"Ten on the left side, ready on the starboard side...... Fire! "Hong Tao didn't pay attention to those flags at all, and someone actually said to himself at sea that the military forbidden zone was a thing, forbidding your mother! He habitually gave instructions, and immediately realized that the helmsman was standing next to him, and he was the helmsman, so he turned the steering wheel to the left, let the hull of the ship turn half sideways, and sailed diagonally from the right side of the Southern Song Dynasty warship in front of him, and then decisively gave the order to fire.

"Shelling preparation...... Fire! Weng Ya took advantage of Hong Tao's personal pilot, did not listen to Hong Tao's order to go back to the cabin to sleep, but sneaked back, pulled the first mate aside, became Hong Tao's first mate, and shouted at the big copper pipe beside him.

This Southern Song Dynasty warship with a displacement of 100 tons saw that the gun door of the Jinhe suddenly opened, and knew that the situation was a little bad, and the originally somewhat arrogant attitude immediately disappeared. But with the military order in hand, they did not dare to disobey, so they could only keep waving the flag and trying to turn in front of the Jinhe. They still don't believe that their allies will directly ram their ships, let alone open fire, in their eyes, this fleet has always obeyed their own emperor's orders, and the true details of the alliance are only understood by the Southern Song Dynasty high-level officials, and it is estimated that for the sake of face, the Southern Song Dynasty high-level did not convey these situations downward.

They hadn't really seen the actual battle of this fleet, they didn't know what it meant to open the gun door, and when the guns flickered and the white smoke filled, they had no time to regret it. A row of 155 naval guns fired almost no misses the target at close range, and the not-so-small wooden battleship seemed to explode from the inside, and the entire superstructure suddenly sank downward, and then burst out with countless fragments...... And then there was none. The underwater part of its entire ship was directly disconnected from the deck. It was brutally beaten into two separate parts by a row of naval guns. And it's through-the-line.

"Uncle, uncle, go and fight the biggest ship, the orders are all issued from it, it is the worst, it must be the leader!" Weng Ya admired Hong Tao's skills at the helm, and the gunner's accuracy or not, half of which depended on the cooperation of the helmsman. Finding angles and feeling the ebb and flow of the waves is the job of the helmsman, who is only responsible for quick reloading, firing and firing as flat as possible. From this wave of shooting, it can be seen that Hong Tao's comprehensive understanding of sailboats, the sea and artillery. The details are very accurate.

"It's called a building boat, and it's usually taken by the boss, so it's ****! Help me get the cigarette and watch your uncle dry it with a single round of cannons! "has sunk a warship of the Southern Song Dynasty Naval Division, but Hong Tao has put down all his psychological baggage. Hitting one is also fighting, fighting ten ships is still fighting, there is no essential difference, just just fight happily, give them a lesson, let them remember. Don't mess with yourself in the future, stay away from yourself.

"Can this kind of boat run on its own? What a stupid person would go to sea in such a boat. If it encounters a storm or waves, will it turn over on its own? Weng Ya was the first time to see the Southern Song Dynasty sailor's building boat up close, she was very puzzled about the performance of this kind of boat, and she couldn't figure out what the use of this kind of boat was.

"It's not very useful in the deep sea, it can only be used as a big house in the rivers and shallow seas, so it should be more comfortable to live in...... I haven't been up to your uncle either, that's probably what it means. Hong Tao didn't know much about Lou Chuan, and he was not interested in understanding these things, because there was no technology to learn from these things, and they were 100% backward concepts.

"He said that he was the commander of the Southern Song Dynasty Water Division, which was a misunderstanding...... Hahahaha, they're scared! "A few minutes after the shelling here, the flag was raised on the building ship in the distance, and the ships of the Southern Song Dynasty sailors began to raise their sails away from the Royal Navy warships guarding their respective guards, and the deck of the building ship began to get busy, and many sailors were shaking the winch to pull the stone anchor up from the sea.

"Misunderstanding? Girl, what do you mean by misunderstanding? Hong Tao turned his head and asked Weng Ya, but the course remained the same, and the battle order was not revoked.

"Misunderstanding is an excuse for us to make up the wrong one in order not to lose money! We can only misunderstand others, and we don't allow others to misunderstand us, this is what you said......" Weng Ya smiled and repeated what Hong Tao had said in class before, and only then did she feel the true meaning of this sentence.

"It's Zhao Fan, he Nima is not staying honestly in Xiangyang, and he is stirring up in the water division again, and there will be no chaos if there is no place for him. Tell Kong Pei to let him fire back for me, so that I won't even run out of shells for the deck guns! At this time, the Jinhe had already rushed to the vicinity of the two fleets, and was sailing along the outer side of the Southern Song Dynasty Naval Division, and the passing ships did not touch, and rushed directly towards the westernmost building ship. In the face of Kong Pei's flag prompt, Hong Tao still refused to give up, this Zhao Fan Hongtao remembered that he was the one who did not save Kong Pei's boat transfer fleet in Xiangyang City! It's okay for him to bully Kong Pei, but he can't bully himself, it's not good for Da Song to keep this kind of person, and it's easier to kill him directly.

"Boom...... Boom ......" got the order of the flagship, and the deck guns of the two attack fleets began to shoot at the nearby Southern Song warships, they didn't do it before, but they didn't know whether they should be enemies with the Southern Song Dynasty naval division. Hong Tao has always been more affectionate to the Southern Song court, and he has not made it clear before that the Southern Song Dynasty sailors can also fight, so as long as the other party does not fire first, Bo Jiao and Kong Pei can't make up their minds and have been dragging their feet.

