Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 493 All the sailors and the navy go to war (subscribe)
The governors of the Tang Dynasty had military power. In fact, if the governors put it more clearly, they were a bit like state shepherds. The state shepherds in the Three Kingdoms period, such as Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, and Cao Cao at that time, were all very powerful.

Of course, at this time, the governors of the Tang Dynasty have much less power, but it is still possible to mobilize the army.

The governor of the Tang Dynasty had to wait for the Anshi Rebellion to reach its peak, because the emperor's power became smaller after the Anshi Rebellion, which was similar to that of the Han Dynasty.

Li You came up and directly asked Liu Simin to hand over the military power. If the general governor would definitely resist, after all, how could he be frightened by a prince like you with his one-acre three-point land.

Fortunately, the governor Liu Simin is different from other governors. He is really not interested in leading soldiers. Liu Simin is a literati who likes to use Confucianism. He is really not good at military art. Otherwise, he would not let Bianzhou There are a lot of water bandits.

So Li You wanted to take Liu Simin's military power not only did not make Liu Simin feel disgusted, on the contrary, he felt a sense of relief.

After Liu Simin introduced all the information he had at this time, he immediately took the initiative to hand in his Tiger Talisman. With this Tiger Talisman, Li You can mobilize all the soldiers around Bianzhou.

What made Li You smile bitterly was that there were many soldiers around Bianzhou, but there were very few sailors. There were more than a dozen warships and only 300 soldiers. No wonder there were too many water bandits in Bianzhou.

Looking at Li You's frowning expression, Liu Simin also knew the key point, so at this time Liu Simin showed a helpless expression and said: "Your Highness, there are only so many Bianzhou navy troops, and it was Bian who robbed Cui's daughter-in-law this time." The biggest water bandit in the water.

I have intentions, but I'm really powerless. Now that this group of water bandits has hid in my lair, even if I want to attack, I don't have any boats to use. "

"Why don't you develop the navy well?" Li You asked with a sigh.

However, Liu Simin's answer also left Li You speechless, and Liu Simin said slightly: "There is no money, the annual tax is handed over to the imperial court, and the rest has to be given to the government soldiers and navy! I also want to form it, but the money It was all used on the army. Some time ago, General Luo asked me for money, saying that he wanted to change the horses, and he asked for [-] guan.

Bianzhou has money, but not so much money! "

Li You also sighed after hearing this. This is indeed a problem. Li Shimin mainly focuses on the army. The navy has never really paid attention to it. After all, Li Shimin really doesn't use the navy much. .

There are also water bandits, that is, Bianzhou and other places are a little bit haunted, and the largest number is a few hundred. To be honest, it is not too worthwhile to suddenly increase the strength of the water army. Li Shimin thinks that these bandits on the water are not much threat Power, can only stay on the water, if it comes to land, it will be destroyed directly.

You can't say that Li Shimin's thinking is wrong.

Looking at the aggrieved Liu Simin, Li You couldn't say anything more, but said slightly: "Okay, Governor Liu, don't be wronged, now you go back to the governor's mansion to deal with the affairs in your yamen. Those water bandits will be wiped out by me."

"What will His Highness use to destroy it?" Liu Simin asked.

"When I came here, it was more than enough to take a big five-toothed boat and wipe out these water bandits with hundreds of people!" Li You said confidently.

"That's really great." Liu Simin was very pleasantly surprised.

At this time, Li You got up and said: "Xu Chongrong, then it's not too late, I'll go and rescue Xiu Niang first, the land of water bandits is not such a nice place after all."

"Yes, then I will thank Your Highness." Xu Yi quickly thanked.

Then Li You and Liu Simin left Xu's house together, Liu Simin returned to the governor's mansion, and here Li You went directly to the sailor camp in Bianzhou. When he arrived at the sailor camp, Li You just took a look and showed a bitter expression .

There were more than a dozen broken ships, and the soldiers all looked malnourished, and some sailors rushed over, wearing their own clothes because they had just returned from work in the fields.

The monthly salary of these sailors is only five hundred yuan, while the government soldiers pay three. You must know that in Bianzhou, a family with a small number of people needs two yuan a month, and a family with a large number needs four or five.

Five hundred dollars a month for sailors is really too little, so these sailors can only go home and farm by themselves, so that they can barely support their children and family members.

"Aren't these farmers, look, look, what does this look like?"

Zhou Likai looked at the navy soldiers who entered the field at this time, frowning high, with a look of disdain on his face, indeed, these people are not like soldiers at all, but more like farmers.

"Everyone who returned to the First Camp of His Highness's Navy has arrived!" A bearded man bowed to Li You.

"You are...!" Li You looked at the bearded man and asked.

"Someone is Mo Xiaohua, Captain of the First Marine Corps!"

"Pfft!" Just after finishing speaking, Zhou Likai on the side couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Brother, your name is Xiaohua with a big beard, ouch, I really laughed to death."

One sentence made Mo Xiaohua lower her head slightly.

