On the nameless island in the Liaohai Sea, a continuous tent has been set up again in the groves on the island.

Although the woods were wet and cold, it was definitely better than cruising in the sea at this time, being spotted by patrol boats in the town of Tori, and then surrounded by the Combined Fleet. The combined fleet of Duli Town was formed by the union of hundreds of merchant groups, and those maritime merchants hated pirates the most. Therefore, once a pirate is discovered within the range of the power of the town, it will only attract the endless pursuit of the combined fleet, and eventually become a disgusting and ugly scorched head on the sharp wooden stake in the port of the town.

The usually silent island was now a noisy construction site, with large numbers of slaves unloading their ship's cargo onto a simple dock and pirates transporting it into the forest. Whitebeard and the others have built a dozen huge wooden warehouses on the island, barely able to store the goods brought from Cat Island.

However, Whitebeard looked at the simple warehouse, and the large number of sailing ships parked in the bay of the island, but he was a little absent-minded. He approached Li Jing and offered his advice.

"Brother Ji Yu, Cat Island has been captured, and Duli Town will find out at any time. We should now leave here while the Combined Fleet has not yet found out. If you don't leave now, I'm afraid that the opportunity will be fleeting! ”

Li Jing was surprised: "Master Bai thinks it's appropriate to go now?" ”

"Exactly, what does Brother Ji Yu think?"

Li Jing muttered: "I don't think so, today we have been lucky to transfer all the supplies here and successfully evacuate Cat Island." However, that doesn't mean it's safe to evacuate here now. If I'm right, until now. Duli Town should already know about the attack on Dao Cat Island. It doesn't take an hour. The combined fleet in the town of Tori will search everywhere. We are now going to sea with our fleet. Then he hit his head in their arms. In my opinion, it is better to be still than to be still. Cat Island was captured, and there was no news from Duli Town beforehand, and they must have immediately sent a fleet to pursue it in the east, west, and south after receiving the news. We're hiding here now, but it's dark under the lights, and the Combined Fleet must not have imagined for a while that we didn't leave after breaking through Cat Island and sacking it. ”

Whitebeard understood Li Jing's worries, and also knew that there was some truth in what he said. Speaking of which, Li Jing is more worried about being exposed than them. Once they are discovered. You can also run away desperately. And once Li Jing is exposed, there will be nowhere to escape, unless he abandons his official body and the territory he has worked hard to manage, and wanders the sea with them. Li Jing should be more nervous than anyone else to leave at this time, but he can wait calmly at this time, which is so commendable. But he has been a pirate for many years, and he has always been bold, and he always feels that Li Jing is a little too cautious. And the pirates always take the initiative to attack, and they are never willing to sit in the city.

"Either the old man will take some people back to the nest first, and he will also transport a batch of supplies as soon as he comes. Second, it also avoids that there are many villains on the island and that the boat is difficult to hide. Easy to spot. ”

Li Jing kept silent and shook his head slightly.

"Why not?"

"If the white master believes me, he should hide on the island for a few days first." Li Jing sighed: "I understand that the big boss is unwilling to be passive, but in the current situation, the patrol and investigation at sea must be tight, and he will definitely be targeted as soon as he comes out." It's better to hide for a few days first, in my estimation, after three days, at most, after nothing can be found in Duli Town, it should be more relaxed. When the time comes, we will choose a dark and windy night, and it will not be too late to leave. There is a saying that you should have heard that the most dangerous place is sometimes the safest place. ”

Whitebeard looked at Li Jing in surprise, silent for a while, but his eyes seemed to ask Li Jing how much protection he could have in this matter.

"Trust me, I can't pack a ticket, but that's the best way to deal with it right now. Three days, just three days. In case I was discovered, I personally covered the withdrawal of the big boss. ”

After receiving Li Jing's repeated assurances, Whitebeard finally made up his mind to stay for the time being.

Taking advantage of the moonlight before dark, more than 50 large and small ships were driven into the bay, sailed, anchored, and cut down a lot of branches and spread them on the ship to camouflage. The more than 1,000 slaves and artisans were also kept in custody to prevent anyone from escaping. The pirates set up makeshift tents on the island, distributed dried meat and food, and in order to conceal themselves, they were not allowed to light fires and cook on the island to prevent detection.

After dark, Li Jing hastily ate a little jerky, although his body had a low-grade fever, he still struggled to go to the wounded soldiers' camp tent to visit the brothers in the reconnaissance capital, the wounded soldiers of the Xiao family were also in one tent, more than ten seriously injured have been rescued and five have died, although the remaining few have been rescued, but several have become disabled. After comforting everyone and assuring them that returning to Shamen Town would protect them and their families, the wounded were much more relieved.

