Water Margin people

Chapter 491 Salmon Island and Pirates
After Sun Lei explained the matter, he brought people to the navy camp.

"elder brother!"

Sanruan and Fei Bao led people to welcome Sun Lei at the gate of the water village.

"Go in and talk!"

Sun Lei nodded.

"Brother, this is our navy's plan to conquer Dengzhou!"

Ruan Xiaoer handed a document to Sun Lei, on which the Dengzhou battle plan was crookedly written. Although the handwriting was not pretty, it did not affect the recognition.

"You wrote it?"

Sun Lei looked at Ruan Xiaoer and smiled.

"I made my brother laugh. I originally wanted Brother Fei Bao to write it. This..."

Ruan Xiaoer's face flushed, all the think tanks in front of him were copycat think tanks, all of them were good at both civil and military skills, and they had good handwriting, his own ugly handwriting really didn't make it to the stage.

"That's right, there's progress. Last time I read Xiaoqi's writing, it's called chicken feet."

Sun Lei joked with a smile, Sanruan only went to a private school in the village for a year, so he could barely read, and his handwriting was indeed not good, but Ruan Xiaoer's attitude towards learning is very good, and he may not be able to make achievements in time. The elder brother is happy to see the brother eager to learn.

"Brother, younger brother is also studying hard, but this money is too difficult to get, and a knife is more convenient!"

Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile.

"In ancient times, there was Amon under Wu, and today there is Liangshan Xiaoer. It must be a good story!"

Wen Huanzhang said with a smile, Ruan Xiaoer is the most eager to learn in the navy.

"Haha, Lu Mengna is a mighty fighter in the water. Guan Yu was defeated by him, and he regained Jingzhou in one fell swoop. Xiaoer is also a mighty fighter in the water army. Let's work hard!"

Seeing that Ruan Xiaoer didn't understand anything, Sun Lei explained with a smile.

Opening the battle plan, Sun Lei read it in detail.

"Well, good! Great idea!"

After reading it, Sun Lei handed the plan to Xiao Jiasui and the others and said with a smile.

"It's really a different way!"

Xiao Jiasui, Wen Huanzhang, and Li Zhu's eyes lit up when they saw it.

The plan of Ruan Xiaoer and others is that the navy will go out at night and hide in the Yellow River, and then go all the way to Dengzhou along the Bohai Sea. Avoiding the Dengzhou defenders, taking advantage of Liangshan's boats and guns to wipe out the Dengzhou navy at sea, and then find a way to capture Dengzhou.

"As long as you control this Salmonella Island, you will be able to cut off Dengzhou's way to cross the sea to Liaodong!"

Li Zhu didn't know much about the situation in Dengzhou. After reading the battle plan, he realized the importance of Salmon Island. It was an archipelago hanging in the sea [-] miles north of Dengzhou, and its position was extremely deadly.

"Salmon Island, this is not a good place!"

Pei Xuan frowned and said, as Kongmu of the Six Cases, and was assigned to Salmonella Island, he knew this place better than ordinary people.

"In the early years of the Song Dynasty, the places of exile were divided into ten levels, which were in order of severity: Bencheng, Honzhou, Neighboring States, Five Hundred Li, One Thousand Li, Two Thousand Li, Three Thousand Li, Guangnan, Yuan'e In the first year of Zhezong Yuanfu, the places of exile were changed to nine levels, and in the end it was the Far Evil State Army and Salmon Island."

"Far from evil military states, such as: Nan'en, Xinxun, Mei, Gao, Lei, Hua, Bin, Rong, Qiongzhou, Wan'an, Changhua, Jiyang Army and other smoky places, the death rate of prisoners is about [-] Eighty percent, if sent to Salmonella Island, the mortality rate is as high as [-]%! In other words, being sent to the past is almost equal to certain death."

Seeing everyone looking over, Pei Xuan explained.

"So vicious?"

Everyone was shocked. The distribution was originally a punishment instead of the death penalty. If the death rate was over [-]%, wouldn't that mean the death penalty?

"My little brother learned about it when he was in Jingzhao Mansion. The area of ​​Salmonella Island is limited. There are more than [-] prisoners who assassinate this place every year. It is almost impossible for those who assassinate here to be amnesty. After so many years, a small island should be overcrowded. It can accept people, it is said that the number of prisoners on the island has never exceeded two hundred."

