Late Tang

Weeds must be cut by the roots, the true saint princess Jinman has always told herself so.If weeds are cut but the roots are not removed, there will be endless troubles.Back then, the middle school suppressed and killed the rebel Gong Fu, but let his subordinates take his children away.The imperial court thought that if Qinghai Town was taken back, it would be a success and everything would be safe.But the sons and daughters of the rebels had grown up, and they reappeared, carrying complicated fires and igniting everywhere.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

Although Gong Fu died, his sons and daughters were still there, and many of his loyal subordinates still supported them and continued to cause chaos.Over the years, Jin Man led the recruited killer swordsmen to hunt down the remnants of the traitors everywhere, and killed Gong Fu's two sons in various ways.Unexpectedly, after Gong Fu's daughter Zhang Yingying took over, she did better than her two older brothers.Not only did he escape her pursuit time and time again, but he also attracted more and more people, and his power grew stronger.

There were red trousers rebels in Silla, and the imperial court couldn't suppress them, so they pressed the gourd and picked up the ladle.However, Zhang Yingying, a bitch, was unwilling to be lonely, and unexpectedly launched a sudden attack, leading armed warships to attack and occupy the Wando Islands in the southern sea of ​​Silla, which is also Qinghai Town, which was run by Gong Funa's rebellion.Now Zhang Yingying raised the banner of rebellion in Qinghai Town, recruiting troops and buying horses, and helping the hungry people.Every day, countless people who could not survive due to the panic and the domestic red trousers rebellion ran to Qinghai Town with their families.

The imperial court dispatched troops to attack Qinghai Town, but they used troops three times in a row, but they were all defeated by that bitch Zhang Yingying.The three crusades not only failed to destroy Zhang Yingying, but did not even weaken her strength. On the contrary, she became famous in the town and attracted more people to defect to her.Right now, the rebel army in Qinghai Town has gathered tens of thousands of troops, catching up with the strength of Gong Fu's heyday.Moreover, Zhang Yingying, a slut, actually secretly united with the red trousers rebels in China, echoing each other from the south to the north.

Shoot people first, shoot horses, and capture thieves first.

The officers and soldiers were corrupt and suffered repeated defeats.Jinman resented the corruption of the imperial court, and also hated the incompetence of the officers and soldiers.The officers and soldiers couldn't deal with Zhang Yingying, so she wanted to kill her herself.Back then, Gong Fu's rebel army was also very powerful, but in the end Gong Fu died under the sword of a killer sent by the imperial court, and then all the dragons in Qinghai Town were leaderless and invincible at the hands of the officers and soldiers.Zhang Yingying's two elder brothers were also assassinated one after another. The rebel army was weak for a time, and it was not until Zhang Yingying took over that it suddenly emerged and became stronger again.

She knew very well that as long as Zhang Yingying was killed, the rebel army would surely become a mess like it was back then.

She had been waiting for this opportunity, and now it had come.Zhang Yingying unexpectedly appeared in Liaohai secretly. Perhaps Zhang Yingying thought her whereabouts were secret, but Jin Man had hidden eyeliner by her side and sent her the news immediately.

"Accelerate and catch up. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As long as we kill that bitch Zhang Yingying, the rebels in Qinghai Town will be defeated." Jin Man stood on the deck facing the wind, wearing a red rhinoceros suit. Leather armor, a long cloak that is also red and embroidered with golden mandala flowers is hung on the shoulders, the hair is rolled up, and a golden crown is worn.Coupled with her glamorous face, the whole person is more like a handsome man Linfeng Yushu.

Standing behind her was a man with hair like frost and snow. Although he had silver hair, his face was ruddy. He was tall and slender. He was wearing a blue gown and carried a long sword on his back.This man used to be a pirate. When he was young, he rescued Gong Fu, who was still a slave. Later, the two met and became friends, and even taught him swordsmanship.But in the end, Gong Fu died under his sword.After Gong Fu raised his troops, Lian Ping rushed to see Gong Fu. The two reunited after a long absence, and Gong Fu greeted him with wine.When the wine was half drunk, Lian Ping suddenly drew his sword and cut off Gong Fu's head, and brought it back to Silla King City, which led to the failure of this uprising.

For decades, Lian Ping has served as Jinman's swordsmanship teacher and guard commander.He not only protected his safety, taught her sword skills, but also advised him, and even trained the swordsmen of the guards. He was the person Jinman trusted the most.

"What does the princess think Zhang Yingying suddenly appeared in Liaohai for?"

