Chapter 159: A Chance Encounter at Sea
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The horn sounded rhythmically, and the captain of the surfing sailing team responded to the sound of the horn with a short whistle on his chest, and the leader of the short whistle was Xie Feiyu, who had excellent water ability, and he received Yang Lin's mission to inform the imperial court of a series of ceremonies that would be held after the two armies met.
Just as the surfing sailboat was about to approach the imperial fleet, the lookout spotted signs of a ship approaching from the other direction, and the oversized telescope made like a cannon was the masterpiece of the ancient moon sword script, and was now erected on the highest platform of the Emperor, and on a clear day, it could see the movement of the surrounding sea for dozens of miles.
The ships that approached the imperial court were still more than ten miles away, there were two or three small boats in front of them whose canvas was larger than the hull, and there were two large ships in the back that were shaped very much like the first generation of water steamers of the imperial court. It was hoped that the boats would sink as they approached the imperial fleet.
The trumpeter conveyed this situation to Xie Feiyu's team at Li Tai's signal, and there was no more suitable thing for scouts at sea to investigate intelligence than surfing windsurfing boats, and with Li Tai's order, Xie Feiyu was not in a hurry to get on the boat, and led a surfing team of more than 20 people to rush directly to the approaching boats.
"Hey, it's a ship of the Wa Kingdom, and the logo is the Fujiwara clan." Xie Feiyu is more familiar with the situation of the Wa Kingdom, he lived in the Wa Kingdom for a few years when he was a child, and even learned the Chinese of the Wa language, after approaching the few small boats running in front, Xie Feiyu saw the signs on their ships clearly, but he had no intention of boarding the ship. His mission is to spy on intelligence, so he has to find out what is going on with the big ship behind.
The Wa people on the small boat screamed, there were already many people who were shocked by the high-speed sailing of the surf windsurf and did not slow down, only a moment of effort, the surf windsurfing boat bypassed them and headed towards the big water steamer behind, Xie Feiyu was more interested in whose water steamer would actually chase the ship of the Fujiwara family, one of the three major clans of the Wa Kingdom, on the sea.
"No, this water steamer also belongs to the Wa Kingdom." As soon as Xie Feiyu reacted, he hurriedly blew the whistle on his chest and ordered his subordinates to disperse, and sure enough, at this time, the squeak of bed crossbows ejected from the two large water steamers sounded. Fortunately, the speed of the surfing and windsurfing board was extremely fast, and the arrows shot from the bed crossbow did not hit Xie Feiyu's subordinates.
"The Abe family of Dogday was able to imitate our water steamer." Xie Feiyu cursed secretly, and blew the whistle again to summon his subordinates to evacuate, there were hundreds of Japanese warriors on the two big ships, and there were also a lot of them on the three small boats, this is not a problem that their team of twenty people can solve, the situation is basically discovered, all he has to do is to return to the big team and report to the officer.
It was only about a quarter of an hour from Xie Feiyu's departure to find out the situation, and at this time, Li Er already knew that there was an unknown situation at sea. Raising his binoculars and looking at the sea, to be honest, he had never led a naval army in his life, let alone seen a battle at sea. As soon as Xie Feiyu and the others got on the ship, they were taken to the deck of the Emperor.
"Report to the emperor, this is the letter that my family has asked me to hand over to you."
Xie Feiyu raised his arm to the tip of his eyebrows and made a special military salute, and took out a sealed leather bag from his chest, with this thing. I am not afraid of the sea water wetting the letters inside, but Xie Feiyu is the first time to see the emperor, in the Huainan Naval Army. Yanglin is exempt from kneeling, and when the soldier salutes the officer, he brings his right hand together and raises the military salute at the bend of the eyebrow is the biggest etiquette, which Li Tai has told Li Er these days, but it is offensive to walk directly to the emperor and hand over the things in his hand to the emperor, although Xie Feiyu is behind the former Sui Jiangmen, but he has seen such a big man as the emperor there, and after being swept away by Ma Yongquan's dust, he stepped aside, but Li Er touched his nose at him embarrassedly, signaling that he forgot to remind him to pay attention to etiquette.
Li Er received the letter from Ma Yongquan, and he was not in a hurry to read it, so he turned his head and asked Xie Feiyu what was going on with the fleet in the distance.
"Hui Emperor, those are the ships of the Wa Kingdom, the small boat belongs to the Fujiwara family, the big ship is the Abe family, it is this dog's Abe clan who took our water ship in Yangzhou, and now they have actually imitated the same water ship, it seems that they are chasing and killing the ship of the Fujiwara clan, and the last general asked to send troops to fight and serve them in a pot."
