Li Guo said, "You have never been there, head of state. How do you know that the north is a ball?"

Wan Jun was speechless for a moment when he was asked. He was silent for a while and said, "Send the order to celebrate the New Year and rest the entire army for three days."

After that, Wan Jun slapped the shore, "Come on, come on, let me explain to you what kind of ball it is!"

In the Chinese army's tent, Wan Jun held up the wooden fairway, "The earth we live on is actually a huge ball, revolving around the sun."

Li Guo said, "Then why don't we fall?"

Wan Jun said, "These are rather complicated to explain to you. Let me give you an example."

With that said, Wan Jun threw up the wooden ball in his hand. The wooden ball drew a parabola and fell to the ground. Wan Jun said, "Did you see it? Everything thrown will fall to the ground."

Lu Dayong looked confused and said, "This, isn't this always like this?"

Everyone looked at Wan Jun in confusion, "Things thrown out will fall to the ground. Isn't this natural?"

Wan Jun said, "Have you ever thought about why it fell?"

No one thought about why. Except for Fei Weisan, who was regarded as a madman, no one thought about these common things. Wan Jun said, "Because of gravity. The greater the mass, the stronger the gravity. Everyone is attracted by the gravity of the earth. The earth

It is attracted by the gravitational pull of the sun, so it will not fall."

Seeing everyone looking at him in confusion, Wan Jun knew that what he said was equivalent to talking in his sleep, so he turned and said, "Winter nights are longer than summer nights. You can always feel this, right?"

Everyone nodded and said, "It's true, the days are short and the nights are long in winter."

Wan Jun picked up the wooden ball and said, "You are looking at this ball. If it is daytime where you see it, what will happen if I take the ball and spin it around you now?"

Wan Jun circled around, stopped and said, "Are the places visible on the wooden ball changing?"

Chang Jian was surprised and said, "I saw it, it seems to have changed."

Wan Jun took the pen and paper and said while drawing, "Wherever the sun shines, there will be seasonal changes, so the length of day and night is different at different times."

Everyone seemed to know something great, and they suddenly realized and praised again and again. Wan Jun said, "So, here in Siberia, although the nights are long in winter, the days are also long in summer. The water sloths and sable fur there are more valuable than gold.

So the Russians will expand very quickly there."

When he heard that it was worth more than gold, Liu Tichun's eyes lit up and he said, "If it's so valuable, how can the Russians keep it all to themselves?"

Wan Jun smiled and said, "Why, you want to swallow some too?"

Liu Tichun said quickly, "It's not me, it's me, Huaxia!"

Wan Jun said, "Well, after we deal with Hu Qing, we must not just guard the Great Wall in the future."

Everyone kept talking until late at night, when the sound of the watch sounded in the camp, Li Guo said, "It's the third watch!"

Liu Tichun said, "When the time of birth comes, it will be the first day of the new year." After saying this, he stood up, clasped his fists towards Wanjun and said, "I wish the head of state all the best in the new year and may you have a son soon."

When all the generals heard this, they laughed loudly and said in unison, "I wish the head of state will have a son soon!"

Wan Jun laughed and scolded, "Unexpectedly, I actually celebrated the New Year with you bunch of rough old men. Okay, okay, happy New Year. Everyone, please go back to the camp. I'm already thirsty."

After hearing this, everyone said "Retreat" and exited the big tent.

Liu Tichun walked a few steps, secretly pulled Li Guo and said, "Brother Li!"

When the two were in Shunjun,

They were familiar with each other. Li Guo stopped and asked, "What's the matter?"

Liu Tichun said, "Brother Li, listen to my advice and never mention King Chuang in front of the head of state from now on. The most taboo thing for a minister is to have two minds. If one day the head of state starts to care about him, he may not bear to say anything."

Li Guo said, "Thanks for reminding me, I'll note it down."

Early the next morning, a messenger from Chang'an rushed to the camp and brought news about Wen Anzhi.

When the empire was first established, apart from war, there were many things that needed to be decided by Wan Jun. In particular, many of Wan Jun's ideas were unprecedented, and Wen An had no place to learn from them.

In addition, the people sent to Macau to negotiate with the Portuguese received a response, and the Portuguese envoys have also arrived in Chang'an.

The Battle of Taiyuan could not be ended for a while, and the army had to return to Chang'an, so Liu Tichun was ordered to take charge of Fenzhou Prefecture, while he took Li Guo and 40,000 troops back to Chang'an.

Ten thousand troops rode their horses southward along the Fenhe River. The weather was extremely cold, and the ice on the Fenhe River was as deep as a foot.

The cold current blew all the way to the city of Guangzhou in the south, and ice crystals formed on the Pearl River.

Zhu Chenggong originally planned to send troops to Taiwan in October, but unexpectedly the weather was extremely weird. The strong sea wind that was supposed to disappear at the end of September suddenly broke out again in early October when the army was assembled and ready to set off, delaying it for half a month.

of effort.

In November, everything was ready. Zhu Chenggong personally led all the soldiers and fleets of Nan'ao to completely break away from the Yongli court. One hundred and ten warships and more than two thousand fleets of various types sailed to Penghu Island in a mighty manner.

After resting on Penghu Island for a few days, the army began to march towards Taiwan Island.

Among the fleet, Zhu Chenggong stood at the head of the flagship. Looking from here, one hundred and ten warships behind him were connected together, with masts like a forest and majestic.

