Chapter 16 Hanging
The sudden acceleration of the Haibo made the two sand ships behind it completely desperate, and so far, as long as you are not a fool, you know that the ship is playing with itself, and you can't catch up with others at all. This time, the Mongolian general didn't grin anymore, he just sat on the deck and was lucky, he couldn't understand why the invincible Mongols on land became the object of being teased when they arrived at sea, and the other party dared to go to the gate of the Dengzhou Navy to show off his might, which was too breathless.
"General, they turned around......" Before the sweat on his head was dried by the sea breeze, the Han generals began to nag again.
"U-turn?" The Mongol general stood up from the deck and looked to the east, and sure enough, the hateful sailing ship was turning to the left, and the sails on it were retracted and spread out for a while, which was very beautiful.
"Does it dare to come back!" The Mongol general, not quite understanding the purpose of the ship, turned his head and asked.
"I'm afraid that's the case, we don't have combat capability now, the waves are too big, the hull is seriously tilted, and even crossbow arrows can't be fired." The Han generals seemed to understand something, and the expressions on their faces were very ugly.
"Get up, slacker! Row fast, catch up, sink it, we're bigger than it! "Not to mention, the courage of this Mongolian general is commendable. It's a pity that on the sea, courage alone doesn't matter, a ship that even struggles to drive, still wants to fight? Dream on!
The Mongols are good at riding and shooting, they have no heavy armor, but rely on the skill of riding and archery, and constantly attack around the enemy, so that the enemy cannot touch them, and slowly consume the enemy's physical strength and energy. As soon as the enemy is tired, tired, and out of formation, they will rush up and chop the enemy to the ground with their horses' hooves and scimitars. Hong Tao used this set of things on the sea, the Haibo is his war horse, the sea is the great plain of the Haibo, and the two sand boats are the enemy.
Each time they staggered, a few bolts would hit the sand boat, and explosions and flames were the main theme of this naval battle. This one landed, and then shot the next, and soon, the two ships turned into fireballs burning on the sea. When there is too much heavy oil and mixed oil, even if you extinguish it, the next explosion will reignite them, and then a little flame will instantly turn into a piece, and with the addition of broken iron pieces flying everywhere, it has become a very dangerous thing to fight on the deck.
The sails are on board, what to do? can only jump into the sea, whether it is drowning or being shot by the other party, it is better than burning alive. How do you jump into the sea? The Mongols are not stupid, they must have taken off their armor and jumped with barrels and planks or something, it doesn't matter if they don't know water, they will be in trouble if they don't have brains. So the two small boats that were put down from the Haibo began to fish for dumplings on the sea, and when they saw a living person, they directly hooked their clothes with a hook and pulled them over, and their crossbows were aimed at their heads, and whoever resisted was at once. Tie one by one on the boat, tie a pair of pairs when you come up, and when it is full, it will be transported back to the Haibo, and then come back to continue fishing.
"Lord Langzhong, do you see that? Naval battles are as simple as that, whether it is your Great Song Dynasty warship or the Mongol warship, in my eyes, it is almost like a child's toy. If I hadn't taken more slaves and gone back to help me with my work, they wouldn't have even had a chance to chase me, the ship would have burned out, and people would have drowned. Think about it, it's still useful for me to keep you, and when I build a bigger ship and a more powerful crossbow arrow, I'll take you back to Lin'an. If your court had not been killed by the Mongols at that time, I would have planned to help you deal with the Mongols together, but you would have to help me discuss the issue of cooperation with your officials. Hong Tao watched the sailors salvage boatloads of shipwowed officers and soldiers overboard, all of whom were stuffed into the bilge where the Japanese were imprisoned, but he thought about another question in his heart, how to help the Southern Song Dynasty court fight against the Mongols?
It would be great if the two sides could cooperate, but how? Will the Southern Song Dynasty court trust itself? It shouldn't be, so when the time comes, it will not only be a question of how to deal with the Mongols, but also a question of how to get along with the Southern Song court. It's best not to let yourself fight the Mongols in front, and you have to prevent the Southern Song Dynasty court from stabbing you in the back. This situation is not alarmist, and it is not unheard of in history, when it comes to betraying one's own people, the governments of many dynasties are much more skilled and happy than resisting foreign invaders.
"The general intends to contribute to the imperial court!? Wen Nan is willing to introduce on his behalf, and he will never mention the previous things again! As soon as Wen Nan heard that Hong Tao wanted to help the Southern Song Dynasty court fight the Mongols, and he also saw the power of Hong Tao's ship, if there was such a water warrior to return to the court, whether it was really a war with the Mongols or not, it would not be a bad thing.
