Great Tang Southern Emperor

Chapter 994 Landing on the Island

Chapter 352 Landing on the Island

"Commander, the Quanzhou Fleet has sent a message that they are ready to separate from the main fleet, and they are ready to leave for the Spice Islands at any time. Please order from the Commander." On the side of the Yuezhou Fleet, Sun Fujia brought back a message to let everyone All surprised by the news.

"Strange, isn't it rumored that Cheng Chuliang is not easy to provoke? Why is he so talkative this time?" Sun Ying, the chief of staff of the Yuezhou Fleet and Li Shimin who was placed next to Liu Rengui, asked strangely.

Compared with Li Mingxin, he is much older than Li Mingxin. He is already in his 30s this year, but his identity is also not simple. He is the No.3 imperial examination in the fourth year of Zhenguan. The imperial examination is held once a year, and the fourth year of Zhenguan is another year of victory over the Turks, maybe twice).

However, compared with Sun Fujia, his luck is much worse. He has been in chaos all his life. Last year, he only mentioned a young minister of Taichang Temple. Although he is already a fourth-rank official, but his ability It's not good, Taichang Shaoqing, who has been in office for more than a year, actually made two mistakes and was almost demoted.Fortunately, his loyalty is good, and he is loyal to the imperial court, so Li Shimin gave him another chance. A few days ago, he was transferred from a civilian job to a military job, and he was placed on the Yuezhou Fleet as the chief of staff of the fourth rank. Sun Fujia assisted Liu Rengui all the way.

"Who knows?" Sun Fujia said with a smile: "Anyway, it's good that the Quanzhou Fleet is gone, and we can do a big job next."

"Order Cheng Chuliang to immediately lead the fleet and escort the merchant ships to the Spice Islands without any mistakes." Liu Rengui also ordered.

"Yes."

The Yuezhou Fleet quickly turned its bow and began to head towards the island pointed by Qi Bin, while the Quanzhou Fleet and the merchant ships themselves were on the route of the Spice Islands, so there was no need to turn around, just continue to drive forward, otherwise it would be almost impossible. The dispatch of a hundred ships is simply impossible without high-tech means of communication—what's more, although the hundreds of merchant ships in this super fleet seem to be a whole, the real situation is these The ship is composed of ten fleets, but it looks huge. In fact, the ten fleets have nothing to do with each other. They are just gathered together, making scheduling even more difficult.

Half an hour later, a small island was already in sight. Looking at the small island in the distance, Qi Bin couldn't help clenching his fists, it's here, it's here...

Not only did I suffer the first major defeat in my life here, but it also caused the fleet to suffer heavy losses. This time, I came back again, with the flames of revenge... I came back, those who hid in the dark... Rat bugs, are you...ready?

Seeing this, Liu Rengui patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Don't worry, we are well-equipped this time, with countless battleships, no matter how powerful the enemy is, we will not have even the slightest possibility of failure."

He knows Qi Bin's mood at this time too well. He is also begging for life at sea, and he has seen his ship sink into the sea with his own eyes, but he can't do anything about it. But since he is begging for life at sea, he must be ready The preparation for death, Liu Rengui has long been used to seeing all this, and he is already ready to be buried in the sea, he has already realized this.

"That's not what I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is that it would be terrible if this place is not the enemy's lair." Qi Bin took a few deep breaths, suppressed the hostility in his heart, and expressed his worries.

"Anyway, let's go up and have a look before we talk about it." Liu Rengui said, besides more than 100 warships, he also has an elite army of [-] to [-]. The role of the army is to land on the beach and open up frontier positions.

"Yes."

It's still the same problem. The warship is too big to get close to the island. Fortunately, they are fully prepared this time. Except for the supply ship that transports food and grass, the rest of the ship is suspended from three to ten small sampans. , plus those small boats can also dock, these boats are enough to send everyone to the island at once.

"Phew, I haven't set foot on the ground for so long, I've forgotten what it feels like to step on the ground." After stepping on the solid ground, Liu Rengui finally heaved a sigh of relief, and finally felt the solidity of the ground again. They all feel that they have been sublimated.

Looking at the others, they were also in a state of distress. Some of them were even lying on the beach. The half-dead appearance almost made Liu Rengui's nose crooked: "Look at what you all look like? Is there anything else?" Datang’s elite posture? Hurry up and get up, we are now in the enemy’s territory.”

"Governor, let us take a break." Sun Fujia said weakly beside him, "I didn't feel anything when I was on the boat, but when I got on the ground, I felt as if all the strength in my whole body was taken away. , never want to lift a finger again."

"This is normal. I used to be like this when I first got on the boat. I'll just get used to it." Liu Rengui said with a smile: "But now we are in the enemy's territory, and they seem to have a way The way to observe our whereabouts, they are likely to be lurking on the island, we must always be careful, you ask everyone to bear with it, and rest for a few days after we have explored the situation on the island."

