Chapter five hundred and thirty fifth collectively stupid
(Seeking collection)
Chapter 535
After returning to the camp, Liu Ling sent someone to summon Zhaoxian. Zhaoxian was arranging the camp's defenses and announcing military discipline. When he heard that the prince had urgently summoned him, he rushed to Liu Ling's tent.
"My subordinates pay their respects to the prince!"
After Zhaoxian entered the tent, he performed a standard military salute, and then glanced at the old man dressed as an ordinary fisherman standing not far from him. At first glance, Zhaoxian did not think there was anything special about this man.
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"This man is Li Zheng from the small fishing village more than ten miles away. His name is Sun Jinscale. His brother Sun Jinman is a pirate on Lantau Island. He once went to Liuqiu Island to snatch back several women from the local Pingpu tribe.
You go arrange the ship now and come with me to Lantau Island later."
Zhaoxian's eyes lit up and he immediately bowed and said, "I'll make arrangements right now."
After Zhaoxian left, Liu Ling asked Sun Jinheng, "If there are any other rumors about Liuqiu Island, please tell me."
Sun Jinsheng lowered his head and said: "Back to my lord, the grass-roots people and my brother have always been at odds. After he came back that day, he just kept bragging. The grass-roots people were too lazy to pay attention to him and just hid outside. What I still remember now is only about the Pingpu people.
Some things about the Gaoshan tribe. These two tribes are the two largest tribes on Liuqiu Island. There is no peace between the two tribes and they often attack each other. Most of the people in Zhongshan Kingdom on Liuqiu Island are Pingpu tribe.
In the years of strife, the Pingpu people have gained the upper hand, and the territory of the Zhongshan Kingdom is the largest among the three kingdoms. Among them, the Shanbei Kingdom is dominated by the Gaoshan people and occupies the northern territory of Liuqiu Island. The Shannan Kingdom is the smallest and weakest, but it has the largest number of ethnic groups.
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"The king of Zhongshan Kingdom is called Shang Dingtian, and it is said that he is also a man of great strategic courage. Since he became the emperor of Zhongshan Kingdom, he has continuously conquered Shannan Kingdom and Shanbei Kingdom. The other two countries have only joined forces to maintain a stalemate with Zhongshan Kingdom.
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Sun Jinsheng recalled it carefully and said.
"Shang Dingtian?"
Liu Ling smiled and said: "The name is quite domineering, but I don't know what he relies on to stand upright."
Sun Jinheng said: "It's strange to say that the emperor of Zhongshan Kingdom is named Shang Dingtian, the emperor of Shannan Kingdom is named Shang Xuan, and the emperor of Shanbei Kingdom is named Shang Zhenyuan. The three countries hate each other, but the emperors all have the surname Shang."
Liu Ling frowned. Although he had read a lot of miscellaneous books in his previous life, he had not read any books involving the Ryukyu Kingdom. He only vaguely remembered that Liuqiu Three Kingdoms, and it was the Zhongshan Kingdom that Liuqiu finally unified. After all, he
He is not a historian, and he even clearly remembers what happened on a certain day in a certain dynasty in history. In his previous life, he was just a patient who was paralyzed in bed and could only pass the time by reading. He forgot many things after reading them.
What he remembered were only some major events in history. The biggest historical event of this era was Zhao Kuangyin's unification of the Central Plains and the establishment of the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, Liu Ling had already done what Zhao Kuangyin should do in history.
And so far, this person has not appeared. Furthermore, as far as Liu Ling knows, Wei Mingxiao only appeared almost a hundred years later, and Yelu Xiongji should have been dead for a hundred years. Who the hell is there now?
Death, what should have appeared did not appear, but what should not have appeared did.
Liu Ling has always wondered whether the place he is in is the earth. Or is it some abominable and shameful parallel space? Or is it really a story very similar to the history of the earth that is repeated in another galaxy?
Of course, he couldn't understand these things, so Liu Ling simply stopped thinking about them. Since he has embarked on the road of fighting for hegemony, he can just defeat his opponent no matter who it is. No matter it is Liao, Daxia, Dazhou, or Yelu
You don’t need to take it to heart even if your reputation is great.