Out of the camp tent for the wounded soldiers, Li Jing and Liu Shouqian checked the temporary deployment on the island again. Only a few pirates remained on board, and most of them are now on the island. More than 3,000 people are hidden in a dense forest, and there is no need to worry about being exposed if you don't go to the island to check it. But just in case, the island is still heavily defended. Outside the camp were many traps, pickets, and fences.

The more than 200 people from Shamen Town were alone in a small camp, not far from the small dock, and they did not take on defensive duties, but only guarded the slaves who already belonged to Shamen Town. However, Li Jing still cautiously divided the rest of the people into three groups and took turns to be on duty, just in case.

The sergeant on duty squatted behind a tree in a leather robe, armed with a weapon, and carefully supervised everything.

Wang Chongzheng was in charge of the first round of duty in the evening, and when he saw Li Jing coming, he asked, "General, should we send a boat home to report the news, and let them drive our fleet." ”

Wang Chong's meaning is very clear, now hiding on this island, whether he can really avoid the search of the fleet in Duli Town is still two different things. For the sake of prudence, the fleet of ships in Shamen Town was brought in, so that some soldiers and horses could be brought in, so that they could be reinforced in time if the enemy found out. Second, bring the fleet to transport the spoils of war on the island in time. After all, it is not safe to put it on the island, not only is it not safe, but the conditions are not good, such as grain and other things are easy to spoil in that simple warehouse.

Liu Shouqian said: "Lord, the combined fleet of Duli Town has more than 100 large and small warships. 20,000 soldiers and horses. And that's not even counting the town garrison. and soldiers and horses from several forts outside the town. We have to prepare early. ”

Several other officers also nodded in agreement, and sent a group of soldiers up, in case they couldn't fight, they would have a chance to resist and escape.

Li Jing muttered: "This matter can be arranged, I think it is better to let Liu Du take ten lightly injured brothers, and Zhao Jiang and a few other seriously injured brothers to go first." You are also familiar with the way to come, be careful when taking a dinghy, one hundred and twenty miles by sea, two hours as fast. It takes three hours to get back to town overnight. When you get to the town, don't be in a hurry to come right away, wait until tomorrow after dark and bring the fleet, don't have many people, choose three hundred brothers who are familiar with the nature of the water, and bring more arrows, fire oil, and other things, just in case. Remember, be careful and secretive when you come, if you are found by someone who is very thankful. Then you will raise the banner of the caravan of King Zhao, and they will not dare to stop it. ”

The people agreed. Liu Shouqian immediately returned to the camp, selected ten reconnaissance brothers who had only suffered a few flesh wounds, and took Zhao Jiang and other seriously injured brothers, rowed two small boats and disappeared into the night.

After sending Liu Shouqian away, Li Jing simply called all the officers above the rank of captain who did not participate in the duty to his wooden house. In the face of yesterday's battle, Li Jing personally presided over the post-war summary meeting. Such a summary meeting was held once after the last pirate raid, and each team usually has a training summary, and there is also a summary meeting such as a one-day summary in the group. In this regard, everyone is no longer new, the doors and windows of the wooden house are closed, and only a dim lantern is lit.

Everyone enthusiastically expressed their own summaries, and Li Jing had already stipulated that at all the summary meetings, regardless of their positions, they could speak freely. The Shamen Town Army was very strict in peacetime, and the strict upper and lower levels crossed the line in chaos, but at the summary meeting, they did not distinguish between the upper and lower levels at all. Such an opportunity is rare in ordinary times, especially for those captains and officers at the head of the team, there is finally an opportunity to speak in front of Li Jing, and everyone is unwilling to miss it.

Levi first talked about several special equipment in the reconnaissance capital, crossbow ropes, and special Fuyuan crossbows are all good guys, this time they relied on these two things, successfully crossed the ditch and the city wall, although a large part of the reason is the heavy rain so that there are no guards on the city, but the effect is still not small. In addition, their triangular thorns, tactical gloves, tactical sign language, etc. all perform well in this combat application.

