1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 839 Please enter the urn
Of course, Boss Zhu, who was already dead, would not make any more plans. After hearing Song Qing's report, Gao Qiaonan said with a smile: "This gang of thieves is much easier to deal with than I expected, since they put themselves in a good position and go into the pit. Jump, then we can't justify it if we don't greet him well."

Gao Qiaonan was very interested, and after he finished speaking, he patted Song Qing on the shoulder and said: "Good job! If you can catch all the thieves of the Yueqing Ship Gang this time, I will personally guarantee that your two brothers will be free again. If you think Wenzhou can't stay any longer, I can let you settle in another place and start over from scratch."

"Thank you, Mr. Jun, for taking care of me. The villain should do his best!" Song Qing hurriedly bowed in response.He took the risk of going to Yueqing Bay to be a lobbyist. At first, it was just for himself to escape, but later he added the life of his brother Song Xian, and now even his own future depends on this matter.I heard that working under the hands of the Haihan people makes a lot of money and their lives are stable. It should be much better than being a pirate in Yueqing and doing this bloody business.

"Tomorrow, you also have a good rest. In the morning of the day after tomorrow, I will send a boat to take you to meet the people from the Yueqing Ship Gang." After Gao Qiaonan finished speaking, he was ready to leave.

Song Qing gritted her teeth and said boldly: "Master Jun, before you start, can you let the villain meet his family first?"

Gao Qiaonan hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, let the two of you brothers meet tonight. Remember, don't play tricks with me!"

"Don't dare!" Song Qing responded repeatedly.

That night, Gao Qiaonan sent someone to take Song Xian out of the temporary cell on a certain troop carrier and escort him to meet Song Qing.After the two brothers met, they were also very fortunate. When they were a group of pirates at sea, one-third of them were killed by the Haihan army, but the two brothers survived unharmed. Song Qing even survived. It was really good luck to win a chance to get out safely.

However, after Song Xian was captured, except for a brief interrogation, he was detained in the warehouse at the bottom of the ship for the rest of the time. He didn't know what happened outside, let alone the origin of the armed forces that captured them.After Song Qing told him what he had seen and heard in the past two days, Song Xian understood his current environment.

"Brother, I heard that the Haihan people killed Shibazhi last year, and their combat power is very strong, but they have always been active in Fuzhou and Guangxi provinces. Why did they come to Wenzhou?" Green negligence.

Song Qing thought for a while, and responded to Song Xiandao: "This Haihan man seems to have a deep hatred with the Yueqing Ship Gang, and he wants to catch them all. In my opinion, he made a special trip to Wenzhou to deal with the Yueqing Ship Gang."

"Brother, are they really just here to deal with the Yueqing Ship Gang and need dozens of warships?" Song Xian objected to this: "Although the strength of the Yueqing Ship Gang is higher than ours, it is just that there are more people and more ships. That's all, how do you fight against the gunboat of the Haihan people? You have seen the battle the day before yesterday, and you didn't even have a chance to join the gang. And the Haihan warship is extremely fast, and you can't escape if you get bitten on it. With such a huge disparity in strength, why did Haihan use thousands of troops to fight in Wenzhou from Fujian?"

Song Qing thought so too. When the Wenzhou government sent troops to encircle and suppress the Yueqing Ship Gang, they did not dispatch so many troops. The Haihan people had no place in Zhejiang. is enough for this task.But he thought about it, but he couldn't figure out why Hai Han did this.

"Brother, the Haihan people's plan to deal with the Yueqing Ship Gang is probably only one of the purposes of their trip. Besides this, there is a bigger goal." Song Xian made a very bold inference.

Song Qing blinked and said, "Could it be that they want to attack Wenzhou?"

Song Xian shook his head and said: "The Haihan people have always been friends with Daming, so it is unlikely to do such a thing. Besides, they have a very good foundation in Fuguang and Guangxi provinces. Even if they want to rebel, it should be in the south. Why come to Zhejiang An incident in an unfamiliar place?"

Song Qing made sense after thinking about it: "Even if they can capture some places in Wenzhou, as long as they don't directly attack Wenzhou City, it will be difficult to get much supplies locally, and they still have to rely on transportation from Fujian. At that time, as long as the Fujian government is a little stuck If they are stuck in the back, this matter cannot be continued!"

