Late Tang

The sea under the darkness of night is like an endless ocean of stars.Howling cold winds hit from everywhere, unstoppable.The small boat floated on the undulating sea, like a meteorite wandering in the ocean of stars.

Li Wei, the head of the reconnaissance capital, rowed a small boat to inquire about the news, and brought back the news that there were people stationed on the island ahead. "From their campfires, there should be 1000 people." He said, "I saw seventeen or eighteen ships of various sizes on one side of the island, with black flags. They all had black flags on their bows. The largest ship was A fighting ship of war with a black streamer on its mast and a white skull painted on it."

"Is it your people?" Li Jing asked on the bow of the boat.

"More than 1000 people, [-] or [-] boats, and even the battleships came out." Yellow Beard grinned, "The black flag skull flag, the only one in the Liaohai East Sea, this is the flag of our Zhendong Sea. It seems that the brothers in the family have brought all the brothers who are housekeepers."

"I didn't expect the masters to give me Li Jing face so much." Li Jing smiled, "The second master invites me to pay a visit." He glanced at both sides of him, and found that the boat can only accommodate more than 120 people. Yu ship.It is loaded with one hundred carefully selected brothers from Scouting Capital, ten young sons from the Xiao family, and one hundred servants from the Xiao family.A total of more than [-] people, after dark yesterday, took advantage of the darkness to disperse from Salmon Island one after another, quietly passed through many islands in Daxie Village, and finally reached the overseas of Liaodong Peninsula after sailing [-] miles overnight.

After the pirates attacked Samana, Li Jing sent a letter to Zhen Donghai's contact person left in Dengzhou, asking him to forward it to Zhen Donghai, hoping that they could send someone to discuss important matters.Li Jing originally wanted to call them over, and use their hands to find out the lair of the one-eyed flood dragon, and planned to kill the weeds.

Unexpectedly, his ordnance was robbed on the way.

Li Jing went directly to Gongsun Lan and asked the people from the Plum Blossom Sect to help him find the lost ordnance and help him find the person behind the scenes.Gongsun Lan did not disappoint Li Jing, and the Plum Blossom Gate was worthy of being a professional intelligence dealer. It only took them two days to find Li Jing's batch of ordnance.The batch of ordnance was not robbed by Wang Jin, but was robbed by Feng Zhang on the territory of the Dengzhou Navy, and deliberately left some clues to guide the investigators to focus on Wang Jin.

But what Feng Zhang didn't expect was that the person who tracked them down this time was the Plum Blossom Gate who specialized in selling information.Those little tricks were of no use to them at all, they quickly discovered the traces of those mistakes, and finally tracked down the real clues.Feng Zhang was very cunning. He pulled the boat to the vicinity of Daxie Village, loaded the cargo on the boat into another boat, and then directly sank the original cargo boat on the bottom of the sea.Then they used another ship to transport the goods directly to Duli Town, Liaodong, and hid the goods in a secret warehouse of the Feng family, and planned to sell this batch of excellent weapons to the Khitans.

After Li Jing got this conclusive information, the first thing he thought of was that he could find someone from Zhendonghai to make a move.

Zhendonghai's power is just above Liaohai, and their power is closer to Liaodong.Li Jing believed that Feng Zhangfei had taken such great efforts to rob the goods, and deliberately planted them on Wang Jin, he must have been secretly watching every move of Shamen Island.If Li Jing led the army to Liaodong, Feng Zhang would definitely know about it immediately.At that time, Feng Zhang will definitely transfer that batch of weapons immediately.

At that time, I have worked hard to travel to Liaodong, and I will definitely not find that batch of goods.And what's more important is that if Li Jing leads his troops to leave Shamen Town, then Shamen Town will be empty and dangerous.Even after Li Jing left Dengzhou, Feng Zhang might deal with him in Liaodong.In Dengzhou, they dare not deal with Li Jing openly.But as soon as we left Dengzhou and arrived in Liaodong, the situation was different.

The person Zhendonghai sent to Dengzhou was Huang Huzi. As soon as Li Jing met him, he immediately asked Zhendonghai to do him a favor, and wanted to borrow their troops to take back the batch of ordnance.Yellow Beard readily agreed, and immediately sent an entourage back to the station to deliver the letter.

After some preparations, Li Jing finally decided to take only one hundred scouts and soldiers, and also took away the ten sons of the Xiao family, and another hundred Xiao family servants.Taking away the ten young masters of the Xiao family, Li Jing was also prepared to prevent the Xiao family from having any ulterior motives when he was away.Those young masters were straightforward and agreed without any hesitation, which made Li Jing wonder whether they were ignorant or fearless, or really understood the situation very well.

As for the generals, Li Jing only took Wang Zhong, the deputy ten generals from the right wing of the Zhanbing Battalion and the capital of Shamen town Yuhou Wang Zhong, and Li Wei, the head of the reconnaissance capital. Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian, the second leader from the left side, were brought along.As for Shamen Town, Li Jing handed over all the military affairs to Lin Wei and Lin Wu, while all the literary affairs were handed over to Zhang Hong.

