After a long and fruitless attack and with heavy losses, those red-headed ships had long been considering retreating, but they were reluctant to do so because they were holding back their anger.

After several of their ships were sunk by the task force from behind, they became completely discouraged and scattered.

Haierge ordered the rescue of the bandits who had fallen into the water and detained them first, and then sent them to the authorities after arriving in Chaozhou City. At the same time, he sent people to contact the Cangshan iron ship to prevent any misunderstanding.

Unexpectedly, after a while, the police officer who went to contact them reported back that the person on the boat was Yu Dayou!

"What?" Zhao Hao jumped three feet high when he heard that. He didn't expect that his luck was so good that whoever he wanted to meet would jump in front of him.

"Let's go and pay him a visit." He was really interested in Yu Dayou.

"Sir, let me check the goods first. You can go after it's OK." Wang Rulong said hurriedly.

"Hey, who dares to impersonate Master Yu? Let's go together." However, Zhao Hao was unwilling to be looked at by Yu Dayou, and excitedly pulled Wang Rulong out of the cabin.

Although the young master didn't care, Brother Gao still boarded the Cangshan ship first and confirmed that it was the genuine Marshal Yu. Then he made a covert gesture and asked the guards to invite the young master on board.

“Hahaha!” Then a tall and strong old man with white hair, a square face, a broad mouth and a strong body stood at the bow of the boat and laughed at Zhao Hao, “I have heard of your great name, Young Master Zhao. I didn’t see your father in **zhou this time, but I did see Young Master Zhao, so this trip was worthwhile!”

"It's Marshal Yu for sure." Wang Rulong whispered to Zhao Hao.

"No, no, it's a great honor for me to meet Marshal Yu in person today!" Zhao Hao rushed forward in two steps, bowed sincerely and respectfully.

"Alas, I am just a commoner now, and I don't deserve this title." Yu Dayou supported Zhao Hao, and Zhao Hao felt like a baby and straightened up involuntarily.

Then he looked at Wang Rulong again and said with a happy smile: "Xiaolong, it hasn't been a few years since we last met, right?"

"Master, I haven't seen you since the first year of Longqing when Marshal Qi went north." Wang Rulong, who always puts the emperor first, Young Master Zhao second, and me third, is as obedient as a kitten in front of Yu Dayou.

Maybe Zhao Hao heard it wrong, but there was a hint of tears in Lao Wang's voice. I didn't expect that he and Yu Dayou had such a good relationship.

"How is it? Have you failed to master the Kung Fu I taught you?" Yu Dayou patted Wang Rulong's shoulder vigorously.

"Practice every day." Wang Rulong straightened his back.

"Okay, let's practice later and see if you are lazy." Yu Dayou turned back and said to Zhao Hao with a smile: "When Brother Qi asked me to teach martial arts to his soldiers, this kid learned the fastest. We have the same temper, both of us are stupid people who are easy to offend people. So people call me Yu Long, and I call him Xiaolong."

"No wonder Brother Wang is such an extraordinary martial arts master. He can kill bandits as easily as killing a chicken. It turns out he is a disciple of the world's number one swordsman." Zhao Hao couldn't help but praise.

This is not just a casual remark, but a fact. Yu Dayou was taught by the sword master Li Liangqin. He was extremely talented and studied hard. After he mastered the sword skills, he took over the title of the world's best sword from his master.

It was said that in the Shaolin Temple at Songshan, the holy place of martial arts at that time, there were divinely passed down sword-fighting skills, so Yu Dayou went to the mountain gate to "seek advice".

The monks were much more powerful than they would be a few hundred years later, and they proudly told Yu Dayou that they had more than a thousand people who were proficient in this skill. Then they sent a group of masters to practice with him, and they were all convinced.

Yu Dayou told them that their swordsmanship had lost the true secrets of the ancients. The monks all expressed their willingness to receive instruction.

Hero Yu then told them in a very pretentious manner, "This can only be achieved after years of accumulation."

In layman's terms, 'This requires practice, and it takes a long time to practice...'

As for how to practice it? He also told them that they had to start from the difficult, strict and practical. Now the Japanese pirates are wreaking havoc along the coast, and they are all highly skilled in martial arts, making them the best opponents for you to practice. Shaolin Temple has always been patriotic. The eighteen monks saved the Tang King, and their reputation has been passed down through the ages. How can the monks of our Ming Dynasty let the predecessors of the Tang Dynasty be the only ones to be better than them?

He inspired the simple monks to form a monk army and follow him south to fight against the Japanese pirates. Tang Siya's man Wu Yu was one of them.

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Yu Dayou's boat was in a mess and covered in blood. After the two sides exchanged greetings, they returned to Zhao Hao's boat to talk.

Qiaoqiao opened her parasol again and brought out an exquisite fruit plate made of fine fruits from Lingnan, as well as lychee-flavored soda.

Yu Dayou stared with wide eyes, curiously looking at the beautiful green glass bottle with bubbles constantly bubbling. He picked it up and imitated Zhao Hao, sucking it through the straw, and immediately grimaced and wrinkled his face.

"What the hell is this!" he asked loudly.

"What's wrong? Marshal, are you not used to it?" Zhao Hao asked hurriedly, preparing to ask Qiaoqiao to switch to a non-carbonated drink.

"It's fucking awesome!" Yu Dayou relaxed his features, showing a look of enjoyment. "I've lived my life in vain. I'm so old, and I've never drunk something like this!"

Then he took a puff, frowned, closed his eyes and enjoyed it, then relaxed. He took another puff, frowned again, closed his eyes and enjoyed it... He repeated this several times, having a lot of fun.

