Great Song Pirate

Chapter 405 The Wrath of the Lord of the Li Dynasty

When the night covered the land again, the shouts of killing in Huazhou City also began to calm down. After a day of hard work, the Fubo Army finally took control of Huazhou City, and raised their unique battle lights everywhere. With the skeleton banner, Xu Yi, accompanied by everyone, stepped into the Huazhou City Capital Protectorate.

Following the order after order, the Fubo infantry firmly controlled all the city gates. In this battle, all the defenders of Huazhou City were wiped out. Only a few defenders opened the north gate at the last moment and escaped from Huazhou City. This is also a helpless thing. After all, the Fubo Army has limited strength, and it is impossible to control all the city gates at once. A large number of Huazhou residents also fled outside the city with their defeated army. After some cleaning, Huazhou City has basically disappeared. It became an empty city, and a large number of Fubo troops began to plunder Huazhou City overnight, looting all the soft things here, and then began to load them on ships.

In Shenglong City, the capital of Annan Kingdom, hundreds of miles away, a guy in a dragon robe above the main hall suddenly slammed an urgent message on the table, and asked the officials kneeling below in a sharp voice : "Does anyone know what's going on? What is the origin of this fleet with the skeleton flag? Who knows? Why did the Song people suddenly attack our Dazhanhaikou?"

The following ministers also looked astonished. They didn't know why their king became so angry after seeing this urgent report, so all the ministers shook their heads and said that they had never heard of this skeleton flag fleet.

Seeing the following ministers shaking their heads like fools, the king surnamed Li angrily threw the urgent report down, and the leading ministers immediately picked it up and circulated it to each other. After reading the urgent report from Huazhou military envoy Li Xiaowen, The ministers were all shocked, and dared to say that a big thing happened in the south. Dazhanhaikou was wiped out overnight, and the entire southern army was defeated by a fleet flying the black skull flag overnight. Conscript Marshal Ma was killed on the spot, no wonder the king was so angry.

A minister came out and said: "I think there must be a misunderstanding on this matter! I think that since the battle of Xining, it is easy for the Song Dynasty to reconcile. The two countries have not fought for many years. Presumably the Song army will never easily invade our country. As far as I can see, there are Liao Kingdom and Xixia Kingdom in the north of the Great Song Dynasty. Although they have good relations with the Jin Kingdom, they will never use force against our dynasty without authorization. The Song Emperor has never liked to use force. This should not be the Song Army. And the other side hangs the skeleton flag, which in itself shows that they are not the Song army, and the skeleton is an ominous thing. Those who can use this thing as a flag must not be a good person. I think that we might as well ask the envoys to question the Song State and make them Give us an explanation, I don't know what the country wants to do?"

After listening to his words, the Lord of the Li Dynasty thought for a while and nodded: "That's right! The Song Dynasty has not fought against our Li Dynasty for many years. It is right that we will not send troops to help the Champa Kingdom. The status of this fleet is also very good. It is suspicious, but this matter cannot be dismissed. The Ministry of War must find out the identity of this fleet as soon as possible. Who are they? They were able to defeat our Southern Expedition Army overnight, which shows that their strength must not be underestimated. Look, once this fleet colludes with the Champa Kingdom, wouldn’t there be no peace along the coast? Also! Order the Royal Navy to go to sea immediately, and intercept this fleet flying the skull flag along the coast. Annihilate them on our coast and inform the soldiers and civilians along the coast. Anyone who finds this fleet will immediately notify the local government. Come to attack our border, the Ministry of War immediately mobilizes troops from all over the country, and re-arranges defenses to the south of Dazhanhaikou, in case the Champa Kingdom gets the news and invades aggressively!"

The following group of ministers of the Li Dynasty immediately bowed to their orders, sent their lord away amidst the sound of praise, and then immediately got busy.

But in less than three days, the bad news spread to Shenglong King City again. Li Xiaowen, the military envoy of Huazhou, brought dozens of remnants of defeated generals, and came to Shenglong City sadly, with his arms bound and kneeling at the Meridian Gate Outsiders plead guilty.

