Compared with the invincible and invincible Mongol iron cavalry in the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, although the naval combat power of the Yuan Dynasty is also the world's leading level, it is often criticized, which has to talk about the two failed battles with mysterious colors in the Kublai Khan period at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.

After Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, he intended to make Japan subject to the Mongols like other regimes and peoples, so he sent envoys to Japan several times to demand unconditional submission.

In 1274 A.D., after repeated rejections, Kublai Khan felt extremely humiliated by this, so he resolutely ordered the preparation of ships and food and launched an offensive against Japan, which was also the first time that the Yuan Dynasty navy went east to Japan.

In this battle, although the Yuan Dynasty navy had some advantages in the early stage and captured the two Japanese islands, the navy at that time did not choose to camp on the shore, but chose to stay on the ships at night.

That night, a sudden storm sank more than 200 ships of the Yuan army, and the remaining army had to retreat.

Kublai Khan was very shocked when he heard the news, he didn't expect that a small country could compete with his invincible army, and he wanted to destroy the country even more, but at that time, it was in the final stage of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, and Kublai Khan could only send envoys to continue to persuade Japan to surrender.

But this time, the Japanese, who had become proud of their last success, actually directly beheaded the envoys sent by Kublai Khan!

This was the greatest insult to Kublai Khan, so in 1281 AD, the Yuan Dynasty navy made a second eastward expedition to Japan.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty had been destroyed, Kublai Khan could free up his hands and send a large number of troops to attack in two directions.

However, because the Jiangnan Army had too many troops and baggage, it was slow to move and did not join forces with the Eastern Route Army on time, so the Eastern Route Army, which could not wait, launched an attack first.

Since the last battle with the Yuan navy, the Japanese defending army had gained some defensive experience, and they used sufficient fortifications and elite troops to engage the Eastern Route Army and repel it.

It was not until the defeat of the Eastern Route Army that the Jiangnan troops arrived to join it, but the Yuan army after the rendezvous could not coordinate the battle due to the contradictions between the commanders of the Mongol, Goryeo, and Han armies, so the two sides confronted each other for more than two months, until a terrible typhoon hit the coast where the Yuan army camp was located......

This typhoon alone caused the Eastern Route Army to lose more than 30% of its troops, and the Jiangnan Army suffered more than half of the casualties, and the troops that did not have time to retreat were slaughtered or drowned by jumping into the sea under the pursuit of Japanese soldiers.

At this point, the two eastern crusades of the Yuan Dynasty navy were declared unsuccessful due to sudden natural disasters.

Enraged, Kublai Khan still wanted to continue the Third Crusade against Japan, but was eventually forced to give up due to the pressure of the imperial court's finances.

In addition to the bad luck of the Yuan army and the two terrible natural disasters suffered by the Yuan army, the failure of these two Eastern Crusades was also constrained by an objective fact.

That is, the naval warfare of this era was mainly for the purpose of transporting troops across the sea, which can be regarded as similar to the landing battle on the beach, rather than a decisive battle between the ships of the two sides at sea as later understanding.

In fact, the navigation technology of the Southern Song Dynasty and Arabia was fully integrated during the Yuan Dynasty, so that the navigation ability of ancient China reached its peak. The Second Expedition to Korea and the Battle of Yashan are enough to illustrate the strong maritime logistics capacity during the Yuan Dynasty.

In this historical context, coupled with the rich characteristics of Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions and the Yuan court's policy of encouraging maritime trade, the ability of military and civilian shipbuilding along the coast of the Yuan Dynasty was actually extremely top-notch.

Fortunately, Shen Fu had already mastered the Lu family's wealth, and the thousand-strong army formed by the disciples of the Ming Sect did not need food and armor, so there was enough economic support for Wen Xuan to buy ships to start this battle.

Being wantonly blown on his face by the salty sea breeze, Wen Xuan's calm heart rarely had a trace of waves.

Because it was the last day of the restaurant's deadline at this moment, he had been waiting for half an hour on the dock where he agreed to meet Su Sheng.

Why haven't you come yet? Could it be that something went wrong?

After all, this was Night Shadow's first action, and Wen Xuan's confidence was not very high.

He was hesitating to go to the city to investigate in person, when out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a fisherman sitting with his back to him.

If memory serves, this man had been sitting there long before he arrived, and now the clouds were dark, but he still wore a hat on his head......

It's really a perennial goose, but today I was pecked blind by the geese.

Wen Xuan suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, and raised his voice: "It's not a small amount of courage, you dare to tease me." ”

The fisherman took off his hat, turned around and smiled, revealing two rows of white teeth, which made Wen Xuan even more crying and laughing when he saw it.

Dressed as a fisherman and teasing Wen Xuan, isn't it Su Sheng or who?

"Boss, what's the matter, I didn't learn the skills you taught in vain, did I?"

Wen Xuan gave him a burst chestnut, "Teaching you skills is not for you to use on me." ”

Su Sheng smiled slyly: "Blowing the sea breeze more may be good for your body." ”

Wen Xuan smiled and nodded, since Mu Chong and the others arrived in Taizhou, he spent most of his time and energy on the recovery of his body.

After more than ten days of crazy exercise, although it still looks weak, in fact, his physical fitness has improved a lot, and his strength has become a little bigger.

"How's it going?"

Su Sheng bowed his head and said, "Don't worry, these brothers were a little rusty at first, but they soon became proficient and did better than they imagined." Right now, if you want to know how many flies there are in Taizhou City, they can probably figure out how many they are. ”

"Okay, don't glam your tongue here, get down to business."

Only then did Su Sheng put away his smile and replied seriously: "According to reliable information, Wang Fuzhi, the master of the Heart Moon Altar in Wenzhou, has already led his disciples to defect to Cai Chaotou a few days ago. ”

Wen Xuan said with some surprise: "Wang Fuzhi? I didn't expect him to be able to hold back so soon. ”

"I guess I was scared by you, so I had no choice but to join forces with Cai Chaotou."

"Where is their lair?"

"On a relatively remote island, Cai Lantou called it 'Wuyao Island'."

"How many people are there on the island?"

"Excluding the family members and children, Cai Lantou and Wang Fuzhi's Haikou have about a thousand people and more than 100 boats, but most of them are just small fishing boats."

"What about Taizhou City?"

"Including that restaurant, there are five strongholds in the city. Now only a small number of the remaining disciples were inserted by Cai Chaotou to find out about us, and the rest should be planning to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. ”