Cui Yan rushed for half an hour, and when she went to the old village, she saw that the building boat was gone, and the old village was in a mess, and many wounded soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield.

Cui Yan was very disappointed, and came for nothing, but did not catch any loot. But there was no way to get angry, so I had to enter the inner camp depressed, wanting to ask Cui Wu what the situation was. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Cui Wu, but, to his surprise, Cui Wu was tied up and kneeling in front of a young man.

Cui Yan was shocked, and retreated while drawing his knife, but it was too late, more than a dozen fierce soldiers rushed next to him, and it didn't take much effort to cut his personal guards to pieces, and he was about to command people to rush out, "Ding Ling" A crisp bell rang, and a snowy ring-headed knife was on his neck.

"Surrender or kill you."

Cui Yan looked at the blade on his shoulder, a cold air rushed to his head, he didn't think too much about it, threw the knife away, and slowly knelt on the ground with his head in his hands, trembling all over.

The old camp changed hands.

Soon, a cluster of sparks flew into the sky, and with a "pop" explosion, a cloud of red smoke exploded in the air, and it took a long time before it slowly dissipated. It didn't take long for the same smoke to appear in the sky in the direction of Zongzhai, but it was far away, and only the smoke was seen, but no sound could be heard.

"I, Captain Wu Meng under General Fubo, Chen Hai." Chen Hai withdrew the knife and said lightly: "Now that your general village has been occupied by the general, if you know each other, not only can you keep your surname, but you may also have the opportunity to fight with the general in the future, if you don't know each other, then don't blame me for being polite, I have to try the knife with you." ”

Cui Yan didn't dare to come out, and couldn't stand on the ground: "Please command." ”

"I heard that Cui Qian has a set of charts, where is it?" Chen Hai glanced at him with disdain, raised his head arrogantly, and looked at him with his nostrils condescendingly, Cui Yan just hesitated, and the soldier next to him picked up his arm is a knife ring, and slammed it on his shoulder, and shouted: "Say it quickly." ”

"No...... I don't know. Although Cui Yan has been a pirate for so many years, he has been following Cui Qian smoothly, when has he ever suffered like this, this knife ring made half of his body unconscious, his nose was sore, and he couldn't help crying: "My lord, I really don't know, that set of charts...... The charts were known only to my father and brother. ”

"Really? It seems that it is useless to keep you. Chen Hai drank coldly, although this sound was not loud, but in Cui Yan's ears, it was like a thunderbolt, so frightened that his soul was not possessed, he almost collapsed on the ground, tears flowed, and after a while, a column of water flowed down his legs, scratching the smell.

"Soft eggs." Chen Hai pinched his nose in disgust, motioned to his subordinates to drag Cui Yan out, and looked back at Cui Wu with an unconvinced face: "What?" Are you not convinced? ”

"I'll give you a." Cui Wu, whose face was blue, scolded: "If it weren't for those boneless things to show you the way, how could you have found here, if it wasn't for Lao Tzu drinking too much today, how could you have beaten me?" ”

"Old horseman, I really don't know how thick the sky is, is Lao Tzu bullying you?" Chen Hai was angry and funny: "You have a heavy responsibility, you are actually good at drinking and greedy for glasses, you are not ashamed to lose your old village, and you still have the face to shout here." You're not convinced, are you? Okay, you have a good night's rest, tomorrow Lao Tzu will give you a chance, if you can beat me, I will let you go. ”

"It's a deal." Cui Wu immediately seized the opportunity.

"It's hard to chase any horse." Chen Hai shook his hand, "Look at this old horseman and see how Lao Tzu cleans him up tomorrow." ”

The two soldiers walked down, carried Cui Wu and left, and scolded as they walked: "The old thing is really not long-sighted, dare to shout in front of our Captain Chen, you will look good tomorrow." The other smiled and said: "What do you persuade him to do, let him have a good night's rest, the captain didn't enjoy it today, and his heart is on fire, just beat this old thing to relieve his anger." ”

Cui Wu was so angry that his eyes were split, he was also a good hand in the Cui family's village, how could he be like a sandbag in their mouths?

The main village, which was only guarded by 300 men and had no one in charge, laid down its arms and surrendered without much resistance in the face of the swarming officers and soldiers. Sun Shao led people into the main village, and he was very happy to see the well-defended facilities.

