Jiang Fan nodded and looked at Situ Xiao: "How are Jiang Qi's preparations?"
Situ Xiao cheered up: "Awesome, she is your sister after all. Thirty warships have been secretly lurking at the designated location. These ships are amazing. To be honest, Situ has lived half his life. This kind of warship has never been heard of. Unbelievable, unbelievable.”
Looking at the expression on his face, Jiang Fan knew that he was really shocked.
This is not surprising. Jiang Qi has been secretly supervising the construction of sea ships based on the improved drawings of Jiang Fan and Gong Loser, and now he has finally achieved results.
Many people don't know this. For safety reasons, even the construction base is divided into three locations.
They are near the estuary of the Canglan River, relying on the Nangong family and the Black Sail Gang, near the estuary of the Longjiang River, relying on Taibaiju, and near the estuary of the Huangsha River, relying on the Coolie Gang.
But the progress is not very fast, not because of manpower, they are very surplus in this regard, mainly because the new warships have many technical problems that need to be overcome. Therefore, only the first batch of thirty ships has been born so far.
These warships are epoch-making in some aspects, and once they are launched, they will definitely subvert the world's perception. But in Jiang Fan's opinion, it was nothing more than the first generation, but to Situ Xiao and others, it was too advanced, and they were inevitably shocked.
This time, because of the Zheng family, Jiang Fan decisively mobilized warships for attack, but because of this, he had to succeed in one attack, otherwise the exposure of the new warships would easily lead to big trouble.
That's right, Jiang Fan's trip was not just to find the Wumen and inquire about refining corpse puppets, nor was he just to rescue Tian Mole, he also had a big intention - to seize the Zheng family.
But as Situ Xiao said, it was still too early. According to the original plan, it would take at least another two years to start when Qin completed its first five-year plan.
Because not only will the Zheng family be greatly weakened by then, but also according to speculation, a national war is very likely to break out. At that time, if they suddenly come to seize the Zheng family, and then stab the Chu country in the back, they will become a surprise force.
But there is no way, it must be promoted in advance. There are four reasons for this.
First, the Sea Dragon King will not remain indifferent for a long time. Under the strategies of the Xie family and the Zheng family, it will change sooner or later, and now it has begun to show signs of change.
Secondly, the Zheng family is jealous and wants to destroy the pirates. Of course Jiang Fan is not afraid of this. At worst, if you advance and I retreat, if you retreat I will disturb him and make him miserable. But the problem is that once the Zheng family launches a large-scale encirclement and suppression, it will be a good opportunity to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and even if done well, it can even hit the Zheng family's maritime fleet hard.
Third, Yu Qingcheng. With her mind, she would definitely see clues over time. Jiang Fan really didn't want her to see the importance of the island and the sea route in advance. But now, as Ding Shaoan received the secret report, Yu Qingcheng had been meeting him a bit frequently, and the problem gradually became clearer. Increased, seems to have been thinking about something. This point actually worries him more than the previous two points, even the most worrying one.
Fourth, according to Feng Yuanshan's news, Zheng Lin has reached some kind of agreement with the Heavenly Demon Palace, and he is really going to form an alliance with the Heavenly Demon Palace. Sooner or later, the Heavenly Demon Palace will face off against his brother-in-law. Jiang Fan does not want the Heavenly Demon Palace to be surrounded by a super powerful force that wants money and people.
Therefore, Jiang Fan decided not to wait any longer, and took advantage of the fact that he had to go to southern Xinjiang to kill the Zheng family. But his plan was more than that, and he wanted to hide it from Yu Qingcheng as much as possible. Therefore, even Yu Qingcheng's hand cannot be borrowed.
"There are three key points." Jiang Fan pondered: "First, time control, you must strictly follow the time nodes I specified. Several battlefields are not close to each other. Even if I have air transmission, the message transmission is not that fast, so , you must pay enough attention to time."
Both of them expressed their understanding at the same time.
"Second," Jiang Fan said: "You must know how to adapt to changes and divide the battlefield. It is impossible to predict everything in advance. You must be decisive when you need to be decisive."
