Li An stood on the command platform of a large steamship, raised his eyes to inspect the soldiers and horses and warships under his command, and was very satisfied in his heart, with such a powerful force, why worry that pirates would not be destroyed, why not worry about not being able to establish a maritime Silk Road. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Soldiers, do you know what our purpose is for going south?"

Ang Lee asked loudly.

"Exterminate the pirates and raise the prestige of my Tang Dynasty."

The soldiers shouted in unison.

"Okay, soldiers, the time has come for us to make meritorious contributions, go south to exterminate the pirates, and raise the prestige of our Tang Dynasty."

Ang Lee loudly boosted morale.

"Roar, Roar, Roar, ......Roar, Roar, Roar, Roar, T

The morale of the soldiers was high, and they were eager to immediately go south to exterminate the pirates in order to earn enough military merit.

Li An was greatly satisfied, waved his hand, and said loudly: "The army will immediately go south and set off." ”

"Woo woo woo ......"

After a loud trumpet, the various warships left the harbor in turn and headed due south.

At the forefront of the road are ten steam gunboats, they are responsible for guiding the whole team to march, followed by Li An's boat, and the steamship that has been loaded with soldiers and horses, there are several steam gunboats on each side to escort, and then there is a celestial army mothership and five landing ships, the logistics supply ship is at the end, escorted by the remaining many steam gunboats, the whole team has more than 100 ships, and the mighty departure can be regarded as spectacular.

With a compass to point the way, Ang Lee is not worried that the fleet will get lost on the sea, and as for the occasional pirate ship, he has no worries, a few cannons can bombard them away.

On the deck of the big ship, Ang Lee sat on the luxurious sofa, looking up at the brilliant starry sky overhead, holding a glass of high-end wine in his hand, and took a few sips casually.

"Sit down, all of you."

Due to the relatively large area of the deck, Ang Lee planned to hold a banquet on the big ship to celebrate the southward march of the army.

There are three rows of seats on the left and right sides, which are enough to accommodate more than 50 people at the same time, and the vacant area in the middle is also enough for singing and dancing performances.

The commanders of the various armies and the officials sent by the imperial court all took their seats, and the larger the official position, the higher the seat.

There is a small table in front of each seat, no, it would be more appropriate to call it a coffee table, on which a large number of fine wines and delicacies are placed for everyone to enjoy.

"You eat and drink to your heart's content, don't be polite if you don't add more."

There were two beauties waiting beside Li An, and more than a dozen dancing girls were dancing in the open space in front of him, and more than a dozen beauties were pouring wine for officials and generals.

These are all local singers and beauties in Guangzhou, it was Ang Lee who asked for the history of Guangzhou, and the long road to the south must be quite lonely, how can he be worthy of himself without a few beauties.

The generals and colonels of the army are all rude people, and they sit down to eat and drink very unceremoniously, and even, very dishonestly, secretly stroke the pink little hands of the wine beauties, and the officials are also all the way, but they are a little more restrained, and they seem to be more gentlemen.

"This is the wine tributed by the Western Regions, in the past, the transportation was inconvenient, and it could only be drunk in the palace, but now that the train has entered the countries of the Western Regions, you can also drink such a fine wine, drink as much as you want, and you don't have to save it for the official."

Li An asked generously.

"Thank you Li Shilang, then we're welcome, haha!"

Zhang Erniu drank happily.

"Li Shilang, all the soldiers of the Heavenly Army, resolutely obey your command, and the last general will do it first."

The southbound brigade was drinking a glass of wine heartily.

Ang Lee happily drank a lot of wine with everyone, and the beauties also danced a lot of dances, and the whole deck was in a happy atmosphere.

After midnight, everyone took a small boat to return to their respective battle positions, and only a few people such as Li Feiyu still stayed on Li An's boat.

"Big brother, it's not early, let's rest early!"

Li Feiyu said.

"I'm so excited, I can't sleep! Are you sleepy? ”

Ang Lee smiled.

"What the eldest brother said is, I don't seem to be sleepy!"

Li Feiyu smiled awkwardly.

"This time we have a great responsibility to go south to open up the Maritime Silk Road, but with so many soldiers, it doesn't seem to be much difficult to complete this task, and we have to make meritorious contributions again, so lonely!"

Ang Lee sighed.

"Big brother, with so many beauties with you, how can you be lonely?"

Li Feiyu looked confused.