"Even if Buqi finds here, I'm afraid he won't be able to get in." Sun Shao said with a smile: "If Cui Qian didn't leave, without 10,000 horses, it would be impossible to attack this general village." ”

"If it weren't for the fact that Zongzhai was so difficult, I'm afraid Cui Qian wouldn't have left so reassuringly." Yu Chuan smiled in a relaxed tone: "If he doesn't leave, how can we succeed so smoothly?" ”

"But then again, if it weren't for the general Shi Ji who knew that the general village was here, I'm afraid we would have passed by outside, and we might not have been able to guess that the general village was here." Shen Xuan sighed with emotion: "General, now that the general village has been taken, we are waiting for Cui Qian here?" ”

"What do you see?"

"Stay here to ambush Cui Qian, of course it's easy, as long as you lure him in, you can close the door and beat the dog." Yu twisted his beard, looking a little worried: "However, it is inevitable that the news will not be leaked, in case Cui Qian knows the situation here in advance and does not come here again, it will be troublesome." Cunning rabbit three holes, he hides wherever he goes, and if we want to find him again, it will not be so easy. ”

"Don't worry about this, I believe that there must be a detailed map of Zhu Ya in the main village, Cui Qian wants to catch cats and cats with us again, but it's not so easy." Sun Shao suddenly smiled and said, "Mr. is good at easy learning, why don't you calculate it?" ”

Yu smiled, his fingers quickly pinched, and his face suddenly sank: "General, I'm afraid things are not going as expected." ”

"Why?" Sun Shao thought it was funny, could this thing really be so godly?

"Judging from the hexagram, the news has leaked." Yu Chuan said, and quickly calculated again: "The situation is unknown now, and the hexagram is very vague, but the battlefield will definitely not be here." ”

Sun Shao didn't care, he felt that Yu Fu was a little tricky, Chen Hai had just sent a signal that he had caught all the people, how could he leak the news again. He didn't say much, arranged for someone to take over the general village, strengthened his defenses, and prepared to bury Cui Qian.

However, things were unexpected, and the next day he received a report from Chen Hai that Cui Wu had killed the guards guarding him and ran away.

"How could it be...... Such? Sun Shao was a little dazed, and this change suddenly disrupted his plan. Cui Wu ran away, Cui Qian may get the news in advance, then he will definitely not go back to Zongzhai to drill the ambush circle, so where may he go? Sun Shao looked at the map of Zhuya that he had just searched, and there were no less than dozens of bays that could hide soldiers, and it was impossible to check them one by one.

"How can it be?" Sun Shao was furious, and he wanted to pull Chen Hai over and beat him. Shen Xuan and Yu were silent, they didn't agree to let Chen Hai lead the army alone at the beginning, they thought that Chen Hai was too rude, he was just a personal guard before, and he had never led troops, and he might make a mistake when he suddenly took on such an important task. But Sun Shao didn't listen, and insisted that he had seen that Chen Hai would lead the army alone, and now something really happened.

"Go, call Chen Hai back to me." Sun Shao pointed at Ding Feng and roared: "This shaft is really fucking unsuccessful, isn't this the platform for demolishing Lao Tzu?" Shen Xuan, you go with him and take over from him to guard the village. Just like him, he will be a personal guard for the rest of his life. ”

Shen Xuan secretly laughed, turned around and followed Ding Feng.

"Sir, what now?" Sun Shao finished getting angry, and felt a little boring, things are already like this, it's useless to get angry again, it's better to think of something real. He arched his hand at Yu who was speechless, and laughed a little embarrassedly: "Sir, you really got it right." ”

Yu Pan grinned, raised his eyelids, and rolled his eyes at Sun Shao: "What does the general want to do?" ”

Sun Shao scratched his eyebrows: "Since you can't ambush here, I wonder if you should catch up and take the initiative to find Cui Qian for a decisive battle." ”

"It's a way to turn reactive into proactive." Yu Pan nodded: "However, this is not the best way. ”

"Please sir."

