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When they were ready to clean up, they heard the sound of messy footsteps coming from the bow of the ship, thinking that the few pirates left were breaking away towards the painting boat. If you don't run away now, when will you wait? Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe were about to dive out of the window. There happened to be a pirate who escaped from the window, and at first glance he saw Lin Lian and Fu Qinghe coming out of the window, an old man and a young man, he was stunned, and when he was about to shout to greet his companions, Lin Lian had already jumped over and rolled into the water together. Lin hooked his arms in the water and tightened the pirate's chin, and the knife edge was pressed against his neck, and he watched a blood line stir up a blood-colored picture like an ink landscape in the river.

There are probably also officers and soldiers who saw someone falling into the water here, and shot arrows randomly, but the arrows had no power in the water, so that Lin Jian had to dive down and pick up an arrow to pierce the pirate's chest, and then let the body float up, and he and Fu Qinghe continued to dive and hide under the rocking oar at the stern.

Fortunately, no pirates fell into the water, and naturally there would be no officers and soldiers going into the water to chase them; Lin Jian also doubted that there were really pirates who jumped into the water and escaped, and whether the officers and soldiers would go into the water to chase them. The officers and men have already won the victory, and if there are any more casualties in the pursuit, the gains will outweigh the losses.

The scattered fighting on the boat stopped, and there was another shouting firefight, and Lin Jian knew that he and Fu Qinghe were safe for the time being. Thinking about the two battles from last night to now, fifty or sixty lives have been lost.

"Maybe there won't be any more extraneous branches." Fu Qinghe listened attentively to the movement on the boat, and couldn't help but comfort himself like this.

"I hope." Lin Jian smiled and said.

Fu Qinghe saw that Lin Lian could still laugh, and he also smiled, thinking that no matter how bad it was, Su Mei's two daughters could also go ashore in the meat ticket, and when they reached the shore, Su Mei would be safe and sound if he showed his identity again.

At this time, I heard footsteps outside the stern, and two people walked to the stern deck alone, and Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe carefully pricked up their ears.

"Captain ......"

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe were both surprised, the military system of this dynasty, there are four types of people who can be called captains by their subordinates, namely the captain of the light car, the deputy captain of the light car, the captain of the cavalry, and the deputy captain of the cavalry, all of whom are senior generals in the army.

"Well, have the casualties been detected?" It was the voice of a middle-aged man with a deep voice.

"Twenty were killed, thirty-nine were wounded, thirty-one were killed, and one was captured...... This group of pirates is really hard to bite! ”

Lin Jian thought that the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers was very weak, but he didn't expect that the combat strength of the officers and soldiers led by the commander of the military town was not very useful. But this group of pirates is indeed very strong, first of all, these people—maybe more, but not much—dare to rush to Chongzhou County to hijack meat tickets; Lin Jian directly moved with a person last night, and he killed him by tricks.

When calculating the merits of war, they don't care about it.

Although it is said that all the pirates were annihilated, a pirate warship was captured, and all the hostages were rescued, but the number of casualties on their own side after the battle with absolute superiority in combat power far exceeded the number of ranks (first rank), and according to military law, not only could not be counted as meritorious, but also reprimanded by their superiors. Of course, over the years, the discipline of the town army in various places has been sloppy, the combat power is weak, and it is not easy to have a small victory.

Lin Jian didn't hear the middle-aged general speak for a long time, thinking that he was probably embarrassed by this record, the person next to him must be his henchman, and after a while, he heard the middle-aged general's henchman say: "Captain, Dong Yuan has been slandering our town army for its weak combat strength and untidy military discipline, and he asked the imperial court to allow the place to build a new army; This battle report is handed over, but I am afraid that it will be used as a truth for him again......"

"Which green onion is Dong Yuan, and it is his turn to dictate to the town army?" The middle-aged man said angrily, "In this rescue, we must ensure that the hostages are not envious, and it is inevitable that there will be more casualties." ”

"That's what I said, but the mouth grows on others, especially those civil officials who like to make trouble, and the buttocks and cheeks all tell them to bloom - is it to cross out the wounded?"

"They weren't so stupid, twenty people died, how could there not be a single wounded? Besides, there is a battle here, and the battalion should also receive information from the enemy, I don't know how many people are staring at the Jiang side at this time, when we return to the camp, can we hide the casualties and not report them? The middle-aged man's voice slowed down, and he could hear that he was beginning to hesitate, probably more worried that this was not appropriate and that there would be too many flaws left for political opponents.

"Captain ......" Another man walked towards the stern of the boat, interrupting the secret conversation between the two.

"Qianhu, what's the matter?"

