Iron Sheet came out of the big wooden box, looked at the deep night sky and said, "Master, the free air is so good. ”

Li Hao smiled: "That's good, locked in a box for a day, I have a bit of a philosopher's flavor when I speak." ”

Iron Hide tilted his head and thought for a moment, then looked up at the night sky and said, "Even if there is thick and deep darkness around me, it can't cover the light in my heart. Although I am trapped in a wooden box, my heart is flying in the free sky. ”

"Yo, say you're fat, you're still panting. This is a bit of a poet, since you have such feelings, then you will stay in the wooden box for three or two months? After the retreat, you are the robot of the poet, the fighter of the robots. ”

"No, put it in the box again, I'll be bored and out of line."

Li Hao rested on the boat that night, and the next morning, he asked the iron sheet to drive the boat, and always felt that the iron sheet was more reliable than himself.

Donghai No. 2 slowly sailed to the sea near Qingqi Bay and stopped, Li Hao said: "Iron sheet, it is forbidden to leak everything in the world on the other side of the wormhole, do you know?" ”

"Yes, my lord, you command."

Iron Hide already knows about the parallel world, and as long as he lets it go online in the main world, he can't hide it. There are materials about the Song Dynasty on the Internet, information about Zhao Ji and Cai Jing, and information about Quanzhou City. But it doesn't matter if the robot knows, as long as it keeps it a secret. When it comes to keeping secrets, who is more reliable than the iron sheet?

Li Hao said: "Iron Skin, you find a walkie-talkie and contact Xiaomei and them." ”

Before leaving last time, it was agreed that Xiaomei and the others would turn on the shortwave walkie-talkie every day in Chenshi, and now this time is almost the same. The iron sheet calls at the agreed frequency.

Soon Xiaozhu's surprised voice sounded: "Iron Skin, is it you, the young master is back?" ”

"Oh, yes, the master is back, and I'm back with the iron sheet, and we're just outside the mouth of the Qingqi River."

"Great, Sister Mei, Sister Lan, Xiaoju, the young master is back." Xiaozhu's voice is the best among the four maids, crisp and sweet with a hint of coquettishness, which makes people never get tired of listening to it.

She called her sisters, and then said anxiously: "Young master, it's good for you to come back, something happened to the tea house." A large number of tea leaves were robbed by bandits on the way to Kaifeng. ”

Li Hao grabbed the walkie-talkie and asked, "When did it happen?" Isn't the tea escorted by a dart board? "I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing just after returning to the Northern Song Dynasty.

"The caravan was escorted by the dart bureau along the way. Two days ago, while passing through the double hump, a large group of bandits appeared, killed seven men from the dart board, and also killed four caravan mates, and stole all the tea. ”

Li Hao said: "You send someone to call Xiao Zhongzhi, Jiang Wuyang and Jiang Liuyang to the mansion, and I will see them when I return to the mansion." I'm still on a boat at the mouth of the Qingqi River, and like last time, you've brought the long-term laborers over to carry the goods, and the wagons, mule carts, and boats have all been sent here. ”

"Okay, let's take someone over."

At this time, Xiao Ju's panting voice sounded, and she obviously ran over from a distance, "Young master, the tea leaves of the tea house were robbed by thieves!" ”

"I know, let's talk about it when I go home, you bring someone to move things first."

Soon Xiaomei and the others came to the beach with a large number of long-term workers, and the three wooden boats of the Li Mansion also sailed out of the Qingqi River. When everyone saw the Donghai No. 2, they were shocked again.

The iron ship last time was already big enough, this ship was nearly twice as long and twice as wide as the last one, and on the whole this ship was several times larger than the last one. There is such a huge ship in the world, and how much cargo can be carried in such a ship!

The shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty was quite advanced, but in any case, it was impossible to build a giant ship like the Donghai No. 2. People never thought that the ship could be so big, and the entire hull was made of steel, and the visual impact was quite strong when you saw it.

Xiaolan exclaimed: "Such a big ship, a few trips back and forth, a big mountain can be emptied." ”

Xiao Ju nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "A shipload full of goods is enough to sell the Treasure Pavilion for ten years." ”

The long-term workers secretly complained in their hearts: "This boatload of things will take a long time to be moved." ”

This time, there were too many goods on the No. 2 cargo ship in the East China Sea, and most of them were equipment and raw materials from the arsenal, which would have to be unloaded on the desert island at that time, and now only the materials that were transported back to the Li Mansion warehouse were just unloaded. The agricultural machinery that was still brought in the main world will also be moved back to the Li Mansion.

The unloading was arranged by the iron sheet, and Li Hao and the maidservants returned to the house.

Xiao Zhongzhi and the Jiang brothers were waiting in the hall, and as soon as they saw Li Hao coming in, they hurriedly stood up and saluted. Xiao Zhongzhi clenched his fists, and the Jiang brothers saluted.

Li Hao's private army borrowed from the training methods of the modern army, and at this moment, looking at the standing posture of the Jiang brothers, with a straight chest and abdomen, a straight waist, and full of energy, it seems to have a bit of the temperament of a modern soldier.

