The World (6 times)

Yuan transported grain to tens of thousands of households, Zhu Qing had no reason to shiver, and took three steps and two steps and rushed to the deck.

On a June day, it was as hot as a fire, and even if the boat was on the sea, it could not feel a trace of coolness. A dozen or so sailors climbed up and down, adjusting their sails to the changing winds, but the four-masted sand ship could not move faster. The ships were so full that the waterline floated so high that it took a lot of effort for the fleet to adjust its course.

"Master of the village, what do you command!" A hundred households in Caoding saw Zhu Qing come out to inspect, and stepped forward to ask flatteringly.

"Crab, send a signal to Huang Wanhu and Zhang Wanhu who are the first to start, and ask them what is going on in the four corners!" Zhu Qing frowned and commanded in a low voice.

He was tired of being called the owner of the village or the head of the dragon, although before he was selected by Dong Shi to recruit An, he was the big brother of the head of the seventy-two islands on the Yellow Water Ocean (the western part of the East China Sea, now mostly land), and the chief scoop of the Jiangbei waterway that crisscrossed the waters of the Song, Mongolia and Goryeo. However, for the unbearable life in the rivers and lakes, Zhu Qing prefers the current state of existence. The general of Zhenguo, the consolation envoy of Jiangdong Province, and the sea road transporting grain to 10,000 households, a series of dizzying titles, I don't know how much virtue the Zhu family ancestor accumulated in exchange.

"Yes! Lord General, "The hundred households who were called crabs were very alert, and from Zhu Qing's names for several family members, he understood his thoughts. While calling Zhu Qing's official position, he climbed the mainmast in the center of the sand boat like a fly, stood on the crossmast, and waved the flag to send a signal.

"This kid is still as clever as he was back then, and when he turns around, it's time to promote him to a thousand households!" Looking at the crab's nimble hands and feet and sharp reactions, Zhu Qing thought silently in his heart.

Blessings are enjoyed by all, and difficulties are enjoyed by everyone. This is Zhu Qing's principle of action, and with this principle, he slowly climbed from a murderous thief to the head of the Jiangbei waterway who owns 500 ships and gathers tens of thousands of people. Not only did the rich coastal families see its sails, but even the Mongolian sailors did not dare to pinch their cherry blossoms.

In the first year of Deyou, Kublai Khan led his army south. Zhu Qingli disregarded public opinion, and did not hesitate to use the means of killing people to coerce the Jiangbei thieves to surrender to the Northern Yuan, and was named the next 10,000 households. He immediately led his troops to attack Lin'an with the Yuan army, cutting off the retreat of the Great Song Dynasty from the sea.

After Empress Dowager Xie surrendered, Zhu Qing was ordered by Boyan to transport the Song Treasury's collection of books from Chongming Prefecture to Beijing from the sea route, setting up a 'great attack' for the Great Yuan to unify the world, and was promoted to Zhongwanhu. Since then, the heroes of Jiangbei who used to be rampant on the sea have officially eaten official meals, and their main business is to ship grain and loot property for Dayuan, and they no longer have to be "on the table" Haikou .

Although after becoming an official soldier, the eyes of the Jianghuai people always contained contempt. But Zhu Qing doesn't care, ordinary people, of course they are jealous of seeing people get promoted and get rich. Now the Zhu family in Taicang is the first wealthy family in the two Huai. The momentum is smaller, and it is compared with the Su scholars of the late Song Dynasty. When Su Dongpo's family was at its peak, there were only four bachelors in one class. And the Taicang Zhu family, among the disciples of Zhang Xuan, Huang Zhen, Zhang Yu, Yin Shi, and Tang Shixiong, there are five thousands of households in charge of the army, and thousands of households have more vehicles. (Drunkard's note: For Zhu Qing's deeds, see Yuan History, he and Zhang Xuan and others were sea thieves at first, and after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, they accumulated merit for 10,000 households, and then they were killed because of the hussars in charge of shipping officers, and later were killed because of too much unknown property.) ）

"General, Huang Wanhu and Zhang Wanhu replied to the signal, saying that everything is fine!" A shout from the top of the mast interrupted Zhu Qing's memories of the past. The crab hooked the mast with its foot and hung upside down and shouted down.

"Tell the two of them, send two clippers, and survey five miles from front to back, left and right. Inform the two generals Yin and Tang who are in charge, and ask them to speed up and try to rush to the East Sea Port tonight to anchor! Zhu Qing shouted at the mast. (Donghai Port, now Lianyungang, was still an island at that time)

He still felt uneasy in his heart. As a character who has been rampant at sea for many years, Zhu Qing has a natural intuition about danger. For this intuition, since leaving the mouth of the Yangtze River, he has abandoned the East China Sea, where the water is deep and easy to navigate, and instead takes the Yellow Water Ocean, where sandbanks are full of sandbars and reefs. Although this will make the fleet move more slowly, the Yellow Ocean is close to the land, and if there is any wind on the sea, it can immediately move the fleet closer to the shore. Relying on the advantage of a punt suitable for shallow water, get rid of the threat of the adversary.

