Chapter 191: The Surprise of the Spiritual Pigeon, the Surprise of Hong Chengchou
"The Commander-in-Chief."
"This is the pigeon house that our Military Intelligence Department has just cleaned up."
Wei Jinfan and Li Dingguo came to a corner of this high-quality treasure ship together, pointed to an exquisite pointed-roof attic about ten feet square, and reported to him.
"Including the three pairs of spirit pigeons that you personally led the soldiers to rush onto this top-grade treasure ship and used sonic attacks to accurately stun them, our Renaissance Army has captured a total of six pairs of spirit pigeons through this battle."
"Among them, there are five female pigeons, and their nests are filled with magical pigeon eggs. They have all been collected here."
"In the future, as pigeon eggs increase rapidly and we vigorously carry out the training of spiritual pigeons, their number will increase quickly."
"It's a pity that even though the entire battle was over very quickly, several pairs of spirit pigeons still escaped."
"Otherwise, we would have gained more."
There was a hint of regret in Wei Jinfan's words.
Spirit pigeons lay eggs very frequently, and as long as there are enough spiritual plants for them to eat, they will grow very quickly.
If we could get a few more female pigeons, the breeding speed would undoubtedly increase exponentially.
For the Military Intelligence Department and the commanders of the scout battalions of each legion, who had been looking forward to it for a long time, equipping themselves with enough spirit pigeons was already an urgent matter.
Over the past few months, the delay in real-time military intelligence has become the biggest concern of the Fusion Army and has caused great distress.
Even though this battle only yielded a few pairs of spiritual pigeons, the huge value contained in them is immeasurable.
"Some of these pairs of spirit pigeons are getting agitated. I'll go in and tame them first."
At this time, Li Dingguo saw the spiritual pigeons locked in the pigeon tower fluttering constantly, so he said something to Wei Jinfan, opened the door of the pigeon tower and walked in, while closing the wooden door with his backhand.
He first sensed the aura of these spirit pigeons and was immediately shocked, "Isn't this a first-level spirit pigeon!"
"It is indeed a spiritual pigeon raised by the wealthy and powerful people in the south!"
"Among them, there is a pair of spirit pigeons from the late stage of level 2 spirit beasts, and five pairs of spirit pigeons from the early stage of level 2 spirit beasts! They are all middle-grade spirit birds!"
He was surprised to find that the quality of these six pairs of spiritual pigeons far exceeded his expectations!
He knew very well that when Zhang Xianzhong was in Dingbian City, he also obtained more than a dozen pairs of magical pigeons.
However, those are all early and middle level one spirit pigeons, and they are all low-grade spirit birds with low potential. Compared with the six pairs of spirit pigeons here, the gap is too big.
When he first saw these spiritual pigeons, he found that they were a little too big, weighing about five or six kilograms each.
"These pairs of mid-quality spirit pigeons are now cheap to our Renaissance Army."
Thinking of this, Li Dingguo immediately restrained all his murderous intent, quickly calmed his mind, showed kindness to the six pairs of spirit pigeons here, and slowly walked towards them.
Without any surprise, with his top-level talent for affinity with spirit beasts, he easily subdued the six pairs of spirit pigeons here.
"Cuckoo..."
Looking at these big spiritual pigeons calling towards him joyfully, there were even two particularly naughty ones flying onto his shoulders and jumping around, and he couldn't help but chuckle.
Especially when he saw the dozens of bird eggs that were almost as big as chicken eggs in their exquisite bird nests, the smile on Li Dingguo's face became even more intense.
When these pigeon eggs are hatched, there will undoubtedly be dozens of pairs of spiritual pigeons in the family.
In the long run, after a few years, the Renaissance Army would never have to worry about not having spiritual pigeons to use.
He played with these pigeons for a while and found that they were really smart. They could even understand human language. They were worthy of being the pigeons known for their intelligence.
Spirit pigeons and spirit dogs are the two kinds of spirit beasts and birds that are closest to humans. They are good companions in the world that can provide the greatest help to human practitioners.
There are a lot of them in this big world, but most of them are of low quality.
Especially the spirit pigeons, there are very few middle-grade spirit birds among them, and more than ninety-nine percent are low-grade spirit birds.
Now that he had obtained six pairs of medium-quality spiritual pigeons with good growth potential, Li Dingguo was of course very happy.
The enemy they encountered this time was indeed the richest family in the Ming Dynasty. Even the spiritual pigeons they used for communication were unique.
"Xiaobai, Dabai."
Li Dingguo instructed the pair of Level 2 late stage spirit pigeon leaders that he had named, "From now on, you will lead your own tribe and start a new life in the territory of our Renaissance Army. You must get familiar with the people and things here as soon as possible."
"Remember that you can no longer return to your old home or the places you used to frequent."
"Hatch your offspring as soon as possible and expand the tribe."
"I have all kinds of spiritual food for you. In the near future, I will even help you break through to the third-level spiritual bird. Maybe I can break through the shackles of your bloodline in one fell swoop and let you break through to the upper-grade spiritual bird." "In short, we have a lot of spiritual plants here, enough for your daily needs."
