It was another sleepless night, but this night, there were many more people on Galayan Island who couldn't sleep, so that when they were summoned by Liu Laoxiang the next morning, the pirate leaders all had dark circles under their eyes. 【Reading.com】

"Big boss, I'm going to ...... today" The pirates are not crazy, they have already had a certain assessment of the identity of the enemy, and most people's minds are already turning around with the idea of fleeing, in the face of an invincible enemy, who is willing to be stupid to die?

"I'm going." Liu Laoxiang's categorical reply surprised the pirates, first surprised, and then angered in their hearts, isn't it obvious that everyone will be sent to death?

"Don't talk yet, listen to Lao Tzu!" Liu Laoxiang waved his hand, interrupting everyone's defense, and he said in a deep voice: "What I said yesterday is our speculation, and it has not been confirmed after all, let me ask you, our belongings are here, where can we escape?" ”

The thieves were silent, if there was no yesterday's incident, this question would be easy to answer, go south, Luzon is not as big as the Central Plains, but the large and small islands together, it is not a small place, and these people have soldiers and ships, where can they not survive? When the limelight is over, just come back.

But now, those clippers are likely to be the advance team of the imperial navy, and the scene of the treasure ship going to the South Seas is about to reappear.

After a hundred years, the people who experienced that grand event have already done it, and even the charts and materials of that year have been burned. But in Luzon, in the South Seas, everywhere the treasure ship passed, there was still its legend!

Treasure ships pass by, the sea is clear and clear; Where the flag goes, all nations respect! Don't say that there is no place for pirates, even the rebellious ministers and thieves in various countries have been swept away.

Yongle pacified the civil strife in Java for three years; Yongle swept away the mountain country of Ceylon in seven years; In the 11th year of Yongle, he killed Suganra, a powerful minister who stole the country from Sumatra, and re-established the king in the country; The number of pirate giants swept away in twenty years is incalculable...... Zheng He went to the West and set up the same great martial arts, not purely to show off the national prestige as propagated by later generations.

Foster friendly and close forces, lease ports, open up new shipping routes, and monopolize maritime trade...... In fact, Zheng He did no worse than the later Western colonizers, but there was an extremely powerful Ming standing behind him, so there was no need to cheat and deceive like the West, and take it by force.

In the eyes of later generations, the treasure ship fleet with a lot of money was an inviolable existence in the eyes of the Nanyang people at that time; Zheng He, who commanded the fleet, was regarded as a strong man with courage and strategy. As soon as the pirates thought that the treasure ship might reappear, they immediately lost their souls, completely lost confidence in the future, and even lost the mind of escaping.

"So, the ship still has to be released, but this time it's not for an ambush, but for early warning." Liu Laoxiang shocked the scene with a few words, but his face was still solemn, "In the past few days, let's pack up our belongings first, load them on the boat, and look at the wind, maybe, things may not be so bad." ”

"That'...... Boss, where are we going? "The pirates also understood that the big boss also wanted to run, and he was a little reluctant, so he had a fluke mentality, but he really couldn't do it, and he still had to run in the end.

"Inside the sentinel outside, there must be someone who can speak well, in case the sailor brigade of the imperial court really comes, let's talk about it first, since the Xu family can be recruited, why can't Lao Tzu? If they are willing to give a way out, then we will recruit security first, as long as we can keep people and ships, it is also a good thing to avoid the limelight. Liu Laoxiang said with a gloomy face.

"What if they don't accept our terms?" It is the dream of pirates to recruit security in the whole army, and it is no better to be able to put on the name of the court and do the work of pirates. If in the past, they still had a little thoughts, and the strength comparison was there, and the imperial court sailors couldn't help them, but now...... Not many people have that kind of faith.

"Then go ashore, use Gala to mix in the natives, and drill into the mountains and forests, can the Ming army still go ashore and arrest people?"

Liu Laoxiang smiled suspiciously, "Even if it was the Three Treasures eunuch back then, after all, it was in the name of righteousness, although he also used swords, but he still pays attention to convincing people with morality, at most, it is the same as back then, just set up a governor's mansion, and after a few years, it will be nothing, and when the time comes, Luzon will still be our world." ”

"The boss is wise." This routine is more in line with the pirates' minds, and a group of people praise it one after another.

If you think of it, you will do it, and the pirate's action is still quite high, and one by one the light sail clippers have been dispatched. These were small boats, and there were few people on board, and they hid more secretly, they dragged the boat ashore, and the people also hid behind the trees and reefs, staring at the northern sea with a pair of eyes, not daring to miss a single detail.

The island of Galayan was also busy, and the pirates took all the supplies they had accumulated from the cave and loaded them onto ships. Among these materials, the most valuable are weapons, the climate of the South Seas is humid and hot, iron weapons are very easy to rust, the local civilization is low, and the smelting technology is also very poor.

