Chapter 197: Exterminate the White Sands Society

Baeksha Island, formerly known as Baekje Island, is a large island outside Baekje Province, after the destruction of Baekje Kingdom, Silla Kingdom abandoned this island, and over time, this large island with a radius of 100 miles gradually fell into disuse, and only a few fishermen lived.

Twenty years ago, the Silla nobleman Lee Chao-hee was executed for rebellion, and only his second son, Lee Baek-sha, escaped from the capital and came to Baeksha Island.

But Li Baisha also knew that with his current strength, it was far from enough to compete with Silla, and in order to collect money, he also embarked on the road of piracy, robbing merchant ships, and raiding the coastal counties of Daning and Silla, but they never entered the East China Sea, which was the sphere of influence of the Phoenix Society.

Fifteen years ago, the Baisha Society had a battle with the Phoenix Society, suffered a heavy defeat, and was forced to surrender to the Phoenix Society, and at the same time promised not to invade the coastal area of the Daning Dynasty.

Li Baisha is 45 years old this year, not tall in stature, but extremely strong, he has been operating on Baisha Island for 20 years, so that the island's population has gradually increased to more than 1,000 households, more than 10,000 people, his army has also reached 5,000 people, more than 300 warships.

As the Baeksha Society grew stronger, the Silla Kingdom began to be wary of it, and Li Baeksha got the news that it was very likely that after the spring of next year, the Silla Kingdom would send troops to exterminate the Baeksha Society.

Li Baisha was extremely worried, he went to Chuzhou for this reason, on the one hand, to buy fine iron, to prepare to build weapons, on the other hand, he wanted to ask Uncle Shen for help, asking Uncle Shen to send a white-clothed private army to Baisha Island to help him defend against the enemy.

Li Baisha met Uncle Shen through Goryeo eight years ago, and willingly took refuge in him and became a force for him overseas, and for eight years, they have been on good terms, but at the beginning of the year, they failed to intercept the tax and silver of the East Palace, which made Uncle Shen have great opinions about him, which affected his request for help this time, he wanted to ask 3,000 people to go to the island to help in the war, but Uncle Shen only promised to give him 800 people in the end.

The most fatal thing is that the fine iron he bought in Chuzhou was captured by the Chuzhou naval army, and the whole army was annihilated, which not only caused him to suffer the loss of people and ships, but also seriously affected his preparation plan, his army was poorly equipped, lacked armor, and had a serious shortage of long weapons, mainly knives.

The unfavorable aid from the Daning Dynasty made Li Baisha's mood really bad these days, and his only hope now was pinned on the Goryeo Kingdom, which refused to send troops to aid him, but agreed to give him material aid, including food and ordnance.

At night, when the clouds are low, the darkness covers the sky and the earth, and the sea is calm, it is a winter of recuperation, and more than 300 warships are moored in the harbor, and occasionally a small group of soldiers will appear to patrol nearby.

On the west side of the island is a deserted beach, where hundreds of fishermen live, and the tidal flats are full of small fishing boats, and on the other side of the tidal flats are full of fishing nets.

In the dim night, hundreds of small boats full of black pressure crowd quietly sailed towards the beach, the boat touched the bottom and stopped, the black shadow on the boat jumped off the boat and ran towards the beach, they were holding bows and crossbows and spears, the armor on their bodies flashed with a dark luster, everyone's movements were extremely agile, and they quickly ran towards the small hill, and in a moment, more than 200 people blocked the road from the military port.

The small boats that flocked to the beach became more and more dense, and nearly two hundred small boats occupied the entire tidal flat, and the army that appeared on the beach gradually increased from a few hundred to three thousand, and they were fully armed, moved quickly, and with great vigour, after the simplest formation, the three thousand troops were divided into three groups, crossed the dense forest, and penetrated in three directions to the port...... There was still silence in the harbor, three hundred warships were densely packed in the narrow natural harbor, there was no ice in the harbor, the sea gently lapped the hull, the ships rose and fell, there was no army guarding the shore, only a row of barracks not far away, and occasionally the soldiers of the Baisha Society who got up at night entered and exited.

At this time, a sergeant of the Baisha Society suddenly found that a large group of troops appeared dozens of steps away, he was stunned, and was about to shout, an arrow shot through his throat, muffled, he fell heavily to the ground, a large group of Chuzhou Navy soldiers rushed into the barracks, only to see an exclamation, screams, and soon calmed down.

The sailors were divided into three routes, two armies of 1,000 people each intercepted the two roads leading to the harbor, and the other 1,000 people began to board the ship quickly, they forced the boatmen who lived on the ship to untie the cables, pull up the iron anchors, and open the sails, one after another large ships began to sail out of the harbor one after another, a bunch of skyrocketing flames began to burn on the harbor wharf, and nearly 1,000 warships ten miles away began to surround Baisha Island in a huge fan shape, and the garrison on the island found the abnormality and began to panic.

......... About five miles away from the harbor, there is a white palace-like building called Qingyuan Palace, which is the palace built for himself by Li Baisha, the head of the Baisha Society.

