City of Light II

Under the shadow of the swaying thorn trees, wooden houses, buildings, warehouses, and warehouses seem to be asleep, quietly curled up on the blue waves. The hills on both sides are like open arms, gently holding Quanzhou Bay in their arms. (Drinker's note: Quanzhou Bay in the Song Dynasty was much larger than it is now, and it was a natural deep-water harbor.) Later, part of the port was gradually silted up into land.)

Through the thin mist on the sea, Fang Sheng could see the beautiful and secluded port in the distance. This was the target of his blockade, and Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, personally wrote a letter to the Fang family, asking the pirates to block the mouth of Quanzhou and block the Pujia fleet in the port.

Let the prime minister of the imperial court write a letter of invitation in person, and send troops together to eliminate the Pu family. A year ago, Fang Sheng couldn't have imagined such a glory.

As the largest force in the East China Sea, he knows his own catties. There are more than 40 large ships of more than 2,000 materials under the command of the Pu brothers, and more than 100 iron-topped warships of about 1,000 materials. This kind of strength, when the pirates saw it, they could only pull the sails and escape.

But now it's different, the Fang family has its own killer feature. The chief scoop leader Zi Fangsheng looked triumphantly at the dozen or so three-masted clippers hidden behind the island. Each ship was less than fifteen hundred, and there were not many soldiers. But Fang Sheng is sure that this is the best warship at sea so far. With these ships taking the lead, no matter how many warships the Pu family has, they have to obediently return to the port.

"Great boss, there is a ship in the port that has gone to sea", a pirate in a turban swung down from the mast and handed a clairvoyant to Fang Sheng.

Lao Fang Sheng took the clairvoyance, grabbed the cable in front of him, borrowed a little bit of strength from his arm, and his body floated to the mast not far away. Grabbing another cable with one hand, he put his feet on the side of the mast, raised a few feet lightly, looked for an opportunity, tightened the main mast with his legs, and raised his clairvoyance to look at Quanzhou.

On the turquoise water, more than a dozen boat shadows slowly rowed out. It is a fleet that is not very large, and judging by the formation, it is a routine patrol at sea. The Pu brothers didn't seem to be stupid by the fierce offensive of the Broken Army, and knew that they would send ships every day to guard their back roads.

Tell the Walrus, let it lead all the sea character teams to go up, and send all those rabbit cubs to the bottom of the sea to feed Wang Ba! Fang Sheng swung down from the mast and commanded loudly. Notify all the warships to line up, block the mouth of Quanzhou to the sea, and let the two Pu brothers see the strength of our Fang family! ”

"Yes!" The second Fang Hong agreed, ran quickly to the main mast, and raised a black handsome flag and several colored sortie indicator flags.

This is the flag language "invented" by Wen Tianxiang, and after being improved by the three bosses of the Fang family, it has become the standard command language of the pirates. The big and small pirate leaders cheered when they saw their main ship raise their flags. Hundreds of white sails quickly climbed from the deck to the top of the mast. The Walrus, a large ship of 2,500 people, took the lead and rushed out with four warships flying the "sea" flag.

The morning sun poked its head out of the sky and looked curiously at this wonderful scene on the water. In the brilliant waves, walruses, sea lions, seals, sea wolves, sea sharks, and five warships lined up in a column, shooting arrows at opponents whose ships were several times their own.

"Pirates!" The lookout of the Pujia fleet soon noticed that the crisis was coming, and shouted under the mast. "Pirates, north-west, three, four, five, five battleships. Pirates, pirates, and many more, too many to count! ”

"I can't count it slowly!" You Yongxian, the commander who led the team, shouted angrily, expressing dissatisfaction with the lookout's panic. On the surface of the East China Sea, except for the dying Xingchao Sailor, there is no force that can be brought to the table. If someone dares to attack Quanzhou from the water, unless this person eats leopard gall.

In the past six months, although there have been frequent reports that the ports in the two Zhejiang areas have been breached by pirates, Fan Wenhu, the governor of the two Zhejiang provinces, has been so angry that he jumped to his feet. However, the Pu family army thought that it was an excuse for Fan Wenhu to escape because he was afraid that the imperial court would order him to lead his troops south to fight a decisive battle with the Broken Army. Ambush where you can't see, take the harbor by surprise, and then evacuate before the brigade of defenders arrives in time. Who can believe this kind of absurd story, the sea is no better than the land, the distance between ships is very difficult, to organize such an accurate attack, unless the pirates have clairvoyance and ears.

"It's five, it's coming to us, and there are more than sixty of them behind us!" The lookout finally figured out the enemy situation and shouted at the top of his voice.

"Catch it up and teach the pirates a lesson! Let go of wolf smoke and inform the port to prepare for battle! You Yongxian commanded without fear. For more than ten days, his stomach was already full of fire. Wen Tianxiang's broken army has been pressing again and again, and it has already hit the doorstep. None of the brothers on land in the city had the courage to face the battle, and they could only watch as several cities on the periphery of Quanzhou were swept away.

Several letters asking for help have been sent. Liangzhejiang, Huizhou, Zhangzhou, all the allies you can think of have thought of. But there has been no movement of reinforcements so far. Suodu's army of 20,000 is said to have been in trouble after crossing the river, and was vomiting with a bandit named Zhang Yuan hundreds of miles away. And Fan Wenhu, the governor of the two Zhejiang provinces, replied to the letter after a lot of hardships, just to tell General Pu that the bandits in eastern Zhejiang were serious, and the 200,000 new annexed troops under his command could not divide their troops to the south.