It is meaningless to wonder whether the era recorded in the book is something Liu Ling has long realized.
"Are they from the same race, or are they brothers?"
Liu Ling frowned and murmured to himself.
Sun Jinping said: "My brother also made a guess. He said that maybe they are from the same mother."
Liu Ling searched through his memory carefully, but he had too many impressions of Zhongshan, Shannan, Shanbei. He only vaguely remembered that before the Ming Dynasty, there was no record of the names of the emperors of these three countries.
Liu Ling smiled and said: "No matter what he does, he will always know what the relationship between the three of them is."
Just as he was talking, Zhaoxian returned to the big tent and said that the fleet had been assembled and could set off at any time. Liu Ling nodded and took the lead in walking out of the big tent towards the seaside. He did not plan to take Minhui and Huaduo with him, so for
The two of them left Chen Xiaoshu and Mu Qiufeng safely behind, while the three men in golden clothes took only Di Fuzhou to board the warship.
Liu Ling did not take the Emperor, his exclusive flagship for the King of Han, but chose a Loach that was more than 20 feet long. Eight such Loaches were dispatched, and there were 20 people gliding on the sides of the Loach.
Centipede Clippers, coupled with more than twenty warships more than ten feet long, more than thirty warships left the port and headed towards Lantau Island under the guidance of Sun Jinscale.
Liu Ling's flagship, the Emperor, was too large, and it consumed a lot of manpower and material resources to use. Such a huge warship was equivalent to a maritime overlord aircraft carrier in this era. Liu Ling knew that the Three Treasures of the Ming Dynasty
The treasure ship that the eunuch Zheng He took when he sailed to the Western Ocean had a maximum displacement of 7,500 tons, which was actually not much worse than a modern aircraft carrier.
Liu Ling's Imperial Battleship was almost the same as the treasure ship Zheng He rode on.
More than thirty battleships rode the wind and waves, with the fiery red war flags fluttering on the masts. Due to the limited number of artillery developed by the Shenji Battalion, most of them were equipped on Liu Ling's Emperor Battleship. Main battleships like this
There are only two guns installed on each Loach. With Liu Ling's participation, the casting technology has been greatly improved, which is why perverted things like artillery appeared hundreds of years in advance. Warships are equipped with artillery.
To deal with pirate ships in this era is equivalent to using a destroyer equipped with the most advanced missiles and armed to the teeth to bully a three-meter-long fishing boat.
The only regret is that I couldn't put a layer of iron armor on the emperor's armor.
Of course, this is just an extravagant wish of Liu Ling.
Lantau Island is not far from the station of the Han Navy. With the speed of Han warships, it only takes more than an hour to reach it.
Far away, Liu Ling saw several fishing boats docked on the coast of Lantau Island through his clairvoyance. There were also people running in panic on the beach, looking back in the direction of the Han Navy while running.
"Split into three teams and surround them with the left and right wings. Don't get too close to the pirates before they run away."
Liu Ling waved his hand and said.
Zhaoxian quickly ordered, and the naval soldiers standing on the watchtower waved the command flag. They immediately separated a large sea loach from the left and right wings of the fleet and five stern warships to surround them. Liu Ling's Chinese army headed straight towards
Lantau Island pounced.
Lantau Island is not very big, with a radius of only dozens of miles. There are many places to hide on this island, and there are not a large number of ships visible, which means that the pirate warships are hidden in other places. If they are hidden,
It will be difficult to catch them after they run away. Liu Ling is bound to win against Liuqiu, so Sun Jinman, who has been to Liuqiu, is also bound to win.
Sure enough, seeing a large ship with officers and soldiers approaching Lantau Island, the pirates on the island began to panic. Through his clairvoyance, Liu Ling could see more and more people emerging from the caves and running towards the same place. It was obvious that
That's where the pirates' warships are. These running people are not only men, but also women and children. Those people should be the families of the pirates. Unexpectedly, Lantau Island, not far from the mainland, has become the property of a group of pirates.
