Chapter 258: Retreat is actually returning

Zhang Liang is now truly devoted to Jiang Feng. The soldiers and officers below looked at Jiang Feng with the words that they could not say before. In other words, this may be the so-called true loyalty.

There was no even known that these Jinyiwei had been to Dengzhou in Dengzhou. These people came directly to Dengzhou military camp in Yantai Mountain. After entering the military camp, no news came out, no one cared about it, and no one dared to care about this matter.

Things always came together, and without everyone expected it, a brigged Western merchant ship drove into the private port.

At this time, Yantai Mountain private port was already extremely nervous, and there were all lucky ships coming and going here. The only Western ship was hijacked, used as warships, and Spanish double-brigged merchant ships used as teaching ships. When the observation deck at the highest point of Yantai Mountain saw the sudden appearance of the ship on the sea, he was suddenly nervous.

The brig warships and blessed ships in the private port immediately set sail to sea. Several artillery guns at the port were adjusted to aim at the sea surface. After Jiang Feng got the news in the meeting hall, he first arranged for his family to prepare, and then took the soldiers into the bunker in the private port.

In the bunker, you can withstand the artillery fire outside and observe the situation outside clearly. However, the expected naval artillery battle did not happen, and the ship was not driven away by the gunship according to the previous ships. But they followed which ships returned to the port.

The people inside the fortress were very strange, but as long as they entered the port, they didn't have to worry about any problems. There are not only two three-pound cannons on the mountainside, but the craftsmen who cast cannons in the craftsmen, although the cannons they made are not as light as they are now.

However, it is enough to use the turret on the mountain. The boat entering the port is the fish placed on the chopping board, and it is slaughtered.

A man ran down under the improved lucky boat and shouted at the mountain at the top of his throat:

"Sir, sir, Instructor Jie is back!!"

Jason Hogan? Is that instructor back? Jiang Feng was stunned. He paid a large amount of money to buy horse bones. Now the West always has some unique things and technologically advanced places. If it can be used by itself, it will definitely improve its power greatly.

But after Jason Hogan set out on his way back to China, there was no news at all. Jiang Feng knew in his heart that the current voyage was actually a gambling life. The so-called ten ships went out to sea, and five ships were already favored by God. I may not have encountered anything.

And even if he went back to his own country, the emperor was far away at that time, and he took the silver back to enjoy it or did what he did. Whether he could recruit people like craftsmen and officers was entirely up to luck. Jiang Feng had already instructed Zhao Xiucai to remove the silver when he was doing the account.

But no one expected that a year and a half later, someone would actually come back there, and Jason Hogan would come back by himself.

Jiang Feng was still a little surprised and hurriedly walked down the mountain with his subordinates. When Jason left Dengzhou, he was full of redness and very nutritious. Moreover, the complexion he had made at the sea had become pampered.

But now Jason, who was seen on the dock, has become very thin, and his skin color cannot be described as the so-called bronze color, but dark. There are more than a hundred people standing behind him, all of whom look white, and they all look almost down and down.

Jiang Feng looked familiar with this look. After recalling it, he remembered it. It turned out that when he came to the Qianhu Institution in Yantai Mountain, the officers and soldiers of the garrison who were driven by slaves were all like this. The only difference is that these people are in good spirits now.

When Jiang Feng walked to the foot of the mountain, neither side knew what to say. You should know Jason's status in the Yantai Mountain Barracks. However, as an instructor, this position is a bit equivalent to an aide or guest official and has no subordinates. Jason spent so long in Yantai Mountain and trained soldiers from the square formation, which made a lot of contributions. When he came back this time, it seemed that he had suffered a lot of suffering during the time he left.

I don’t know if Jason Hogan came back and forth this time, or was about to stay for a while, or was about to defect to him. While he was thinking, Jason Hogan, who was more than ten steps ahead, had already knelt down, and it was different from the one knee that Westerners were used to kneeling down. This time, he bent his knees and lowered his whole body.

It seems that Jason's Chinese has not been used for a lot of time, and it seems extremely stiff, but it pops up one word at a time, and is determined:

"Dear sir, I, Jason Hogan and my 100 compatriots, beg you for your intake. All we can give is your lifelong allegiance to you!"

