On the vast South China Sea, a huge fleet is slowly moving forward against the wind and waves, the scale of this fleet is large enough to make those who go to Jiaozhou not far away to trade in Daqin merchants feel ashamed, because this fleet is on the most advanced and huge sea ships at that time, after nearly two years of repeated experiments, and combined with the experience of the entire southeast coastal area of the boat people to go to sea to build, the largest ship length can reach ten zhang, the width can reach two zhang, only the rudder field is more than three zhang, seven or eight feet wide, the ship has three masts and five sails, of which the mainmast is as high as eight zhang, and the speed of each hour can reach more than 70 miles. Because such a ship looks like a bird with its wings spread, it is called a "bird ship".

And the commander of this fleet is Lu Xun, who was appointed by Liu Qi as the naval governor and the assassin of Yizhou.

After two years of long-term activities at sea, Lu Xun's originally fair skin has become a little darker, but everyone can see that his physique is stronger than before.

"Thanks to the lord when he was building a sea ship, he proposed to me the idea of three masts and five sails, and resolutely rejected my plan to build a building ship, until now I know that the strength of the wind and waves on the river is absolutely small compared with the sea, not the same, if it is a building ship, it is estimated that a gust of wind can overturn it, and now the bird boat is so stable in the wind and waves, people feel uncomfortable to sail on the sea, but sailing on the river in general, even more stable and comfortable than on the river."

Lu Xun stood on the deck, looking at the blue sea, and said with emotion.

Lu Xun sighed for a while, and felt ashamed in his heart, because the lord Liu Qi had already told himself the approximate location of Yizhou, and also passed the compass to himself, but he had not found the exact location of Yizhou until today, which was really unreasonable.

"This is the third time I have gone to sea this year, and this time if I can't find Yizhou again, I vow not to return to Wu County." Lu Xun clenched his fists and said solemnly.

At this moment, Lu Xun suddenly saw the soldiers on the ship in front of him cheering and jumping, and he couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart, and then felt a burst of nervousness and excitement: "Could it be that the army discovered Yizhou?" ”

Then he saw a small boat slowly approaching his big ship, and then he saw a soldier say to himself, "Dudu, we have found a piece of land ahead. ”

"Oh? Where is it? Take me to see it. Lu Xun couldn't help but order the helmsmen on the ship to speed up the sailing, and they came to the front of the fleet in an instant.

Lu Xun looked in the direction pointed by the soldiers in the forward battalion, and sure enough, he found a piece of land in the distance, and he couldn't help but feel joy in his heart, so he ordered the fleet to speed up and quickly approach that piece of land.

The army advanced very fast, and in less than an hour it was on that land.

After sailing in the sea for several months, he suddenly stepped on the soft land, Rao is Lu Xun is calm, or can't help but sigh, although he has been sailing on the empty and lonely sea day and night for so long, whether it is mentally or physically tired, but after such a long time of hard work, he finally found the legendary Yizhou, but it is not worth this hard work.

However, Lu Xun, who was cautious by nature, decided to confirm whether this was Yizhou or not, so he ordered the sergeant to find the local natives to ask about the situation.

But I didn't expect to encounter a language barrier.

It turned out that the natives spoke the local dialect, and they couldn't understand the sergeant's words, and the two sides couldn't communicate with each other at all. The soldier was impatient, but he was only in a hurry.

Lu Xun did not get angry when he saw this, but came to the native in person, and kept comparing to the native people, after some patient exchanges, he finally understood a rough idea, it turned out that this place was called Pinghu, dozens of miles back and forth, with tens of thousands of native people, far from the north and south length of seven or eight hundred miles, east and west width of more than two hundred miles described by the lord.

When Lu Xun heard this, he couldn't help but flash a trace of disappointment in his heart, it turned out that what he had arrived at was not the rumored Yizhou.

And when Lu Xun asked the native if he had heard of Yizhou with the mood of giving it a try, the native looked very dazed.

Seeing this, Lu Xun couldn't help but shake his head secretly, but just when he was disappointed in his heart, the native gestured to the island behind him, and even told Lu Xun that he hadn't heard of it, but it didn't mean that his people hadn't heard of it either, maybe someone in their clan would know about that place.

Lu Xun nodded thoughtfully, and decided to follow the native to meet his leader.

Chen Wu was worried about Lu Xun's safety, so he persuaded Lu Xun to bring a few hundred personal soldiers in case of accidents, Lu Xun thought about it a little, and then agreed, and ordered Du Xun to pick up three hundred personal soldiers and go with him, leaving Chen Wu to temporarily take charge of the camp and stationed on the outermost outermost part of Pinghu Island.