A paradise.
Zhaoxian also discovered this detail, so he ordered the fleet to slightly change its course and pounce in the direction where the pirates were fleeing. The fleets on the left and right wings also under the command of the flag, divided into two groups to outflank them.
There is a saying that "Looking at the mountains will lead to a dead horse", which means that the mountains are not far away but are actually very far away. If this sentence were placed on the sea, it would be replaced by looking at the islands to death. Loach on both sides of the sea
The twenty-four pairs of propellers rotated rapidly, and this speed was much faster than that of ordinary warships.
After a while, ships came out one by one from the side of the island and began to escape towards the back of the island. However, the Han's naval warships were much faster than the pirate ships, and the outflanking fleet had already been completed.
They surrounded them and forced the pirate ships back.
Perhaps seeing that Liu Ling's Chinese ships had a larger number, the pirates chose the other side to prepare for a breakout. Their boats were flexible, so they turned around and rushed toward the left wing. It looked like they wanted to break through.
It seemed as if it had slipped through the gaps in the large ships of the Han Navy.
Sun Jinsheng knew what the pirates wanted to do. He quickly said to Liu Ling: "Your Majesty, don't let the pirate ships get close. These pirates are very good at climbing ships. Once they get close, they will board the official ship and get close."
Hand-to-hand combat. In the past few years, we...they all dealt with the Tang Dynasty's navy like this. Of course...the Tang Dynasty's navy cannot be compared with the prince's army."
Liu Ling snorted, and the image of the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean holding on to the rope and flying across to the enemy warship appeared in his mind.
"Send a semaphore and let the loach on the left wing fire cannons to scare the pirates!"
Zhaoxian ordered.
The soldiers on the watchtower issued Zhaoxian's order, and the Han navy on the left wing responded immediately. The sea loach in the left wing fleet began to slowly adjust its angle, aiming straight at it with the artillery on the bow.
After a loud bang, a cannonball hit the pirate fleet almost visibly. But after all, it was difficult for fixed artillery to hit a moving ship, and the Han soldiers were still very unfamiliar with operating artillery.
Therefore, the first shot did not hit the pirate ship, but only blew up a tall water column on the side of one of the ships.
Even so, the pirates were frightened. They didn't see clearly what happened. They saw a flash of fire on the big ship and then an explosion like spring thunder, and then there was a black bullet.
Something hit. Although it didn't hit the pirate ship, the waves still caused the pirate ship to shake.
After this shot, the pirate ship slowed down neatly.
Although the artillery was manufactured, the problem of reloading speed could not be solved. The pirate ships gradually slowed down, and after waiting for a while, the large ships without the officers and soldiers could still spit fire. These pirates became bolder again, and they roared
He was shouting and waving messy weapons, looking very excited.
Soon, the pirate ships began to speed up again and rushed straight towards the Han fleet on the left.
But they obviously still underestimated the powerful combat power of the Han Navy. Although the cannon from the Loach did not hit their ship, it did not mean that the ballistas equipped on the five stern warships could not cause harm to them.
The warship slowly turned sideways towards the pirate ship, and the five ballistae mounted on the ship's side began to show off their power.
The five ships fired twenty-five giant crossbow arrows, three meters long and calf-thick, in almost five minutes. The three pirate ships at the front were immediately hit, causing countless sawdust fragments. One of them was even hit by
A precise giant crossbow hit the midsection, and the five-meter-long pirate ship was immediately penetrated and almost broke into two pieces. After this round of giant crossbow hits, the pirate ship slowed down again. The pirate ships behind it had even started to
There were signs of turning. After all, their broken ship could not withstand such a powerful crossbow.
At this moment, the artillery on the Loach roared for the second time.
In the frightened sight of the pirates, the cannonball traced a trajectory and hit a four- to five-meter-long pirate ship in the middle. With a bang, the cannonball completely smashed the front end of the wooden ship! A big hole was smashed through the deck, and sawdust
The ship shook violently, and five or six pirates lost their balance and were overturned directly into the sea.
Stunned, the pirates were collectively dumbfounded. (To be continued)
