The village was quiet, the fierce battle was over, and there were corpses of Japanese robbers everywhere, Li Hao's Tang knife hung low, and blood flowed down the tip of the knife, dripping on the bright red earth.

At this moment, more than a dozen widows knelt on the ground, constantly kowtowing, and screaming and begging for mercy in a mess, Li Hao was upset when he heard it, and put the knife into the sheath, glared and asked coldly: "Among you, who is the leader?" ”

You look at me, I look at you, look at you, look dazed, obviously, they don't understand what Li Hao is saying.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he saw this: "Since no one understands our language, what's the use of keeping it, kill them all." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they just wanted to step forward and cut down this group of widows, but Otsuka suddenly shouted: "I understand! I know a little bit...... Datang's words. ”

Hearing this, Li Hao raised his eyebrows and looked at Otsuka Yuo, nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "Okay, you don't have to die, the others are killed." ”

Otsuka was taken aback when he heard this, and just wanted to intercede for his companions, but the soldiers had already dragged the other Japanese to the general level, and they watched the group of Japanese robbers screaming and struggling, feeling the same as when the pig was slaughtered.

"Puff puff puff ......" There were more than a dozen muffled sounds, and all the heads of these would-be robbers rolled to the ground, leaving only Otsuka Yuo among the three hundred would-be robbers.

Otsuka Yuo trembled with fear, and kowtowed to Li Hao again to beg for mercy, this time he begged for mercy in Chinese: "Please, don't kill me, don't kill me......"

Although his Chinese pronunciation is a bit non-standard, it can be seen that he definitely does not only know a little Chinese.

Li Hao slowly walked up to Yuo Otsuka, raised his foot and kicked him to the ground, and said coldly: "If you want me to spare you, it's not impossible, but you have to exchange your life for something that interests me." ”

"I, I don't have any treasures." Otsuka shook his head repeatedly.

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said: "Who wants the treasure, will I be rare with this bullshit treasure, I want to know where your widows gather." ”

"This ......" Otsuka hesitated for a moment, shook his head, "I don't know." ”

Li Hao could see at a glance that he was lying, and sneered: "Since you can't get the information I want, then you can only die." As he spoke, he slowly pulled out his Tang knife, put it on Otsuka's neck, and then slowly picked it up, as long as he cut it off, Otsuka Yuo immediately moved.

"Nope! No! I know, I know where! Otsuka Yuo suddenly screamed quickly, and because he shouted too quickly, he had already shouted out a broken sound.

Hearing this, Li Hao slowly lowered his hand, slammed his knife on the ground, and said coldly: "Say, where is your base camp?" ”

Although Otsuka didn't know what the base camp meant, he could roughly guess it, and he only stammered: "That place is an island, and there are many islands there, but I don't know what that place is called." ”

Li Hao asked expressionlessly: "That island, in which direction?" ”

Yuo Otsuka pointed to the southeast direction and said, "In that direction, we came from there, where there are many islands. ”

"Southeast ......" Li Hao suddenly frowned and groaned, "The island in the southeast is the Zhoushan Islands?" ”

In this era, there is no talk of the Zhoushan Islands, not even Zhoushan, which currently belongs to Jiangnan Province and is under the rule of the Yuezhou Prefecture.

The Zhoushan archipelago is the largest archipelago in China, with a combined land area of 1,371 square kilometers. Among them, there are 58 islands with an area of more than 1 square kilometer, and if those Japanese robbers hide there, it will simply become hide and seek, and in this era when there are no satellites, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the gods to find them if there is no one to guide them.

Thinking that it was very likely that the would-be would-be would-be hiding in Zhoushan, Li Hao suddenly frowned, pondered for a moment and then asked, "How many pirates are there on the island?" Who is the leader? ”

Although Otsuka Yuo didn't like the title of Woko, now that he was a prisoner, he didn't dare to resist, so he could only reply: "There are more than 10,000, and the leader is Lord Aoki Shintori." ”

"New Aoki Bird?" Li Hao felt that this name was a little familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he immediately remembered that when he went to the Japanese country to sell knives, the first transaction object was Aoki Shinbei, and Aoki Shinniao was Aoki Shinbei's younger brother.