The 200,000 stone grain transported by the fleet, Zhu Qing did not dare to treat it carelessly. Since Liangzhejiang was smashed by Wen Tianxiang last year, the task of food supply in the north has been all pressed on the people of Jiangnan East Road and Jinghu Road. After several searches, the north and south roads of Jinghu Lake, known as the granary, quickly bottomed out. This year, Kublai Khan led an army of 500,000 troops to quell the rebellion in Liaodong, and military rations were also to be supplied from Jinghu and Jiangnan East Road. In order to pat the emperor's ass, Yeluhe, who was in charge of collecting grain, sent people to plunder the rich households, and forcibly pulled out more than 100 boats of military rations from the mouths of the people. If this grain could not arrive on time, not only would Kublai Khan's army face the danger of running out of food. Jinghu two roads, no longer able to make up a second batch for the army to chew.

"There is no movement for five miles ahead, five miles on the left are safe all the way, five miles on the right are safe, and there is no movement for five miles behind!" There were constantly smoke signals rising from the sea, announcing safety, and one after another drilled into Zhu Qing's ears.

"Forget it, I guess it's too much, go back to Putuo Mountain to find Master Jingguang to sing a few times to clear your mind!" Zhu Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and walked to the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back. Several personal guards hurriedly gathered around, for fear that the general would accidentally fall into the sea.

"Disperse and leave me alone!" Zhu Qing looked at the gradually clear sea water and commanded. Looking at the color of the water, you can know that the fleet has crossed the mouth of the Huai River, and it will take less than half a day to reach Haizhou. The Dayuan Naval Division secretly built by Yang Xin, the governor of Haizhou, on the East China Sea Island, although he has not experienced several battle formations, but with the scale of hundreds of warships, he should be able to keep the grain ship safe.

The wind is calm, and the water is getting clearer. The sandbars were slowly thrown into the distance, and an empty world appeared directly in front of the fleet.

In the fleet, the lookouts let out cheers. The Yellow Water Ocean has come to an end, and they know that the blue water ahead of them has few reefs and high buoyancy, which is most suitable for ships to sail.

In June, there is hardly any dust between the sea and the sky. The grain ships are lined up in a diamond shape like geese, drawing a beautiful and neat white line on the jewel-like water of the basket orchid. In the depths of the clouds, different colors of sunlight poured into curtains of light of different shades, draped like tassels on the tips of masts. Occasionally, unknown waterfowl flapped their wings and danced around the fleet.

"What a splash!" At the top of the mast, the centurion crab exclaimed. Before he was recruited, this was his favorite scenery to see. People hang in the air, blowing the sea breeze, and there is an indescribable freedom compared to being wrapped in Mongolian leather robes.

At this time, he found that under the sun, there were a few more gold dots.

"What's that, too?" The crab rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked into the distance again. He felt his eyes glazed out, not a boat, and with years of sailing experience, he knew that it was impossible for a ship to go as fast as it was against the wind.

The golden dot slowly became larger, slowly clear, one point, one end, one piece, and the whole sail suddenly jumped out of the water and galloped towards the Dayuan fleet.

"Straight ahead, unknown ships, no, it's a fleet!" The crab screamed loudly. Immediately after, an urgent siren sounded ahead. It was the fleet, a fleet of dozens of large ships, blocking the channel of the grain ships.

The flag flower rocket dragged a long tail of smoke, and one after the other rose into the air. In all directions, unknown ships were found, including slender white-sailed warships, wide and bulky large seaships, and three-, four-masted, and five-masted sand ships, all under different flags, surrounded from the front, back, left, and right.

"Slow down, the fleet is in battle formation, fly the yellow puffin flag, send Zhang Xuan to negotiate with them!" Zhu Qing jumped on the boat and shouted loudly.

According to the custom, when the merchant fleet meets the pirates, if they don't want to fight, they can play the yellow puffin flag to sue for peace. In order not to turn the nearby waters into a place where merchants dare not set foot in death, and to avoid the merchants from bribing the government to retaliate afterwards, the pirates usually accept the maritime merchants' request for peace. After the representatives of the two sides met on an unarmed ship, the two sides agreed to keep a few percent of the goods for the purchase of road money. The pirates took the money and scattered in all directions, no longer bothering the merchants.

"They, the front row is in a line, with a black flag, a black shark flag, and they don't accept any negotiations," the crab reported loudly as he crouched on the mast.

The Black Shark Flag is a pirate attempt to seek revenge between pirates, and one side waives a black flag, and as a hostile party, there are only two options. Either surrender and accept the adversary's disposition at will. Either fight to the end until the whole army is annihilated.

