Three Kingdoms Eschatology

The Gandhari soldiers tortured and killed many people in a row, but they still haven't confirmed the whereabouts of the Misura brothers and sisters.At this time, a Gandhari general asked the soldiers to gather several children together, and shouted to the crowd: "If you don't speak up, I will kill these little bastards one by one!"

Some women quickly knelt down and begged.Suddenly, the general felt a sharp pain in his wrist. It turned out that a little boy under his arm opened his mouth and bit him.Furious, he tossed the boy high and towards a soldier with a spear.

With a puff, the spear blade pierced through the boy's weak body immediately, and the soldier waved the spear that was wearing the boy's body.There were heart-piercing cries from the crowd. The boy's mother tried to break through the soldiers' blockade, but was beheaded by a knife.

"Should I tell the truth? If you don't tell the truth, then kill!" Chupi Peng shouted, shaking his beard.

A woman fell to her knees on the sand with a plop, howling, "Say, I say, please don't kill my child..."

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Half an hour later, a general reported to Chupi Peng: "My lord, after interrogating these thieves, when we came, the remnants of the former dynasty, a man and a woman, were still on this island and had never left. .”

"Are you careful about the interrogation? Don't let them deceive us."

"Please rest assured, Prime Minister. Before the villain is transferred to the army, he is in charge of arresting thieves. Interrogation is the specialty of the villain. These thieves are fired and interrogated separately. If they lie, it is impossible to tell the truth. They must It's true."

Another general said to Chupi Peng: "Master Prime Minister, these two thieves must have run into the jungle deep in the island. However, this Temasek is only a small island with a radius of only tens of miles. We brought Nearly a thousand soldiers, and two bands of pirates entrenched in the north of the island are willing to be at our disposal. Our warships have also sealed off the waters around the island, and within three days, we will capture them."

Chupi Peng frowned and said: "Three days? This time is too long, I will give you one day, if you can't find these two people, come and see them!"

"Um... this... this subordinate obeys orders!" Despite the reluctance of a hundred generals, they all agreed in unison.

One of the generals shouted loudly: "Assemble all, and deploy to search the island!" The soldier next to him reminded: "We are all gone, what about these thieves?"

The general stared at him: "It's no question, kill them all! Burn the village too." After a while, amidst howling and cursing, dozens of corpses appeared on the open seaside, and the world returned to peace. There was only the crackling sound of the raging fire in the village.

On a highland not far from the village, Missoula and his sister Shirley witnessed the whole process of the tragedy in the village.The guards were furious, and Shirley was also tearful.Only Misula's expression was indifferent. If he hadn't tried his best to stop the guards just now, I'm afraid that these guards would rush into the village and fight with Chupi Peng's people.

Missoula said calmly: "We have to go, they will find this place soon. If you want to avenge your relatives, you must first save your own life."

A group of people went down the high ground silently and walked towards the mountainous forest area in the center of Temasek Island.Behind them came the sound of dogs barking, and Gandhari's pursuers entered the forest with their hounds.But now night has fallen...

Seventy miles to the north of Temasek Island, a fleet of dozens of ships of various types is full of sails and paddling towards Temasek. Three of the ships are large ships with very unique shapes.It was a mixed fleet of Dusang and Lin Tao.

Chapter 327

Temasek Island has a radius of tens of miles, which is literally a small number.But in the actual scene, when night falls, finding a small group of people in the jungle with a radius of tens of miles is undoubtedly a dream.

Therefore, the soldiers of Gandhari held torches and searched until midnight, and then they were forced to stop their actions. They cursed and complained to the generals, cleared the open space, lit the wormwood to repel mosquitoes, and started camping.Several generals were also complaining to each other.

"It's all you idiot. The prime minister wants you to interrogate those troublemakers, and you just say that those two people are no longer here, so we don't have to suffer this crime! This is good, I'm going to feed mosquitoes in this forest. If tomorrow If you can’t find those two people, what should you do if you are really accused and beheaded by the Prime Minister, alas!”

"Can this be my fault? I didn't want my brothers to get more credit so that I could get promoted and make a fortune in the future. How did I know that old man Chupi Peng only gave us three days."

"Shh, keep your voice down, if you call the prime minister by his first name, be careful not to be secreted!"

