Late Tang

The banquet in the hall was still going on, but Li Jing asked to change clothes and left the table.When he left, he gave Wang Zhong and Lin Wu a few glances to tell them to go up and toast Song Xi and the others.In fact, Song Xi was a bit overwhelmed with alcohol, and Li Jing specially brought Wuliangye wine from Shamen Town today to celebrate. The 52-degree high-alcohol liquor is not for those who are used to fermenting low-alcohol liquor at this time.Before that, Li Jing toasted Song Xi three cups, each of which was a big cup of two or three, and drank almost a catty of baijiu all at once.

Afterwards, Lin Wu and others also took turns to toast, and the good wine was on top. Although Song Xi and the other generals were also men who had been killed on the battlefield, they couldn't hold on like this.When Li Jing left, they were already quite drunk, and they waved their hands indiscriminately, as if they knew it.

Li Jing is also a little bit drunk, but Li Jing is smarter, he didn't intend to really fight with these generals from the beginning.Although the wine he drank was also transparent and clear, it was actually a new batch of wine from the winery. It was not made from grain, but from wild berries and fruits.What Li Jing had just drank was one of the fruit wines, the peach wine brewed in spring, with a proof of only [-] degrees.

In spring, plum wine, strawberry wine, green plum wine, peach wine, loquat wine, bayberry wine, and mulberry wine are made.In summer, cherry wine, lychee wine, plum wine, peach wine, wine, nectarine wine, mango wine, watermelon wine, longan wine, passion fruit wine, dragon fruit wine, durian wine, avocado wine.In autumn, pomegranate wine, pear wine, pear wine, grapefruit wine, persimmon wine,

Tomato wine, orange wine, orange wine, kumquat wine, and jujube wine are brewed in winter.Four seasons brewed carambola wine, pineapple wine, papaya wine, banana wine, limoncello, coconut wine, muskmelon wine, cantaloupe wine.

The Tang Dynasty already had fruit wine, but the fruit wine in the Tang Dynasty was also fermented wine, while the newly built fruit wine workshop in Shamen Town was divided into fermented fruit wine and distilled fruit wine.There are even prepared fruit wines made by soaking fruits or peels, flowers, etc. in alcohol or white wine, or adding sugar to fruit juice.

These fruit wines range from 24% to [-]% and are intended to appeal to those who are not used to drinking highly distilled spirits.Especially focusing on the market of women and children, the development of this fruit wine is firstly to compete for more customers, and secondly, the business of the winery is booming, and the food consumed every day is really too much, Li Jing is a little bit reluctant.Food became more and more expensive, so they had to turn their attention to fruit wine making.

After leaving the hall, he breathed out a mouthful of alcohol, and a gust of spring breeze rushed towards his face, and Li Jing immediately felt much better.

"Yanei, the Rage Camp is back!" Li Wei received the news just now, and immediately signaled to Li Jing in the hall.

Li Jing wiped his forehead, but did not show any strange expression. "How's the situation over there?" He just asked in a very flat tone.

Li Wei admired Li Jing's calmness without being surprised. Before the battle started, Li Jing had already ordered the Zhenhai Camp and the Nutao Camp to be transferred to the sea, so that they would not be allowed to participate in the initial battle.From the beginning, he seemed to have full confidence and confidence in this battle.The task of the Zhenhai camp is to retake Shaobing Island, and immediately seize the warships of Daxie Village.And then participated in the attack to capture Daxie Village.

The Nutao Camp, a sailor battalion composed entirely of pirates from the Zhendong Sea, re-mobilized the disbanded pirates from the very beginning. Except for a part of the pirates assigned to the Zhenhai Camp, the rest were all recruited again. The boat, and even Whitebeard took the retreating old thieves back into battle.

Nutao Camp has a hundred boats, large and small, and a total of nearly 5000 people including Minzhuang set sail to sea ahead of schedule.Instead of fighting, they were arranged by Li Jing to go to the Turtle Island area and join the rescue fleet from Duli Town, where they prepared to ambush the fleeing Duli Town fleet according to Li Jing's order.

On the Qingnipu side, after Li Jing got the accurate information, he immediately sent someone to pass it to Li Lingfu.Li Lingfu's ally is also very reliable, Guan Jian immediately led the Qingnipu Fleet, brought the deputy commander Ju Yi, and the third son Ju Li, and led [-] troops to rescue.When they heard at sea that Li Jing told them not to go to Shamen Town, but let them stay near Turtle Island to join the Rage Camp and wait for the combined fleet to defeat the fleeing Duli Town, the youngest Li Juli couldn't help laughing: "This Li Jing Why are you so arrogant? After only a few small victories, you are already so defiant and self-willed. Nearly [-] soldiers from Duli Town and Daxie Village came to attack, and Li Jing only had a few thousand troops, and they were all new troops. We He rushed to the rescue, but he was not in a hurry, but let us wait here for some defeated army."

