The twilight is deep, and it is the last moment of the alternation of the sun and the moon, and there is a darkness between heaven and earth.

The torches on both sides of the bow of the ship were swayed by the sea breeze, and in the flickering firelight, Gongsun Du's face was reflected without any superfluous expression.

Seeing such a scene, Liu Yi retracted the foot that stepped out of the hatch, he wanted to step forward to comfort Gongsun Du, but he didn't know what to say, as if he had lost all his strength, he leaned on the door frame so dejectedly, his heart was sad, helpless, and an irrepressible resentment, full of swelling in his chest, as if it would burst open at any time.

For Liu Yi, who has always demanded himself according to the standard standards of scholars, Liu Yi, saw his lord chasing from Xiangping in panic, and after finding that the general trend had gone, he made an unprecedented gesture of concession, compromise, and even pleading, and he felt only an unbearable pain.

He hated himself, hated himself for not being able to control the situation, so that the winner could not calmly negotiate with the other party;

He hated Yang Yi even more, if this guy hadn't gone crazy, as if he was going to commit suicide, and dragged everyone to bury him, desperate and bent on going his own way, the situation wouldn't have become so ugly.

However, what he hated the most was Wang Yu and the generals of Qingzhou.

Liu Yi didn't understand what Wang Yu was thinking, the matter of Liaodong was obviously very simple, and it was not enough to settle people's hearts with the reward of fiefdom and secure Northern Xinjiang in name? Why do you have to be so Liaodong? Even if you don't remember the love of alliance and mutual assistance in the past few years, you should leave some room for a stranger!

The answer to this question, presumably the lord doesn't know, right? So in the past few days after embarking on the road of peace, his mood has been extremely low, which is really unwilling.

"General Liu......" thought was surging, so much so that Liu Yi didn't notice anyone approaching at all, until the comer's hand gently patted his shoulder, and he suddenly looked over as if he was awake, which in turn startled the person who called him.

Liu Yi recognized the person as a deputy general of the Qingzhou Water Division, named Chen Zhen.

After Gongsun Du arrived in time, the two sides naturally made peace and agreed that the Qingzhou sailors would escort Gongsun Du's ship to Yujin, and then go ashore there to meet Wang Yu in Jixian County.

Everyone knows that it is called an escort, but it is actually similar to an escort, and Gongsun Du went this time, just to obey the soft and forgive. If nothing else, the Liaodong forces should become history after this trip, and the future will be bleak.

The whole army also understands this fact, and under the conscious gentleness and co-optation of the officers and men of the Qingzhou Navy Division, many people are thinking about changing their doors in advance, so that they can fight for their backgrounds.

It had only been two days on the road, and among the 500 guards who accompanied them, more than 200 people had taken refuge in the past semi-openly, and most of the rest were still hesitating about the future while thinking about the old feelings.

Tai Shici and Wei Yan have high statuses, and it is difficult to come forward in Qingzhou's poaching operation, the most active is Chen Shao, the captain of the sailor who was born in this fisherman, and Liu Yi naturally will not have a good face when he sees this person coming up.

"General Chen is not in the cabin looking for people to talk about family affairs and relationships, how can he have time to come to the deck to blow the cold wind?" Liu Yi's face was cold, and his tone was as cold as ice.

"Hehe, aren't General Gongsun and the general also there." Chen Shao's name is a bit domineering and fierce, but he is actually a very easy-going person. With the laziness of a little person in the market, he scratched his head and replied with a disapproving smile: "The last general just wants to remind me that the fleet has just passed the speed of the mouth of the Dashui River, and if nothing else, it will be able to arrive at Piaoyujin tomorrow morning." ”

"Tomorrow is here?" Rao is Liu Yi was in a complicated mood, and he had no intention of being perfunctory with Chen Shao, but he still couldn't suppress his exclamation: "Moreover, how do you know where the fleet is now?" ”

What surprised Liu Yi was the speed of the fleet.

Feng Dashui is the Tangshan Steep River of later generations, which flows from north to south through Lu Longsai and the right Beiping County's Zhishu Tuyin, and enters the sea about 100 miles south of Tuyin City. The place where the naval battle took place was between the two estuaries of Tang Zhushui and White Wolf Water, which was almost directly south of Changli City.

In other words, from Liaoxi to Youzhou, more than a thousand miles of sea journey, it took the Qingzhou Navy Division less than two days to complete!

Ordinary people may just be amazed at the speed of the ship on the sea, much faster than the chariot and horse on land. And Liu Yi is an old seaman, how can he not know that ordinary ships can't reach such a speed? Changed to the Liaodong fleet, even if the journey is smooth, it is already worth thanking for being able to complete this journey in four or five days.

Liu Yi has long known that the performance of Qingzhou's sea ships is excellent, so that the lord is moved, and when he does business with Qingzhou, he did everything possible to install people on the ship, and when he came back, he gathered people and began to imitate Gongsun Du After getting the battle report of Liaoxi, the ship he took when he caught up was the most successful one in the imitation.

