In fact, Hong Tao has been deceiving people and deceiving everyone. The Jinhe Empire may not be able to live without the Great Song Dynasty, and maybe it can live even better. The Mongols were not the savage barbarians they imagined, they also traded and traded, and compared with the Southern Song Dynasty merchants who had been influenced by commerce for a longer time, the Mongol merchants would be better able to make money.

Without the Southern Song Dynasty court, in any political power, the Jinhe Empire could rely on the strength of the sea to live a good life. The reason why he wanted to help the Southern Song Dynasty resist the southern invasion of the Mongol Empire regardless of cost and casualties was just a game, an ideal, and an obsession of Hong Tao.

But now Hong Tao doesn't want to play, this kind of war is too cruel. Killing all the people on Java Island, the Mongol Empire, and Europeans, Hong Tao would not blink, because he couldn't see most of the killing scenes, and those people were just numbers in his eyes. But watching the people around him die one by one, just for a distant thought for himself, Hong Tao couldn't bear it psychologically, and he couldn't convince himself to regard these as the cost of realizing his ideals and the pain of social evolution. In the final analysis, he is just a ** silk of later generations, and he has not yet evolved to the level of a politician, a thinker, or a military strategist, and he is even far from a hero in troubled times.

Over the years, he has built Jinhewan into a regional power, not his subjective consciousness, he is just playing a game, and these changes are only ********** process, simply put, they are by-products.

When the game is quite enjoyable and a little difficult, he is full of energy, as if he wants to clear the level. But when the game gets harder and more brutal the more you play, he doesn't want to continue. In other words, he plans to change to a more relaxed way of playing, re-examine all the original ideals and pursuits, and find a more reliable and easier goal to pursue. This is also the most difficult habit in his personality to change, no matter what he does or learns, he just tastes it. Never delve into too difficult grades.

The ancients said that the country is easy to change and difficult to move. It's true, when he doesn't encounter any big bumps, Hong Tao can still grit his teeth and persevere, once he is distressed, troubled, and sorrowful, then he will give up immediately. No matter how much temptation there is in front of you, there will be no nostalgia. Unhappy, unhappy, and disliked are his reasons, and his greatest pursuit in life is to try to keep himself in a state of smiling every day, with more money and less money to eat and drink, he has tasted the right thing, and he is not interested in it at all.

"Let Kong Pei take over the command of the fleet, I'm tired, go to the cabin to rest for a while. Don't stop halfway, go straight back to Jinhe City! A string of black pennants representing the evacuation was slowly raised to the top of the mast. The rumbling of artillery on the surface of the sea gradually subsided.

The Mongolian sailors were actually even more miserable, even after hitting and colliding, they lost almost a third of their ships and countless personnel. Seeing Hong Tao's fleet retreating southward, they finally breathed a sigh of relief, just looking at the big holes in the sails of those big ships, as well as the two ships that blew themselves up just now, they knew that this fleet would not come back soon. Everyone is having a hard time, and both sides are hurting.

"Don't lick it...... This is human blood. If you dare to bite when you grow up, I'll shoot you with one shot! Hong Tao was lying on the couch covered with broken wood chips, smoking a cigar, looking at the big holes in the cabin roof, and suddenly felt something licking his hand. When I turned my head, it was a picture. It didn't know where it came from, and wanted to jump on the sofa but didn't have the ability, so it could only use its front legs to pull on the edge of the sofa, stick out its tongue and lick the blood on Hong Tao's hand, which was the blood of the helmsman.

The picture of "...... was lifted onto the sofa. Standing on Hong Tao's stomach, sniffing east and west, and then opening his mouth and screaming, as if to remind Hong Tao, the smell on your body is very strange, not very good.

"When you are a little older and can run all over the ground, I will take you back to your hometown to see your brother, and he may still recognize you." Hong Tao stretched out a finger and approached the little cougar's mouth, and it immediately opened its mouth and bit its finger, nibbling hard with its milk teeth that had not yet grown together, as if this was some kind of delicacy.

Seeing the little lion playing happily by himself, Hong Tao couldn't help but think of the Indian daughter-in-law and her tribe thousands of miles away. In fact, living in that kind of place, Hong Tao is still quite comfortable, he doesn't have to think about anything every day, he eats some of them, and he goes to the surrounding tribes to grab those who don't eat. When it is dawn, I get up to work, and when it gets dark, I lie in the grass hut and make a villain, simple but not simple. Although the conditions were difficult, they were spiritually rich.

"Phew...... Bah...... Hey, I said, can you please stop jumping around on my roof and make me look dirty! Before Hong Tao's imagination could continue to spread, a lot of debris fell from the hole above his head. The captain's room is just below the aft deck, which means that the helmsman and captain usually stand on top of Hong Tao's head. When the roof was not leaking, there was no movement on this deck because it was still relatively thick, but now the roof has not been smashed by shells with many holes.

