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The sailors drove the ships one by one. They were attacked by these pirates before. They knew that they didn’t kill people very much. As long as they were obedient, they wouldn’t even look down on your ships. If it is, it is estimated that you will get out. They didn't bring the merchant ship, and the ship was not some valuables. It is estimated that they just came to have a look and left.

Sure enough, a few ships came, and they didn’t fire any guns. A small boat was dropped from the ship. Some inexperienced sailors and merchants were afraid to die one by one. Some old sailors were not so afraid. , They hurried to the boat, ready to pull those people up, which is strange, shit, how can this be so enthusiastic with the pirates? At this time, several consignors are a little bit old and the monk can’t figure it out. Could it be that a few people on this ship have colluded with these people.

However, this matter seems a bit unreasonable. They are all recruited temporarily. If the collusion is true, this place is not far from the port. If you go further, there may be a lot of people. It’s guaranteed. It’s better to do errands at that time. Watching the dozen people come up, the cargo owners on this ship think that there are actually only a few people who came up. If they can take these people as their hostages. It might be better, maybe it might be a victory this time, but their ideas may not be so good. Several sailors may have seen the ideas in their hearts.

"I said you guys shouldn't be foolish. Have you seen the thing on their backs? Ten crossbow arrows can be fired in an instant. Just a few of us are not enough for the first round of attacks. , If possible, they can kill us all in one minute, besides, if you detain them, the people on the boat over there are angry, what will happen in the end? All of us might be killed Yes, you haven't seen their artillery, but I have seen one, I don't want to die in this place." A sailor said.They are very familiar with such things.These merchants only have silver in their minds, and don't know that sometimes silver is of little use, but their own brains are more important.

Several wealthy businessmen stopped talking, they glanced at each other.I went to meet the other sailors.

"Several army masters please here. Please here." Li Cong brought about twenty people over.His subordinates didn't worry much, they were all under his control, and Li had the strength of a ninth-level fighter himself.If the people in the north can get hold of it in such an environment, then just find a piece of tofu and hit it to death. It doesn't need to be so hard.

"Hehe, you know the rules very well, yes, this time our boss came with us. Let’s talk about what you are on top of, and what you are doing. Report to us clearly. If this is the case, we I will consider letting you go. After all, it’s not easy for you. Everyone eats at sea. We can’t control natural disasters. Although you think we are all gangsters, as long as you are all Cooperate well, this is nothing. We are not snakes and beasts, and we have no fun in killing people. What we want is only some things, right, you can't commit these things and lose your head." A soldier smiled Said, indeed, this time these people hung the white flag before firing the gun. Their faces are really good-looking. Li Cong has praised them several times. This is the first time that these brothers have been North Li Cong. For the rewards, looking at the expressions on their faces, it seems that the profession of pirates still feels very promising.

"What the military master said is, how can we not understand things? Just now, we all relied on the mercy of several military masters. If you think we are not pleasing to your eyes, why would you tell us so many things? Just kill us. We don’t have many ideas. What we also want is to save our own lives. Many times we have no other ideas. It is the best thing to keep our lives. A few are the owners of the cargo on the ship, and they will tell you these things one to five to ten." The boss of the ship led the soldiers to the rich businessmen, wondering whether these guys would be due to themselves. The people in North Korea were robbed and felt very uncomfortable. They would take any retaliatory measures against Li Cong. If this is the case, don’t wait for these soldiers to do it. They will go straight up and take this guy. It's okay to get rid of your own life, but if it takes all of our lives, it won't work.

