Chapter 802: Dispatching Troops

Su Song received the appointment from the court, left his mother's family behind and asked them to travel slowly. He traveled by starry night and rushed from Yingtian Mansion to Hangzhou, which took only seven days.

Seeing Su You, Su Song cried bitterly: "Mingrun... my uncle's family... there are thirty-seven of them..."

Su You quickly supported Su Song: "Brother, please don't hurt us too much. At this moment, we need to inherit Uncle Zong's legacy and plan the affairs of the country. Zhengsheng! Zhengsheng, please get a basin of hot water for me.

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Heizheng went away in a hurry, without any sense of being the heir to Japan's greatest political power. This kid has been pestering Su You to go to Guangzhou with Su You for the past few days, but Su You hasn't let go yet.

After Su Song had finished packing, Su You handed over a thick booklet: "This is the political essentials of the two Zhejiang Roads compiled before. It contains all the major events that are being unfolded today."

Su Song opened the booklet. The general outline was at the beginning, followed by the table of contents, which was exactly the same as the reports of later generations.

After gathering his mood, Su Song ran his finger across the catalog from top to bottom. Su Song already had an idea of ​​the major economic construction of the Liang-Zhejiang Road. He nodded and said, "With this book in hand, I know what to do."

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Su You said, "The development of the Liang-Zhejiang Road is planned to take five years. Therefore, the supply of grain and fodder this time should not be regarded as an incident that hinders the development of the Liang-Zhejiang Road, but as a way to boost the development of the Liang-Zhejiang Road."

economic opportunity."

"In the past, recruitment by the imperial court was too simple and crude. Now that the Liangzhe Road Transfer Department has no shortage of money, we decided to invite bids and buy them with money."

"The Transportation Department's own grain of 500,000 shi will be processed into fried noodles, compressed biscuits and other instant dry foods, and various canned foods, lunch meat, bacon, sausages, and ham sausages will be purchased."

"These are distributed to many workshops and factories around Taihu Lake through contract bidding. The imperial court can collect a tax."

"Now the first batch of goods has been prepared. Beifeng waits for no one. I must leave for Guangzhou."

Su Song pulled Su You: "Mingrun, the army hasn't arrived yet, so it's hard for you to applaud..."

Su You said: "Li Changjie is not a fool, but the smarter he is, the more he has plans. I am going this time to catch the enemy."

"Finally, there is no problem in defending Guangzhou with the help of the Yijin Army."

Su Song knew that Su You was going there mainly for defense, so he let go: "Don't be greedy for credit and rush forward, wait until the imperial army arrives. Mingrun, my Su family can't afford any more losses, you... you be careful in everything."

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Su You bowed: "Brother, don't worry. The hatred between the country and the family will be remembered by Mingrun naturally. I won't wait for Wei'er's medicine ship. When she arrives in Hangzhou, tell her I'll be waiting for her in Guangzhou."

After saying that, he took off the black gauze from the hat stand and said: "Guo Kui is a sensible man. He is still arranging his troops, choosing generals, and has been delaying in moving troops. He just wants to prevent our army from fighting Jiaozhi in midsummer. For this reason, I specially

I wrote to the court and explained the matter... Well, I hope your Majesty will not be so anxious."

Su Song nodded: "You don't raise an army when you are angry. You are Mingrun and have a cultivated spirit. After all, he has been tempered in battle and is far better than me. It makes me, the elder brother, ashamed."

Su You put on his hat and saluted Su Song again: "Brother, please take care of yourself. Mingrun has gone. This time, I must seek justice for Song Dynasty and my brother!"

He turned around and called Ping Zhengsheng: "Zhengsheng, let's go!"

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Outside Hangzhou Port, a huge fleet is gathered here. In addition to two Kuizhou type ships with a material of 3,000 materials, five Meishan types with a material of 1,000 materials, there is also a newly launched Song Dynasty's largest schooner - Hangzhou.

type.

To arm these ships, the number of thunderbolt cannons currently produced by the Liangzhe Road was not enough, so Suyou had to install all the thunderbolt cannons that had been eliminated for the army on the ships.

The accuracy was barely there. I didn't expect to encounter a navy of the same level. To beat land targets, it was enough to use the gun barrels that Zhang San had eliminated.

This Hangzhou type ship is the flagship of Suyou.

Zhao Xu gave the establishment of the Jing Navy to Su You and Li Xian, and Su You armed it to become the first organized modern navy in the Song Dynasty.

The Hangzhou type was named Taishan by Zhao Xu, the two Kuizhou type ships were named Zhiyuan and Ningyuan, and the five Meishan type ships were named Hangzhou, Huzhou, Mingzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, and Meizhou

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In addition to these, there are also maritime merchant ships that have been suppressed by Suyou for a month. There are now no less than a hundred ships in Hangzhou Bay.

Su You boarded the Taishan, and the red-background Song Dynasty flag was raised in the hunting ground on the Taishan.

Su You ordered Chao Bu: "Sound the whistle, weigh the anchor, raise the sail, and set sail!"

