Chapter 391: The Paper-Paste Yong'an Army
Looking at the turtle ship that appeared in this world nearly five hundred years in advance, Tian Shiyi's gloomy mood for more than ten days finally improved.
The improved turtle ship was lightweight, simple and sturdy, fast and powerful, and was the most advanced warship five hundred years later, let alone today.
The largest warship was not a turtle ship, but a pure gunboat designed with the original shape of the Zheng Chenggong Zheng family's boat, with a length of nearly 30 zhang, which can be called a giant ship of this era.
Although there is no artillery yet, Shuangyu Island has already drummed out the first generation of ballistae according to Tian Shiyi's design plan. All kinds of large, medium and small ballistae are installed on warships, although they are not as sharp as artillery, but the stout giant crossbow arrows are also unparalleled weapons. What's more, the crossbow arrows of the Heaven-Sent Alliance can also carry special gunpowder packs, which are equivalent to delayed explosive shells.
Under this kind of armament, there is no warship on the sea in the whole world that can match the Heavenly Alliance.
Hearing that someone had come to fetch the ship, and that it was a messenger who had come, the shipyard supervisor ran over wearing a shoe. He was afraid that the three boats would be robbed like this, and now the Jiangning Ship Division is so poor that he can't even pay his wages, if he can't receive the money, hundreds of officials from top to bottom are afraid that they will be forced to throw themselves into the river to feed Wang Ba.
It's annoying to talk about money, King Hui is a greedy for money, relying on his relationship with the prefect of Jiangning, and he hasn't given a penny from beginning to end. Now King Hui's old thing has been cut down by Fang La, but this money has to be given by the God-given Alliance.
Listening to the sky-high price of one million yuan offered by the Supervision Division, Tian Shiyi looked at the Supervision Division with a smile.
The supervisor sweated on his forehead, and he knew that the price was too outrageous. At the beginning, I found out that it was a businessman from Hangzhou who came to pick up the ship, but I don't know why it was a minister who came. Although it is forbidden for businessmen to buy warships, the Jiangning Shipyard, which can't open the pot, can't take care of those, so they want to hate and knock on a deal to solve the urgent need.
Since you pretend to be a chincha, you must have the momentum of a chincha. Tian Shiyi pointed to the tattered and unusable trebuchets on the three warships, the inferior clapsticks installed on the ships, and the various fierce fire oil tanks with big holes and small eyes, and scolded the supervisor severely.
When the scolding was over, the people threw the tattered on the three boats into the dock, and directly ordered people to start preparations, and today they will take the three warships to open Jiangning.
The superintendent was so frightened that his soul was almost gone, and he knelt on the ground and said that if he couldn't receive the money, the officials at all levels would definitely skin him alive.
Because it is not good, it is too difficult to be the supervisor, but the money has to be spent in the open, and it is impossible for people to blackmail at will, so Tian Shiyi directly took the supervisor to Jiangning Mansion together. The Jiangning Shipping Division is under the management of the Jiangning prefect, and if you want to negotiate and get people, of course, you must choose the Jiangning prefect who counts.
The three brand-new warships sailed into the Yangtze River without even experiencing the trial voyage, and went to Jiangning Mansion with more than a dozen riverships of the Tianci Army.
The Heavenly Army will get out more than a dozen river boats to carry the booty captured from Liangshan and Zengtou City. In order to transport these booty to the canal, Tian Shiyi used the name of Qincha to recruit thousands of people from the local government. It's just that those people are all paid, and Tian Shiyi is afraid that he won't be able to do it in his life if he eats people and doesn't spit out bones.
Looking at his three brand-new warships, Tian Shiyi was in a happy mood, and finally named the three warships respectively, Victory, Dreadnought, and Brave.
Although the Manichaean rebels had not yet arrived in Runzhou, Jiangning Prefecture, which was still separated from the rebels, was in chaos. When the Tianci army arrived in Jiangning, the city of Jiangning was being attacked by more than 100,000 people.