"Fuck it," the person who came took a sip of it, and he could know the resentment on his face when he heard the voice, "Thief damn, that group of rich people in Chongzhou treated us as wronged bosses, and the East Pirates offered a total of 30,000 taels of ransom silver, and we licked blood to death twenty brothers from the knife, but there was only 3,000 bounty silver - let me take someone to Chongzhou, there is no 10,000 taels of silver, I cut down these turtle sons and fed them to Wang Ba, so that they can cut off their children and grandchildren......"

"Nonsense, do you want to rebel?" The middle-aged man shouted in a deep voice.

"There is no money, and it is treated as a wronged boss, this officer and soldier really have no taste in it." The man said in a muffled voice, and the meaning of the words was what about rebellion.

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe knew that the officers and soldiers were arrogant, but they didn't expect them to say such a big rebellious thing semi-openly.

"Okay, I know in my heart, you go down first, I still have something to discuss with Baiming...... the middle-aged man commanded.

"General Chen, the Donghai Kou who was captured alive is asking you to send someone to bring it over, I have something to ask him." The middle-aged henchman said on the side.

"Killed. When he heard that there were thirty thousand taels of ransom silver, he was angry in his heart, and he killed him. This thief is still shouting that he has something important to tell. Hey, hey, fuck it! Hearing the 30,000 taels of redeemed silver, Lao Tzu's heart was half cold; The thief's mother, he changed his words and said that there were 60,000 taels of ransom silver, didn't Lao Tzu vomit blood? didn't let him speak, and cut off his head with a knife. Now that the battle report has been changed, thirty-two thieves have been killed......" Chen Qianhu spit into the water and walked into the distance.

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe thought in their hearts that they really had to thank this Chen Qianhu for recklessly killing the prisoner, otherwise Su Mei and Xiaoman would probably not be able to hide; The two people at the stern probably couldn't do anything about Chen Qianhu, and they seemed to be smiling bitterly when they heard them.

"Baiming, what do you say you want to do?" The middle-aged man asked.

"The lieutenant knows how to do it, why did he ask me?" The man seemed to add inadvertently, "Thirty thousand taels of silver, enough for Ninghai Town for a year." ”

When Lin Jian heard this, he knew how arrogant and bold these officers and soldiers were, and they simply wanted to reach out and take the 30,000 taels of ransom silver.

"Baiming, the good news is written," the middle-aged man made up his mind, "I have to report the traces of the thief, a certain relative led a battalion of elite to attack, and met and fought with the thief ship in the southwest of Xisha Island, but the thief ship was strong, and the line report sent by Chongzhou was wrong, the actual number of thieves was twice that of our army, and the battle could not be fought for a long time, and the wind direction of the day was far away from the thief, and he regretted that he could not be punished, and returned to the camp with the first thirty-two thieves...... How to write about our casualties, you think about it. ”

"The thief ship is far away - it always takes seven or eight sergeants to get the thief ship to move away, so choose eight reliable men, plus the twenty who actually died, and the casualties will be written as twenty-eight dead. The enemy is twice as large as mine, and our side has lost 28 soldiers in battle, and the first 32 thieves have been killed, which is considered a small achievement. Even if you can't catch up with the thief ship, it will be a rout of the thief, and our naval division battleship will miss the opportunity if it is too far behind. The man quickly calculated the plan according to the middle-aged man's wishes, "The above has always refused to allocate the money for shipbuilding, and if they want to know how strong the thief ship is, the damage will be written as one fast paddle warship destroyed by the enemy, and one fast oars warship with moderate damage...... It's just that the eight brothers who were sent out are now counted as dead in battle, how to solve their identities when they come back in the future? ”

"Such a good deal, you are willing to do it only once?" The middle-aged man said, "Eight people are still too few, and I think there will continue to be people who will 'die' in the future...... It's just that our warship is destroyed, and it seems that it will also be used as a rhetoric, and we can 'capture' a pirate ship back as compensation after chasing out of the sea, you think this is good? ”

"Captain Wise."

Lin binds his teeth and bites the flesh, where are the officers and soldiers like bandits? Hearing it with my own ears, this officer and soldier is even more ruthless than a pirate! How can there be any consciousness of defending the land and protecting the people?

Even if they hated it, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe hid under the boat, and they didn't dare to move a little to alarm the officers and soldiers on the boat. Soon, I felt the boat move, and slowly retreated from the river.

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe did not soak in the cold and bleak river water for half a day this time, and soon found an opportunity to turn over and hide in the tail cabin.

Because this group of officers and men only arranged for eight officers and men who were "killed in battle" to escape from the sea pretending to be the owners of the East China Sea Kou boat, the other officers and men all pretended to pursue on the fast pulp boat behind, and went to sea one after the other -- the painting boat was still tied to the tail of the pirate sailboat, and the number of people who remained on guard in the painting boat was even smaller, and there were only two officers and soldiers who changed into pirate clothes.

