Lu Ming

Chapter 242 Huarong Road

Spiritual power is extremely important to human beings.People who were fighting bravely just a moment ago, when they lose their spiritual support, they will flee in the next second, without even the slightest courage to resist.

This is the current situation in Zhangzhou Bay.

A large number of pirate ships fled for their lives like wolves running wildly, and a certain fleet was divided into two teams at this time, each led by a destroyer, scurrying among the fish like catfish, and those who did not raise the white flag to surrender, all fired artillery.

On the two blockade lines notified by the telegram, a large number of officers and soldiers fleets who have mastered the skills of fighting dogs in the water are also rushing to the battlefield screaming - no need to go to battle, just 998, wrong, just bet one to surrender When the pirate ship returned to Jinmen, the Kun people counted the money on the spot, so the officers and soldiers are now red-eyed.

This good day will continue for some time in the future.Because there are many pirates who can't figure out the situation, these people will run around like mice in the closed Zhangzhou Bay until they are all caught by officers and soldiers.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when a large number of officers and soldiers rushed to the battlefield, the main fleet was finally able to escape and turned to the center left.

At this moment, the Zhongzuo Institute has already been dilapidated.

The ships that were sunk a few days ago are still lying half-lying in the shallow water near the pier, and the large cowhide military tent that used to be very imposing is also in a half-collapsed state, and all kinds of bulky belongings have been spilled from the tent to the pier. The tragic scene of fleeing famine at the end of the day.

Li Kuiqi's direct descendants guarding Liangtai had already fled away, and the only living people in the vicinity were some abandoned patients in the city of Zhongzuo.

Seeing this situation, the fleet immediately divided into two groups.One group stayed in the center and left to wait for reinforcements to occupy, while the other group continued to pursue the upper reaches of the Jiulong River.

Why go to the upper reaches of the Jiulong River?Because Yuegang is 10 kilometers ahead.Why go to Yuegang?Because Li Kuiqi had already been intercepted in Yuegang.

From the moment his ship was hit by three iron balls at the same time, Li Kuiqi's ambitions were finally completely shattered.

His ideals were shattered so quickly that even after he changed a boat, his mental outlook was still in a state of disillusionment.You know, not long ago, he replaced that junior who was dedicated to recruiting security. He had just stepped onto the pinnacle of his life and became the leader of a gang with 3 soldiers, a thousand warships, and the all-powerful Nantian.

However, fate made a huge joke for him here—the killing god in the dark night destroyed all his capital.

The sudden opponent was too cruel.They were cunning and acted like gods and ghosts. Li Kuiqi tried his best and couldn't keep up with the opponent's rhythm. This is the most fundamental reason for his defeat today: he couldn't adapt to the new rhythm of war.

Theoretically speaking, after the night of burning the company camp, Li Kuiqi should immediately abandon all his ambitions, then disband the gang, break it up into pieces, and switch to guerrilla warfare.

However, this is only a theory after all.Li Kuiqi does not have the perspective of God, he is just a traditional old pirate in the 17th century.So he hesitated, he procrastinated, and he was reluctant to go bankrupt and liquidate the property he had finally "usurped the throne".

So he didn't passively fight until the moment when the officers and soldiers attacked on a large scale. During the critical few days in between, he was actually helpless and sat waiting for death-he was not Zheng Zhilong, even if it was Zheng Zhilong, he still had no other choice but to surrender.

Li Kuiqi's remaining dreams were completely shattered as the ship slowly sank.After being escorted to another ship by a few confidantes, he could only take a deep look at those streamlined strange ships in the end, and finally said harshly: "Let's go". That's all.

Riding on the chaotic chaos on the sea, Li Kuiqi and the only polished commander beside him, Comrade Zhong Bin, led a group of confidantes to turn the boat around. When everyone was trying to rush out of the open sea, they did not leave Take the usual road and return to Zhongzuo.

Zhongzuo naturally has a backhand here.

Seven or eight blessing boats loaded with all the goods, food, and weapons of the Liangtai are already on the dock and ready to go.As soon as Li Kuiqi and the others arrived at the pier, they boarded two of the most inconspicuous blessing boats without saying a word, and then the team said to Li Kuiqi: "The army is defeated. Brothers, go to Tongshan for a while, and see you in the future." Amidst the loud shouts, they scattered away.

After 5 ships loaded with crude goods were tricked into the open sea to clear the customs, Li Kuiqi deployed the rest of his confidantes, and two unremarkable lucky boats loaded with a large amount of silver rushed to the upper reaches of the Jiulong River.

Keeping back is a skill that any qualified leader must have, and Li Kuiqi is no exception.Before that, because his intelligence ability was far superior to that of ordinary minions, he had planned his escape route after the defeat.

And the road he chose now is the most difficult road in the plan, because he knows that the direction of the open sea is a dead end, and no one can break through the blockade of those strange ships that can see things in the dark.

The end point of this escape route is Zhangzhou Mansion on the upper reaches of the Jiulong River.After arriving in Zhangzhou Fucheng, he will first contact the local nest owner, then abandon the boat and go ashore, take the money and go south by land. After bypassing the government's blockade, he will buy a boat again in the Chaoshan area and go to sea for future affairs. .

