Such a win-win situation Tong Guan naturally had no reason to object, and his army was strengthened by artillery. Zhang Yang can get valuable war horses to form cavalry.

Of course, in order to avoid giving people a handle, the scale of this transaction was not large, Han Shizhong got three 36-pound cannons and 20 nine-catty cannons, plus the self-made artillery he got from the Ministry of Industry, his number of artillery pieces has reached fifty-three!

Similarly, Zhang Yang also got the war horse he urgently needed, plus the one he bought himself, and finally gathered a cavalry of 1,000 people.

In February, the 20,000-strong army finally had a certain combat effectiveness, of course, because most of them were new recruits, and the real combat effectiveness must be very limited. Zhang Yang, who firmly believes that practice brings true knowledge, decided to take some people out to see blood in order to sharpen them, so as not to be strained when they really go to the battlefield and see a big scene!

The Great Song Dynasty is definitely not good at home, Zhang Yang set his sights overseas, and the only thing that can make Zhang Yang think about it subjectively and objectively is Japan!

Haizhou is relatively close to Japan, and there are several large islands along the way to get supplies, and at this time Japan was at the end of the 'Heian period', political turmoil, the rapid rise of the samurai class represented by Genji and Taira, and in another thirty years, Japan will enter a civil war, and this is indeed a good time to invade.

"Zhang Long, immediately select a thousand outstanding soldiers from among the recruits, take a boat from Huaishui to Haizhou, and go to sea by boat at the beginning of this month."

"Yes, sir."

Zhang Yang carefully studied the map and the history of this era, from Haizhou to Nagasaki on the Japanese island of Kyushu is only seven or eight hundred nautical miles, and there are two large islands along the way, Jeju Island and Fukue Island can be docked, for the safety of future routes, these two islands must be occupied!

Jeju Island was originally an independent country called Tamna. In 1105, it was occupied by Goryeo and set up as Tamna County, and the population of the island was not more than 10,000 people, so the population was still very confident that it would be captured.

Moreover, this year, Goryeo's Ruizong is going to die, his successor is only a 14-year-old Sao Nian, and the domestic and foreign relatives are powerful, how much energy can Goryeo have to deal with the Zhang Yang warship in this situation?

As for Japan, because the time is too tight, Zhang Yang can only regretfully run over and grab a handful and come back...

After Zhang Yang's order was issued, Zhang Long went to the barracks to start selecting soldiers who met the requirements, while Ma Han went to Haizhou with a 100-man artillery team and 20 nine-pound guns.

Because the 36-pound cannon was too large to fit into the already built Fu ship, I could only regret missing this naval battle.

"0437, I'm going to buy another T-1000 robot."

"Received the Elect command, extracting..."

This war will definitely not be missed, not only because of his love for big ships and guns as a man, but also because of his obsession with fighting Japan! There should be few Chinese who are exempt from vulgarity, except, of course, the Japanese spirit.

As for the Koreans, Zhang Yang said that he completely beat rabbits with grass. For later generations of Koreans, more often than not, they play a disgusting fly, and the arrogance distorted by inferiority complex is unappetizing.

Therefore, Zhang Yang doesn't mind sending them 'hot greetings' from the bright and noble civilized world.

Five days later, after arranging things in Chuzhou, Zhang Yang left the newly purchased T-1000 robot he named 'Chameleon' to work in his place, and he himself quietly came to Haizhou.

"Master, twenty nine-pound cannons have been successfully installed on the ship, and all the coal and water have been replenished."

"Very well, what about the people who go to sea?"

"Back to the master, all the 1,000 people brought this time were repaired in the camp, of which one hundred and forty-nine had severe seasickness, and sixty-five had slight seasickness, and the others quickly adapted to the sea."

"Well, let's do it, let the people with severe seasickness go back to Chuzhou first, and they should be able to adapt to the slight seasickness after a while, after all, we have fewer people."

"Yes, sir."

"Now all on board, and in two hours we will go to sea!"

Zhang Yang's two 400 ships can carry a maximum load of more than 100 tons, and each ship can only carry a maximum of 300 people, except for coal and fresh water. Therefore, Zhang Yang also rented two transport ships at a high price, both of which were merchant ships that specialized in running Japanese routes, and each ship had no problem carrying 300 soldiers.

Of course, in order to pursue the carrying capacity, these shipbuilders only have a length-to-width ratio of just over two points, and their speed is very slow, so they can only be pulled by flamboyant steamships! Fortunately, because of the unloaded cargo, the speed of the four ships can reach seven knots.

Jeju Island is just over 400 nautical miles away from Haeju, and it can be reached in four days at most at this speed.

"You can't waste your free time now, let the artillerymen do a live-fire exercise!" Zhang Yang, who was standing on the bow of the boat, said to Zheng Ligong behind him in high spirits.

"Yes, sir."

Since capturing Song Jiang alive, Zheng Ligong has been by Zhang Yang's side, and after two battlefield trainings, he can now lead the way.

These two ships of Zhang Yang were named 'Dingyuan' and 'Zhenyuan' by him respectively! And at his feet is his flagship Dingyuan. The Zhenyuan in the rear lowered a small sampan boat after receiving the order, but the second ship maneuvered and turned at a position about 200 meters away from the small sampan boat, and the ten guns on the side opened fire one after another!

Because of the huge recoil of the artillery, the Dingyuan inevitably had a large roll, and although he had been prepared, Zhang Yang, who was holding the side of the ship, was still stunned.

"Protect the sir." Zheng Ligong and several people immediately surrounded him after the artillery fired, for fear that Zhang Yang would fall into the sea.

"I'm fine." The first round was an expected miss, and it was undoubtedly difficult to hit a small sampan boat the size of a room two hundred meters away in the choppy sea.

About a minute later, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan opened fire again, and this time one of the Dingyuan's guns hit the sampan like a divine help, and the flying wood chips were still clearly visible.

"Good!" Zhang Yang excitedly slapped the side of the boat, and the second wheel hit it, even Zhang Yang couldn't help but admire. "Reward each crew with a single hit."

"Yes, sir."

"Keep firing!"

Because it's training, I didn't use expensive flowering bombs, and the effect of using solid bullets is the same, otherwise this small sampan boat would have been blown up and sunk.

Then, each artillery group was allowed to fire separately, and the Zhenyuan won two hits, while the Dingyuan only got one. This training made Zhang Yang feel very good, even if he didn't get a hit, he got the usual reward, and of course the gun crew that got a hit got more.

Before you know it, Jeju Island is in sight.