Chapter 234: The Ye family, with its amazing background, is a common practice for them to collaborate with the enemy and betray their country
"My benefactor, now that you have killed the bald man and the two servants of the Jia family, they will definitely take revenge on you."
Liang Liping explained the general situation of this pirate group to Li Dingguo and reminded him, "The Jia family is very powerful, with more than a thousand warriors."
"It is said that Jia Shuisheng and his two daughters, Jia Huiqin and Jia Huizhi, are all masters of the fourth level of Qi Refining in martial arts."
"The eldest son of the Jia family, Jia Zhisong, is a master at the peak of the third level of martial arts. There are also several pirate leaders who have reached the fourth level of martial arts."
"This is not the most important thing. The key is that behind them stands the wealthy Ye family from Fuqing."
Liang Liping continued with a worried look on her face, "The Jia family's treasure ships are not just a few at the big dock, but more than a dozen."
"At noon today, the Ye family drove more than ten treasure ships out of the harbor. I heard that their master's family has an important person coming to Lingshan Island today, so they must be going to welcome the distinguished guest."
"Although the Jia family doesn't have many treasure ships, there are three top-grade treasure ships alone, and the rest are all mid-grade treasure ships. There are many spiritual energy cannons and spiritual crossbows on the ships. No one dares to mess with them in Jiaozhou Bay."
"My benefactor, you are alone here, how can you defeat the enemy? It is better to leave quickly."
Liang Liping and her brother were very kind-hearted. They only cared about the safety of their savior, but forgot about their own siblings. Because of what had just happened, their situation on the island was even more dangerous than Li Dingguo's.
Liang Liping had strong observation and memory skills, and knew all the pirate forces on the island well, which surprised Li Dingguo.
"Ha ha……"
After listening to what Liang Liping said, Li Dingguo chuckled and said, "My safety is not a problem, and you don't have to worry about it."
"If I don't have the confidence and strength, I won't rashly come to Lingshan Island."
"As for you and your brother, since I killed these three people from the Jia family, your future situation will be very bad."
Li Dingguo thought for a moment and said to Liang Liping and her brother, "You two should hide in the small woods behind me for the time being. Don't show up today."
"When I came to this small forest, I had already cleared the dangers there. You two can hide there for the time being without worry."
"Tonight or tomorrow, things may change here, and the demise of the Jia family is imminent."
After finding out the general situation, Li Dingguo decided to destroy the Ye family's affiliated forces that were accomplices of the pirate forces entrenched on Lingshan Island.
If he wasn't afraid of alerting the enemy, he would have taken action now.
"Okay, thank you very much."
"Thank you!"
Hearing what Li Dingguo said, Liang Liping and Xiao Shitou hurriedly thanked him.
Looking at the brother and sister, who quickly walked into the grove and hid, Li Dingguo waved his hand and released a stream of energy, which suddenly hit the nearby beach!
After creating a big sand pit, he kicked the three dead bodies into the pit, and then filled the pit with sand.
This kind of follow-up work must be done.
This was to prevent the bodies of the three of them from being discovered by other people on the island, which would alert the enemy and be detrimental to the subsequent actions.
After Li Dingguo erased the traces left here, he looked around and chose a nearby cliff full of rugged rocks. He leaped towards it.
This is a very good observation point, from which you can easily see the entire bay where the large pier is located.
Regardless of whether the fleets of the Later Jin Tartars and the Hu people can arrive as scheduled today, he plans to hide first.
It would be just right if the two powerful enemies arrived as scheduled tonight.
Li Dingguo is alone now. Even if he joins forces with the golden eagle, he will not be a match for the large number of enemies organized into an army formation in a frontal battle.
If the attack had been carried out quietly at night, the results would have been completely different.
As long as he doesn't give the other side a chance to form a formation and kill the enemy, his chances of winning are pretty good.
His greatest reliance is his special martial arts form, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell.
So far, Li Dingguo has not found anyone who has such powerful group attack martial arts skills as himself.
At that time, as long as his tactics were appropriate, there was a great possibility that he could disrupt the enemy's big deal.
After arriving at this cliff with an excellent view but very hidden, Li Dingguo hid behind a huge rock, sat cross-legged on the ground calmly, and waited patiently.
