Chapter 228: Greetings from the Americas

When Yang Feng's divine army arrived in Yibin, the Qing army had already fled. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Responsible for attacking here, is Prince Kang Baltu, that is, the elder brother of Chuntai who was killed at the mouth of Dagu, he was also defeated from beginning to end, of course, he understands Yang Feng's ferocity, it can be said that in front of this demon, any struggle is futile, the best choice is to run as far as possible, so after getting the report of the remnants of the Qing army who fled back from Yizhai, the two thousand Qing troops did not hesitate to retreat to the north bank through the pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River, and then went straight to Fushun in the north swept all the valuable things in the city and continued to run to Chengdu.

He ran away, and the Tibetan soldiers with him, of course, would not be left alone.

Yang Feng, who was empty, then turned around and went up the Minjiang River, but in the end he was still a step late, because after getting the news of his arrival, Yinren ran very happily.

His Majesty the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty had long been frightened by him, including those Qing troops, who fled from Chengdu in advance without even caring about the superior Baltu, Yang Feng was still blocking a Jiading Prefecture, that is, Leshan, where the Tibetan soldiers were stupid to fight with him because they did not know the details, and when he defeated Jiading Prefecture, not to mention Yinren, even Baltu had crossed the Luding Bridge, these unconscionable guys, regardless of the Changbian Jilie behind had not arrived, and directly demolished the Luding Bridge and fled to the archery furnace.

Yang Feng, who was in the air again, commanded the soldiers of the Divine Army to hack Changfang Jilie to death with knives, but he still had nowhere to vent the fire he was holding, so he simply took his group of believers before the army arrived, and began to fight toast and divide the family property.

Poor people who are also sitting at home with nothing to do, disaster came from the sky, in less than a month, he was completely swept away, not only in Daliang Mountain, but even in Yongning and Shuixi, he didn't let go, who doesn't love the happy thing of playing toast and dividing the family property? What's more, he is still invincible, and he can summon all kinds of good things at any time, but in addition to needing a few beautiful women to serve, other gods who want nothing to lead everyone. It can be said that he swept through the Yunnan-Guizhou River like a plague, and when his army arrived, the major Tusi who were entrenched in the southwest at their peak and even besieged Chengdu and Guiyang became history forever, and were replaced by the prefectures and counties divided by Yang Feng in the name of the gods.

When Sun Sheng's army arrived, he quickly completed control of the land.

After learning that their god was actually the emperor of the Han people, especially after getting a lot of promises from Yang Feng such as never collecting land again, and also giving them a promise to build a school, those Yi people also happily accepted the rule of the new master, and even many people were quite proud, of course, they also knew that it was impossible for them to fight against the gods, and they still confirmed this after fighting side by side with Yang Feng for so long, and besides, even if they wanted to, it was impossible?

Who will lead them?

Originally, they had toast, although they often killed each other internally, but when the toast was summoned externally, they quickly turned their guns, but now that the toast has been killed by them, how can there be any leadership, it is impossible for those village leaders to listen to other village leaders, if they were originally considered a whole, now they are completely scattered.

And just after the Ming army arrived in Sichuan, the governors of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces also simply announced their surrender, so Yang Feng completely pacified the southwest, and as for the issue of continuing to pursue Yinren, this was handed over to Sun Sheng.

It is advisable to chase the poor bravely!

Then chase, didn't he run to the arrow furnace? Then chase after the arrow furnace, if he runs again, he will chase again, run to Qamdo, run Lhasa to Lhasa, run Tianzhu to chase Tianzhu, see where he can run!

Under the whole world, it is not the king's land!

On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister!

Just chase me, kill those who dare to be disobedient along the way, and destroy the clan if you are not obedient!

As for Emperor Yang......

He pulled a newly-collected boatload of divine slaves, of course, female nu, and hundreds of representatives of Yiren villages hurriedly returned east.

The return trip is simple.

The Three Gorges, which originally took half a month to walk, was just like what Li Baishi said, thousands of miles of Jiangling in one day, especially after blowing up the Yundui and the big pearl stone beam of Kongling Beach, the two throats that originally entered and exited were also unblocked, and his paddle steamer didn't even need power at all, just rushed down the channel, starting from Fengjie in the morning without getting dark to arrive at Yiling, and then along the Yangtze River to Nanjing, less than 3,000 miles away, plus midway coal non-stop day and night after five days of running over.

Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf.

Two large sailing ships that had suffered from the vicissitudes of life were quietly docked in the morning light, a battleship with double guns and an armed merchant ship with a single gun door, both ships were as pale gray as decay, and even the huge sails that were put away were also dilapidated, but everyone on board was full of spirits, standing solemnly on the edge of the deck with their hands behind their backs, their skin was tanned into black and red muscle knots and looked full of power that could explode at any time, but they were not the only ones on the edge of the deck, and next to these people, from time to time you could see a tablet with their names written on it.

