The next day, the dawn broke, and the mouth of the Red River was already in sight.

Although the mouth of the Ganghe River has the good vision of the two bosses, whether the Ganghe River can be navigated by large ships has not been confirmed in detail after all, so Jinghua, the fleet that claims to have come to take revenge, at least this time has to go to the Red River.

At this time, several small islands appeared in the sea, and the fleet had to pass between them to enter the estuary. However, Gao Jue stood on the bridge and looked at it, and found that the elevation of these small islands was extremely low, and there were almost no ups and downs on the islands, so perhaps it would be more appropriate to call them "sandbanks".

"The islands are in a good location." Gao Jue looked at it for a while and said, "If the terrain is a little higher, it would be quite good to set up a fort on top of it to control the estuary." ”

Boss Li shook his head slightly, and said: "The people of Annan may have never considered this matter, there is no sign at all, I have passed through here at least a dozen times, there should only be a few fishermen living on the island, whether it can be regarded as a fishing village, I am afraid it is not easy to say." ”

"Lao Li is right, I haven't found Mo's army here." Boss Hu nodded and said: "It is said that the armament of the Mo clan is relatively backward, especially in terms of firearms, and it has begun to lag behind the Li Dynasty in the south. ”

When Gao Jue heard this, he paid attention to it and asked, "The Li Dynasty in the south has made considerable progress in firearms?" "Sure enough, the people in charge of the armed forces are more concerned about the issue of armaments than where it is suitable to open the port for business.

Boss Hu said: "The Li Dynasty can't talk about any progress or progress, it's just that they seem to have started a business with the Franc Machine, bought some cannons from the Franc Machine, and I heard that they even bought two warships, hoping to fight against the Mo's Naval Army that has been pressing them." ”

Gao Jue frowned, he knew that the lord called them Portuguese, these people were good at navigation, and even the lord paid more attention to them. In fact, the development of artillery in the Ming Dynasty was improved in the early years of Jiajing because of the capture of the artillery of the Francophone man, and later it was imported while imitating and improving, so that it has its current appearance.

Even Jinghua's artillery is currently an improved version of the Franc cannon, which shows the level of the Franc man, if the Li Dynasty in the south is also importing the artillery of the Franc machine, there may be some trouble at that time.

Of course, he wouldn't have said these words to Boss Hu and Boss Li.

On the shores of the island, there are a few fishing boats with a few nets hanging from them, and the boats are bobbing the busy figures of early fishermen.

Seeing such a huge fleet coming, many Annam fishermen stopped their work and silently watched the fleet pass by.

These fishermen at the mouth of the Red River have long been accustomed to seeing big boats, but they usually see the sailors of the "imperial court", but the question is that didn't the sailors go south to fight against Li Yi some time ago?

And although this fleet knew at a glance that it was going to enter the estuary, it didn't look like the imperial court's fleet, and the flags on these ships didn't seem to be the imperial court's flags, oh...... It's a bit like the ship of the Ming Kingdom.

Could it be that Da Ming finally found out that our Mo clan Annan is the most obedient, and now he has sent a large army to help us pacify Li Yi?

Alas, forget it, we can't understand the things above, and the affairs of the Ming Kingdom are even more incomprehensible, so let's not hurt this brain, anyway, everything will naturally be topped by the court.

At this time, Jinghua's fleet slowly sailed between the two small islands, and the estuary was already close in sight, and several barges were moored in the sea between the islands and the estuary.

"It seems that these Annan people have no ill will towards us, or they don't know anything, or they dare not have any ill will towards us...... In short, it's all good. Gao Jue smiled, relaxed a little, and said, "Although there are no suitable ports in this area, it seems that there are still some merchants doing business here?" ”

Since the mouth of the Red River is not a port, there is no decent wharf, and it is impossible to berth large-tonnage ships, so these barges act as floating wharves and warehouses, and merchants from abroad unload the goods onto the barge, and the buyers on the shore take small boats and rowing boats to the barge to buy, and take their own boats and boats to carry the purchased goods back.

"Yes, it's an estuary, after all." Boss Li said, "There are still some business opportunities, the sea ship enters the inland river, the seaworthiness will become a little worse, coupled with the wind direction and wind power and other problems, will have an impact on the sea ship, so the general foreign businessmen, if the transaction is not too big, is generally too lazy to go to Shenglong along the Red River, but to complete the transaction here at the mouth of the Red River." ”

Boss Hu said: "These barges, compared to the next one, seem to have a few more, but somehow? ”

Boss Li counted it, thought for a while, nodded his head, and said, "It seems that yes, maybe it's because the war between the Mo clan and the Li clan has started again, so the demand for some materials has become greater." The implication is that there are more foreign merchants.

The boat entered the estuary, and although the nearby fishermen did not show any ill will towards Jinghua's large fleet, Gao Jue still ordered the formation to raise its vigilance.

Who knew that this guard was really not superfluous, and it didn't take long for the "lookout" on the mast to find out about the situation.

"Report, the river has been found on the river ahead!"

The fleet immediately began to lower the sails, slowed down, and finally stopped.

Not far from the middle of the river, there is a long slip of "the river on the horse", this kind of inserted in the middle of the river "the horse" is about one zhang wide, less than two zhang of the appearance, usually two "horse rejection" side by side, the distance between each other is also more than one zhang, less than two zhang. There are two rows in front and back, about 10 zhang apart.

However, these "rejection horses" are not in a straight line, but staggered back and forth, in an "S" shape, like a long snake about five feet wide, winding in the direction of the upstream.

Gao Jue made the lookout report clearer, and the lookout may have counted for a while before reporting that there were a total of thirty rows, that is, sixty "river chuns", which stretched about two miles from front to back.

Hechun is not a new tactic, and Daming himself will do it, especially for Gao Heng, who has participated in the battle against the Japanese invaders, it is a leftover thing: first sharpen one end of the wooden stake and ram it into the bottom of the river, and then, fix the "rejection horse" at the other end of the wooden stake exposed to the river, that is, it will become the "Hechun" that hinders the advance of the enemy ships.

The "River Tsubaki" in front of you, which enemy ship is being used to hinder it? It seems to be lice on a bald head—obviously.

But Gao Jue frowned slightly, feeling that this situation was a bit unexpected, the Annan people had already known our whereabouts in advance? How would they know?

You must know that the setting of these 60 "river tsubakis" is by no means a casual thing to say and be done immediately, even if it is prepared, it will take at least a whole day's work. And this batch of "river chun" must have been arranged before the fleet reached the sea off the mouth of the Red River, so if this batch of "river chun" was indeed used to deal with the "snake hunting operation", then the Annan people must have known the whereabouts of the Jinghua fleet in advance.

But that doesn't make sense! Even if Annan is on guard against the Ming Dynasty, the focus on the sea should be the Guangdong sailor, Qinzhou Port has just been built, and these ships are moored at the temporary wharf before he comes.