Chapter 171: Voyage

In the night battle at the mouth of the river, the Wuwei and Minyong of the Jiyun Society captured more than 300 prisoners, except for more than a dozen bandit leaders who were sent to Prison Island for detention, the others were handed over to Li Zhuo to send people to take them away. Lin Jian was not very polite to these captives, and he took off everything he could take off on his body, and he couldn't wait to give them only a pair of pants to wear.

The Taihu thieves were poorly equipped, but they were well-equipped for the Qu family's private soldiers who were defeated at the river embankment wharf. In the night battle, the private soldiers of the Qu family on both sides of the Jinchuan River below the embankment pier killed more than 20 people on the spot, and wounded nearly 60 prisoners.

Good armor is hard to find, Qu Wuming killed Lin Tie on the spot on the river embankment, and the scale armor he was wearing gave Lin Tie a hole in his chest at close range, Lin Tie didn't care that Qu Wuming was also a character during his lifetime, and directly took this scale armor off the corpse and sent it for repair.

The scale armor is relatively easy to repair, and it is enough to replace the deformed and damaged steel armor pieces.

The night battle in the estuary showed that the double-layer cortical armor was seriously insufficient in protection against spear strikes, and the armor warrior holding the Mo knife was even less efficient at stabbing and blocking the spear and spear at close range than the sword and shield coordination.

This time, Lin Jian only handed over some broken armor and inferior iron knives and iron spears symbolically, and he intercepted all the good things, and obtained more than 600 pieces of armor and various weapons.

The only pity is that in the end, the private soldiers and remnants of the Qu family besieged in Sanliuyuan were taken over by the Dongcheng Weima infantry and handed over to the Jiangning garrison. No matter how thick-skinned Lin Tie was, he was embarrassed to ask Liu Xiliu for the armor that he had taken off from that group of prisoners, after all, he had already blackmailed a sum of money from the Dongcheng Lieutenant Horse Infantry last time.

Gu Wuchen, Yang Pu and others also turned a blind eye to the captured armor this time, after all, in the battle of the estuary, the armor on Lin Bin's side was also damaged.

Lin tied him and used three knives in one night. A knife is cut off in too much force, it is that vacancy, his right shoulder is a heavy slash to the strong martial arts in the thief, fortunately, the scale armor is extremely protective, replaced by ordinary leather armor, maybe the whole arm will be cut off, so that Ao Canghai, Zhou Pu and others who were guarding the left and right at that time were scared into a cold sweat; There are also two blades that are notched like saws.

With the capture of the Battle of Hekou as a foundation, Lin Jian was able to openly mix the fine armor that came from the troubled waters of the Qin family's fleet in Luoyang Lake last time, and more than 40 Mo sword armor soldiers in the two hundred Jiyun Wuwei were all wearing good armor above the group armor, sword and shield hands, and those holding bamboo stabbing spears were all wearing group armor and combined armor, and the crossbowmen also wore leather armor.

In addition, Lin Jian also secretly sent a large number of armor and iron weapons to Changshan Island, so that the three hundred elites of Changshan Island completely surpassed the level of armament of the Liukou pirate.

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On the 16th of June, Lin Lian left the estuary, and the three ships "Dongyang", "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" gathered in front of the wharf and were ready to go.

Lin Tie took the Dongyang as the command ship, and the three ships were organized into a team, and the light boat went down to the Pingjiang River, which was also a grand event for the estuary, and many people gathered on the riverbank on both sides of the wharf to watch, which naturally also hid the eyeliner of each family.

After the Qu family bandit case, visionaries could also see the rise of Hekou, and even more so, after Lin Jian rescued the Qin family's bereaved family from Luoyang Lake, he foresaw that the competition between Hekou and Quyang Town would eventually win.

In fact, standing behind the estuary was the Chu Party, which was gaining momentum in the DPRK, and behind Quyang Town stood Chen Xiyan, who was vainly trying to compete for the phase. Seeing this, those who bet on the side of the Chu Party in advance are naturally optimistic that Hekou will win in the end.

The new houses built by the Dongyang Township Party at the mouth of the river with money in the face of love, as well as the fields outside the south gate of the fence along both sides of the carriage and horse road, and along the embankment on the west bank of the Jinchuan River, which can be convenient for building private gardens, have become sought-after goods.

Even the feudal family Fan Ding bought an unfinished house in the back street from the Dongyang Township Party at a high price, and wanted to transform the main house and the left and right wings of the main courtyard into a three-story brick building, saying that it was to open a branch in the estuary, but in fact it was openly stuffing eyeliner into the estuary.

There is a private bamboo garden outside the poplar forest in the southwest of the estuary fence, the private bamboo garden is not big, about two acres of land, except for a few elegant houses, the garden is full of green bamboo. The garden is close to the village in the west, and it is only more than a mile away from the westernmost fence wall of the estuary, and there is a path behind the garden to go to the river cliff.

The garden had changed hands in the middle of last month, before the Battle of the Bayou, and they had no idea about it at first.

When the new owner bought forty or fifty acres of land from the private bamboo garden to the riverside, let people transplant a lot of green bamboo, and built pavilions and pavilions in the garden, intending to expand it into a veritable private garden, it attracted their attention; It was only through the inspection that the secretary did not find out the details of the new owner.

Jiangning is the capital of the empire, such as the Yongchang Marquis Mansion, the Muguo Mansion and other big families have existed in Jiangning for more than 200 years, and the power that Lin Jian can use is also very limited, and there are more than ten people under Wu Qi's secret sentinels, and the power to monitor the estuary is still weak, how can it be possible to explore the root of Jiangning City's two hundred years of precipitation?

