Yang Shiwei smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Zheng, why should I make things difficult for me so hard?"

Zheng Liqi also smiled bitterly and said, "I really can't help it... I know that the thieves were in trouble, and we were dressed in purple and purple, so we could only sit back and see. Tonight, I didn't plan to go to the city, and I drank at home. The more I drank, the more I became frustrated. Since I was 23 years old, my career was quite smooth. I wanted to be a good official in the local area and then enter Beijing again. Now I am very confused. In this situation in the Great Wei Dynasty, no wonder Wang Yue, who was originally clean, became like this now. I am worried about national affairs. What's the point?"

"Let's look at the Northern Expedition." Yang Shiwei said: "If the Northern Expedition is victorious, I will submit a memorial. First, I will ask the central government to collect power, clarify local political affairs, and establish authority. Second, I will ask for additional imperial guards to the heart of the country and the southeast. There is no need for many roads in Fujian. Another five battalions of imperial guards are almost enough. Third, we must reorganize the military equipment of the wing army. Fourth, and the most important thing. If the country still wants to earn overseas trade, it will cost a lot of money to rebuild the navy. Although these four memorials still manage the exterior but not the internal, if it can be exterior but cannot be managed, then the Great Wei will soon be destroyed."

Zheng Liqi once had a secret letter to Xu Zixian. Xu Zixian's statement was the same as Yang Shiwei. He just complained, but he really didn't expect that Yang Shiwei's opinion was exactly the same as Xu Zixian.

However, Xu Zixian was clear. He seemed quite unhappy about the results of the Northern Expedition. If the Wei Dynasty could not defeat the evil, even if it was a blessing from heaven, the luck would be so good that the heaven would be looking at.

A small defeat or stagnation is the most favorable result.

And it is completely impossible to win.

The most important key is not that the imperial guards are not good at fighting. The system of the imperial guards of the Great Wei was built by Taizu. After more than 200 years, although the imperial guards were not as elite as when they were founded, they were no longer as well-equipped and well-paid as when they were sufficient financial resources during the Xuanzong period. In any case, this is a strong army built by the Great Wei with the power of the country. They have been fighting with the Westerners and the Northern Barbarians for nearly 20 or 30 years, and have been fighting with the Donghu, and have rich experience on the battlefield.

This Northern Expedition, a group of famous generals led their troops to the Northern Expedition, army and generals, all of which were fine.

What is concern is logistics and financial resources. With the current financial reserves and logistics capabilities of the Wei Dynasty, it is impossible to support an expedition of hundreds or thousands of miles. If this battle is less than half, the country's financial resources will go bankrupt, and logistics will have big problems and big troubles.

Zheng Liqi thought Xu Zixian was a little alarmist before, but now he felt that he was afraid that he and Yang Shiwei in front of him were too optimistic.

The two red-robed officials were blowing the night wind, and the collars of the two men flew up and down. Zheng Liqi shrank his neck and suddenly said, "The famous doctor recommended by the Grand Mansion seems to be called Wang Xinyuan?"

Yang Shiwei frowned and said, "It's indeed this person, from Jianzhou. He recommended him to treat Mingda's illness. He refused and went back to Jianzhou. I don't think this matter could be forced, so he could go."

"This matter is very interesting." Zheng Liqi smiled and said, "The Shang Group in Nan'an Town has been engaged in several frictions with the Jianzhou General Group. While the two sides were confronting each other, the Jianzhou General Group met Wang Xinyuan's family who fled from Jianzhou to Fuzhou. When they were arrested, they had a conflict with the Nan'an Prefecture Army on vacation. The two sides fought. However, because the brigade was practicing confrontation with the Shang Group, they were unable to fight. Many people died in Jianzhou. None of the prefecture troops were injured and took Wang Xinyuan away."

Yang Shiwei was interested and said, "Of course, is the sanctioning envoy to take charge of this matter?"