"There's nothing to be afraid of! Big deal, I'm going to be a pirate again. I just don't accept it. He asked me to catch the prisoner within a day when he touched Chupipeng's mouth. We have to do tricks for him in a radius of tens of miles." Turned out to be a criminal? We are suffering here, but he is enjoying his life on the boat."

In the end, it was an older and higher-ranking general who stopped their complaints:

"Oh, what's the use of talking about this now? I advise everyone to get a good night's sleep. If you can't sleep, think about how we can catch the two criminals tomorrow. It seems that these two criminals are really important to the king. If we It is really a chance to make a fortune if we can catch them. Otherwise, this Prime Minister will really punish us!"

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At this moment, Lin Tao didn't fall asleep either. He stood on the deck looking at the stars all over the sky, and recalled the scene of Du Sang rushing to Malajia to find him during the day.

"General, the descendants of the former royal family of Gandhari... I found out their whereabouts. They live on Temasek Island and have lived there for some years."

"Is your information accurate?"

"Don't worry, general, the news is absolutely true. I was also a tyrant in this sea area before Dusang. Pirates from all sides want to give me face. I got the news from them. This is south, at the southernmost end of the strait There is a small island on the east coast of China called Temasek Island. Because of its strategic location, many pirates gather on that island.

A few years ago, another group of people came to the island, and these people were armed.But the strange thing is that it is rare to see them go out to sea to do "business". The leader is a man and a woman, two brothers and sisters.Their subordinates do not call them leaders, but masters.The pirates who have dealt with them can see that they are of noble origin in their behavior.Comparing the year when Gandhari was attacked by Chola, and the fact that only two brothers and sisters escaped from the original royal family of Gandhari, there is no doubt that this group of people must be the Misura brothers and sisters. "

Lin Tao said happily: "In this case, we need to send someone to contact the two brothers and sisters immediately."

Du Sang took a sip of water and said, "Don't worry, general, just wait until Du Sang has finished speaking..."

"I also know from those pirate friends that we are not only looking for the two brothers and sisters, but also a group of people who are inquiring about their whereabouts. This group is the people of Chupipon, the Prime Minister of Gandhari, and he is among the various pirates. Also placed powerful.

In fact, the pirate leaders knew the situation in their hearts, but they didn't see through it, because sometimes they also needed to contact people from the Gandhari Kingdom through Chupi Peng's undercover agents. After all, Gandhari was the most powerful kingdom in this area. "

When Lin Tao heard this, he thought to himself for a moment, it seems that there are many wise men in Gandhara, who can immediately think of the loopholes in his ruling system, and he must not underestimate them in the future.He immediately said: "Since this is the case, we must hurry up, don't let Gandhari get rid of or destroy people first. Don't hesitate, immediately mobilize all the ships and manpower that can be mobilized, and go to Temasek Island to pick up people."

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A round of morning sun gushed out from the sea, and the sky brightened again in an instant.

The generals of Gandhari rose at dawn to discuss the manhunt plan, and most of them stayed up all night.In the end, they divided the whole island into seven regions, and nearly a thousand Gandhari soldiers were divided into five groups, with 200 people in each group responsible for one region.

A general wondered, "There are still two areas to search."

The leading general replied: "The two bands of pirates in the southwest of the island are in charge."

"Are there two groups of pirates who belong to us?"

"No, but for pirates, as long as you pay them, you are your own."

The Gandhari soldiers and generals performed their duties, leading many hounds, and disappeared into the jungle deep in the island.

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"The scouting ship in front of our army came to report that they found dozens of ships of the Gantry Navy cruising around Temasek Island. Please, general, decide whether to attack the enemy?"

After listening to the soldiers' report, Lin Tao thought for a moment, and said decisively: "Send our military order to sink and destroy all enemy ships encountered!"

In the waters northwest of Temasek Island, three or four Gandhari warships were patrolling and guarding here, and one mast after another appeared on the skyline directly north of them.

The general of one of the warships immediately ordered: "There are a large number of unknown ships coming, transfer one ship to report to the Prime Minister. The rest of the ships will follow me to check the situation."

His military order was immediately passed on by the sailors on the mast with semaphore.One ship immediately left the fleet and sailed towards the northern sea area of ​​the island, while the rest of the ships quickly went forward,

The fleets of the two sides were getting closer and closer, and the warships of Gandhari began to raise flags to ask the other side to approach them and drop anchor.When the distance between the two sides was less than seventy battles, the personnel on the Gantry warship could clearly see the appearance of the opponent's warship, but these ships did not fly the flag.

