Chapter 428: The sky is wide

When he heard that the cities in Liaodong were broken by the Tang army, Yuangai Suwen, who was sitting in Pyongyang, could no longer sit still. He pulled out his descendants' army, and then gathered those soldiers who had retreated from Liaodong, gathered more than 80,000 troops, known as 100,000, and slaughtered them by the Yalu River.

He will personally guard the last line of defense north of Pyongyang.

However, at this time, Zhang Yunwen did not know that Na Yuan Gai Suwen had left Pyongyang, and they were still on a ship and headed for Pyongyang.

It was the first time for Zhang Yunwen to take a ship on the Datang Navy and the first time he saw the ocean of this era.

When he led 5,000 cavalry to wait at the mouth of the Liao River for a day, he finally saw a fleet slowly approaching the mouth of the river. When he saw this fleet, Zhang Yunwen never thought that this ancient warship could be so magnificent.

I saw warships of different sizes lined up in the shape of geese and slowly approached the mouth of the Liaohe River, and the huge white sails were erected high, covering the sky and the sun, and the towering masts pierced the sky, like spears erected. On the mast of the battleship at the head, a large flag with the word "Tang" written on it fluttered. Under the blowing of the sea breeze, the big flag flutters. More than twenty long oars were paddling on each side of the boat, stirring up two white splashes.

There is a small wharf at the mouth of the Liaohe River, but in the fleet, there are several large ships of the "Big Mac" class, which cannot be docked at all, and can only be moored in the deep water area, so that those ships with a shallower draft can be transported back and forth.

Zhang Yunwen led fifty scouts onto a small boat. This small boat with only one mast is a small vessel in the fleet, just enough to transport people and horses back and forth between the big ship and the dock.

After fifty people sat up, it still seemed a little crowded. More than a dozen long oars stretched out on both sides of the boat, waving like flying, and the boat came to the giant ship flying the big flag with the word "Tang".

At this moment, a coil of rope hung down from the great ship. As the rope hung down, there was a chuckle.

Zhang Yunwen and the scouts glanced at each other, a chuckle appeared on the corner of their mouths, and then grabbed the rope, their body was as agile as an ape, and they climbed onto the deck of the giant ship in three times and two times. When he climbed onto the deck, Zhang Yunwen clearly heard the surprised sound of the sailors on the ship. "Huh-"

These sailors probably deliberately threw down these oil-soaked cables to see the embarrassment of Zhang Yunwen and the others not being able to climb up, but they did not expect that this method of borrowing ropes to climb is a daily training item of the reconnaissance battalion.

On the deck, Zhang Yunwen looked at the sailor in front of him, swept his eyes, and said coldly: "This general is Zhang Yunwen, the prince of Dingzhou County, where is your chief now?" ”

Hearing Zhang Yunwen's self-report, these sailors were suddenly shocked, and after a while, they said: "Our chief manager is now commanding the siege on land!" ”

"And who's in charge of this fleet?" Zhang Yunwen asked.

"Back to the general's words, our ships are a fleet split from the naval forces that set out from Laizhou, and they have been ordered to come and obey the general's dispatch. No one was appointed to manage the fleet. Now, this fleet is mainly in charge of Liu Renliang, the steward of this Haigu warship! ”

"Liu Renliang?" When Zhang Yunwen heard this name, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, wasn't Liu Renliang the organizer of the Baijiangkou Battle during the Gaozong period? It can be regarded as a generation of famous generals.

lowered his voice at the moment: "Then where is this Liu Renliang now?" Ben was going to ask him something! ”

At this moment, I saw a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties hurriedly walking over, and when he saw Zhang Yunwen, he hurriedly saluted and said, "Subordinate Liu Renliang see General Zhang!" ”

Zhang Yunwen glanced at this Liu Renliang and snorted coldly: "Lord Liu, what do you mean by this?" Why did you put the rope ladder instead of the rope when the officer arrived? If it weren't for the fact that this official knew how to climb with both hands, maybe it would have really made you see a joke! ”

The reason why I say this is that Zhang Yunwen came here for the first time, and he needs to be powerful in order to convince the public.

When Liu Renliang heard this, he was stunned, he couldn't imagine that this Zhang Yunwen would use this as a breakthrough, and when he was about to say something more, Zhang Yunwen said again: "I know that you and others are interfering in this official, and you are waiting to wait, and you have opinions in your heart, but this matter is very important, and you can't wait for your temperament and make you emotional!" If there is nothing but the half-point difference pool, even if the lives of everyone on this boat are to fill it, it will not be filled! Well, if it's redundant, the official won't say anything, and I won't take such a thing as an example! If there is a recidivism, it will be dealt with by military law! ”

When all the sailors heard this, their hearts were in unison.