Zheng Liqi sneered: "Wang Yue has many things that are not ruled, but that is in Jianzhou! If he wants to extend his hand out of Jianzhou, he has to ask me whether the envoy of the punishment will agree. I have sent someone to investigate the matter on site and closed the case by fighting and killing people. Those government troops moved to the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion to ask them to find out... If Mingda replied that he could not find out, of course I would not really send someone to the Dongfan to investigate the case. Wang Yue suffered a loss in this matter. He had to swallow this anger if he didn't want to!"

The conflict was at the border between Jianzhou and Fujian. The prefect of Jianzhou Wang Yue could investigate, and of course the prefect of Fuzhou Yang Shiwei could also investigate. However, the case of fighting and murder at the border between the two states was definitely the conclusion of the faction. Wang Yue, the mute, was sure to suffer losses.

Yang Shiwei was in a slightly better mood, but he still said angrily: "Wang Panyun is getting more and more troublesome. Those dirty and smelly cats and dogs, all the mines are stopped. I think the court is not able to make any move now, and he is afraid of trouble in the local area. As long as the Northern Expedition is over, Wang Panyun, the prefect, will not be able to bear the qualifications. The court collected more than one million chunks of iron tax in Jianzhou a year, and he was ruined by himself. It was simply unreasonable."

Zheng Liqi said: "The root cause is still the source, and it is useless for us to be anxious."

This "top" does not refer to the two governments. After all, the two governments are now in charge of the Northern Expedition, so they really can't take care of their energy, and they are seeking local peace.

But the appeaser Lin Douyao could not restrain the officials under his command. He sat on the verge of Jianzhou and was messed up. He fought with King Zhao in the palace. The two only wanted to fight for power and profit. They were obsessed with maintaining their power every day. For local officials like Wang Yue who ignored the rules, both of them focused on winning over them. Instead, they did not

I thought about limiting this person, but I was afraid of joining the other party's camp.

In the normal season, one cannot tell a person's skill. Only when one really needs to make a decision and control the overall situation, one's level can be seen.

Yang Shiwei also agreed with Zheng Liqi's meaning, but in his capacity, he was inconvenient to speak out. He said at the moment: "The thief goes to the East Vanguard, and the East Vanguard is in danger. However, I feel that as long as Mingda's illness can be cured, destroying the thief is just a joke."

Zheng Liqi nodded deeply and said nothing.

The status of the five pirates among the pirates was achieved through years of fighting, and their subordinates basically included the most brave, powerful and brave pirates in a certain place.

For ordinary miscellaneous thieves, it is not easy to enter the direct camp of the five major thieves. For example, Chen Yutai, who is famous for the Qishan thieves, is just a vicious dog guarding the Fuzhou portal for the five major thieves, and he does not even have the qualification to be classified as direct.

The five thieves were directly under Wang Zhi's subordinates, and most of the subordinates who followed him for many years, were mostly from Mingzhou and Guangzhou who were active in the offshore of the Great Wei Dynasty and the Zhenla area of ​​Siam.

Pu Xingfeng's subordinates are mostly Tianfang people and Mantaji people.

Yan Qi and Liu Dan were mostly Luzon people, while Siamese and Annan people were mostly people.

Now the two thieves are attacking, with more than 30,000 troops. The two high-ranking officials in front of him have the expectation of Xu Zixian that he can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop. Xu Zixian's past record is too dazzling, and the two officials are unwilling to say bad things when they are in the battle. However, after the two of them finished speaking, they have not spoken for a long time. No one can guarantee Xu Zixian's condition.

The night was cool and the wind was fast, and both of them felt heavy-hearted. The center only cared about the northern border defense, which was difficult to reach the local area. Local officials gradually began to act recklessly, free from their deeds, northern barbarians, eastern Hu, western Qiang, and the thieves from the south from the sea and the great Wei nationality, with the storm. Is it really a cycle of turmoil for three hundred years? Now it is time for chaos again?

...

The morning light opened slightly, and there were some weeds on the flat ground at the port. As soon as the sunlight appeared, the dewdrops were evaporated by the sunlight.

Next, people gradually woke up, and they lie down or lie down, sleeping on the flat ground surrounded by brick and stone buildings.

