Chapter 41: The Great Plunder of Gold
"Quick, quick, get all this gold up." Cheng Chumo commanded a group of sergeants to carry the gold.
I saw that this was a huge mine, and hundreds of Tang soldiers and natives in the pit were all holding shovels and digging hard.
"Do you want to drink water?" Xu Yang handed over a kettle.
"Oh, big brother, I'm dying of thirst." Cheng Chumo took the kettle, raised his head and poured a big mouthful, the excess water sliding down the corners of his mouth and sliding down the Adam's apple onto the low-necked T-shirt.
There was a busy scene near the big pit, and hundreds of black-chested natives were seen carrying huge mine carts of gold to the shore.
On the coast, soldiers who had been prepared for a long time stopped the minecarts that had been transported, numbered them, sorted them, and put the gold with high gold purity into separate wooden boxes, and then loaded them into sea ships.
"What's going on with the containers?" Cheng Chumo drank the water and asked hurriedly.
"Don't worry, 5,000 catties of gold have all been loaded onto the ship." Xu Yang said with a happy face.
When Cheng Chumo heard this, a knowing smile appeared on his originally tired face.
"Big brother, how much money can we make when we go to sea this time and return to Datang?" Cheng Chumo's eyes turned into copper coins.
"En" Xu Yang thought for a while, and then said very seriously: "Just those three ships of gold are enough to buy half of Luoyang." ”
"Ahh Cheng Chumo heard this, looking incredulous, but then there was an expression of expectation.
"Big brother, you said that my father knew that I could buy half of Luoyang City, what would his expression be?" Cheng Chumo asked with a wicked taste.
"That's it," Xu Yang touched his chin, "I think with Uncle Cheng's personality, he will beat you up." ”
"Why!" Cheng Chumo asked in surprise.
"Because you kid actually said such a big rebellious thing." Xu Yang picked his nostrils, looking like he didn't care about himself
Luzon.
The sea is quiet, with the occasional seabird flying down, picking up a fish and disappearing into the sky.
On the shore, there were three huge sea ships, these three warships were full of goods, some of the wooden boxes had been unable to hold up, the mouth of the box was wide open, and all kinds of spices and precious wood were faintly visible.
"General, the spices are divided into cardamom, nutmeg are three thousand catties each, sandalwood, Zhenhua wood, Jiuqu wood, and golden silk nanmu have all been loaded on the ship and can set off at any time." A green-clad sergeant in armor reported.
"The goods transported this time are too valuable, have they all been verified?" A bearded officer said with a solemn face.
"General Hui, it has been verified more than three times." The sergeant replied very seriously.
"Good!" I saw the bearded general shout, and said loudly: "Pass my will, Yang Fan set sail and transport this overseas goods to my Datang!" ”
"No!" The sergeant was also very excited when he heard this, turned around, and said to the soldiers who were about to board the ship behind him: "General's will, the ship of Spice Island will return to the sea!" ”
Three huge ships laden with spices and rare timber had just sailed out of the harbor when a black-clad spy sprang out of the hidden grass on the shore.
"Report!" In a brightly lit cave, a black-clad spy shouted at the top of his voice.
"What's so flustered?" I saw a big man wearing a beast skin coat and a small skull around his neck sitting on a seat in a cave and frowning and asked.
The spy immediately knelt down and said, "Returning to the Fire Ghost King, this Datang fleet has already gone to sea full of spices!" ”
"What?!" The Fire Ghost King was startled, his body leaned forward slightly, reflecting the jumping flames, and he had three scars on his face, which looked ghostly and chilling.
"What are these spices doing to them?" The Fire Ghost King asked irritably.
I saw a man wearing a long shirt and holding a black feather fan slowly walked out of the darkness, he was not very old, at most in his thirties, but his eyes were extremely bright, and he was wearing a Datang iconic hat on his head, only to hear him say slowly: "Ghost King, Datang is extremely short of spices, once these spices are brought back, they can even be exchanged for the same weight of gold." ”
The scholar's voice was not loud, but it was very eerie.
"Then Mr. Yiyin, what should this king do? When the Tang Dynasty left three warships, Mr. Yin strongly opposed the king to lead the small ones to loot these warships, and now these warships have run away, and the ducks at the mouth have flew, and the king can't bear this breath. There was some anger in the tone of the big man in the seat.
The man named Mr. Yin flashed a trace of imperceptible disgust in his eyes, and then said casually: "On the land, those warriors are extremely strictly guarded, and there are people who hold on to them almost day and night, especially their eight-bull crossbows, which I have never even seen after this kind of improvement, basically we people have no chance of winning on land."
