There are two big mountains around Jiaozhou Bay, Laoshan Mountain in the northeast direction and Wulian Mountain in the southwest direction, the two big mountains look at each other in the distance across Jiaozhou Bay, the range of Wulian Mountain is very large and it is connected with Yimeng to the west and south, and Yimeng is East Mount Tai in the period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so it seems reasonable to say that Wulian Mountain is also the remaining vein of Mount Tai.

Li Yuanzhi and Xie Shuwen are carrying an important mission, and it seems that it is not difficult to take control of the area around Jiaozhou Bay, and the entire area around Jiaozhou Bay is only two or three hundred miles away, and it is a sparsely populated area.

But it is precisely because of the sparse population that it has become a paradise for thieves, needless to say the direction of Wulian Mountain, behind it is a mountain area that stretches for thousands of miles, in that kind of place, if someone tells you that there are no bandits, that guy is definitely a bandit, so there are not only many bandits in Wulian Mountain, but also very strong, not only aborigines, but also a large number of strangers, it is a veritable den of thieves.

As for Jiaozhou Bay, since it is a good port in later generations, and now it is a place where there are no people, so it has become a pirate's nest, and the pirates entrenched here have not 100,000 but also 80,000, especially now that the channel of grain transportation from the south to the north has been opened, and there are many times more ships at sea, which has also prompted the rapid development of pirates at sea.

The rest is Laoshan Mountain, Laoshan is not big, the boundary of less than 100 miles is around, so there are no decent bandits, strangers are not very optimistic about Laoshan, there is no strategic depth, when encountering the officers and soldiers of the government, Laoshan fart is a big place, even guerrilla warfare is not easy to fight.

However, in the eyes of Li Yuanzhi and Xie Shuwen, Laoshan is a very suitable place, first of all, Laoshan is close to the sea, and a port can be directly established under Laoshan Mountain. Receiving supplies and support from Zhou Tai, in addition, the bandit forces in Laoshan are simple and very easy to annex, and in the end, it is naturally Li Yuanzhi's strong combat effectiveness, and there is no need to be afraid of the local government at all. There is only a small city of less than 100,000 people in the surrounding two hundred miles, and it is not Li Yuanzhi's opponent to come out of the city.

It is not so much that Li Yuanzhi is worried about the encirclement and suppression of the government. It is better to say that the government should be worried about Li Yuanzhi's attack on the city at all times.

Li Yuanzhi's men plus his personal guards, but there were 9,000 soldiers, plus Xie Shuwen's 1,000 people, they had a total of 10,000 troops, and Zhou Tai sent them directly from Lelang.

In order to adapt to the local environment, Li Yuanzhi did not adopt the configuration of all cavalry, but 3,000 cavalry. 5,000 heavy crossbowmen and 2,000 sword and shield soldiers, because they not only have to fight the enemy, but also occupy territory, and this composite configuration of troops with horse and foot is more suitable for performing complex tasks in the mountains.

After landing from the sea at night, Li Yuanzhi immediately asked the troops to be on guard and repair, and as soon as the morning dawned, the cavalry units that were the first to disembark immediately set off to surround and isolate the entire Laoshan mountain area. Subsequently, Li Yuanzhi and Xie Shuwen led the infantry, divided into several directions, and pushed the entire Laoshan area with unstoppable spirit.

With the small group of bandits in Laoshan Mountain, the largest gang of thieves is no more than 500 people, and when they encounter this kind of elite warriors armed to the teeth, they are basically crushed at the touch of a button, either surrendering or fleeing. But now the outskirts of Laoshan are blocked by light soldiers, and these people have not been able to escape in the end.

The next thing is simple, Li Yuanzhi found a valley that extends in all directions. The five valley mouths here are blocked to form a large cottage. Named Laoshan Cottage, Xie Shuwen came to be the owner of the village, and gathered the families, women and children of the thieves captured from various bandit camps, and there were also four or five thousand people, plus the bandits who surrendered, it was almost more than 10,000.

In one day, Laoshan quietly changed color and was unified by Li Yuanzhi and Xie Shuwen, of whom Xie Shuwen was in charge of internal affairs, leading 7,000 infantry to garrison the cottage, establishing limited supply and production capacity, and training captured and surrendered bandits to become militia guarding the cottage.

Li Yuanzhi was responsible for external affairs, leading 3,000 cavalry troops to establish a reconnaissance and cavalry network around Laoshan to sweep away the surrounding wild monsters and bandits, and even the pirate port relatively close to Laoshan was occupied by Li Yuanzhi.

The matter of Laoshan was a little unexpected, and when the surrounding officials and pirates found that a powerful force had suddenly appeared around them, Li Yuanzhi and Xie Shuwen had already firmly established themselves on Laoshan Mountain.

Then the more well-informed pirates and bandits, knowing that this is a force of the Taiping Road, now the forces of the Taiping Road are operating in the mountains, sweeping away the thieves in the mountains is already a well-known fact on the green forest road, in Mount Tai, the Taiping Road is more cheerful, although there are many bandits do not buy the account of the Taiping Road, but the thin arms are not able to twist the thighs.

