Late Tang

Li Jing stretches his bow and shoots arrows. Every time an arrow is shot, it will hit one person.

The defenders on the walls of the fort suddenly didn't dare to raise their heads. Li Wei took the opportunity to reconnoiter.The defenders on the city pushed them desperately, and Li Jing led the crossbowmen to shoot all the arrows, and several defenders were hit by arrows, and even a few fell down the three-foot-high castle screaming after being hit by the arrows. wall.

Repeated this several times, in the end no guard dared to take the lead.More than a dozen bamboo ladders were lined up. Li Wei held a shield in one hand and a knife in his mouth, and climbed up the ladder with a fierce climb.The defenders on the wall didn't dare to show their heads, so they started throwing stones down directly, and some people threw torches directly down.Several reconnaissance soldiers were thrown from the ladder. Fortunately, they had shields in their hands to block them, and no one was seriously injured except for a few falls.

Li Wei was also knocked down twice in a row. The third time he went berserk and threw away his shield. With a knife in his mouth, he climbed the ladder with both hands more smoothly.This time, he finally climbed to the top in one breath, jumped up immediately, took the knife and slashed loudly.In the blink of an eye, two people had been cut down in succession, and they had successfully gained a firm foothold.

At this time, several warriors from Scouting Capital leaped to the top of the city, and the archers on the top of the city fired arrows. Several soldiers from Scouting Capital quickly raised their round shields to form a small formation, blocking Li Wei inside.While the archer was shooting the arrow, several people took the three-edged army thorns from their bodies and threw them at the archer one after another.The flying knife throwing technique that has been practiced for a long time finally showed its strength at this time. Several archers were directly hit by the military stab and fell to the ground.

More and more soldiers leaped to the top of the city. After the scouts seized a position at the top of the city, the jumping soldiers were finally able to climb up to the top of the city with ease. The hands jumped out and swarmed up.The few defenders finally collapsed, and the people who were caught up temporarily threw their spears and lay on the ground begging for mercy.

boom!

The huge gate of the fort slowly opened from the inside, and the Salmonella town soldiers swarmed in.

"Search the whole city immediately, wipe out all those who continue to resist, and the military police immediately send people to maintain order, inspect military discipline, and occupy warehouses and barracks." Li Jing ordered loudly.

At this time, there were only 170 garrison soldiers and 120 family members left in the fort. The deputy captain of Wuhu Fort led [-] troops to follow Feng Ming, but the rest of the captains in the fort had already died during the siege. Among the random arrows.If not, perhaps the siege would not be so easy.Of the [-] guards, more than [-] were killed in battle, and the remaining [-] surrendered and became prisoners.

Li Jing's military order was issued, and the military police from the Gendarmerie Capital patrolled and inspected military discipline.The burning, killing, and looting that Li Jing was worried about after occupying the castle did not happen. According to his military order, the people who scouted the capital were responsible for interrogating the prisoners, searching documents, letters, and property on the island.The medical team accompanying the army has already begun to carry out battlefield medical treatment for the wounded soldiers, and the people in the logistics capital and the logistics team have begun to count the trophies in the warehouses.

As for the people in the fort, the family members of the garrison army, and those merchants, Li Jing ordered them all to stay at home for the time being, and anyone who dared to go out to collude with each other would be killed without mercy immediately.As for the villages outside the castle on the island and the shantytowns on the pier, Li Jing immediately sent people to gather all these people and escort them back to the castle.

"Clean the battlefield, clean up the battle traces on the pier, it's best to keep it the same as before." Li Jing felt excited after taking down the castle so easily.Really, I have to thank Feng Ming for taking away half of the island's army.

"Send someone to contact Megan and the others to see what's going on on their side. If there is any emergency, immediately bring someone to reinforce, and make sure to completely control Wuhu Island before dawn." The battle just started, after ensuring After Wuhu Fort was easily captured, Li Jing sent Megan, Julie, Wang Zhong, and Lin Wu to the other four islands of the Wuhu Archipelago with several boats and hundreds of troops each.

Less than an hour later, people from all over the place sent reports one after another, and successfully captured and controlled the target island.Except for a small garrison on North Huangcheng Island and Daqin Island each for a short period of resistance, in fact, Nanhuangcheng Island and Xiaoqin Island were almost bloodless, and several other small islands were directly occupied.

From the first moment of landing on Wuhu Island to finally occupying the entire Wuhu Islands, it took less than two hours.

Megan strode into the castle master's mansion of Wuhu Castle, "General, Wuhu Island has been captured, when are we going to reinforce me, Aye?"

Li Jing was listening to the reports from various ministries. In this battle, during the process of occupying the entire Wuhu Islands, the damage to Shamen Town was minimal. In total, only seven people were killed, five were seriously injured, and dozens of others were slightly injured.This little casualty is really not worth mentioning for the results achieved tonight.

Compared with the casualties, the gains tonight are astonishing.