A large plume of white steam came out of the Taishan, and the unpleasant sound of the whistle spread throughout Hangzhou Bay, and all ships raised their sails one after another.

The crew members of the Taishan became busy. The flagman on the mast received the note swung up from the signal rope and began to signal the Zhiyuan and Ningyuan on both sides.

Wang Dejia stood on the Ningyuan, holding a brass telescope and looking at the flag on the mast of the Taishan: "Young Bao is really good at rectifying things, but I just can't understand... Secretary! Secretary in charge!"

A young scholar came over, holding a notebook and a quill in his hand: "Shaobao, let Zhiyuan and Ningyuan clear the way ahead."

Wang Dejia picked his forehead: "Then quickly raise the sail and set off."

The scholar handed over the notebook: "In charge, you have to sign to confirm the military order."

Wang Dejia took the notebook over. There was a form on the top, with time and content, followed by the clerk's signature, followed by a review signature, and a space left behind, which was where Wang Dejia signed.

Wang Dejia quickly took the book and signed it, and handed it to the scholar: "Secretary, you think this ship is good, but it has a lot of rules. It has been a few months and you have forgotten about it. You can't tell Shaobao about this.

Otherwise, you will be punished again.”

The scholar took the notebook, signed his name after Wang Dejia's name, and said with a smile: "Be strict during training, and you can be moderately flexible during marching."

Wang Dejia felt like he was being pardoned: "You scholar, you are watching on the deck, I'd better go into the ship's deck and look at the charts. That thing is rare and I am familiar with it!"

The fleet slowly set out to sea in Hangzhou Bay. After arriving at the sea off Zhoushan, the sails were full and the speed picked up.

Today's Song Dynasty nautical charts use the same measurement unit of nautical miles, which is entirely determined by the observational properties of astronomy and navigation.

For the convenience of astronomical observation and positioning, the length of one nautical mile is one minute of arc length of the Earth's meridian circle.

Now astronomers in the Song Dynasty have discovered that in actual measurements, this arc length is slightly different in different regions. Chen Zhaoming boldly speculated that the earth may be an ellipse rather than a perfect circle.

The discoverer is called Lin Sui, and he won the Discoverer Medal last year. The boy is now in Shao Bowen's fleet and has passed through Malaya. I don't know where he ended up.

When Jiangsu Oil's fleet sailed south to Mingzhou, large and small ships sailing to Nanyang from Mingzhou Port also sailed out and joined the fleet.

It is almost a thousand nautical miles from Hangzhou to Guangzhou. Today's Fuchuan can travel five nautical miles in an hour with a favorable wind. Ten days later, a dense fleet of more than two hundred ships arrived in Guangzhou Bay!

There were more than two hundred ships of various sizes, the smallest one was six hundred pieces. This battle frightened Jiaozhi Xizuo, who was lurking in the city of Guangzhou, and he hurried out of the city to report to Li Changjie.

Li Changjie was planning to capture Guizhou, but he was shocked when he received news on the way.

The sea route from Guangzhou to Lianzhou is less than a thousand miles, which means it can be reached in five days!

It only takes six days to get to Qinzhou, and then transfer to Yongzhou by land, which only takes eight days!

Once the Song army turns to attack the waterway and lands in Lianzhou or Qinzhou, Li Changjie will not be able to return to defend Yongzhou before Su You, and the return route of the Jiaozhi army will be cut off by the Song army!

Moreover, I heard from the intelligence that all the ships of the Song Dynasty weighed more than 600 pieces, and the largest ones were "like the giant whale Guangyu, with unpredictable baggage weight." It was not comparable to the small ships of the Jiaozhi people, and I don't know how many people and horses they transported.

Li Changjie is a general who has been fighting for a long time and will never take risks until the critical moment. He immediately ordered the Jiaozhi Marine Division to retreat and return to Siming Prefecture on the border between the two countries to wait for orders. He and Zong Quan retreated from Kunlun Pass to Yong Prefecture.

Then continue to retreat to Taiping Village, the border between the two countries, to wait and see.

Li Taibao had never been defeated by the shadow of the famous tree, and Su Shaobao had also never been defeated. Moreover, he could see the weakness of the Jiaozhi Army at a glance, so Li Changjie had to be on guard.

After anxiously waiting for half a month, the news finally came. After Su You arrived in Guangzhou, he immediately sent troops to block Guangzhou's water and land channels, cutting off internal and external communication.

It turned out that Su Shaobao was bluffing. Half of these ships were ships that were about to return home. After loading water and supplies in Guangzhou, they left Guangzhou Port in a hurry and took advantage of the good wind to visit Mariuka!

The remaining half of the lucky ships were grain ships! Su Shaobao was appointed by the court to organize grain and grass supplies for the two Zhejiang roads and use Guangzhou as a logistics base.

The actual military strength that arrived in Guangzhou City was only Di Yong and Wang Zhongzheng's 3,000 men!
Chapter completed!