Thinking about it carefully, Liu Yi's heart is even brighter.

The speed is so fast, the good performance of the Qingzhou ship is one thing, and on the other hand, there are also problems with the route they take. When the ships of Liaodong went to sea, they basically traveled along the land for fear of losing their way. The only exception to this is the route to Qingzhou, but there is also a chain of islands that can dock for shelter and act as signposts.

Qingzhou's sea ships don't need to be so careful, because they seem to have a way to identify their location at sea, and even if they are far away from the coastline, they can still grasp their general location at all times.

It's like now, surrounded by the vast sea, but Chen Zhen seems to be a casual reminder, telling the current location of the fleet and the time to reach the destination, as if he has a corona in his hand that can measure time and space.

Chen Zhen is not showing off, showing off Qingzhou's strength beyond Liaodong.

In this regard, Liu Yi is both helpless and curious.

In Wang Yu's previous inventions, paper armor, bed crossbows, and plate armor still have traces to follow, and sea ships with excellent performance are not considered to appear out of thin air, but this kind of maritime positioning technology is unheard of, how can Liu Yi, who is known for his extensive knowledge, not be curious?

Chen Shao replied with a smile: "Hehe, General Liu doesn't know, my lord invented an instrument, well, that's what the lord called, called the sextant, with this thing, plus the map, you can achieve accurate positioning in the sea and grassland, where there are no markers, to achieve accurate positioning ......."

"I don't know why this sextant is so magical? What does it look like? What kind of heaven and earth principles do you follow? Driven by curiosity, Liu Yi forgot about the estrangement between the two armies and the resentment in his heart, and asked one after another.

"I don't know where it comes from, what kind of reason it follows, I don't actually know how to use it.―", Chen Shao smiled embarrassedly, touched the back of his head, and said in a humble voice: "I'm not afraid of the two generals laughing, that baby is easy to say, but it's troublesome to use, I haven't studied mathematics in the academy, so I can't learn it." ”

Hearing him say this, Liu Yi suddenly realized that at some point, Gongsun Du also came over, although there was still no expression on his face, but his thoughtful eyes showed that he was listening and thinking.

"It's not difficult for the two generals to see it, that thing is in General Ziyi's captain's room, but now it's dark, there's no way to demonstrate how to use it-" Chen Zhen looked at Gongsun Du and invited with an inquiring look: "Are you two going to take a look?" ”

As Liu Yi guessed, Chen Shao's task on the road was to eliminate the estrangement between the two armies as much as possible and ensure that the negotiations in Jixian County could be carried out in a relatively peaceful atmosphere.

As for the fact that his actions looked like he was digging into a corner, it was actually purely accidental. Chen Zhen also didn't expect that when the huge number of Liaodong sailors were easily suppressed by the Qingzhou army with bed crossbows, and Gongsun Du appeared in a soft posture, the sailors and soldiers were inevitably shaken.

When Chen Zhen and the others appeared in front of the Liaodong Guards with a very cordial attitude, it was self-evident how the latter would choose.

This is also related to the relatively close relationship between the two armies, as well as the activities of Zhang Fang, the ambassador, in Xiangping before and after the launch of the Eastern Crusade.

Of course, the most important thing is that the people of Liaodong still remember their Chinese bloodline, and have never regarded themselves as Hu people.

That's why Chen Shao's unintentional mistake was made.

Eighty percent of the Liaodong Naval Division will be incorporated in the future, and it is okay to do some appeasement work in advance, but Chen Zhen has no intention of angering Gongsun Du and Liu Yi and other high-level officials in Liaodong, and he also has the intention of making up for the relationship when he comes this time.

If you can use the introduction of the sextant to attract Liu Yi and even Gongsun Dutai Shici and Wei Yan to have a formal dialogue, it will undoubtedly bring a good start to future negotiations.

In this regard, Chen Zhen has deep expectations.

"Hmm." Gongsun Du let out a noncommittal 'um', as if in response, but his footsteps did not stop at all, and he walked directly past Chen Zhen's side, looking in that direction, it seemed that he was going back to his cabin.

Chen Shao blinked, he didn't know why, and when he turned his head to look at Liu Yi, he actually looked a little pitiful: "General Liu, this-.."

"General Chen is gracious, but resolute but disrespectful." Liu Yi replied solemnly, but his stomach was funny. He knows Gongsun Du very well, and of course he can understand the mood of his father-in-law.

The lord was very interested in the sextant, or the new technology and new things in Qingzhou, and also understood the gap between the two sides, so after hearing the battle report of Liaoxi, he immediately set off to Liaoxi to stop the upcoming naval battle.

The head is destined to be low, but to what extent to retreat in the end, we have to find out the other party's bottom and find out how big the gap between the two sides is.

It seems that Qingzhou is also prepared, changing the previous secretive and mysterious style, and intends to open it up for everyone to see. In that case, then what else is there to be polite? Let's start with this amazing sextant.