There are more than a dozen islands and reefs in the Wuhu Islands, and the five main islands are much larger than Li Jing's Salmon Island.As the border island closest to Liaodong, it is also the last sea trade route supply point in Dengzhou.There are many merchants on the island, especially on Wuhu Island, where there are a large number of warehouses, brothels, restaurants, etc.Right now, the logistical capital and supplies are all under intensive counting and statistics. The specific figures have not yet been released, but it is certain that the harvest will be huge.

Li Jing looked up at Megan, and said with a light smile, "Why, you still can't trust Mr. Huang? He has more than 100 boats and more than 3000 brothers, so he won't suffer."

Megan focused on Li Jing, "Why don't you send troops to join me, Aye, if we go, wouldn't we be able to encircle and annihilate Feng Ming in one fell swoop?"

"No." Li Jing shook his head, "Master Huang and I have already planned."

"Then you mean we don't care?" Megan asked puzzled.

"Of course not. How about this? I think you're anxious. Anyway, now that Wuhu Island has been captured, you won't be of much help if you stay here. You can choose a few fast boats and take your five hundred men with you." And three hundred old coaches went to reinforce your father. Remember, when you get there, everything is up to your father, so don’t mess up our plan.”

"Understood." With Li Jing's consent, Megan finally smiled, turned her head and strode away without further words.

Li Jing smiled lightly and shook his head, then raised his head and said to the officer who was waiting for the report, "Go on, have you counted the captured supplies?"

"Almost, Wuhu Wudao, there are hundreds of warehouses that have been seized, but most of them are owned by merchants, and only a small part of them belong to Wuhubao. Most of them are grain, some The garrison troops and their families in the fort have a yearly stockpile of about [-] shi. In addition, there is a part of money and grain, [-] guan, [-] bolts of silk, and [-] bolts of cloth. There is also an ordnance There are about [-] sets of various knives, guns, spears, bows and arrows."

Li Jing frowned slightly, why is there only such a little thing?Wuhu Island has one fortress and two garrisons. It is not only larger than Shamen Town, but also has a much larger establishment, but there is only such a small inventory of copied things.

"Is the property of those officers and garrison servants included?"

"Not yet, the inventory just counted is only in the warehouse. The seizures on the battlefield and the personal property of the defenders have not been collected and counted."

"Now the fort has almost been cleared out. Next, the family members of the guards and servants will be screened out and temporarily detained in the barracks. All their property will be collected and counted." War is cruel, Regardless of whether they died in battle or surrendered, Li Jing would not be too merciful to them or their families, and everything would follow the rules of war.The soldiers who surrendered and the families of those soldiers will become his captives. Those who are in good condition may be taken back to Shamen Town and given a job.And a large part of them who are unlucky will be transported to Qingnipu by Li Jing, and handed over to Li Lingfu to exchange for the needed ore and other military supplies.

"General, how to deal with the warehouses of the merchants on the island?"

Li Jing also felt a little headache. These merchants had huge properties on the island, and he was a little unwilling to let Li Jing go so easily.But if you search forcibly, it is very likely to offend these merchants.Those who can build warehouses in such places are mostly those large sea caravans, and behind every caravan is not easy.

"In this way, send someone to check carefully. If it is the property of the Feng family, then all of it will be confiscated, and the relatives and other merchants who are close to the Feng family will also be confiscated. As for the others, if they are warehouses in foreign countries, they will all be confiscated Confiscated. As for other merchants, you can tell them that as long as they are willing to pay a labor fee, they will be protected by us."

"What's the percentage of military expenditure?" The officer asked with a narrowed smile as his eyes lit up.

Li Jing pondered for a moment, he wanted these merchants to bleed some blood, but he couldn't slaughter them too hard, it was not easy to grasp.He thought for a while, and finally said: "Let's count on [-]% of their goods. It's best to collect copper coins directly. Silk and cloth are also fine, and even grain is also fine. In addition, be a little more polite to these people and let them close their doors temporarily." Stay at home and don't go out."

After dealing with this matter, Li Jing was relieved. "Let's go, go to the military camp to condolences to the wounded soldiers, and ask the logistics camp to make meals immediately. You can't drink alcohol today, but kill more pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and fish. The meals must be rich, so that you can comfort the soldiers."

Wang Zhong and Lin Wu, who had just walked in from the outside, couldn't help being shocked and asked: "Sanlang, why don't we leave?"

"That's right, we captured Wuhu Island and took away the money, food and equipment on the island, so we should leave as soon as possible. Don't tell me Sanlang is planning to occupy this island for a long time?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Of course not. This Wuhu Island is hundreds of miles away from our Salmon Island, and there are Turtle Island Islands in the middle. They are all Fengzhang's territory. Even if we want to occupy it, we can't do it. However, now we It's not in a hurry to leave, we still have a guest who hasn't arrived yet, we won't be too late to leave when we welcome this guest."

(To be continued)