The king of the Li Dynasty who was shocked by the news immediately ordered people to recruit Li Xiaowen into the main hall. As soon as the bruised and swollen Li Xiaowen came to the main hall, he immediately threw himself down in front of the dragon case and cried: "Huazhou military envoy Li Xiaowen is here to see His Majesty the King, long live my lord." Long live, long live! This humble official deserves to die! This humble official is incompetent and failed to guard Huazhou City, please His Majesty the King punish the crime!"

Hearing Li Xiaowen's confession, King Li Chao immediately turned pale with shock, stood up suddenly and shouted: "What did you say? Huazhou City... What happened to Huazhou City? Say it again!"

Li Xiaowen then knelt down on the ground and reported back: "This humble official is incompetent. Three days ago, Huazhou City was suddenly attacked by a fleet of Song people. The humble official was defeated in a battle. They captured me, and later the bandit army released me, so I was able to come forward and report! Your Majesty, please punish me!"

"What? It's the Song Dynasty fleet again? But is it still the fleet flying the black skull flag that you reported the day before yesterday?" King Li Chao asked in surprise.

"It's them! This bandit army is quite powerful and unparalleled. It broke through several lines of defense set up by Weichen in one day, and broke into Huazhou City, smashing all the soldiers and horses under Weichen's command, and occupied the Huazhou City! I was incompetent and captured by them. Later, they released me for some reason. I wanted to apologize with death, but thought that Your Majesty might still know nothing about these bandits, so I dared to stay. Put yourself on the line to report the crime! I implore Your Majesty to send troops quickly to wipe out this bandit army, and save the people of our Huazhou from the fire and water! I am willing to accept the crime!" Li Xiaowen kowtowed repeatedly with shame on his face , to report to their king.

The king of the Li Dynasty snapped the big case furiously, and yelled at Li Xiaowen who was kneeling below: "Good Li Xiaowen, I saw that you have been fighting for many years, and I thought you were a general, so I ordered you to be stationed in Huazhou." City, but you are so incompetent, you actually lost Huazhou City in a day, such a mediocre person, why should I leave you? Come on! Push this mediocre person out of the Meridian Gate and behead him for public display!"

So several palace guards immediately rushed from both sides, twisted Li Xiaowen, and immediately pushed him out. From the beginning to the end, Li Xiaowen did not make any resistance, allowing them to tie him up tightly until he was about to be pushed out of the hall , several ministers hurriedly came out to dissuade them: "Your Majesty, calm down! Li Xiaowen is incompetent. Losing the guarding of the city is a capital crime. He is even more to blame for the fall of Huazhou City. But now the enemy's situation is unknown, and he knows the enemy's situation best. It is General Li, and I hope His Majesty will appease his anger and spare his life for the time being, and after he explains the enemy's situation, it will not be too late to hand him over to the Ministry of Punishments! I hope my lord think twice!"

Originally the king was in a fit of anger, after listening to the persuasion of these ministers, he pondered for a while, then nodded and said: "Push Li Xiaowen back to me, I have something to ask him!"

The guards immediately pushed Li Xiaowen back into the main hall, and knelt before the big case. The Lord Li Chao's face was gloomy, and he asked angrily: "For the sake of the ministers, I won't kill you today. Quickly tell the truth, and let us hear how powerful these thieves are. You have over [-] soldiers under your command, and you can't even resist a group of Song soldiers who came from afar. Don't you think it makes us lose face Hurry up and tell the truth about the situation you know, if there is even a little bit of falsehood, I will kill you alone!"

Li Xiaowen was bound and knelt on the ground, with a face full of shame, repeatedly kowtowed to thank him, and then narrated what happened in Huazhou to the king and the officials in the main hall, he did not deliberately exaggerate, But when he was still talking about the thing that could make a loud noise in the hands of Qi Fubojun, fear appeared on his face involuntarily.

"Nonsense! Fart! What a bunch of nonsense!..." Before Li Xiaowen could finish his sentence, the Lord Li Chao was so angry that he jumped up, cursing and transforming himself into a master of hidden weapons. He reached out and grabbed a teacup on the dragon case Li Xiaowen knelt on the ground and did not dare to dodge, the teacup hit his forehead accurately, and the precious celadon teacup made by Song Dynasty immediately rotted into pieces on his forehead , scattered on the ground, and Li Xiaowen's forehead was bruised, and a stream of blood flowed down his cheeks, looking extremely miserable, Li Xiaowen, who had been swallowed by a bowl of tea, didn't dare to fart, so he quickly bowed his head heavily Kowtow on the ground to plead guilty.

