Five days ago. Flowing Strait.

The sun is gradually rising, the sea fog is dissipating, and the view is good. As if last night's stormy waves had not happened, the Quanzhou sailors successfully crossed the black water ditch and marched towards the stream.

The wind is strong, the sails are puffing up, and the speed of the ship is picking up. The warriors were overjoyed, and finally crossed the black water ditch, and Liuqiu was just around the corner. Xue Yi sat upright on the ship of the flagship building, listening to his generals report on the losses of crossing the Heishui Ditch last night. Suddenly, the soldier who was looking far away on the bucket suddenly shouted: "General Xue, there are a large number of warships in front, not good, there are also in the back, there are also on the left, there are also on the right, General Xue, we are surrounded." ”

"What's the situation? Why did so many warships appear? Xue Yi said: "Adjust the warship and set up a formation to meet the battle!" ”

With Xue Yi's order, the Quanzhou Navy Division quickly set up a four-cornered formation and rushed towards the enemy warships in front.

Because I said in advance that I was just going to explore the stream, I didn't expect that there would be a fierce battle. Last night was a busy night, and the soldiers were still resting. The sailors, who did not know what was happening, got out of bed and immediately picked up their guys and prepared for battle.

Two of the gunboats were the first to be attacked by the water thieves and were hit by a stone bullet. Xue Yi ordered to return fire, and the five gunboats began to fire. Five stone projectiles flew towards the enemy ships, two of which hit the enemy gunboats and sank them in one blow.

The pirates were shocked, they also had gunboats, but they were too small. The gunboats of the Great Song Dynasty were more than ten times larger than theirs, and the stone projectiles they emitted were also larger and more accurate than theirs. The pirates' gunboats were too small to use large stone throwers, and in order to ensure the range, the stone shells were so small that even if they hit an enemy ship, they would not sink in one hit.

The so-called gunboat is a warship equipped with a stone-throwing machine, and the stone-throwing machine is also called a cannon, and the warship of the Song Dynasty is equipped with a seven-pin cannon controlled by two hundred people, while the water thieves are a cannon, or a three-pronged cannon.

With the help of the north wind, the water thieves in the north have rushed into the Quanzhou Navy Formation. Xue Yi immediately changed his type and sent six fighting ships to rush up to intercept it, followed by ten warships.

A batter, also known as a batter, is a small boat but equipped with a huge batter. The fighting ship rushed into the pirate warship, and the huge slap rod knocked the small pirate ships apart and sent them into the sea.

"Rockets." Xue Yi shouted. The standard-bearer immediately waved the command flag.

It turned out that the water thieves in the south also rushed over, and the water thieves desperately rowed the wooden oars, in a vain attempt to get close to the Quanzhou Navy Division and start a string battle. Xue Yi immediately sent ten ships to meet him, and more than 20 winches launched rockets in the sky, and the rockets took advantage of the north wind to catch the water thieves' warships one by one.

At the beginning, the Quanzhou Navy Division had the upper hand with the advantages of huge ships and equipment, but it was no match for the pirates.

Xue Yi only brought 3,000 sailors and 50 warships, but the water thieves had more than 1,000 large and small sea ships, and a battle could not be avoided.

Xiao Laohu, now twenty-six years old, is the leader of this group of pirates, this time Xiao Laohu spent a lot of money, gathered more than 30 pirates of all sizes, and decided to eliminate the Quanzhou sailors. Xiao Laohu was originally a scholar, but after the imperial examination was hopeless, he became a water thief. Xiao Laohu is his nickname, but few people know what his real name is. As a scholar, he was very knowledgeable about the situation in the Song Dynasty. Obviously, the Zhao family is coming to grab his territory, Liuqiu is his base camp, how can he let the Zhao family get involved.

Xiao Laohu's base camp is the chicken coop village. After Xiao Laohu went to the sea to become a water thief, he defected to He Laosan, the owner of the chicken coop village, and became He Laosan's son-in-law. With his outstanding talent, Xiao Laohu changed the embarrassing situation of no food and no iron in the chicken coop village, and won the trust of He Laosan. Xiao Laohu's power developed too fast, He Laosan wanted to get rid of him again, and after a fire, Xiao Laohu took charge of the chicken coop village.

Xiao Laohu was a water thief at the age of twenty-one, and in just five years, he turned the chicken coop village into a chicken coop city, with more than 50,000 people in the city, and was the largest force on the island of Liuqiu, and successively conquered the three major tribes of the Liuqiu aborigines, and the other tribes all paid tribute to it. With the expansion of his power, Xiao Laohu has changed the village into a city, established a political power, and proclaimed himself the King of the Liuqiu Sea.

In addition to Xiao Laohu, there are eight pirates, all of whom are more than 5,000 people, namely Pan Jie, Bai Bolang, Hu Zhihai, Yang Yingrong, He Qiushui, Wu Chengzhi, Koizumi Jiro, and Wanyan Jijida. The last three are Koreans, Japanese, and Jurchens. Xiao Laohu spent 100,000 yuan to invite them, wanting to gather troops to attack Shangjing and shatter the Song Dynasty's idea of developing Liuqiu. Because of the sudden dispatch of the Quanzhou Naval Division, Xiao Laohu turned to attack the Quanzhou Naval Division.

