Cao Ben glanced at Xu Dong and asked, "Didn't consult the general's name?"

Xu Dongdao: "It doesn't matter who I am, you just need to tell me, is this true?"

Cao Ben was very angry at Xu Dong's behavior of not giving face at all, so he sneered: "You are a military attaché, are you too much in charge?" Even if you want the official to explain, it won't be your turn to question! This official will explain this matter to the provincial governor, so I won't bother you! ”

Xu Dong smiled slightly, took out the unicorn robe from the backpack space and draped it on his body, and with a "bell", a sheathed treasure knife was inserted into the ground in front of Cao Ben.

"Now, you can explain." Xu Dong smiled, with a little murderous intent hidden in his eyes.

"Qilin robe, supreme sword! You are Lord Xu Dongxu! Cao Ben and Zhoushan County Cheng Hu Yu exclaimed.

The two knelt down in the dust, Cao Ben trembled with fright, and his lips trembled so much that he couldn't speak at all: "Xiaguan...... Under...... Official ......"

Xu Dong said: "Okay, you don't have to say it. Hu Yu, you say. ”

County Cheng Hu Yu trembled and kowtowed twice, hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Lord Qiyu!" The county magistrate Cao Benke deducted the silver and stole the official grain, and the situation is true! There is evidence here! ”

Cao Ben raised his head in shock, pointed at Hu Yu and screamed, "You...... You...... I'm blind, how can I let you be around this villain! ”

Xu Dong said with a smile: "At the beginning of the founding of this dynasty, if officials were greedy for more than 6 taels of ink and silver, Emperor Taizu would skin them. And Cao Ben, you are just a county magistrate, you dare to be greedy for military salaries and steal official food! How can I tolerate you? ”

Cao Ben kowtowed again and again: "My lord, spare my life!" Spare your life! ”

The sword flashed, the begging for mercy stopped abruptly, and Cao's head fell to the ground. The surrounding people were all exclaimed, and then some people applauded and praised the goodness and ran to tell each other. It seems that this Cao Ben is indeed innocent.

Hu Yu, Yu Dayou and all the sergeants knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise their heads. I only heard Xu Dong say: "Cao's crime is unforgivable, this official exercises the right given by the saint, holds the supreme sword, does not need the king's order flag, and civil and military officials below the 5th rank can be cut first and then played." The county magistrate of Zhoushan was temporarily replaced by Hu Yu, the county magistrate, and Yu Dayou and the sergeants of the Daishan Island outpost were transferred to the Dangkou Water Division. All the arrears are borne by the sailors. Order! ”

Hu Yu and Yu Dayou both kowtowed and said, "Obey the order!"

Xu Dong and Xiaoman walked on the streets of Zhoushan County, and Yu Dayou and the sergeants followed behind, looking happy. After all, none of them wanted to stay on a sparsely populated island to spend their youth, and now that they could follow a big man like Xu Dong, Yu Dayou felt that his luck seemed to have come!

Xu Dong turned around and said, "Dayou, gather all the sergeants at the outpost. We're going to go to sea, you're familiar with the sea, there's a ship parked in the harbor, and you go and see what you need to buy. In addition, I went to the merchant house to buy porcelain and silk, and filled the bottom warehouse. Then he gave each of his brothers fifty taels of silver, and sent home if he had a family. After all, going to sea is dangerous, and who knows if you can come back. As he spoke, he handed Yu Dayou a stack of silver tickets.

Yu Dayou held a thick stack of silver tickets in his hand, and his eyes were full of tears. What a lot of trust that must be! What's more, the adults just accepted us!

Yu Dayou secretly swore in his heart that he would swear allegiance to the Lord in this life! Cautiously clenched his fists and said: "Obey!" After speaking, he hurriedly took people away.

In fact, Xu Dong was too lazy to move, and he felt that with the temperament of Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, he would never do such a shameless thing as running away with money.

