The linen was rubbed over the sword that became smooth due to the daily wipe. Hu Yuelian felt the concentration brought by this action. Before each battle, she had to experience this emotion carefully.

The sense of crisis and tension will bring Hu Yuelian more focused. Focus can make people react faster and think quickly. Focus can make people make decisive judgments and make decisions that are difficult to make in peacetime. These are all needed by war.

Next to Hu Yuelian, Zhao Naruto was dressed in a yellow military uniform and was exhorting to the cadres of the 10th Team. The Zhao family fulfilled the promise they had previously given to these people. If they were serious about serving the Song Dynasty, they could give them surnames. The poor Japanese people did not have surnames, and it would be a serious crime to create their own surnames in Japan. If the official surnames of the Song Dynasty were given by the Song Dynasty, it means that these Japanese people officially owned their surnames like nobles.

Of course, such surnames are not so legitimate in Japan. So these Japanese who accepted the surnames chose to leave Japan and live with the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Naruto's voice was calm and contained a strong murderous aura. "We have already assigned a mission. During this battle, we must fight bravely. Those who advance will reward you! Those who retreat will be beheaded. I hope you can fight bravely and not lose the reputation of our tenth team!"

"Hi!" The cadres of the 10th team responded in unison.

With a crack, Hu Yuelian inserted the sword in her hand back into the scabbard and stood up lightly. At this moment, all the cadres of the Tenth Team looked up at the old commander of the Tenth Team. For these Japanese people who were licking blood on their heads, His Highness Hu Yuelian, the close minister of the Zhao official family of the Song Dynasty, was a woman, but a great swordsman. Many of the parents of the Tenth Team served under His Highness Hu. It is generally believed that His Highness Hu, who has the military rank of the Colonel, is equivalent to the fourth-rank official in Heianjing.

Wearing white socks, Hu Yuelian calmly walked to the 10th team cadres sitting cross-legged on the futon in the cabin, and then held a sword and glanced at the group of people condescendingly. The initial number of the 10th team was only three or four hundred, and its main job was to protect the safety of the Song Dynasty personnel and caravans in Japan. Japan has been in peace for a long time, with an increasing population, and the upper class has been exploiting the lower class more and more. This has led to the surge in the number of Japanese people joining the 10th team. Now the size of the 10th team is three or four thousand, ten times the initial number. Japan has mastered China and belongs to the country surrounding the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty has used these people more and more widely.

Hu Yuelian is over 160 years old, not short of Japanese men. He looked down on these Japanese countries with condescending attention. Hu Yuelian spoke, "You guys, I will fight with you today. After breaking through the Three Buddhas and Qi City, I will never sting to offer you money and property. Even if someone among you unfortunately died in battle, he will definitely have generous pensions. If someone doesn't believe it, he can withdraw now."

"We are following Your Highness." These cadres responded in unison.

"Very good. Now let's check your preparations for your subordinates. We will board the ship in a while." Hu Yuelian gave the order.

When the cadres dispersed, Zhao Naruto asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, do you have to board the ship?" His voice was full of dissuasion.

Hu Yuelian replied confidently: "Why are there any nonsense at this time? Anyway, the boat will sink if it gets bulleted by a stone. I may not be worse than you if it is luck."

"Your Highness." Zhao Naruto still wanted to dissuade him.

Hu Yuelian showed unhappiness, and she replied, "We only made a breakthrough after the Song army broke through the city wall. If we were still afraid of death at this time, we should go back early to take a shower and go to bed. Or do you think I am a timid person?"

Seeing that he could not dissuade him, Zhao Naruto immediately responded respectfully: "I admire your nobleman's bravery very much."

At this moment, he heard the sound of cannons outside. Hu Yuelian only wore white socks and walked up the wooden ladder to the deck from the cabin. After arriving on the deck, she did not go to see the shelling, but raised her feet one after another and looked at the soles of the socks. However, there was no dirt stuck to the white socks. Hu Yuelian raised her head with satisfaction. Da Song had very serious requirements for ship hygiene. In such a crowded place, if she could not clean frequently and if she could not pay much attention to personal hygiene, she would easily get sick.

The thin silver pieces on the inner wall of the water tank are certainly one of the methods of sterilizing silver. Scrubbing the deck every day is also an important method. Walking along the scrubbed deck and then looking at the cleanliness of the socks is a very good way to check. At least the Japanese seem to be more particular about this matter than the Song army.

After checking the cleaning of his ship, Hu Yuelian looked at the sea. The female colonel did not have the knowledge of Zhao Jiaren, and did not know the sailing battleship of a ship equipped with hundreds of giant cannons. She already agreed with the current firepower of the Song army. The current Song army has a bronze two-pound cannon on the bow and stern of the deck. The second layer of the three deck is the artillery deck, which has five gun positions on this deck. Each gun position has a rail gun cart with a rail that can turn the direction of the muzzle.

If it weren't for the sea cities like Sanfoqi, the warships equipped with such firepower would be invincible beasts at sea. In the war practice, after the Yellow River Battle, the ten large ships of the Mongolian Jiaolai Navy retreated towards the direction of Zhiguzhai, and encountered warships like the Song army halfway. The Song army sent only three warships and easily sank ten large Mongolian ships.

When the Song Dynasty fleet was sailing in the strait, whenever they saw that there was such a military ship in the fleet, San Foqi would not even have the courage to send ships to harass the Song Dynasty fleet. If it weren't for the San Foqi's water capital, the Song Dynasty would have won a great victory with more than twenty military ships equipped with ten-pound cannons.

At this time, twenty warships equipped with ten-pound cannons lined up and began to bombard the city walls of the Sanfoqi Water City. After all, it was ten-pound cannons. When the shells arrived, a ball of debris broke out on the walls made of bamboo or wood. However, the royal city had been on the water for a long time, and the materials absorbed the water in the air and did not burn. If it was a wooden defense system in the arid areas of the north, it would be impossible to cause anger.

Even so, the part of the Sanfoqi King City was shot and a gap was made, and the gap became larger and larger. With the shelling, several large pieces of wood that were used as pillars of the city wall were finally interrupted or fell down.

What kind of wood is that? It can withstand the ten-pound cannon like this! Hu Yuelian was very surprised. After seeing the gap, Hu Yuelian saw that the materials of these city walls were nothing special. It was the pillars of the city walls that had lasted for so long. You must know that even the iron-stringed concrete, the bombardment of so many ten-pound cannons should have been unable to withstand it.

Curiosity was just a matter of a moment. Hu Yuelian's eyes were taken back from the walls of the Sanfoqi Water Royal City and looked at the fleet flagship that commanded the entire battle. In the original battle plan, everyone believed that as long as the cannon surrounded the royal city and bombarded it, the royal city would be destroyed. The Song army could easily win as before.

After the adjustment of the battle arrangement, the Song army adopted the tactic of breaking through the outer wall and then dropping the land forces into the gap. At this time, the first step has been completed, and the second step of dropping the land forces is supposed to be put into the land forces.

Before Hu Yuelian could see the signal on the flagship in the distance. The signalman on the mast had changed his flag. The signalman on the deck immediately shouted to Hu Yuelian: "Colonel, it's time for us to get on!"

"Back the ship!" Hu Yuelian shouted.

"Back on the ship! Board on the ship!" the messengers had already started shouting.

Originally, a large ship could carry the Tenth Team. Now the Tenth Team was riding in ten big ships. With the signal flag, the small boats that were already halfway there were placed on the water. The combatants began to board the ship quickly along the rope ladder.
Chapter completed!