"Alas...... It's a pity......" Ogedai Khan also knew that his brother was very reasonable, so he couldn't help but sigh and didn't speak again.

"Dangdangdang...... When Dangdang ......" was chatting on the dock, the alarm bell in the harbor suddenly sounded.

"Why Ring the Bell!" Ogedei Khan did not know much about the navy, and this was his first time in Dengzhou, and he did not react much when he heard the bell. Chagatai was different, he knew very well what the alarm bell meant, it was an alarm of an enemy invasion, and he asked the general next to him for the reason at the moment.

"Wolf smoke! Handsome! There's wolf smoke in the east! Before the general next to him could figure out the situation, a horse rushed over, and the rider jumped directly from the horse, knelt on the ground and pointed to the east and shouted.

"Ahha, what's going on?" In fact, there is no need to shout, pillars of smoke have already risen on the beacon tower in the east, and there are several pillars of smoke rising in the distance.

"Enemy attack! Come...... Protect the Great Khan and go to the city to watch the battle, everyone, come with me to the ship to meet the battle! Chagatai glanced at the pillar of smoke, shouted at the group of generals behind him, and then led the way to the dinghy by the dock. The generals behind were also in a panic, and the people belonging to the army rushed to the city on their horses with Wokotai, while the remaining sailor generals split up to find their own boats.

"Ah...... Take care! Wokutian Khan turned his head and shouted at his brother as he got on the horse.

Although the defense measures of Dengzhou Port are already very complete, this is the first time to use it, and everyone is obviously a little unaccustomed to it. In order to defend against the enemy's ships from raiding Dengzhou, the Mongol army built a series of beacon towers on both the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, stretching for hundreds of kilometers. As long as the patrol boat in the sea finds out about the enemy. The ship's beacon fire will be lit immediately. Sending warning signals ship by boat to shore. Then it will be transmitted westward from one beacon tower after another on the shore, and in less than two hours, the ports of Dengzhou and Mizhou, which are 200 kilometers away, will receive the news.

Although this method is clumsy and slow, it is indeed the most effective in this era. Even the fastest ships could not cover the distance of two hundred kilometers in a few hours, leaving much more time for the harbor fleet to prepare.

This time it was indeed not a false alarm, at this time Hong Tao's main fleet had begun to turn westward from the tip of the Shandong Peninsula. Knowing the specifics of the port of Dengzhou, Hong Tao did not choose to make a surprise attack at night bypassing the patrol ships of the Mongolian naval division from the open sea. Conduct a night sneak attack in unclear sea conditions. Although it can cause certain problems to the enemy, it also adds a lot of danger to its own fleet. Now they belong to the weaker side, and each battleship is precious, and cannot risk non-combat attrition.

"Let the seventh ship go over and kill those sand ships, and the fleet course will not change." The beacon fire on the Mongolian patrol ship was also seen, and he didn't want to waste time for these small sand boats, and an armed cargo ship would be enough to deal with them. This time, Hong Tao was ruthless, as long as it was the ship of the Mongolian sailors, he would not let go of one more, and he would sink one more if he could. Walk through and never miss it.

"Uncle, why don't you intercept them halfway. The proximity to the port and the numerous islands were not suitable for our boats. "Weng Ya has also been to Dengzhou Port and is very aware of the offshore situation here.

"Who said they were going to fight them here? If we don't come to see such a large-scale gathering, it will be a bit unreasonable and will make the other party suspicious. Let's take a walk around here and let them know that we've found out, so that they can be forced to leave early, lest we wander around the sea. Hundreds of ships set off in a hurry, and they had to face threats from the sea at all times, and I don't know how the Mongolian sailors were trained, and I couldn't do it effectively anyway. As long as they're a little messy, we can pounce on them and take a bite at any time. From here all the way to the mouth of the Yangtze River, more than 1,000 kilometers of sea routes are our battlefields, five or six consecutive days of fear day and night, will make their psychology change a lot, this is called psychological warfare, understand? ”

Hong Tao has never commanded large-scale naval battles, and the command system he created is not capable of commanding too many ships, dozens of them are just right, hundreds of ships are difficult, hundreds of ships are difficult, hundreds of ships, Hong Tao himself does not know how to command, the difficulty is too great. It is a very complete task for himself, and Hong Tao believes that the Mongolian sailors who have just been trained for two or three years will not be able to play even if their execution is high. If you wait for them to set off to the south in a comfortable rhythm, you will lose the first move, so you must add some confusion to them in advance and disrupt the enemy's rhythm.

"I don't understand...... Now you get it! Uncle, why do you have all the tricks to hurt people? Compassion says that even if he learns from you for a lifetime, he will not be able to finish it. Weng Ya listened to Hong Tao's plan with a look of adoration.

