In the cabin, when Xiao Tang continued to discuss with the leaders, suddenly the leader of the sailor came to report that there were more than 20 large and small ships in the sea area ahead, and he was bumping into the fleet of the Baihe Army Naval Division who was doing the sentry ship at the front to explore the situation.

This time, the fleet that rushed to Baozhou by sea was huge, and it was very easy to be discovered at sea. Li Jun then ordered the sailors under the command of Wei Zhaode to allocate a ship to go first, and if he ran into other ships that did not look like merchants coming and going at sea, he would immediately go back and forth to report the news. When Xiao Tang heard the report, he was stunned at first, but he read in his heart: As far as I know, in the Song Dynasty, it seems that the nearby waters have not heard of any big pirates, and this place is also close to the Goryeo Sea.

Now that a sentinel ship has returned to send a signal, the fleet of Gongwei Xiao Tang's flagship has been transferred by Li Jun, and several large ships have immediately puffed up their sails, and there are also more than thirty or forty flying fish knife ships around them, moving forward lightly and quickly, heading straight to the area where there is a mess with their own sentinel ship in the sea area ahead.

"Into your mother! Lao Tzu has been a bandit with Brother Wei Zhaode for many years, only our brother robbed others, which of the people on the road who did not open their eyes dared to offend us, and now they went to the sea to do business, but they ran into you gang of birds who begged to die! ”

Zhang Jingzu hissed and scolded on the board of the ship, and was fighting with a pirate ship that had deceived the closer, and the pirates over there were still in the most traditional way, using the hook to hook the edge of the ship only to hold on, and then either climbing, or jumping on the way of bamboo pole propping to forcibly board the ship intended to plunder, and some people on the boat over there were also holding short axes and throwing them over, and they were immediately waved by Zhang Jingzu with steel knives and flew out.

was originally Zhang Jingzu, the leader of Baihe Water Village, and before he defected to Xiao Tang's command, he was one of the few who had married his brother Wei Zhaode as a bandit, and then he was transferred to the strong gang who gathered on Jingnan Road. Now he is leading a large ship, six Exocet, and six sea sentry ships have been scouting in front of him, and the weather has been calm these days. But today, I didn't expect that the pirates who collided out of the coastal waters seemed to regard themselves as fat sheep who gave what they wanted, which taught Zhang Jingzu, who was once a water bandit and the number one person, how to endure it?

The shiny and sharp steel knife burst out, rolled up a dazzling cold and viciously slashed down, Zhang Jingzu immediately chopped over three or four pirates who had just climbed the bow of the ship and fell into the sea, and the water brothers behind him rushed over, and another burst of crossbow arrows shot down more than 30 people with the bandits on the ship that hooked the edge of the ship. There are also many thieves who have been hit by crossbow arrows and fall to the ground and howl in pain, and some people stare and scold, shouting in their mouths to teach Zhang Jingzu and others a language that they can't understand, just looking at the tone and expression of those bandits, it is expected that they must be scolding some foul language.

Zhang Jingzu also found that although some of the pirates were wearing a variety of variegated costumes, they all braided their hair, and their hair was tied with color silk after their heads, so they didn't look like Dongying and Goryeo.

However, some of the pirate's ships also exclaimed, and they saw many warships swimming violently on the south side. With the ships in front of them that were intended to plunder, their own ships were much smaller, and seeing the huge scale of the other party's ships, the pirates along the way realized that they had provoked a strong enemy that should not be provoked, and the leader of them also hurriedly ordered to quickly collect their own ships, intending to escape as soon as possible.

It's just that Cheng Gui led a fleet that was about to merge with Zhang Jingzu's sentry ships, but Xu Wen led another fleet to turn northeast in a roundabout way, and saw that it was about to intercept behind the pirates and block their retreat.

This group of pirates was not a large number of people, and they were eager to board the ship led by Zhang Jingzu to plunder, but they did not expect that the other party would have a large number of accomplices to come to support, even if Xiao Tang was not good at naval warfare when he commanded the army, but it could be roughly expected that the other party's thief leader was in a hurry, or that the Goryeo naval army was completely helpless, and let this group of pirates develop a rampant momentum?

At this time, Han Shizhong also boarded the bow of the ship and stood side by side with Xiao Tang, he suddenly remembered something, and said: "When I was in the north before, the Sprinkle family had also heard that the most rampant group of water thieves in the nearby waters had been wandering and plundering in the nearby waters. Later, Goryeo built a stone fortress in Wonsan Bay to resist pirate raids, and then killed several times at sea, and then the momentum was not as good as before. I also heard that they were originally a clan of the Jurchen born in the Liao Kingdom, and they dispersed after they were not exterminated, and they were still doing sporadic activities at sea. Those birds don't know how many eyes the horse king god has born, and they turn upside down to find their own way to die, and Sha Mo is the gang of sea bandits? ”

Xiao Tang's expression changed when he heard Han Shizhong's words, and he secretly said in his heart: The Jurchen tribes live between the white mountains and black waters, and most of them are engaged in fishing and hunting, but I didn't know that there were also tribes among them who were pirates.

At the same time, the sea ships led by Xu Wen swam rapidly, and Kankan was also about to intercept the thief ships that were eager to escape, and when they narrowed the distance slightly, they gave an order, and the divine arm bows held by the sailors lined up on the port side made a muffled sound of sudden movements, and the penetrating divine arm bows and crossbow arrows were fired together, and the group of pirates did not expect that the range and lethality of the enemy's strong crossbows were so domineering.

Even if the group of pirates wanted to use bows and arrows and throw axes to launch a counterattack against each other, it was obvious that there was still a gap in the range of each other's range, and they could only make up for the disadvantage of their own long-range weapons by adjusting the castration of their ships to get closer, and then jumping on enemy ships to fight in close quarters.

However, they were first intimidated by the other party's prestige, and then suddenly suffered a ferocious blow, and the bandits were shocked and frightened, and their momentum had already fallen a little more.

Zhang Jingzu and Cheng Gui led the naval ships of their subordinates to swim over, biting the gang of bandits in front of them and not letting go, while Xu Wen stood on the bow of the boat with a big knife in his hand, and also shouted loudly: "A group of birds begging for death are all killed and thrown into the sea to feed Wang Bais, leaving only one or two leaders to be interrogated by my brother!" ”

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Note: The Japanese called the Jurchen pirates who invaded the mainland Daoyi, and the largest landing and plunder was in 1019 (the third year of the Song Dynasty), when 3,000 Jurchen pirates first attacked Goryeo. Later, he took 50 warships to raid the Japanese island of Tsushima, and his national division Tsushima Shouharu abandoned the island and fled to Dazaifu. Subsequently, the Jurchen pirates invaded Iki Island. Iki Kuniji led more than 100 people to resist the battle and were all killed. After the Jurchen pirates sacked Iki Island, they invaded and occupied Nogu Island, and successively launched raids on Chikuzen, Hakata and other places, killing more than 1,000 captives, and then invaded Goryeo, but they were defeated in the Wonsan Sea.

On the Chinese side, the "History of Liao" records that the Jurchen Pulu Maoduo (one of the Jurchen tribes of the Liao Dynasty, inhabiting the Hailan River basin and the area of North Hamgyong Province in North Korea) was dedicated to the boat builders, and the "Song Desert Chronicle" also has a record of the Jurchen pirates Koudeng Prefecture Bohai, and the "Continuation of the Zhitongjian Long Edition" also has a record of the Jurchens coming to Koubaisha Village, with three official horses and one hundred and twenty-eight people.