Chapter 7: The First Battle
"Then I don't know, it doesn't seem too good. ”
Hannah had a bitter face and said sadly: "Hannah's life is so miserable. ”
Margaret, who didn't know the truth, looked back at Hannah and said, "My little Hannah, you can rest assured, even if I want to add it to that person, I will beg him to let you go." ”
"Okay~ Hannah thanked His Highness. ”
"Little fool, don't worry. ”
Margaret jumped off the swing and affectionately took Hannah's arm and walked to the dormitory.
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The next morning, Liu Chengying was sitting behind the bookcase to process the official documents, and at this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door.
"Newspaper~"
"Enter!"
A lieutenant panted into the study, immediately knelt on one knee, and respectfully raised the paperwork above his head.
"Tell your lordship! The king's handwritten request for our troops to send troops!"
Liu Chengying frowned, put down the brush in her hand, got up and walked to him, took the document and only glanced at it slightly, and then smashed it to the ground with a blue face, "Hmph!
Seeing this, the civil official standing on the side glanced at the captain and motioned for him to go out first. The lieutenant understood, quickly got up from the ground, and quietly retreated.
After the lieutenant left, the civil official picked up the paperwork from the ground, read it carefully, then stroked his beard, and said lightly: "My lord, it seems that the king of England is testing us. ”
Liu Chengying replied disappreciatively, "This seat doesn't think this is a temptation!"
The civil official shook his head and chuckled: "My lord, yes or no, what? Now that we have already landed, there are some things that we can't help us. ”
"Oh, why can't we help it?"
"My lord, we have only been in London for two days, and our supplies are not yet sufficient, and now is not the time to offend the British king. ”
Liu Chengying thought to herself secretly for a while, then returned to the bookcase and sat down, and shouted, "Yang Qianhu, General Ma, General Liu, General Zhu!"
"Wow!" the civil official bowed down to receive the order and strode out of the study.
An hour later, Henry IV, who was hiding in a carriage on the docks, watched Liu Chengying lead the fleet slowly out of London Harbor, with a tangled expression on his face, "Coventry, if they are gone forever, what should we do?"
Coventry replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, Count Liu's supplies have not yet been completed, where can they go?"
"What if he goes to another country?"
For this king, Coventry is really powerless to complain, this suspicion is really too serious. If you want to achieve something great, but you don't want to take any risks, there will be such good things in this world.
After pondering his thoughts, Coventry then explained: "Wise Majesty, they are going to war this time, as long as the first shot is released, the whole of Europa will know that they are your mercenaries, then there will be that country willing to accept them." ”
Those countries in Europa seem to be independent, but in fact, to put it bluntly, they are all a group of relatives fighting around, and Henry IV knows this very well, but he can't believe that his royal relatives will not run over to dig the foot of the wall after learning that the Ming fleet is strong.
"Coventry, what's going on in Europa, I'm sure you're no stranger to it, right?
Coventry despised him again in his heart, and asked him to match the good things of Earl Liu and Margaret, he was unwilling, he had to say that he had to test Count Liu first for the sake of the so-called face, which was completely a matter of doing more.
Although he wished to slap the capricious king twice, Coventry still said very deferentially: "Graciful Your Majesty, this matter is actually not difficult to do. All you need to do is organize a grand celebration when Count Yoo is triumphant, and inform the countries of Europa about him and Margaret. ”
Henry IV nodded, but said, "Well, this matter can be considered, but it depends on whether he has the ability to be my son-in-law." ”
While the two were discussing intrigues, Liu Chengying was not idle. Although, according to the paperwork, the Vikings didn't have any big ships, not even firearms. However, he still didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, the life of every Ming soldier was precious.
Liu Chengying was now at the bow of the ship, holding a clairvoyant mirror, carefully observing the ships in the private harbor. Not long after, he casually threw the clairvoyant mirror to Yang Qianhu behind him, "Yang Qianhu, order the fleet to be replaced with the English flag." ”
Yang Qianhu did not immediately receive the order, but asked suspiciously: "My lord, I don't understand, why do you want to use the flag of another country?"
Liu Chengying can be said to know this old subordinate who has followed him for more than ten years. This person usually has all kinds of poisons, but he is still very sober when it comes to major rights and wrongs.
"Yang Qianhu, this is not a national war, we don't need to care too much about this, but this seat doesn't want other countries to know our origin at the moment. ”
"My lord, this ......"
Seeing that Yang Qianhu still wanted to persuade him, the civil official next to Liu Chengying hurriedly yelled at him: "Hmph! Have you forgotten your identity?"
Yang Qianhu was woken up by him, scared out of a cold sweat, and hurriedly said "Woo" and retreated.
Liu Chengying smiled and shook her head, "Senator Zhang, see that he is scared by you." ”
"Hehe, Yang Qianhu is not frightened by the students, and he doesn't rely on the power of the adult tiger, the student is just a fox and a fake tiger. Senator Zhang saw that he was not in a bad mood, and he was happy to laugh with him.
After a stick of incense or so, Yang Qianhu returned to the bow of the ship and reported to Liu Chengying, "My lord, the artillery is ready, please give the order to open fire!"
Liu Chengying put away her smile, stood up straight and faced the opposite bank with a serious body, drew her saber with a "poof~", and yelled: "Fire!"
Yang Qianhu received the order, turned to the standard-bearer and shouted: "My lord has an order!
Almost as soon as he shouted, the flag bearer waved the flag in his hand and conveyed the order to open the cannon to the other two gunboats.
"Boom~Boom~Boom......"
Three gunboats, a total of 54 artillery pieces, took turns to bombard the private harbor indiscriminately, and for a time sand and rocks flew on the shore, and ghosts cried and wolves howled.
In this era, other countries are still using solid bullets, but the Ming Dynasty has mastered the technology of flowering bullets. Because of the great lethality to the enemy, the soldiers blossomed and played the nickname "no conscience".
The shelling lasted for a long time, but was limited by the overheating of the barrel and had to be stopped.
After the smoke from the gunpowder cleared, Liu Chengying didn't even look at the results of the battle, and directly ordered the Xuanfeng battalion to land.
The soldiers of the Xuanfeng battalion received the order, quickly put on heavy armor, boarded the centipede boat with the help of the sailors, and rowed quickly to the private port.
After landing, they drew their long knives, beat their breastplates incessantly, sang war songs in their mouths, and rushed towards the surviving enemy.
"Tianwei swept across the Yellow River, and the Qiang people sang all the Han songs. Moyan crosses the mountains and flows backwards, and goes from the west of the church to be Enbo!"