"Where are you from and what are you coming to Lisbon for?"

In the port of Lisbon, the capital of the Portuguese country, a dock soldier stopped a group of people with bandanas and face scarves, and asked about their origin with wary eyes.

The news that the Ming warship had once again arrived in the West had spread among the top echelons of the Grape Country.

Thinking of the stupid things they did a few years ago, the high-level officials of the Grape Country were panicked and weak-hearted, for fear that Daming would come directly to hang them.

The strength of the two countries is strong or weak, and the top leaders of the grape countries still know in their hearts.

A few years ago, just by taking one fleet, they paid five or six thousand casualties, and they took the opportunity to sneak attack.

At this time, the population of the Grape Country was only about 1 million, and the army that could be mobilized was about 70,000 or 80,000 people, including the defenders in various places.

Daming is now prepared, and the high-level leaders of the Grape Country are full of a sense of crisis, for fear that Daming will mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops for revenge and directly crush them to death.

In order to resist the Ming Dynasty, the high-level officials of the Grape Country contacted the surrounding countries to make allies and prepare to resist the Ming Dynasty together, and at the same time checked the important places in various ports to prevent spies from mixing in and cooperating with the Ming Dynasty.

"Mr. Knight, we are from Oman, and we are here to do business."

After a period of nutritional supplementation, Ah Mo's face became rosy and he grew a lot taller.

Dressed in Arabic clothing, he explained to the soldier with a smile on his face, and at the same time covertly stuffed a few silver coins into the soldier's hand.

Feeling the coldness brought by the money in his hand, the soldier's vigilant eyes relaxed a lot, and he secretly checked the weight of the silver coin in his hand, and nodded with satisfaction.

But people's hearts are greedy, and when this guy saw that Amo was so generous, he wanted to take the opportunity to make another profit.

Carrying the money in his arms, the soldier squinted his eyes at the dozens of tightly wrapped people behind Amo.

"What's the matter with them, why are they wrapped so tightly, take off all the face towels, I have to check them one by one."

The so-called inspection is only superficial, but in fact, the real meaning of the soldier is to ask Amo to pay some more money.

Although Amo is young, he has been crawling at the bottom for so long, and he understands the world, and he knows everything, so he naturally understands what the other party means.

With a smile on his face, he touched it from his bosom again, and reached out to the soldier's hand.

Inadvertently skimming that ray of golden light, a flash of greed flashed in the soldier's eyes.

"Recently, there has been a lot of wind and waves at sea, and they are all sick, and they have just taken medicine and can't see the wind, so the package is a little tighter."

"No, this is the explanation above, and anyone should check it."

finally ran into a big wrongdoer, the soldier naturally wouldn't let him go so easily, he still had two lovers to raise, and if he didn't make any more money, he wouldn't be able to go to bed.

"Sir, I'm friends with Knight Lewis, please be accommodating."

The smile on Amo's face grew, and he pulled out a few more silver coins and stuffed them into the soldier's hands.

Touching the money in his sleeve, although the soldier was a little dissatisfied, he thought about what big people the other party might know, and hesitated to stamp Amo's pass.

"Be honest, don't make trouble inside, otherwise you won't know any knights, even if you know nobles, you will be punished."

"Yes, yes, thank you, Mr. Knight!"

Amo smiled and nodded, took the pass handed over by the other party, and greeted the people behind him in Arabic to leave immediately.

"Be careful, it's very heavily guarded here, don't talk if you can."

Walking into the dock, Mo observed the surroundings with a smile on his face, and explained the people behind him in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.

"Don't worry, little Master Zhang, our brothers are all saved."

A tall man who followed behind Amo replied in the lowest voice.

The group walked around, and after confirming that there was no tracking behind them, Amo took out a sum of money and rented a small courtyard around the dock, and the group lived in it.

"You wait here first, don't go out if you can, I'll find out the news for you."

Dozens of men who entered the courtyard and were still masked, but nodded in unison.

They don't speak Arabic, let alone Chinese, and if they communicate in official language and are heard by others, their whereabouts will be exposed.

Approaching the door, his hand grabbing the doorknob, Mo hesitated for a moment, and looked back at the man who sent him to the door.

