Great Song Pirate

Chapter 428

The Fubo army fleet sailed into the bay, and from a distance, they saw the small fishing boats in the bay desperately fleeing to the shore. Many people showed smiles. Xiao and other officials from Annan had a bitter expression on their faces.

Toulon was just a small town at this time. It was also built along the sea, and there was a small pier. There were few ships berthing here, but recently, after the Skeleton Army razed the large seaport in the north to the ground. However, it became lively here. The passing ships that originally planned to dock at Dazhanhaikou to replenish food and fresh water found that the pier at Dazhanhaikou, Hui’an Town, no longer existed, so they had to berth here. The town of Toulon suddenly became much more lively.

People here are talking about what happened in Dazhanhaikou, and happily started a small business. It turns out that it is so easy to earn money for these merchant ships!

Compared with the big Zhanhaikou in the north, it is nothing at all. There are only 300 Annan defenders stationed here, and life is quite comfortable. As long as Zhan people don’t come to attack here, it seems that nothing will happen. They heard that the Skeleton Army was heading north. Although it was very close to Dazhanhaikou, there was nothing to worry about!
But the good days seemed to end suddenly like this. After hearing that a large number of skeleton army fleets sailed into the Gulf of Toulon suddenly, looking at these legendary terrifying fleets, the garrison here was already in chaos, and no one believed it. With their small force, they could defend Toulon, so the panic-stricken commander immediately formed a team, planning to withdraw from Toulon immediately and retreat to the nearby counties and counties to report the enemy's situation to the higher authorities. Packed up some soft things, fled the town with their family and fled like crazy towards the nearby mountains and forests. At this time, they had already become frightened birds. The land where they live for a long time is more important, and they don't care about it anymore.

There are more than a dozen merchant ships docked on the pier and passing by here. They have been scared and at a loss. The people on the shore can escape, but where can they escape?The people on these ships could only curl up in the cabin with fear, for fear that they would be killed if they were not careful.

When the people here were fleeing in panic, several Annan officials came down from the docked skeleton army ship and rushed to the town of Toulon. Annan officials immediately took out the imperial decree of King Li Chao and read it out to them. Only then did the garrison know that the skeleton army did not come to attack this place, but came to receive this place, so they were somewhat relieved.

These defenders don't care if they hurt the country, as long as they don't come to attack them, as for who will be in charge of this place in the future, it's not something they can decide.
When Xu Yi stepped on this land, he suddenly remembered a sentence said by a great man once, so he pointed to this land and said to the generals gathered around him: "I come, I see , I conquer!"

These generals all looked at Xu Yi strangely, not knowing what he meant, they had never heard such a language before, so someone asked: "Where is the word my lord said just now? Why can't we understand half a sentence?"

Xu Yi smiled proudly: "I speak English. If it is spoken in our Han language, it means that I have been here, I have seen, and I have conquered!"

In everyone's eyes, when Xu Yi said these words, he seemed to grow taller suddenly...

Seeing people going to the empty town with empty houses, Xu Yi really couldn't help but cry. It was a good thing to win the port of Toulon, but if all the people here run away, then they can't all stay here!
But it's no wonder, but who made their skeleton army famous?The people in Annan have long been scared by them. Seeing their fleet arrive, it would be strange if they didn’t run away. Xu Yi didn’t bother to talk to the locals who ran away. He just asked the ship’s clerk to issue a few Anmin notices to ensure that they would not disturb the local people. The residents, and then ordered people to go to the pier to inform the merchant ships that are berthing here one by one, tell them what to do and continue to do, and tell them that this place will be under the jurisdiction of their Fubo Army in the future. The berthed ships promised that they would never interfere, and arranged for manpower to start handing over the defense of this place from the Annan people.

According to the agreement, Toulon is under the jurisdiction of the Fubo Army within a radius of tens of miles. Such a large area requires a lot of time for the handover and inspection alone. He brought the infantry ashore, and began to send troops to take over the defense of this place from the Annan garrison, and sent scouts, led by the Annan people, to patrol the territory that received them nearby, announcing their ownership of the place.

After receiving the notice from the Fubo Army, the merchant ships moored in the Port of Toulon were skeptical, but after waiting for a while, they saw that the Fubo Army really did not violate them in any way, and someone came to ask them what they needed, and told them They began to deliver food and fresh water according to their requirements, and these people began to feel more or less relieved.

In addition, several ships proposed to leave the port, but they were not blocked at all, and they were allowed to sail away at will. Only then did the remaining merchant ships believe that what the Fubo army said was true, so they tentatively started to land with these ships. The Fubo soldiers began to get in touch with them. After inquiring, they realized that the name of the fleet they feared was Fubo Army, and the Annan people had leased this place to the Fubo Army. It is owned by the Fubo Army. Xu Yi also specially asked people to inform the people on these ships that this place will become a trading port in the future. , Trading here, the taxes they collect will be much lower than they used to be in Dazhanhaikou. This kind of guarantee makes the people on these ships completely relieved.

When their fleet docked in the port, Xu Yi suddenly remembered that if such a skeleton flag was still hoisted, then no one would dare to come here to do business in the future, so he hurriedly ordered all the ships to lower the skeleton flag and replace it with the skeleton flag. With their violet-colored Fubo military flag, it finally reduced the fearful atmosphere of some fleets.

