Su You, accompanied by several guards, soon sat on a small sampan to meet Zhang Ding's fleet.

The little leader of the Seven Seas Trading Company, Zhang Dingyuan, Qi Niangzi and others had already seen Su You from the telescope, but when they saw him coming in person, they couldn't help but sigh.

After Su You got on the boat, he first nodded with the little leader of the Seven Seas Trading Company, and then shook Zhang Ding's hand excitedly, "Big brother, I didn't expect it to be you." ”

"Yokoba, I didn't expect to see you here!" Zhang Ding was also full of excitement and held Su You's hand tightly.

When Su You saw that this fleet was led by Zhang Ding, he was very surprised, why wasn't the latter?

Su You still remembers the last time he met Zhang Ding in the spring of the fourth year of Daye, and it has been nearly eight years since he counted it, and he never imagined that he would meet in this foreign country, and the two of them were both embarrassed.

When talking about the story after parting, Su You learned that Zhang Ding had been obsessed with sailing everywhere since he started this overseas business with himself, and he had already traveled all over the island countries and the Ryukyu Islands in the years of separation.

In these years, it is obviously not possible to be a pure backpacker, in fact, Zhang Ding has been cooperating with various businesses at sea all these years. And his stall gradually grew, not only building a fleet of nearly 100 ships, but also having a large territory in the Ryukyus.

The reason why Zhang Ding appeared here today was because the members of the Nanami Trading Company who had escaped from the pursuit of the Goryeo Army had fled to the island country, and he happened to meet Zhang Ding, who was going to the island country to do business.

Jang Ding was a man of great affection and righteousness, and when he asked about the current situation of the Nanami Trading Company and learned that the base he had first established in Baekje had been destroyed by Goryeo, it was only natural that he would go to Baekje to rescue him.

Listening to what happened and what he had guessed, Su You immediately expressed his gratitude to Zhang Ding for his rescue operation, and asked him a little puzzled, "Why did the eldest brother suddenly remember this." ”

Zhang Ding smiled, "A few days ago, we met a ship fleeing from Silla at sea, and when we learned that the Goryeo army had come to Jinseong, I temporarily changed my mind, and originally thought of copying their back road; Because I heard the sound of the earth just now, I sped up and hurried here. Did you just go to war with the Koreans?

Su You nodded as a matter of course and said, "We made those noises just now, this is a new type of weapon called artillery that we invented."

Speaking of this, Su You realized that he had been hanging Zhang Ding here for too long, so he immediately called a guard and ordered his own people to pilot Zhang Ding's fleet first, and wait until they reached the dock.

Zhang Ding's boat slowly docked, and the good news of Heng Wang Bodang and Zhang Long and others in front of him also kept coming.

The most pleasing piece of information was that Wang Bodang had captured the supreme commander of Goryeo, Yuan Gai Suwen.

Captured Yuangai Suwen, which means that this time the battle can be over, Su You is now a little regretful that he didn't wait for two more days, at least let the Goryeo people take Jincheng and then make a move.

Su You gave the order of "don't chase after the poor", and led Zhang Ding to his boat to visit the artillery he just mentioned.

Although Zhang Ding heard the sound of artillery from a distance, he could not give an intuitive evaluation because he did not see the power of the artillery.

After chatting about artillery for a while, Su You and Zhang Ding naturally talked about the Red Whisk Girl and Li Jing, and talked about the general trend of the world today; Su You didn't shy away from him, and directly informed himself that he wanted to rebel, and hoped that Zhang Ding would join.

Zhang Ding didn't expect Su You to become so upright, but when it came to returning to the Central Plains to rebel, he still hesitated.

Zhang Ding is a person who came from the war, and it is inevitable that he will have an instinctive rejection of the war in his bones, Su You knows this, but he still hopes to go back to the Central Plains to see those who are in dire straits.

The overseas life in the past few years has obviously worn down Zhang Ding's ambition, and he will not be able to make up his mind for a while.

Su You knew that everyone had their own aspirations, so he had no choice but to give up this topic, but when he thought of the purpose of Zhang Ding's trip, he felt a little sorry for him.

Zhang Ding originally wanted to go to Baekje King City to save the Nanami Trading Company with good intentions, but he didn't expect to be one step ahead of him, if he went now, it would obviously be meaningless.

Zhang Ding originally wanted to fight the Goryeo Army by surprise, but it was also a coincidence that Su You was one step ahead of him.

As a result, Zhang Ding is obviously seeking fame but not fame, and it is not beneficial to seek profit.

If he leaves, Zhang Ding will definitely be very disappointed.

Su You put himself in Zhang Ding's shoes and thought about it, and finally couldn't help but say, "How many people did the eldest brother bring?" Otherwise, let's take down Jincheng together, right? ”

Su You said that taking Jincheng was like a common thing, which suddenly made Zhang Ding speechless for a while, "This"

Su You looked at Zhang Ding's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and naturally knew that he would not be willing to return empty-handed, but if he really wanted to attack Jincheng, what was the name of the teacher?