Li Hao squinted his eyes and asked, "Does this Aoki New Bird have an older brother named Aoki New Guard?" ”

Otsuka Yuo suddenly looked at Li Hao with shocked eyes, and his small eyes seemed to ask, "How do you know?" ”

"What a surprise! Answer the words of this king! Li Hao glared and scolded.

The male man hurriedly nodded again and again: "Yes!" Yes! Aoki Shintori-sama's brother is General Aoki Shinbei, but General Aoki Shinbei's has been killed, and the Aoki family was jointly dealt with by the Miyamoto family and the Hattori family, and was defeated. ”

"So many ......" Li Hao thought to himself, the Aoki brothers must have vigorously developed their own power after getting the weapons and food they sold, not to mention twenty or thirty thousand people, becoming a big force in the Wa Kingdom, and they actually dared to call themselves the Aoki family, and they also openly called out with Miyamoto and the Hattori family, it seems that the chaos of the Wa Kingdom is not an ordinary chaos, not only the major forces are divided, and the Wa State court is confronted, but the major forces are also attacking each other.

In fact, this is what Li Hao is willing to see, if all the major forces unite to deal with the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom, it will not be interesting, what is needed is the continuous conquest between various warlords, just like the Warring States Period and the Three Kingdoms Era in China, so that it is called real mutual harm.

In fact, Li Hao did not know how much damage he had caused to the Japanese by selling weapons and food to the Japanese State, and he sold a total of more than 200,000 weapons and more than 400,000 stone grain to the Japanese State, and in the following more than half a year, dozens of rebel forces appeared in the Japanese State one after another.

For more than a year, the major forces of the Wa Kingdom were swallowed up by each other, and in the end only the five largest forces remained, the alliance of Miyamoto and the Hattori family was the most powerful, with 100,000 troops, and the smallest of the other four forces also had an army of more than 50,000.

In the past two or three years of war, not to mention how many people have been killed in the war, because of the war, the fields have been uncultivated, the people have been displaced, and countless people have died of starvation and freezing, and the population of the Japanese country has shrunk from 1.38 million to 1 million, and the population has decreased by 380,000 in more than two years, and these 380,000 Japanese people are equivalent to all dying at the hands of Li Hao.

The Tang Dynasty looks down on the Wa State and thinks that the Wa State is a small country, yes, the Wa State is indeed very small, but it is undeniable that the Wa State has a large population, very much, although it is not as good as the population of the Tang Dynasty, but compared with other states outside the Tang Dynasty, the population of the Wa State is definitely in the first-class, look at Tuyuhun, the country has a population of only 100,000, and then look at the powerful country Tubo, such a large territory, it has a population of more than 3 million, and even the vast Western Turks have a population of more than 1 million.

You must know that in ancient times, fighting a war was piled up by numbers, and the merits of countless emperors were piled up by the corpses of countless people, and the population of a country represented the national strength or potential of a country.

The Japanese country is such a small country, but it has a population of more than one million, and the Japanese country attaches great importance to population reproduction, and has always regarded reproduction as the country's top priority, and the people of the whole country have developed this consciousness, which has also developed the Japanese people to be extremely persistent and open to sexual affairs between men and women, and even more than a thousand years later, the Japanese people are still so open to this kind of thing, this is the civilization inherited from their country, although this civilization is a little bit untable, it is difficult to get into the elegant hall, but this is their national condition.

The Wa Kingdom has such a large population, and it is warlike by nature, it is definitely a young wolf that grows up, Datang is now strong and can suppress them, once the Datang appears to be scarce, and the Wa State grows up again, they will definitely bite the Datang and doubt life.

Li Hao interrogated Yuo Otsuka for a long time, not only inquired about the lair of the Wako, but also roughly understood the current situation of the Wako.

