The sea shrouded in night is like an infinite sea of stars. The howling cold wind came from all directions, unstoppable. The dinghy floats on the undulating sea, like a meteorite wandering in the ocean of stars.

The scout general, Levi, rowed a small boat to inquire about the news, and brought back the news that there were people and horses stationed on the island ahead. "Judging by their campfires, there should have been a thousand." "I saw seventeen or eighteen large and small ships on one side of the island, with black flags. The bow of the ship was all black flags, and the largest ship was a battering battleship with a black banner on the mast with a white skeleton painted on it. ”

"Is that your centaur?" On the bow of the dinghy, Li Jing asked.

"More than a thousand people, seventeen or eighteen boats, and even the fighting ships have sailed out." Yellowbeard grinned, "The Black Flag Skull Banner is the only one in the East China Sea of the Liaohai Sea, this is the flag of our town East China Sea." It seems that several brothers in the family have brought all the brothers who are housekeepers. ”

"I didn't expect a few masters to give me Li Jing face like this." Li Jing smiled, "The second master led me to meet him." He glanced at both sides of him, and there were more than twenty dinghys that could only accommodate more than twenty people. It was loaded with a hundred carefully selected brothers from the reconnaissance capital, as well as ten young sons of the Xiao family, and a hundred members of the Xiao family. A total of more than 200 people, after dark yesterday, took advantage of the darkness to disperse from Shamen Island one after another, quietly passed through the many islands of Daxie, and finally arrived at the overseas of the Liaodong Peninsula after a night voyage of 120 miles.

After the pirates attacked Shamen, Li Jing sent a letter to Zhen Donghai's contacts left in Dengzhou, asking him to pass it on to Zhen Donghai, hoping that they would send someone to discuss important matters. Li Jing originally wanted to call them over. Use their hands to find out the one-eyed Jiao's nest. Prepare for a slash and eradication.

Unexpectedly. On the way, his ordnance was robbed.

Li Jing directly found Gongsun Lan and asked the people from Meihuamen to help him find the lost ordnance and help him find the person behind the scenes. Gongsun Lan did not disappoint Li Jing, and Meihuamen was worthy of being a professional intelligence dealer, and it only took them two days to find Li Jing's batch of ordnance. That batch of ordnance was not robbed by Wang Jin, but was robbed by Feng Zhang on the territory of the Dengzhou Naval Division, and deliberately left some clues to guide the tracers to focus on Wang Jin.

But what Feng Zhang didn't expect was. This time, the person who tracked them down was the Plum Blossom Gate, which specializes in selling intelligence. The little tricks didn't work for them at all, and they quickly discovered the traces of the mistake and eventually tracked down the real clues. Feng Zhang was very cunning, he pulled the ship to the vicinity of Da Xie Yan, reloaded the cargo on the ship with another ship, and then directly sank the original cargo ship to the bottom of the sea. Later, the goods were transported directly to the town of Duli in Liaodong by another ship, and the goods were hidden in a secret warehouse of the Feng family, and the refined weapons were ready to be sold to the Khitans.

After Li Jing got this conclusive information, the first thing he thought of was that he could just find someone from Zhendonghai to make a move.

The power of Zhendonghai is just above the Liaohai Sea, and their power is closer to that of Liaodong. Li Jing believes. Feng Zhangfei robbed the goods with such great effort, and deliberately framed Wang Jin. He must have been secretly watching his every move on Salmon Island for a long time. If Li Jing led the army to Liaodong, Feng Zhang would definitely know the Tao as soon as possible. At that time, Feng Zhang will definitely transfer that batch of weapons immediately.

When I ran to Liaodong hard, I would definitely not be able to find that batch of goods. And what's even more critical is that if Li Jing leads his troops to leave Shamen Town, then Shamen Town will be empty and dangerous. Even after Li Jing left Dengzhou, it was possible for Feng Zhang to deal with him in Liaodong. In Dengzhou, they didn't dare to deal with Li Jing openly. But as soon as you get out of Dengzhou and go to Liaodong, the situation is different.

The person sent by Zhen Donghai to Dengzhou was Yellowbeard, and as soon as Li Jing met him, he immediately offered to ask Zhen Donghai to do him a favor, wanting to borrow their men and horses to come forward to recapture the ordnance. Yellowbeard readily agreed, and immediately sent an attendant back to the station to deliver the letter.

After some preparations, Li Jing finally decided to take only one hundred reconnaissance generals forward, and also took away the ten sons of the Xiao family, and also took away a hundred Xiao family members. Taking away these ten sons of the Xiao family, Li Jing also had the precaution to prevent the Xiao family from having any dissenting intentions when he was away. Those sons and brothers simply agreed without the slightest hesitation, which made Li Jing wonder if they were ignorant and fearless, or if they really understood the situation very well.

In terms of generals, Li Jing only brought the deputy tenth general of the right wing of the barracks and the marquis of Yu in Shamen Town, Wang Chong, and the other was the reconnaissance general Li Wei, and also brought two henchmen generals, Zhang Chengzong, the head of the left wing, and Liu Shouqian, the head of the left wing. In Shamen Town, Li Jing handed over all the power of martial affairs to Lin Wei and Lin Wu, and all civil affairs were handed over to Zhang Hong.

