Leaning on the battlements on the west gate, the imperial midday sun sprinkled on the ground, bringing a rare warmth to the biting New Year. The stone walls once stood tall on one side, but now all that remains of the western wall is a temporary chest-length wall made of sandbags and wood. The ground was still covered with unwashed puddles of dark red blood, a sign of the brutal battle that had taken place not long ago.

Song Wen was accompanied by Li Jing to look forward, and in his eyes, he still couldn't believe the result of the battle that had just ended.

He stood tall on the west wall of the city gate tower that is now only the only one left, which was once a magnificent city gate tower, the rammed earth city wall covered with blue bricks, and the wall with the marks of swords and swords, all of which show that this is a city tower full of stories. It is said that this castle was built by the commander of the Navy, Rongguo Gonglai, when Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo, as one of the bases for the advance of the Navy's Eastern Expedition. I fancy the fact that Shamen Town is located in the center of Tangwan, which is calm and calm, and it is said that he also landed on Shamen Island when Taizong Li Shimin personally conquered Goguryeo. When Junjong conquered Baekje and Goguryeo, it was also used as a place for grain and grass hoarding.

However, later, when Xuanzong crossed the sea to attack Dengzhou, he killed all the way, and broke through the islands and castles on the coastal road one by one, and the castle of Shamen Island was destroyed at that time. Since then, although there has always been a garrison at Salmon Fort, no one has ever restored the castle. Song Wen sighed in his heart, the previous generals in Shamen Town had already lost their vigilance like the emperors and prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

"Can you be sure that Wang Jin secretly colluded with pirates to attack?" Song Wen, who was standing in front of the battlements and watching the city, asked softly without replying. On his side was Dengzhou Beijia, Zhao Wang Li Xiao, who was half-bent over and carefully watching the few lines of words left on the city wall. Feng Xun, Wang Song, and several other generals didn't know where Lu Dao had gone at this time, and none of them were nowhere to be seen.

On the castle tower. Except for Li Jing. There is also Lin Wei, the deputy town general. and the Marquis of Duyu. The three of them were all town-level officers in Shamen Town, and the others were all of high enough rank to accompany Song Wen. Lin Wu, Zhang Hong, Zhang Chengzong and other officers could only stand fifty paces away from Song Wei's team of mighty warriors in silk cloaks at this time.

Li Jing did not immediately answer Song Wen's question, in fact, if it wasn't for Lin Wei's insistence on telling Song Wen about this, Li Jing wouldn't want to say it. In Li Jing's opinion, Song Wen transferred him to Shamen Town to muddy the waters. This time the pirates are coming. Clear-eyed people don't need to guess at all to know the Tao, things are not so simple. Shamon Island is semi-surrounded by the three large islands of Daxie, and it is close to Dengzhou, so it is impossible for them to be ignorant of such a large-scale pirate attack. The pirates went all the way to Shamen Town, from Liaodong to Dengzhou, passing through three large island groups and more than 30 islands. These more than 30 islands have forts in large ones and forts in small ones. There are also beacon shops on the uninhabited island. More than 1,000 pirates were so grandiose, and they killed all the way to Shamen Town. If it weren't for Da Xie Yan's cooperation, how could it be so smooth. In addition to Da Xie Yan, the battleships of the Dengzhou Navy Division were also patrolling the nearby waters, Da Xie Yan did not find it, and the Dengzhou Navy Division did not find any movement at all?

The matter is clearly there, although this incident was committed by pirates, they did not rob the other islands, and came straight to Salmon Island. And after going to the island, he didn't grab the four wharves and two villages on the island, but went straight to Shamen Town, which had just moved to the island for less than ten days, isn't this obvious? This is directly aimed at Li Jing, and Li Jing has no grudges with the pirate One-Eyed Jiao, and then think about the performance of Da Xie Qi and Dengzhou Sailor, the truth of the matter is about to come out.

Either Feng Zhang wants to deal with Li Jing, or Wang Jin wants to deal with Li Jing, and it can even be said that Feng Zhang and Wang Jin want to deal with Li Jing together.

Such an obvious thing, but Song Wen didn't mention it on the island, this attitude is already very amazing.

"Yes, that pirate one-eyed Jiao has actually been Wang Jin's lackey at all, and their attack was completely at the behest of Wang Jin." Wang Zhong said angrily. He didn't understand Li Jing's thoughts, he felt that as long as he told Song Wen the truth of the matter, then Song Wen and Song Wei could use this to eradicate the Wang family. This naïve idea made Li Jing feel disappointed for a while, Wang Chong was more than brave, but sometimes he seemed to have no fighting mind at all.

Now the relationship between Wang Jinwu, the general of Qingzhou, and Song Wei, the envoy of Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu, is exactly like that of the current emperor and the great eunuch Tian Lingzi. On the surface, the emperor is of course more powerful than the eunuch Tian Lingzi. But in fact, although Tian Lingzi is only a eunuch, he also serves as a privy envoy, a lieutenant of the Zuo Shence Army, and a general of the Zuo Jian Guard, and completely controls the Praetorian Guard of the Beijing Division.

The eunuchs are only the emperor's domestic slaves in name, but in fact, this slave is now completely in control of the fate of the family master, and the abolition is in his hands. Song Wei's situation is not much better than the emperor's, although he is an envoy of the festival on the surface, but in fact, he does not have any military power in his hands, and stays in Qingzhou, but Qingzhou is in the hands of the tooth general Wang Jingwu. If it weren't for the fact that he had joined forces with the Cui family and won over the Han family, Song Wei would not have been able to fight with the Wang family at all. But even in today's situation, if Song Wei wants to really eradicate the Wang family, it is not possible to do it in one or two sentences.

