Chapter 111: Landing on Iron Mountain
Wang Zheng escorted Fang Shun down to the bottom floor, the three people brought by Wang Zheng were laughing with the five dun soldiers, seeing them come down, the knife pressed on the neck of the square head, standing for a while, at this time, Wang Zheng's three subordinates took out three handguns, aimed at a few people, the five dun soldiers were at a loss, there was no weapon at hand, and the square head was captured, so he had to surrender.
Several men tied their hands behind their backs,
"Xiaoshan, let me know at the dock." Wang Zheng commanded.
Xiaoshan agreed, got out of the pier, and flew on his horse and ran towards the dock.
"Fangtou, come on, come on, it's a waste not to eat so many delicious things." Wang Zheng said with a smile on the other side.
Fang Shun was not tied up, he looked at Wang Zheng suspiciously, not knowing why.
"Sit, sit, brother, I will never hurt my brother's life." Wang Zheng pressed Fang Shun to the chair.
Fang Shun sat down blankly, everything this morning puzzled Lao Fang, how he couldn't understand how he had lived for more than forty years.
After receiving the notice, the Sea Dragon on the pier slowly sailed out of the trestle and headed for the depths of the open sea.
Zhao Lie was waiting on the Wei Qing, and there were five warships floating on the sea surface of the West Korean Bay, including Wei Qing, Huo Quai, and Li Guang, as well as six Galen merchant ships such as Xingkai Lake and Chaohu, which were named Cheng Zhijie, Xue Rengui, Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, Duan Zhixuan, and other five Galen warships built by Shidao. There are also two mountain-like erected Taishan and Huashan. In addition, there are more than 20 Chinese-style sailing ships such as Haicang, and more than 10 clippers are distributed on the periphery of the fleet.
Zhao Lie also led the fleet from Jeju during the Spring Festival for nearly ten days, and when they sailed north along the west coast of North Korea, they hardly encountered North Korean ships, although the Spring Festival was late this year, and a large area of sea ice melted, there were still many large areas of ice along the coast, and small boats such as sentinel boats did not dare to venture out to sea at all, and the sea areas of West Korea at this time could be said to be quiet.
After Zhao Lie's fleet of dozens of large ships arrived at Minmi Island on the second day of the Lunar New Year after a ten-day voyage, they found that a large area of sea ice near Minmi Island had already melted, but there were still large areas of ice in the sea in the North West Korea Bay. For the sake of insurance, the fleet rested on Minmi Island for four full days, and Zhao Lie took advantage of this time to check the preparations of Shimi Island, which had grain, honeycomb coal, cloth, wood, branches, etc. Zhao Lie was extremely satisfied.
By the time the clippers reported that there were no more ice cubes in the waters of West Korea Bay. The fleet set sail on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year and drove directly to Iron Mountain.
In the middle of the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Hailong sailed into the temporary wharf on the east side of Tieshan, pretending to be a merchant ship to connect with Gu Wuyue.
The ships of the brigade were waiting in the West Korean Bay.
Zhao Lie's trip was for the tens of thousands of people in Tieshan, he didn't remember the time when Jiannu attacked Korea and pulled out Yizhou Tieshan, but he just knew that it happened around the fifteenth day of the first month of the second year of Yuan Chonghuan's Ningyuan victory, after Huang Taiji took over as the king of Khan, so when he heard the news of Ningyuan's victory, he began to prepare for this action, after all, most of the tens of thousands of Liao people in Tieshan have a deep hatred with Jiannu, as for the combat power, look at the fierce performance of the Han Eight Banners in history, which is dominated by Liao people, after entering the customs, it can be corroborated, without their help, It was impossible for Jiannu to seize the vast Ming Dynasty in just over a decade, and it took a whole few decades for the historically powerful Meng Yuan to dominate the south. Zhao Lie believed that as long as they were properly organized and armed, they would be an invincible army. Of course, Zhao Lie coveted the tens of thousands of Liao people in Tieshan.
The biggest obstacle to this action is the barrier of sea ice, but fortunately, the Spring Festival of the seventh year of the Apocalypse is very late, there is no big cold snap, and the sea ice will basically melt, so Zhao Lie can only bet on the weather, and no big cold snap is the key. If the sea is still not opened by the tenth day of the first month, Zhao Lie can only give up the operation, withdraw the Tieshan personnel, and return to Jeju. Therefore, the days of waiting on Minmi Island were the most difficult, and he asked the clippers and Cangshan ships to constantly explore the sea ice situation in West Korea Bay, and the reason why he chose West Korea Bay and landed from the east side of the Iron Mountain Peninsula was also to avoid the Ming army on Phi Dao on the southwest side of the Iron Mountain Peninsula. When the six-sentinel ship came to report that the sea ice in West Korea Bay had basically melted, Zhao Lie's half-hung heart finally let go.
The fleet waited in the bay for nearly two hours, and Zhao Lie used a telescope to look in the direction of Tieshan from time to time, but he only saw the gray-black silent sea water and a few lonely seabirds.
Finally, a white sail appeared on the horizon, and as soon as he saw the mast and the sail, Zhao Lie knew that it was his own flying clipper. Then a hard sail appeared behind, and Zhao Lie knew that it was the return of the sea dragon. Three trumpets rang out on the Sea Dragon, and smoke rose with it.
Zhao Lie turned around and nodded to Li Hu, Li Hu turned around and issued an order to the boatswain, and in a moment, the flag on the lookout flew over.
