As the sun set, on Shamen Island in Dengzhou, Yang Lian looked at more than 50 converted warships, and couldn't help nodding again and again, I have to say that Lin Renzhao is very reliable, it only took a year to change all the merchant ships into warships, plus there are more than 30 in Haizhou, Yang Lian suddenly has nearly 100 warships, and the power of the sailor is not weak. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After these ships were refitted, the decks were thickened and reinforced, and after testing, the general walk-in did not have much effect on the battleship. Lin Renzhao and Yang Lian were walking on the beach, the sun was setting, and the sun shone on the battleship, reflecting a dazzling light.

Lin Renzhao suddenly smiled and said, "Yang Jiedu, I can't imagine that according to your method, the transformed battleship will not sink." ”

"This is natural, and after such transformation, the combat effectiveness of the battleship will inevitably increase greatly." Yang Lian stopped, and looked at the battleship quietly in the sea, this battleship is his killer weapon, this battleship has spent a lot of money and time, this time it can only succeed, and must not fail.

"Huzi, are you all ready?" Yang Lian asked.

Lin Renzhao nodded, for this day, he had been preparing for a full year, whether it was a battleship or food, it was very abundant. The soldiers have also been trained, and their combat effectiveness has also increased significantly. Success or failure is here. Two days later, Yang Lian and Lin Renzhao led more than 7,000 soldiers from the army and 13,000 soldiers from the navy, totaling 20,000 people, to board the battleship.

Soon after Yang Lian set off, Guo Wei in Kaifeng got the news that Guo Rong came back, and the Tang army had to give up the attempt to go north because of Wu Yueguo's attack, this good news made Guo Wei settle down, and in the face of Khitan and Hedong Liu Chong, he had a few more chances of winning, but even if the Tang Dynasty did not have the idea of sending troops, Guo Wei still sent scouts to inquire at the border, and if Yang Lian had any abnormal movements, he would immediately make arrangements.

Guo Wei repaired a letter while reassuring, and secretly sent someone back to Jinling, first praised Guo Rong, let him stay in Jinling, continue to rebel against Yan King Li Hongji, and the Tang Dynasty continued to maintain party struggle, which was very beneficial to the Great Zhou.

Time into the end of August, the Khitan soldiers and horses under the leadership of Yelu Ruan arrived at Huoshendian and stationed down, Yelu Ruan planned to gather enough men and horses to go south again, seize the coveted wealth of the Great Zhou three times, at the same time, Wu Yue soldiers and horses under the leadership of Qian Wenfeng father and son, killed to Changzhou, Wu Yue soldiers struggled to attack the city, the Tang Dynasty, Chai Kehong's reinforcements arrived in Changzhou, the two sides fought several fierce battles, each had losses, no one took too much advantage.

Wu Yue's attack was too fierce, only ten days of effort, the two sides threw down more than 10,000 corpses under the city of Changzhou, Qian Wenfeng attacked Changzhou, in addition to being part of the plan to get rid of Yang Lian, another reason was that he did not want the Tang Dynasty to continue to grow. If the Tang army went north without pressure, once the Great Zhou was destroyed with the Khitan and Hedong Liu Chong, Wu Yueguo's situation would be even more dangerous.

In the continuous siege of the city, Wu Yuejun did not take much advantage, and Qian Wenfeng and Qian Chengli were discussing things in the barracks. Although Qian Wenfeng knew Guo Wei, he didn't know him, and he didn't know if he could repel the joint attack of the Khitan and Hedong? If Guo Wei can't stop it, Wu Yueguo will run out of elites in Changzhou, which will obviously outweigh the losses.

Qian Chengli thinks that Guo Wei will definitely be able to repel the Khitans, as long as the Khitans retreat, Liu Chong in Hedong has almost no threat, the reason why Qian Chengli is so confident is because of his understanding of Guo Rong, Guo Rong is not yet thirty years old, and he already has a deep insight into the general trend of the world.

Qian Chengli felt that since he wanted to contain the Tang Dynasty's troops, he would have to fight a tough battle, and if he could take advantage of this opportunity to expand his territory, it would not be a good thing. Qian Chengli originally had no ambition to dominate the world, but after contact with Guo Rong, his ambition also swelled a little.

Qian Chengli felt that even if he couldn't compete for the world in the future, he would dedicate the land of Wu Yue to Da Zhou, at least he could ensure that he had no worries about food and clothing.

When the two fathers and sons were chatting, a scout came in to tell them that the Tang Army had reinforcements coming. Judging by the flag, at least 20,000 people came to help. But the Lord will not know who it is. 20,000 Tang troops came to help, Wu Yue's soldiers and horses were not advantageous, and they wanted to seize Changzhou Jiancheng, and they had to divide their troops to block the Tang army outside the city, and Wu Yue's soldiers and horses fell into passivity.