Xie Feiyu's title made Li Tai smile bitterly, there is a person who calls the emperor the emperor in front of the emperor, who is called Datang is a venerable person in charge no matter what the occasion! Xie Feiyu got on the Emperor, so naturally he reported to the emperor and waited for the emperor's order. Listening to Xie Feiyu talk about the robbed watership in Yangzhou, Li Tai suddenly became interested, he was also present in Yangzhou, that can be said to be a shame for the Tang Dynasty, now the imperial court ships are strong, it is the time to find the field, the most important thing is that Li Tai wants Li Er to see his military side, these days he has privately told Li Er a lot of Yanglin initiative, he stole the truth, quite Li Er liked, at this time take the opportunity to show another military talent, maybe Li Er has a plan to save easily! You must know that among the many princes, Li Tai has always been the most favored by Li Shimin.
"Father, the son-in-law asks for the Chengqian to go to war, and he will repay the hatred of taking the ship that day." Li Tai asked Li Shimin with a straight face. At the beginning, Li Chengqian fired a cannon at the Turkic cavalry on Weishui, killing some Turks, and he has always flaunted himself with good military affairs, and now Li Tai is very sure of destroying the opponent's ships, so he naturally wants to show Li Er, so there is no such flaunting Li Tai.
In fact, Li Er most wanted to let Li Ke, who had not appeared much on the Emperor, fight, he had a lot of secret weapons on hand that only their father and son knew, and he really wanted to show the Li family's military strength in front of many civil and military ministers, but under Li Tai's eager gaze, he finally chose to give Li Tai a chance, this son has known his mind best since he was a child, and he will not mess it up.
"Qingque, my son actually knows about the military, so very good, you can use your eldest brother's ship to meet the enemy, I will send a few new warships to outflank them from the left and right, cutting off their retreat, the Abe clan who seized the ship, you can naturally destroy it with shame, but that Fujiwara clan, you want to bring me back alive, Fujiwara and Abe are one of the three major clans of the Wa Kingdom, they are actually fighting in the waters near my Datang, it is very strange, I want to ask them about the situation of the Wa Kingdom."
Naval battles are a blank for all the generals of the Tang Dynasty, for the battle that is not certain, they will naturally not come out to fight, observe and then express their opinions is the consistent style of ministers who have always been cautious, Li Er is an old and spicy military strategist, and a random arrangement basically locks the destruction of the enemy, so this trip only needs Li Tai to sink the two Japanese water steamers beautifully.
"The retainers take the order." Li Tai's face was happy, and he walked in the direction of the springboard with his fat chest, Xie Feiyu naturally followed, on the command platform of the Emperor, as soon as the flag was played, the Chengqian came up after a while, and Li Tai and Xie Feiyu led the Huainan Navy that had boarded the Emperor on the Chengqian.
"Advance at full speed, get close to the enemy ships, reload all the muzzles of the left and right strings with solid shells, and prepare for the attack." Li Tai's command can be described as rude, using a Shenwei cannon with a range of more than 100 meters to bully a crossbow ship with a range of only a few tens of meters, then there is no suspense at all.
As soon as the commander of the Abbe's steamship saw the Datang warship approaching them, he knew that the situation was wrong, two of them even participated in last year's ship-grabbing operation, under the terrifying combat power of the Datang warship, their two imitation waterships were vulnerable, so they turned the bow of the ship and began to run away, if Yanglin was here, he would definitely praise the devils for being a wise race, and they actually copied the Datang watership in more than a year, but unfortunately they were also stupid, there was only a south wind in the June day, They came with a tailwind, and now they turn around and run against the wind, driving against the wind, fighting is the power of the ship, the reproduction of the generation of water steamers there will be the opponent of the new warship with three power bearings, with the wind slanting to escape they still have a chance, against the wind, after a while they were outflanked by several big ships sent out by Li Er, in front of the opponent who was not a level at all, their resistance was completely ineffective, and Li Tai, who came from the rear, ordered to open fire.
"Bang, bang, bang"
The sound of cannons shook the sky, and the wooden water steamer of the Abel clan resisted the heavy solid bullet attack, and the two water steamers that were treasure ships in the eyes of the Wa Kingdom were hit into wood fragments by the dense artillery fire of the Chengqian in a moment, and the ministers on the Emperor still applauded, if Yang Lin was here, he would definitely say a word about wasting cannonballs.
The battle was resolved in half an hour, Li Tai didn't even give the crew of the Abbe clan a chance to surrender, and directly gave Xie Feiyu an order to kill them all, and when he sailed the Chengqian to the three small ships of the Fujiwara clan next to each other, all the crew members of the three small boats were bowing to this giant ship of the Celestial Empire.
"Who are you? Why do you want to go to my Datang Sea? Li Tai's more majestic voice came from the tall side of the ship, in fact, he didn't expect the people on the boat to understand his words at all, and he was ready to ask Xie Feiyu to translate, who knew that people would understand.
"Fujiwara Noritake, the head of the Shimotowara clan, meets the Celestial Empire"
Li Tai didn't hear the latter words at all, only knowing that the man claimed to be the head of the Fujiwara clan, one of the three major clans of the Wa Kingdom, and seemed to be a big fish. (To be continued......)