Zheng Xinwei, who was nearly eighty years old, stood in front of Liang Pengfei, although the old man was disheveled and his face was bruised, he still looked so reserved and arrogant.
"If it weren't for my nephew leading the army to fight against Qinggou, how could you, a child of the Liang family, succeed?" After seeing Liang Pengfei standing in front of him with a smug smile on his face, Zheng Xinwei couldn't have imagined that the old nest of the Zheng family, which had stood for more than 100 years, would actually make this young man who looked extremely young and looked arrogant like this attack on the castle with just more than 800 people.
"You're right, but if your nephew doesn't trouble me, I won't be able to go out in person on this trip, and if you want to blame, you can blame your poor nephew." Liang Pengfei didn't mean to be angry, just stretched out his hand and pointed to a corpse not far away, and saw the familiar face, Zheng Xinwei's face couldn't help but change, and his body shook, but he quickly stood up straight again: "Although you have won here, do you think you can hold here?" Zheng Xinwei's voice was full of resentful hatred, and his cloudy and dim old eyes flashed with fierce light, like a dying old wolf.
Liang Pengfei nodded, "You're right, now I don't have more than a thousand people, so Zheng Lianchang is afraid that he will be able to drive the boat back, at most it will be a day and a night's work, I'm afraid that I won't be able to leave when I want to, so I won't stay and do this kind of stupid thing." ”
Zheng Xinwei couldn't help but glance at Liang Pengfei again, and sighed slightly: "Okay, to be able to calm down in addition to a big victory, you are indeed not an ordinary person, but what you are doing now has formed an undying enmity with my Zheng family." My nephew will never let you go. ”
"Hehehe, okay, you don't have to grind with me anymore, monk, let people escort them all onto the ship, as for whether your nephew can get revenge, you will be under the Yellow Spring at that time, and wait for him to bring you news with peace of mind." Liang Pengfei smiled faintly, Monk Chen waved his hand, and the two subordinates escorted Zheng Lianchang's uncle and walked towards the outside of the castle, behind him, his family and Zheng Lianchang's relatives, after careful identification, it was determined that there were only more than 100 people who needed to be escorted, but in the castle, in addition to the injuries of more than 1,000 people, there were about three or four thousand people, the old, weak, sick and disabled.
However, they were all expelled from the castle by the Liang family pirates, and it didn't take long for the castle to start a fire, and when Liang Pengfei and the others evacuated, the Zheng family castle in the shrimp whisker row had fallen into a sea of fire, and Liang Pengfei let the Zheng family store countless gunpowder saltpeter all be moved out of the warehouse to fuel the fire, until Liang Pengfei and others evacuated from the castle gate, the billowing smoke even formed a tumbling, gray-black mushroom cloud in the sky.
Those who were driven out of the castle could only despair, watching the raging fire engulf their homes, and when Zheng Lianchang, who had returned from the victory, rushed back to his lair, it was already night, and when he saw the blazing fire that reflected the sky red in the castle of the shrimp beard row, Zheng Lianchang opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood, and his face showed a desperate dead gray...... --------------------
(To be continued)