However, just like Prime Minister Cao ran on Huarong Road back then, Comrade Li Kuiqi also encountered the same situation: after the boat sailed for 20 miles, Prime Minister Li was stopped at the gate of Yuegang.

There are two groups of people blocking the way.

Li Kuiqi was very familiar with these two groups: the leader of one group was Hu Ba, and the other was Xu Xinsu's subordinates.

Before today, these two were undoubtedly Li Kuiqi's good friends and good brothers.Xu Xinsu has been working hard to restore Yuegang's popularity during this time, and is always ready to help shopkeeper Li Da sell the stolen goods.

Not to mention Hu Ba, my good brother yesterday was so heroic that he wanted to live and die with Prime Minister Li.
So when Li Kuiqi saw in the cabin that his two boats were surrounded by [-] or [-] boats rushing out of Moon Harbor, he was not very desperate - he still had the confidence to leave half of the money and leave.

Then Prime Minister Cao was stunned: when Yibo Yuntian's brothers saw him walk out of the cabin, the situation that was still in a state of confrontation was suddenly broken.

The people around Xu Xinsu who were wrapped in turbans immediately fired a round of guns, killing a few of Li Kuiqi's crewmen at the bow; while Hu Ba's side was even more direct, Yi Bo Yuntian's good brother jumped with a knife in his hand. Come over, go straight to the prime minister, there is no chance for the prime minister to cut his beard and run away.

The all-powerful Li Kuiqi was caught by his good brother just like that.But when the squadron of the crossing people arrived at Yuegang, they found that the plastic brothers were in conflict again: Hu Ba and Xu Xinsu's soldiers and horses were not willing to give in, and they drew their swords again for Li Kuiqi's first victory.
The fleet quickly put Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin as prisoners on board, and turned back to Jinmen.As for the two heroes, Hu Ba and Xu Xinsu, they can only escort the silver boat to Kinmen tomorrow morning. Yuegang is 50 kilometers away from Kinmen, and their lucky boat is not capable of night travel.

Li Kuiqi didn't expect that he would board the strange ship of the gangster so quickly - as a prisoner.

Standing on the fast-moving deck of the Youguang, Li Kuiqi looked at the strange objects on the ship, the shiny cannons, and the neatly dressed sailors. With his hands bound, he could only sigh at this moment, and then he was escorted into the cabin .

In the cabin, as he expected, there were several shabby men in blue and white double-breasted jackets.

Seeing Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin being pushed through the door, one of the chubby men opened his mouth with a smile and asked, "Shopkeeper Li, I have known you for a long time, are you okay?"

Of course Li Kuiqi could hear the teasing meaning in the other party's words, so he opened his mouth and replied: "If you want to kill or cut, it's up to you, you don't need to insult me."

"Hehe, you're still quite stubborn." Wang Xiaohui and the others interviewed Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin entirely to satisfy their own interest in meeting historical figures, and they had no intention of communicating with each other—what can they say with the two mortals? of?

So when Li Kuiqi finished speaking, Wang Xiaohui just shook his head, and then waved his hand to signal the soldiers to take the prisoner down.

Li Kuiqi in history had a sinister and vicious character. After falling out with Zheng Zhilong, many people who had a close relationship with Zheng Zhilong were killed by him.However, viciousness and fierceness are two concepts: he does not have the courage of Liu Xiang to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea when he runs out of ammunition and food.In history, he was finally captured by Zheng Zhilong and Zhong Bin, the Dutch in 1630, and he got the end of a public display.

Youguang returned to the bay on the south side of the Golden Gate at 9 o'clock in the evening.

At this moment, Kinmen has become an island that never sleeps.Although the pier on the west side of the island and the pirate ship were burned down by gasoline cannons that night, the Weisuo City and the pier on the south side of the island, which had long been abandoned by the government, were there, so it became the base camp and temporary transshipment center of the coalition forces.

A large number of captured pirate ships were parked in a mess in the harbor, and their owners were all driven into the cabin, and the officers and soldiers who were guarding on the deck were excited, just waiting to "unload".

At the only pier in the guard, a Dutch ship was moored at the moment.The wires and searchlights temporarily connected from the destroyer ensured the working light in the dock area.

The next moment, a lucky boat was pulled to the side of the pier.Soon, under the dazzling beam of light, the pirates in the cabin were released one after another.These pirates were listless and hungry; after they walked out of the cabin, they were too shocked by the searchlight to speak.

After these people get out of the cabin, they will soon stumble and climb onto the Dutch ship amidst the pushing and pushing of the human wall formed by the guards, and will be stuffed into the cabin again.During this process, anyone who is injured will be singled out for simple disinfection treatment.Anyone who intends to resist and escape will be beaten to death on the spot without any hesitation.

Whenever a ship that docked was emptied, the account room that recorded the number of people on the side would give a sum of head money to the officers and soldiers who captured the ship: 3 taels for healthy ones, and 1 taels for wounded ones.

(End of this chapter)