306. Threats and compromises

Asger's face became more and more gloomy, and the dark purple giant wolf totem that covered his entire face slowly turned red, and after being silent for a long time, he slowly said: "There is no one who is afraid of death in the fifth cave!"

"Although the Changding army is quite strong, our fifth cave is not to be bullied! Our cave has a population of 100,000, including 20,000 black wolf warriors, 8,000 armored warriors, and 5,000 string control soldiers. ”

The two wolf eyes tattooed by the wolf totem are located in Asger's eyes, and the two eyes like wolf eyes show an extremely dangerous light, staring at Qin Shengnan deadly, and saying word by word: "The tidal flat plain is the foundation of my cave clan, please forgive this cave master for not being able to agree to General Qin's request!"

"Strength is not spoken. ”

Qin Shengnan didn't seem to see the threat in Asger's eyes at all, and just said lightly: "The 200,000 Yellow Turban Army invaded my Fenglai County, and after the defeat, it was less than one percent to escape from Tianshui County. Wang Yan led hundreds of thousands of Yongzhou troops to force into Tianshui County, and 40,000 left wings were captured and killed by our army within an hour. Thirty thousand mountain bandits came and died!"

She looked at Asger with a slight mockery in her eyes: "I wonder how the Asger Cave Master thinks the strength of the fifth cave compares?"

Asg said coldly: "General Qin, don't forget that the place where you stand is the territory of my fifth cave, aren't you afraid that the master of this cave will stay with General Qin as a guest?"

Qin Shengnan smiled contemptuously: "If the cave master really dares to stay with the general, he won't say it." ”

"Besides!" Qin Shengnan's eyes flashed, "Although Your Excellency is a Six-Rank Great Grandmaster, if you want to say that you want to stay as a general, you may not think too highly of yourself!"

Asger fell silent again.

As one of the 36 caves in southern Xinjiang, the strength is in the forefront of the tribes in southern Xinjiang, and the Nanban is only called Nanban because of its remote location, which does not mean that they are brainless barbarian tribes.

Such a powerful force of the Changding Army suddenly rose on the side of southern Xinjiang, and the major tribes in southern Xinjiang will naturally try their best to find out the details of the Changding army.

Although the detection was only the tip of the iceberg, it was enough to shock Mo Yan.

Qin Shengnan, the new Zhennan general of the Changding Army, the master of the God Slaughter Overlord, and one of the four great martial sects of Qinzhou, is still relatively easy to detect.

Needless to say, Qin Shengnan's qualifications are that the geniuses who have been on the Hidden Dragon List have only stopped at the four-rank realm because of their lack of background and insufficient cultivation resources.

After arriving in Tianshui County, Qin Shengnan, whose martial arts were destroyed, was quickly promoted to a fifth-grade cultivation, which is enough to show that she is terrible.

In the battle of Pingshanpo, Qin Shengnan and Xiang Xiong were strong against Lu Kai, the great master of the six grades, but the people in Niu Yandong saw it with their own eyes.

Now that Qin Shengnan, the master, is leading the army to the sea alone, how could Chu He not try to improve her strength, it is conceivable that it must be even more terrifying than when he fought on the slopes of the mountain.

Asg asked himself if his strength was not comparable to Lu Kai, a general who commanded the army of tens of thousands, and he really didn't have much confidence to defeat Qin Shengnan.

Moreover, it is not just Qin Shengnan who is terrifying in this Standing Army.

Looking at the guards around her, there is not a single one who is not a third-grade martial artist cultivator, as well as the elite soldiers on the warship, the scorpion-tailed tiger cavalry hovering in the air, and the eight-bull armor-piercing crossbow with the cold light of the arrow, the combat effectiveness is absolutely terrifying.

Once there is a real conflict, let alone leaving Qin Shengnan, it is difficult to say whether the people in the fifth cave can save their lives!

The real warriors in the fifth cave are less than 10,000 people now, although the tribe is in the prime of life men and women, they are also brave and can fight, but it is okay to deal with ordinary enemies, and it is difficult for them to play any role against a strong army like the Standing Army.

Asger pondered for a long time, and finally said coldly: "Chu Shuai is now married to my Southern Barbarian King, the Changding Army and the Southern Barbarian Army are allied forces, and the 20,000 elites of our Fifth Cave are all serving under the command of the Southern Barbarian King, can General Qin really bear the heavy responsibility of destroying the alliance between the two armies?"

Qin Shengnan nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice, "What the Asger Cave Master said also makes sense. ”

"But this estuary was supposed to be taken. In this way, the general can pay the price, one million taels of silver, two hundred thousand stone rice grain, or one hundred sets of steel soldiers, you can choose one!"