Since the Battle of Luowan in the sixth year of Chongzhen reign, when the Zheng family defeated the Dutch and Liu Xiang pirate coalition forces, no one in the entire South China Sea could compete with the Zheng family.

After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Chenggong broke with his father, and the Zheng family split into two parts. Zhu Chenggong inherited one part, but his power was still very strong.

Under Zhu Chenggong, there are about 30 trading ships from Fujian to Japan every year, with an annual income of more than 2 million taels. There are about 20 ships from the South China Sea to Luzon, Malacca, and Brunei, with an annual income of more than 4 million taels, and an annual income of 6

More than one million taels.

However, this is no longer comparable to the Zheng family at its peak. When Zheng Zhilong monopolized the South China Sea, he went east to Japan and south to Majapahit. He had hundreds of large ships used only for trade, and his annual income reached an astonishing tens of millions.

.

Yang Guimin, who was invited by Zhu Chenggong and completed his mission, did not return to Chang'an. As a witness of the Chinese Army, he followed Zhu Chenggong to participate in the recovery of Taiwan.

The blue sky and white clouds, the sea breeze blowing, the Chinese army flag pulled up by Zhu Chenggong whirred on the mast.

It is less than three hundred miles from Penghu Island to Taiwan. The fleet sails with favorable wind and can arrive in less than three hours.

Suddenly there was a whistle. Zhu Chenggong heard the sound and turned to look up at the mast. Yang Guimin followed and looked over. There was a man hanging on the mast, blowing a bamboo whistle and waving a flag downward.

Zhu Chenggong strode towards the inside of the ship and shouted loudly as he walked, "There are enemies, please give the order for the entire army to prepare for war!"

After taking two steps, he stopped and said to the guards, "We will fight in a moment. Protect your noble envoy."

The personal guard responded and leaned towards Yang Guimin. Yang Guimin looked around. The wind and waves on the sea were less than those in the previous few days. He looked around and saw no sign of the enemy at all.

Yang Guimin asked curiously, "Where did the enemy come from? Why didn't I see it?"

A dark-skinned guard grinned.

, "Sir, have you experienced Hadza?"

Yang Guimin barely understood what it meant and said with a smile, "This is my first time going to sea."

The guard smiled, pointed to the horizon and said, "Look here, sir. Just a little bit will make a difference."

Yang Guimin looked along his fingers and saw a faint black spot appearing on the sea surface in the southeast.

The black spots soon became larger, and finally they were close enough. Yang Guimin could already tell that they were several large ships, heading here.

The three-color flags unfurled in the wind on the ship were different from those Yang Guimin had seen in the past. Last time I talked with Yu Shengxiu, the Hongyi people had tall noses and deep eyes, which were different from the Chinese people.

Yang Guimin had never seen the Hongyi people before, so he looked hard towards the tricolor flag, but the distance was too far and he couldn't even see the details on the ship clearly.

On Zhu Chenggong's side, the fleet also began to adjust its sails and slowly moved toward the northwest of the Dutch.

The distance between the two sides narrowed to one thousand meters, and the Dutch ships lined up and took the lead in firing at Zhu Chenggong's fleet.

Yang Guimin saw from a distance that the big ship under the tricolor flag was crowded with people. Suddenly, a puff of blue smoke came out of the porthole of the ship, and then the dull sound of cannons sounded.

"Boom boom boom"

Continuous green smoke was rising, and Yang Guimin counted carefully. From the first ship to the stern ship, the four large ships had guns one after another. There were hundreds of guns. In the end, he could not count how many guns.

artillery.

Yang Guimin simply counted the largest ship. This big ship had a high bow and square stern. It had three tall masts flying three different flags. Except for the tallest one, which was flying a red, white and blue flag, the other two were also flying a flag.

A yellow lion flag and a tricolor flag with black lines flying on the other.

The portholes of the big ship were divided into upper and lower layers. The gunpowder smoke rising from this big ship was the densest. After counting for a while, Yang Guimin was shocked to find that this big ship actually had forty-seven cannons, and unlike other ships, these

The artillery, without exception, is a large-caliber heavy artillery.

The shells fired two miles away roared over and hit the sea, raising a spray of water nearly thirty meters high.

If such a huge cannon were to be used in a land battle, it would take an unknown number of humans and animals to pull one. On the sea, one ship could carry forty-seven.

Yang Guimin said, "I didn't expect the enemy's fleet to be so sharp!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "bang", and a big ship on the left side of the ship was hit by a cannon. The deck made of thick wood was penetrated by the cannon, and the broken wood flew in all directions, causing a large area of ​​blood.

Yang Guimin looked over and saw that where the ship was broken, a large number of sailors were dead and injured, limbs and corpses were everywhere, and sea water was pouring in from the breach.

The surviving sailors on the ship jumped into the sea one after another and swam hard to the side.

Yang Guimin wondered, "Why did these people jump off the ship before the ship sank? Why not wait for the ship to sink and fall into the sea to save some energy?"

One of the guards said, "It will be too late by then."

Soon Yang Guimin understood what it meant. After the seawater poured into the boat, the hull soon couldn't bear it. It broke in the middle with a "crack" and then broke into two pieces. It fell onto the sea with a crash, causing a large wave of waves.

Quickly sank into the sea.

The hull of the ship sank into the sea water, and the surrounding sea water was brought over. A huge whirlpool emerged from the waves. The sailors who had not swam far around were dragged back by the current and sank into the sea water along with the whirlpool.
Chapter completed!