After Zhang Yunwen Liwei, the rest of the things are much easier. It took more than half a day, more than thirty small boats, running back and forth, and finally transporting the soldiers and baggage to the sea falcon warships. As for the horses, they were placed on these boats.

After loading, the fleet, which had more than 50 warships, carrying 5,000 troops, began its journey south.

At this time, it is summer, and the southeast wind blows a lot, and it is not a good wind to drive south. However, these sailors adjusted the angle of the sails from time to time, and they always borrowed some wind. When there was no wind, they rowed with long oars.

In this way, the fleet moved slowly. And when they had been on the road for five days, they saw that the islands on the sea were gradually increasing. Occasionally, I met one, and I even thought I had met land. After listening to the introduction of the sailors, I learned that this is the mouth of the Bohai Sea, and the islands are dotted.

Except for the mouth of the Bohai Sea, the course turned to the east.

Like Zhang Yunwen, the 5,000 soldiers were all on a sea boat for the first time and saw the sea for the first time. When I first got on the boat, I was still excited and curious. But after two days of walking in the rough sea, some people became dizzy and began to vomit.

Well, they're seasick.

Zhang Yunwen has nothing to do about this situation, and now there is no medicine that can prevent seasickness, so he can only let the soldiers endure it as much as possible.

Zhang Yunwen didn't get seasick much. In these days of sailing, he pulled Liu Renliang to talk and get closer to him. Because when he first got on the ship, Zhang Yunwen made a prestige, so Liu Renliang's impression of Zhang Yunwen was not very good. Later, after an in-depth conversation, he learned that Zhang Yunwen was actually a very good person to get along with.

Normally, when he was fine, Zhang Yunwen would walk around on this sea falcon warship to see what the current warship looked like and what kind of attack power it had.

He knew that these warships were the sea ships built by Yan Lide in Hongzhou, Raozhou, and Jiangzhou in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan. The cabin of this kind of sea falcon warship was covered with raw cowhide to prevent the hull from being damaged by huge waves and to prevent fire attacks; The bow is low and the tail is high, the front is wide and the rear is narrow, and the hull is shaped like a sea falcon flying; What's even more strange is that there are four to eight floating plates on both sides of the hull, which are shaped like sea falcon wings, and the floating plates have the effect of enhancing the stability of the hull and reducing the degree of sway.

As for the main weapons of the Sea Falcon, there are three main types of weapons: a winch crossbow, a gun carriage, and a slapping rod.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the winch crossbow was a giant crossbow of twelve stones set on the winch, which could fire seven arrows at the same time, with great power and a long range. Looking at the bolts with the thickness of the baby's arm and the arrows flashing in the cold light on the winch crossbow, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help palpitating.

The gun cart is a stone-throwing car, and the slap rod is used to hang boulders high on the principle of levers, which is used to shoot enemy ships in broadside battles.

Of these three weapons, two are ranged attack weapons and one is a melee attack weapon.

However, when Zhang Yunwen saw the winch crossbow and gun carriage, he suddenly thought in his mind that if the cannon of General Tianwei was loaded on the ship, wouldn't it be that the gunboat was born early?

The fleet continued to sail for nearly ten days, and finally saw some fishing boats scattered out to sea. Obviously, these fishing vessels cannot sail far oceans and can only operate in the near sea. Now, they appear here, indicating that this place is not far from the shore.

When the fishermen saw such a large fleet sailing, they were so frightened that they hurriedly rowed their boats in the hope of returning to the shore. However, Zhang Yunwen, how could they let these fishing boats go back to report the news? At that moment, more than a dozen stone-throwing trucks started, and stones of dozens of catties were smashed out. Although most of the stones fell into the sea, some of them landed on the ship. One by one, the small fishing boat was smashed out of a big hole and sunk into the sea.

In order to prevent people from escaping, those warships who were careful of the warships quickly approached the place where the fishing boat sank, inspected the vicinity, and made sure that there were no live mouths before leaving.

In this way, I went all the way to the sea, and I don't know how many fishermen were harmed along the way. Finally, more than fifty miles into the mouth of the sea of Hunshui, Zhang Yunwen and the others met a Goryeo fleet.