"Uncle, come up and take a look, there are many, many ships in the south, I can't count them!" Hearing Hong Tao's scolding, Weng Ya's face quickly appeared at the entrance of the largest hole, and her eyes were full of expressions, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy or frightened.

“…… Ships to the south? A lot? Hong Tao immediately sat up from the sofa, and like Weng Ya, the expression on his face was also rich.

"I'll leave a hole in the roof in the future, and even the microphone tube will be saved...... Give me the binoculars! While muttering, he walked out of the hatch and went up to the stern, Weng Yaguang pointed in a direction, stunned and did not move.

"Whose ship is this? The Great Song Dynasty also built the Salmon class as a battleship? Even with the telescope, Hong Tao couldn't tell whose fleet it was because of the distance, but judging from the sail type, it looked like a salmon, which made him very confused. I haven't heard that the Great Song Dynasty is also imitating salmon-level, if it is built, it will definitely not be able to hide Cixi's intelligence system. Shipbuilding is not like building cannons, which can be hidden in ravines and carried out secretly, the shipyard must be close to the sea and the river, and the raw materials used are so large that they cannot be hidden at all.

"Uncle, they are hanging copper coin flags! Is it a ship of the Straits Company? After less than half an hour, the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, and the lookout could already see each other's flags from a high place.

"The ship of the Straits Company? What are they doing here? "Knowing whose ship it is is is more brain-draining than not knowing. Hong Tao circled around the helm several times with his hands behind his back, and he couldn't figure out why the fleet of the Strait Company went north, could it be that they were all requisitioned by the Great Song Dynasty? This is unlikely, these profiteers are all well-known figures in the local area, as long as they hear the wind and grass, they will immediately hide all their good ships overseas, and when the time comes, they will tell the court that they have not returned to the sea, and you can't go overseas to find it. But there is no other more reasonable reason besides this explanation, Hong Tao can only think that the Great Song Dynasty is indeed superior in terms of internal means.

"Why can't they come, are they not Song people? We helped them fight, and they didn't even show their faces, so they knew that it was embarrassing to hide in Jiangnan and enjoy happiness! If they could come over with even a hundred ships, we wouldn't have lost the battle, and the two captains and more than 200 sailors wouldn't have died! Weng Ya began to complain again, her snatching made Hong Tao can only pretend not to hear, and he really can't answer. If the Royal Navy didn't suffer too much loss, Hong Tao would still be ashamed to say that it was for the sake of the country, but now he really can't say it.

"Wait...... Why is there a boat in the back? Order, the left helm of the fleet fifteenth, don't be the Great Song Sailor to destroy us,! At this time, the flag-bearers on the lookout began to wave two small flags in their hands again to report their findings to the deck, and the flag said that a few nautical miles behind the fleet of the Straits Company, there was a large shadow of sails, and the flag was still not clear.

Hong Tao felt that something was wrong, remembering that he had just drowned a commander of the Southern Song Dynasty Navy Division the day before, and sank a few ships. Now that the Royal Navy was half-crippled and unable to fight another large-scale naval battle, Hong Tao planned to turn to the open sea and bypass the ships. As for who they are and what they are here for, I don't care, what do I like, now take these lovely sailors back to Jinhe City to lick their wounds is the most important thing.

Luo Youde!! What is he doing here??? But after a while, the two sides had already entered the distance where they could see the flag clearly, and another piece of news made Hong Tao scratch his head. The flotilla on the right side played the banner of Luo Youde, could it be that he was also held hostage by the Southern Song Dynasty court?

"Great Song Volunteer Army!! ...... to help in the war Who came up with this Nima? Soon, the opposite fleet once again identified itself, this time in more detail, and then Hong Tao's mouth opened and could no longer be closed. The name was so modern that he wondered if someone had crossed over and never showed up.

"It's not me......" Seeing Hong Tao's hideous face, Weng Ya was a little scared, especially the two scars on his face, which not only destroyed the shape of the whole face, but also slightly pink, like whale fat that had just been cut.

"If only you had the ability to do that...... Nonsense! Let Bo Jiao go over and see who it is and what tricks he is playing. Remind him not to treat everyone as a good person anymore, and once he finds out that something is wrong, he will quickly get rid of it, and we will revenge this revenge later. Hong Tao finally decided to send a boat over to ask clearly, no matter what they were here for, they couldn't just leave without asking. If the Strait Company was really held hostage by the Great Song Dynasty, then he would have to readjust the forces of the countries on the South Sea Route, and maybe he would soon have to meet the merchants of the Strait Company. (To be continued.) )