Lord Moyu was forced to open

"Grand Commander, Changyue Island is ahead!"

On the sea outside Changyue Island, Li Erniu, who was on the East China Sea Fleet's main ship Mingwei, stood on the deck with a gloomy face. The deputy next to him pointed at Changyue Island in front of him and introduced it to him:
"Grand Admiral, Changyue Island is an uninhabited island in the East China Sea closest to Luzon. Due to the special nature of the island, it cannot be inhabited for a long time, so no one has ever lived on it. The entire island is about twelve miles in circumference. Generally, there will be a flood starting from August 15th every year, submerging the entire Changyue Island, and the tide will not recede until the end of September.

When the sea water submerged Changyue Island, when viewed from the sea surface, under the illumination of sunlight or moonlight, the original location of Changyue Island seemed to have a black crescent-shaped shadow under the water, and on the sea surface, a silvery-white long moon phantom would appear under the moonlight like a mirage, hence the name Changyue Island.

It is now August 14th. Starting from tomorrow night, the entire Changyue Island will be submerged under the sea. If the Grand Commander has not left, I think tomorrow I will be able to see the annual dark moon spectacle of Changyue Island."

After listening to the deputy's introduction, Li Erniu nodded slightly and said:

"That is to say, if the Red Barbarians are here on Changyue Island, they will show up tomorrow night no matter how deep they hide?"

The deputy was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "If they don't show up by then, they will be buried at the bottom of the sea."

Upon hearing this, Li Erniu immediately revealed a cruel smile: "Okay! I understand!"

The deputy looked at the expression of his own commander-in-chief and felt a chill that made him shiver uncontrollably.

At this moment, on the back island of Changyue Island, Chris and his companions, who were preparing to leave the back island by boat with their brothers, suddenly discovered that even on the sea behind the island, they could faintly see the shadow of the Song Dynasty official ship approaching quickly!
"Damn it! They surrounded the entire island. How did they know we were here?!"

Chris punched the tall tree next to him angrily. This was a tree unique to this island, and Chris had never seen this kind of tree anywhere else.

The trunk of this tree is extremely long, estimated to be seven or eight times as tall as him. Only the top of the tree has branches and leaves, and the trunk is completely bare. I don't know what kind of tree it is and why it looks like this.

Michelle on the side clenched his fists and said in a muffled voice: "Chris, why don't we just fight them!"

"Fight! Fight! Fight! That's all you know how to do! Can you use your brain? There's the entire Song Dynasty's naval fleet out there! Do you know how many people they have?

We are just bandits! We are not an army! How can we be their opponent? ! "

"But now we have no choice but to fight!"

Michelle was unconvinced.

Chris walked back and forth twice with his hands behind his back in anger, looking at the ships gradually becoming clear in the distance. Finally, he gritted his teeth and ordered, "Hurry up and pull all the boats up. Before they get close, we can pull the boats to the cave we found a few days ago.

Then we will use rocks to block the cave from the inside! Let's hide for a few days and see when they can leave!
If they can't find us and leave, we still have a chance of survival!"

The forty thieves were very obedient and immediately split into two groups, half to pull the boat and the other half to prepare stones to block the cave.

Soon, with the concerted efforts of the forty thieves, the four small boats were pulled ashore. The group of people who went to look for stones had already piled all the stones in the cave, and hurried back to help carry the boats away, while another group of people was responsible for cleaning up the traces they left behind.

By the time they arrived at the cave, the Song army's ships were already very close to the coast, and the appearance of the entire fleet could be clearly seen on the coast.

Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Chris and his team finally blocked the entrance of the cave they had discovered before the Song army landed.

Chris and his crew were lucky. The entrance to the cave was not big, but just big enough for two small boats to enter together. Moreover, it was under the cliff on the island. The green plants hanging down from above almost covered the entrance. All they had to do was lift the green plants when the boat went in to block the cave from the inside. From the outside, it would just be an ordinary cliff and most people would not be able to find it.

Chris and his friends had stayed in that cave before. They had been hiding in it for the past few days. Even if it was blocked, it would not be stuffy. There were obviously other ventilation holes, but they were not easy to find, so it was an excellent hiding place.

On the coast of Changyue Island, the Song Dynasty's fleet finally docked. Pairs of cowhide military boots stepped onto the soft sand, and soldiers from the East China Sea Fleet wearing navy blue naval uniforms quickly got off the ship.

As soon as Li Erniu gave the order, they immediately formed a search team into groups of five and started to search the entire Changyue Island.