He Qiushui is the water thief in the north, he has six real three-masted warships, advanced fighting ships, there are iron head angles at the bow, and there are levers on both sides, each of which can hold at least 300 people, he relies on these ships to run rampant in this sea area, except for the official ships, he does not dare to start easily, as long as he encounters merchant ships, it is rare to escape from his plunder.

He really couldn't figure it out, why did this Xiao Tiger eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, and actually dared to touch the tiger whiskers of the officials and soldiers? Or even to attack Shangjing? This time, you want to annihilate this official family in one fell swoop? But Xiao Laohu paid 10,000 yuan to invite him, but he didn't dare not come, Xiao Laohu was not easy to mess with. Xiao Laohu notified them last time to participate in the founding ceremony of Liuqiu, and those who didn't go were all destroyed by Xiao Laohu.

And this time, he also wants to take advantage, if he can get a few more official ships, then his strength will be strengthened by a few points. This time, he almost poured out of the nest, wanting Xiao Laohu to see his strength, lest Xiao Laohu destroy his heart and not die.

Ants bite the elephant to death, and He Qiushui's fleet soon started a chord battle with the Quanzhou sailors. Although the Song Dynasty had a large ship and overturned several pirate ships with brute force, He Qiushui's ships were too many, and several official ships were surrounded at once, and there were too many of them, so they climbed up densely along the hook and lock. The officers and soldiers began to shoot arrows to suppress, and the water thieves climbed up while putting throwing knives, and many Quanzhou sailors were hit by flying knives and fell into the sea. Soon, the official ship fell.

"Okay, I grabbed an official ship and kept up the good work. Brothers, rush with me, and the reward for the warriors who take the boat is consistent. He Qiushui, the leader of the water thieves, shouted.

"General, break through! If this continues, the whole army will be annihilated. A captain of the Navy Division eagerly advised Xue Yi.

"Break out to the south! The water thieves to the south have been routed. Gou Hongshe, the director of the Water Division, suggested.

"Well, the gang of water thieves in the east is the strongest at most, you must hit him hard first, otherwise you will be bitten." Xue Yi nodded and quickly made arrangements.

By the time the water thief's clipper approached the land of two arrows, and even the other party's hideous face could be seen clearly, the water thief had already begun to bend his bow and arrows. Not long after, a rain of arrows came from the sky, and Xue Yi thought that the time was almost up, and he clearly knew that now was the critical moment of life and death.

"Fire oil bomb launch!" Xue Yi shouted. The command flag followed.

The gunboats could not escape, the gunboats were all slow, with heavy loads, deep drafts, and half of the sails were missing in order to fire stone projectiles. Xue Yi decided to abandon the gunboat, but before giving up, he also had to fire all the ammunition. Jars of oil bombs were fired by the seven-pronged cannon and smashed into Xiao Laohu's fleet.

Xiao Laohu's warship was caught in a sea of fire, and the ships that came close were also ignited, and the fire burned unscrupulously by the sea breeze. The warship behind Xiao Laohu was blocked by the fire and did not dare to move forward.

"It's not good, Brother Xiao's fleet was blocked by the fire, and the officers and soldiers wanted to escape." The leader of the water thieves, Bai Wave, shouted.

Xiao Tiger and White Wave are small, and it is the white wave that introduces Xiao Laohu to make water thieves. Later, he rescued Xiao Laohu several times and covered him all the time. overturned He Laosan and seized the power of the chicken coop village, and Bai Bolang played a great role. The white waves are entrenched in Anping, south of Liuqiu, with a number of 6,000, second only to Xiao Laohu. After Xiao Laohu took charge of the chicken cage village, the two became opposite-sex brothers and were known as the East China Sea Shuangxiong.

Bai Bolang found that the Quanzhou sailors wanted to escape, so he immediately changed the formation, turned into three columns, and advanced rapidly from due west to due east, completely ignoring the losses. The ships of the white waves are all fast boats, but there are many small sails, which are the seven sail warships designed by the white waves themselves, which are almost twice as fast as ordinary sea ships. It is with this invention that as long as it is the maritime merchant fleet that Bai Bolang wants to rob, none of them can escape. Because of the speed of small boats, he often led the fleet to break into the Song Dynasty, Japan, Jiaozhi, Champa and other domestic rivers, raided and looted, and thus rose to become a sea thief, roaring in the East China Sea.

Xue Yi found that the sailors were divided and surrounded, and decided to go to the guards to protect the commander, and after the ship was broken, the fighting ships opened the way, the gunboats blocked the road, and advanced in reverse towards the northwest of He Qiushui, the leader of the water thieves.

The warships of the white waves are too fast, and if they break through to the south, they will definitely not be able to escape. For this reason, Xue Yi ordered the sails to be lowered, the water wheel was started, and everyone stepped on the water wheel with all their strength to break through to the northwest against the wind.

