"The captain is on the ship, the commander is on the ship...... Raise the Commander's Flag! Standing on the deck to greet Hong Tao is Weng Ya, she is resolutely unwilling to work with mercy in the attack fleet, according to her words, the attack fleet is to pick up cheap thieves, she has to fight the enemy face to face in the main fleet, so she became the temporary captain of the Jinhe, instead of Hong Tao to deal with the specific work, so that Hong Tao has more energy to command the entire fleet.

"Let's go first, let them follow in formation on their own." Hong Tao looked up at the rising black-on-black gold-threaded rat-headed commander flag, and involuntarily touched the scar on the left side of his face, if he wore a black blindfold, wouldn't this be a pirate.

As the flag-bearers on the lookout kept waving the signal flags, the two iron anchors of the Golden River were pulled up, and the sailmen began to climb around the masts again, and the sails were lowered from the horizontal and diagonal directions. The sailors on deck shouted and pushed the winches to pull them apart, taut and hold them in place, and the huge hull of the Golden River, accompanied by gusts of southeast winds, began to glide slowly eastward on the sea. At the same time, various slogans sounded on the sea behind them, and the seven armed cargo ships also raised their sails one after another, following behind the Jinhe one by one, forming a column.

"Lao Kong, you are old and have been with my uncle for a long time, tell me why my uncle has to take the main fleet on his own adventure? It's a job that either of us can do, and compassion is fine, right? Seeing that a large ship began to raise its sails in formation, Bo Jiao, who was still rushing to his own warship in a small boat, began to ponder Hong Tao's intentions behind his back. He didn't want to figure out what he wanted, but he was learning from Hong Tao. He didn't go to a formal navigation school, and he was taught by Hong Tao all by hand. As the saying goes, the master leads the way to practice in the individual. Optics are not enough. We still have to figure it out.

"Your Majesty should be afraid that we won't be able to control our emotions. Kill the red eye and put the fleet in danger. Your Majesty is rarely swayed by emotions, all judgments are based on this, and he is naturally handsome. Fighting with such a commander is very steady, if he is not eighty percent sure, he will definitely not make a move, once he does, it is basically a victory. Kong Pei also figured out some of Hong Tao's habits, and said Hong Tao's fighting style in one sentence. Just two words: cautious!

"If I want me to say that I am cowardly, my father said that if Mr. was bold, he would have beaten the Great Song and the Mongols away a long time ago. Fighting a war is not like doing business, you have to make sure that you can make money before you can do it, and if you are 30% sure and 10% confident, you can often win it. Swann didn't agree with Kong Pei's analysis, his fighting style was completely different from Hong Tao's, one was more cautious and the other was rushing and punching.

"You're the captain's fodder, my dad said. Sir, that's not prudence, that's maturity. There is a bow and crossbow in his hand. You can solve the battle from a distance of tens of meters, so why do you have to rush up and fight with others? This is called overcoming the enemy's shortcomings with one's own strengths, you know? Your father's set is outdated, and my husband said in school that future wars will rely less and less on human courage and more on technology. No matter how good your saber is, you know what the other two things in Mr.'s waist are called, don't you? It's called a pistol, and as soon as it smokes at you fifty meters away, a shot put of this size will hit your body, no matter how thick the armor you wear, there will be such a big transparent hole. Are you scared? I'll tell you another top-secret news, the pistol is just easy to carry, and the gentleman is used for self-defense. Minister Qi and the others are making a new weapon called a rifle, and they are three or four hundred meters away. Swan, let you get five hundred of the best cavalry, I will bring three hundred riflemen, it doesn't matter if the flat land is mountainous, as long as it is not a surprise attack, you wonder which of us can win? "The merciful father is the Minister of Supervision, and the uncle is the Director of the Interior Bureau, and if the whole empire wants to find the most well-informed person, just look at his face.

"Isn't that a miniature version of artillery, according to you? Then I'm going to play a fart! You have 300 cannons, so I won't fight you, I'm stupid! "Swann just has a straight personality, but his brain is not stupid, and he only listened to a few words of mercy blowing cowhides, and he made up the general principle of this new weapon in his brain.

"Aren't we invincible? Let Minister Qi build thousands of small cannons, and in the future, it will be our Jinhe Empire that has the final say in the sea, and we will have the final say on land. Whoever doesn't agree, we'll give him thousands of cannons and smash him! "It's the first time that Bo Jiao has heard of this kind of weapon, and he immediately began to think about it again, one mouth is thousands of doors, as if that thing is a wood carving.

"That's not it, if you let these thousands of people ride on their horses with small cannons...... You can go from Guangzhou to the Yellow River in half a month! No, I'll have to find a chance to ask my husband, if there is such a thing, I won't be the captain of the ship, I'm going to be an infantryman. Although the battleship ran fast, it was a pity that it could not go ashore, and it was not possible to see the enemy face to face with my flesh and blood, but it was not enjoyable! As soon as Swan thought about it along Bo Jiao's thoughts, he immediately became excited, and the momentum of what he wanted to do came again. If the Jinhe hadn't left yet, he would have dared to go to Hong Tao now to ask for an understanding.

