Wu Yong has been looking at both sides of the strait, and he is squatting down, trying to make the perspective look towards the sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He is using the terrain on both sides to navigate, each high slope, every forest, every cliff is his coordinate point, and then through memory, he draws a map of the river surface in his mind. This skill is not learned, but memorized through many years of practice, and if you change an unfamiliar place, it will immediately fail.

"Two hundred meters!" Soon, Wu Yong reported another number, and then the lookout on the top of the mast would extinguish one of the red lanterns, and they were using the number of lanterns to tell the distance for the ships behind. Next to the helmsman of each battleship behind will also stand a fellow villager of Wu Yong, who is responsible for communicating with Wu Yong about their memories, and then telling the helmsman the accurate data.

"Your Majesty! We're here...... Turn around four more times and you'll be in Lin'an City. When the flagship successfully passed the first corner and drove north along the tide, Wu breathed a long sigh of relief. It's one thing to plan and rehearse, but it's another thing to actually do it.

"Well, it's okay, I've never been on a boat this fast, so let's experience it. Launch fireworks and ask if the tail boat is coming. Hong Tao's heart was about to jump out of his mouth, and he almost fainted when he heard that there were four more turns. But now I can't be discouraged, and I have to smile as if I enjoy this feeling. In this way, we can not increase the psychological burden on Wu Yong, so that he can make fewer mistakes, and only then can he not lose his life!

Starting from the entrance of Hangzhou Bay, it takes about 100 kilometers to take the waterway to the bottom of Lin'an City. In normal times, even if this voyage is downwind, it will take half a day, after all, the river is not the sea, or upstream, the speed of the boat can not be too fast, and it is good to have an average of five knots. But today an exception was made, and not a single ship could be seen on the entire river, and it became a highway for the expeditionary fleet. Now I can't control the speed, how fast the tide is, how fast the boat has to run, not to run so fast, but to have to be pushed forward.

"Your Majesty, the villain has fulfilled his mission, and thirty miles further forward is Lin'an City. Look at the red stars in the distance, they are the lanterns in the royal Taoist temple on Phoenix Mountain! For three hours, after turning the last corner, Wu, who was drenched in sweat, sat on the deck with his ass, pointing to the distance and reporting the specific navigation data to Hong Tao. His mission was basically completed, the channel ahead was no longer obstructed, and Phoenix Mountain could already be seen from the telescope.

"You go and sit on the chaise longue first, you can't rest yet, you've bowed for ninety-nine years, and it's not bad for the last trembling. Notify the fleet of fireworks and prepare as planned! Guys, go on deck and breathe, it's night, but the sun god is with you! "Hong Tao's ability to adapt quickly, at first he was pushed by the tide, he was still a little unsteady on his feet, and after three hours of familiarization, he was already able to walk freely on the bumpy deck.

Hearing Wu Yong's report, he picked up the binoculars and looked at them, then walked between the two masts and kicked the hatch with his shoe. Soon, groups of heavily armed marines emerged from the hatch and sat down the side of the ship to the deck, barely audible except for the occasional clash of their weapons.

"The sun god is with us!" It's really quiet, and it's really scary to roar, Hong Tao's slogan drew a deafening response, and everyone on deck shouted. And not only the flagship, but also the ships behind also let out a neat roar one after another, and even reverberated on the river.

Now Hong Tao is not afraid of anything, even if he drives the cannon forward, it is fine, less than ten kilometers away, even if the tide is no longer so strong, the full sail will be raised in an instant, and after two or three hours, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty should be renamed Hong. As long as these marines can land, Hong Tao is 100% sure that he can occupy the palace, regardless of whether the other party is a Royal Forest Army with swords or a Royal Forest Army with muskets, it is useless. In the face of organized, disciplined, prepared, well-trained, well-armed, and death-defying marines, any defense is useless unless they can get machine guns and tanks out.

"Raise the sails!" The tide has passed dozens of kilometers of rushing, and it no longer has the unstoppable force it had at the beginning, although it can still push the battleship forward, but the speed is not as good as before. With the help of the sails, the slender hull of the Virginia-class is like a sharp sword, cutting through the ravines in the river.

Half an hour later, the darkest moment before dawn had just passed, and as the whiteness of the fish belly rose in the sky, Lin'an City suddenly appeared in front of the right side of the fleet as if it had been cast by a magician. The sheer size of the city, its tall walls, and its endless fields took most of the people on deck by surprise. Especially those Indian soldiers, they have never seen such a huge city, originally thought that the city of Tula and the Great Pyramid were the most majestic man-made structures in the world, but compared with the city in front of them, the city of Tula is a vegetable garden, and the big pyramid can be seen improvised, but the size is too small.

