Lord of the House

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When it was ready, I heard the sound of messy footsteps coming from the bow of the ship. I think it was the few remaining pirates that were dispersing towards the boat. If you don't run away now, when will you wait? Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe jumped out of the window. A pirate happened to escape from the window. When he saw Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe, one old and one young, came out of the window, he was stunned. When he was about to shout to his companions, Lin Fu jumped over and rolled into the water together. Lin Tie hooked his arms in the water and tightened the pirate's chin, swiping the edge of the knife against his neck, and watched as a bloodline stirred up a **** picture scroll like a landscape of ink and wash in the river.

Probably some officers and soldiers saw that someone fell into the water here, and the arrows were shot, but the arrows had no strength in the water, so Lin Bie had to dive down to pick up an arrow and stick it on the pirate's chest, and then let the body float up. He and Fu Qinghe The dive continued to hide under the stern oars.

Fortunately, no pirates fell into the water again, so naturally no officers and soldiers would go into the water to chase; Lin Bie also doubted that if there were pirates who jumped into the water and escaped, the officers and soldiers would not be chased by anyone. The so-called poor pirates do not chase, the officers and soldiers have already won the victory, if there are more casualties in the pursuit, it will be more than the loss.

The scattered fighting on the boat stopped, and there were shouts of firefighting. Lin Fu knew that he and Fu Qinghe were safe for the time being. Thinking about last night until now, after two battles, at least fifty or sixty lives were lost.

"Maybe there will be no more extravagances." Fu Qinghe listened to the movement of the boat, and couldn't help comforting himself.

"Hopefully." Lin Fu smiled and said.

Seeing that Lin Fu could still laugh, Fu Qinghe also smiled, thinking that no matter how bad it was, the two daughters of Su Mei could also go ashore in the meat ticket, and when they got to the shore, Su Mei would be safe and unenvy when she showed her identity.

At this time, I heard footsteps outside the stern, and two people walked to the stern deck alone. Lin Bie and Fu Qinghe both raised their ears cautiously.

"Captain..."

Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe were both surprised. In the military system of this dynasty, there are four types of people who can be called commanders by their subordinates. They are all high-ranking generals in the army. The chief general and deputy general of Ninghai Town have the titles of Captain Cavalry and Deputy Cavalry Commander. They are the fourth-rank and second-rank military generals. Unexpectedly, the two fast oar boats of the Ninghai Town Navy turned out to be Ninghai. A person at the level of the town master will lead the team in person?

"Well, did the casualty check come out?" was the voice of a middle-aged man with a low voice.

"Twenty dead, thirty-nine wounded, thirty-one killed, and one captured... These pirates are really tough!"

Lin Fu thought that the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers was very weak, but he did not expect that the combat strength of the officers and soldiers led by the general of the army town was not very useful. But this group of pirates is indeed very strong. First of all, these people—maybe more, but not much—dare to rush to Chongzhou County to learn to hijack meat tickets; Lin Bie had a direct hand with a person last night, and he was killed by trickery. .

When calculating military exploits, it doesn't matter.

Although it is said that the pirates were completely wiped out, a pirate warship was captured, and all the hostages were rescued, but the number of casualties after the battle with absolute superiority far exceeded the number of rank (first rank), according to the military law, not only can it not be calculated, but also reprimanded by the boss. Of course, over the years, the discipline of the town troops in various places has been lax and the combat power is weak. It is not easy to win a small victory. If you change to an ordinary general to lead a team to achieve such a record, it will definitely be a great news, but the leader of the team this time is the main general of Ninghai Town. A high-level character, it will only be more embarrassing to hand over such a record, and maybe he will attack the opponent as a handle.

Lin Fu didn't hear the middle-aged general for a long time. He thought that he was probably embarrassed by this record. The person next to him must be his confidant. After a while, he heard the middle-aged general's confidant say: "Captain, Dong Yuan has always been He slandered our town army for its weak combat strength and irregular military discipline, and petitioned the imperial court to allow a new army to be built in the place; this battle report is handed over, I am afraid that it will be used as a pretext for him again..."

"What kind of onion is Dong Yuan, and it's his turn to point fingers at the town army?" the middle-aged man said angrily, "In this rescue, we have to ensure that the hostages are not envious, and it is inevitable that there will be more casualties."

"That's what I said, but the mouth grows on other people, especially those civil servants who like to gossip, and their **** and squat are blooming for them - is it to cross out the injured person?"

"They're not so stupid. Twenty people died, how could there be no one wounded? Besides, there is a battle here, and the battalion should also receive enemy news. At this time, I don't know how many people are staring at Jiang's side. Let's go back. During the camp, can you hide the casualties without reporting them?" The middle-aged man's voice slowed down, and he could hear that he was beginning to hesitate, probably more worried that this was not appropriate and would leave too many loopholes for political enemies.

