my wonderful zoo

Chapter 21
"After we get ashore, we don't have weapons in our hands. We can't kill anyone who doesn't resist. If we can avoid hurting others, we won't hurt them." Ke Lei warned his men in detail: "But if you encounter anyone who resists, don't show mercy."

"It is absolutely forbidden to rape women and children. If anyone can't control his little head, then wait until the little head and the big head fall to the ground together!"

"Understood?"

"Got it!" the leader on the flagship shouted loudly.

"Each go back to your own ship. Don't be too troublesome and convey my orders to everyone. Don't use the knife when the time comes and say you don't know."

"Don't say you didn't predict what you said. Is it clear?"

"understand!"

The entire pirate fleet soon docked on Lantau Island, and some of the flat-bottomed sand boats washed up directly on the beach. The pirates on board jumped off the boat waving weapons and lined up on the beach.

Other lucky boats stopped a hundred or two hundred feet away from the coast, put down their sampans, and the pirates who were about to land paddled their sampans to the shore.

The entire landing process went smoothly without any interruption.

After all, the current Lantau Island is just a part of Hainan Salt Gate. There are only some salt households on it. The defense is empty and it can be said that there is no defense at all.

The entire Lantau Island is [-] miles wide from north to south and [-] miles long from east to west. It has an irregular shape. The bird's-eye view image shows a dog with a huge tail, and the dog's head is pointed high towards the main island of Tai Kwai Shan (Hong Kong Island). The landing site chosen by Ke Lei is located at The distance to the north, east and west of Lantau Island is about the same.

"attack!"

"You lead people east, you lead people west, and the others follow me north!"

Due to years of salt boiling, the vegetation around the island has been severely damaged. It can be said to be endless. Weeds and shrubs are mostly growing on the ground. The farther you go in, the vegetation gradually becomes denser.

There is a gathering place of salt households ahead, which can also be called a village.

"Come in and get it all under control."

"Kill!"

"Surrender without killing! Quickly surrender and surrender!"

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As night fell, Le Zhi was full of wine and food, and with Chen Xun's courtesy, he planned to return to the camp outside the village.

In the past two days, he has been receiving warm hospitality from Chen Xun, but Le Zhi always retained a trace of vigilance. He always brought guards with him when he came and went, and did not live in Chen's house.

He is an old man, he is just afraid that Chen Xun will jump over the wall, capture him as a hostage, or kill him to sacrifice him.

The Song Dynasty was founded for more than 100 years. There were few major uprisings, but there were many small and scattered uprisings. Rebels were everywhere, and bandits who could not survive were hidden in the deep mountains and forests.

From Le Zhi's point of view, the Chen family is barefoot and has never been a Jinshi, so the possibility of brain convulsions cannot be ruled out.

As a porcelain person, there is nothing wrong with being more cautious.

"Report!" A fast horse (a horse-riding communication archer) rushed over quickly. When he approached Le Zhi, he jumped off the horse and knelt down on one knee.

"Say!"

"Daxishan was attacked by large-scale pirates. Lantau Island has been controlled by pirates. There are very few people who have escaped from the salt households in Hainan Yanzha on the island."

"What?" Le Zhi couldn't believe it. In his opinion, it was a peaceful and prosperous time now, at least in the Jiangnan area.In his opinion, Chenjiazhuang's previous encounter with pirates could only be regarded as an exception, so why did Lantau Island suffer from pirates again?Haven't all the pirates near the sea entrance been "infiltrated"? …

"Hurry up and report to the county magistrate." After Le Zhi said this, he no longer had a calm mind. As a county lieutenant, he was in charge of the security of the county. Two incidents of pirates disturbing the people occurred under his own rule, which caused trouble.

"Young officer, please think carefully, and I won't spend any more time here."

Seeing Le Zhi leaving in a hurry, the corners of Chen Xun's mouth raised slightly.It seems that between his own official position and the greed of joining the army in the state capital, Le Zhi chose to keep his official position first.

