(Thanks for the reward for taking a stick and going all over the world!) ）

After the attack on Salmon Town, Feng Chang did not react in any anger and revenge after being provoked by the pirates. It's been so long, but now he is saying that he wants to gather troops and horses to sweep the pirates under the pretext that Shamen Town was attacked by pirates. Li Jing would not believe such a reason at all, and it was just that the Cat Island of the Feng family had just been leveled, and he was going to sweep away the pirates, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was taking revenge for the attack on the Cat Island of the Feng family, and it was not for the attack on Shamen Town at all.

Feng Zhang wanted to gather troops and horses to sweep away the pirates, but Li Jing, the mastermind of the attack on Cat Island, was not interested in following. Although Da Xie Yan is the direct superior of Shamen Town, and Feng Zhang is also Li Jing's top boss, but in the current situation, Li Jing does not buy Feng Zhang's account, and it is obvious that he finds an excuse not to listen to his military orders. Even if Feng Zhang knew that Li Jing didn't take him seriously, there was not much he could do.

The generals will be proud of the commanders, and the soldiers will be proud of the generals! This was mostly the case in the feudal towns of the late Tang Dynasty. Li Jing was able to completely annihilate the surprise attack of more than 1,000 one-eyed Jiao at the beginning, which completely showed that Li Jing's strength was not at all the 300 town soldiers on the surface. If he can annihilate thousands of pirates, then his soldiers and horses are at least twice as many as those of pirates. Feng Zhang's own Da Xie Qi is only 3,000 soldiers, but he himself has 500 families, and if you add the private soldiers of the following fort captains, Da Xie Qi has at least 5,000 men.

Even so, unless Feng Zhangzhen is confident that he can eradicate all of Li Jing's Shamen Town power in one fell swoop, otherwise, he can only be helpless in the face of Li Jing's unruly subordinate.

Li Jing decided that Feng Zhang would not take the liberty of directly using force against him, and even if he got to that point, he would not be afraid. Therefore. Now Li Jing is not even willing to maintain the politeness on the surface. directly sent someone to bring a message to Feng Zhang, even if he refused the order to send troops.

Supplies looted from Cat Island. Li Jing took the lead in handing over the three hundred war horses to Lin Wu, the head of the riding arts. The two battalions of the war battalion were ten and twenty teams, plus Li Jing's battalion commanded two teams, a total of twenty-two teams, one cavalry group for each team, and a total of 264 cavalrymen. Each cavalryman happily came to receive a horse of his own, ending the embarrassing situation that the cavalry could only ride a donkey and a mule to pull the horse.

There were still 36 horses left, and the officers of the battalions and capitals were all slandering it. However, Li Jing did not distribute these war horses to those officers, but directly waved his hand and assigned all the remaining 36 war horses to Li Wei's reconnaissance capital. This result disappointed the officers. However, it made Li Wei, Monk Xuancheng, Duan Shan and other reconnaissance officers extremely excited. In this battle of Cat Island, they were the first to make the most of them, not only did everyone get a heavy reward, but Li Jing also added a special combat team to the reconnaissance capital, and now they have thirty-six excellent war horses at once, and all the reconnaissance soldiers are glorious and honorable.

Levi's smiling face was about to close, the reconnaissance capital had only ten small boats before, and now it has added 36 six war horses, all of which can be equipped with three crews. Although it is said that there is no need for horses on the island, this means that reconnaissance is valued. He has always believed what Li Jing said. They can't stay on the island forever, and one day they will go land.

When the thousand brand-new sets of equipment were shipped off the ship. Li Jing, Lin Wei and others were all full of emotion. This batch of ordnance was ordered before it arrived in Shamen Town, and it was originally planned that this batch of weapons would be used as the main equipment of the Shamen Town Army. But Song Wen's side didn't deliver the goods until not long ago, but he was robbed by Feng Zhang halfway, and finally attracted Li Jing to personally go out to unite the town and Donghai to capture Cat Island to get it back.

There are a thousand sets of equipment, and what Li Jing is looking forward to the most is the two hundred Mo knives. There are 264 Mo knife men in the war barracks, and now there is not a single Mo knife. This time, there are two hundred, although they still can't be fully equipped, but at least they can be equipped with sixty percent of the Mo Dao Hands first.

"Can our craftsmen make Mo knives?" Li Jing asked Zhang Hong, although the Mo Dao was expensive, Li Jing had already designed the establishment of the Mo Dao Soldier in the previous combat formation. The power of the Mo Dao has always been praised by Lin Wei, Lin Wu, Zhang Chengzong, Li Shugen, and other officers who have seen the sharp performance of the Mo Dao team on the battlefield.

