Chapter One Hundred and One
Seeing Xiao Fan rushing towards him, in front of him, whether it was a minion or a big or small boss, none of them were enemies.
The sea dragon looked at Xiao Fan, who was brave and forward, and retreated in a panic, pushing the others forward, and shouted loudly: "Give it to Lao Tzu, go up and block him."
However, in the face of absolute strength, his struggle was so powerless and futile.
I could only watch Xiao Fan keep drawing out his sword while constantly rushing towards him. And each person only uses one move, and after one move, regardless of life or death, he no longer cares, and throws it to the guards and crew members who follow behind him.
Wherever Xiao Fan passed, the sword flashed, and the pirates were killed or injured, and they fell to the ground one after another. In the midst of the crowd, it is like entering a no-man's land.
Liu Dabiao and the others originally wanted to drag their injured bodies to continue fighting, but they found that Xiao Fan was alone, so he took his guards and crew to directly kill the opponent.
"Run! Run! This guy is not human!" Finally, some pirates couldn't stand the pressure and broke down and shouted while desperately trying to escape.
It's not that these pirates haven't seen ruthless people, and even they themselves are ruthless people, and when they bullied the fat sheep who were powerless to resist in the past, each one was more fierce than the other.
Now that they have met Xiao Fan, the pirates suddenly feel that they have become fish on the chopping board, to be slaughtered.
"Don't run, don't run, where can you run above this sea? It's all up to Lao Tzu," while the sea dragon shouted, he directly slashed down a minion who took the opportunity to escape: "If you dare to run away again, this is the end!"
However, it was useless, and many people fled back to their boats, cut the ropes on the grappling hooks that had previously held the two boats together, and then used poles to prop up the distance between the two boats, and began to sail away.
But only the first two ships to escape, each with more than a dozen men, managed to escape. The others were either killed, surrendered, or were floating on the surface of the sea at this time.
In fact, the sea dragon had already planned to run away when he saw that the situation was wrong, but unfortunately, since Xiao Fan got on the boat, he had been eyeing him.
Therefore, when he fled back to his ship with more than a dozen henchmen, Xiao Fan also followed directly. Facing Xiao Fan, who was pressing step by step, Hai Jiaolong had no other way but to pray to God.
However, after doing all the bad things, it is naturally impossible for him to get God's mercy. In the end, the sea dragon with a collapsed mentality mustered up the last trace of courage, raised the long knife, and slashed at Xiao Fan.
But in the face of absolute strength, his dying struggle is in vain after all. Xiao Fan dodged his slash sideways, and the blade of the sword slapped directly on his wrist. Then he knocked the long knife in his hand, and finally put the thunder on his neck.
Seeing that the big leader of the two Zhejiang regions, Hai Jiaolong, had been subdued by Xiao Fan, most of the remaining pirates laid down their weapons and surrendered directly, except for a few who resisted stubbornly.
Seeing that Hai Jiaolong was restrained by Xiao Fan, Qian Lang hurriedly led someone to tie him up.
Today, Xiao Fan's skills have completely subverted Qian Lang's cognition, and he really can't understand how Xiao Fan, who was originally on a par with him, has become so fierce in just over two months.
To this day, he feels like a dream, and it's unbelievable. was shocked by Xiao Fan's skills, he was no less than those pirates, or even more, because he clearly knew what Xiao Fan was like before.
"When did you become so powerful?"
"These are not important, let's go and see how Commander Liu is." Xiao Fan gently patted Qian Lang's shoulder and said.
Looking at Liu Dabiao, who was walking this way with the support of his subordinates, Qian Lang had no choice but to suppress the curiosity in his heart and accompany Xiao Fan to meet Liu Dabiao.
After all, the other party is a military attache of the fifth grade, and he is an existence that can wear scarlet clothes. Moreover, Ning Haijun is in Hangzhou, it is worth befriending, and now that he has a life-saving grace for the other party, he naturally can't harm the other party in terms of etiquette.
"Liu Dabiao, the deputy commander of the infantry army of the Ning Navy, thank you for your righteous help, if it weren't for your help, I, Liu Dabiao, would have explained more than 100 catties of meat here!" Liu Dabiao clenched his fists and looked up at Xiao Fan and asked, "I don't know the name of the strong man."
"Commander Liu Du is polite, below is Xiao Fan of Suzhou, who now lives in Qiantang, here
Fan is to return to Hangzhou with the family's merchant ship. As a citizen of my Great Song Dynasty, when I encounter water thieves besieging the officers and soldiers, I naturally have to draw my sword to help." Xiao Fan said politely.
