Chapter 68 Chapter Eleven Delivered to Your Door

It took only an hour for the two of them to move more than 40 bags of salt to the boat. Remembering that they moved all night and spent a lot of effort, they really felt their progress. Before dawn, they set sail to sea. Kou Zhongdao: "Let's try going westward from the great river to the inland, if it doesn't work, then go overland again!" Xu Ziling frowned and said, "You and I are both bad at handling boats, not even an ordinary boatman. There is no problem in the sea, of course! This only refers to the situation when the wind is calm. If you enter the river... "

Kou Zhong laughed and said, "Why do you think so much? If the boat sinks in the big river, we'll go and get his mother up, and it won't be too late to go by land. Don't forget that we are both masters of land and water." Xu Ziling put his hand on the rudder and said with a smile: "It's your turn, I'm going to sleep in the cabin." Kou Zhong said in distress: "If I had known that I would have arrested a few children from the Haisha Gang and forced them to drive the boat, then I wouldn't have to suffer now." Xu Ziling was awakened by the sound of war drums, and for a moment he thought he was on the battlefield. When he got out of the cabin, Kou Zhongzheng looked at the three ships approaching in a zigzag shape. These ships were sharper and narrower than theirs, and longer For a long time, they had the upper hand in maneuverability, and their ship was even less of an opponent after it was loaded with salt.

Your own ship is heading towards the enemy ship. Under the abundant sunlight, I saw dozens of people standing on each boat on the other side's deck, everyone bent their bows and set arrows, or held trebuchets ready to go, or held fishing rods and other tools to lock the boat, running back and forth, Menacing. A flag with the word "高" written on it was flying on the ship. Xu Ziling came to Kou Zhong's side, frowned and said, "Who is it?" Kou Zhong showed a bright smile, and said happily: "Just by listening to the sound of the drums, you can tell that they have high fighting spirit, but judging by their disorganized actions, you know that they are just a mob. They must be pirates who plunder everywhere, and they are the most suitable as sailor."

Xu Ziling lost his voice: "What?" Kou Zhongdao: "I will take care of everything, now go to the cabin to hide from the arrows, wait for them to board the ship and then show these thieves some tricks." "Bang! Bang!" Two sounds, under Ju's pull, two thief ships approached from left to right, and all the thieves rushed forward.Three of them jumped into the cabin, and the others looked at the salt cargo stacked on the deck and in the cabin. Another pirate ship sailed ahead, and for a while the pirates seemed to be in control. Three of them should be the leader of the pirates, standing at the stern to direct the actions of the thieves.

The tallest man has eyes like copper bells, long hair shawls, and a beard all over his face. He has a rather mighty appearance. Two five-foot-long short tasseled spears crossed on his back add to his might.It is unexpected that there are such characters among pirates. At this time, he said with a "huh": "Erlang has been in the cabin for so long, why haven't you escorted those two boys out?" The short and thin middle-aged man next to him showed a dignified expression, and said, "Let me go and have a look!" On the other side was a sturdy young man, only a few inches shorter than the big man with hair, but taller than the average person, with two iron rings hanging around his waist, which seemed to be some kind of strange weapon.Said: "I will go with my second brother."

The big man with disheveled hair nodded in agreement, and said in a low voice: "It's a bit evil, be careful!" The young man laughed and said: "We have never seen any storms in Sanyi in the East China Sea." After speaking, he went into the cabin with the short and thin man called the second brother. When the shaggy man watched the two disappear at the hatch, his men came down to report: "Master! The deck is full of salt cargo." The shaggy man muttered: "What a pity, how much can these wastes be sold for unless they are transported inland! But this ship is a top-quality ship."

A voice responded spontaneously: "Those three of yours are not bad, they can probably give us a lot of money." All the thieves turned pale with astonishment. I saw Kou Zhong crossing his legs, with a big knife across his knees, sitting relaxedly on the edge of the cabin roof, with a pair of feet hanging above the hatch, shaking inadvertently, with a kind of indescribable satisfaction. He had a sunny smile on his face, and his tiger eyes shot out an unfathomable divine light. When he looked around everyone, everyone felt the terrible feeling that he was looking into their hearts.