Li Erniu walked on the island, looking at everything on the island, his eyes fixed on every place like an eagle, trying to find the clues he wanted to see.

However, it was obvious that the forty thieves' aftermath was extremely sophisticated, and he did not find any clues.

It was not until an hour later that the news from various places was summarized and returned.

"Grand Admiral, the entire Changyue Island has been searched, but no trace of other people has been found. However, there are signs that people have lived on the island, and the direction of the collapse of many plants also shows that someone has lived on the island recently."

Listening to his deputy's report, Li Erniu frowned and asked, "Are you sure you have searched the entire island?"

The deputy nodded heavily and said, "Don't worry, Grand Admiral. My brothers have searched almost every place on the island. There is absolutely no place left out."

However, just as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard someone shouting:

"A discovery! A discovery! Reporting to the Grand Commander, a discovery has been made!"

Li Erniu turned around and saw a navy soldier running over breathlessly to report: "Grand Admiral, we found traces of heavy objects passing behind the island. Those traces are definitely man-made!"

"Take this governor there immediately!"

Li Erniu didn't waste any time and followed the soldier to run towards the place where the traces were found.

At this time in the cave, Chris and his companions were holding their breath and listening carefully to the sounds outside the cave.

They heard a large number of people walking by and the words of the Song people. Obviously, at this moment, there were probably Song soldiers searching for them everywhere.

Everyone in the cave was listening quietly, not even daring to make a sound, for fear of making any noise and being discovered by the Song army outside.

Finally, after a burst of chaotic footsteps, the sound gradually faded away, just when Chris and others were about to breathe a sigh of relief.

The footsteps that had just gone away suddenly approached again!

And the sound became louder.

Obviously more people are coming!
Chris and others were shocked!
What's going on? Have they been discovered?

At this time, outside the cave, Zhao Jun sneered as he looked at the grass that had been covered up, but obviously due to the time constraints, some details had not been covered up properly.

These plants and trees in the corners vaguely have the shape of a boat bottom.

Obviously there was a ship that passed through here before, otherwise this situation would not have happened.

However, after looking around privately, he couldn't find any place around that could hide such a large boat.

Li Erniu frowned again.

"Nothing else?"

"Report to the Grand Commander, not yet!"

The soldier replied.

Li Erniu took two steps forward and arrived in front of the blocked entrance of the cave. The clear sound of his footsteps also spread into the cave. Chris and others were so nervous that they even held their breath subconsciously.

Li Erniu looked carefully at the mountain wall in front of him. Dense green plants covered the entire mountain.

The vegetation here is even more lush, completely covering the original color of the mountain.

Suddenly, a broken branch caught Li Erniu's attention.

Green juice was still oozing out of the branch, obviously it had just been broken.

The deputy standing by immediately realized what was going on and gestured to ask Li Erniu.

[Grand Commander, I will have someone dig up these green plants right now. Those people are most likely hiding behind them. There might be nothing behind them!]

However, Li Erniu shook his head, thinking of the characteristics of Changyue Village mentioned by his deputy on the boat just now, he showed a cruel smile, then turned to his deputy and said:
"It looks like there aren't any more traces here. Let's go back to the ship and have our men search other places."

The deputy was obviously stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted and immediately replied, "Yes! Commander-in-Chief! I'll arrange it right away."

As he spoke, he gestured to the soldiers around him, and everyone nodded in unison and began to retreat.

After pushing it to a safe distance, the deputy asked Li Erniu: "Grand Commander, why don't you just lift up the green plant?"

Li Erniu sneered and said, "Why do you want to open it?"

The deputy said: "Of course we have to capture them. His Majesty only gave the Grand Commander seven days, and now there are only three days left. If you can't capture those people within the specified time, then you, the Commander..."

The deputy didn't finish his words, but everyone understood what he meant.

Li Erniu sneered and shook his head, saying, "There's still plenty of time, no rush! I'll play with them slowly.

They brutally massacred more than 200 families in Haimian Village, not even sparing the children. How could I let them off so easily?
Didn't you say that the tide will rise tomorrow in Changyue Island? Since they like to hide in this cave, let them hide first. In the next two days, you can arrange people to search here from time to time and don't let them come out.

We will leave after the high tide tomorrow night. I want to see if they can wait in this cave forever, or if they will drown in this cave and refuse to come out!"

The deputy immediately understood that his commander-in-chief was planning to torture these beasts, and nodded immediately: "I understand!"

Then we started to make arrangements.

Chris and the others in the cave breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the footsteps gradually fading away.

"Phew, finally safe!"

Chris smiled.

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(End of this chapter)