"You guys know what's in this box?" The soldiers themselves used to be among the toilers, and there was nothing to say to these rich people, but they didn’t speak at all to the crew on the ship. Naturally, those crew members won’t be troublesome. These lords have always used Lao Tzu, just like the big belly in front of me. Just now I disliked the conditions on the boat so hard. In fact, these are all miser. It is said that merchants will not follow their own goods, especially when it is more dangerous, they will pay a lot of money to invite some people to follow, but now they all follow by themselves because they want to pay To save it, it’s right to think from their hearts. The goods on this ship are worth less than 10,000 taels of silver. If one person is hired, it will cost at least 1,000 taels of silver. This is a tenth of the cost. First, when it comes to things like settling accounts, most people are not able to catch up with the merchants. They are the most powerful, but now all of them are a little regrettable. One-tenth of the money makes them lose their lives. Here it is really not worth it.

"In response to a few military masters, this place is ours. Our goods are all in it. They are all worthless things." This guy smiled and brought a silver ingot of fifty taels of silver, hoping This thing can be useful.

"Hehe, there is still money. Yes, I know that you are definitely not some cheap goods here. I will give you a chance. If you can automatically take out your money, I won’t say anything. If you don’t take it out, I’ll take it out later, but it’s not that simple thing. I don’t know what you mean?" This guy smiled and said, this guy who is going to give gifts is just dumbfounded. How could this happen? Thing about it.The purpose of taking out these silver is to bribe you.It's alright now, and it has directly become his own bane. Such things are really uncomfortable.

"The military, the ship is really not silver or something like that. Our entire ship is only a few hundred taels of silver. What we transport is some cargo such as sails and canvas. They are all short-distance transportation. Yes, from the re province to the gh province, we will be there in just one day. There are not many valuable things.” Another businessman said honestly, in fact, what they said is correct, don’t look at this There are a lot of people in the fleet, but these things are not very good.

"Sails and canvas?" The officer glanced at Li Cong. Li never said anything. He glanced at the soldiers behind, and immediately two soldiers ran over. They wanted to open them to see if they were with this guy. It’s the same thing. After five minutes, they spot-checked a few things in the cabin, and it turned out that they were just like what this guy said. They were all canvas and the like. They really didn’t have any valuables. The sailors over there. They all say the same, but they don’t know if there is anything in these boxes. At this time, they are all the mud bodhisattvas who cannot protect themselves when crossing the river. Naturally, they will not care about these things. If they can’t handle it, they may If you bring your own life down, you can't do anything like this.

"As far as I know, there should be such things in your coastal areas. Why do you want to transport these things to the gh line and save them? Is there any problem there? There have been no major storms recently. You have transported it.” The officers’ vigilance is not half high. Half of their news is transmitted by the spies of the Eastern Empire, and the other half is told by these people. Generally speaking, the news of these people is still Very accurate, much more accurate than those so-called guys. Of course, this has something to do with their lives being threatened at the moment, and they dare not talk nonsense.

"If you return to the army, we don’t know the above things. We just know that the northern court has taken away everything over there. The price over there is more than 20% higher than ours. We will ship it to Local businessmen, they give us 10% of the profit, and then they change hands to make another 10% of the profit." The businessman said honestly, they really don’t know what the above means, they just know that they can get 10%. Of course, they thought about the possibility of encountering these pirates at sea, but the money is really earned too fast. It only takes a day to run. Besides, It’s been a long time since I saw these pirates. It’s said that the navy has some new things, and these guys dare not come out. In this context, this guy rented a fleet with a few merchants on the road I didn’t expect them to...

The officer didn’t say anything. He walked quickly towards Li Cong and told Li Cong the news. Perhaps they should be on the route. Go to this gh line to see. Maybe that’s where these new warships were built. If you can find this place, it should be okay. Even if you make a mistake, it will take up to an hour to get there. Their speed is so slow, but ours is not slow. Attacking any place is not an attack. Besides, they are only a probing fleet. They can do anything. The highest leader on the ship is here, and they can change orders at any time.

"Your speculation is completely reasonable. Ask them about the situation in that port. Ask the people who have been to that port on our warship to describe the specific situation there and quickly change our combat plan. Of course, we also have to Be careful. Let these guys be interrogated separately. If nothing happens, gather them all on one of the ships, and all the others will be sunk directly. Although there are not many supplies, it is the Eastern Empire anyway. Lost." Li Cong thought for a while and said, now he also feels that this matter is a bit strange, Li Cong has never known the place where the Southern Empire was built, and Linghu did not know this place either.Now I didn't expect it to be sent to us, so it must pass.

