"Bell, bell!"

The sound of the alarm bell sounded again in the fort of Shamen, and the soldiers and family members outside the city listened to the alarm bell with horror. The alarm bell is ringing, is there another thief attacking!

"Go back to the city, everyone go back to the city immediately!" Li Xigou led the gendarmerie to gallop around the city, shouting at the soldiers and family members who were still confused. Many of the people came to their senses in a hurry, and dragged their children and daughters to the city in a hurry. The sound of alarm bells has not stopped, and the people around them have gathered from outside the city to the inside of the city.

The cowhide drums and horns in the city also sounded one after another, which was a call to gather the soldiers, and the drums and horns sounded in unison, and all the soldiers in the formation must immediately return to the barracks to assemble. The soldiers hurriedly left what they were doing and rushed back to the barracks from all directions, and even the wounded who were slightly wounded in the medical camp immediately returned to the barracks. The soldiers quickly put on their armor and lined up to go.

Li Jing, Lin Wei and other generals appeared on the school field with serious expressions, and after he glanced at the soldiers, he said loudly: "Fellow soldiers, I just got the news that a fleet of dozens of warships has appeared on the sea outside the Phoenix Mountain Wharf in the east, and it is estimated that there are at least five hundred to one thousand people. In addition, in the sea off the Taishan Wharf to the south, a fleet of more than 10 warships also appeared, and the number of people was also estimated to be 500 to 1,000. ”

When the soldiers lined up on the school ground heard the news, they couldn't help but change color. They fought desperately last night to defeat more than a thousand pirates with a crushing victory. Now it's only been half a day, and it turns out that two more fleets have come, what the hell is going on?

Li Jing saw the expressions on the faces of the soldiers and asked loudly, "Just last night, we killed 1,100 pirates. Seven hundred captives. Although we also paid a heavy price. But in the end, we won. You say. Now, if there are still people who want to deal with us, are you afraid? ”

"Don't be afraid!"

"Well, no matter how many people come, we will not be afraid to take the town of Salmon unless he steps over our corpses."

"Fight to the end! Fight to the end! Fight to the end! A group of soldiers shouted in unison under the leadership of the officers.

Li Jing nodded, although the soldiers had worried and fearful expressions on their faces, but fortunately, the morale of the army was still there.

"Yes, who wants to take away Salmon Island. We're going to fight to the end. However, it has been preliminarily learned that the battleship outside the Phoenix Wharf is Da Xie Yan, and the warship outside the Taishan Wharf is the warship of the Dengzhou Naval Division, all of which are officers and soldiers of the imperial court. They must have come to their aid after receiving the news that pirates had attacked our Shamen Town last night. ”

As soon as everyone heard that it was the officers and soldiers, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed. At this time, if an enemy attacks from both sides of the sea, the current situation of Shamen Town is really unknown. However, since they are officers and soldiers, everyone has nothing to worry about.

Seeing everyone's appearance, Li Jing shook his head secretly. Officers and soldiers are not all reliable. Last night's pirates weren't colluded by Wang Jin of the Dengzhou Naval Division. If they are completely defenseless, who can guarantee that the officers and soldiers will not take the opportunity to slaughter Shamen Town?

"Still. Although it was an officer and soldier who came, everyone should not forget why the one-eyed Jiao came to attack us, he was instructed by Wang Jin, the envoy of the Dengzhou Navy Division. Therefore, before figuring out the other party's intentions, everyone must be in good spirits, prepare for the war with all their might, and not relax in the slightest. Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

"Okay, each team is coming up to receive their tasks, and then they are all in place and waiting for them."

The remaining 1,400 men and horses were all arranged within the four walls of the fortress. All the family members were immediately recalled to the city, and even the pirate captives and the former labor camp were imprisoned in the city barracks.

The walls of the eastern and southern cities were only half as high as chests, and Li Jing sent 300 men and horses each, and sent all the captured weapons, each equipped with armor, helmets, horizontal swords and longbows, and even a lot of crossbow arrows. On the south wall facing the Taishan warehouse and the east wall facing the Phoenix Mountain warehouse, there are also ten Fuyuan heavy crossbows each.

The west city wall was basically destroyed in last night's battle, and Li Jing didn't have time to build it for a while, so he temporarily asked the soldiers to carry a lot of sandbags and piled up a sandbag wall about one person high on the original city wall site, and temporarily added a row of sharpened wooden piles outside the sandbag wall.

As soon as everything was arranged, the newly formed reconnaissance team had already sent people back to report that the two fleets were almost one east and one south, and they had landed on Salmon Island at the same time.

Li Jing and several generals made a preliminary judgment that they thought that Da Xie Yan's soldiers and horses and Dengzhou Sailor's soldiers and horses appeared here at this time, and they should not have come to attack Shamen Town. The biggest possibility is that these people had received the news of the pirate attack on Salmon Town last night, but they kept dragging their feet and refused to rush to the rescue immediately. As a result, they waited left and right, and when it was morning, they did not see the one-eyed Jiao evacuate the island, so they had no choice but to lead their troops to come.

Although there was such speculation, for the sake of safety, Li Jing only sent the leaders of the two reconnaissance teams, Li Wei and Monk Xuancheng, with half a team of men and horses, divided into two sides, and went out of the city to pay close attention to the movements of the two fleets. He and all the others stayed in the city, never leaving the city.

In fact, everything is no different from Li Jing's speculation.

