Ten warships lined up in a column, one followed one into the main channel, full of sails, plus down the river, the speed quickly increased, like a long dragon rushing towards the mouth of the Qiantang River. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info It was followed by a large number of small sailboats, all of which were ready to follow to see the excitement. The curiosity of the people of the Great Song Dynasty is really too heavy, and they have to make do with the war, and all of them have the potential to die. But after half an hour, the little sailing ships could no longer see the shadow of the battleship in front of them, and the merchants who hired the ships to go to sea urged the ship's boss to speed up. It's a pity that no matter how much you speed up the fishing boat, you can't outrun the battleship, and you don't even have a chance to eat the wake.

On September 25, 1254, the fleet of the Jinhe Empire suddenly appeared to the east of the Lisi Islands, numbering more than 100 ships, except for one Sea Monarch class, the Sea Wolf class.

Just like Wen Nan said, if the Jinhe Empire had also thought of the simple method of beheading, the Great Song Dynasty would have died long ago. With the naval strength of the Jinhe Empire, there is no need to wait for any big tide at all, and it is necessary to drill into the Qiantang River at night, and only need to swing the main fleet into Hangzhou Bay, and the Great Song Navy Division estimates that they will not even dare to come out of the water village. Then the Imperial Army carrying tens of thousands of armed cargo ships suddenly appeared on the edge of Lin'an City, and there would be no discrepancies in the subsequent process, the walls of Lin'an could not stop their own marines, and they also couldn't stop the marines of the Jinhe Empire, maybe they would break through faster, after all, the Jinhe Empire had a large number of troops.

"Your Majesty, those sailing ships are exactly the same as the ones sent by His Majesty to deliver letters to the mouth of the Golden River, and they seem to have been built in batches. Now their gun jackets have been taken off, and according to our people's observations, the caliber of those guns is not large, but they are mounted on an iron frame, I don't know why. "The King of the Sea has appeared, which means that the Emperor has also come out. At this time, Hong Jinhe was holding a telescope on the stern tower and listening to the naval commander next to him explain the situation on the sea.

"Do they mean to go to war? If you have, don't ask for my opinion, start first. Since my father asked me to negotiate, he should not have acted in such a provocative manner. "Hong Jinhe has entered the state of the Emperor at this time, everything is secondary, and the safety of the Imperial fleet must be ensured first.

"That's not true, they have been circling around the outside of our fleet, not to provoke, but to be afraid of being surrounded by our fleet. I have just sent someone to test it, and as soon as they get close to a distance of about a thousand meters, the gunners on their ships will enter the combat position. This news is very bad for us, the effective firing distance of our latest naval guns is only 600 meters, and they are much farther than us. "Commander Ou doesn't want the emperor to have any misunderstanding, no matter whether Hong Tao is also on the ship or not, after all, he is a person sent by His Majesty, so it is better not to fight or not.

"Is there any reaction from the Great Song Water Master?" Hong Jinhe put down the binoculars, and the freeboard of those boats was too low, and they appeared and disappeared in the sea, and it was very difficult to observe. Since the naval commanders have said that they are not abnormal, then don't bother with eyes.

"I sent two detachments to contact the Great Song Naval Division first, so that they should not be afraid, we are not here to fight. Don't worry, even if they don't believe it, they don't dare to come out, the Great Song Dynasty has done a very good job in the army over the years, but unfortunately there is still no big breakthrough in naval construction, and it still holds the defense concept of ten years ago. I don't know which capable person in their court came up with the idea to divide such a huge navy into a dozen sub-fleets and spread along the coastline, it is really stupid that it can't be more stupid, and it can't be used, and so much money, food and sailors have been spent in vain. "In Commander Ou's eyes, the more than 200 Great Song Navy warships stationed near Mingzhou are not as threatening as the few warships that are circling in the distance. If the navy does not go to sea and only stops at the water village and the port every day, it will lose the significance of coastal defense.

"Don't underestimate the enemy too much, before you meet my father, treat the object of this negotiation as an enemy, and be careful in everything." Even if Hong Jinhe's personality is not very similar to Hong Tao, he is Hong Tao's son after all, and the chicken thief has inherited a lot of problems, and even the most unlikely situation is taken seriously.

"Your Majesty, the lookout has received a signal from the alert fleet, and a fleet has sailed out of the mouth of the river, and it is very fast, and it will arrive in about four hours." It is not an exaggeration to say that the Jinhe Empire is a purely maritime country, not only officials like Hong Jinhe, Yi Yi, and Commander Ou who have attended navigation schools are familiar with navigation, but even the speaker who is nearly fifty years old can easily read the flag.

