Chapter 57
The salt merchants' fleet had been at sea for two days, and for two days the sea was calm and there were no pirates.
At this moment, Li Yuxuan stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the endless sea in front of him, and habitually stroked his hand to his waist, but there was no tacit understanding of the previous inspiration, and he remembered that the Panlong Ancient Sword had been handed over to Tang Xu to take back to Sugel City and handed over to Xu Ruoyu.
Now Li Yuxuan is quite confident in his martial arts. Since there is the Panlong Ancient Sword, it seems that the comprehension of the Shenlong Heart Recipe has been deepened, and vaguely, it seems that the Panlong Ancient Sword is part of the Divine Dragon Heart Technique. The three realms of "royalty, tyrant, and king", three years ago, Li Yuxuan had already entered the realm of royalty, and since he had the Panlong Ancient Sword, the domineering spirit on his body has become increasingly obvious.
Could it be that he had miscalculated? Impossible! If the "Eagle" allowed these salt merchants to arrive in Ya'an safely, then he would not be an "Eagle," and he must not let me down! Li Yuxuan looked at the calm sea, and his thoughts had already drifted to the depths of the sea.
No matter where the "Eagle" flies, no matter what wind blows, the materials transported this time are so large that the "Eagle" is coveted, and Li Yuxuan can definitely get a glimpse of the "Eagle".
At noon, Li Yuxuan, who was eating in his cabin, suddenly heard panicked footsteps on the deck, and the sailors were shouting loudly one by one.
"Eagle" is coming!
The first thought in Li Yuxuan's heart was that the "eagle" he had been waiting for for a long time appeared.
Hurriedly turned around and pushed open the hatch and went to the deck.
At the same time that Li Yuxuan went up to the deck from the cabin, Li Yuyang and more than a dozen guards also followed.
Standing on the bow of the ship, Li Yuxuan looked into the distance, and several warships appeared on the horizon, and the most eye-catching thing was the scarlet pirate flag hanging on the battleship.
"The pirates are coming! the pirates are coming!"
The crew ran around the ship, while the captain stood on a high ground and ordered the fleet to turn away from the pirate ship. But anyone with a little common sense at sea knows very well that warships generally sail about twice as fast as merchant ships. Therefore, the chances of being able to escape the pursuit of the pirate ship are slim to none, and it can even be said that it is absolutely impossible.
Several large salt merchants were also looking anxiously around the deck at the moment, as if looking for a savior.
Now, all the people, together with the crew, and the captain are panicking, and the entire fleet can still keep a clear head, I'm afraid that only Li Yuxuan and his dozen or so subordinates can still keep their heads clear. Li Yuxuan had an idea for a long time, and the people under him were out of absolute loyalty and trust to their leader.
As long as there is the head of the family, no one needs to be afraid, because he is the god of war, the god of war that no one can defeat.
This is not only the thoughts of the dozen or so guards who are now on the ship, but also the thoughts of all the soldiers of the "homeland".
The two fleets are getting closer and closer, and there are a total of four pirate ships, led by the "Zhubo", which is known as the fastest in this sea area, and Zheng Jing, the "eagle" in a striking blue shirt, is commanding the sailors on the ship's floor at the moment.
The fleet led by the "Eagle" sailed at an extremely fast speed, almost like a "cavalry" on the sea. Its flagship, the Wave, was superior in performance, and although the hull was not large, it was extremely fast. However, the remaining three warships obviously belonged to relatively old-fashioned old ships, and they did not expect to be able to follow closely behind the "Chase Wave" and never be pulled away, which made Li Yuxuan admire.
The pirates lived up to their reputation, skillfully handling the sails on the masts, and the sailors worked seamlessly with each other, and the whole fleet maintained a beautiful line formation, slanting from the middle of the merchant fleet. The entire merchant fleet was suddenly in chaos, but on the other hand, the pirate fleet was not in the slightest disorder, and a beautiful turn in the distance intercepted the way of the entire merchant fleet.
