Late Tang

Yellow Beard smiled and nodded, "This time the attack on the thief's lair was so smooth, it was all thanks to General Li's strategizing, and it was a godsend. Before I set off, I didn't really believe that these thieves would leave the stronghold so stupidly and really run away." Went to Chishajiao. Who would have thought that these people are really so stupid, General Li is really amazing."

Duan Shan pulled out the arrow stuck in the armor, and felt distressed at the same time. Although the mountain armor is the most resistant to arrows, it is still somewhat damaged by the arrow.Damn, the first time he wore it for battle, he was damaged so much, I feel so sorry for him.

"I'm a little worried about the general now. There are only a dozen merchant ships on the general's side. If Feng Ming finds out something, wouldn't it be dangerous to directly intercept the general's fleet?"

"Don't worry, although Ji Yu is young, he is actually as cunning as a fox. Just a dude like Feng Ming, ten of them together are no match for him." Yellow Beard smiled, "Besides, don't look at him There are merchant ships over there, so I think it’s easy to bully, but if I really want to match up, I will suffer a lot if I have such an idea.”

When Huang Huzi was on the island, he watched Li Jing load all kinds of ordnance from his luxurious armory to those merchant ships.Every guy is a fun thing that makes the yellow beard drool. In addition to the most equipped Fuyuan crossbow in Shamen Town, the ship is also equipped with four wooden cart crossbows, large wooden cart crossbows, bamboo pole crossbows, and large bamboo pole crossbows. A heavy crossbow.In addition to these fearsome heavy crossbows, Li Jing also installed a total of eight winch crossbows on four large ships. If the Fuyuan crossbow with a range of [-] steps is already a heavy crossbow, then dozens of people are needed at a time. The winch crossbow that can be activated has a range of up to a thousand steps, so it can only be called a giant crossbow.

Except for these heavy crossbows and super heavy crossbows, basically everyone in Li Jing's fleet was equipped with bows, and they were equipped with a large number of individual crossbows.

In addition, Li Jing's fleet is also equipped with two naval warfare weapons, artillery carts and shooting poles.

Cannon carts are catapults, and the cannon carts on Li Jing's ship were loaded on several large ships of [-] shi.Each cannon cart is loaded with stone bullets weighing [-] catties, and it can attack at a distance of [-] steps, which is much easier than that of ballista carts.The shooting pole is a must-have thing on the boat, and Li Jing actually installed this thing on the boat.Except for the four [-] shi large ships, each of which was equipped with six huge poles, even Li Jing's other ships were equipped with poles that were one size smaller.

If anyone really thought that Li Jing was carrying nineteen merchant ships, he would be very wrong. After seeing Li Jing's modified weapons, the yellow beard with many years of experience in the sea could not help but break out in a cold sweat.

Yellow Beard shook his head, no longer imagining the misery of those who thought Li Jing would be a bully and beat him up, but ended up being beaten instead.With a wave of his hand, he laughed and said, "The battle is over, and it's time to harvest. Brother Duan, you are the plenipotentiary representative of General Li. Let's go to receive the results together."

In the huge cottage in the valley, there are corpses, wounded soldiers and prisoners everywhere.The members of the special team had all learned first aid on the battlefield, and now they began to clean and bandage the wounds of the injured Zhendonghai pirates. As for the wounded on the other side, no one cared about them.

Originally there were nearly 1000 people in the cottage, but a group of people left and went to sea, and there were 300 people in that group.There are still more than [-] people left. In the short battle just now, the pirates in Zhendonghai actually killed more than [-] people, and there were two or three hundred wounded.The remaining [-] people, young and old, were all taken prisoner, and they were forced to kneel on the ground together.

The pirates in Zhendonghai left a group of lightly wounded men to guard the prisoners, and Yu Jie began to search around the entire village for money, food and property with great proficiency.

The pirates were very professional in raiding the stockade, searching in groups and divisions, and even captured hundreds of captives to ask about hidden property.Under this kind of land-scraping search, soon, all kinds of grain, cloth, even my copper coins, gold and silver, jewelry, and even a lot of fur, pigs, sheep, cattle and horses, and many robbers were found in the open space of the village. All kinds of goods piled up into mountains.

For these trophies, Yellow Beard gave a very bold order to divide these trophies into four, one of which was used as a reward for all participants, one for each.In addition, one is also taken out as a pension and subsidy for the dead and injured in battle, as well as a reward for those brave men who have performed well in battle.In the end, there were two copies left, one for Zhendonghai and Shamenzhen's family.In order to show justice, he also called a few people who could write to register the trophies, and asked Duan Shan to check.After reading the joke for a while, I lost half of my patience with it.

At this time, Red Beard and Black Beard each took a copied scimitar and walked over, pointed to the group of prisoners and said, "Second brother, what about these prisoners?"

Yellow beard remembered Li Jing's confession, and said: "Let these people carry the spoils back to the ship first, and then tie them up and close the bilge. Brother Ji Yu said that these people are useful, and he plans to trade them with Qingnipu for some cattle and horses." Beef tendons, iron materials, copper materials, etc. come back."

