Chapter 202: Eat it in one bite
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Chisha Reef, on this desolate small island and reef in the vast sea, there are many ships docked at this time, and the remaining thousand people of the one-eyed Jiao are on the island and reef. On another small island and reef a few miles away, Feng Ming and Wu Qian led 37 warships and more than 3,000 people to hide among them, quietly waiting for Li Jing's arrival.
On the fifth deck of Feng Ming's building ship, Feng Ming was full of smiles, clenched his fists and said, "The big net has been opened, now wait for Li Jing to get in." In this battle, you must work hard, kill Li Jing first and then destroy the pirates, after the victory, we will also take the pirates' lair to the end, and all the seizures will go to the brothers. ”
All the lieutenants agreed loudly and were eager to try.
The first lieutenant asked, "Since Li Jing has already arrived, why did he stay on the old sow reef and not move forward, did he find something?" ”
Feng Ming turned his head and asked Wu Qian: "Captain Wu, what about the people you sent to keep an eye on Li Jing before, have you found any information?" ”
Wu Qian was a little dissatisfied with Feng Ming's condescending tone towards him, the commander of this fleet was him, Feng Ming was just a marquis of Duyu, but now he actually regarded himself as the commander of the fleet, and he was commanding him when he spoke. However, he didn't want to offend Feng Ming in person, after all, this guy's surname was Feng, and he was originally a prisoner here. At the moment, he had to say: "The person who was sent before has not returned, and I have just sent another speedboat to investigate." ”
At this time, a family member hurriedly came to report. said that the pirate Zheng Mo of Chishan Reef came to see him.
Feng Ming frowned. "This damn pirate. He didn't want to stay on the Red Mountain Reef as bait, what did he come here for? If Li Jing discovers the traces, won't our plan be ruined? ”
"Zheng Mo said that Li Jing raided his cottage on Iron Mountain and came to ask Gongzi to send troops to rescue."
Feng Ming was stunned for a moment and shouted, "What did he say?" Li Jing attacked his cottage, what the hell is this, how can it be, Li Jing was still around here half a day ago. How could he run to Iron Mountain Town all of a sudden. Call him over to Lao Tzu! ”
As soon as Zheng Mo got on the boat, he immediately knelt down to Feng Ming, crying that the cottage had been raided, the village had been breached, and several brothers had come to report the siege of desperate escape.
"Please also ask Gongzi to send troops to rescue immediately, and if it is too late, thousands of parents and brothers in my village will be gone."
Feng Ming looked at Zheng Mo coldly, and saw that he didn't look like a fake. But in his heart he did not want to admit that this was true, because if it was true, then all his arrangements would be empty.
"What about those who broke through and came to report the news? Can you ask carefully, is the person who attacked the cottage sure to be Li Jing's person? ”
"Asked. Thousands of men and horses, strong bows and crossbows. All at once it broke my family's stockade. My cottage is extremely secretive, and it is very dangerous to be strong, ordinary people don't know the way at all, even if they know the way, it is impossible to break it all at once. Now Li Jing has an enmity with my family, and he has this ability. Zheng Mo insisted that it was Li Jing who attacked the cottage. As for the evidence or something, this army is in chaos, how can you see it clearly, besides, it's really Li Jing, and he doesn't necessarily have to come under the banner.
The first lieutenant said: "With 1,080 troops led by Li Jing and more than 2,000 crew members, it is not impossible for them to raid Iron Mountain." Perhaps, they got additional information. ”
Feng Ming said stubbornly: "This can't be Li Jing, the news that Li Jing has is that the Zheng family is in Chisha Reef, and he came here before." How could he be the one who attacked the cottage, in my opinion, it is very likely that the opponent of the Zheng family came to seek revenge. ”
"It's useless to speculate like this, it's better to send someone to the Old Sow Reef to investigate, and see if Li Jing's fleet is still there." Wu Qiandao.
The third group of scouts who had gone to the old sow to inquire soon returned, bringing back a shocking news. There was no trace of Li Jing's fleet on the old sow reef, and they found the corpses of the two previous groups of scouts on the reef.
This news made Feng Ming's face extremely difficult to see, things were progressing in the direction he least wanted to see, and it was very likely that Li Jing really reversed course and went to Duli Town to destroy the pirates' lair.
Everyone was silent, and Feng Ming unfolded the map, the distance between the red sand reef and the pirates' lair was only dozens of miles, a distance of more than an hour. Li Jing killed their scouts, and it was entirely possible to raid the thieves' den. Now the key question is, did Li Jing know that the lair of the Dao pirates was in Iron Mountain from the beginning, or did he only find out about it after the scouts who captured them later?
If it is the former, then everything is a game of Li Jing. He bluffed, diverted the tiger from the mountain, moved the pirates out of the lair, and then easily broke through the thief village. And if it is the latter, it means that the bureau they have set up is already known to Li Jing, so Li Jing did not come to the big net of Chisha Reef at all, but suddenly saw the emptiness of the thief's den and raided the thief's den.
But no matter what point it was, his plan had failed, and Li Jing slapped him hard.