A waterwheel is a wheel-like wheel mounted on both sides of a warship, and the inside of the ship is driven by human pedals, and this kind of warship is also called a chariot ship. Xue Yi's flagship is a huge monster, both a building ship and a car ship, and he is faster than ordinary cars and ships. In general, a boat is equipped with a water wheel on each side, and there are two more, and the speed of the sail boat is affected by the installation of more.

Xue Yi's flagship uses a partition rolling device, which allows the water wheel to be retracted into the ship when it is not in use, and pushed out of the ship when it is used. In ancient times, sailing ships took a zigzag route when sailing against the wind, but when the wind was against the wind, they had to take a lot of unjust roads, and the speed of the ship was very slow. Xue Yi lowered the sail and drove in a straight line, completely driven by manpower.

However, not all warships had this device, and in the end, only Xue Yi's flagship broke through, and the water thieves did not chase after them, but besieged the encircled official ships separately. If you drive against the wind, you can't catch up if you want to.

The flagship broke through and fled, and the Quanzhou sailors fell into panic, and they fought separately under the command of the captain's team, engaged in the most tragic battle with the water thieves. However, they were eventually outnumbered.

After a full morning of fighting, the sea was calm. The Quanzhou Naval Division, a full fifty warships, only escaped from the flagship. Thirty warships sank to the bottom of the sea, nineteen were captured, nearly 2,000 were killed and more than 600 captured, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

"Why is this group of Song Jun so not afraid of death? When did the Song army become so heroic? Xiao Laohu muttered to himself.

Xiao Laohu was shocked by the combat effectiveness and will to fight of the Song Army's naval division. Xiao Laohu understood that even if he completely annihilated this sailor, it would be nothing to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty launched more than 2,000 sea ships every year, and there were 400 sea ships, and it would not take half a year for the Song Dynasty to train such a sailor. If the Song Dynasty was determined to destroy itself and seize its own liuqiu, then it would not have the power to resist at all.

"You lords, you didn't expect this battle to be so tragic. I, Xiao Laohu, will not let you suffer losses, so it's okay, I, Xiao Laohu, will compensate you for the lost warship. The original remuneration was tripled and paid to you. What do you think? Xiao Laohu said to the various pirate leaders who had come to his flagship.

Xiao Laohu has his own small shipyard in Jilongzhai, and although the number of warships that compensate the pirates for their losses is large, it can still be done. In this naval battle, more than 500 large and small warships were sunk by the pirates, accounting for a small half of the number of sorties, and it was really a tragic victory.

Xiao Laohu's efforts to compensate him were not because of how righteous he was, but because he was ready to meet the counterattack of the Song Dynasty. If it weren't for that, he could well have gotten up other pirates in this situation. However, annexation will come at a price after all, and the biggest price is the shrinking of the overall power of the pirates.

"Brother Xiao is so righteous and squandering money, he will be able to use it as a brother in the future, just give him an order." Bai Bolang said proudly for Xiao Laohu.

The other pirates hurriedly showed their loyalty, what they were most afraid of at this time was being swallowed by Xiao Laohu, and now Xiao Laohu not only did not annex them, but greatly compensated them, how could they not be surprised. I'm afraid that my loyalty will be slow, and I will find an excuse for Xiao Laohu to kill him, which will be terrible.

Xue Yi didn't dare to go back to Quanzhou, nor did he dare to go to Beijing. With such a big defeat, it was impossible not to kill him. With the remnants of the army, Xue Yi stationed on a small island in Penghu, and asked one of his businessmen friends to report the situation of the war, probe the rumors, and if Zhao Ji didn't kill him, he would go to Beijing to plead guilty.

Later, Zhao Ji came to the naval battlefield where the Quanzhou Navy Division was destroyed, and wrote a special poem to hang the souls of the soldiers.

Full of mountains and rivers, haggard and desolate.

The water division is covered in the east, and there are many uncertain mounds.

Abandon the sinking land of Shenzhou, and empty dreams in vain, how can the country be founded?

Fortunately, the corporal is very strong, and the sword halberd is sonorous.

You don't see it, the waves are fierce, and the sails are blowing.

The battleship sank, breaking through the East China Sea and shaking the thief.

Patience is even more speechless, tears across the world, how crazy are the thieves?

Gaze at the ambition of life, defend the land and reopen the territory.

・・・・・・・・・

Shangjing, Chongzheng Palace.

After hearing the detailed military report, Zhao Ji was in a dull mood. Later history has not recorded the Song Dynasty, and there was such a group of pirates?

"Let the Zhenhaiwei Army transfer 2,000 sailors into Shangjing, and I will personally conquer the chicken cage village." Zhao Ji ordered.

"Report!" A soldier ran into the Chongzheng Hall again, handed over a notebook and said, "Ultimatum for water thieves." ”

"Hmph." After Zhao Ji opened it and took a look, he threw the notebook on the ground with an angry face.

"I won't compromise! I want to wash the chicken coop village with blood! I'm going to kill them all!" Zhao Ji waved his hand and shouted.

Fan Chunren picked up the ultimatum on the ground and looked at it, shaking his head, it seems that the chicken coop village is inescapable.

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