The sky is gloomy, and above the sea, dark clouds are piled up, like continuous mountains.

Zhao Xingde was wearing a black cloak and stood on the black reef, with only one tide in the distance.

"If you keep waiting like this, I wonder when will you have to wait?"

"We have no other way except waiting." Luo Huan whispered, "We can only wait."

"Bah! What a fucking bad luck!" Zhang Jiancheng looked at the gloomy sky and anger burst out from his chest.

If there was really a Dragon King in the sky, he would rather pull out the sword and scatter the haze all over the sky with one knife, and then fight with this bastard for 100 rounds. Qingyuan Camp escorted Zhao Xingde to Leizhou. However, the sea suddenly had a storm. Zhao Xingde waited for five days and four nights, but he did not see a warship of the South China Sea Navy. However, the military situation was as fast as fire. The thief was unexpectedly rapid. Under the siege of 100,000 pirates, the Guangzhou regiment was struggling to support it. If the South China Sea Navy did not arrive for a long time, he would not only not be able to wipe out the pirates, but also ruined millions of living creatures in Guangzhou. Zhang Jiancheng was the garrison of Xuwen Village and the head of the Duanzhou regiment. The 100 people under his command were Duanzhou soldiers. Duanzhou was only two hundred miles away from Guangzhou, and the upper and lower parts of the camp were anxious, not knowing whether their family members had suffered any trouble.

The sky gradually darkened, and the night was as dark as paint. Xuwenzhaiwang Tower lit a torch, and the faint light trembled in the sea breeze.

Zhao Xingde frowned and looked at the tide that was looming in the distance. At this time, the time for supper in the camp was passed, but Luo Huan, Zhang Jiancheng and others did not make any noise, and everyone looked into the distance. The long silence and waiting period had been more than four hours since the afternoon. Suddenly, he blinked his eyes, with a sharp eagle-like look through the dark sky.

The outline of a black warship slowly appeared at the junction of the sky and the sea, followed by the second and third...

Zhao Xingde let out a sigh of relief, clenched his fists, and his palms were covered with sweat.

At this time, several other generals also discovered the fleet in the distance and began to scream happily.\

Xuwen Village fired rockets toward the sky, and the bright fireworks dragged the long trails, which were particularly obvious in the night sky.

The warships of the South China Sea Navy appeared one by one at a distance of sea level, and Zhao Xingde could already recognize each warship with his eyes.

On the rolling sea, warships sailed smoothly like clocks, and gradually lowered their sails as they approached the coast.

Before the fleet was anchored, it first put down two small boats, and the sailors rowed hard toward the shore. At the same time, tall warships adjusted their formation in the deep water area. Without pauses or hesitation, the bows were heading northwards, and the fleet and the coastline changed from vertical to parallel. Zhao Xingde nodded with satisfaction. Seeing the boat getting closer, he turned around and walked towards the two escorted generals.

Luo Huan and Zhang Jiancheng were a little excited. They knew Zhao Xingde's identity and put a stone in their hearts. At the same time, they were a little regretful. The South China Sea Navy was about to go to the battlefield, and it was also the moment when they bid farewell to Zhao Xingde. Seeing Zhao Xingde getting closer and closer, their mood suddenly became a little disappointed. Zhao Xingde seemed to see their thoughts and said with a smile: "The pirates are rampant and the waves are not quiet. If you have a chance in the future, I would like to kill the enemy side by side with you!" He bowed and said in a deep voice: "Just leave!"

Zhang Jiancheng suppressed his excitement and whispered: "Thank you, Mr. Zhao!"

"The last one is to fight to kill the enemy," Luo Huan also whispered, "Greatly send Mr. Zhao."

Zhao Xingde needed to hide his identity, so the second general just bowed to his side. At this time, the boat was approaching, and the sailor jumped off the boat in shallow water and pushed the boat onto the beach. Zhao Xingde did not hesitate and turned around and walked towards the boat. The navy officer trotted to Zhao Xingde. Zhao Xingde nodded to him and pushed the boat into the sea water with the sailors again, heading towards the fleet in the distance. All this was going on silently, and there was quiet on all sides, only the sea breeze and the sound of the sea tide echoed.

Shortly after the boat leaned on Zhao Xingde's ship, the navy warships relied their sails and set sail without any hesitation or pause.

The warship left northeast. In the cracks between the black lacquer ocean and the black sky, more than 20 giant ships became smaller and smaller in outlines, gradually disappearing, as if they were swallowed up by the dark sea. Luo Huan and Zhang Jiancheng watched the South China Sea Navy fleet leave. After the fleet disappeared for a long time, Luo Huan breathed a long sigh and said in a deep voice: "I hope I can give the big cannibal a surprise."

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Thirty miles northwest of Guangzhou Zicheng, Shimen Town, one of the eight major towns outside Guangzhou City.

