Chapter 173: Murder and Arson

Murder and arson gold belt!

The victory will be followed by the sackage, and while the pirates continue to purge and slaughter, they have begun to sack the entire castle street by street. A rich harvest, warehouses were opened, and boxes of money were carried out.

Li Jing did not take anyone to participate in the post-war looting, for him, he only focused on the ordnance. And he believed that his subordinates of Whitebeard would not dare to embezzle them. He went straight to see Whitebeard, who was sitting in the hall in the center of the fort. It was the center of the whole castle, and in the past, only people from the Feng clan could live there. Every year, the representatives of the Feng family and the Bohai Feng clan in Duli Town will come to the island to inspect, and occasionally the Feng Zhang of Da Xie Qi will also come to the island, and every time they land on the island, they will stay in this fort in the castle that can take the entire island in their eyes at a glance.

Whitebeard sat on top of the ornate gold-lacquered coffin of golden silk nanmu, holding a glass cup filled with crimson grape wine. His personal guards were untying his blood-and-rain-soaked cloak and leather armor.

"A beautiful victory!" With a smile on his face, Whitebeard beckoned the guards to pour Li Jing a glass of wine, "Your people fought very well, this battle was all thanks to them, fortunately they opened the castle gate in time, otherwise they would not have won this victory at all." ”

Whitebeard's eyes full of gratitude stared at him, and Li Jing was a little embarrassed. "This battle is not just for you, it's for ourselves. Those 1,000 sets of ordnance were also bought by me through bankruptcy, so I can't afford to lose them. ”

Whitebeard drank the crimson liquor with a smile on his face: "Fight for each of us." I am avenging this battle. You are ordnance. Now the castle has finally been taken. My great revenge has been avenged, and your ordnance will be recaptured, which is really gratifying! ”

"When I entered the city, I took a closer look, and after 20 years, the castle was stronger than it was at the beginning. At that time, my father led more than 3,000 brothers to storm the castle for a day and night, and countless brothers were killed and wounded, but they still could not set foot in the castle. Whitebeard sighed a little and said, "General Li only used a hundred brothers. Just open this fort, it really makes the old man admire, it is really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, I am already old. ”

"Big brother!" A shout came, Li Jing and Whitebeard looked at the same time, only to see that under the lights of the hall, three big men with white gas all over their bodies walked in wet with weapons. There were three people who came in, Yellowbeard, Redbeard and Blackbeard, all three of them looked about the same, they were wet and looked a little embarrassed, and Yellowbeard even had his hair in a bun. The hair was scattered like seaweed. But Yellowbeard didn't care about any of this, and as soon as he entered the hall, he struggled to plunge his long sword into the wooden floor.

With extreme excitement on his face. shouted: "Big brother, twenty years of blood feud have finally been avenged today." ”

Blackbeard also threw a half-sword into the ground, "Big brother, all the three hundred guards on the island have been killed by us." The beacon has just been occupied by us. Now that we've closed the castle gates, we're searching the castle one by one. ”

"How are the leaders going to deal with these people in the castle?" Li Jing asked.

Whitebeard hesitated for a moment, and then slapped the cases in front of him with his big hand: "Kill them all, and leave no one behind!" ”

Li Jing was shocked in his heart, and was shocked by this murderous sentence. "The people on the island aren't all Feng and his lackeys, right?"

"Well, I just interrogated a few members of the Feng clan, and in addition to the three hundred guards on the island, there are about thirty Feng clan disciples and their families of more than three hundred. In addition, there were more than 200 people on the island, including the shopkeeper of the warehouse, more than 200 slaves on the docks, and about 500 slaves' families. In addition, there were more than 200 slaves and maids in the fort, including a brothel in the city, which was specially used by the guards. There are also several workshops in the fort, an armory workshop, but it is not large, only about a dozen people, specializing in making ordnance and repairing ordnance for the island. There is also a coin minting workshop, which has three coin furnaces and 100 minting craftsmen. Redbeard replied.

Li Jing secretly calculated in his heart that the number of people on the island was as high as nearly two thousand. This number surprised him, and after careful calculation, it was indeed correct. In addition to the 300 guards, there are more than 300 children of the Feng family and their families, and more than 200 warehouse managers. Then there were more than 100 craftsmen, and there were also slaves and maids, prostitutes and their families of thousands.

If he only killed three hundred guards, Li Jing didn't have much objection in his heart, after all, they were still enemies fighting to the death a moment ago, and he also had a lot of brothers under the opponent's sword soldiers. Killing them can be regarded as a common method on the battlefield. For the Feng family's children, it can be regarded as cutting the grass and eradicating the roots. But to kill those slaves and maids, Li Jing felt a little unbearable, and when he heard that there were so many craftsmen on the island, Li Jing was reluctant to love talents.