Li An smiled: "What does it have to do with beauty, I'm talking about opponents, now our strength is too strong, so strong that we can't find an opponent anymore, every time we fight, it's an easy victory, isn't it very lonely?" ”

There is a famous saying called loneliness and defeat, which means that after the level of people reaches the top, they will never meet opponents again, so that life will seem very lonely, and all they see are admiration and admiration eyes, and no one can get along with themselves on an equal footing, and talk to each other on an equal footing, so it will naturally become extremely lonely.

At this moment, there is a huge generation gap between the sailors and pirate equipment led by Li An, and it is not a level at all, if it is a head-on confrontation, the pirates are not enough to fight, even if the command is not right, it is unlikely to be defeated by the pirates, and the battle without defeat is destined to be lonely.

"What the eldest brother said is that we really haven't lost a battle for a long time, it's quite lonely, or let's have a lost battle and have fun?"

Li Feiyu said half-jokingly.

"Haha! Fight a defeated battle and have fun, I want to! However, the lives of the soldiers cannot be played with, and the defeat of the battle is doomed to death. ”

Ang Lee smiled, thinking the proposal was interesting.

Looking up at the starry sky, what you see is a shining Milky Way, very beautiful, very grandiose, and refreshing.

In two days at most, the elite naval division led by Li An can reach the Xisha Sea and annihilate the group of pirates closest to the border of the Tang Dynasty.

Because this group of pirates is the closest to the border and has done the most bad things, many of Datang's merchant ships were robbed by them just a few days after they set off, and this group of pirates was configured in echelons before and after, and they couldn't avoid the first level but couldn't avoid the following levels, and the possibility of avoiding them all was very small, besides, there were so many pirates behind, and the maritime merchants really couldn't afford to hurt if they had no way, and the cost of hiring guards in a group was too high, which could really be described as miserable.

It's still nice to lie on the deck, you can look at the stars in the sky and count how many there are.

"One, two, three, four, five......"

Like a child, Ang Lee was carefully counting the stars in the sky, and fell asleep unconsciously before he counted to a hundred.

When he woke up early the next morning, Li An was still on the deck, but he was covered with a thick cotton blanket.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing Li Ang saw was the blue sky, and countless seagulls, obviously, there were land or islands not far away, otherwise, it would be impossible for seagulls to appear, because seagulls must rely on land to survive, and islands are necessary for seagulls to survive.

"Ah Lang, you're awake!"

Yuna came over with breakfast.

"You put this blanket on me?"

Ang Lee asked with a smile.

"Ah Lang fell asleep last night, and the slave was afraid of waking Ah Lang, so she covered Ah Lang with a blanket."

Yuna smiled and replied very lightly.

"Ah Lang is so dishonest when he falls asleep, he always pushes the blanket off, and Sister Yun'er wants to re-cover the blanket for Ah Lang from time to time, and he hasn't slept well all night."

The beautiful girl came over and said.

"Oh, there is such a thing, no wonder Yun'er's eyes look a little haggard, Yun'er, come here, let Ah Lang take a look."

Li An said with concern.

"Ah Lang, breakfast is ready, hurry up and eat it! Slaves and maids are out of the way. ”

Yuna said as she handed a poached egg and a plate of bean sprouts to Ang Lee.

Poached eggs are Ang Lee's must-eat breakfast every morning, fried mung bean sprouts are a side dish, after all, poached eggs are a bit oily, and the appetite for poached eggs is not good enough, add some crisp and refreshing mung bean sprouts, the effect will be better, and from the perspective of nutrition, it is also more nutritious.

Li Ang looked closely and found that the corners of Yun'er's eyes were swollen, and it really looked like she hadn't slept well.

"Yun'er, I worked hard for you last night, come, sit down and eat together!"

Li An said movingly.

"Ah Lang, the slave doesn't dare."

Yuna said respectfully.

"Just sit in my arms, what dare you dare."

Li Ang rudely pulled Yun'er into his arms, gently stroked the corners of Yun'a's swollen eyes, and kissed her on the earlobe.

"Ah Lang, the poached eggs are going to be cold."

Yuna pursed her lips and smiled, quite a charming charm.

"Yun'er, open your mouth, the first bite is given to you, open your mouth quickly."

Ang Lee picked up a corner of the poached egg with chopsticks and gently put it to Yun'a's mouth for Yun'er to eat.

Seeing this, Yun'er naturally couldn't help but eat, opened her lips lightly, and ate the poached egg.

"Open your mouth, take another bite."

