Zhao Lei led a huge fleet and slowly drove to Guangzhou, but the slowness made them only walk half the way after a month and a half of long journey, and they had just arrived at Yangzhou Mansion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info full \ book // small \ say // net

Zhao Lei and his entourage, who came to Yangzhou Mansion, unloaded all kinds of materials on the battleship to the dock, and then let 5,000 elite cavalry sent by Bianjing and 5,000 Yangzhou infantry escort these materials to Guangzhou, while Zhao Lei and them stayed in Yangzhou for two days to see the famous beauty of Yangzhou.

"The world is divided into three moonlit nights, and the two scoundrels are Yangzhou! This Yangzhou moonlight really lives up to its name! Su Xun sat on the restaurant next to Yangzhou Slender West Lake, drank Yangzhou wine, looked at the moonlight of Slender West Lake, and sighed to Zhao Lei opposite him.

Zhao Lei, who was opposite Su Xun, looked at the people on the lake who came and went with a smile, and said comfortably: "This time I went to Guangzhou all the way up the mountains and rivers, and almost visited the beautiful scenery of the Great Song Dynasty, this trip is really worth it!" ”

"Of course it's worth it, others are in a hurry, there are things to play, only Brother Sanshi, work does not forget entertainment, every place to play for half a day, when you meet a good place like Yangzhou, it is a day or two, if the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are as free and easy as Brother Sanshi, the Great Song Dynasty will be in chaos." Su Xun said to Zhao Lei with a smile.

"The preliminary preparations in Guangzhou have not been completed, so why should we go in such a hurry! When the officials in Guangzhou negotiate with Liuqiu, it will not be too late for us to hurry up! Zhao Lei looked at the Jiangnan Water Town illuminated by candlelight under the restaurant, and said to Su Xun with a light smile.

Heard Zhao Lei's words. Su Xun thought of the slow progress of work in Guangzhou, frowned and said, "Yes! It is really difficult to show the navy and open up the flow to seek peace in Qiongzhou! Qiongzhou is good to say, it was originally the state of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was governed by officials of the Great Song Dynasty. Their cooperation and the materials allocated by the imperial court, whether it is to open or establish a naval base, it is very easy to do, but it is not easy to do it, Liuqiu is lonely overseas, the influence and control of the Great Song Dynasty on Liuqiu is very weak, there is no Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty on the island at all, and the things on the entire island are all supported by several major families, these families are equal to the emperor of Liuqiu, and now we want to open Liuqiu in a word. To garrison the soldiers and establish the Liuqiu Yamen is tantamount to depriving them of their rights, and they will certainly not welcome us there. ”

Zhao Lei sneered in his heart, and was very dissatisfied with the current principles of the Great Song Dynasty. If the Great Song Dynasty opened the stream and established a base port, the people of the stream would be richer. There will be people there who disagree, and now the Guangzhou officials and the Liuqiu families are entangled with each other, which is nothing more than the issue of profit distribution after the Great Song Dynasty turned Liuqiu into the Great Song Prefecture. However, the Guangzhou officials did not want to let go of most of their interests, and they did not dare to threaten those families with the powerful power behind them, so they are now in a dilemma and fall into the quagmire of negotiations.

In Zhao Lei's view, this matter is not a problem at all, although there have been coastal people smuggled in the past dynasties, but the real exhibition is still in the late Tang Dynasty, after a hundred years of exhibition and reproduction, the population has not exceeded 200,000. Most of them are still begging for local natives, and there are only 80,000 Han people smuggled into the past, although these people who fled to the land of begging are good at business and have a lot of sea ships, but their strength is so weak that Zhao Lei can't raise the interest in fighting with them at all, so he handed over the matter to the court officials in Guangzhou, but Zhao Lei never thought that the officials in Guangzhou were so incompetent, and they couldn't handle the flow of only thousands of guards, 5,000 sailors, hundreds of sand boats, and not even a single warship for so long.

