Great Song Pirate

Chapter 369 Competing for Tuoji Island
Zhang Qing was very surprised by the Fubo Army who suddenly appeared on Yangma Island. The news brought back by Wang Xue made him faintly uneasy. He had just heard the name of the Fubo Army. Someone on the Internet brought news that the Black Scarf Army that haunted the south of Jiaozhou Bay was almost uprooted by a group of people called Fubo Army, and the boss of the Black Scarf Army, Sun Cheng, and his family were wiped out. The scarf army scattered overnight, and it is said that most of them became the souls of the Fubo army.

And the person who brought back the news also said that the reason why the Fubo Army killed Sun Cheng's family this time was that the cargo of the Fubo Army was robbed by Sun Cheng, and the boatman of the Fubo Army was killed by Sun Cheng, so They will send their troops to retaliate and completely kill the black scarf army.

Zhang Qing didn't care about the grievances between the Fubo Army and the Black Turban Army. He had heard of Sun Cheng's Black Turban Army before, and knew that Sun Cheng's power was quite large. He also knew that this man was ruthless and had done a lot in the south Wicked things, whistling over the sea for two years, they seem to be a tyrant in the sea outside Yancheng, no one can do anything to their black scarf army, but I didn't expect that after Sun Cheng ran into this Fubo army, he would be defeated by Fubo in an instant. The entire army disintegrated, which shows that the combat power of the Fubo army is absolutely extraordinary, but he did not expect that after the Fubo army actually solved the black scarf army Sun Cheng, instead of returning to the south, they went all the way north to Bohai Bay. What is the army's intention?

According to what Wang Xue said when he came back, Zhang Qing felt that there was no bottom line. According to Wang Xue's observation, this Fubo army fleet definitely looked like a well-trained regular army, and Wang Xue also said that their ships were some The big boats and fast boats are very sturdy and the soldiers are all capable. There may be about a thousand men in ten boats.

And when Zhang Qing looked at the strength he had now, he couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. Although he claimed to have five thousand men and no fewer than fifty ships, the ships he could really take out were only those few The square boats just snatched are not even warships, and the rest are some dilapidated small sea boats or fishing boats, and the [-] men who were there are actually some mobs. With so many people gathered, he was so busy and dizzy just to solve the problem of their meals. The drill has not yet started. No, I'm afraid I'm not their opponent. This Wang Xue is still foolish enough to persuade others to surrender and let them join him. Could it be that his reading brain is broken?
Zhang Qing dismissed Wang Xue with a blank face, and fell into deep thought while sitting on the big chair in the Juyi Hall.

Who is the Fubo Army?Why did such a fleet suddenly appear?What is the purpose of their coming here?A series of questions made Zhang Qing restless. Originally, he planned to develop his power on land, but by accident, he had just pulled up a team, but it happened to be suppressed by the government army, and he was forced to When he arrived at the seaside, fortunately he had a few clever guys under his command, conspiring them to escape along the seashore, robbed a batch of ships, and then escaped to heaven, otherwise, he might have been wiped out by the officers and soldiers.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Qing discovered the benefits of being a thief at sea. Although the imperial court's official army is not very good at dealing with foreign enemies, it is more than enough to deal with some rioters, but the Laizhou Navy, which is also an official army, is really unbearable. However, after getting some broken fishing boats, the Laizhou Navy did not dare to come out to conquer them. They just huddled in the water village and watched him lead the fleet to attack those big families on land. There was nothing he could do about it, it was like a fake. When he first went into the sea, he was always worried about the problems of the Laizhou Navy, but after doing so for a few months, he found that the Laizhou Navy had only an empty shell left. It's too late, their so-called warships are basically few that can be used now, and the navy says it has thousands of officers and soldiers, but not even a third of them are actually being compiled, and the rest are just empty The quota is just for those officials to eat empty wages. After clarifying the situation, Zhang Qing became more courageous. It turned out that he really became the overlord of the sea in the Laizhou area!
With this understanding, he strengthened his determination to engage in the pirate business. There are many islands in the Bohai Sea, and some of them are places for him to hide. After exploring this period of time, he also found that the Liao people on the Bohai Sea The important waterway for sea trade with the Song people, every time I go out, I basically never return empty-handed, and the harvest is quite good.

At least now there is no problem for him to feed thousands of people, but why did a goddamn Fubo army come at this time to disturb his good business?Otherwise, wouldn't this place become his world?The more Zhang Qing thinks about it, the more he feels that he is in trouble. He is undecided on the issue of the Fubo Army. He doesn't know whether to drive away the Fubo Army fleet that appeared here out of nowhere, or just turn a blind eye and let them take root here. Forget it.

After a night of deliberation, Zhang Qing finally made up his mind that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. This Fubo army will never be satisfied with just occupying a Yangma Island. Instead of letting them grow here, it is better to take advantage of them. When it is stable, use all your strength to drive them away in one fell swoop, or take them down in one fell swoop, so as to completely eliminate this future trouble, otherwise the task entrusted to him by the prince may be destroyed in the hands of this Fubo army!
After having this idea, Zhang Qing started to act...

