When Guan Cheng saw the person in front of him was actually the legendary ferocious tiger, his vision suddenly went dark and his face turned pale. How could he have been so unlucky this time and attacked Yuan Xi's ship?
As the lord of Youzhou, why are you coming here during the New Year instead of staying at home?
Guan Cheng wanted to cry but had no tears. He was about to beg for mercy when his head suddenly shook violently. Yes, what was the other party doing here at this time?
Deliberately luring his two brothers out for robbery?
As soon as he understood, he knelt down and crawled forward two steps, kowtowing desperately, "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, I didn't know you were my Excellency, I have offended you, I hope you will spare my life!"
Yuan Xi looked at Guan Cheng coldly, "Why did you and Guan Hai rob the Zhen family caravan?"
"Who ordered you to do this?"
Guan Cheng kowtowed desperately, "No one instructed me to do this. I was just too bold and thought that the Zhen family caravan was rich, so I had evil intentions. Please spare my life, sir!"
Yuan Xi asked, "Does Yuan Tan know about your robbery?"
"Why can you use Qingzhou Port?"
Guan Cheng's lips trembled a few times, "I don't know the details either. I just often show my respect to Yuan Qingzhou's subordinates, so I was allowed to go out to sea at the port. I don't know anything else!"
Yuan Xi took a few steps and took out the telescope in his arms. "Have you seen this thing?"
Guan Cheng stared at the lens on the bamboo tube, a look of confusion appeared on his face, and he shook his head.
Taishi Ci leaned close to Yuan Xi's ear and whispered, "There was no telescope on Guan Hai."
Yuan Xi nodded slightly and let out a long sigh. It seemed that no matter whether Yuan Tan knew about what happened today or not, he at least had some bottom line in doing things.
He said, "Two ships of the Zhen family caravan disappeared some time ago."
"Where are the people?"
Guan Cheng was startled and trembled all over, saying: "The people accidentally fell into the sea, but the goods are still there, all in the warehouse of Huangxian Port!"
"If you let me go, I will definitely deliver the goods and serve you wholeheartedly!"
Yuan Xi looked cold and waved his hand, "No need."
"Kill him."
Seeing Sun Li coming to drag him, Guan Cheng was really panicked, "My Lord, my Lord, besides this, I have hidden several ships of treasures!"
"I will definitely hand them over. These things are very valuable. They are what our brothers have saved up over the years. My Lord, my Lord!"
Sun Li dragged Guan Cheng to the side of the boat, stuck his head outside the side, pulled out the ring-handled knife from his waist, and placed it on Guan Cheng's neck.
Guan Cheng was panicked. He struggled and wailed, "Sir, I was wrong. Give me a chance!"
"I, I remember that Yuan Qingzhou once wrote a letter to my eldest brother!"
"After seeing this, my eldest brother asked me to deal with the Zhen family caravan!"
"What I said is true, the letter..."
Yuan Xi said decisively: "Do it."
After hearing this, Sun Li pulled out his ring-handled sword and cut Guan Cheng's throat. Blood gushed out and fell into the sea.
Guan Cheng's body trembled and twitched. Sun Li held his back tightly. After a while, Guan Cheng's body collapsed and he died.
Yuan Xi said calmly: "Cut off the two heads to commemorate the dead soldiers and the deceased subordinates of the merchant ship."
After everyone finished paying tribute, Yuan Xi said to Taishi Ci: "Brother Ziyi, you have worked hard this time."
"The navy is well trained and will definitely be put to use within a year. Then it will be time for the general to show his prowess."
Taishi Ci heard this and said with a smile: "Today's enemy is too weak, killing them is not very satisfying, I am waiting for your order at any time!"
Yuan Xi pointed at the twenty or so pirate ships and said, "General, please take these back to Haixi Port for repair. Whether they will be used as warships or merchant ships will be decided by Ziyi and Mr. Yuanlong."
Taishi Ci took the order and pointed at the bodies on the boat and asked, "What should we do with these?"
Yuan Xi pondered for a moment, then spoke a few words. After listening to them, everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly, thinking that in this way, the young master's reputation as a fierce tiger was probably even more worthy of its name.
The soldier on lookout at the Huangxian port saw the warships of the Xuzhou army lined up in a long line, heading towards Guangling in a mighty manner. When he saw clearly the dozens of ships behind the fleet, his legs suddenly went weak. Aren't these the warships of the two leaders Guan Hai and Guan Cheng? Why were they following behind the Xuzhou army?
He had a bad feeling in his heart and quickly blew the whistle. Soon, hundreds of Qingzhou soldiers arrived at the dock.
After listening to the soldiers' stories, the leading general frowned. What was going on?
Could it be that Guan Hai and others were so blind that they provoked the Xuzhou army?
But the two envoys Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi are both descendants of the Yuan family, so they shouldn't go too far, right?
Just as he was wondering, he saw from afar a dilapidated warship turning around and heading towards Huangxian Wharf.
When they were still several miles away, a small boat was lowered from the back of the warship. Several sailors went down the rope and carried the small boat towards the fleet.
The big ship was flying with full sails and heading towards Huangxian Wharf rapidly. Everyone realized that something was wrong and tried to escape. Then there was a loud bang and the big ship crashed into the wharf. Wood and stone chips flew everywhere and smoke filled the sky.
When the smoke slowly dissipated, the lieutenant general could see clearly that half of the dock had been collapsed by the huge ship, and he couldn't help but curse out loud.
He shouted, "How do you steer the boat?"
"Everyone on the boat, get off!"
