"Everyone, after His Highness boarded the ship, he gave you the magic medicine to drive out the plague and save everyone's lives. Today the enemy is approaching, so how can we abandon His Highness and do what is worse than a pig or a dog?" Hao Yuntong stood up from the crowd and shouted loudly.
He said, then he knelt down facing His Highness, "I am willing to follow Your Highness to fight the enemy and swear to the death not to be a slave to the subjugation of the country!"
"A certain Zhao family is willing to follow His Highness and fight to the death with the enemy!" As soon as Hao Yun's call ended, someone stood up and knelt on one knee and shouted loudly, and more than ten people behind him also came out to kneel.?? Biqu? ?
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"Okay, strong man, please stand up!" Zhao Bing raised his hand to help him. He saw that the leader was no smaller than Ni Liang. He had an unmistakable beard, but he had an evil aura about him. He was obviously from the military. After he got up,
Most of the people were also his colleagues in the army. Seeing this, he was secretly happy. At this time, everyone was deceived by him, but most of them were still hesitating in their hearts. They were most afraid of being left alone, but once someone stood up, they would rush in and follow the herd mentality.
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"Zheng Hu of the Sa family is also willing to work together with His Highness to fight against the enemy!" Just as they stood up, another person stood up and said loudly.
"Okay, what I said is very good, we are in the same boat!" Zhao Bing praised, and at the same time looked at the speaker up and down. This man looked like a man with a story. He was about fifty years old, with a medium build, long and disheveled clothes, and his clothes were even more tattered.
, with reluctance in his sharp eyes.
"Brother Zheng and I are willing to follow His Highness." A group of people stood over again and said, but their expressions were not good.
"Okay, they are all loyal and brave men!" Zhao Bing said with a thumbs up, but he had already caught a glimpse of these people who had robbed a small boat and were preparing to escape, but the boss suddenly changed his mind, which made them feel a little unhappy.?
"Caomin Zhuang Shilin is willing to obey His Highness's instructions and resist the enemy together in return for the grace of giving medicine to survive." Sure enough, as Zhao Bing expected, someone took the initiative, and things became much easier to handle. As he spoke, someone else offered to surrender, and he knelt behind him.
It was the boatmen and sailors on the ship.
"I am willing to fight against the enemy with Your Highness, even if I die without any grudges." Seeing this, other people on the ship knelt down and paid allegiance. These people were the sick soldiers and civilians who were sent aboard. Most of them came from different ministries and did not know each other.
Familiar, that is, stragglers, who can't survive by fighting alone. After hesitation, everyone surrendered, and they couldn't sit still anymore, so they all obeyed.
"I would like to thank you all, but I am still young and incapable of military affairs. The matters on the ship will be handled by Mr. Liu." At this time, Zhao Bing knew that the situation was stable and under control, so he tugged on Liu Fu's clothes and said.
"I obey Master Liu's order!" Everyone turned around and saluted Liu Fu. Although it was still a bit chaotic, it was much stronger than at the beginning.
"Okay, the enemy ship is approaching. You two heroes, Zhao and Zheng, each choose a hundred men, search for weapons, and guard each place to prepare for the battle. Commander Zhou will ask you to lead the troops to protect His Highness. Zhuang Yishi, please contact the other two ships to join us.
Advance and retreat." Liu Fu was stunned for a moment before he realized that His Highness was still young and experienced, so it was still too difficult for him to mobilize troops. As the highest-ranking official on the ship, it was natural for him to be ordered to take over the command.
However, Liu Fu was filled with emotions at this moment. He did not expect that at this critical moment, His Highness, in his early years, would not be afraid and would say such awe-inspiring words. Although these words seemed to him to be illogical and illogical.
However, he succeeded in persuading everyone, stabilizing the situation, and uniting the scattered people together. If given time, he would become something great, but it is a pity that time waits for no one...
After a moment of panic, everyone was ready, and the other two ships also approached, but everyone was not optimistic.?
?b?i?If nothing else, most of the people on the ship were patients who had just returned from death. They all had haggard faces and stooped bodies. Their physical strength was obviously not recovered, and their combat effectiveness was definitely much worse than that of the enemy.
, Zhao Bing really couldn’t imagine expecting them to block the enemy’s attack.
But it is not without its benefits. Everyone thinks that life is saved anyway, and it is better to die fighting with the enemy than to be thrown into the sea after dying of illness. Furthermore, the isolation ship itself is a merchant ship, and its armament must be much worse. Now
Everyone on the boat searched for a while, but only half of them had weapons, but this also included kitchen knives, axes, hammers, harpoons and other substitutes. More people had wooden sticks and poles in their hands, and during the water battle,
The most useful crossbows are even rarer, but there are only about ten of them, which is not enough to see.