Soon transcripts of other people’s inquiries came up. Their words were similar to those of the guy just now. It seems that the Southern Empire really concentrated this matter in that place. Two sailors were the county town. The native land grew up, just because something happened in the local area. This elder brother was a runaway. The two brothers had no choice but to spend their lives on the boat. When they arrived on land, be careful. I heard that they were going to attack the East. The imperial court.Both brothers were very happy.

"It is said that you are both from the Eastern Empire. Why are you so happy when I am going to rob your hometown?" After returning to the warship, Li Cong looked at the two cheerful brothers and asked. How could there be no response at all?

"Master, I think you should be one of their bosses, but I'm actually not afraid to tell you. The biggest rich man in our county occupied the land of our family back then. He killed our grandfather alive. .His son later used the same method to force my father and two uncles to death. The two uncles were about the same age as ours. Later when our two brothers grew up, they tricked our two brothers. Signed, signed a contract that I didn’t know what it was, and I knew it. We were all from poor people’s homes. How could we read those so-called words? We had to sign it honestly, and then we realized that it was our brother. Two contracts were given to them for life as slaves. We were angry and we rebelled. They were beaten with bruises all over the body. If they don’t go out to work, they would have such a beating every day. But I heard that they had Beihuo beaten to death. People, we have no choice but to be obedient first, but we are not fools, we are also looking for a chance to revenge, just by chance, we got the opportunity to give the old man medicine, and I and the eldest brother directly Strangling this old guy to death is a revenge for my grandfather. The two of us are also in trouble. The people in their family are looking for us day and night. They are very familiar with the officials in the government. , Our two brothers became wanted criminals directly. There is no way. We can only get on the boat. Since then, we rarely go back. Even if we receive work there, we will never get off the boat. Lord, this is to rob, how can we be unhappy.” The guy said happily. Li Cong nodded. It’s no surprise that there is such a hatred and such a reaction. The two brothers have been forbearing time. Long enough.

Although some other sailors did not say that they support or not support things, they can see it in their eyes. They don’t feel much about pirate robbery, because they don’t have anything in their hands. If you robbed us, the impact on us is not great. The biggest thing is those wealthy businessmen. If there is nothing, their family will break some things at most, and then they can live a good life, especially those in front of them. Pirates, they don't steal the homes of ordinary people, and they throw some money when they pass by the door of some ordinary people's homes.

"In fact, there is oppression everywhere. We didn’t live very well in the past. Being pirates is not what we thought. We came to rob and live our lives. Of course, the main target is these big households. I’m here.” Li Cong said a few words to the two brothers and left. The two brothers could agree to the guide. They were familiar with that big family. After some distance, these two guys actually wanted Joined, such a thing cannot be promised to them for the time being, who knows what this story is about, the faces of the two brothers are still very simple, but this matter is not that simple. Let's talk about it, now we will take in a few of them first.

Two hours later, Li had already reached the gh province from them. This speed made the two brothers feel a little courageous. They have been at sea for a long time, but they are definitely not so fast, especially they. The speed of some of the ships is simply incomparable compared with this. It seems that there are no sails on the ships. There is a machine that keeps ringing. What is this thing? How can it be so powerful? No wonder The empire that others can fight can not find North.

The gv port in the gh province can be said to be the largest port in the surrounding area of ​​hundreds of miles. Before, Li Cong's staff also thought that this might be the gathering place of suicide ships.But later this place was rejected. Although the port here is relatively large, there are not so many people here. If so many soldiers suddenly come, they may not even be able to solve their food problem, so I chose I have decided on another place. Now it seems that the commander is not a fool, and they also understand what is called slamming. They will give you a fake news. The rest is your business.The guess is right.You won, and if the guess is wrong, you are in luck.