When the war came, Jiang Ning naturally closed the city gate, although he had the identity of a fake Qincha, but he still couldn't open the city gate. Reluctantly, the supervisor of the shipyard went into the city alone to find the prefect of Jiangning, waited for several hours, and let the officials sent by Jiangning inspect the fish bags of the officials, and more than a dozen large ships of the Tianci army were allowed to enter through the water gate. As for the three warships of the Victory, the Intrepid and the Brave, they had already gone straight down the river to the sea.
After entering the city, I realized that the more than 100,000 people besieging Jiangning were all exiles who were coerced by others. Because the Manichaean rebels burned and looted in the south of the Yangtze River, the people rushed to flee, but the prefect of Jiangning was worried that the displaced people would be mixed with the Manichaean rebels, so they refused to allow the displaced people to enter the city. Later, a bandit named the Five Kings took the opportunity to spread rumors that the imperial court was going to starve the displaced people to death outside Jiangning City, which led to the current war.
Tian Shiyi felt that the name of the five kings was somewhat familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that after defeating the Jiangning Water Master, these five kings had wanted to take refuge in Taihu Lake Water Village, and also put forward the request to be the second leader of Taihu Lake Water Village, but was rejected by Niu Gao, and was also taught a lesson by Monk Fang.
The military affairs of the Great Song Dynasty were slack, and the Yong'an Army guarding Jiangning was defeated by the Jiangning Navy rebels who lacked armament. Fortunately, the siege of the city was carried out by some outcasts, and if the Manichaean rebels came, I am afraid that they would have already been lost.
The ship of the Tianci Alliance had just docked at the dock, but was shocked to hear that the Yong'an army had been defeated and that the displaced people had broken through the city gate. Tian Shiyi's face was full of consternation, a group of homeless people could break through the city, is the Yong'an Army paper-paste?
The homeless people are just the people who have lost their land and livelihood, but the homeless people with knives in their hands will immediately become thieves who burn, kill, rob, rape, and plunder, and sometimes their cruelty will be better than that of thieves who have been evil for many years. If more than 100,000 displaced people are allowed to enter the city, Jiangning Mansion is afraid that corpses will be scattered all over the field and turn into ruins within a few days.
Tian Shiyi hurriedly sent the Tianci Army and the Bright Sword Team out together, and immediately fought back to the city gate to save the lives of the people in the city, but he himself took the ace army and went straight to the palace. If you go a little late, I'm afraid that the prefect of Jiangning Mansion will go out of the city and flee for his life.
Brother Eleven has no intention of pretending to be the prefect of Jiangning again, he has enough things to do, how can he have time to delay here.
Although there were some war horses on the ship, the ace army did not know how to ride horses, so Wang Jin rushed to Jiangning Mansion first. When Tian Shiyi brought people to the outside of the mansion, he saw the prefect who was about to escape. If it weren't for the king's timely arrival, he smashed the wheels of all the carriages with another stick, and the eleventh brother would definitely not have seen the golden face of the prefect.
Seeing that the ace army was coming in full armor, the Yongan soldiers who were besieging Wang Jin under the prefect's order dispersed in a hurry, and the prefect and his family members were also frightened and fled back to the government while screaming, and covered the door of the government with a "bang".
Sun Youai took the ace army to drink "Lord Qincha" and arrived, and only after passing the tea and kung fu mansion gate opened a crack, an old porter poked his head out in fear, and after watching it for a long time, he was sure that the ace army did not mean to rob and kill.
When the prefect heard that it was really Lord Qincha who had arrived, he opened the door of the government and let Tian Shiyi into the government.
The prefect was very annoyed that he was prevented from escaping, but the envoy made it clear that he was not allowed to go, and the carriage was smashed again, so he had to grit his teeth and stare at Tian Shiyi and ask what he wanted.