Nearing dusk, a large fleet consisting of a dozen treasure ships entered this large bay from outside and then docked at the large pier.
"Liang Liping was right. This pirate group led by the Jia family actually has three top-quality treasure ships!"
When this large fleet docked, Li Dingguo was shocked.
He had heard about some of the treasure ships used by overseas merchants and knew that at least a mid-quality treasure ship was needed to make long voyages.
Li Dingguo was shocked to see that a pirate force with only a thousand warriors was equipped with three top-grade treasure ships.
Even though their own Fuxing Army outside the Great Wall is now considered a major force, it has only one top-grade treasure ship so far.
"Is this southern gentry really that wealthy?"
"Or is it because this large fleet belongs to the wealthy Ye family in Fuzhou?"
Li Dingguo was so shaken by what he saw.
After such a long time, Li Dingguo has figured out the value of the top-grade treasure ship.
It is no exaggeration to say that even if the three most powerful gentry in Dingbian City added up their total assets, they could not raise enough money to buy a top-grade treasure ship.
No force is willing to sell this kind of strategic weapon.
In the Ming Dynasty, the major powers that owned high-quality and top-quality treasure ships all provided the materials and money and hired master craftsmen at high salaries to build them personally.
Another way is to obtain it through robbery, annexation or destruction of hostile forces.
No high-quality or top-quality treasure ship was obtained through formal transactions.
Today, the wealthy Ye family in Fuqing has equipped their own pirate force with three top-quality treasure ships. Their status cannot be described as "luxurious" at all.
According to intelligence obtained by the Military Intelligence Department through various means, even the remaining rebels led by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, who were taken to Liaodong to join the Denglai Navy of the Later Jin Tartars, only had three high-quality treasure ships, one top-quality treasure ship, and about twenty medium-quality treasure ships.
That is the Denglai Navy, known as the strongest navy in the Ming Dynasty!
Now, the Fuqing Ye family must have more than one top-grade treasure ships, and more than ten top-grade treasure ships!
This is just the Ye family, a wealthy family in Fuqing whose main business is not maritime trade.
What if it is a thousand-year-old family like the Duke of Wei’s Mansion, the Xie family of Jiangnan, or the Wang family?
The maritime power it possessed was not as simple as Li Dingguo had imagined before. Not to mention the white barbarian countries that were rumored to have maritime power far exceeding that of the Ming Dynasty.
"It seems that we need to adjust the focus of the Restoration Army's future development and growth. Otherwise, we might suffer a major setback in the future."
Now that he had seen the situation in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty with his own eyes, Li Dingguo realized that in this magical world, the future enemies would have very deep foundations.
No wonder that after the Later Jin Tartars entered the Pass in history, they did not dare to really offend and kill these wealthy gentry and thousand-year-old families. The targets of the massacre were only those wealthy merchants in the south who were hostile to the Shanxi merchants, as well as a large number of innocent Han soldiers and civilians.
It is definitely not that the Later Jin Tartars who took control of the Central Plains did not want to do so, but that they were powerless and could only seek cooperation between the two sides.
The Earth in the previous life was an ordinary historical world with such deep waters, not to mention the wealthy and powerful families in this magical world that have been passed down for thousands of years.
Since traveling through time and space and being reborn into this world, Li Dingguo has been hiding in a remote area outside the Great Wall without broadening his horizons. He seemed to be looking at the world from a well.
It was not until he came out and personally came into contact with deeper things that Li Dingguo realized this.
Fortunately, I woke up early.
It is not too late to change some plans and shift the focus of future development and growth.
There is still a long time before the Ming Dynasty truly comes to an end, which is enough time for Li Dingguo to make up for the shortcomings of the Fuxing Army.
When it comes to the speed at which his own power will grow, Li Dingguo has absolute confidence.
The change in cognition and the complete broadening of horizons were undoubtedly the greatest gains of Li Dingguo's journey to the south.
"Those coming down from the three high-quality treasure ships are not just pirates, but also some well-dressed visitors."
"They should be the backers of this pirate force."
Li Dingguo, who was making careful observations, discovered that among the crowd walking onto the big pier, there was a team of about a hundred people.
Everyone in this team was dressed in gorgeous clothes, and their expressions, temperament, speech and behavior were completely different from those of some pirates.
