When Li Su came out, the group boarded the yacht, in fact, the reason why Li Su wanted to go to the Diaoyu Islands was to have patriotic feelings in his heart, and the second was to go to the sea to enjoy the beautiful scenery, in modern times he can not do whatever he wants to run rampant on the sea, but here it is not a problem, the whole sea is his back garden, where he wants to go.

Diaoyu Island is located in the northwest of the Ryukyus, about 200 miles, under Li Ran's discrimination, they quickly found this small island on the sea, Li Su looked at it, this island is indeed exactly the same as in the photo, "Dock!" After confirming that this was the Diaoyu Islands, Li Su gave the order.

Six yachts docked on the Diaoyu Island, and Li Su led the people to set foot on the island, and then he followed the craftsman behind him and said: "Go find a smooth stone, and engrave on the stone what the king has said to you, and you must carve a few more places." For this operation, Li Su had already paid attention to it, and also brought many stonemasons from the Ryukyus, preparing to leave traces on the rocks on the island.

The stonemasons had to order each of them to look for smooth stones with their tools, and Sun Dongxu asked strangely at this time: "Your Highness, why do you attach so much importance to this island and reef, is there anything special about this island and reef?" ”

Li Su couldn't tell them that he was purely trying to satisfy a certain psychology, so he said: "There are precious resources under this island, and the Japanese kingdom is very close to this island, and when they discover the preciousness of this island in the future, they will definitely say that this island is theirs, so this king left a mark here." ”

"Precious resources?" Zeng Zhida's eyes rolled on the island for a long time, and said, "This island is so small, what precious resources can it have." ”

Li Su smiled, "You will know soon, it is useless to talk about it now." ”

When the three of them heard this, they were all silent.

While waiting for the stonemason to engrave the lettering, Li Yu and the others walked around the island, which itself is made up of three small islands. The area of each island is not very large, and it took more than ten minutes to turn around one island, and everyone went to other islands to go around, and while a few people were laughing happily, a yacht in charge of patrolling the perimeter suddenly rushed back.

Everyone was a little surprised, and came down from the stone mountain, and at this time the yacht was also docked on the shore, and a soldier strode towards Li Su and said, "Your Highness, a large number of unknown ships have been found in the northeast of the island, and we suspect that they are pirates. ”

"Northwest?" Li Su said.

"It's the direction of Okinawa." Li Ran explained.

Sun Dongxu frowned and said, "These pirates have been hiding for so long, and they finally can't help it. I'll go back and gather a fleet and annihilate them in one fell swoop. ”

"Well, send someone back to inform the fleet to prepare for defense, and we are here to continue to monitor what they are going to do?" Li Su pondered for a moment, "And with the speed of our yacht and the binoculars, we can know all their actions unknowingly." ”

Everyone agreed, Sun Dongxu asked Xia Guangyi to go back in a speedboat first, and the others all withdrew to the yacht, and Li Su's plan on the Diaoyu Islands had to be delayed, after all, the yacht had no firepower. It's not good to be surrounded by them.

Under the guidance of the guards, the other yachts also headed towards the sea area where the fleet was found, and after a while, the black fleet in front of them appeared in Li Su's field of vision. Picking up his glasses, Li Su calmly reconnoitred the fleet of ships of unknown origin, "It's a Japanese national!" Li Su put down the binoculars, and he recognized at a glance those strangely dressed Japanese people. When he was in Chang'an, he had seen many Japanese people, "either pirates or the Japanese navy." They were all armed. ”

"This widow, we haven't gone to their trouble yet, they have come to find our trouble, this time, give them some color to see, let them understand that our Yizhou Navy is powerful." Zeng Zhida said angrily.

Sun Dongxu was still observing the fleet, and said with his eyebrows: "Your Highness, this is probably the regular army of the Japanese Kingdom, you see that there are several big ships behind it, and there are actually stone throwers on them, it seems that they are prepared." ”

Li Su looked at it again, and sure enough, as Sun Dongxu said, it was just that these people were wearing messy clothes, and they didn't look like regular troops at all.