As a result, the boat was quiet. When everyone looked up at the ship, they screamed in surprise. There were two heads hanging on the mast at the bow!
The lieutenant general recognized that this was the head of Guan Hai and Guan Cheng!
He had a bad premonition in his heart, something big had happened!
When he and his men hurriedly boarded the ship and saw the scene clearly, he felt dizzy and almost vomited, even though he had fought in wars.
The deck was filled with pirate heads, hundreds and thousands of them!
The news that the Qingzhou pirates were wiped out by the Xuzhou navy soon spread to all the coastal states. When Mi Fang heard the news, he laughed and said to Mi Zhen: "I knew that Xionghu was a man with a bad temper!"
"His ship was hijacked and people were killed. Even though the enemy was also a member of the Yuan family, he showed no mercy!"
"He was the one who came up with the idea of using pirate heads to build a Jingguan on a ship. Well done!"
Mi Zhen listened and sighed, "I don't understand the fighting and killing, but from now on, the coastal trade routes will be much safer."
"Of course!" Mi Fang said happily, "This is clearly Xuzhou navy's revenge on Qingzhou pirates for robbery and murder. I'm afraid the coast will be stable for a long time!"
"It's even possible that the Qingzhou pirates have been wiped out!"
"I heard that there were more than a thousand heads on that ship alone. The battle at sea was extremely dangerous, and many people fell into the sea and died. I estimate that at least two to three thousand people died in this battle!"
"I heard that the two leaders Guan Hai and Guan Cheng were also beheaded. I'm afraid the Qingzhou pirates were all captured in one fell swoop!"
Mi Zhen was secretly shocked when she heard that so many lives had been lost. She bit her lip and said, "Master Xian Yi is really generous."
Mi Fang said: "It is said that he was on the ship at the time, and the reason given to the public was that he was attacked by pirates from Qingzhou, and when he was in danger, he summoned the Xuzhou navy for reinforcement, and then defeated the invading pirates."
"But this kind of talk is just bullying. Everyone present is dead. Not to mention that he happened to be on the merchant ship, even if it was the Xuzhou navy, how could it be possible that they happened to be nearby?"
"Speaking of which, Yuan Tan was quite abominable. He actually allowed the pirates to rob our Mi family's caravan, and finally provoked this fierce tiger. In the end, it was the fierce tiger who avenged us. It was really satisfying!"
Mi Zhen smiled after hearing this: "Anyway, it's a good thing that the trade route is peaceful."
Mi Fang laughed and said, "You don't know, this incident also made Guan Yu suffer a setback."
Mi Zhen asked curiously, "What's going on?"
Mi Fang said proudly: "Liu Yuzhou also knew about the attacks on our Mi family caravan this year, so he asked Guan Yu to train the navy to suppress the bandits."
"He trained for half a year, and acted arrogantly every day, bossing me around, forcing me to prepare food and weapons. It seemed like he wanted to do something big, but in the end, the Qingzhou pirates were gone!"
"You don't know, when I saw his disappointed face, I almost laughed out loud!"
Mi Zhen advised: "Brother, General Guan is a general under the envoy, it is best to have a good relationship with him."
Mi Fang listened and said indifferently: "Little sister, don't tell me, I know what's going on."
"The New Year is coming soon, I'm going to take my little sister to buy New Year's goods!"
Mi Zhen shook her head helplessly, thinking that her second brother's behavior was really worrying.
At the Langya Prefecture residence where Qing and Xu met, Guo Tu said to Yuan Tan: "Master Xianyi is becoming more and more vicious."
"I don't know if Guan Hai and Guan Cheng said anything nonsense before they died."
After hearing this, Yuan Tan said disdainfully: "I didn't ask them to attack Xian Yi, so why would they dare to attack me?"
"Even if I really did it, what would Xian Yi dare to say?"
"I have joined forces with Zang Ba now, with an army of 100,000. Even Xianfu doesn't dare to break up with me, let alone Xianyi?"
Guo Tu said: "Having said that, Xian Yi has grown too fast in the past two years, so we have to be on guard."
After hearing this, Yuan Tan looked directly at Guo Tu and asked, "So you are placing assassins there to harm Xian Yi?"
Guo Tu smiled bitterly and said, "How dare I? I just wanted to alienate the two gentlemen."
Yuan Tan shook his head and said, "Too much is as bad as too little. As a result, the two of them joined forces in Black Mountain."
"But it doesn't matter. Xianyi is far more ambitious than Xianfu, and he is a wolf that cannot be tamed."
Guo Tu sighed: "As a descendant of the Yuan family, who would be willing to be inferior to others?"
After hearing this, Yuan Tan laughed and said, "That's true!"
"So sooner or later we will have a fight!"
"It's better for the Qingzhou pirates to die than die. It suits my taste even more. They have been acting more and more rampant recently. I deliberately let them go, and it really offended Xian Yi."
"We are not good at sea. We just need to concentrate on training our troops and wait for the right opportunity to act."
Guo Tu said, "But our way south is blocked by Master Xianyi and Liu Bei."
"Xian Yi is a descendant of the Yuan family, and Liu Bei is the master's sponsor. Does the master want to take action against Liu Bei?"
After hearing this, Yuan Tan snorted coldly: "Sometimes, I don't need to do it myself to get things done."
"As for when the critical moment comes, why do I have to go south?"
After hearing this, Guo Tu suddenly realized what was going on and bowed his head respectfully. "Young Master, you are so talented that you saw the key point right away. I will definitely do my best to help you."
After hearing this, Yuan Tan was very proud. He thought that no principle was more powerful than a fist. As long as he could be invincible on the battlefield, no one in the world could stop him!