Chapter 737 Disclosure of Identity
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Five days later, outside Ningde County, in the Black Dragon Society military camp with the banner of Lang characters, in the Chinese military tent, Li Cangxing had already removed his mask, changed back to his original appearance, wore a suit of armor, and gathered in front of the sand table with Pei Wenyuan and others, discussing the nearest military affairs.
Pei Wenyuan gave an explanation to the battlefield sand table made of a pile of sand and water: "Since the defeat of Hengyu in Namao Haifeng, he went to sea by boat and fled to the Penghu Islands in southern Fujian, and colluded with Wu Ping, a big pirate in Chaoshan. ”
Li Cangxing nodded, and he put on the general's robe and armor, and he had the bearing of a general: "What do you think, where do you start this time with the Maohai Summit?" ”
The monk laughed: "Cangxing, in my opinion, Mao Haifeng has regrouped this time, I heard that there are now more than 30,000 subordinates, and there are many Oriental masters and Spanish musketeers to help, I should want to come back to Ningde and recapture Hengyu to avenge my hatred." ”
Tie Zhentian also said: "The monk is right, now that the Qi family army has returned, there is only one of our troops here in northern Fujian, and there is no garrison on Hengyu Island now, it is a good time to recapture it. ”
Ouyang Ke shook his head slightly: "I don't see it that way, recently this Mao Haifeng has been very close to the sea giant in the Guangdong area, the Guangdong rudder of the original Demon Sect, and Wu Ping, the Seven Seas Demon Shark. I think he intends to turn to the development of Guangdong, and there is nothing to stay in Fujian. ”
Li Cangxing said softly: "Who is this Wu Ping?" ”
Qian Guanglai smiled. He had only rushed back three days earlier, and he had arrived almost front and back with Li Cangxing. He said: "This Wu Ping, known as the Seven Seas Demon Shark, has lived on this sea for generations, called the day people, it is said that the ancestors were the subordinates of Sun Enlu Xun, who was once the emperor of the Song Dynasty, during the period of Liu Yu, who once dominated the sea, were all former believers in the Heavenly Master Dao, and the rebellion launched almost overthrew the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Liu Yu also made his fortune by exterminating the uprising of Sun Enlu Xun. After the failure of the uprising, Sun En and Lu Xun's remnants were unwilling to surrender, so they retreated to the sea, living on ships all day long, and did not want to set foot on land, as a sign of their commitment to the Liu Song dynasty. ”
Li Cangxing smiled dumbly: "What kind of hatred can be so deep, and it really doesn't go to land?" Besides, the Liu Song Dynasty has been destroyed for thousands of years, and how many dynasties have changed. Are they still like this? ”
Qian Guanglai nodded, and his eyes narrowed with two piles of fat on his face: "These failed traitors don't want to be controlled and oppressed by any court and government anymore, and they wander around the ship all day long. Isn't it good to be free and easy, so at first it was to oppose Liu Yu and not go ashore. After decades, they really got used to living on a ship, if they were forced to go ashore. On the contrary, you will not get used to it. ”
Li Cangxing nodded: "Then this Wu Ping is their descendant?" How could he get involved with Leng Tianxiong and join the Demon Sect? ”
Qian Guang said: "The day people learned the ancestral martial arts of the Heavenly Master Dao. In addition, they have been begging for a life at sea for thousands of years, and the various unique martial arts that have evolved and practiced are very suitable for water warfare, so they are also a pirate organization that has survived for thousands of years, in addition to fishing, they also make a living by robbing, especially robbing women, and giving birth to offspring for themselves. ”
Li Cangxing sighed: "But the Demon Sect Leng Tianxiong led the Demon Sect masters to raid this Wu Ping's lair and subdue it, isn't it?" ”
Qian Guanglai nodded: "That's right, it was thirty years ago, Leng Tianxiong at that time Master Yin Buyun had just died, in order to take over as the sect leader, three major things need to be completed, and subduing the day people is one of them, it is said that Leng Tianxiong went to the island alone, defeated Wu Ping's thirteen island owners in a row, and broke the ancestral Seven Seas Fish and Dragon Array of the Dayman, and finally fought with Wu Ping Qianhe, defeating it, which convinced the arrogant and untamed day people in one fell swoop, and was willing to be a subordinate of the Demon Sect, and Leng Tianxiong also took advantage of the situation to appoint this Wu Ping as the helmsman of the Guangdong rudder, Let this Wu Ping be even more grateful to him. ”