Although Changzhou at this time experienced a major war, it was far from a critical moment, why did Li Jing increase his troops in Changzhou again and again? Could it be that he was scared of being beaten by Wu Yueren? Qian Wenfeng felt that it was impossible, the last time Wu Yue attacked Changzhou, he was finally defeated by Chai Kehong and Zhou Ye, Wu Yue suffered a lot of losses, especially the loss of more than 10,000 people in the Wu army, which greatly injured Qian Wenfeng's vitality and has not recovered. This time to send troops to Changzhou, Wu Yueguo mobilized local county soldiers from Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Xiuzhou and other places, and only then did he have more than 70,000 soldiers and horses.

This kind of effort is worth it, otherwise the lips will die and the teeth will be cold, and Wu Yue will be destroyed sooner or later. Now that the Tang army has increased its troops, Qian Wenfeng has achieved his goal to a certain extent, in order to attract more Tang troops to Changzhou, Qian Wenfeng accepted the advice of his son Qian Chengli, repaired a book, and sent someone to Hangzhou.

Qian Wenfeng saw that the Tang army was strong, and chose to retreat at this time, he ordered the three armies, strictly guarded the camp, and at the same time sent additional manpower to protect the grain road, and did not directly conflict with the Tang army. The Tang army, which Chai Kehong, Yao Feng and others rushed to support, constantly challenged Qian Wenfeng, and the scouts were scattered within a radius of fifty miles from Changzhou. Fighting takes place every day between the scouts on both sides.

In September, when the Wuyue people and the Tang Dynasty were fighting hard, the Khitan in the north had a mutation, Yelu Ruan was murdered to death by Yelu Cha and Yelu Pendu and others in Huoshendian, and immediately, Yelu Jing raised an army to fight, killed the rebellious thief, and soon became the fourth emperor of the Khitan.

The change in the north happened too suddenly, after the incident, Liu Chong got the news, immediately retreated, the Zhou army bit Liu Chong to the death, planning to take advantage of the Khitan civil strife, to destroy Liu Chong in Hedong in one go, the two sides had a big war in the area of Zhenzhou, Liu Chong sent Wang Dezhong to envoy Khitan, and sent gifts.

Yelu Jing is also a person who is very happy, at this time he has stabilized the situation, so he accepted Wang Dezhong's request, sent Xiao Yu to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses south, and the two sides continued to confront each other in the Zhenzhou area.

At the same time, Shu began to send troops, and in the case of superior troops, fought hard for more than 20 days, and finally captured Fengxiang Mansion, all the way to the east, attacked Qianzhou, and prepared to seize Chang'an; The other way went north, joined forces with the Shu army in Qinzhou, and attacked Longzhou.

The battle in Guanzhong was urgent, Guo Wei saw that the Tang army had not moved, so he transferred 20,000 troops from Kaifeng, led by his henchmen, and entered the customs to join the Jingyan army to attack the Shu army.

The situation in the world has become complicated, and the defeat of a certain battle is likely to change the pattern of the world, in the chaos, Yang Lian and Lin Renzhao led the sailors to sail rapidly, first to the east, after sailing for seven or eight days, they arrived at Tamna Island.

The Tang army that suddenly appeared had extremely strong force, and the soldiers of Tamna resisted for less than half a day, and then raised their hands to surrender, Yang Lian captured Tamna Island, and the residents of Tamna Island saw Lin Renzhao and saw that the killing god was coming again, and they couldn't help but be very frightened.

Yang Lian stayed in Tamna Island for a short time, the soldiers recuperated their spirits, bought fresh vegetables and water, Yang Lian led the army to turn south, as for Tamna Island, at this time Yang Lian's troops were insufficient, and he did not have the mind to occupy it.

Along the way, I was lucky, the weather was clear, the wind was strong, the sails were puffed up, and I made full use of the wind and sailed quickly towards the south. Yang Lian walked along the coastline of the Japanese people, and after walking for two days, he turned to sail westward under the guidance of soldiers familiar with waterways.

After sailing for seven days, the battleships lost seven or eight ships, and while at sea, they encountered a typhoon, but fortunately they avoided greater losses by avoiding them in time, and more than 200 soldiers were drowned, and about 500 were missing. This made some soldiers doubt the purpose of the trip.

Yang Lian summoned officials of all sizes, appeased everyone in time, and said that if he could not land again in two days, he would return the same way.

The sea was so blue that the sun could only be relied on to identify the direction, but after the typhoon, it rained heavily and the sun hid in the dark clouds and could not make out the direction. The battleship staggered, led by the head ship, and sailed towards a place.