"What if... I say yes if. If I don't come back before dark, tell my cousin and ask him to bring back my grandmother's bones, and take care of my sister, and find her a good home when she grows up, which I owe her. ”

The man nodded solemnly, raised his hand and saluted.

"Whew!"

Taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly, Amo straightened his mood and walked out of the door with a warm smile on his face.

After the man behind him walked out, he quickly observed left and right, and when he saw that no one noticed here, he closed the door and turned around and entered the house.

When he returned to the house, the man did not speak, and his hands quickly exchanged tactical gestures.

Dozens of men received the order and jumped out of the back window, avoiding pedestrians and hiding in a safe area where they had observed, leaving only the man in the house.

The three caves of the cunning rabbit, and being in a foreign country, with an important task on his shoulders, no alien is worth trusting, even if this person is the cousin of the prince.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, it reached dusk.

"Knock knock, knock knock!"

Three long and two short knocks sounded in the silent courtyard.

The man, who was lying on the bed in the middle of the room with his eyes closed, opened his eyes suddenly, and at the same time grasped the handle of the gun in his arms with his right hand.

"Rutu has opened the door, and I'm back from talking about business!"

There was an Arabic sound outside the door.

After confirming that it was the same tone as the one he knew, the man answered in a vague tone, came to the door and observed the situation through the crack in the door, and confirmed that it was only Mo, so he opened the door and welcomed the other party in.

There was only one person left in the house, and Mo was not surprised, nor did he ask where the others had gone.

After following his cousin for so long, he learned a Ming rule, that is, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and don't ask blindly if you shouldn't ask.

"How?"

Looking at Ah Mo who closed the door, the man's voice was very low, and he asked the other party about the situation with some nervousness.

Mo put his finger to his mouth, shook his head at him, and led the other party into the house.

"Get me out of here first, I'm being followed."

Entering the house, Mo whispered as fast as he could.

The man's expression froze, he put the other party on his shoulder, jumped out of the back window of the house, and then disappeared without a trace in the alley.

"Bang!"

Not long after the two of them disappeared, the courtyard gate was kicked open, and a group of soldiers from the Grapevine Countries, armed with weapons, broke in under the leadership of the soldiers who collected money at the dock just now.

"Damn, let them run, there's definitely something wrong with these guys."

A group of people rushed into the house, and after rummaging through and finding no one, the officer who led the team cursed in a low voice.

Then, perhaps upset, he raised his hand and slapped the soldier who collected the money.

"You bastard, all my credit has been ruined by you, I really deserve to send you to the gallows."

The soldier who collected the money covered his face and lowered his head, but he did not dare to say anything.

"Go and search around, they are outsiders, they are not familiar with the terrain here, and they can't run far."

Kicking the soldier who collected the money again, the officer waved his hand and ordered to search the surroundings.

The officer did not report to the higher-ups and intended to act alone with his own squad.

People are selfish, and few people will contribute their benefits to others for free.

And today's incident is still a dereliction of duty on his subordinates, if he lets his opponent know, even if he catches that group of people, it is estimated that he will not get credit, and he will even be punished.

In a warehouse full of goods at the dock, Momo and his party gathered here.

"I have inquired clearly, there should be about 60 of our people still alive, they were originally working hard at the docks, but the Grape Kingdom learned that our ship was going to Aden, and fearing that these brothers would receive the news that there would be a riot, so they put them in a prison at the docks, as for whether they are alive or dead, and how many people are still alive."

Amo quickly told the news he had found.

In order to find out the news, he spent a dozen gold coins and dozens of silver coins.

"Where's the location? Little Master Zhang, have you inquired clearly? ”

The man who led the team confirmed that there were still his own people alive, and while breathing a sigh of relief, his heart rose again.

"I don't know!"

Amo shook his head helplessly.

He got the news from a drunken official, and the other party also heard about it, but it is not clear exactly which cell those people were held in.

Without waiting for everyone to be disappointed, Amo continued: "But there are only three cells in Lisbon, and except for one in the palace, the remaining two are outside the city. ”

"Our people are not important prisoners, I don't think they should be locked up in the palace, they will most likely be locked up in two cells outside the palace."

The leading officer, who was a little disappointed just now, hurriedly asked, "Do you know where those two places are?" ”

Mo nodded, took out a simple map from his arms, spread it in front of everyone, and reached out to point two locations.

