"That's okay, in order to promote my Ming Dynasty's peaceful and friendly attitude, this envoy will take this flagship under me into Lingjiang." Su Baiyi paused, and then said, "Why doesn't General Ruan come with this envoy?" ”

Ruan Fuyu was thinking of following Su Baiyi, one was afraid that he would mistakenly enter the territory of the Zheng clan in the north, and the other was afraid that Da Ming would have other intentions, so he was thinking of finding an excuse to follow, and he didn't want Su Baiyi to invite him personally, so he happily agreed.

Su Baiyi smiled and said to Hou Fangyu: "Chaozong, play the flag, let the fleet wait for the governor for half a day, and make way for a passage, the governor will visit the Lingjiang River." ”

"Yes!"

Here Hou Fangyu went to play the flag, but Su Baiyi took Ruan Fuyu's hand very enthusiastically and said: "General Ruan, the envoy has heard long ago when he was in the Ming Dynasty that in this north-south dispute in Annan, the Zheng clan in the north is like a sharp spear, and the Ruan clan in the south is like a heavy shield, and a series of defenses have been arranged in the south of the Lingjiang River. ”

Ruan Fuyu was about to show off, and said hehe: "My lord will definitely make this trip worthwhile." ”

The lookout at the bow of the boat suddenly took out a loudspeaker and shouted, which startled Ruan Fuyu and asked Su Baiyi: "Why is this?" Before the words fell, I felt that the big boat under my feet shook slightly, and slowly started.

"Ah......" Ruan Fuyu looked at the bare masts around him, looked at Su Baiyi as if he had seen a ghost, and asked in a trembling voice: "Lord Angel, here, why did this ship move?" ”

Su Baiyi smiled slightly, and did not answer directly, but said softly: "General Ruan, don't panic, this is just a small skill of carving insects." As he spoke, the speed of the ship gradually increased, and in a blink of an eye, he entered the mouth of the Lingjiang River.

Su Baiyi invited Ruan Fuyu to sit on the bow of the boat together, chatting slowly while watching the scenery on both sides of the strait.

The north bank of the Lingjiang River is the territory of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family has built a large number of military buildings on the north bank, and there are tens of thousands of people stationed in peacetime, and there are constantly patrols with spears patrolling back and forth. On the north bank of the river, dozens of lucky boats are lined up, and at a glance you know that they belong to the Zheng camp, but compared with the Ruan family, the Zheng family's ships are much shabby, most of the ships are used to transport troops, and only a few are equipped with light artillery.

Jiangnan is also a smooth road, but along the south bank of the Lingjiang River from east to west, there is a strong defense that seems to be the Great Wall, the city wall is unusually tall, and there are many battlements on it. To Su Baiyi's surprise and shock, there was a cannon every ten meters away on this city wall, and a heavy cannon every fifty meters or so.

This Jiangnan Ruan clan can defend the Zheng clan in the north of the river, it is really extraordinary, not only the artillery on the ship is powerful, but the fortifications on the city wall, not to mention the Zheng clan's troops, even the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty and the cavalry troops of the Later Jin may not be able to break through.

History records that the Nguyen defense was extremely strong, not only with many artillery, but also with a mountain of gunpowder in the warehouse.

Every country has its own peculiarities and strengths, and you can benefit from them. Su Baiyi was also amazed in his heart, fortunately, what he wanted from the beginning was to cut meat with a soft knife, if it was a hard one, with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it was still far behind.

At the time of the Yongle Emperor, it was the strongest national strength of the Ming Dynasty, and the millions of troops entered Annan and could not be conquered, and now Annan is no longer the original Annan, if the original Annan is a poisonous snake hidden in the shadows, today's Annan is to add a pair of wings to the original poisonous snake, like a tiger with wings. The Ming Dynasty is no longer the country of force that commanded all directions.

Compared with the two, it is more than a hundred times more difficult to plot against Annan now than it was at the beginning.

It was difficult to incorporate it into the territory, so the only way to cut the meat was to slowly.

Compared with Su Baiyi's shock, Ruan Fuyu was not surprised by these scenes, he led the fleet to walk on the river every day, and Jiangnan and Jiangbei didn't know how many times they saw it. He was most interested in this big ship, with its current speed, it had far surpassed the warships under his command, but this big ship had no sails and no manpower to row, how did it go?

Ruan Fuyu was very curious and wanted to know how Su Baiyi did it.

But in order to maintain the face of himself and the country, lest the people of the Ming Dynasty regard them as hillbillies, he just endured it and didn't ask.

The question in Ruan Fuyu's heart was not easy to ask, but Su Baiyi couldn't help it, he looked at the north and south, and finally asked curiously: "General Ruan, why are you so familiar with our official language of Daming, can't you have been to Daming?" ”

Ruan Fuyu lowered his head in shame, and said: "The villain has never been to Daming, there were refugees from Daming in our family before, and I learned this official language from him." ”

"Refugees?" Su Baiyi smiled, thinking that the Chinese refugees really did everything to survive in order to survive, but said in his mouth: "How much Chinese is there in Fuchun City?" ”

"Many!" Ruan Fuyu said: "The dignitaries and nobles in this city, such as Ruan Fu's, Ruan's, Hu's, and Chen's, many of them can speak your Ming official language, but they are relatively unfamiliar, and they are not as pure as villains." ”

The above is just a cliché.

