Ten wagons and ships were quietly moored in the harbor, the sergeants of the ships stood solemnly on both sides of the ships with their hands behind their backs, and the ships swayed with the undulating waves, but the soldiers stood there steadily, not moving.

This is a team of sailors who have been practicing for more than two years. Now, they're finally coming in handy.

When Li Ze entered Chang'an for the first time, when Li Xin took him across the Yellow River, he dispatched some of the only remaining warships in the Tang Dynasty, which made Li Ze sigh with emotion.

In its heyday, the Tang Dynasty was the overlord of the sea, but in this era, those warships that worked hard to maintain but were ultimately hard to resist the erosion of time were like an old man, although he tried his best to show his former martial arts, but still made people see his weakness at a glance.

Li Ze was originally a man who wanted to be the king of the pirates, and naturally he had a special love for battleships. In Chang'an, he has been searching for talents with warship manufacturing technology and battleship manufacturing. He didn't believe that a huge empire that once had the most powerful sailor in the world had withered to nothing in just over a hundred years.

The hard work paid off, and in the more than a year that Qianniuwei Mansion was stationed in Chang'an, they finally found what Li Ze wanted. In the deepest part of a warehouse of the Tang Army, in some dusty wooden boxes, they found a complete set of materials for the construction of ships such as ships, vehicles and ships, and even sea falcon warships.

And the price they paid was only five taels of silver for the veterans guarding the treasury.

These silk-bound books, which were useless in the eyes of those veterans, were all transported to Wuyi in one go. There are indeed not many people who know how to build ships, but it is not nothing. As long as there is a little bit of relevant knowledge, it will be taken away by Wuyi's ideas, and Li Ze even sent people to the shipyards in Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Jiangnan in Lingnan to dig up the corners of other people's walls. Once a person is favored by Wuyi, there is only one result in the end, and that is to go to Haixing to settle down. Those old stubborns who are not moved by high salaries, then hijack them by force.

Haixing Shipyard was developed from a small shipyard that could only repair boats.

When a large amount of capital and technical talents have poured here, under the attention of the top leaders all the time, Haixing Shipyard has begun to rise at an astonishing speed.

From the very beginning of building some small boats, to now, Haixing Shipyard has truly copied the sea giant, Haigull, in the Tang Dynasty.

Compared with the rapid development of shipbuilding technology, what really made Li Ze scratch his head was the talent who could command water operations. There are sailors and sailors in many sections in the south of the Yangtze River, but those warships, Li Ze can't look down on, they are all made of some civilian ships, and they are completely different from real warships. Moreover, these generals who know how to fight water are basically those cronies of the festival, how can they be dug up?

What Li Ze wants is a fleet that can really crisscross the sea.

Naval warfare and inland water warfare are completely different concepts.

In the end, this problem was solved by Kim Man-do.

The business is all over the world, and Jin Mantang, who also has a fleet at sea, chose a sea giant for Li Ze. This big pirate named Pan Motang, who had a broken arm and an iron hook on his hand, finally did not resist the temptation of Wuyi and defected to Li Ze.

Pan Motang, the once glorious iron hook, is old, and he can no longer fully control the pirate leaders under his command, but he himself is withering, and several sons are either sick and dead in bed, or they die at sea, and now the Pan family, the grandson generation can't support the overall situation at all, Pan Motang knows that once he dies, he is afraid that his family property, as well as this fleet, will be swallowed by his wolf-like men.

In such a situation, it is impossible for the relatives and relatives of the former great chief to survive.

And Li Ze gave him another choice.

Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot. As long as he passes, he will no longer be a pirate, but a serious court officer, a dignified sailor general.

The iron hook gathered all his men, and those who were willing to go with him went with him, and those who still wanted to be pirates were left to them, but from then on, the two sides broke off their righteousness, and if they met at sea in the future, they would see their own means.

In the end, the four leaders under the iron hook Pan Motang left with their subordinates, they were still young, and they preferred to live an unrestrained life on the roaring sea, not wanting to be supervised and restrained. In the end, Pan Motang only took five warships and more than 1,000 subordinates to Haixing.

This made the iron hook Pan Motang very faceless, and it also made him extremely worried about his prospects after defecting to Li Ze. But when things came to this point, he couldn't help but go forward.

But the feeling of being betrayed is really not very good.

Fortunately, Li Ze fulfilled his promise.

The current iron hook Pan Motang is crazy when the old man talks about it.

Several grandchildren have entered Wuwei Academy to study, and the women and children in the family have all settled in Wuyi, although Wuyi has every inch of land, but for Pan Motang, who has been a pirate all his life, money is just a small meaning.