Ouyang Keqi said: "In this case, Leng Tianxiong is also a person who has great kindness to Wu Ping, why did Wu Ping rebel against the Demon Sect again this time, escape into the sea, and cooperate with that Mao Haifeng?" ”
Li Cangxing said lightly: "I'm afraid this is just a trick played by Leng Tianxiong outside the agreement with us, in Taizhou City, Leng Tianxiong was forced to agree to my conditions and withdraw from the territory including Guangdong, this Wu Ping naturally had to withdraw, so he simply secretly ordered Wu Ping to go to the sea and rejoin forces with that Mao Haifeng, Wu Ping is not nominally a member of the Demon Sect now, and Mao Haifeng will not offend that Chu Tianshu if he cooperates, so he is naturally happy." ”
Pei Wenyuan said with a smile: "I see, it seems that it is our pressure that forces these guys to protect themselves in various ways, which is also interesting." ”
Li Cangxing looked at Pei Wenyuan and asked, "What choice does Wenyuan think Maohai will make?" ”
Pei Wenyuan nodded: "I don't think he will come to Hengyu in the first place, this place is too close to Zhejiang, Taizhou, where the Qi family army is stationed, is only more than a hundred miles away from Hengyu, and it can be reached in a day or two, and the most important jewels in his lair have all been transported to us, even if they are recaptured, it is just an isolated island, and it is of little value." ”
Li Cangxing said "oh": "Then Wen Yuan thought they would go to Guangdong?" ”
Pei Wenyuan shook his head: "No, in the area of Guangdong, there is no developed overseas trade now, and the central ports of trade in various countries are nothing more than Quanzhou in Fujian and Ningbo in Zhejiang, and Guangzhou City in Guangdong is not an important port city for trade now, so Wang Zhi and Xu Hai have little interest in it when they crisscross the southeast, and one or two thousand pirates like Wu Ping and his ilk can barely survive there by plundering, but if Mao Haifeng's current tens of thousands of subordinates have to go over, they will definitely not be able to survive." ”
Li Cangxing smiled: "So, they will attack Quanzhou Port?" ”
Yanagi Xiongba, who has always been independent with a sword, suddenly spoke: "No. Quanzhou now concentrates most of Fujian's official troops, from Fujian to the governor of Shang Zhen. To Yu Dayou, the chief soldier of Fujian, 20,000 army and more than 10,000 naval warships were all in the Quanzhou area. And the wolf soldiers transferred from the Liangguang area are also stationed here, so for many years, even when Wang Zhi and Xu Hai were the most arrogant, they did not dare to attack the idea of Quanzhou Port, not to mention that Mao Haifeng's current strength is far inferior to that of Wang Zhi in his heyday, and he did not dare to attack Quanzhou with a few heads. ”
Li Cangxing nodded: "Then where do you think the Maohai Summit attacked?" ”
Liu Sheng Xiongba and Pei Wenyuan glanced at each other, and blurted out in unison: "Xinghua Mansion!" ”
Everyone's eyes fell on the center of the sand table, three or four hundred miles away from the coast of Xinghua Fucheng. Qian Guanglai nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, this is an important town in central Fujian, and the products are also rich." For many years, there has been no robbery of the Japanese robbers, it is considered the mainland, and the garrison here is empty, now in the spring ploughing season, many guards in Fujian have been temporarily disbanded and sown home, the guards of Xinghua Mansion City are only a few hundred, in the face of the long drive of the Japanese invaders, vulnerable to a blow. ”
Ouyang Ke smiled slightly: "Fatty, since that's the case." Why didn't the Japanese invade the idea of Xinghua Mansion for so many years? ”
Qian Guanglai sighed: "The main reason is to rely on the prestige of the Putian Branch of the Shaolin Temple. As a result, the warrior monks of Southern Shaolin formed monks to search for and fight the Japanese invaders, scattered dozens or hundreds of people. Among them, there are not too many masters, and there are only a dozen or so real widows. And there are only a handful of swordsmen who can be called swordsmen, and naturally they can't compare to the Shaolin monks with strong martial arts. If it weren't for the Yan father and son colluding with the Japanese and suppressing the Shaolin warriors and the righteous people who spontaneously resisted the Japanese, I am afraid that the warrior monks and people in the rivers and lakes alone would be able to eliminate the Japanese invaders. ”
"The Shaolin warrior monks eliminated the Japanese invaders several times, but they did not get the rewards they deserved, but Yan Shifan said that they gathered people to make trouble, not only did not compensate the dead and wounded monks, but also seized some tax-free fields in Southern Shaolin, and some other righteous people in the rivers and lakes were beaten into Jiangyang thieves by the Yan Party, and they also wanted to draw pictures, forcing some people to abandon their wives and children and go away to the end of the world."