Then he repeated it in his native language, and the haggard tribes behind him knelt down one after another, saying almost the same words.

Jiang Feng was a little dazed for a moment, thinking that he really had the so-called transcendent aura. These foreigners were loyal to him when they saw him, but then they thought that if his subordinates had not killed the Jinyiwei this time, they would probably not have been so devoted.

Not to mention these foreigners, but with more than a hundred people in their hands, it is good to be the last. Just as I was about to order the people behind to come and take them in, I remembered some things and quickly ordered:

"Let them take off their clothes and burn them on the harbor. Now let's drop the wooden barrels on the mountain and change them into our clothes."

The sailors in Dengzhou understood these things as soon as they heard them, and immediately became busy. Some people took quicklime onto the ship and sprinkled the dilapidated brig with lime, and then took back all the places where the ship could contact with land.

This is also to prevent the epidemic and the inexplicable dirt caused by it. Jiang Feng followed his subordinates to order and returned to the mountain.

After killing thirty Jinyiwei in the Dengzhou camp, the surrounding area seemed to calm down suddenly. There was no peeping manpower in Aoshan Salt Field or Linjia Island, and there was no abnormality. Although Jiang Feng's fine works in Dengzhou Prefecture were very closely watching, nothing unusual was happening.

The "Nedlanders" at the foot of the mountain (that is Jason and others), according to the advice of Monk Li's old sailor and Agaya, these people had to stay in an isolated area near the port for a while before they could go up the mountain, or be placed in front of the camp in front of the mountain, so they would not be able to get in touch for a while.

There was an interesting thing this time, which was that Agaya, the captain of the Rooster who was always thought by Jiang Feng to be the Spanish. To be more precise, it should be the Portuguese.

At this time, in the translation of the Ming Dynasty, Spain and Portugal were commonly known as Francis. However, in history, Portugal was about to be annexed by Spain. At this time, the two countries had a lot of economic and military exchanges, which was difficult to distinguish for the Ming Dynasty, which had little contact with Europe.

The owner of the Rooster was an authentic Spanish, and the captain Agaya and the remaining crew sailors were both Portuguese and French.

However, it is precisely because of this that Jiang Feng was quite worried that Jason was originally opposed to Spain, but at this time he saw that the Spaniards would have any conflicts. Before he knew it, Jiang Feng had completely regarded the brig sailboat he had stolen and the sailors on the ship as his private property.

Having said that, it seems that Agaya and his crew sailors have already regarded themselves as members of the Dengzhou naval army.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was no Suez Canal or Panama Canal in this era. The sailing boats on the sea had a speed of about three knots per hour, which was converted into a unit we could understand, about six kilometers per hour, sailing from the sea of ​​Europe along the coastline of Africa around the Cape of Good Hope, and then sailing to the east. For such a journey, sailing boats would take about a year to reach.

However, it took Jason Hogan and his more than 100 people to arrive here from the Netherlands almost two years. The reason is not complicated. When Jason and his team left the Netherlands, they gathered many people from the pursued independence movement. By the way, when Jason was still on the Atlantic Ocean, he had more than a dozen ships and nearly two thousand people.

Perhaps in order to shake the tiger, the Spanish king tried to punish the Netherlands' independence movement, especially the most powerful "Jason Guerrillas" in the independence movement. The Prime Minister and the army issued a pursuit order and reward for Jason in all directions.

The earth is very large, but now Spain is also at its most powerful moment. They not only have an invincible fleet, but also colonies distributed in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Jason's team is getting smaller and smaller, avoiding the pursuit and encirclement of fleets, colonial troops, and pirates.

More than a dozen ships were turned into one, with more than a hundred people left in two or three thousand people. After going through a lot of hardships, they reached the Chinese sea. Fortunately, although the Spanish colony in Luzon received the news of a reward, they no longer cared about it. Moreover, although Jason's brig was ragged, pirates and private merchants were very proud of their face, because there were two possibilities, one could be the merchant ship of the Franchise, so the firepower must be very strong, so it would be better to touch it less.

Another type of armed merchant ship that may not be a Franchise. In this sea area, only Jiang Feng owns this type of ship, so it is better not to touch it.
Chapter completed!