A wave of anger rushed straight to Zhu Qing's head, in order to reduce the loss of the fleet, he had already made the greatest concession and bent down to ask the opponent for peace. thought that with his name back then and his current official position, he could scare the opponent during the negotiation and make the other party retreat. Who would have thought that the other party would have such a great appetite and want to swallow his large fleet with more than 100 transport ships and more than 80 frigates.

"Who is so bold, give an order, let Zhang Yu take twenty frigates out of battle, let people know who they are talking to! Hang our yellow flag on the top of the mast! Zhu Qing shouted angrily at the top of the sail.

A flag painted with a yellow dragon slowly rose to the top of the mast, which was the symbol of Zhu Qing's crisscrossing of the sea. After returning to Dayuan, in order to avoid suspicion, he has not used this flag for a long time. The pirates and pirates under his command used to be big and small, and now the soldiers saw the handsome flag raised again, and they were so excited that their blood was full of excitement, and they let out a shout in unison.

"Boom!" A thunderclap suddenly sounded on the sea, and just within Zhu Qing's field of vision, a gap appeared in the Zhang Yu fleet that was arrayed to attack, and the two boats in the middle paused and quickly capsized to the side.

"Artillery! It's the Fang family," the cheers of the pirates were suppressed. Hanging between the masts, the lookouts and heralds who shouted the loudest closed their mouths and watched blankly as their detachment was cut in two by the squadron sent by the Fang family.

"The Seawolf slowed down, and the Sea Lion and Walrus accelerated to follow, keeping parallel to the Seawolf. The other warships followed the sea wolf, the A-shaped formation! In the flagship, Fang Kui put down the telescope and ordered loudly.

A series of suona sounds conveyed his orders to the ships, rushed to the front, and the Seawolf battleship, which gave Zhang Xuan's fleet a blow to the head, retracted its mainsail and slowed down suddenly. The sea lions and walruses that followed them adjusted the angle of the sails, deviated from the course, and branched off from both sides of the fleet, shouldering with the sea wolves.

Four warships, seals, sea whales, sea Jiao, and sea sharks, followed the sea wolves, and the seven warships lined up in a "T" shape. Then it accelerated at the same time, and pounced like a shark with a wide mouth like a squadron on the opposite side.

Zhang Yunleng, the Yuan army who went to war, was stunned, and he had been a pirate for more than ten years, and he had never seen this kind of fighting. Although the Fang family in the south is equipped with artillery, it is no secret to everyone. But it was so powerful that it tore up two warships in one face, and the power was still beyond the expectations of the Cao soldiers.

"Bed crossbow? At such a distance, it doesn't have much effect. Ready to take the board? But the opponent's formation is not a hand-to-hand formation. Launch the fire dragon, there are only two fire dragons on each ship, once you miss, you won't even have a chance to counterattack......" Before Zhang Yun, the Northern Yuan Guanjun Wanhu Zhang Yu could figure out what method to use to meet the battle, the Fang family fleet had already inserted into the gap in his fleet.

"Cut the left wing, prepare the right gunwales, shoot in batches!" Fang Zhenyue, the leader of the detachment, ordered loudly.

The seven battleships instantly turned their heads in an incredible way and circled in front of Zhang Yu. Like a wheel saw, it cut into the left wing of Zhang Yoo's fleet.

The sunlight suddenly dimmed, and dozens of huge fireballs, with the sound of wind and thunder, smashed near a four-masted sand ship near the center of Zhang Yu's fleet. The sea boiled, and like a beast awakened, it roared and opened its bloody mouth to swallow the sand boat.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third ships, at a distance of less than five hundred paces, the accuracy of the artillery was unprecedentedly improved, half of the circle could be completed, half of the twenty frigates of the Northern Yuan battle had been destroyed, and the remaining ten ships on the right side watched in amazement as their companions smoked and sank towards the surface of the water little by little.

On the battleship that had not yet sunk, the soldiers cried and jumped desperately into the water. I was lucky enough to grab a piece of broken wood and hold it in my arms. There was nothing to climb with bad luck, and they desperately slapped the water and swam towards their main fleet.

On the flagship of the detachment, another horn sounded. The seven battleships of the Fang family sailing into the distance slowly slowed down, turned around, circled half a circle, and accelerated back.

"Ballista preparation, trebuchet preparation, dragon ignition!" Guan Jun Wanhu Zhang Yu finally reacted this time and shouted with a crying voice.

A giant crossbow with more than a foot of branches flew towards the Fangjia detachment against the water, and the stones thrown by the trebuchet smashed huge splashes on the sea, blocking the way of the Fangjia detachment. The dragon roared out of the cabin, smoking and sweeping towards the white sails.

"Accelerate, cut the bevel, fire in a thousand steps!" Fang Zhenyue smiled contemptuously and ordered.

The sails of the ship opened together, like lotus flowers suddenly blooming on the sea. The speed of the fleet suddenly increased to the limit, and it flew over the boiling water like a dragon.

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