"Our own craftsmen can't do it, even the craftsmen in the Wang family's armory workshop have never made Mo Dao. The Mo knife is very demanding, and if the average craftsman has not built it, he can't make it at all, even if he barely makes it, it is not so sophisticated. Zhang Hong shook his head, stretched out his hand and pointed to an old man among the craftsmen who were unloading the goods on the dock, "Do you see a good old man, it is said that he was originally a master of the Jingshi Chang'an who specialized in making ordnance for the Shence Army, and he was also an old craftsman who specialized in making Mo Dao." ”

Li Jing looked at the white-bearded old man with a bent back, and frowned: "At such a big age, he can still build a Mo knife?" ”

Zhang Hong smiled: "He must be unable to do it, he has already retired ten years ago." However, last year, the Feng family specially invited him from Chang'an to Duli Town to help manage the craftsmen of the Feng family's ordnance workshop in Duli Town, responsible for guiding the process. When the general captured Cat Island, the old man was on the island inspecting the ordnance made by the craftsmen of the island's ordnance workshop, and he happened to be caught in a net. This old man is in good health, you see that he is so old, he can still carry a bag of 60 catties of rice. Let's give him better treatment, and I believe he will help us carefully guide a few craftsmen to build the Mo knife we need. ”

"It's just that these craftsmen have said that they will return to the town of Donghai, if you borrow it, you have to talk to them first, just say that we will borrow it temporarily, and then return it to them later."

Li Jing looked at Lin Wei and Wang Chong who had already come to collect the ordnance with the officers of the war barracks, and asked, "Have all the ordnance of the soldiers been issued after the expansion?" ”

"It's not enough, we started with 300 sets of equipment, and then we got a little bit from Da Xie Yan, and then built a little bit ourselves. Then after annihilating the one-eyed Jiao, more than a thousand sets were captured. Da Xie Yan later gave 400 sets of old clothes, and Song Tingshi also pulled out a batch of old ordnance. After all, if you add the current batch, the horizontal swords, bows and arrows of the 2,000 men in the war camp are all ready, and the spears, square shields, round shields, and war horses are also ready. What is not yet available is the Mo knife of the Mo knife hand, there are only two hundred, and there are 264 Mo knife hands. If you count some of the preparations. At least three hundred. Mo knives are still missing a hundred. In addition, although the bows and crossbows of the crossbowmen are sufficient, the number of heavy crossbows, catapults, and spear throwing carts is too small. ”

"Find a way to get the equipment of the barracks first, how about the armor?"

"We don't lack armor, we originally had three hundred sets of iron armor, and later we seized another three hundred sets of iron armor, five hundred sets of leather armor, and this time another thousand sets of iron armor. There are also 300 sets of iron armor seized from Cat Island, and we currently have 1,900 sets of iron armor, and 500 sets of leather armor. The combat battalion is half iron armor and half leather armor, and the auxiliary battalion is not equipped with armor, so the armor of our current combat battalion is completely sufficient, even several other direct subordinates are also equipped with leather armor, therefore, we still have a surplus of 900 sets of iron armor, but there are still hundreds of sets of leather armor. ”

Li Jing nodded, "Have you built the thousand sets of equipment in the auxiliary barracks?" This time, I also brought back 200 round shields from Liaodong. There are also a thousand round shields in this batch of ordnance we bought, and the shields of the auxiliary battalion are enough. How's the rest of the equipment being built? ”

"According to what the general said, the 1,000 shields of the auxiliary battalion are enough, and the 1,000 helmets we also have in our batch of newly arrived ordnance, in addition, the auxiliary battalion is not equipped with armor but with battle robes, these battle robes have been handed over to the clothing workshop to be made, and the first batch has been rushed out to fully control the general's requirements. In addition, the horizontal knives to be equipped by the auxiliary soldiers are also in stock, which is completely sufficient. The only thing that the auxiliary battalion is not equipped with is their one-foot eight-foot lance, and at present I have asked the armory to make the rifle with all its might, and I have placed an order for fifteen hundred rifles, and the armory workshop replied that it can be delivered in full within a month. Zhang Hong looked at the account book in his hand and replied seriously.

"A hundred Mo knives, fifteen hundred rifles, and then heavy ballistas, catapults, spear-throwing carts, and leather armor are not enough, well, let the armory workshop give priority to rushing out the rifles. The difference between the Mo knife, according to what you said, borrow the old craftsman, and simply borrow those craftsmen in Zhendonghai, anyway, they can't go back for a while now, so they simply borrow these craftsmen to make the Mo knife. ”

For this batch of newly arrived ordnance, Li Jing specially explained that this batch of ordnance was of high quality and excellent, so he equipped them all to the war barracks, then the reconnaissance capital, and finally the auxiliary battalion. As for the non-combat units such as the logistics capital, the baggage capital, and the medical capital, although they are also equipped with weapons, their weapons are replaced with old ordnance from the barracks. Each person has a horizontal knife and a spear, a bow and a pot of arrows, and a log shield and a battle robe. Anyway, Li Jing was going to use them as non-combat units, and he didn't plan to transfer these people to the battlefield until he had to.

