Coming out of the front hall, Hua Bushi walked straight to the side courtyard, which was Cao Duyun's residence.

A few days ago, when the sailors of the Guangdong realm did not leave, Cao Duyun stayed in the water village outside the bay most of the time, until Shen Youlong led the sailors to set sail and leave, and he lived back in the Bark Sky Tower.

Before Hua Bushi could walk into the courtyard gate, Cao Duyun had already greeted him, obviously he had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time. After the two greeted each other, Cao Duyun introduced Hua Bushi into the house.

Needless to say, the swordsmanship and martial arts of this "Duyun Gongzi" are not under Hua Bushi, they are all the best choices, and he knows how to weigh the benefits and disadvantages in his behavior, knows how to work around, and can do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. In this section, it is quite similar to Hua Bushi, and it is only the two of them who can become friends.

Sitting down at the table in the room, Cao Duyun didn't make much polite noise, and asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Brother Hua once promised to help the younger brother raise two million silver taels within a year to pay the Kwantung army of the imperial court, but now that more than two months have passed, I don't know what Brother Hua can do?"

According to Hua Bushi's original plan, if he achieved a high ranking in the "Zixiao Conference", he could do ocean trade in Okura Port to earn silver taels. However, before the "Zixiao Conference" ended, the pirates of the "Black Dragon Palace" came to besiege the island, all the shipping routes were blocked, the port trade had long been suspended, and things had to be delayed.

Facing Cao Duyun's question, the eldest young master did not answer, but said: "It turns out that Brother Cao has a way, Hua Bushi is willing to hear and advise!"

The current situation of Okura Island Cao Duyun was also very clear, since he asked like this, Hua Bushi immediately guessed that he must have a way.

Sure enough, Cao Duyun smiled slightly and said, "Little brother does have a way, but he needs Brother Hua's help to implement it. ”

As he spoke, he stood up, took a stack of paper rolls from the desk on the side, and handed them to Hua Bushi.

Hua Bushi took it into his hand and unfolded it on the table, but saw that the paper scroll was two feet square, with many curved thin lines on it, all of which were drawn with ink pens, and there was a Korean logo of "southeast, northwest, northwest" in the corners.

This is a nautical chart, of course Hua Bushi can see, and in the middle of the chart, a wedge-shaped is drawn, apparently an island, marked with three small characters "Black Dragon Island".

Cao Duyun said: "This nautical chart is drawn based on the confession of the pirates captured by the ships of the Navy Division in the recent battle, and the 'Black Dragon Island' in the middle of this map is where the pirates of the 'Black Dragon Palace' are located. ”

Hua Bushi's expression moved, and he said, "Brother Cao, could it be that he wants to fight the 'Black Dragon Palace'?"

Cao Duyun said: "Not bad. The pirates of the 'Black Dragon Palace' have been rampant for many years, and they have done all kinds of evil, and now it is time for them to be full of evil!"

The "Black Dragon Palace" is the king of pirates in the vast ocean of the South China Sea, who has been on the sea for many years, plundering countless merchant ships, and the wealth accumulated is probably no less than the treasure buried by the pirate king Tuoba Qingtian on Whale Swallowing Island in ancient times. If we can break into their lair and seize the treasures they have looted over the years, it will definitely be a problem to solve the military salary of two million silver taels that the imperial court urgently needs.

Hua Bushi could guess what Cao Duyun was thinking, he groaned slightly, and said, "Can the location of the pirate's lair drawn on this chart be confirmed?"

Cao Duyun said: "The junior brother personally interrogated a number of pirates, and they all made such confessions, so there should be no mistake in this plan. However, there are still two things that are very difficult and difficult to solve, and it is the younger brother who invited Brother Hua to come and help with advice. ”

Hua Bushi said: "But I don't know which two things are?"

Cao Duyun said: "Although it is true that the Black Dragon Island on this picture is a pirate lair, according to those captured pirates, most of the treasures looted by the 'Black Dragon Palace' are stored in a secret place called the 'Crystal Palace', and where is this 'Crystal Palace' located on the island, or where is it located elsewhere, and how to open and enter, ordinary pirates do not know, it is said that only the top three people of the Black Dragon King and the 'Nine Dragons' know it. ”

Hua Bushi said: "In this way, the three people led by the Black Dragon King and the 'Nine Dragons' are the real leaders of this group of pirates, even if they capture the Black Dragon Island, if we can't capture one of the four of them and make them confess to the location of the 'Crystal Palace', we won't get the treasure?"

Cao Duyun said: "Exactly. ”

In the naval battle the day before yesterday, Hua Bushi had already seen Qiao Shuangchou, who ranked second in the "Nine Dragons", although in the end, Yang Jiangyi and Sima Rulan joined forces to win, but it was not easy to capture such a master, not to mention that there was a black dragon king who was much stronger than Qiao Shuangchou.

Hua Bushi could only frown for a while, silent.