This is what Qin Shengnan had prepared for the fifth hole.

After all, the estuary is far away from Changding Township, and it is inevitable to use the power of the fifth hole to build the estuary base.

Wooing the people of the Fifth Cave tribe will also be beneficial to the big plans of the Standing Army in the future.

Qin Shengnan is one of the few people who knows the Chu River's plan, once there is an accident on the battlefield of Tongtianhe and the anti-Shu army is defeated, the Changding army will come out to clean up the situation, recruit soldiers and horses to strengthen itself, and completely fight with the Nanban tribe, which is not in line with the strategy of the Changding army.

The place in southern Xinjiang is not valuable, but it also depends on what location, such a fertile plain, and the advantage of entering the sea, of course the value will not be low, but the conditions proposed by Qin Shengnan are also sincere enough, and any of them are difficult to refuse in the fifth hole.

On the one hand, there was the threat of force from the Changding Army, and on the other hand, it was the temptation and confusion that was difficult to refuse, Asg couldn't help but hesitate, and communicated with the other tribal elders in a low voice, and finally his tone became softened: "Can I wait for the discussion and reply to General Qin?"

Qin Shengnan nodded slightly: "I can wait for half an hour, I hope you make a wise choice." ”

Then, Qin Shengnan turned around and returned to the battleship.

Asger and the others didn't go back to Holy Wolf Mountain, anyway, most of the core people who can make decisions in the fifth cave now have come here.

said that it was a discussion, but in fact, there was no other choice in the fifth cave, but in the end, what was needed was not a single material, but 100,000 taels of silver, 50,000 stone rice grains and 70 sets of steel soldiers.

Of these three conditions, the highest value is naturally one hundred sets of steel soldiers, and the unit price of 20,000 is two million taels of silver. The reason why Qin Shengnan took out the steel soldiers with a significantly higher value was only because for the Changding army, the cost of the steel soldiers was the lowest.

According to Asger's meaning, it must be to choose a hundred sets of steel soldiers.

It's just that they all know that once they choose the steel soldiers, they will definitely be used by the leaders of the tribe, and the tidal flat plain is the entire fifth cave, and they have to take out some rice and grain to supplement the ordinary people in the fifth cave.

Now that the fifth cave joined the Southern Barbarian Army, when 20,000 elites rushed to the battlefield of Tongtianhe, they took away a lot of rice and grain materials from the tribe.

50,000 stone rice grain is not a small amount, it is impossible for the fleet to load all the rice grain to go to sea, there is no shortage of silver and armor, this is of course because Qin Shengnan is ready to use silver and knives and guns to conquer the barbarians of the sea islands.

Using silver as ballast can only be done by a local tyrant like Chang Dingjun.

Therefore, after signing the contract, Qin Shengnan delivered 10,000 stone rice grain, 100,000 silver, and 70 sets of steel soldiers on the spot, and the remaining 40,000 stone rice grain needed to be delivered next time he came.

Lu Manla, a third-grade martial artist, did not have much power to call the shots, whether he was willing or not, or he and a dozen clansmen with relatively rich experience in going to sea were sent to Qin Shengnan's flagship.

Of course, Qin Shengnan, a big tyrant, did not treat Lu Manla and the others badly, after all, he still had to rely on them to do things, and he rewarded them with a set of excellent three-grade demon beast skin armor, a special water crossbow and a small water splitting spur on the spot.

These weapons and equipment require more than 10,000 taels of silver.

In addition, each person could also get a settlement fee of 1,000 taels of silver and 100 stone of rice grain, which alone was enough to make most of the barbarians sell their lives for others.

For a third-rank martial artist like Lu Manla, it is barely enough, but he intends to be the captain of a real sea ship, and there is no way to do it.

He now vaguely knew the power of Chang Dingjun, not that he imagined that it was similar to the fifth cave, but far more than the fifth cave, so powerful that even the deputy cave master of Asger, who was as high as a god in his eyes, did not dare to have the slightest disrespect for Chang Dingjun.

Looking at the land that was slowly moving away, Lu Manla didn't know what it was like.

He knows better than anyone how terrible the sea is, that is, in the more than 100 miles of sea near the sea, all kinds of powerful sea beasts often appear, and every year hundreds of people leave their lives in the sea, let alone the farther sea.

Unpredictable weather, hurricanes and thunderstorms, imperceptible undercurrent whirlpools, reef icebergs that can easily destroy ships, fierce pirates that come out of nowhere, and the threat of sea beasts such as whales and sea wolves, and more.

In Lu Manla's opinion, the rookie fleet of the Changding Army, even the guide had to be temporarily searched for in the fifth cave, and it was definitely a life for nine to die if he went to sea so recklessly.