"Pull it down! You don't seem to be listening to me, I mean helping you in the war, understand? Help, not submission! I am me, you are you, I just want to help my ancestors' people resist foreign invasion, not under your command. Just because of your morality in treating martial artists, you think I'm a fool? Return to you, why don't you say that I will donate my life and family property to the court for free! "Hong Tao really wants to give this Wennan a big-eared post, thinking about Nima's good deeds, and return to Shun!
"The whole world is not the king's land, there is no righteousness, how can the people of the world be convinced? Does the general want to risk the condemnation of the world? As soon as Wen Nan heard that Hong Tao didn't want to return to the imperial court, he immediately became anxious, and even forgot his own identity as a prisoner, and wanted to start teaching Hong Tao again.
"I said you are a frog at the bottom of the well, you must not be convinced. Is it not the king's land under the whole world? Do you know how big the world is? The Liao State beat you all over the ground looking for teeth, and then the Jin State came, you still can't beat it, and now the Mongols are here, stronger than the Liao State and the Jin State combined, you definitely still can't beat it. Have you been able to fight in Western Xia? Did you know that there are many more countries in other places? Some are smaller than the Great Song Dynasty, and some are larger than the Great Song Dynasty. Why do you say that the whole world belongs to your Zhao family? Have you asked the Liao, the Jin, and the Mongols? Do they agree! By the way, your Zhao family also had many dynasties before, right? That's what they said at the time, the whole world is not the king's land, and the result? Wang Tu ran away, your Zhao family is here! Let me tell you, your Zhao family is likely to have the Wang family, the Liu family, and the Zhou family...... All of you say that, you treat me as a child with no knowledge and no knowledge, don't you feel blushing? Let's stop arguing about this, time will tell, and I'm not going to talk nonsense with a frog at the bottom of a well. Karl, send him back, put him in the sailor's cabin, put him on duty with the sailors. Hong Tao didn't want to argue with Wen Nan anymore, he and himself were not at the same level at all. How much knowledge determines a person's mode of thinking, for a person who has never even seen a map of the world, it is normal to have this kind of thinking, and he can't convince him, so just don't talk nonsense, change a person's thinking to take it slowly, not in a hurry.
The salvage work was only halfway underway, and it had to be stopped, because the lookout on the mast issued a warning, and another ship was found in the west, and there was more than one, it should be those ships reinforced by the Dengzhou Naval Division, and they were really persistent and never gave up. It's not that Hong Tao doesn't want to deal with them for a while, but there are not so many places in the cabin, plus the Japanese and Koreans who were captured before, they have already stuffed a small hundred people, and if they are stuffed again, even if they don't freeze to death, they will have to starve to death, anyway, Hong Tao will definitely not reduce the rations of himself and the crew to feed the prisoners of war.
"Shoot them all, although they are also Han Chinese, they must be standing opposite us when they fight, Ah Jiao, do you think they should be killed first?" Looking at the officers and soldiers who were fluttering with debris on the sea, Hong Tao turned his head and asked Ah Jiao.
"Damn it! Kill one less enemy! Ah Jiao didn't hesitate at all this time, and he wasn't afraid of being punished by Hong Tao for going against his will, he originally thought so.
"What if these people are from the Tan family, but they also stand against us?" Hong Tao was not satisfied, and then asked.
"The Tan family...... That's also kill! It's not from Jinhewan, and it has nothing to do with me! No, there are also Ximaozhou and Zhenzhou! Ah Jiao gritted his teeth and gave another positive answer.
"I'll spare you with those two buckets of water, and by the way, I'll tell you again, even if the people on Jinhe Bay and Ximaozhou Island stand opposite you, you have to kill them. Whoever stands against us is the enemy! When fighting, there is no other identity, only oneself and the enemy, either one's own people or enemies, not only to kill, but also to strike first. If you kill the wrong person, you only need to feel guilty, if you are killed, you won't be able to live if others are guilty, remember! You command. Hong Tao patted Bo Jiao's head, feeling that this child was completely led crooked by himself, and he finally had followers, which was a good thing.
When the Mongol reinforcements were still about a mile away from the Haibo, the Haibo slowly raised its sails and sailed southeast with the north wind. At first, the ships were able to gradually close the distance between the two sides, but the sails of the Haibo rose more and more, opening one side after another, as if they could never finish rising, and the speed of the ship became faster and faster, and soon the distance was widened, and finally the four or five sand boats were left behind, and gradually disappeared into the sea level against the setting sun.