The monk scolded hatefully: "Yan Shifan, this dog thief, is really a disaster to the country and the people, and the crime is monstrous. ”
Li Cangxing sneered: "Yan Shifan is using this method to protect the Japanese who have been trading with him unsightly, but although the warrior monks of Southern Shaolin were heartbroken and no longer organized monks and soldiers to take the initiative to pacify the Japanese, but this prestige shocked the Japanese Kou and did not dare to approach the Xinghua Mansion area of Putian, so that they no longer dared to fight the idea of going deep into the interior of Fujian. has to feed such a large number of widows, no money is not good, just like the situation after Wang Zhi recruited An, it is impossible for him to take the road of Zhao'an, so the only choice is to take risks and attack Xinghua Mansion. ”
Qian Guanglai nodded: "This seems to be his only choice, Cangxing, but after all, Xinghua Mansion is hundreds of miles away from the coast, and it is also a taboo for soldiers to go deep alone, so Mao Haifeng can't grab a few county towns that are closer, and then go back?" Xinghua is in Fujian, and if the battleship of General Yu's naval division in Quanzhou Port wants to come to the coast of Fujian, he won't need to work for a day, and he won't be afraid of copying the back road? ”
Li Cangxing shook his head firmly: "A few small county towns alone can't feed Mao Haifeng, and only a place like Xinghua Mansion that has not suffered a military disaster for decades can rob tens of thousands of his subordinates to eat for a few years." And now that he has found Wu Ping, I am more sure that he will definitely take this road, Wu Ping was born in Guangdong pirates, and he knows the situation in Guangdong very well, in case that Mao Haifeng is cut off, he can also take the Chaoshan area of Guangdong from Fujian and slip away from there. The guards in the interior are very weak, and Fujian and Guangdong have never had elite troops, and I am afraid that no one can stop these tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers. ”
Liu Sheng Xiongba hooked the corners of his mouth, and the eye where Scar passed blinked: "So, what should we do, are we going to contact General Qi Jiguang in Taizhou now and let him secretly enter Fujian?" ”
Li Cangxing laughed: "No, the Qi family's army has already secretly assembled in the Quanzhou area, as long as the news of the large-scale landing of the Japanese invaders comes out, it will definitely follow and pursue and fight a decisive battle with the Japanese in the Xinghua Mansion area." ”
The faces of the people changed, and they looked forward to each other. Obviously, this news surprised them a lot, and Pei Wenyuan asked in a deep voice: "Cangxing." Didn't Qi Jiajun have already returned to Zhejiang because he had an unpleasant quarrel with us when distributing the spoils of Hengyu? Now half of the people are stationed in Taizhou, and the other half of the people have returned to Yiwu with Qi Jiguang to recruit troops, when did they come to Fujian? ”
Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "This is something that I and General Qi have discussed on Hengyu Island as early as possible, and the distribution of the spoils is just a scene deliberately performed by me and General Qi, just to confuse the Japanese and make them think that I have a conflict with General Qi and no longer work together." After the Qi family army returned to Taizhou, he secretly changed guards with the local Zhejiang defenders who had already been prepared by Hu Zongxian, and let those defenders wear the clothes of the Qi family army. Playing the chess number of Qi's army and returning to Yiwu to recruit troops, and one of General Qi's cronies disguised himself as General Qi to lead the team back to Yiwu. ”
As for General Qi himself, he took more than 4,000 of the most elite soldiers, disguised as merchants, and secretly went south from Ningbo Port in batches, riding on merchant ships disguised as Yu Dayou's warships, and these people also disguised themselves as businessmen's men and guards. The newly defeated Japanese invaders did not care about intercepting the sea as before, so the passage of these ships was very smooth, even if there were a few ships that were found by the Japanese invaders. They all paid some money to buy the road like ordinary merchant ships and left, so after more than a month, the main force of the Qi family's army had been transferred to the Quanzhou area. There were two thousand sergeants led by the deputy general Chen Dacheng and Wu Weizhong in Taizhou. In the next two days, they will also secretly drive south. ”
