Zhuo Huxing gnashed his teeth and cursed: "You little bastard." As he said this, he stepped forward, and Xue Ba stepped forward to meet him. The two knives collided with each other, making a tooth-aching sound.

This was not as strong as the boy on Zhuo Huxing's chest, and the sword was as fierce as wind and thunder. The two long knives collided three times and twice, causing Zhuo Huxing's wrist to hurt.

Seeing this, Xue Ba took advantage of the situation and raised his long knife upwards. Unexpectedly, the thick-backed machete suddenly stretched out a bright silver blade, and instantly chopped the knife in Xue Ba's hand into pieces!

The boy's eyes were full of bloodthirsty. He reached out and grabbed the broken blade in the air. Regardless of his opponent's machete hitting his neck, the blade pierced Zhuo Huxing's eyes.

Unexpectedly, a Han sword came in like lightning. First, he kicked Xue Ba out with the sole of his shoe, and then the blade hit the back of the sword. It was sharply cut and twisted, and Zhuo Huxing was broken into a cold sweat in two rounds.

Xue Ba stood up with a somersault, shook his head, licked the bleeding wound on his knuckles, and looked at the two people in the confrontation excitedly.

Li Yan blocked Xue Ba and looked at the steel knife in Zhuo Huxing's hand with surprise in his eyes.

"Knife Qi?"

…

The fierce battle is about to rest.

More than half an hour has passed since Zhuo Hu was begged for a hammer, ahem. From the first cannon shot for Zhuo Hu was begged for benevolence and benevolence was achieved.

The black clouds have dispersed, but the lingering smoke from the fort is floating high. I don't know the outcome. Zhuo Huxing must have driven away the pirates.

In the restaurant, Zhang Dong and the old man were sitting together. The waiter downstairs was brave and took a look from a distance. When he came back, he was more jealous of the shopkeeper, saying that the government could not stand it anymore and that pirates might come to the town.

Ordinary people do not regard pirates as scourges, especially the Red Flag Gang.

The Five Flags Alliance has a high reputation in the coastal areas, is deeply rooted, and has close relations with the people.

It is no exaggeration to say that along the coast of Guangdong and Guangxi, seven or eight out of ten people have ancestors, or are currently, closely related to the Five Flags Alliance.

The five flag gangs in the alliance all have more or less rules that prohibit harassment of ordinary people, among which the Red Flag Gang is the strictest.

This is not to say that the Hongqi Gang is very righteous, but there were a few incidents in the past. A few drunken Hongqi helped a sailor's sperm get into his head and raped a fisherman's daughter. Later I found out that this was another gang member's mouth.

Target's own sister, two gangs used knives, killing more than a dozen people.

This kind of thing is not an exception.

Later, the Ten Madams issued strict orders that only official ships and Western ships were allowed to be plundered, and plundering and harassment of coastal people were not allowed. Anyone who killed someone would be put to death, and they were not allowed to prostitute women, otherwise their ears and tongues would be cut off.

So when they heard that pirates might come in, the people in the restaurant were not nervous. The waiter was eloquent. One moment he said how big the Red Flag Gang's ship was and how ferocious the artillery was. The next moment he said that the army was defeated and the Red Flag Gang was devastated.

At first, Zhang Dong listened carefully. Later, the waiter's words were too outrageous, so Zhang Dong just laughed it off and didn't even believe what he said before.

He said that the Red Flag Gang invited the Huode Star God from heaven, and his whole body burst into flames. When he stamped his feet, huge balls of flames erupted.

A fierce black-armored ghost with red eyes got off the boat. He was invulnerable and the snow unicorn under his butt screamed so loudly that it scared people out of their souls. He was even more evil than the storytelling master in the teahouse.

"Master Lin, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time."

Zhang Dong lowered his voice.

"Why, are you afraid that the red flag pirates will invade Humen Haikou and kill me?"

"The son of a rich man cannot sit down in court. What if the Red Flag Gang really enters the town..."