And next to these two ships, Yang Feng's small steamer slowly passed by, and he always maintained a posture of bowing to those crew members.

Well, this is the Chase Away that sailed back from the Americas.

The third-class battleship Zhuyuan, the large armed merchant ship Shenghua, spent nearly three years twice across the Pacific Ocean, sailed more than 50,000 miles, and finally brought back to their Emperor His Majesty the greetings of that distant continent, although this greeting was very shabby, and the most valuable things were only some sandalwood, and most of the others were some animal skins and the like, but the price of this voyage was heavy, and a total of six hundred people on two ships came back less than four hundred and five, and the others became tablets at the feet of those sailors.

"I'll take them home!"

Yang Feng stood by the gangway and said with a sad expression.

His mood was indeed sad, of course he was not because more than a hundred sailors had died, this number of dead people was not worth mentioning in his eyes, and a third of the Gothenburg was dead! He was worried that such a mortality ratio would seriously affect people's confidence in exploring North America, after all, for the people of the Ming Dynasty at this time, there was no need to go to that distant continent to engage in colonization, and there were no people in many good places in their own homes! What's more, there is the vast South Sea to the south and the Golden State farther away, where is there no temptation than this inexplicable North America?

Those tablets were taken down one by one, taken by Yang Feng himself, and then solemnly placed in his royal carriage.

Immediately after that, the rifles in the hands of the dragoons lined up behind him fired into the sky, and every time they sent down a tablet, they were greeted home, and then the dragoons and the royal attendants would send these tablets and their relics back to their hometowns, and those who died at sea would be thrown directly into the sea, so they could only be allowed to go home in this way, and each of them would receive a tombstone from the royal gift, and their families would also receive a lot of compensation.

"Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent and has not been able to bring his brothers back alive."

Yang Huai, the commander of this formation, knelt down in front of Yang Feng and choked up.

"It's good to come back, don't talk about anything else!"

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Get up! Go to the palace and I will wash the dust for you! ”

Then he said to the remaining 400 or so sailors who were also kneeling in front of him.

"How could so many people die!"

On the way back to the palace, Yang Feng said to Yang Huai, who was also in a carriage, that it stands to reason that he has made all the preparations, and he has brought a lot of medicines on the ship, and there is a full set of charts, where there are islands along the way, where supplies can be provided are clearly marked, and the supplies on the ship are also sufficient, so that there will be no starvation to death, at most it is death from illness, and it can be guaranteed by the medicine on the ship, and it is impossible to die of nearly one-third of the people.

"Your Majesty, I can't hide it, half of them committed suicide, and some of them were crazy and killed by order of the minister."

Yang Huai said with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, you don't know what people will become after half a year of wandering on the vast sea, even if they are honest, they will become crazy at any time, and then do all the things that can't be imagined, suicide is very common, especially on the way there, after crossing the Ryukyus, there is no land for tens of thousands of miles, and there are suicides almost every day. And some of the people who did not commit suicide also went crazy, killing people indiscriminately with knives, and even had a mutiny, if it weren't for the prestige of His Majesty, maybe the two ships of the minister would be destroyed, the distance was too far, the minister missed the bird island because of the direction of the wind, and the result could only go straight to Midway Island, and there was no land to see for a few months, it was all the boundless sea, and even the minister was almost crazy at that time. ”

Yang Huai said with palpitations.

"Distance, the key is distance!"

Yang Feng said with emotion.

"The light distance is okay, and it is common for our ships to sail to Africa, but that's because there are land along the way, and you can see people at any time, but the voyage to the New World is all sea, tens of thousands of miles of sea, like an endless sea, this kind of voyage will make people desperate."

Yang Huai said.

"This problem will be solved, if the sailboat is too slow, we will build a ship, and if the space in the East China Sea is open, we will take the southern route."

Yang Feng said.

The problem he faced, to put it bluntly, was the speed of sailing, sailing ships either rely on the wind or the ocean current, but no matter which one, it is difficult to ensure continuous high speed, not to mention the wind, maybe when there will be no wind at all, the headwind has to go, the ocean current can take the Kuroshio or the equator against the current, but these two one north and one south, the former has to go from the north of the country, the latter has to go to South America, and the speed is also very slow, at most more than 100 miles a day and night, so the only real effective is the steamer.

It is difficult for a paddle steamer to cross the Pacific Ocean, this kind of thing is inefficient and consumes a lot of coal, and if he travels far across the ocean, then he must set up a lot of supply points along the way, but the question is where does the coal come from?

Perry came by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, but he could only travel to the Pacific Ocean.

In this way, if you really want to march to the Americas on a large scale, you must first solve the problem of underwater propellers, only the ships of underwater propellers can truly realize his dream of large-scale colonization of the Americas, otherwise the barrier of light distance is enough to discourage the common people, and it is useless to have gold. (To be continued.) )