In three years, he witnessed how the Datang Sailor developed step by step from scratch. The power of a court is far from what a former pirate like him can imagine.

The first vehicle ship was launched.

The first ship was launched.

The first new warship that combined vehicle and ship technology with ship-shooting technology was successfully launched.

It wasn't until last year that the first Sea Falcon went to sea for sea trials.

Pan Motang, the iron hook, once stood on the Sea Falcon and cried loudly, and then laughed heartily.

Only by standing on a warship like the Sea Falcon class can you truly feel the thrill of roaring the sea.

The warship he had used to rob at sea was as vulnerable to the Seafalcon-class warship as a child's toy.

He even imagined how happy he must have been when he led this luxurious fleet on the sea to meet his former subordinates, and saw their frightened and regretful looks.

Of course, it would be even better to be able to use these ships to bury these betrayers in the sea one by one.

Although the grandchildren have not been in Wuwei Academy for a long time, Iron Hook can feel their significant changes, whether it is talking or doing things, they first develop towards a normal person, and now, they have a few aristocratic temperaments. This makes Iron Hook the happiest the most.

That's all he has for this life, but after his grandson's generation, he can transform himself into a nobleman, what else do he want in this life? It's nothing more than fighting for this old body and fighting for a better future for your children and grandchildren.

He had even planned to take his eldest grandson on board when he was sixteen years old, so that he could inherit his business. As the eldest grandson of the Pan family, he must become the pillar of the Pan family after his death.

He worked diligently and worked hard day and night.

He let Li Ze's sailor grow from scratch, from weak to strong, day by day. From the very beginning, he was a lieutenant general of the naval division, and now he has been promoted to the rank of general of Lou Chuan.

Li Hao went to him two years ago to learn the knowledge of water masters.

Iron Hook Pan Motang is a pirate, but it doesn't mean that he has no vision and no scheming, Li Hao's arrival made him see another opportunity. In Haixing's days, he still roughly figured out the Zhenzhou system. Li Hao is Li Ze's cronies. Such a person to follow himself to learn the knowledge of sailors is an excellent opportunity for him to take a big boat, and he believes that his sincerity will eventually reach Li Ze through Li Hao's mouth. This is more useful than showing loyalty ten thousand times in front of Li Ze.

Li Hao, in fact, also wants to seize this opportunity.

As an army general, he is actually lagging behind in the secret camp lineage. Like Li Mi, Li De, Li Rui, Li Han, etc., they are all now with great achievements, far surpassing themselves, on land, he thinks that even if he works hard, it will be difficult to catch up with them, which makes it difficult for him, as the leader of the previous secret camp, to compete with Li Mi for the position of boss, it is difficult for him to accept.

If you want to rebuild your position, you naturally have to take a different path. Li Ze attaches great importance to the sailor, he has been stationed in Dizhou over the years, often going back and forth to Cangzhou, Haixing and other places, and he has also seen the sailor growing stronger day by day, and the sailor may be a better way out for himself.

The two hit it off, and Li Hao simply worshipped Pan Motang as his master directly.

And Pan Motang also taught him without concealment.

Pan Motang needs Li Hao's bridge to become Li Ze's descendant, and Li Hao needs Pan Motang's knowledge and even those subordinates who Pan Motang used to be above the sea.

Pan Motang wanted to slaughter these betrayers, but Li Hao didn't think so. Maybe one day, those people will become his minions across the sea!

In the past two years, Li Hao has devoted more energy to this water division.

One day, I will go to sea.

Li Hao, who stepped on the battleship, stroked the cold side of the ship, thinking silently in his heart.

Inland river warships naturally cannot be compared with sea warships, and just one leader is too much worse. Haixing's fleet, the smallest is also three stories high, more than 20 zhang long, can carry hundreds of people, not to mention the Sea Falcon-class warships, although the river warships in front of them integrate the most advanced technology such as shooting ships and vehicles and ships, but in terms of momentum, they are far from being comparable to sea warships.

As for the warships converted from the civilian ships of the Pingzhen Naval Division, Li Hao didn't put them in the corner of his eyes at all, they were just a plate of snacks on his table.

He walked to the top of the flagship, waved his hand, and the trumpeter next to him immediately blew the military horn in his hand, and the flag bearer on the other side immediately waved the order flag in his hand.

All the soldiers on the ship were busy in an instant.

"Set sail!" Li Hao said in a deep voice.

The battle to recover Pinglu officially began from the moment the warship set sail.