"Why do you need to search? This island should be just a deserted island, and there is no one on it." The person who spoke was Huo Sinian, the chief political commissar of the Yuezhou Fleet, and one of the direct descendants of the Louguan School of Taoism. No less than Li Daoyun, but a little older than Li Daoyun, just 30 years old this year.

"How do you know?" Liu Rengui looked at Huo Sinian. He knew that this man had real skills. Since he was on his own boat, the masculinity suddenly decreased, and the atmosphere on the boat was much better. When he was a crew member, this guy always liked to carry private goods, but Liu Rengui didn't mind about it. After all, it's good to have a little fear in order to make a living at sea.

"Don't you forget what I'm practicing?" Huo Sinian pointed at himself, and said with a light smile, "I'm practicing Qi Wang Technique, although it's just a beginner's practice, it doesn't have much effect, but let's see if there are any on the island. Popularity is very simple. People have indeed lived on this island before, and there are quite a few people. There must be seven to eight thousand people, and they have lived here for at least half a year, but they have left since a month ago. Now, there is only a little bit of popularity left on the island, and it is about to dissipate - of course, this is all the information given back to me by the qi technique, believe it or not, if you don't believe it, you can go to the island to see Look, this small island is less than ten square kilometers in total, so it's too easy to check it all over."

Chapter 995 Enemy Tracking and Guessing ([-] words)

Chapter 353 Enemy Tracking and Guessing ([-] words)

"...It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I must go to this island." Liu Rengui pondered for a moment, but he still didn't believe Huo Sinian's words. Feeling embarrassed, he sorted out his language and said tactfully: "After all, we still need to see the enemy's situation on the island. At least we need to find out what their specific living conditions are like, and see if it is the same as our previous speculation. Same."

"It doesn't matter, you can do whatever you want, anyway, I don't care." Huo Sinian was not angry. This is not the first time he has been questioned. Most people will think that this is the method of the gods when they hear it, and it is not something that ordinary people can have.

However, Huo Sinian is very clear that the so-called qi-watching technique is actually a very simple thing. The qi-watching technique pays attention to the fact that everything has its own qi, and each qi has its own attributes. The change of qi also indicates the change of the thing itself. The essence of qi art is to see clearly the qi of these substances, and then use the color of the qi to judge the future.

Of course, this is a profound statement, and Huo Sinian does not know whether it is accurate or not, because he has only practiced Qi Wang to the very beginning, and he still cannot determine good or bad, but general landscape observations, dragon-hunting points, etc. The pulse is still fine.

And the Qi of life is the more active kind of Qi in all things. Although Huo Sinian is only a beginner, he can tell it—and there is another sentence he didn't tell Liu Rengui just now, that is, he just passed the Qi Watching Technique. Observation, found that the entire island is lifeless, that is to say, despite the thriving trees on this island, in fact, there are no living animals except for these trees.

An hour later, a search team came back with their findings: "My lord, we found these things on the edge of the island, do you think they are useful?"

"Huh?" Liu Rengui looked intently, and found that there were only some tables, chairs and benches, and the production was extremely rough. They should have been temporarily made on the island with local materials, but there were traces of use on them, which proved that Huo Sinian What they said was right, the other party had indeed lived on this island for a while, but they didn't know if they were still on the island.

"Is that all?" Liu Rengui seemed very dissatisfied with what the search team had gained.

"We have found these now, and others will not know."

"Go ahead and search. If it's really what Huo Sinian said, they should have lived on this island for a long time. There must be at least one village on this island." No matter how much he didn't believe it, Liu Rengui had no choice but to believe Huo Sinian's words.

"Yes."

Five days passed, and all the exploration teams finally explored the island of less than ten square kilometers. The result made Liu Rengui very unhappy—the exploration team did find a temporary camp on the island. There are many living utensils. According to the size of the village, there were at least 1 people on this island, and they lived here for a long time.

In addition to this, the exploration team also found a lot of bones around the village - not only animals, but also human bones, no matter whether they are animal bones or human bones, they are covered with dense tooth marks that seem to have been bitten... …

What this means, Liu Rengui knows very well without even thinking about it...

Combined with the fact that there are no animals the size of mice on this island, Liu Rengui concluded that this group of people did not use this island as their base camp, but only as a source of food, and carried out extermination of the animals here. Capture, when all the edible animals and plants on the island have been eaten by them, they will abandon this place and continue to look for new food sources-that is to say, these are actually or ocean wanderers, they are not from this island. aborigines.