"Is it right for you to betray your husband like this? Aren't you afraid that I will deliberately fix him in the future? "Hong Tao has a headache for this girl like a boy, she tells the truth too much, and sometimes the truth hurts the most.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Actually, you're the best for us, and you won't really get angry. It's better to beat him up, lest he always pretend to know too much with me, and I won't be able to get used to his virtue! "Weng Ya married Compassion is considered to be the right person, who can endure her character if she is replaced by someone else.

"Do you think you would be sad if Mercy dies in the future?" Hong Tao wondered what kind of feelings Weng Ya had for compassion, and wanted to test her true thoughts.

"Then I'll go and avenge him, it's a big deal to die together!" Weng Ya's answer was still so crisp, without a trace of hesitation.

"Don't forget, you still have a child in your belly, both of you are dead, who will raise the child?" Hong Tao thought that Weng Ya had forgotten the child in her belly, reminded her, and wanted her to reconsider.

"You help us raise the child, anyway, he was born with your surname......" Weng Ya was still so happy and did not change the answer.

“…… You really want to open it! Go and lie down in the cabin for a while, don't be tired of my grandson......" Hong Tao was speechless directly, and when he met such a piece of material, it was useless to say anything. She is not a girl at all, she is more than three months pregnant and climbs the mast faster than the sailor, just because some people say that mercy is stronger than her, two hundred and fifty-one.

Ten hours later, the Imperial fleet met the Mongol sailors sailing from west to east in the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula. Under the golden sunlight, the sea in front of him was almost full of sail shadows, and it was really impossible to see the edge at a glance, anyway, the lookout hand could not count them, and he could only use hundreds to describe the number of the other party.

"Oh my God...... It was the first time I had seen so many identical boats. Uncle, isn't their formation too close, and if there is a strong wind, won't they all collide together? After more than half an hour, the other party finally entered the observation distance of the deck telescope, Weng Ya held the telescope, and did not close his mouth for a long time.

"They're schooners, and although they're slow, they're very nimble in steering. The main reason for arranging such a tight formation is to prevent being interspersed and divided by the enemy, and it seems that the quality of the training of Mongolian sailors is really good. When they had come closer to three nautical miles, we all turned due north. Hong Tao was also carefully observing the fleet of the Mongolian sailors, and the formation they adopted was very strange, and they actually discharged an arrow shape on the sea, and it seemed that they still remembered the way the cavalry fought. But does this formation really work well on the sea? God knows, Hong Tao wants to try.

"Dashuai, in front of you is the fleet of the Golden River Country, we call them rat boats, and the ships that attacked the Golden State and the Lion's Mouth also fly the flag of this rat head, and they turned and fled!" By the time Hong Tao's fleet was turning, the two sides had narrowed the distance to the point where the ships could be seen clearly with the naked eye, and Chagatai, as the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian naval division, was also standing on the front ship with a pair of binoculars in his hand. This telescope looks like a commercial type produced by Jinhewan, and now this kind of navigation tool is not new in Guangzhou, and many maritime merchants have spared no expense to buy one from the Strait Company. It is important to be able to see a few more miles on the sea, sometimes it is directly related to life and death, and it is worth it.

Don't look at the telescope is a gadget, it seems that it is difficult to build without sea ships and cannons, in fact, it is not easier to build this thing than cannons. Its eyepiece and objective lens need to be suitable concave and convex surfaces and distances, and the raw materials made are transparent crystals, which are not easy to obtain in large quantities, so it is not easy to imitate them according to the sample. And the hardness of the crystal is extremely high and difficult to process, and when it is polished, it is a little heavier and even the opportunity to repair it is gone, except for a few women in the Weng family who have followed Hong Tao to learn to polish lenses from the beginning, even the craftsmen of Jinhewan can't play these things. Even if it is barely made, it is vague and useless to see.

"No matter what they are, even a few boats dare to come and attack Dengzhou! The current Dengzhou is not the Dengzhou of a few years ago, you can come and go if you want! But what kind of person is hanging what flag, cowardly as a mouse! Chagatai put down his binoculars and stopped looking at the enemy fleet heading north. He had soldiers in his hands and did not panic, looking at the overwhelming ships behind him, even if the enemy's reputation was out, he had no fear.

"Great Marshal, Muhammad Qianhu sent a banner asking if it was necessary to send a ship to drive the enemy away." At this time, an adjutant general walked up to Chagatai and relayed the message received by the lookout on the mast to the manager. In the past few years, Mongolian sailors have learned the most similar to this kind of information transmission system on the sea, and they have summed up a set of things on the principle of Hongtao's flag, which are used for command and coordination in the sailors, and the effect is not bad. This thing can't be hidden, as long as others know the principle, it doesn't take much effort to imitate it, and it's even better than the original.

(To be continued.) )