The two fleets faced each other on the sea, only a hundred paces apart, and were already within the range of ordinary bows and arrows. The ship's crew could even see the grim expressions on the faces of the pirates on the opposite side of the ship.
The scarlet pirate flag on the opposite pirate ship "Chasing Waves" slowly lowered, replaced by an eagle flag with a blue background.
"Eagle!" Li Yuxuan shouted first, his words revealing excitement.
And when the pirate flag of the second battleship was lowered, it was not the "Eagle" flag that was raised, but a flag that was also fiery red but embroidered with a fox.
"Red fox!" this time it was the exclamation of the salt merchants.
"Red Fox, who is Red Fox?" Li Yuxuan turned his head to stare at the salt merchants, with an unquestionable royal majesty in his eyes.
"'Red Fox' is the head of another group of pirates in this sea area, his real name is Zheng Ru, I heard that he is the brother of the "Eagle", and he is known for his cunning in battle!" After answering Li Yuxuan's words, the salt merchant wiped the sweat from the corner of his forehead with his hand, but he still couldn't suppress the violent heartbeat in his chest.
Who is this? What a terrifying look, such a terrifying momentum, it feels more dangerous than those pirates.
"Okay! Great! An eagle and a fox, with just these two people, I'm afraid we can deal with Feng Xiang's navy!" Li Yuxuan's face at this moment was irrepressible excitement.
What's wrong with my brother, how can I be so emotional today, this is a situation that hasn't happened for a long time. Even when he defeated the Atterbury army, won the victory, and conquered the territory of the Luo Pingyuan, he had never been so emotional.
Li Yuyang may not know how excited Li Yuxuan was after hearing Xu Ruoyu's series of tricks when he met Xu Ruoyu for the first time just three months ago.
At this moment, Li Yuxuan, who is actually the king of a country and the commander of an army, understands very well the importance of an excellent general to an army. Just imagine, when he meets the talent he urgently needs, and two of them appear at the same time, how can he not be excited, how can he not be reluctant?
After about ten minutes, the fleet of the "Eagles" came closer, shortening the distance from more than 100 paces to 40 or 50 paces, and Li Yuxuan was already able to see Zheng Jing's face very clearly.
The pirate leader was unexpectedly young, about twenty-seven years old, with two sword eyebrows flying obliquely into his sideburns, a pair of blue eyes, and a slightly emaciated face that revealed a resolute temperament. The most striking thing is his curly blond hair. There is no doubt that he must have the blood of a Westerner, uh, how could a seafaring family from the East have the blood of a Westerner? However, this is no longer Li Yuxuan's consideration.
The "Red Fox" on the second battleship also aroused Li Yuxuan's interest.
The figure of the "Red Fox" is not as tall as that of ordinary pirates, and it looks quite "weak", only between seventeen and eighteen years old, which is not much different from Li Yuyang. But unlike Li Yuyang, Li Yuyang looks young and old, while "Red Fox" still seems to be a child. With a pair of big watery eyes and a playful red hair and fair skin, he is simply a naughty little boy, standing on the side of the ship, extremely flying.
But Li Yuxuan found a kind of smile in those eyes, a kind of smile that belonged to a fox, and it seemed that everyone was smiling after being calculated by him. This reminded Li Yuxuan of a person, Xu Ruoyu. It's just that Xu Ruoyu's eyes reveal a kind of wisdom, and he is a kind of cunning.
At the same time, Zheng Jing, the "Eagle" standing tall on the battleship, felt that something was wrong, and it seemed that there was some danger lurking around him. In nearly five or six years of piratery, he had never felt this way. Zheng Jing, who has always played the role of "hunter", seems to feel that he has become a "prey" at this moment.
Zheng Jing shook his head, trying to dispel that feeling, but the weird feeling was even stronger.