Suddenly, they found that three of the strangely shaped ships had turned their direction and turned the side of the ship to face themselves.Just when the people of Gandori thought that the other party was going to turn around and flee, they found a row of small black dots flying towards their own fleet in the sky.In fact, it was Lin Tao's ocean-going sailing ship that launched the attack with a broadside.

These black dots grew bigger and bigger, until at last those on the Gandhari warship discovered that they were huge stone bullets.Boom, most of the stone bombs fell into the sea water, stirring up a huge water column.There were a few loud bangs again, sawdust from several Gantori warships splashed everywhere, and ballista stone bullets shattered their sides.

Behind these projectiles were a dozen heavy arrows from longbows.With a few muffled puffs, several Gantori sailors were pierced through their heads and bodies by arrows in an instant.

At this time, the generals headed by Gandhari were shocked.Previously, although he knew that the other party was unlikely to be a merchant fleet, because he had never seen such a large-scale merchant ship, he did not expect that the other party would attack Gandhari's navy without hesitation.

Looking at the dozens of warships on the other side, he shouted in despair: "Enemy attack! Fight!"...

Chapter 328 Island Escape

Dozens of warships from the size of the Liang Kingdom surrounded them, but at this moment the three Gantori's warships could not escape even if they wanted to.The closer the distance, the more accurate the ballista bullets were, and the heavy arrows shot by the longbow almost always hurt one person.

Before the two sides joined the gang, Gandari's warship had been smashed into a pile of rotten wood floating on the sea.The Gandhari soldiers who fell into the sea were also constantly shot by arrows, and there were few survivors.The frightened Gandhari sailors knelt on the deck of the wrecked ship, desperately gesturing and semaphore, expressing their willingness to surrender.

Seven miles away, Chupipon on the flagship of Gandori first learned that a large number of ships were coming, and then confirmed that it was the Liang army's attack. He was shocked and said: "I didn't expect them to come so fast! Gather the ships quickly and fight them decisively." !"

But how could the ships scattered in the waters around Temasek gather so quickly? Just as two or three Gandori warships arrived around the flagship where Chupi Peng was riding, dozens of warships from the Liang Army also rushed over.

Chupi Peng asked the soldiers to pass the semaphore to order all the warships on the scene to meet the enemy.His own ship was behind to watch the battle.

Liang Jun's warships had an absolute advantage in number, and with the help of ultra-long-range weapons such as ballistas and longbows, it was no surprise that Gantori's warships were defeated in a short period of time.Seeing that the situation was not good, Chupi Peng let his ship slip away quietly during the battle.

Du Sang excitedly said to Lin Tao: "General, all the enemy warships have been destroyed or captured. Let's go to the island now."

Lin Tao was worried that the opponent would gather the warships scattered around the island and attack again. At that time, all the personnel had already landed on the island, and they were bound to be taken by the opponent.So he said to Dusang: "There is no hurry, let the fleet go around the island for a week, and destroy or expel all the Gantry warships around Temasek Island before we can go to the island."

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Although the warships of both sides were fighting fiercely on the sea, the Gantori army on Temasek Island had no knowledge of the Liang army's attack.They are trying their best to search for the Missoula brothers and sisters. After all, this matter directly affects their future and even life and death.

When the sun was shining, the Missoula brothers and sisters and dozens of guards were wading ashore from a small river.They had waded for some distance in the river, hoping to avoid the pursuit of the other hounds.

The weather in the tropical rainforest was unbearably hot and humid. Except for Shirley, Missoula and the rest of the guards took off their shirts and were shirtless.If it wasn't for Shirley, the only woman, they would probably walk around wearing only their trousers as they do every day.

All of a sudden, the three guards fell down straight, their limbs stiffened as if they had suffered a stroke.The head of the guard, Hang Tuah, knew it was wrong at a glance, and warned loudly: "Be careful, there are enemies in ambush!".

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a slight sound of ding, and a small plant thorn-like object happened to shoot at his weapon.Hang Tuah knew at a glance that it was a poisonous needle blown out with the blowpipe that Pegmies used to.But these sneak attacks were not Pygmies, but pirates.

Hang Tuah followed the direction where the poisonous needle came from, followed by more than a dozen guards. After a while, there were continuous wailing and shrill cries for help from the forest, followed by cries for mercy.In the end, Hang Tuah came out of the forest with two heads, and the guards behind him still escorted the two survivors.

