"Da Lang, the situation is not very good."

General Lu Nan frowned.

In front of Ning Chun and the others, it was a sand table.

It's relatively simple, but there are still mountains, rivers, and cities.

Yongping County is separated from Fengxuan's Yongxi County by Yunkai Mountain to the south, Yushui (Yongjiang) and Tanshui (Qianjiang) rivers to the west, and Yulin County of Tandian to the west.

To the south are the two counties of Ning Daoming's Hepu and Ning Changzhen's Ningyue County.

Yongping County is considered small among all the counties, and this side is all mountainous, with a small population and few fields.

Now except for Guilin County (Yuan'an County) in the north, which is quite reliable, it is the central faction of Li Xizhi as the Taishou, and the rest of the sides are rebels.

"Don't worry, Guilin has Li Taishou here, Nanhai County has General Li, our Yongping County is just in the middle of the Yujiang River, and Erli can come to aid along the river."

Now Ning Chun feels that he still has some benefits in Yongping, if he is in Hepu County and changes positions with Ning Daoming, then he will be surrounded on all sides now.

Although Ning Chun is really the same generation as Ning Changzhen, Ning Changzhen is already in his sixties, but he is only less than thirty years old.

In the Ning family, Ning Chun is a person who reads a lot of books and has a broader vision.

Yongping County also has the advantage of many mountains, that is, it is easy to keep. At that time, Li Guangdu rebelled and divided Yongping County, relying on this small territory, but he attacked from all sides, but he had the upper hand everywhere.

"The edict of the imperial court has been issued, Your Majesty has added me to the command of the right governor of Guangxi Province, and Hepu County will still be mine sooner or later."

Chang Daoming and the others were attacking the city and Xitong in the county that refused to follow the rebellion, but Ning Chun did not plan to save it.

He was going to defend Yongping City, and if he couldn't do it, he would withdraw to the north of the Yujiang River, and if he couldn't do it, he would simply withdraw to Cangwu City in Cangwu County, which was on the edge of the Li River, and it was convenient to withdraw to Li Xizhi in Guilin or Li Jing in the South China Sea.

Of course, he didn't plan to run until he had to.

"Now it's up to Li Jing when they can arrive!"

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In the East China Sea, a fleet of ships is marching mightily.

Because the three feudatories in the south of the Yangtze River have not yet been truly pacified, the imperial court can only go south to Lingnan by sea, or it can only go from Bahan Road to Jiannan Road and then to Guizhou or Yunnan. It's too far and hard to walk.

It's still more convenient at sea.

From the Jiangdu to the boat, out of the Yangtze River estuary, it has been along the coastline to the south.

This time Li Jing went to Lingnan, it is no longer the kind of building ship that he used to go to sea last time, although the building ship is large and can carry hundreds of people, but the ship does not resist the wind and waves, even if it is sailing along the coast, it will be possible to capsize and sink if it is not done well.

This time, the Royal Shipbuilding Authority's new ship, the treasure ship, was completely different from the previous one.

It has four masts, the front two masts hang railing sails, and the rear two masts hang spinnakers, which are twenty feet long, have several decks, and the stern tower is very high. The largest treasure ship has seven aft decks and has a draft of three feet.

Compared with the original ship, it is lower than the original ship, and there is not even a middle cabin, although the stern is still very high, but the square stern is very distinctive, not to mention that his sails are actually soft sails.

According to the captain, this kind of sail is not suitable for inland navigation, but it is convenient at sea.

The long ship on which Li Jing sat was a four-masted ship with three decks of sails, with a low side and a long and narrow hull, and was equipped with bed crossbows and divine guns.

"Our ship has a low center of gravity, is not afraid of wind and waves, and has a strong loading capacity, especially a strong combat capability, the ship is equipped with bed crossbows and magic cannons, which can attack the enemy ship from a distance, even if it is close, we can also jump to board the ship in close combat."

"With such a long ship, the keel is not easy to use, right?"

Li Jing asked.