The shaggy man was startled and said, "What did you do to them?" Kou Zhonghao said bluntly: "You first tell your subordinates not to act rashly, only then will I be interested in studying whether I should answer your question." The shaggy man made a decisive decision and shouted: "Everyone stop and come to my side." More than 20 pirates who boarded the ship hurriedly moved to the stern, and it became a confrontation between the two sides, and the enemy and the enemy were clearly distinguished. Fafa Damo is obviously a person who values ​​friendship, his eyes were shining coldly, and he said coldly: "We have offended you this time. As long as you let him go, we will turn around and leave immediately, and we will never break our promise."

Kou Zhongzhi knew that the other party was timid when he saw that they had packed up five people silently, he laughed and said: "Then there is such a cheap thing, unless you all throw yourself into the sea and give up three boats, you will never have the chance to meet tomorrow the sun. Humph! Since you are plundering by force, you should know that there will be such a day." All the thieves turned pale and shouted, and everyone put on a heroic attitude of fighting to the death. The big man with disheveled hair shouted violently: "Shut up for me!" Slowly took off the two guns on his back, and said in a deep voice: "This is called toasting and not eating fine wine, boy, report your name to me."

Kou Zhong said with a smile: "Old boy, you speak first!" The big man with disheveled hair was stunned for a while, and then he smiled and said: "A boy, an old boy, that's fair. Listen, I'm the leader of the Three Righteousnesses in the East China Sea, 'Two Guns' Gao Zhandao." Kou Zhong laughed and said: "Fortunately, the weapon you use is special. If you use a sword, why don't you call it 'Single Sword' Gao Zhandao? You must have come up with this nickname, right?" It was the first time that Gao Zhandao and the thieves still talked and laughed so freely when they met each other, and what they said was funny and not without a bit of a twist, and they all had a strange feeling in their hearts.