"Haha-Xiao Guanren is polite, I, Liu Dabiao, have been in the army for nearly thirty years, and I have never seen such a skilled character as you. I, Liu Dabiao, respect the most capable person, but I didn't expect you to still live in Qiantang, after I go back, we have to get close." Liu Dabiao laughed and patted Xiao Fan's shoulder and said loudly.
Then he glanced at the sea dragon that was tied up next to him, and said contemptuously, "Is that the old man who was ambushed by your kid? If it weren't for Xiao Guanren's help, you would have really succeeded."
"Hey-you straight bite, why are you staring at Lao Tzu?" Liu Dabiao saw that Hai Jiaolong had been staring at him, and immediately said angrily.
"I'm not convinced!" The sea dragon still glared at him with a disapprehensive face.
"You're all fucking tied up, what's wrong with you?"
"If he hadn't come to your aid, you'd all go to the sea to feed the fish!" What do you have to be proud of?" The sea dragon was directly scolded.
"If it weren't for your outnumber, I would have been afraid of you?" Liu Dabiao was also unconvinced.
"That's your stupidity, you fell for our scheme, as a commander of the army, you don't understand the truth that soldiers are not tired of cheating, right?" The sea dragon sneered.
"If someone on our side hadn't betrayed us, would your plan have succeeded?" As soon as Liu Dabiao thought of betraying his inner ghost, he gritted his teeth.
"Even if you don't have to scheming, you think you're my opponent? People like you can't make ten moves under me. If you have the ability to let me go, let's go one-on-one, do you dare?" The sea dragon is excited.
"Like you, I can solve you in five moves!" Liu Dabiao was not to be outdone.
"I'm the number one master in the East China Sea!"
"Lao Tzu is invincible in the whole army!"
"I'm a master of swordsmanship, and a steel knife can't be splashed with water." The sea dragon boasted.
"Lao Tzu can stab you to death with one shot!"
"Then you have the ability to let me go!"
"Just let it go, you straight thief, I'm still afraid that you won't make it?" Liu Dabiao stepped forward angrily, ready to untie the rope on Haijiaolong's body and fight him alone.
Xiao Fan, who was watching the performance of the two on the side, was quite speechless, how did such a reckless man become a five-rank general.
And he was very curious about why Liu Dabiao, the deputy commander of the infantry army, would run to the sea and be besieged by pirates several times his size.
So Xiao Fan stepped forward to stop Liu Dabiao and said, "Commander Liu Du, don't fall for his agitation method, let's interrogate him first."
When Xiao Fan said this, Liu Dabiao also reacted, and then said to Haijiaolong: "You are really a fucking talent, and you almost brought Lao Tzu into the pit. Fortunately, Xiao Guanren reminded me in time, otherwise Lao Tzu would really have followed your way!"
Hai Jiaolong pursed his lips disdainfully, he really didn't have any conspiracy, with Xiao Fan present, he didn't have the idea of running away at all, he just wanted to provoke Liu Dabiao to fight him alone, to see if he could take the opportunity to take his life.
Hearing Xiao Fan say that the other party should be interrogated first, Liu Dabiao immediately asked people to tie the sea dragon to the mast and whip it violently.
For this sea dragon that killed dozens of his subordinates, Liu Dabiao would not be merciful, and asked loudly while gritting his teeth.
"To say or not to say, to say or not to say?" Seeing that Hai Jiaolong didn't answer, Liu Dabiao increased his strength and jerked, "Say it or not, your mouth is still quite hard, do you want to say it?"
"You keep asking me if you want to say it, if you don't say it, you ask first, if you don't ask, how do I know what you want to ask?" The sea dragon is about to collapse, and he has never seen such an interrogation, he doesn't ask questions, he just asks and doesn't talk about it.
For him, he knew that his crime would definitely be a dead end, and he had been happy in time, alone and without concern. So he planned to do it all at the beginning and suffer less.
Unexpectedly, he met such a strange Liu Dabiao, just beat him, and didn't ask questions.
"Didn't I ask?" Liu Dabiao asked the others suspiciously.
The rest of the people all looked at each other, and in the end, Xiao Fan said
"You didn't seem to have asked. Why don't I interrogate me?"
Regarding Liu Dabiao's performance, Xiao Fan was also a little speechless, and felt that it was better to come by himself, after all, he had seen a lot of interrogation scenes on TV.
"Okay, then Xiao Guanren, you come." For Xiao Fan, the life-saving benefactor, Liu Dabiao is still very face-saving, and he also knows that he doesn't seem to be very proficient in interrogation.
With Liu Dabiao's consent, Xiao Fan asked people to find pen and ink and asked Zhao Paner to register on the side. And he sat in front of the sea dragon and began to interrogate.
"Sea Dragons are just your name, aren't they? What's your real name?"
