At the Dengzhou Naval Base in Shandong, Navy Minister Guo Beyu's naval command room was crowded with people 24 hours a day.

This naval landing operation was the largest naval landing operation since the establishment of the Imperial Navy, and everyone could not help but be nervous.

In the command room, there is a huge Bohai Bay sand table, which can be reflected in the rivers and hills along the Bohai Bay that are more than 10 meters wide and 100 meters high.

Guo Beyu often huggs his shoulders and looks down at it, and after looking at it for a long time, it seems to have a feeling of looking down on the world for thousands of miles.

Models of the first batch of five-masted warships and various large transport ships were placed on the sand table, and the target was to point to the mouth of the Haihe River, which had been marked.

Guo Beyu didn't understand why his masters came up with the name Haihe instead of the Dagu River that the Jin people started back then------ but the location of the mouth of the Haihe River was named Dagukou.

Of course, these place names are not important.

The Imperial Army's special forces finally came with the news, and the main defensive forces in the Dadu area had begun to move south one after another to reinforce the Zhuozhou area------ Dadu was like a plate of meat in front of the eyes of the marines.

The Imperial Navy's secret service team also sent corroborating information from the capital area.

He smiled faintly at this time, the army fought well, and made meritorious contributions to our navy.

Let's go, Imperial Navy!

At the end of March 1290, the southwest of Bohai Bay gradually rose, and it was a good time to go north.

The first battleships departed on time, they collectively hoisted their huge sails in the early morning, and then it took about five hours for the formation to leave the dock of the military port.

During these five hours, Navy Minister Guo Beyu stood in front of the large window of the navy's command room to see him off, and did not sit down once, which made those navy staff officers also stand with him.

At this time, the Bohai Bay is the time of sailing, the maximum wind force is only six levels, the wind direction is still right, there should be no problem to reach Dagu Kou within two days, and there are responders at Dagu Mouth, there is still a place where there are no people for a hundred miles.

But ah, the Imperial Navy has no two words, the situation at sea is ever-changing, and no one dares to say that they can completely control it.

A few decades ago, the accident rate of long-distance ships was two to three percent, and even fifty percent of the losses during the period when piracy was rampant!

Well, now, because of the establishment of the Imperial Navy, coupled with the navigation technology, charts and equipment brought by the masters, it has been reduced to about half percent------ but the danger remains.

His navy must not encounter unexpected sea conditions!

His heart silently prayed to Mazu.

Because of the military song, the Imperial Army chose Yue Pengju as the military god, and in the army bases, especially in the army bases outside Liuqiu Island and Shandong, there are Yue temples to worship on a fixed date and time; The empire's navy chose Mazu as the god of war.

In the Great Song Dynasty, Sister Ma had become the protector of the navigators.

Mazu was born in the family of Shi Eun and was the twenty-second granddaughter of Wang Linlu of Jin'an County in the Jin Dynasty of Fujian

Her original name is Lin Mo, her father Lin Weiwei, and her mother Wang, and the two usually do more good deeds and accumulate virtues.

One night, Wang dreamed that Master Guanyin said to her in a kind way:

"Your family has done good deeds and accumulated virtues, and today I will give you a pill, and I will receive the gift of Tzu Chi when I take it."

So she became pregnant.

On the evening of March 23, the first year of Jianlong of the Great Song Dynasty, Wang was about to give birth, and saw a red light, shining into the room from the northwest, dazzling, fragrant, and lingering for a long time.

Then I heard the rumbling all around, like the roar of spring thunder, and the earth turned purple.

Wang felt a tremor in his abdomen, and Mazu was born. Because he was born strangely, he loved him very much.

She was born until the full moon and did not cry, so her father named her "Mo".

Lin Mo, who grew up on the shore of the sea, is also familiar with astronomy and meteorology, and is familiar with water.