"Hey, hey, it's the same as when I left, nothing has changed." Wu Yong was not surprised, he had grown up watching the city since he was a child, and when he came back this time, he found that it was exactly the same as in his impression, and even those fish markets by the river had not changed.

"There are a lot of houses outside the city, and it is estimated that in a few years, the city wall will have to be expanded a few more miles." Wen Nan and Luo Youde also went on deck, both of them holding binoculars to watch the city in the morning light.

"Light the lamp, the idea is to observe the right bank!" Just after half past four, the sky was white, but the earth was still dark. In order to see the situation on the shore clearly, Hong Tao ordered the sailors to hang up the gas lamp, using the reflection of the copper cover, which can play the role of a searchlight.

"Hey...... Boatman, get up so early, what's the harvest like today? Luo Youde is no stranger to Lin'an City, and when he saw a fishing boat on the shore that was preparing to collect nets, he leaned out from the side of the boat to say hello.

"......" This fishing boat is a husband and wife stall, one of the old couple collects the net at the bow of the boat, and the other cooks breakfast at the stern. Maybe I didn't pay attention just now, or maybe I couldn't see it clearly when it was dark, anyway, I didn't find Hong Tao's flagship coming, which startled Luo Youde's voice. The old man at the bow of the boat took off the fishing net rope in his hand, and then blinked his cloudy eyes and stared at the big boat. One drove past and followed the other, looking downstream, the river was shining with a series of red lanterns.

"Erwa and his father, why did the sailor's ship come early this year? What are those dazzling things on their ship? It's so bright......" The old woman who was cooking at the stern of the boat seemed to be a little deaf, and she didn't hear Luo Youde's shout, but after the flagship passed less than a hundred meters away from their boat at high speed, the stirred wake still made her feel it. Turning her head and only looking at it, she continued to lower her head and go to work on the breakfast in her hand, every year there is a big ship of the sailor to make the tide, what is there to see.

"How do I know that these descendants really won't live, the sky is bright, and they still light such thick candles, alas, they create evil!" The old man who fished agreed with his wife's cognition, and he also habitually thought that this was the warship of the Great Song Dynasty sailors, as for why they ran into the river before dawn, it was not a problem that ordinary people like them could consider. But the old man was very angry at the bright light, and such a bright thing was only a candle in his mind. What a waste to light so many candles on a ship! He and his wife can't get such a thick candle for a day's fishing, what is this called!

"The dock here hasn't changed much from the first time I came, and it's still very congested, so it looks like I'm going to have to do all the work!" Hong Tao didn't bother with Luo Youde, who was as excited as a child, and the pier of Lin'an City Bosi could already be seen with the naked eye.

"That's a lot of money for the people, and all these stones have to be mined upstream, even if they are blown up with explosives, it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive." Wen Nan thought that Hong Tao really wanted to expand the wharf, so he hurriedly poured a basin of cold water, the main thing has not been done yet, what kind of wharf to repair!

"It's not difficult, it's enough to tear down a section of the wall. Not only can you build a wharf, but you can also pave a wide stone road that leads to Shaoxing Mansion. If the city wall of Shaoxing Mansion is demolished and repaired to Taizhou, I guess it won't be a problem to repair it to Guangzhou, right? Wouldn't it be a great waste that such good stones are piled up here, and not a penny of profit can be generated! Hong Tao pointed forward casually, and the fate of the city wall changed.

"Tear down the walls! W-Isn't this self-digging grave! If the enemy comes, what defense do we have? Wen Nanrao's psychological quality has been tortured by Hong Tao to be extremely tenacious, which also frightened Hong Tao's idea. Who has ever heard of someone else's city being taken and immediately torn down the wall? Isn't it all about continuing to increase the height and width!

"Defense? When have I defended? Where I am, there can't be potential enemies around, waiting for them to attack me? I'm afraid I don't have that chance. So these walls don't mean anything to me, they're a complete burden. And you see that they are so high, it also affects the ventilation, how stuffy and panicked. Demolition, must be demolished! Prime Minister Wen, hurry up and write down my words, this is the first edict of Emperor Hong of the Great Song Dynasty before he ascended the throne, and it is very commemorative. Hearing Wen Nan's worries, Hong Tao pursed his mouth like a scoop.

Now that we have entered the era of hot weapons, the combat concept is completely different from the era of cold weapons, and the role of the city wall will become smaller and smaller. It's not just a matter of the city walls, it's also a psychological problem. I want to use this incident to tell everyone in the Great Song Dynasty that no matter how strong the city wall is, it can't protect them, and if you want to be safe, you have to grow fangs and nip possible enemies in the bud.

(To be continued.) )