"A few masters, kill those guards and the remnants of the Feng clan, I have no opinion. But the slaves and craftsmen were also poor people, so could they be let go? ”

The white beard tugged at the white beard under his chin and kept his face calm. "When it's time to come, it's natural to come!" War means death, and the defeated side has no other rights than to wait for the slaughter. At the beginning, the three rivers in the town were destroyed, and almost all the 3,000 men and horses sank to the island to feed the fish. Then, the combined fleet of the town of Tori carried out a frenzied revenge on the surrounding pirates. For a whole year, they went out in all directions, breaking through one fortress island after another, and the pirate lairs that had followed Zhen Sanjiang to attack Cat Island were basically ploughed by sword and fire.

On the docks of the town of Duli, countless sharp wooden stakes were erected, on which hung one pirate after another. Some of them were pirates, but more often than not, the families of the pirates, young and old, were all on display. The four brothers of Whitebeard fled again and again, until they fled to the East China Sea, and they could be regarded as avoiding this massacre. Twenty years later, they finally made a comeback and breached Cat Island in one fell swoop.

"For the sake of the general, there shall be no woman's kindness!" Whitebeard said lightly to Li Jing, "Killing everyone on the island is not only for revenge, but also for your own good." You are no better than us, you are still an official. This time to attack the island, if the news of your participation leaks out, Feng Zhang will definitely immediately lead troops to destroy you. This is not the time to joke, you helped us avenge the blood feud, I can't harm you. ”

"Those slaves are enslaved by the family, we will free them, they will not tell outsiders." Li Jing still had a hard time making up his mind.

Whitebeard sighed: "I admire my brother's kindness, but the stakes are very high, and people's hearts are unpredictable." Who knows if among these people, will there be people who are greedy and have an eye for money? Besides, even if we let them go, how will we settle them? ”

"The White Master can take these people to your island, even if they do some chores, it is better than taking their lives."

Whitebeard shook his head: "There are only three hundred useful young men and women at most, and the rest are women, children, old and young, what do I want them to do, waste rations in vain." ”

"It's better to sell them again, to Silla, Japan, and Bohai than to kill them all."

"It's safe to keep them around, it's not appropriate to sell them, in case the family is closed or someone else sees them again, our affairs will still be leaked. It's too risky, and I can't put my brother in danger. Listen to me, kill with a knife, kill a hundred, just a group of slaves. In fact, these slaves are all Silla, Goguryeo, and even Khitan, Xi, and Bohai people, all of whom are not Han Chinese. ”

Li Jing was a little surprised when he heard this result, he thought it was some Han people who had been taken captive, but he didn't expect it to be some foreign slaves. Although the feeling in his heart was a little lighter, Li Jing still couldn't calmly slaughter thousands of unarmed innocent people.

Gritting his teeth, Li Jing said: "Master Bai, why don't you give me all these slaves." I, the town of Shamen, was in need of manpower, so I took them back and placed them in the workshop in the castle, and I usually sent someone to take care of them, and they were sure that nothing would happen. ”

Seeing Li Jing's insistence, the four masters of Zhendonghai agreed after thinking about it. For them, breaking through the Cat Island Castle and killing the guards and Feng clan members in the city is already a great revenge. As for those slaves, they were actually killed just to protect Li Jing. Now that Li Jing is willing to take this risk, they naturally don't care. After they made this vote, not only will they not hide it, but they will also leave their names in a dignified manner and declare their revenge.

"The dozen or so craftsmen and their families in the armory, I don't think a few masters should take them away. These people can keep it, and they can usually make some weapons for everyone, repair armor or something, which is still useful. Although Li Jing wanted to take these ordnance craftsmen with him, he knew that Dao Dao Town Donghai also used these people, so he took the initiative to bring them up.

The four of Zhen Donghai excused themselves, and then nodded and took these craftsmen and their families away.

After the distribution to the most luan, there was also a coin mill of more than 100 craftsmen and their families.

Li Jing spoke first: "How many of these craftsmen are willing to stay together?" ”

Whitebeard saw that Li Jing seemed to be interested in this, and immediately smiled: "Although this thing can make money privately, there is no good channel to buy a large number of raw materials such as copper and lead, and we can't do this business." I see that Brother Li seems to be interested in this, in that case, you can simply keep it yourself. ”

Li Jing was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately got up and said: "Then it is better to be respectful and obey your fate, and thank the eldest brothers for their concessions." ”

"It's easy to say, it's all my own brothers!" The white-bearded man smiled and said, "Originally, they were all going to be cut off, but now it's just for the sake of my brother to let them live." Moreover, there was a great deal of money and goods in the castle and storehouse, compared to which a few slaves and craftsmen were nothing. (To be continued.) )