The Great Min had been suspicious of the Greek fire of the Eastern Roman Empire......

I have to admit that in the formula of Greek fire, Byzantium is superior to the fierce fire oil of Damin, lighter, more burning, and more difficult to extinguish, however, no matter how the formula of the fierce fire oil is changed, but one thing is indispensable, oil!

The Balkan Peninsula in Rome, Macedonia, Greece, and Thrace do have oil, but it is either in the sea or deep underground, and the amount that can be collected by the current scientific and technological means is quite limited, and it is impossible to cope with frequent wars, and the best surface oil to be collected today is only the Middle East!

But now almost all the fierce fire oil in the Middle East is controlled by the Great Min, and as for the Arab Hejaz, it is true, but it is not to look down on them, the Arab navy is still formed with the Christian Greeks in Damascus as the backbone, and Mecca today has no ability to traffic oil to Constantinople.

It's not that the Fatimid Dynasty of Egypt has not doubted, since the Battle of the Yarmouk River, the attitude of the Fatimid royal family who fully supports Damin has become ambiguous, there is no love in the world for no reason, the reason why the Fatimid Dynasty supports Damin so much is to defeat Faisal supported by Mecca and get rid of Mecca control, now Mecca has been defeated, and the Fatimis also have higher ambitions, they hope to enter the Holy Land and dominate the Arabian Peninsula.

Even if he knew that the Egyptians had an ambiguous attitude, Da Min had no evidence, and he couldn't point fingers at the staunch allies who had just supported him, otherwise it would be easy to cause a situation of cunning rabbits dying and lackeys cooking, so that everyone in the ally tribes who followed Da Min would be in danger.

Now it seems that the Egyptians were really in collusion with the Eastern Romans, and if it were not for the power of the state, how could a single merchant have the strength to collect enough oil to support a war?

Nan Nan muttered, and it took a while for Li Yexu to react, and smiled apologetically at Mulan who was looking at him.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"Hmph, don't forget the reward you promised me!"

Putting her mouth aside with disdain, Mulan said disdainfully, but her heartbeat accelerated slightly, is this cruel and tasteless general of the Min State still quite warm when he laughs!

followed the two of them while eating and planning how to inquire about the Roman oil storage depot, and after planning for about half an hour, Mulan then packed up the dishes and chopsticks and prepared to go down, and Li Yexu also continued to pick up the binoculars, ready to continue to observe.

But at this moment, Mulan suddenly overlooked and seemed to ask casually, "Hey, just now, why did you save me just now?" ”

Li Yexu, who asked this, was stunned.

Seriously, it was also impulsive just now, common sense says that Black Shark is the younger brother of Governor Panis of Rhodes, and the best choice is not to follow him but to obey him, and it will be detrimental to the task if he gets into trouble.

However, not everything will go through reason, the moment he saw Mulan being dragged away, Li Yexu didn't think anything at all and shot directly, this will, seeing Mulan asking, he also answered as a matter of course.

"You are an ally of Da Min, of course I can't watch you be humiliated!"

This answer is honest enough, but it is not what Mulan wants, I heard this girl snort, flicked her smooth ponytail, twisted her slender waist and hummed down the attic, Li Yexu, who was watching, looked at each other, and asked Li Xiong suspiciously: "What did I say wrong?" ”

Sent Mulan away, and the two began to work intensely again, but this time, there was nothing to do for a while, and just when Li Yexu recorded the frequency and route of the Roman patrols, the door of the attic behind him rang sharply again.

Nine shallow and one deep, that is the agreed signal, indicating that there is a situation, Li Xiong hurriedly opened the door, but saw a blonde and white-skinned Punjabi Greek Min army anxiously squeezed in, and said hurriedly in an authentic Tang language: "My lord, Eagle Claw Sun ****!" ”

Eagle Claw Sun is a black language, talking about the imperial court eagle dog, even Li Yexu scolded him, and he didn't know who was so lacking in moral code, but Li Yexu didn't have the time to care about this, and when he looked down from the attic, more than a dozen Roman sailors with a carriage had arrived in front of the Elysee Hotel, greeted him, and led the two Li Yexu to rush downstairs.

Mulan and Scarface also reacted early, seeing Li Yexu coming down, they hurriedly greeted him, listening to the rude shouts of the Roman sailors downstairs and the response of the pirates accompanying the smiling faces, several people exchanged glances, and Scarface hurriedly greeted them first.

Below, there was the compliment of Scarface's nodding and the arrogant urging of the sailors, and Li Yexu's subordinates had already gathered.

