Chapter 544: Pirates of the Mediterranean
The sun rises high and shines on the rippling Mediterranean Sea, and suddenly reflects the golden scales; Looking at the neatly arranged warships in the harbor and the screaming Wei Wu sailors on board, Pang Juan suddenly felt sour in his heart, and he was almost about to shed tears.
A feast had already been set up in his sailor's tent, and a guy in a strange costume with long hair was chewing on the case, this guy had no interest in the fat fish and sheep that filled the table, but fought with all kinds of vegetables and vegetables, and muttered non-stop while eating: "Is there any green core vegetable that I just ate?" If it's gone, the autumn siong of China will also become, don't cook it with meat, just fry it, just fry it."
"This is the pirate leader that Bai Dong's kid has set? It's just a water power, a murderer and arsonist, so why should I cooperate with him? The Greeks and Romans are not convinced, so we will fight until they are satisfied, how can the great country China do such a shameless thing? ”
Looking at Gongzi Shun, who was dressed in tatters like a beggar, Pang Juan really wanted to cry, but he was pitiful for training the sailor here for three years, and forcibly turned 30,000 landlubbers into ichthyosaurs, originally thinking that he wanted to show his ambitions in his chest, and let the people of the world know that the huge general is not only an expert in land warfare, but also a genius in water warfare, but he didn't want to wait and wait for a pirate leader to come, who is this Gongzi Shun? It sounds good to say that he was born in the aristocracy, but he is a guy who has been a tomb robber and a water bandit, and now he wants to come to the West to be a pirate king, Bai Dong's kid has to send a sailor to cooperate, how to cooperate? Isn't that to turn all the 30,000 Wei soldiers under his command into pirates?
"Shameless?"
Gongzi Shun was about to be full, and when he heard this, he squinted at Pang Juan, and sneered: "If it weren't for Baizi's order." I'm afraid I won't want General Pang to join! Is it easy for you to be a water bandit pirate? This son has been entrusted by Baizi since he took over. He led 18 seagoing ships from Vietnam to the sea. It took three years and countless lives to figure out this route, you have been training sailors for three years, have you ever seen the 'ocean hurricane' and the Strait of Gibroxy in Baizi's mouth? Have you ever been so disoriented in the ocean that you have no supplies for a month and have only eaten those sea fish for a living? Do you know how fierce it is to plunder a fleet that is two or even three times your size? How many brothers' lives do you have to pay? Do you know that the pirates I trained are all really good at navigating the seas, even if there is no water and rice entrance for three days and three nights? Can you also fight bravely to kill the enemy? Do you know how unfortunate those dark-skinned slaves are? They have been oppressed and enslaved by Westerners for many years, as long as you are willing to give them a bite to eat, pat them on the shoulder and call them brothers, they will die for you? Do you know that at the west entrance of the Gibra Strait, my fleet encountered a hurricane, and in order to lower the mainsail, more than 30 black slave brothers were blown into the sea, but every time someone was blown away, someone climbed up without hesitation. Can't look down on us pirates? Hehe, if it weren't for Baizi this time to 'plunder' Greece's largest merchant fleet. My son is too lazy to cooperate with you, just you water army. I haven't even been out of the 'Mediterranean', and I dare to call myself elite? ”
It was three years ago, and he didn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of Pang Juan when he gave Gongzi Shun two guts, but in the past three years of pirate career, this former inland bandit has seen the vast ocean, seen the power of heaven and earth everywhere on the sea, and seen the sailor brothers who died generously, and his mind is no longer comparable to that of the year, at this moment, in his eyes, this group of sailors under Pang Juan is just a group of flowers in a greenhouse, and he really doesn't look down on it!
"Presumptuous! Outrageous! Is this kid Bai Dong crazy? The Huaxia Heavenly Army wants to expand the Western Regions, as upright as possible, and this general can be the forerunner, what is it now? I actually want General Ben to be a pirate, don't do it! Pang Juan was furious. It's just a pirate, but he's not a pirate leader, but he wants to be headed by Gongzi Shun, a guy with a bad record, and he can't agree to say it?
"You know!"