And because Zhang Xiao and other Annan people accompanied the reception of Toulon this time, and they had the king's handbook, the handover matter basically went smoothly. Except for some residents who ran away, the Annan army here Basically, they quickly withdrew from the boundaries negotiated and demarcated by the two sides. Now none of these Annan officers and soldiers want to provoke the skeleton army, but immediately turn to the war with the occupying people.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Xu Yi announced that people living in Toulon would be exempted from the tax burden of the year, and strictly restrained the Fubo army from infringing on the residents here. After a few days, some residents tentatively began to come out of the mountains and forests. After returning to the port of Toulon, I found that the legendary skeleton army really did nothing to them, and gave them some belongings. Then I felt relieved, went back to the forest, and found more residents. Started to recover some anger.

Since the founding of the Annan Li Dynasty, the Cham people have been bullied by the Annan people. There are their own reasons for this. The Champo country was originally a small country, but it is composed of more than a dozen smaller countries. , the internal has always been fighting each other, fighting endlessly, naturally not as united as the Annan people, so since the war with Annan, they have been defeated by Li Chao all the way, but this time when they heard about the skeleton army, However, Zhan Ren unexpectedly showed more cohesiveness than before. He conscripted nearly [-] soldiers and horses from all over the country. As a result, in the battle with the occupying people, they immediately showed a weakness. They began to be suppressed by the occupying people in the Guangnan area, and they retreated steadily. In addition, after the news of the fall of Aizhou in the rear came two days ago, the morale of the army became even stronger. It was unstable, and the battle situation in the past two days became even more tense, and urgent calls for help flew to Wangcheng Shenglong like snowflakes.

But Abu Alan, King of Zhan, was cruel this time. He wanted to wipe away the previous humiliation of Zhanren. He planned to take advantage of the weakness of the Annan Li Dynasty to take over the previously lost land in one fell swoop. He even planned to wipe out the Li Dynasty in this battle. It was the beginning of a large-scale attack on the defense line of Li Chao's army. For a while, the two sides fought fiercely at the reception not far from Toulon. Li Chao's army had begun to collapse, and the situation fell into an unprecedented crisis.

At this time, both parties received news at the same time that Li Chao had negotiated peace with the Skeleton Army, and the Skeleton Army withdrew from Aizhou City, ending the harassment of the coastal area behind Annan Li Chao, and Li Chao also leased the area around Port of Toulon to the Skeleton Army, after the news came, the officers and soldiers of the Annan Li Dynasty immediately breathed a long sigh of relief. At least their military rations will be guaranteed in the future, and then a group of elite reinforcements arrived from the rear, which somewhat restored their morale.

King Abu Alan of Occupation immediately became furious when he heard that Toulon was originally their territory, but now Li Chao gave it to the mysterious skeleton army. Isn't this using their territory to give favors?At the same time, he also hated the mysterious skeleton army. It turned out that he had sent envoys to Mei Island to contact the skeleton army, trying to ask the skeleton army to help them attack the Annan people, help them contain Annan's forces, and let them occupy people. More cheap, but I didn't expect that the leader of the skeleton army would ask them to give them 50 taels of silver before agreeing to their conditions. After the envoy returned and conveyed the conditions of the leader of the skeleton army, he was immediately It was rejected, 50 taels of silver is not a small amount, this skeleton army is too arrogant, King Zhan decided not to care about them, he personally led the army to fight against Li Chao, let the skeleton army see if they have any people Their skeleton army could also defeat Li Chao, but what he didn't expect was that the skeleton army negotiated peace with the Annan people at this time, and occupied Toulon, which originally belonged to them, which made Abu Alan very angry.

"Chuandi Polo, come to see me!" Sitting in the king's tent, Abu Alan called to the guards.

Soon a burly armored general came to the king's tent and paid homage to him: "Di Polo sees the king! I don't know why the king wants me?"

Abu Alan said to him angrily: "The Annan people really deceived me too much. We just captured Dazhanhaikou, and they actually rented our Toulon to some skeleton army. They really don't care about our Lord Shiva." Here, I will give you [-] soldiers and horses, plus [-] navy warships, and go immediately to retrieve Toulon, once the skeleton army has a firm foothold there, it will be difficult for us to take it back here in the future!"

After hearing this, Di Polo frowned. After hesitating for a while, he knelt down and said, "The last general heard from Annan's rebel general that the skeleton army is extremely fierce and can control the sky thunder, making it hard to guard against. And now we are in the midst of a fierce battle with the Annan people, would it be too hasty to turn against the mysterious skeleton army now?"

Abu Alan immediately said angrily: "Nonsense! This is just a false report. Who can control Tianlei? Looking at the world, who can have such magic power except our Lord Shiva and Brahma King? It is just those Annan People are incompetent, they can't defeat these skeleton armies, so they fabricated the theory that the skeleton army can control the sky thunder. They still came all the way from the Great Song Dynasty. We can only let the world know that we are Champa people by taking advantage of their unsteady foothold in Toulon, capturing Toulon in one fell swoop, taking back our territory, and driving them back to the Great Song Dynasty. We are guarded by Brahma King, we will never allow others to occupy our territory, and I let you attack Toulon, there is another layer of intention, as long as you take Toulon, you can occupy the Annan people's flank, from there As long as we launch an attack and we attack twice, the Annan people will definitely collapse immediately, and it will be time for us to avenge our shame! You hurry up and go, if you can't take Toulon, you don't have to come back!"

Di Polo saw that King Zhan had made up his mind, so he couldn't refute him anymore, but he always felt that it would not be a good thing for them to provoke the skeleton army now, but King Zhan's attitude was firm, and what he said made sense , if Toulon is captured, it can indeed threaten the flank of Annan's army, so he had to take orders to leave the king's tent, go to the center of the camp and gather [-] soldiers and horses, and when he came to the river, he ordered a hundred warships and divided them into Two roads, one on the sea and one on the land, heading towards Toulon in a mighty way.

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