"Official, official! Great joy, great joy! Zhang Yonghe's face turned into a chrysanthemum, and he ran to Zhao Zhen's bookcase with small steps bowed and handed over a few notebooks.

Zhao Zhen, who was full of sadness, took the notebook and asked, "What's the happy event?" ”

Zhang Yonghe said: "Congratulations to the official family. This is the note of Li Yun, Shi Quanbin and Qi Bin in Guangnan, all saying that they have opened the Jiaozhi Shenglong Mansion, although Li Dezheng escaped, but the goods and goods of the Jiaozhi Mansion Treasury have not been calculated, and now the whole division has been returned. Li Yun asked the official family to send special personnel from the palace and the household department to Guangzhou to count these goods. ”

"Oh? Did you really lay down the Thang Long Mansion? Only 20,000 people? Zhao Zhen hurriedly opened the notebook to watch, and when he saw that Li Buqi had written that the goods seized from the Thang Long Mansion had begun to be loaded and shipped, a stone hanging in the air in his heart had fallen to the ground for several months.

You must know that Li Buqi proposed a plan to attack Jiaozhi with 20,000 troops, but few people were optimistic about it except for Di Qing and Guo Kui. Although the emperor reluctantly agreed to the military order because Li did not give up, he was actually uneasy in his heart. Now it's okay, Li Buqi really opened the Shenglong Mansion and grabbed Jiaozhi, it seems that Li Buqi is really reliable.

Zhang Yonghe's mouth smiled crookedly: "Official, Li Yunenvoy said that the goods from Shenglong Mansion this time are worth at least 13 million yuan." ”

"What? Thirteen million? Zhao Zhen almost screamed.

Zhang Yonghe smiled even more: "This is just Li Yun's estimate." What treasure hasn't Li Yun seen before? Therefore, it is not uncommon for him to be a peerless rarity, and the valuation is always lower. Qi Bin and Shi Quanbin are estimated to be more than 20 million yuan. ”

"Two, twenty million?" Zhao Zhen's tongue is not very sharp. He jumped up almost from behind the dragon case and shouted, "Send someone to Guangzhou quickly." Let them travel under the stars and nights, and there will be no delay! ”

Zhang Yonghe almost rushed to deliver the decree, but Zhao Zhen couldn't calm his mood and couldn't help pacing in the hall.

Twenty million pieces! Even if the more than 10 million guan of government bonds issued is immediately repaid, there are still a few million guan left. The war in Quang Nam is equivalent to spending no money, and judging from the reports of the Quang Nam side, Li Buqi also made a lot of fertile land in Quang Nam, so it seems that this war is still profitable.

The last time the Great Song Dynasty made money because of the war, it seemed to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, right? At that time, the accumulation of the Southern Tang Dynasty filled the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty and supported Taizong's three Northern Expeditions.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but completely regard Li Buqi as his lucky general, and trusted Li Buqi a little more. The worry that the Liao State sent envoys to threaten the Great Song Dynasty with the matter of the sailor going south was weakened a little, because Li Buqi always said that the sailor of the Liao State was a paper tiger, and as long as the imperial court let Tao Lin do it, then the sailor of the Liao State would not be worried at all.

Zhao Zhen, who had never been able to make up his mind, finally made up his mind this time - anyway, no matter how powerful the sailor is, that is, he was mighty at sea, and he was still no match for the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army when he went ashore.

The emperor's secret decree has not yet arrived, and hundreds of ships are already competing in the bay of Salmon Island.

The sailor of the Liao State has been raised for another year, and the cost is huge, so it is naturally impossible to raise it in vain, and the nobles of the Liao State are anxiously waiting for the money invested in the sailor to be realized. In the same way, Tao Lin has to gather ships and personnel for training from the end of summer to winter, and he can't go to trade, and because he wants to make the Liao people feel that his sailors are very powerful, they can't blatantly go to the Liao country to plunder.

Another one, Tao Lin is also a person who has been around Li Buqi, and knows how fragile the little hearts of the emperor and his ministers are. Although attacking the Liao fleet when the Liao army landed in Hebei was the biggest opportunity to strike at the Liao State, communication delays in this era were inevitable. Therefore, in order to avoid any accidents, Tao Lin could only preemptively strike when he expected the Liao fleet to prepare to sail, but it was still in port.

When the fleet came out of Shamen Island, it sailed in crosswinds, crossed the Liaodong Peninsula from the northwest and went straight to the Bohai Bay, first sailed 100 kilometers north along the west side of the peninsula, then turned southwest, and sailed south along the west coast of the Bohai Sea.