Jin Man's two beautiful eyebrows raised, "I guess it's very likely that he came here for that Li Jing. You should still remember the ambush at Fahua Temple in Chishan in the twelfth lunar month last year. We were already going to succeed that time. We succeeded. Zhang Yingying was lured, but in the end, she was rescued by a man named Li Jing."

Lian Ping nodded, "That's right, it was this Li Jing who broke the must-kill ambush. Afterwards, I sent someone to investigate. Li Jing, who lied to be the general of Chishan Town, did not exist in Chishan Army Town. And now in Dengzhou of the Tang Dynasty, there has recently been a famous figure, also named Li Jing. In a short period of time, this person not only captured and occupied Daxie Village, but also gave the United Fleet of Duli Town Annihilation is really a remarkable person. I suspect that this Li Jing is very likely to be the same Li Jing who saved Zhang Yingying back then."

"It should be true, this Li Jing is in the limelight now, Zhang Yingying must have come to look for him."

"Li Jing is very strong now. I heard that after defeating Fengzhang and Duli Town, he is now strong and strong, with hundreds of warships under his command. He is truly the strongest navy in the north of the Tang Kingdom. If Zhang Yingying and Li Jing are allowed to form an alliance in secret, it will be a big problem for him. We are at a very disadvantage. Your Highness came to Liaohai this time, and secretly went to Duli Town, is it to deal with Li Jing?"

"A friend of an enemy is our enemy. An enemy of an enemy is our friend. Since Li Jing is on Zhang Yingying's side, he is our enemy. Since Duli Town is Li Jing's enemy, he is our friend. This time I came to Duli Town to form an alliance to deal with Li Jing. Of course, it was also to negotiate a few deals."

There are bandits and bandits in Silla, and there are many rebellions, but there are continuous famines in the country.She went to Duli Town this time to negotiate a few deals with Duli Town, the largest free trade city in the north, on behalf of Silla.Silla now needs a lot of food to alleviate the famine, and also needs a lot of ordnance to quell the rebellion.Especially after Daxie Zhai Fengzhang, who secretly sold a large amount of ordnance to Silla all the year round, and Wang Jin of the Dengzhou Navy stopped selling ordnance, the need was even greater.

"What are we going to trade?" Lian Ping is also very clear about the current situation in Silla. Except for the nobles who are still intoxicated, the situation in Silla is already very miserable.

"Ore, horses, cattle and sheep, and slaves!"

Jinman said very calmly that she had reached an agreement with Duli Town to sell hundreds of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead and other metal mines in Silla to Duli Town for their mining.In addition, many horses, cattle and sheep from the ranch on Tamna Island were traded.The most important one is the slave trade.For a hundred years, one of Silla's biggest exports was slaves.Gong Fu once banned slaves, but after his death, everything went back to normal.Silla slaves are more popular in the slave market, especially slaves.

Lian Ping sighed in his heart, there were not so many slaves in Silla, and he knew what the princess meant by slaves.It is to capture those prisoners of war and ordinary people who are thieves and sell them as slaves.Sometimes, as long as the rebels have captured a town, the people in the entire town will be regarded as thieves and demoted to slaves as soon as the rebels leave.

"Actually, I would like to join forces with Li Jing more. Li Jing has the strongest naval fleet. I heard that he also has a secret weapon called Shenhuo. He used this to defeat Feng Zhang and Du Lizhen. If we can join forces with him, It is easy to wipe out Zhang Yingying."

"In that case, why not join forces with him?"

"Because Zhang Yingying is pregnant, but no one knows who the father of the child is. I have never heard that Zhang Yingying had an affair with any man. I heard that she was nearly five months pregnant. Calculate the time. At that time It happened to be when Li Jing rescued her. I suspect that the child may belong to Li Jing. Li Jing is the father of the child, so how could he help us beat his son's mother?" Jin Man sighed helplessly Dao, this is actually not a suspicion, but a [-]% certainty.

The mandala flower fleet is getting closer and closer to the fleet in front. It is a fleet of more than 30 ships, and it looks like an ordinary caravan on the outside.But Jinman knew that Zhang Yingying was hiding in this fleet.

The fleet on the opposite side was coming head-on, and when they saw the fleet with the mandala flag coming straight at them, the fleet panicked.He began to turn the rudder and turn around in a panic, preparing to escape.

Seeing this, Jin Man laughed loudly, "Rush forward and tear them apart! But Zhang Yingying, that bitch, I want to live."

The caravan wanted to escape, but their ships were loaded with too much cargo, and their ships were just ordinary sea ships. Compared with Kingman's fleet designed for battle, they couldn't run fast at all. closer.