Su Xun looked at Zhao Lei who sneered, of course he understood Zhao Lei's thoughts, and said to him with a smile: "Brother Sanshi, don't be angry, you must know that many people in Liuqiu have fled from Guangzhou, and the Liuqiu families and Guangzhou officials are inextricably linked, and it is normal to ask for a price when the court is ready to open the Liuqiu, and the Guangzhou officials will repay the money on the spot and negotiate slowly, and the Liuqiu families must know the bottom line of the imperial court and will not make too excessive demands, and the good news will come soon." ”

"I hope that those families will not open their mouths, and I also hope that those officials in Guangzhou will not collude with Liuqiu to be greedy for money in the imperial court, and if I let me know, I will send all of them to the coal mine to dig media." Zhao Lei snorted coldly and said sharply.

At this moment, the door of the restaurant wing was suddenly pushed open, and Xiao Ruoruo, who went to the downtown with Yang Jinhua, suddenly ran up to the restaurant wing in a hurry, saw Zhao Lei hurriedly walked over, and said with a wry smile: . "Bad news came from Western Xia, Western Xia Yuanhao returned to the land of the three states of the Cao family in advance, and after the Cao family asked for help from the Hui Crane to no avail, in the face of 100,000 Western Xia troops, resisted for half a month, and finally went out of the city to surrender, and now the Western Xia has increased the land of the three states."

"What! No way! There are almost 20,000 soldiers and horses in the three states of the Cao family, plus the people in the city and the fortified city, it actually fell in half a month, this Cao family is too bad! When Zhao Lei heard Xiao Ruoruo's words, he took the secret letter in her hand with an incredible expression, and said in shock while opening it.

"Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the three states of the Cao family have been living in the cracks as the grass on the wall, and there has been no war for hundreds of years, and now the Cao family has no master Hui Yu to support it, and it can resist for half a month, which is beyond my expectations!" Su Xun was very dissatisfied with the Cao family who betrayed the Great Song Dynasty and took refuge in Huiqiu, and when he heard Xiao Ruoruo's news, he said with a sarcastic sneer.

"The news came out before the expedition of the Western Xia Yuanhao, the Cao family Sanzhou city resisted for a day, slaughtered the city for a day, and slaughtered the city for a month after resisting for a month, and the first Caojia city attacked by the Western Xia resisted for two days, and the Western Xia army really slaughtered the city for two days, and as a result, the other cities of the Cao family surrendered when they met the Western Xia army. Xiao Ruoruo looked at Su Xun, who was sneering, nodded and said resentfully, the news of Western Xia made her hate the brutality and killing of the Western Xia army very much.

At this moment, Zhao Lei also finished reading the secret letter from Xixia, handed the secret letter to Su Xun and said with a wry smile: "I really didn't expect that the Cao family would surrender like this." In this way, all the wealth accumulated by the Cao family for hundreds of years has entered the treasury of the Western Xia, and in this way, the Western Xia has obtained a large amount of wealth and grain, grass, ordnance, and the land of the three states, and the strength has greatly increased, and the threat to the Great Song Dynasty has also become greater. ”

"Yuan Hao's ambitions, which have greatly increased, will inevitably increase. Look at the current territory of Western Xia, surrounded by strong neighbors, Liao, Hui, Tufan and my Great Song Dynasty, if Yuan Hao's ambitions swell, I am afraid that the next target is my Great Song Dynasty. Su Xun sighed and said after reading the Xixia secret letter.

When Su Xun sighed, Zhao Lei also sighed and said, "Yes! Look at the surroundings of Western Xia, Yuan Hao's western expedition was repeatedly defeated and did not dare to take a step beyond the Lei Chi, although the Hui Bird was weak, but there were two powerful tribes in Xizhou and Huangtou. And after the Muslim invasion, they became united and brave, even the Western Xia did not want to provoke them easily, and the deterrent power of the Liao cavalry against the Western Xia was even stronger. Most likely, it is the rich Great Song. ”

"What are you afraid of, don't forget that now the Great Song Dynasty has a new army trained by officials, as well as those strong weapons made by officials, as long as Xixia dares to come, they will definitely be given an unforgettable lesson." Xiao Ruoruo admires Zhao Lei very much. It can be said that it is blind trust, so when he heard the words of Zhao Lei and Su Xun, he immediately waved his fist proudly and said.

