Chapter Forty-Eight: Battleships

Pingshan Fort deserters fled and attacked and disturbed Pingshan Fort was pacified by He Tengxiao. This matter is not too big or too small, and it is not too small to say that it is not small. After counting the specific number of deserters and fugitives killed, He Tengxiao immediately wrote two letters, one to He Shihu, the general of Gaizhou, and the other to He Fangxiong, the head of the He family who was far away in Fuzhou.

He Tengxiao had no intention of delving into this matter in the letter, and he knew very well that this matter was most likely controlled by He Shizhong behind the scenes. But He Tengxiao still chose to forbear this matter.

He Tengxiao understood He Shizhong's intentions, and He Shizhong instigated the deserters of Pingshan Fort to attack and disturb Pingshan Fort in order to disrupt He Tengxiao's pace of building Pingshan Fort and Yunguam Island.

The Tengbao battalion under He Shizhong is one of the few elite battalions in Jinzhou and even the He family, and the Tengbao battalion has 2,000 armor soldiers and 800 iron cavalry. And He Tengxiao now has only three hundred households under his command and more than 50 cavalrymen, and his strength is far from enough to be compared with He Shizhong. If he really tears his face, he is still the one who suffers, and if he can't bear it, he will make a big plan, the wisest thing to do at the moment is to choose forbearance, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and it is not too late to ask He Shizhong for this account in the future.

He Tengxiao just hid this matter in his heart, and continued to focus his main attention on the construction of Yunguam Island and Pingshan Fort.

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Time is like an arrow, and in a blink of an eye, it is the end of March of the fourteenth year of Zhenyuan.

The warm spring breeze blew across the calm sea, and the calm sea blew wrinkles. By the end of March, the sea ice in the sea near Yunguam Island had basically melted, and there were some fine ice floes floating on the sea, most of which were only the size of fists, and floating on the sea did not affect the navigation of ships.

Shi Yufeng wrote to He Tengxiao to tell He Tengxiao that if there was no accident, the five ships that Shi Yufeng purchased for He Tengxiao in Longjiang Shipyard would arrive at Yunguam today and deliver them to He Tengxiao.

"Why are you like a child today, you've been on the lighthouse all morning, just eat something to fill your stomach." Yuan Zhengyu climbed up to the lighthouse and handed He Tengxiao two steamed buns.

He Tengxiao smiled and took the two buns handed by Yuan Zhengyu, the buns were still warm.

"Eat buns and don't give water, you want to choke me to death?" He Tengxiao took a big bite of the bun and chewed it in his mouth, feeling that his mouth was a little dry.

"I can't eat you!" Yuan Zhengyu took off the sheepskin bladder hanging on his waist and smashed it at He Tengxiao's head, He Tengxiao hurriedly hung the uneaten bun in his mouth and grabbed the sheepskin bladder with his free hand. Thankfully, I caught the water bladder and didn't get hit in the head.

"Senho-sama, ship! Boat! Boat! The ship is coming! Our ship! Zhang Yuyang, who had been observing the ocean in the distance from the lighthouse, pointed to the mast that appeared not far away, and said excitedly to He Tengxiao.

He Tengxiao looked at Zhang Yuyang's finger, and sure enough, he saw several ships on the calm sea slowly heading in the direction of Yunguam Island. At first, only the mast could be seen in the distance, but as the ship got closer and closer to Yunguam, the flags and buildings on the ships became more and more obvious, until finally the entire hull was clearly visible, and even the type of ship could be distinguished.

There were five ships in total, and all five of them were warships. The largest of them was a building ship, and on the left and right of the building ship, two sea falcon warships and two warships guarded the building ship in the center, and slowly sailed towards the dock on the east coast of Yunguam in an orderly manner.

It can be seen that the sailors who drive the ships are all veterans, and the piloting of these warships is not inferior to the Huang water camp that He Tengxiao has seen. He Tengxiao sighed that in the end, it was a century-old wealthy businessman, and even sailors were trained so elite.

"Let's go down and meet them." He Tengxiao devoured the whole bun, poured a mouthful of water, threw the sheepskin water bladder into Yuan Zhengyu's arms, and hurried down the lighthouse.

Yuan Zhengyu looked at He Tengxiao's back and shook his head helplessly, took a long breath, stuffed the cork back into the bag, and followed He Tengxiao down the lighthouse.

After getting off the lighthouse, He Tengxiao walked quickly to the pier made of stone bars, waiting for the warship to sail to the pier.