Situ smiled and said: "Our role is to draw out and contain the Zheng family's armed forces on land, but they are deeply hidden. Our intelligence may not be exhaustive, and the possibility of an accident is not small."
Jiang Fan nodded: "It doesn't matter. As long as you do what you need to do, someone will naturally take action. Third, once it is completed, it will return to normal immediately. This is very important. I don't want to attract the attention of that witch Yu Qingcheng."
After both of them agreed, Jiang Fan breathed a sigh of relief: "Many things really don't happen with me. In this case, there is no need to look forward and backward, just do it when it's time to do it."
Situ Xiao reached out and took out a blueprint from his pocket: "This is the layout of the Zheng family provided by Zheng Wen for the Lord's reference."
Jiang Fan nodded: "We came just in time. I'm afraid Zheng Wen's side is still a little weak. The internal response needs to be strengthened as soon as possible."
Situ smiled and said: "Zheng Wen has gathered his men's strength and completed the deployment with Feng Yuanshan. According to your arrangement, we will attract the remaining forces and open a passage from the south side."
Xie Sanjiu said: "We should be able to attract a large number of Zheng family guards in several ways, but there are hundreds of thousands of people on the island, and the hidden power is unknown. The most important thing is to capture Zheng Lin and his die-hard loyalists in one fell swoop to be effective. Control their counterattack.”
Jiang Fan said: "It depends on Zheng Wen. He has to grasp Zheng Lin's location promptly and accurately."
Xie Sanjiu smiled slightly: "It's easy. It can be regarded as a coincidence created by Zheng Lin himself. Xie Wangsun and Wang Chulan of the Wang family have already set off. They can reach Zheng's house in about 20 days. Zheng Lin will definitely meet him in person. Moreover, According to Young Master’s arrangement, Caobang will land on the island to transport a large batch of goods in the near future, Zheng Lin will come forward, and its movements will be easy to grasp.”
Situ smiled and said: "But there is also a problem. What should we do with Wang Chulan and Xie Wangsun? Kill them together?"
"No," Jiang Fan said decisively, "You can't kill the Zheng family. Once the Wang and Xie families investigate, it will expose the chaos in the Zheng family. It's best to take action while they are away."
"But just in case, they plan to stay here for a while..." Situ Xiao frowned.
Jiang Fan said calmly: "Time is crucial. If they don't move, then lure them out."
Jiang Fan waved, and Alai, who was feeding birds next to the ship's side, came over.
"What's going on with the Feng family?"
Alai said: "According to the information provided by Zhou Dalu, the Feng family was very angry because of Feng Tiannan's death. Not only is they investigating you like crazy, but they also sent people to southern Xinjiang to investigate the truth."
Jiang Fan nodded. It was inevitable for the Feng family to investigate him. They were the only ones who knew that Feng Tiannan went to southern Xinjiang to kill him, but he later turned around to deal with Gao Jian. There must be a story in between.
"Southern Xinjiang, who did they send?"
Alai thought for a moment: "The news is that it's a guy named Wu Qi..."
Jiang Fan was stunned: "What? Hanged ghost?"
This is really a big surprise. Maybe if I don't get accurate information in Menggun this time, I can still study Wu Qi.
Looking back, I immediately felt that it was no surprise. Wu Qi was originally from the Corpse Refining Sect in Southern Xinjiang, and he was the most familiar with it here.
Haha, sometimes it's quite a coincidence.
Jiang Fan had a plan to transfer Xie Wangsun in an instant, but the Xie family was basically Xingluo of the Feng family.
In fact, Jiang Fan originally planned to use the Feng family to transfer Xie Wangsun away, because he mastered the counterfeiting technology. I am afraid that Feng Qianqiu, who was hiding, had not had time to pay attention to it, so he could obviously use it again.
But the arrival of Wu Qi made this matter easier.
It was easier to lure Wang Chulan away. Jiang Fan looked back at the cabin, and a beautiful song was faintly coming from inside...
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