Lu Ming

Chapter 591
Time: Three days after the "Secret Barracks Agreement".Location, Dengzhou Shuicheng Guan Wharf.

At this point in time, the governor's yamen in Denglai, located on the Shandong Peninsula, had already received the military intelligence battle report from the capital: The officers and troops in the Daling River battle suffered a crushing defeat, with tens of thousands of troops lost, and less than half of them fled back to Jinzhou.

Sun Yuanhua was taken aback when he received the military news, that's all.After all, they have lost too much in these years, and everyone is quite calm about Donglu now.

Of course, even if there is no disturbance in his heart, normal work must continue, so Sun Yuanhua urgently summoned Sha Zhengming, Kong Youde and other generals for a meeting.

From the overall situation, the combination of the Dengzhou flank + the Southern Navy's partial division actually doesn't care about the big defeat outside the customs in private, because the main battlefield doesn't do their side branch affairs in the first place.

Even Sun Yuanhua, who had a close relationship with the Donglin Party, would end up feeling sorry for the country at most.After all, to play politics is to talk about factions. The Xu Guangqi-Sun Yuanhua faction belongs to the small Christian faction in the court, and has no intention and power to intervene in any major affairs in the court.

And the traverser, who had known for a long time that he was defeated outside the pass, could only pretend to be surprised and shouted: "Junmen, I will immediately go to sea to help outside the pass!"

This is what Sun Yuanhua wanted.

In this era, the transmission of information is slow and transportation is inconvenient. According to common sense, it usually takes several months for the Southern Army to reach the north. Therefore, it is impossible for the court to set a specific time for the Dengzhou partial division.

That is to say, the so-called tension today is actually faked by all parties involved. It is always necessary to be politically correct.

However, from a personal point of view, it is necessary to go to sea now.

After all, Sun Yuanhua has already received the military information, and the fleet of the crossing people has been repaired in Dengzhou for a few days. If they don't go to sea at this time, it is easy to fall into the trap afterwards.

So Sha Zhengming yelled loudly, and it happened to be in Sun Yuanhua's heart: He was just afraid that these army leaders would make trouble.

Seeing that Sha Zhengming was doing his best, Lao Sun hurriedly twisted his beard and nodded: "Well, there has been a big defeat outside the pass, and now Zu Dashou is still struggling to support in Linghe, and the situation is critical. The generals are ready, and according to my instructions See, it should be sooner rather than later. Generals, please send troops quickly!"

"The commander of the last commander!"

Sha Zhengming got up to take the order, and the Dongjiang generals who had already been passed the job naturally also got up together, and they all responded to the order.

In this way, a tacit military discussion by all parties came to an end.

The next step is the standard procedure: the governor cordially bid farewell, with great fanfare, pouring wine at the pier, and swearing-in to the expedition.

This is a necessary procedure, and Sun Yuanhua will send out a memorial later, so that he can tell the court with great fanfare: I have started to take action here, and the officials of Dengzhou are working hard!

Ever since, the fleet full of food and daily groceries set off like this. By the way, there are also soldiers: Kong Youde's 1500 elite troops, twice as many soldiers as in history, and 800 fewer horses.

Everything is in the plan of the time traveler.

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If you go to sea from Dengzhou, you will be very close to hot spots such as Lushun, Liaohe Estuary (Panjin) and even Dongjiang Town on the opposite side of Bohai Bay.For example, Lushun, the nearest station of the general army of Dongjiang Town, is less than 150 kilometers away from Dengzhou. For a fleet with an average speed of 4 knots, you can see the coastline in one day and one night.

However, after Kong Youde went out to sea in the fleet of traversers this time, he quickly lost his way.

This is not always the case.The small boats in Dongjiang Town often choose a calm day and go south with the wind, and they can float to the Shandong Peninsula by visual inspection.

This time, as soon as he went out to sea, the fleet first went straight east, then north, south, and east. After turning around, the aborigines who left the coastline reference point soon had no idea what the fleet was doing in the sea. orientation.

Not only lost their bearings, but the aborigines can't even predict the approximate speed: sometimes the fleet will emit black smoke, ignoring the current factors, and go fast and slow.

In addition, the weather at sea in the past two days was not good, with some winter rain from time to time, and the sky was covered with thick clouds, so Kong Youde was surprised to find that he even lost the general direction of the fleet. Is it in Shandong or Korea?
Having learned a lot from Kong Youde and his team, they could only lower their heads high and go to the combat room to learn advanced experience as before.

This is the only thing that is good about Transmigration: never hide your secrets.

After learning about the intentions of the natives, Sha Zhengming chuckled and assigned the navigator to act as a temporary guest instructor to explain the most advanced nautical positioning to the students.

And when the students finally understood the meaning of those lines and symbols on the chart, it was already the next morning.At this time, someone suddenly patted his thigh: "So, isn't this place Guanglu Island?"

"It seems that this general has graduated!"

The students ran out of the cabin in a flash.Look again, hey, isn't the island that you can see is the well-known Guanglu Island!
Guanglu Island is located off the coast of Dalian, and later generations are under the jurisdiction of Changhai County.

Changhai County is the only island county in Northeast China and the only island border county in China.This place faces the Korean peninsula, and is the closest area in the northeast to Japan and South Korea.

In the [-]th century, the five large islands under the jurisdiction of Changhai County, together with the surrounding Pidao (today's Lime Island in North Korea) and other places, became the famous "native" of Dongjiang Town.

At this moment, the crossing fleet located in the sea off Guanglu Island has already started to anchor and lower their sails one after another, preparing to enter the port one by one.

In Liao general's mind, it seems that the fleet should go directly to Bohai Bay and try to land at the mouth of Liaohe River.No matter how bad it is, you should go to Lushun and contact Huang Long, the current commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, to discuss the landing from the Lushun Jinzhou line.

What the hell is going to Hirokashima?

The Liao generals naturally didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourds, and they couldn't open their mouths to ask directly. So after they found out that the fleet had arrived at Guanglu Island, they found Sha Zhengming and the two who were watching the scenery and talking and laughing on the ship tower. , Pick up a routine and start.

Since the secret agreement, Li Jiuzheng has obviously become more confident. When we met, he smiled first and said, "My lords, I'm so excited! Speaking of which, Guanglu Island is also considered beautiful. After we landed, Lao Li and I It's the landlord, and I'm sure to lure distinguished guests to hang around for a while!"

"The veterans are here!" Since the signing of the secret agreement, the two forces have become more and more familiar with each other, and their names have also been changed to family-style.

After saying hello, Zhang Zhongqi pointed to another island about a dozen miles southeast of here, and asked with great interest, "Lao Li, do you know where that is?"

Li Jiucheng thought to himself that you are making fun of me, how many years have I been staying in a bigger place, how many islands, don't you know?
So he said with a smile: "That is Zhangzi Island, there is not much to do. The brothers usually just catch some seafood to make a living."

Li Jiuzheng answered so casually, but Zhang Zhongqi said something that made him puzzled when he went back: "Old Li, although we have never been here, I know that it is not easy to have seafood here."

"Oh? Not easy?"

Zhang Zhongqi approached her face, and whispered in her ear mysteriously: "The scallops here have feet. At the end of the year, I will take my family and travel far away to the country of Japan, and I will not return until the next year!"

"Oh, that's it. Your honor!"

Li Jiuzheng responded with a bewildered expression.

(End of this chapter)