Sure enough, early the next morning, Le Zhi took four hundred recruited archers and set off to the east.

In the morning, Chen Xun received two carrier pigeons in succession.

One came from Dongguan County and reported some major events in Dongguan County. He also informed Chen Xun that the Dongguan County magistrate summoned ten warships and recruited forty armed merchant ships, intending to go down the river and go to sea to support Le Zhi on land. The Qing Dynasty's campaign to suppress pirates.

The other came from Ke Lei and reported the results of the Lantern Festival. After yesterday's day and today's half-day raid, Lantau Island has been completely controlled by Ke Lei. In his heart, Ke Lei complained about the lack of food, clothing and weapons. Lack of armor, etc... At the end of the letter, he also specifically reported that three people were killed during the "landing on the beach", pointing out that all three of them were unarmored surrendered pirates. Those former Chen Jia Haiwei who rushed in front were considered dead. No one died in battle despite being hit by many arrows.

Judging from the meaning of the letter, he wanted Chen Xun to equip his men with armor.

In the era of cold weapon warfare, armored and unarmored arms were completely different.

Regarding Ke Lei's obscure request, Chen Xun was not stingy. After all, whether Chenjiazhuang could survive this disaster of being watched by jackals depended on the combat capabilities of Ke Lei's pirates.

In the afternoon of the same day, two fishing boats carrying [-] pairs of armors left Chan Ka Sik Harbor and headed for Lantau Island.

At night, Lezhi, who had only walked halfway, sent someone to Chenjiazhuang and asked Chenjiazhuang to prepare the food and fodder needed for 400 people for ten days and transport it to the west coast of the main island of Daxi Mountain. He would arrange for someone to receive it at that time.

This request immediately stumped Chen Xun.

These officials really don't have any shame. They knew that Chenjiazhuang was also attacked by pirates. They had just been robbed. Before, they just stayed outside the village and ate and drank freely. Now they went out to fight against pirates. Ask Chenjiazhuang to provide food and grass.

Doesn't Dongguan County and even Guangzhou belong to the Chen family?
Chen Xun was so angry that he really wanted to cut Le Zhi's face with a knife to see how thick it was.

"What should I do?" Chen Lu asked.

"These sons of bitches, our Chenjiazhuang pays no less in grain and commercial taxes every year. There is no village in Dongguan County that pays more taxes than us. Now they are making such demands, when our Chenjiazhuang's money and food are blown by strong winds." No." Lu Huiqi's tone was somewhat distorted.

"Hey, the people don't fight with the officials, and the people don't fight with the officials." Chen Yi shook his head and sighed: "If you could continue to insist on the imperial examination in the past few years, you would be a Jinshi now. How can you allow them to bully you like this?"

Soul-piercing Chen Xun was still very precocious when he was young.

"What's the use of talking about this now." Chen Lu looked at his younger brother, a little dissatisfied: "If Chen Xun doesn't make money to support the family, how will you raise a few children?"

Chen Xun's younger brothers all studied hard under Chen Yi's ardent expectations. Chen Yi did not like the clan school run by Chen Xun and sent all his children to private schools in the county. Even when they went home on vacation, they hired teachers at home.

"I get angry when I talk about this. Chen Xun, you don't care about your subordinates. Don't let your brothers go to study. Now none of them are learning well. They have contradicted the teacher several times."

The knowledge taught in Chen Family Studies is much more interesting than the Four Books and Five Classics. It is normal for children to be attracted to it.

"What we are discussing now is whether to raise food. Don't change the subject." Chen Xun patted the table and ignored Chen Yi's request.

Chen Xun couldn't understand. If he wanted to support students, he could just look for outstanding ones from county schools and prefectural schools. Why he had to go all the way and only train the Chen family's own children.In recent years, the students sponsored by Chen Xun have developed much better than his younger brothers. It is estimated that a few Jinshi will be produced in at most two to three years.

(End of this chapter)