Last night, the pirates landed on Salmon Island, and then fought a bloody battle with Salmon Town, and those merchants on several docks had already known about it for the first time. Many merchants fled from Salmon Island by boat overnight with some softness, some fled back to the South Island of Daxie Island, and some fled directly back to Dengzhou. The news of the attack of the pirates also reached the ears of Da Xie Feng Zhang for the first time, and the Dengzhou Sailor and Dengzhou Assassin Shi Song Wen basically learned the news as soon as possible.

When Feng Zhang sent someone to find out that the attacking pirate was a one-eyed Jiao, he immediately understood that Wang Jin had nothing to do with this matter. However, he already had the idea of getting rid of Li Jing, and he was happy to kill Wang Jin and Li Jing at the moment. The pirates got rid of Li Jing, and the Shamen Town General was back in his hands, and he pulled out a thorn in his eye. And if Li Jing kills the pirates, or loses both with the pirates, he is still happy to see it. What's more, Feng Zhang was also taken aback when he heard that the one-eyed Jiao actually came with eighteen ships. At the moment, he even thought that Li Jing would die this time, and he couldn't wait for Li Jing to die at the hands of pirates, so how could he help Li Jing. He then issued an order that all ships should not approach Salmon Island without his order.

Another person who has the ability to reinforce Li Jing is Wang Jin of the Dengzhou Water Division, but the pirates were originally colluded with him, and it is even more impossible to expect him to reinforce Shamen Town.

The only one who heard the news of the pirates' attack on Shamen Town, and the only one who worried about it was Dengzhou Assassin Shi Song Wen. Li Jing was sent to Shamen Town by him, for example, Li Jing has just arrived not long ago, if he dies in the hands of pirates like this, then how will he face Cui Yunqing, Yu Xuan, and Li Xiao? He knew that the daughter of Li Xu, the king of Dao Zhao, the county lord of Xihe, was currently on Shamen Island with Yu Xuan's daughter, and if they also fell into the hands of pirates, then this matter would be really a big deal.

As soon as he got the news, Song Wen sent an order to the Dengzhou Naval Division, asking Wang Jin to immediately lead the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Naval Division to reinforce Shamen Town by warship and repel the pirates. It's just that after his warrant was sent to Shuizhai, Wang Jin just smiled, and then tore the warrant to pieces. The Dengzhou Naval Division is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Dengzhou Thorn History, but in fact it has long been self-contained. What's more, Wang Jin and Song Wen are the two most incompatible factions in Ziqing Town, on the one hand, they are the henchmen of Song Wei, the envoy of Jiedu, and on the other hand, they are the brothers of Wang Jingwu, the general of Qingzhou Tooth Soldiers, he ignored Song Wen's orders, and Song Wen couldn't help him.

Things dragged on like this, Li Jing and One-eyed Jiao fought bloodily in the middle of the night, separated by Da Xie Yan, who was only a dozen miles away, and Dengzhou Sailor dozens of miles away.

When it was almost dawn, Song Wen saw that three orders were sent to Wang Jin and Feng Zhang, and after there was no news, he finally understood that something was wrong. At the time of Guan Jian, Song Wen found Li Wei, the king of Zhao, and summoned Han Zhong, the envoy of Dengzhou Prison, as well as Liu Jian, the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the Longshan battalion, and Xu Cheng, the envoy of Dongmu. After some discussion, a thousand men and horses were mobilized from the three camps and went straight to Dengzhou Water Village.

Seeing Song Wen and Zhao King Li Xiao personally coming with a thousand soldiers and horses, although Wang Jin's face was pale, he also knew that Lu Dao could only do this step. In the end, under pressure, he had to order the transfer of more than a dozen warships and 500 officers and men of the Navy Division to rescue Salmon Island. Feng Zhang saw that the matter had come to this point, and the estimated time was about the same, so in front of the envoy sent by Song Wen, he also dispatched more than a dozen warships and 500 officers and soldiers to reinforce Shamen Island.

In this way, the warships were dispatched, the soldiers and horses were deployed, and so on, and the two sides were delayed for half a day before finally setting sail. The two fleets each had 500 men and horses, plus 500 men and horses each brought by Song Wen and Li Xiao, a total of 2,000 men and horses rushed to Shamen Town.

But by the time they arrived at the docks in Salmon Town, it was almost noon.

The battleship landed slowly on the two piers, which was also the request of Song Wen and Li Wei, for fear that Shamen Town had been broken by pirates, and landed from both sides, just hoping to intercept the pirates.

As soon as he landed, Song Wen heard the sound of drums and horns on the island, but he didn't see half a person on the pier. For a while, I didn't know what was going on with Li Jing, and I was anxious. had to hurriedly order all the soldiers to disembark, assemble in formation, and kill all the way to Shamen Town.

Song Wen and Li Wei each landed on the shore from one direction and led their troops to come. It didn't take long for them to meet in the city of Shamen Town, Li Xiao saw the ashes of the camp outside the fortress of Shamen Town, and saw the blood stained all over the ground under the west city, and the people in the city not only did not come out to greet them when they saw their arrival, but piled up sandbags and opened their bows and arrows from a distance, thinking that Shamen Town had fallen into the hands of pirates.

As soon as Li Wei remembered that his daughter on the island was still unknown at this time, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart, gritted his teeth and drew his sword, pointed at the front fort city, and shouted: "Take back the fort city and kill all the thieves!" (To be continued.) )