The soldiers of Taiping Dao who have received Fang Zhiwen's formal military training have become the backbone of Taiping Dao's military force, with these backbones, where can ordinary bandits still be enough? Even like the Taishan thief Zang Ba and others, they can only temporarily avoid their edge, and even consider whether to join the vigorous Taiping Dao movement.

With the tiger skin banner of Taiping Road, Xie Shuwen and Li Yuanzhi's behavior is not particularly eye-catching, as for the local government, except for worrying day and night whether Li Yuanzhi will come to rob, they dare not do anything to suppress bandits? What are you kidding, what are the big bandits going to do to use the less than 500 old soldiers in this city?

As for reporting to the boss and the court, isn't that purely uncomfortable for yourself? If the boss does not make it good for you to rectify the place, you will have nowhere to talk about suffering, so as long as the thieves do not attack the city, then it is better to treat it as invisible, anyway, if the city gate is closed, the city is also harmonious.

As for the song, don't say you won't be able to whitewash the peace!

Although the existence of Laoshan thieves is already an indisputable fact, not only the local government, but also most of the pirates who have taken root in Jiaozhou Bay, as well as the surrounding bandits, can only admit the existence of this group of Taiping Dao thieves, but there are still smart people in it, especially strangers.

Among the pirates in Jiaozhou Bay, there are aborigines and aliens, but with the growth of aliens, the original aborigines are still suffering from the leaves and the leaves of the aborigines. div style="float:right;; padding: 10px; ">

Among them, there is a group of pirate gangs called the Seven Seas, which is an inhuman force relatively close to Laoshan Mountain, this pirate group is in reality, an association of sailing and adventure enthusiasts, and in this game of more than 50 million players, these people belong to high-end players.

It's just that they are not guilds for the purpose of fighting for hegemony, but guilds for the purpose of ocean exploration and ocean trade, and it is not wrong to say that they are pirates, but their main business should be armed sea trade, as well as sea exploration.

These people are not bad for money in reality, but they will not throw a lot of money in, then they will lose the fun of the game, whether they are pirates or sea trade, the ultimate goal is to explore the sea. Exploring the sea is a sense of accomplishment in itself, and this game also has a large number of adventure dungeons on the sea to increase the fun of exploration, so guilds like the Guild of the Seven Seas are not rare, but there are many people.

The members of the seven seas, most of whom are members in their thirties, play games for a period of time is not fixed, but this does not mean that their game level is poor, on the contrary, the quality of their games is quite high, in addition to hiring inhumans, they huā capital to cultivate aborigines, in their pirate group, the highest rank is not inhuman, but an aborigine, the fifth-order naval army general Jiang Qin.

It's hard to say whether this Jiang Qin is that Jiang Qin or not, but he is a real fifth-order naval general, and this is not fake.

"Wang, what do you think?"

The one who is called the old king is the boss Wang Ben, the boss of the seven seas, this slightly blessed black strong man, squinted his thin eyes and pondered for a while: "It's hard to say, but I don't think these people are simple, how did they come here first?" Secondly, I don't know about their infantry, but the cavalry is undoubtedly elite, three thousand elite cavalry, and I am afraid that they are also the number one cattle in Taiping Road, but who is the thief head of this Laoshan cottage? The banner is 'Xie' and 'Li', "Who of you knows that there is the power of these two surnames in Taiping Dao?" ”

A man with a pale face and a gentle look said: "'Xie and Li' are ordinary surnames, and it is impossible to tell whether it is true or false now, the news from the Tao is definitely not fake, but the Taiping Dao is originally good and bad, not to mention, there may be players, the recent Taiping Dao policy has changed drastically, and players are being recruited to join, and the same thing is happening in Taishan, Taihang, and Runan with Laoshan." ”

"You want to say that Taiping Dao is going to exert force?"

"It's very possible, but the matter of Laoshan can't be seen in isolation, Laoshan is a small hill no matter what, if these Laoshan thieves appear in Penglai Mountain, I don't think it's strange, but in Laoshan"

"I understand, it's Jiaozhou Bay, they have a fancy for Jiaozhou Bay! However, is there a navy in Taiping Road? ”

"It's hard to say, maybe it's not the sailors of Taiping Road, but Taiping Road needs a seaport to get the entrance and exit for foreign trade."

"That's for us"

"If you are to preside over the Taiping Road, how are you going to deal with the large group of pirates in Jiaozhou Bay?"

"Destroy or recruit 1

Lao Wang sighed, it seems that Jiaozhou Bay can no longer stay in this place, the problem is that the Seven Seas were driven to Jiaozhou Bay by the Jiangdong clan from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and now it looks like it is going to be driven away again, for the guilds of sea players, there is still a lack of official identity, there is no foundation on land, these guilds can only exist as chambers of commerce or pirates.

It would be great to have a harbor city of your own!

"Actually, I have a different idea." The man with glasses, who has always spoken less, interjected.

Lao Wang smiled and said, "You said 1."

"I think the key to this is, how did these Laoshan bandits appear? Also, there are so many of them, what about logistics and supplies? ”

"This"

Lao Wang's eyes froze, this thing seems to be really strange! Could it be that there is a powerful naval force behind the Laoshan bandits? However, in the naval forces that can appear here, in addition to the warships of the Jiangdong clan, there is only the Lelang naval army that has been very active in the Bohai Sea recently, isn't it! ~！