Yu Dayou is worthy of a generation of famous generals, when Xu Dong and Xiaoman went shopping, had a meal, and returned to Zhoushan Port in a leisurely manner, the Haicang ship was ready to go, in addition to Yu Dayou and 40 sergeants on board, Yu Dayou also recruited 6 sailors and two shipwrights, and also purchased 300 boxes of porcelain and 4,000 pieces of silk. Porcelain 2 taels 3 coins of silver, silk because Zhejiang is a prosperous place of silk, so each piece of silk 4 taels of silver, spent nearly 20,000 taels of silver. He also bought grain and bacon that could feed 50 people for a month and a half, as well as more than a dozen barrels of fresh water.

In terms of armament, Yu Dayou took advantage of his position to purchase 10 cast-iron cannons, 4 bowl-mouth guns, 10 bird guns, 70 Yanling knives, 30 shields, 120 fire-throwing cans, 20 bows, 5 crossbows, 2,000 arrows, 4 pairs of iron armor, 15 pairs of cotton armor, and 6 large barrels of gunpowder. It cost fourteen thousand six hundred taels of silver.

The cast-iron cannon weighing more than 800 catties was installed on both sides of the ship's side, and the upper cabin was renovated, with more than a dozen windows on both sides of the cabin.

Xu Dong highly appreciated Yu Dayou's ability to do things, and praised it fiercely, which made Yu Dayou very embarrassed.

Under the scorching July sun, the Haicang ship, named "Cangshan" by Xu Dong, set sail for the Ryukyu Islands. The reason why the name Cangshan was chosen is probably Xu Dong's commemoration of Xu Wei, the commander of the Cangshan destroyer who died in the first Xia Rui Battle.

Sailing in the virtual world is certainly not as ten-day-and-a-half-moon as in reality, but it is also very boring and time-consuming. It takes about 3 hours to get from Zhoushan to Ryukyu. If you want to cross the Pacific Ocean, it is estimated that it will take about 2 days in reality. Fortunately, Xu Dong and Xiaoman have never sailed in the sea, admiring the blue sea and blue sky, white clouds and seagulls all the way, but they don't feel that time is too difficult.

Before I knew it, 3 hours passed in a blink of an eye. The Akuyama made its way to the port of Shurijo Castle in Naha, one of the Ryukyu Islands. Shurijo Castle was the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the arrival of the Soyama made the entire Shurijo Castle boil. The king of the second Shang dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, King Shangqing personally came to the port to greet Xu Dong, calling him the angel of Shangbang, so that Xu Dong Beier had face.

The Ryukyu Kingdom was a small country consisting of more than 140 islands, most of which were uninhabited at the time, and there were less than 30 inhabited islands. The population was less than 250,000 in 1537. Most of them were concentrated on the island of Ryukyu, which is now Okinawa.

The Cangshan unloaded and sold 300 boxes of porcelain and 4,000 pieces of silk in the cabin, which was immediately snapped up by local rich and nobles, and the net profit exceeded 60,000 taels of silver!

Satisfied, Xu Dong bought a whole shipload of sugar and pineapples in the Ryukyus, and the prices were outrageously cheap. So the Cangshan set sail back to Zhoushan, preparing to buy another batch of porcelain, tea and silk.

Unexpectedly, not long after the Soyama left Shuri Port, it had an accident when it sailed to the vicinity of Kamiyama Island, less than 20 nautical miles north of Ryukyu Island!

The lookout soldier who was watching from the top of the Cangshan cabin suddenly shouted: "Ten miles ahead, black flag!" Wakako! It's Nanwa! ”

Nanwa refers to pirates entrenched in the southern seas of the Ming Dynasty or the waters of the South Seas. Most of these pirates were Han Chinese, Luzon (Filipinos), or even Javanese (Indonesians). Although they are also called Wakos, they are not Japanese.

Xu Dong walked to the bow of the boat and watched, it was a Chinese-style bird boat, also called the Green Eyebrow Boat. The ship is long and narrow and sails quickly, and the waterline is very shallow, indicating that it is not loaded with much cargo. It is basically impossible for the fully loaded Cangshan to escape from this pirate ship, and the only option is to fight.

Xu Dong waved his hand, and Yu Dayou shouted: "Fill the cannon!" Meet the enemy! "The soldiers sprang into action, reloading the artillery guns with ammunition and preparing their bows and arrows.

"Xu Shuai, please put on armor!" Yu Dayou said to Xu Dong with a pair of louver iron armor.