Su Baiyi's real question was: "General Ruan, there is something very strange about this envoy. I look at the Zheng clan's navy in the north, and compared with your Ruan clan's navy, it seems to be a lot weaker? And all the artillery that defended the wall, did you make it yourself? ”

"That's ......" Anyone who hears other people's praise is happy in their hearts, Ruan Fuyu is naturally no exception, he forgot for a moment why Su Baiyi's boat ran so fast, stretched out his hand and boasted: "Lord Angel, please see, this city wall is twenty-five miles from the mountain to the sea, and there are as many as two thousand light and heavy artillery guns in total, and the gunpowder in the warehouse below is piled up, so the Zheng clan is bent on swallowing our Ruan clan, but in fact, they have never crossed the Lingjiang River once in the past five years."

At the beginning of this year, Zheng people had no choice but to think of a way, drive a boat around the sea to attack behind the Lingjiang River, how did they know that our Ruan's naval army is as powerful, don't hide it from the angel Lord said, just the kind of warship led by the villain, there are more than 100 ships on the entire sea, that time the Zheng family suffered a big loss, hahahaha! ”

"Did you make all these cannons yourself?" Su Baiyi frowned and asked again. If it was really a cannon made by the Nguyen clan, then their technology seemed to be too advanced.

There are more than 2,000 cannons in the entire city wall, what kind of concept is this, it is simply more than the artillery of the entire Ming Dynasty.

And as Su Baiyi went deeper into the Lingjiang River by boat, he could see the turret on the city wall clearly, and Ruan Fuyu was not lying.

This defense is countless times stronger than Shanhaiguan.

"It's not!" Ruan Fuyu said: "We bought it. ”

"Bought?" Su Baiyi was even more strange and asked, "Where did you buy it?" ”

"Franc Machine!" Ruan Fuyu replied with a smile.

"Oh......" Su Baiyi understood, it turned out that Europa got it, no wonder it looked quite advanced.

Local tyrants, rich!

Su Baiyi looked at An Nan Ruan, and the two most intuitive words flashed in his mind.

This guy can purchase more than 2,000 cannons, and there are six more in each boat, a total of more than 1,000 cannons, which is enough for 3,000 cannons.

Su Baiyi couldn't think of it even when he scratched his scalp.

The boat continued to move, despite the fact that the water in front of it was getting narrower and narrower, and it was about to enter the mountain. Su Baiyi hurriedly said, "Let's go back, let's go back." ”

The lookout shouted with a loudspeaker into the operation compartment below: "Slow down, stop!" ”

The operator below gradually slows down the speed of the big ship.

After a while, the lookout shouted again, "Turn left, turn around." ”

The ship shook again, turned around in the middle of the river, and then turned on the steam engine with all its might, and went down the river where it came and went.

Ruan Fuyu looked at the smoke coming out of the big chimney and was shocked.

When the big boat turned its head, Su Baiyi looked at the wide river in front of him and didn't know when there were suddenly many lucky boats, it seemed that it was still the warship in the Zheng camp opposite, and he almost understood in his heart that it should be the Zheng family who followed after seeing this inexplicable and strange big ship.

"It's broken!" Su Baiyi patted his head and said, "These are the Zheng clan's warships, they won't attack us, right?" ”

Ruan Fuyu shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't worry, Lord Angel, if it was any other time, it would have started a fight a long time ago, but it won't be in these days?" ”

"Why is that?" Su Baiyi asked.

"There's a truce!" Ruan Fuyu said with a smile: "This Zheng clan has been going south for many years but has not been able to get benefits, so he sent someone to Fuchun to seal our family in the name of Emperor Li, and it is said that they will also join forces and jointly send troops to deal with the Gaoping Mo clan in the north." ”

"What?" When Su Baiyi heard this, he said, "What does Lord Ruan mean?" ”

"Huh!" Ruan Fuyu said: "The subordinate is just a sailor commander, and the result has not come out yet, and the subordinates don't know." ”

"Hmm!" Su Baiyi pretended to nod calmly, but he secretly said something bad in his heart.

If Lord Nguyen really accepted the canonization of the Emperor of the Lê Dynasty, then it would be a big problem.

Accept the canonization of Emperor Li, where is the canonization of Emperor Daming?

The two families shook hands and made peace, how could Lao Tzu still make a profit?

Seeing that the big ship was getting faster and faster, and the Zheng clan's battleship in front was getting closer and closer, a bold idea was sketched in Su Baiyi's mind, his eyes were slightly cold, and he used the excuse of going to the toilet to pull Hou Fangyu to the bottom of the hatch and began to deploy.

"Accelerate...... Burn the wind! ”

With the watchman's order, the big ship moved again, and it drove fast in the Lingjiang River like an arrow from the string.

Seeing this, Zheng's fleet on the opposite side hurriedly avoided both sides.

Large boats are speeding through the waterway in the middle of the river.

The lookout suddenly shouted: "Fire!" ”

Six cannons on either side of the flagship were ignited at the same time.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Six cannon shots rang out, and suddenly a mast broke in the dense flotilla on both sides, and the cannonball burst into the ship formation for the second time, and the flotillas on both sides were in an uproar.

Ruan Fuyu's face turned green at that time, and he said to Su Baiyi: "My lord, why is this?" ”

Su Baiyi said lightly: "This Zheng clan attacked my Daming caravan at sea last time, and my Daming and it are mortal enemies, if we don't let him suffer some hardships when we meet today, he still thinks that our Daming is easy to bully." ”

As he spoke, the flagship broke a waterway on the river, and had already passed through Zheng's fleet and headed for the sea.