After all, they were just pirates, and with a little trickery from Missoula, the two were recruited as they were.Only then did Missoula know that two bands of pirates had also joined their hunt.

Missoula said to everyone: "They have a large number of people, and there are pirates to help them. It will be a matter of time before they find us. It is not a solution for us to play hide-and-seek with them on this island. We must find a way to find a ship and escape. How about we Take this pirate's nest away, and you will definitely find ships there."

This plan is too risky.But everyone thought about it carefully, and there was no better idea. Missoula's plan was the only feasible way to escape.The crowd escorted the two pirate captives to their lair.

It's just that none of them knew that when Hang Tuah and the others were fighting with the pirates in the jungle, a pirate leader slipped away quietly.He hurried back to his lair to report the news, and the pirate leader immediately ordered people to pass the news to the Gandori army who were searching on the island, and he himself led most of the pirates to the incident site.

After the general of the Gandhari army determined the area of ​​the Missoula brothers and sisters, he immediately ordered the soldiers to send letters around, so that the soldiers who were searching in other areas would gather in that area.

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A few heads stuck out from a bush by the bay, and they were observing a pirate settlement on the beach of the bay.There didn't seem to be many people in the settlement, and quite a few people were standing on the coast facing the sea under the sun, not knowing what they were doing.

"Master, let's do it!" Hang Tuah whispered to Missoula.The latter did not speak, and continued to observe for a few seconds before nodding heavily, and commanded: "Remember, make a quick decision. If you encounter an accident, and don't love to fight, you must evacuate in time!"

Hang Tuah nodded and said: "I remember it." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and except for the remaining [-] guards to protect Missoula and Shirley, the remaining [-] guards followed Hang Tuah into the settlement. touch.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and suddenly a pirate turned his head and looked this way inadvertently, his gaze coincided with that of Hang Tuah.His face suddenly became frightened, and then he shouted: "Someone! There is a stranger!".

Before he finished speaking, Hang Tuah jumped up and shouted: "Kill! Solve the battle quickly."More than forty people stood up from the grass and rushed towards each other like a whirlwind.

With a bang, the pirate who first discovered the enemy's situation was stabbed in the stomach before he could say a second sentence.The rest of the pirates had just reacted when the other party's swords and swords greeted them head-on.In the blink of an eye, more than half of the [-] pirates had already been knocked down.

The rest of the pirates just came to their senses and were about to face the enemy with their swords and guns, but they found dozens of people surrounded by them.Most of the pirates' calves were trembling, and they only dared to bluff with their weapons, but they didn't dare to rush forward.

There was only one leader, who gave a loud shout and swung a sharp ax at each other.The opponent retreated a few steps and narrowly escaped the blow.The leader raised his ax again and stepped forward, but he felt his vest go cold, and a spear blade came out from his chest.Then the knife flashed, and his head fell onto the beach.

Seeing such a scene, the remaining three or four pirates didn't dare to fight, and they all threw down their weapons and begged for mercy.Hang Tuah led the people into the settlement again, but found that the settlement was empty.The entire pirate's lair actually only had these 20 or so people.

Chapter 329 Battle against Temasek

After the battle was over, Missoula and Shirley also walked over from the forest.After learning that there were only twenty pirate guards here, Missoula smiled triumphantly and said:

"It must be that most of the pirates went into the forest to search for us before, so there are only a few people left in their lair. This is also our luck. Find these pirate ships quickly, and let's leave Temasek Island as soon as possible!"

As soon as Missoula finished speaking, Hang Tuah came over with a sense of loss and said, "Master, we didn't find a boat at the pier. We didn't see a boat in the sea either!"

Missoula gave an "Ah" in surprise at first, and muttered in a low voice, "How is it possible?".But I thought to myself, there is such a thoughtful person in the enemy camp, who can count on me to come to seize the pirate's ship?

In fact, how could Chupi Peng expect that he would come to the pirate camp to rob the ship.It was when Lin Tao's fleet circled the island and broke the enemy's blockade. It confronted the pirate patrol ships on the coast here, and the remaining pirate ships moored at the pier also rushed to help.The result is naturally that the meat bun beats the dog, and there is no return.

All the pirates stood on the coast and looked out into the sea just now, but they were still looking back at the new type of naval battle they had never seen before with lingering fear.