"Your Highness, what now?" Sun Dongxu asked, "I really didn't expect His Highness to encounter such a thing when he first came here, it was a small fight before, but I didn't expect to encounter such a big battle this time." "The size of that fleet is huge, at least more than five hundred, and the total number of warships in the naval base does not exceed thirty, including the newly replenished small warships.

Li Su understood what Sun Dongxu meant, so many sea ships were lined up for them to bombard for a long time, and they must not be allowed to approach the port, otherwise the broadside battle would be unavoidable.

"Take advantage of the lonely sea to let the fleet go out, swim and fight, and constantly consume their sea ships." Li Ran said at this time.

Li Su nodded, which is also what he meant, and said: "Now notify the fleet to dispatch, and at the same time let the soldiers in the port get ready, and let the people enter the fortress, just in case." ”

"Yes." Sun Dongxu replied, this time he and Zeng Zhida both went back to arrange the defense of the port, this time fortunately it was Li Su who asked to visit this island, otherwise it would be too late for them to find such a huge fleet.

After Sun Dongxu left, Jin Daqian spoke: "Your Highness, I'm afraid they are here for artillery." ”

"Why do you say that?" Li Su looked at Jin Daqian.

Jin Daqian recalled, "Not long after the old slave came here, a group of people attacked the port and tried to steal the naval guns, but they underestimated the weight of the naval guns, and they couldn't carry them at all, and then the soldiers found this group of people, although they killed a dozen people, but still escaped a few, and then some similar incidents occurred intermittently, Sun Duwei noticed this, so he strengthened the guard of the artillery and weapons depot, and this kind of thing was reduced a lot, and most of these people were Japanese people, and even Turks." ”

"Turks?" Li Su's face changed, "The Turks are thousands of miles away, how can they come here to be pirates." ”

Jin Daqian shook his head, "Your Highness doesn't know, it is said that after the fleet eliminated Wang Shijie with artillery, the rumor of this weapon leaked out, after all, so many people saw it, and the soldiers would inevitably say it when they drank and chatted in the tavern, and now many people already know about such a thing as artillery, and they also know that it is fired with gunpowder." ”

Li Su was speechless, he actually understood that as long as he used this weapon, it would be impossible not to leak out, paper could not contain fire, and there was no impermeable wall in the world, but it was one thing to know, and manufacturing was another, even if they knew the principle, there was no industrial base to respond, and what they built was just an earthen cannon.

"Moreover, it is said that the price of artillery in the black market opened by pirates has been speculated to 100,000 yuan, and many bold people have the idea of starting artillery, as for this Turkic old slave, he also thinks it is strange, why does it appear in pirates, and these Turks are still very difficult to deal with, all of them are accurate in archery, and they have injured many of our soldiers." Kim Dae-kyun added.

"These pirates are really knowledgeable, as long as they get artillery, they can really run rampant on the sea, but the price of 100,000 guan is not bad, this king is a little moved, it is better to sell a few to them." Li Su laughed weirdly.

Jin Daqian was shocked, "Your Highness, you must not, with such a sharp weapon, this group of pirates is not like a fish in water, and let other forces get it." ”

Li Su said: "This king is just joking. ”

Jin Daqian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, otherwise once this artillery spread, their life would not be easy.

Seeing Jin Daqian's appearance, Li Su fell into contemplation, in his opinion, it is only a matter of time before this artillery appears in other places, after all, after Genghis Khan used artillery all the way to Europe, firearms were quickly mastered by Europeans, in the same way, he has now used artillery, so the most primitive artillery will inevitably appear, because many people will start to focus on the use of gunpowder, and artillery is a simple structure that can be easily manufactured according to the gourd painting scoop, However, he was not worried, without a suitable industrial base, they simply could not produce powerful artillery. (To be continued......)