choke element

Chapter 243

When the people boarded the boat, Monk Luo kept holding the iron rod and stood watching from the same place, his awe-inspiring power was like that of Vajra Bodhisattva.

Zhao Xuan and Monk Luo have fallen side by side for several years. Seeing his expression, he lowered his voice, "How about sitting down for a while?"

Monk Luo shook his head: "There's no rush, wait until the common people get on the boat."

On that day, Guo Ning assigned the Tiefutu knights to charge for three consecutive battles, and Monk Luo led the last team, which was also the most stressful team.After a fight, two toes on his left foot were cut off by heavy arrows, and he suffered serious injuries.

The injuries on the feet are different from those on the hands and the body. As long as you move, you have to bear force, and the heavy force of the whole body is added to it, so the injury is very easy to deteriorate.

However, Monk Luo is stronger.Halfway through the fleet, he led a surprise attack on Zouping, leaping and running to fight the enemy all the way, and then he took a big step to intimidate the Mongols.When the Mongols were around, he could still hold up his power, but now his boots were bleeding a little, and the wound on his toe was in unbearable pain... He could hardly stand still.

Hearing what Monk Luo said, Zhao Xuan nodded, turned around and called two soldiers to go back, and carried Monk Luo to the bridge that was resting on the bow.

At this moment, the Mongols were far away. Except for a small number of cavalry who were sent to the distant sentry, most of the soldiers were relaxed.The two soldiers boarded the boat in a hurry, each holding the armrests of the handrail and waiting to turn back, but they saw their companions on the boat with big mouths, looking towards the direction of the ravine not far to the south.

Looking back, a wisp of wolf smoke rose.

Thick black smoke billowed like an ominous omen.

The people who hadn't boarded the boat were in a panic immediately. They scrambled onto the narrow trestle bridge, trying to board the boat as soon as possible, and then they collided with each other, and some people were constantly squeezed into the shallow water and mud.Some people were so frightened that they jumped into the river and swam to catch up with the sailing boats.

Liu Yue, who was in charge of maintaining order, kept yelling and cursing, but it was completely useless, so he led his cronies and subordinates to beat them with whips.But the common people are all like frightened birds, and Liu Yue is not good at killing people to establish his prestige, so where can he live in a short time?
Among the two Tongzhou boats moored beside the trestle bridge, one was the boat of Monk Luo and the elite soldiers.The soldiers yelled again and again to prevent the people from rushing onto the boat, but they couldn't send the Jiaowu that Monk Luo loved.

The other ship was flooded with many people, and the people on board did not obey the command and moved wildly, and the whole ship tilted to one side visibly with the naked eye.Seeing that the situation was not right, the captain repeatedly ordered to lift the anchor and raise the sail.As a result, more people went to the trestle bridge in horror.

The weight of too many people finally caused the entire trestle bridge to collapse, and the wood fell into the water with a bang, followed by dozens of people on the trestle bridge, all of whom fell to pieces and groaned endlessly.

"What's going on?" Monk Luo was furious, pointing in the direction of the beacon with an iron rod: "Go to a group of people, check it out, if there are enemy troops or people with ulterior motives, don't hold back!"

A group of heavily armed soldiers immediately rushed over.

And Liu Yue had already given up on controlling the people, and kept shouting to the officers and men on board: "Be alert! Be alert! Archers are in place! Sailors are in place!"

When everyone was nervous, a man with his head wrapped in sackcloth rushed towards the fence left by the Mongols, waving his hands again and again: "Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding, military men!"

"What kind of monster is this?" Monk Luo was taken aback.

A fine soldier thought for a while and said, "Just now the Mongols threatened to kill all the old and weak. This man rushed out from the forest behind and confronted the Mongolian cavalry, and then he stood there in a daze..."

"Bring him, let the Sa family ask!"

After making a fuss for a while, Zhang Rong finally made things clear.

I heard that he gathered thousands of people to protect himself under the eyes of the Mongols, and I also heard that he ordered to light up the smoke at that time, because he was going to lead his troops to fight the Mongols to the death and create opportunities for the people to escape. Monk Luo Can't help but be moved.

"A man! What a man!"

Looking at Zhang Rong again, his face was clearly pierced by an arrow, but he talked to Monk Luo without fear of pain.Monk Luo nodded again and again, and said with satisfaction: "He's still a tough guy!"

"I dare not take it!" Zhang Rong said very sincerely: "We were just private salt dealers before, and we were just aroused by righteous indignation when we gathered the people to fight against Mongolia. This master is merciful, please give us some food and fodder, and give us a name." It would be much better for us to come forward to recruit people for Guo Jiedu than to let the Mongols plunder everywhere."

Zhang Rong has a rough appearance and is even more embarrassed now, but in fact he is very careful.