Missoula hurriedly ordered those pirate captives to be interrogated. Under coercion, these prisoners were quickly recruited.Only then did Missoula know that the pirate's ship had not been transferred, but had been sunk by a fleet of unknown origin.

Missoula was not in the mood to think about where the fleet came from and what purpose it had.Because he heard a more shocking news from these survivors, his whereabouts in this area have been known by the leader of the pirates, and he has notified the Gantori army on the island.

Without saying a word, he snatched a weapon from Hang Tuah, clicked several times in a row, and beheaded the three pirate prisoners on the spot.Then he said hastily: "Don't hesitate, let's move quickly! The enemy army may have gathered here now, and we may be blocked if we go late."

Hang Tuah also knew how powerful it was, and hurriedly surrounded Missoula with all the guards, and Shirley and the two rushed to the jungle again.

At the edge of the jungle, with the sound of hissing through the air, several arrows shot towards them.The two guards were hit by arrows and fell to the ground one after another.A loud arrow rushed into the air with a sharp whistling sound, and there was a puff of red smoke at the tail of the loud arrow.This is the unique signal arrow of Gantori.

"Let's go!" Misura shouted, and everyone hurried forward and got into the forest one after another.But in a clearing in the forest, they encountered a small group of Gandhari soldiers with hounds. Although the guards killed each other very quickly, the arrows with red smoke still shot into the sky.

In the next two hours, in the jungle in this area, from time to time, there were such loud arrows with trailing smoke, screaming and shooting into the air.Nearly a thousand Gandhari troops have gathered.They were divided into five groups, dozens of small groups, and used loud arrows to communicate with each other to call the police, and gradually surrounded Missoula and the others.

Missoula understood that not only was it useless to run around like this, but it would expose more traces to the enemy, so that the other party could quickly surround her group.

He simply asked Hang Tuah to find a secret place and hide quietly.He knew that he would still be searched by the other party in the end, but it was a little bit of a delay now.The desperate Missoula can only hope that some miracle will happen during the delay.

At this time, Lin Tao's people also landed on the west side of Temasek Island.Not only did they take the mountain hounds, but they also unloaded three war elephants from the ship.

A dozen tall horses for heavy riding were also unloaded from the ship.They are not well suited to burrowing into the jungle, so their job is simply to patrol the sandy beaches along the coast.Because it was a long-distance trek mission and the weather was hot, they and their owners did not wear heavy armor as usual.

The galleon's two Viking ships were also lowered into the water, and they will travel deep into the island's hinterland from the mouth of one of the island's main freshwater rivers.There were even three small airships on board the galleon, which had been unloaded ashore, and the furnaces were blazing, and the bladders of the airships were beginning to fill with hot air.

Half an hour after more than [-] Liang Jun and Langya repair soldiers landed on the island, they heard the sound of arrows from a corner of the island.Trails of red smoke appeared in the blue sky.Immediately afterwards, the cavalry team patrolling the beach along the coast discovered the pirate den and the corpses of more than [-] pirates who had been killed.

At this moment, Lin Tao could think with his toes that the person he was looking for was in that area, and the situation was very critical.At this time, the airship had already risen, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to use semaphore to send orders to the various ministries on the island to gather in that area.

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A small group of Gandhari soldiers walked through the jungle cautiously and cautiously. They kept hacking and stabbing the surrounding bushes with spears and weapons to prevent enemies from hiding inside.

The hound they were leading suddenly barked at a bush.The leader immediately made a gesture to stop the crowd from moving forward.

The Gandhari soldiers nervously raised their spears, spears and weapons, and stretched their bows.As soon as the leader gave an order, the swords and guns came down, and the arrows shot, turning the enemies hiding in the bushes into honeycombs.

However, before the leader gave an order, there was a pop, and a spear flew from the forest, hitting the leader's face, and the blade pierced through his face, and then came out from the back of his head.

Before the leader's body fell down, Missoula, Hang Tuah and others shouted in unison and killed them.Swords, guns, swords and halberds rang together immediately, and a loud arrow with red smoke flew into the air again.

There were less than ten Gandhari soldiers in this group, and they were quickly beheaded by Missura and others.But the rest of the Gandhari soldiers who were close at hand heard the signal of the arrow and quickly gathered here.In fact, even the nearby Gandhari soldiers could hear the sound without the sound of the arrow.