Lin Wei and Wang Zhong raised objections to this, thinking that Li Jing, as the chief general of Shamen Town, should not take risks lightly.This matter can be done by either Lin Wu or Wang Zhong.But Li Jing finally decided to come by himself, not because Li Jing didn't trust Wang Zhong and the others.But when he came out this time, Li Jing didn't just want to get back the batch of ordnance, he also planned to come to formally meet with Zhen Donghai.

He has met with both Yellow Beard and Red Beard, but Zhen Donghai's head is White Beard. If he wants to cooperate with Zhen Donghai and the others for a long time, he thinks it is necessary for the two heads to have a formal meeting.

More than [-] small boats slowly rowed towards the island, and just approached the shore when several speedboats immediately surrounded them from both sides.The people who came over soon found out that it was Huang Huzi, the second head of the family, and immediately escorted them respectfully to land on the shore.

This is an uninhabited desert island, and there is nothing on the island except barren mountains and forests.This place is only less than fifty miles away from Duli Town, the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, and usually no one stops for supplies.The pirates in Zhendong Sea chose a good place. The ships are hidden in a small bay on one side. If the nearby ships do not observe closely, they will not be found at all.

In the woods not more than a hundred steps away from the shore, the pirates built a simple woodland.The tent is hidden among the trees, and fortifications arranged with sharpened wooden stakes are also set up on the periphery.Behind the pickets, there are also archers and javeliners hidden, responsible for guarding.Behind the line of defense, the camp stretched far into the distance. Pirates in full gear sat under trees and sharpened their weapons. The familiar flag fluttered in the wind, and the flagpole was deeply inserted into the muddy ground.

As soon as they approached the stake, a group of people had already walked over from the temporary camp.The leader was wearing a mountain-pattern iron armor painted silver, but a white bear fur hat and a long silver silk cape over his shoulders.Around his waist is a silver lion belt and a horizontal knife with a sharkskin sheath.In his left hand, he also holds a white round shield depicting a black skull.

The whole body is silvery white, plus the silvery hair color, long silvery brows, and silvery beard, Li Jing immediately knew that this person should be the white beard who is the head of Zhendonghai.

Although White Beard has white hair, white eyebrows and beard, his complexion is rosy, his figure is burly and strong, and he doesn't look old at all.Li Jing couldn't guess his age for a while, but estimated that he might be between fifty and seventy.

White Beard strode forward and said with a big smile, "The second child is indeed you who are back. Why did you come back today? We have been waiting for you here for a whole day." After speaking, he looked at Li Jing and the others. Again, "Second brother, these must be our friends in Dengzhou."

There are several people beside the white beard, one of them is a big man like black charcoal, with black tendrils all over his face, and the other is an old acquaintance with a red beard.The red beard smiled and said: "Brother, the ones in front of us are our old friends Li Jing and Li Jiyu, known as Yong Sanlang and Xiao Li Guang. If it wasn't for his idea, we wouldn't be able to get the second child out of the board so easily. State rescued."

Li Jing stepped forward with a smile and greeted everyone one by one, "The third master was just joking. If it weren't for the mercy of the third master, how could I, Li Jing, be where I am today. I would like to ask you to come to help me in the next favor today. It is really helpful." Everyone."

"It's brothers who don't know each other. We are already brothers. Why don't you and I be so polite? Let's go back to the camp. We are roasting fat sheep and preparing wine. You are lucky." Bai Huzi gave an order, and immediately some pirates moved forward to remove the pickets, making a way for Li Jing and others to pass.

The pirates' camps were scattered in the woods. According to Whitebeard, after receiving the letter sent back by Yellowbeard this time, he immediately gathered his men and horses and came in full force.Except for the old, weak and wounded who stayed at home to watch over them, they all came here, a total of [-] boats and [-] brothers.

[-] pirates, ordinary little pirates built some wooden sheds to camp.And some small bosses set up tents, and as for the leaders like White Beard, they all built tall and wide log houses.

Li Jing, Wang Zhong and others entered the camp with a hundred scouts and a hundred Xiao family servants. The scouts were all the best of the best, and they marched in two square formations on purpose.The uniform movements, brand-new and uniform clothing and weapons, all the pirates who watched along the way were amazed and envious.Even the 600 guards of the Xiao family were not much worse than the scouts. This time, the best guards were almost selected from the [-] people. They followed the scouts, and the queue was actually quite decent. .

There was a trace of surprise in the eyes of the heads of the red beard and black beard, especially the red beard.When he met Li Jing years ago, Li Jing was only a small group of people, and he was extremely embarrassed when facing him.But in the blink of an eye, he already had his own territory and his own army.He had heard that the one-eyed dragon in Duli Town led nearly half of the pirates to attack Shamen Town, but in the end they were defeated by Li Jing alone and did not let anyone go. They couldn't believe it at all.

But now, seeing Li Jing dare to come to the meeting with only 200 people, and the vigor shown by these 200 people also surprised them.The white beard concealed his surprise a little better, but Li Jing believed that his surprise would never be under the red beard.The more so, the better the situation.The more surprised they are about him and the Shamen town army, the smoother their cooperation will be.

(To be continued)