Chapter 444: The Reward Feast
"Oh? Where is it? The sixth looked uplifted.
"Fangbu Haikou's lair is on Daishan Island, not far from here." Luo Guanzhong replied: "Chen Buhaikou's lair is in Penghu. β
"Sure enough." Zhu Zhen nodded, according to the information and various signs they had collected before, they had already judged that the two pirates should be in the Zhoushan Islands and the Penghu Islands respectively.
"Yu Tongyuan, what are they going to do?"
"Their idea is that without waiting for follow-up reinforcements, they will march to Daishan Island now and destroy the lair of the Haikou Bandits." Luo Guanzhong replied, "Let me ask for instructions." β
"What is there to ask for, didn't you say yes, I don't get involved in the command?" Zhu Zhen smiled: "It's right to say that the soldiers are fast. As soon as it was delayed, the thieves ran away when they heard the wind. β
"It's not for the thief mother-in-law...... Luo Guanzhong said speechlessly: "There are still a large number of fish that have slipped through the net and need to be cleared." β
"A reader is a man who can speak." The sixth couldn't help laughing and said, "It's so elegant to say that you robbed the house." β
"It's a bandit, a bandit, Your Highness." Luo Guanzhong insisted.
"Okay, it's a bandit." The sixth child didn't compete with him, and asked again: "Have you reported to my fourth brother?" β
"Your Highness just remembered?" Luo Guanzhong said speechlessly: "As soon as the battle is over, my subordinates will send a clipper to report the news, and it will be smooth sailing, and it will almost arrive at this time." β
"Really? Ha ha. The sixth child snorted and said, "I know that Mr. Luo is the most reliable, so this king doesn't worry about that." β
"However, Your Highness, I just received a report, and some soldiers reported that at the end of the battle, several pigeons were released on Fang Datong's boat. Some fly southwest, some northwest. Luo Guanzhong reported again.
"Really?" Hearing that Haikou still had carrier pigeons, Zhu Zhen finally became serious. The carrier pigeon that flies to the southwest naturally reports to the nest, and the one that flies to the northwest ...... Eighty percent of the destinations are also Chongming Island!
"So, Jinghaihou will learn about the battle situation here before my fourth brother?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu frowned.
"It should be like this, I don't know if His Royal Highness King Yan can handle it." Luo Guanzhong said softly: "Why don't we also return to the army?" β
"......" The sixth thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No need, my fourth brother is invincible in the world, and this little scene can be dealt with." What's more, my third brother led an army to pick up the fourth brother in Taicang, and it was useless for us to go back. β
"Okay......" Luo Guanzhong said no more.
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Chongming Island, prepare for the general army yamen.
The reward banquet held by His Royal Highness King Yan has also come to the halftime.
On the huge martial arts arena, hundreds of round tables, eight immortal tables, and long tables were densely arranged...... It's as if all the tables on the island have been moved.
The table was full of large plates of chicken, duck and fish, and servants kept carrying trays and holding wine jars, bringing good wine and good food like water.
However, the atmosphere of the banquet was always a little bleak, because the officers of the Prepared Water Division, who were addicted to alcohol, actually only ate vegetables and did not drink, even if His Royal Highness King Yan personally toasted, they only picked up the wine bowl and put it down with a slight dip on their lips......
This made His Royal Highness King Yan a little faceless, and said to the Marquis of Jinghai, who was sitting alongside: "I didn't expect that Lord Hou's army actually didn't like to drink. β
"Your Highness has misunderstood," Wu Zhen hurriedly and forcibly explained, "It's really because I just received a warning that there are Japanese invaders." We have to keep our guards awake at all times, in case we come out of the basket during His Highness's inspection, it will be too ugly. β
"Really? It seems that this king has caused you trouble? King Yan's black face seemed to be smiling.
"No, no, absolutely not, the prince came to inspect with the care of the prince, and I prepared the Japanese sailors all remembered the five hearts, and they all vowed to guard the sea frontier for the Ming Dynasty and not let a Japanese invader go ashore!" Marquis Jinghai hurriedly picked up the wine bowl and said with a smile: "Come on, Weichen doesn't have to go to the battlefield, I will accompany His Highness not to get drunk and not return." β
Zhu Di looked at Wu Zhen's dignified face for a while, then nodded and smiled: "Okay, let's drink." β
The two of them talked and laughed and drank each other, bowl after bowl, like a cow, in stark contrast to the officers who had tasted it lightly.
Jinghai Hou relied on a large amount of himself, and had the heart to pour down the fourth. But I didn't expect that the fourth child had played Wu Erlang, and I don't know how many bowls of wine were poured down, and Jinghaihou had straight eyes and knotted tongues. But he still didn't change his face, and he didn't even go to the toilet.
At this moment, several officers ran in from outside, and after being searched by King Yan's guards, they entered the martial arts arena. One came to Jinghaihou's side to report, but the other two went to the neighboring table to report the news......
When Jinghai Hou heard the report, it was difficult to hide the shock on his face, but he quickly returned to normal, and smiled at Zhu Di: "Your Highness, if you are absent for a while, the old minister has something to deal with." β
Zhu Di sat like a mountain, holding a wine bowl in one hand, looking at Jinghaihou who got up to leave the table with a smile, and glanced at the field that had begun to commotion.
He suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Jinghai Hou's wrist, and said with a smile: "I'm drinking to the head, don't spoil the fun." β
"There is indeed an important matter, the military situation is like fire, Your Highness." Jinghai Hou secretly had luck and wanted to break free from the clutches of King Yan. Who knew that the wrist wanted to be clamped by the steel ring, but it didn't move at all.
Seeing that some of his officers had already begun to leave the table, he said anxiously: "Your Highness, let it go quickly, otherwise we won't be able to eat and walk around." β
Zhu Di followed his gaze, looked at more and more officers who were leaving, and teased: "Isn't Master Hou just worried that they will run away?" β
"Oh, Your Highness, you, you don't know how powerful the mutiny is." Jinghaihou was already sweating profusely and said: "If they really let them go back to the camp, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't stop them!" β
"Don't worry, you won't be able to leave!" Zhu Di laughed loudly.
"Alas, Your Highness, this is Chongming, not the capital." Wu Zhen's mouth was still perfunctory, but his eyes began to flicker, obviously struggling with whether to turn his face with the fourth child on the spot.
"The whole world is not the king's land, there is no difference anywhere!" Zhu Di said, domineering ordered: "Come on, stop them!" β
"Whoa!" In response to the sound of thunder, a team of heavily armed guards of the Yan Wang Army appeared at the gate of the martial arts arena, blocking the way of those officers.
When the officers came to the banquet of King Yan, they naturally all scolded with their bare hands, and when they saw this, they all scolded, some scolded King Yan, and some turned around to scold Wu Zhen...... scolded him for colluding with the court to betray them.
Wu Zhen's old face, which was red from drinking, was already pale at this time. He knew what it meant for this team of Yan King's guards to appear hereβthe pro-soldiers he had arranged outside had either been killed or transferred.
Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for them to let King Yan's guards in without retribution.
Jinghaihou suddenly thought of something, and suddenly looked at his nephew who was standing behind King Yan, only to see that the two of them had wandering eyes, and they didn't dare to look at him.
(End of chapter)