There was silent everywhere. The first feeling when these people woke up was like dreaming. In addition to weeds, there were roads paved with bricks and stones everywhere, and the shapes were strange. If they were knowledgeable, they would still not recognize what kind of architecture this was.

It is mainly made of wooden buildings in the Great Wei Dynasty, with flying eaves and arches, and mostly spacious Mingtangs, and is also different from the various buildings of the Japanese, Luzons, and South China countries.

The domes of the Tianfang people and the spire of the Thais are also different.

The Dongfan everything was created, and the architectural style was mainly practical, simple and heavy, and it was thick and heavy. The thieves were surrounded by them. When they woke up, they felt that they were still in a dream.

Luo Wu and others finally gathered again. They went ashore at the port last night. They searched for the port before darkness, and then continued to move inward. After moving for a while, they finally did not dare to continue moving forward, so they stayed in their original location.

They knew that these dozens of people were too weak, and if the island was interested, they would definitely kill them. After the battle in Qizhou, Luo Wu and others knew that the elite troops of the Nan'an Prefecture were not inferior to the imperial guards, so they had no luck with their fate if they encountered the enemy. They simply did not send out sergeants or were not on duty. All the personnel scattered and went to bed, leaving them to fate.

In the early morning, everyone woke up from their sleep and found that the head on their necks was still there. This was a surprise. Everyone gathered again, and this time they were more careful and continued to move forward along the building in front of the port. There were tall brick buildings on both sides, and there were brick embryos of raw bricks in many places, stacked in blocks, and the tall brick kiln seemed to have residual heat.

In addition, there are wooden factories and shipyards, both in the north. The wood flowers that are covered with a strong smell and blowing in the wind.

Going forward again, there are open spaces and some buildings. There are several roads that go east, two or three miles away, and there is a jade belt-like official road that stretches from north to south. In the morning sun, you can see Changzui, Refusing Horses, and Arrow Towers. It seems that a large number of people patrolling and guarding the Changzui area with bows and arrows.

After the official road, there are large plains, which seem to be cotton fields and houses. The cotton has bloomed. From a distance, it is a sea of ​​white flowers as white as snow. It is a rare and rare beauty.

Luo Wu and others did not dare to move forward at this point, so they had to follow Yan Qi's previous instructions and continue to move forward and raise the prepared Qishan thief's flag.

Yan Qi's big banner is a white-bellied snake embroidered on a black background, which is cold and terrifying. Liu Dan is an image of his country's beach god. It seems to be related to the ocean, and it may be that he prays to be smooth sailing at the sea.

The Qishan robbed the flag, which was a black crow embroidered on the red background. This is what Chen Yutai meant. What was the purpose? No one knows now.

After the crow flag was up, Luo Wu breathed a sigh of relief and sat down cross-legged. Behind him was a clearing space of several miles, enough for the pirate cloth.

The formation, his mission has been completed, and the following thing is to pray that he can survive the battle.

Yan Qi and Liu Dan also woke up early in the morning, but Liu Dan took a boat to Yan Qi's flagship.

The two have worked together for many years and are intimate. The outside world also believes that the two are one.

This is true. If the two of them do not work together, the strength of these two of them is not enough to compete with any of the forces on either side. But even so, Liu Dan never stays in Yan Qi's flagship. Every time he boards the ship, the personal guards carrying swords and armor will get on the ship first, which is equivalent to Yan Qi's subordinates. Only then will Liu Dan continue to board the ship. If he had not been prepared, he would never meet Yan Qi.

"You can go ashore and line up." Liu Dan looked at the situation on the island carefully. This time he climbed up the mast and watched it himself. The battle involving tens of thousands of people determined the future of this pirate coalition. We must be careful.

At this time, they could see large groups of gray-robed soldiers gathering in the north of Changliu, all sitting cross-legged, perhaps waiting for a bunch of armor or waiting for food.

If it was preparing in the middle of the night, I should have had breakfast now, so it shouldn't be so, because it took quite a while for the thieves to board the ship and get ashore. It's just dawn in the morning and the war should only start at noon.

