"I've already made arrangements, I'm going to your house this time to help you bring your family back. But the plan has changed a bit, you can hear it first, that's how I planned it. You said that your village is a craftsman camp, right? In other words, it is full of craftsmen and their families, right? Hong Tao took a few people into the new captain's room, which is much larger than the Canton Ship, can put a circle of three-person earthen sofas, without crowding, and it is also an inner and outer house, and there is a separate small bedroom in the back.

"Yes, they are all craftsmen, mainly working for the Dengzhou sailors, there are carpenters, blacksmiths, lacquer craftsmen, rope makers, oh, and bows and crossbows!" As soon as Kong Pei heard that he was going to pick up his family this time, even if he was a calm person, he couldn't help but smile and nodded vigorously.

"That's good, I not only want to take your family out, but also want to take the whole village away, do you think it's difficult?" Hong Tao nodded, Kong Pei was right, he had asked his fellow villagers who were captured together about these situations before, and there was not much difference, so it should be the truth.

"Ahh Take them all away...... Sir, are you going to rob the population? "It's worthy of an officer, as soon as Hong Tao started, Kong Pei guessed what he was going to do.

"It's not about robbing the population, it's about taking them home! Those are the people of my Great Song Dynasty, unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy, and the imperial court has no way to take them back, now that Mr. Hong has this way, he naturally wants to pick them up, and my Great Song Dynasty is their homeland! Wen Nan preemptively answered Kong Pei's question, and morally beautified the fact that Hong Tao grabbed the population, and said it righteously, he was good at doing this kind of work.

Wen Nan also knew about this matter in advance, and Hong Tao also specially consulted him, if he robbed too many people, could he put it in the Great Song Port halfway. Wen Nan praised Hong Tao's idea. Even more support than running a racecourse. In his opinion, those Han people in the north are also the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and if he can bring them all back, the merit is immeasurable, so he also specially asked Ying to follow Hong Tao ashore to persuade those Han people not to be afraid and not to resist. Hurry up and follow Master Wang! Unfortunately, Hong Tao told him that he would not go ashore, that the sailors would do the work, and that the only support he could give them was twenty horses for them to ride. If there is an accident, run back on a ride, safety first.

For this reason, Wen Nan also enlightened Hong Tao for a long time, saying that those who have achieved great things cannot be kept behind, and sometimes they have to stand up and raise their arms and shout if they take a little risk. In this way, you can win more hearts and minds, you only need to shout a few slogans, and you can eat and drink better than usual to take care of them for a year. Hong Tao recognized what Wen Nan said, but he resolutely didn't want to do it. Liu Bei's thing about throwing children was done by a hero, he is not a hero, and he doesn't want to be a hero, so he can't take that risk. There are big profits in taking risks, and you understand this truth. But there are huge profits if you don't take risks yourself, so why take risks? Those heroes all did it with the fearless spirit of becoming benevolent if they didn't succeed. If you don't succeed, you won't succeed, stay in the green mountains, this time if you don't succeed, just come back in a few days.

As for whether he can make someone like Kong Pei loyal to him, Hong Tao didn't even think about it. They are willing to be faithful, and they are worthy of them. They are not willing to be faithful, and they will not be able to reconcile for a few years. After those children in the school grow up, now these captains have to be replaced, Hong Tao never puts his own safety, gains and losses on the loyalty of others, that thing is too unreliable. It's better to exchange benefits directly.

“…… Sir, this matter is a little troublesome, next to the artisan camp, there is the garrison camp of the Dengzhou Naval Division, maybe there are Mongolians, and there is a checkpoint on the road. If we go with fewer people, I'm afraid we won't be able to compete with it on land, and if we go with more people, there won't be enough horses. From the seaside to the artisan camp, it is also thirty miles recently, not counting women and children, they have to run for two hours, and there is only one dead end when they are caught up by the horse team. Kong Pei didn't talk to Wen Nan, he had never seen Da Song like anything, so naturally he didn't have any feelings for Da Song, and he might have complaints when he said it. However, he is more mature, so he didn't quarrel with Wen Nan, but told the specific difficulties and let Hong Tao decide for himself.

"Then you said that if I stormed Dengzhou Water Village at night, would the troops of those camps not be able to take care of the artisan battalion?" Hong Tao has also made preparations in this regard, and he intends to attack the east and west. Dengzhou Port is still more than ten miles away from this artisan battalion, and if he makes some big noise, the nearby defenders may be attracted by him, and then send sailors to ride ashore to grab people, and the resistance will be much smaller.

"Sir, you want to storm Dengzhou...... Oh, the subordinates understood, it was a plan to save Zhao from Wei Wei! In this case, it should be much easier, as long as you can pass the level without any problems, you can reach the beach. Kong Pei understood what Hong Tao meant, and affirmed the effect of doing so.