Although Song Xian was skeptical, all the information he knew came from his brother's dictation, and all the inferences were all from his brain. In addition, his own vision was limited. How could he know that the goal of the Haihan people is not just Wenzhou, but It is necessary to control the key areas of the entire Zhejiang coastline.Of course, even if Gao Qiaonan told them this answer, the Song Brothers might not believe it. After all, such a big idea was really hard for them who lived only a hundred miles around Yueqing to understand.

The two brothers discussed for a while, but they still couldn't figure out what the purpose of the Haihan people was.However, they did agree on one point. If they wanted to save their lives, they had to make good use of this opportunity.It's just that this matter can only be done by Song Qing alone, and Song Xian can only repeatedly tell his brother to be careful in everything.

On the second day, Gao Qiaonan raised Song Qing alone, and taught him how to contact the people of the Yueqing Ship Gang during the operation the next day, and how to lead them into the encirclement preset by the coalition forces.Song Qing knew that it was a matter of her own life and death, so she didn't dare to be careless, and remembered every word Gao Qiaonan said in her heart.In the afternoon, Qian Tiandun also took time to meet Song Qing and explained his true identity to him.

"Sure enough, it's from Haihan!" Song Qing finally confirmed his previous guess when he heard the commander of Haihan himself revealing his identity.However, Qian Tiandun did not explain the purpose of Haihan's trip to him, but only encouraged him to complete the task well, and asked him to take out 100 taels of cash to reward him on the spot - of course, the silver must be placed in Haihan first. For the Han people, they can only take it away after tomorrow's business is over.

Although 100 taels of silver was not a large amount, it was a reassurance for Song Qing. All senior officials of Haihan came out to express their attitude, so he didn't have to worry about becoming a prisoner again after the war.But in the future, this pirate business will definitely not be able to continue.

The next day, Gao Qiaonan asked people to pack up the relatively intact one of the two pirate ships captured a few days ago, and replaced all the sailors on board with soldiers from the Haihan Militia, and then let Song Qing board the ship.Song Qing felt calm when he saw the ship full of Haihan soldiers pretending to be pirates.If he went alone, he was still a little worried that he would be directly detained by the Yueqing Ship Gang, but with the Haihan people accompanying him, he was more at ease.

Song Qing watched from the deck as these Hai Han soldiers piled up their rifles wrapped in tarpaulins on both sides of the ship, and finally moved two small cannons onto the ship, one on each side of the ship, and covered them with tarpaulins.Song Qing didn't dare to go over to take a closer look, but judging from this posture, the Haihan people were obviously ready to do something, and they also started to get nervous for no reason.

"You don't need to be nervous. When the time comes to enter the encirclement, our ship will speed up and leave the battlefield, and will not participate in the battle. Bring these weapons on board just in case." Seeing Song Qing's nervous expression , the captain came to comfort him and said: "There is no need to be nervous in such a small scene. When we fought Shibazhi in Fujian last year, hundreds of ships participated in the battle, and it is not the same as fighting the pirates docilely."

It's not that the captain is meddlesome, but that Qian Tiandun and others specifically told him to pay attention to Song Qing's emotions. If Song Qing was too nervous when contacting the Yueqing Ship Gang, it might lead to the wastage of previous efforts.

Song Qing clasped his fists and replied, "Yes, thank you, Mr. Jun, for your suggestion. I think the gangsters of the boat gang definitely never expected this to happen. When the time comes, they will be able to succeed if they are caught unprepared."

After Song Qing's ship sailed out, Haihan's various ministries also began to get ready to go, but they were much closer to the preset battle area than their opponents, so they would set off from Dongtou Island later.

As for the Yueqing Ship Gang, the three leaders decided to make this deal almost without any hesitation. 10 taels of silver is by no means a small amount for the Yueqing Ship Gang, even if it is only a part of it, it will basically catch up with their one-year harvest.As for how to discuss the share with Zhu Shanhai afterwards, the Zheng brothers and Nantie are not in a hurry. If Zhu Shanhai speaks well, then it is a sense of loyalty to leave a few percent for the other party. If Zhu Shanhai must fight for high and low, Then maybe it will be a black pot.