Li Juyi was a little more secure, but also full of worries. "Is Li Jing being too pushy?"

Li Lingfu was also taken aback when he first heard this request, but then he laughed and said: "You are so confident in Li Jing, I think he must have calculated this battle. We don't have to worry about him. Just wait here for the defeated army in Duli Town according to his request." However, he said he was proud on the surface and believed in Li Jing very much, but he was actually full of worries in his heart.

However, the subsequent results made all his worries come to naught, and also made him full of admiration for Li Jing, and he had a different perception.

Before dawn, nearly 6000 people in Duli Town and Nutao Camp were hidden behind a small island reef in the Turtle Islands.Just when everyone was waiting impatiently, the scout speedboat at sea reported that the combined fleet of Duli Town had indeed fled. It had 100 troops and more than 1 warships. When it came back, only about [-]% of them were left. , It is estimated that [-] more people came back.

"How did he do it?" Li Juyi was full of shock, "Then what about Daxie Village, did he also lose?"

"Responding to the words of the young general, the Daxie village was defeated. I heard that Feng Zhang had died in battle. Feng Xun led the rest of his troops to surrender. The Daxie army was wiped out. Li Jing has personally led the troops to the Daxie village. The defenders were surrendered without bloodshed. Daxie Walled City has been captured now." The scout reported.

The three of Li Lingfu and his son looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling great shock.After a long time, Li Lingfu said loudly: "Okay, good fight. General Li Jing has already retreated the defeat of Duli Town as he said. Now it is up to us whether we can keep them all. Quickly pass my order to attack immediately, and invite the brothers of the Raging Wave Camp to attack together."

Pei You led the soldiers in Duli Town, which barely had about [-] left, to evacuate from Shikou Wharf in a hurry. He never thought that Shamen Town would be so difficult to crack.At the beginning, Yangtuozi Island was successfully captured, and even more than half of Shikou Wharf was captured. It seemed that with a little more effort, the wharf could be captured, and then went straight to Shamen Town.No one expected that at this time, the Salmonella town army would come out of the ground continuously, just like that nasty gopher, everywhere and everywhere.

They were caught off guard all of a sudden, and then the crossbow arrows and cannonballs and even those will-o'-the-wisps suddenly became violent, more than several times denser than the beginning.All of a sudden he knew that he had been tricked, when his subordinates urgently reported that Yang Duozi had been recaptured by the Shamen town army.Pei You immediately understood the unfavorable situation, and immediately ordered to retreat.But the Samana army's counterattack was more violent than he expected, with strong bows and crossbows, and they were also equipped with a large number of Mo Daomen. Festival defeat.Especially when the arrow tower and bastion on the pier were retaken by the Samana army from the underground passage, they were completely at a disadvantage.

In the end, he was the strong man who broke his wrist and abandoned his pawn to save the car.After issuing a promise to reward the families of the soldiers in the rear, they reluctantly left 3000 people to cover the rear and fled from Salmon Island.But out of 6000 people, only 1 left.

"Quick, speed up!" Pei You shouted standing on the huge battleship.Although he has escaped from Salmon Island, he always feels uneasy in his heart.He knew that there was a powerful fleet in Shamen Town, but from the beginning to the end, he hadn't seen this fleet until now, which made him very uneasy.Now he just wants to quickly return to Duli Town and stay away from here.

But his hunch was right, Li Jing never thought about letting them go back at first.Although the main target of this battle is Daxie Village, since the United Fleet from Duli Town is here, he will not let them go back easily.

As soon as the Duli Town Fleet arrived at Turtle Island, Li Lingfu's Qingnipu Fleet and the Nutao Camp's fleet rushed out together, intercepting the United Fleet's retreat, dashed left and right, and quickly rammed into the warships of the United Fleet. There was a melee melee, a boarding melee.

Qingnipu and Zhendonghai have 1 people against Duli Town's 1 people, but one side is waiting for work at leisure, and the morale is high.On the other hand, they fled all the way here, panicked and demoralized.The two phases are at war, and the result is self-evident.Li Lingfu, Zhen Donghai and the others slashed fiercely, one left and one right, and Pei You couldn't resist the killing.