Li Hao returned the military salute, hugged his fists to Xiao Zhongzhi, and asked straight to the point: "Let's talk about the robbery of the tea first, I just came back, and I don't know the situation yet." ”

Xiao Zhongzhi knew what was going on best, and he spoke first: "The robbed tea is the largest batch of tea house shipments, and the original plan was to pass through Jianzhou, Xinzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and then turn to Kaifeng Bianjing, all the way to major cities. There were more than thirty men and coachmen in the caravan, and more than twenty people from the dart board, and the whole team was close to sixty people.

"Two days ago, the caravan entered the territory of Jianzhou and was robbed by bandits near the double hump. Seeing that the bandits were strong, the people of the dart bureau asked the caravan to abandon the goods and retreat. The bandits stepped forward to chase and kill a round, and the people of the dart bureau killed seven people in order to cover everyone's retreat, and on the way to retreat, four guys were hacked to death by the bandits. All the tea fell into the hands of the bandits. ”

Li Hao was silent for a moment, "You have abandoned the goods, and you are still chasing and killing?" They don't just want money, they want to kill people? ”

Xiao Zhongzhi nodded and said, "After the accident, I sent some intelligence officers to investigate. The bandits of Shuanghushan have existed before, but there are not so many people, and they are not so vicious, and they have recently changed to a bandit leader, and he acts unscrupulously. Now on the double hump, nearly three hundred bandits have gathered, all of whom are outlaws. ”

"Nearly 300 people, doesn't the government care?"

Xiao Zhongzhi smiled bitterly: "If there are dozens of bandits, the local officials may take action to suppress the bandits for the sake of merit, but there are nearly three hundred people, they don't have the courage to take care of it, so they can only desperately suppress it, not let the court know, and then find a way to transfer themselves as soon as possible." ”

Li Hao glanced at the Jiang brothers, the two brothers stood up together, and Jiang Wuyang said: "My subordinates ask for help, I am willing to take the brothers to exterminate this gang of bandits and retrieve this batch of tea." ”

"Oh? You have only a hundred, but the bandits have nearly three hundred, and you have faith? ”

"Yes!" The two brothers said in unison. Jiang Wuyang said: "The brothers have been practicing hard, and what they are waiting for is this day." ”

"Sit, sit down." Li Hao motioned for them to sit down and said, "This battle must be fought!" ”

The Jiang brothers' eyes flashed with eager eyes, training all day long, and they wanted to work hard for a real time, so that Gongzi would know the results of Zhong'er Xun's hard training.

Xiao Zhong said straightly: "Childe, I have a way to let the Jianzhou local army send troops, and I don't need our people to fight in person." ”

Li Hao shook his head: "No, we will use our people this time." An army that has not fought and seen blood can never become a strong army. This should be regarded as a training exercise in actual combat, and only after the baptism of blood can the army be transformed. ”

Now that Gongzi has made a decision, Xiao Zhong said straightly: "The number of double hump bandits is about two hundred and eighty, and the weapons are knives, swords, spears and the like. About 100 of them are new recruits, and these new recruits are refugees who have fled the famine, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. I've brought back a simple map of the double hump, and I'll show it to you in a moment. Since it's our people who do it themselves, and the information and maps need to be more detailed, I'll ask my men to hurry up the collection. ”

Li Hao said: "This should be done as soon as possible." ”

"I'll notify the local intelligence officers right away." Xiao Zhongzhi said.

Since Li Hao gave him the radio, the transmission of orders is really convenient. Jianzhou is not far from here, and with the radio in the hands of the intelligence officers, he can easily communicate with them. Not to mention Jianzhou, even if it is the news of Kaifeng Bianliang City, it can be transmitted to Quanzhou Qingjing Bay on the same day.

"Okay, when we have further information and maps, we will discuss the battle plan, and we will stop here today."

Xiao Zhongzhi and the Jiang brothers left, and Li Hao went to the garden to start his routine Force cultivation.

Due to the special surname of the Yaling Clan's Xingyuan's cultivation, to absorb the Force of different universes, the cultivation speed in the Northern Song Dynasty was obviously faster than that of the main world. After two weeks in the Overworld, the Force was progressing slowly, but now it's time to hurry.

Although a large amount of money was lost due to the robbery of tea, it had little impact on Li Hao's commercial kingdom in the Northern Song Dynasty. Li Hao's commercial kingdom is temporarily supported by the four pillars of the Treasure Pavilion, the photo studio, the tea house, and the winery, and the tea house is only one of them, and it is only a batch of tea that has been robbed, although the amount is huge, it will not affect the entire East China Sea merchant group.

Li Hao is actually not very anxious about recovering the tea, the tea may have been sold by the bandits, and it is useless to be anxious. He attaches more importance to the opportunity of the private army to fight.

Although his own private soldiers don't have firearms, the other party is just a group of bandits, and they can use equipment from the era of cold weapons. Experiencing a cold-weapon battle also has a positive significance for the training of the army.

However, Li Hao did not want to have large casualties in this battle, the relatives of this private army were all working in Qingyang Bay, and the soldiers' loyalty to Li Hao was quite high. These soldiers are all baby bumps, and they can't lose too much in the bandits.

Therefore, we must be fully prepared for this battle, and we must make full preparations from the analysis of intelligence to the formulation of tactics. The soldiers' equipment also needs to be done with some thought. In short, the first battle of his own private army, in order to win a brilliant victory at the smallest cost.