"Captain..." Another person came towards the stern, interrupting their secret conversation.

"Qianhu, what's the matter?"

"Hey," the man spat fiercely, and he could tell the resentment on his face by listening to his voice, "The thief, the wealthy households in Chongzhou are taking us for granted, and the pirates in the east offered a total of 30,000 taels of redemption money. We killed 20 brothers by licking the blood, but we only had a reward of 3,000 silver—let me take them to Chongzhou, and I don’t have 10,000 taels of silver, so I chopped up these turtle sons and fed them to the eighth, and made them cut off their descendants…”

"Nonsense, do you want to rebel?" the middle-aged man shouted in a deep voice.

"There is no money, and they are being taken advantage of. This officer and soldier is really boring." The visitor said in a muffled voice, and the meaning of the words was to rebel.

Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe knew how arrogant the officers and soldiers were, but they didn't expect them to say such outrageous remarks semi-openly.

"Okay, I know what I have in mind, you go down first, I have something to discuss with Baiming..." The middle-aged man ordered.

"General Chen, please send someone to bring the East Sea bandit who was captured alive. I have something to ask him." The middle-aged man's confidant said aside.

"Kill it. Hearing that there were 30,000 taels of redemption money, I was angry, so I killed it. This thief also shouted that he had something important to report. Hear, swear, swear to his mother! Hearing 30,000 taels of redemption money, Lao Tzu His heart was half cold; the thief mother, he changed his words and said that he had 60,000 taels of redemption silver. Didn't I vomit blood? He didn't let him speak, and cut off his head with a knife. Now the battle report has been changed, and thirty-two thieves were killed... "Chen Qianhu, the visitor, spat a mouthful of phlegm into the water and walked into the distance.

Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe thought in their hearts that they really wanted to thank Chen Qianhu for killing the prisoners recklessly, otherwise Su Mei and Xiaoman would probably not be able to hide; the two at the stern probably had nothing to do with Chen Qianhu, and they seemed to be smiling bitterly.

"Baiming, what do you want to do?" the middle-aged man asked.

"The captain knows what to do, so why did you ask me?" The man seemed to casually add, "30,000 taels of silver is enough to support Ninghai Town for a year."

Only when Lin Bie heard this at the stern did he realize how arrogant and reckless these officers and soldiers were. They simply wanted to reach out and take the 30,000 taels of ransom money.

"Bai Ming, the good news is written like this," the middle-aged man said with determination, "I got a line to report the thief's trail, and a certain relative led a battalion of elites to attack, and encountered the thief ship in the southwest of Xisha Island. There is an error in the information sent. The actual number of thieves is twice that of our army. The battle will not last for a long time. Think about it."

"The pirate ship is far away - it takes seven or eight sergeants to make the pirate ship go far away, so choose eight reliable people to go on, plus the twenty people who actually died, and the casualties will be written as twenty-eight people killed. The enemy is twice as big as me, our side lost twenty-eight soldiers in battle, and won the first thirty-two of the thieves, which is considered a small achievement. Even if we cannot catch up with the thieves, it will kill the thieves and defeat them. My naval battleship is too far behind to miss the opportunity. "The man quickly planned the plan according to the middle-aged man's intention. "The above has been reluctant to allocate the silver money for the shipbuilding. They want to let them know how strong the pirate ship is. If the damage is destroyed by the enemy, it will be written in a quick slurry battle." One boat, one medium-damaged fast oar warship... It's just that the eight brothers who were sent out are considered dead now, how will the status be resolved when they return in the future?"

"Such a good deal, are you willing to do it only once?" the middle-aged man said, "Eight people are still too few, I think people will continue to 'die' in the future... It's just that our warship is destroyed, it seems that it will also give As a rhetoric, we can 'capture' a pirate ship back as compensation by chasing out of the sea, do you think this is good?"

"The commander is wise."

Lin Bie clenched his teeth, where are the officers and soldiers like bandits? From what I heard with my own ears, this officer is more ruthless than a pirate! How can there be the slightest awareness of defending the soil and protecting the people?

Even if they hated their teeth, Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe hid under the boat, and did not dare to disturb the officers and soldiers on the boat with a slight movement. Soon, I felt the boat move and slowly retreated from the river.

Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe didn't soak in the bleak water of the autumn cold for a long time this time, they quickly turned over and hid in the stern cabin when they got a chance.

