"Pingguo Gong!"

Shang Sixian, the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, stepped forward with a respectful face.

In just a few months, the Ryukyu Kingdom not only built a huge freshwater port with the help of the Tang Dynasty, but he Shang Sixian also firmly controlled the domestic power.

In the past, the careful thinking of those powerful ministers in the country was honestly put away after knowing that Shang Sixian and Datang Pingguogong's private education was good.

It can be said that Shang Sixian's thighs are perfectly normal.

Tang Ping looked at the newly repaired wharf of the Tamsui Port with satisfaction, as long as he solved the Great Wei Navy of the Nanyang Kingdom this time, this Tamsui Port would be the throat between the Central Plains and the South Seas.

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If you control this place, you can control this route.

At that time, ships from the south to the north can stop here.

“???????????????? How's our supply ready? ”

"Ping Guogong rest assured, the supply is more than enough!"

Tang Ping began to blockade this sea area, and there were quite a few complaints about the obstruction of the East Vietnamese merchants from going south to the South Seas, but Tang Ping immediately sent them a large order.

These merchant ships were used to transport goods to the Ryukyus, mainly coal.

You must know that in Tang Ping's East China Sea Fleet, more than a dozen main warships are not driven by wind power, but by coal-burning steam engines.

If you want to deal with the Great Wei Navy at sea, then sufficient power is indispensable.

Zhen Xiong took almost all of the navy of Dongyue with him, but Dongyue, as a country that relied on maritime merchants, also left a large number of merchant ships, many of which now joined the supply lines of the Tang Dynasty.

"Then fix it for three days, and after three days, we'll go!"

"Pingguo Gong, is there anything that my Ryukyu Kingdom can do?" Although the country is small and the people are outnumbered, Shang Sixian still has to express his attitude.

"Thank you to the lord, if you can, please prepare good wine and food for us to triumph!"

"It's a matter of duty!"

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Three days later, countless citizens of the Ryukyu Kingdom came to Tamsui Port to see off the Tang East China Sea Fleet.

Now they also know that the two countries are prosperous.

They help Datang, if Datang wins, the benefits will be inexhaustible in the future.

But if Da Wei wins, I am afraid that it will be liquidated immediately.

The Taihao took the lead, the whistle let out a dull whine, and billowing black smoke began to accelerate from the large chimney on the roof of the ship.

"You say, this is really a warship?" Some Ryukyu nationals were the first to see the Taehao ship start.

"It just looks like a warship, but it's actually a giant beast!" Another Ryukyu national next to him said with a smug face: "A few days ago, I was able to enlist as a porter and help bring food and water to the ship, do you know what I found?" ”

When the people around heard that he had actually been on the Taihao ship, they all surrounded him with envy.

"Don't sell it, tell me what you found?"

"I found out......" The man looked around at the people around him, and then said slowly: "That Taihao ship is made of steel!" ”

"What?"

"How is that possible?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

???????????????? A group of people shook their heads one after another: "Who doesn't know, how can the steel be used to cast a big ship when it sinks when it enters the water?" ”

"Really!" The man saw that the people around him did not believe it, and they all felt that he was lying, and he was a little anxious: "When I was carrying something up that day, I saw with my own eyes a weighing weight falling on the deck of the ship, making a huge sound of gold and iron. ”

"Then I heard the sailors on the Taihao ship say that the Taihao ship is made of steel, which can be described as invulnerable, I secretly went over to see, the seat smashed by the scale is so big, the mark of white teeth, if it is wooden, it must be a small pit no matter how good the wood is."

"It's true, I was on the boat that day." Someone next to him testified.

So a group of Ryukyu nationals were amazed by the magic of the Tang Dynasty warships, and at the same time became more confident in this battle.

This confidence is even more than Tang Ping's.

"This battle is not easy to fight!" On the bridge of the Taihao ship, Tang Ping looked at the endless sea ahead.

Qian Laosan and Luo Siye nodded on the side, the two of them were the two with the most experience in naval warfare in the Datang East China Sea Fleet.

If it was the intelligence at the beginning, the East China Sea Fleet of the Tang Dynasty had a good chance of winning, but because of the wrong intelligence, if the secret fleet of the Great Wei Navy known later was added, the balance of victory began to tilt towards the side of the Great Wei.

And Tang Ping also wanted to achieve this victory with minimal losses, and he wanted to bring back all the young sailors brought back from Datang.

"Ping Guogong, the No. 1 and No. 2 ships in the East China Sea have been reconnoitring one east and one west, although we have a small number of ships, but our mobility and firepower are far superior to the Great Wei Navy, as long as we are not surrounded by a sufficient number of Great Wei Navy, then it is dragging, we can also drag the Great Wei to death!"

"The third child is right!" Fourth Master Luo nodded: "If you want to talk about fighting head-on, in the past, the third child and I could also hug up and bully those merchant ships." But if we talk about running and fighting, hehe, that's our forte. ”

Tang Ping nodded: "I retreat when the enemy advances, I disturb when the enemy is stationed, I fight when the enemy is tired, and I chase after the enemy when he retreats!" ”

Qian Laosan and Luo Siye's eyes lit up, and they said respectfully: "Pingguo Gong's words are really good...... It's ......"

The two were going to make a big slap on the back, but they couldn't hold back the words when they came to their mouths.

"Alright, alright!" Tang Ping waved his hand, the two old pirates always wanted to show the crepe after becoming admirals, but they didn't look like it no matter how they learned, so don't be ???????????????? It's hard for them.

Moreover, this sixteen-character mantra was not proposed by him Tang Ping, but was summed up by Taizu back then, and it is just right to use it to deal with a large number of Great Wei Navy.

"There's a signal, there's a signal!"

The voice of the lookout came from the walkie-talkie, and everyone looked to the sky to see two flares emitting black smoke above the sky to the west and east respectively.

This was the signal agreed at that time, one flare indicated that the number of enemy ships was smaller, and two signal flares indicated that the number of enemy ships was larger.

And a large number of enemy ships appeared on the east and west sides at the same time, which means that the main force of the Great Wei Navy is likely to come.

In fact, it is not surprising that Tang Ping wanted to settle the battle in one battle, and the Great Wei Navy also wanted to finish the battle in one battle.

They need to annihilate the Tang Navy and reopen the shipping route from the Central Plains to the South Seas.

In this way, Sri Buddha would change his attitude, and the shipping lanes between the Central Plains and the South Seas would be in the hands of the Great Wei, and those Eastern Vietnamese merchants would begin to waver.

Merchants seek profit, and when they find that only Great Wei can bring them more benefits, they will fall to Great Wei.

Although Dongyue submitted to the Tang Dynasty, the domestic wealthy merchants were extremely powerful, and the fall of these wealthy merchants to the Great Wei would cause turmoil to the situation in Dongyue.

The more chaotic the Tang Dynasty, the safer the Great Wei in Nanyang will be.

Therefore, after Zhen Xiong received Zhen Youqian's return, he directly drove the expedition in person and raised the strength of the whole country to Ryukyu.

He believed that as long as he was at sea, Great Wei was invincible!