"That's right! At present, the logistics yamen of the new army has produced more than 200 rocket vehicles. Even if we take a hundred of them, there are still hundreds of them in Bianjing, hundreds of rocket vehicles with thousands of arrows, plus powerful weapons such as grenades and mines, if Xixia really dares to come and provoke the Great Song Dynasty, they will have no return! As Zhao Leidi's staff, Su Xun is familiar with all kinds of new weapons of the new army, and he is also full of confidence in these weapons and said loudly.

"Maybe I can give them some special gifts!" Zhao Lei thought of the arquebuses and real artillery that were still being studied, and said mysteriously to Su Xun and Xiao Ruoruo.

looked at Su Xun and Xiao Ruoruo's puzzled eyes. Zhao Lei smiled slightly, and decided to leave them a suspense, hoping to leave a "good" memory for the upcoming Western Xia army.

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After a short stay in Yangzhou, Zhao Lei led the fleet to set sail, rushed out of the Yangtze River, rushed to the East China Sea, without the burden of a large number of materials, Zhao Lei and others finally realized the speed of the sea boat, but also realized the difference between the sea and the inland waterway.

After the huge naval fleet led by Zhao Lei went out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, Zhao Lei and his party of Bianjing inland rivers realized the unpredictability of the sea and the crises everywhere.

The bumpy cabins, the storms that come at any time, the dangerous reefs, and all kinds of unfavorable scenes that can be encountered on the sea have been experienced by a group of rookie hands led by Zhao Lei.

At the beginning of April, the East China Sea Mingzhou Port, the night is deep, the sea breeze is gentle, facing the boundless sea, the whole Mingzhou Port is full of strange beauty.

However, in the beautiful scenery of Mingzhou Port, a huge fleet is quietly moored in the port, and above the fleet, things that spoil the scenery are happening from time to time.

"Gross!" On the huge fleet from Bianjing to Guangzhou, the sound of vomiting came faintly, continuously.

"These little loaches from Bianjing in the small river ditch actually think that the sea is as fun as the inland river, and they have no preparation for the first time when they go to sea, and they don't want to calm down if they don't spit out their bile." On a three-story ship, a weather-covered forty-year-old sailor recruited by Zhao Lei in Yangzhou looked at the building. The river sailors, who were happily hugging the railings around the boat, said with a sarcastic sneer.

"Okay, don't say it, didn't you see that the big men and the two beautiful little girls in Bianjing vomited very badly! Seasickness is just that, unlike those of us who are used to seeing the wind and waves, it is good to get used to it after a while on the boat. An older white sailor next to the middle-aged sailor interrupted the middle-aged sailor loyally and whispered to him.

"I heard that they are going to set up some kind of naval yamen with this fleet, just these people, they don't have three months to adapt, and they can't even go out to sea, let alone fight." A younger sailor in his thirties next to him also looked at the vomiting Bianjing Forbidden Army sailors and said sarcastically.

"Don't say it, let those officers and soldiers go back to sleep when they hear that you kid is good!" The old white sailor heard that the people around him were talking more and more unpleasantly, his eyes widened, and he took everyone back to the cabin.

On the huge battleship in Mingzhou Port, in addition to the silent moonlight, there were only seasick soldiers left, that is, Zhao Lei, Su Xun, Xiao Ruoruo and Yang Jinhua, who knew how to water, also vomited and suffered a lot on the flagship because they were not suitable for the voyage.

But Zhao Lei and these people all know that they are still behind when they are guilty, if they want to command the navy, they must adapt to the wind and waves at sea, once they arrive in Guangzhou, I am afraid that food and accommodation will be on the ship, and then it is the time for them to suffer, if they want to succeed, they must pay a sufficient price, maybe this is the price Zhao Lei paid!

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