When everyone heard this, they all looked suddenly enlightened. Liu Sheng Xiongba knew about these plans of the Heavenly Wolf, but he was not too surprised, and said: "Then we don't go into battle, but go to Southern Shaolin to participate in the meeting of the Demon Alliance, will we miss the right thing?" ”
Li Cangxing shook his head: "No, this conference is very important to us, and it is also the core battle of this extermination of the Japanese, first of all, we must deal well with the four factions of the Demon Alliance, after eliminating the Japanese Invaders, whether we can gain a foothold in Fujian, it all depends on this meeting, it is not a secret, these days, I asked Liu Sheng to wear my mask here, and I myself went to Wushan, saved Qu Caifeng, and established contact with Huashan and Emei factions, and now Zhan Mubai and Lin Yaoxian have known my true identity, The code name of the Sky Wolf, it won't take long, I am preparing for this Southern Shaolin Conference, I will officially disclose my identity to the world, and in the future, our Black Dragon Society will also officially appear in the rivers and lakes. ”
Except for Liu Sheng, everyone's faces changed greatly, and Pei Wenyuan sighed: "No wonder I think there is something wrong with you these days, and Liu Sheng doesn't know where to go, it turns out that you left us people and went to Wushan." ”
A trace of apology appeared on Li Cangxing's face, and he arched his hand to everyone: "This matter is hidden from all brothers, please forgive me, mainly when I want to save Qu Caifeng, I don't want all the brothers to come forward, once the Black Dragon Society has formed a bond with the various factions of the Demon Alliance in Wushan, it will disrupt the entire plan." And everyone is a righteous person, and they will not watch me go to Wushan to adventure alone, so I will definitely follow me all the way, after thinking about it, I can only use this method to temporarily deceive you brothers and make amends to you. ”
Qian Guanglai laughed: "No wonder when I was in Wudang, Zhan Mubai and Lin Yaoxian looked at me a little strangely, it turned out that they had already dealt with you in Wushan, why did you show them your true face?" Is this necessary? When you were in the desert, you said you wanted to continue to hide your identity. ”
Li Cangxing nodded firmly: "It has to be like this, otherwise I won't be able to convince Zhan Mubai and Lin Yaoxian to believe me, Miss Qu has joined the Demon Sect this time after all, if I don't treat each other with sincerity, these people from the Demon Alliance will still think that our Black Dragon Society and the Demon Sect have colluded." As for the identity of the wolf, the reason why I have been wearing this mask and walking in the world as a wolf all these years is not because of Lu Bing's order, but because I can't imagine how to change back into Li Cangxing's face and face the little junior sister who made me fall in love and hurt me unforgettable. ”
When everyone heard this, they were all silent, only Tie Zhentian didn't know much about Li Cangxing's past, scratched the back of his head, and said suspiciously: "Little junior sister? That girl named Feng Wu is your little sister? ”
Li Cangxing shook his head and said, "Lao Tie, no, when I met you, I was already a Jinyi Wei Heavenly Wolf, but before I joined Jinyiwei, I was a Wudang disciple Li Cangxing, and you should have heard of it." ”
Tie Zhentian suddenly realized: "Oh, I said that you just said that you are Li Cangxing, how can I hear it so familiar, it turns out that you are the famous Wudang disciple more than ten years ago, Li Cangxing, who killed the old devil of Tianxing with his bare hands, and then I heard that you broke the precept and expelled from Wudang, many sects are looking for you, and after staying in the rivers and lakes for a few sects, you disappeared, and it turned out to be Jinyiwei." ”
Qian Guanglai said with a smile: "Cangxing first went to Wenyuan's Huangshan Sanqingguan, and then went to the Western Regions to save Ouyang, and then went to Emei to find out Lu Bing's undercover, and finally came to my beggar gang to know my old Qian, and then met Liu Sheng in Jiangnan. (To be continued......)