Moreover, some time ago, their huge fleet did not know the location, and now it is basically certain that it will not return in a short time.
When it comes to the sea, these Tang Navy, as far as I know, are all wine bags and rice bags, so the king can directly lead many leaders, seize the ship in one fell swoop, and then crisscross the seas and do everything. ”
I have to say that this Mr. Yin's analysis is reasonable and well-organized, and the sycophants in the last few sentences are also just right, and the guy named the Fire Ghost King is obviously a little fluttery.
I saw him pick up a bowl of spirits on the stone table, take a sip, and roar in the cave with pride: "Little ones, prepare the sea boats, this king will personally teach these Tang Dynasty troops, our Sui army is the real overlord of the sea!" ”
"Oh! Long live the King! Kill them all! "Against the backdrop of the torches in the cave, there seemed to be more than a thousand pirates standing below
I have to say that the pirates' nautical skills are really very powerful, dozens of small boats hidden in the undercurrent sea area were pulled out, although Datang occupied the Spice Island, but the exploration around the island has not been completed, after all, the overseas search for crops is the main task, the ocean-going fleet only left three warships to occupy the Spice Island, and the spices on the island were loaded back to Datang to be transported back to the Tang Dynasty to explore the Spice Island.
Dozens of pirate ships drove out of the undercurrent, this area of the sea has never been explored by the Tang army, and it also happens to be the settlement of the largest pirate gang in the vicinity, the 'Fire Ghost Gang'.
This fire ghost gang is a Sui Dynasty left the old Lingnan Navy Division, and later with the exile overseas, it gradually became an unorganized and disciplined pirate gang, among which the largest fire ghost king is a ruffian, after killing the division of the water division, he set himself up as the king, this person is very ruthless, but extremely righteous, so there are many followers around him.
"King, shall we dispatch all our military strength this time? Don't you need to stick to your hometown? A middle-aged man who looked like he was participating in politics came up and persuaded.
"No, the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, our fire ghost gang will rob the battleship for the first time this time, and it will definitely defeat its army in order to boost my morale, so the king has ordered everyone to get on the boat to participate in the raid!"
Although this Fire Ghost King is arrogant, he is definitely not stupid, and his idea is to use a qiē force to wipe out the three warships of the Tang Dynasty as quickly as possible
"You said that the king is really, there are only three ships, so he sent our fire ghost gang to fight a full thirty-one warships, ten to fight one, it is really a slaughtering knife for chickens." One of the sailed pirates said to the other in a mocking tone.
"Who says it's not, but our Fire Ghost Gang has never been fully moved, the last large-scale dispatch was to plunder those native chieftains on Thorn Island, think about this time all the troops can kill those soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, I am very excited when I think about it." The pirate also pulled out a dagger from his waist and licked it drunkenly, like an outlaw licking blood from the tip of a knife.
"You guys haven't fucking sailed yet?! Fuck it or not, I'm going to kick your balls to pieces! ”
I saw a muscular man, standing under the mast, shouting at the two pirates on the sail.
When the two pirates heard this, they hurriedly quickened their movements.
"If you can't catch up with the Datang sea ship, Lao Tzu will castrate all your eggs!" The big man under the mast was still cursing, and a huge sail fell
"Report speed!"
"General Hui, now the wind speed is level four, the steam engine has not started, the speed of the ship is three knots, and the hull is normal, do you enable the steam engine to accelerate?"
The bearded general was about to order the three ships to start the steam engines when he heard a bell ringing on the lookout, and then a sergeant burst into the house and shouted, "Report to the general!" Discover the enemy! ”
When the bearded man heard this, his pupils immediately shrank, but after all, he was a man who had experienced a hundred battles, and said calmly: "Report the number of enemy troops!" ”
The communications officer immediately ran out, heard him slump up to the lookout, and then flew down again.
"General Hui, from the telescope, it seems that the other party is using the warships of the former Sui, eleven large ships, twenty small boats, a total of thirty-one, and they are rowing in the direction of our army."
When the bearded man heard that the other party seemed to be a former Sui warship, he was relieved, and then said: "Pass my military order, beat the drum and line up!" ”
"Haha." At this time, the Fire Ghost King stood on a large battleship, looking at the Datang warship that was getting closer and closer in the distance, and looked forward to it, the three slow-moving warships in front of him were about to become his own bag.
Mr. Yin was standing beside the Fire Ghost King at this time, but his eyes were a little erratic, and the three strange-looking warships always gave him a strange sense of oppression, as if he could face thousands of troops with just three ships.
Especially when I look at the windows of the dozen or so black holes, I always feel that some of the most terrifying monsters in the world, R1152, will fly out of those black windows