Chapter 42: The Alliance

"Hehe, Gang Master Shao, there is Mingcheng ahead." Xiao Wu's face changed suddenly, and he smiled and said to the man on the nearby clipper.

"Okay, I'm relieved." The shirtless man nodded.

When the eagle boat sailed to the beachhead, the soldiers of the Ming army on the shore burst into cheers.

Stepping on the waves, Xiao Wu and his party walked ashore with laughter.

Liu Yu fixed his eyes and saw that it was not only Xiao Wu and his party who landed at this time.

Behind the soldiers of Marine, a group of pirates is particularly eye-catching.

They were not dressed in armor or red like the soldiers of the Sailor Town, many of them were dressed in different clothes, and many of them were shirtless, but without exception, there was a fierceness in the eyes of these people.

"Pirates?"

Seeing a group of pirates armed with scimitars walking towards him, the Ming soldiers present were a little alert.

Subconsciously took off the fire gun and stood in front of it.

"It doesn't have to be that way." Zhu Honghuan waved his hand and motioned to the soldiers beside him to put away their weapons.

"General Xiao Wu, long time no see." Zhu Honghuan smiled and greeted him.

"His Royal Highness," Xiao Wu arched his hand.

"General Xiao has led the sailors on a voyage for more than two months, and you miss it very much, and all the soldiers are still fine." Zhu Honghuan looked at the group behind Xiao Wu with a calm face.

"His Highness the Prison State." A group of soldiers from Shuishi Town knelt down one after another.

"The soldiers have been going north to the ocean for more than two months, and they are tired from sailing, so they don't need to be polite." Zhu Honghuan waved his hand and helped He Bin up.

"The general has worked hard." Zhu Honghuan said softly.

He Bin didn't dare to be rude, so he hurriedly got up.

He glanced through He Bin at a group of pirates with different expressions behind him.

Then he continued: "Everyone, hurry up and enter Mingcheng."

Looking at the huge fleet of ships on the sea not far away, one after another.

Liu Yu couldn't help but sigh,

"This Xiao Wu is not comparable to Huang Liangji and his ilk."

"I'm afraid I've invited all the big and small pirate forces near Luzon, right?"

In addition to Xiao Wu He Bin and other people from Shuishi Town, there were as many as 100 pirates ashore.

Soon, the group came to the palace.

"Alas,"

"I didn't expect the battle of Mingcheng to be so dangerous, and General Huang sacrificed his life for the country." After Xiao Wu heard about the battle of Mingcheng, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

"We all know that the firearms of the Franc machine man are superior, but I never thought that I still underestimated the firearms of the Franc machine, let alone the ferocity of Luzon." He Bin echoed on the side.

"Yes, General Huang was killed by the Franco man's artillery, which is a big loss for me." Zhu Honghuan said softly.

Liu Yu stood aside, he naturally knew some reasons.

Li Dao'an was the commander of the mighty town, so naturally he would not tolerate the original boss.

Mingcheng itself lacks medicine, and General Huang was injured by the Francophone artillery, and it is common sense that he was seriously injured and died in the end, so naturally no one will go back to investigate anything.

In this regard, whether it was Li Daoan's secret murderous intent or Zhu Honghuan's instruction is not important now.

"The battle of Mingcheng was thanks to the efforts of General Li Daoan and General Liu Quan, the Marquis of the Northern Expedition, to kill the enemy, so that Mingcheng turned the corner from danger to safety." On the side, the deputy general of Weiwu Town, Xiao Kedao.

"Oh," Xiao Wu turned his head to look at Liu Quan in surprise.

"Liu Quan, you have become a marquis."

"Yes, General Xiao." Liu Quan actually knelt down for Xiao Wu,

Being stared at by Xiao Wu made Liu Quan, a battle-hardened veteran, shudder.

"Yes, General Xiao," Liu Yu hurriedly stopped between the two of them, and said with a pleasant face:

"During the attack and defense of Mingcheng, the elite attacked the West Gate, and my uncle led more than 100 soldiers of the Long Knife Association to fight with it for several hours, and the Bo Lu soldiers were defeated and returned, and the West Gate was preserved."