In order to ensure that the business can be secured steadily, the Yueqing Ship Gang came out in full force this time, with 400 people on more than a dozen boats going to sea.The two parties had previously agreed to meet at noon on this day near Xiaowushan Island at the mouth of Yueqing Bay, but seeing the time was approaching, and the boat that had agreed to lead the way had not yet appeared, the Southern Railway was in a hurry.

"This guy surnamed Song said he must arrive before noon, why hasn't he appeared yet!" Nan Tie put his hand on his forehead and complained while looking at the sea in the distance: "If I miss the time, I will definitely make him look good!"

"Don't panic, since they asked us to come here on their own initiative, there shouldn't be any accidents, just wait and see." Zheng Pingda comforted.But he doesn't have the confidence to say this. If Zhu Shanhai thinks that the lions on the Yueqing Ship Gang are open-mouthed and unwilling to cooperate and choose to go it alone, then he probably won't wait for the other party's people today.

After about a stick of incense, a ship ahead sent back a signal, saying that Zhu Shanhai's people had come.Nantie quickly ran to the bow of the ship to look around, and sure enough, he saw a lucky boat coming from the south, with a Zhu character flag on the mast, it was indeed Zhu Shanhai's people.

"It's Zhu Shanhai's sense of humor! I can share with him when it's over." Nantie said cursingly to himself, completely forgetting that the initiator of this incident was not the Yueqing Ship Gang, they just went to follow and help.

After the ship approached, Nantie and the others could already see that it was Song Qing who had come to discuss with him two days ago standing at the bow of the ship, and they were completely relieved now.Nantie shouted at the top of his voice, "Brother Song, can this business still be done?"

Song Qing replied loudly: "It's done, it's done! Let's do it as agreed before. Your gang's boat will follow behind the villain's boat. When you get to the place, the villain will show the flag, and your gang's boats will find places to hide That's right."

Nantie still needs to ask a few more questions, and Song Qing's boat ahead has already started to turn around and head south.Nantie cursed a few words inwardly, but quickly ordered his boats to follow.The two parties only agreed on how to do it before, but Song Qing never gave a clear answer when and where to do it.The Yueqing Ship Gang naturally understood that this was the other party's defense against their own blackmail, so now they can only obediently follow the leading boat.

Forty miles to the south from Yueqing Bay is the mouth of the Oujiang River in Wenzhou.The location chosen by Haihan was twenty miles east of the mouth of the sea.There are two islands, one large and one small, juxtaposed from north to south. They are called Damen Island and Xiaomen Island. There is a waterway about one or two miles wide and more than ten miles long between the two islands. There are several natural harbors, which are very easy to hide.The coalition's battle plan is to bring the Yueqing ship gang here, and then send ships to block the two ends, so that they can catch the turtle in the urn.

Song Qing led the fleet of the Yueqing Ship Gang all the way south, until they entered the narrow waterway between Damen Island and Xiaomen Island, and the Zheng brothers felt that something was wrong - passing through here is the mouth of the Oujiang River. To block the target at the mouth of the Oujiang River?
The Zheng brothers were about to have a discussion, when they suddenly heard a cannon from far away in the sea, but after careful identification, it came from behind.I saw more than a dozen sailboats suddenly pouring out of the east sea, the smallest of which was more than twice the size of my own ship. Among them was a large sailboat shaped like a hill, chasing after my own fleet from behind.

Although I don't know the origin of this sudden fleet, it is obviously not a good person. Judging by this posture, my own fleet may not be able to fight. Moreover, the waters here are narrow, and small boats will suffer a lot in close combat. The Zheng brothers They can only order to rush to the west first, and as long as they rush out of this channel, they can choose to flee north or south.At that time, although the enemy has many ships, they may not be able to intercept their own ships at sea.

Nan Tie looked forward and saw that Song Qing's boat was rushing forward, not caring what happened behind.Nan Tiexin said that Song Qing was really afraid of things, but he didn't know if the fleet that suddenly appeared was related to him.A fleet of this size has never appeared in Wenzhou, and Nantie can basically be sure that this group of people is definitely not a local force, nor is it a member of the Navy.

When the members of the Yueqing Ship Gang were in doubt, some sails appeared on the west sea. A fleet sailed from south to north, just blocking the west exit of the channel.Now, as long as you don't open your eyes and go blind, you can see who the east and west fleets are targeting.

(End of this chapter)