Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 278
"Official family, official family! Overjoyed, overjoyed!" Zhang Yonghe smiled into a chrysanthemum, hunched over and ran to Zhao Zhen's desk in small steps, and handed over a few books.

Zhao Zhen, with a sad face, took the letter and asked, "What's the happy event?"

Zhang Yonghe said: "Congratulations to the official family. This is the letter of Li Yunshi, Shi Quanbin and Qi Bin in Guangnan. They all said that they had opened the Jiaozhi Shenglong Mansion. Although Li Dezheng escaped, the treasure of the Jiaozhi Mansion was seized. , Now all the teachers have returned. Li Yun asked the officials to send special personnel from the palace and the Ministry of Households to Guangzhou to count these goods."

"Oh? Did you really take down the Thang Long Mansion? Only 2 people were used?" Zhao Zhen hurriedly opened the letter to watch, and when he saw Li Buqi wrote that the goods seized from the Thang Long Mansion began to be shipped, and it has been several months A stone hanging in the air in his heart fell to the ground.

You know, Li Buqi's plan to attack Jiaozhi with an army of [-] was not optimistic about the military generals except Di Qing and Guo Kui.Although the emperor reluctantly agreed because of Li Buqi's military order, he was always worried.Well now, Li Buqi really opened the Thang Long Mansion, and grabbed the cochin, it seems that Li Buqi is really reliable.

Zhang Yonghe's mouth was crooked with a smile: "Officials, Li Yunshi said that the goods from Shenglong Mansion this time are worth at least 300 million guan."

"What? Thirteen million sticks?" Zhao Zhen almost screamed.

Zhang Yonghe smiled even wider: "This is just Li Yunshi's estimate. Li Yunshi has never seen any treasures before? So he is not surprised even if it is a peerless treasure, and the estimate is always lower. Qi Bin and Shi Quanbin's estimate is more than 2000 million sticks."

"Two, 2000 million guan?" Zhao Zhen's tongue was not very sharp.He almost jumped up from behind the dragon case and said loudly: "Send people to Guangzhou quickly. Make them travel day and night without delay!"

Zhang Yonghe almost ran wildly to pass the decree, but Zhao Zhen couldn't calm down his mood, so he couldn't help pacing up and down in the hall.

2000 million guan!Even if the more than 1000 million guan in the issuance of national bonds are repaid immediately, there are still several million guan left.This time the Guangnan war was equivalent to spending no money, and judging from the reports from Guangnan, Li Buqi also cultivated a lot of fertile land in Guangnan. From this point of view, this war is actually profitable.

The last time the Song Dynasty made money from wars, it seemed that the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, right?At that time, the accumulation of the Southern Tang filled the treasury of the Song Dynasty and supported Taizong's three Northern Expeditions. Even if the three Northern Expeditions were defeated, it did not hurt the Song Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but completely regard Li Buqi as his lucky general, and trusted Li Buqi a little more.Liao State sent envoys to blackmail Da Song with the fact that the navy went south, and the worry weakened a bit, because Li Buqi kept saying that the Liao State Navy was a paper tiger, and as long as the imperial court let Tao Lin do it, then the Liao State Navy It's nothing to worry about.

Zhao Zhen, who had never been able to make up his mind, finally made up his mind this time - anyway, no matter how powerful the navy is, even if they show off their power at sea, they are still no match for the imperial army of the Song Dynasty when they go ashore. Tao Lin asked to open a place in Liao Kingdom for pirates The business with Liaodong women and Korea is ready.

The emperor's secret decree has not yet arrived, and there are already hundreds of ships competing in the bay of Salmon Island.

The navy of the Liao Kingdom was raised for another year, which cost a lot of money. Naturally, it was impossible to keep it for nothing. The nobles of the Liao Kingdom were anxiously waiting for the money invested in the navy to be realized.Similarly, Tao Lin has to gather ships and personnel for training from late summer to winter, so they can't go to trade, and because they want the Liao people to think that their navy is very powerful, they can't blatantly go to Liao to plunder. Even if there are expenses but no income, the cost is huge, and Tao Lin can't afford it.

Another one, Tao Lin is also a person who has been around Li Buqi, and he knows how fragile the emperor and ministers are.Although attacking the Liao fleet when the Liao army landed in Hebei is the biggest opportunity to strike the Liao, communication delays in this era are unavoidable. If the Liao navy comes to Hebei, the emperor and ministers will be scared to death. I still don't know what tricks will come out.Therefore, in order to avoid any accidents, Tao Lin could only act first when the Liao fleet was expected to be ready to sail, but it was still in the port.

When the fleet came out of Salmon Island, it sailed across the wind, crossed the Liaodong Peninsula from the northwest, and entered the Bohai Bay. It first sailed [-] kilometers north along the west side of the peninsula, then turned southwest, and sailed south along the west coast of the Bohai Sea.