Since the fast paddle boat had been attached to the back and pretended to pursue, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe had no chance to kill and seize the boat.

The fast oars "pursued" behind, apparently to protect the pirate ship from going to sea safely and find a desert island to hide, and be careful not to give the meat ticket to other pirates to rob them along the way. At night, just outside the mouth of the sea, the pirate ship dropped sail and rested for the night, and the water camp fast oared warship also stopped for a day. In the early morning of the second day, he sailed eastward again, and when it was about to get dark, he docked nearly 200 miles outside the mouth of the Yangtze River into a U-shaped bay on the south side of a deserted island.

Lin Lian and Fu Qinghe quietly went into the water, and dived ashore to the outside of the bay.

Lin Tie and Fu Qinghe hid on the shore of the bay left and right, observing the deserted island in the twilight, this island was once inhabited, there were several dilapidated grass huts at the edge of the woods that had been lifted off by the wind, there were traces of bonfires outside the forest, the beach still had the reflection of broken swords and halberds, and a few rotten boat planks scattered on the beach, it can be seen that there was a fierce battle here not long ago.

It may be that the East Piracy became more rampant, and the inhabitants of this area migrated out; It may also be coerced by pirates; It is also possible that in the fierce battle that took place not long ago, the inhabitants of this area were affected by the fish in the pond; Now there are no fishermen to settle down, and there are no pirates to stay forever, in short, it is now an uninhabited desert island.

Seeing that several ships had set anchors in the bay, I knew that the officers and men would spend the night on the island.

Although they were worried that Su Mei and Xiaoman's two daughters might reveal their identities, but the eighty or ninety officers and soldiers were all on the island, and there was no chance to start, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe could only hold back the anxiety in their hearts, and wait for a few boats to leave tomorrow, which is the best time to start.

Nor could they lie in ambush on the rocks overnight, and in order to avoid leaving a trace, they walked some way east along the shallow water outside the beach before going ashore. Venture into the dense forests of the island and find a dry place to rest. There were also a few dry biscuits hidden in his body, soaked by the seawater, salty and bitter, but still edible.

Fu Qinghe chewed on the black dry wheat cake and said, "Since there are people living on the island, there should be a water source......

Lin Jian nodded and said, "You have to endure tonight, you can collect some dew at night to quench your thirst, and after the officers and soldiers leave tomorrow, there should be some water and food left behind - a headache, they may take the boat away......"

"The bay is not deep, there is no way to hide the boat, they don't want the passing pirates to find out the Tibetans on the island, the boat will probably take them away," Fu Qinghe said, "but after saving people, we can set up a raft and leave......

Lin Jian looked at the waist knife at his feet, this knife is okay to kill, but it is too reluctant to cut wood, and the officers and soldiers will not leave them with tools to take advantage of, and it is really a difficult project to build a raft and leave here before the officers and soldiers go to the island again - no matter what, tomorrow after the main force of the officers and soldiers leaves, we will save the people. He jumped onto a chest-high boulder, trying to see more of the island from the woods.

Lin Jian knew from his middle school geography book that the Yangtze River estuary and the nearby waters are mostly sand islands, all of which are formed by the Jianghuai River system carrying a large amount of sediment from the upper reaches. Unlike ordinary bedrock islands, which can maintain a stable state for thousands of years, these sand islands and sandbanks are greatly affected by the tides of rivers and seas, and they are constantly evolving. When you go to sea and encounter a sand island, it may cease to exist after a few decades, and there is a legend that the fairy island is erratic and nowhere to be found; It may gradually connect with the land and become a new land over the course of a few hundred years.

The nameless island at his feet is a rare bedrock island in the nearby seas, as evidenced by the boulder beneath his feet; The woods where they hid at this time are also proof - ordinary sand islands are more grass and reeds, just like the reeds that stretched for dozens of miles on Xisha Island before; Even if there are natural forests on the old sand islands, most of them are shrub forests, how can there be such a lush arbor forest that looks more than 100 years old?

This deserted island is not large, just hidden in the stern of the boat to see the whole picture of this island, it is only four or five miles in a radius, later generations of slightly larger residential communities are more than this large, the small sea depth in the south is a small natural sheltered harbor, the southeast of the island hill looks nearly twenty zhang high, covered by dense forest.

Walking along the coast, I didn't see a stream mouth, and now is not the time to enter the dense forest to find a water source, and more importantly, to recover my strength, tomorrow the main force of officers and soldiers will be withdrawn, and eight people will be left to guard, these eight people are afraid that they will not be too weak.