A bunch of bastards who want to see the jokes of the gentlemen. You Yongxian vented his dissatisfaction with the Dayuan soldiers in his stomach every day. The only thing that can comfort him is that the Broken Army does not have a sailor, and if the Pu family can't hold Quanzhou, they can also evacuate from the sea with all their men and horses, and the property accumulated by everyone will not be lost.

Therefore, it has become You Yongxian's duty to go to sea to inspect every day. Encountering a small group of pirates who wanted to take advantage of the fire, he led the fleet to rush up and smash the opposing ship. When he saw a large pirate fleet, he didn't panic. After the wolf smoke is released, the Pujia fleet will naturally leave the port to support quickly. In the nearby sea, no pirate has been able to withstand the Pu family's blow.

On the battleship "Walrus", Fang Zhenyue carefully looked at the signal flag of the main fleet again, and carefully put away his clairvoyance. This treasure was bought with a lot of money from the Broken Army, and the two lenses were ground with crystal, and a whole boat of saltpeter was exchanged. broke him, Fang Zhenyue dared to guarantee that his father Fang Sheng would smear his whole body with sheep blood and throw it into the shark school to "exercise".

The fleets of both sides slowly approached, and they no longer needed clairvoyance to observe the enemy. The generals of the Pu family's patrol fleet were obviously also hard stubble, and in the face of a strong enemy, instead of dodging, they lit wolf smoke on the ship and reported to the harbor, and pounced on them with great momentum.

Five to fifteen, the difference in the number of ships engaged by the two sides is quite large. In the main fleet, Fang Sheng's eyes were firmly fixed on the detachment he had sent, and his palms holding clairvoyance were a little damp. The pirate Fang family and the Quanzhou Pu family have conflicts, but they also cooperate. They often do things like black hands and stuffy sticks with each other, but they have never officially hung the flags of the two families to fight. After the start of this battle, no matter what the result was, it meant that the Fang family and the Pu family fleet had officially broken up, and the Great Yuan court behind the Pu family had come to a hostile position.

The deal with the Broken Army began after Lao Sanfang Kui first entered Shao Wu. Official positions, numbers, battleship design drawings, steel crossbows, artillery, and the things that the Fang family urgently needed, the Broken Army did not hesitate to provide them. Even on the premise that he could not meet the requirements of arming himself, he gave priority to the Fang family.

At the same time, the Fang family also paid a huge price for these weapons and honors. Prime Minister Wen is not a bodhisattva who is willing to give, and in order to maintain his independence and dignity, the Fang family cannot accept the kindness of the Broken Army in vain. Through overt and covert bargaining by contacts, the two sides tacitly set the rules for each arms deal. As the recipient of the new weapon, the Fang family not only had to pay for the weapon, but also had to repay the help of the Broken Army through actual combat. For half a year, the Fang pirates continued to attack Dinghai and Shaoxing. Once, he even followed the tide to Lin'an City.

This is a big gamble, a big gamble that ties the fate of the family to the fortunes of the country. If you win, the Fang family will break away from the identity of a pirate family and become a meritorious family for the restoration of the Great Song Dynasty or someone's founding of the country, and if you lose, you will lose even the sea foundation accumulated for several generations.

"Big boss, do you want to surround it!" Master Bingbi Huang Yi'an leaned over and asked in a low voice. There are more than 60 Fangjia warships outside the port, and they can completely surround the Pujia fleet in the harbor before it pours out and swallow the patrol fleet in one gulp. Then set up a position, wait for work, and meet the main force of the Pu family.

Fang Sheng shook his head lightly and ordered in a low voice: "Inform all the warships of the main fleet to slow down and watch the battle!" ”

"Yes!" Huang Yi'an agreed and ran quickly. Under the command of the flagship, the main fleet of pirates folded its sails and wandered far outside the battlefield.

They were going to have a fair gladiatorial battle, testing new tactics and standing up on the other hand, so that the people in the harbor could not guess the true strength of the Fang family's fleet.

In the telescope, the five battleships led by Fang Zhenyue spun lightly, and the bow of the ship was connected to the stern and pulled into a straight line. Like a small dragon lying on the waves, with the Walrus as the dragon's head, it slanted diagonally in front of the Pujia fleet.

The galloping Pujia patrol fleet was stunned for a moment, the sailors had never seen this kind of fighting. In the battle on the water, what has always been particular is: "fighting bows and arrows from afar, fighting boats closely, helping each other and fighting people". Usually the ships in the flotilla line up first, keeping the bow in a straight line and rushing towards the opponent, firing stones and lit fish oil eggs at a distance of about 500 paces, smashing each other. At a distance of about 200 paces, use bows and arrows and rockets to kill sailors and destroy sails. When they get closer, they try to hit the belly of the opponent's ship with the bow and smash each other with the lever. When the two ships collide together, the sailors, under the cover of bows and arrows, jump onto the opposing ship and fight hard.

No matter what stage of the battle you are doing, avoid hitting the enemy's bow with your belly. Compared to cargo ships, warships have a pointed bow and a long hull. Exposing the abdomen to the enemy, it is clear that it is a target for the opponent's trebuchets and archers.

"Look for death!" You Yongxian spat on the deck and ordered the drummer at the stern to beat the drum and order his ship to speed up. Previously, he was a little worried that the opponent's dozens of warships would win with many. Now seeing that the Fang family sent a detachment to come to fight alone, and the opponent was obviously a "chick" who didn't know how to fight water, his courage doubled in his heart.

The two fleets approached quickly, and in the sunlight, the figures of each other's ships could already be seen.

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