After listening to Li Yexu's suggestion, Li Ji's face with loose skin due to old age became serious again, and he turned around three times with his hands and feet behind his back before he focused on the map again, climbed down, and said in a deep voice XshuOTXt.CoM

"Sun Tzu's Art of War has clouds, and those who fight will win with the right and the odd. Now that more than 200,000 people of our army of sea and land have been spread to the huge battlefield, fighting each other with the Romans with all their strength, you are right to propose the use of strange soldiers. ”

"......"

With a sad face, Li Ji still shook his head in embarrassment: "Pin the hope of hundreds of thousands of troops on a group of pirates who were almost hanged? This is too child's play, right? ”

"In case these pirates temporarily turn against the water, the army sent will not return, and the Romans will be on guard, and it will be difficult to sneak attack with surprise troops in the future!"

At the mention of this, Li Yexu's face showed a strong sense of confidence, and he said eloquently: "Commander, this group of pirates is different from other pirates!" Their female leader, and a slippery head who looks like a military advisor, can speak our Tang language! ”

Leng Buding Li Yexu brought the topic to this, Li Ji obviously didn't turn around and was stunned for a moment, but then he understood what Li Yexu meant.

Chinese characters belong to the meaning of the text, has always been known for its variety, rich expression, difficult to understand, often a virtual word can change the meaning of the entire sentence, difficult to learn, not to mention this era, even if later generations are proficient in English Chinese, proficient in Chinese foreigners are rare.

Even if Da Min is so invested in popularizing Sinicization, not everyone will say that Tianzhu, which has occupied ten years, as for West Asia and Central Asia, there will be even less, only the children of the nobles who take refuge in Da Min and the big businessmen who do business with Da Min all the year round will say it, and it seems that the various people who deal with Da Min can speak Tang language, but in fact, the elites of West Asia and Central Asia are surrounded by Da Min.

In this case, the two pirates learned the Tang language, which was even more difficult than the English level 8 professional exam in later generations, but at that time there were still a lot of textbooks to study, but the pirates could only rely on inquiry.

Why is it so laborious? It could only be that this group of pirates wanted to get in touch with Da Min, or integrate into the rules of the game designated by Da Min, and in the words of this era, the heart is king!

Since there is an appeal, then there is the possibility of cooperation, otherwise why would the two pirates go to the trouble of learning this? With this interest statement, Damin has a lot more initiative.

Seeing Li Ji's head, Li Yexu also added a few words very humbly: "What the commander is worried about is not unreasonable, before he proposes to cooperate with these pirates, the last general will beat them well and investigate." ”

Finally made up his mind, Lao Li Ji's hand was also heavily pressed on Li Yexu's shoulder, and solemnly promised: "Let it go, if you need anything, just mention it, the old man wants money to give money, and he wants someone to give it, even if he opens up this old face and has a relationship with Liu Dudu, the old man will never delay half a point!" ”

Lao Li Ji's promise is undoubtedly very heavy, his attention to Li Yexu's plan can be seen, his face is grateful, Li Yexu also bowed heavily, and also solemnly promised: "The last general should go to the soup and go all out!" ”

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In the next few days, the Min army seemed to be restless, and there were constantly commanders and his own troops visiting the left and right Qianniuwei military camps and many Arab tribes who were firmly loyal to the Great Min, looking for some people who worshipped the King of Min as a god, and the messengers who contacted him spread out like spider webs, and the farthest was from Suez to Rome.

In more than ten days, the red-haired female pirate and her subordinates were treated quite well, the food was the same as the officers and soldiers of the Right Qianniu Guard, but they were detained alone, except for the female pirates and the scar-faced and slippery pirates who could speak Tang language, the rest of the people were constantly called out for interrogation, and the severity was about to catch up with the **** time for political screening.

On the first day of the twelfth month of the fifth year of Kaiyuan, the red-haired female pirate and the slippery head were finally called to the tent of the right Qianniuwei army in a state of apprehension.

Sheng Lianshan and Li Yexu were still there, but this conversation was obviously much more solemn than the last time, both of them put out the formal armor of the second-grade military attaché, and the two sat together on the desk.

"When you see the general, don't kneel yet!"

Just when the two pirates were still looking around, the soldiers behind them roared angrily, so frightened that the scar-faced pirate immediately fell to the ground with a puff, and the respectful five-body threw himself to the ground, but the red-haired female pirate obviously resisted, still biting her lip and standing stubbornly.

"Bold!" The pro-soldiers behind him were immediately furious, and came over with a stick, and were about to beat the red-haired female pirate to her knees, who knew that Li Yexu was rare and kind this time, and waved his hand kindly to let the pro-soldiers go down, and seemed to be very funny and said: "You woman, you are really characterful." ”

"Where is the lack of pretence, if you want to kill or chop it, just come, frown, this girl is not a pirate!"