There are many reefs in the strait between Meizhou Island and the mainland, and the fishing boats and merchant ships that are shipwrecked in this sea area are often rescued by Lin Mo, so people say that she can cross the sea by seat.

She will also measure good luck and evil, and will inform the boatowner in advance whether she can sail, so she also said that she can "foresee the blame", and call her "goddess" and "dragon girl".

The sea is unfathomable, the wind and waves are unforgiving, and fishermen are frequently in distress when they go out to sea.

The young Lin Mo has a good water nature, and can fly a boat, volunteering to take on the rescue mission at sea, where there is a call for help, her figure will appear there, and countless fishermen have been rescued by her.

Legend has it that once, when it was dark, the wind was strong, the black waves were raging, and the ships at sea could not enter the port......

The ninth day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Song Taizong's Yongxi reign was the day when Lin Mo, who was only twenty-eight years old, ascended.

On this day, the people on Meizhou Island have seen that Mazu and her sisters climbed higher than the top of Meifeng Mountain, and after bidding farewell to their relatives, they rode the long wind alone and drove the auspicious clouds, soaring between the sky and the bright sun. Since then, sailors have often seen Lin Mo flying on the sea in red to rescue people in distress and call for help.

Since then, the statue of Mazu has gradually been worshipped on ships to pray for safe and smooth sailing.

Moreover, in the four years of Yongxi of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, the villagers of Mazu felt their favor and built a temple on Meizhou Island to worship it, which is the famous Meizhou Mazu Temple in the Great Song Dynasty

In the fourth year of Daxuanhe, the envoy Lu Yundi went to Goryeo, encountered a storm and waves on the way, thinking that the boat was about to die, but saw a woman in red falling from the sky, smoothing the waves, a whole boat of people were saved------ because of his miraculous skills, Lu Yundi played, the official Song Dynasty Song Huizong gave it the amount of Shunji Temple.

Since then, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty have given names, and until the time of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, they were also given the name of Linghui Xianji Jiaying Shanqing Concubine.

Of course, where can the common people remember such a long name, they will all be honored by the name Mazu.

In that year, when the Badaohe Naval Base built the Mazu Temple, when the golden body of Mazu was sculpted, Guo Beyu's main family also personally participated in the worship.

Since then, the appearance of Mazu has been stubborn------ she has built naval bases in many places with the Imperial Navy, and she has also gone farther and farther------ I heard that on the Liberty Island in Europe, the statue of Mazu is being sculpted by European craftsmen as high as more than ten zhang, named Freedom Mazu.

It is not finished yet, and it is believed that soon, black and white photos of the free Mazu will definitely circulate everywhere.

The Minister of the Navy, Guo Beyu, originally thought that when the ironclad battleship Magna Carta, which was being built by the masters, was completed, it would be the time to attack the Tatar bandit group with all his might------ of course he had seen the Magna Carta being built, and he did not need to know anything else, and he was already impressed by the huge hull at a glance.

However, no one expected that the war would suddenly break out, and it would be impossible to complete it.

The Badaohe shipyard is working hard to build a 45-horsepower, 100-ton iron-hulled gunboat powered by diesel engines.

He now had two iron-hulled gunboats at hand, which could sail at sea at speeds of ten knots per hour and on river waterways.

Of course, it is still used in inland rivers to work best, and the sea is too bumpy.

Navy Minister Guo Beyu often thought that it would be better if it was larger than 1,000 tons, and for the time being, he would not need nearly 10,000 tons like the Magna Carta------ but he did not dare to imagine that there could be such a powerful diesel engine.

As soon as the two iron-hulled gunboats arrived at the Dengzhou Military Port, the Minister of the Navy Guo Beyu appointed Second Lieutenant Zhang Zhansheng as the captain of the No. 01 gunboat and the captain of the gunboat squad.

On the third day after the departure of the first batch of battleships, he received a radio report that was safe and sound.

Most of his heart was relieved, and the god Mazu really blessed him to make great achievements.