"We at the Royal Shipbuilding Board have adopted the latest splicing keel technology, which has greatly reduced the difficulty and cost. However, such a treasure ship is still expensive. ”

This new type of treasure ship is not only designed for maritime trade, but also has combat capabilities. To prevent the coastal pirates from attacking, especially the ocean voyage, after crossing the Quang Nam Road, the coastal all the way south, until the Tianzhu Sea, the Persian Gulf, there will be many pirates along the way, in the past, the merchant ships encountered pirates, it was very dangerous, although the merchant ships were large, but the speed was slow, the pirates' ships sometimes hid in the coastal harbors or behind the islands, sudden attacks, often unguardable.

Once they board the ship, it may be possible that the ship will be lost and killed.

To this end, Luo Cheng specially provided some design ideas, and then rewarded craftsmen with a lot of money to solve the problem, and developed a new generation of treasure ships.

The ship that Li Jing took was able to carry 1,000 soldiers, and when it sailed normally, it could not carry more than 100 people, including sailors, sailors, and guards, when it was fully loaded with goods.

"Can you sail into the Yujiang River?" Li Jing asked.

"We are the crew of the Royal Maritime Trade Bureau, we have the highest salary, and naturally we have the best sailing skills, and the Yujiang River is a big river, so it's no problem at all."

"In the past, we drove the boat to the sea, it was really bold, but now that I think about it, I really admire us at that time." A boatswain said with a smile.

The building boat is only suitable for the Yangtze River, and even when there are wind and waves on the Yangtze River, it is not suitable, but in the past, it will drive to the sea.

As a result, the ship often capsized, and some of the lucky ones were even able to float to places they couldn't even imagine, such as Feng Deyi's expedition to Goguryeo in the early years, but the fleet encountered wind and waves, and he drifted to Baekje from near the mouth of the Yangtze River.

And there were also Japanese people who were originally going to land in Shandong, but they ended up drifting to Ningbo.

Of course, there are many more unlucky, for example, there is a Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty who stayed in the Tang Dynasty for decades, and became a high-ranking official at the prime minister level, and wanted to return to Japan when he was old, and then followed the Japanese mission to take a boat home, but encountered a strong wind on the way and capsized more than half of the ship.

A few ships drifted to Hangzhou, and the old man drifted all the way to Vietnam, and was robbed by pirates, but fortunately, he used to be the protector of Annam, and then he was finally able to return to Chang'an, which can be described as nine deaths.

In the early days of navigation, the boat was not good, and the second was that the navigation technology was not good, so if you deviated slightly from the point channel, you might have to let it drift to see your luck.

In this era, those who run on the sea generally only know one route, and once they deviate, if they are far away from the coast, they may not even be able to find the direction.

It's a complete gamble.

However, in recent years, navigation technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the development of watertight cabins, nautical compasses, and astrology have greatly increased the sense of security of these seas, not to mention that now there is this kind of treasure ship, and they are generally not afraid of wind and waves, and they are no longer worried about pirates.

Li Jing sat in the stern tower and looked at the mighty fleet, which was composed of more than 30 such treasure ships, followed by hundreds of modified old-style ships.

The blue sky and the sea, the top of the mast, the red flag hunting.

Li Jing couldn't believe that such a powerful fleet was actually just the merchant fleet of the Royal Maritime Trade Bureau, followed by other maritime merchants.

They took Li Jing to Nanhai County by the way, and planned to help Li Jing go to quell the chaos after completing the transaction in Nanhai City.

Look at the sailors with swords and axes at their waists, and think of the many merchant ship guards and shieldmen, spearmen, and crossbowmen sitting in the cabin.

Li Jing felt a little crazy, these people were not soldiers, nor were they sailors, they were just the emperor's merchant fleet, why did they have such good ships, so many guards, and such good equipment?

There are only fifty guards on each ship, and more than thirty ships are nearly one regiment of soldiers, if those fierce sailors are counted, then this is not two regiments?