At this moment, Lian Ping suddenly found that there was also a fleet of more than ten ships rushing towards them behind them.

Standing on the deck, Li Jing saw that Kingman's fleet had rushed up and bit the fleet that was too late to escape. Soldiers on the deck were already shooting arrows at each other, and even several ships had been hooked. A large group of soldiers were Jump overboard to melee. "Speed ​​up a little more, rush straight up, and hit the biggest boat."

Although Li Jing only has a dozen ships, this is a small fleet, consisting of one armored sea falcon, two ordinary sea falcons, four walking boats, four scooter boats, and six yachts. In addition to the sailors and crew, Li Jing's entire bodyguard with silver guns was on board, with 500 horses.It is also equipped with strong bows and crossbows, cannons and chariots, and a lot of magic fire.

King Man was only half happy when he saw that the opponent no longer ran away, but prepared to fight to the death and began to form a defensive formation. However, the Mandala fleet had successfully boarded several ships of the opponent one after another, and victory was in sight.Lian Ping suddenly shouted in shock: "Princess, things are not good. A fleet from behind is eyeing us. It seems that it is very likely to be Li Jing's fleet. Let's go." Jin Man looked back, and sure enough, a dozen The battleship rides the wind and waves, and rushes straight to kill.Looking at the lineup of the opponent's fleet, she couldn't help feeling bitter in her heart. Although there were no super battleships such as battleships and building ships, there were enough battleships like the Iron Armored Sea Falcon.

Her fleet basically belonged to the category of walking boats and yachts, and they ran extremely fast, but they were only prepared for chasing and killing Zhang Yingying.It is an absolute congenital deficiency in real battles between warships.Although unwilling, Jinman is by no means a stubborn and ignorant person. On the contrary, she is quite decisive.He made a decisive decision and ordered an immediate retreat without hesitation.

Although maybe Zhang Yingying could be caught with a little more effort, but she wasn't greedy at all.Since learning swords from Lian Ping, the most important trick she has learned is not how to perish with the enemy, but to preserve herself.The only way is to save yourself, even if you lose this chance, you will still have another chance.

"Retreat!" Looking at the approaching Shamen Township fleet, looking at the Li Zifan flag fluttering in the wind, Jin Man's eyes were a bit fierce, "I will come back, Li Jing, I remember you .”

The Mandala fleet came fast and went fast. Their speed was quite fast, and they quickly broke away from the battle and disappeared on the sea.The sailors on the merchant ship who thought they were doomed shouted and cheered excitedly.

"Your Highness, Jinman has withdrawn and we have been rescued." The captain of the largest ship in the caravan said excitedly to Zhang Yingying.

Zhang Yingying stood on the deck, her stomach bulging slightly, she also let out a long breath, and said with a little excitement, "Look who saved us!"

The watchman on the mast tower quickly reported: "There are seventeen ships coming, all of which are warships, one armored sea falcon, two ordinary sea falcons, four walkers, four warships, and six yachts. Their warships are flying a flag with Li characters."

"Li Zifan Banner, could it be that the people from Qingnipu just rescued us? This place happens to be near Qingnipu Port, maybe it's the Li family's fleet." The captain said.

"No, that won't be Qingnipu's fleet. It seems that they followed Kingman's fleet all the way just now. I already know who it is."

The captain was puzzled: "Who else is here besides the Qingnipu fleet?"

"It's Li Jing who is here!" Zhang Yingying looked at the approaching fleet with excitement in her eyes.In addition, this time, Li Jing had rescued her from Jin Man for the second time.Why did Li Jing always appear so appropriately every time she was in danger? Could it be that this was really predestined?

Thinking of this, she smiled, and involuntarily caressed her slightly raised belly with her hands.Perhaps this is really preordained by God, and they are destined to be entangled for a lifetime.

After a while, the fleet slowly slowed down and slowly approached the caravan.And first sent a speedboat over to report his identity.

"We are under the command of General Li Jing in Shamen Town. The general sent us here to ask, is this the fleet of Mrs. Zhang Yingying? Is Mrs. Zhang Yingying on board?"

"I am Zhang Yingying, I just thanked General Li Jing for the rescue." Zhang Yingying stepped forward and replied.

Zhao Jiang, who came to pass the message, secretly took a look at Zhang Yingying. It was the first time he saw her, but his eyes lit up.Another beautiful woman, could this be the old friend the general mentioned?Seeing her slightly raised belly inadvertently, Zhao Jiang couldn't help being even more taken aback. What's going on? Could it be that this child belongs to the general?

(To be continued)