In just a few words, he defined himself, complimented Monk Luo, and tactfully asked for material support and recognition of his position, and at the end he vaguely mentioned that the operation of the navy might push the Mongols to plunder risk.

This was a bit beyond Monk Luo's expectations. After a little thought, Monk Luo decided it was better to play dumb.

"Your idea is very good, but the Sa family can't decide."

At this moment, the people finally settled down again, and the two soldiers came carrying the handrail.Monk Luo sat down in the wide room, and put his feet on the newly built shelf in front of the room: "You and I go back to Laizhou, we met Guo Jiedu, and we have our own explanations for everything."

Zhang Rong bowed and saluted: "Obey!"

Before sunset, the fleet was reorganized and set off for the return journey.

Although the boat sailed along the current, but because the northeast wind was blowing, the waterways in autumn and winter were shallower after all, and the speed of the fleet was not fast, and some river sections needed to be pulled by people. Zhang Rong helped organize the people together to weave Temporary team of trackers.

As a private salt dealer, he is quite well-known among the common people. Among the more than 6000 common people in the fleet, at least a hundred people recognize him, and many people have heard of him.With his help, many things went smoothly.

There is another pair of scholar father and son among the common people. The father is called Li Shibi, and the son is called Li Chang. They can help upload and issue many affairs.

There was no incident along the way, and the fleet turned out of the river within a few days, and then went straight to Laizhou along the coast.

During the voyage, the common people inquired one after another, what is the situation in Laizhou today, is it possible to live and work in peace?The soldiers triumphantly told about Guo Ning's move to grant the soldiers to shade households and then divide the fields.Everyone speculated that their family would get more land due to their merits this time, and the treatment the common people received this time was roughly the same as the previous one.

It's nothing to be a family.In the early years, the Jurchens aggressively seized land, and many common people worked as tenants for the Jurchens, and their status was not as good as that of shade households.If you can really get a hundred acres of land, it might be a good thing to have a lot of military masters on your head.

Most of the people are looking forward to this, and some people are worried that Guo Ning is just talking about it and tricking these soldiers to fight. Now that he has won, I am afraid there is another way to say it.

Whenever someone raised doubts, the soldiers were very unhappy and immediately refuted.

Soldiers consider issues from a different angle than ordinary people. They don't have to think about what's there or what's not, just say one sentence.

That is when fighting with the Mongolian army, the generals of the Dinghai Navy, including Guo Jiedu, all took the lead, so that many senior officers above the general level died in battle.

Throughout the war, the generals took the same risks as ordinary soldiers, or even more.When Guo Ning captured Tuo Lei himself, as long as he was a little slower, he would be easily crushed into a pulp by thousands of troops.

Who would doubt the general who lived and died with the soldiers?Friendship and trust from the battlefield, made of blood and steel, is worth a thousand words!

"Haicang Town is here!" The sailor in charge of looking out shouted.

As a result, the common people who were sitting in the bilge and chatting rushed to the bow one after another.

The fleet rounded a jagged reef that plunged into the sea, and they saw the port.

The natural conditions of the port in Haicang Town are very average, far inferior to Sanshan Port in Xiyou Town to the north.So the port is not spectacular, but it is full of vitality when people see it.They saw dense crowds inside and out; heard here and there, here and there, the short but strong sound of a brass trumpet.

They saw people rushing to and fro, carrying stones and wood, following the instructions of the trumpets; they saw that the port was clearly divided into different functional areas; outside the port, the roads, barracks, trenches, watchtowers, and high A majestic fortress.

As a private salt dealer, Zhang Rong had seen many private ports along the coast. In his early years, his family had also been to the port of Haicang Town, and had done several transnational smuggling transactions.But at this moment, the size of the port he saw was much larger than he remembered, and several trestles deep into the sea were being built.

When the fleet slowly approached the shore, he noticed that there were many soldiers patrolling inside and outside the port.Most of these soldiers were lazy, as if they couldn't lift their spirits, but that posture was completely different from the slackness of ordinary miscellaneous soldiers.

Zhang Rong didn't know it before, these days he led people to fight several times, and he was able to tell the difference. It was clearly the rest of the bloody warriors satisfied after the battle. How relaxed they were at this time, how brave and fearless they were in the previous fights !
Just waiting for a closer look, the ship leaned against the trestle bridge.

Zhang Rong's boat was the second in the fleet, second only to Monk Luo's boat.At this moment, Monk Luo sat carelessly on the cross raised by the four people, with his feet raised high, and a group of people had already landed along the trestle bridge.

A few people who looked like military officers came to greet him on the shore, and chatted with each other happily.No one is full of majesty and aloofness, they are just colleagues.

The young man Li Chang ran over and shouted, "Uncle Zhang! Get off the boat!"

"Here we come!" Zhang Rong straightened his clothes and followed quickly.

(End of this chapter)