Li Cong looked at the port with a telescope, it was a natural port.But there are still some shortcomings when used as a military port.Some of the protruding places behind this are too close to the coast.There is no way for Gen to form some defensive posture with the ship. It is very easy to attack here, Li Cong continued to look at it.The population on the shore is not very large. There are not many ships here, and the economy is considered moderate. It seems that I have made a calculation mistake. There are not so many ships here, that is, it is not the location of the suicide ships. After ten minutes, people on the shore found them. Unfortunately, they haven’t seen those modified ships. Li started bombing some targets on the shore from the artillery. They came and came, and he couldn’t just go back. Just when Li Cong was about to go down, things came and the highlight came.

"Master Cao, look, there are a lot of small boats appearing over there, and their speed is very fast. Is this a so-called suicide boat? It seems that their speed is already half of our speed, and they are all scattered. Yes, even if we use cannons to kill them, it’s more difficult.” An officer pointed to the waters to the west and said, these ships seem to have rushed out of the ground. Each ship is about four meters long. Some two people, some three people, some of these bastards have already set some sulphur on the boat on fire. What a fool, you are probably going to burn to death when you come over such a long distance. Such stupid things can be done, how is it possible not to fail?

The people on the boat seemed to have lost their minds, all of them were yelling. Can these guys come here at their current speed?Don’t be delusional. Just when Li Cong was about to order the guns to fire, another soldier was reporting that about two hundred ships of this kind appeared to the east of them. They were also very fast. Li Cong took a look and flanked left and right. This kind of old trick, if something happens after you can appear behind Lao Tzu, this is your business. If there is no such thing, you would die sooner.

Of course, there is no way for them to appear behind Li Cong, because behind Li Cong is the sea. It seems that I looked at them a little bit before. These guys are fine, and there is no need to be afraid of them. .

"Do you want to shoot at them?" The adjutant stood up and said, their speed has reached 80%. It is impossible for these people to rush over. They can attack them in five minutes, only these five minutes. It’s time to attack, and the speed of these suicide boats really brought a lot of oppression to Li Cong. In the past, they could calmly attack these people. Now the attack time must be accurately calculated. , Otherwise the loss is not small.

"Hehe, of course it is necessary. Do you still have to wait for them to come over, so that the warships are ready, and they will soon enter the attack range. Tell the captains not to fight too hard later, we will go out slowly , Let them catch up, now they are still too scattered, even if we are accurate, we probably have to waste a lot of shells, we are testing them, they are also testing us, let them know that this thing has If it works, there will definitely be more problems in the future, and now we have to let them know that this suicide ship is not our opponent." After Li Cong finished speaking, the flag soldiers began to send orders to the surrounding warships. It immediately became a straight line and began to move slowly from the north to the south.

These suicide ships on both sides of the east and west are also the first time to come out to fight. Their requirement is to rush up quickly after they find these pirate ships. The roots don’t need any tactics. At the beginning, the distance is already very close, why is it so short? After a while, these guys started to run away. Are they scared?The prisoners on these ships are so happy, this is the first time they have driven these pirates away.They are not the regular army, just some temporary army, but they did what the regular army did. How can this not make them happy? It seems that they are also scared, one by one, taking advantage of this opportunity to work harder to make their own The boat approached them, and they were not far away. At this time, they all started to turn with Li Cong's fleet. The artillery on the boat was about to fire, but because of the distance.In addition, their speed is relatively fast.Therefore, the hit rate is not very high. Many people on the ship are shouting, saying that these pirate roots can't do anything with them, and the barracks on the shore have started blowing trumpets to cheer them up.It's really exciting for these people.