After a day of sailing, the weather finally cleared and the sun came out, Yang Lian identified the direction and let the battleship sail westward. After sailing for a long time, the lookout suddenly shouted excitedly, and there was a series of small islands ahead.

These small islands are dotted across the sea, and several of them look the largest, and on a clear day, you can still see smoke curling from the cooking, which proves that there are people on the islands.

Yang Lian did not hesitate, and immediately led the ship straight to the island. The sudden arrival of so many warships caused fear among the inhabitants of the island, who hid in the mountains and forests. When Yang Lian arrived, he found that there were several seriously damaged merchant ships on the island. Looking at the style of the merchant ship, it seems to be the merchant ship of the Wu Yue people.

Yang Lian naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and immediately sent troops to the island to search. There were not many residents on the island, only a few dozen households, and they were quickly searched by Tang soldiers.

"Master Guan, we are all good people, the Central Plains is in turmoil, and we have no choice but to flee to the island to survive, and I hope that Master Guan will spare my life." A few old men knelt on the ground, and what they said was actually Chinese, and the words were correct and round, and they should be residents of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Get up, I have something to ask you." Yang Lian spoke.

Several old men were a little surprised, they originally thought that these people were Japanese people, but they didn't expect that they were Han people. Seeing that although Yang Lian looked fierce, his tone was very kind, they supported each other and stood up.

"How long have you been here?" Yang Lian asked.

"It's been twenty years." An old man said, asked his son to bring mountain spring water, and said: "Master Guan, drink saliva, the wind a few days ago was too strong, and a lot of houses were destroyed." ”

Yang Lian looked at it with great eyes, and sure enough, many houses fell to the ground.

"What is this place?" Yang Lian is most concerned about this.

"Sir, this is Ryukyu, a little south, and there is a larger island, where at least tens of thousands of people live." An old man said.

It turned out to be Ryukyu, which was occupied by the Japanese and renamed Okinawa in later generations, Yang Lian secretly thought in his heart, thinking that in order to avoid the typhoon, he actually came here, Yang Lian thought about it and asked: "Who live on the big island of Ryukyu?" ”

"Most of them are indigenous people, and some of them are people who moved from the Central Plains." The old man replied.

Yang Lian was even more strange, and said, "Since there are a lot of people from the Central Plains there, why don't you go to live on this small island instead?" ”

"Alas!" The old man sighed and spoke. It is true that there are many Central Plains people on the island of Ryukyu, but they have lived there for a long time and have formed villages one after another. In other words, they are small groups with their own interests.

Ryukyu Island is not large, and there is not much land that can be cultivated, and there have been many battles between the natives and the people of the Central Plains over land in Binsuri. Due to the lack of land, most of the newcomers, whether indigenous or Central Plains immigrants, are prejudiced and do not want them to come here.

Because if you want to settle them, you must divide the land, so that you will have less food, and people are selfish, and few people will help them when they are not well fed and clothed.

This is a normal person's mentality, Yang Lian can understand, Yang He thought about it carefully, and decided to send troops to attack Ryukyu, Ryukyu has a special geographical location, it is a rare fresh water supply place, and occupying this place, Yang Lian has more ways. Yang Lian carefully interrogated again, it turned out that the abandoned ship merchants on the island were the merchant ships that were hit by the strong wind a few days ago, and after they carried out some supplies on the island, they repaired the ships that could be repaired, and the rest were abandoned here first, waiting to be taken away later.

Yang Lian's eyes lit up, the typhoon is a matter of the past two days, it stands to reason that these merchants of Wuyue should still be nearby, the biggest possibility is on the big island of the Ryukyus, where there are many people, and they can get more supplies, and these merchants come to do business, it is very likely that they come to the Ryukyus to sell things, such as iron pots, kitchen knives and other daily necessities, because the big island of the Ryukyus is very likely to not produce iron, these things have become rare, just like the peoples on the grassland and the Central Plains do business, and their favorite is salt and iron.

If this group of businessmen can be captured, for Yang Lian, the success rate of the raid will be even greater.

Thinking of this, Yang Lian immediately ordered to go down, Lin Renzhao led ten warships first, and several residents of the island knew the way, so they let them lead the way, of course, Yang Lian gave enough benefits, food is what they need most, the residents got food, happy, Yang Lian even promised, promised to take them back to the Central Plains, and told them their identity, the northern envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and now he was ordered to go south, ready to recover Wuyue.

At this time, although the Tang Dynasty has perished, the glory of the Tang Dynasty is still shrouded in the hearts of the people, and these residents have been here for more than 20 years, and they don't know the difference between the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty at all, and they think that the Tang Dynasty has risen again, so everyone is excited and promises to work for the Tang Dynasty.

After Yang Lian supplied a certain amount of fresh water, he took these residents with him, hoisted his sails, and went to attack Ryukyu Oshima. (To be continued.) )