Li Er was also surprised after receiving Du Ruhui's report.
What about the powerful Persian Empire that was promised, is it gone?
"Hey, the world is getting weirder and weirder!"
Thinking again of the Tang newspaper sent by Yuchi Gong, Li Er frowned and said, "What do you think this Turk wants to do?"
"They finally survived the winter, and now the grass on the grassland is about to sprout, even if they want to rebel.
We have to wait a few days, it’s not too late to give the war horses that have been hungry all winter a few mouthfuls of grass!”
"Jingde said that the rebellious Turks were robbing wildly, not only the Han people, but also other tribes, and even the Turks' own tribes!"
"I think if this continues, they will destroy themselves without Jingde taking action!"
Empress Changsun rolled her eyes at Li Er, who was muttering next to her: "You have discussed things with the Prime Minister and the ministers of the court for several days without understanding it. How can I, a woman, know about it?"
"I would like to ask you out of curiosity, how are the arrangements for the sea going?"
"If anything goes wrong, Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about the Turks!"
Li Er had a headache and said, "If we are galloping on land, I won't let anyone go."
"But where have I seen this naval battle?"
"I still can't believe it, that guy actually installed twenty-eight artillery pieces on one ship!"
As he said this, Li Er laughed again: "But since that kid dares to let twenty eight-thousand-stone ships go to Yangzhou to transport grain, he should be very confident!"
Queen Changsun thought for a while and smiled with relief:
"Indeed, if he is not sure, he has nothing to do with his treasures. As I know, his 8,000-stone sea-going ships only total about thirty, so he will definitely not be willing to lose them!"
While Li Er and his wife were arranging Su Chen behind, a huge fleet planted more than 100,000 stones of rice and headed north from Yangzhou across the sea.
Several Royal Navy frigates were cruising around the grain transport fleet, and further away in the depths of the ocean, the Royal Navy's main force, twelve cruisers, were quietly following.
The frigate is slightly modified based on the original eight thousand stone sea ship.
The hull was reinforced and weapons such as rams, giant crossbows, and trebuchets were installed.
This is the first warship of the Royal Navy that has been unveiled to the world.
As for the cruiser equipped with artillery, no one has ever seen it, and Su Chen has hidden it well.
"Commander, I've followed you all the way and there's been no movement. Could it be that the intelligence is wrong?"
On the flagship, Cheng Chubi said to Liu Rengui.
Liu Rengui smiled: "Don't worry, Wuhuhai is the best sea area for ambush. I guess the enemy is waiting for us there."
Cheng Chubi was right. There was the Liaodong Peninsula to the north, the Denglai Peninsula to the south, and a bunch of islands in the middle. It was indeed a good place for an ambush.
"Send out all the frigates and be careful not to let the grain ship fall into the enemy's siege!"
After entering the Denglai waters, the Royal Navy frigates obviously set up two warning circles directly outside the grain transport fleet.
On the mast of a frigate, a Royal Navy man holds a telescope and is looking around.
"Report! A large number of ships were found in the northwest!"
A bell immediately rang on the frigate, and everyone hurried to their combat positions.
"Report, a large number of ships were also spotted in the southwest."
The captain of the frigate immediately ordered: "Raise the signal flag and tell the ships behind that the enemy has been discovered!"
The frigate retreated and immediately hoisted red flags on all masts.
After the lookout of the frigate behind discovered it, they immediately reported: "The frigate ahead has discovered the enemy."
The captain ordered: "Send a signal to the grain transport fleet and retreat according to the planned route!"
"Report to the commander quickly."
The grain transport fleet soon discovered the signal flag raised by the frigate ahead through telescopes, and immediately turned around and retreated to the northeast.
!
To the northwest of the frigate, on the flagship of the fleet, the young man in golden clothes also held up a telescope.
"Let's just say that the sailors are being cautious. How could they enter the ambush?"
As he spoke, he hung the telescope on his chest carefully: "This thing is very valuable. The stupid craftsman has polished so many transparent jade and still can't get a few useful ones."
I don’t know how that damn Su Chen made glass lenses.
A middle-aged samurai next to him said: "Don't worry, young master, they are all here, they can still run away!"
The young man in brocade clothes nodded: "Notify everyone and start chasing!"
"I want to see how fast an eight thousand stone ship loaded with food can run!"
After a while, several fleets began to chase the grain transport fleet from all directions.
The ships in these fleets range from five to six thousand stone in size, while the larger ones are larger than the eight thousand stone ships.
Moreover, each ship is equipped with weapons such as ramming horns, giant crossbows, and trebuchets.
Each ship is a pirate ship armed to the teeth, with both vicious pirates and elegant young men on board.
At this time, they were all in extreme excitement: this time they would surely capture all twenty grain ships.
Not only can it deal a heavy blow to that damn Su Chen, but it can also provide a lot of food for future great undertakings.
"Man Sail! Hurry up and catch up!"
"Haha! With this batch of food, we can accomplish great things!"
On the flagship of another fleet, a big man laughed excitedly.
A grain ship loaded with grain will definitely not be able to outrun these pirate ships.
The distance between the two sides turned out to be closer.
"Haha, those sailors actually left the grain transport ship and ran away!"
When the pirates discovered that the navy ships had passed the grain transport fleet and fled northwest quickly, they all laughed.
"Huh! No one can escape today!"
"Split into two teams and continue to chase the navy, and other ships are preparing to capture those grain transport ships!"
The pirates were all excited when they saw that they were about to catch up with the grain ship!
"No, there's a ship behind the grain ship!"
The young man in golden clothes shouted while holding up the telescope.
Others also saw the ships behind the grain convoy.
"Reinforcements from the Navy?"
Someone asked.
"Whatever, there don't seem to be many ships, let's rush forward!"
The pirates saw that the grain transport ships were passing between the new ships, but the new ships were rushing towards them.
"What do they want to do? Do they want to intercept us so that the grain transport ship can escape?"
"Hmph! Just a dozen ships want to intercept us?"
“Don’t overestimate your capabilities!”
"But these ships look so strange! Why are there so many small windows?"
"Hey! What do they mean by turning the boat sideways?"
"What the hell! Everyone ready to fight! Trebuchets ready!"
On the other side, Liu Rengui stretched out his arm and pointed at the fleet opposite:
"fire!"
"Bang! Bang!...Bang!"
Twelve artillery pieces fired together!
"Hey! I still can't get it right!"
Cheng Chubi put down his telescope and said: "Only two shells landed on the enemy ship!"