Li Wei proposed: "I think we should be able to form a special combat team that we can use for raids, infiltrations, and other combat missions in the reconnaissance capital. Recruit more rangers and martial arts warriors. In terms of equipment, we can customize some weapons and equipment suitable for special combat missions such as raids and infiltrations. In addition to the ordinary reconnaissance, espionage, and intelligence gathering tasks, reconnaissance can also undertake the special task of seizing the city gate like this one. ”

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "You already have two hundred people in reconnaissance, don't you want to expand the organization when you mention this, you kid is changing the method to promote himself." ”

Everyone laughed, and Levi laughed too, "As long as you can play a big role when you are critical, I think you can give it a try." It's not me bragging this time, if it weren't for our scouting brothers who took the city gate, do you think we would have been able to take the castle so smoothly? ”

Everyone smiled and nodded, knowing in their hearts that if they hadn't taken the city gate first, with the sturdy and tall castle and the many crossbow beds on it, the loss would definitely be at least ten times more than the current one. Li Jing also nodded: "I think so, after going back, Zijun can first recruit from various battalions, or recruit a group of such fierce people from other places." For the time being, let's get the formation of a team first, and you will train first to see how this special combat team is going to be organized. I will give you three months first, and if you perform well at that time, I will promote the special combat team to the special operations capital, and you will be the head of the reconnaissance general, and then I will directly give you the number of a battalion. ”

Seeing that Li Jing directly promised Li Wei a promotion, several other officers were also interested. It has been suggested that although the soldiers of the reconnaissance capital are equipped with a crossbow machine, the crossbow arrows are obviously insufficient. Thirty crossbow arrows are often enough for these elites who are at the forefront of the battle to last only half a battle.

"There should be two quivers, at least sixty arrows per man!"

Li Jing nodded, and wrote down this article truthfully in the minutes of the summary meeting.

It was also suggested that in the next siege battle, we should bring craftsmen with the army, or prepare more straw bags filled with soil in advance to fill the ditch, and also prepare some longboard bridges for crossing the ditch, as well as ladders to climb the wall, battering rams to break down doors, rockets, and even ballistae and catapults to suppress the head of the city.

Everyone also put forward a lot of suggestions, and at the summary meeting after the last pirate attack, Li Jing proposed to let the soldiers learn the battlefield first aid method, and equip the soldiers with battlefield first aid kits, which worked very well in this battle. The wounded soldiers were not allowed to learn self-first aid, bandage, debride and stop bleeding in time, and even fix fractures. The first-aid kit also played a great role, and many of the injuries may not be treated after the war, but because they have first-aid kits on their bodies and can do first aid, many soldiers survived, and many soldiers' injuries were bandaged in time, and there were no aggravating consequences.

On the other hand, on the pirates' side, because there are no battlefield first-aid means and battlefield first-aid kits, the casualty ratio is much higher than that of the soldiers in Shamen Town, and even some pirates who should not have died on the battlefield died due to untimely treatment. There are also some people who are only slightly injured, but they cannot stop the bleeding or debridement in time on the battlefield, and as a result, they die of excessive bleeding, or the wound is infected and inflamed and feverish.

The first aid kits were particularly praised, but it was common to report that many soldiers secretly drank the medical alcohol in the first aid kits. This result made Li Jing a little crying and laughing, and he also estimated that there might be such a result in advance, and he also deliberately let people advertise that medical alcohol was toxic and could not be consumed. But after the worst, there were still drunkards who were not afraid of death to drink, and then they found it delicious. Now it is popular in the barracks to drink the medical alcohol in the first-aid kit, and even some people who don't drink it are sold to others, and they can also be sold at a high price, a small bottle of alcohol, can be exchanged for fifty yuan, or two catties of mutton.

"Check the kit regularly and every other week. In addition, it was necessary to inspect it once before the war, and if the first-aid kits were not properly equipped, especially if medical alcohol was sold or drunk privately, they would be punished, and each person would be punished according to the circumstances of the confinement of the small black house and the deduction of food and salary. For these soldiers who can ignore their lives in order to drink, Li Jing has no choice but to come up with severe punishment to stop them.

After discussing and summarizing some of the situation, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the wooden house, Wang Chong, who was on duty, pushed open the door, and under the dim light, he said in a deep voice with a solemn face: "There is a situation at sea, the brothers of Zhendonghai who are patrolling outside the island report that in the northeast direction, there is a fleet coming by night, and it is currently less than five miles away from us!" ”

Li Jing's face was shocked, and he asked urgently: "How many ships are coming, and what flag are they flying?" Isn't it the combined fleet of the town of Tori? ”

"These are not clear, the sky is too dark, the scout's boats dare not get too close, only to see that the fleet is composed of about twenty ships, large and small, and there are also warships, not like merchant ships." (To be continued.) )