The day after the Japanese envoys left, Nan Jiyun arrived in Haizhou with 3,000 Tiance soldiers and 1,000 eight-ox crossbows, and the whole Haizhou was busy at once.

Xiao Quai's order was issued, and a large area of sea was directly drawn as a no-navigation area, half of the warships and merchant ships began to be equipped with eight-bull crossbows, and the other half of the ships were used for various simulation training. Ten days later, Xiao Qubing set out from Haizhou with more than 300 warships and merchant ships of all sizes and headed for Guangzhou.

After sailing for less than six days, Xiao Qubing arrived in Guangzhou, rested in Guangzhou Port for two days, replenished a large number of fresh summer oranges and canned loquats, set sail again, and plunged into the vast South China Sea.

Of course, this was only the speed of the first five large ships and ten medium ships, followed by more than 300 merchant ships and seven Chinese ships as escorts, who had just arrived at the port of Guangzhou at this time, and they needed to rest and replenish for three days before they could set off.

The first fifteen warships went so fast, in fact, to clear the pirates along the way for the merchant ships that followed.

Before Xiao Qu's illness, this sea route had actually always been open, and although the Tang Dynasty strictly forbade the Tang people to trade at sea, they welcomed foreigners to trade in the Tang Dynasty by boat.

The overland Silk Road was mainly monopolized by the Sogdians of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, and it was the Great Cannibals who monopolized this trade route on the sea, and the Great Cannibals also made a lot of money.

If there is a caravan, it will naturally be pirates, and on the way from Haizhou to Guangzhou, the fleet led by Xiao Qubing no longer knows how many pirates have been swept along the way.

I don't know where they got the guts, seeing this kind of never-before-seen clipper, and the cold and glittering ramming horn on the bow, the reaction of these pirates turned out to be afraid and run away, they all shouted excitedly, and rushed over.

Then the result is that the sheep is in the mouth of the tiger, and there is no return. None of the fifteen large ships were too lazy to use the Eight Ox Crossbows, and they could crush each other to pieces directly from the small sampan heads of these pirates. A handful of pirates climbed onto the ship with crowd tactics, and before they could take two steps, they were shot into a sieve with crossbows from the soldiers and guards above.

The other pirate ships that saw that the situation was not good turned around and wanted to run, but where could they run two or three times faster than their new fast ships, not to mention that Xiao Quzhi had already arranged for the outflanking ships to chase them down. There is not one in ten who can run away.

Half of these pirates turned out to be Tang people, and then there were Japanese people, Silla people, and great cannibals and Persians who failed to do business or liked to be pirates, as well as natives from various islands in the South China Sea.

This is where the advantage of the species/clan comes into play, and after crushing their pirate ship and killing most of the pirates, a few lucky ones are rescued on board. As for the Tang people, they would generally be spared, and other pirates were not so lucky. After asking a few words, it is generally cut off.

"I heard you're very familiar with this area? Tell me about this king, you have been a pirate for a few years, why did you become a pirate? ”

After the Qiongzhou Strait in later generations, there were more pirates, and Xiao Qu specially ordered to stay here for two days, preparing to sweep away all the pirates on the nearby islands.

After eliminating the largest group of pirates here, Xiao Qu was ill and captured alive the pirate leader named Feng Zhixing in front of him.

"The little daddy is a pirate, and the little one is a pirate from birth. What can you do without being a pirate? In front of Xiao Quai, Feng Zhixing did not show the slightest fear.

Probably he could see it too, and it was useless to be afraid: "After Daddy died, the younger brother led the brothers to plunder merchant ships, and since then, it has been seventeen years, and the small sea area in this area is indeed very familiar. ”

"Then tell me why your father is a pirate?"

“……”

"Okay. If you don't want to say it, it's up to you, this king never forces others. Xiao Quzhi stood up with a smile, and his eyes looked at a big ship and two medium ships behind him: "Presumably Brother Feng also saw it, Datang wants to run the South China Sea, in the future." There will be more and more Tang merchant ships here, so this king will never allow pirates to wreak havoc here. ”

"King Lanling wants to exterminate the pirates here? This is impossible, there will be pirates if there is a fleet, the sea is not dry, and the pirates are endless. Even if the Lanling King temporarily wiped out the pirates here, it would be less than two years before new pirates appeared. ”

"So, this king will send troops to garrison this sea area all the time, how many come, how many suppress. You see, we have the latest warships, no need for this king to say, Brother Feng should also know how powerful we are, right? ”

Feng Zhixing's face turned a little pale, these new speedboats are simply terrible to him, he will never forget the scene of this captain's big ship crushing three pirate ships with only one charge, many pirates were caught in the water before they had time to jump ship, half of them were directly killed and crushed, and the remaining half just emerged from the water and were shot into hedgehogs by the crossbow arrows on the ship.

The young county king's face in front of him had turned cold, and his eyes had lost patience, as if he was ready to cut him down and feed the shark at any time, Feng Zhixing's heart suddenly panicked, and the king of Lanling over there continued: "So, if you still want to continue to be pirates, it is a dead end." Brother Feng, can you see this clearly? ”

"The little one understands!" Feng Zhixing said nervously: "What does the king of Lanling want the little ones to do, but there are orders, and the little ones do it!" ”

"What can you do, it's naturally the old job!" Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "You led people to attack the Tang Fleet, it is a capital crime, this king said so much to you, just to spare your life, I want you to do something for this king." Otherwise, who wants to waste so much time on a dead man? ”

"Thank you for the kindness of King Lanling not to kill, what does King Lanling want to do for the little one, please give me instructions."

"This king wants you to lead the way, clean up all the pirates in this area, some of the evildoers, or those you don't like, all of them will be killed, and leave them for the king's use, and you will take them to sweep some places for the king, and you will also have a share, if you don't die for three years, and you have withstood our assessment, you can also clear your identity."

"King Lanling wants us to help you rob?" Feng Zhixing said with wide eyes, then consciously lost his words, and hurriedly closed his mouth, his face became more and more pale.

However, Xiao Qubing didn't care much, and said with a smile: "It can also be said that all the leaders must hand over their families as hostages; In addition, you have to find two people who are familiar with this sea area to be the guide of this king, understand? ”

"The little one understands!"

"Go ahead."

After Feng Zhixing left, Li Qi asked, "What does Master want these pirates to do?" ”

"Naturally, we are to be guides and cannon fodder, this time we only brought 3,000 Tiance soldiers, plus the sailor escorts supported by various families, and the number of troops that can fight is no more than 7,000. There are so many natives along the way, although we are invincible at sea, how can we withstand constant consumption on land.

How good it is to use pirates, it is not distressing to die, and it has a name. ”

Xiao Quzhi suddenly asked, "Xiao Qi, do you think this Feng Zhixing is very similar to a person?" ”

"Like whom?"

"Think about it, use your brain!"

"Like ...... Gao Weng! (To be continued.) )