Gongzi Shun fished out the last piece of autumn sapoo, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it with relish, but he didn't look at those meat and fish, and sneered: "I think General Pang is stupid in training?" Do you know how vast the Western world is? How did the Greeks fight fiercely? Don't say that it's your 30,000 landlubbers who have just been able to go into the water, that is, Xerxes I invaded Greece with hundreds of thousands of troops and thousands of warships, but he was also wiped out by others, and he didn't dare to speak about the sea since then! Although the Chinese soldiers are prosperous, they have been fighting on land all their lives, do you really think that three years of training can make your subordinates become the Persian sailors of the year? It's just a joke, laughing to death! ”
Saying that, Gongzi pointed to the five black ships moored in the harbor outside the window, and faintly saw black sailors with sharp blades, waist shackles, and fierce faces walking around on the boats, and said with a smile: "If you don't believe it, how about we have a naval battle?" With these five sea ships, my son can break three times as many as you! If you lose, listen to my orders from now on, and let's hide in this Mediterranean Sea from now on, and plunder the merchant ships of the Greeks and Romans, so that this calm Mediterranean Sea will set off monstrous waves from now on! ”
"Hit and fight"
Pang Juan got up with a sneer, glanced at Jing Jian and said, "If I defeat this kid, what will Bai Dong say?" ”
"Bai Zi said, General Pang will be the one who will command my Great Qin Naval Division to advance westward in the future, but there are still many great powers in the Western world today, and our army is not accustomed to water warfare, so it is really unwise and unbearable to start a war rashly. Gongzi Shun has been a pirate for three years, sailing tens of thousands of miles, and is an expert in killing people and setting fires on the water, General Pang is never as good as him, but the army has always been based on strength first, if the general is not convinced, it is okay to compare with one another, but it must not hurt the harmony"
War is the most effective catalyst for business, and this sentence is an unbreakable truth in both the East and the West.
Since the Persian Empire was quietly controlled by the powers from the East, the Mediterranean states entered the most delicate period in history; This is the history brought by Bai Dong, because in real history, the Persian Empire at this time should be falling apart, there is no time to look west, Greece is about to enter a period of decline from the glorious classical era, Macedonia is quietly rising, and the Roman Republic will defeat the Gauls and begin to expand everywhere to prepare for the imperial age. But when the tentacles of the East entered the Persian Empire, especially when Mogina, the Lydian queen with half Greek blood, opened her skirt and bloomed on the east coast of the Aegean, everything became elusive, and the Greeks began to start commercial exchanges with Oriental China through Lydia, and a large amount of silver and advanced ideas from the East gradually integrated into this ancient city-state, and the Greeks began to try to stabilize their territory by commercial means and influence the Romans in the Apennine Peninsula at the same time. In the barbarians' wars, the Romans, who consumed a lot of resources, had to get the food and weapons they needed from the Greeks, and even the barbarian Gauls began to try to contact Greece, and this result was undesirable for the Chinese, and once this initial commercial exchange became a perfect commercial rule and custom, it was likely that the Mediterranean would have a cosmopolitan law like the Roman Law that could influence the laws of later generations. Zufa', this is definitely bad news for Bai Dong, who is preparing to drive into the Western world in a horse-drawn carriage of economics and law.
The best way to truly conquer the Western world, especially Greece and Rome, which valued civil rights and laws, was definitely not large-scale military aggression, as evidenced by the results of the three Greco-Persian wars; The best way is to influence and control the West from the economic and legal level, so Bai Dong will never sit idly by and watch the Western world become an 'economic community' or a 'legal community', even if there is a possibility, it will never be possible, so the most effective means of checks and balances at this time is to establish a 'pirate' army, Gongzi Shun, the man who dreams of being a 'pirate king', is the chess piece he laid a few years ago. It's just that if Pang Juan is convinced to 'assist' Gongzi Shun, it depends on Gongzi Shun's ability, if he loses to Pang Juan, Bai Dong doesn't mind cultivating a 'pirate king' again, and it is not easy to get the 'privateer license' of the Great Qin Empire.
"If you want to compete, how can you not hurt your anger?" Pang Juan looked at Gongzishun and just sneered, he had been training the navy in this Istanbul Gorge for three years, but he never believed that his 30,000 Wei soldiers would not be able to compare to the gang of bandits and black slaves under Gongzishun, and he had already made up his mind that only if the two sides started a naval battle, he would definitely let Gongzishun's gang fall into the sea and feed the big fish, this is a sea and mountain training, even if some casualties are common, Bai Dong can't blame him.
"Hehe, since it is his own family, of course he can't go to war head-on, what do you say to use five ships to break three times the enemy, this kind of thing will never be mentioned again, if you want to compare, then compare who is the best 'pirate', if Gongzi Shun loses, I will repay Baizi on my behalf, please General Pang as the leader; if Gongzi Shun wins, please ask General Pang to temporarily listen to his dispatch, how about being a pirate for a few days?"
"It's a deal! Jing Gong and how to compare? "Pang Juan agreed without thinking about it, and even Bai Dong didn't praise him in poems - 'Who is a giant general with a horizontal sword and a leaping horse', how can he be a general with a horizontal sword and a prancing horse? It can also be a real dragon on the water and across the seas!
"The method of this competition is also simple, it is limited to three days, Gongzi Shun and the general each send five warships to pretend to be pirates, and see which one loots the most merchant ships and goods in three days, which one wins."
Jing Jian smiled slightly, stretched out three fingers and shook them in front of the two. (To be continued......)
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