The first lieutenant stepped forward and said, "Childe, this is already the case, why don't we immediately turn into the Iron Mountain, intercept Li Jing and kill them directly." ”
"Shut up, of course it's easy to kill Li Jing, but the key is not to let Li Jing's people escape, otherwise, the matter will be leaked, how to deal with the aftermath?" Wu Qian stopped the captain.
Feng Ming turned his head to look at Wu Qian, "Captain Wu has any good plans?" ”
Wu Qian shook his head: "Childe, the matter has come to this, the plan has been leaked, and Li Jing must be on guard against us now." I thought that it was no longer appropriate to play against Li Jing at the moment. If it weren't for the ambush and encirclement, we would not have had the possibility of completely annihilating Li Jing at sea. In that case, simply forget it. ”
"Forget it, how can it be forgotten!" Feng Ming glared angrily and glared at Wu Qian with big eyes, "Or is Captain Wu afraid and scared, worried that he won't be able to beat Li Jing?" It's ridiculous, we have thirty-seven warships, Li Jing, only nineteen merchant ships, we have three thousand men, and Li Jing only has more than two thousand. What's more, we still have more than 1,000 people from Zheng Mo. ”
"But"
"Nothing, no more." Feng Ming waved his hand angrily and stopped Wu Qian's words. "Either you don't do it, or you have to do it thoroughly. Pass my order, set sail immediately, and rush to Iron Mountain as fast as possible, we will intercept Li Jing and crush him and his broken fleet to pieces!" ”
Wu Qian's face was pale, watching Feng Ming completely seize his military power, he almost wanted to do it, and after looking at the Feng Ming family around the ship, he had to obey with hatred. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Feng Ming's voice came from behind: "Captain Wu, where are you in a hurry?" ”
"Go back to my ship and get ready for battle." Wu Qianmu said coldly with a grim face.
The corners of Feng Ming's mouth moved, and he didn't smile, "It's good to leave these things to other people to do, and Captain Wu can stay on my boat and watch." Come on, serve tea to Captain Wu! ”
Several tall and tall family members immediately surrounded him, the corners of Wu Qian's mouth twitched, his face turned blue with anger, but he was helpless.
Li Wei approached the Ninghai in a speedboat, boarded the ship to the deck, and said in a loud voice: "Scout urgent!" ”
Li Jing, who was dressed in military uniform, hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?" ”
Li Wei smiled and saluted Li Jing, "Congratulations general, Feng Ming's fleet has moved, along with the dozen or so ships of the pirates." They lowered their flags and headed north. ”
"Are you sure they're going to the Iron Mountain Thieves' Den?" Li Jing asked.
"It's the right direction."
Li Jing nodded, his face hard to hide his excitement.
"General, let's go up and surround and eat them with Zhen Donghai's brothers." The generals said excitedly, this time out to sea, Li Jing took away half of the army in Shamen Town. Lin Wei was still left at home to guard, and almost all the remaining generals set off with the ship.
Li Jing was silent, his lips tightly closed, and he slowly paced on the deck with his long sword in his hand.
He is now making a difficult choice, and he has considered all possible factors when making this overall plan, so the whole plan is not completely dead. It's a fundamentally different situation, and there will be different follow-up plans.
In the planning of the city, Li Jing marched towards the Liaohai Sea with great fanfare, and secretly asked the people of the Sword Dance Pavilion to leak the fake target Shamen Reef out of the sea as soon as possible. At the same time, the pirates in the Zhendong Sea quietly set off first and went straight to the Iron Mountain. Li Jing is in the light, and Zhendonghai is in the dark. Li Jing first used himself as bait to transfer the main force of the pirates away from the mountain, and let the Zhendong Sea attack the thieves' den.
Next, in the original plan, if Da Xie Yan's fleet went to Iron Mountain, then Li Jing would have two choices.
First, outflank the fleet of the Great Xie Yan before and after the Zhendong Sea and annihilate them in one fell swoop. Or, just retreat and go with one blow.
But now, Li Jing felt that these two choices did not match what he thought at this time.
After pondering for a long time, he slowly spoke: "No, the soldiers and horses and warships on the Huang Dang's side are not supplemented by the Feng family's fleet, which is enough to deal with them. My idea is that we will take this opportunity to raid Wuhu Island at night and eat it. ”
The generals couldn't help but be surprised, fighting with the Fengjia fleet on the Liao Sea, everyone can still understand. After all, outside the Dengzhou defense area, everyone does not fly flags, and they do not come openly. But if you attack Wuhu Island, things will be different again.
Wuhu Island is one of the three major archipelagos of Daxie, with more than a dozen islands and reefs of all sizes, there are Wuhu Fort and Huangcheng Shu and Qin Island Shuyi Fort and Two Forts, it is the farthest border island in the sea of Ziqing Town, all garrisoned by 500 people, and there are nearly 10,000 people such as the families of the soldiers and the fishermen and merchants on the island. If the Shamen Town Army captures Wuhu Island, it will be a big deal.
Li Jing said: "Feng Zhang has shot at us several times, if we don't fight back, how will we gain a foothold in Dengzhou in the future?" Well, since he wants to fight, then this time we will not only eat his detachment, but also swallow Wuhu Island in one bite! (To be continued.) )