A large group of pirates gathered around the unique team like stars surrounding the moon. The leading pirate leaders were saying something to the leading nobles.
Presumably, these nobles are the masters that Jia Shuisheng, the leader of this pirate group, is leading his fleet to pick up today.
Li Dingguo had excellent eyesight. Even though his hiding place was about five miles away from the big pier, he could still see clearly the behavior of those core members of the Ye family.
He guessed that the man who was the head of the Ye family had at least reached the fourth level of martial arts.
A true master can guess something extraordinary about a person through his behavior and movements even from a distance.
The other party is now full of self-satisfaction and does not deliberately hide his skills. Li Dingguo can see it at a glance.
These people from the Ye family were surrounded by pirate leaders of all sizes and were heading towards the town fortress near the big pier.
The remaining large number of pirate soldiers began to get busy, and the place was bustling with noise for a while.
Li Dingguo knew that it was not the time for him to take action yet, so he continued to wait patiently.
Today is already the third day of March. If nothing unexpected happens, given the importance of this round of transactions between the Later Jin Tartars and the white Hu people, they have spirit pigeons to communicate at any time and should not be late.
Li Dingguo is not impatient, so he won't be anxious.
Time passed quickly. During this time, a group of pirate warriors came to this remote beach and took a walk around it, but left without finding anything.
This must be the man sent by Jia Zhisong, the eldest son of the Jia family, to look for the bald-headed man and the two servants and guards.
Li Dingguo had previously buried the bodies of Baldy and the others deep in the sand and had erased all traces, so it would be strange if they could find them easily.
Today, a distinguished guest from the host family came to the pirate base. Even if the eldest young master of the Jia family is arrogant and domineering, he would not dare to act recklessly under such circumstances.
Even if the three lackeys under his command were really missing, it would not matter much.
As for mobilizing a large force to look for him, as long as the eldest young master of the Jia family is not stupid, he will not do that.
At least we have to wait until the distinguished guests of the host family leave before we start a large-scale search.
Until night fell, with a long horn sounded in the direction of the big dock, a huge fleet emerged from outside the bay and sailed into the large harbor at a moderate speed.
The styles of the various treasure ships in that huge fleet were very different from those of the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty.
Even treasure ships of the same level appear taller and larger, and the number of psychic cannons on the treasure ships is several more than that of the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty.
However, in terms of the number of spiritual crossbows equipped, it is not as good as the treasure ships of the same level in the Ming Dynasty.
When this large fleet, which was obviously composed of white barbarians, approached the dock, a large group of pirates, led by those from the Ye family, carrying a large number of lanterns, hurriedly came out of the town fortress to greet them.
With Li Dingguo's martial arts cultivation level at the early fifth level, the night had little effect on his vision. In addition, there were a large number of torches and large lanterns at the large wharf, so he could easily see the situation at the wharf.
The spiritual cannons and spiritual crossbow carts equipped on the treasure ships of these white barbarians are quite different in shape from those used by the Ming Dynasty.
These two types of large spiritual weapons are much larger than similar spiritual weapons from the Ming Dynasty.
Among the treasure ships that these white Hu people came on, one was extremely large.
At least Li Dingguo had never seen such a huge treasure ship so far.
It is as big as three top-grade treasure ships and looks like an island floating on the sea. It is very scary to look at!
"This must be the legendary treasure ship of the highest quality!"
"This ship is too big. There are more than 20 to 30 psychic cannons on its deck!"
"All the psychic cannons of our Renaissance Army now add up to no more than a hundred!"
"This... this gap is too big!"
Li Dingguo was so amazed that his eyes widened.
This large fleet of white Hu people, in addition to this top-quality treasure ship, also has six high-quality treasure ships and more than twenty medium-quality treasure ships.
This was the first time that Li Dingguo had seen such a huge fleet, and he was somewhat numb with shock.
"It is rumored that the white barbarians have traveled all over the world over the years and found many thousand-year-old oak spirit trees in various places overseas. That is why they have so many top-quality spirit materials to build so many large treasure ships."
Li Dingguo looked at it with a fiery gaze, and suddenly he had the urge to snatch the other party's top-quality treasure ship immediately.
Now is not a good time to do anything. Li Dingguo took a long breath and tried to calm down.
(End of this chapter)
