Section 11 from Nanning to the sea, not very far. By the time the sun rose early the next morning, the procession had already sailed to the sea. In the past, when he was on Earth, in order to participate in various martial arts exchanges, he naturally took a boat, but it was a ship. It is naturally very different from a sailing ship, but looking at the scenery of the sea at this time is a different taste.

As soon as you go out of the sea, you can see the water and the sky are boundless, and the seabirds are flying, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.

Because it was an emergency reinforcement, all the ships were fully sailed, and the oarsmen took shifts to rest. Among the nearly 30,000 sailors reinforced this time, most of them were the Storm Army, who came to help, and they opened the way in front, while Zhuge Fei's "Feiyun" fell in the middle of the entire team, which was also regarded as a strategy. Zhu Huai was bound to win this southern expedition, and then transferred 5,000 sailors from the Jiangnan Navy that was injured and Yanzhòng, and handed them over to a general named Xie Kun to command, temporarily obeying Zhuge Fei's command. And after Wu Ming's guard battalion was joined by the Black Armor Army, there were nearly 3,000 people, and for a while, the momentum increased greatly, and they fell at the end of this team.

This Xie Kun, like Zhuge Fei, has never met Wu Ming, he is taller and thinner, and he is also polite to Wu Ming. However, the Guards Battalion is very special, almost everyone has a respectful attitude, they are now in such an attitude, Wu Ming did not expect to make friends with the two, every day is to read the "Twenty-four Questions on the Marching Strategy", and then meditate and practice in their spare time, but they have also gained a lot.

Wu Ming stood on the bow of the ship, looking from afar, the huge Feiyun towered like a small mountain, and the hundreds of warships below it lined up in a long queue, winding endlessly.

Touching the sachet and jade pendant on his chest, he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he had been in this world for almost five years. Maybe it's really a coincidence, but the two women who broke into his heart are strikingly similar, if it weren't for the slight difference in their personalities, he would suspect that they were the same person.

Shazhou jade is warm, and as soon as he pressed his hand, there was a faint warmth in his chest. But he felt a tingling in his heart, Xiaoyi will always be a regret for himself, he thought that as the days go by, he will gradually forget, but in the past few days since he married Yuqing, every time he sees his wife's watery face, he still thinks about her all the time.

Forget it, it's important to cherish what is in front of you, Xiaoyi is in the spirit of the sky, and you will bless yourself. He sighed, carefully folded the jade pendant and the sachet together, and then put it in his arms.

"My lord, the meal is ready, you can go eat something." Yang Yi shouted with a worried face in the back.

Most of the more than 200 martial arts students assigned by Nanning Academy this time were scattered by Wu Ming and scattered into various brigades, and then led by the original veteran members of the Xuanwu team. At present, the four brigades of the Guards Battalion, except for the Suzaku team, the rest of the brigades are all strictly short of personnel, only more than 100 people, but now there is a shortage of personnel, and there is only a general for a while. The more than 400 soldiers of the Guards Battalion on this southern expedition were assigned to two two-masted warships with a length of more than ten zhang as the flagship, and this one was commanded by Wu Ming. And Yang Xiong was cautious, so he took another two hundred or so soldiers to stay on the other ship. More than 2,000 soldiers of the Black Armor Army followed from afar behind on twenty medium-sized sailing boats.

Wu Ming looked at this handsome young man, turned his head and smiled: "I can't eat it, you can eat it first." ”

Yang Yi, as the leader of the martial arts students who graduated this time, was appointed to the position of chief at the beginning. The Xuanwu team was now brought by Yang Xiong to another ship, and the White Tiger Zhengtian Hong did not follow, but most of the team members followed everyone south, so it was also directly commanded by Wu Ming for the time being, and Yang Yi's Shi naturally became Wu Ming's personal guard.

Yang Yi didn't say anything, walked a few steps, stood behind Wu Ming, and also looked at the vast sea. After a while, he whispered: "My lord, the Southern Barbarians are really as powerful as you say?" ”

Wu Ming nodded and said, "Last year, the 200,000 troops of the Southern Expeditionary Army were almost wiped out. The Persians were followed by a massive invasion of 200,000 troops, and to this day, the southern barbarians are still alive and well. They have been able to persist until now, and naturally have their own reasons. ”

Yang Yi frowned and hesitated: "But my lord, the book of the academy says that the Southern Barbarians are unkind, barbaric and brave, but the national strength is weak. Being able to persist until now, my subordinates really don't understand. ”

Wu Ming smiled bitterly, the favor has not been opened, and the national strength is weak. I am afraid that these concepts are still the mainstream impression of the Southern Barbarians in the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, he knew that the current national strength of the Southern Barbarians may be the weakest of all countries, but the recovery of their strength is astonishingly fast, and the fundamental reason for this lies in his hundreds of thousands of naval troops, who serve as soldiers in wartime and business in leisure time, and even do business in many western countries, and their annual income is unknown. The Southern Barbarians dared to stand on their own feet, which may be the biggest stand-off.

