Late Tang

"Clang clang clang!"

The urgent sound of the alarm bell sounded again in the Shamen Town Fort, and the soldiers and family members inside and outside the city all listened to the alarm bell with horror.The alarm bell is ringing, is there another bandit attacking!

"Go back to the city, everyone go back to the city immediately!" Li Xigou led the gendarmerie and ran around outside the city, yelling loudly at the soldiers and their families who were still confused.Many people came to their senses in a hurry, dragging their sons and daughters and rushing to the city.The sound of the alarm bell never stopped, and the surrounding people gathered from outside the city to the inside of the city.

The cowhide drums and horn horns in the city also sounded one after another. This was a call to summon the soldiers. When the drums and horns sounded together, all the soldiers in the ranks must return to the barracks immediately to assemble.The soldiers hurriedly dropped what they were doing and rushed back to the barracks from all directions. Even the slightly wounded in the medical camp immediately returned to the barracks.The soldiers quickly put on their armor and sharpened, and lined up, ready to go.

Li Jing, Lin Wei and other generals rode their horses and appeared in the school grounds with serious expressions. After scanning the soldiers, he said loudly: "Soldiers, I just got the news that a fire appeared on the sea outside the Phoenix Mountain Wharf in the east. The fleet of dozens of warships is estimated to have at least 1000 to [-] people. In addition, there is also a fleet of more than ten warships in the sea off the Taishan Wharf in the south, and the number of people is also estimated to be [-] to [-]."

When the soldiers lined up on the school grounds heard the news, they couldn't help but change their colors.They fought desperately last night, and they defeated more than a thousand pirates with a tragic victory.It's only been half a day now, and two more fleets have arrived. What's going on?

Li Jing saw the expressions on the faces of the soldiers and asked loudly: "Just last night, we killed [-] pirates and captured [-]. Although we paid a heavy price, in the end it was We won. You said, if there are still people who want to deal with us, are you afraid?"

"Not afraid!"

"That's right, no matter how many people come, we will never be afraid to capture Shamen Town unless he steps over our corpses."

"Blood battle to the end! Bloody battle to the end! Bloody battle to the end!" All the soldiers led by the officers shouted in unison.

Li Jing nodded. Although the soldiers had worried and fearful expressions on their faces, fortunately, the morale of the army was still there.

"That's right, we will fight bloody battles to the end for anyone who wants to take away Salmon Island. However, we have initially learned that the warships outside the Phoenix Wharf are from the Daxie Village, and the battleships outside the Taishan Wharf are from the Dengzhou Navy. They are the officers and soldiers of the imperial court. They must have come to help after receiving the news that a pirate attacked my Shamen town last night."

When everyone heard that they were officers and soldiers, they breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed.At this time, if there were enemies attacking from both sides of the sea, the consequences of the current situation in Shamen Town were really unknown.But since they are officers and soldiers, everyone has nothing to worry about.

Seeing everyone like this, Li Jing shook his head secretly.The officers and soldiers are not all reliable, and the pirates last night were not colluded with Wang Jin of the Dengzhou Navy.If there is no defense, who can guarantee that the officers and soldiers will not take the opportunity to slaughter Shamen Town?

"However, although the officers and soldiers are here, everyone should not forget why the Cyclops came to attack us. He was instructed by Wang Jin, the envoy of the Dengzhou Navy. Therefore, before we find out the purpose of the opponent, Everyone must work hard, prepare for the battle with all their strength, and not relax at all. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

"Okay, the teams are coming up to receive their respective tasks, and then they will take their positions and wait for them."

The remaining 400 troops were all arranged within the four walls of the castle.All the family members were immediately recalled to the city, and even the pirate captives and people from the former labor camp were detained in the city barracks.

Only half of the chest-high wall remained on the east and south walls. Li Jing sent 300 troops each, and distributed all the captured weapons. Everyone was equipped with armor, helmets, and horizontal knives and long bows. , and even equipped with a lot of crossbow arrows.Ten fuyuan heavy crossbows were also equipped on the south wall facing the Taishan warehouse and the east wall facing the Phoenix mountain warehouse.

The west city wall was basically destroyed by last night's battle, and Li Jing had no time to build it, so he temporarily asked soldiers to carry a lot of sandbags and piled up a sandbag wall about one person high on the original city wall site, and temporarily added a row of sandbags outside the sandbag wall. Sharpened stakes.

Everything has just been arranged, and the newly established reconnaissance team has sent people back to report that the two fleets, one east and one south, docked at the same time and landed on Salmonella Island.

Li Jing and several generals preliminarily judged that the soldiers and horses of Daxie Village and Dengzhou Navy appeared here at this time, and they should not be here to attack Shamen Town.The biggest possibility is that these people had already received the news of the pirates attacking Shamen Town last night, but they kept dragging their feet and refused to come to the rescue immediately.As a result, they waited and waited until morning, but they didn't see the one-eyed dragon evacuating the island, so they had no choice but to lead their troops here.

Although there is such speculation, for the sake of safety, Li Jing only sent Li Wei and Monk Xuancheng, the leaders of the two reconnaissance teams, each with half a team, divided into two teams, and went out of the city to closely monitor the movements of the two fleets.On the other hand, he and everyone else stayed in the city and never left the city for half a step.

In fact, everything was no different from Li Jing's speculation.