"When the fleet returns to land, I will help you build a nice new home..."
In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, he would not immediately let these adult spirit pigeons perform the communication mission in the short term, but would wait until they had completely adapted to their new living environment.
After all, they originally had owners.
In other words, Li Dingguo possessed the top-level talent for affinity with spirit beasts, which allowed him to tame these adult spirit pigeons.
Otherwise, the only way is to lock them up first, wait until the little spirit pigeons are hatched, and then train and educate them, so as to harvest spirit pigeons that are useful to their family.
As for these adult spiritual pigeons, they will be locked up for the rest of their lives.
"Cuckoo..."
The two pigeon leaders were indeed considerate. Upon hearing what was said, they kept chirping and jumped to the palms of Li Dingguo's hands and pecked them gently, indicating that they had remembered what Li Dingguo had said.
Li Dingguo allowed them to move around the treasure ship for the time being, then opened the door of the pigeon tower and walked out.
"Cuckoo..."
Six pairs of spiritual pigeons could not wait to fly out of the pigeon tower and kept flying around the sky above the treasure ship.
After they clearly identified the strange humans on this superior treasure ship, they, led by two spirit pigeon leaders, returned to the pigeon tower to rest and began to hatch eggs.
"Commander-in-chief, can these adult spirit pigeons still be used in the future?"
Seeing that Li Dingguo was indeed a miracle worker who could tame these adult spirit pigeons and make them so obedient, Wei Jinfan asked with some concern.
Li Dingguo nodded and said, "These spirit pigeons cannot be used for a short period of time. We must let them adapt to the new environment and understand that their previous masters are our enemies before we can do anything about it."
"Anyway, those little spirit pigeons will be hatched soon. After they are trained, it won't be too late to gradually popularize spirit pigeon messaging among our army."
"Go among all the soldiers and civilians and carefully select whether there are any spirit pigeon breeders with talent or experience in this area. Recruit as many as you find, and they will be responsible for the training of these spirit pigeons in the future."
After explaining everything to Wei Jinfan, Li Dingguo looked around and saw that the soldiers had already finished all the follow-up work. They had also arranged enough manpower to operate the treasure ships that had just been seized, so he ordered them to return.
With his order, the fleet, which was nearly twice as large as before, put away anchors and cables, left the river bank one after another, formed two columns on the river, and returned home.
"Dudu..."
The navy's horn sounded, and amid the soldiers' jubilant cheers, the fleet slowly accelerated, sailed upstream, and disappeared at the end of the northern river...
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"Those wealthy merchants in the south went to war and assembled a large fleet to go out of the country to attack the petty thieves, but they never came back and were completely wiped out?"
"These Southern Merchant Alliances are usually so arrogant, but are they so useless?"
"Ha ha……"
"I never thought that a small group of thieves could become so powerful."
Hong Chengchou had successfully defeated the powerful rebel alliance in Qin and Jin provinces in one battle, and even captured their leader Wang Jiayin and more than 20 heads of rebel chieftains, winning a crushing victory in the war. He was now on his way back.
But today I learned such outrageous information and was immediately shocked.
In the anti-bandit operation that ended more than two months ago, the powerful alliance of rebels in Qin and Jin provinces was almost destroyed by Hong Chengchou in one battle.
The elite troops of the 36 battalions of the rebel army only took advantage of the chaos to escape a few remnants of the bandit army that suffered heavy losses. The vast majority of the bandits were killed by the elite border troops led by Hong Chengchou. The killing was so numerous that it severely intimidated the rioters and bandits in the world.
After this battle, the reputation of "Living King of Devil" Hong Chengchou has reached its peak, making the bandits all over the world terrified!
On the second day after the battle, Hong Chengchou ordered Cao Wenzhao to lead his 3,000 elite cavalrymen to personally escort the battle report, some selected spoils of war, and the heads of more than 20 bandit chiefs including the rebel leader Wang Jiayin, to the capital to report his achievements.
It is estimated that once Hong Chengchou leads the army and escorts a large amount of spoils back to the Yansui Town Government Office, the imperial edict of reward will arrive soon.
This was the biggest victory of the government army over the bandits in recent years, and it was a crushing victory. In addition, Hong Chengchou instructed Cao Wenzhao to bring a considerable amount of tribute to several cabinet ministers, so the court's reward should be generous.
This is a rare opportunity to boost the prestige of the Ming court and the morale of the army. It is impossible for the ministers in the court not to seize this opportunity to enhance their own prestige and gain more benefits.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty had suffered a round of devastation from the invasion of the Later Jin Tartar army, and its prestige had plummeted. It needed a big victory to stabilize the people's hearts.
Hong Chengchou's great victory came at the right time. Many high-ranking officials in the court, including Your Majesty, needed this victory.
Therefore, the entire process of this round of rewards will be quite quick and smooth, and no one will cause trouble at this critical juncture.
This is also the reason why Hong Chengchou was in high spirits on the way back to the army.
(End of this chapter)