"Except for Cui Qian, doesn't the general have any interest in Zhu Ya?" Yu turned and asked: "Emperor Xiaowu Yuanfeng set up Zhuya and Dan'er counties here in the first year, and later because of rampant piracy, Emperor Xiaozhao first five years and Dan'er County belonged to Zhuya County, Emperor Xiaoyuan was in the first three years, and Zhuya County was abandoned by Zhao Jia Donation, and then in the past few hundred years, Zhuya has not been able to be included in the territory of my Han Dynasty. General, you're expanding your territory now. ”

Sun Shao didn't understand Yu Xuan's intention, what about opening up the territory, Zhuya is so big, but the population is too small, and the resources available are really limited. What is the point of a good name other than a good name?

Yu Xuan saw that he hadn't understood yet, so he had to further explain: "General, think about it, why is the Supreme in such a hurry to hand over the state?" Is it just because the state can provide taxes? Otherwise. So far, Jiaozhou has been able to provide the Supreme with very limited money and food, and Shixie pays tribute every year, but the Supreme has given him more items than he has paid. Of the seven counties of Jiaozhou, the only taxes that the Supreme can really receive are the three counties of Nanhai, Cangwu and Yulin, and the taxes of the other four counties are all from the scholars. But why does Supreme have to go to great lengths to run Jiaozhou? For no other reason, Jiaozhou is the only land that Supreme can expand at present. Expanding the territory has always been the greatest credit. Emperor Xiaohuan has done so many foolish things, why can he still get a good one? Isn't it that Duan Cheng defeated Dongqiang? ”

Sun Shao somewhat understood: "You mean, I'm also expanding my territory now, so I can ......."

"Yes, this credit is very great, even if the Supreme doesn't give you any substantial benefits, he will give you an official and a knight."

This time Sun Shao understood that only if he was added to the rank and knighthood, the people who followed him could get more benefits, whether it was actual benefits or the improvement of status, it was worth it for them.

Yu Pan saw that Sun Shao's heart was moved, and then said: "The reason why Zhu Ya was abandoned in the past was not that Zhu Ya was bad, but because there was no timely immigration. Our Han people have few people and many barbarians, so the court has not been able to really control Zhuya, and rebellions naturally come and go, and they are overwhelmed. It is precisely because there is no control of the court here, so it has become the territory of pirates, if the general exterminates Cui Qian this time, the other pirates will inevitably fall to the wind, and the population will not be less than 50,000 people, how can the general settle these people? Isn't Zhuya a good place? 50,000 people, the strong are soldiers, the weak are for the people, the products here are abundant, and after a few years of operation, this is not worse than Wu County. Moreover, compared with Wu County, there is more land here, and there is more room for expansion in the future. ”

The more Yu said, the more excited he became, he strode to the map, and pointed with his hand: "General, please see, set sail from the south end of Zhuya, and sail straight to the south, at least half the distance from Xuwen, there were pirates in the past, so most of the merchants have to pay more and Jiuzhen around, now that the pirates have been cleared, the merchants can start directly from here, and it won't be long before Zhuya will become the best place for merchants to enter and exit." General, this is much better than Xu Wen's conditions. ”

Sun Shao's heart was pounding. Xu Wencheng has only more than 3,000 people, but with the maritime merchants who come and go, it has become a prosperous county town, with a permanent population of nearly 20,000, which is only larger than Wu County. Now there are forty or fifty thousand pirates in Zhuya, that is a big county with ten thousand households, plus the merchants who come and go, it is only a matter of time before the prosperity here surpasses Xu Wen, and there is no doubt at all. What made him even more tempted was that this was a pirate den, and no one dared to come here to serve except him, and this place was his world. In fact, speaking of which, Zhu Ya is still a pirate nest, but he, the pirate leader, is more powerful than Cui Qian, not only has more people, but more importantly, he has an official identity and can justifiably control the power at hand now.

Looking at the Zhu Ya on the map, Sun Shao smiled, this is a good place, starting from here, the east can go to Southeast Asia, the west can go to India, the development is very big, this is his reading kingdom. Moreover, this is the fucking Hainan Island of the future, isn't it going to build the Las Vegas of the East in the 21st century? Okay, I'll do it for you in advance. Let me see what it means to rejuvenate the country through business.

"Please ask Mr. to write to the Supreme and ask for a county to be set up in Zhuya."