Lu Xun followed the native to the island, and it didn't take a cup of tea to come to a cave and meet the leader of the native.

And to Lu Xun's surprise, the leader of the natives was not as tattooed and stamped as other natives, but was dressed as a Zhongyuan scholar, wearing a robe, a samurai crown, and bast shoes.

So after Lu Xun heard that the native introduced himself to the leader, he took the initiative to greet him with a smile, and then said in official Chinese: "This old man, there is a lot of disturbance. ”

Lu Xun guessed correctly this time, the leader really knew Chinese, seeing Lu Xun wearing armor and hanging a sword at his waist, he knew that he was the general of the Han Dynasty, and hurriedly humbled himself and introduced himself to Lu Xun: "The general Hugh should be polite, the name of the small people is Babto, but he is the leader of the Babur tribe on this island, because he often went to the Han to trade when he was a child, so he still knows a little bit of official language, and it is really an honor to have the honor to meet the general today, but I don't know what the general has to do on my desert island?" ”

Lu Xun then told Babuto about his desire to go to Yizhou Island, and asked him if he knew how far it was from Yizhou.

But I heard Babuto say: "This is fortunate that the little one has wandered around, and I really know the place that the general said, in fact, that Yizhou is not far from here, about only a hundred miles of land as you Han people say, if it is a tailwind, it is estimated that it can be reached in half a day." ”

Lu Xun was overjoyed when he heard this, and then said to Babuto: "That's really a coincidence, in this case, how about the old man simply work hard and take us to Yizhou?" As for the reward, please rest assured, we will definitely reward you. ”

But seeing that Babuto slowly shook his head and said: "There is no need for a reward, as long as the general is willing to promise a small thing, the small one will give up this old bone and go to Yizhou with the general." ”

"Oh? I don't know what's going on? Lu Xun glanced at Bhuto in surprise, and felt that this person was not simple, and he actually knew that he would take the opportunity to raise conditions, so he slowly opened his mouth and asked.

I saw Babuto sigh slowly: "The general may not know that there are two most powerful tribes on our Pinghu Island, namely the Babur tribe where I belong and the Wuchen clan, among which the strength of the Wuchen clan is much greater than ours, because there are 600 strong men in their clan, and although the total population of our tribe exceeds them, there are only 400 strong men, so they are not their opponents at all, and they are often oppressed by them, and they are forced to send them wild beasts and wild fruits, and help them fish and serve. Now they even offer to let us pay tribute to 200 women every year, if we don't obey the order, they will directly attack our tribe, the general doesn't know, there are only 500 young women in our tribe, if we give them to them, how can we raise our offspring? Won't it be even weaker in the future? ”

Lu Xun listened to the other party's words and roughly understood the other party's purpose, but he didn't speak, but asked the other party to continue.

But I heard Barbuto continue: "If our tribe is subservient to the Wuchen clan, the entire tribe is destined to perish in the future, but if we don't listen, there is a danger of extinction now, so the small one begs the general to help us defeat the Wuchen clan, as long as the general does this, the small one will not only promise to lead the way to the general, but also ensure that my Babur clan will be permanently subservient to the general, and we can swear to the sea god that we will never have the slightest disrespect, and never dare to raise the idea of rebellion." ”

Lu Xun couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this, they originally wanted to subdue the Babur tribe, but they didn't expect the other party to take the initiative, this can also be said to be the sincerity of the other party, how can they refuse?

So Lu Xun said casually: "Since this is the case, then we will be a family from now on, since we are a family, why bother with each other?" The affairs of your Babur clan are our affairs, Chen Wu, you take a hundred personal soldiers to the Wuchen clan and kill all their men, leaving only women and children. ”

"No." Chen Wu immediately selected a hundred soldiers with a blank face, and then looked at Bhuto, meaning that he should give him a guide so that he could go to the Wuchen clan to fight.

But Babuto was full of doubts, meditated for a moment and then plucked up the courage to say: "General, it's not that you don't believe in this general, it's really that your number is too small, but the other party has six hundred strong men, which is six times that of these military masters, it's better to stay like this, stay small and rectify all the strong men in our tribe, and then go out with these military masters, so that we can also guarantee that we will win, otherwise, once you are defeated, general, I am afraid that it will damage the face of the Han court." ”

But seeing Lu Xun smiled and said: "Don't worry, it's not too late for you to wait for them to be defeated before gathering the clansmen, in fact, I'm afraid that my boss won't be able to wait until that day comes, because I have absolute confidence in my soldiers, and even if I have confidence, there are still a lot of 100 people." ”

"What?" Bhabuto looked at Lu Xun who was smiling faintly in disbelief, and was suddenly stunned.