Although Liaodong is close to the sea, maritime commerce is not prevalent, and only a few scattered transport ships can be seen occasionally on the seashore on weekdays, and warships are very rare in Liaodong. The dock was already full of soldiers and civilians, wanting to see the style of the warship.

"Look! Our warships of Cloud Guam! A soldier of about sixteen or seventeen years old seemed to have seen a warship for the first time, and his expression was very excited.

"Yes, such a magnificent ship, much more magnificent than the small ships I saw in Golden State!" An older craftsman who had seen the He family's water camp in Jinzhou said in Jinzhou.

"It's still our Qianhu adults who have the ability to get such a big ship! With these ships, even if the Japanese invaders come, we are not afraid of them! A soldier said.

He Tengxiao stood beside Xie Yunxin, and Yuan Zhengyu held Xie Yunxin's little hand, and the two were quite like sisters. The sea breeze blew in their faces, blowing their skirts, and their robes fluttered lightly in the wind.

"What a big ship!" Xie Yunxin excitedly raised her little finger and pointed at the warship that was gradually approaching the dock, almost jumping up.

He Tengxiao was also very excited, and said to Xie Yunxin: "When the ship comes, we will wait for the ship to see the sea!" ”

Yuan Zhengyu was a little speechless to He Tengxiao, what is the difference between boarding the boat to see the sea and watching the sea on the dock, she suddenly felt that He Tengxiao's mind today was similar to that of thirteen or fourteen-year-old Xie Yunxin

The dock on Un Guam is not large, but it is more than enough to berth five warships.

When the ship docked, Shi Yufeng's figure appeared on the ship, and Shi Yufeng commanded a few sailor-looking people to lower the ladder and ask He Tengxiao and others to board the ladder and board the ship.

This is a medium-sized building ship of about 700 stones, and the unit of measurement of the Dazhao ship is calculated in the weight unit of grain "stone", which is about two stones converted into one person.

Since there are not many high-rise buildings on this building ship, there are only two floors, the height is not very high, the stability of the sea is good, and walking on the building ship gives people a fairly stable feeling. Although this is only a medium-sized building ship, because the empire has specially set up sailors in the north of the Huai River, in addition to Dengzhou, Laizhou and Jinmen, to defend the maritime frontier in the north of the empire. The construction of sailors in other places in the north is almost blank, and this 700-stone building ship can definitely be regarded as a large warship in Liaodong.

"He Qianhu!" He Tengxiao boarded the ship and jumped onto the deck, Shi Yufeng greeted him and said to He Tengxiao, "Fragrant tea has been prepared in the cabin, just wait for thousands of adults to board the ship and taste fragrant tea." ”

"Bring me all these vains, and drink the same tea wherever you drink, and how much silver did these ships cost?" He Tengxiao asked, what he was most concerned about now was the price of purchasing these warships. These ships are well-made, not only the hull is covered with cowhide, but even the various weapons and equipment on board are also very complete, and the rough estimate of the sea falcon ship captured by the Huang Clan Water Camp a few months ago is two or three thousand taels of silver, how much silver will it cost to take these five ships?

He Tengxiao touched the ship's three-bow crossbow on the ship, and thought: Is Shi Yufeng's family businessmen or smuggling arms.

"It's windy outside, let's go, let's go into the cabin." Shi Yufeng didn't allow He Tengxiao to say anything, so he pulled He Tengxiao into the cabin.

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I didn't receive a recommendation for next week today.,I'm going to run naked again next week.,I'm very depressed.。 This book has been quite bumpy along the way, with more than 20,000 signatures, but it didn't usher in the first recommendation until 110,000 words, and it was still a mosquito push.

Thanks to everyone, this week finally ranked third on the list of new books for new writers in history. Although the results are scummy, I still feel very relieved, at least there are still people reading this book and still supporting Fengchi. Every day before going to bed, I will open the starting point app to see who has voted for me, and it is always warm to see your name beating, especially when I can see the names of several friends every day, and vote for Fengchi every day.

With your support, Fengchi will continue to write this book, please rest assured to collect and read. Thank you.

As for the update of the wind gallop will try to maintain two more per day, I looked at the update word count of similar recommended books this week, but I didn't expect the wind to be the most updated, indicating that the wind gallop is still quite diligent (haha, a little)

Okay, adjust your mood and continue to code words, I hope there will be a recommendation next week.