Now that Hong Tao has clearly ordered to open fire, the captains of the ships who have been holding back all morning can no longer endure it, and they will fight as hard as they want. Those deck guns were basically loaded with shotguns, and several guns fired a salvo, and the basic movements on the deck of the battleships of the Southern Song Dynasty Navy Division were all lying down.

"Uncle, what is that person yelling at us? He's a big official, right? "The Golden River is getting closer and closer to the tall ship, and it can already see the people on the other deck clearly. At this time, there was a group of people standing on the top of the third floor of the building, among them was wearing a purple robe, who looked like a civil official, but he had a helmet on his head, which was nondescript.

"The deck gun is raised twice and aimed at the group on the roof! The bottom naval guns are lowered by one degree and aim for positions under the waterline! Get ready...... Left Rudder Five...... Fire! Hong Tao didn't know Zhao Fan, he thought that the guy standing on the roof of the building and pointing fingers at him might be. If you want to fight, then fight to the death. A dead enemy is always easier to deal with than a living one. Sinking this ship alone is not enough to kill the opponent. Just use the deck guns and shotguns. If you can't kill him, you have to spray him to death!

In his opinion, it is difficult for the Mongols on land to launch an offensive again, and it is better to command the sailors, bully and bully the Mongolian sailors, and get an escort or something. As for saying that he, a land general, can command a naval division to fight? Does he understand the combat of the sailors? This is the mediocrity and hatefulness of the Southern Song court.

In their opinion. As long as they are civilian officials, they can command the army to fight, even better than those vulgar generals. Because they read a lot, know astronomy and geography, and are omnipotent, there is no reason why they can't compare to the martial artists who don't know a basket of words. If you lose the battle, of course, the generals under your command will not listen to the command and will burden yourself; If you win the battle, you must be the commander of your own command, then the official decision-making wise, and finally the life of the three armies.

When he first took over the naval division last year, he caught up with the small-scale southern invasion of the Mongolian naval division, and the two sides fought a battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Then Zhao Fan found that compared with the Mongol generals on land, the Mongol naval division was much weaker. Despite the size of their ships, they were unfamiliar with tactics and were eventually beaten back, and he, the newly appointed commander of the Marine, had gained a lot of success.

At that time, Zhao Fan felt that his decision to be the commander of the water division was really wise, as long as the Mongolian water division came once or twice, he could guard the mouth of the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River and prevent them from coming in, which would be a great achievement. Afterwards, I will find some literati and writers who have a good relationship to help me brag and brag, it must be the contemporary Yue Fei, the pillar of the country! With this merit and prestige, he will be able to fight with Zheng Qing's gang, since the prime minister took the emperor to meet the so-called Jinhewan people's fleet, he didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup was poured in, and he actually began to vigorously rectify the Xiang army, and also got what to build a corps and open a cement factory.

This is too undeserved! The construction corps can be built, the box army can be rectified, and the cement factory can be opened, but how can all this be controlled by the emperor and the prime minister? You've done all the work, what do you want our ministers to do? And the huge benefits in this are not distributed and distributed, what is this called ruling the world with scholars? It's just called to rule the world with businessmen!

What is unbearable! Zheng Qingzhi and the official family are now together, and they have also bewitched many officials to tout for them, so that the court is about to become a hall of words, and important ministers like himself and his younger brother Zhao Kui who are loyal to the Great Song Dynasty have less and less chance to shine. So he and his younger brother began to form an offensive and defensive alliance with some people of insight in the court, and everyone must rise up to fight, fight with the emperor and the prime minister. What is harmful to the country or not, what is beneficial to the people or not, those are all trivial matters, as long as you stand on the moral high ground of righteousness, you can defeat everyone, even the emperor. What is righteousness? Of course, it is the interests of the scholar class, and to put it bluntly, it is their own interests, because they are one of the important representatives of the scholar class.

But this time the struggle with the emperor seems to be not as easy as before, and several ministers from the court have come out to stand with the emperor, such as Zheng Qingzhi and Wu Qian. These guys, dressed in the skins of scholars, have taken up the work of merchants, talking all day long about how much the treasury is abundant, how much less it has spent, and how beneficial the cement plant is to the northern defense line and water conservancy construction, but they forget one thing, one of the most important things!

No matter how well the country is built, what is the point if it does not belong to the scholar class? In the words of later generations, these people's butts are sitting crooked! Something went wrong with the position. No matter what you are talking about, just put this big hat on the other person's head, as if the truth is all on your side. The state is a country of the scholar class, not a country of everyone, and whether the country is good or not is not the point, the point is who it belongs to!

Why did these people suddenly change their position? Zhao Fan thinks that the culprit is that Hong Tao! Since he appeared, he first set up a strait company in Guangzhou, and led a large group of businessmen to run maritime merchants. The maritime merchants themselves do not object, and there are also people in their own families who run, but Zhao Fan is very opposed to this model. How can a businessman be in charge of his own affairs? It should be led by a representative of scholars like him, regardless of whether he will be in business or not, he must take a firm stand!

Now it's okay, those businessmen are getting more and more excessive, and if they have money, they don't take it out to worship themselves, not to mention these social elites, and they still get out any newspapers, which can be sold everywhere, and even Lin'an City can buy them for a few copper plates. It not only does business matter, but also discusses the affairs of the imperial court, which is very reasonable. The most infuriating thing is that they actually built their own schools, no longer teaching the teachings of saints, but focusing on business, mathematics and navigation. Without the education of the saints, do you still have to use these people yourself?

(To be continued.) )