Xu Dong nodded and put on the iron armor with the help of Yu Dayou. Yu Dayou and the two school officers also put on iron armor, and the rest of the soldiers with armor put on cotton armor, and those without armor picked up shields. Only Xiao Man was wearing a pair of silver light armor, carrying a big knife, looking forward to fighting, and the whole woman was violent. Xu Dong wanted to tell Xiao Man that he was stupid with a long-handled knife in the naval battle, but seeing Xiao Man's eagerness to try, he wisely closed his mouth......

The owner of the pirate ship on the opposite side was indeed a Han man, named Su Xi, who was originally from Fujian. While running a boat to smuggle, he is engaged in pirate business. This time, I wanted to come to Ryukyu to catch two Ryukyu merchant ships, but I didn't expect to meet Xu Dong.

Su Xi saw that it was a sea boat, and the waterline was very deep, and he was overjoyed in his heart. If you want to come to Haicang, there are usually only twenty or thirty sailors, and the resistance will not be very fierce. Moreover, this ship came from the port of the Ryukyus, presumably selling a large amount of goods in the Ryukyus, and returning with Ryukyu specialties. There must have been a large amount of cash on board, as well as a shipload of cargo. It's a good deal! And there are 60 pirates on his own ship, and it is easy to take this sea ship.

The reason why Su Xi was able to be a pirate leader was that in addition to his good brain, his martial arts were also good. He did not think it would be difficult to rob such a merchant ship.

The pirate ship sailed downwind and pounced on the Cangshan, and the distance between the two ships became shorter and shorter. Xu Dong looked at the bird boat, which was about 26 meters in size, with sharp ends at both ends, and drove very fast. The idea of capturing the ship came to mind. It's good to bring it back to the sailor as a sentry boat.

Seeing that the pirate ship had entered the range of the artillery, Xu Dong ordered: "Left rudder!" Starboard engagement, artillery replacement shotguns! The gunners were in a hurry again, loading the five guns on the right with shotguns. This is a kind of iron the size of a broad bean wrapped in cotton cloth, and there are hundreds of pieces of iron in a cotton bag, and a shot fired at close range can cause great damage to the personnel of the enemy ship.

Xu Dong walked around the bow of the boat a little nervously, and his originally slender body looked a little bloated because he was wearing a louver iron armor. Wearing an iron armor weighing more than 60 pounds, it is difficult to even walk, let alone use light skills.

Xu Dong turned back to Yu Dayou and said, "It doesn't seem convenient to fight the enemy on a ship wearing such heavy iron armor?" If you fall overboard, you won't sink directly to the bottom of the sea! ”

Yu Dayou was puzzled: "You are the boss, why do you want to fight the enemy?" The coach only needs to sit firmly in the cabin and command. The iron armor is to defend against the stray slingshot on the opposite side and not hurt the generals, and there is only one possibility for the commander to fall into the water, that is, the ship sank......"

Xu Dong was speechless, indeed, the generals in the army did not directly fight the enemy in most cases. All you need to do is command your soldiers against the enemy. But this is not in line with Xu Dong's character. Moreover, Xu Dong believed that it was difficult to move in iron armor and was not suitable for sea combat. On the contrary, the bamboo armor worn by those Japanese samurai was more suitable for naval warfare.

At this time, those pirates saw that the Cangshan began to turn to the left, and naturally thought that the Cangshan wanted to escape, so they accelerated and rushed towards it.

"Haha! They want to run, catch up! One of the pirates exclaimed excitedly.

Su Xi brandished a single knife and shouted, "Brothers! After this ticket, let's go back to eating and drinking and playing with women! Give Lao Tzu spiritual points! ”

The distance between the two ships was only more than 30 meters, and the starboard gun door of the Cangshan opened, and suddenly five swarthy gun barrels stretched out. The pirates were directly dumbfounded, and they also saw the heavily armed armor soldiers on the Cangshan.

"It's a bad thing! They are not merchant ships! It's the official army! One of the pirates shouted in panic.

Su Xi also panicked, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Turn the rudder! They're going to shoot! ”

But for a while, there was no time to turn the rudder.

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