Cao Duyun said: "This is only the first difficult thing, and the second difficult thing is that according to the confessions of those pirates, the people of the Dragon Palace did not send all the ships to besiege the island this time, they have a total of nine giant shark ships, only one was lost this time, and there are still eight surviving, and there are as many as 100 large and medium-sized warships such as other building ships and loach ships." They also occupy a favorable location on Heilong Island, even if they mobilize all the ships of the naval division in Guangdong to attack the island, I am afraid that there is not much chance of victory. ”

Cao Duyun paused for a moment, and then said, "But with my junior brother, if I can bring together the imperial court sailors and the Liliang of the Okura Castle ships, there will be some hope of victory." ”

After hearing this, Hua Bushi understood the reason why Cao Duyun had brought him here today.

Although Sima Rulan said that she would not seek revenge on Cao Duyun for the time being, and wait until she was successful in martial arts in the future, she would fight with Cao Duyun alone to fight for life and death, but if Cao Duiyun wanted to say that he would move the "Wanjintang" to attack Black Dragon Island together, whether it was the two elders of "Wanjintang" or Sima Rulan, they would definitely not sell it.

The relationship between Sima Rulan and Hua Bushi is extraordinary, and Cao Duyun is of course very clear, and now I am afraid that only by relying on this eldest young master can the two sides join forces and cooperate.

Hua Bushi lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "The 'Black Dragon Palace' pirates failed to attack Okura City this time, and they must not be reconciled, and after recovering in the future, most of them will make some moves, and it will eventually be a big disaster for Okura City." Miss Lan'er is a smart and sensible person, and the younger brother can persuade her and Brother Cao to join forces to attack Black Dragon Island, and it can be achieved. ”

He stared at the chart on the table, and said, "However, in my junior brother's opinion, even if Brother Cao mobilizes the ships of the Guangdong Realm Naval Division and joins forces with the 'Wanjintang', it may not be so easy to capture Black Dragon Island." ”

Cao Duyun said: "Why did Brother Hua say this?"

Hua Bushi said: "A few days ago, in the big battle outside the bay, the other party put out the 'Five Dragons Great Array', and they had already trapped all the ships in the Guangdong Realm Naval Division and Okura City in the array, and it was thanks to Peng San's 'Golden Jade' that he was lucky enough to get close to the opponent's first ship, Miss Lan'er and the disciples of the 'Wanjintang' fought desperately, and barely destroyed the first ship, only to break the opponent's large array. This kind of luck can not be repeated, and if the Black Dragon King is on that giant shark ship that day, I am afraid that not only will we not be able to break through the formation, but all the ships of the Guangdong Realm Sailor and Okura City will have already been submerged in the opponent's big array!"

Cao Duyun recalled the situation of that day and said: "It turns out that the pirate's formation was suddenly chaotic that day, because the first ship was destroyed. Brother Hua thinks that the Black Dragon King is really so powerful?"

Hua Bushi said: "The person in charge of the other party's first ship that day was a Dongying warrior, named Qiao Shuangchou, who was only ranked second in the 'Nine Dragons', and his sword skills were already superb, if it weren't for my sister and Miss Lan'er joining forces with Shaolin stunts, even if Brother Cao or my father made a move, I am afraid it would be difficult to defeat this person." The Black Dragon King is the leader of the 'Black Dragon Palace', and his martial arts are undoubtedly stronger than Qiao Shuangchou, and if he wants to win, the younger brother thinks that no one can do it now. ”

Cao Duyun knew that although this "evil dog boy" had no martial arts, his vision and insight were extremely high, and he had made such a judgment, and he would not be wrong if he thought about it.

However, he was still unwilling, and said: "In a battle at sea, individual martial arts cannot determine everything, as long as we gather enough ships, we will not be able to defeat this group of pirates in the first place." ”

Hua Bushi said: "What Brother Cao said is good, in a battle at sea, the most important thing is to have a strong ship and artillery, and personal martial arts are secondary. However, Brother Cao has also seen the power of the 'Five Dragons Great Array', and Peng Sanye once said that if you want to break the Great Array, you must drive a ship into the eye of the formation, and sink the opponent's first ship to succeed, so you have to have a ship that can confront the giant shark ship. Now that the ships of the Yuejing Naval Division and Okura City are combined, even if the number is not less than that of the 'Black Dragon Palace', none of the ships can compete with the giant shark ship in terms of size and firepower, so there is still no possibility of breaking the formation. ”

The giant shark ship is forty zhang long, the deck is four or five zhang above the water, the hull is covered with iron armor, and the ship's side is equipped with more than ten rows of heavy guns, at least seventy or eighty guns, the whole ship is like a castle on the sea.

The sailors of the Ming Dynasty also used to have a lot of giant ships, but that was a long time ago, with the continuous decline of military power, most of the giant ships that were too expensive to maintain were abandoned, and now the largest three-masted gunboat is much smaller than the giant shark ship.

And even if Cao Duyun could manage to find a ship of the same size as the Giant Shark from the Naval Division, the firepower, speed, steering agility and sturdiness of the hull of those old warships were far inferior to the Giant Shark Ship.

You must know that the maritime industry has developed very fast, and the jishu of shipbuilding has improved a lot in the past few decades, and the giant shark ship is a later warship, and the guns equipped on the ship are also the latest Hongyi cannons, and it is a matter of course that the old warships cannot match it.

Hearing Hua Bushi's words, Cao Duyun also frowned, was silent for a while, and said after a while: "Speaking of which, if we want to break the pirates of the 'Black Dragon Palace', we still have to think long-term." ”