Along the way, he also encountered more than a dozen Liao patrol boats. When the Liao navy encountered Tao Lin's advances, they thought that these Song ships would flee as soon as they made contact as before, so they immediately pounced as usual. When they found out that the Song people not only did not evade this time, but turned the bow of the ship and rushed towards it, they felt that the Song people today were unusual.

The forwards of the Taulin fleet were all purpose-built warships, which not only used both sails and oars, but also equipped with spinnakers, which made them more agile, more windy, and faster. When these ships approached the Liao ships, they fired ballistas and bolts from afar, and when they got closer, they fired a weapon that sounded like a huge thunder. The iron beans played by this thing are not shields at all, as long as three or four rings, the Liao people on the deck will be killed and wounded, only the Goryeo people inherited the Tang Dynasty building ship shape evolution of the warship with a strong canopy has a certain protection ability for this weapon, but this ship type is relatively vulnerable under the attack of fire and oil bombs.

The Liao State patrol ship not only did not block Tao Lin, but also failed to raise the alarm, but let Tao Lin practice. The whole fleet saw that it was so easy to kill the Liao ships, and they were all more confident.

On the night of the third day of the ninth lunar month, it was a big moon day, and the sentinel ships sailing along the coast first spotted the Liao patrol ships outside the harbor, and then in the bright moonlight, they saw a forest of masts on the sea ahead. While the sentinel ship was circling with the Liao patrol boat, it sent out a signal, and Tao Lin, who got the signal, immediately ordered the clipper team in the fleet to attack the Liao naval division. This fast fleet consisted of twenty-seven fast boats, and immediately after receiving the order, the slight north wind along the seashore rushed straight towards the Liao fleet.

The Liao army did not expect that the pirates who had been avoiding the battle would suddenly attack in a big way, nor did they expect that the Song people, who had always run away when they saw the Liao navy, would be so warlike this time. The patrol ships sent by the Liao army were not many, and they were scattered in all directions, and there was no time to retract, and almost no effective resistance was put up to let the clippers kill directly into the flotilla mooring.

At this moment, the Clippers suddenly flashed with fire, and seven clippers and five small boats rushed straight into the mooring with the flames. This is a fireship tactic, a common method of destroying enemy ships in water warfare, and the more dense the fleet, the greater the threat.

When these dozen or so fireships collided with the ships of the Liao army, the gunpowder on the first three ships quickly exploded, and the violent roar and the wreckage of the ships that were blown up in the dazzling fire made the Liao officers and soldiers feel terrified. Other cargo ships laden with firewood drenched with fire oil collided with the Liao warships and burst into flames, quickly igniting the surrounding ships.

However, the wind is not strong today, and the nobles of the Liao State also listen to the story of the Three Kingdoms, know that the fire burns Chibi, and they also know that the navy is terrible when it is attacked by fire, so the ships are not crowded together, but put a few here and a few there. In this way, even if a ship catches fire, it is impossible to burn all the ships.

The posture of the Liao fleet was a difficult problem for Tao Lin. The small boat is close to the coast to attack and retreat freely, but the attack power is weak, and it is not known how long it will take to kill the scattered Liao ships one by one; The big ship has strong attack power, but because the shallow water situation is unknown, and at night, it is afraid of running aground and hitting the reef, so it does not dare to get too close to the shore. Tao Lin came from afar, and it was impossible to bring too many fireships, so it would really take a lot of effort to annihilate the Liao fleet. But there is Tao Lin's internal response in the Liao State Water Division.

When all the generals of the Liao Navy Division who ran to the beach after being awakened were all stupid, the deployment of Qi Deyu by the Navy Division naturally took on the heavy responsibility of command. He shouted, "This is a sneak attack by the southerners!" Quick, order all the sailors to get on board and spread the boats apart, or it's all going to be doomed! ”

Several Liao officers who didn't even have time to put on their clothes didn't have time to think about it before they echoed: "That's right! Order the fleet to go to sea at once! There were not many pirate ships, and the whole army attacked to surround them, and they must not be allowed to escape. ”

After two years of training, the Liaoguo Navy Division's ship formation has also been somewhat shaped, but there is a problem, that is, the training principle is safety first. If you don't train at night, you don't train when the wind and waves are strong, and the sailors who train in this way are actually like goods. However, the positioning of the Liao State for the Navy Division is that on a smooth and calm day, it is possible to safely transport the army to the back of Hebei Niguzhai, and the other requirements are not high, plus Tao Lin has been implementing the strategy of arrogance, and the generals of the Liao State have always felt good about themselves. But this time the battle at sea was held at night, and the Liao army showed its original form.

Just when the generals of the Liao State drove the soldiers back to their warships in small boats, many people fell into the water because of panic. When the large and small ships pulled anchor and spread their sails together, there was a series of collisions, and some of the ships collided together before they could leave the anchorage, and they entered the water with a bang.