"Here and here, the approximate location is in these two places, I originally wanted to go and see them, but these two places are too heavily defended, and I can't get along as a foreigner."

"Enough!"

The man picked up the map and began to ask the people around him to write down the route.

"Little Master Zhang, I have brought my brothers to thank you, if you have any orders in the future, as long as you do not disobey Your Highness's orders, our brothers will also help you do it."

Ah Mo, who was grabbed by the man, scratched his head with a smile, "It's all your own people, you're welcome." ”

Because of the Ming Dynasty's arrival at any time, Lisbon, the capital of the Portuguese country, recently imposed a curfew, and no one is allowed to roam outside at night except for patrolling soldiers.

As soon as it was dark, the Grape Nationals, who had been working or wandering on the docks, returned home as fast as they could.

If you don't hurry up, you can't do it, the sun hasn't set and you haven't gone back, and if you are caught by the patrol, it will be a whipping.

Civilians who can't eat enough and are weak in their bodies can't bear the whip, so for the sake of their own lives, it is the best choice not to go out after dark.

"I'll take half of the people to this cell, and Da Liu, you take the people to another cell."

In that warehouse, the lead officer gathered all the people who had changed into night clothes and assigned the next task.

"Our task is very simple, find our people, take them to a safe place, and then launch a flare to let the fleet come over, and in the chaos, take the brothers to the fleet to assemble, understand it."

The leading officer explained the combat mission to everyone with a serious expression.

After everyone nodded, he extinguished the faint fire fold in his hand, lifted the cloth on it, bumped his fist with the leader Da Liu on the opposite side, and after giving the man's blessing, he led people out of the warehouse and went towards his goal.

"O Allah the Great, bless them on their safe return."

Amo, who did not participate in this mission, looked at the backs of the two teams in the distance, closed his eyes and prayed silently for these brave soldiers.

"Stomp, stomp..."

The footsteps of the patrol sounded in the silent night.

The silver moonlight shone on a group of soldiers in armor, and the cold armor mingled with the moonlight, reflecting a silver glittering light.

It is a stone road, very rare in the West, which leads to a pier on one end and a castle on the other.

It was the royal capital of the vineyard country, where João I and his family lived.

Glancing at the brightly lit palace and bursts of singing and laughter, a sneer appeared at the corner of the blacksmith's mouth under the scarf.

Let's play, make trouble, you'll cry later.

As the patrol faded away, the blacksmith patted the man behind him, and the first one rushed out and crossed the street.

The team that infiltrated Lisbon this time was all members of the fleet led by Zheng He.

At the beginning, Zhu Zhangui planned to let the vanguard team go, after all, this team was an excellent soldier who jumped out of the entire legion, and its combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of ordinary squads.

Of course, on this premise, millet cannot go.

Although this big man is lucky, his brain is not bright, let alone help, he just burns high incense without causing trouble.

But just when the pioneer team was about to set off, the crew who followed the fleet to lead the way, and the crew who had followed Zheng He around the world collectively knelt in front of Zhu Zhangui.

As the highest-ranking iron frame of the entire team, he tearfully begged Zhu Zhangui to leave this opportunity to them.

In the words of the blacksmith: these brothers were lost by them, and this shame was also left by them, and they should take those brothers out, let them wash away this shame with their own actions, and atone for their sins.

In the end, Zhu Zhangui was touched and gave them this task.

A group of a dozen people crossed the street and soon came to the outside of a small castle.

This afternoon, they captured a dock storekeeper, and after a while, they got the information they wanted.

The castle in front of him was once the residence of a viscount, who offended the previous king, and the whole family died in a political struggle.

After the death of the family, the castle was moved to a new owner, but later the legend of the haunting spread out of nowhere, and after a few deaths, the place was emptied, and it was later converted into a prison by the Grape Nation for prisoners who broke the law.

I don't know if there are those brothers in it, and the tongue that was caught, because of the low status, they can only go in and test it in person.

Evading the patrol on the castle, the group stuck to a corner of the castle.

After checking the number of people, and after confirming that there was no short, the blacksmith reached out and nodded to a man with a rope on his back.