Pei Xuan said.

These words made everyone gasp. How could Salmonella Island have been used as a place of distribution for decades, and even less than [-] of the tens of thousands of prisoners survived the distribution?There is no such high death rate on the battlefield.

"However, in what capacity do you want to take down Salmon Island and occupy it?"

Sun Lei doesn't care where Salmon Island is, as long as the place is available.

"Brother, we haven't figured this out yet."

Ruan Xiaowu said, this is the most troublesome thing, once the identity of the navy army is exposed, the imperial court will definitely dispatch troops to encircle and suppress it.

"I have an idea, Xiaoqi, come here!"

Sun Lei smiled and beckoned Ruan Xiaoqi aside.

"Brother, is this okay?"

After a while, Ruan Xiaoqi twitched for a while, seeming very embarrassed.

"It's perfect! Xiaoqi, you were born to do this! What a blessing!"

Sun Lei dragged Ruan Xiaoqi to the crowd.

At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi had changed out of the animal skin clothes that bandits usually wear, and was wearing a brown linen clothes crookedly, with the skirts open, one eye covered by a black eyepatch, and a triangular scarf on his head, with the character horoscope glued on. Hu, with a scarf around his waist, and a saber in his hand, combined with Ruan Xiaoqi's ferocious face, he seemed to have a vicious and evil intention.

"Like a pirate?"

Sun Lei pointed to Ruan Xiaoqi with a smile and said to everyone.

"pirate?"

Everyone is very unfamiliar with this term. As an inlander, they don't even have any concept of the sea.

"Brother, this is a great plan! Pretending to be a pirate can deceive people's eyes and ears. Although the court will respond, it will not pay much attention to it. Moreover, the court's navy is still in the south with only that little combat power. We are not afraid when they come."

Fei Bao was overjoyed when he heard that, their biggest trouble was easily solved by Sun Lei.

Because of the wars in the Western Regions and the severance of commercial routes, the imperial court set up the Shibo Department in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou, Hangzhou, Mizhou and other places to manage overseas trade, collect taxes, and purchase the imperial court. products and management of foreign businessmen, etc.

Correspondingly, the maritime trade has also spawned many bandits, collectively known as pirates in the south, who rely on sea routes to rob ships and cargo, and the navy cannot stop them.

"So you are going out this time as pirates, and the vicinity of Salmon Island is your stronghold."

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Brother, didn't you take down Dengzhou?"

Ruan Xiaoqi asked in doubt.

"You are all sailors, how can you attack a city, not to mention that the isolated city cannot be defended. Originally, I just wanted you to destroy the Dengzhou Navy, and then control the sea area and control Dengzhou."

Sun Lei patted Ruan Xiaoqi on the shoulder and said, Dengzhou is the gateway to the east, and even if the navy takes down Dengzhou, it is impossible to hold it, unless everyone in Liangshan abandons the water and goes to Dengzhou together, and then occupies Dengzhou. The mountain is king.

"I thought my brother really wanted us to attack the city!"

Ruan Xiaoqi suddenly realized that only the fourth battalion of the water army was on the expedition this time, and neither the horse nor infantry troops were brought along. He wondered why such an arrangement was made.

"Brother, don't worry, on the day my Liangshan army arrives, even a sampan in Dengzhou will not even think about entering the water!"

Ruan Xiaoer clasped his fists at Sun Lei and assured him.

"I believe!"

Sun Lei patted Ruan Xiaoer on the shoulder and smiled.

"Also, Military Division Xu is going with you this time, and there are some things that Military Division Xu will tell you later!"

Sun Lei added that he was still a little worried about the navy going alone, so he asked Xu Guanzhong to go with him.

Next, Sun Lei visited the training of the navy. Afterwards, there will be sea battles. The wind and waves at sea are far more terrifying than those inland. A giant ship that is as stable as a mountain in the water is just a flat boat in the sea.

So Fei Bao and others came up with a crooked idea, let the soldiers tie ropes and hang them on the mast, and then the ship bumped forward in the wind and waves, causing the ship to sway violently, and the soldiers swayed chaotically like a pendulum , The pawn vomited heavily at first, but he got used to it after a few days.

(End of this chapter)