The Great Voyage was not only a national policy of the empire, but also formed a cultural inheritance. Immigrants who have just entered the empire may not be accustomed to the local style of taking their children out to sea in small boats on holidays, but their second and third generations are not used to it. Learning to sail from an early age has become the basic skill of imperial children, and if a child can't do it, he won't be able to get along with his peers, and he will be laughed at by children.

“…… He likes to eat seafood, and when he was a child, he would take a few of us to Jinhekou to fish and release crab pots as soon as he came home. I'm not as good as him in fishing, it's okay to catch crabs, let's put the dinghy, I'll catch some crabs, just for dinner. Hong Jinhe knew that the fleet was still far away and would not see anything, but he still took the telescope and looked to the west, and then walked down the stern, intending to go and catch some crabs for his father for dinner.

Although it is still uncertain that it is Hong Tao who is coming, most people, including Hong Jinhe, have already determined in their hearts who is coming. If it were any other person or organization, it would be impossible to build such a large fleet without the eyes of the Imperial Supervision Department, and it also carried Wen Xiaoqi's design ideas. And there are such bold people who dare to make appointments with the emperor and prime minister, and dare to deal with hundreds of warships with only a dozen warships, except for Emperor Hong, who is known as the god of the sea, it seems that there is no second one.

"What's the use of having such a sailor? The enemy has arrived at the door, but they dare not even open the door of the water village. Just as Hongjin River was rowing a small boat and carrying a crab pot to prepare a crab feast for his father, this father was rushing out of the mouth of the Qiantang River with ten Virginia-class warships at a speed of eleven knots, and sailed towards the agreed place. What made Hong Tao very indignant was that there was not a single battleship of the Great Song Navy Division in the nearby waters, but there were a few more Seawolf-class warships flying the flag of the Jinhe Empire in the distance. Obviously, the Great Song Navy and the Royal Navy reached some kind of tacit understanding and betrayed the Great Song Dynasty.

"Leave them alone, sooner or later they will have to be replaced. I haven't seen the Golden River for six or seven years, right? You are a good emperor, a good general, a good teacher, but by no means a good father. Wen Nan is not surprised, through the in-depth study of the Great Song Dynasty court these days, the performance of the Great Song Dynasty sailors should be said to be logical. There were two groups of people in the Great Song Dynasty who were most influenced by the Jinhe Empire, one was the maritime merchants, and the other was the officers and sailors in the naval division.

"It's true that I've been so busy with my own business all these years that I haven't paid much attention to him. To be honest, sometimes I even forget about him, and if he did, he would hate me to death. But this time I will give him a gift, a big gift, which can be regarded as making up for all these years of debt. Hong Tao has never denied his shortcomings in this regard, he is indeed not so close to his family and relatives, and he does not even spend as much time with them as he does with sailors.

"Only you would give a huge country as a gift to your son, is this considered a personal use of power?" Wen Nan knew what this gift was, it was the Great Song. Hong Tao doesn't plan to transform the Great Song Dynasty alone, because this task is a bit too difficult for an old man who is nearly sixty years old, and it is likely that he will not see the ending. Instead of giving up halfway like this, it is better to find a better way out for Da Song.

"Abuse of power for personal gain? We don't have any fart, we can't even control Lin'an City when we leave the palace, where did we get the power! This time, we must cooperate well, and we must convince them that we have actually controlled the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise my son will definitely not mind another decapitation operation. "Hong Tao is not as optimistic as Wen Nan, and using the power of the Jinhe Empire to help him govern the Great Song Dynasty is also a risky move. The key is to fool the Emperor, the Prime Minister, and the Speaker of the Imperial Parliament into believing that the exchange of interests is the most beneficial. Although he has a high talent in fooling people, these people he has to face are not very good, and with a pervasive Imperial Supervision Department, this negotiation is not expected to be too easy.

As the sun sets, the fiery red sunset gilds the sea with a golden yellow, including white sails. The two fleets of many different sizes are slowly approaching in the eastern waters of Hangzhou Bay, if you look down from the sky, the fleet in the west is like a sharp sword, and the fleet in the east is divided into several layers, more like a thick shield.

"Jin He has also learned badly, and he actually wants to force us to the edge of the island, does it mean that your family does not produce good people?" Don't look at the fact that both sides have entered the telescope observation distance, and they are also communicating with each other in the language of flags, but the small damage in private is not idle at all, even people like Wen Nan, who have no interest in navigation, can see that the fleet on the opposite side has bad intentions.

"Good people don't live long! Ever since the day I beat the kids up, I've been repeating this phrase whenever I see them. Lao Wu, let them see what a fast boat is, don't think that you can bully people if you have more boats, no matter how much waste there is, it's useless! "Even if he didn't come to fight, Hong Tao didn't want to give in to anyone on the sea, not even his own son.

"Do you need to reload?" Captain Wu understood what Hong Tao was going to do, and he was even more cautious than Hong Tao. (To be continued.) )