All the ministers in the main hall were silent, and the whole hall was suddenly silent, as if you could hear a needle drop, only the Lord Li Chao yelled loudly: "You are a bunch of nonsense! You are a bunch of nonsense! Who can Control the sky thunder? Could it be that they Song people are really gods? If they Song people had such sharp weapons, wouldn’t they have been used in the war with our dynasty? Why haven’t we heard of Da Song has something like this? I think you are just looking for excuses for your own incompetence! Come on! Send Li Xiaowen to death row for me, and hand it over to the Ministry of Penalties for strict investigation!"

So those guards jumped up and grabbed Li Xiaowen again, dragged him and walked towards the outside of the hall, Li Xiaowen shouted with blood all over his face at this time: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, wait a minute! The death of a humble minister is not a pity , But Your Majesty Wanwang must not underestimate the enemy! Everything I said is true, there is absolutely no falsehood! I hope Your Majesty will see clearly! The thief is fierce, the thief is fierce! Your Majesty must not underestimate the enemy! I was defeated by their kind of thunder, I have no intention of shirking, I hope Your Majesty will find out!" Li Xiaowen cried sadly and was dragged out of the hall by the guards, his voice gradually faded away.

The leader of the Li Dynasty, Youzi, was furious and puzzled, and continued to say angrily: "It's a bunch of nonsense! It's a bunch of nonsense! What kind of thunder? Can people control the sky thunder? Who can control the sky thunder? I think this Li Xiaowen is just thinking about his own incompetence. Excuse me! How can I trust him? Who is this Fubo army? Xu Yi? Why have we never heard of such an army in the Song Dynasty?" Li Chaoguo almost fainted from anger.

At this time, a minister came out tremblingly and reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, calm down! Wanmo is so angry that his body is broken! I think there may be a misunderstanding about this matter. Li Xiaowen has already said that this fleet claims to be Fubo. According to what they said, they should be a group of pirates, not the army under the Song Dynasty. General Li has been with the army since he was a child. He was promoted to his current position through accumulated meritorious service. I thought that he should not be a timid person, and there must be a reason for this defeat! I also thought that he could call his entourage to the main hall for questioning. Then you will know whether he is lying, if it is true what General Li said, then this matter should be discussed in the long term!"

The king took a deep breath, calmed down the anger in his chest, then nodded and said: "Recruit Li Xiaowen's entourage to the palace, I will ask them personally!"...

After hearing what the subordinates brought by Li Xiaowen said, the king of the Li Dynasty was a little dumbfounded. What the subordinates brought by Li Xiaowen basically said was the same as what Li Xiaowen said, and there were not many mistakes. Obviously, what Li Xiaowen said just now It's not false, if according to what they said, then this Fubo army is really not to be underestimated, they dared to travel thousands of miles to continuously attack Annan City, they must be no ordinary people, if they don't have this strength Otherwise, it would not be easy to defeat the land and water armies occupying Haikou and capture Huazhou City. This also shows that this Fubo army is indeed powerful. It seems that Li Xiaowen did not exaggerate too much.

The Lord Li Chao had a gloomy face, and drove these Li Xiaowen's subordinates out of the main hall, and asked the ministers below: "My loves, how do you deal with this matter?"

At this time, a minister came out and replied: "Your Majesty! From what I have seen, this matter must not be let go, otherwise my court will definitely lose face! I am not talented! I am willing to command my navy and go to sea Find that skeleton fleet and confront it! We must annihilate them all in my Chaohai sea! In order to promote my Chaotian power!"

Li Chao looked down at the lord, and it turned out that the person speaking was the commander in front of the palace, so he frowned and said, "Chen Aiqing is very pleased to have such a heart, but according to what Li Xiaowen said, this skeleton fleet seems to be very complicated. Tianlei seems to be very powerful, do you have the confidence to defeat them?"