Li Cong's ten warships were divided into two teams.The first team continues to be their goal.Starting to take these ships around, the other five ships are changing their formations. They are going from penetrating south to penetrating east.Because their artillery is on both sides of their own, they did it when they were about to fire their guns. Naturally, these suicide ships would not feel this, because they saw that the five ships were already too far away. There is no possibility of catching up, but these five boats are relatively close to them. They should be able to catch up. At this time, some of them also feel something is wrong. For example, these suicide boats coming from both sides seem to They are getting closer and closer, and the density is getting higher and higher. They all want to take the nearest channel, and there is no one to command them. They are all close together very much. They are not regular troops, nor do they The idea of ​​coordinated combat, one by one, is to be able to rush up, so everyone wants each other. The beating and scolding can be said to be everywhere. The Dongdi police officer on the shore is also a little puzzled at this time. What do these pirates want to do, why don't they all run out?

When the five ships that led them scurrying began to tell to accelerate, the people who were observing on the top of the mountain on the land finally understood. At this time, he immediately ordered his men Mingjin to retreat, otherwise they might die. There, it’s a pity that the distance is too far now, and they don’t have time even to retreat. These fools continue to move forward without knowing it. They don’t listen to the roots of the retreat command. They still think that they might be the first. This is a great reward for a person who kills.

The five boats in front of him quickly threw them away. Some people with brains also understood at this time. They are on gear, but it is easy to get into this trap. It is not easy to keep going out. The five ships are already waiting for them.

Boom.... The artillery began to roar. Thousands of artillery on the five ships began to fire violently. They were all very close. Generally speaking, they were bombed directly if they were unlucky. If it doesn’t work, they might lift up the surrounding water and directly capsize several small boats. Such things are also very normal. Your small boat can make you fast and turn around. , But your weight is also very small. The big ship is nothing in front of the water column, but your boat is different. Thousands of shells have come over, and these suicide ships have all become human. It’s hell. What I just thought about was how I would go back after winning. I don’t have that kind of thoughts anymore. Everyone thought about how to survive. Damn, I didn’t think of this just now. What are you doing? Is there a problem with your mind? I am a fool. It is too late to regret now. It is not that simple to go back.

These prisoners began to regret one by one. They did not expect that the war would be so cruel. At the beginning, everything went smoothly. Of course, they would not have thought of this, and even thought that they would be able to save it if they drove this boat up. Their own lives, what is called a suicide boat, is to use their lives in exchange for the enemy’s ships. They all want to be the fluke, but how can there be so many flukes in this world?They watched the surrounding boats have begun to enter the water, or they just turned over. There are some dead people and some wooden debris on the sea. Now they don't want to fight with others.What I think is how I can go back and save my life, even if it is sympathy, or being a lifelong coolie for others, as long as I can live, I can do anything.

Those high-ranking generals in the army on the land were also directly dumbfounded. They just sent a total of about 600 such boats.But in the end they found that there were no more ships that could sail on the sea. Even the remaining ships were overturned by those in the sea. They had no so-called collective consciousness. The coast is not far away. If some people with good water quality can swim back by themselves, but they never thought about swimming back by themselves, but when they saw those unsinked ships, they would stretch out their hands and climb them up. The result of this is that the speed of the ship, which is still coming fast, slows down. The artillery of the pirates over there is not just looking at this.As long as a large number of people gather around these ships, a cannonball will come.Okay, you don't have to pull all of you to be reimbursed by this shell.

About 3,000 people were dispatched and it was estimated that even 30 people would not be able to return. It was the so-called new tactics of the Eastern Empire, the so-called suicide ship, and now they understood.This tactic may be a failure.However, some of them are more visionary.They saw that the pirate ship did not attack at the first time but made some deployments. If they were not observing on the shore at this time, but another team used this time to rush up, they would probably achieve some results. Anyway, there are two aspects. People have their own reasons when arguing.The Eastern Empire now has no other good solutions. This is considered a non-solution. It can only be consumed slowly with the enemy. Otherwise, what else?The failure of this suicide ship plan was tightly blocked by news. They could not let the entire empire know that the way they came up was stupid.