"Let Mo Zhi come to this kind of thing, his pen is better." Yu shook his hand and smiled contentedly.

"Sir, if the Supreme can give me this land, you have to discuss it with those families, and you must support it vigorously." Sun Shao and Yu Fan exchanged a look and smiled tacitly.

"Then we will wait for Cui Qian here, before he comes back, we have to follow the map and find out the situation here as soon as possible." Sun Shao waved his hand and called Su Bush over and asked him to immediately send someone back to Xu Wen to bring Lu Ji and the others to Lingaowan, so the surveying and mapping students all brought them with them, and they wanted to find out the situation of Zhu Ya in the shortest possible time.

Su didn't say a word, and set off with the people. At the same time, Sun Shao asked him to bring a letter to Buqi. In the letter, he said to Bu Qi, I have successfully occupied Cui Qian's general village, and now I am actively arranging, ready to hit Cui Qian again, completely pacify Jiaozhou, when the conditions are ripe, I will cross the sea from the south of Zhuya, go straight to Yuenan County to quell the rebellion, please prepare the grain and grass I need, and transport it to Zhuya together.

When Bu Qiu received the letter, he still didn't believe it, Sun Shao actually won Cui Qian's general village in such a short period of time? He knows Cui Qian's head village so well, it's as easy as going home, and he doesn't take any detours? He asked Su Thick Legs, and Su Thick Legs just laughed, "The general is wise, everything is under control", and nothing else was said. Bu Qiu also knew that Su Bush, a pirate, only believed in Sun Shao alone, and he didn't have a history of Jiaozhou assassination in his eyes, and he couldn't ask anything famous, so he had to cancel the plan to spy on the military situation. He said to Su Thick Leg, half of the military rations you prepared for half a year have not been moved, you should transport some grain to Zhuya first, Zhuya should also have some stored grain, which should be enough for you to go to Yuenan to quell the rebellion. If that's not enough, I'll raise it when the autumn harvest is complete.

Su was very satisfied, and turned around to leave, but Bu Qi stopped him again: "Doesn't General Fubo have any intention of going to support?" ”

Su shook his head, the general said, he just has too late to go, please Assassin Shi will deal with Cui Qian and them together with the sailors of Jiaoluan, they have limited baggage, they should not last long, and when the time comes, they can only return in vain, if they encounter a hurricane again, they will die and have no place to be buried. Although there are only more than 6,000 sailors escorting the escort now, there are also 10,000 sailors in Jiaolu, and it is of course difficult for 10,000 sailors to defeat tens of thousands of pirates, but it should not be too much of a problem to protect the merchant ships.

Bu Qi was so angry that he didn't know how to say it, he found that Sun Shao's visit to Jiaozhou this time was very different from the last time, he was not only promoted, his subordinates had strength, but also became arrogant, no longer listen to him like last time, between the tones, he had only regarded him as an ordinary colleague, making demands on him at every turn, and ignoring his requests.

Su Bu Leg didn't care what Bu Qi's mentality was, turned around and left. He pulled up all of Sun Shao's military camps in Xu Wen and moved them to Zhuya together, accompanied by Lu Ji and others. Within a few days, Xu Wen's military camp was empty, and while Bu Qi felt a burst of relief, he suddenly thought of a question. Sun Shao made such a big move, Cui Qian couldn't get any news at all, what if he turned around and came to Xu Wen to rob? Xu Wen doesn't have many people now, and the remaining few ships and a few county soldiers are probably not enough to fill Cui Qian's teeth.

Buqi discovered the tragedy, and he was going to carry the black pot for Sun Shao again. Sun Shao occupied Cui Qian's hometown, Cui Qian didn't dare to provoke him, and he wanted to send the evil fire to his head. Thinking of this, Bu Qi couldn't sit still any longer, on the one hand, he sent people to urge Shi Xie to send a sailor to meet Yue Hai and others, and on the other hand, he personally rushed to Lingao Bay and asked Sun Shao to send troops.

As soon as he saw Sun Shao, Bu Qi didn't have time to speak, so Sun Shao handed over a letter asking for merit. Lord Fujun, we have made great achievements in expanding the territory and laying such a large land for the Supreme, you should ask for credit for us.

(To be continued)