Along the way, more than a dozen Liao patrol ships were also encountered.When the Liao navy met Tao Lin's forward, they thought that the Song boats would run away as soon as they touched Tao Lin as before, so they rushed over as usual.Only when they discovered that the Song people's ships did not evade this time, but instead turned their bows and rushed towards them, did they feel that the Song people are unusual today.

The forwards of Tao Lin's fleet are all specially built warships, which not only use sails and oars, but also install triangle sails, which are more flexible in maneuvering, more windy, and faster.When these ships approached the Liao ships, they fired ballistas and crossbow arrows from a distance, and fired a weapon that sounded like thunder when they got close.The iron beans shot by this thing cannot be prevented by shields at all. As long as there are three or four rings, the Liao people on the deck will be killed and injured. Only the Korean people inherited the Tang Dynasty. The warship with a solid canopy evolved It has a certain protection ability against this kind of weapon, but this kind of ship is relatively vulnerable to the attack of kerosene bombs.

Not only did the Liao State patrol boat not block Tao Lin, nor was it able to issue an alarm, but it allowed Tao Lin to practice.Seeing that it is so easy to kill the Liao ships, the whole fleet is more confident.

The night of the third day of September was a big moon day. The sentinel boats driving along the coast first spotted the patrol boats of the Liao people outside the port, and then saw a forest of masts on the sea ahead in the bright moonlight.The sentry boat sent out a signal while circling with the Liao people's patrol boat. Tao Lin, who received the signal, immediately ordered the Clippers in the fleet to attack the Liao navy.There are 27 Clippers in this Clippers fleet, and immediately after the order was ordered, they rushed straight towards the Liao Kingdom fleet along the seashore along the slight northerly wind.

The Liao army did not expect that the pirates who had been avoiding the war would suddenly attack aggressively, nor did they expect the Song people, who always ran away when they saw the Liao navy navy, to be so motivated this time.There were not many patrol ships sent by the Liao Army, and they were scattered in all directions, and there was no time to gather them. With almost no effective resistance, the Clippers directly rushed to the berth of the fleet.

At this moment, flames suddenly flickered in the Clippers, and seven clippers and five small boats rushed straight into the berth with the flames.This is the fireboat tactic, a common method used in water warfare to destroy enemy ships, and the denser the fleet, the greater the threat.

When these dozens of fireboats collided with the ships of the Liao army, the gunpowder on the three ships in the front exploded quickly. The violent roar and the wreckage of the blown ships in the dazzling fire made the officers and soldiers of the Liao state feel terrified.Other cargo ships loaded with fuel-drenched firewood collided with Liao warships and burned, quickly igniting the surrounding ships.

However, the wind is not strong today, and the nobles of the Liao Kingdom have also heard the stories of the Three Kingdoms. Knowing that Chibi was burned, they also know that the water army is terribly attacked by fire. Therefore, the ships are not crowded together, but put a few here and there put a few.In this way, even if a ship catches fire, it is impossible to burn all the ships.

The posture of the Liao fleet was a problem for Tao Lin.The small boats are close to the coast and can attack freely, but their attack power is weak. I don’t know how long it will take to kill the scattered Liao ships one by one. The big ships have strong attack power, but because of the shallow water situation is unknown, and they are afraid of being stranded at night. Hit the rocks and dare not get too close to the shore.Tao Lin came from a long way, and it is impossible to bring too many fireboats, so it really takes a lot of effort to wipe out the Liao fleet.But there is Tao Lin's internal response in the Liao Navy.

When all the generals of the Liao navy who ran to the beach after being awakened were stunned, Qi Deyu, who was deployed by the navy, naturally took on the important task of commanding.He shouted: "This is a sneak attack by the southerners! Quickly, order all the sailors to get on board and disperse the boat, or it will all be over!"

Several officers from the Liao Kingdom who didn't even have time to put on their clothes echoed before they had time to think: "Yes! Order the fleet to go out to sea immediately! There are not many pirate ships, and the whole army will attack and surround them. They must not be allowed to escape. "

After two years of drills, the Liao Navy's sailing formations have begun to look good, but there is a problem, that is, the training principle is safety first.No training at night, no training when the wind and waves are strong, the sailors trained in this way are actually good-looking.However, the Liao Kingdom’s positioning for the navy is that on a day when the wind is smooth and the sea is calm, the army can be safely transported to the back of Niguzhai, Hebei. Other requirements are not high. Liao generals have always felt good about themselves.But this time in the sea confrontation at night, the Liao army showed its original shape.

When the generals of the Liao Kingdom drove the soldiers back to their warships, many people fell into the water because of panic.When the big and small ships pulled anchor and raised their sails together, there was another series of collisions. Some ships collided with each other before they left the anchorage, and they seemed to be splashed into the water.

(End of this chapter)