"I think that the theory of thunder from heaven is nothing but nonsense. How can people control the thunder of heaven? From what I can see, they must be pretending to be gods and tricks. What General Li said is not credible! They just There are dozens of ships in the area, and I have hundreds of warships in the navy, how can they resist? I am not talented, as long as I find them, I will teach them not to turn back!" The minister surnamed Chen was full of confidence He said, in his opinion, Li Chao has hundreds of warships, no matter how they face this skeleton fleet, they will not suffer.

At this time, another minister came out and said: "I am going to play! I think we should be more cautious about this matter. This fleet is a bit strange, and from the current point of view, they are by no means ordinary people, otherwise It would not be so quick to capture our Dazhanhaikou and Huazhou two places one after another, and that is the place where our elite soldiers gather, but they were defeated by them. From what I see, we should send envoys immediately Da Song, ask the current Emperor Song about this matter, and let them send troops to destroy this Fubo army. Now we are on the verge of a war with the Champa Kingdom, and our Southern Conscript Army in Dazhan Haikou has been defeated again. If we send troops now to seek If we fight this skeleton fleet, our forces will inevitably be dispersed, and instead may be taken by the Champa Kingdom, please think twice, Your Majesty!"

The general surnamed Chen immediately said in dissatisfaction: "Master Zhang, what do you mean by that? General Li said just now that this army of skeletons is not an army of the Song Dynasty at all, it should be a group of pirates from the Song Dynasty, and we How could Li Dynasty be afraid of such a group of pirates? Although they were lucky enough to defeat our Southern Conquest Army, if we let them go, wouldn’t it boost the ambitions of these pirates? Besides, how could the Song Dynasty court just because of We were harassed by a group of pirates, and we sent troops to encircle them for us? Isn’t this leading wolves into the house? According to what Master Zhang said, is it just watching them attacking the coast of our Li Dynasty, while we just sit back and do nothing? ?snort!"

The Master Zhang who came out of the queue was immediately blushed by him, pointed at him for a long time, but did not say a word, the Lord Li Chao saw that there was a quarrel below, so he immediately waved his hand and said: "Above the hall, you guys I am How can it be proper for the courtiers to be so noisy? Why don't you all step down!"

The two of them hurriedly bowed down and confessed their crimes, and retreated to the court with their buttocks pouted. The Lord Li Chao then asked the following: "My dear friends, how should we deal with this matter? We sent the navy to the sea to seek Skeleton fleet duel, or should I send a note to the Song court first?" He was really disturbed by what Li Xiaowen said, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

So all the ministers spoke one after another. Some supported sending troops immediately to find the skeleton fleet to confront and defeat them in one fell swoop. Some said that this matter should be discussed in the long run, and we should see the situation first, and some said that troops should be mobilized from land immediately. They went to Huazhou to capture the skeleton army in one fell swoop. In short, they had everything they wanted to say. In the end, they discussed chaotically for a long time, but there was no consensus.

"Okay! Now that's the case, we can't let this fleet continue to plunder my coast. General Chen's words are justified. This fleet is just a bunch of pirates. If we are afraid of what they say, how can we save the face of the lonely king? But since they are from the Song Dynasty, the Song court is also to blame. We can't just let it go, at least let them know about it and send envoys Immediately set off and go to the Song Dynasty to inform the current emperor of the Song Dynasty about this matter, and ask them to deal with the bandits along the coast, and we must never allow such bandits to invade our borders again!
Order Chen Changhai to immediately prepare the navy, go to sea immediately within five days, and look for the skeleton fleet along the coast. They must be gathered and wiped out at sea to raise our country's prestige!

The Ministry of War immediately mobilized the troops from the nearby counties of Huazhou. To go to Huazhou, I must take Huazhou back. I want to see if the skeleton fleet that Li Xiaowen mentioned is really capable of reaching the sky? "After summarizing the opinions of the ministers, the Lord Li Chao made up his mind and issued decrees one after another.

So all the ministers immediately bowed to their orders and retreated to work.

(Chapter 3 is here today, and Pimple is almost exhausted! Finally fulfilled the promise, I will give you 1 words! It’s time to massage the cervical spine! Don’t vote for another [-] words! Please let Pimple rest one time!)

(End of this chapter)