As for the long standpoint, it seems that it is long. It should be the brave men on the island who are guarding it. Because the clothes are mixed, they are not uniform, and there are obviously insufficient weapons. Many people only carry bows and arrows, and do not have long swords, long swords, horizontal swords and other weapons.

"The island's troops are indeed elite." Yan Qi had seen it before. At this time, he sat cross-legged on the bow of the ship, looking at his fingernails, and said slowly: "But they don't have many armors, and the divine arm bow is a weapon of the Wei people, and they don't have many. The people are so strong that they can't stand the battle, so they don't have to pay attention. In this battle, we will only destroy the thousands of Nan'an Prefecture troops, and then we can kill all the islanders."

"It's not easy to kill them all." Liu Dan smiled and said, "We must run into the mountains to escape, but we have no way to search the mountains on the island."

They had all gone to the Dongfan before, but they were still quite familiar with the geographical environment of the Dongfan. They were originally a barren island with extremely poor development. When the pirates broke Zhangzhou, they could destroy the Dongfan with only a few thousand brigade troops. But no one had this idea at all. Except for Yan Qi who could kill people for fun, what could others get if they broke the Dongfan? Flax or deer skin?

Although it is very different now, I expected that the island will not store too much grain on it, and it is impossible for pirates to farm and raise soldiers. After plundering it, they can only take a boat to leave, trying to search for the islanders and kill them. For the Dongfan, which has thousands of miles of mountains, it is really impossible.

"It's enough to kill all the Nan'an Prefecture troops and invite rewards to Pu Xingfeng."

Yan Qi ordered his servant to come and drink one cup with Liu Dan. The two of them clinked glasses and drank the spirits along Yan Qi's beard, wetting his chest and clothes. Yan Qi threw the cup and said, "Our army is 17,000, your army is 11,000, and 28,000 people are going to make ashore. You have to hurry up."

Liu Dan responded and said, "Tell everyone to open the array, listen to the command of the leader, and act according to the flag, and don't do anything wrong."

It is impossible for pirates to gather various tribes to train their generals, and it is even more impossible to learn the method of formation warfare. The military tactics and generals of the countries of Luzon were almost blank. After all, after the Chinese immigrated, their civilization was only slightly higher than the primitive tribes. Many countries did not even have their own words. The war was a revenge and hostility between tribes. There was no tragic war between China, which lasted thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of people since the pre-Qin Spring and Autumn Period.

The thieves gathered at sea, and at most two or three merchant ships robbed the merchant ships. Only when they went ashore and robbed, dozens of ships would gather, ranging from thousands or more.

There is no need to reorganize the array, it is just to loot from weak places. If you encounter a complete army, you will retreat quickly and more than 100,000 thieves conquered Zhangzhou. However, when the Fujian Road Imperial Army and the wing army arrived, the thieves all retreated. Pu Xingfeng wanted to test the virtuality and reality of the Wei army, and he was defeated in a small battle. Only then did he realize that the Great Wei could not be defeated in a short time, so he also led his army to retreat.

Pirates do not talk about military formations, but only lead the leaders of each ship at ordinary times, and then use the leaders of each ship to gather at ordinary times to govern the leaders of each ship, or hundreds of people in each regiment, or more than a thousand or even two or three thousand people in each regiment. Yan and Li only command the overall situation and cannot directly take charge of the leaders of each division.

After the flag roared, the pirates on the ship cheered together. They didn't understand the overall situation very well, but they only knew that there were many buildings on the island, which seemed to be a wealthy place, not as desolate as the rumored ones.

For ordinary thieves, the big plan is not known to them or their attention. It is the most important thing to be able to grab the goods.

Many pirate leaders had been given gold, silver, copper coins or valuable things before coming to the Dongfan. Pu Xingfeng gave the two thieves. Yan Qi and Liu Dan sent some of them again, but after layer by layer, there were very few that fell into the hands of ordinary pirates.
Chapter completed!