He didn't stop until he let out a loud burp, as if he was frightened. Then he burst into laughter again. "Interesting!"

That hearty laughter was so contagious that Zhao Hao couldn't help but feel in a good mood.

Who would have thought that Yu Dayou, whose reputation will last forever and whose contributions will be remembered for thousands of years, was such a cheerful and optimistic old naughty boy? Who would have thought that he could still keep such a smile after going through so many hardships?

Anyway, in his previous life, whenever Zhao Hao encountered setbacks in the workplace or his life was not going as he wished, he would think about Yu Dayou's experience...

Like Qi Jiguang's ancestors, Yu Dayou's ancestors were also soldiers who followed Emperor Taizu to conquer the world, and their descendants had iron rice bowls. Although his starting point was much lower than Qi Jiguang's... Qi Jiguang was a hereditary general, so he started as a fourth-rank commander of Dengzhou Guard.

Yu Dayou was only a hereditary 100-householder of Quanzhou Guard. Unlike Qi Jiguang who had aspired to join the army since childhood, Yu Dayou was born in Jinjiang, a place with a strong cultural atmosphere... Jinjiang, Fujian. His family did not want him to continue to join the army, but hoped that he could change the fate of the family by writing articles, of course not BL articles, but eight-part essays.

So Yu Dayou started to study in a private school at the age of five, and passed the examination for a scholar at the age of fifteen, and was called one of the ten talents of Jinjiang by his contemporaries. However, as I have said before, except for the rare genius like Zhang Baigui, the idol, passing the examination for a scholar is the limit for ordinary people. To pass the examination for a juren or even a jinshi, one needs a higher family background and wealth to support.

The Yu family was just a low-ranking military officer family. It was already very difficult for them to support him to study, so how could they spare the energy to provide him with the energy to break through class barriers? As a result, Yu Dayou failed in all five attempts to enter the Imperial Academy.

"I have been wearing a blue collar since I was fifteen, and I have studied history for ten years. How profound is my ambition?"

This is his most painful self-narration. Every failure was a heavy blow, and he suffered it five times.

In the tenth year of Jiajing, his father died of illness and his family was poor. Yu Dayou had to give up the seemingly promising but actually hopeless path of studying and inherited his father's position as a centurion.

Fortunately, although Yu Dayou studied hard during those years, his martial arts skills never fell behind, and he also delved deeply into ancient and modern military strategies... His heart was in Confucius's temple, which might be the reason why he failed the imperial examination.

Yu Dayou thought that this kind of compound talent with a scholar background, strong martial arts and sophisticated military tactics would join the army, which would be a dimensionality reduction attack and he would soon stand out. However, because he was far away in Fujian, no one was interested in him. He had a lot of skills but could not stand out. After a few years, he was still a centurion.

He didn't want to waste his life, so he passed the military examination at the age of 33. Although from the perspective of civil officials, the value of the military examination cannot be compared with the imperial examination, but those who pass the examination at least prove that they are not useless people who rely on the protection of their ancestors, so they will still be promoted.

Yu Dayou was promoted to the position of the commander of the Kinmen Thousand Households, and was responsible for the defense of Kinmen Island. The people of Kinmen Island were fierce and difficult to govern. However, Yu Dayou was able to educate the people, pacify the people, and govern better than a civil official.

This restored Yu Dayou's confidence. At that time, the Japanese invasion was becoming more and more serious. As a general on the front line of coastal defense, Yu Dayou was naturally the first to know when the spring river water warmed up. He wrote a letter to the Fujian Provincial Surveillance Office to warn the enemy and put forward his insightful ideas on how to resist the Japanese invasion. However, the Provincial Surveillance Office was furious and humiliated him, saying, "How can a small military school student write a letter to express his opinions?"

Not only was Yu Dayou severely punished, but he was also stripped of his position as a thousand households. This was the first serious setback Yu Dayou encountered in his military career.

But Yu Dayou was not discouraged and recommended himself to the Minister of War Mao Bowen. At this time, the Japanese invasion was indeed rampant in the southeast, so Mao Bowen re-employed him. After that, Yu Dayou repeatedly made military achievements and was gradually promoted to the commander of the Japanese preparations, becoming a senior general. But his bad luck had just begun.

In the 28th year of Jiajing, Fan Ziyi, a minister of the Annan General Administration, rebelled. Yu Dayou was ordered to fight against him and won a great victory, beheading 1,200 people. He also joined forces with the Annan General Administration to kill Fan Ziyi. However, Yu Dayou's military achievements in suppressing the rebellion were suppressed by the Yan Party and not reported because his benefactor fell from power.

But it is not objective to say that there was no reward at all, because the court finally rewarded Yu Dayou with fifty taels of silver...

How could this be a reward? This was a naked insult! Yu Dayou was so angry that he almost vomited blood and was about to quit his job.

This was the second setback in his military career.

But at this time a rebellion broke out in Qiongzhou, and the Minister of War Ouyang Bijin, a member of the Yan Party, shamelessly transferred Yu Dayou to quell the rebellion.

Yu Dayou knew that if he quit at this time, the court would have to re-select generals and appoint new ones, which would take several more months. In the end, the people of Qiongzhou would suffer.

So he put the overall situation first and calmed down to quell the rebellion.

This old man is so easy to bully.

ps. Two updates, I really tried my best today. But as you know, school is about to start, and my child is doing homework by my side until 10 o'clock. But don't worry, I will keep my promise, and I will continue to write one more update, and you will definitely see it tomorrow morning!