As he spoke, the teams of Heng Heng Bodang and Zhang Long came back one after another, and the detailed battle report of this battle had not yet been counted.

The general situation, Su You understood almost everything after the Q&A with Wang Bodang and others.

In this battle, Goryeo dispatched a total of 20,000 troops and 98 warships.

Before Su You arrived, the Goryeo army divided into two teams to attack the royal city of Silla, Jinseong, with the main force of 14,000 led by Yuangai Suwen to take charge of the main attack at the South Gate, and another team of more than 4,000 people made a feint attack at the West Gate, and in the six or seven days of the offensive and defensive battle with the Silla, the casualties of the Goryeo army were about 1,000.

After the Su Rangers entered the dock, they relied on raids and deck fighting, and first killed 1,000 soldiers defending the ship.

After Yuangai Suwen arrived at the dock, he organized a wave of nearly 10,000 people to attack and try to get close to the Yunzhong army with warships, but after Su You's artillery attack and the flanking attack of the two of them, more than half of these people became prisoners.

After the team of Fu Ziheng and Wang Bodang landed, most of the catapults chose to surrender, and by this time the number of prisoners had exceeded 6,000!

Then Yuangai Suwen chose to flee with more than 3,000 people, and with the team that originally attacked Jincheng at the West Gate, the number of fugitives soon approached 8,000.

In the end, about 3,000 of the 8,000 surrendered, and more than 3,000 were killed; The remaining 1,000 or so fled to the northwest, and most of those who escaped had horses.

After Su You got this battle report, he couldn't help frowning, not because he was worried that these Goryeo soldiers would freeze to death in this heavy snow, but because he was worried that they would choose to flee to Baekje King City.

There is no doubt that the only way for these fleeing Goryeo soldiers to choose is to flee, they will definitely burn and loot all the way back to the Goryeo royal city, and there are two best directions for them to flee to, one is the Baekje royal city, and the other is the consolation city.

Some of these deserters came directly to Jinseong from Baekje King, and it is more likely that they will escape back to Baekje Wangseong than Comfort Fortress.

Su You only hoped that the guards of Baekje King City would be smart, as long as the city gate was closed in time, it was obviously impossible for these deserters who were not even fully armed to enter the city.

Although he knew that the place where these deserters passed by would become a hell on earth, Su You obviously didn't need to care about these tragic conditions, after all, the relationship between himself and Silla was still unclear until now.

"Who is our friend and who is our enemy, this is the first question of the revolution!"

When he thought of this, Su You couldn't help but smile secretly, but when he thought that this battle had increased by more than nine thousand prisoners, he inevitably had some happy troubles.

More than 9,000 captives are more than 9,000 free laborers, but these laborers can only be laborers when they are working, or they can only be manure-making machines.

Obviously, Su You couldn't send these people to Nanzhong, and even if he could, could he afford to waste three or four months of imprisoning them on the ship? Then Su You remembered that he had discussed with Laiyanbei the topic of establishing a base in the north, the key is where to establish this base area?

Su You's first choice was Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Dalian is the best ice-free port in the north, and natural berths suitable for docking abound, but people nowadays do not have much awareness of operating a port, so the utility of Dalian is far from being developed.

Dalian is still in the territory of Goryeo, and the Goryeo people built a city not far from Dalian in later generations.

In several expeditions by Yang Guang, the city was taken by sea first, and the next step was to cross the Yalu River to attack the royal city of Goryeo.

Similarly, if Su You was able to build a city in Dalian, it would only take two or three days to attack the Shandong Peninsula, or to attack Bohai County, Hejian County, Yuyang, Zhuo County and other places through the Bohai Sea.

If Su You can build a city in Dalian, the control of the Chao/Xian Peninsula will also be very simple.

Moreover, there are abundant coal resources near Dalian, while Goryeo has iron ore of high purity.

The only disadvantage of establishing a base in Dalian is that Dalian is now Goryeo territory, and if Su You builds a city here and asks the people of the Central Plains to annex it, the people may have less sense of belonging.

Compared with Dalian, Yantai and Weihai are also good choices, and the choice to wait again is Qingdao, where Su You once stayed. In the above three places, there are no too powerful rioters, and it should not be too difficult for Su You to intervene in these places.

The only problem is that if Su You directly lands in these places and raises the flag to establish a base, it will be equivalent to openly going against Yang Guang, which is an unavoidable problem

The establishment of a base in the Central Plains was something that Su You had planned for a long time, but this matter became urgent because he did not want to waste the labor of these captives.

Su You felt happy because he had so much more labor out of thin air; The annoyance is that these labors will be useless for a while, and more importantly, the captives need to eat.

There are more than 9,000 captives, and even if these captives only eat one catty of grain a day, they will have to consume nearly 9,000 catties a day, 270,000 catties a month, and more than 1.6 million catties in half a year

Thinking of this, Su You's mind suddenly brightened.

It seems that we have to borrow some grain from the Silla people, or how to solve this food problem?