Most of the weapons used by the pirates were traded from the Central Plains, and they preserved them by oiling them and wrapping them in tarpaulins, and when there was a war on Luzon, they sold them at a high price, and they made a lot of money by using this method.

Now that the catastrophe is coming, they can't care about making money, and they take out these weapons in order to buy the native tribe and enhance the strength of the native people, so as to prevent the Ming army from really attacking the shore.

The minions don't know the resolution of the upper echelons, and the relevant content is still being kept secret, Liu Laoxiang is not afraid of anything else, the main thing is that there are a lot of natives mixed in the minions, and if the news is leaked, it will be bad for the natives to retreat.

But with such a toss inside and outside the island, no matter how dull people are, they can see that there is a problem, so the entire pirate group is also panicked, especially the spies who are watching outside.

"Third brother, what are you telling us to keep an eye on? Isn't the north, the north not the Ming Dynasty? What else could there be but merchant ships? At the beginning, the spies who were repeatedly told were very nervous, but there was no movement for several days, and their minds relaxed a lot, and the anxiety was still vague, but more, it was curiosity.

"If you don't say it, you don't care, these days, it's true to talk less and do more, the less you know, the longer your life...... I said, "You're really a crow's mouth, you see, there's something up to the north?" Why do I seem to see a black line? Is it a hurricane transit? No, it's only March, and the hurricane has to come from the south. ”

As he spoke, the third brother rubbed his eyes and looked up again; Then, he repeated the previous action again; Then, his voice began to tremble, his body trembled involuntarily, and the last few words were not so much questions as looking for psychological comfort.

“…… Third brother, it's not a hurricane, it's a ship, a lot of ships, at least a few thousand! God, where did this come from, how could there be so many ships? The third brother was quite shocked, and his companion stood on tiptoe to look at it for a while, and then suddenly sat down on the beach, and wailed hoarsely.

The black line had changed from a line to a face, a shadow pressed by the black, in stark contrast to the shimmering sea, no one doubted their eyes anymore, and all the spies felt that they had fallen into a nightmare, and no matter how much they struggled, they could not escape from it.

On the islands near and far, the roars came one after another, and the sea breeze reached the ears of their companions, deepening their fears.

"Put the signal, raise the fire!" There was a quick response to remember his duty.

"Raise a fart, let people see it, do you still want to live? That's a big fleet of thousands of ships! It's not worse than the treasure ship of the year, and it's only right to get on the ship and escape back. "Quick reaction does not mean that the brain is smart, the first decision was immediately overturned, they are few and small, and if they don't raise fire, they may be ignored, and fools attract hatred at this time.

The hidden boat was pushed back into the sea, and the pirates picked up the boatmen as they set sail, and the great fleet was still far away and not fast, and there was still a good chance that they would escape. As for the future...... Whatever? The pirates whose hearts were filled with terror had only one thought left in their hearts, and the farther away the better.

"Third brother, what should we do?"

"What to do...... I ...... "The third brother is the messenger who can speak well in Liu Laoxiang's mouth, his education level on the island is the first, before he fell into the sea as a thief, he used to be a child, surnamed Song, because he went to the sea as a thief, he has hidden his real name, and changed his name to Song Yinzhi, however, the island is full of vulgar pirates, only call him Song San.

However, he was sent as an envoy not because of his good culture, but because his status was relatively low, and his eloquence was good.

Thinking of the conditions that his boss asked him to talk about, Song Yinzhi couldn't wait to hit his head to death, in such a comparison of strength, let alone that he was a child, even if Zhang Yi and Su Qin were resurrected, they couldn't talk about it? Even if those ships were full of cargo, there would have to be twenty or thirty thousand sailors on them, and if they were all people, I am afraid that there would be seventy or eighty thousand people!

Such strength is enough to flatten Luzon, even if the natives are pulled, there is only one end, except for honest surrender, is there any other way out? Wasn't that the case like that back then? Thinking of this, he suddenly perked up, Sage Yun: Those who know the times are Junjie, and they are honest and don't deceive, Liu Laoxiang doesn't know the times, so there is no need for him to die with him.

"Let the brethren get on board, and let us catch up." He turned to his companion and commanded.

"Huh?" Several pirates were all as pale as earth, they had not been educated by the saints, they did not know where the righteousness was, and they had never been related to sacrificing their lives for righteousness, and they only shook their heads when they heard this order.

"Don't worry, that's the royal master of the imperial court, and Song is also a scholar, so he naturally knows how to deal with it." At this moment, Song Yinzhi suddenly regained his self-confidence back then, standing in the wind, his clothes were fierce and loud, but it was a pity that he was dressed in short clothes, without green shirts and robes, otherwise he would really have a momentum of thousands of people.

After a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty once again looked back on the South Seas, and the huge fleet shocked countless people, and they rushed to tell each other: the treasure ship is here again!

(To be continued)