"My real name is Lu Bianjiao, and I am a member of the Yuezhou Council." Lu Bianjiao replied.
"Age!"
"Thirty-five."
"Gender!"
"No, can't you tell if I'm a man or a woman? And can't you ask some useful questions?" Regarding Xiao Fan's question, it is difficult for Lu Bianjiao not to complain.
"Where is there so much nonsense, whatever Xiao Guanren asks you, you will answer!" Liu Dabiao said fiercely, and then gave Lu Bianjiao a whip.
Although he also felt that Xiao Fan's way of asking questions was not better than his own.
"Since you don't want to answer, it's okay, Pan'er, you can remember that Lu Bianjiao's gender is suspected to be a man." Xiao Fan said lightly.
"What do you mean by a suspicious man? I'm a man, and I'm a real man." Lu Bianjiao was not happy, and immediately retorted.
"Okay, then even if he is a man, register him as a man." Xiao Fan said to Zhao Paner again.
Although she didn't know why Xiao Fan was like this, Zhao Paner still held back a smile and registered honestly.
"Tell me, why are you attacking the officers, it's not like you pirates." Xiao Fan asked coldly.
"That's because someone paid us to do something, and he promised me that when it was done, he could help us deal with the looted goods."
"Who's that man?" Xiao Fan continued to ask.
"Zheng Qingtian, the magistrate of Qiantang, sent his subordinate Wei Wei to hand over to me." Lu Bianjiao replied honestly.
"He told me that as long as we sent people to rob ships near Qiantang and provoke the officers and soldiers, Liu Dabiao would chase him out, and then we would lure him to this ambush place, and we would be able to catch him all."
"Isn't it generally the responsibility of the navy on the city's side to fight pirates? Why did Liu Du command the envoy to personally take a boat to the sea?" Xiao Fan was puzzled?
"I know this, since it is Zheng Qingtian who colluded with the pirates, it is not surprising, the envoy of Hangzhou City has always been concurrently served by the Qiantang County Commander, so it is not surprising." Liu Dabiao suddenly realized.
"Zheng Qingtian understands my personality and knows that I will definitely not be able to stand this kind of stimulation, and I will definitely rush out with the sailors in the Ning Navy."
"Indeed, when our previous actions were smooth and we had drawn them out, we induced them to divide our forces as well. Then, with our familiarity with the terrain, we reunited and attacked Liu Dabiao's ship." Lu Bianjiao explained.
"It's just that there was an accident that happened to you, and our plan fell through."
After listening to Lu Bianjiao's confession, Xiao Fan glanced at Liu Dabiao and asked, "What should I do next?"
"Damn, Zheng Qingtian actually dares to calculate Lao Tzu, wait for me to go back and show my brother-in-law, see if I don't kill him." Liu Dabiao said angrily.
"Do you think that the words of a pirate leader alone can bring down an imperial official?" Xiao Fan asked rhetorically.
Liu Dabiao was reminded by Xiao Fan and knew that this was naturally impossible.
So, he said angrily, "Is that all there is to it?"
"Naturally, you can't count it like that, do you know why Zheng Qingtian targeted you?" Xiao Fan asked.
"I know a little bit about this." After Liu Dabiao finished speaking, he began to explain to Xiao Fan the contradiction between himself and Zheng Qingtian.
To be precise, it is the contradiction between Zheng Qingtian and their Ning Navy.
Since Zheng Qingtian took office, not only is it big
Don't talk about the wanton accumulation of money. He also dismissed the ban of the imperial court as nothing, and the imperial court law clearly stipulated that the goods of the Srivijaya, Java, and Chenla in the South Seas were only allowed to be shipped in Guangzhou.
And he asked Nanyang merchants to come to Qiantang to trade with goods, but there was no strong evidence before, and they really didn't seem to offend Zheng Qingtian before.
After all, although Zheng Qingtian is only a small Qipin county order, he is not simple behind him, and he is an important figure in the Qingliu faction - the protégé of Cheng Qimu in the imperial history.
It's just that Liu Dabiao didn't expect that they didn't want to provoke Zheng Qingtian, but Zheng Qingtian regarded them as a thorn in his side and wanted to get rid of them quickly.
Then Xiao Fan asked Lu Bianjiao again, "Your surname is Lu, so what do you have to do with Lu Zhengzhong, the governor of Qiantang County?"
"I'm his nephew, but I don't usually have any contact, in order not to shame my ancestors, I have always been known as the Sea Dragon, but not many people know my real name." Lu Bianjiao replied.
Xiao Fan was noncommittal, and then asked people to take him down and detain him properly, after all, this was a powerful witness to Zheng Qingtian's murder of his colleagues.