Next, Li Hao sent someone to recall all the troops, and ordered Li Jian to find Bian Youdao, let Bian Youdao prepare a sea ship, and he wanted to lead his troops to attack the nest of the Japanese and wipe out these Japanese invaders.

Four days later, all the soldiers and horses were gathered back, some surprises, Qin Huaiyu they also exterminated more than 400 Japanese robbers along the coast of Yandu, but their losses were greater than Li Hao's side, they lost more than 50 people, after all, they were recruits, they had no combat experience, even if they lured the enemy deep, ambushed and attacked, and knew the weakness of the Japanese sword, they still had more than 50 people killed, if it was a group of veterans, Li Hao believed that the casualties could definitely be controlled within single digits.

After waiting for another two days, Li Jian came back, but he only brought back ten ships, these ships were a little larger than the boats that the Japanese were riding, and a full ship could carry two hundred people, and there could be no more, and the ten ships could only carry two thousand people together, and they could not transport all of Li Hao's troops away.

Li Hao was very unhappy, but Li Jian also said that he was very embarrassed, they are not a navy, it is not easy to recruit these ships, and these are still merchant ships, as for Li Hao in the canal, because the side of the boat is too low, he can't enter the sea, otherwise a wave will rush in, and everyone will go to the sea to feed the fish.

Li Hao had no choice but to write a letter to Liuqiu, and asked Li Guocheng, who was guarding Liuqiu, to bring twenty small merchant ships over, although Li Hao's small merchant ship was said to be "small", but that was for the Galen ship, the smallest Galen ship could also carry five hundred people, twenty ships, enough to transport all his troops.

It takes time for the flying pigeon to pass the message, and it also takes time to come from the stream, Li Hao calculated the schedule in advance, and Li Guocheng agreed to meet in Yuezhou, and after sending out the flying pigeon, Li Hao took the troops to take the river boat from the canal, through the Jiangnan River, to Hangzhou.

After a day and a half of sitting on the ship, it was sunset, passing through Gaoyou County, suddenly there was a loud "bang", which frightened everyone, Li Hao hurriedly rushed out of the cabin, came to the deck and shouted loudly: "What's the situation?!" ”

Feiying hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Lord Wang, there seems to be a war on the edge of Gaoyou Lake, just now...... It seems to be the sound of cannons! ”

Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted: "Stop the boat!" ”

"Stop the boat!"

"Stop the boat!"

……

One ship after another conveyed Li Hao's orders, and the fleet slowly stopped, and Li Hao had already flown up the mast and looked west, because the sound just now came from the west.

I saw a huge lake in the west, like a huge orange-red agate under the sunset, and like a bowl of intoxicating grape wine, extremely beautiful, this is the famous Pearl Lake in a radius of hundreds of miles, in the future world, this is called Gaoyou Lake, is a shallow water lake, adjacent to the canal, the water area of 760 square kilometers, is the sixth largest freshwater lake in the country, the third largest freshwater lake in Jiangsu, connecting Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, quite famous.

At this moment, Li Hao saw from afar that there were more than a dozen boats chasing on the lake, he hurriedly raised his telescope and looked over, only to see ten big boats chasing five small boats, on those five small boats, many Japanese with Japanese knives were fleeing in a hurry, some of the Japanese were actually jumping into the water to survive, and on the ten big boats, each boat actually had a cannon on the bow, in today's world, there are only two people who can take out the cannon, one is himself, and the other is naturally Yuan Tiangang.

Li Hao looked at it with a telescope for a while, and saw a middle-aged man in a Taoist robe standing at the bow of a big ship, and the familiar figure and movements were indeed Yuan Tiangang.

Li Hao watched for a long time, slid down from the mast, and Feiying hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Lord Wang, is it a cannon?" ”

Li Hao nodded slightly, the corners of his mouth lifted lightly, and said with a light smile: "I didn't expect to meet him here, well, this guy is not bad, just rush him to beat the wolf, Lao Tzu will definitely invite him to have a drink!" It is said that all ships will dock on the west coast, and this king will meet old friends when he lands on the shore! ”