The pirates landed on Salmon Island last night, and then started a bloody battle with Salmon Town. The merchants on the docks knew about it immediately.Many merchants fled from Salmonella Island overnight by boat with some soft goods, some fled back to the South Island of Daxie Island, and some fled directly back to Dengzhou.The news of the pirate's attack also reached the ears of Da Xie Zhai Fengzhang immediately, and the Dengzhou navy and Dengzhou governor Song Wen basically got the news immediately.

When Feng Zhang sent someone to find out that the attacking pirate was the one-eyed dragon, he immediately understood that Wang Jin had nothing to do with it.However, he already had the idea of ​​getting rid of Li Jing, so Wang Jin and Li Jing were so happy that they were torn apart.The pirate got rid of Li Jing, and the Shamen town general returned to his control, and he pulled out a thorn in his side.And if Li Jing kills the pirate, or loses both with the pirate, he is still happy to see it.What's more, Feng Zhang was surprised when he heard that the Cyclops had eighteen ships.At the moment, he even thought that Li Jing must die this time. He wished that Li Jing would die at the hands of the pirates, so he would not help Li Jing.He immediately issued an order that all ships in Daxie Village should not approach Salmon Island without his order.

Another person who has the ability to reinforce Li Jing is Wang Jin of the Dengzhou Navy, but he was the one who colluded with the pirates, so it is even more impossible to expect him to reinforce Shamen Town.

Song Wen, governor of Dengzhou, was the only one who heard the news of pirates attacking Shamen Town.Li Jing was sent to Shamen Town by him. If Li Jing just took office not long ago today, if he died in the hands of the pirates, how would he face Cui Yunqing, Yu Yu, and Li Rui?He knew that Princess Xihe, the daughter of King Zhao Li Rui, and Yu Yu's daughter were currently on Salmon Island. If they also fell into the hands of pirates, it would be a big deal.

As soon as he got the news, Song Wen sent an order to the Dengzhou Navy, asking Wang Jin to immediately lead the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Navy to reinforce Shamen Town by battleship and repel the pirates.It's just that after his warrant was sent to Shuizhai, Wang Jin just smiled and tore the warrant into pieces.The Dengzhou navy is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Dengzhou in name, but in fact it has long been a self-contained entity.What's more, Wang Jin and Song Wen are the two most disagreeable factions in Ziqing Town. On the one hand, they are the confidant of Song Wei, the Jiedu envoy, and on the other, the elder brother of Wang Jingwu, the tooth general of Qingzhou Yabing. He ignores Song Wen's orders, and Song Wen But he can't help it.

Things dragged on like this, Li Jing and the one-eyed dragon fought in the middle of the night, separated by the Daxie Village, which was only a dozen miles away, and the Dengzhou Navy, which was dozens of miles away, but they couldn't help it. One soldier.

Finally, when it was almost dawn, Song Wen saw that he had sent three orders to Wang Jin and Feng Zhang in a row but nothing came of it. After there was no news, he finally understood that something was wrong.At the time of Guan Jian, Song Wen went to Zhao Wang Li Rui, and finally summoned Han Zhong, the envoy of the prison city of Dengzhou, Liu Jian, the envoy of soldiers and horses of the Longshan Battalion, and Xu Cheng, the envoy of Dongmu Shouzhu.After some discussion, 1000 troops were mobilized from the three camps and went straight to Dengzhou Water Village.

Seeing Song Wenwen and Zhao Wang Li Rui personally bring a thousand soldiers and horses, although Wang Jin's face was ashen, he also knew that this was the only way to go.In the end, under pressure, they had to order the deployment of more than a dozen warships, and [-] naval officers and soldiers went to rescue Salmonella Island.Seeing that things had come to this point, Feng Zhang estimated that the time would be about the same, so in front of the envoys sent by Song Wen, he also dispatched more than a dozen warships and [-] officers and soldiers to reinforce Salmon Island.

In this way, the deployment of warships, deployment of troops, and so on, the two sides delayed for a full half a day before finally setting sail.The two fleets each had 500 troops, plus the 500 troops brought by Song Wenwen and Li Rui, a total of 2000 troops came to Shamen Town.

But when they arrived at the pier in Shamen Town, it was almost noon.

The warship landed slowly on the two piers, which was also Song Wenwen's request from Li Rui, in order to fear that Shamen Town had been breached by pirates, so they landed from both sides, just hoping to intercept the pirates.

As soon as he landed, Song Wen heard the sound of drums and horns on the island, but he didn't see half a person on the pier.I don't know what's going on with Li Jing for a while, and I'm very anxious.He had to quickly command all the soldiers to disembark, gather in formation and fight all the way to Shamen Town.

Song Wen and Li Rui landed on the shore from one direction each, and led their troops to come.It didn't take long to meet outside the city of Shamen Town. Li Rui saw the ashes of the camp outside the fort of Shamen Town, and saw the blood-stained ground in the west city. The people in the city not only did not come out to greet them, but piled up sandbags , opened their bows and arrows from a distance, thinking that Shamen Town had fallen into the hands of pirates.

When Li Rui remembered that his daughter on the island was still unknown at this moment, his heart ached, he gritted his teeth and drew his sword, pointed forward to the castle, and shouted: "Take back the castle, kill all the bandits!"

(To be continued)