Because Wang Xue came to Yangma Island, Miao Fang found out the location of Zhang Qing's lair, so after Wang Xue left, Miao Fang and the others were not idle. As a local, Cai Xing was familiar with the situation here. So Cai Xing took some local fishermen including Liu Biao and dozens of smart sailors together, and drove a few fishing boats out to sea towards the west.

Tuoji Island is a larger island located in the Miaodao Islands off the coast of Laizhou. It guards the Bohai Bay like a string of pearls. The reason why Zhang Qing set up his old nest here is that Tuoji Island is far away from the land. It can be attacked and defended. Although the island is not big, it is very safe. The goal of Miao Fang is obvious. It is to control the Miaodao Islands, and then use this as a base to go south to the Shandong Peninsula and go north. Then you can directly hit the Liaodong Peninsula. Before Xu Yi left, he specifically instructed Miao Fang, so after hearing that Zhang Qing was entrenched on Tuoji Island, Miao Fang immediately decided that he must take down Tuoji Island. The two sides almost thought of it. Together.

When Cai Xing wandered around Tuoji Island with a few fishing boats, he soon discovered that many boats began to gather here. There were probably no fewer than fifty or sixty boats, large and small, and they did not dare to get too close. , just casting nets for fishing from such a distance, observing the situation near Tuoji Island, Cai Xing and the others soon confirmed Zhang Qing's actions, because after many large and small boats gathered on Tuoji Island, they began to fly in a few large ships. Under the leadership of the leader, Cai Xing began to practice the battle array in a serious manner at sea, so Cai Xing immediately called several boats to return to Yangma Island.

After Miao Fang listened to Cai Xing's words, he immediately burst out laughing: "This Zhang Qing really cooperates with us! If he scattered his followers on the surrounding islands, it would be difficult for us." They started, one island after another let us fight, I'm afraid we won't be able to finish the fight until it freezes here, this is a good time! Zhang Qing first gathered his troops for us, this time we don't need to fight one by one Since he has already decided to have a fight with us, then let's not be polite to him, take this opportunity, let's press them over and solve them at sea, so as to save trouble in the future! I don't know Cai What do you think bro?"

Cai Xing also nodded and said: "That's right! I thought so too. After this trip, I saw Zhang Qing's so-called fleet. Compared with our current fleet, it can only be said that they are so shabby. Some of them are fishing boats, and the real ones are just a few square boats. It shouldn’t be a problem to clean them up, just follow your arrangement! Let’s not wait for them to come to us, and go directly to his lair , solve him!"

When Miao Fang sailed out of Yangma Island with the Fubo army fleet, a piercing north wind began to blow on the sea. For those of them who came from the two Zhejiang areas, this kind of weather was not very good for them. Adapted, but this time they came to prepare well, all the men in the fleet were allotted with cotton-padded clothes, which Xu Yi had already prepared for them before coming. Many people didn't understand why at the time, but now after wearing these padded jackets, they realized that their master had already made a plan. This kind of foresight saved them a lot of suffering.

Zhang Qing is actually not a fool. Ever since he decided to compete with the new Fubo Army, he also photographed a few fishing boats that went out to the vicinity of Yangma Island, and were stationed at Yangma Island for surveillance. As soon as Miao Fang's fleet went out to sea this time, these fishing boats with Zhang Qing as an eyeliner immediately noticed their movements, so they immediately set sail and rushed back to their old nest.

In order to prepare to deal with the Fubo army fleet, Zhang Qing did his best to mobilize all the ships he could mobilize, and did not immediately go to Yangma Island to directly confront the Fubo army, but instead went to Tuoji Drills are carried out on the sea near the island every day, in order to take advantage of the Fubo Army fleet when they go to war, at least not to prevent their own fleet from messing up once the war starts.

After some drills, Zhang Qing finally got his ships together. At the beginning of the drill, they looked a little better, and they were roughly ready to cooperate. Just when he was planning to send his troops to Yangma Island, he didn't expect that the boats he sent out The eyeliner rushed back first.

Zhang Qing angrily patted the armrest of the big chair and cursed: "This Fubo army is really bullying me too much. I won't seek bad luck for them, but they will come to trouble us first! Since they are here this time, let's I will meet them, I want to see what is the background of this Fubo Army, I don’t believe they can drive us out of the Bohai Sea! Pass the order, all brothers board the ship immediately, let’s let them know what to do today The Fubo Army will try the power of our Bohai Navy!"

Following his order, the boats in the harbor of Tuoji Island rushed out of Tuoji Island like a hornet's nest after being stabbed, and led by the few generous boats in the middle, they marched mightily towards the sea. Sailing to the east sea.

The waves rolled and beat against the hull of the ship, and the two fleets finally collided heavily on the wide sea under the instigation of fate...