The red-haired girl was still quite proud of her pirate status, and Scarface, who wanted to stand up on the side, hurriedly knelt down sadly, and shouted in a panic: "Don't listen to her, general, our leader is young and vigorous, talking nonsense, we Sicilian pirates are the most supportive of Damin!" General, if we need to do something, what is that? Step on the pot and drill the stove or something, and the small ones are not to be dismissed! ”

Scarface is a shrewd person, and it can be seen that Li Yexu abruptly did not kill them that day, and solemnly left them for so many days, so it must be useful to them, although I don't know what it is, but Scarface also saw life in it.

For fear that this opportunity would be ruined by the red-haired female pirate, Scarface's head clattered on the ground.

It's a pity that Scarface is proactive, but Li Yexu didn't even look at him, this guy is too slippery, his words can be used as a fart, and he can sell you in a blink of an eye, but that stupid, what principles do you still adhere to when a pirate, you can still be trusted.

"What's your name?"

Being stared at by Li Yexu's face, the red-haired female pirate was obviously very uncomfortable, slightly deviated her wheat-colored cheeks, and slightly blocked some of her faces with the chance of broken hair left in front of the ponytail, and then a lot of native languages emerged.

Li Yexu, who obviously heard the name in Latin, was confused with Sheng Lianshan, frowned, and didn't know if it was a problem with Li Rang, Li Yexu simply patted his head and said to himself: "Just give you a Tang name, see that you are stubborn, but there is still a bit of a heroine taste, a bit like a heroine in our China, you are called Mulan!" ”

One of the faces was changed by the name of the bastard in front of him, and at the same time, Li Yexu's domineering made the red-haired female pirate feel like she couldn't cry or laugh, and she couldn't help but repeat it twice.

Magnolia! I don't know what that means, but it sounds pretty good!

"That Mulan, General Ben has something for you two to see first!"

Without waiting for the female pirate Mulan to get used to her new name, Li Yexu was open, and the pro-soldier next to her sent it over with a parchment roll. Raising her eyebrows suspiciously, Mulan opened the parchment roll, and for a moment, her face turned pale, as if she had been struck by lightning, and she staggered back.

"Boss, the Min people won't cast any witchcraft on you, right?"

Kneeling on the ground, he didn't dare to stand up, and Scarface took the parchment roll suspiciously, but after just a glance, his face also changed from sallow and dark to a face like dead ash.

Looking at the reaction of the two, Li Yexu couldn't help but feel secretly proud, and at the same time felt a lot of pride in Damin's control, these pirates seem to be rampant enough, rampant between the two countries, eating the east and eating the west, even if sometimes he misses his hand, the big deal is to hang himself in the port to see God and his old man, anyway, the master is living happily.

It is estimated that the two of them would never have dreamed of a hundred dreams, and they would never have thought that Da Min would be able to find out even their nest in Sicily.

However, the background of this female pirate Mulan and Scarface is legendary enough, and they belong to the Phoenician race, the descendants of the Carthaginians.

The first opponent of the rise of the Roman Republic was the Carthaginian Republic colonized by the Phoenicians in North Africa, after three Punic Wars, the once powerful maritime commercial empire Carthage was wiped out, and even the city of Carthage was completely destroyed, some of the surviving residents of the city fled, and the remaining more than 50,000 Ju tribes were punished as slaves and sent by the Romans to the Italian Peninsula, Gaul, Spain and other provinces to accept slavery.

Mulan's ancestor was a Carthaginian general, when Scipio the Younger attacked the mother city of Carthage, he happened to be ordered to harass the Romans around Sicily with the last two ships, and escaped the catastrophe, the entire civilization was destroyed, Rome even sprinkled salt on the fields of Carthage, and in fear, Mulan's ancestors found a desert island near Sicily and took his subordinates to live in seclusion.

The Carthaginians are most proud of their navigation technology, they are the first people to cross the entire Mediterranean Sea to do business, using their navigation technology, Mulan's ancestors started to make a living as pirates, and in order to restore the country, continue to fight with the Romans, more than a thousand years of ups and downs, several consecutive escapes from death, this pirate family has miraculously survived to this day, no wonder Mulan is still very proud of her pirate identity.

However, a long history does not mean that the strength is strong, on the contrary, with the collapse of the Roman Empire, the revenge was avenged, and their family was also in trouble, more than two hundred years of Mediterranean trade dry period, there is no ship to be strong, and the living environment is still a harsh island, Mulan's family is also in difficulty, Mulan's grandfather was because of the risk of plundering the offshore Byzantine merchant ships, defeated and was smeared with asphalt and hung in the port to be hanged and made into a dried corpse, his father hoped to get Carthage's general recruitment, but was also lured to their family's ancestral land, was also hanged alive, and by Mulan's generation, there were only fifty young people in the family on this Greek galleon.

As a result, their nest was also found by Li Yexu through the Protectorate of the Roman Expeditionary Force of Damin, and the parchment scroll in their hands was a list of all the owners of her family issued by the governor of Sicily.

Half a month ago, I went against the damn general in front of me, at most I was dead, but now, if one is not good, I may lose the whole clan, trembling, the female pirate finally lowered her arrogant head, and asked weakly.

"What do you want from us?"