The Xingkaihu, Chaohu and other six Galen galleons sailed ahead first, and the other ships slowly followed.
When only one mile away from the trestle, the front of Chaohu and Xingkaihu put down three boats, the sailors paddled to the channel, there were sailors in the dinghy holding a long penny with a scale to constantly test the depth of the channel, the work of a meal, the six boats divided the work to complete the exploration of the channel, Zhao Lie's fleet was informed by the sailors, Taishan Huashan could not be directly close to the trestle, other ships could directly dock, in order to prevent the worst, Taishan and Huashan did not carry a baggage, but only carried a foot team, Zhao Lie and the others were not worried.
Chaohu and Xingkaihu were the first to lean on the trestle, and Chaohu was loaded with three hundred and their thousands of Guan Ming, who was extremely unlucky in Jeju, because Jeju did not make an inch, this time the beach landed Guan Ming and fought for the first landing, and the other thousand generals were embarrassed to fight for merit this time, but Lan Mingshan muttered a few words, but he did not come out to fight. So he was the first commander of the infantry to land on the shore. The Xingkaihu carried more than 60 horses and three tithes, and Guan Mingqian did not collect it at night.
Can directly reach the trestle, the speed of going ashore is greatly improved, not to mention that the fleet has been moored on the island for four days, the body has rested, the soldiers quickly went down to the dock, and took the backpack and other personal parts from the ship, the three hundred total team under the leadership of Gu Wuyue's personnel walked towards Jinghaidun, Chaohu slowly left the dock, so that the next sea ship docked, Xingkaihu was much slower, leading the horses to the deck, and then pulling the boat off the deck, it was really an extremely troublesome thing, after all, animals can not be obedient like soldiers, I can only coax and push off the boat.
When the figure of the fleet appeared on the sea, Wang Zheng's old horse, who was watching on the Jinghai pier, shouted.
"Your Excellency, our fleet has arrived."
"Okay, the fleet has arrived, and the adults have landed on the shore, and we have completed the important things that Lord Gu explained, and the adults will reward you when we go back." Wang Zheng swallowed a piece of braised pork and took a bite of the steamed bun. Fang Shun chewed the braised pork unwillingly, picked up the wine glass in front of him and took a sip of wine. This was poured down by Wang Zheng when he saw that he was very uneasy.
"My lord, there are so many big ships, they are too big,...... "The old horse's words came intermittently from the lookout, and he was really a little hoarse and hurried, and these words were repeated over and over again.
"Cut, it's really uninsightful. My sailor's ship was also huge. Wang Zheng said disdainfully, but it is also a pleasure to look at the scenery in the pier.
"Fang Tou, let's take a look at our army's Tianwei with us." Wang Zheng couldn't help but say that he escorted Fang Shun to the lookout, Fang Shun was not tied, but Wang Zheng didn't want him to steal up the pier to light the beacon fire.
The two men came to the lookout and were speechless in astonishment almost at the same time.
I saw a huge gray-black giant ship slowly sailing silently, its towering mast, bulging huge sails fluttering, even Wang Zheng, who had seen the fleet, was dumbfounded, after all, this is the most powerful fleet in Shidao, and Wang Zheng's Chinese-style sea ship is not the same. And Fang Shun, who had never seen the Galen ship, was trembling and staring at the fleet silently approaching, could it be that he had entered the ghost domain and arrived in another life. Fang Shun bit his tongue, the pain and blood made him sober up, looking at Wang Zheng and the others, he knew that he was indeed still in Jinghaidun, but everything in front of him still made him feel unreal, it really reversed Fang Shun's forty years of knowledge.
"God, king, look at those two black ships, they are too big, they are twice as big as the sea ships on the side." Lao Ma pointed to the Taishan and Huashan and said.
Wang Zheng nodded, he had heard the legend of these two giant ships in Shidao, but it was just a legend, as the so-called hearing is not as good as seeing it with his own eyes, today he saw the momentum and coercion brought by the towering figures of these two giant ships like mountains, which still shocked this cadre.
When the ship began to dock and the soldiers marched towards Jinghaidun in a group, Wang Zheng hurriedly led his men to escort Fang Shun and others to the road to wait.
I saw the sound of the collision of ironclad weapons, the team of people and horses moved neatly, the neat Daming mandarin duck battle jacket, covered with black iron armor, spears towered like a forest, and the sound of neat footsteps roared from far and near.
Fang Shun looked at these strong soldiers in surprise, is this still a Ming soldier, how can he look more elite than the border army, uh, if it is a Ming soldier, how can he still sneak attack Jinghaidun, Fang Shun is broken for a while. In fact, the Ming army costume is Zhao Lie's treasury, which is produced by Shidao Garment Factory.
When the first five war horses rumbled and galloped, Wang Zheng stepped forward to salute,
"My lord, Lord Gu's subordinate Wang Zheng pays a visit to your lordship."
Guan Ming returned the salute, "Wang Zheng, there is still a fire pier from here to Tieshan, can you take it." ”
"Yes, my subordinates will definitely take down the barren mountain mound ahead." Wang Zheng bowed and replied.
"Well, it's very good, Gu Shusheng really has a good subordinate." Guan Ming was extremely satisfied and nodded. If you want to take down the alarm pier unknowingly, you have to count on the head snake.
Wang Zheng turned around and looked at Fang Shun with a smile, Fang Shun was cold when he boarded, looked at Wang Zheng inexplicably, and said in his heart What do I have to do with taking the barren mountain pier.
PS The fierce and cruel battle array is just around the corner, are you ready?