When the battle was nearly dawn, nearly [-]% of the warships in Duli Town had sunk, and another [-]% had been taken away after being defeated in the battle. He was bitten by an enemy ship, and chased and fought.

Seeing that they had just fled to the vicinity of Wuhu Island, the United Fleet was surrounded again and was about to be wiped out.The support fleet led by Wang Pu, the city lord of Duli Town, finally arrived. Wang Pu led more than 100 merchant ships and mobilized a large number of civilians. He was going to Shamen Town to receive the loot.No one expected that when he was halfway there, he saw that there were only less than twenty warships left in his combined fleet, and they were still surrounded by groups.

Regardless of the shock of what happened, Wang Pu immediately ordered the fleet to rush over to meet it.

Li Lingfu waited for the naval battle in the middle of the night, and there were also many casualties. At this time, when they saw Duli Town coming to meet them, they only saw more than 100 boats, and they didn't know how many were real.Li Lingfu didn't want to take any risks, so he let go of the remaining dozen warships of the United Fleet, gave the order to leave the battle, and retreated slowly.

Although Pei You escaped from the battle and escaped with his life, although he was assisted by reinforcements, he didn't dare to look back at all.After meeting with Wang Pu, less than 2000 people hurriedly withdrew back to Duli Town with the remaining dozen or so boats.Li Lingfu, Baibeard and others achieved great victories. In the First World War, they almost wiped out the combined fleet of Duli Town, killed more than 5000 enemies, captured at least 30 people, sank more than [-] enemy ships, and captured about [-] to [-] warships. Satisfied And return.

The victorious Li Lingfu did not return directly to Qingnipu, but accepted the invitation of Whitebeard and the others and led the fleet back to Shamen Town.

"Happy, donkey ball's combined fleet, just relying on the money, always thought that the huge ships and cannons suppressed us in Qingnipu, and we couldn't hold our head up at sea, and even bullied our Qingni port again and again. Come on, block our ports from time to time. Donkey Ball, today finally capsized in the gutter, a fleet of 2 people, in just over a month and a half, there are only a dozen or so ships left, with two thousand people, less than ten One. It’s really fun, it’s so fun.” Li Lingfu stood on the deck, patted the parapet of the ship with his big hands, and laughed loudly.

Qingnipu and Duli Town have a century-old grievance, but they have never gained the upper hand. In the past ten years he has been in charge, he has used offense instead of defense. After creating a fleet that could rival the United Fleet, they could only be suppressed and beaten, and the port was blocked by the United Fleet in Duli Town to retaliate at every turn, causing huge losses.

Now, this arrogant fleet is finally finished.

"Li Jing is not easy! Father, he has already planned in advance, and he is confident that he can defeat the United Fleet and Fengzhang. Things are exactly as he expected. Now that Fengzhang died in battle, Daxie Village is occupied by him, Duli Town The United Fleet was defeated and fled, and he arranged for me to intercept and annihilate them halfway. This Li Jing was planning a decisive victory before the battle. It was a terrible strategic arrangement. It seems that he has never repaid his defeat since he led the troops. In less than half a year since he took office as General of Shamen Township, he is already so powerful, given time, he will become even more powerful." Li Juyi said with a sigh.

Even Li Juli, who has always been rebellious, could not refute these words.In this battle, although they almost wiped out the United Fleet, what made them even more amazed was Li Jing's arrangements that had anticipated all this in advance.

Li Lingfu also sighed in his heart, his three sons are already considered pretty good, they can fight the enemy at the age of ten, and they can lead the army to fight at the age of 20.But Li Jing is also only in his early 20s, but he has already achieved such achievements. Compared with him, the three sons are far behind.

"Birth is like Li Jiyu!" Li Lingfu sighed, turned his head to his two sons and said, "Fortunately, Li Jing is our ally. Although Li Jing is powerful, I think he is very affectionate. Brothers, remember, If it's not a last resort, don't be an enemy of Li Jing. It's best to be friends with him."

"But Li Jing is so powerful. With his ability, I'm afraid that the small Shamen Town, or even the Daxie Village will not be able to accommodate him. After he is full-fledged, I am afraid that he will not be satisfied with the status quo and will have other ideas. .” The second son thinks more, and thinks farther.

"If Li Jing is really not a thing in the pool, and can turn into a dragon when encountering a storm, then on that day, we can choose to stand with him." After pondering for a long time, Li Lingfu said slowly, his tone full of complexity.

(To be continued)