Zheng Jing began to pay attention to the people on the merchant ship opposite, and when his gaze fell on Li Yuyang, a fierce murderous aura shocked him. It was a bloody aura, a brutal and murderous aura. As everyone knows, after a series of wars, Li Yuyang has already grown from a teenager to a fierce general on the battlefield, and after experiencing the tempering of blood and fire on the battlefield, his temperament is completely different.
Danger! This was the first thought that popped into Zheng Jing's mind.
And when Zheng Jing's gaze shifted to Li Yuxuan, the eyes of the two met, and Zheng Jing unconsciously looked away.
If Li Yuyang is a raging fire, tell the people around him about the danger of approaching him. Then Li Yuxuan is a pool of bottomless water, and no one can see his true face.
It was also when Zheng Jing was in an aimless reverie that the "Zhubo" and Li Yuxuan's merchant ship docked together. More than a dozen planks were lowered from the pirate ship, and fifty or sixty pirates jumped onto the merchant ship with swords in hand, led by a long, meaty-faced fellow. As soon as he got on board, the guy shouted:
"The people on the boat are not allowed to move around casually, they are all concentrated at the bow of the ship, don't blame the knife in Lao Tzu's hand for not recognizing people!"
Li Yuxuan's brows furrowed slightly, obviously dissatisfied with the words of the guy with a full face in front of him.
"Throw these people down for me, remember, don't hurt anyone!" Li Yuxuan ordered the more than ten guards behind him.
As soon as the more than ten guards heard the command of the master, they immediately spread their bodies and scattered to the surrounding forty or fifty pirates. I saw that between the three or four take-offs and landings, the pirates who had just boarded the merchant ship were already "swimming" in the sea.
"You...... You...... Who are you? You know...... Do you know who our head is!" The pirate leader, who was still arrogant just now, turned pale at this moment, and his voice was intermittent, looking extremely afraid of Li Yuxuan. At this time, the more than ten guards had already stood behind Li Yuxuan again.
Who are these people? Where did they come from? Seeing that their skills are extremely clean and neat, it is obvious that they all have good martial arts. On their side, apart from themselves and Zheng Ru, they really couldn't find a single opponent for them. What's even more terrifying is that these people are all teenagers in their twenties.
The more than ten people brought by Li Yuyang this time were all carefully selected from the Right Guard, and each of them was skilled enough to rank within thirty in the Guard, which was certainly not comparable to these pirates.
As soon as everyone on the "Chase Wave" saw it, they immediately bent their bows and arrows, wanting to give Li Yuxuan and the others a thousand arrows to pierce their hearts, but Zheng Jing waved his hand to stop them.
Although the other party was neat and dealt with his forty or fifty subordinates in a few clicks, Zheng Jing also saw that the other party's subordinates were merciful, otherwise the forty or fifty subordinates would not have "swam" in the sea at this moment, but would have returned to their hometown to report a long time ago.
Moreover, looking at the neat and consistent actions of the other party, it is obviously not an ordinary organization, but it seems that it is from the military, could it be that the military figures of the "homeland" have already taken action!
With seventy or eighty bows on his side, I am afraid it will be difficult to subdue these more than ten young people, not to mention that there are still two leader-level tasks that have not yet started, it seems that he must be careful to deal with it today, so as not to overturn in the gutter.
"Take me over!" Li Yuxuan said in a deep voice.
The pirate leader with a meaty face, under the forced gaze of Li Yuxuan at this moment, was already sweating profusely, and his legs were trembling incessantly. As soon as he heard Li Yuxuan's words, he hurriedly turned around and got on the board. The plank, which had always been flat on the ground, seemed to be rough and difficult to walk at this time, and the leader actually moved forward little by little on it, followed by Li Yuxuan, and then Li Yuyang.
Li Yuxuan's domineering spirit was so powerful that Li Yuxuan was pleasantly surprised, and it seemed that the Divine Dragon Heart Trick had unconsciously entered another layer. In fact, being in a high position, after a long time, it will naturally form a unique temperament, Li Yuxuan has a dragon heart trick, which naturally complements each other, which is also the reason why the dragon heart trick cannot be learned by non-kings.