There is also a secret passage leading to the city wall behind the second floor of the Elysee Hotel for the pirates, from where you can sneak directly into the slums of the city, which is so mixed that even the Roman soldiers can't get out of it in a day or two.

Li Xiong's eyes glanced at the wall disguised as an earthen wall, and asked Li Yexu if he would retreat, but Li Yexu waved his hand, still staring at the stairs below, and after a while, Scarface was sweating profusely again.

"Chief, Governor Rhodes invited you to the Governor's Palace, saying that he invited you to a dinner party."

didn't mention that Li Yexu beat the black shark in the evening, it wasn't the black shark's revenge, which made Li Yexu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but then he became embarrassed, this afternoon, Li Yexu figured out the situation of Mulan's group of pirates.

It seems that the greedy pirates who kill people without blinking, and who are still skinning and looking for money, are not so nourishing as they imagined, at least Mulan and her gang are living very miserably, being oppressed everywhere, and Mulan's appearance is still one of her biggest weaknesses, of course, if she is a little debauched, this weakness will become an advantage, but she is not!

Just now, Li Yexu also said that she is an ally of Da Min and will never see her humiliated, but what now? Fight directly with the Roman sailors? And then run away along this passage? Or did you watch her fall into the mouth of a tiger?

Looking at Li Yexu's complexity for a moment, Mulan suddenly smiled, waved her hand easily and said, "Okay, it's not a big deal!" This afternoon I said that I was the mistress of the Min general, and Panis allowed us to go ashore to trade, originally to find out the military situation of the Great Min, with such a major situation, if he did not send someone to me, it would be a trick! ”

"If you can trust me, I'll go with Old Tom, and if you don't, send someone with me."

Mulan said it easily, but Li Yexu knew that in the face of Governor Rhodes, it was by no means as easy as Mulan said, Li Xiong gestured with his eyes and motioned to send two people to follow, but looking at Mulan with a smile that seemed to have some kind of sad eyes, Li Yexu suddenly pulled off a jade pendant from his waist and handed it to her.

"If that old ghost of Panis persecutes you, take my jade pendant, report my name, and tell him how much it costs, and I will redeem you back! It's all about safety! ”

Li Yexu was able to say this, which obviously surprised Mulan, but immediately, she briskly reached out and snatched Li Yexu's jade pendant in her hand, and said with a somewhat mischievous smile: "That's for me, don't ask for it back!" ”

This piece of jade is ancient jade, or Li Yexu's grandfather Li Jing left it, so that Mulan was so leprosy, and before Li Yexu could react, this red-haired girl had already gone downstairs briskly, and if she didn't want to come back, Li Yexu had to knock out her front teeth and swallow her stomach, and shook her head helplessly.

Outside the door, in the shouts of the Roman sailors, the wheels of the carriage began to sound rapidly, from near to far, as if stunned, Li Yexu came back to his senses, turned around, but saw Li Xiong and several other Fujian soldiers The expression was very wrong, as if trying to hide the laughter, Li Yexu was stunned for a while before he woke up.

Whether it is a native of the Tang Dynasty or not, those who can enter the Sixteen Guards must have been deeply Tang, and in the Tang Dynasty, men and women send jade pendants to each other, which is a token of love! The scene just now, you can't think about it without ambiguity!

The old face turned red, and Li Yexu shouted angrily in annoyance: "Why are you stunned? We are in a dangerous situation now, and we are all on guard for Ben to go out! Report back as soon as you have a vision! Li Xiong, you sneak into the city immediately with the tokens, and you must contact the secret police of the black capital lurking here! Now, scatter! ”

The atmosphere became solemn again, and the well-trained Min army quietly climbed out of the window, behind the fish basket, on the eaves, and in the water tank, there were more pairs of vigilant eyes. A flying eagle claw hooked the white ancient stone head of Rhodes City, looked left and right, and Li Xiong climbed the city wall like a harrier.

Most of the strength of the Romans was dragged by the Arab light cavalry behind, this section of the city wall has a large sea screen, and there are more than tens of thousands of sailors to protect it, the defense of the city head is obviously weaker, the patrol is very sparse, three times and two times, Li Xiong's figure disappeared into the night.

Seeing him go, Li Yexu's eyes once again fell coldly on Rhodes Harbor in the darkness of the night, and his mind kept calculating the Roman soldiers on each patrol, the route of the ship, the time of the shift, and where the Romans would move supplies to replenish the Greek barrels of fire floating on the sea.

But often can't help it, Li Yexu's telescope inadvertently skipped these again, and landed on a brightly lit mansion east of the port, under the cliff of the coastal mountain.

That place is the residence of the Governor of Rhode Island, General Panis of the Rhodes Military Region!