The red beard chuckled: "Sanlang really doesn't want to let go of anything, he can change anything into money, into what he wants. You said that if we are like him, we have been doing business for 20 years, how can we Haven't you already become rich like an enemy?"

Several people laughed coquettishly, at this time, after more than two hours of searching, almost all the property in the village was searched out.Even under the torture and interrogation, even several underground secret cellars in the thief's den were dug up, and they were full of copper coins. Many copper coins had been piled up for too long, and even the ropes that stringed the money were rotten. The copper coins were scattered in a cellar.

Mr. Zhao, the old accountant of Zhendonghai, was in charge of the registration. Holding the registered account book, he came over excitedly and reported: "It's a big harvest for the master. After the brothers seized the remaining nests of the Cyclops, they got a total of more than 300 boxes of copper coins. It is estimated that There are 20 guan. In addition, the thieves have enough grain for 5000 people in the village to eat for three years. There are about 1 stones of grain. In addition, there are more than 7000 bolts of silk, more than [-] bolts of cloth, and silk There are more than a thousand pieces of silk. There are also gold and silver collars worth a thousand taels each, and pearls and precious stones worth tens of thousands."

"What about the others?" Yellow Beard was somewhat interested in the seized grain, copper coins, and silk cloth, but not in gold, silver and jewelry.After all, food is the foundation of long-term need to stop, and copper coins and silk cloth can be traded for what they need.But gold, silver and jewelry are not in circulation, and they have to be exchanged before they can be used. For valuable jewelry, if the pirates want to exchange them, they will not be able to exchange them for much.

"In addition, we also seized more than 700 horizontal knives, more than 800 spears, more than 500 shields, more than 300 leather armors, more than 500 pairs of bows and arrows, and more than 2 arrows. There are more than 100 pairs of crossbows and horned crossbows, more than a dozen Fuyuan crossbows, and six throwing cannons. The rest include more than 300 cattle, more than 2000 sheep, more than 500 pigs, more than 50 mules, and more than 100 donkeys. More than 30 horses."

"What kind of mules and horses?"

"They're all big mules and war horses, probably they were plundered from the sea before." Mr. Zhao laughed.Cattle and sheep are very expensive in the Central Plains, but they are relatively cheap in Ziqing Town, which has a large amount of smuggling trade with Liaodong.But if it is mules and horses that can be used by the military, it will be expensive.At this time in the late Tang Dynasty, all the horse-producing places in Liaodong and Liaoxi were lost, and the places where horses were raised in Hebei were divided into vassals and towns.Only the Hetao region in the northwest was left to produce horses, but it was also severely invaded by the barbarians, and the supply of horses was greatly reduced.Nowadays, in the armies of many feudal towns, the cavalry lacks horses, and some feudal towns even set up mule soldiers, all of whom ride mules, and even specially set up mule soldiers and horse envoys.

If more than 50 mules and more than 30 horses can be used in the military, this is indeed a big gain.Standing aside, Duan Shan was full of excitement. In the last battle on Cat Island, he harvested 36 horses, and the reconnaissance team got 36 horses. What a shame.It's a pity that he just happened to be transferred to the head of the special team, and none of the [-] horses belonged to their team.Seeing the brothers from the other two teams riding tall horses, let alone the envy in their hearts.

"Several masters, you see, we don't want our other rewards this time, how about giving these mules to our special forces?"

The harvest this time is indeed very rich, and a rough calculation can be worth at least 40 pennies.According to the plan for dividing the spoils that Huangbeard made before, a quarter of the 30 guan will be used as a reward for everyone. For more than [-] people, one person can get more than [-] guan.There were only [-] people in the special forces team, and the total number was only [-].But those horses and mules cost hundreds of guan on average, and they are worth at least six or seven thousand guan.

"You guys know how to count. In this way, all these horse mules will be given to you, but you will not share other rewards and so on."

"Okay, no problem, we only need those horses and mules." More than 50 mules and more than 30 horses, this time, the special operations team can be regarded as one person. After returning, see how the other two teams are still arrogant with them. Duan Shan replied excitedly.

Looking at the huge harvest, the people with yellow beards couldn't help sighing in their hearts. After all, those who cultivated the land were not as good as those who sold them, and those who sold them were not as good as those who went to sea.But it is better to go to sea merchants than to do robbery, but this kind of robbery is not as fast as black and black.One-eyed Jiao was quite famous in Liaohai before. Over the years, he paid 10,000+ property to Wang Jin every year, and he can still accumulate so much money, but now it is all cheaper than the pirates and Shamen towns in the East China Sea. up.

"Immediately let the brothers and the prisoners transport all these to the ship. The brothers should settle the accounts with the brothers first, and then distribute them after returning."

All of a sudden, nearly three thousand pirates from the East China Sea and more than four thousand women, children and family members of the one-eyed dragon pirates worked together, carrying handcarts on their shoulders, carts and oxen, and even a grain of grain was transported back to the ship.

Then, Zhen Donghai ordered the captives to be tied up again, and they were all locked up in the bilge.

The white sails were raised, and they set sail to sea again.

(To be continued)