If the citizens of the entire empire know that what they have spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to create is the enemy’s cannon fodder, this will undoubtedly make the situation worse for the people of the entire empire, and they will have no hope of this war. Yes, so many people die every day, but there is no good news from the front line. In addition, there is such a thing in the southern coast. He feels that the empire is being attacked on the back and back. Is that lightning gate really that important?Now even if they can bring back the Raiden Gate, their loss is not small. The high-level people of the Eastern Empire have also said that they will give up the Raiden Gate, but the families that have huge interests in the Raiden Gate don’t know how they can give up. , Besides, now that the loss is huge and the Thunder Gate is abandoned, the Eastern Empire may even be reduced to a dilapidated situation with the other three empires. At that time, not only was the face unconcerned, but the safety of the entire empire was also a problem.

Li Cong led his own fleet and began to return. Now he also understands the capabilities of these suicide ships. It can be said that as long as they are used properly, these suicide ships are still as threatening as before. Of course Li Cong Not a fool, he also saw that the other party is also a temptation to himself. If the other party puts a large number of suicide ships in ambush in some areas, his team is very likely to suffer losses. The ten warships are intact. Coming back, the navy of the Cao’s Commercial Bank was happy for a long time. Although only less than 3,000 enemies were eliminated, and there was nothing to be done with robbery, some of their fears disappeared. The fear disappeared, and they no longer feared such ships in their hearts. They believed that they could defeat these ships.

The court of the Eastern Empire began to surround the suicide boat and wait for me to get up. This kid from the Linghu family also got the battle report. He also has his own right to speak in the court, although he himself cannot stand on the court and speak normally. , But there are a lot of people who can speak for him. At this time, Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry stood up and said that he was the spokesperson of this kid, "Your Majesty the Emperor, dear sirs, although this exercise of this new tactic has failed, However, compared with the previous time, we have achieved considerable results. In the past, these ships will definitely bomb some of our facilities on the shore, and nothing is left, but this time is different. We There was no loss of any facilities on the shore. Even if all the boats were hit and broken, only some prisoners would die. They really deserved to die if they could keep our property. Do you, adults?"

The words of Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry have a certain weight in the court. Many people look at him and think of the Linghu family behind him. In fact, when he thinks about what he said is correct, these prisoners are usually kept in jail. Here, the empire’s food was wasted for no reason, and now they can show them a way out. They are also actively signing up. They can save some food when the empire is dead, and use these people’s lives in exchange for the empire’s property. It’s worth it. If these pirates bombed the sea in the same way as before, the entire port may become a ruin. At that time, hundreds of thousands of people may work for the port for a year. Many people nodded their heads and agreed that the plan was ok, and the sacrifices were relatively small and many.

"Your Majesty, the veteran believes that this thing cannot be done like this. Practice has proved that these so-called suicide ships are of no use. Those pirates just changed their formations and killed all these suicide ships. They also carried a lot of flammable materials on the ship. Once they sent something like that, they could directly burn the surrounding ships and the people who went to work would naturally die. This was just a test and we lost. There are thousands of people, and the cost of these ships is not cheap. Compared with the number of them, the final data is also very huge. We should think of other ways to resist these pirates. If this continues, it is not. The gospel of our empire." The prime minister stood up and said.

The prime minister's words also made many people think about this question. Are they doing it right?If you continue like this, it is possible to contain the opponent, but it is impossible to achieve some results. These people are not fools. Now is the time to express their views. In the past, these pirates weren't what they were. , But now they have to solve these pirates. It can be said that sometimes the losses caused by pirates are much more severe than those on the northern battlefield.

"Since the Prime Minister believes that this matter cannot continue like this, I don't know if the Prime Minister has any good ideas?" Doctor Yu Shi is naturally a member of Linghu. They have already been notified, so this matter must be done. Yes, they must enter such a state for the empire to spend money but cannot receive any results. This is what they must do. Only in this way can they weaken some of the fighting power of the Eastern Empire to the greatest extent. Only in the future hegemony can I survive smoothly.(To be continued...)