"What should we do?" Zhao Bing tapped the table, looked at the "generals" standing in front, frowned and thought, "This will be a fight to the death, but a one-sided massacre is more likely!"
Zhao Bing looked at the approaching enemy ship and clenched his fists and said, no matter how he calculated, his probability of winning was less than 0.1%, unless God helped and suddenly dropped a nuclear bomb.
"Your Highness, the enemy ship is still less than five miles away from us, and will catch up with us before dark!" Tsunazhuang Shilin said with a gloomy expression. The merchant ship could not outrun the warship with its heavy load. The last few times they were able to escape, they only took advantage of darkness.
I was lucky enough to avoid it, but it seems I wasn’t so lucky this time.
"Outside the banker, where are we now?" Zhao Bing inadvertently glanced at the storm bottle placed on the table and saw suspended sediment and hazy liquid coexisting. He asked in high spirits. And he had just learned that this
Zhuang Shilin was born in a famous Zhuang family in Quanzhou. Although he was a side branch, he still deserved the name of a member. He originally organized a batch of goods to board Pu's ship to go to Goryeo, but he did not expect that the ship was commandeered by the Song army.
The largest merchant naturally became the captain, that is, Tsuna.
"Your Highness, we are now in the sea off Zhangzhou. The nearest place is fifty miles away. It is too late to reach the shore." Zhuang Shilin replied. He has been walking on the sea all year round and knows the routes very well. This is one of the reasons why he can become the leader.
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"Is there a shelter from the wind nearby? The water depth is only five feet, and it should be big enough to accommodate a few of our boats." Zhao Bing said.
"This...oh, there is a small island about fifteen miles away from here. It is shaped like a crescent moon. Everyone calls it Crescent Island. There is a shallow bay ten miles in diameter in the middle and it is connected to the sea. The mouth is twenty feet wide. Even when the tide is high,
The water depth is only more than ten feet, and fishing boats often come there to take shelter from the wind. I think it will be no problem to accommodate our boats." Zhuang Shilin thought for a while and said.
"Today is the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, right?" Zhao Bing nodded and asked again.
"Your Highness, today is the 16th!" Zhuang Shilin replied, but he was so anxious that his eyebrows were burning. Your Highness was still asking random questions. No matter how smart a child is, he is still a child!
"Does Your Highness want to take advantage of the low tide to escape to Crescent Island?" Zhao Da, who had been silent, interjected. When he heard His Highness asking about the date, he thought that the tide would start to ebb at Shen hour on the 15th.
"Well, you see, the enemy warships are all lucky ships, but our ships are sand ships." Zhao Bing said with a smile, finally meeting an understanding person.
Fu Chuan is a general name for sharp-bottomed sea-going ships along the coasts of Fujian and Zhejiang. It is famous for sailing in the South China Sea and the open sea. The bottom of the ship is wide at the top, the stern is high, and there are fenders on both sides. The whole ship is divided into four layers, and the lower layer is equipped with earth and rock ballast. , the second floor houses soldiers, the third floor is the main operating place, and the upper floor is the battlefield. From a commanding position, bows, arrows, stone cannons can be fired downward, which can often defeat the enemy. The head is high, and it has a strong impact device, which can sink enemy ships by plowing down with the wind. , uses more ship power to win, and is an excellent deep-sea warship.
The navy of the Yuan Dynasty used Fu Chuan as the main warship, but Fu Chuan had a deep draft and was greatly affected by tides. The sand boat had a flat bottom and could sit on the beach without fear of being stranded. It was also safe in wind and waves. Especially when the wind direction and tide were different, Because the bottom was flat and the draft was shallow, it was less affected by the tide. Zhao Bing wanted to use the respective characteristics of the two ships to avoid the enemy's pursuit.
"Your Highness, once we enter Qianwan, the enemy only needs to block the entrance and we will not be able to sail out. When the tide rises tomorrow, we will be able to enter Qianwan. It will be difficult for us to escape!" Zhao Dazai confirmed what His Highness meant. He said in shock, wouldn’t it be like catching a turtle in a urn?
"Don't worry, everyone, I have my own strategy to defeat the enemy." Zhao Bing said still smiling.
"The enemy ship is less than five miles away from us, and we will catch up soon. How about we listen to His Highness's advice and stay away for a while before making plans." Zheng Hu saw that the enemy ship was approaching quickly and said hurriedly. He also understood that if he was caught by If the enemy catches up, our chances of winning are almost non-existent.
"Well, that's fine, I'll just do it according to His Highness's idea." Seeing everyone looking at him, Liu Fu understood that everyone still had reservations about their belief in His Highness and were waiting for him to make the final decision. There is no better way now, so This is all we can do, hoping that the Song Army brigade will find them tomorrow and come to rescue them.
Chapter completed!