"He doesn't recognize me. I'm a sour old man. Why would he kill me? It's you, my Mr. Zhang Da. You are an aide to the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi."

"Master Lin, please stop joking at this time."

"I'm not kidding."

There was a glint in the old man's eyes and he hesitated: "I would like to see if the Qing Dynasty's coastal defense has really become a sieve."

The old man saw that Zhang Dong's face was full of tangles. He laughed: "Pirates seize the tiger's mouth and enter Guangdong, which is tantamount to conspiracy. This is a major event that breaks the sky. In the past few years, the reputation of Nanyang pirates has gradually increased, and it is also at sea. I have never heard of that. Pirates have invaded the city. Am I a disaster? As soon as they arrive in Guangdong, the pirates will break into Humen?"

Zhang Dong wanted to persuade him again, but the old man interrupted him.

"Speaking of which, Fu Zhi (Zhang Dong's cousin), the court asked me to suppress bandits. According to your opinion today, how should I suppress these bandits?"

Zhang Dong watched the old man's question. He calmed down for a moment before answering: "Firstly, we will eliminate corruption in the navy and strictly investigate wages. Secondly, we will organize team training and recruit young people to form the navy. Thirdly, we will mobilize two people from Zhejiang and Fujian." We will recruit local craftsmen, set up shipyards and firearms bureaus in Guangdong and Guangxi, and strengthen our officers and soldiers."

Seeing that the old man remained calm, Zhang Dong added: "Come around, drive away the wolves and devour the tigers, unite with the barbarians and suppress the bandits,"

The old man picked up the crab's claws and smacked them to taste them.

"Everything you said is right, and we must do it, but it takes less than a day to freeze three feet. If you want to suppress bandits, just these few points will get twice the result with half the effort. Then use your brain to see how officials have suppressed bandits throughout the ages."

Zhang Dong thought hard for a long time, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said:

"Obviously, with great fanfare, the bandits were suppressed, but secretly they were promised high-ranking officials and generous salaries to divide the bandits and use bandits to rule the bandits."

"Recruitment is a good idea, but you are only half right."

The old man vomited the crab legs clean and then said: "There are endless pirates, the navy is weak, and the imperial court recruits them, then won't the government become a pirate den?"

"What does Master Lin mean?"

"Pull a group, beat a group, kill a group, suppress a group."

The old man said a word and pulled off a crab leg.

"No matter how unruly a bandit you are, when you enter the officialdom, you will still act like a quail with low eyebrows. You will hand over the boat and disperse your men. You will be a toothless tiger. No matter how much benefit you have received from the imperial court, you will spit it out."

The old man's tone was faint:

"In the end, I forced him to rebel and found a reason to kill him. It would not harm his children and grandchildren, and the government was showing mercy outside the law."

"What a waste! The government is so capable. If I had known about it before, I would have rushed into Guangzhou Mansion long ago! Boss, do you have any lime? Give me an envoy."

There was a lot of noise downstairs, and Xue Ba took the lead and crossed the threshold of Xinghua Building. He shook a big human head up and down in his hand and kept yelling.

Zhang Dong's face changed drastically. He looked downstairs at the long street. Strong men wearing red turbans were pouring over from the other end, covered in blood. The team was not in disorder, and seemed to have a purpose. It was divided into several waves and headed elsewhere. .

The old man also stopped talking. He frowned and looked at the demons dancing in the street, and his tone was strange.

"It's as good as this, it's as good as this."

The Red Flag Gang has really entered the city.

There were no customers in the store for a long time, and the shopkeeper came over with a sad face. Anyone who saw a half-year-old child playing with his head would not feel too relaxed.

"Little hero, what do you want lime for?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a ferocious bloody face rushed directly to the bridge of his nose, making him scream and sit on the ground in fright.

The head is rolling down, it’s not who Zhuo Huxing is.

Xue Ba pointed his hand and said, "I'll pickle it up, thank you."
Chapter completed!