After assigning the matter, Li Jing left Zhang Hong and others on Niulizi Island, and he took Whitebeard and other pirate leaders, as well as Megan and Julie, etc., and Li Huier, Yu Youniang and others took a boat to dock at Taishan Wharf and return to Shamen Town.

As soon as you board the Taishan Wharf, there are three small fortresses arranged in a triangular array that are as high as six zhang and are built with a circumference of 50 paces of mountain stones. The three bastions were tall and sturdy, with five floors above and below, and each fortress could house a hundred archers. On the top floor, it is not only equipped with a beacon alarm alarm device, but also equipped with ten volcanic heavy crossbows. This heavy crossbow, which requires at least two people to work together and can only be stepped on with two legs, is equipped with aiming tools to look at the mountain, and has a range of up to 300 paces. There were thirty heavy crossbows on the three forts, which basically made it possible to completely seal off the entire dock. In addition to the Fuyuan crossbow, the soldiers in the fort are also equipped with strong bows and heavy crossbows, and there are also four catapults on each fort! You can shoot stone projectiles or fireballs directly at enemy ships on the docks.

Whitebeard and other pirates were very sensitive to shore fortifications, and as soon as they landed on the shore, they immediately looked around and noticed these three towering and murderous fortresses. I couldn't help but exclaim: "I was already very surprised when I saw several arrow towers on Niulizi Island just now. But compared to the three forts on this pier, it is really a drop in the bucket. These three fortresses alone, if they were accompanied by two or three hundred archers, even if one or two thousand people came to attack, they would not want to rush to the beach and land on this pier. ”

Li Jing chuckled, the last time he was attacked by the one-eyed Jiao, if it weren't for Gongsun Lan's half-truthful information, Shamen Town would have been gone a long time ago. suffered such a loss, Li Jing's back was soaked afterwards. Shamon Island is his foundation, how dare Li Jing be careless.

At the same time as the construction of the new castle, he immediately sent people to build some simple fortress fortifications on the three outer islands attached to it. On the surface, it is used as a training base, but in fact, it is more to play the role of guarding Salmon Island. Moreover, Li Jing attaches more importance to the four wharves on the island, the terrain of Salmon Island is unique, except for the existing four wharves, the other coasts are full of rocky reefs, and it is difficult for a large number of people to land and raid from those places.

After recovering the four docks, he had already sent people to build the dock forts. At each wharf were built three small bastions six feet high and fifty paces in circumference, and were equipped with ten heavy crossbows and four catapults each. In total, there were twelve bastions, one hundred and twenty heavy crossbows, and forty-eight catapults at the four piers.

This configuration has raised the defense of the four docks to a rather perverted level. It can be said that Salmon Island is now loose on the inside and tight on the outside, and the fort in the center of the island is still under construction, so don't think that the defense of Shamen Town will not work. Just the sight of the twelve towering fortresses was enough to scare off most of those who wanted to fight the idea of Salmon Island.

A seasoned pirate leader like Whitebeard was shocked when he saw the defensive arrangement of this dock. Faced with such a well-guarded Salmon Island, he was willing to attack Cat Island again.

"No wonder Brother Ji Yu is just a town general, but he dares not to scruple at all, not only to expand the army, but also to form a fleet. If I had such a strong territory, I wouldn't have put the seal in my eyes. However, how much does it cost to set up such a defense. ”

Li Jing chuckled: "So, in the future, we will cooperate more, find the right opportunity, and do a few more votes like this time!" ”

After walking for a few miles, turning over the foot of Phoenix Mountain, the new city of Shamen Town, which is constantly increasing, is revealed in front of everyone's eyes.

If the hideous fortresses on the dock surprised Whitebeard and other pirates, then this new town that tens of thousands of people are busy building now really shocked them. Several of the pirate leaders even forgot to close their mouths wide open.

"Oh my God, what a big castle this is built, I think, after it is built, I'm afraid it will not be much worse than Duli Town."

"A few are exaggerating!" Li Jing explained, "After the new city is completed, it will be one-seventh of Dengzhou City, and if you want to compare it with Duli Town, which has a population of 500,000, it is even less worth mentioning." Now, it's just that the construction schedule is tight, and there are more people building the city, and the scene is a little chaotic. Ladies and gentlemen, in short, when you arrive at Shamen Town, then you should treat it as if you were at your own home, and you are welcome. Now, let's set up a banquet first, eat him with good wine and meat, and rest when he gets drunk! ”

"Get drunk!" Finally left Liaohai, and all the pirates were also much more relaxed, and Whitebeard smiled, "But I only drink Wuliangye, and I don't drink other wine!" (To be continued.) )