Especially after Liu Rengui dispatched a warship to explore the surrounding area, he found that the conditions of all the islands within a hundred miles around them were exactly the same as the island under their feet. There were also few mice, and Liu Rengui's face was even more ugly. Yes—he came to the conclusion from this that they guessed that the so-called Li Mi Remnants might not be trying to fight Datang at all. Li Mi was afraid that Datang would kill him, so he ordered some of his confidants to take his youngest son to sea to find a resting place. He didn't want to make a comeback in the future, at least he could live in peace and pass on the family line so that his Li family's blood would not be cut off. .

These people may have indeed found a piece of paradise overseas, and they all lived and worked in peace and contentment on the island for a long time, but later it may be due to some unknown reasons, or plague, or war, or drought. Waterlogging, floods, etc., whether it was natural disasters or man-made disasters, a sudden outbreak of disaster forced them to no longer survive on that island, so they had to entangle some people and hurriedly brought some supplies and escaped from that paradise.

But because they fled urgently, the supplies they brought were extremely scarce, and they were exhausted in a short period of time. Fortunately, they were lucky and found an island when they were on the verge of extinction. Through the food on the island, they survived.

It's a pity that they came out too fast, let alone food seeds, and even some people might not have evacuated in time, which made it impossible for them to grow food, and they couldn't live on that island. After that, after eating up all the food on the island, he had to abandon the island and continue to go to sea to find a new place to live...

This cycle goes on and on, in order to survive, they continue to struggle on the sea, eat up one island and go to the next island, this cycle goes on and on, there is no future to move forward, and I don’t know how many years have passed, during which countless people died , but God did not let them go to a dead end after all, and always let them encounter a new island when they were facing a desperate situation...

In this way, they plundered and survived all the way, and no grass grew anywhere they passed.

I don't know how long they have been floating on the sea, but they finally came to the island at their feet. Before that, they had eaten up all the surrounding islands, and this island was the only one left in the archipelago. However, within a few hundred miles of this island, there is not much island for them to live on, so when they ate up this island-the desperate situation finally came, and in order to survive, they even started to kill each other kill, and the victors can feed on the losers and live on...

However, just when they felt that they were facing a desperate situation, a fleet of ships came here by mistake. The group of people who were facing a desperate situation immediately broke out with [-]% strength, and easily defeated this group. The fleet, if it weren't for the storm, they would definitely have captured more ships.Although they lost their leader in this battle, because they captured more than a dozen ships, more than a dozen ships were much better than theirs, especially a few fishing boats inside...

With fishing boats, they can fish in the deep sea, and no longer have to worry about not having enough food to eat. As long as there is enough food, with their tenacity to fight the sea, they can definitely survive in any harsh environment. Survive and gradually discover new edible plant seeds that they can build their new home on the island.

However, after they seized these ships, they discovered a problem that made everyone terrified, that is, this ship was actually built by the enemy they had been trying to escape, and now the people of Datang...

That is to say, what they robbed was the ship of the Tang people. Although doing so was very relieved, but thinking of the upcoming revenge of the Tang Dynasty, they had to abandon this island, board the ship looted from the enemy, and set foot on the unknown land. future.

"In other words, the Saren Fleet is purely unlucky?" After hearing Liu Rengui's speculation, everyone felt that it made sense, but deep down they couldn't accept it—they had made great preparations for this expedition. , Many people have even made preparations to sacrifice at any time. They boldly brought a strengthened fleet to seek revenge, but when they arrived at the place, they knew that all their preparations were in vain, and the enemy had no imagination. They are so powerful that even they are not their enemies at all. The two sides are simply catching up. If Saren didn't move closer to the island, maybe the people on the island might starve to death.

But it's no wonder Saren, after all, there is a storm ahead, if there are islands nearby, a qualified captain would stay here, but they were unlucky, and encountered a group of enemies who were already hungry and crazy.

"By the way, tell me... will there be any of our people among these bones?" Sun Fujia asked with a sudden change of expression as if he had thought of something.

"..." He wasn't the only one who changed his complexion drastically. The complexions of all the people who heard his conjecture were very unsightly. Sun Fujia's conjecture is very likely to be true-they even started to eat their own people, and even What's more, he killed or even captured so many prisoners this time?Is there any reason to let it go?

"Quickly, turn the whole island over for me, and we must find the bones of our own people." Liu Rengui roared, and he still had a little fantasy in his heart. It should not be wiped out yet. The reason why they cannibalize people is because they are forced to. If they don’t eat, they will starve to death. But now they have captured many ships of Datang, and the food on them should be enough for them to come to the next island alive. Maybe those captives didn’t eaten by them...

Qi Bin next to him suddenly sat down on the ground and murmured, "There's no need to look for it, this should be our own corpse."

"Why?" Liu Rengui's expression became even uglier. Qi Bin is the person involved, so he must know more things that others don't.