In today's situation, the imperial court is basically unable to govern the affairs of the local feudal towns, and the local governments are basically solving them themselves. Not to mention that Wang Jin's collusion with pirates to deal with Li Jing is extremely secretive, even if the evidence is a little more conclusive, what can it be?

Based on Li Jing's understanding of some of Song Wei's research, he knows that Song Wei is still very strategic. Before he could really bring down Wang Jingwu, even if this matter was really reported to Song Wei, he would not hold it out. On the contrary, he will only be taken by Song Wei as a pawn to cross the river. However, Lin Wei and Wang Chong didn't stop if they didn't touch the south wall, so he didn't want to twist their intentions, so he let them touch it himself, and it was estimated that they would be willing.

"Is there any evidence?" Song Wen frowned and asked.

He felt that the atmosphere was a little solemn, in fact, since he received the news of the pirate attack on Shamen Town last night, he had already speculated that Feng Zhang or Wang Jin was behind the scenes. Later, he sent someone to transfer the Dengzhou Sailor, but the Dengzhou Sailor turned a deaf ear, and he basically understood in his heart. It's just that he originally thought that Feng Zhang was operating behind the scenes, but he didn't expect it to be Wang Yi.

However, although he didn't need to look at the evidence to believe that it was Wang Jin who colluded with the pirates, Song Wen had to consider another thing in his heart. At present, Song Wei, the festival handsome, has the help of the Cui family, and seeing that the Han family is also about to be wooed, it is at a critical time. At this time, it is not suitable to move the Wang family, and if the Wang family is moved now, there will be the possibility of startling the grass and snakes and intensifying the contradiction in advance. And now on the side of the shuai, there is not much certainty that he can deal with the Wang family.

Lin Wei's face was full of sadness and pain, and he pointed to the blood-stained land under the city and said: "Song envoy, in the battle yesterday, more than 600 young and strong people were killed in Shamen Town, and more than 1,000 people were injured. Four camps outside the castle were reduced to ashes, and thousands of inhabitants would take up their homes. Even the walls of the fortress were destroyed, and in one night, there were hundreds of widows and countless orphans who lost their fathers in the town of Shamen. ”

Li Jing handed over to Song Wen the letters and account books that Wang Jin had colluded with pirates that he had obtained from One-Eyed Jiao, as well as the confession that One-Eyed Jiao had written before he died. Song Wen took it, opened it and watched them one by one, looking at them very carefully. But after reading it, he let out a long sigh, his eyes full of embarrassment. Li Jing immediately understood that things were really moving in the direction he expected, but he was not disappointed, after all, he had never had hope.

"These things are important, but they are so important and so involved that even I can't deal with them right away. I will immediately explain all the causes and effects to the marshal, and wait for the marshal to deal with it. Song Wen said after pondering for a while, after a pause, he seemed to feel that if he didn't take some action, it would inevitably make Li Jing and the others feel cold, so he said again: "Ji Yu, if you want to be transferred back to Shamen Town now, then I will agree immediately." ”

Li Jing shook his head, he finally had such a piece of land, how could he give it up?

"You can take your brother with you, and I'll arrange it for you."

"I chose to come to Salmon Town in the first place. Today, I'm still willing to stick to my original choice! ”

Song Wen sighed, "Why don't I leave you a hundred men to strengthen your defenses?" ”

"Thank you for your love, but the one-eyed Jiao's nearly a thousand pirates have just been wiped out here, and I can't imagine that anyone will dare to come so boldly again. If you really look at us pitifully, it is better to support us with some money and food. ”

Song Wen smiled bitterly: "Dengzhou is also an empty shell, where can I take out the money, in this way, I will find a way to pull out a batch of lime, masonry and other things for you, and help you repair this fortress again." As long as the fort is repaired, even if there are really more pirates, it will not suffer. ”

Li Jing hit the snake with the stick, and immediately said: "In this situation, how can you still take the money to repair the city, I don't know when it will happen." There is a request from the post, and part of the reason why we have suffered such a big loss this time is that we were not vigilant. There are four docks in Salmon Town, and there are three other affiliated islands, but unfortunately none of them are under the control of my Shamen Town at the moment. ”

In addition to the four wharves, there is also Niutongzi Island at the southern end of the island, another Yangtanzi Island in the west, and a Baked Cake Island in the north. These three islands are not large, they only have a land area of more than 100 acres, but they are close to Shamen Town, among which Niutangzi Island is just opposite the Taishan Wharf, and Yangtangzi Island is on the opposite sea of Shimen Wharf, and the two islands guard the two wharves like two fortresses. The island is a circular uninhabited island, but its location is even more important, just stuck on the west side of the embankment between the northern end of Salmon Island and the South and North Islands of Da Xie Yan.

To the west of the island is the Beishan Wharf in Shamen Town, and to the east is the strait between the two islands, which is the only way for ships to travel from the south to the north, and is known as the waterway of the Pearl Gate.

Li Jing made this request to take back control of the four docks, and also to take back control of the three important affiliated islands. In particular, Yaki Island controlled this island, and half of the control of the Pearl Waterway was in his hands.

Take back the four docks and recapture the three islands, and in the future, Shamen Town will be the real retreat and attack. It can not only protect the main island of Shamen, be on alert at any time, but also allow Shamen Town to be in an offensive posture against the north and south islands of Daxie at any time. (To be continued.) )