Li You suddenly kicked Zhou Likai on the body, knocking Zhou Likai to the ground, and then Li You looked at Mo Xiaohua slightly and said: "The name is given by the parents, so there is no need to change it, but as long as If you are tough enough, even if you call yourself a kitten or a puppy, people will respect you.

Captain Mo, there is nothing to bow your head to. This time, the king came here to order you to go out and kill water bandits. I wonder if Captain Mo dares to go with the king? "

After listening to Li You's words, Mo Xiaohua raised her head a little touched, looked at Li You and said with a little touch: "Your Highness, although my people look like farmers, we have never relaxed our requirements. Everyone volunteers to join the sailors, because we all have a deep blood feud with the water bandits, as long as His Highness takes us to fight the water bandits, we will die at the forefront."

"Okay!" Mo Xiaohua's flower made Li You yell: "Lieutenant Mo's words sound encouraging, but the place we are going to is Huludao, which is the largest stream of water above the Bian River." bandit."

"Your Highness, Mo Xiaohua is willing to be the vanguard, and fight the water bandits forever."

Mo Xiaohua bowed first, and what Li You didn't expect was that the other sailors bowed together and shouted: "I wish to be the vanguard, and I will never die."

Li You was taken aback, because Li You really didn't expect that such a sloppy navy would have such an indomitable momentum, which really impressed Li You.

Besides, Cui Xiuniang, who was taken captive to Huludao at this time, because Cui Xiuniang is Yuwen Shengnan's daughter-in-law, the water bandits are also polite to her, and she is locked in a room. As long as Cui Xiuniang does not mess around, no one will dare to treat her Cui Xiuniang did something bad.

Now Cao Xiong is waiting for Yuwen Shengnan to send someone over to pick up Cui Xiuniang.

As long as Cui Xiuniang is taken away, then Cao Xiong's work will be completed, and then Cao Xiong will start to prepare to expand his gang, buy some ships, recruit some water bandits, Cao Xiong wants to grow himself.

Cao Xiong did not expect at this time that Li You would bring sailors to attack Huludao, his hometown, because Cao Xiong really knew what the boats of the Bianzhou sailors looked like. Those sailors might be very powerful, but no matter how powerful the sailors were, If you don't have any usable weapons in your hands, then your strength is just a paper tiger.

Huludao is surrounded by water, it is basically impossible to attack with the weapons in the hands of Bianzhou sailors, so Cao Xiong can rest easy and imagine his future.

But what Cao Xiong didn't expect was that not only the sailors from Bianzhou came here at this time, they also came with the sailors from Bianzhou, as well as Li You's big five-toothed ship for close combat. For long-distance battles, there are bed crossbows on the five-toothed ship. These bed crossbows were designed by Li You. There are twenty sets of bed crossbows on a five-toothed ship, with a range of one thousand steps, and the bed crossbows tied to the bed crossbows. The fiery oil bottle, that really fiery purgatory.

Cao Xiong is now dreaming his big spring and autumn dream, but before the dream begins, Cao Xiong heard his little brother outside suddenly barging in and shouting loudly: "Brother, it's not good, it's not good, Bianzhou sailor It's coming."

"Hey!" Cao Xiong said absurdly, "The warships of those sailors in Bianzhou dare to attack my Huludao?"

"It's not just the warships of the Bianzhou Navy, the brothers also saw a giant ship that was 30 meters taller."

When the younger brother said this, Cao Xiong immediately stood up from his seat, frowning slightly: "There is also a 30-meter-high giant ship, where did this giant ship come from?"

"The little ones don't know, I went to the Bianzhou navy camp yesterday to see a group of old and broken warships, but who knew that today there is a giant ship 30 meters high, boss, what should we do now? "

"Crack!" Cao Xiong looked at his little brother's frightened expression and yelled loudly: "Idiot, look at your frightened look, what happened to the giant ship, we have dozens of warships, and we know what a pack of wolves is." Fighting tigers? Even tigers are afraid of wolves.

That 30-meter-high warship is a tiger, and we are a pack of wolves, so don't be afraid, you go and tell all the brothers, let's get on the ship together, and see what's so great about the navy in Bianzhou.

We could beat these guys before and we can now. "

"Okay!" The little brother was excited by what Cao Xiong said, and ran out quickly after that, and then rang the bell to defend the island.

"Clang! clang! clang! clang! clang!"

You have to admit that Cao Xiong's subordinates are quite decent. When the bell to defend against the enemy rang, a large number of bandits rushed over from all directions on the island, and then boarded the boat at the fastest speed. The training can be said Very well-trained, no wonder Cao Xiong can be called the number one water bandit on the Bian River.

"Set off.!"

Cao Xiong saw that his brothers were already in their positions, so he waved his hand. This time, all 32 warships of Cao Xiong attacked, vowing to deal the heaviest blow to the Bianzhou navy.

But what Cao Xiong didn't know was that this was just the beginning of his nightmare.

(End of this chapter)