"Regardless of his injuries, he led the soldiers of the Long Knife Association to attack the camp of the Franc machine man at night and beheaded more than 100 Franc machine people."

Liu Yu glanced at Zhu Honghuan again, and then said:

"King Ming felt that Liu Quanzhong was brave and commendable, and he was rewarded with a marquis."

"Oh," Xiao Wu nodded, helping Liu Quan up.

"General Liu deserves to be the number one general in my Shui Shi Town, so good." Xiao Wu laughed.

Seeing Xiao Wu laughing, Liu Quan was also relieved,

"Hehe, General Liu is extraordinarily brave, such as General Shifei, the soldiers of Huben Town under his command are even more brave and good at fighting, not inferior to Weiwu Town." Xiao Ke said again.

Now, the whole lobby fell silent,

The generals of the Ming army were all silent, and they retreated to the side one after another.

"Xiao Ke," Liu Yu stared viciously at the deputy general of Weiwu Town who was still smiling in front of him.

Li Daoan led the troops of the three towns of Weiwu to the central plain of Luzon, while Xiao Kexie, as the deputy general, guarded the Ming City.

Usually Liu Quan's uncle and nephew have nothing to do with him, why is this so at this time?

Liu Yu looked at Zhu Honghuan above the lobby,

At this time, Zhu Honghuan was sitting on the dragon chair, looking at this show calmly.

"General Xiao, I," Liu Quan retreated again and again, lowering his head and not knowing what to say.

Xiao Wu's cold eyes swept over Xiao Ke and a large group of generals present,

Everyone was stared at by the cold gaze and regressed unnaturally,

"Huh,"

Xiao Wu suddenly laughed,

"Liu Quan, Liu Quan, you are a tiger general, and it is too condescending to command the troops of the ordinary generals." He laughed and patted Liu Quan's armor.

"It is a matter of course to be promoted to a town general." Xiao Wu laughed.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief,

Liu Yu was already covered with beads of sweat on his forehead, and cold sweat flowed from his back.

He glanced at Xiao Ke and Zhu Honghuan again,

"General Xiao." Suddenly, a heroic voice sounded outside the lobby.

"Haha, I almost forgot." Xiao Wu turned around and bowed to Zhu Honghuan, the king of Ming in the main hall,

"His Royal Highness the Supervisor State, Xiao Wu and a group of more than 300 people from the Sailor Town sailed all the way to avoid the intrusion of the Franc Sailor, and negotiated with the major pirate forces in Luzon all the way to discuss the great cause of restoring sight."

"Today, the Black Flag Gang, the Shark Hunting Gang, the Haikou Gang, the Blood Eagle Gang, and other 21 halls, more than 100 sea heroes are willing to carry more than 1,000 warships and 5,000 soldiers to be loyal to my Ming Dynasty and fight for my Ming Dynasty." Xiao Wu said sharply.

"Hehe," Zhu Honghuan stood up directly from the dragon chair and said with a smile: "Hurry up and announce all the heroes to come in." ”

After hearing Zhu Honghuan's shout,

The pirate leaders, who had been waiting outside the palace with some impatience, rushed in.

"His Royal Highness King Ming."

More than 20 pirate leaders were dressed differently and performed different rituals.

Some knelt on one knee, some just arched their hands, and then stared at Zhu Honghuan in front of them arrogantly.

Seeing this, the generals of the Ming army all looked stunned.

"King Ming," a shirtless man was the most polite, he knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Honghuan, and arched his hand: "My Black Flag Gang was originally a subordinate faction of the Eighteen Zhi, after the Manchu Emperor beheaded Zheng Zhilong and his relatives in the fifteenth year of Yongli, my father fled from Pengtai in discouragement, reorganized the Black Flag Gang with his subordinates, and roamed the waters off Luzon and the South China Sea since the seventeenth year of Yongli, and continued to act as pirates. ”

"This year, the Qing army invaded Taiwan's Zheng clan on a large scale, and the Black Flag Gang originally intended to go north to resist the Qing Dynasty but suffered a typhoon on the way, and lost a lot of ships, so they had to retreat to the waters of Luzon. Li Tianyou said.