It is the maritime merchants of Julang Island, who have opened up one channel after another, and also paid countless lives as the price, others only see the maritime merchants of Julang Island often appear everywhere inland, but who knows how many sea ships sank in the bottomless deep sea on the way?

Rumanla didn't know if he would ever have a chance to set foot on solid land again.

Looking at the excited expressions of those Chang Dingjun on the battleship, Lu Manla felt more and more bleak about the future.

This is clearly the performance of a rookie who goes to sea for the first time, only the terrible newcomers who don't know the sea will feel excited and excited, fortunately, the sailors and shipwrights on the battleship are quite professional, most of them should be veterans, otherwise Lu Manla may feel even more desperate.

However, Lu Manla also had to admire the physical fitness of these Chang Ding soldiers, and none of them showed discomfort and vomiting, which was usually extremely uncomfortable for newcomers who had just gone to the sea.

There were twelve guides recruited from the fifth cave, two people for each warship, and Lu Manla and the other clansmen were on Qin Shengnan's flagship.

He is also familiar with this clan, and knows that he is the leader of another cave village, named Sap, after all, everyone is foraging for food and making a living in this coastal sea, and there is a lot of communication between them.

The two of them glanced at each other, and both saw the helplessness in each other's eyes, and just as Rumanra was about to speak to Sap, two guards in animal skin armor came over and led them from the deck to the captain's quarters.

The Changding army who went to sea are all double armor, but they usually only wear leather armor, for no other reason, wearing steel armor in the sea is equivalent to looking for death, once they encounter wind and waves and accidentally fall into the sea, the heavy steel armor is the chain of death.

Usually the captain is responsible for controlling the ship, but Qin Shengnan doesn't know how to drive a ship, especially the special sea ship in this world, she accepts this sea exploration mission, and wants to leave the Chu River to prove herself.

Although she tried her best to learn the methods and skills of navigating this sea ship from the old captain who was hired at a high price from Baozhou, this was not a knowledge that could be mastered in three or a few days.

Moreover, Qin Shengnan's real task is to conquer the tribes in the sea, and the ship navigation is in charge of its own professional personnel, she only needs to know how to drive the ship.

Therefore, at this time, Qin Shengnan was resting in the captain's room, and it was the old captain of the four-rank realm who was responsible for driving the ship.

Waiting for Lu Manla and Sapp to be taken to the captain's room, Qin Shengnan looked at them lightly, and then said in a deep voice: "Lu Manla, Sapp, you are all the people who are most familiar with the sea in the fifth cave, I hope you will not disappoint General Ben." ”

"Do you know the situation in the nearby seas, what are the large islands, and what advice do you have for the general Ben's fleet to go to sea?"

Rumanra looked at Sap, and then her gaze fell on the incomparably stunning and majestic female general.

Although Qin Shengnan's tone was flat, Lu Manla could hear the undeniable meaning.

He thought for a moment before he said carefully: "General Hui, we usually only fish in the coastal sea, and we don't know about the situation in other sea areas, but I heard that in the southeast, about a thousand miles from the land, there is a Julang Island. ”

"Big Wave Island?"

Qin Shengnan frowned, she had heard about this island from sailors in Baozhou and other places.

"Tell me about the island of Kulang. ”

"Julang Island is a huge island, it is said that there are millions of sea people, every adult is a qualified sailor, and there are often fleets of Julang Island that arrive in our southern Xinjiang to trade with various tribes. ”

"If the Admiral wants to know about the situation in this area, it is best to find the fleet of the Island of Great Waves, and for a sufficient price, the sailors of the Island will tell the General everything they know, except for the shipping lanes on which they depend. ”

Qin Shengnan's eyes were slightly cold: "Is there no way to get the nautical chart from their mouths?"

Sapp shook his head at this time and said, "It should be impossible, it is said that the people of Julang Island regard the waterway as important as their own lives. ”

Qin Shengnan shook his head noncommittally and said, "This is not necessarily, sometimes many things are much more important than life." ”

"Since you don't know the situation in the nearby seas, you can tell General Ben now what you can do for General Ben. ”

Qin Shengnan glanced at them deeply, and said with deep meaning: "I hope you will think clearly before answering General Ben." For those who are useful, General Ben will naturally be rewarded, and even let you take on important positions in Pinghaiwei, if you dare to deceive General Ben, I don't think you want to know what will happen!"

Lu Manla hesitated for a moment, he was definitely an ambitious man, otherwise he would not have begged for food in the treacherous sea, and he planned to raise funds to buy a real sea boat.

Playing an important role in Pinghaiwei, this temptation and temptation are naturally incomparably huge.