He sighed and said: "It is better to believe in books than to have no books, the naval army of the Southern Barbarians is the strongest in all countries, coupled with the high mountains and bad waters, and the hot climate, how easy is it to truly conquer this country?" Moreover, the current Nanban King is not a stupid and incompetent person, so you must remember in the future that this is a powerful opponent. ”

Yang Yi's heart froze, and he answered "yes", and said softly: "My lord, you said that if we can suppress the navy of the Southern Barbarians, will this situation have to be reversed?" ”

Suppress the navy of the Southern Barbarians?

Wu Ming turned his head and glanced at Yang Yi, this young man really dared to think about it. But how easy is it to defeat this huge navy? First of all, the warship, the supervision of the warship, not as big as you want. I heard Lu Fang say privately that a Nanban's "God of War" class battleship, even if the current Nanban wants to build it, it will take at least two years, which is also the reason why although the Nanban's naval army is strong, the "God of War" class battleship is still relatively rare.

A giant ship is not something that can be built with money, and it also needs relevant technology, and in terms of naval craftsmen alone, the Eastern Han Dynasty people are much inferior to the Southern Barbarians. How easy is it to train such a group of craftsmen? He smiled and said, "It's okay to think about this, but it's going to happen for a while." ”

Yang Yi glanced at the cabin behind him, lowered his voice and said, "My lord, my subordinates think that this matter is very likely, didn't the Ministry of Industry send more than a dozen workers to Pingdao with us this time?" I think it has something to do with shipbuilding. ”

This kid is really smart. Wu Ming's mind flashed with inspiration, and he immediately understood. Lu Fang's uncle Lu Zao was originally the current Ministry of Industry of the Southern Barbarians, and the Lu family has worked for the Southern Barbarians for hundreds of years, so it can be said that the entire navy of the Southern Barbarians is inseparable from the technology of the Lu family. This kid Lu Fang is blue and blue, and he must also know a lot about shipbuilding technology, this time Zhu Huai let himself escort these dozen people from the Ministry of Engineering to Pingdao, and he must want to develop a large warship in this Jiangnan naval base.

He couldn't help but glance at Yang Yi a few more times, and also whispered: "Just tell me this, don't mention it in the future." Yang Yi also seemed to realize that he had said too much, his face turned straight, and he said in a low voice: "Yes." ”

The fleet traveled south, but it was uneventful, and on the fifth day of sailing, the fleet arrived at the harbor city of Hirashima. It is the provincial capital of the Gulf, with a population of about 400,000. This is a very small population in all the provincial capitals, but this is the base camp of the Gulf Province Storm Army, the east is sometimes attacked by the islands, and the south must be guarded against the naval army of the Southern Barbarians, and the geographical location is very important.

Now the Southern Han Dynasty is nominally the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, but Nanjiao has become independent as the Southern Barbarian Empire, and Nanyang is even more dilapidated after a year of war. Therefore, the only provinces that really controlled the hands of the Southern Han were Kunzhou, Haiwan and Fuzhou. Zhu Huai's anxious decision to go south is one aspect, and the most important reason is that he wants to end the war in Nanyang as soon as possible, control Nanyang in his hands as soon as possible, recuperate, and at the same time give himself a stable rear.

Lu Fang and more than a dozen people from the Ministry of Engineering went ashore when the fleet docked. To Wu Ming's surprise, although these dozen or so people from the Ministry of Industry came silently, they were ceremoniously received by Gao Yuan, the governor of the Gulf Province, who was an old man over half a hundred years old. His hair was gray, probably because of the civil officials, and when he picked up people from the ship, he was much more enthusiastic about Lu Fang and the others than he was the commander of the guards battalion. But Wu Ming knew that he was afraid that Yang Yi's guess was right.

Because I was in a hurry, I only stopped at the port of Hirashima and replenished the freshwater materials, and the fleet moved forward slowly. On the eighth day of going to sea, the flag came from the "Feiyun", and it was about to reach Guangyang in another day, so that everyone could be prepared so as not to be caught off guard by the enemy.

When evening comes, even the coastline is gone, replaced by the endless sea. The sunset, like a ripe autumn persimmon hanging on the sea level, slowly sinks at a speed that can be felt by the naked eye, and when the tomato is only half left on the surface of the sea, the whole sea surface is sparkling and seems to begin to boil. Wu Ming stood at the bow of the boat, looking at this picturesque scenery. Suddenly, there was a burst of seabird chirping overhead, and as far as the eye could see, I saw a large number of seabirds under black pressure, hovering over the fleet.

There was a sudden commotion on the deck, and Yang Yi walked out of the cabin with a large group of soldiers from the Guards Battalion. After all, the Xuanwu team is the old foundation of the guard battalion, and it can't be transferred too much at once, so as not to lose its combat effectiveness. The two teams of Qinglong and White Tiger, each team is led by ten veteran members of the Xuanwu team, and they are all leaders. As for the rest of the team, almost all of them are martial arts students who graduated this year. These martial artists were relatively quiet for the first few days, but in the past few days at sea, it seems that they have been unrestrained, and their naughty habits are gradually revealed. For them, the sea is strange and interesting, and every day something new can be seen.