The so-called "once it comes, it will be safe", if the estuary wants to replace the status of Quyang Town, it is natural to put on a posture of embracing all rivers, the feudal family has come in, and the luxury Feihu will also send a dark stake eyeliner into the estuary, and Lin Jian is not afraid of a few unidentified people coming in.

Zhao Shuhan and Ge Siyu also came to see off Lin Tie today, and after Lin Tie boarded the Dongyang ship, he had no patience to stay at the dock to watch the other two ships make final preparations before raising the sails.

"Are they the new owners of that garden?" Zhao Shuhan stood on the dock, turned his head to look at the several people standing on the river bank outside the fence, and asked Ge Siyu.

"It's okay left and right, let's go over and ask." Ge Siyu said.

There is a small gate on the fence on the west side of the Minyong training camp, and Ge Siyu and Zhao Shuhan walked through it with their personal entourage and walked along the river bank towards the private bamboo garden.

The back garden of the private bamboo garden is near the river, the craftsmen are building a pavilion, this pavilion is on higher ground, standing in front of the pavilion a man and a woman and a few followers, Zhao Shuhan and Ge Siyu walked over to take a look, startled, the man's old frost white hair is actually Mu Guogong Zeng Mingxin. The woman beside him is charming and charming, and it is Mu Guogong's new love, Jiangning famous dancer Chen Qingqing.

"It turns out that Grandpa Guo bought this house," Zhao Shuhan saluted Zeng Mingxin through a chest-high low bamboo fence, and said with a smile, "It's been a dumb riddle that we've been guessing for so many days." ”

"It's not as good as the dumb riddle that Lin Jian asked us to guess," Zeng Mingxin said with a smile, "Who could have guessed what amazing thing he would do next?" Director Zhao and Supervisor Ge are here to see Lin Jian off? ”

Ge Siyu didn't expect that the Mu Guo Guild would know about his little role, and salute him again; He is actually the deputy supervisor of the Longjiang Shipyard.

Zhao Shuhan smiled slightly, they were close to Lin Bin, after all, they didn't know Mu Guogong's attitude towards Lin Bin, and some topics could not be mentioned lightly and for no reason.

"What kind of flag is flying on his ship," Chen Qingqing asked with a smile, "and it feels very majestic when you look at it from a distance." ”

"On the main mast, the main flag of 'Jiangdong according to the inspection envoy division to prepare for the grain envoy and the expedition to Langlin', and the secondary flag of 'Jiangdong according to the inspection envoy Si Dongyang soldier preparation road to gather cloud and guard brave'." Zhao Shuhan said.

"It's no wonder that the armor and equipment of the armed guards of the Jiyun Society dare to openly violate the system, I said where is it like someone's private soldiers, obviously the elite of a hundred battles is just so spirited, and he really found a good name," Chen Qing was a concubine for the former Jiangning garrison He Yuejing, knew some military affairs, and said, "The little-known small role that came to Jiangnan in the autumn and winter last year has now set off Jiangning's storm, but what is the big thing covered with lacquered cloth on the top deck of the three ships and the top deck of the stern cabin?" ”

"This, I don't know much about it with Ge Jiancheng." Zhao Shuhan said.

In fact, Zhao Shuhan and Ge Siyu knew that the bow deck of each ship was covered with lacquered cloth with two bed crossbows, and a scorpion crossbow was fixed on the aft deck.

Lin Jian incorporated part of Lin Jiayong's family into Jiyun Wuwei, but he couldn't change the nature of private soldiers and guest soldiers, and Wuwei could still move with merchant ships, but it was extremely troublesome for private soldiers and guest soldiers to leave the country and enter the country.

In order to use things cheaply, Lin Jian put Jiyun Wuwei into the name of Dongyang Weaving and Training Township Yong this time, and guarded the matter of raising food in the name of Dongyang Bingbei Dao Jiyun Weiyong.

Since the imperial court officially allowed the four prefectures to train the township warriors and control the town army, with this name, Lin Jian not only obtained the right of passage of Jiyun Wuwei in Jiangdong County, but also broke through the previous restrictions on private soldiers with weapons and equipment, self-raised food and salary, strong bows, heavy armor and even large bed crossbows can be equipped.

The only disadvantage is that Gu Wuchen, Lin Tingli and others have had the legitimate name of mobilizing Jiyun Wuwei from now on.

Of course, when it really came to the point where Gu Wuchen and Lin Tingli wanted to forcibly seize Lin Lian's private soldiers, it was almost a tear between the two sides, and the so-called nominal transfer power could not compare to Lin Lian's actual control.

According to the inspector who can supervise the military preparations, but has no right to directly allocate the war preparations, Lin Jian can only use gold and silver to open the way, buy the officials of the Jiangning Weiwei Temple and the Arsenal Hall, and get six bed crossbows, which are fixed on both sides of the front side of the ship, and can be turned to shoot crossbow arrows.

The most essential difference between the small scorpion crossbow and several catapults in the world is that the scorpion crossbow uses the torque of the crossbow string as the power source, and successfully realizes the problem of installing catapults on medium-sized warships, but the main structure is not much different from several small catapults in the world.

Zhao Shuhan and Ge Siyu knew this very well because they invited Lin Jian to study the materials and structure of the scorpion crossbow string and crossbow arm.

Mu Guogong Zeng Mingxin smiled slightly, if he could casually say anything from the mouths of Zhao Shuhan and Ge Siyu, would Lin Yanyan trust the two of them so much? Zeng Mingxin knew that Lin Bin, who came to Jiangning last autumn and winter and still played a small role, was really going to set sail at this moment, who knows how far he can go in the end?

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