"Are you talking about a city wall or a city gate?" Hong Tao hadn't thought about the checkpoint before, if it was a city wall or a city gate, it would be difficult.

"It's just that the soldiers set up on the side of the main road, most thirty or forty, as few as ten people, patrol day and night, and do not let unrelated people mix in the vicinity of the barracks. There should be three places along the way, six or seven miles apart, and my fellow villagers know the locations. Kong Pei was suffering from the fact that there was no map to draw Hong Tao in detail, and in the past two years, he has been accustomed to using nautical charts, and he always feels that it is clearer.

"That's easy, our sailors have crossbows, four for each of them, and even if they run into the defenders, the crossbow arrows will be enough. But you reminded me that you must kill all the people in the level, and you can't leave them alive! Medini, go and call Langya in, I have to tell him not to attack if he can sneak attack, and kill all of them if he wants to. Hong Tao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that it was just a sentry on the side of the road, but immediately remembered something and told Medini to go out and call someone.

"Sir, those defenders are also Han Chinese, and many of them are still locals, can you ......" Kong Pei was a little unbearable when he heard that he was going to kill the checkpoints on the road.

"Lao Kong, it's not that I'm ruthless, if I don't kill them all, how can the people in the village be brought out? Who dares to guarantee that they will not run to tell the Mongols? Who can guarantee that they will not shout? If you dare to promise to use the lives of your family and your fellow villagers, I will not kill any of them! Do you dare? Hong Tao rolled his eyelids, he hated that others pretended to be good people in front of him, and finally put the basin on his head.

"The subordinates don't dare to ......" Kong Pei made Hong Tao lose his temper, because Hong Tao was right, although those defenders were all Han Chinese, they were also the same as themselves, they didn't know what the Great Song Dynasty was, and they didn't live in the Great Song Dynasty for even a day. Who would obediently throw down their weapons and uniforms just because the other party is Han like themselves?

"Remember, you are different from Wen Langzhong, he is a pen and a mouth, he can be compassionate, but you can't! Don't be emotional, because you have dozens of brothers who get along with you day and night, and if you have a crooked brain, their lives may be lost. If the Emperor of Jin is on one side and your lookout hand is on the other, you can only save one person, which one do you save? Whenever Hong Tao encounters this situation, he will take the opportunity to knock on the people around him, their thinking patterns are fixed, and many concepts cannot be changed, so they need to be stimulated from time to time to make them remember.

"Save my lookout!" This time, Kong Pei did not hesitate and immediately gave the answer.

"Well, it's useless to just talk, I'll wait to see what you do! You go back to the ship first, and then come back to my ship after the 38th parallel. Hong Tao was not pleased, saying that anyone would say it, but it might not be possible to do it.

The Jinhe has a hull several laps larger than the Haibo-class fast cruisers, but its speed is higher than that of the smaller Haibo-class, and with the same five-level sidewind, the Jinhe can run an extreme speed of 12 knots with full sails, while the four ships in the Haibo-class are only 10 knots. When it came to the top wind, the Jinhe could still maintain a speed of 6 or 7 knots, and the Haibo class still couldn't catch up. This is the difference caused by the difference in sail gear and boat type, but the disadvantages of these two speeds are also obvious, and the number of seasick people on the ship has increased, not only non-professional seasickness such as Wen Nan, Maitini, Cixi, etc., but also some well-trained sailors.

There is only one reason, due to the slender hull, sharper bottom, and deeper draft, the sway resistance of the Golden River has decreased, but the stability has been strengthened. This sentence sounds a bit contradictory, why does the anti-oscillation decrease, and the stability is strengthened? In fact, it is very easy to understand, that is, the left and right swing amplitude of the hull has increased, but due to the shape of the ship, the speed of hull righting has accelerated, which means that the frequency of shaking has increased and the amplitude has decreased. The more high sea conditions this ship encounters, the more stable it becomes, and it is a complete oceanic warship, which is not suitable for calm and shallow seas. Because even if there is no wind at all, it will sway from side to side because of the shape of the hull, but it is not as stable as the pure U-shaped bottom of the Haibo-class ship, but in the deep sea, it still performs like this, and it is more wave-resistant than the U-shaped bottom of the Haibo-class. In addition, its draft is too large, reaching more than six meters and almost seven meters, and it is very dangerous to go to the beach again.

On the whole, Hong Tao is very, very satisfied with this ship, and he also admires the execution of those shipbuilders very, very much. It is indeed very difficult to imitate a galleon hundreds of years later by just talking and drawing on their own mouths, but they did it very well. Although it took dozens of craftsmen and hundreds of slaves a year to complete this ship, this is the first one, and it belongs to the stage of exploration while building, so it must be much slower. If we had started to build it now, the number of people would have been cut in half, and the construction period would have been advanced by a month or two. (To be continued.) )