"Has anyone been caught?"
As the words came, Li Zhao quickly rushed to the cliff holding a torch.
"The attacker came to the island from the cliff. My subordinates were a step too slow. When we arrived, the enemy had already got on the boat and escaped from the cliff." said the captain who chased the enemy to the cliff.
Li Zhao stuck his head out and took a look down the cliff, but unfortunately he couldn't see anything clearly in the black cloth.
"Report, all the invading enemies have been suppressed. Only a small number of enemies scattered and hid on the island while it was dark. It was difficult to find them for a while. They could only wait for daybreak to search the island." The squadron leader of the soldiers on duty at night came. Report in front of Li Zhao.
Li Zhao nodded and said immediately: "Take a group of people to see where the people live. This place is very close to where the people live. There may be enemies sneaking into the people."
"Yes." The squadron leader agreed and left with the team.
At this time, the captain standing on the cliff said to Li Zhao: "General, look, the enemy should have used these ropes to get to the island from the cliff."
Several ropes hanging down the cliff were very conspicuous under the surrounding firelight.
Li Zhao walked over, looked down along the rope, pointed at the boat abandoned at the bottom of the cliff and said: "Send a few people to go down along the rope and sink all the boats underneath. Then it will be considered an island." There is an enemy on the island who can only be trapped on the island unless he jumps into the sea and swims back."
The weather has already cooled down, and a thin layer of ice has formed on the sea around Phi Island. It would be suicidal to go to the sea and swim to the shore in this season.
"You two, take the guys down there and scuttle all the boats at the bottom of the cliff." The captain found two soldiers nearby and went down the cliff to scuttle the boats.
Li Zhao watched the two soldiers descending the cliff along the rope, and asked the captain who was following him, "Have you found out the identity of the enemy general who attacked Pi Island?"
"People have been arranged to interrogate the prisoners." the captain replied.
Li Zhao said: "Hurry up and interrogate, maybe you can catch a big fish this time."
"The general is talking about Mao Wenlong?" the captain asked.
Among the captured prisoners, many were dressed in Ming army uniforms, so it was easy to identify the enemies who attacked Pi Island as coming from Dongjiang Town.
Li Zhao said: "If Mao Wenlong is captured, Dongjiang Town will be leaderless. We might be able to take advantage of the situation and take over places like Tieshan Zhenjiang."
"Mao Wenlong is also the coach of Dongjiang Town after all. With his status, he probably wouldn't come in person for such a dangerous matter as a sneak attack on Pidao!" the captain next to him said doubtfully.
After hearing this, Li Zhao laughed and said: "Other general soldiers may not come back to attack Pi Island, but Mao Wenlong is different. This man is very courageous, otherwise he would not lead a few hundred people to go around and attack behind the slave thieves. Zhenjiang."
At this moment, the soldier captain who was sent to interrogate the prisoners was brought over.
"Report to General Li, the prisoners have been interrogated. The people who attacked Pi Island are all from Tieshan, and they were divided into two teams. One went to the island from the cliff, and the other mainly consisted of Denglai Navy to attack ours. Among the warships, the enemy general who made the sneak attack was Pingliao Commander-in-Chief Mao Wenlong, and this person came to the island from the cliff."
As he spoke, he glanced down the cliff.
After hearing the news brought back by the people below, Li Zhao looked at the captain of the soldiers beside him and said with a smile: "How about it? I'm not wrong, right? Mao Wenlong is a very gambling person." Gu Tun
"I never thought that Mao Wenlong would be so bold. He dared to take the initiative to lead troops to attack Pi Island. He was not afraid of getting himself involved." The captain next to him sighed softly.
Sneak attacks are often carried out by the generals below, which made him mistakenly believe that Mao Wenlong would not appear among the officers and soldiers of Dongjiang Town during the sneak attack.
Li Zhao looked at the corps commander who sent the news and asked: "Where are the Mao Wenlong people? Have they been captured by our people?"
"Escaped." The corps commander hesitated for a moment and continued, "My subordinates interrogated several prisoners who fled to the cliff. Some people saw Mao Wenlong escaping by boat under the escort of his personal soldiers. However, the recruits used The spear stabbed to death a Dusi beside Mao Wenlong, who was one of the people who escaped from Pi Island with Mao Wenlong."
"What a pity." The captain on the side patted his thigh regretfully when he heard that Mao Wenlong had escaped.
Li Zhao said: "Just run away. This time Dongjiang Town has lost so many soldiers and horses, I'm afraid there won't be many defenders left in Tieshan."
"I am willing to be the vanguard of the army to attack Tieshan." The captain of the soldiers next to him immediately stood up and asked for a fight.
Li Zhao waved his hand gently and said: "Whether we should take this opportunity to capture Tieshan or not, we still need to discuss it with the commander before we can decide. The top priority right now is to train new soldiers."
"Whenever the commander decides to attack the Iron Mountain, he will ask the general to put in a good word for his subordinates." The captain of the soldiers next to him said with a look of seeking credit.
Li Zhao smiled and said: "Don't worry, as long as we attack Tieshan, I will definitely recommend you to the commander as the pioneer. I'm satisfied."
"Satisfied, satisfied." The captain of the soldiers on the side nodded happily.
If you want to be promoted in the army, you must have military merit to be promoted more easily. Previously, when I trained new recruits on the island to expand the army, I saw that other squadron commanders with lower positions than him were promoted to captains, but he, the captain, was not able to participate because of his failure to participate. After the battle on Pi Island, he was still the captain.
Seeing others being promoted, how could he not be envious?
"Report, General Li, the commander-in-chief invites you and several thousand-man team captains to come to the commander-in-chief's office for discussion."
While Li Zhao was talking to the captain of his army, Zheng Tie's messenger sent news of a meeting.
"Go back and tell the commander, I'll be there right away." Li Zhao told the messenger.
The messenger held a torch and went to deliver the order to others.
After the soldiers were ordered to go away, the captain of the soldiers on the side said: "General, do you think you are going to attack Tieshan?"
"Don't ask around. If we really use troops against Tieshan, military orders will naturally be issued. Just wait and see." Li Zhao told him, "Take your people and continue to search for defeated troops on the island, especially the residences of the people. Finally, It’s easy for defeated soldiers to hide inside.”
After saying that, he took his guards with him and left from the cliff with torches, preparing to go back to attend the meeting at the Commander-in-Chief's Mansion.
"A team has come over to escort General Li back." The captain of the soldiers called a team under him to escort Li Zhao back to the commander-in-chief's mansion along the way.
There were remnant soldiers from Dongjiang Town on the island, and no one knew where they were hiding, so he didn't dare let Li Zhao go back alone.
With a team of soldiers escorting him, he believed that Li Zhao's safety could be guaranteed even if he encountered a small group of remnants.