Lin Wei and Wang Chong objected to this, believing that Li Jing was the chief general of Shamen Town and should not take risks easily. This matter is feasible to send Lin Wu or Wang Zhongren alone. However, Li Jing decided to come by himself in the end, not because Li Jing didn't trust Wang Chong and them. But this time, Li Jing didn't just want to recapture the ordnance, he also had the intention of coming to formally meet with Zhen Donghai.

He will meet with Yellowbeard and Redbeard, but the big boss of Zhen Donghai is Whitebeard, and if he wants to cooperate with Zhen Donghai and them for a long time, he thinks it is still necessary for the heads of the family on both sides to formally meet for a while.

More than 20 dinghys slowly rowed towards the island, and as soon as they approached the shore, several speedboats immediately outflanked them from both sides. The people who came over soon found out that it was the second master Yellowbeard, and immediately respectfully escorted them to the shore to land.

It is a deserted island with no people, and there is nothing on the island except barren mountains and forests. It is only less than fifty miles away from Duli Town, the foremost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, and usually no one will come to stop for supplies. The pirates in the East Sea of Zhendong have chosen a good place, and the ships are hidden in a small bay on one side, and if the nearby ships don't get close to observe, they can't be spotted at all.

In the woods just a hundred and ten paces away from the shore, the pirates had set up an improvised woodland. The tents are hidden in the woods, and there are fortifications lined with sharpened wooden stakes on the perimeter. Behind the stakes, there were also hidden archers and javelinmen, who were responsible for guarding. Behind the line, the camp stretched into the distance, heavily armed pirates sat under trees sharpening their weapons, familiar flags fluttering in the wind, and flagpoles digging deep into the muddy ground.

As soon as they approached the stake, a group of men and horses had already approached the makeshift camp. The leader was wearing a piece of iron armor painted silver with mountain patterns, but he wore a white bearskin hat and a long silver silk cloak over his shoulders. A lion belt of the same silver was tied around his waist, and a horizontal knife with a sharkskin sheath was tied. On his left hand, he also carries a white shield depicting a black skull.

The whole body is silver-white, coupled with the silver head color, silver long eyebrows, and silver beard, Li Jing immediately knew that this person should be the big boss of Zhendonghai with a white beard.

Although the white beard has white hair, white eyebrows and white beard, he has a ruddy complexion and a burly and strong body, and he does not show any old age. Li Jing couldn't guess his age for a while, and estimated that he was between fifty and seventy.

Whitebeard strode forward, and said with a smile: "The second brother is really you back, why did you only come back today, we have been waiting for you here for a day." After speaking, his eyes looked at Li Jing and the others, "Second brother, these must be our friends in Dengzhou." ”

There were several other people next to the white beard, one of them was a big man like black charcoal, with a black beard on his face, and the other was an old acquaintance with a red beard. Redbeard stepped forward with a smile and said, "Big brother, this one in front of this is our old friend Li Jing and Li Jiyu, known as Yong Saburo and Xiao Li Guang. If he hadn't come up with an idea, we wouldn't have rescued the second child from Dengzhou so easily. ”

Li Jing stepped forward with a smile and saluted everyone one by one, "The three masters said that they were laughing, if it wasn't for the mercy of the three masters, how could I be Li Jing today." Today, I took the liberty of asking you to come and help you in the next favor, and I really have to thank you. ”

"That's brothers don't know each other, we've already been brothers, why don't you and me be so polite? Let's go, back to the camp, we are roasting fat sheep and preparing fine wine. Blessed are you. As soon as Whitebeard gave the order, a pirate immediately stepped forward to remove the stake and make a way for Li Jing and the others to pass.

The pirates' camp was sparsely packed in the woods, and according to Whitebeard, when he got the letter from Yellowbeard this time, he immediately gathered all the men and horses, and poured into the nest. Except for the old and the sick who remained at home to guard them, they all came, a total of eighteen ships and 1,800 brothers.

Eighteen hundred pirates, ordinary little pirates casually set up some wooden huts to camp. Some of the small leaders set up tents, and the heads of the houses, such as Whitebeard, built tall and wide log houses.

Li Jing and Wang Zhong and others entered the camp with a hundred scouts and a hundred Xiao family members, and the scouts were the elite of the elite, and they deliberately lined up in two phalanxes to advance neatly when they marched. The uniform movements, the new and uniform costumes and weapons, the pirates along the road were amazed and envious. Even the 100 guards of the Xiao family were not much worse than the scouts, and this time they were almost the best ones selected from the 600 people, and they followed the scouts, and the queue actually looked good.

There was a hint of surprise in the eyes of Redbeard and Blackbeard, especially Redbeard. When he met Li Jing a few years ago, Li Jing was only a small group of people at that time, and he was extremely embarrassed when facing him. But in the blink of an eye, he already has a territory of his own, and a team of his own soldiers and horses. Previously, when he heard that the thief One-Eyed Jiao in Duli Town led nearly half of the pirates to kill Shamen Town, but when he was defeated by Li Jing alone and did not let anyone go, they couldn't believe it at all.

But now, seeing that Li Jing dared to come to the meeting with only 200 people, and the spirit displayed by these 200 people also moved them unexpectedly. Whitebeard's surprise was slightly better disguised, but Li Jing believed that his surprise would never be under Redbeard. The more this is the case, the more favorable the situation becomes. The more surprised they were with him and the Salmon Army, the smoother the cooperation between them would be. (To be continued.) )