Hai was feeling a bit annoyed now. He had previously received orders from Zhao Long to take the last group of people to board the ship and enter Goguryeo from the outer sea.
He was, of course, determined to carry it out. He also made a guarantee and let Fish Egg take the lead. Although Fish Egg had stepped into the fork in the road before, he was a member of the village anyhow, and it was good that he had changed.
The fleet was getting bigger now. It was inevitable that more people would be recruited from outside as well.
However, he also had some selfishness and wanted the flotilla to have as many people from his own village as possible. And Fishball was one of the young men in the village who had some brains and was bold.
He is a good candidate to be the head of the team. In the future, when he grows old, or when the fleet expands, he will need more people.
When the time comes, if the fish eggs can take over, the village’s good times will continue. But this time, they blew it.
Sailing out to sea is not that easy, even if they are experienced old fishermen.
Once out in the open sea, they hit the wind and waves and nearly capsized their boat! And lost a few sailors. They had to find a shore to dock as soon as possible, so they were originally heading towards the hinterland of Goguryeo, but only ended up in the forward part of the Goguryeo peninsula.
The orders given to them by Zhao Long could be described as a complete failure. Worse still, most of these soldiers on board were also seasick and had lost most of their battle strength.
Although the plan for the raid was good, the execution of it was another matter. This time, they had lost a lot of face.
Zhao Long was a man who would reward his merits and punish his faults. He would definitely be punished when he returned. He originally wanted to lead his men directly to bring down this small border city in front of him, so that he could redeem his merits.
But the city’s defences were quite strong, and although there were not many defenders, they did not have the equipment to attack the city. But they didn’t have the equipment to attack the city either.
This was why Zhao Long told them to go to the Goguryeo hinterland, where the cities were not as well protected from the outside world.
So he could only take his men, in this place, to see if he could intercept some defeated troops. As for why he was sure that Goguryeo would definitely fail, because he had never doubted Zhao Lang’s ability!
Sure enough, quite a few defeated troops were captured in the past two days, but unfortunately they were all minions, nothing big.
Now when he heard Fish Egg’s shout, he hurried over, saying, as he went
“Fish Egg, you’ve got it right this time.”
“That was someone from our own caravan before, it almost made a joke!” Soon after walking up to these people and taking a look, his eyes lit up, these people on the other side were riding horses and dressed well, indeed they looked like some high ranking officials.
They were about to ask for their identity. The man on the other side, who was surrounded in the middle, then said that
“Who are you people! How dare you block the way of our lord!” The lord of Goguryeo was very upset that he had reached his own territory, and yet someone dared to block his way!
And he was speaking in the language of the Great Qin! He was furious! What a man he was! The Lord of Goguryeo! He had suffered a defeat in Liaodong and couldn’t beat that group of people, could he still not do anything to these few Great Qin people?
Just the thing to take out his anger!
“Men! Tie them up for my lord! My lord will make these Great Chin’s lives worse than death!” Hearing this, Hai and Fish Egg both froze.
Hai gulped straight away and asked, with a few moments of disbelief
“Who did you say you were?” Seeing the other party’s surprised look, the Goguryeo kingdom master revealed a cold smile and
“Humph, now that you know the identity of my lord, are you afraid? It’s too late!”
“What are you still standing there for! Arrest him!” The guards beside the Goguryeo lord were about to step forward when they heard the other man say, with a touch of surprise.
“Brothers! We’ve got work to do! This time you won’t have to worry about being scolded by the chief!” In the next instant, men with lances rose from under the dry grass on both sides of the road.
The Goguryeo lord was instantly frozen and his mind was even blank as he muttered that
“How could this happen?” The Goguryeo lord’s guards tried to resist, but were unceremoniously poked down with their lances by Hai with his men.
A cavalryman without speed is a living target when he encounters a lance. Having finished the guards, Hai rubbed his hands in excitement and smiled at the dumbfounded Goguryeo lord, saying
“Don’t worry, we will treat you well.” The other man was then told to take him into custody.
“Fishball you take him and go back by land, you will surely meet the chief.”
“I’ll take everyone back to Liaodong by sea.” Capturing the lord of Goguryeo was already a great achievement, so there was no need to worry about being punished.
Letting Fish Egg go to deliver it was to salvage the other side’s impression in Zhao Lang’s mind. Fish Egg, however, hesitated for a moment at this time, and then said that
“Brother Hai, what do you think if we take that border city. Then offer it to the chief what would happen?” Brother Hai listened for a moment, and then said that
“We may have so many people, but that city wall is very high.”
“Even if we use this Goguryeo lord to threaten, I’m afraid it won’t work.”
“These days, as you can see, the people here, they all hate him to death, so I guess they won’t open the city gates for him.” They have seen what the Goguryeo lord has done these days, and the people will not care about this lord.
Fish Egg nodded, and then pointed to the guards who had been killed.
“Let’s take their clothes off.” Hai just frowned and wanted to say that there was no need to be so insulting, but quickly thought of something and, with a twinkle in his eye, said that
“Good boy! I’ll do as you say! We need to get ready!” A few days later, outside the border town of Goguryeo, a long procession was moving towards it in an orderly fashion.
The leader, an extremely handsome young man, looked at the Goguryeo border town in the distance and, without the slightest hesitation, ordered
“Blast the city gates directly and prepare to occupy it!” The Goguryeo lord should have fled back to the kingdom by now, but it was not a big problem.
It was just a matter of fighting all the way through. Most of Goguryeo’s soldiers had died in Liaodong, and the rest were now being taken to the grasslands to herd sheep.
With explosives to clear the way, his 2,000 teenage troops would be enough to push across! When they reached the hinterland and joined up with Hai and the others, there would be no problem taking the king’s city.
Only before his order could be passed down, a fast horse came running up and shouted that
“Clan Master! This border city has been taken by Hai and his men! And the Lord of Goguryeo has been captured too!
“Zhao Lang couldn’t even help but freeze for a moment. He was all set to push across Goguryeo, how could this be the end of it? said quickly.
“Let’s go and take a look!” He spurred the horses beneath him and headed for the border city. When he arrived at the border town, he was greeted by a fish egg.
“Chief, you’re here.” Fish Egg showed a smile, trying to please Zhao Lang. Zhao Lang looked at Fish Egg and said indifferently that
“Where is Brother Hai? Take me there.” Fish Egg hurriedly led the way in front and then said that
“Brother Hai is interrogating the Goguryeo lord and wants to get us some more money.” We arrived at a room, and before we could enter, we heard a cry of
“Stop fighting! The money is in the kingdom, I really have no choice! They won’t give the money and wealth for my sake.” Zhao Lang’s eyes flickered slightly at this time, and he pushed the door in directly, saying that
“It doesn’t matter, we’ll send our troops to help you.”
“Brother Hai, what are you doing with the whip? Why don’t you quickly help the kingdom master up!” Hearing this, the Lord of Goguryeo was stunned.