There was a burst of music in the Qingyuan Palace, Li Baisha was half-lying on the golden and white jade bed, squinting at the singing and dancing performance of a team of naked dancing girls, eight young and beautiful maids, whose delicate bodies were only covered with a light veil, hugged him and beat him on the shoulder.

Li Baisha is extremely lustful, he has more than 100 wives and concubines, and lives a life of drunkenness every day, but he is in a bad mood these days, and always uses maids to vent his anger, and has killed five people one after another, making the other maids tremble.

Although the dancing posture in front of him is beautiful and moving, and the beautiful woman is as delicate as jade, he is a little absent-minded, thinking about the eight hundred white-clothed troops from Chuzhou, the combat effectiveness of these eight hundred white-clothed troops is not weak, but they do not obey their command, which is a headache for him, he is thinking about drawing some people from these eight hundred people to Qizhou to recruit troops, as long as he is willing to pay money, it is not a problem to recruit three or five thousand troops, and let these white-clothed soldiers train them for a few months, so that he will have tens of thousands of troops and can fight with the Silla army, The key is that Goryeo's ordnance and materials must be delivered in time, and he is ready to send someone to urge him tomorrow.

"Lord!"

One of his subordinates rushed to the Qingyuan Palace in a panic, making the dancers exclaim, stop dancing, and find clothes to cover their bodies, Li Baisha's Qingyuan Palace never allows men to come in, which made him angry, "What's the matter?" He roared.

The subordinates shouted with a crying voice: "Lord! A large number of warships appeared on the sea, and there were .... The dock has been occupied, and our warships are gone! ”

"What!" Li Baisha was furious, and his first reaction was that the Silla army was sneaking up on them, and he waved his arms and shouted: "Gather the army and retake the dock for me!" ”

He didn't care about giving orders, kicked his subordinates over, drew his sword and rushed out, anger burned in his heart, the despicable and shameless Li Jingyuan army actually used a sneak attack, he rode a horse and galloped to the barracks, at this time his 6,000 troops had already pounced, everyone realized that if the island was occupied by the Silla army, none of them would survive.

But they were ambushed on the way to the port, and the arrows rained down like a barrage of arrows, and the White Sands Pirates were unprepared, and for a time they suffered heavy casualties.

"Kill it, take back the port for me!"

Li Baisha hissed and shouted: "The Silla army will be defeated in a battle, don't be afraid." ”

At this time, the leader of the white-clothed army of Chuzhou, who was ordered to support the Baisha Society, hurriedly came, his name was Wu Jun, he was a general of the commander, and he had some knowledge.

"Lord!"

Wu Jun said to him uneasily: "This doesn't seem to be the Silla army, it seems to be the Chuzhou Navy." ”

"What!" Li Baisha took two steps back, stunned.

Wu Jun was anxious, if they were caught by the Chuzhou naval army, the consequences would be unimaginable, he didn't care about what to say to Li Baisha, and turned to his own army, he wanted the army to change its clothes immediately and blend into the people of Baisha Island.

Li Baisha slowly retreated, with fear in his eyes, it was the Chuzhou naval army, he knew that the general trend had gone, no matter the number and equipment of the army were far inferior to the other party, they were not opponents at all, the dock had been occupied, and seeing the ships full of soldiers entering the harbor, more and more soldiers went ashore.

Li Baisha made a gesture to more than 100 henchmen, turned around and ran south, and he also stopped a warship in a secret small harbor.

In a small fjord, there is a large ship of 3,000 stones, the ship is very hidden, it is difficult to see from the sea, this is a back road left by Li Baisha for himself, the ship is full of water and grain, can let a hundred people drift at sea for three months.

He had already thought about where he would escape if the Silla army took his docks.

Li Baisha led more than 100 guards to run down from the cliff and got on the boat one after another, and dozens of people supported the rock wall with pennies, so that the big ship slowly sailed out of the fjord and into the sea.

The sails were raised, and Li Baisha gave the order to set off for Goryeo in the north, when he only fled to Baekje Island with a few domestic servants, but now there are more than 100 people, and he still has a million silver in Dongnae Qianzhuang, as long as Goryeo supports him, he can make a comeback.

But less than three miles after his warship sailed, one of his men exclaimed, "Look at that big ship, it's not good, we're surrounded!" ”

I saw a huge ship in front of them, which was ten times the size of their warship, and around them, there were three ships in a zigzag shape surrounding them, and Li Baisha collapsed on the deck with a weak leg.

On the mother ship, Huangfu Wujin stared at the ship that had escaped from the island, and calmly gave the order, "Sink it with new artillery!" ”

The signal was issued, a 3,000-stone warship began to approach the enemy ship, 500 steps away, only to hear the roaring sound of artillery bombardment, the warship emitted a stream of white smoke, this is the artillery test ship of Wujin, ten cannons bombarded in turn, only to see Li Baisha's ship nearby, waves of water rushed to the sky, ten shells, there were three hit the target, the big ship was blown up, the mast broke, fell down, a cannonball penetrated the wall of the ship, exploded in the big ship, blew the sea ship open a big hole, the hull was almost broken, and the sea water poured in, The ship began to sink rapidly, and the sea was full of White Sands Club pirates wailing for help.

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(To be continued)