Gao Zhandao said angrily: "Nonsense, since you are not willing to give up, call your accomplices out, let's have a showdown." He secretly gestured to the subordinates next to him, as long as the other enemy hiding in the cabin came out, immediately Help people. This is Kou Zhong's brilliance, he detains the five opponents, otherwise if Gao Zhandao escapes back to the pirate ship and launches a long-distance attack, their ship is guaranteed to be destroyed. Kou Zhong suddenly calmed down, his tiger eyes were shining brightly, he stared at Gao Zhandao, and said indifferently: "If you want to deal with you little thieves, it will take my brother to do it. Gao Zhandao, if you still have a little courage, fight with me alone As long as you can survive ten tricks, I will let you go immediately." Ban Zhan shouted angrily: "Shut up! I, Gao Zhandao, will not allow you to scream like a thief on the left and say a thief on the right. It's not a ten-way trick. Let us see the truth." Kou Zhong said in a cold voice: "You board the boat to rob, what is it if you are not a thief? You are bullying the weak and only dare to attack the fishermen who have no resistance. If you are not a thief, you are that kind of thing?" The subordinates beside Gao Zhan Road retorted: "Aren't you also a thief? What kind of serious business is smuggling private salt?" Kou Zhongran laughed dumbly and said: "What's not serious, salt is needed in the northwest, and we will work tirelessly to transport the salt to thousands of rivers and mountains, sell it and buy it, and both sides are willing, isn't it better than taking money from people's blood and sweat?" All the thieves were speechless. Kou Zhong said impassionedly: "The most important thing for a man to stand in the world is to be ambitious and look at the world. After I earned this money, I used it to recruit soldiers and buy horses, go to the world, and achieve a great cause of immortality. You people only know how to grab left and right. How could your little thief understand." Gao Zhandao snorted, walked over with strides, and shouted: "Nonsense! Let me weigh how much you weigh." When all the thieves burst into applause, Kou Zhong jumped up, leaped down in the air, and slashed towards Gao Zhandao's face with the long knife in his hand like lightning. Gao Zhandao didn't expect him to be so brave and brave, he would fight as soon as he said it, and he would be thunderous as soon as he came up, but he could only grit his teeth and use the force of the cross of two spears to block this fierce and unparalleled knife. You must know that even if you are a first-class master, if you want to reach the peak state of skill, you must brew and warm up, so that you can release your inner strength without reservation at a certain moment. Like Kou Zhong, who didn't go through this process at all, he exerted explosive power, which immediately made the thieves dumbfounded and shocked. With a deep sound of "Poof!", Gao Zhandao staggered back seven steps in a row, and then he stopped his retreat, his face pale as death. Kou Zhong secretly praised him in his heart, knowing that this person is much smarter than the two brothers, and he can actually block the blow that he is full of momentum. All the thieves saw that the leader was wrong, and stopped in front of Gao Zhandao one after another, but no one dared to step forward and make a move. Kou Zhong stood with the sword horizontally, with a heroic and uninhibited moving posture, flicking his fingers on the edge of the blade, and let out a lingering chant.He smiled and said: "Since you can block my knife, let's let go of Zhao's business today." Only then did Gao Zhandao drive away the cold air that invaded Kou Zhong's body, and said in amazement: "Your Excellency, what is your name?" Kou Zhong said calmly: "My name is Kou Zhong, and my brother's name is Xu Ziling. It is no surprise that you have never heard of it." All the thieves were moved together. Gao Zhandao suddenly said: "How come I haven't heard of it? You just burned more than a dozen boats of the Haisha Gang, and even Li Mi can't do anything to you." Kou Zhong said happily: "You guys are very well informed, did you hear it when you went ashore to visit the kilns?" The thieves were stunned, another said: "How could Master Kou guess all these things?" Kou Zhong lost all fighting spirit, seeing that all the thieves showed admiration and admiration towards him, he laughed and said, "Let's make a deal, we release your five brothers back, and you will be responsible for getting a rich table of food and drink for my two brothers." Enjoy, how about we go our separate ways from now on?" Gao Zhandao put away his two guns, and said happily: "It's the first time in my life that Gao Zhandao has met a natural hero like Master Kou. Master Kou will not blame us for being reckless. Of course, we should obey orders instead of being respectful. Ha! Really! happy!" It turned out that this group of pirates were originally Sui soldiers.In February of the seventh year of Daye, Emperor Yang issued an edict to crusade against Goryeo. They were conscripted to Zhuo County and marched with the army to Pyongyang, the capital of Goryeo.This expedition was won first and then lost. The morale of the Sui army was low, and the army food was not enough. Gao Zhandao's army of more than 300,000 people was defeated in the middle of the ambush, and only 2,700 people were able to return to Liaodong. The first expedition to Goryeo failed, with heavy losses in manpower and material resources, and it was supposed to recuperate. Unexpectedly, Yang Guang launched a second expedition to Goryeo in the ninth year of Daye.Yang Xuangan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, took advantage of Yang Guang's expedition abroad, and the common people hated military service and corvee service. The world thought of chaos, so