Chapter 53: Rushing to the Purple Moon Empire
In the palace of Tianxing City, the capital of the Celestial Star Empire, Prime Minister Huang Kun said to Emperor Song in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the Jisk Empire has sent a telegram, saying that Su Yi is willing to withdraw from the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Kangshan County, but Kangshan City and Kangshan Port, Su Yi is unwilling to let it out, and Su Yi asks our Celestial Star Empire to pay him a batch of transport ships as a ransom for the eight counties of Kangshan County. ”
After signing an armistice agreement with the Jisk Empire, Emperor Song Xuan was under tremendous pressure, and the parades that broke out in various parts of the Celestial Star Empire made Emperor Song Xuan a little anxious, and after listening to Prime Minister Huang Kun's words, Emperor Song Xuan hesitated and asked: "What is the opinion of the Jisk Empire?" ”
"Your Majesty, the Jisk Empire thinks that we should accept Su Yi's conditions, use a batch of transport ships to exchange the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Kangshan County, and temporarily give up recovering Kangshan City and Kangshan Port, after all, Su Yi has a very powerful fleet in his hands, as long as this fleet exists, even the Jisk Empire has no way to help our Celestial Star Empire take back Kangshan City and Kangshan Port."
Emperor Song Xuan nodded slightly and said: "Then do it according to the will of the Jisk Empire, the situation in the country is a little chaotic now, and our Celestial Star Empire is not suitable to launch a military operation against Kangshan City and Kangshan Port at present." ”
On July 26, 3011 in the Tang calendar, Su Yi reached a secret agreement with the Celestial Star Empire, under which Su Yi would withdraw his troops from the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Kangshan County by August 15, and the Celestial Star Empire would send forty transport ships with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons to Kangshan Port by August 15.
On the second day after Su Yi reached a secret agreement with the Celestial Star Empire, Su Yi and the Sharad Empire's ambassador to the Jisk Empire, who had secretly come to Kangshan City, also reached an agreement on the redemption of prisoners of war.
According to this prisoner of war ransom agreement, the Sharad Empire needed to pay Su Yi 100 million Sharad to redeem the more than 11,300 Sharad naval officers and sailors captured by the Independent Fleet in the naval battle in the Yanmen Strait.
The Saudi Dollar was the currency issued by the Sharad Empire, and the exchange rate of the Saudi Dollar to the British Dollar was about five to one, and the exchange rate to the Silver Dollar was two to one, and 100 million Saudi Dollars was almost equivalent to 200 million Silver Dollars.
To tell the truth, it took 100 million Sha Yuan to redeem more than 11,300 prisoners of war, which is really a bit high, but Su Yi has always claimed that if the Sharad Empire is unwilling to pay the ransom, then he will use these more than 11,300 Sharad naval officers and soldiers to pay for the lives of the innocent prisoners of war and civilians killed in the Huifeng tragedy.
This made the Sharad Empire finally have to grit its teeth and accept Su Yi's blackmail, and the Sharad Empire did not dare to bet on whether Su Yi was telling the truth or not.
Knowing that the Su family army was going to give up the eight counties except Kangshan City and Kangshan Port, the three field infantry brigades of the Su family army suddenly appeared a lot of chaos, and at least seventy percent of the soldiers in the three field infantry brigades came from the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Kangshan County, and now the Su family army gave up these eight counties, which made many soldiers worry that their families would be retaliated against by the Celestial Star Empire.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Su Yi said that the soldiers from eight counties in the three field infantry brigades could move their families to Kangshan City, and Su Yi would also give each family a generous resettlement fee, and even help the family members solve the problem of housing and work.
The ordinary people who joined these three field infantry brigades were not very loyal to Su Yi and the Su family, but fortunately, the Su family's military salary was very generous, and it was still a real salary, and there was no phenomenon of officers deducting military salaries, so in the end, there were too many people who took the initiative to leave the Su family army this time, only more than 3,000 people.
When the Su army withdrew from the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Kangshan County, more than 100,000 family members moved into Kangshan City with the Su Family's army, which made Kangshan City overcrowded all of a sudden.
However, Su Yi didn't need to have a headache about the placement of these family members, because he had already taken three Guards Infantry Brigades, two Field Infantry Brigades and five Marine Brigades, escorted by the independent fleet, to the Purple Moon Empire on August 10, 3011 in the Tang Dynasty.
Although Su Yi returned the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Kangshan County to the Celestial Star Empire, making Xu Haoming, the acting county guard, not so worthy of the name, Xu Haoming did not complain about this at all, and he still did his duty in everything, and the work of placing more than 100,000 family members was also arranged by Xu Haoming in an orderly manner.
Xu Haoming's father, Xu Ziliang, the former county guard of Kangshan County of the Celestial Star Empire, has already stated in the newspaper that he has severed the father-son relationship with Xu Haoming, and expelled Xu Haoming from the Xu family's family tree.
In addition to the 4th and 8th warframes remaining in Kangshan Harbor, and the 7th and 10th warplanes remaining in Xingang City, the remaining six battleship formations participated in this escort, and six light cruisers and 20 destroyers also acted with the six battleship formations.
The six battleship formations consisted of ten super dreadnought battleships, four battle cruisers, eleven dreadnought battleships, and seven former dreadnought battleships, up to thirty-two capital ships, but only twenty-six small warships followed them, and such a configuration could only be taken out by an independent fleet.
In the bridge of the Yongxiang, the flagship of the Independent Fleet, Wang Chengliang, the commander of the Independent Fleet, held several telegrams in his hands and said to Su Yi with a smile: "Marshal, the Orenza Empire, the Sharad Empire, and the Jisk Empire have sent you telegrams respectively. ”
When Su Yi left Kangshan Port, he sent a clear telegram to the world, announcing that the Su family army under his command would enter the Purple Moon Empire to help the Tang people of the Purple Moon Empire resist the alien invaders together, Su Yi's telegram immediately made the Orenza Empire, the Sharad Empire and the Jisk Empire nervous, after all, Su Yi can control a very powerful fleet in his hands.
At this time, the 150 million silver dollars of the Gisk Empire, the 100 million sand dollars of the Sharad Empire, and the forty transport ships of the Celestial Star Empire had all been handed over to Su Yi.
Su Yi smiled slightly, "I guess the telegrams from these three countries are threatening me not to take the fleet to the Purple Moon Empire." ”
Wang Chengliang nodded and said: "That's true, the telegrams from these three countries have similar meanings, asking our Su family army to rein in the precipice, otherwise we will bear the consequences." ”
Su Yi pursed his lips and said: "Don't pay attention to them, we will continue to advance according to the original route and rush to the Purple Moon Empire's Ambo Port, at present, the largest military port of the Purple Moon Empire is still under the control of the Purple Moon Navy, but it seems that the Orenza Navy has blocked the sea area near Ambo Harbor, and the Independent Fleet is just helping the Purple Moon Empire to lift the Orenza Navy's blockade of Ambo Harbor." ”