"If you dare to go, I'll break up with you! It's top secret, I overheard it from my uncle and my dad...... You guys all shut your mouths shut for me, I told you because we have a good relationship, you won't betray me, right? No, you swear to me one by one, I don't want to be whipped! As soon as he heard that Swan was going to ask Hong Tao, Mercy turned white with fright, and swore poison to everyone on the ship.

Five days later, a large shadow of sails suddenly appeared in the eastern part of the Shengsi Islands, which frightened the Southern Song Dynasty sailors stationed here and immediately lit the beacon fire on the island. Columns of smoke continued to rise along the archipelago to the west, and soon spread to Mingzhou and Lin'an, and then the Qiantang River estuary became lively, and hundreds of warships of the Southern Song Dynasty naval division continued to gather here, and it was a bit of a bit of strength to block the mouth of the Qiantang River with boats.

"Frightened Bird! Won't you look at the sail and call the police? It was blind to expect them to defeat the Mongol army, both on land and at sea, they were terrified. Once this person is scared by others, he is like a fighting cricket, and his combat effectiveness is immediately reduced by fifty percent, and every time he sees this person's legs, he trembles. Hong Tao, the Southern Song Dynasty sailor at the mouth of the Qiantang River, couldn't see it, but he could see these beacon fires, and then he could know what the Southern Song Dynasty sailor would be busy with his big toes. Originally, the idea of expecting the Southern Song Dynasty sailors to help them resist the Mongolian sailors faded a little. It might be easier not to take these people to play with your own fleet, and to take them with you to fight, if they are more troublesome than the enemy will bring to your own fleet.

"The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty transferred all the sailors north of Fuzhou here, and he didn't take the initiative to fight, but only guarded Lin'an and Mingzhou, what if the Mongolian sailors went to Fuzhou to land?" Weng Ya couldn't understand the strategic layout of the Great Song Dynasty, this kind of passive defense tactics might work on land, but it would not work well on the sea.

With such a thing as a sea ship that can be both fought and transported, a few hundred miles of land is a matter of one or two days, and you can fight wherever you want, and you can land wherever you want, and you can't prevent it. Therefore, Hong Tao has always emphasized to the students in the navigation school that the navy is not a defensive army, it must attack, attack as defense, go out to attack is useful, and there is no way out for a defensive navy.

"Fuzhou can be rebuilt if it is broken, not only Fuzhou, but also Guangzhou and Quanzhou, as long as Lin'an is not lost, the Great Song Emperor thinks that his throne is not lost, and the country is still there. In terms of learning new technologies and ideas, the Great Song Dynasty was not as fast as the Mongol Empire, and in this respect, the Mongol Empire, which had fewer cultures and traditions, was ahead. They carry little baggage, and they learn what is beneficial to them. Let's drop anchor, and we'll set up a supply depot on this beach, and tell everyone that we must keep the tide out, and that without these ammunition our ships are waste. "Hong Tao can be regarded as seeing through, as long as the Southern Song Dynasty court remains in its current state, don't expect it to suddenly change its thinking. If we want to save this country, we must not only help it from the outside, but also exert pressure from the inside to urge it to take the initiative to change. Just like when the Qing Dynasty government was forced to carry out the Westernization Movement, the necessary hardships still had to be suffered.

"This kind of emperor is really not a thing, you should bomb them all down and let your uncle be the emperor!" Although Weng Ya is not from the Great Song Dynasty, she still hates the Great Song Emperor's completely disregarding the safety of the people. This is called a class position, and when she thinks about problems, she involuntarily stands on the side of the common people.

"You take your uncle too seriously, let me be an emperor in Jinhewan and barely make do, if you give me the Great Song Dynasty, I can't play it. It's hard to go back, such a big country, it's hard to change it by just one person or a few people, it needs a whole lot of people. Although it is also beautiful to hear others praise him as a good emperor, Hong Tao has not yet reached the point of getting carried away. If he really gave him the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, he really didn't dare to ask for it, unless he washed the entire court and started over, he couldn't think of any good medicine that could change the appearance of the Great Song Dynasty in the short term, and even to maintain the original state was enough, and it was not as good as the original emperor.

"You let me be the commander of the Great Song Dynasty's navy, I promise to do a good job!" Weng Yatian shamelessly asked for an official for herself.

"You better get this supply depot right first, and in the next two days, Xu Liangzhi's cargo ship will pull construction materials and workers over to help. You find someone to keep an eye on them for me, whether it's a powder keg or a cannonball box, it's only allowed to move and not open, and it must be handled with care, and now you're acting commander of the fleet, which can be regarded as enjoyable. "Hong Tao doesn't have the right to promote Weng Ya, it's pure boredom to discuss this issue, let's go sleep for a while if you have this kung fu.

(To be continued.) )