they rebelled. Later, Yang Xuangan was defeated and died, and Gao Zhandao and others fled back to Kunling. Unexpectedly, his family was implicated and beheaded, so he had to flee to sea to become a thief. The short and thin man is called Niu Fengyi, and the young one is called Cha Jie. Not only are they good at martial arts, they have also studied and attended school, so they were promoted as leaders along with Gao Zhandao. The number of the entire pirate group has increased from the original fifty-two to the current two hundred and twenty-eight.Only 208 people went to sea this time, and the rest stayed at the lair in Changshu. Four ships formed a fleet and headed north along the coast. It was getting dark, but the lights on the boat were brightly lit. A banquet was set up on Kou and Xu's boat, Xu Ziling, Kou Zhong, Gao Zhandao, Niu Fengyi, Zha Jie and several leaders sat around the table, having a good time talking and drinking. As for the responsibility of steering the boat, it is naturally handed over to the little thieves. When Xu Ziling heard about their life experiences, he knew that they became pirates only after the officials forced the people to rebel, and his disgust was slightly relieved.Seeing that these people are all bloody men, he said: "Brother Gao, if you go on like this, there is no way out. Have you ever thought about changing your ways?" Niu Fengyi smiled wryly and said: "Now the world is torn apart, where is the place to live and work in peace and contentment. Now we gather together to form a party, and no one dares to provoke us when we are free. The scenery is very good. Even if we want to stop, the brothers below will not agree. Woolen cloth." Zha Jie said solemnly: "We were just forced to fall into the grass, so unless we have to, we will never kill people indiscriminately, and we will keep a sense of proportion when we rob them. We will never attack poor fishermen. If Master Xu doesn't believe it, just ask the people around here and you will know." The style of our 'East China Gang'." Another leader Wei Yuan said: "At first we saw the two men carrying the banner of the Haisha Gang, and thought they were fat sheep of the Haisha Gang transporting goods for Shen Faxing." Gao Zhandao suddenly interjected into Kou Zhong, who was having a great time eating a big piece of meat with a big bowl of wine, and said, "Master Kou mentioned just now that he has the ambition to win the world. I don't know what plan he has in mind?" Xu Ziling glared at Kou Zhong fiercely, only he understood Kou Zhong's excellent means of controlling people, just now he used all his skills to control the gangsters of the East China Sea Gang, soft and hard at times, frightening them to death Adhere to obedience.The most powerful thing is to deliberately arouse the opponent's ambition, and put on a look of indifference, so that people come to beg him willingly. Kou Zhong drank the wine in one gulp, put down the wine, wiped the wine stains from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, his eyes shot everyone a glance, and then said calmly: "Tell me, now who has the most chance and qualification to win the world people?" Gao Zhandao said without hesitation: "Naturally... hey! I'm just talking about things. If you talk about prestige, of course Li Mi is the first." Kou Zhong smiled and said: "He is just superficial. The biggest problem is that the eastern capital has a thick wall and concentrated the elite troops of the old Sui Dynasty. In addition, it is led by Wang Shichong who is skilled in both literature and military strategy. Li Mi was unable to attack Luoyang before. Now it is even more difficult If you can’t attack Luoyang, you’ll be defeated if you’re not careful.” Cha Jie was puzzled and said: "It is said that Mi Gong is proficient in history, he is familiar with "Historical Records" and "Hanshu", and he is good at the art of war. This can be proved by his repeated victories. The most powerful thing is that he knows how to buy people's hearts. If he can't win the world, who has the qualifications." Kou Zhong Chengzhu said in his chest: "Don't forget that there is Dou Jiande in the northeast holding back Li Mi. What's more, this guy Li Mi shouldn't have done anything. He has done one thing he should never do." Niu Fengyi was stunned and said, "What's the matter?" Xu Ziling knew what Kou Zhong was going to say, and secretly thought that with Kou Zhong's wit and charm, it would be easy to impress these three people.Kou Zhonghao said in a leisurely manner: "If Zhai Rang, the leader of the army, is killed, all the old generals who followed Zhai Rang will be dissatisfied and feel in danger. The Wagang Army is no longer the Wagang Army that was united as before." Gao Zhandao was puzzled and said: "But now all the people are returning to their hearts, all the heroes in the world have gone to Xingyang to attach themselves to Mi Gong, and they want to achieve a great cause. Their strength should not decrease." Kou Zhong laughed and said, "This happens to cause two big problems. First, the old people are afraid of being squeezed out by the new ones, and what's more, the generals who had a close relationship with Zhai Rang have doubts; The good and the bad have become mixed, and spies sent by various parties may have infiltrated them. Hmph! People say that Li Mi is so talented, but in my opinion, it is just mediocre. If I were him, I would only put Zhai Rang under house arrest and let him be a A figurehead puppet leader." Gao Zhandao and several people exchanged glances, all showing surprise.Xu Ziling sighed secretly in his heart, knowing that Kou Zhong's intention to fight for supremacy in the world is already an arrow from the bow, and he will not turn back, Li Mi and others are bound to have many formidable enemies.And taking down Gao Zhandao's group of pirates was just the beginning for him.