The man nodded slightly, and with the help of his companions, he untied the rope with the hook on his body, and after tidying it up, he picked up the other end of the hook, spun it a few times, raised his hand up, and the hook flew up with a whoosh.

"Dang!"

The hook wrapped in the strip of cloth made an inaudible sound.

The man slowly tightened the rope, and when he reached a certain distance, he pulled hard, and the rope in his hand instantly tightened.

Reaching out and tugging a few times to confirm that it was really safe, the man gestured to the surroundings, and the first one climbed up.

A few minutes later, there was a cricket cry from above.

The blacksmith also responded, patting the people around him next to each other and telling them to hurry up, while he stayed at the end to be in charge of the break.

The group landed on the walls of the castle, and the blacksmith glanced at a few of the guarded men, clenched his fists at the others.

A dozen people divided into small teams of three people and began to go in different directions.

It doesn't take so many people to save people, and it is easy to expose their whereabouts when there are too many people.

The main force to save people is the three people led by the blacksmith, and the others are responsible for solving the patrol posts and controlling the castle's gates.

In a room on the top floor of the castle where the blacksmith was, silver moonlight shone through fist-sized cracks in the iron fence.

The empty room had no groceries, only the cold floor and the choking stench.

Through the faint moonlight, dozens of humanoid objects were faintly visible lying on the ground.

These humanoids were scrawny, and the bowl of skeletal faces made people shiver to look at in the moonlight.

"Uncle Dog, do you think we can go back?"

A faint inquiry came from the silent room, and a thin skeleton looked at the full moon outside the gap with empty eyes, its mouth slightly open and slightly closed.

No one answered, no one accosted.

They have talked about this topic more than once in the past few years, and each time they are full of confidence, but time and painful torture make them gradually lose hope for it.

They believe in His Highness, believe in Zheng Tou, and believe that Daming will not give up on them, but day after day, month after month, year after year.

The people around him who originally encouraged each other were starved to death one by one, and one by one they were tortured to death by these white-skinned pigs.

The savior they were hoping for did not come, the hope they hoped for did not come.

But even so, their loyalty to Daming remains unchanged.

Many people can't forget that those partners who were tortured and worse than dead still chanted long live Daming before they died.

Those who were sick and starving to death kept shouting, "Go home... Go home... Take me home! ”

"When I return home, I will bring a great army to conquer the barbarians."

"If I can't go home, please go home on my behalf, and tell my old mother, wife and children that I am brave and brave and fight the enemy to the end."

"If I die in a foreign land, please don't abandon me, please scatter my ashes in the land of my hometown, and let me return to my mother's arms."

The thin skeleton illuminated by the moonlight, talking and reading the words of an old scribe official before he died, the dry eyes that had long been without tears slowly oozed a trace of mist, covering the entire eye.

"Wait for me to go home, go home for me, take me home!"

The twelve words weighed as much as a thousand catties, and the body of the skeleton man who weighed down the room trembled slightly.

"Poof!"

The sound of a blade piercing through flesh rang out, and the blacksmith carefully lowered the patrolling guard in front of him to the ground.

With the help of the faint oil lamp in the hole in the wall, he quickly observed the surrounding situation, stretched out his hand and waved it behind him, four people were holding pistols, and the other two were holding short blades like blacksmiths, moving quickly in a tactical formation.

After eliminating a few guards, the group touched the interior of the castle.

Because they were not sure whether the captured brothers were kept here, and because Amo did not come, they did not understand the language, so they could not ask the captives, so they could only find them from room to room.

Coming to a closed iron door, the blacksmith quickly glanced through the gap.

After confirming that there were only two or three people inside, he immediately turned around and went to the next room.

According to what they knew, there were at least fifty or sixty people still alive on their side, so their first goal was to lock up the cells with a large number of people, and if there were no large number of people, they would open the door one by one and ask questions.

It's best if it's your own people, if not, hehe!

Time passed slowly, room by room was searched, and guards were brought down.

Seeing that the castle was about to be searched, and that the captured companions had not yet been found, the blacksmith's face became more and more gloomy.

There may be only two who didn't find those partners.

First, the brothers weren't in this cell.

The second is that the brothers didn't hold on, and now they're dead, or there are only two or three left, locked in the room they just saw.

If these two were the first, the blacksmith would feel better.