Liuxi Xihualing, Shimen Mountain and Fenglinling three mountains stretch from northeast to southwest, and cut a gap of more than ten feet by the surging Xiaobei River. The river channel here is narrow, and stones are like gates on both sides, which are the key to the intersection of north and south. Once you pass Shimen, the river surface is open again. In the past, countless ships passed through Shimen and went straight to Guangzhou. After the pirates attacked Guangzhou in large numbers, the Shimen Town defenders had blocked the river channel with iron chains. The river boats in the north no longer went south when they heard the news. Therefore, the river surface of the Xiaobei River seemed very spacious.

A white-sail flat-bottomed boat quietly flowed downstream ten miles away from Shimen Town.

Walking to a river, there are rugged rocks on both sides, dense forests, and branches and leaves hang down on the water. The flat-bottomed boat passes through the messy branches and leaves and enters a river and strikes out of the water bay on the shore. The backwater bay is not large in size and can only accommodate two or three small boats to moor. However, under the cover of reefs and shore mountains, the boat on the main channel of the Xiaobei River is extremely difficult to see, and it is a natural hidden place. The flat-bottomed boat seems to be very familiar with this place, and carefully avoids the water.

The rocks that were down were just right up the shore. At this time, three quarridges came from the bushes on the shore, and the people on the boat also replied three times. The three of them bent down and crawled out of the woods to help the people on the boat tie the ropes that had dropped ashore. After meeting, the two sides spoke secretly, and the people on the boat showed a look of disappointment on their faces. After hesitating for a moment, they invited a middle-aged man in green robe and whispered to him to explain the recent situation in Guangzhou.

"Mr. Li, our brother said that the pirates are siegeing Shimen Town on a large scale, and there are many checkpoints in the north of the town. People in Guangzhou cannot get out, and people outside cannot get in. Most of the pirates are foreign faces and relatives do not recognize them. If Mr. Li must enter Guangzhou, our brothers may not be able to guarantee Mr.'s safety."

"This place has penetrated deep into the inland," Li Rui frowned, "Are pirates so rampant?"

"The entire Guangnan, the large number of pirates in the southeast are besieging Guangzhou together," said Tan Lanxi, a military Sima, shook his head, "They are really crazy. These pirates each claim to be kings and dominate. This time, someone will definitely be in charge of the central government, and the target is Guangzhou. This time, the pirates are a desperate bet and angered the Song court. I am afraid that their future life will not be easy. After all, these pirates are just a group of mobs. They come in a fierce manner. If they cannot succeed and gain great profits, they will definitely disperse and even restrain each other from attacking and killing each other. Even if the person who is planning in the center has the eyes of the sky, he will never gather such a great force again."

Tan Lanxi was an old man from Guandong Cao, the Military Intelligence Department. He received an order to set off from Luoyang and escort Mr. Li to Guangzhou.

Although the military order did not explain what mission Lord Li was carrying, Tan Lanxi also guessed that he could get some.

Zhao Xingde was detained by the governor of Guangzhou, delaying the days of the joint navy to send troops. The Anxi Army Office was preparing to launch an attack on the Roma Turks and the Dashi in winter, and all kinds of preparations were on the string and could not be delayed. Li Rui was a Grand Secretary of the Bachelor's Office and was born in Guandong. He had old friends with Zhao Xingde, Deng Su, Chen Dong, Chen Gongju and others. Therefore, it was reasonable to be the envoy to represent the Xia Kingdom to go to Guangzhou and prompt him to release him to Zhao Xingde. Moreover, the envoy Xiao

He was not idle in Ezhou, and maybe Li Rui also carried the oral messages from Chen Dong, Deng Su and others and even handwritten letters. The matter is so important. Whether Zhao Xingde escaped safely not only affects the situation at sea, but also affects the decisive battle between the Anxi Army and the Roma Turks. Therefore, although the Military Information Department cannot force Li Rui to do anything, if Li Rui is determined to pass through the pirates' blockade and enter Guangzhou, no matter how much risk he takes, Tan Lanxi will do his best to take him in.

Sure enough, Li Rui pondered for a moment and said resolutely: "It's important, so you have to give it a try anyway."

"Okay!" Tan Lanxi nodded, "Mr. Li, let's wait a moment, I'll arrange everything."

He went to discuss with the Military Information Department's secret stake here, and when he avoided the pirates' eyes and ears, he sneaked into Guangzhou City.

Li Rui stood at the bow of the boat and looked up the river. The mountains and forests were dense, with branches and leaves covering the sky and the sun. Although it was just noon, the light was very dark, unlike the hot summer afternoon. The sunlight was projected through the branches and leaves to the bottom, illuminating the fish and shrimps swimming back and forth under the water. He knew that the matter of sneaking into Guangzhou was entirely arranged by the Military Information Department, and he could not get involved, so he could only come to peace. When he was idle, he also gave himself a hexagram, which was Qian, Dui, and Shuhu's tail. The yao was 92: Shudao is calm, and the yeongren is Zhenji. If this hexagram is applied to him, it would be a bit far-fetched. But if it was applied to Zhao Yuanzhi, it would be quite good.

Li Rui thought for a while but had no idea, so he had to calm down and wait for the next step of action.

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At the top of Zicheng, Guangzhou, Chen Gongju looked at the outer wall of Hanhai City, which was almost unrecognizable.
Chapter completed!