The salt merchants were already trembling and trembling with fear. But in the blink of an eye, the pirates on the ship were thrown into the sea again, and the situation seemed to have taken a turn for the better, and they all pinned their hopes on Li Yuxuan and others. Now seeing that Li Yuxuan and the others are in danger alone, they are secretly worried, but they dare not speak out because they are afraid.
Finally, Li Yuxuan and the others followed the pirate leader and got on the "Chasing Waves", and all the pirates on the ship automatically got out of the way, and Zheng Jing also came down from the ship's tower at this time and stood on the deck.
"Go away!"
The pirate leader stopped between Li Yuxuan and Zheng Jing, still unconscious. It wasn't a human at all, it was a grim reaper, and he even noticed the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end. It was precisely because of such a high degree of nervousness that he couldn't even notice anything around him, and it wasn't until he heard Li Yuxuan's "go away" that he understood and hurriedly stepped aside.
"Zheng Jing, is it?" Li Yuxuan spoke first.
Zheng Jing nodded, and began to observe the young man in front of him, who was five or six years younger than himself. Handsome and resolute appearance, the look at the corner of his mouth that seems to be smiling but not smiling, a pair of deep black eyes, and what can attract Zheng Jing's attention the most is his waist-length black hair, which is tied behind him at the moment and flies in the wind. Although the grade is light, the domineering that naturally exudes from the body is not daring to face it.
A name suddenly popped up in Zheng Jing's mind, a name that made him unbelievable.
No, it can't be him, there's no reason for him to come to sea!
Li Yuxuan was also observing Zheng Jing opposite him at the moment, looking at his expression that kept changing because of his thoughts.
It's him, my eagle, the commander of the "sea cavalry" of my dreams.
Zheng Jing's age makes Li Yuxuan quite satisfied, only young people will have new ideas, will have a strong fighting spirit, will not stick to any fixed methods, and can be malleable. If it is said that a heavy responsibility is given to a person who he is not familiar with, Li Yuxuan is willing to put the bet on the young man. Because young people can withstand failures, they can learn new things faster, and they have more potential than older people. And now Xu Ruoyu, the guest of "Homeland", is a good example, Li Yuxuan wants to create more miracles similar to Xu Ruoyu.
Just when the two looked at each other silently, the "Red Fox" ship "Chasing the Wind" leaned on the "Chasing Waves", and the "Red Fox" Zheng Ru and his men boarded the "Chasing Waves".
"Where's Boss Zheng?"
As soon as he boarded the stern of the "Chasing Waves", Zheng Ru began to shout, and there was an obvious immature childlike voice in his voice.
"Who is he?"
Zheng Ru turned from the stern to the bow of the boat, and found that Zheng Jing and Li Yuxuan were looking at each other, and the atmosphere on the boat was quite strange. Those subordinates of Boss Zheng were also around the bow of the ship at this time, and all the people were silent, not knowing what was going on. Zheng Ru, who paced beside Zheng Jing, also glanced at Li Yuxuan and asked curiously.
Zheng Jing, who has always laughed with him, has a solemn face at this moment, as if he is thinking about a very important matter. Comparatively speaking, Li Yuxuan on the other side seemed a little comfortable and lazy, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Seeing that Zheng Jing didn't react, Zheng Ru paced two steps forward, pointed at Li Yuxuan and said:
"Who are you?"
Suddenly, Li Yuxuan's skilled Li Yuyang and the others all took a step forward, and their eyes were full of coldness. So far, no one has dared to point at Li Yuxuan's nose and ask questions, one by one Tang Xushuang is masked, and he glared angrily at Zheng Ru in front of him, just waiting for the head of the family to give an order, ready to split the corpse of the "red fox" in front of him.
Zheng Jing was shocked that things had changed, and quickly grabbed Zheng Ru's waist and pulled him back to his side.