Ang Lee continued to feed Yuna.

"Ah Lang, I've eaten it all, what are you eating!"

Yuna smiled.

"It's okay, watching you eat, Ah Lang is happy, you worked hard last night, go to sleep when you're full!"

Ang Lee continued to feed.

After Yun'er was full, Li An asked her to go back and have a good rest, and at the same time, asked her to make a new breakfast, but he hadn't eaten it yet?

"Big brother, the fleet has arrived in the south of Yazhou, and the horizon in the distance is the southernmost port in Yazhou."

Li Feiyu pointed to the coastline in the distance and spoke.

Li An raised his eyes and saw that a long coastline appeared in the distance, that is, Yazhou, that is, Hainan Island in later generations, which was a very important island and was very important to the Tang Empire.

"Yazhou is lonely overseas, will there be pirates?"

Ang Lee said casually.

"It seems that there are, but they are all hidden pirate eyes and ears, after all, there are Tang sailors in Yazhou, and there are thousands of Tang officials and soldiers on the island, and pirates dare not blatantly do bad things."

Li Feiyu said.

Li An nodded and said: "Then don't worry about this, go south directly to attack the pirate's lair, this battle must destroy all the pirates, and you can't let go of a ship." ”

"What the eldest brother said is that the pirates have done so many bad things over the years and must be severely punished."

Li Feiyu said loudly.

The fleet of more than 100 ships continued to sail south, and since the location of the island was slightly westerly, the direction of the fleet was also adjusted, and it was sailing in a southwesterly direction.

After breakfast, Li An stood on the bow of the big ship, watching the big ship chopping waves, his heart was very heroic, he felt like a hero, of course, he was originally a hero, no one ever doubted this, almost all the people of the Tang Dynasty regarded Li An as a hero.

Along the way, I met many fishermen who went out to sea to fish, and there were also merchant ships returning to Datang from the South Seas, which were sparse and very small in scale.

The fleet led by Ang Lee would always amaze them, and the fishermen and merchants on board would always stand on the deck and look at these behemoths in amazement.

The biggest feature of the steam ship is the smoking chimney, which can be found from a long distance, in addition, the speed of the steam ship is also very fast, at least twice the speed of the sailboat, the pursuit of the sailboat is trivial, and the pursuit against the wind is even more awesome, one chase one accurate.

"Big brother, at the current rate, before dawn tomorrow, you should be able to reach the location of the pirate's lair."

Li Feiyu said.

"Well, I guess the pirates didn't know we were coming at this point? Our ships were much faster than the pirates' fishing boats, and even if they found out we were leaving, they wouldn't have time to tell the news. ”

Li An smiled indifferently.

"What the eldest brother said is that the pirates have only one day left to be happy, and tomorrow at dawn, our army will be more difficult to fly than if they have wings."

Li An took the map, looked at the Xisha Sea, and said: "This location should be the pirate's lair, after dawn tomorrow, as long as the wind speed and waves are suitable, the Heavenly Army will immediately go to this generation to reconnoitre, and the gunboats will disperse and attack, surround this area, and don't let go of a pirate ship." ”

"Yes, big brother, I'll arrange it."

Li Feiyu responded.

Li An relaxed his waist and paced back and forth on the deck of the steamship, today's weather is very good, it is a sunny day, the sky is full of white seagulls, chirping and calling different, which makes people's mood even better.

"Ah Lang, what is that, it's so big?"

Since Yuna went back to sleep, the beauty was in charge of serving Ang Lee, and she had been following Ang Lee's side, when she suddenly saw the movement of the sea, she was immediately shocked.

When Li An heard this, he looked into the sea, good guy, it was actually a huge whale, and it was also the largest blue whale, and that head could really scare people to death.

"Beauty, aren't you from Silla? How could it be that you haven't seen a whale? This is the biggest blue whale in the sea! ”

Li An asked in surprise.

"Blue whale, this is a whale! I was sold to Chang'an City since I was a child, and I have never seen a whale. ”

The beautiful woman answered truthfully, and looked at the behemoth in front of her in horror.

A large part of the members of the southbound army are inland people, and they have never seen the ocean in their lives, let alone the largest whale in the ocean, and they all stretched their necks and looked curiously at the monsters in the ocean.

"Oh, I see, then enjoy it! In a few moments, this guy will sink to the bottom of the sea. ”

Li An said lightly.

Whales are marine mammals that breathe by their lungs and must surface every once in a while to breathe or be suffocated to death.