When night fell on the sea, surrounded by several cronies, Zhang Qing boarded a small boat, desperately highlighted the battlefield, and left Tuoji Island far behind, Zhang Qing sat in the cabin with a face ashen In the middle, I didn't say a word for a long time, and there was no other sound on the whole ship except the sound of the sea wind blowing the sails.

The accumulation of more than half a year was wiped out in less than half a day. Zhang Qing was heartbroken. He hated this Fubo army to the core. He still underestimated the combat power of this Fubo army fleet. He thought it would be no problem for him to at least draw a tie with the opponent based on the advantage of numbers, but the result was that the two fleets had just met, and the opponent's fierce offensive immediately wiped out the fleet he had managed to form. However, such a fleet, even when the government's navy was at its peak, might not be able to get a little bit of cheap from them.

The black kerosene cans that flew out hit his boat as if they had eyes, and set his boats on fire one by one. Their big boats, as tall as buildings, ignited his small boats one by one like Mount Tai. His subordinates were not without bravery, but no matter how hard they rushed, they could not board the opponent's ship. The screams of his subordinates' dying screams still linger in his ears, and the blood of the dead and injured The sea water was dyed red in large areas, and the broken ship boards were scattered on the sea surface.

Zhang Qing closed his eyes, but the various scenes of the previous battle still flashed in his mind. For such a result, he only felt a chill in his heart.

Seeing the debris floating on the sea, the corpses, and the boats under Zhang Qing fleeing away, Miao Fang sent an order to withdraw the troops. If the fight continued, it would become a senseless massacre. He and Zhang Qing There is no grievance, it is just for the control here, there is no need to drive them out, after this battle, even if Zhang Qing wants to make a comeback, it may not be very possible, so Miao Fang is not willing to chase and kill any more. After all, these Zhang Qing's subordinates are not worthy of death. If they are kept, they may become his new force in the future.

After cleaning the battlefield, after counting, Zhang Qing basically lost one-third of the more than 50 large and small ships that Zhang Qing brought this time, and the remaining one-third was captured on the spot. Only about [-]% of them escaped. The subordinates brought by Zhang Qing suffered hundreds of casualties in this battle. Many of them were frozen to death after diving into the water after the ship caught fire. The casualties of Qing's men were still very heavy.

Of the nearly [-] troops brought by Zhang Qing, except for less than [-]% who fled, the rest all became prisoners of war of the Fubo Army, and they crowded together in panic on the remaining burned messy broken ships, waiting to ambush. The Poles' verdict on their fate.

After learning that their opponents would not kill them, these Zhang Qing's subordinates finally breathed a long sigh of relief. Before they came, they were all ambitious, but after this battle, they realized what terror is. These uniformly dressed warriors on the opposite side left a deep impression on them. They just want to return to the island quickly and keep their feet on the ground. They no longer have the idea of ​​continuing to resist. The wrecked boat that they were sitting on seemed likely to disintegrate at any moment, and no one wanted to soak in the icy sea water for a while.

Basically speaking, the Miao side did not take too much effort to control Tuoji Island. After they solved Zhang Qing's fleet, they directly attacked Tuoji Island at night. They took control, and the village that Zhang Qing finally built was also owned by the Fubo Army.

After those dilapidated ships were dragged to the shore by the Fubo army, and all the prisoners of war were counted, Miao Fang discovered that they had captured as many as 500 prisoners alone in this battle, far exceeding their With his own number, capturing so many prisoners at once really gave him a headache for a long time.

In the following days, Miao Fang and Cai Xing did not continue to expand, but simply used Tuoji Island as a base to reorganize these prisoners of war under Zhang Qing for about a month. After their persuasion, The vast majority of these prisoners of war finally chose to belong to his subordinates. Miao Fang selected young and strong people from among them and sent them back to Dulong Island for training in rotation. For resettlement on Liuqiu Island, Miao Fang implemented Xu Yi's strategy and implemented a policy of elite soldiers. In their Fubo army and navy, they only need those strong and strong people, and they definitely don't need the old, weak and remnant soldiers.

After reorganizing and cleaning up these prisoners of war, Miao Fang began to reach out to the surrounding islands, taking these larger islands into his pocket one by one. When ice floes began to appear on the sea, many important islands off the coast of Laizhou basically They were all under the control of Miao Fang and the others, and Zhang Qing had disappeared in Bohai Bay since that battle, and he didn't know where he was hiding.

But who would have thought that Zhang Qing would appear in Jiwang Mansion in Bianliang, Tokyo at this time?After Zhao Xu listened to what Zhang Qing said, he raised his hand and wrote the words Fu Bo Jun heavily on the rice paper on the table, and then shouted: "Zhang Hu come in!"

Hearing the sound, Zhang Hu immediately walked into the study room, nodded slightly to the tired Zhang Qing, hurriedly came to Zhao Xu and clasped his fists and said, "If you have something to do, just tell me!"

"Send people out immediately, and make sure to find out who this Fubo Army is! Who is this Miao Fang, and what is the purpose of controlling Bohai Bay!" Zhao Xu ordered Zhang Hu to arrive.

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