"Brother Sun Lei, I have heard of your name a long time ago. When I meet you today, my little sister is lucky!"
Seeing that everyone on her side was a little reserved, Mrs. Gu smiled and cupped her fists at Sun Lei. Qinbei Pavilion
"I have long heard of Sister-in-law Gu's reputation as a generous woman."
Sun Lei said with a smile, Sister-in-law Gu is the most generous among all the people in Dengzhou. All the men are too reserved to speak, but she is the only woman who is generous.
"Don't get me wrong. I have no other intention of inviting you here today. I just heard that Sister Gu wants to save two brothers and is ready to help."
Seeing that everyone was still a little cautious, Sun Lei said with a smile.
"Thank you, Brother Sun Lei!"
After hearing this, Sister-in-law Gu was overjoyed and quickly bowed to Sun Lei.
"Since the two brothers Xie Zhen and Xie Bao were wronged, I naturally want to save them. This is what I should do."
Sun Lei said with a smile.
"Brother Sun Lei, my two brothers are the most honest, but they are a little impulsive. They are definitely not the thugs who commit crimes."
Sister-in-law Gu quickly said that he knew Liang Shanbo's rules and would only associate with good men and would never tolerate evildoers.
"Sometimes being too impulsive is not a good thing. As a sister-in-law, you have to be more careful."
Sun Lei nodded and said, in the Dengzhou faction, Sister Gu, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Zou Yuan, and Zou Run are all more impulsive.
"Follow your brother's teachings!"
Sister-in-law Gu cupped her fists and said.
"Let's not talk about these things today. The Jie family brothers will definitely save them. Let's have a drink today."
Sun Lei looked at everyone with a smile and said.
The Mazu Temple Fair has reached its most important moment. Zhizhou Wang Shizhong, Tongpan Zongze and other leaders of wealthy families are offering incense.
"Fenghuo! Enemy!"
A beacon fire was lit on the coast of Dengzhou, black smoke rose into the sky, and the harsh sound of gongs on the city wall spread throughout the city.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
After a while, a melodious and thick horn sounded from the sea.
Sun Li, Luan Tingyu and others were sitting by the window. They looked to one side and saw dozens of warships and hundreds of small boats on the sea, and the darkness was heading towards Dengzhou City.
"Skull and Bones Flag!"
Sun Li's expression changed drastically. The enemy at sea finally appeared. The number of ships alone far exceeded that of the Ping Navy.
"So many ships!"
Sun Xin was also surprised when he saw it. Although he was not in the army, his ancestors were all from military households. He used to live in Qiongzhou and had a concept of warships. These ships appeared in Dengzhou, not to mention the entire Bohai Sea, The East China Sea can be crossed.
Everyone in the Mazu Temple who had just finished offering incense turned pale when they heard the warning sound.
"Let's go and have a look!"
Wang Shizhong's expression was gloomy. Because Daoyu Village was destroyed and there was no news of Ping Haijun going to sea, the people in the city were already in panic. This Mazu Temple Festival was just to stabilize people's hearts. It was about to succeed, but the thieves suddenly appeared. Wasn't this meant to slap them in the face? .
"The thief knows so much about things in the city. Could it be that spies came in?"
Wang Shizhong looked at Zongze and asked. Zongze has been arranging the city's defense in the past few days.
"There are more than tens of thousands of people coming in and out of Dengzhou City every day. We have already banned the sea. If we seal the city again, won't there be chaos?"
Zongze shook his head and said, nearly one-third of the people in Dengzhou live by the sea. After the ban on the sea, many people suddenly lost their source of income and could only go to the city to sell their labor to make ends meet. If the city is closed again, they will be desperate. The common people were afraid not to rebel.
"But the thieves and spies are in the city, and the thieves know every move we make!"
Wang Shizhong frowned and said, Zongze is right, but we can't let the thieves' spies spy on the information.
"Wang Zhizhou, Ping Haijun is gone. The coastline is so long. How can I prevent the thieves' spies from coming ashore?"
Zongze looked at Wang Shizhong and said.
"Then you recruit fishermen and build a beacon on the beach!"
Wang Shizhong looked at Zongze, these things cost the state government a lot of money.
"This is all to paralyze the thief. After all, the thief is just a thief. As long as we find out the details, it is only a matter of time before we kill him!"
Zongze looked at Wang Shizhong and said that the thief was nothing in front of the entire court. What he was most worried about was that the thief would not show up. The secret enemy was the most terrifying.
"It's true that when the imperial court sends a large army, some thieves won't be killed yet!"
Wang Shizhong said with a smile that he felt very comfortable hearing Zongze's words.
But when the two of them climbed onto the city wall and looked at the densely packed fleet, their soothing expressions fell again. The number of ships was far beyond their imagination.
"The giant sea loach ship! The sea loach warship! How is that possible! This is what only happens to the officers and soldiers!"
Zongze looked at the ships and said in a voiceless voice, he is from Yiwu, Wuzhou, the river system in the south of the Yangtze River is developed, 90% of the navy of the Song Dynasty is in the south, the shipbuilding skills are the best in the south, and the most advanced ones are the giant sea loach ships and the sea loach warships. This is a military weapon that only the imperial court is allowed to build.
"What kind of flag is that? A skull! Looks like a thief!"
Wang Shizhong looked at the flags fluttering in the wind on the masts of the ships and became confused. He had never seen anyone using such flags in Dengzhou for so many years.
"What kind of thief? How can a thief own this ship! Only government-run shipyards can manufacture such ships. Each one is unique. If you check it, you will know which thief it is."
Zongze looked at the warships stopped on the coastline with a gloomy face and said.
The Song Dynasty shipyard is divided into official and private. The official shipyard mainly produces cano ships (also known as gang ships), seat ships, war ships and horse ships (troop ships). Private shipyards mainly produce various large and small tank boats.
"Lord Zhizhou, my subordinates will lead the troops to kill the thieves!"
Team coach Pan Shanyu asked Wang Shizhong to fight.
"Hutu, we don't have any boats, how can we go to war? The thieves won't come ashore!"
Wang Shizhong looked at Pan Shanyu and yelled, now is not the time to show off, Ping Haijun's entire army has been wiped out, and there are less than three thousand soldiers in Dengzhou now. If something happens again, what will happen to Dengzhou City?
"The thieves did this on purpose. They showed off their force just to make us panic and expose our weaknesses so that they could capture the city."
Zongze said.
"The thieves really dare to attack Dengzhou Prefecture?"
Some of the king's masters didn't believe it. How could the thieves be so bold as to dare to capture the city? This is the bottom line of the court. Once such a thief appears, the court will definitely mobilize an army to kill him completely.
"They dare to fight even the Ping Navy, and now the fleet is arrayed outside the city to show off, so there's nothing they dare to do."
Zongze squinted his eyes and said, he had seen a lot of thieves, but he had never heard of such a bold one.
"Master Zhizhou, Master Tongpan, you have to think of a solution, this... this..."
The local wealthy men pointed to the returned ships and said to Wang Shizhong and Zongze that they all relied on shipping to make money and had countless caravans and sailors under them. Now that there is such a big force on the sea and the sea routes are cut off, their family Their fundamental interests have been directly cut off. If this is not resolved, their losses will be immeasurable.
Wang Shizhong couldn't think of a way and could only look at Zongze.
"Wait a minute. Thieves don't appear for no reason. They stay offshore and show off their force. They must have other purposes."
Zongze looked at the warships and said.
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