If it was the second, the blacksmith would have gone absolutely insane.

His younger brother is still in it, thinking of the heartbroken look when his parents learned the news of his brother's disappearance when he went back a few years ago, and he felt a heart-wrenching pain.

"Iron hammer, iron hammer, you must live, our father and mother are still waiting for you at home, as long as you are alive, what do you want in our family, my brother will also pay you to marry a daughter-in-law, marry the most beautiful daughter-in-law."

"God, I beg you, bless my brother to live, as long as he lives, I will give you the best incense and the best tribute every year in the future."

Thinking of his younger brother who had been dragged into the army by himself, the blacksmith couldn't wait to give himself two big mouths.

At the beginning, he followed Zhu Zhangui to the sea to earn money, and when he went back, he saw that his younger brother was wandering around all day long, so he licked his old face and begged his superior, and accepted his younger brother, thinking that he would give his younger brother a life guarantee, and it would be easier to get married in the future.

Later, the formation of the two brothers was borrowed by Zheng He and followed him to the West again.

Although the danger was a little more difficult at the beginning, the two brothers were lucky and survived, and the younger brother was appreciated by Zheng He and took him with him as an entourage.

The blacksmith was on the ship during the attack that night, and his brother followed Zheng He to the banquet, and his brother disappeared.

No one knew whether it was life or death, and the scene was so chaotic that there was nowhere to be found.

Since then, the blacksmith, who has always seen everyone laugh, no longer has a smile on his face, and he regrets all day long, and in just a few years, a man who has just turned 30 years old has all his hair white.

Asking God for blessing in his heart, the blacksmith's pace quickened a little.

Perhaps distracted, or perhaps noticing, the blacksmith came face to face with two grape vine guards coming down the stairs as he turned a corner.

The atmosphere instantly stiffened, and both sides were stunned when they saw each other, but the blacksmith had prepared in advance.

When the other party was still stunned, he and a partner beside him rushed forward in a sprint.

One by one, he reached out to cover the other party's mouth to exclaim, and the other hand lifted the sharp short blade and stabbed it fiercely from the other party's jaw, and the sharp stab went straight into the opponent's brain.

"Whew!"

With a secret exhalation, the blacksmith put the enemy's corpse on the ground, pinched his thigh fiercely, refreshed himself, put aside those distractions that should not be there now, and continued to touch the people up.

"Bang!"

The closed iron door was kicked open heavily, and the two guards of the Grape Country, whose faces were flushed with drinking, walked in with a curse because the sound that came from the room just now disturbed the interest in drinking.

They also knew that they couldn't understand what the skeletons on the ground said because of the language barrier, so they directly picked up the whip and whipped the shriveled skeletons lying on the ground.

Whips made of horsetails and various ropes whipped over the shriveled skeletons, making a thumping sound like a drum.

After venting, seeing that the skeleton on the ground didn't even say a word, the two Grape Country soldiers laughed, unbuttoned their pants and released water on the thin skeleton in front of them.

They were humiliated while releasing water.

"Damn yellow-skinned monkey, you're thirsty, the great knight lord will reward you with a sip of rice wine, hahahaha..."

Rampant laughter resounded through the room, and the skeletons lying on the ground clenched their fists tightly, and the roots of their teeth were biting pimples.

"I call you mother!"

Just as the skeletons endured the humiliation and swore to keep it in their hearts, a curse familiar to them could not be more familiar sounded from the doorway.

The skeleton, which was so hungry that it didn't even have the strength to lift its fingers, raised its head sharply and looked at the place where the sound came.

The dim light of the oil lamp shone in through the doorway, and the skeletons, whose eyes had been blurred by long-term malnutrition, vaguely saw a black shadow rushing in with a shining blade, and pounced on the two Grape Country soldiers, the sharp blade in their hands desperately stabbing inside.

Dark red and warm blood spurted from the Grape Nation soldiers, splashing on the faces and even mouths of the skeletons lying on the ground around them.

The thin skeleton who had been humiliated by the Grape Nation just now, his tongue rolled, swallowed the salty and smelly blood, and listened to the familiar voice that appeared many times in his dreams, and the tears in his eyes could no longer stop the big big ones from falling.

But instead of crying, he let out a giggling laugh like a demon's cry.