Because this group of officers and soldiers only arranged for eight "killed" officers and soldiers to pretend to be East Sea pirates and drive the ship's owner to escape to sea. After being tied to the tail of the pirate sailboat, there are fewer guards on the painting boat, only two officers and soldiers in pirate clothes.

Since the fast oar boats have been hanging behind and pretending to pursue, Lin Bing and Fu Qinghe have no chance to kill people and seize the boat.

The fast paddle boat "chased" behind, apparently to protect the pirate ship from going out to sea and find a deserted island to hide, and be careful not to give other pirates a way to rob it. At night, just outside the mouth of the sea, the pirate ship left its sails and rested for the night, and the Shuiying fast-oared warship also stopped for a day. In the early morning of the second day, it sailed east again, and when it was getting dark, it stopped in a U-shaped small bay on the south side of a deserted island nearly two hundred miles away from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe went into the water quietly, and Fushui dived ashore outside the bay.

Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe hid on the banks of the bay to the left and right, observing the deserted island in the twilight. This island was once inhabited, and there were several dilapidated grass huts on the edge of the woods whose roofs were mostly blown off by the wind, and there were also bonfires outside the woods. The burn marks, the reflection of broken swords and halberds on the beach, and several pieces of rotted boat boards scattered on the beach, it can be seen that there was a fierce battle here not long ago.

It may be that the pirates in the east are rampant day by day, and the residents here have moved out; it may also be coerced by the pirates; it is also possible that in the fierce battle that happened not long ago, the residents here were affected by the disaster; now there are no fishermen settled, nor Pirates have lived there for a long time, and in short, it is now an uninhabited desert island.

Watching several ships anchored in the bay, I knew that the officers and soldiers would spend the night on the island.

Although they were worried that the two daughters of Su Mei and Xiaoman might reveal their identities, 80 or 90 officers and soldiers were all on the island and had no chance to attack. Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe could only suppress their anxiety and wait for a few ships tomorrow. After leaving, is the best time to start.

They also couldn't lie on the cliff and lie in ambush overnight. In order to avoid leaving traces, they walked a short distance east along the shallow water outside the beach before going ashore. I got into the jungle on the island and found a dry place to rest my feet. There were also a few dry cakes hidden on the body, soaked by the sea, salty and bitter, but still edible.

Fu Qinghe chewed the dark dry wheat cake and said, "Since there are people living on the island, there should be a water source..."

Lin Bie nodded and said, "I have to bear with it tonight, I can gather some dew at night to quench my thirst, and after the officers and soldiers leave tomorrow, they should leave some water and food - a headache, they may take the boat away... "

"The bay is not deep enough to hide the boat. They wouldn't want to let passing pirates find the Tibetans on the island. Most of the boats will take them away," Fu Qinghe said. "But after saving the people, we can leave on a raft..."

Lin Fu looked at the waist knife at his feet. This knife is fine for killing people, but it is too reluctant to chop wood. UU reading www.uukanshu.com wants to come and the officers and soldiers will not leave them handy tools. Getting the raft out of here is really a daunting project—whatever it is, we will save the people tomorrow after the main force of the officers and soldiers leave. He jumped onto a boulder that was chest-high, trying to see more of the island from the gap in the forest.

Lin Fu knew from the middle school geography book that the Yangtze River estuary and the surrounding waters are mostly sand islands, which are formed by the Jianghuai water system carrying a large amount of sediment from the upper reaches. Unlike ordinary bedrock islands that can basically maintain a stable state for thousands of years, these sand islands and sandbars are greatly affected by the tides of rivers and seas and evolve continuously. When you go out to sea and encounter a sand island, it may cease to exist in a few decades, and there is a legend that the immortal island is erratic and nowhere to be found; it may gradually connect to the land and become a new land in hundreds of years.

The unnamed island under his feet is a rare bedrock island in the nearby waters, as evidenced by the boulders under his feet; the woods they are hiding in at this time are also evidence of that—an ordinary sand island grows more of grass and reeds, just like before There are dozens of miles of reeds on Xisha Island; even if the old Shadao has natural forests, most of them are shrub forests. How can there be such lush arbor forests that look more than a hundred years old?

This deserted island is not large in size. I have seen the whole picture of the island from the stern of the boat just now. It is only four or five miles in diameter. The larger residential communities in later generations will be larger than this size. The small sea in the south is deep. It is a small natural sheltered harbour. The hills in the southeast of the island seem to be nearly 20 feet high, covered by dense forests.

Walking along the coast, I didn't see a stream mouth, and now is not the time to enter the jungle to find water sources. What is more important is to restore physical strength. The main force of the officers and soldiers will be withdrawn tomorrow, and eight people will be left to guard them. would be too weak. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter